cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tobacco Smoking in the United States in Relation to Income
Creators: name: Sackrin, Seymour M.
name: Conover, Arthur G.
name: Sackrin, Seymour M.
name: Conover, Arthur G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: This report is a direct outgrowth of a survey made early in 1955 by the Bureau of the Census for the United States Public Health Service. The results of the survey were published in late 1956 in a monograph, Tobacco Smoking Patterns in the United States. The study reported here supplements the monograph by providing information on smoking characteristics in relation to income. In addition, other important aspects have been included. These are: (1) A discussion of different forms of smoking; (2) estimates of the smoking population; (3) more detailed information on rates of smoking; and (4) reconciliation of survey data with national aggregate consumption. Throughout our study, emphasis was placed on the effect of income on smoking characteristics. Whereas the Public Health Service monograph may be used to answer such a question as "How does age affect a person's smoking habits?," our report gives the answer to such a question as "How do age and income affect a person's smoking habits?" The monograph shows the effect of regional location, urban-rural residence, and occupation on smoking habits. But our study, as reported here, considers the effect of each in conjunction with income. We analyze the effect of these factors on smoking status (regular or occasional), the product smoked, and rates of smoking.
Aeration of Grain In Commercial Storages
Creators: name: Holman, Leo E.
name: Holman, Leo E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: This report extends and brings up to date the information in Marketing Research Report No. 178, "Aeration of Grain in Commercial Storages," published in September 1957. The main purpose of this revision is to present new information obtained from research studies and industry experience since September 1957. Major revisions were made in the sections on ducts for flat storages to present information relating to designs of duct systems for the large, peak-loaded flat storages now in use. Some revisions were made in the recommended allowable air velocities within ducts and in the fan horsepower and static pressure charts. Additional examples of steps in designing aeration systems and some new illustrations were also added. This publication covers: (1) The design, selection of equipment, and installation of grain aeration systems; (2) the operation of such systems; (3) ownership and operating costs; and (4) examples of installations.
Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America
Creators: name: Kass, Hannah
name: Rice, Anika M.
name: Norman, Margaret Weinberg
name: Goldberg, Zachary A.
name: Bell, Michael
name: Croog, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description:
Jewish Agrarian Movements (JAM hereafter) in North America express the many different shapes and iterations of Jewish farming on the continent, grounded in historical perspectives that influence current practices and activities. From within this diversity, common threads emerge with much to contribute to agrarian social movements and scholarship. Jewish values of returning (t’shuvah), releasing (shmitah), and repairing (tikkun), along with theories of doikayt (an anti-zionist movement around “hereness”) and radical diasporism, animate JAM’s critical engagement with agri-food systems. As researchers who have both studied and participated in Jewish agrarianism in a variety of U.S. and Canadian contexts, we solidify a series of themes and tensions that emerge from JAM: diaspora and indigeneity, modernity and tradition, Jewish agroecological knowledge production, and lived religion. We argue that, while JAM has not yet been examined thoroughly within critical food scholarship, it has the potential to contribute to broader debates and frameworks within sub-fields such as radical food geographies, critical agrarianism, and decoloniality. Without consideration of JAM as a part the study of food and agriculture, there are risks of marginalization of farmers, activists and researchers of Jewish identity.
Misaligned distance: Why distance can have a positive effect on trade in agricultural
Creators: name: Dreyer, Heiko
name: Dreyer, Heiko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trade
subject: Transport costs
subject: distance
subject: North South

description: This contribution argues and proves empirically that trade in agricultural products could be the higher the more distant two trading partners are. Distance in agricultural trade does not only reflect transport costs but also differences in climatic and cultivation conditions and, thus, in resource endowment of two trading partners. A gravity model is enhanced by different variables that capture differences in factor endowment. The model is estimated for an annual panel of agricultural trade flows of nearly 10,000 country pairs for the period 1970 to 2010. We show that the interpretation of the distance coefficient as transport costs’ effect is misleading as the transport cost related effect of distance is underestimated if the model does not account for differences in growing conditions. Particular, a trade increasing effect for North South distance shows up. Moreover, we find that this pattern is clearer the more disaggregated the product group is.
MOESM1 of Prevalence and factors associated with poor mental health among healthcare professionals in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Lohmann, Julia
name: John, Denny
name: Aso Dzay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P checklist.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey extended point spread functions
Creators: name: Infante-Sainz, Raúl
name: Trujillo, Ignacio
name: Román, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A robust and extended characterization of the point spread function (PSF) is crucial to extract the photometric information produced by deep imaging surveys. Here, we present the extended PSFs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of the most productive astronomical surveys of all time. By stacking ~1000 images of individual stars with different brightness, we obtain the bidimensional SDSS PSFs extending over 8 arcmin in radius for all the SDSS filters(u, g, r, i, z). This new characterization of the SDSS PSFs is near a factor of 10 larger in extension than previous PSFs characterizations of the same survey. We found asymmetries in the shape of the PSFs caused by the drift scanning observing mode. The flux of the PSFs is larger along the drift scanning direction. Finally, we illustrate with an example how the PSF models can be used to remove the scattered light field produced by the brightest stars in the central region of the Coma cluster field. This particular example shows the huge importance of PSFs in the study of the low-surface brightness Universe, especially with the upcoming of ultradeep surveys, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Following a reproducible science philosophy, we make all the PSF models and the scripts used to do the analysis of this paper publicly available (snapshot v0.5-0-g62d83df).
description: Minor corrections of editor included. Available PSFs at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/491/5317. This paper is fully reproducible, see instructions at https://gitlab.com/infantesainz/sdss-extended-psfs-paper, and in Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524937
Spin-dependent electron-hole capture kinetics in conjugated polymers
Creators: name: Karabunarliev, Stoyan
name: Bittner, Eric. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recombination of electron-hole pairs injected in extended conjugated systems is modeled as a multi-pathway vibron-driven relaxation in monoexcited state-space. The computed triplet-to-singlet ratio of exciton formation times $r = τ_T/τ_S$ increases from 0.9 for a model dimer to 2.5 for a 32-unit chain, in excellent agreement with experiments. Therewith we rationalize recombination efficiency in terms of spin-dependent interstate vibronic coupling and spin- and conjugation-length-dependent exciton binding energies.Our model calculations for various length polymers indicate that the ratio of the singlet to triplet formation ratios, $r = σ_S/σ_T$, is inversely related to the ratio of the singlet and triplet binding energies, $ε^b_S/ε^b_T$.
Varying Estimates of Social Workers in the United States: Which Data Source to Use?
Creators: name: Fraher, Erin
name: Lombardi, Brianna M
name: de Saxe Zerden, Lisa
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description:
Behavioral health needs continue rise in the United States and constitute a key driver of health care utilization, costs, and outcomes. Social workers provide a wide range of services across health, behavioral health, and community settings, and while this heterogeneity in practice benefits care delivery, it complicates health workforce analyses. This analysis compares five commonly used national data sources and details similarities and differences in their estimates of the number, type, and practice characteristics of social workers. The analysis suggests that estimates vary significantly between data sets ranging from 282,425 to 1,022,859 social workers; as well as yield different findings of types of social workers in the United States, depending on the data set used. These differences have the potential to shape how researchers and policy makers assess the adequacy of the social work workforce and identify solutions to address the nation's behavioral health and social care needs.
A two-zone model for blazar emission: implications for TXS 0506+056 and the neutrino event IceCube-170922A
Creators: name: Xue, Rui
name: Liu, Ruo-Yu
name: Petropoulou, Maria
name: Oikonomou, Foteini
name: Wang, Ze-Rui
name: Wang, Kai
name: Wang, Xiang-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-energy muon neutrino event, IceCube-170922A, was recently discovered in both spatial and temporal coincidence with a gamma-ray flare of the blazar TXS 0506+056. It has been shown, with standard one-zone models, that neutrinos can be produced in the blazar jet via hadronic interactions, but with a flux which is mostly limited by the X-ray data. In this work, we explore the neutrino production from TXS 0506+056 by invoking two physically distinct emission zones in the jet, separated by the broad line region (BLR). Using the Doppler-boosted radiation of the BLR as the target photon field, the inner zone accounts for the neutrino and gamma-ray emission via $pγ$ interactions and inverse Compton scattering respectively, while the outer zone produces the optical and X-ray emission via synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton processes. The different conditions of the two zones allow us to suppress the X-ray emission from the electromagnetic cascade, and set a much higher upper limit on the muon neutrino flux (i.e., $\sim 10^{-11}\rm erg~cm^{-2}s^{-1}$) than in one-zone models. We compare, in detail, our scenario with one-zone models discussed in the literature, and argue that differentiating between such scenarios will become possible with next generation neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube-Gen2.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
The failure of cosmological perturbation theory in the new ekpyrotic and cyclic ekpyrotic scenarios
Creators: name: Lyth, D H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological perturbation theory fails in the new ekpyrotic and cyclic ekpyrotic scenarios, before the scale factor of the Universe reaches zero. As a result, a recently-proposed recipe for evolving the curvature perturbation through the bounce in these scenarios cannot be justified.
description: 10 pages. v2: Logic of the demonstration of non-linearity stated more explicitely. Remarks on non-singular bounces removed for inclusion in a later paper. v3: As accepted by Phys Lett B v4: Comment on the paper of Banks and Fischler removed following its withdrawal; more precise abstract
Additional file 3 of Transcriptome profiling of developing leaf and shoot apices to reveal the molecular mechanism and co-expression genes responsible for the wheat heading date
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxin
name: Zhang, Xueying
name: Wu, Lifen
name: Zhang, Lichao
name: Liu, Guoxiang
name: Xia, Chuan
name: Liu, Xu
name: Kong, Xiuying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Volcano map of DEGs between WHd and MHd at different developmental stages and in different tissues. The abscissa represents the log2 (FC) value of each gene, and the ordinate corresponds to adjusted p-values. Green dots represent downregulated genes, red dots represent upregulated genes, and dark dots represent genes not differentially expressed. (a) Volcano map of DEGs between WHd-A2.0 vs MHd-A2.0. (b) Volcano map of DEGs between WHd-A3.5 vs MHd-A3.5. (c) Volcano map of DEGs between WHd-L2.0 vs MHd-L2.0. (d) Volcano map of DEGs between WHd-L3.5 vs MHd-L3.5.
New physical principles of contact thermoelectric cooling
Creators: name: Gurevich, Yu. G.
name: Logvinov, G. N.
name: Titov, O. Yu.
name: Giraldo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a new approach to the theory of the contact thermoelectric cooling (Peltier effect). The metal-metal, metal-n-type semiconductor, metal-p-type semiconductor, p-n junction contacts are analyzed. Both degenerate and non-degenerate electron and hole gases are considered. The role of recombination in the contact cooling effect is discussed by the first time.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, revtex4
Urbanization, Nutrition Transition, and Obesity: Evidence from China
Creators: name: Zhou, Song
name: Awokuse, Titus O.
name: Zhou, Song
name: Awokuse, Titus O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy

description: This paper explores the effects of urbanization on nutrition transition and obesity. Taking adult individuals from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), from the year 1989 to 2009, this study confirms the hypothesis that rising urbanization has positive effects on the obesity level. Also, the results reveal a nutrition transition towards a dietary pattern of more fat and protein intake in China. Particularly, evidence from the gender difference indicates that the effect of urbanization, along with the factors as education and income, on obesity is more pronounced for females than males.
Family-forest Owners’ Willingness to Harvest Sawlogs and Woody Biomass: The Effect of Price on Social Availability
Creators: name: Aguilar, Francisco X.
name: Daniel, Marissa “Jo”
name: Cai, Zhen
name: Aguilar, Francisco X.
name: Daniel, Marissa “Jo”
name: Cai, Zhen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: integrated harvest
subject: ordered choice
subject: public incentive
subject: sawlog
subject: woody biomass

description: Understanding willingness to harvest (WTH) is essential to assessing the social availability of woody biomass from private land. Currently, the only economically feasible way to harvest woody biomass is in conjunction with sawlogs. We examined WTH sawlogs and woody biomass from owners of family forests using data from a survey of Missouri forest owners. While their WTH increased with revenue expected from woody biomass, revenue expected from sawlogs was a stronger influence. Incentive payments for woody biomass thus are unlikely to increase its supply, and the social availability of woody biomass will remain limited unless sawlog prices rise significantly.
Eptesicus orinocensis Ramírez-Chaves & Morales-Martínez & Pérez & Velásquez-Guarín & Mejía-Fontecha & Ortiz-Giraldo & Ossa- López & Rivera Páez 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E.
name: Morales-Martínez, Darwin M.
name: Pérez, Ra.
name: Velásquez-Guarín, Daniela
name: Mejía-Fontecha, Ingrith Y.
name: Ortiz-Giraldo, Mateo
name: Ossa- López, Paula A.
name: Rivera Páez, Fredy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus orinocensis

description: Eptesicus orinocensis sp. nov.
Orinoco brown bat
Figures 6, 7, Tables 1, 2
description: Published as part of Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E., Morales-Martínez, Darwin M., Pérez, Ra., Velásquez-Guarín, Daniela, Mejía-Fontecha, Ingrith Y., Ortiz-Giraldo, Mateo, Ossa- López, Paula A. & Rivera Páez, Fredy A., 2021, A new species of small Eptesicus Rafinesque (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from northern South America, pp. 489-520 in Zootaxa 5020 (3) on page 504, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5223640
FROM COLD TO HOT: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF CLIMATIC EFFECTS ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF WISCONSIN DAIRY FARMS
Creators: name: Qi, Lingqiao
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
name: Cabrera, Victor E.
name: Qi, Lingqiao
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
name: Cabrera, Victor E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: climatic effect
subject: dairy production
subject: stochastic production frontiers
subject: Wisconsin

description: This study examines the effect of climatic variables on dairy farm productivity using panel data for the state of Wisconsin along with alternative stochastic frontier models. A noteworthy feature of this analysis is that Wisconsin is a major dairy producing area where winters are typically very cold and snowy, and summers hot and humid. Thus, it is an ideal geographical region for examining the effects of a range of climatic factors on dairy production. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the climatic effect on the productivity of Wisconsin farms. We identify the effect of temperature and precipitation, both jointly and separately, on milk output. The analysis shows that increasing temperature in summer or in autumn is harmful for dairy production, while warmer winters and warmer springs are beneficial. By contrast, more precipitation has a consistent adverse effect on dairy productivity. Overall, in the past 17 years, climatic conditions have had a negative impact on the dairy farms in Wisconsin and the data reveals a mild negative trend.
Sensitivity Analysis for Markov Decision Process Congestion Games
Creators: name: Li, Sarah H. Q.
name: Calderone, Daniel
name: Ratliff, Lillian
name: Acikmese, Behcet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a non-atomic congestion game where each decision maker performs selfish optimization over states of a common MDP. The decision makers optimize for their own expected costs, and influence each other through congestion effects on the state-action costs. We analyze on the sensitivity of MDP congestion game equilibria to uncertainty and perturbations in the state-action costs by applying an implicit function type analysis. The occurrence of a stochastic Braess paradox is defined, analyzed based on sensitivity of game equilibria and demonstrated in simulation. We further analyze how the introduction of stochastic dynamics affects the magnitude of Braess paradox in comparison to deterministic dynamics.
Babylonian and Indian Astronomy: Early Connections
Creators: name: Kak, Subhash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Did the Indian and Babylonian astronomy evolve in isolation, was there mutual influence, or was one dependent on the other? Scholars have debated these questions for more than two centuries, and opinion has swung one way or the other with time. The similarities between the two systems that have been investigated are: the use of 30 divisions of the lunar month; the 360 divisions of the civil year; the length of the year; and the solar zodiac. Some have wondered if the Babylonian planetary tables might have played a role in the theories of the siddhantas. I shall in this essay go over the essentials of the early Indian and Babylonian astronomy and summarize the latest views on the relationship between them. I shall show that the key ideas found in the Babylonian astronomy of 700 BC are already present in the Vedic texts, which even by the most conservative reckoning are centuries older than this period. I shall also show that the solar zodiac (rashis) was used in Vedic India and I shall present a plausible derivation of the symbols of the solar zodiac from the deities of the lunar segments. This does not mean that the Babylonian astronomy and astrology is derived from the Indian tradition. If at all there was borrowing, that was restricted to the most general ideas only. The nature of Indian and Babylonian astronomical methods is quite different. I propose that it is most likely that Babylonian astronomy emerged independently.
description: 37 pages; with minor corrections
Delta-Sigma Modulator based Compact Sensor Signal Acquisition Front-end System
Creators: name: Basu, Joydeep
name: Mandal, Pradip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed delta-sigma modulator ($ΔΣ$M) based signal acquisition architecture uses a differential difference amplifier (DDA) customized for dual purpose roles, namely as instrumentation amplifier and as integrator of $ΔΣ$M. The DDA also provides balanced high input impedance for signal from sensors. Further, programmable input amplification is obtained by adjustment of $ΔΣ$M feedback voltage. Implementation of other functionalities, such as filtering and digitization have also been incorporated. At circuit level, a difference of transconductance of DDA input pairs has been proposed to reduce the effect of input resistor thermal noise of front-end R-C integrator of the $ΔΣ$M. Besides, chopping has been used for minimizing effect of Flicker noise. The resulting architecture is an aggregation of functions of entire signal acquisition system within the single block of $ΔΣ$M, and is useful for a multitude of dc-to-medium frequency sensing and similar applications that require high precision at reduced size and power. An implementation of this in 0.18-$μ$m CMOS process has been presented, yielding a simulated peak signal-to-noise ratio of 80 dB and dynamic range of 109dBFS in an input signal band of 1 kHz while consuming 100 $μ$W of power; with the measured signal-to-noise ratio being lower by about 9 dB.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
On the Renormalization Group in Curved Spacetime
Creators: name: Hollands, Stefan
name: Wald, Robert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define the renormalization group flow for a renormalizable interacting quantum field in curved spacetime via its behavior under scaling of the spacetime metric, $\g \to λ^2 \g$. We consider explicitly the case of a scalar field, $ϕ$, with a self-interaction of the form $κϕ^4$, although our results should generalize straightforwardly to other renormalizable theories. We construct the interacting field--as well as its Wick powers and their time-ordered-products--as formal power series in the algebra generated by the Wick powers and time-ordered-products of the free field, and we determine the changes in the interacting field observables resulting from changes in the renormalization prescription. Our main result is the proof that, for any fixed renormalization prescription, the interacting field algebra for the spacetime $(M, λ^2 \g)$ with coupling parameters $p$ is isomorphic to the interacting field algebra for the spacetime $(M, \g)$ but with different values, $p(λ)$, of the coupling parameters. The map $p \to p(λ)$ yields the renormalization group flow. The notion of essential and inessential coupling parameters is defined, and we define the notion of a fixed point as a point, $p$, in the parameter space for which there is no change in essential parameters under renormalization group flow.
description: Latex, 44pp, no figures
Thermal tolerance responses to environmental variability in insect models
Creators: name: Marais, Elrike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: thermal tolerance
insect models
PhD

description: Organisms are able to respond to their changing environment, and the extent of the response is thought to depend on the degree of variability and predictability of the environment. Furthermore, the form of this physiological phenotypic plasticity has formed the basis of numerous discussions. However, behavioural regulation of the environment can eliminate the need for physiological alterations and therefore phenotypic plasticity (the Bogert effect). Furthermore, these physiological responses should be investigated in a cost-benefit framework. First, because of the increasing realisation of the importance of cue reliability and variation of the environment for organism response, statistical measures of environmental variability and predictability were investigated. Microclimate temperature data from two localities were used (highly predictably and variable vs. unpredictable and less variable). The proportionate coefficient of variance was most suited to measure variability, whereas Fourier transformation technique seemed to be the most useful estimate of temperature predictability. Acclimation and hardening can often elicit physiological responses that may increase fitness. I investigated life-stage differences in acclimation and hardening ability in the lethal limits and supercooling ability in Paractora dreuxi. The extent of plasticity in both adults and larvae were surprisingly low. The lower lethal limit remained unaffected by acclimation, hardening, and the interaction between acclimation and hardening. However, in the upper lethal limits of adult P. dreuxi a low temperature acclimation significantly increased survival to that of above the warm acclimated individuals. Furthermore, a strong life-stage effect was evident in the supercooling points. While larvae did not show any plasticity, the acclimation*hardening interaction had a significant effect on adults SCP.
description: Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Zoology
Statistics of nested spiral self-avoiding loops: exact results on the square and triangular lattices
Creators: name: Turban, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistics of nested spiral self-avoiding loops, which is closely related to the partition of integers into decreasing parts, is studied on the square and triangular lattices.
description: Old paper, for archiving. 7 pages, 2 figures, epsf, IOP macro
Alcochera albiapicalis Sheng 2017
Creators: name: Sun, Shu-Ping
name: Li, Tao
name: Zong, Shi-Xiang
name: Sheng, Mao-Ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Alcochera
Alcochera albiapicalis

description: Alcochera albiapicalis Sheng, 2017
 Alcochera albiapicalis Sheng, 2017. South China Forestry Science, 45(5):33. Holotype: female, China: Jiangxi, Mt. Wugong (GSFGPM).
 Material examined. Holotype female of Alcochera albiapicalis (GSFGPM).
 Diagnosis. This species can be easily distinguished from other species by areolet receiving vein 2m-cu at lower posterior corner; apical portion of antenna white. Also can be distinguished from all other species by the key provided above.
 Distribution. China (Sheng et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Sun, Shu-Ping, Li, Tao, Zong, Shi-Xiang & Sheng, Mao-Ling, 2021, The genus Alcochera Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae) in China with a key to world species, pp. 273-283 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5225942
Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field
Creators: name: Golestanian, Ramin
name: Ajdari, Armand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional assumption that the self-diffusion coefficient of a small tracer can be obtained by a local and instantaneous application of Einstein's relation in a temperature field with spatial and temporal heterogeneity is revisited. It is shown that hydrodynamic fluctuations contribute to the self-diffusion tensor in a universal way, i.e. independent of the size and shape of the tracer. The hydrodynamic contribution is anisotropic--it reflects knowledge of the global anisotropy in the temperature profile, leading to anisotropic self-diffusion tensor for a spherical tracer. It is also retarded--it creates memory effects during the diffusion process due to hydrodynamic interactions.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Europhysics Letters
Micro Fresnel Mirror Array with Individual Mirror Control
Creators: name: Bruno, Binal Poyyathuruthy
name: Schütze, Robert
name: Grunwald, Ruediger
name: Wallrabe, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the design and fabrication of a miniaturized array of piezoelectrically actuated high speed Fresnel mirrors with individual mirror control. These Fresnel mirrors can be used to generate propagation invariant and self-healing interference patterns. The mirrors are actuated using piezobimorph actuators, and the consequent change of the tilting angle of the mirrors changes the fringe spacing of the interference pattern generated. The array consists of four Fresnel mirrors each having an area of 2x2 mm2 arranged in a 2x2 configuration. The device, optimized using FEM simulations, is able to achieve maximum mirror deflections of 15 mrad, and has a resonance frequency of 28 kHz.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to IOP SMS
Supersymmetric Bag Model as a Development of the Witten Superconducting String
Creators: name: Burinskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider particlelike solutions to supergravity based on the Kerr-Newman BH solution. The BH singularity is regularized by means of a phase transition to a new superconducting vacuum state near the core region. We show that this phase transition can be controlled by gravity in spite of the extreme smallness of the local gravitational field. Supersymmetric BPS domain wall model is suggested which can provide this phase transition and formation the stable charged (dual) superconducting core.
description: 8 pages, Latex, v.2, some misprints improved, minor corrections, talk given at the SUSY'01 conference (Dubna, June 11-17, 2001) and at the IX Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics, SPIN-01 (Dubna, August 2-7, 2001)
MOESM1 of Built and social environmental factors influencing healthy behaviours in older Chinese immigrants to Australia: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Cerin, Ester
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Choi, Wing
name: Winsfred Ngan
name: Shiyuan Yin
name: Lukar Thornton
name: Barnett, Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Built and social environmental facilitators and barriers to physical activity. Table S2. One thing that Chinese older immigrants would change in their own community to help them be more physically active. Table S3. Built and social environmental facilitators and barriers to eating a healthy diet. Table S4. One thing that Chinese older immigrants would change in their own community to help them follow a healthy diet. Table S5. Built and social environmental facilitators and barriers to social contacts. Table S6. One thing that Chinese older immigrants would change in their own community to help them have contacts with people.
A Bi-fidelity Surrogate Modeling Approach for Uncertainty Propagation in Three-Dimensional Hemodynamic Simulations
Creators: name: Gao, Han
name: Zhu, Xueyu
name: Wang, Jian-Xun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Image-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling enables derivation of hemodynamic information, which has become a paradigm in cardiovascular research and healthcare. Nonetheless, the predictive accuracy largely depends on precisely specified boundary conditions and model parameters, which, however, are usually uncertain in most patient-specific cases. Quantifying the uncertainties in model predictions due to input randomness can provide predictive confidence and is critical to promote the transition of CFD modeling in clinical applications. In the meantime, forward propagation of input uncertainties often involves numerous expensive CFD simulations, which is computationally prohibitive in most practical scenarios. This paper presents an efficient bi-fidelity surrogate modeling framework for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in cardiovascular simulations, by leveraging the accuracy of high-fidelity models and efficiency of low-fidelity models. Contrary to most data-fit surrogate models with several scalar quantities of interest, this work aims to provide high-resolution, full-field predictions. Moreover, a novel empirical error bound estimation approach is introduced to evaluate the performance of the surrogate a priori. The proposed framework is tested on a number of vascular flows with both standardized and patient-specific vessel geometries, and different combinations of high- and low-fidelity models are investigated. The results show that the bi-fidelity approach can achieve high predictive accuracy with a significant reduction of computational cost, exhibiting its merit and effectiveness. Particularly, the uncertainties from a high-dimensional input space can be accurately propagated to clinically relevant quantities of interest in the patient-specific case using only a limited number of high-fidelity simulations, suggesting a good potential in practical clinical applications.
description: 44 pages, 15 figures
Observing and analysing the Bioeconomy in the EU – Adapting data and tools to new questions and challenges
Creators: name: M'Barek, Robert
name: Philippidis, George
name: Suta, Cornelia
name: Vinyes, Cristina
name: Caivano, Arnaldo
name: Ferrari, Emanuele
name: Ronzon, Tevecia
name: Sanjuan Lopez, Ana
name: Santini, Fabien
name: M'Barek, Robert
name: Philippidis, George
name: Suta, Cornelia
name: Vinyes, Cristina
name: Caivano, Arnaldo
name: Ferrari, Emanuele
name: Ronzon, Tevecia
name: Sanjuan Lopez, Ana
name: Santini, Fabien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Bioeconomy
subject: European Union
subject: Social Accounting Matrix
subject: CGE
subject: databases

description: The concept of ‘bioeconomy’ is receiving increased attention in policy and business circles. The European Commission (EC) has initiated the Bioeconomy Strategy which is a signal of intent that the EU seeks to meet the challenge of reconciling responsible-resource usage respecting sustainability criteria, with wealth-generation. To this aim, the EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been entrusted to implement a Bioeconomy Information Systems Observatory within which the objective is to develop an ongoing coherent picture of the activities of this sector, whilst developing forward- looking tools of analysis to help respond to the aforementioned challenge. This paper provides a discussion on the research activities which are currently under development at the JRC. Whilst the scale of ambition of the Bioeconomy Observatory is significant, it is recognised that much of the research conducted so-far remains workin- progress and is therefore only a starting point to fully capturing the nuances of this diverse and complex sector.
Additional file 4 of Transcriptome profiling of developing leaf and shoot apices to reveal the molecular mechanism and co-expression genes responsible for the wheat heading date
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxin
name: Zhang, Xueying
name: Wu, Lifen
name: Zhang, Lichao
name: Liu, Guoxiang
name: Xia, Chuan
name: Liu, Xu
name: Kong, Xiuying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. GO enrichment analysis of DEGs between WHd-A2.0 vs MHd-A2.0.
Alcochera nikkoensis
Creators: name: Sun, Shu-Ping
name: Li, Tao
name: Zong, Shi-Xiang
name: Sheng, Mao-Ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Alcochera
Alcochera nikkoensis

description: Alcochera nikkoensis (Uchida, 1930)
 Mesoleius nikkoensis Uchida, 1930. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 25:294. Holotype female, Japan, Honshu (HUM).
 Material examined. Holotype female of Mesoleius nikkoensis (HUM); 1 female (GSFGPM), CHINA: Jiangxi, Guanshan National Natural Reserve, 450 m, 27 May 2008, IT (by Jin-Hong Pang); 1 female (GSFGPM), CHINA: Jiangxi, Ji’an, 174 m, 9 April 2009, IT (by Da-Lin Li); 1 male (GSFGPM), CHINA: Jiangxi, Guanshan National Natural Reserve, 430 m, 14 May 2009, IT (by Ling-Li Yi, Yi Li); 3 females 1 male, (GSFGPM), CHINA: Jiangxi, Guanshan National Natural Reserve, 7–9 May 2010, leg. Mao-Ling Sheng, Shu-Ping Sun. 1 females 1 male, (GSFGPM), CHINA: Guizhou, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, 11 May 2018, leg. Tao Li.
 Diagnosis. Apical portion of lateromedian longitudinal carina of propodeum present. Face entirely yellowish white. All coxae and femora red to reddish brown. Tergites almost entirely black.
 Distribution. China, Japan (Uchida 1930, Sheng et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Sun, Shu-Ping, Li, Tao, Zong, Shi-Xiang & Sheng, Mao-Ling, 2021, The genus Alcochera Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae) in China with a key to world species, pp. 273-283 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5225942
The Intersection of Marketing and Public Service in University-Produced Podcasts
Creators: name: Chavez, Kristen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description:
<span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Aptos Narrow', Calibri, 'sans-serif', 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">Two decades of podcasting have presented opportunities for creators and communicators alike to present ideas, information, entertainment, and more to a wide audience through an audio-based medium. Much of the research on educational podcasts pertains to the use of podcasting in classrooms and its impact on student learning. However, educational institutions like colleges and universities may produce podcasts that are intended for a general audience and used as a content marketing piece. Though these types of podcasts have been identified in previous literature, there are few analyses on these branded podcasts by educational institutions. This study identifies patterns and characteristics and to sort similar podcasts into different categories and formats as a way to establish a baseline of evaluating such podcasts. The associated framework and characteristics identified in this study may also provide standards and guidance to communications and marketing professionals in higher education who are interested in launching a branded podcast as part of their communications and marketing channels.
Relational Marketing: Case Studies And Best Practices In Multisensory Design, Gamification And Empathetic Communication To Cultivate Brand Experiences
Creators: name: Wilson, Meredith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description:
(abstract taken from introduction) The intricate dance between consumers and brands resembles a complex relationship, with steep competition for attention and consumer choice. In this age of information overload, consumers seek resonance and meaning, shaping their preferences and actions over time (Magids, Zorfas & Leemon, 2019). Consumers rely on brands for practical benefits and deeper symbolic and emotional connections, allowing marketers to move beyond transactional relationships instead and foster genuine emotional bonds with consumers. By approaching interactions through the lens of relationship building, brands can create deep, lasting connections (Rodríguez-Torrico, San José Cabezudo & San-Martín, 2024).
Comparative Impact of Invasive Alien Trees and Vineyards on Arthropod Diversity in the Cape Floristic Region, Western Cape
Creators: name: Magoba, Rembuluwani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: invasive alien trees
invasive alien vineyards
arthropod diversity
cape floristic region
PhD

description: Invasive alien trees (IATs) and agriculture are rapidly altering the capacity of ecosystems to provide a variety of essential services, with decreasing habitat quality having an adverse effect on arthropod biodiversity. Although both agricultural intensification and IATs have an impact on ecosystems, it is unclear which of these two is currently the most severe. Here I compare the influences of vineyards and IATs on arthropod diversity in the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) from two perspectives. Firstly, insect diversity from four different vegetation types (native fynbos, IATs, cleared invasive alien trees (CIATs) and vineyards), and their ecotones were assessed. Secondly, soil compaction in the different vegetation types was assessed and compared to determine how soil compaction relates to arthropod species richness and abundance. Surface-active arthropods were used for these evaluations, as they were considered to be the most abundant, yet sensitive groups for these comparative assessments. Pitfall trapping, which has been widely used for such comparative studies, was the method of choice. Additionally, as a result of incidental wildfires at some of the study sites (IATs and fynbos vegetation), it was decided opportunistically to assess recovery of arthropod diversity following the impact of fire.
description: Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree PhD in Entomology
Comfort Food: Building Engagement And Belonging With New Uncw Students Through Dining Services
Creators: name: Allred, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description:
<span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Aptos Narrow', Calibri, 'sans-serif', 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">UNCW Business Services and Dining have an opportunity to connect and engage with students by creating a sense of belonging with the dining experience on campus. A report, which surveyed students nationwide, asked about any roadblocks to college success and found 51% worry about basic needs that higher education services provide, such as food, housing, or transportation (NACAS & Wasserman Next Gen, 2023), highlighting the connection and importance of higher education dining services and the student experience. A study on the sense of belonging in college freshmen at the classroom and campus levels at a Southeastern university found that a sense of belonging has been shown to positively impact students’ social and psychological well-being, self-confidence, academic achievement, and retention (Freeman et al., 2007). Adapting services with effective communication through social media strategies targeted to Gen Z can positively impact service quality, the student’s feeling of belonging, and the overall student experience. This project developed a research-driven social media strategy guide for UNCW Business Services and Dining Services teams with strategies based on four areas of belonging: the higher education connection, food insecurity, dietary need and preference, and convenience. As Lu (2023) also concluded, higher education institutions can’t make students feel a sense of belonging, but they can create conditions where the likelihood of feeling a sense of belonging is the greatest. The guide provides best practices for connecting with new UNCW students to promote increased engagement before arriving on campus and during their first year, ultimately contributing to a greater sense of belonging and positive student experience.