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A Quantum Space Behind Simple Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Chew, Chuan Sheng
name: Kong, Otto C. W.
name: Payne, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In physics, experiments ultimately inform us as to what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. The best picture of physical space in Newtonian physics is given by the configuration space of a free particle (or the center of mass of a closed system of particles). This configuration space (as well as phase space), can be constructed as a representation space for the relativity symmetry. From the corresponding quantum symmetry, we illustrate the construction of a quantum configuration space, similar to that of quantum phase space, and recover the classical picture as an approximation through a contraction of the (relativity) symmetry and its representations. The quantum Hilbert space reduces into a sum of one-dimensional representations for the observable algebra, with the only admissible states given by coherent states and position eigenstates for the phase and configuration space pictures, respectively. This analysis, founded firmly on known physics, provides a quantum picture of physical space beyond that of a finite-dimensional manifold, and provides a crucial first link for any theoretical model of quantum spacetime at levels beyond simple quantum mechanics. It also suggests looking at quantum physics from a different perspective.
description: 19 pages
Supplementary document for Bidirectional synapse based on anti-resonance modulation of photonic microring - 7340497.pdf
Creators: name: xinmeng, Hao
name: Zhang, Hengyu
name: Song, Bing
name: Liao, Cen
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Li, Qingjiang
name: sun, zhenyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Optical measurement setup, Scanning electron microscope (SEM) characterization, Anti-resonance pump scheme and resonance pump scheme, Retention test of the synaptic device, High linearity and precision modulation programming of the microring
Artistic Juxtaposition: The Vulnerability and Strength of Black South African Women in Mary Sibande’s Sophie Series
Creators: name: Benson, India
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Mary Sibande is a female South African artist whose work delves into ideas of race, gender, and class from her perspective as a Black South African woman. Through her medium, a mannequin named Sophie made with silicone and fiberglass, she explores these realms by representing Sophie’s character in various dream states and attire. This paper examines the ambiguous nature of Sibande’s 2009 work, Caught in the Rapture, in which Sophie’s Victorian-style blue dress acts as the centerpiece, entailing both colonial and post-colonial histories. I propose that there are two conflicting interpretations that can be gathered from examining the installation: one that centers on the vulnerable nature of the piece, while the other highlights its aspects of strength. This creates an unlikely coexistence between two inherently opposing categorizations, which results in a dynamic and complex understanding of the work as a whole.
On minimizers of an isoperimetric problem with long-range interactions under a convexity constraint
Creators: name: Goldman, Michael
name: Novaga, Matteo
name: Ruffini, Berardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a variational problem modeling the behavior at equilibrium of charged liquid drops under convexity constraint. After proving well-posedness of the model, we show C 1,1-regularity of minimizers for the Coulombic interaction in dimension two. As a by-product we obtain that balls are the unique minimizers for small charge. Eventually, we study the asymptotic behavior of minimizers, as the charge goes to infinity.
Weyl holographic superconductor in the Lifshitz black hole background
Creators: name: Mansoori, S. A. Hosseini
name: Mirza, B.
name: Mokhtari, A.
name: Dezaki, F. Lalehgani
name: Sherkatghanad, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate analytically the properties of the Weyl holographic superconductor in the Lifshitz black hole background. We find that the critical temperature of the Weyl superconductor decreases with increasing Lifshitz dynamical exponent, $z$, indicating that condensation becomes difficult. In addition, it is found that the critical temperature and condensation operator could be affected by applying the Weyl coupling, $γ$. Moreover, we compute the critical magnetic field and investigate its dependence on the parameters $γ$ and $z$. Finally, we show numerically that the Weyl coupling parameter $γ$ and the Lifshitz dynamical exponent $z$ together control the size and strength of the conductivity peak and the ratio of gap frequency over critical temperature $ω_{g}/T_{c}$.
description: 25 pages, 22 figures
Cocenters of Hecke-Clifford and spin Hecke algebras
Creators: name: Reeks, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We determine a basis of the cocenter (i.e., the zeroth Hochschild homology) of the degenerate affine Hecke-Clifford and spin Hecke algebras in classical types.
description: 22 pages. Revised version for publication
Saor Crimp - Eight Die 3D Printable Radial Force Tester
Creators: name: Guerin, Luke
name: Murphy, Jack F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stent
Radial Force Tester
3D Printed
Crimp
Crimper

description: 3D printable radial force tester, developed in Lally Lab TCD. The device can be pinned directly to a Zwick uniaxial tester to perform radial force testing. The diameter of the crimping chamber is directly proportional to the crosshead position, allowing for easy calibration. For questions, consult lguerin@tcd.ie
Agents of Rights-Based Justice: Wangari Maathai and Kenya's Green Belt Movement
Creators: name: Cockram, Rebekah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This article explores key debates about agents of justice in the human rights field. It analyzes the gains and limitations of NGOs that act as agents of rights-based justice by exploring Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement and its growth and impact in Kenya. Special attention is given to the indivisibility of rights, specifically environmental, civil, political, and social rights, by highlighting the development of the Green Belt Movement from a social arena in the late 1970s to a political arena in the late 1990s. As NGOs like the Green Belt Movement have worked to address direct hardships, such as environmental degradation, they have revealed deeper problems of disempowerment and disenfranchisement in the areas they serve, which in turn has validated the need for the international community to look beyond states as the primary agents of justice.
Cluster varieties from Legendrian knots
Creators: name: Shende, Vivek
name: Treumann, David
name: Williams, Harold
name: Zaslow, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many interesting spaces --- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties --- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link. We show that the existence of cluster structures on these spaces may be deduced in a uniform, systematic fashion by constructing and taking the sheaf quantizations of a set of exact Lagrangian fillings in correspondence with isotopy representatives whose front projections have crossings with alternating orientations. It follows in turn that results in cluster algebra may be used to construct and distinguish exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links in the standard contact three space.
description: 47 pages
Review of Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses
Creators: name: McQuillin, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: In her first book, Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses, Hilary Matfess explores the complex and contested role of women within Boko Haram and affected communities. Her research and its conclusions sharply remind readers that women interacting with Boko Haram do not make choices a scholarly distance away from their lived experiences and that they are not merely victims. Matfess contests many security studies and counterterrorism strategies by problematizing their proponents’ neglect and/or patronizing of women. The three levels at which she explores women in relation to Boko Haram are the specific experiences of women residing in areas of northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram is present, the fluidity and complexity of women’s agency and their victimization by state and insurgent forces, and the importance of women’s inclusion in security and counterterrorism studies.
A bottom-up approach to the strong CP problem
Creators: name: Díaz-Cruz, J. L.
name: Hollik, W. G.
name: Saldaña-Salazar, U. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong CP problem is one of many puzzles in the theoretical description of elementary particle physics that still lacks an explanation. While top-down solutions to that problem usually comprise new symmetries or fields or both, we want to present a rather bottom-up perspective. The main problem seems to be how to achieve small CP violation in the strong interactions despite large CP violation in weak interactions. Observation of CP violation is exclusively through the Higgs--Yukawa interactions. In this paper, we show that with minimal assumptions on the structure of mass (Yukawa) matrices they do not contribute to the strong CP problem and thus we can provide a pathway to a solution of the strong CP problem within the structures of the Standard Model and no extension at the electroweak scale is needed. However, to address the flavor puzzle, models based on minimal SU(3) flavor groups leading to the proposed flavor matrices are favored. Though we refrain from an explicit a UV completion of the Standard Model, we provide a simple requirement those models should have to intrinsically not show a strong CP problem.
description: 12 pages; v2: extended discussion, title changed to be more general
Review of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Creators: name: Quattlebaum, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint-Domingue only the trunk of the tree of the liberty of the blacks; it will grow back from the roots, because they are deep and numerous” (278). Laurent Dubois’ Avengers of the New World is a thorough account of the events that led to the Haitian Revolution, the rebellion itself, and how it affected contemporary world powers. The author shows that the enslaved persons of Saint Domingue had all the elements necessary to incite a revolution and that they made adequate use of them. However, by exploring the recurring themes of leadership and freedom, the author also exposes both weaknesses and strengths of the Haitian regime. Ultimately, the strengths of Saint Domingue as a colony were a combination powerful enough to transform it into the country of Haiti.
Second- and Third- Person Perspective Wisdom Advising
Creators: name: Hu, Chao
name: Chengli, Huang
name: Hao-tian, Zhang
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Wisdom is the intellectual virtue of considering all possible factors related to a problem, especially relevant individuals’ interests and perspectives. Consistently, wisdom advising is advising individuals in distress after considering different factors, especially different individuals’ interests and perspectives. Previous studies generally adopted a third-person perspective wisdom-advising paradigm. However, Martin Buber argues that there is a fundamental difference between the I-He/She relationship and the I-thou relationship, such that the latter is more equal and authentic than the former. We predicted that second-person perspective advising may be easier for the individuals to derive meanings from their own life experience and sympathize with the advised person, and thus enhance general wisdom conveyed through advising. On the other hand, second-person perspective advising may also make advisors more self-centered and more self-defensive, and thus less wise advising on the problem, as suggested by previous studies on perspective effect on wise reasoning (Grossmann, Brienza, & Bobocel, 2017; Grossmann & Kross, 2014). In this research project, an innovative second-person perspective wisdom-advising paradigm is proposed to investigate the potential differences in cognition, emotion and neural activity between the second-person perspective and third-person perspective wisdom-advising. Moreover, we will investigate the correlation between General Wisdom conveyed through the second-person perspective advising and the advisors’ Personal Wisdom.
Similarity dark energy models in Bianchi type - I space-time
Creators: name: Ali, Ahmad T
name: Yadav, Anil Kumar
name: Alzahrani, Abdulah K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate some new similarity inhomogeneous solutions of anisotropic dark energy and perfect fluid in Bianchi type-I space-time. Three different equation of state parameters along the spatial directions are introduced to quantify the deviation of pressure from isotropy. We consider the case when the dark energy is minimally coupled to the perfect fluid as well as direct interaction with it. The Lie symmetry generators that leave the equation invariant are identified and we generate an optimal system of one-dimensional subalgebras. Each element of the optimal system is used to reduce the partial differential equation to an ordinary differential equation which is further analyzed. We solve the Einstein field equations, described by a system of non-linear partial differential equations (NLPDEs), by using the Lie point symmetry analysis method. The geometrical and kinematical features of the models and the behavior of the anisotropy of dark energy, are examined in detail.
description: 10 pages, 2 figure panels, Textual changes and References updated
Examining the Impact of Daily Life Events on Mood in Bipolar I Disorder
Creators: name: Lokey, Savannah
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Reward sensitivity and social rhythm theory have posited that individuals with bipolar I disorder (BD) may be more susceptible to mood changes following daily positive and negative (or stressful) events. However, research findings have been mixed regarding the specific impacts that these events have on mood and symptoms, and whether changes may persist over time, thus conveying for relapse. Further, it remains unclear whether these events may be associated with other behavioral changes, such as smartphone use. Thirty-two individuals (N = 18 individuals with euthymic bipolar I disorder and N = 14) demographically-matched healthy controls completed a survey via smartphone about their mood and the occurrence of positive and negative events three times per day for 21 days. Participants also installed a custom keyboard called BiAffect, which passively and unobtrusively measures smartphone keyboard typing patterns that are believed to be associated with psychomotor processing. Results showed that in general, positive events were associated with higher positive mood and negative events were associated with higher negative mood. Further, individuals with BD, when a positive event occurred, showed higher positive mood than HC, which persisted to the next timepoint. Similarly, when a negative event occurred, individuals with BD showed a larger increase in negative mood than HC, but this did not persist at the next timepoint. Neither positive nor negative events were significantly associated with typing speed. Overall, daily events differentially affect mood in BD, and this persistence over time may convey risk for future mood episodes.
Drinfeld double of $GL_n$ and generalized cluster structures
Creators: name: Gekhtman, Misha
name: Shapiro, Michael
name: Vainshtein, Alek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D17, 13F60

description: We construct a generalized cluster structure compatible with the Poisson bracket on the Drinfeld double of the standard Poisson-Lie group $GL_n$ and derive from it a generalized cluster structure on $GL_n$ compatible with the push-forward of the Poisson bracket on the dual Poisson--Lie group.
description: 60 pages, 9 figures, extended version of arXiv: 1507.00452; final version; presentation clarified, Remark 2.2 added, several references added
Scaling laws of coronal loops compared to a 3D MHD model of an Active Region
Creators: name: Bourdin, Philippe-A.
name: Bingert, Sven
name: Peter, Hardi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The structure and heating of coronal loops are investigated since decades. Established scaling laws relate fundamental quantities like the loop apex temperature, pressure, length, and the coronal heating. Aims. We test such scaling laws against a large-scale 3D MHD model of the Solar corona, which became feasible with nowadays high-performance computing. Methods. We drive an active region simulation a with photospheric observations and found strong similarities to the observed coronal loops in X-rays and EUV wavelength. A 3D reconstruction of stereoscopic observations showed that our model loops have a realistic spatial structure. We compare scaling laws to our model data extracted along an ensemble of field lines. Finally, we fit a new scaling law that represents well hot loops and also cooler structures, which was not possible before only based on observations. Results. Our model data gives some support for scaling laws that were established for hot and EUV-emissive coronal loops. For the RTV scaling law we find an offset to our model data, which can be explained by 1D considerations of a static loop with a constant heat input and conduction. With a fit to our model data we set up a new scaling law for the coronal heat input along magnetic field lines. Conclusions. RTV-like scaling laws were fitted to hot loops and therefore do not predict well the coronal heat input for cooler structures that are hardly observable. The basic differences between 1D and self-consistent 3D modeling account for deviations between our and earlier scaling laws. We also conclude that a heating mechanism by MHD-turbulent dissipation within a braided flux tube would heat the corona stronger than consistent with our model corona.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, published
Legal Gaps: Concept, Content, Problems of the Role of Legal Doctrine in Overcoming them
Creators: name: Kostruba, Anatoliy
name: Haliantych, Mykola
name: Dryshliuk, Andrii
name: Iskra, Svitlana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
Law, science and technology
Conflict of laws (incl. private international law)
Law and society and socio-legal research
Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified

description: The presented article considers the essence and content of the most common defect in legal science— “legal gaps”. This study presents various scientific approaches to the definition of legal gaps. Considering various scientific approaches, the authors of this study formulated their original version of this concept considering its absence from the theory of penitentiary law. The study analyses the main conceptual approaches to the problem of the progressiveness of law in the historical context. The main features of legal gaps are named to become able to distinguish them from conflicts of law. The authors outlined a set of features indicating the presence of a legislative gap in a particular case and provided a scientifically sound classification of gaps. The article also focused on the main types of legal gaps. In addition, the authors addressed the presence of legal gaps in Ukrainian legislation. The originality of this study lies in the formulation of new theoretical conclusions and generalizations that will help identify, eliminate, and overcome gaps in civil procedural law.
sv-channels: structural variant detection using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Santuari, Luca
name: Georgievska, Sonja
name: Kuzniar, Arnold
name: Shneider, Carl
name: Mehrem, Sarah
name: Schaefers, Tilman
name: Kloosterman, Wigard
name: de Ridder, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: structural variant detection
deep learning
somatic variant
whole genome sequencing
cancer mutations

description: Poster presented at the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Conference, BioSB 2020, on October 27th-28th, 2020.
description: This work was supported by the Netherlands eScience Center (Grant Number: 027016G03) and was carried out on the Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Foundation.
Essays on resource flexibilities in services
Creators: name: Amal Samuel, Adelina Gnanlet
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Service firms unable to store services, constantly search for strategies to minimize supply-demand imbalance in resources. Escalating costs, nursing shortages, and process inefficiencies have led the US healthcare system to operate at near-full capacity and maintain high utilization levels. Even though hospitals often function at full capacity, they are expected to treat all patients due to legal, social and moral obligations. Hospitals use a combination of resource flexibility strategies to reduce supply-demand imbalance due to demand variability. In this dissertation, we analyze the benefits of using flexibility strategies on critical resources such as labor (nursing staff), equipment (bed spaces), and patient assignment to contain demand variability in the short-term. Staffing flexibility, often referred to as cross-training, is widely used in many service firms to increase labor utilization, morale, and job enrichment. Although cross-training is cost-efficient, cross-trained nurses are less productive in new units. In the first essay, we analyze the cost savings vs. productivity changes when using staffing flexibility in hospitals. We find that productivity of cross-trained nursing staff has a significant effect on the optimal amount of cross-training. There is also an interaction effect between productivity of cross-trained nurses, cross-training cost, and demand variability. In the second essay, we add a second resource flexibility strategy referred to as demand upgrades. Patients who are typically treated in a simple unit can be upgraded to a complex unit when beds are unavailable in the simple unit. We compare the impact of these two resource flexibility strategies on a hospital’s ability to meet stochastic patient demand. We also look at the impact of the timing of capacity and staffing decisions on system performance. In the third essay, we develop a resource flexibility strategy framework that utilizes internal resources (labor, equipment, and patient assignment) to efficiently manage different levels of demand variability. The insights, issues and implications needed for managers to implement flexibility models are also presented in the third essay. Thus, this dissertation has analyzed the benefit, trade-offs, limitations, and outcomes in implementing critical resource flexibility strategies in hospitals to minimize supply-demand imbalance and address short-term demand variability.
Communicating About the Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA: An Application of Organizational Identity, Organizational Image, and the Situational Theory of Publics to a Public Relations Plan
Creators: name: Hermann, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This project analyzes RAFI's current communication methods and provides a plan for its communication future. I begin by giving a short overview of RAFI's structure and history to provide context to the discussion. Second, I review literature on organizational identity and segmenting publics that will illuminate the key role that communication plays in defining an organization and helping it connect with stakeholders. Finally, this project develops a public relations campaign to create a coherent and compelling way of communicating about the organization to stakeholders while working within the time and budget constraints of a small organization.
Courtship and the Making of Marriage in Early Middle English Romance
Creators: name: Swezey, Margaret F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The earliest romances in English were especially concerned with questions of courtship and marriage, and explore a variety of issues and themes relating to the making of marriage. This study focuses on three early Middle English romances composed c. 1250-c.1310: Havelok the Dane, King Horn, and Sir Beves of Hamtoun. I employ close readings with careful attention to language and draw on the canon law and historical studies of marriage practices in medieval England to illuminate references to law, the marriage liturgy, and custom in these early romances. These romances not only reflect law and custom, however, but they also sent messages to their audience of rural gentry and urban merchants. Some of these messages reinforce the status quo, such as the ideas that one should marry someone wealthy and socially suitable, that love and free consent to marriage should lead to an appropriate marriage, and the importance of establishing a dynasty. On the other hand, the romances also include subversive messages, depicting strong heroines exercising agency and showing heroes and heroines resisting arranged marriages. Above all, these romances wholeheartedly embrace the consensual theory of marriage, in which only the free consent of the couple is necessary to create a marriage, and consequently promote love matches over arranged marriages and individual choice over larger social pressures.
Re-visioning the Northeast: economic difference and alternative visions of development in the Brazilian semiarid
Creators: name: Araujo, Ana M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation documents the creation, maintenance and existence of practices of economic difference, or non-capitalist practices, among residents of the town of Sobradinho in Northeast Brazil. This project traces residents' placed-based responses to the construction of the Sobradinho hydroelectric dam in the 1970s and the role of state discourse and intervention in shaping both a sense of regional identity and in creating a regional economy for the national economic integration of this underdeveloped region. The São Francisco Valley, where the town is located, has witnessed the rapid proliferation of export-oriented agroindustrial firms since the late 1980s as part of Brazil's economic restructuring. As state development strategies have had differing impacts on men and women (i.e. men were targeted as a mobile labor force, while, more recently, women have been recruited as temporary waged labor in the agro-industry), there has been a consequent shift away from former subsistence agricultural livelihoods to those premised on wage labor. Accordingly, this project examines changing gender relations and the generational aspects of the formation of regional economic subjectivities. Despite the seeming entrenchment of market-oriented economic models, this research indicates that residents continue to support older forms of labor practice and also create new labor models that are not premised upon capitalist labor regimes. In keeping with this, women in the community are also involved in what could be termed the care economy or the community economy. Following feminist geographers Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham's work in reading for difference, this study highlights how residents, rather than becoming market-oriented neoliberal subjects, have engaged in a micropolitics of resubjectivation whereby they nurture and sustain forms of economic practice that are not market-oriented. These projects of reworking economic models are linked with a broader re-visioning of representations of the sertão (backlands) towards one centered on the Brazilian semiarid, focusing on culturally and ecologically appropriate production models. In documenting these projects, this dissertation maps possibilities for alternative forms of development, potentialities for a postdevelopment future, and the creation of alternative economic practices under the processes of neoliberal globalization.
Understanding Quality of Life of People with Aphasia: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Wilson, Carlee
name: Kim, Esther
name: Jones, Allyson
name: Schick-Makaroff, Kara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Speech and Hearing Science
subject: Speech Pathology and Audiology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Communication Sciences and Disorders
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: aphasia
subject: group therapy
subject: health-related quality of life
subject: outcome measures
subject: quality of life

description: This scoping review aims to identify, select and appraise research relevant to quality of life outcome measures for group therapy with people with aphasia.
Charakterisierung von EPB41 - Spleißformen im menschlichen Gehirn
Creators: name: Jacobi, Carsten
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: EPB41
subject: alternative-Spleißvorgänge
subject: Rho GTPasen
subject: humanes Gehirngewebe
subject: alternative splicing
subject: Rho GTPases
subject: human brain
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: 32 Biologie

description: In einem RT-PCR Ansatz aus neuronalen post mortem Gewebe des Menschen konnten EPB41 (Erythrozytäres Protein Bande 4.1) Spleißformen in verschiedenen Hirnregionen nachgewiesen werden. In einem weiteren RT-PCR Ansatz wurden höhermolekulare p4.1R-Spleißormen generiert, kloniert und zwei der erhaltenen Spleißformen (Klon 9 und Klon 13) charakterisiert. In einer In-situ-Hybridisierungsstudie an humanen Temporalkortex und Hippocampus konnten EPB41-Isoformen in fast allen Neuronen nachgewiesen werden. In immunhistochemischen Untersuchungen mit selbstgenerierten p4.1R spezifischen Antikörper wurden ebenfalls ausschließlich Neurone markiert. In proteinbiochemischen Untersuchungen konnte in verschiedenen humanen Hirnareale mit den p4.1R spezifischen Antikörpern eine 110 kDa und 120 kDa immunreaktive Bande nachgewiesen werden. In Experimenten an Primärkulturen von Rattenneuronen konnte eine Herunterregulation der p4.1R Proteine sowie der mRNA von p4.1R durch Verarmung des funktionellen Pools an G-Proteinen der Rho-Familie in der Zelle gezeigt werden. Die GTPasen der Rho-Familie regulieren unter anderem die Plastizität des Dendritenbaumes von Neuronen.
description: In a RT-PCR approach using human postmortem cerebral tissue from different brain regions several EPB41 (erythrocyte protein band 4.1) spliceforms could be generated. The amplificates were cloned and two of the highmolecular EPB41 spliceforms Klon 9 and Klon 13 were characterized. Klon 9 is a new spliceform, Klon13 is identical with EPB41 (accesion number AF156225). In an in situ hybridization study the EPB41 spliceforms were detected in almost all neurons of the temporal cortex and the hippocampus. Immunhistochemical localization of the p4.1R immunreactive proteins in human temporal cortex using p4.1R specific peptide antibodies, confirmed these results. The stning pattern of soma and dendrites of the neurones was punctuated. In Western Blot experiments a 110 kDa and 120 kDa p4.1R immunreactive proteinband was detected. A regulation of the protein 4.1R immunreactive proteins as well as the mRNA of protein 4.1 was found in experiments in which the functional pool of Rho GTPases in hippocampal primary neurones of the rat was manipulated.
The weight and way of shared laughter in Dyadic relationships
Creators: name: Kurtz, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: Laughter is largely considered a social behavior and has been correlated with a number of relationship-relevant outcomes. Yet the majority of the existing research has employed methods that focus specifically on an individual's laughter, while neglecting to address the influence of the surrounding social context. We argue that when a laugh occurs within the presence of another person, as it most often does, whether or not the other person is also laughing (i.e., whether the laugh is shared versus solo) may have tremendous consequences for the pair's relationship. The current studies tested the hypothesis that shared laughter would promote relationship wellbeing via increased positive emotions, decreased negative emotions, and increased perceptions of similarity. A series of online and laboratory studies provide correlational and causal support for these hypotheses. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for future research pertaining to the importance of shared laughter within social contexts.
Housing, mental health and wellbeing
Creators: name: Huebner, Gesche
name: Direk, Kenan
name: Oreszczyn, Tadeusz
name: Hamilton, Ian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Environmental Design
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this study, we examine the link between housing factors and subjective wellbeing; both measured within the English Housing Survey, i.e. the project constitutes secondary data analysis.
An Examination of D-serine Augmentation on the Behavioral and Cellular Mechanisms of Cocaine Seeking
Creators: name: Healey, Kati
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Withdrawal from chronic cocaine use is characterized by cellular adaptations and structural remodeling within the brain’s reward circuitry, which are believed to drive persistent drug seeking and relapse. In particular, glutamatergic projections onto nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons (MSNs) exhibit synaptic strengthening but a loss of plasticity in preclinical animal models of cocaine abuse. Recent evidence suggests that levels of D-serine, an astrocyte derived co-agonist of the NDMA receptor, are reduced in the accumbens following withdrawal from chronic non-contingent cocaine exposure, and that administration of D-serine can reverse these synaptic changes. Moreover, we have found that astrocytes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core make fewer synaptic connections following cocaine self-administration and extinction, suggesting reduced D-serine tone on NMDA receptors through volume diffusion.  Thus, the overarching goal of this dissertation was to investigate the ability of D-serine augmentation to attenuate cocaine seeking following a cocaine plus cue-primed reinstatement event and then to characterize the mechanism by which D-serine augmentation attenuated this cocaine seeking. Using the self-administration and extinction model of cocaine abuse, the present series of experiments found that systemic and intra-accumbal D-serine augmentation attenuated cocaine seeking, and that systemic D-serine augmentation depotentiated the synapse and enhanced NMDA receptor activation in the NAc core. Interestingly, the experiments presented here conclude that there are no changes in surface protein expression of glutamatergic ionotropic subunits from the NMDA and AMPA receptors following D-serine augmentation. Therefore, the experiments were unable to determine the direct mechanism of action by which D-serine augmentation is reducing relapse to cocaine seeking. However, it can be concluded that NMDA receptor induced internalization of AMPA receptors is not likely the mechanism of the D-serine augmentation effect. Together, these data enhance the current understanding of NMDA receptor involvement in cocaine relapse behaviors, such that NMDA receptors oppose reinstatement of cocaine seeking. We also provide a detailed characterization of NMDA and AMPA receptor expression and synaptic function after enhancing the NMDA receptor co-agonist D-serine.
title: Ball in the Commission’s Court: Ensuring the Effectiveness of EU Law the Day After the Court Ruled
Creators: name: Di Gaetano, Martina
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rule of Law
subject: civil society organisation
subject: Transparency of Associations
subject: infringement procedures
subject: creative compliance
subject: autocratic legalism

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(1), 243-271
description: I. Introduction. – II. Overturning Democracy in the Name of the Law: The Use of Creative Compliance by EU Autocratic Legalists. – III. Setting the Context: The Court’s Ruling in Transparency of Associations. – III.1. The 2017 Transparency Law. – III.2. The Court Is in Session! – IV. (Almost) New Actors, Same Old Story: State Audit Office v Civil Society. – V. Remarks Beyond the Hungarian Case: The Impact of Creative Compliance on the Effectiveness of EU Law. – VI. Conclusion.
description: In mid-April 2021, the Hungarian government announced the withdrawal of the 2017 Transparency Law. In its ruling in case C-78/18, in the context of a Commission-led infringement procedure, the Court declared such law in violation of civil society organisations (CSO) and foreign funders’ freedom of movement of capital as well as their freedom of association, right to respect for private and family life, and right to protection of personal data. Following intense months of dialogue with the European Commission, in mid-May 2021, the Hungarian Parliament repealed the law. However, at the same time, it adopted a new one on the Transparency of CSOs, which still presents the same shortcomings as the previous one and, consequently, continues to prevent CSOs from exercising their role of democracy watchdogs. This Article argues that the new law is the latest manifestation of Hungary's tendency towards autocratic legalism. By relying on a creative compliance-based approach, the Hungarian legislator proposed a law that is only in appearance in line with and based on the ruling of the Court. The Article argues that such a strategy, if winning, has the potential to spread its effects beyond the Hungarian border. It claims the Commission finds itself forced to choose between continuing the existing infringement procedure or accepting a merely formalistic implementation of the Court’s ruling, in a historical moment where the legitimacy of the Court of Justice to decide on values-related cases is more than ever questioned.
The perspectival nature of emergence
Creators: name: Taylor, Elanor
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: I examine various attempts to solve this problem of “collapsing emergence” by imposing principled restrictions on the admissible micro-level properties underlying cases of emergence. I argue that such attempts fail and that to solve the problem we must appeal to the connection between emergence and explanation. I argue that we use the concept of emergence to track the availability (or not) of scientific explanations, and that what qualifies as an available explanation differs across different “perspectives”, where a “perspective” is the point of view of a particular observer. This connection between emergence and explanation provides a solution to the collapse problem because, I argue, collapse-inducing properties fail to provide resources for the explanations that emergence tracks, and so cannot render a macro-level property non-emergent. Embracing this solution (and hence the possibility of emergence) involves embracing the idea that emergence is relative to a perspective. Understanding emergence as relative to a perspective is contrary to some popular conceptions of emergence, which take emergence to be a metaphysical, perspective-independent phenomenon. I argue that such conceptions are misguided and that emergence can play a major role in philosophical and scientific enquiry into relationships between properties of parts and wholes and between different levels in nature, but it can do so only as a perspectival phenomenon, rather than a metaphysical one.
Lyapounov Functions of closed Cone Fields: from Conley Theory to Time Functions
Creators: name: Bernard, Patrick
name: Suhr, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C50, 53C80

description: We propose a theory "a la Conley" for cone fields using a notion of relaxed orbits based on cone enlargements, in the spirit of space time geometry. We work in the setting of closed (or equivalently semi-continuous) cone fields with singularities. This setting contains (for questions which are parametrization independent such as the existence of Lyapounov functions) the case of continuous vector-fields on manifolds, of differential inclusions, of Lorentzian metrics, and of continuous cone fields. We generalize to this setting the equivalence between stable causality and the existence of temporal functions. We also generalize the equivalence between global hyperbolicity and the existence of a steep temporal functions.
description: Completely rewritten with extended scope and results. Comments are welcome
title: The Novelty of EU Passenger Name Records (PNR) in EU Trade Agreements: On Shifting Uses of Data Governance in Light of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement PNR Provisions
Creators: name: Fahey, Elaine
name: Guild, Elspeth
name: Kuskonmaz, Elif
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Passenger Name Records
subject: UK-EU relations
subject: Trade and Cooperation Agreement
subject: Data adequacy
subject: Governance
subject: CJEU

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(1), 273-299
description: I. Introduction. – II. From its commercial origin to the acquired purpose: The shifts of PNR data. – III. The EU-UK TCA and the problem of oversight in EU PNR law. – III.1. The UK-EU TCA PNR provisions. – III.2. Operation of the TCA oversight provisions in practice. – III.3. Analysis. – IV. 'Adequacy' standard for the UK-EU PNR data transfers. – IV.1. Overview of 'Adequacy'. – IV.2. The shifting maze of PNR data processing purposes: from law enforcement to border control. – IV.3. Conditions to access PNR data. – V. PNR data processed for criminal justice or border control? – V.1. Overview of EU law. – V.2. The juxtaposition of border control and criminal justice in EU PNR agreements. – VI. Conclusion.
description: The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) offers a new chapter in the treatment of Passenger Name Records (PNR), placing PNR law in an EU trade agreement. The TCA exemplifies acutely pre-existing tensions now in the framework of an EU agreement with a third country. In this Article, we examine the evolution of PNR law and look at aspects of the TCA as to PNR relating to the sensitive issue of personal data protection in the context of cross-border data sharing for law enforcement, criminal justice, and border control purposes as an example of the thorny intersection of public law obligations placed on the private sector to provide bulk access to personal data collected for commercial purposes to public sector actors in the framework of counter-terrorism or countering serious crime. First, we provide a brief account of ‘repurposing’ the use of PNR data at the intersection of criminal justice and border controls in EU law and UK law. Secondly, we examine the question of oversight in EU law and under the TCA. Thirdly, we consider the TCA provisions on PNR data sharing in light of the strict fundamental rights review that the CJEU has adopted. Finally, we look at the incorporation of PNR data sharing into the agreement’s law enforcement section and the character of border control and criminal justice. The Article argues that PNR law appears vulnerable when seen in the light of the other international data transfers emerging on the question of oversight and accountability.
Fast control of semiconductor qubits beyond the rotating-wave approximation
Creators: name: Song, Yang
name: Kestner, J. P.
name: Wang, Xin
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of single-qubit operations by oscillatory fields on various semiconductor platforms. We explicitly show how to perform faster gate operations by going beyond the universally-used rotating wave approximation (RWA) regime, while using only two sinusoidal pulses. No complicated pulse shaping or optimal control sequences are required. We first show for specific published experiments how much error is currently incurred by implementing pulses designed using standard RWA. We then show that an even modest increase in gate speed would cause problems in using RWA for gate design in the singlet-triplet (ST) and resonant-exchange (RX) qubits. We discuss the extent to which analytically keeping higher orders in the perturbation theory would address the problem. More strikingly, we give a new prescription for gating with strong coupling far beyond the RWA regime. We perform numerical calculations for the phases and the durations of two consecutive pulses to realize the key Hadamard and $\fracπ{8}$ gates with coupling strengths up to several times the qubit splitting. Working in this manifestly non-RWA regime, the gate operation speeds up by two to three orders of magnitude.
description: Published version, with 15 pages and 9 figures
Mea lux, meum desiderium: Cicero's letters to Terentia and marital ideals
Creators: name: Peterkin, Jetta Maria
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: The marriage of the famed Roman orator Cicero to his first wife Terentia is often cited as an example of Roman marital relationships because of the letters that survive from him to her. However, their marriage needs to be compared to other sources that describe marital interactions to determine if we can use it as a model for other Roman unions. The lack of a variety of sources from Roman marriages has limited this investigation to comparing Cicero and Terentia to the ideals that are present in epigraphic and epistolographic records. The results demonstrate that, within certain socio-economic parameters, the marriage of Cicero and Terentia would have been considered normative by other Romans. As such, their relationship is an effective model for how Romans would have viewed a successful marriage.