cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Past Floral Resources as a Predictor of Present Bee Visits in Agroecosystems
Creators: name: Guezen, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Pollination
Bee Ecology
Agriculture

description: Relying on wild bees for pollination services has become necessary as the global demand for crops dependent on animal pollination increases. If wild bee populations are to establish and persist in agricultural landscapes, there must be sufficient floral resources over time and space. This study examines the relationship between bee visits in agroecosystems and the spatiotemporal availability of floral resources over one season. I expected that landscapes with greater floral resources earlier in the season would subsequently experience more bee visits than landscapes with fewer early-season floral resources, and that the spatiotemporal scale of this effect would differ among taxa. I measured bee visitation rate and floral resource density over three spatial scales and during four time-periods spanning one season, in 27 agricultural sites across Ontario and Québec, Canada. The present abundance of floral resources at a local scale positively influenced bee visits across all sampling periods. However, differences in the temporal scale of bees’ response to floral resources were observed at landscape scales. Past and present floral resources were positively or negatively associated with bee visits depending on the time of season and which taxon was examined. The number of visits by Andrenidae, honey bees, and bumble bees increased with floral resource abundance in previous time-periods, while other taxa exhibited a negative association with past floral resources, suggesting possible dilution of bee populations at a landscape scale. Understanding the scales at which bee taxa are influenced by floral resources can allow development of land management strategies that could enhance crop pollination and conserve species threatened by agricultural intensification.
Studie 1: Qualitativ
Creators: name: Krammer, Georg
name: Pflanzl, Barbara
name: Matischek-Jauk, Marlies
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Online and Distance Education
subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development
subject: Higher Education and Teaching
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: COVID-19
subject: COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2
subject: Higher Education
subject: Hochschullehre
subject: Initial Teacher Education
subject: ITE
subject: Lehramtsausbildung
subject: Online Learning
subject: Online-Lehre
subject: Purely Online Learning
subject: SARS-CoV-2

description: In dieser Studie wurde qualitativ erhoben welche Aspekte der Online-Lehre (verordnete Umstellung durch COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 im Sommersemesters 2019/20) Lehramtsstudierende als förderlich bzw. hinderlich für den subjektiv erlebten Lernerfolg erlebt haben.
Recovering What Makes Planning Relevant
Creators: name: Malizia, Emil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when city and regional planning became a profession, planners did important work in the realms of public health, fire safety, natural resource conservation, civic and social reform, city efficiency, housing improvements, and city beautification. The founders espoused many bold plans to shape the future of cities. These long-range plans were to be both comprehensive and serve the public interest. Now, planners rarely participate in the dialogue about how cities should be planned and designed. We ceded this ground to architects, geographers, sociologists, urban economists, real estate developers, attorneys, environmentalists, journalists, and others. We are conspicuous by our absence. We seem comfortable generating land use plans for local jurisdictions even though we know that integrated land use and transportation planning is needed at the regional scale. We abandoned health and safety in favor of public welfare. As a result, we embrace weak goals like “livability” and vague slogans like “making great communities happen” instead of addressing public interest dimensions of fundamental importance. We became facilitators of process and experts in public participation. But we are timid to argue persuasively for evidence-based ideas about how to plan places and spaces in the visioning exercises we lead. The American Planning Association’s leadership recognizes these problems and is trying to elevate the importance of the planning enterprise on many fronts. APA seeks to increase the status of the planning profession, assist planners in the trenches, find more effective ways to serve the public interest, and win stronger public and political support for planning. To accomplish these important objectives requires a better understanding of how the planning field became narrow and what can be done to increase its relevance.
Influence of Rough and Smooth Walls on Macroscale Granular Segregation Patterns
Creators: name: D'Ortona, Umberto
name: Thomas, Nathalie
name: Lueptow, Richard M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Size bidisperse granular materials in a spherical tumbler segregate into two different patterns of three bands with either small particles at the equator and large particles at the poles or vice versa, depending upon the fill level in the tumbler. Here we use discrete element method (DEM) simulations with supporting qualitative experiments to explore the effect of the tumbler wall roughness on the segregation pattern, modeling the tumbler walls as either a closely packed monolayer of fixed particles resulting in a rough wall, or as a geometrically smooth wall. Even though the tumbler wall is in contact with the flowing layer only at its periphery, the impact of wall roughness is profound. Smooth walls tend toward a small-large-small (SLS) band pattern at the pole-equator-pole at all but the highest fill fractions; rough walls tend toward a large-small-large (LSL) band pattern at all but the lowest fill fractions. This comes about because smooth walls induce poleward axial drift of small particles and an equator-directed drift for large particles, resulting in an SLS band pattern. On the other hand, rough walls result in both sizes of particles moving poleward at the surface of the flow, but due to radial segregation, small particles percolate lower in the flowing layer where there is a return drift toward the equator while large particles remain at the surface near the pole, resulting in an LSL band pattern. The tendency toward either of the two band patterns depends on the fill level in the tumbler and the roughness of the tumbler's bounding wall.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Associations Between Young Adult Smoking, Vaping, and COVID-19: A Replication and Extension
Creators: name: Kenkel, Donald
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We describe a research plan of analysis to explore whether smoking and vaping are associated with the risks of COVID-19 among young adults. Our main goal is to replicate and extend the analysis reported in a prior study by Gaiha, Cheng, and Halpern-Felsher and published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2020. However, as we will explain in more detail in the Analysis Plan, our planned study will differ from the prior study in several ways. The GCH-F study and our replication and extension are examples of risk-factor epidemiology and estimate statistical associations. An overarching difference is that we plan to use a framework from health economics, together with applied econometric methods, to address the challenges of using observational data to study the research questions.
The Essential Need for Research Misconduct Allegation Audits
Creators: name: Bauchwitz, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Administrative law

description: Nearly 90 % of allegations of biomedical research misconduct in the United States are dismissed by responsible institutions without any faculty assess- ment or auditable record. ... we have found that a much more serious flaw exists which undermines an ability to conduct performance audits of the effectiveness by which allegations of research misconduct are handled in the United States.
Majorana neutrino mass structure induced by rigid instatons on toroidal orbifold
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Tatsuta, Yoshiyuki
name: Uemura, Shohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effects of D-brane instantons wrapping rigid cycles on Z2*Z2' toroidal orbifold. We compute Majorana masses induced by rigid D-brane instantons and realize bimaximal mixing matrices in certain models. We can also derive more generic mass matrices in other models. The bimaximal mixing Majorana mass matrix has a possibility to explain observed mixing angles. We also compute the mu-term matrix among more than one pairs of Higgs fields induced by rigid D-brane instantons.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
Prevalence and Predictors of Polypharmacy in Adolescents who have Engaged in Sexually Abusive Behaviors
Creators: name: Gilley, Rebecca
name: Stinson, Jill
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: See uploaded template document for all preregistration information.
Entanglement storage by classical fixed points in the two-axis countertwisting model
Creators: name: Kajtoch, D.
name: Pawłowski, K.
name: Witkowska, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a scheme for storage of entanglement quantified by the quantum Fisher information in the two-axis countertwisting model. A characteristic feature of the two-axis countertwisting Hamiltonian is the existence of the four stable center and two unstable saddle fixed points in the mean-field phase portrait. The entangled state is generated dynamically from an initial spin coherent state located around an unstable saddle fixed point. At an optimal moment of time the state is shifted to a position around stable center fixed points by a single rotation, where its dynamics and properties are approximately frozen. We also discuss evolution with noise. In some cases the effect of noise turns out to be relatively weak, which is explained by parity conservation.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
A miRNA-based strategy to improve osteogenesis in hydrogels for bone tissue engineering
Creators: name: SHRESTHA, SURAKSHYA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tissue engineering
Biomaterials

description: Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSC) are the cells present in the body, which can grow and change/differentiate into various types of body tissues including bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, tendon and ligament. The type of tissue MSC differentiate into depends on the physical, chemical and biological signals sensed by them; therefore, careful control of these signals can direct MSC to form the tissue of interest, which is a promising approach for tissue repair/regeneration applications. This thesis aims to identify the appropriate physical and biological signal to guide MSC to form bone tissue with an aim to repair or regenerate damaged bones.
Estimating the Size of Households and Number of School-Aged Children in New Development: Applications for Forecasting and Impact Analysis
Creators: name: Malizia, Emil E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: Urban and regional planners forecast population size and number of school-aged children to estimate the demand for public facilities and services over near-term and long-term planning horizons. They also estimate the economic, environmental and fiscal impacts of new development projects on local jurisdictions. State planners forecast public-school enrollments generated by county-level residential development and demographic change. Accurate estimates of the size and composition of households are needed for these important planning purposes.
Proofs about Network Communication: For Humans and Machines
Creators: name: Jeltsch, Wolfgang
name: Díaz, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4; F.3.1

description: Many concurrent and distributed systems are safety-critical and therefore have to provide a high degree of assurance. Important properties of such systems are frequently proved on the specification level, but implementations typically deviate from specifications for practical reasons. Machine-checked proofs of bisimilarity statements are often useful for guaranteeing that properties of specifications carry over to implementations. In this paper, we present a way of conducting such proofs with a focus on network communication. The proofs resulting from our approach are not just machine-checked but also intelligible for humans.
description: In Proceedings ICE 2023, arXiv:2308.08920
Additional file 1 of Prenatal chromosomal microarray analysis in a large Chinese cohort of fetuses with congenital heart defects: a single center study
Creators: name: Lu, Qing
name: Luo, Laipeng
name: Zeng, Baitao
name: Luo, Haiyan
name: Wang, Xianjin
name: Qiu, Lijuan
name: Yang, Yan
name: Feng, Chuanxin
name: Zhou, Jihui
name: Hu, Yanling
name: Huang, Tingting
name: Ma, Pengpeng
name: Huang, Ting
name: Xie, Kang
name: Yuan, Huizhen
name: Huang, Shuhui
name: Yang, Bicheng
name: Zou, Yongyi
name: Liu, Yanqiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Sharing Emergency Planning Assumptions: Management Views Differ
Creators: name: Kartez, Jack D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: Effective disaster management requires advanced planning. News media centers, public information hot-lines, and on-site volunteer procedures must be established in anticipation of large scale emergencies. In the following article, Kartez reviews the disaster planning programs and policies of 250 public agencies associated with disaster-prone communities. The study describes managerial perspectives of disaster planning policy. The article is a guide for planners concerned with the complexities of community crisis mitigation.
Reconfigurable Transmission Lines with Memcapacitive Materials
Creators: name: Pershin, Y. V.
name: Slipko, V. A.
name: Di Ventra, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transmission lines made of memory capacitive (memcapacitive) materials. The transmission properties of these lines can be adjusted on demand using an appropriate sequence of pulses. In particular, we demonstrate a pulse combination that creates a periodic modulation of dielectric properties along the line. Such a structure resembles a distributed Bragg reflector having important optical applications. We present simulation results demonstrating all major steps of such a reconfigurable device operation including reset, programming and transmission of small amplitude signals. The proposed reconfigurable transmission lines employ only passive memory materials and can be realized using available memcapacitive devices.
Prokaryotic Playhouse
Creators: name: Wu, Jin
name: Dellal, David
name: Wasserman, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Bacterial Culture
subject: Education
subject: Genetic Engineering
subject: Incubator
subject: Optogenetics
subject: Synthetic Biology

description: Prokaryote Playhouse: a low-cost, laser-cut acrylic incubator for optogenetic bacterial culture.
Enhancing Capacities of Digital Extension and Advisory Services in Odisha, India
Creators: name: Dominic, D. M.
name: Mittal, N.
name: Sulaiman V., R.
name: Bharti, P.
name: Sharma, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Extension and Advisory Services (EAS)
digital platforms and applications
farmers
data
information

description: While several digital platforms and applications developed for farmers collect data and information, more is needed to know about their use by the Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) to provide more relevant advice or design a data-informed extension. This report discusses what needs to be done to enhance the capacities of EAS based on in-depth reviews of farmers' use of three digital farmer services available in Odisha and interactions with select stakeholders who are familiar with and are part of these services. We found that EAS stakeholders needed to be fully aware of the types of data and information available or how best they could be used. We identified that four specific types of capacities need to be strengthened coherently and systematically.
A Housing Reinvestment Strategy for Durham, North Carolina
Creators: name: Weissman, Seth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1977

description: This article attempts to develop a strategy for reinvestment that addresses the most serious of our housing problems: the preservation and improvement of dilapidated housing in neighborhoods with little market attractiveness. By definition, the goals and objectives of such a strategy must be far more modest than with a historic preservation program. To a large degree, housing in these blighted areas will never be extremely desirable. At best, we can hope that market conditions can be stabilized in such a way as to provide safe and decent housing for community residents. The primary goal of a reinvestment strategy should be to create a mechanism that will: 1) allow homeowners to bring their properties up to code standards while maintaining homeownership; and 2) encourage investor-owners to eliminate substandard housing conditions without substantially raising rents.
Partially Typed Multiparty Sessions
Creators: name: Barbanera, Franco
name: Dezani-Ciancaglini, Mariangiola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.2;F.3.2;F.3.3

description: A multiparty session formalises a set of concurrent communicating participants. We propose a type system for multiparty sessions where some communications between participants can be ignored. This allows us to type some sessions with global types representing interesting protocols, which have no type in the standard type systems. Our type system enjoys Subject Reduction, Session Fidelity and "partial" Lock-freedom. The last property ensures the absence of locks for participants with non ignored communications. A sound and complete type inference algorithm is also discussed.
description: In Proceedings ICE 2023, arXiv:2308.08920
Ian Horton - Living the Dream (24 Hr Comic)
Creators: name: Horton, Ian
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190599 Visual Arts and Crafts not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190102 Art History
subject: 190101 Art Criticism
subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)

description: Living the Dream employs the character Konijntje vanme Man to consider the impact lockdown had on a devoted comic book fan, lecturer and family man. Konijntje vanme Man was originally used in comic book form to create a narrative for Thierry Chessum’s PhD thesis Graphic Interrogation in Psychosocial Research: Deleuze and Comics and Middle-aged Men in which Thierry used comic books created by middle-aged men to elicit discussion of their relationships. Living the Dream takes images from the comic created for Thierry and repurposes them to explore the use of collage and ‘self-swiping’ as part of my current research into notions of style and cultural history in evaluating the work of Jack Kirby from an art-historical perspective.
Additional file 1 of Determinants of vascular impairment in type 1 diabetes–impact of sex and connexin 37 gene polymorphism: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Piťhová, Pavlína
name: Cichrová, Michaela
name: Kvapil, Milan
name: Hubáček, Jaroslav  A.
name: Dlouhá, Dana
name: Piťha, Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
A Rejoinder: Questions on North Carolina Land Policy
Creators: name: Godschalk, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1976

description: In his article on new directions in state land policy, Bill Swindaman has presented a hopeful and positive view. For balance, some questions about the proposed North Carolina land policy approach need to be raised, if only in preparation for the questioning that will arise when the General Assembly considers the implementing legislation in 1977. At the time of its passage in 1974, the Land Policy Act was thought by many to be a "toothless tiger." Lacking concrete policy proposals and implementation powers, it seemed more like a rhetorical preamble to a land policy than a proposed solution to the state's development problems. Fortunately, the easing of development pressure due to the national economic situation gave us a breathing spell during which we could afford to make use of the three year study approach of the Act. During the past two years a well organized and energetic study effort has been mounted by the Land Policy Council staff, and the fruits of their labors are becoming available for inspection. Planners, public officials, and others affected by the policy must now critically examine the products of the Council's work, and decide about their utility and feasibility.
Friedmann cosmology in Regge-Teitelboim gravity
Creators: name: Sheykin, A. A.
name: Paston, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the approach to gravity as a theory of a surface embedded in a flat ambient space. After the brief review of the properties of original theory by Regge and Teitelboim we concentrate on its field-theoretic reformulation, which we call splitting theory. In this theory embedded surfaces are defined through the constant value surfaces of some set of scalar fields in high-dimensional Minkowski space. We obtain an exact expressions for this scalar fields in the case of Friedmann universe. We also discuss the features of quantisation procedure for this field theory.
description: LaTeX, 7 pages, based on a talk given at 9th Alexander Friedmann International Seminar, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21-27, 2015
Simultaneous observation of small- and large-energy-transfer electron-electron scattering in three dimensional indium oxide thick films
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
name: Liu, Xin-Dian
name: Li, Zhi-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In three dimensional (3D) disordered metals, the electron-phonon (\emph{e}-ph) scattering is the sole significant inelastic process. Thus the theoretical predication concerning the electron-electron (\emph{e}-\emph{e}) scattering rate $1/τ_φ$ as a function of temperature $T$ in 3D disordered metal has not been fully tested thus far, though it was proposed 40 years ago [A. Schmid, Z. Phys. \textbf{271}, 251 (1974)]. We report here the simultaneous observation of small- and large-energy-transfer \emph{e}-\emph{e} scattering in 3D indium oxide thick films. In temperature region of $T\gtrsim100$\,K, the temperature dependence of resistivities curves of the films obey Bloch-Grüneisen law, indicating the films possess degenerate semiconductor characteristics in electrical transport property. In the low temperature regime, $1/τ_φ$ as a function of $T$ for each film can not be ascribed to \emph{e}-ph scattering. To quantitatively describe the temperature behavior of $1/τ_φ$, both the 3D small- and large-energy-transfer \emph{e}-\emph{e} scattering processes should be considered (The small- and large-energy-transfer \emph{e}-\emph{e} scattering rates are proportional to $T^{3/2}$ and $T^2$, respectively). In addition, the experimental prefactors of $T^{3/2}$ and $T^{2}$ are proportional to $k_F^{-5/2}\ell^{-3/2}$ and $E_F^{-1}$ ($k_F$ is the Fermi wave number, $\ell$ is the electron elastic mean free path, and $E_F$ is the Fermi energy), respectively, which are completely consistent with the theoretical predications. Our experimental results fully demonstrate the validity of theoretical predications concerning both small- and large-energy-transfer \emph{e}-\emph{e} scattering rates.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
Capacity building and continuing professional development in healthcare and rehabilitation in low and middle income countries - A scoping review
Creators: name: Busch, Angela
name: Deprez, Dalton
name: Bidonde, Julia
name: Ramírez, Paola
name: Araque, Eliany
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Medical Education
subject: Health and Medical Administration
subject: capacity building
subject: clinical mentorship
subject: continuing professional development
subject: health education and promotion
subject: health systems
subject: human resources for health
subject: inter-professional training
subject: medical education
subject: rehabilitation
subject: resource-limited
subject: scoping review

description: A protocol for a scoping review of rehabilitation capacity building in low- and middle-income countries
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness analysis of dupilumab among patients with uncontrolled severe asthma using LIBERTY ASTHMA QUEST Korean data
Creators: name: Oh, Sung-Hee
name: Rhee, Chin Kook
name: Bae, Eun Jin
name: Ku, Hyemin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Science Policy
Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Transition probabilities. Table S2. Utility weights used in scenario analyses.
The weak-$A_\infty$ property of harmonic and $p$-harmonic measures implies uniform rectifiability
Creators: name: Hofmann, Steve
name: Le, Phi
name: Martell, José María
name: Nyström, Kaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B05, 31B25, 35J08, 42B25, 42B37, 28A75, 28A78

description: Let $E\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n\ge 2$, be an Ahlfors-David regular set of dimension $n$. We show that the weak-$A_\infty$ property of harmonic measure, for the open set $Ω:= \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\setminus E$, implies uniform rectifiability of $E$. More generally, we establish a similar result for the Riesz measure, $p$-harmonic measure, associated to the $p$-Laplace operator, $1
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1505.06499
Coordinating Housing and Social Services: The New Imperative
Creators: name: Stegman, Michael A.
name: Rohe, William M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: Historically, liberals and conservatives have disagreed over the causes of poverty. Recently, however, their attitudes toward existing public programs to assist the poor have converged. Liberals and conservatives alike have criticized these programs for failing to move people out of poverty. More specifically, public housing and other programs such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) have been faulted for having built-in incentives that discourage recipients from increasing their incomes. The lack of coordination among the various social assistance programs has also been criticized. A person may receive job training, for example, but have to drop out because child care is unavailable. Overall, the current array of housing and social services has not effectively assisted poor families in attaining self-sufficiency. An important goal of housing and social programs should be to help individuals and families achieve self-sufficiency. This notion is reflected in recent housing and social service legislation, including the Family Support Act of 1988 and the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990. These acts seek to restructure housing and social services to provide incentives and support for self-sufficiency, rather than simply maintaining recipients at a minimum standard of living.
Residential Segregation and Spatial Suicide: An Interview with George Galster
Creators: name: Williams, Chenicqua
name: Duffy, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Interview of George Galster, the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit. His recent books include The Maze of Urban Housing Markets (University of Chicago, 1991) and Reality and Research: Social Science and American Urban Policy Since 1960 (Urban Institute Press, 1996). He has published over 70 articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns and urban poverty.
Algebraic Reasoning About Timeliness
Creators: name: Haeri, Seyed Hossein
name: Thompson, Peter W.
name: Van Roy, Peter
name: Haveraaen, Magne
name: Davies, Neil J.
name: Barash, Mikhail
name: Hammond, Kevin
name: Chapman, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: B.8.2; C.4; D.2.4; D.2.8; F.3.2; F.3.1; F.4.1; F.4.3; I.1.1

description: Designing distributed systems to have predictable performance under high load is difficult because of resource exhaustion, non-linearity, and stochastic behaviour. Timeliness, i.e., delivering results within defined time bounds, is a central aspect of predictable performance. In this paper, we focus on timeliness using the DELTA-Q Systems Development paradigm (DELTA-QSD, developed by PNSol), which computes timeliness by modelling systems observationally using so-called outcome expressions. An outcome expression is a compositional definition of a system's observed behaviour in terms of its basic operations. Given the behaviour of the basic operations, DELTA-QSD efficiently computes the stochastic behaviour of the whole system including its timeliness. This paper formally proves useful algebraic properties of outcome expressions w.r.t. timeliness. We prove the different algebraic structures the set of outcome expressions form with the different DELTA-QSD operators and demonstrate why those operators do not form richer structures. We prove or disprove the set of all possible distributivity results on outcome expressions. On our way for disproving 8 of those distributivity results, we develop a technique called properisation, which gives rise to the first body of maths for improper random variables. Finally, we also prove 14 equivalences that have been used in the past in the practice of DELTA-QSD. An immediate benefit is rewrite rules that can be used for design exploration under established timeliness equivalence. This work is part of an ongoing project to disseminate and build tool support for DELTA-QSD. The ability to rewrite outcome expressions is essential for efficient tool support.
description: In Proceedings ICE 2023, arXiv:2308.08920
Additional file 2 of Cost-effectiveness analysis of dupilumab among patients with uncontrolled severe asthma using LIBERTY ASTHMA QUEST Korean data
Creators: name: Oh, Sung-Hee
name: Rhee, Chin Kook
name: Bae, Eun Jin
name: Ku, Hyemin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Science Policy
Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Methods. Productivity loss costs due to morbidity and premature death.
Broadband Linear Polarization of Jupiter Trojans
Creators: name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Belskaya, I. N.
name: Stinson, A.
name: Christou, A.
name: Borisov, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Trojan asteroids orbit in the Lagrange points of the system Sun-planet-asteroid. Their dynamical stability make their physical properties important proxies for the early evolution of our solar system. To study their origin, we want to characterize the surfaces of Jupiter Trojan asteroids and check possible similarities with objects of the main belt and of the Kuiper Belt. We have obtained high-accuracy broad-band linear polarization measurements of six Jupiter Trojans of the L4 population and tried to estimate the main features of their polarimetric behaviour. We have compared the polarimetric properties of our targets among themselves, and with those of other atmosphere-less bodies of our solar system. Our sample show approximately homogeneous polarimetric behaviour, although some distinct features are found between them. In general, the polarimetric properties of Trojan asteroids are similar to those of D- and P-type main-belt asteroids. No sign of coma activity is detected in any of the observed objects. An extended polarimetric survey may help to further investigate the origin and the surface evolution of Jupiter Trojans.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A
Interview with Norman Krumholz
Creators: name: Schroeder, Heather
name: Baucom, Wendy
name: McConville, Megan Lewis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Norman Krumholz is a towering figure in the eyes of many planners. A proponent of equity planning—the term Paul Davidoff coined in 1965 to refer to planning for the whole city and prioritizing the needs of populations habitually excluded from the process—he pioneered approaches to improve the quality of life in disadvantaged communities. During Krumholz’s groundbreaking ten years as Cleveland’s planning director from 1969-1979, he put this theory into practice, later describing his experiences in a book entitled Making Equity Planning Work. Krumholz visited UNC-Chapel Hill on Oct. 9, 2008, to deliver a public lecture titled “New Roles and New Status for Planners.” In the talk, co-sponsored by the Department of City of Regional Planning and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Krumholz described how the changing shape of cities poses new challenges for today’s planners. He dispelled several myths about industrial cities, including the belief that “the decline can be reversed and the cities restored to their former glory.” Instead of emphasizing greening efforts, New Urbanism, and blockbuster stadium projects, he said planners should focus on the basics: fixing cities’ schools, services, and safety. In an exclusive Carolina Planning interview, editors Wendy Baucom and Heather Schroeder sat down with Krumholz before his public lecture to speak about the biggest issues facing today’s planners. Given his track record, it may be no surprise that Krumholz encourages planners to continue breaking the mold.
Illness Perceptions of Paediatric Cancer Patients and their Parents
Creators: name: Herzog, Kristina
name: Martini, Julia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: cancer
subject: Common-Sense Model
subject: coping
subject: CSM
subject: illness perceptions
subject: paediatric cancer
subject: puppet interview

description: In this project, children and adolescents (aged 4-18 years) suffering from cancer are interviewed on their illness perceptions regarding their cancer disease. These illness perceptions are associated with the individual course of the disease and impairments. Therefore, illness perceptions are relevant to support children in their illness-related coping. An innovative methodological approach is crucial for this project: Children aged 4 to 11 years are interviewed in a puppet interview instead of answering a questionnaire. In this way important diagnostic information is received in addition to parental information. This project is currently conducted in the acute wards and the parents‘ associations in Dresden and Leipzig. This study ist preregistered at the Deutsches Register Klinischer Studien (DRKS 00022034).
On the Introduction of Guarded Lists in Bach: Expressiveness, Correctness, and Efficiency Issues
Creators: name: Barkallah, Manel
name: Jacquet, Jean-Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.3;D.2.4;D.3.3

description: Concurrency theory has received considerable attention, but mostly in the scope of synchronous process algebras such as CCS, CSP, and ACP. As another way of handling concurrency, data-based coordination languages aim to provide a clear separation between interaction and computation by synchronizing processes asynchronously by means of information being available or not on a shared space. Although these languages enjoy interesting properties, verifying program correctness remains challenging. Some works, such as Anemone, have introduced facilities, including animations and model checking of temporal logic formulae, to better grasp system modelling. However, model checking is known to raise performance issues due to the state space explosion problem. In this paper, we propose a guarded list construct as a solution to address this problem. We establish that the guarded list construct increases performance while strictly enriching the expressiveness of data-based coordination languages. Furthermore, we introduce a notion of refinement to introduce the guarded list construct in a correctness-preserving manner.
description: In Proceedings ICE 2023, arXiv:2308.08920
LIBER 2020 - Session #9: Tools for Transparency and Open Access
Creators: name: Kortekaas, Simone
name: Ames, Sarah
name: Graaf, Maurits van der
name: Krüger, Nicole
name: Pianos, Tamara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: These are the slides from the LIBER 2020 Session Tools for Transparency and Open Access. Session Description: As library resources increasingly move online and become more accessible to the wider public, it is essential to guarantee their trustworthiness. An important aspect in ensuring Open Access is, thus, transparency. In this session, three presentations will showcase successful developments in the field of Transparency and Open Access, as well as highlighting their future impact and implications. Sarah Ames will present work underway at the National Library of Scotland to present collections as data in an open and transparent way. In September 2019, the National Library of Scotland launched the Data Foundry, providing access to several data collections. These collections are published openly, in reusable formats and the Library does not assert further copyright over the databases it produces. Data Foundry also provides openness on the decision-making process behind the items ‘turned into data’. In her presentation, Ames will focus on the changes to the existing workflow, the processes needed to produce the Data Foundry and highlight the challenges of producing data online in an open, transparent manner. Next, Maurits de Graaf will focus on library tools for Green and Gold Open Access, highlighting their actual and potential future impacts and implications, as tools and policies by libraries are an important factor in realizing Open Access. He will discuss the impact of Green Open Access tools, the emergence of the APC-market alongside the subscription-market as well as the evolving Gold OA toolbox of libraries. Finally, he will shift his focus to the implications and impact of transformative agreements. Lastly, Nicole Krüger and Dr. Tamara Pianos will showcase the EconBiz Academic Career Kit, established to help young researchers foster research skills by providing open online learning materials. The Module covers topics such as how to publish your paper (in Open Access), as well as metrics and networking and Research Data Management. In this presentation they will share challenges in offering interactive open educational resources (OER). These include finding a non-proprietary platform that supports the creation of interactive OER and sharing interactive OER through online platforms.
Book Review: Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning in Appalachia
Creators: name: Crews, Jean
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: Social and economic planning in Appalachia has long been prefaced on the assumption that the region is a poverty-stricken subculture of the greater, more affluent nation. As urbanization and industrialization have provided for the wieldy development of the greater nation, so the thinking has been, the same process could likewise enrich Appalachia. Trapped in this mindset, posits Whisnant in Modernizing the Mountaineer , planners launched an urban-industrial campaign for this 'backward area' predicated on inappropriate and unexamined assumptions. Failing to recognize the consequences of discounting socio-cultural uniqueness, planners instinctively prescribed the urban-industrial development model as a cure for the lagging economy. Each of the three main sections of the book addresses a particular application of this regional development model. Part I examines the Council of Southern Mountains, an 'umbrella' organization for non-secular Appalachian development. Parts II and III analyze federal and state/sub-state programs, respectively. Through case studies , Whisnant traces for the reader the evolution of planning in Appalachia.
Modul M4 HS20 FernUni GruppeJennySylvieDominic
Creators: name: Fry, Jenny
name: Troesch, Dominic
name: imholz, sylvie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Audiovisual integration
subject: Individual differences
subject: McGurk-Effekt
subject: Speech perception

description: Projekt zum Mc Gurk Effekt für M04 an der Fernuni im HS2020
Comparing modal noise and FRD of circular and non-circular cross- section fibres
Creators: name: Sablowski, D. P.
name: Plüschke, D.
name: Weber, M.
name: Strassmeier, K. G.
name: Järvinen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modal noise is a common source of noise introduced to the measurements by optical fibres and is particularly important for fibre-fed spectroscopic instruments, especially for high-resolution measurements. This noise source can limit the signal-to-noise ratio and jeopardize photon-noise limited data. The subject of the present work is to compare measurements of modal noise and focal-ratio degradation (FRD) for several commonly-used fibres. We study the influence of a simple mechanical scrambling method (excenter) on both FRD and modal noise. Measurements are performed with circular and octagonal fibres from Polymicro Technology (FBP-Series) with diameters of 100, 200 and 300 μm and for square and rectangular fibres from CeramOptec, among others. FRD measurements for the same sample of fibres are performed as a function of wavelength. Furthermore, we replaced the circular fibre of the STELLA-echelle-spectrograph (SES) in Tenerife with an octagonal and found a SNR increase by a factor of 1.6 at 678 nm. It is shown in the laboratory that an excenter with a large amplitude and low frequency will not influence the FRD but will reduce modal noise rather effectively by up to 180%.
The Other Arms Race: The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor and the Plutonium Safeguards Problem
Creators: name: Hyman, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1977

description: Since its inception, controversy has surrounded the development of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) program. Why? The LMFBR presents significantly higher risks than the current generation of conventional Light Water Reactors (LWR), due mainly to the safeguards problems associated with the breeder's plutonium fuel cycle. Plutonium creates hazards to human welfare for several reasons. It is an extremely toxic substance. Furthermore, it is relatively easy to construct a nuclear bomb out of an quantity of plutonium the size of a softball and small amounts of plutonium can be used directly as radiation dispersal weapons. These potential dangers are accentuated by the breeder fuel cycle, which requires large amounts of cross-country transportation of nuclear materials. Shipments in transit are especially vulnerable to theft and sabotaged induced disasters. Nuclear black markets for terrorists and hostile governments may develop.
The detailed chemical composition of the terrestrial planet host Kepler-10
Creators: name: Liu, F.
name: Yong, D.
name: Asplund, M.
name: Ramirez, I.
name: Melendez, J.
name: Gustafsson, B.
name: Howes, L. M.
name: Roederer, I. U.
name: Lambert, D. L.
name: Bensby, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical abundance studies of the Sun and solar twins have demonstrated that the solar composition of refractory elements is depleted when compared to volatile elements, which could be due to the formation of terrestrial planets. In order to further examine this scenario, we conducted a line-by-line differential chemical abundance analysis of the terrestrial planet host Kepler-10 and fourteen of its stellar twins. Stellar parameters and elemental abundances of Kepler-10 and its stellar twins were obtained with very high precision using a strictly differential analysis of high quality CFHT, HET and Magellan spectra. When compared to the majority of thick disc twins, Kepler-10 shows a depletion in the refractory elements relative to the volatile elements, which could be due to the formation of terrestrial planets in the Kepler-10 system. The average abundance pattern corresponds to ~ 13 Earth masses, while the two known planets in Kepler-10 system have a combined ~ 20 Earth masses. For two of the eight thick disc twins, however, no depletion patterns are found. Although our results demonstrate that several factors (e.g., planet signature, stellar age, stellar birth location and Galactic chemical evolution) could lead to or affect abundance trends with condensation temperature, we find that the trends give further support for the planetary signature hypothesis.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS