cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Intrepid and Loyal: An Analysis of the Exceptional Nature of the Highland Regiments in the French and Indian War
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Loutzenheiser, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: Today the Highland regiments of the British Army are generally regarded as legendary. The modern heroic perception of the Scottish soldier manifests itself most prominently in David Stewart of Garth’s seminal work Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: with details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, which attributes their battlefield heroics to the nature of the Highlander himself. The fame and reputation of the Highland soldier was derived from a series of well-documented instances involving the men of the three Highland regiments that saw service during the French and Indian War of the 1750s and 60s.

No significant source disagrees with the central assertion that the Highland soldiers more than acquitted themselves in defeat and victory. Their reputation for intrepidity and loyalty is both well documented and well earned. It was reported throughout America and Britain by letter, dispatch, and newspaper, as well as being recorded in the journals and memoirs of participants on both sides. Moreover, their bravery, fortitude, and cohesion was remarkable when compared to their fellow brothers in arms. The actions of the Highland soldiers were further distinguished because they were quite often different from those of the men around them: fellow British soldiers, but men raised differently, drawn from disparate rather than similar locales and cultures, organized in some ways differently, and led in a far different way. The result being a very different level of bonding and cohesion within those units when compared to the Highlanders.

The Highland regiments do have a singular and almost unique nature, and the genesis of that nature stems from their formation and service in the French and Indian War. However, the causality for their courageous actions bears additional scrutiny and refinement in light of modern social science and today’s broader access to contemporary sources. This thesis examines the historical record through the paradigm of modern military psycho-sociology to show that Stewart of Garth was right, for the wrong reasons.
The six Layers of Protection in Fire Engineering
Creators: name: Rein, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: building, safety, fire, engineering

description: The resulting fire risk is part of how safety is implemented in a building via the layers of fire protection. These are 6 layers in their simplest form and in approximate chronological order: prevention, detection, evacuation, compartmentation, suppression, and structural resistance. The layers aim to reduce the fire risk of a building, with five of the layers aiming to reduce fire severity, while prevention reduces fire likelihood. All layers of protection interact with one another and in general, if one layer is breached, another layer can compensate and mitigate the severity. There are superlayers of protection, such as building regulations or fire brigades, that act on multiple layers at once, hence their importance.
Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior
Creators: name: Lin, Danyu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Consistent but indirect evidence has implicated genetic factors in smoking behavior1,2. We report meta-analyses of several smoking phenotypes within cohorts of the Tobacco and Genetics Consortium (n = 74,053). We also partnered with the European Network of Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology (ENGAGE) and Oxford-GlaxoSmithKline (Ox-GSK) consortia to follow up the 15 most significant regions (n > 140,000). We identified three loci associated with number of cigarettes smoked per day. The strongest association was a synonymous 15q25 SNP in the nicotinic receptor gene CHRNA3 (rs1051730[A], β = 1.03, standard error (s.e.) = 0.053, P = 2.8 × 10−73). Two 10q25 SNPs (rs1329650[G], β = 0.367, s.e. = 0.059, P = 5.7 × 10−10; and rs1028936[A], β = 0.446, s.e. = 0.074, P = 1.3 × 10−9) and one 9q13 SNP in EGLN2 (rs3733829[G], β = 0.333, s.e. = 0.058, P = 1.0 × 10−8) also exceeded genome-wide significance for cigarettes per day. For smoking initiation, eight SNPs exceeded genome-wide significance, with the strongest association at a nonsynonymous SNP in BDNF on chromosome 11 (rs6265[C], odds ratio (OR) = 1.06, 95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.04–1.08, P = 1.8 × 10−8). One SNP located near DBH on chromosome 9 (rs3025343[G], OR = 1.12, 95% Cl 1.08–1.18, P = 3.6 × 10−8) was significantly associated with smoking cessation.
Ontology Bulding vs Data Harvesting and Cleaning for Smart-city Services
Creators: name: Bellini, Pierfrancesco
name: Nesi, Paolo
name: Rauch, Nadia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Presently, a very large number of public and private data sets are available around the local governments. In most cases, they are not semantically interoperable and a huge human effort is needed to create integrated ontologies and knowledge base for smart city. Smart City ontology is not yet standardized, and a lot of research work is needed to identify models that can easily support the data reconciliation, the management of the complexity and reasoning. In this paper, a system for data ingestion and reconciliation smart cities related aspects as road graph, services available on the roads, traffic sensors etc., is proposed. The system allows managing a big volume of data coming from a variety of sources considering both static and dynamic data. These data are mapped to smart-city ontology and stored into an RDF-Store where they are available for applications via SPARQL queries to provide new services to the users. The paper presents the process adopted to produce the ontology and the knowledge base and the mechanisms adopted for the verification, reconciliation and validation. Some examples about the possible usage of the coherent knowledge base produced are also offered and are accessible from the RDF-Store.
description: DMS 2014, Distributed Multimedia Systems
Mathematics and Statistics for Digitalization
Creators: name: Bär, Markus
name: Elster, Clemens
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Large-scale metrology
virtual experiments
machine learning
measurement uncertainty
statistical monitoring and process control

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Volume 127 (2017), Issue 4, Page 69 to 73. ISSN 0030-834X
Bayesian Model to Archaeological Faunal Skeletal Profiles
Creators: name: B.Marin-Arroyo, Ana
name: Ocio, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bayesian, Archaeofaunal, Archaeology, Skeletal Profiles

description: Tool to perform Bayesian inference of carcass processing/transport strategy and bone attrition from archaeofaunal skeletal profiles characterized by percentages of MAU (Minimum Anatomical Units). The approach is based on a generative model for skeletal profiles that replicates the two phases of formation of any faunal assemblage: initial accumulation as a function of human transport strategies and subsequent attrition.Two parameters define this model: 1) the transport preference (alpha), which can take any value between - 1 (mostly axial contribution) and 1 (mostly appendicular contribution) following strategies constructed as a function of butchering efficiency of different anatomical elements and the results of ethnographic studies, and 2) degree of attrition (beta), which can vary between 0 (no attrition) and 10 (maximum attrition) and relates the survivorship of bone elements to their maximum bone density. Starting from uniform prior probability distribution functions of alpha and beta, a Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampling based on a random walk Metropolis-Hasting algorithm is adopted to derive the posterior probability distribution functions, which are then available for interpretation. During this process, the likelihood of obtaining the observed percentages of MAU given a pair of parameter values is estimated by the inverse of the Chi2 statistic, multiplied by the proportion of elements within a 1 percent of the observed value. See Ana B. Marin-Arroyo & David Ocio (2018)..
description: {"references": ["Marin-Arroyo, A.B. & Ocio, D. (2018). Disentangling faunal skeletal profiles. A new probabilistic framework."]}
Sequence diversity in CYP3A promoters and characterization of the genetic basis of polymorphic CYP3A5 expression
Creators: name: Watkins, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Variation in the CYP3A enzymes, which act in drug metabolism, influences circulating steroid levels and responses to half of all oxidatively metabolized drugs. CYP3A activity is the sum activity of the family of CYP3A genes, including CYP3A5, which is polymorphically expressed at high levels in a minority of Americans of European descent and Europeans (hereafter collectively referred to as 'Caucasians'). Only people with at least one CYP3A5*1 allele express large amounts of CYP3A5. Our findings show that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in CYP3A5*3 and CYP3A5*6 that cause alternative splicing and protein truncation result in the absence of CYP3A5 from tissues of some people. CYP3A5 was more frequently expressed in livers of African Americans (60%) than in those of Caucasians (33%). Because CYP3A5 represents at least 50% of the total hepatic CYP3A content in people polymorphically expressing CYP3A5, CYP3A5 may be the most important genetic contributor to interindividual and interracial differences in CYP3A-dependent drug clearance and in responses to many medicines.
The Digital Calibration Certificate
Creators: name: Hackel, Siegfried Gustav
name: Härtig, Frank
name: Hornig, Julia
name: Wiedenhöfer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cryptographic Protection Methods
Digital Calibration Certificate
Digital Twin
Machine readability
Quality-Management
SI-Units
XML-Schema

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Volume 127 (2017), Issue 4, Page 75 to 81. ISSN 0030-834X
Phenomenological analysis of Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in association with jets
Creators: name: Greiner, Nicolas
name: Hoeche, Stefan
name: Luisoni, Gionata
name: Schonherr, Marek
name: Winter, Jan-Christopher
name: Yundin, Valery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed phenomenological analysis of the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with up to three jets. We consider the gluon fusion channel using an effective theory in the large top-quark mass limit. Higgs boson production in gluon fusion constitutes an irreducible background to the vector boson fusion (VBF) process; hence the precise knowledge of its characteristics is a prerequisite for any measurement in the VBF channel. The calculation is carried out at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD in a fully automated way by combining the two programs GoSam and Sherpa. We present numerical results for a large variety of observables for both standard cuts and VBF selection cuts. We find that for all jet multiplicities the NLO corrections are sizeable. This is particularly true in the presence of kinematic selections enhancing the VBF topology, which are based on vetoing additional jet activity. In this case, precise predictions for the background can be made using our calculation by taking the difference between the inclusive H+2 jets and the inclusive H+3 jets result.
description: 53 pages, 3 tables, 30 figures
2009 focused updates: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with st-elevation myocardial infarction (Updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI guidelines on percutaneous coronary intervention (Updating the 2005 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Late-breaking clinical trials presented at the 2007 and 2008 annual scientific meetings of the ACC, AHA, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, the European Society of Cardiology, and the 2009 annual scientific sessions of the ACC were reviewed by the standing guideline writing committee along with the parent Task Force and other experts to identify those trials and other key data that may impact guideline recommendations. On the basis of the criteria/considerations noted above, recent trial data and other clinical information were considered important enough to prompt a focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, inclusive of their respective 2007 focused updates.
Contraction method and Lambda-Lemma
Creators: name: Weber, Joa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We reprove the $λ$-Lemma for finite dimensional gradient flows by generalizing the well-known contraction method proof of the local (un)stable manifold theorem. This only relies on the forward Cauchy problem. We obtain a rather quantitative description of (un)stable foliations which allows to equip each leaf with a copy of the flow on the central leaf -- the local (un)stable manifold. These dynamical thickenings are key tools in our recent work [Web]. The present paper provides their construction.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures
A Digital Quality Infrastructure for Europe: The European Metrology Cloud
Creators: name: Thiel, Florian
name: Esche, Marko
name: Grasso Toro, Federico
name: Peters, Daniel
name: Oppermann, Alexander
name: Wetzlich, Jan
name: Dohlus, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Digital Transformation
Reference Architectures
Metrology Cloud
Verification
Big Data
Legal Metrology
Cloud Computing
Embedded Systems
Internet of Things

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Volume 127 (2017), Issue 4, Page 83 to 97. ISSN 0030-834X
description: To foster the digital transformation in legal metrology, Germany’s National Metrology Institute (PTB) has initiated the development of a coordinated European digital quality infrastructure for innovative products and services, called the “European Metrology Cloud”. Its foundation lies in a trustworthy metrological core platform in each Member State, designed to support and streamline regulatory processes by joining existing infrastructures and databases and to provide a single point-of-contact for all stakeholders. Within this digital quality infrastructure, reference architectures, i.e. innovative measuring instruments, as well as technology- and data-driven digital services for legal metrology will be provided. The early outcomes of this initiative will be demonstrators to serve as blueprints for the individual national platform to attract further stakeholders and services to be integrated. These first results could be used to support or even initiate processes to “future-proof” national and European legislation. These national platforms can later be combined via a coordinating platform established and maintained by a board of Member States’ representatives, authorities and industrial stakeholders. With these objectives, the initiative fosters the digital single market envisioned by the European Commission.
title: High deuteron and neutron yields from the interaction of a petawatt laser with a cryogenic deuterium jet
Creators: name: Jiao, X.
name: Curry, C. B.
name: Gauthier, M.
name: Chou, H.-G. J.
name: Fiuza, F.
name: Kim, J. B.
name: Phan, D. D.
name: McCary, E.
name: Galtier, E. C.
name: Dyer, G. M.
name: Ofori-Okai, B. K.
name: Labun, L.
name: Labun, O. Z.
name: Schoenwaelder, C.
name: Roycroft, R.
name: Tiwari, G.
name: Glenn, G. D.
name: Treffert, F.
name: Glenzer, S. H.
name: Hegelich, B. M.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: A compact high-flux, short-pulse neutron source would have applications from nuclear astrophysics to cancer therapy. Laser-driven neutron sources can achieve fluxes much higher than spallation and reactor neutron sources by reducing the volume and time in which the neutron-producing reactions occur by orders of magnitude. We report progress towards an efficient laser-driven neutron source in experiments with a cryogenic deuterium jet on the Texas Petawatt laser. Neutrons were produced both by laser-accelerated multi-MeV deuterons colliding with Be and mixed metallic catchers and by d (d,n)³He fusion reactions within the jet. We observed deuteron yields of 10¹³/shot in quasi-Maxwellian distributions carrying ∼ 8 − 10 % of the input laser energy. We obtained neutron yields greater than 10¹⁰/shot and found indications of a deuteron-deuteron fusion neutron source with high peak flux (> 10²² cm⁻² s⁻¹). The estimated fusion neutron yield in our experiment is one order of magnitude higher than any previous laser-induced dd fusion reaction. Though many technical challenges will have to be overcome to convert this proof-of-principle experiment into a consistent ultra-high flux neutron source, the neutron fluxes achieved here suggest laser-driven neutron sources can support laboratory study of the rapid neutron-capture process, which is otherwise thought to occur only in astrophysical sites such as core-collapse supernova, and binary neutron star mergers.
Software and ICT-related Challenges in Legal Metrology
Creators: name: Thiel, Florian
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Digital Transformation
Reference Architectures
Metrology Cloud
Verification
Big Data
Legal Metrology
Cloud Computing
Embedded Systems
Internet of Things

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Volume 127 (2017), Issue 4, Page 99 to 100. ISSN 0030-834X
description: IT technologies have evolved significantly over the past ten years – namely Embedded Systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber physical Systems, Cloud Computing and Big-Data concepts. These have converged into completely new technology fields like the industrial internet and Smart Services. These fields offer technology- and data-driven possibilities which can be exploited for the benefit of all stakeholders in Legal Metrology, e.g. to reduce development costs, overcome typical barriers to innovation, and speed up the time to market of new products. So, we thought it was high time to once again bring together all stakeholders in Legal Metrology to discuss the challenges and opportunities the“Digital Single Market” offers.
Onlineexperiment: Analogical inference: The role of awareness in abstract learning
Creators: name: Krammel, Werner
name: Gschwend, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project is part of module M4 (HS19) of the Swiss Distance University Institute. The aim of this project is to implement the experiment "Analogical inference: The role of awareness in abstract learning" by William L. Gross and Anthony J. Greene as an online experiment. Deutsche Version / german version: Dieses Projekt ist Bestandteil des Moduls M4 (HS19) der Universitären Fernstudien Schweiz. Ziel dieses Projektes ist es, das Experiment "Analogical inference: The role of awareness in abstract learning" von William L. Gross and Anthony J. Greene als Online-Experiment zu implementieren..
From S-confinement to 3D Chiral Theories: Dressing the Monopoles
Creators: name: Amariti, Antonio
name: Csáki, Csaba
name: Martone, Mario
name: Lorier, Nicolas Rey-Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monopole operators play a central role in 3 dimensional supersymmetric dualities: a careful understanding of their spectrum is necessary to match chiral operators on either sides of a conjectured duality. In Chern-Simons theories ($k\neq0$), monopole operators acquire an electric charge, thus they need to be "dressed" by chiral matter superfields to be made gauge-invariant. Here we present strong evidence that "dressed" monopoles appear in $SU(N)$ chiral theories even for $k=0$ because of mixed CS terms generated along certain Coulomb branch directions. Our analysis is based on the dimensional reduction of 4-dimensional dualities which, for the simplest s-confining case, allows us to easily identify the spectrum of the electric chiral operators.
description: 6 pages + appendices and references
Burden of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review Protocol.
Creators: name: Jesuyajolu, Damilola
name: Ayantayo, Temitayo
name: Oyesiji, Emmanuel
name: Bakare, Sofia
name: David, SamuelOreoluwa
name: Sule, Rosola
name: Daniel, Jeremiah
name: Madeleine, Okere
name: Olukoya, Tomiwa
name: Osunronbi, Temidayo
name: Morgan, Eghosa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Surgery

description: Introduction Trauma accounts for about 90% of spinal cord injuries worldwide [2]. Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is recognised as a neurotrauma of global health priority due to the preventability of the injuries and the specialised and expensive medical and surgical care they necessitate This study protocol will guide the comprehensive and exhaustive review of the literature concerning the epidemiology, management and outcomes of TSCIs in Africa. Methods This protocol follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) guidelines. The search strategy will be performed primarily on PubMed and OVID Embase. A secondary literature search will be carried out on African Journal Online (AJOL) and Google scholar. All observational studies with information on the prevalence/incidence, presentation, management and outcomes of TSCIs in African countries will be included. The following study types will be excluded: literature reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, abstract-only articles, conference proceedings, randomized control trials and letters to the editor. Results Our outcomes would include the following; Incidence of TSCIs in Africa, mechanisms of injury, different imaging and treatment modalities offered (e.g. conservative vs operative intervention), clinical outcomes following TSCIs in Africa and challenges regarding the management of TSCIs in African surgical centres. Discussion This study will aim to provide region-specific data, which will aim to guide and inform local practices with regards TSCIs. It will also map out areas that need more research, as well as areas amenable to intervention by global health stakeholders.
Antichrist (Dajjal)
Creators: name: Rezaie Khanghah, Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Islamic studies
Studies in religious traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions)
Other philosophy and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Religious studies not elsewhere classified
Theology
Theology not elsewhere classified
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: According to the Ibrahimic religions, a person sent by God, called Imam Mahdi will establish justice and righteousness, and according to the opinion of Christians, he is Jesus Christ. Against these survivors there is an enemy called Antichrist, who is powerful with the help of Satan. The formation of the Bible presents an Antichrist (pseudo Messiah) as a person who denies Jesus Christ. In Islamic sources, the killer of the Antichrist is Imam Mahdi and the minister of the future government of the world is Jesus Christ.
Pattern Selection and Super-patterns in the Bounded Confidence Model
Creators: name: Ben-Naim, E.
name: Scheel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study pattern formation in the bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics. In this random process, opinion is quantified by a single variable. Two agents may interact and reach a fair compromise, but only if their difference of opinion falls below a fixed threshold. Starting from a uniform distribution of opinions with compact support, a traveling wave forms and it propagates from the domain boundary into the unstable uniform state. Consequently, the system reaches a steady state with isolated clusters that are separated by distance larger than the interaction range. These clusters form a quasi-periodic pattern where the sizes of the clusters and the separations between them are nearly constant. We obtain analytically the average separation between clusters L. Interestingly, there are also very small quasi-periodic modulations in the size of the clusters. The spatial periods of these modulations are a series of integers that follow from the continued fraction representation of the irrational average separation L.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Microcochlis parva Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Microcochlis

description: Microcochlis parva n.sp. PI. 12 figs 1-5 Description. Shell minute, relatively high-spired turbiniform, narrowly phaneromphalous. Protoconch simple consisting of one and one eighth smooth whorls with sharp irregular boundary between protoconch and teleoconch. Teleoconch whorl profile arched in early stage and rather straight in late stage, suture shallow, ~ase subangular; first 11;4 whorls with gently prosocline, fme collabral lirae followed by strong collabral cords extended to umbilicus, with cords straight, prosocline, and evenly spaced but becoming gradually wider with growth, omamented by 4 spiral rows of pustules on final whorl between periphery and the upper suture. Aperture subrectangular, inner lip thin, nearly straight, outer lip thin, straight prosocline. [table omitted] [table omitted] Types. Holotype (F78437), 2 figured paratypes (F78438) and 2 unfigured paratypes (F78439). Type locality. Behind 'Kyndalyn' homestead, 10 km south-west of Somerston, NSW (Locality 24). Stratigraphic position. In base of oolitic limestone in the Kyndalyn Mudstone Member of the Merlewood Formation. [table omitted] Geographic distribution. Type locality only. Geological age. Middle or late Visean. .Etymology. Derived from the Latin parvus meaning mmute. Remarks. Microcochlis parva n.sp. differs from Eucochlis umbiliparva n.sp. in having a smaller shell, short blunt protoconch and prominent spiral rows of pustu!es. Figures 1 and 2 ~n Plate 12 are juveniles, showmg an arched whorl profile and only faint expression of spiral cords. The spiral angulation begins to appear at 2~ whorls.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Bidirectional Relations between Parenting and Behavior Problems from Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
Creators: name: Rothenberg, W. Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross‐cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8–13. Multiple‐group autoregressive, cross‐lagged structural equation models revealed that child effects rather than parent effects may better characterize how warmth and control are related to child externalizing and internalizing behaviors over time, and that parent effects may be more characteristic of relations between parental warmth and control and child externalizing and internalizing behavior during childhood than early adolescence.
Km4City Ontology Building vs Data Harvesting and Cleaning for Smart-city Services
Creators: name: Bellini, Pierfrancesco
name: Benigni, Monica
name: Billero, Riccardo
name: Nesi, Paolo
name: Rauch, Nadia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Presently, a very large number of public and private data sets are available from local governments. In most cases, they are not semantically interoperable and a huge human effort would be needed to create integrated ontologies and knowledge base for smart city. Smart City ontology is not yet standardized, and a lot of research work is needed to identify models that can easily support the data reconciliation, the management of the complexity, to allow the data reasoning. In this paper, a system for data ingestion and reconciliation of smart cities related aspects as road graph, services available on the roads, traffic sensors etc., is proposed. The system allows managing a big data volume of data coming from a variety of sources considering both static and dynamic data. These data are mapped to a smart-city ontology, called KM4City (Knowledge Model for City), and stored into an RDF-Store where they are available for applications via SPARQL queries to provide new services to the users via specific applications of public administration and enterprises. The paper presents the process adopted to produce the ontology and the big data architecture for the knowledge base feeding on the basis of open and private data, and the mechanisms adopted for the data verification, reconciliation and validation. Some examples about the possible usage of the coherent big data knowledge base produced are also offered and are accessible from the RDF-Store and related services. The article also presented the work performed about reconciliation algorithms and their comparative assessment and selection.
Applying the continuous-energy Monte Carlo calculation code, MVP3, to analysis of kinetic parameters measured for light-water moderated UO2 and MOX cores of the TCA and EOLE critical facilities
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Toru
name: Iwahashi, Daiki
name: Sakai, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In order to evaluate the accuracies of the kinetics parameters predicted with the continuous-energy Monte Carlo calculation code, MVP3, core analysis was performed for light-water moderated UO2 and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel cores for which the ratios of effective delayed-neutron fraction (βeff) to prompt-neutron life time (ℓ) – represented hereafter by βeff/ℓ – and βeff values were measured. The results obtained with the JENDL-4.0-based neutron library showed that (the calculation values (C)/the measurement values (E)−1) ranged from −1.0% to 4.0% for the βeff/ℓ values with an average of 1.0% and a standard deviation of 1.1% for the 17 cores (the UO2, and UO2-MOX mixed cores) tested in the Tank-Type Critical Assembly (TCA). With respect to the βeff of one UO2 core in TCA, C/E − 1 was 1.2%. For the βeff values of the UO2 and MOX cores tested in the EOLE critical facility, C/E − 1 was −1.5% for the former and −4.6% for the latter. The calculated βeff value of the MOX core using the JEFF-3.2-based neutron library was larger by 4% than that calculated using the JENDL-4.0-based neutron library and showed better agreement to the measurement.
Nusta Juira's Gift of Quinoa: Peasants, Trademarks, and Intermediaries in the Transformation of a Bolivian Commodity Economy
Creators: name: Ofstehage, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Farmers and activists in the Los Lipez region of
Bolivia have created a symbolic commons that links
their identity, quinoa crop, and work. Since 2005,
farmers have worked with regional activists and marketers
to create a denomination of origin in order to
project their work and connection with quinoa into
international markets for their crop.Yet sales certified
with the denomination of origin trademark have not
significantly displaced other sales to buyers for the
national cooperatives or to local intermediaries. Based
on 4 months of ethnographic research with growers,
local resellers, and leaders of the denomination of
origin initiative, this case documents how the Bolivian
quinoa market is a composite of varied market channels,
interests, and values that inhibit the full realization
of any single development approach. However,
the complexity that actor agency introduces into commodity
circulation results in earnings at different
scales, the movement of multiple qualities of quinoa,
transactions in formal and informal settings, and a
more resilient life sphere of agricultural production.
The dissimilar chemical composition of the planet-hosting stars of the XO-2 binary system
Creators: name: Ramirez, I.
name: Khanal, S.
name: Aleo, P.
name: Sobotka, A.
name: Liu, F.
name: Casagrande, L.
name: Melendez, J.
name: Yong, D.
name: Lambert, D. L.
name: Asplund, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high-quality spectra of the twin stars in the XO-2 binary system, we have detected significant differences in the chemical composition of their photospheres. The differences correlate strongly with the elements' dust condensation temperature. In XO-2N, volatiles are enhanced by about 0.015 dex and refractories are overabundant by up to 0.090 dex. On average, our error bar in relative abundance is 0.012 dex. We present an early metal-depletion scenario in which the formation of the gas giant planets known to exist around these stars is responsible for a 0.015 dex offset in the abundances of all elements while 20 M_Earth of non-detected rocky objects that formed around XO-2S explain the additional refractory-element difference. An alternative explanation involves the late accretion of at least 20 M_Earth of planet-like material by XO-2N, allegedly as a result of the migration of the hot Jupiter detected around that star. Dust cleansing by a nearby hot star as well as age or Galactic birthplace effects can be ruled out as valid explanations for this phenomenon.
description: ApJ, in press. Complete linelist (Table 3) available in the "Other formats -> Source" download
Migration of polyethylene glycol coated gold nanoparticles in surrogate natural barriers
Creators: name: Ordonez, Carlos
name: Watanabe, Naoko
name: Kozaki, Tamotsu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Introduction: Studies on migration behaviors of colloidal materials through engineered and natural barriers are highly important for the safety assessment of radioactive waste repositories since the fate and transport of radionuclides may be significantly affected by interactions with colloids.Methods: Poly (ethylene glycol) coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were used as a model colloid and the effects of the properties of AuNPs on their migration behaviors were investigated in batch and column experiments with silica sand.Results: Deposition of AuNPs on silica sand and aggregation of AuNPs were observed more for larger AuNPs despite the unfavorable conditions of both AuNPs and silica sand having overall negative surface charges. Sloping plateaus were observed in the breakthrough curves, suggesting that a limited number of sites arising from charge heterogeneities on silica sand may be responsible for attractive forces between AuNPs and silica sand. However, stronger affinity toward silica sand and with each other was observed for larger AuNPs which have more significant negative surface charges.Conclusions: The results suggest that interactions other than electrostatic and van der Waals (vdW) are controlling the migration behavior of AuNPs, including steric effects arising from the surface coating, thus need to be considered when assessing fate and transport of nanoparticles.
Methode zur Ermittlung optimaler Rad- und Reifendimensionen in der frühen Entwicklungsphase von Personenkraftwagen
Creators: name: Strigel, Adrian
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Reifen
Rad
Reifenentwicklung
Reifendimension
Raddimension
Reifenkonzept
Objektive Reifenentwicklung
Funktionale Reifeneigenschaften
Functional Tyre Characteristics (FTC)

description: Neben den Eigenschaften anderer Fahrzeugkomponenten trägt die Ausprägung der funktionalen Eigenschaften eines Reifens wesentlich zum Gesamtfahrzeugverhalten hinsichtlich Energieeffizienz, Fahrdynamik und Komfort bei. Die in vorhergehenden Arbeiten vorgestellte Reifenentwicklung auf Basis von „Functional Tyre Characteristics“ (FTC) ermöglicht die Beschreibung des Reifenverhaltens anhand objektiver, an Prüfständen messbarer Größen. Die Dimensionen von Rad und Reifen werden bereits in der frühen Entwicklungsphase eines neuen Fahrzeugkonzepts festgelegt und haben unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen FTC. Zur langfristigen Erreichung der jeweiligen Anforderungen sind Kenntnisse über die vorliegenden Wechselwirkungen sowie Methoden zur Erarbeitung belastbarer Konzeptentscheidungen erforderlich. Hierfür werden im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit Methoden entwickelt, welche die statistische Prognose realisierbarer FTC-Bereiche für beliebige Dimensionskombinationen von Rad und Reifen bei unterschiedlichen Betriebsbedingungen ermöglichen. Hierbei werden zum einen die Messdaten vergangener Reifenentwicklungen auf Basis linearer Regressionsmodelle analysiert und die Regressionsparameter der einzelnen Wirkzusammenhänge hinsichtlich Richtung, Stärke und physikalischen Ursachen interpretiert. Zur Berücksichtigung nichtlinearer Zusammenhänge werden die vorliegenden Messdaten darüber hinaus durch Künstliche Neuronale Netze (KNN) genähert. Die KNN werden daraufhin in eine bereits vorhandene Software zur Visualisierung von Lösungsräumen eingebunden. Damit können Dimensionsbereiche von Rad und Reifen ermittelt werden, welche die spezifischen Anforderungen beliebiger Anwendungsfälle bestmöglich erfüllen. Die genaue Vorgehensweise wird abschließend am Beispiel realistischer Randbedingungen und Anforderungen eines Mittelklassefahrzeugs veranschaulicht, wobei die verfügbaren Lösungsräume hinsichtlich Rad- und Reifendimension eingegrenzt werden.
2010 ACCF/AHA guideline for assessment of cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic adults
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An extensive evidence review was conducted for the period beginning March 2008 through April 2010. Searches were limited to studies, reviews, and other evidence conducted in human subjects and published in English. Key search words included, but were not limited to, African Americans, Asian Americans, albuminuria, asymptomatic, asymptomatic screening and brachial artery reactivity, atherosclerosis imaging, atrial fibrillation, brachial artery testing for atherosclerosis, calibration, cardiac tomography, compliance, carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), coronary calcium, coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA), C-reactive protein (CRP), detection of subclinical atherosclerosis, discrimination, endothelial function, family history, flow-mediated dilation, genetics, genetic screening, guidelines, Hispanic Americans, hemoglobin A, glycosylated, meta-analysis, Mexican Americans, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), noninvasive testing, noninvasive testing and type 2 diabetes, outcomes, patient compliance, peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT), peripheral tonometry and atherosclerosis, lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2, primary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD), proteinuria, cardiovascular risk, risk scoring, receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve, screening for brachial artery reactivity, stress echocardiography, subclinical atherosclerosis, subclinical and Framingham, subclinical and Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the writing committee reviewed documents related to the subject matter previously published by the ACCF and AHA, American Diabetes Association (ADA), European Society of Cardiology, and the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC) 7. References selected and published in this document are representative and not all-inclusive.
Empirical Covariance Modeling for 21 cm Power Spectrum Estimation: A Method Demonstration and New Limits from Early Murchison Widefield Array 128-Tile Data
Creators: name: Dillon, Joshua S.
name: Neben, Abraham R.
name: Hewitt, Jacqueline N.
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Barry, N.
name: Beardsley, A. P.
name: Bowman, J. D.
name: Briggs, F.
name: Carroll, P.
name: de Oliveira-Costa, A.
name: Ewall-Wice, A.
name: Feng, L.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Hazelton, B. J.
name: Hernquist, L.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Jacobs, D. C.
name: Kim, H. S.
name: Kittiwisit, P.
name: Lenc, E.
name: Line, J.
name: Loeb, A.
name: McKinley, B.
name: Mitchell, D. A.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Offringa, A. R.
name: Paul, S.
name: Pindor, B.
name: Pober, J. C.
name: Procopio, P.
name: Riding, J.
name: Sethi, S.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Subrahmanyan, R.
name: Sullivan, I.
name: Thyagarajan, Nithyanandan
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Trott, C.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Wyithe, S.
name: Bernardi, G.
name: Cappallo, R. J.
name: Deshpande, A. A.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Lonsdale, C. J.
name: McWhirter, S. R.
name: Morgan, E.
name: Oberoi, D.
name: Ord, S. M.
name: Prabu, T.
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Williams, A.
name: Williams, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The separation of the faint cosmological background signal from bright astrophysical foregrounds remains one of the most daunting challenges of mapping the high-redshift intergalactic medium with the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen. Advances in mapping and modeling of diffuse and point source foregrounds have improved subtraction accuracy, but no subtraction scheme is perfect. Precisely quantifying the errors and error correlations due to missubtracted foregrounds allows for both the rigorous analysis of the 21 cm power spectrum and for the maximal isolation of the "EoR window" from foreground contamination. We present a method to infer the covariance of foreground residuals from the data itself in contrast to previous attempts at a priori modeling. We demonstrate our method by setting limits on the power spectrum using a 3 h integration from the 128-tile Murchison Widefield Array. Observing between 167 and 198 MHz, we find at 95% confidence a best limit of Delta^2(k) < 3.7 x 10^4 mK^2 at comoving scale k = 0.18 hMpc^-1 and at z = 6.8, consistent with existing limits.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures. Accepted to Phys. Rev. D
Moving Towards a Socially-Driven Internet Architectural Design
Creators: name: Sofia, Rute C.
name: Mendes, Paulo
name: Damásio, José Manuel
name: Henriques, Sara
name: Giglietto, Fabio
name: Giambitto, Erica
name: Bogliolo, Alessadro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper provides an interdisciplinary perspective concerning the role of prosumers on future Internet design based on the current trend of Internet user empowerment. The paper debates the prosumer role, and addresses models to develop a symmetric Internet architecture and supply-chain based on the integration of social capital aspects. It has as goal to ignite the discussion concerning a socially-driven Internet architectural design.
Behavior of hydrogen at Fe/W interface: a first-principle calculation study
Creators: name: Shi, Jingming
name: Hashimoto, Naoyuki
name: Isobe, Shigehito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Computational Biology

description: The dissolution behavior of hydrogen (H) at Fe/W interface and the effect of H on the strength of Fe/W interface are investigated by means of first-principle calculation. The dissolution of H atom at Fe/W interface would be easier than in bulk Fe or W due to the low charge density at Fe/W interface caused by the distortion of lattice. Hydrogen atom prefers to stay at Fe side of Fe/W interface due to its lower dissolution energy in Fe lattice at the interface region. However, H atom could be trapped by vacancy at Fe/W interface. In addition, H and vacancy reduce the strength of the interface; however, H atom at the specific site seems to increase the strength of Fe/W interface slightly. Furthermore, the electronic structures of the interface are analyzed to give a physical understanding of the effect of H on Fe/W interface.