cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Photo plot of Riviersonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DC/3
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Photo plot
Langeberg
Riviersonderend

description: This is a scanned copy of a photo plot of Riviersonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DC/3. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Spatially resolved ultrafast magnetic dynamics launched at a complex-oxide hetero-interface
Creators: name: Först, M.
name: Caviglia, A. D.
name: Scherwitzl, R.
name: Mankowsky, R.
name: Zubko, P.
name: Khanna, V.
name: Bromberger, H.
name: Wilkins, S. B.
name: Chuang, Y. -D.
name: Lee, W. S.
name: Schlotter, W. F.
name: Turner, J. J.
name: Dakovski, G. L.
name: Minitti, M. P.
name: Robinson, J.
name: Clark, S. R.
name: Jaksch, D.
name: Triscone, J. -M.
name: Hill, J. P.
name: Dhesi, S. S.
name: Cavalleri, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Static strain in complex oxide heterostructures has been extensively used to engineer electronic and magnetic properties at equilibrium. In the same spirit, deformations of the crystal lattice with light may be used to achieve functional control across hetero-interfaces dynamically. Here, by exciting large amplitude infrared-active vibrations in a LaAlO3 substrate we induce magnetic order melting in a NdNiO3 film across a hetero-interface. Femtosecond Resonant Soft X-ray Diffraction is used to determine the spatial and temporal evolution of the magnetic disordering. We observe a magnetic melt front that grows from the substrate interface into the film, at a speed that suggests electronically driven propagation. Light control and ultrafast phase front propagation at hetero-interfaces may lead to new opportunities in optomagnetism, for example by driving domain wall motion to transport information across suitably designed devices.
description: 35 pages, 8 Figures (both incl. Supplement)
Substrate preference of Gen endonucleases highlights the importance of branched structures as DNA damage repair intermediates
Creators: name: Sekelsky, Jeff
name: Zapotoczny, Grzegorz
name: Redinbo, Matthew R.
name: Morris, Lydia P.
name: Rognstad, Danielle J.
name: Bellendir, Stephanie P.
name: Walton, William G.
name: Erie, Dorothy A.
name: Ramsden, Dale A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Human GEN1 and yeast Yen1 are endonucleases with the ability to cleave Holliday junctions (HJs), which are proposed intermediates in recombination. In vivo, GEN1 and Yen1 function secondarily to Mus81, which has weak activity on intact HJs. We show that the genetic relationship is reversed in Drosophila, with Gen mutants having more severe defects than mus81 mutants. In vitro, DmGen, like HsGEN1, efficiently cleaves HJs, 5΄ flaps, splayed arms, and replication fork structures. We find that the cleavage rates for 5΄ flaps are significantly higher than those for HJs for both DmGen and HsGEN1, even in vast excess of enzyme over substrate. Kinetic studies suggest that the difference in cleavage rates results from a slow, rate-limiting conformational change prior to HJ cleavage: formation of a productive dimer on the HJ. Despite the stark difference in vivo that Drosophila uses Gen over Mus81 and humans use MUS81 over GEN1, we find the in vitro activities of DmGen and HsGEN1 to be strikingly similar. These findings suggest that simpler branched structures may be more important substrates for Gen orthologs in vivo, and highlight the utility of using the Drosophila model system to further understand these enzymes.
Large adiabatic temperature and magnetic entropy changes in EuTiO3
Creators: name: Midya, A.
name: Mandal, P.
name: Rubi, Km
name: Chen, Ruofan
name: Wang, Jian-Sheng
name: Mahendiran, R.
name: Lorusso, G.
name: Evangelisti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the magnetocaloric effect in single and polycrystalline samples of quantum paraelectric EuTiO3 by magnetization and heat capacity measurements. Single crystalline EuTiO3 shows antiferromagnetic ordering due to Eu2+ magnetic moments below TN = 5.6 K. This compound shows a giant magnetocaloric effect around its Neel temperature. The isothermal magnetic entropy change is 49 Jkg-1K-1, the adiabatic temperature change is 21 K and the refrigeration capacity is 500 JKg-1 for a field change of 7 T at TN. The single crystal and polycrystalline samples show similar values of the magnetic entropy change and adiabatic temperature changes. The large magnetocaloric effect is due to suppression of the spin entropy associated with localized 4f moment of Eu2+ ions. The giant magnetocaloric effect together with negligible hysteresis, suggest that EuTiO3 could be a potential material for magnetic refrigeration below 20 K.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Population dynamics of Protea magnifica in Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DB/2
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
population dynamics
Protea magnifica
Langeberg
Sonderend

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including diagrams, on the population dynamics of Protea magnifica in Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DB/2. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Evaluation of a peer mentoring program for early career gerontological nursing faculty and its potential for application to other fields in nursing and health sciences
Creators: name: Siegel, Elena O.
name: Bond, Stewart M.
name: Bailey, Donald E.
name: Brody, Abraham A.
name: Edelman, Linda
name: Bryant, Ashley Leak
name: Foster, Victoria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: As the retirement rate of senior nursing faculty increases, the need to implement new models for providing mentorship to early career academics will become key to developing and maintaining an experienced faculty.
title: Weinen im Coaching – oder: Gehört der Taschentuchspender in jede Coachingpraxis?
Creators: name: Gutjahr, Fabienne
name: Möller, Heidi
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Weinen
subject: Coaching
subject: Emotionsausdruck
subject: Trauer
subject: crying
subject: coaching
subject: emotional expression
subject: grief
subject: 300
subject: Weinen
subject: Coaching
subject: Gefühlsausdruck
subject: Trauerarbeit

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Application of largest Lyapunov exponent analysis on the studies of dynamics under external forces
Creators: name: Odavic, Jovan
name: Mali, Petar
name: Tekic, Jasmina
name: Pantic, Milan
name: Hrvojevic, Milica Pavkov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamics of driven dissipative Frenkel-Kontorova model is examined by using largest Lyapunov exponent computational technique. Obtained results show that besides the usual way where behavior of the system in the presence of external forces is studied by analyzing its dynamical response function, the largest Lyapunov exponent analysis can represent a very convenient tool to examine system dynamics. In the dc driven systems, the critical depinning force for particular structure could be estimated by computing the largest Lyapunov exponent. In the dc+ac driven systems, if the substrate potential is the standard sinusoidal one, calculation of the largest Lyapunov exponent offers a more sensitive way to detect the presence of Shapiro steps. When the amplitude of the ac force is varied the behavior of the largest Lyapunov exponent in the pinned regime completely reflects the behavior of Shapiro steps and the critical depinning force, in particular, it represents the mirror image of the amplitude dependence of critical depinning force. This points out an advantage of this technique since by calculating the largest Lyapunov exponent in the pinned regime we can get an insight into the dynamics of the system when driving forces are applied.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Macrothelypteris torresiana Ching, Acta Phytotax. Sin.
Creators: name: Smith, Alan R.
name: Kessler, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Thelypteridaceae
Macrothelypteris
Macrothelypteris torresiana

description: Macrothelypteris torresiana (Gaudich.) Ching, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8: 310. 1963.
 Range: —Southeastern USA; Antilles; Mexico to Bolivia (BE, CH, CO, LP, SC, TA), northern Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil; tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia; Pacific Islands; first collected in Bolivia in 1980.
 Ecology:— Common, widely naturalized; terrestrial along forest edges, roadsides, and stream margins, somewhat weedy; to 1700(–2200) m.
 Notes:— Superficially, this is most similar to unrelated genera such as Ctenitis, Megalastrum, and Lastreopsis (Dryopteridaceae), from which it differs by having hyaline, acicular hairs abaxially on the blades, two vascular bundles in the petioles, and axes rounded or flattened adaxially (costae and rachises lacking grooves).
description: Published as part of Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXX. Thelypteridaceae, pp. 1-34 in Phytotaxa 331 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13722062
Factors Associated With Unplanned Hospitalizations Among Patients With Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancers Intended for Treatment in the Ambulatory Setting
Creators: name: Fessele, Kristen L.
name: Hayat, Matthew J.
name: Mayer, Deborah K.
name: Atkins, Robert L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Chemotherapy administration and supportive management for solid tumors is intended to take place in the ambulatory setting, but little is known about why some patients experience treatment-related, adverse events so severe as to require acute inpatient care.
Mean pt scaling with m/nq at the LHC: Absence of (hydro) flow in small systems?
Creators: name: Ortiz, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, a study of the average transverse momentum (pt) as a function of the mid-rapidity charged hadron multiplicity (Nch) and hadron mass (m) in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies is presented. For the events producing low Nch, the average pt is found to scale with the reduced hadron mass, i.e., mass divided by the number of quark constituents (m/nq), this scaling also holds for inelastic pp collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The scaling is broken in high multiplicity p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions, where, for < 60 the average pt is higher for baryons than that for mesons, though they increase linearly with m/nq. This behavior is qualitatively well reproduced by Pythia 8, but not by hydro calculations, where an universal scaling with the hadron mass (and not with m/nq) is predicted for all the multiplicity event classes. Only the central (0-60%) Pb-Pb collisions behave as expected from hydro.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes were implemented in the text
Who Owns America's Land: Problems in Preserving the Rural Landscape
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Gene
name: Wunderlich, Gene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts: The efforts of the 92nd and 93rd Congresses to produce land use legislation heightened the national awareness of resource policy and problems. The bills, testimony and publicity changed our latent concerns about land use into a national issue. The esthetic appeal of a national design for our landscape, however, should not cloud the discomforting problems of pluralistic decision making. The success of land policy will depend to a large extent on the combined decisions of many landowners. Although various instruments of Federal policy may influence decisions, and State and local governments may regulate land uses and tax returns, private motives will remain the ultimate arbiter. The impacts of land use programs, and natural resource policy generally, depend upon independent ownership. Before we devote too much attention to land use, then, we need to understand how ownership distributes benefits and burdens and influences decisions. Land ownership may affect the outcome not only of land policy but also of other policies for income and wealth taxation, welfare, and public investment. Let us, therefore, examine what we know and, more important, what we do not know, about land ownership in America.
description: Reprint of address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dec. 27, 1972. Revised March, 1974.
Modeling the Effect of Replacing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption with Water on Energy Intake, HBI Score, and Obesity Prevalence
Creators: name: Duffey, Kiyah J.
name: Poti, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) contribute to excessive weight gain through added energy intake. Replacing SSB with water is one strategy that has shown promise in helping lower excessive energy intake. Using nationally representative data from US adults (n = 19,718) from NHANES 2007–2012 we examine the impact of replacing SSB with water on Healthy Beverage Index (HBI) scores and obesity prevalence. Replacing an 8-ounce serving of SSB with water lowered the percent of energy from beverages from 17% to 11% (among those consuming 1 serving SSB/day). Reductions in the percent energy from beverages were observed across all SSB consumption groups (1–2 servings/day and >2 servings/day). Among adults there was a 9% to 21% improvement in HBI score when one serving of water replaced one serving of SSB. Using previously published randomized controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses of measured weight loss we also predicted a reduction in the prevalence of obesity (observed: 35.2%; predicted 33.5%–34.9%, p < 0.05) and increase in the prevalence of normal weight (observed: 29.7%; high weight loss: 31.3%, p < 0.05). Our findings provide further epidemiologic evidence that water in the place of SSB can be used as a strategy to limit energy intake and help individuals meet beverage intake recommendations.
General uncrossing covering paths inside the axis-aligned bounding box
Creators: name: Ripà, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C17 (Primary) 05C12, 68R10 (Secondary)

description: Given the finite set of $n_1 \cdot n_2 \cdot \ldots \cdot n_k$ points $G_{n_1,n_2,\ldots,n_k} \subset \mathbb{R}^k$ such that $n_k \geq \cdots \geq n_2 \geq n_1 \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, we introduce a new algorithm, called M$Λ$I, which returns an uncrossing covering path inside the minimum axis-aligned bounding box $[0,n_1-1] \times [0,n_2-1] \times \cdots \times [0,n_k-1]$, consisting of $3 \cdot \prod_{i=1}^{k-1} n_i-2$ links of prescribed length $n_k-1$ units. Thus, for any $n_k \geq 3$, the link length of the covering path provided by our M$Λ$I-algorithm is smaller than the cardinality of the set $G_{n_1,n_2,\ldots,n_k}$. Furthermore, assuming $k>2$, we present an uncrossing covering path for $G_{3,3,\ldots,3}$, consisting of $20 \cdot 3^{k-3}-2$ straight-line edges that are $2$ units long each, which is constrained by the axis-aligned bounding box $\left[0,4-\sqrt{3}\right] \times \left[0,4-\sqrt{3}\right] \times [0, 2]^{k-2}$.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Adults and Children in Low-Income Households that Participate in Cost-Offset Community Supported Agriculture Have High Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Creators: name: Morgan, Emily H.
name: Seguin, Rebecca A.
name: Hanson, Karla L.
name: Ammerman, Alice S.
name: Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B.
name: Wang, Weiwei
name: Sitaker, Marilyn
name: Kolodinsky, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This paper examines fruit and vegetable intake (FVI) in low-income households that participated in a cost-offset (CO), or 50% subsidized, community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. CSA customers paid farms upfront for a share of the harvest, and received produce weekly throughout the growing season. A cohort of adults and children 2–12 y in a summer CO-CSA were surveyed online twice: August 2015 (n = 41) and February 2016 (n = 23). FVI was measured by the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Fruit and Vegetable Screener (FVS) and an inventory of locally grown fruits and vegetables. FVI relative to United States (US) recommendations and averages, and across seasons, were tested with non-parametric tests and paired t-tests (p < 0.05). Both adults and children in the CO-CSA had higher FVI than the US averages, and more often met recommendations for vegetables. Some summer fruits and vegetables were more often eaten when locally in-season. The CO-CSA model warrants further examination as an avenue for improving vegetable consumption among adults and children in low-income households. However, causality between CO-CSA participation and FVI cannot be inferred, as CO-CSA participants may be positive deviants with respect to FVI. A multi-state randomized controlled trial is currently underway to evaluate impacts of CO-CSAs on FVI and related outcomes.
The flux-weighted gravity-luminosity relationship of blue supergiant stars as a constraint for stellar evolution
Creators: name: Meynet, Georges
name: Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter
name: Georgy, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) The flux-weighted gravity-luminosity relationship (FGLR) of blue supergiant stars (BSG) links their absolute magnitude to the spectroscopically determined flux-weighted gravity log g = Teff^4. BSG are the brightest stars in the universe at visual light and the application of the FGLR has become a powerful tool to determine extragalactic distances. Observationally, the FGLR is a tight relationship with only small scatter. It is, therefore, ideal to be used as a constraint for stellar evolution models. The goal of this work is to investigate whether stellar evolution can reproduce the observed FGLR and to develop an improved foundation of the FGLR as an extragalactic distance indicator. We use different grids of stellar models for initial masses between 9 and 40 Msun, for metallicities between Z = 0.002 and 0.014, with and without rotation, computed with various mass loss rates during the red supergiant phase. For each of these models we discuss the details of post-main sequence evolution and construct theoretical FGLRs by means of population synthesis models which we then compare with the observed FGLR. In general, the stellar evolution model FGLRs agree reasonably well with the observed one. There are, however, differences between the models, in particular with regard to the shape and width (scatter) in the flux-weighted gravity-luminosity plane. The best agreement is obtained with models which include the effects of rotation and assume that the large majority, if not all the observed BSG evolve towards the red supergiant phase and only a few are evolving back from this stage. The effects of metallicity on the shape and scatter of the FGLR are small. (...)
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
An Evaluation of the Healthiness of the Indian Packaged Food and Beverage Supply
Creators: name: Neal, Bruce
name: Dunford, Elizabeth
name: Jones, Alexandra
name: Thout, Sudhir Raj
name: Rayner, Mike
name: Crossley, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Availability of less-healthy packaged food and beverage products has been implicated as an important driver of obesity and diet-related disease. An increasing number of packaged foods and beverages are sold in India. Our objective was to evaluate the healthiness of packaged foods sold by India’s largest manufacturers. Healthiness was assessed using the Australian Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the World Health Organization’s European Regional Office (WHO Euro) Nutrient Profile Model. Sales-value-weighted mean healthiness and the proportions of “healthy” products (using a validated HSR cut-off of ≥3.5, and products meeting WHO Euro criteria as healthy enough to market to children) were calculated overall, by company and by food category. Nutrient information for 943 products sold by the 11 largest Indian manufacturers was obtained from nutrient labels, company websites or directly from the manufacturer. Healthiness was low overall (mean HSR 1.8 out of 5.0 stars) with a low proportion defined as “healthy” by both HSR (17%) and also by WHO Euro criteria (8%). There were marked differences in the healthiness of similar products within food categories. Substantial variation between companies (minimum sales-value-weighted mean HSR 0.5 for Company G, versus maximum HSR 3.0 for Company F) was a result of differences in the types of products sold and the nutritional composition of individual products. There are clear opportunities for India’s largest food companies to improve both the nutritional quality of individual products and to improve their product mix to include a greater proportion of healthy products.
AuScope Magnetotellurics (MT) Collection - FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP)
Creators: name: NCI Australia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: FAIR Implementation Profile
subject: open data
subject: data interoperability
subject: FAIR data
subject: machine-readable
subject: metadata
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/461008
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/4605
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/3706

description: This FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) describes the AuScope Magnetotellurics (MT) Collection published by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). It outlines the FAIR implementation choices implemented for each of the FAIR Principles. The FIP was prepared via the FIP Wizard and is available in different human-readable and machine-actionable formats (e.g. CSV, JSON, PDF).
description: The Geophysics 2030 project received co-investment from AuScope and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to support the data curation at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) (https://doi.org/10.47486/XN002). AuScope, the ARDC and NCI Australia are enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
The Role of Penetrating Gas Streams in Setting the Dynamical State of Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Zinger, E.
name: Dekel, A.
name: Birnboim, Y.
name: Kravtsov, A.
name: Nagai, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We utilize cosmological simulations of 16 galaxy clusters at redshifts \zeq{0} and \zeq{0.6} to study the effect of inflowing streams on the properties of the X-ray emitting intracluster medium. We find that the mass accretion occurs predominantly along streams that originate from the cosmic web and consist of heated gas. Clusters that are unrelaxed in terms of their X-ray morphology are characterized by higher mass inflow rates and deeper penetration of the streams, typically into the inner third of the virial radius. The penetrating streams generate elevated random motions, bulk flows and cold fronts. The degree of penetration of the streams may change over time such that clusters can switch from being unrelaxed to relaxed over a time-scale of several giga years.
description: Published in MNRAS
Impact of the Inclination of Genesis on the VLBI Terrestrial Reference Frame
Creators: name: Wolf, Helene
name: Kern, Lisa
name: Steinmetz, Sofie
name: Böhm, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Genesis mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been approved and is scheduled for launch in 2028. The satellite will serve as a dynamic space observatory, being equipped with the instruments of all four space-geodetic techniques referenced to each other with high precision. A unique feature of Genesis is a dedicated Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) transmitter, which allows the connection of geodetic VLBI stations to the instruments of the satellite techniques. One of the main objectives of the Genesis mission is the improvement of the Terrestrial Reference Frame (TRF), in terms of accuracy and stability. The satellite is currently planned to operate in a polar orbit with an inclination of 97° and an altitude of 6000 km. However, there are discussions about reducing the inclination of Genesis to 60°. This raises the question of which inclination would be more suitable, considering factors such as observational coverage and the accuracy of the TRF determination.

This simulation study investigates the determination of a TRF based on VLBI observations to Genesis only for two different theoretical satellite orbits of Genesis, with inclination angles of 97° and 60°. To this end, a Genesis TRF is derived using 24-hour VLBI sessions on a weekly basis, encompassing observations to Genesis and quasars, scheduled over a two-year period. These investigations are conducted for a network comprising currently operational VGOS stations and an extended version of this network incorporating potential future VGOS stations.

In this setup, the station coordinates are estimated solely from Genesis observations, allowing for the determination of these coordinates within the Genesis frame. This approach enables the comparison between the station coordinates in the dynamic Genesis frame and in the kinematic quasar frame, thereby providing information on a frame tie between these frames on a per-station basis.
Automatic Foot Spa Controller
Creators: name: Altar, Marian Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Automatic, Foot Spa Machine Controller, Photocell

description: Beauty salon industry offers new trends and opportunities to share the concepts of technology integration to foot spaas a process in the field of Nail Care Services which leads to the idea of designing and fabricating a machine features that brings significant benefits to the end user and the service provider. This research aims to design, construct and evaluate the acceptability level of the automatic foot spa machine controller in terms of functionality, durability, safety and ease to operate. The uniqueness of this study is the use of photocell as the sensor that automatically turns on the water inlet valve connected to the contactor that makes the timer works as well as the machine functions and drain system. The Research and Development (R& D) method were used in constructing and fabricating as well as descriptive method for data analysis and interpretation. The machine was evaluated by experts composed of five (5) teachers, ten (10) Nail Care students from Camarines Sur National High School and ten (10) practitioners. The researcher used weighted mean as statistical treatment. The device level of acceptability in terms of functionality obtained an average weighted mean of 4.9 (highly acceptable); along its durability an average weighted mean of 4.7 (highly acceptable); along safety an average weighted mean of 4.7 (highly acceptable); and ease of usage got an average weighted mean of 4.6 (highly acceptable). The general average weighted mean of the Automatic Foot Spa Machine Controller was 4.7 with verbal interpretation of highly acceptable. Results implies that the device was very convenient, unique, highly acceptable and recommended to be use in rendering foot spa service because it makes the process easier, safer and faster that brings out the importance of work simplification.
Early Identification of Violent Criminal Gang Members
Creators: name: Shaabani, Elham
name: Aleali, Ashkan
name: Shakarian, Paulo
name: Bertetto, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.4

description: Gang violence is a major problem in the United States accounting for a large fraction of homicides and other violent crime. In this paper, we study the problem of early identification of violent gang members. Our approach relies on modified centrality measures that take into account additional data of the individuals in the social network of co-arrestees which together with other arrest metadata provide a rich set of features for a classification algorithm. We show our approach obtains high precision and recall (0.89 and 0.78 respectively) in the case where the entire network is known and out-performs current approaches used by law-enforcement to the problem in the case where the network is discovered overtime by virtue of new arrests - mimicking real-world law-enforcement operations. Operational issues are also discussed as we are preparing to leverage this method in an operational environment.
description: SIGKDD 2015
Choline, Other Methyl-Donors and Epigenetics
Creators: name: Zeisel, Steven H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Choline dietary intake varies such that many people do not achieve adequate intakes. Diet intake of choline can modulate methylation because, via betaine homocysteine methyltransferase (BHMT), this nutrient (and its metabolite, betaine) regulate the concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine and S-adenosylmethionine. Some of the epigenetic mechanisms that modify gene expression without modifying the genetic code depend on the methylation of DNA or of histones; and diet availability of choline and other methyl-group donors influences both of these methylations. Examples of methyl-donor mediated epigenetic effects include the changes in coat color and body weight in offspring when pregnant agouti mice are fed high choline, high methyl diets; the changes in tail kinking in offspring when pregnant Axin(Fu) mice are fed high choline, high methyl diets; the changes in Cdkn3 methylation and altered brain development that occurs in offspring when pregnant rodents are fed low choline diets. When choline metabolism is disrupted by deleting the gene Bhmt, DNA methylation is affected (especially in a region of chromosome 13), expression of specific genes is suppressed, and liver cancers develop. Better understanding of how nutrients such as choline and methyl-donors influence epigenetic programs has importance for our understanding of not only developmental abnormalities but also for understanding the origins of chronic diseases.
The internal rotation profile of the B-type star KIC10526294 from frequency inversion of its dipole gravity modes and statistical model comparison
Creators: name: Triana, Santiago A.
name: Moravveji, Ehsan
name: Pápics, Péter
name: Aerts, Conny
name: Kawaler, Steven D.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The internal angular momentum distribution of a star is key to determine its evolution. Fortunately, the stellar internal rotation can be probed through studies of rotationally-split non-radial oscillation modes. In particular, detection of non-radial gravity modes (g modes) in massive young stars has become feasible recently thanks to the Kepler space mission. Our aim is to derive the internal rotation profile of the Kepler B8V star KIC 10526294 through asteroseismology. We interpret the observed rotational splittings of its dipole g modes using four different approaches based on the best seismic models of the star and their rotational kernels. We show that these kernels can resolve differential rotation the radiative envelope if a smooth rotational profile is assumed and the observational errors are small. Based on Kepler data, we find that the rotation rate near the core-envelope boundary is well constrained to $163\pm89$ nHz. The seismic data are consistent with rigid rotation but a profile with counter-rotation within the envelope has a statistical advantage over constant rotation. Our study should be repeated for other massive stars with a variety of stellar parameters in order to deduce the physical conditions that determine the internal rotation profile of young massive stars, with the aim to improve the input physics of their models.
description: 52 pages, 32 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Dietary Choline and Betaine and Risk of CVD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies
Creators: name: Shea, Jonathan W.
name: Meyer, Katie A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Studies implicate choline and betaine metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) in cardiovascular disease (CVD). We conducted a systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis to quantify a summary estimated effect of dietary choline and betaine on hard CVD outcomes (incidence and mortality). Eligible studies were prospective studies in adults with comprehensive diet assessment and follow-up for hard CVD endpoints. We identified six studies that met our criteria, comprising 18,076 incident CVD events, 5343 CVD deaths, and 184,010 total participants. In random effects meta-analysis, incident CVD was not associated with choline (relative risk (RR): 1.00; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.02) or betaine (RR: 0.99; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.01) intake. Results did not vary by study outcome (incident coronary heart disease, stroke, total CVD) and there was no evidence for heterogeneity among studies. Only two studies provided data on phosphatidylcholine and CVD mortality. Random effects meta-analysis did not support an association between choline and CVD mortality (RR: 1.09, 95% CI: 0.89, 1.35), but one study supported a positive association and there was significant heterogeneity (I2 = 84%, p-value < 0.001). Our findings do not support an association between dietary choline/betaine with incident CVD, but call for further research into choline and CVD mortality.
title: Are liberal objections to consumption corridors justified? On the relation of freedom and limits in green liberal thought
Creators: name: Gumbert, Tobias
name: Bohn, Carolin
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 320 Political science (Politics and government)

description: The concept of consumption corridors proposes minimum and maximum limits to consumption on the normative premises of justice, human wellbeing, and guarantees of a good life for all. A central objection to the idea is that limits on resource use would interfere broadly with liberal freedoms, and consumption corridors would thus not be compatible with a liberal democratic setting. This claim rests on the assumption that protecting liberal freedom rights and enforcing limits constitute opposing forces. Here, liberal freedom is equated with the expansion of (unlimited) options of choice: the more options people have, and the fewer limits that are imposed on them, the greater the overall level of freedom. Therefore, discussions of limits are often reduced to negative restrictions and undemocratic demands. To problematize this rationale, we argue that in most liberal accounts, freedom and limits are mutually supportive of each other, and that the understanding of freedom as "the absence of limits" is in fact a particular understanding that has become dominant. Against this backdrop, we develop the notion of "green liberal freedom" that posits limits as a core concern of liberal understandings of freedom. We suggest that the recognition of the environment as "provider of basic needs," democratic deliberation, and capability to reflect upon and judge conflicting values in light of individual and collective versions of the good life are important "building blocks" of an adjusted concept of freedom that is at once compatible with liberal thought and in support of the negotiation and implementation of consumption corridors
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Jonkershoek Langrivier 700 fog station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Jonkershoek
Meteorological
Automatic Weather Station
Rainfall
fog
air temperature
relative humidity
wind speed
wind direction

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Jonkershoek's Langrivier 700 fog station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
title: THREE ESSAYS ON THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FIRM OUTCOMES
Creators: name: Pan, Xiao
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: This thesis builds upon three separate papers that focus on how socially responsible behavior, mainly corporate social responsibility (CSR), affects firm-level strategies and outcomes. I first investigate how a firm’s corporate philanthropy (CP)–corporate financial performance (CFP) relationship changes as firms move through their life-cycle stages. Drawing from dynamic capability-life-cycle perspective, I find that the CP–CFP relationship is not monotonically linear throughout the firm’s life cycle, but changes from negative to positive from development to mature life-cycle stage. I then investigate the benefits of CSR in helping a firm increase its investment from an integrated information-asymmetry and stakeholder perspective. Different from previous literature that takes internal aspects such as financial capability as its starting point to investigate corporate investment, we argue that the external social-acceptance perspective is also crucial in determining a firm’s investment behavior. We find that the firm’s CSR behavior will help a firm achieve more investment opportunities and, thus, lead to a higher level of corporate investment. Finally, I link the firm’s CSR activities at home with foreign-market location choices. According to the springboard and dynamic learning perspective, we find that EM-MNEs need to accumulate the experience of doing CSR to enter host countries with advanced know-how knowledge. Using Chinese listed companies from Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market, we find strong evidence to support our argument. 该博士论文由三篇研究企业社会责任行为与公司行为的实证文章组成。首先，我研究了企业社会捐赠与企业财务表现在不同生命周期下的关系。基于动态能力的生命周期的观点，我发现企业的社会捐赠和财务绩效的关系并不是线性的，而是随着企业的生命周期演进由负变正。其次，我从整合的利益相关者理论和信息不对称理论出发探究了企业的社会责任行为如何帮助企业改善投资行为。不同于前期的从企业内部财务能力的角度出发研究企业投资行为的文献，我从外部社会利益相关者接受企业的程度的角度研究企业的投资行为。实证结果表明，企业的社会责任行为能够有效帮助企业获得更多的投资机会，进而帮助企业达到更高的投资水平。最后，我将企业的国内社会责任行为与企业的海外市场选择联系起来。基于跳板理论和动态学习观，实证研究发现发展中国家需要积累从事社会责任的经验进而更好地进入拥有现金技术经验的发达海外市场。我们利用来自于中国上海和深圳上市公司的数据提供了稳健的实证经验的证据。
Disparities in Snacking Trends in US Adults over a 35 Year Period from 1977 to 2012
Creators: name: Dunford, Elizabeth K.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background: Previous studies have indicated that snacking is contributing to increased calories in the American diet, and that the contribution of snacks to energy intake has increased in recent decades. Objective: The objective was to examine trends in the energy intake deriving from snacks and food sources of snacks for US adults over 35 years from 1977 to 2012, and whether these trends differ across sociodemographic groups. Methods: Participants included 74,291 US adults aged ≥19 years who participated in the 1977–1978 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey (NFCS); the 1989–1991 Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals (CSFII), the 1994–1996 CSFII, the 1997–1998 CSFII, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003–2004, NHANES 2005–2006, NHANES 2009–2010 and NHANES 2011–2012; all surveys are a stratified random sample of the total civilian, non-institutionalized US population. Overall patterns of snacking, trends in energy intake from snacking, trends in snacking food and beverage sources and energy intake from snacks across racial/ethnic, age, education and income groups were examined. Results: For all US adults there was a significant increase in per capita energy intake from snacks from 1977 to 2012 (p < 0.01). Non-Hispanic blacks had the highest snacking energy intake from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in each year (p < 0.01 for all), with a peak intake in 2003–2006 of 76 kcal per capita per day. Intake of salty snacks increased in all groups between 1977 and 2012, with non-Hispanic blacks having the highest intake in 2009–2012 (p < 0.01). No significant differences were found between income or education groups. Conclusions: Results show that snacking remains a significant component of the US diet and the foods consumed at these snacks (SSBs, desserts and sweets and salty snacks) are not the types of foods recommended by the US dietary guidelines. Our finding that non-Hispanic blacks are consuming a higher proportion of SSBs and salty snacks than other groups, and showing the largest increase in energy intake deriving from snacks overall over the past 35 years, is indeed concerning.
Direct observation of laser guided corona discharges
Creators: name: Wang, Tie-Jun
name: Wei, Yingxia
name: Liu, Yaoxiang
name: Chen, Na
name: Liu, Yonghong
name: Ju, Jingjing
name: Sun, Haiyi
name: Wang, Cheng
name: Lu, Haihe
name: Liu, Jiansheng
name: Chin, See Leang
name: Li, Ruxin
name: Xu, Zhizhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser based lightning control holds a promising way to solve the problem of the long standing disaster of lightning strikes. But it is a challenging project due to insufficient understanding of the interaction between laser plasma channel and high voltage electric filed. In this work, a direct observation of laser guided corona discharge is reported. The high voltage corona discharge can be guided along laser plasma filament, and enhanced through the interaction with laser filaments. The fluorescence lifetime of laser filament guided corona discharge was measured to be several microseconds, which is 3 orders of magnitude longer than the fluorescence lifetime of laser filaments. This could be advantageous towards laser assisted leader development in the atmosphere.
National ASTER Map of Australia - FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP)
Creators: name: NCI Australia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: FAIR Implementation Profile
subject: open data
subject: data interoperability
subject: FAIR data
subject: machine-readable
subject: metadata
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/461008
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/4605
subject: https://linked.data.gov.au/def/anzsrc-for/2020/3706

description: This FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) describes the National ASTER Map of Australia published by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). It outlines the FAIR implementation choices implemented for each of the FAIR Principles. The FIP was prepared via the FIP Wizard and is available in different human-readable and machine-actionable formats (e.g. CSV, JSON, PDF).
description: The Geophysics 2030 project received co-investment from AuScope and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to support the data curation at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) (https://doi.org/10.47486/XN002). AuScope, the ARDC and NCI Australia are enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Magnetically levitated XY-THETA motion stage for X-ray microscopy applications
Creators: name: Fahmy, Abdel
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Precision mechatronics
Magnetic levitation

description: Precision motion systems with micro/nanometers accuracy are used in a wide range of applications such as semiconductor metrology inspection equipment and photo lithography scanners, precision machine tools and microscopes. The demand for precision motion systems that offer higher precision positioning performance and faster motion acceleration in more degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) and can offer a compact design necessitates more sophisticated precision motion systems. In this thesis, we present the modeling, design, prototyping and experimental evaluation for a magnetically levitated positioning stage with a novel electromagnetic design that uses the concept of a bearing-less motor. The developed stage is to be used for microscope applications, the stage can move in 5-DOFs and provide approximately 12mm range of motion in the X-Y-DOFs and full 360 degrees of rotation around the vertical axis, we also present how this stage can be upgraded to provide motion in all 6-DOFs with the integration of a Voice Coil Actuator (VCL). The prototype stage has been successfully levitated and the position control loop experimentally demonstrated a bandwidth of 32 Hz. These results show that the proposed stage is able to meet the needed requirements for precision stages of microscope applications that offer high speed long range scanning and have a compact design. The initial results show promise that with an upgraded sensing system and further tuning of the controller, the proposed stage can offer nanometer positioning accuracy and longer range of motion.