cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Bayesian mixed effects support vector machine for learning and predicting daily substance use disorder patterns
Creators: name: Baurley, James W.
name: Claus, Eric D.
name: Witkiewitz, Katie
name: McMahan, Christopher S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Substance use disorder (SUD) is a heterogeneous disorder. Adapting machine learning algorithms to allow for the parsing of intrapersonal and interpersonal heterogeneity in meaningful ways may accelerate the discovery and implementation of clinically actionable interventions in SUD research. Objectives: Inspired by a study of heavy drinkers that collected daily drinking and substance use (ABQ DrinQ), we develop tools to estimate subject-specific risk trajectories of heavy drinking; estimate and perform inference on patient characteristics and time-varying covariates; and present results in easy-to-use Jupyter notebooks. Methods: We recast support vector machines (SVMs) into a Bayesian model extended to handle mixed effects. We then apply these methods to ABQ DrinQ to model alcohol use patterns. ABQ DrinQ consists of 190 heavy drinkers (44% female) with 109,580 daily observations. Results: We identified male gender (point estimate; 95% credible interval: −0.25;-0.29,-0.21), older age (−0.03;-0.03,-0.03), and time varying usage of nicotine (1.68;1.62,1.73), cannabis (0.05;0.03,0.07), and other drugs (1.16;1.01,1.35) as statistically significant factors of heavy drinking behavior. By adopting random effects to capture the subject-specific longitudinal trajectories, the algorithm outperforms traditional SVM (classifies 84% of heavy drinking days correctly versus 73%). Conclusions: We developed a mixed effects variant of SVM and compare it to the traditional formulation, with an eye toward elucidating the importance of incorporating random effects to account for underlying heterogeneity in SUD data. These tools and examples are packaged into a repository for researchers to explore. Understanding patterns and risk of substance use could be used for developing individualized interventions.
Elevated Lactate Production and Carbohydrate Metabolism Following Combined Exercise Training in Early Breast Cancer Survivors: A Retrospective Study
Creators: name: Stopforth, Cameron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Differences in metabolic function between breast cancer (BCa) survivors and sedentary-healthy controls (HC) were assessed using a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) before and after a 16-week community-based exercise training program. Thirty-four BCa survivors and 21 HC enrolled at baseline, with 31 and 15 participants completing the intervention, respectively. At baseline, respiratory exchange ratio (RER) did not differ between groups. However, 3-minute blood lactate (3MBL) trended to be higher in HC (p=0.072). Following training, there were no changes in RER or between groups, although all change scores were positive. 3MBL trended to increase across training (p=0.075). Regression modeling suggested exercise intensity as a quadratic function was the strongest predictor of RER measurements (all p<0.001), while training had a small but significant impact (p<0.001). In this preliminary analysis, lactate production and carbohydrate reliance may increase in BCa survivors following exercise training, but needs confirmation using larger sample sizes.
SRP model convergence study from Weld map tomography for determining local grain orientations from ultrasound
Creators: name: Kalkowski, M. K.
name: Lowe, M. J. S.
name: Samaitis, V.
name: Schreyer, F.
name: Robert, S.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: A summary of the convergence study of the SRP model, with time-domain FE simulations as benchmark.
Halpha3: an Halpha imaging survey of HI selected galaxies from ALFALFA. V: The Coma Supercluster survey completion
Creators: name: Gavazzi, Giuseppe
name: Consolandi, Guido
name: Viscardi, Elisa
name: Fossati, Matteo
name: Savorgnan, Giulia
name: Fumagalli, Michele
name: Gutierrez, Leonel
name: Toledo, Hector Hernandez
name: Boselli, Alessandro
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
name: Haynes, Martha P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutral hydrogen represents the major observable baryonic constituent of galaxies that fuels the formation of stars through the transformation in molecular hydrogen. The emission of the hydrogen recombination line Halpha is the most direct tracer of the process that transforms gas (fuel) into stars. We continue to present Halpha3 (acronym for Halpha-alpha-alpha), an extensive Halpha+[NII] narrow-band imaging campaign of galaxies selected from the HI Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA), using the instrumentation available at the San Pedro Martir observatory (Mexico). In only four years since 2011 we were able to complete in 48 nights the Halpha imaging observations of 724 galaxies in the region of the Coma supercluster 10^h < R.A. <16^h; 24^o < Dec. <28^o and 3900
Using non-Markovian measures to evaluate quantum master equations for photosynthesis
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-Bin
name: Lambert, Neill
name: Cheng, Yuan-Chung
name: Chen, Yueh-Nan
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When dealing with system-reservoir interactions in an open quantum system, such as a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, approximations are usually made to obtain the dynamics of the system. One question immediately arises: how good are these approximations, and in what ways can we evaluate them? Here, we propose to use entanglement and a measure of non-Markovianity as benchmarks for the deviation of approximate methods from exact results. We apply two frequently-used perturbative but non-Markovian approximations to a photosynthetic dimer model and compare their results with that of the numerically-exact hierarchy equation of motion (HEOM). This enables us to explore both entanglement and non-Markovianity measures as means to reveal how the approximations either overestimate or underestimate memory effects and quantum coherence. In addition, we show that both the approximate and exact results suggest that non-Markonivity can, counter-intuitively, increase with temperature, and with the coupling to the environment.
Macleaya cordata extract improves the growth performance and intestinal health of American eels (Anguilla rostrata) farmed in intensive system
Creators: name: Wang, Ya-lu
name: Wu, Cheng-yao
name: Zhai, Shao-wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary Macleaya cordata extract (MCE) supplementation on growth performance and intestinal health of American eels (Anguilla rostrata) farmed in intensive system. A total of six cement tanks of fish were randomly divided into a control group fed a commercial diet and an MCE group fed the commercial diet with 100 mg/kg MCE, respectively. There were three replicates in each group. The results suggested that 100 mg/kg MCE could improve the growth performance and intestinal health of the American eels by strengthening the barrier function and antioxidative ability in the intestine and beneficially modulating intestinal microbiota with the higher relative abundance and more species of the potential probiotics and the lower relative abundance of potentially pathogenic bacteria.
Representations of a Beleaguered King: The Satirical Prints of Henri III of France
Creators: name: Bronack, Cassidy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The reign of the last king of the Valois dynasty, Henri III, was defined by controversy and civil warring. As the Wars of Religion continued into the late sixteenth-century, Henri III was soon a victim of widespread propaganda campaigns perpetuated by his political enemies in the Catholic League. These polemical pamphlets questioned Henri’s faith and morality and were often accompanied by satirical prints attacking Henri III and his court. The pamphlet production during this period has been analyzed by scholars for centuries, however, the satirical images that were circulating concurrently in broadsheets have yet to be extensively considered by art historians. This thesis examines a selection of satirical prints of Henri III that visually associate the king and his allies with tyranny and heresy through the use of popular allegory, anti-papal imagery, and demon iconography.
Mixing Effects in the Crystallization of Supercooled Quantum Binary Liquids
Creators: name: Kühnel, M.
name: Fernández, J. M.
name: Tramonto, F.
name: Tejeda, G.
name: Moreno, E.
name: Kalinin, A.
name: Nava, M.
name: Galli, D. E.
name: Montero, S.
name: Grisenti, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of Raman spectroscopy of liquid microjets we have investigated the crystallization process of supercooled quantum liquid mixtures composed of parahydrogen (pH$_2$) diluted with small amounts of up to 5\% of either neon or orthodeuterium (oD$_2$), and of oD$_2$ diluted with either Ne or pH$_2$. We show that the introduction of Ne impurities affects the crystallization kinetics in both the pH$_2$-Ne and oD$_2$-Ne mixtures in terms of a significant reduction of the crystal growth rate, similarly to what found in our previous work on supercooled pH$_2$-oD$_2$ liquid mixtures [M. Kühnel et {\it al.}, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{89}, 180506(R) (2014)]. Our experimental results, in combination with path-integral simulations of the supercooled liquid mixtures, suggest in particular a correlation between the measured growth rates and the ratio of the effective particle sizes originating from quantum delocalization effects. We further show that the crystalline structure of the mixture is also affected to a large extent by the presence of the Ne impurities, which likely initiate the freezing process through the formation of Ne crystallites.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
title: 2023 American Samoa Fisher Observations Data Summary and Analysis
Creators: name: Ayers, Adam
name: Leong, Kirsten
name: Hospital, Justin
name: Tam, Clay
name: Morioka, Roy
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02apffz65
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: PIFSC data report ; DR-24-13
description: The fisher observations is led by Hawai‘i fishermen Clay Tam and Roy Morioka to document on-the-water observations for fisheries across the U.S. Pacific Islands Region. Their goal was to provide context to fisheries-dependent data presented in the Annual Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) reports and add local and traditional ecological knowledge to science and management processes in the region.
Metabolomics Insights in Early Childhood Caries
Creators: name: Heimisdottir, Lara Holm
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Dental caries is characterized by a dysbiotic shift at the biofilm-tooth surface interface, but comprehensive biochemical characterizations of the biofilm are scant. We used metabolomics to identify biochemical features of the supragingival biofilm associated with ECC among 289 children ages 3-5 participating in a community-based epidemiologic study of early childhood oral health in North Carolina. Clinical examinations were conducted by calibrated examiners using ICDAS criteria. Supragingival plaque samples were collected and analyzed using UPLC-MS/MS. Associations between individual metabolites and 18 clinical traits were quantified using Brownian distance correlations, and linear regression modeling of log2-transformed QRILC-imputed values. There were 503 named metabolites identified and 16 were significantly associated with ECC prevalence including fucose, N-acetylneuraminate, catechin and epicatechin. Our findings provide novel insights in ECC biology and can serve as a basis for the development of measures of disease activity or risk assessment.
The extremal function for Petersen minors
Creators: name: Hendrey, Kevin
name: Wood, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that every graph with $n$ vertices and at least $5n-8$ edges contains the Petersen graph as a minor, and this bound is best possible. Moreover we characterise all Petersen-minor-free graphs with at least $5n-11$ edges. It follows that every graph containing no Petersen minor is 9-colourable and has vertex arboricity at most 5. These results are also best possible.
On deciphering stellar surface magnetic fields using precision limb darkening measurements
Creators: name: Singh, Anjali
name: Verma, Kuldeep
name: Maxted, Pierre F. L.
name: Ludwig, Hans-Günter
name: Sable, Yashwardhan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The high-precision measurements of exoplanet transit light curves contain information about the planet properties, their orbital parameters, and stellar limb darkening (LD). Recent 3D magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of stellar atmospheres have shown that LD depends on the photospheric magnetic field, and hence its precise determination can be used to estimate the field strength. Among existing LD laws, use of the simplest ones may lead to biased inferences, whereas use of complex laws typically leads to a large degeneracy among the LD parameters. We have developed a novel approach in which we use a complex LD model but with second-derivative regularisation. Regularisation controls the complexity of the model appropriately and reduces the degeneracy among LD parameters, thus resulting in precise inferences. Tests on simulated data suggest that our inferences are not only precise but also accurate. This technique is used to re-analyse 43 transit light curves measured by the NASA Kepler and TESS missions. Comparisons of our LD inferences with the corresponding literature values show good agreement, while the precision of our measurements is better by up to a factor of 2. We find that 1D non-magnetic model atmospheres fail to reproduce the observations while 3D MHD simulations are qualitatively consistent. The LD measurements together with MHD simulations confirm that Kepler-17, WASP-18, and KELT-24 have relatively high magnetic fields (> 200 G).
Embodying Future Possibilities: Nostalgic potential in Lebohang Kganye’s Ke Lefa Laka: Her Story
Creators: name: Fikrig, Michelle Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her Story, South African artist Lebohang Kganye digitally manipulates her mother’s family photographs, photoshopping herself into snapshots of her mother as a young woman to create fantastical records of her family’s past. Through the two-part process of restaging the photographs as self-portraits and then overlaying them onto the source snapshots, she expands her family album to include composite scenes that are recreated through memory and longing. By layering the images, Kganye fabricates an alternative space and time in which to be reunited with her deceased mother that operates outside of the “then” vs. “now” nostalgic paradigm. Through performing family photographs—and making their artifice explicit via the layering of multiple images—Kganye makes visible and grapples with the ways in which histories, such as the legacy of apartheid, are transmitted and negotiated generationally. In this thesis, I argue that Kganye’s use of family photographs mobilizes reflective nostalgia and a fully embodied experience of memories to imagine both alternative histories and possible futures that can counter universalizing narratives of generational trauma.
(3538) Sarah Hannah Gisburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Praktični aspekti otvorene nauke – razmišljanja jednog hemičara
Creators: name: Zlatar, Matija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: otvorena nauka
otvoreni istraživački podaci
Fond za nauku Republike Srbije
institucionalni repozitorijumi

description: U sredu 8. februara 2023. godine dr Matija Zlatar, naučni savetnik sa Univerziteta u Beogradu – Instituta za hemiju, tehnologiju i metalurgiju – (IHTM) održao je onlajn predavanje na srpskom jeziku pod naslovom „Praktični aspekti otvorene nauke – razmišljanja jednog hemičara” u organizaciji Zajednice otvorene nauke Srbije (eng. Open Science Community Serbia, OSCS, https://oscs.open.ac.rs/). Ovaj repozitorijum sadrži: prezentaciju sa predavanja dostupnu u datoteci OSCS_20230208_MZ.pdf i rezime predavanja na srpskom i engleskom Onauka_MZ.pdf. Snimak predavanja je postavljen na YouTube-u (https://youtu.be/5Tc3fPPvezE). Informacije o predavanju su dostupne i na sajtu OSCS - https://oscs.open.ac.rs/index.php/kategorije/10-kategorije/316-predavanje-prakticni-aspekti-otvorene-nauke-razmisljanja-jednog-hemicara. U okviru ove prezentacije predstavljen je institucionalni repozitorijum IHTM-a (CeR: https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/). Na primeru TMMagCat projekta (https://www.tmmagcat.rs/)* predstavljeno je kako se repozitorijum može iskoristi za diseminaciju rezultata projekata finansiranih od strane Fonda za nauku Republike Srbije. *Autor se zahvaljuje na podršci Fondu za nauku Republike Srbije, #7750288, Tailoring Molecular Magnets and Catalysts Based on Transition Metal Complexes – TMMagCat
description: Title of abstract and presentation in English "Practical aspects of open science - thoughts of a chemist". Author acknowledges the support by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, #7750288, Tailoring Molecular Magnets and Catalysts Based on Transition Metal Complexes – TMMagCat (https://www.tmmagcat.rs/).
Sling-on-a-Ring: Structure for an elevator to LEO
Creators: name: Meulenberg, Andrew
name: Poston, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various proposed space elevators may bypass the financial and environmental limits on rocket technology, but all have their own problems. A Low-Earth-Orbit, LEO, rotovator-based space-elevator version called 'sling-on-a-ring' may overcome them. This mass-lifting system uses the spatial stability of an orbital ring, accessorized for transfer and storage of momentum and electrical power. A high-tensile-strength equatorial circum-terra loop of colossal-carbon tube, CCT, fiber has solar-power and station-keeping units and rotating sling modules. Long sling assemblies, ~600 km, periodically descend into the atmosphere to ~13 km. At perigee, the sling rotational tip velocity almost cancels the orbital-ring velocity relative to Earth surface. Split-second timing detaches a ~10 ton payload from an ordinary aircraft and jerks it into space by sling momentum, with the proven specific strength of CCTs now under development. This system eliminates the immense mass in space of other space-elevator systems, but needs extremely long (~100km) compressive members. Conceptual analysis for mass reduction of these structures is the subject of this paper.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, SPESIF-11, March 15-17, 2011. Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum edited by Glen A. Robertson. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1009.4043
Pragmatic Approach To Upholding The Rights And Protection Of The Girl Child In Nigeria Lessons From Other Jurisdictions.pdf
Creators: name: Ugbe, Rose Ohiama
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Legal systems not elsewhere classified

description: This paper chronicles a pragmatic approach to upholding the rights and protection of the girl child in Nigeria and lessons from other jurisdictions. Primary and secondary materials were sourced from libraries and the internet. The paper posits that girl children are vulnerable to poor education, domestic violence, child/‘money marriages’, rape by men/women who often go unpunished. To give global protection to them, the UN set specified standards on which member states are to model their national policies. Nigerian government adopted the UNCRC 1989, the ACHPR 1986, CEDAW 1979, also enacted the Child’s Right Act, 2003 and VAPP Act 2015 in response. Despite these, there is a prevalence of such cases in Nigeria. Further, the recent lockdown occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic has further exposed the underlying ineffectiveness that characterizes Nigeria’s legal, institutional and administrative architecture for the protection of girl children in the country. Accordingly, UNICEF reports that, during the lockdown, a lot of children particularly, females were subjected to sexual molestation, rape, lesbianism, physical assault amongst other damaging acts as a result of the closure of schools and the implementation of other social distancing measures in cities such as Lagos, Abuja, etc. Ineffective enforcement mechanisms, the indifference of government inter alia constitute banes to effective protection in Nigeria. Girl child protection policies in some jurisdictions namely, Finland, Norway, Austria, and Australia were examined. For realistic protection of the girl child in Nigeria, the paper suggests that legal and institutional reforms, demonstration of a political will should be adopted. Keywords: Child, Girl Child, Rights, Protection, Legal Framework, Nigeria.
A SUCCESSFUL ATHLETIC TALENT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A HOLISTIC ECOLOGICAL CASE STUDY OF AN ELITE COLLEGE SOCCER PROGRAM
Creators: name: Kubel, Tim
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: A holistic ecological approach (HEA) was used to investigate ecological factors influencing the athletic talent development process in an elite men's college soccer program. Methods of data collection included interviews, participant observations, and analysis of documents. College soccer has been experiencing various challenges over the past decade with the expansion of the professional soccer landscape and more professional playing opportunities in North America. College soccer has been disregarded by professional clubs in the U.S., and elite youth players often forego a college career and sign a professional contract. This case study examined the development environment college soccer provides for elite players striving to transition to the elite senior level while pursuing a university degree. The environment studied provides a unique combination where elite athletes are integrated in an elite university environment. Coaches focus on holistic long-term development of players, meaning developing the person behind the player and help develop a growth mindset and other social, psycho-social, and psychological competencies. The environment is centered around a relationship between student-athletes and a support network designed to help players balance their academic, personal, and academic responsibilities. Furthermore, the environment is characterized by a strong, open, and cohesive organizational culture. The university, athletic department, and soccer team share core values that are coherent and build on each other. The imbalanced competition schedule of college soccer was highlighted as a major barrier to long-term development of players and adaptations could make the environment even more successful in transitioning players to the senior elite level.
In My Backyard: key insights
Creators: name: Monteiro, Rui
name: Almeida, Rui Pedro
name: Coelho, Rui
name: Roberti, Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: citizen science
backyard
pesticides
fertilizers

description: Project key insights - Presentation at EU Week of Regions and Cities, 8th October, Session Citizens safeguarding the environment - https://europa.eu/regions-and-cities/programme/sessions/1451_en In My Backyard is a citizen science project promoted by Rio Neiva – Environmental NGO and its partner CEA – Municipal Centre for Environmental Education, both based in Esposende, Portugal. It was funded through the ACTION project. In My Backyard aimed to understand the use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers in home farming and gardening and uncovering sustainable alternatives practiced within domestic backyards.
Remember You Are Mortal: A Historical Reading of Pindar’s Olympian 1
Creators: name: Baldwin, Ryan Masato
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the historical context of Pindar’s Olympian 1, the myths and adaptations that Pindar utilizes, and the overarching didactic and cautionary lessons meant for Hieron, Pindar’s benefactor. After I establish the historical context, I argue that the poet attempts to warn Hieron about potential revolt through his rendition of the Tantalus myth. In addition, by beginning his ode with a priamel; juxtaposing the actions of Tantalus with those of Pelops; and ending with the hope that Hieron will win a chariot race, Pindar advises Hieron to avoid hubris. Lastly, I claim that Hieron later redeemed himself in the eyes of the poet by analyzing the shift of Pindar’s poetic methods and didactic lessons in Pythian 1, given six years later. Pindar portrays Hieron as a virtuous king who has received—and will continue to receive—glory on account of his international reputation as a harbinger of peace.
Comparison of PCR Methodologies for the Detection and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in North Carolina Community Wastewaters
Creators: name: Miller, Megan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Wastewater surveillance has been proven as a viable method for monitoring pathogenpresence and prevalence during infectious disease outbreaks in communities. This approach canbe utilized during the current COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the existence and concentration ofthe SARS-CoV-2 virus in community wastewaters. Methods for the surveillance of nonenvelopedviruses are more present in the literature, but standardization of wastewatersurveillance methods for enveloped viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, is needed. This studycompares the performance of two PCR-based methodologies, RT-qPCR and RT-ddPCR, for thedetection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in influent samples from two NC wastewatertreatment plants (WWTPs). Sample collection, processing, RNA extraction, and RT-ddPCRanalyses were completed for samples collected over a 24-week period. RT-qPCR assays wereperformed on identical samples as RT-ddPCR for comparison purposes, and the effects of matrixinhibition on both methods were evaluated for a subset of samples. This study found a significantdifference between the detection sensitivity of RT-qPCR and RT-ddPCR. RT-ddPCR detected astatistically greater occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 than RT-qPCR for both WWTPs. A decrease insensitivity differences between the methods was found when values quantified below the RTqPCRLOD were considered in the dataset. This study suggests that RT-qPCR demonstratesuseful analytical sensitivity for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, particularly when values belowthe LOD/LOQ are considered to a limited extent. RT-ddPCR was found to be the preferredmethod for quantification purposes of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewaters.
(3539) Susannah Bellhouse
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
DELIBERATIVE CONTROL AND ELIMINATIVISM ABOUT REASONS FOR EMOTIONS
Creators: name: Schultz, Conner
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Some people think that there are normative reasons for emotions. I disagree. In this paper, I argue for Strong Eliminativism – the view that there are no reasons for emotions. My argument for this claim has two premises: (1) a fact F is a reason for agent A to have (or refrain from having) an attitude X only if A can deliberate to (or away from) X at least partly on the basis of F; (2) no one can deliberate to any emotion. Taken together, these two premises entail that there are no reasons for emotions. I offer three motivations for thinking the first premise is true. My argument for the second premise rests on what’s known as the ‘problem of recalcitrant emotions’.
title: Yakima Delta Ecosystem Restoration
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Yakima River Delta Ecosystem Restoration Project
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2024

description: WCRO-2024-01917
FOSTERING STUDENT SUCCESS:  ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES OF NCAA DIVISION I, POWER FIVE FOOTBALL ATHLETE-STUDENTS
Creators: name: Bermudez, Jordan Rose
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the individual holistic experiences of black and white NCAA Division I, Power Five football players to understand how their socio-cultural-academic background and campus resources impact their academic experiences. Using semi-structured interviews and inductive content analysis, the goal of this study is to provide qualitative data about the experiences of this unique student population in order to make informed decisions about the academic and cultural environments these students could be placed in and if existing resources and procedures are mitigating or inducing issues that relate to student success. The research suggests that accessibility of policies and programs continues to be a major barrier to student success for athlete-students. Coaches, teammates, and family continue to be major influences in the success of athlete-students. Professors play an extensive role in the validation or alienation of athlete-students. A small classroom where students and professors can easily communicate and collaborate is preferred and creates positive impacts on the success of athlete-students. Athlete-students determine their success internally.
Active Model H: Scalar Active Matter in a Momentum-Conserving Fluid
Creators: name: Tiribocchi, Adriano
name: Wittkowski, Raphael
name: Marenduzzo, Davide
name: Cates, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a continuum theory of self-propelled particles, without alignment interactions, in a momentum-conserving solvent. To address phase separation we introduce a scalar concentration field $ϕ$ with advective-diffusive dynamics. Activity creates a contribution $Σ_{ij}=-ζ((\partial_iϕ)(\partial_jϕ)-(\nablaϕ)^{2}δ_{ij}/d)$ to the deviatoric stress, where $ζ$ is odd under time reversal and $d$ is the number of spatial dimensions; this causes an effective interfacial tension contribution that is negative for contractile swimmers. We predict that domain growth then ceases at a length scale where diffusive coarsening is balanced by active stretching of interfaces, and confirm this numerically. Thus the interplay of activity and hydrodynamics is highly nontrivial, even without alignment interactions.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
(3537) John William Gisburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Quicksands Archaeological Survey - Final Report
Creators: name: Lawrence, Matthew
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04bgwn153
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: The Quicksands Archaeological Survey sought to collect baseline information about archaeological resources in the area, which had received little focused effort from sanctuary managers. To collect this information a research team comprised of ONMS staff and researchers from UM/RSMAS conducted a two-week mission to document previously reported archaeological sites and to locate new archaeological sites.
(3533) Alfred Ernest Gisburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Extended GMRT Radio Halo Survey II: Further results and analysis of the full sample
Creators: name: Kale, R.
name: Venturi, T.
name: Giacintucci, S.
name: Dallacasa, D.
name: Cassano, R.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Cuciti, V.
name: Macario, G.
name: Athreya, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intra-cluster medium contains cosmic rays and magnetic fields that are manifested through the large scale synchrotron sources, termed as radio halos, relics and mini-halos. The Extended Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) Radio Halo Survey (EGRHS) is an extension of the GMRT Radio Halo Survey (GRHS) designed to search for radio halos using GMRT 610/235 MHz observations. The GRHS+EGRHS consists of 64 clusters in the redshift range 0.2 -- 0.4 that have an X-ray luminosity larger than 5x10^44 erg/s in the 0.1 -- 2.4 keV band and with declinations > -31 deg in the REFLEX and eBCS X-ray cluster catalogues. In this second paper in the series, GMRT 610/235 MHz data on the last batch of 11 galaxy clusters and the statistical analysis of the full sample are presented. A new mini-halo in RXJ2129.6+0005 and candidate diffuse sources in Z5247, A2552 and Z1953 are discovered. A unique feature of this survey are the upper limits on the detections of 1 Mpc sized radio halos; 4 new are presented here making a total of 31 in the survey. Of the sample, 58 clusters that have adequately sensitive radio information were used to obtain the most accurate occurrence fractions so far. The occurrence of radio halos in our X-ray selected sample is ~22%, that of mini-halos is 13% and that of relics is ~5%. The radio power - X-ray luminosity diagrams for the radio halos and mini-halos with the detections and upper limits are presented. The morphological estimators namely, centroid shift (w), concentration parameter (c) and power ratios (P_3/P_0) derived from the Chandra X-ray images are used as proxies for the dynamical states of the GRHS+EGRHS clusters. The clusters with radio halos and mini-halos occupy distinct quadrants in the c-w, c-P_3/P_0 and w - P_3/P_0 planes, corresponding to the more and less morphological disturbance, respectively. The non-detections span both the quadrants.
description: 24 pages, 5 tables, 25 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Science Plan for the DSCRTP Northeast Research Initiative: 2023-2026
Creators: name: Everett, Meredith
name: Coleman, Heather
name: Nizinski, Martha
name: Packer, Dave
name: Rhode, Michael
name: Vasslides, James
Publisher: name: Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (U.S.)
Year: 2024

description: The Northeast Deep-sea Coral Initiative will support a variety of work to better characterize DSCS and their associates and ecosystems (Fig. 3). This work will include efforts to better map specific habitats where accurate bathymetric information is lacking, research expeditions to survey DSCS habitats and collect specimens, and targeted research projects to characterize these ecosystems and species.
Tooth Autotransplantation: Current Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in North Carolina
Creators: name: Dokova, Anastassia F
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Tooth autotransplantation (AT) is a viable treatment for children with missing teeth, but seldom practiced in North America. To understand providers’ current knowledge, attitudes and practices of AT, we carried out a two-part, sequential survey (n=96) and interview (n=20) study among pediatric dentists and orthodontists, recruited at CE meetings in NC. Maximum variation sampling was used to select interview participants. Reporting was based on univariate statistics, emerging themes and insightful quotes. Virtually all participants (96%) had heard of or were familiar with AT, yet only 9% had treated a patient. The most important factor influencing providers’ decision was literature and evidence-based dentistry. “Adopters” viewed AT as an alternative standard-of-care, whereas “Skeptics” questioned esthetics and clinical outcomes. In NC, there is awareness, interest and willingness to consider AT as a biological solution for managing missing teeth. Our study provides valuable insights to inform future steps in popularizing AT in clinical practice.
(3535) Sarah Ann Gisburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Hilcorp Cook Inlet tugs towing a rig 2024
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion Hilcorp Cook Inlet Tugs Towing a Jack-up Rig
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2024

description: AKRO-2023-03574
title: Promulgation of a Freshwater Selenium water Quality Criterion for the State of California
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson– Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the U.S. EPA, Region IX Promulgation of a Freshwater Selenium Water Quality Criterion for the State of California
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2024

description: WCRO-2022-03534
(3536) Miriam Collinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A constrained variable projection reconstruction method for photoacoustic computed tomography without accurate knowledge of transducer responses
Creators: name: Sheng, Qiwei
name: Wang, Kun
name: Matthews, Thomas P.
name: Xia, Jun
name: Zhu, Liren
name: Wang, Lihong V.
name: Anastasio, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging computed imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles to form images of the absorbed optical energy density within tissue. When the imaging system employs conventional piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers, the ideal photoacoustic (PA) signals are degraded by the transducers' acousto-electric impulse responses (EIRs) during the measurement process. If unaccounted for, this can degrade the accuracy of the reconstructed image. In principle, the effect of the EIRs on the measured PA signals can be ameliorated via deconvolution; images can be reconstructed subsequently by application of a reconstruction method that assumes an idealized EIR. Alternatively, the effect of the EIR can be incorporated into an imaging model and implicitly compensated for during reconstruction. In either case, the efficacy of the correction can be limited by errors in the assumed EIRs. In this work, a joint optimization approach to PACT image reconstruction is proposed for mitigating errors in reconstructed images that are caused by use of an inaccurate EIR. The method exploits the bi-linear nature of the imaging model and seeks to refine the measured EIR during the process of reconstructing the sought-after absorbed optical energy density. Computer-simulation and experimental studies are conducted to investigate the numerical properties of the method and demonstrate its value for mitigating image distortions and enhancing the visibility of fine structures.
description: To be published in: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Tachyon inflation with steep potentials
Creators: name: Rezazadeh, K.
name: Karami, K.
name: Hashemi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of tachyon inflation, we consider different steep potentials and check their viability in light of the Planck 2015 data. We see that in this scenario, the inverse power-law potential $V(ϕ)=V_{0}(ϕ/ϕ_{0})^{-n}$ with $n=2$ leads to the power-law inflation with the scale factor $a(t)\propto t^{q}$ where $q>1$, while with $n<2$, it gives rise to the intermediate inflation with the scale factor $a(t)\propto\exp\left(At^{f}\right)$ where $A>0$ and $02$ can be compatible with the 95\% CL region of Planck 2015 TT, TE, EE+lowP data. We further conclude that the exponential potential $V(ϕ)=V_{0}e^{-ϕ/ϕ_{0}}$, the inverse $\cosh$ potential $V(ϕ)=V_{0}/\cosh(ϕ/ϕ_{0})$, and the mutated exponential potential $V(ϕ)=V_{0}\left[1+(n-1)^{-(n-1)}(ϕ/ϕ_{0})^{n}\right]e^{-ϕ/ϕ_{0}}$ with $n=4$, can be consistent with the 95\% CL region of Planck 2015 TT, TE, EE+lowP data. Moreover, using the $r-n_s$ constraints on the model parameters, we also estimate the running of the scalar spectral index $dn_{s}/d\ln k$ and the local non-Gaussianity parameter $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm local}$. We find that the lower and upper bounds evaluated for these observables are compatible with the Planck 2015 results.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
FX Average Noon Rate Agreement Pricing Model
Creators: name: Yang, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FX Average Noon Rate Agreement Pricing Model

description: Foreign Exchange Rate Average Noon Rate Agreement (ANR) is an agreement to buy or sell USD dollars on a future value date at a rate equal to the average rate for a specified period and adjusted by forward points agreed at the inception.
description: https://finpricing.com/lib/FxAccumulator.html