cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Current-induced forces: a simple derivation
Creators: name: Todorov, Tchavdar N.
name: Dundas, Daniel
name: Lü, Jing-Tao
name: Brandbyge, Mads
name: Hedegård, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of forces on atoms under current in nanoscale conductors. We derive and discuss the five principal kinds of force under steady-state conditions from a simple standpoint that - with the help of background literature - should be accessible to physics undergraduates. The discussion aims at combining methodology with an emphasis on the underlying physics through examples. We discuss and compare two forces present only under current - the non-conservative electron wind force and a Lorentz-like velocity-dependent force. It is shown that in metallic nanowires both display significant features at the wire surface, making it a candidate for the nucleation of current-driven structural transformations and failure. Finally we discuss the problem of force noise and the limitations of Ehrenfest dynamics.
description: published version
Gribov ambiguities at the Landau -- maximal Abelian interpolating gauge
Creators: name: Pereira, A. D.
name: Sobreiro, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work, we presented a new method to account for the Gribov ambiguities in non-Abelian gauge theories. The method consists on the introduction of an extra constraint which directly eliminates the infinitesimal Gribov copies without the usual geometric approach. Such strategy allows to treat gauges with non-hermitian Faddeev-Popov operator. In this work, we apply this method to a gauge which interpolates among the Landau and maximal Abelian gauges. The result is a local and power counting renormalizable action, free of infinitesimal Gribov copies. Moreover, the interpolating tree-level gluon propagator is derived.
description: Several changes: figures removed, typos corrected and discussions included. 24 pages, to appear in EPJC
New Jersey's Clean Energy Newsletter, Winter 2006
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), Office of Clean Energy (OCE)
Year: 2006

description: The New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (NJCEP) Newsletter is designed to provide readers with the "Power to Save" - information needed to connect to programs that provide financial and environmental savings for NJ residents and businesses. This issue features the following articles: Pact Reduces Global Warming; NJ Proposes Increase to Renewable Energy Goals: 20% by 2020; Helping Consumers Conserve Energy; Natural Gas Cost Cutter Kit; Changes in Rebates for Residential HVAC Systems; 18 MW of Combined Heat and Power to receive funding from NJCEP; NJ to Launch Home Performance for Energy Star; 1,000 Solar Installation Milestone; CORE Rebate Changes; NJ Launches First Coastal Wind Farm; and Statewide Rollout for CleanPower Choice Program.
title: Für und Wider der Widerspruchsregelung
Creators: name: Schäfer, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Widerspruchslösung, Zustimmungsregelung, Hirntod, Hirntote, Gehirn, Organtransplantation, Organspende, Sterben
subject: 610 Medizin

description: zur geplanten Einführung der Widerspruchsregelung: Rückblick, aktueller Stand und Zukunft
Probing the early-time dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions with electromagnetic radiation
Creators: name: Vujanovic, Gojko
name: Paquet, Jean-Francois
name: Denicol, Gabriel S.
name: Luzum, Matthew
name: Schenke, Bjoern
name: Jeon, Sangyong
name: Gale, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using 3+1D viscous relativistic fluid dynamics, we show that electromagnetic probes are sensitive to the initial conditions and to the out-of-equilibrium features of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Within the same approach, we find that hadronic observables show a much lesser sensitivity to these aspects. We conclude that electromagnetic observables allow access to dynamical regions that are beyond the reach of soft hadronic probes.
description: Talk given at the 6th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2013), Nov 4-8, 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Factsheet #7 : Acetanilides
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Pesticide Control Program
Year: 1999

description: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Pesticide Control Program's Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Unit publishes fact sheets on various pesticides that are distributed to agricultural employers to have on file should their employees request them.  This is one component of the WPS program to inform agricultural workers of the pesticides to which they are exposed and the possible effects of the chemicals on their health.  This factsheet (#7 in the series) covers Acetanilides, containing information such as its chemical and common names, symptoms of poisoning, short- and long-term health hazards, protective equipment that should be worn when working with the pesticide and emergency treatment.
title: Property tax competition
title: A quantitative assessment
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Borck, Rainald
name: Oshiro, Jun
name: Satō, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxa-tion regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and “rent seeking” regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high tax rates, whereas centralized taxation yields a common optimal tax rate, and tax rates in the rent-seeking regime can be either inefficiently high or low. We quantify the effects of switching from the observed tax system to the three regimes for Japan and Germany. The decentralized or rent-seeking regime best describes the Japanese tax system, whereas the centralized regime does so for Germany. We also quantify the welfare effects of regime changes.
description: CEPA Discussion Papers; 52
title: Regional Health Benefits of the Nevada Renewable Energy Initiative
Creators: name: Rezaee, Alireza
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: In recent years, there have been tremendous efforts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in the United States. Nevada was among the first states that established the renewable portfolio standards (RPS), requiring a certain percentage of electricity sold to the customers for consumption coming from renewable resources. The recent Nevada Senate Bill 358, signed by Nevada’s Governor in 2019, set a target that by 2030 not less than 50% of electricity sold in Nevada should come from renewable resources. This research investigates how this Bill could provide health benefits for Nevada residents via improved air quality and how these benefits depend on total electricity demand under different economic conditions. This study also evaluated the breakdown of benefits by health endpoints and estimated how the health benefits are spread over Nevada counties and surrounding states. This study created and used two scenarios with high and low projected electricity demands in 2030. For each scenario, emission reductions due to the RPS implementation and their associated health benefits were assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT) and CO–Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) models. Based on this analysis, implementation of SB 358 was shown to produce health benefits equivalent to $3–8 million per year for Nevada residents and up to $140 million per year for the entire U.S. from reducing mortality and nonfatal heart attacks. These benefits were not uniformly spread across Nevada counties, with obvious total health benefits in Clark and Washoe County and higher per-capita benefits in Storey and Humboldt County. Nevada residents would acquire more health benefits if electricity demands will be lower by 2030 ($3.3-$7.6 million in the low-demand scenario compared with $3.0-$6.9 million in the high-demand scenario). Moreover, the study revealed that Nevada is ranked only sixth among ten states benefiting most from the policy, as California and Washington obtain the most health benefits. These findings may empower public support of RPS policies and energy conservation to reduce air pollution and improve public health for the region.
Reappraisal Report: Central Barnegat Bay (BB2), Bay Shore to Sunrise Beach, January 1999 - December 2002
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Land Use Management, Water Monitoring and Standards
Year: 2005

description: This growing area encompasses the waters from Bay Shore to Sunrise Beach, which includes a large section of the Barnegat Bay, Toms River, and Cedar Creek. All 103 sampling stations in the Central Barnegat Bay area (BB2) remain in compliance with their respective classification criteria. The sampling strategy for this area is Systematic Random Sampling. Data were analyzed from January 1999 to December 2002 for total coliform (TC) and fecal coliform (FC).
Kondo screening of spin-charge separated fluxons by a helical liquid
Creators: name: Weber, Manuel
name: Hohenadler, Martin
name: Assaad, Fakher F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The insertion of a magnetic $π$ flux into a quantum spin Hall insulator creates four localized, spin-charge separated states: the charge and spin fluxons with either charge $Q=\pm1$ or spin $S_z=\pm1/2$, respectively. In the presence of repulsive Coulomb interactions, the charged states are gapped out and a local moment is formed. We consider the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model on a ribbon with zigzag edges to construct an impurity model where the spin fluxon is screened by the helical edge liquid. In the noninteracting model, the hybridization between fluxon and edge states is dominated by the extent of the latter. It becomes larger with increasing spin-orbit coupling $λ$ but only has nonzero values for even distances between the $π$ flux and the edge. For the interacting system, we use the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method, which we have extended by global susceptibility measurements to reproduce the characteristic Curie law of the spin fluxon. However, due to the finite extent of the fluxons, the local moment is formed at rather low energies. The screening of the spin fluxon leads to deviations from the Curie law that follow the universal behavior obtained from a data collapse. Additionally, the Kondo resonance arises in the local spectral function between the two low-lying Hubbard peaks.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures; final version
title: In the Image of… Towards a Trans Talmud
Creators: name: Reese, Laurence
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: In the Image of... (towards a Trans Talmud) is a body of work by artist Laurence Myers Reese that works to examine Jewish paradigms of gender through the transgender lens. Reading the archive diagonally, he examines historical Jewish writings, from poet and Rabbi Kalonymous Ben Kalonymous to “false Messiah” Shabbatai Tzvi. Contextualizing contemporary Jewish with notable exhibitions from the Jewish Museum New York and Spertus Museum, Chicago, In the Image of… draws from artists, writers, and Rabbis who use a gendered lens to interrogate Judaism. These include Yael Kanarek, who has worked to re-gender the entire Torah, Rena Yehuda Newman, an author investigating trans Jewish sexuality, and Bonny Nahmias, who examines human conflicts and collective actions. The work also looks to current Talmud scholars, including Max Strassfeld, Joy Ladin, and the work of queer yeshiva Svara. The work interprets Talmud and Torah through the transgender lens. From debates of the gender of Abraham and Sarah as “tumtum,” to the potential queerness of Patriarchs and Matriarchs, to the gendered prohibitions against “witchcraft”, to the tale of how a male rabbi developed the ability to breastfeed a child. This paper looks at the talmud through the lens of a transgender artist, and questions what it means to be a transgender Jew through exploration of text. The resulting artworks of B’tzelem use abstract gestures, texts, and Jewish imagery to create a framework for queer Jewish existence. The art incorporates projected text in site specific places to comment on the placement of transgender individuals in religious spaces. Texts from prominent transgender theologians and the Babylonian Talmud are painted on walls, ceilings and floors to envelop the reader in text, drawing on mystical interpretations of creation and forcing the viewer to grapple with trans.
How soon after a zero-temperature quench is the fate of the Ising model sealed?
Creators: name: Blanchard, Thibault
name: Corberi, Federico
name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
name: Picco, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transient between a fully disordered initial condition and a percolating structure in the low-temperature non-conserved order parameter dynamics of the bi-dimensional Ising model. We show that a stable structure of spanning clusters establishes at a time $t_p \simeq L^{α_p}$. Our numerical results yield $α_p=0.50(2)$ for the square and kagome, $α_p=0.33(2)$ for the triangular and $α_p=0.38(5)$ for the bowtie-a lattices.We generalise the dynamic scaling hypothesis to take into account this new time-scale. We discuss the implications of these results for other non-equilibrium processes.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures + supplemental material (2 pages, 1 figure), version 2: new co-author, extended manuscript
title: An Educational Intervention in the Emergency Department for Adults Experiencing Vaso-Occlusive Crisis
Creators: name: Reese-Martin, Chericka
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Background: Sickle cell anemia, often referred to as sickle cell disease (SCD), is an inherited blood disorder that affects millions of people globally and affects more than 100,000 Americans, mostly of African or Hispanic descent. The SCD arises from a genetic defect that alters the structure of hemoglobin. The modified hemoglobin causes red blood cells (RBCs) to become stiff, sticky, and sickle shaped. These deformed RBCs block blood flow, cause severe pain, organ and joint damage and strokes. The sickled cells do not deliver oxygen to organs and tissues as healthy cells do, causing slow, inevitable damage over decades and intolerable pain. Problem: Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients face challenges when reporting to the emergency department (ED) during a vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC). Many are deprived of adequate care because their symptoms commonly cause them to be mistaken for opioid abusers, drug seekers or immense exaggerators. Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project is to measure attitudes towards adult patients with SCD and develop, implement, and evaluate an educational intervention for ED providers to increase their awareness, knowledge, and confidence in treating adults experiencing VOC. Measurement: Quasi-experimental pre-and post-intervention design was used to measure attitudes about SCD, knowledge, awareness, and confidence in treating patients. N = 25. Knowledge, awareness, and confidence about SCD and VOC were measured using a 10-item questionnaire and provider attitudes were measured using the General Perceptions about Sickle Cell Disease Patients Scale. The 17-item scale was administered pre-and post-intervention and consisted of four subscales which measured negative attitudes, positive attitudes, concern raising behavior, and red-flag behavior. Pre-and post-intervention mean scores were compared. Results: Negative attitudes trended toward significance (P = 0.06). Positive attitudes were significantly increased (P = 0.03), concern-raising behavior (P < 0.01), and red flag behaviors (P < 0.01) were significantly lowered. Confidence scores were significantly increased (P < 0.01). No significant difference noted in pre-and post knowledge assessments. Implications for Practice: This type of simple intervention can be used to provide additional training among clinicians and medical staff working in-patient and outpatient settings. Conclusion: Overall, participants felt the educational module met their learning objectives and evidence suggest the module was beneficial in raising positive attitudes and confidence levels. Although statistical significance was not obtained, there was a reduction in the number of negative attitudes. With a larger and more ethnically distributed sample, authors would likely see significance in the areas of knowledge and negative attitudes.
Systematic errors in the measurement of neutrino masses due to baryonic feedback processes: Prospects for stage IV lensing surveys
Creators: name: Natarajan, Aravind
name: Zentner, Andrew R.
name: Battaglia, Nicholas
name: Trac, Hy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the importance of baryonic feedback effects on the matter power spectrum on small scales, and the implications for the precise measurement of neutrino masses through gravitational weak lensing. Planned large galaxy surveys such as the Large Synoptic Sky Telescope (LSST) and Euclid are expected to measure the sum of neutrino masses to extremely high precision, sufficient to detect non-zero neutrino masses even in the minimal mass normal hierarchy. We show that weak lensing of galaxies while being a very good probe of neutrino masses, is extremely sensitive to baryonic feedback processes. We use publicly available results from the Overwhelmingly Large Simulations (OWLS) project to investigate the effects of active galactic nuclei feedback, the nature of the stellar initial mass function, and gas cooling rates, on the measured weak lensing shear power spectrum. Using the Fisher matrix formalism and priors from CMB+BAO data, we show that when one does not account for feedback, the measured neutrino mass may be substantially larger or smaller than the true mass, depending on the dominant feedback mechanism, with the mass error |Δm_nu| often exceeding the mass m_nu itself. We also consider gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and show that it is not sensitive to baryonic feedback on scales l < 2000, although CMB experiments that aim for sensitivities sigma(m_nu) < 0.02 eV will need to include baryonic effects in modeling the CMB lensing potential. A combination of CMB lensing and galaxy lensing can help break the degeneracy between neutrino masses and baryonic feedback processes. We conclude that future large galaxy lensing surveys such as LSST and Euclid can only measure neutrino masses accurately if the matter power spectrum can be measured to similar accuracy.
description: No major changes. References added, and text expanded. Published in Phys. Rev. D, and replaced to reflect the published version
title: Jazz Sampling Hip Hop: A View of the Expanded Rhythm Section and the Musical Interactions Between Musicians and Machines
Creators: name: Redfield, Molly
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: This document presents a study on a musical fusion that I term “jazz/hip hop.” The study presents a historical overview of jazz/hip hop origins beginning with 1960s beat poets to jazz/hip hop artists emerging in the early 2000s. Modeled after Phillip Tagg’s and John Fiske’s semiotic methodology and William C. Banfield’s African American Cultural Theory and Heritage Model, the methodology defines the musical and cultural aesthetics of jazz/hip hop. Interviews from jazz/hip hop artists are presented; justifying the use of hip-hop aesthetics and countering the argument that commercial elements are added for mainstream recognition. I examine that samples musically interact with live rhythm section performers, giving transcriptions to aid the development of relevant drum set and bass performance techniques. Finally, the document serves as an introduction to jazz hip hop for musicians and scholars alike.
title: Trauma on Top of Trauma: How Child Welfare Failures Affect Trafficked Children
Creators: name: Ra, Christie
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: The commercial sexual exploitation of children is a phenomenon that greatly impacts the victimization of children. The sexual victimization of children is harmful to children and prior research has found various risk factors related to exploitation. The main risk factors observed in the current paper include prior sexual abuse and/or assault, adverse childhood experiences, foster care failures, race/ethnicity, and running away. The current study used secondary data that collected data from non-foster and foster-involved exploited children to observe how foster care involvement and race/ethnicity affect victimization within the juvenile justice system. Findings confirmed that race/ethnicity and foster care involvement greatly influenced outcomes in the juvenile justice system. Additional findings and limitations are discussed.
title: Development of UAV-Based Rail Track Geometry Irregularity Monitoring and Measuring Platform Empowered by Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: Qiu, Lihao
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Rail tracks need to be consistently monitored and inspected for problems associated with rust, deformation, and cracks that, at their worst, can cause catastrophic train derailments. Many non-destructive testing approaches have been explored and extensively utilized to help inspect rails’ health, but most of them require intensive human power and/or heavy sensor systems (e.g. total stations, manual/car-mounted trolly, etc.) that are not efficient or convenient to cover a long range of rails and may interfere with the normal operation of trains.In light of the rapid development of unmanned aerial systems/vehicles (UAS’s/UAVs) and high definition photographic and optical distance measuring sensors, this paper proposes a novel UAV-based rail track irregularity monitoring and measuring platform that can remotely inspect the geometry irregularity of tracks at various angles and cover a long distance by only a few personnel. By mounting a light distance and range (LiDAR) scanning sensor and a data acquisition system on the UAV, we can continuously collect 3D point cloud data (PCD) frames that reflect the surfaces of tracks, ground, and other objects. Data points in these PCD frames are manually annotated into two classes: rail tracks and background. Then, annotated PCD frames are pre-processed and fed to train a state-of-the-art machine-learning-based 3D point cloud semantic segmentation network, RandLA-Net, to assign each point into one of the two aforementioned classes, so that point clusters that represent rail tracks can be extracted. The trained model can be deployed for real-time distinction between rails and background. Then, principal component analysis (PCA) and multiple regressions are conducted to identify the top and inner surface of the rails. In the end, various geometry measurement of rails, such as gauge, cross level, etc. can be performed to inspect any irregularities. The geometry measurement obtained by the proposed UAV-LiDAR-based framework is compared against standard official value of each geometry. The evaluation results have confirmed the similar or the more advanced performance of the proposed platform with more terrain flexibilities.
title: Identifying Gaps in Social Determinants of Health Among Patients 65 Years and Older with Congestive Heart Failure: A Secondary Data Analysis
Creators: name: Pierre-Louis, Sandra
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most common healthcare problems for older adults. Because of its high and rising prevalence in this population and its significant influence on healthcare costs and quality of life, CHF is becoming a serious public health issue in the United States. More effective strategies for preventing and managing CHF in older people are desperately needed (Rich, 2015). The disease accounts for 3% of hospital admissions in the United States and affects more than 6.5 million Americans (White-Williams et al., 2020). Further, CHF is exacerbated by adverse social determinants of health (SDOH). This study identified gaps in social determinant data for CHF patients at a medical group organization in Clark County, Nevada, spanning January 2020 to June 2021. Social determinant data for 425 participants meeting the inclusion criteria (i.e., diagnosed with CHF, 65 and older, and enrolled in Medicare Advantage) were analyzed; though, the only social determinants in the database were age, neighborhood (geographical location), and insurance. While the data showed that age and location were critical determinants, more data points would help assess SDOH in the context of CHF. A study recommendation is to develop an SDOH assessment screening tool that includes the following components: age, neighborhood, living situation, food, transportation, employment, utilities, medication, safety, loneliness, family and community support, health literacy, physical activity, and follow-up. The SDOH tool will assist in delaying the impact of CHF exacerbations and increase patient health outcomes.
Absence of a giant spin Hall effect in plasma-hydrogenated graphene
Creators: name: Völkl, Tobias
name: Kochan, Denis
name: Ebnet, Thomas
name: Ringer, Sebastian
name: Schiermeier, Daniel
name: Nagler, Philipp
name: Korn, Tobias
name: Schüller, Christian
name: Fabian, Jaroslav
name: Weiss, Dieter
name: Eroms, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The weak spin-orbit interaction in graphene was predicted to be increased, e.g., by hydrogenation. This should result in a sizable spin Hall effect (SHE). We employ two different methods to examine the spin Hall effect in weakly hydrogenated graphene. For hydrogenation we expose graphene to a hydrogen plasma and use Raman spectroscopy to characterize this method. We then investigate the SHE of hydrogenated graphene in the H-bar method and by direct measurements of the inverse SHE. Although a large nonlocal resistance can be observed in the H-bar structure, comparison with the results of the other method indicate that this nonlocal resistance has a non-spin-related origin.
Gas-liquid phase coexistence and crossover behavior of binary ionic fluids with screened Coulomb interactions: The effect of an interaction range
Creators: name: Patsahan, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the gas-liquid phase diagram and the crossover behavior of a simple model of ionic fluid: an equimolar binary mixture of equisized hard spheres interacting through screened Coulomb potentials which are repulsive between particles of the same species and attractive between particles of different species. Using our previous results, we obtain explicit expressions for the relevant coefficients of the effective $φ^{4}$ Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian in a one-loop approximation. Within the framework of this approximation, we calculate the critical parameters and gas-liquid coexistence curves for different values of the dimensionless inverse screening length $z$. The critical temperature scaled by the Yukawa potential contact value as well as the critical packing fraction rapidly decrease with an increase of the interaction range and then for $z<0.05$ slowly approach the values found for a purely ionic model, i.e., a restricted primitive model (RPM). The both trends are qualitatively consistent with the results of Monte Carlo simulations. We find that gas-liquid coexistence region reduces with an increase of $z$ and completely vanishes at $z\simeq 2.781$. This qualitatively agrees with the results of Monte Carlo simulations indicating a stable gas-liquid coexistence for $z\leq 4$. It is also shown that an increase in the interaction range from the one typical of simple fluids to the one typical of ionic fluids leads to a decrease of the crossover temperature. For $z\simeq 0.01$, the crossover temperature is the same as for the RPM. For $z\simeq 2.781$, our results indicate a tricritical point.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
title: Student-Athletes’ Career Adaptability, Academic Motivation and Athletic Motivation
Creators: name: Petrolia, Alexandria
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Many Division I student-athletes find the transition of graduating college, leaving the athletic arena, and entering the workforce to be extremely challenging to navigate. Due to the high demands of being an elite athlete and the prospect of continuing to compete professionally after graduation, an overwhelming majority of student-athletes expend little to no effort in exploring potential careers and are unlikely to take advantage of the opportunities available to them prior to graduation. This study aimed to examine the relationship between athletic career motivation, athletic motivation, and academic motivation to the skills necessary to navigate work responsibilities in career adaptability. The findings of this study suggested academic motivation and athletic motivation have a significant association with career adaptability.
title: Differential Expression of Cellular and Exosomal MicroRNA Isolated from Oral Cancer Cells and Their Resistance to Chemotherapy
Creators: name: Petersen, Brady
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: "Introduction: MicroRNAs are abundant small non-coding RNA with a variety of known functions, including transcriptional activation and inhibition. Recent evidence has suggested that microRNA expression may influence the responsiveness of some cancers to chemotherapy, including liver and lung cancers. Some evidence has now suggested that specific microRNAs, such as miR-21, miR-155, and miR-375, may influence oral cancer responsiveness to chemotherapy – although much remains to be discovered.

Objective: Based upon the lack of evidence in this area, the primary objective of this study was to evaluate microRNA expression and responsiveness among oral cancers.

Methods: Five commercially available oral cancer cell lines (SCC4, SCC9, SCC15, SCC25, CAL27) were obtained from ATCC and cultured and chemotherapy resistance to Cisplatin, Fluorouracil or 5-FU, and Paclitaxel or Taxol was assessed. Exosomes were then isolated, confirmed and processed using Particle Metrix Nano Tracking Analysis (NTA). Subsequently, RNA was isolated from both the exosomes and cellular fractions and qPCR screening was performed to determine the expression of microRNA from cellular and exosomal isolates.

Results: Growth assays revealed SCC15 assays were the least resistant, while CAL27 and SCC4 cells exhibited moderate resistance, and SCC9 and SCC25 cells exhibited strong and differential resistance to these chemotherapeutic agents. Screening revealed all cancers expressed miR-21 and miR-133 with differential expression of miR-27, miR-135, miR-155 and miR-375 observed. However, the most resistant cell lines, SCC9 and SCC25, were the only cells to express miR-375 and were also the only cells that did not express miR-27, suggesting an association between chemotherapeutic resistance and expression of these specific microRNAs. In addition, miR-21 and miR-133 were identified in exosomes from all oral cancers with differential results observed with miR-133 and miR-135 - although miR-27 and miR-375 were not found among any exosomes.

Conclusions: Although much remains to be elucidated about the functional roles of these differentially expressed microRNAs, the findings of this study suggest that specific microRNAs including miR-27 and miR-375 may, in fact, function in distinct, different and opposite pathways among these cell lines. Future research endeavors will need to evaluate the potential role of these microRNAs not only to validate their predictive capabilities as biomarkers, but also to ascertain which functional pathways may be involved in the development and progression of oral cancers."
New expectations and uncertainties on neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Dell'Oro, Stefano
name: Marcocci, Simone
name: Vissani, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hypothesis that the Majorana mass of ordinary neutrinos dominates the rate of neutrinoless double beta decay is investigated. Predictions from neutrino oscillations are updated. Nuclear uncertainties are discussed, evaluating the impact of the quenching of the axial vector coupling constant in the nuclear medium, recently pointed out by Iachello et al. [Phys. Rev. C87, 014315 (2013)]. Also, the sensitivity of present and future experiments is assessed and possible implications of the knowledge on neutrino masses from cosmology are studied. The predictions from neutrino oscillations are compared with the results from cosmology and from neutrinoless double beta decay searches, emphasizing the important role of the measurement errors. The obstacles to an experimental determination of the Majorana phases are pointed out.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
State of the Art (SOTA) Manual for the Paint, Ink and Adhesive Manufacturing Industries
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Quality Permitting Program
Year: 1997

description: These State of the Art (SOTA) performance levels apply to paint and ink manufacturing unit operations sources, including but not limited to:  washing systems, fixed and portable mixers and dispensers, roller/dispersion/grinding mills, process tanks, packaging lines, and mixing/blending/holding tanks.  Adhesive manufacturers are also covered.  Performance levels are defined for manufacturing operations emitting the following pollutants:  regulated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), particulate matter (including HAP and heavy metal), and other pollutants on a case-by-case basis.  As promulgated in the New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.2C, and as set forth in the implementing regulations of the Air Pollution Control Act (N.J.A.C. 7:27-8 and N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.35), newly constructed, reconstructed, or modified equipment and control apparatus is required to incorporate advances in the art of air pollution control developed for the kind and amount of air contaminant emitted by the applicant's equipment or control apparatus.  The Air Pollution Control Act of New Jersey directed the Department to publish technical manuals that would include performance levels with respect to air pollution control, to be used by some permit applicants for demonstrating advances in the art of air pollution control.  'Advances in the art of air pollution control' is commonly referred to as 'State-of-the-Art' or SOTA.  SOTA generally includes performance limits that are based on air pollution control technology, pollution prevention methods, and process modifications or substitutions that will provide the greatest emission reductions that are technologically and economically feasible.  There are 17 SOTA manuals included in this series.  They cover the following topics:  volatile organic storage tanks; transfer operations; petroleum refineries; asphalt plants; chemical and pharmaceutical processing and manufacturing industries; degreasers and other solvent based metal surface cleaners; surface coating operations; commercial sterilizers and fumigators using ethylene oxide; municipal wastewater/sludge handling and treatment systems; non-hazardous onsite remediation processes; bakery ovens; broilers; internal combustion engines; stationary gas turbines; glass industry; paint, ink, and adhesive manufacturing industries; graphic arts industry.
Chronic Wasting Disease Questions and Answers (FAQs)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife Health and Forensics
Year: 2005

description: This document contains information about white-tailed deer and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and addresses some of the more common questions related to this issue. The questions include: What is CWD?, Isn't CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) the same as mad cow disease and CWD?, Isn't there a connection between CJD and mad cow disease (BSE)?, Can humans get CWD?, What does it look like?, How do we test for it?, Where did it come from?, Is it in New Jersey?, Where is it?, How is it spread?, How can it be prevented or controlled?, How can the hunters help?, How can captive deer owners help?, How can butchers and taxidermists help? There are also some links provided for more information about chronic wasting disease, its management and related diseases.
Frauen sprechen Recht
Creators: name: Schewe, Anke
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Frauen aktiv in die Streitschlichtung in islamischen Gesellschaften einzubeziehen, stellt weltweit immer noch eine Ausnahme dar, zumal in einer entlegenen Provinz in Pakistan. Umso bemerkenswerter das nachfolgend skizzierte Projekt, das an die lange Tradition anwaltschaftlicher Selbstbehauptung in der pakistanischen Justizgeschichte wie auch an die menschenrechtsbasierten Erwartungen Genfer Juristinnen (CEDAW) anknüpfen kann.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 2 (2020): Sri Lanka – VIRUS AUTOKRATIE
Die Mühsal der Frauenrechtskonvention
Creators: name: Rathgeber, Theodor
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Der UN-Fachausschuss zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Diskriminierung der Frau (CEDAW) veröffentlichte am 2. März seine Ergebnisse zu den Ländern Afghanistan, Bulgarien, Eritrea, Kiribati, Lettland, Pakistan, Republik Moldau und Simbabwe. Die Ergebnisse enthielten positive Aspekte zur Umsetzung des Übereinkommens, überwiegend jedoch Besorgnis erregende Aspekte und Empfehlungen (concluding observations) zur Verbesserung. Zu Pakistan gab es einiges auszuführen.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 2 (2020): Sri Lanka – VIRUS AUTOKRATIE
title: Evaluation of an Advance Care Planning Workshop to Improve the Self-Efficacy of Health Care Providers
Creators: name: Patrick, Joy
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Advance care planning (ACP) involves discussions between the patient and their care providers and those close to them about future care. Every patient is entitled to ACP; however, research has shown that providers do not regularly implement them for various reasons. In addition, multiple barriers may be preventing providers from initiating ACP. Among them are lack of knowledge and confidence, apprehension, time, and fear. This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) addresses the problematic barriers to regular ACP discussions between providers and the patients. Specifically, the purpose of this DNP project is to develop, implement and evaluate an online module to improve healthcare providers' knowledge and self-efficacy in facilitating ACP discussions with their patients.To accomplish the above purpose, an education training which consisted of a pre-test/post-test was conducted. In addition to the education training, an assessment utilizing the ACP-SE survey was administered to measure participants perceived self-efficacy before and after the education. The goal was to improve ACP awareness for health care providers, thereby increasing self-efficacy in facilitating these conversations. The overall results demonstrated positive gains in perceived self-efficacy, knowledge gain, and positive evaluations of the online education training. The implications of this DNP project confirmed there remains a need to educate and build health care workers' self-efficacy as it relates to advance care planning and goals of care discussions. Improving the providers' capacity to facilitate ACP may improve patient-centered communication of end-of-life care discussions.
Surface Brightness Profile of the Milky Way's Nuclear Star Cluster
Creators: name: Schodel, R.
name: Feldmeier, A.
name: Kunneriath, D.
name: Stolovy, S.
name: Neumayer, N.
name: Amaro-Seoane, P.
name: Nishiyama, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) In this paper we aim at determining the shape, size, and luminosity/mass of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster (MWNSC). We use Spitzer/IRAC images at 3.6 and 4.5 micrometer, where interstellar extinction is at a minimum but the overall emission is still dominated by stars. We correct the 4.5 micrometer image for PAH emission with the help of the IRAC 8.0 micrometer map and for extinction with the help of a [3.6-4.5] colour map. We present an extinction map for the central ~300x200 pc^2 of the Milky Way, as well as a PAH-emission and extinction corrected image of the stellar emission, with a resolution of about 0.2 pc. We find that the MWNSC appears in projection intrinsically point-symmetric, that it is significantly flattened, with its major axis aligned along the Galactic Plane, and that it is centred on the black hole, Sagittarius A*. Its density follows the well known approximate rho~r^{-2}-law at distances of a few parsecs from Sagittarius A*, but may become as steep as rho~r^{-3} at projected radii around 5 pc. We derive a half light radius of 4.2+-0.4 pc, a total luminosity of L_MWNSC=(4.1+-0.4)x10^{7} L_Sun, and a mass of M_{MWNSC}=(2.5+-0.4)x10^{7} M_Sun. The overall properties of the MWNSC agree well with the ones of its extragalactic counterparts, which underlines its role as a template for these objects. Its flattening agrees well with its previously established rotation parallel to Galactic rotation and suggests that it has formed by accretion of material that fell in preferentially along the Galactic Plane. Our findings support the in situ growth scenario for nuclear clusters and emphasize the need to increase the complexity of theoretical models for their formation and for the interaction between their stars and the central black hole in order to include rotation, axisymmetry, and growth in recurrent episodes.
description: Final, accepted manuscript
A Hermite interpolatory subdivision scheme for $C^2$-quintics on the Powell-Sabin 12-split
Creators: name: Lyche, Tom
name: Muntingh, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 41A15, 65D07, 65D17, 65M60

description: In order to construct a $C^1$-quadratic spline over an arbitrary triangulation, one can split each triangle into 12 subtriangles, resulting in a finer triangulation known as the Powell-Sabin 12-split. It has been shown previously that the corresponding spline surface can be plotted quickly by means of a Hermite subdivision scheme. In this paper we introduce a nodal macro-element on the 12-split for the space of quintic splines that are locally $C^3$ and globally $C^2$. For quickly evaluating any such spline, a Hermite subdivision scheme is derived, implemented, and tested in the computer algebra system Sage. Using the available first derivatives for Phong shading, visually appealing plots can be generated after just a couple of refinements.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Dynamical spin response in cuprate superconductors from low-energy to high-energy
Creators: name: Kuang, Lulin
name: Lan, Yu
name: Feng, Shiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism, the dynamical spin response of cuprate superconductors is studied from low-energy to high-energy. The spin self-energy is evaluated explicitly in terms of the collective charge carrier modes in the particle-hole and particle-particle channels, and employed to calculate the dynamical spin structure factor. Our results show the existence of damped but well-defined dispersive spin excitations in the whole doping phase diagram. In particular, the low-energy spin excitations in the superconducting-state have an hour-glass-shaped dispersion, with commensurate resonance that appears in the superconducting-state only, while the low-energy incommensurate spin fluctuations can persist into the normal-state. The high-energy spin excitations in the superconducting-state on the other hand retain roughly constant energy as a function of doping, with spectral weights and dispersion relations comparable to those in the corresponding normal-state. The theory also shows that the unusual magnetic correlations in cuprate superconductors can be ascribed purely to the spin self-energy effects which arise directly from the charge carrier-spin interaction in the kinetic energy of the system.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, typos corrected and added discussions, accepted for publication
Z Cam Stars in the Twenty-First Century
Creators: name: Simonsen, Mike
name: Boyd, David
name: Goff, Bill
name: Krajci, Tom
name: Menzies, Kenneth
name: Otero, Sebastian
name: Padovan, Stefano
name: Poyner, Gary
name: Roe, James
name: Sabo, Richard
name: Sjoberg, George
name: Staels, Bart
name: Stubbings, Rod
name: Toone, John
name: Wils, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Z Cam stars are a small subset of dwarf novae that exhibit standstills in their light curves. Most modern literature and catalogs of cataclysmic variables quote the number of known Z Cams to be on the order of 30 or so systems. After a four-year observing campaign and an exhaustive examination of the data in the AAVSO International Database we have trimmed that number by a third. One of the reasons for the misclassification of some systems is the fact that the definition of what a Z Cam is has changed over the last 85 years to what it is today. This has caused many stars formerly assumed to be Z Cams or rumored to be Z Cams to be eliminated from the final list. In this paper we present the results of our investigation into 65 stars listed at one time or another in the literature as Z Cams or possible Z Cams.
description: 22 pages, 26 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Journal of the AAVSO