cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating Combined Degree MD-MPH Programs: What we know and how to find out what we do not
Creators: name: Rollins-Raval, Marian, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Although Medicine and Public Health were once one field, they have grown apart over the past century. Due to crisis in health care costs, the market response to that crisis, and the movement to reinvent government, it has become increasingly important for these two health sectors to find a way to collaborate. One of the initiatives to help to bridge the gap between the health sectors includes the option for those completing medical school to also complete a master's in public health, or a combined degree in medicine and public health. The goals of the following investigation are (1) to review what literature is currently available evaluating MD-MPH programs and (2) to propose a research plan for future evaluation of this type of dual degree program. I performed a systematic search ofMEDLINE, the related articles and references this search returned and corresponded with an expert in the field to find articles related to the combined-degree program. Only 6 relevant articles were found. Although it does appear that more MD-MPH graduates go into academics, research and management positions, it is clear from the paucity of articles regarding the MD-MPH dual degree programs that further research needs to be done to evaluate the benefits of this particular type of collaboration between medicine and public health. A discussion of a new survey follows the literature review, including the difficult choices of defining outcome variables and choosing a comparison group.
Empathetic attitude reports
Creators: name: Moltmann, Friederike
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This paper discusses a range of syntactic and semantic properties of what I call ‘empathetic attitude reports’, attitude reports which contain a direct or indirect object in addition to a clausal complement such as I believe you that you will come back and I understand you that you are not in the mood. The paper argues that empathetic attitude reports cannot be analyzed in terms of two-place attitudinal relations but involve an essential interpersonal relation of trust or understanding.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Resolubility of Image-Potential Resonances
Creators: name: Höfer, Ulrich
name: Echenique, Pedro M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of image-potential states is presented for the general case where these surface electronic states are resonant with a bulk continuum. The theory extends the multiple scattering approach of Echenique and Pendry into the strong coupling regime while retaining independence from specific forms of surface and bulk potentials. The theory predicts the existence of a well-resolved series of resonances for arbitrary coupling strengths. Surprisingly, distinct image-potential resonances are thus expected to exist on almost any metal surface, even in the limiting case of jellium.
Revisiting the Dynamical Case for a Massive Black Hole in IC10 X-1
Creators: name: Laycock, Silas G. T.
name: Maccarone, Thomas J.
name: Christodoulou, Dimitris M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relative phasing of the X-ray eclipse ephemeris and optical radial velocity (RV) curve for the X-ray binary IC10 X-1 suggests the He[$λ$4686] emission-line originates in a shadowed sector of the stellar wind that avoids ionization by X-rays from the compact object. The line attains maximum blueshift when the wind is directly toward us at mid X-ray eclipse, as is also seen in Cygnus X-3. If the RV curve is unrelated to stellar motion, evidence for a massive black hole evaporates because the mass function of the binary is unknown. The reported X-ray luminosity, spectrum, slow QPO, and broad eclipses caused by absorption/scattering in the WR wind are all consistent with either a low-stellar-mass BH or a NS. For a NS, the centre of mass lies inside the WR envelope whose motion is then far below the observed 370 km/s RV amplitude, while the velocity of the compact object is as high as 600 km/s. The resulting 0.4\% doppler variation of X-ray spectral lines could be confirmed by missions in development. These arguments also apply to other putative BH binaries whose RV and eclipse curves are not yet phase-connected. Theories of BH formation and predicted rates of gravitational wave sources may need revision.
description: Accepted for Publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands
Creators: name: van Melle, Laura
name: van der Ham, Lia
name: Voskes, Yolande
name: Widdershoven, Guy
name: Scholten, Matthé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional File 1: Interview guide version for service users
German 'zum'-PPs as adjective intensifiers
Creators: name: Ermakova, Maria
name: Lukassek, Julia
name: Nau, Juliane
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we discuss a type of intensifiers that consists of a combination of the preposition zum with nominalised infinitives. We present an exploratory corpus study indicating that besides a small amount of highly lexicalised combinations, all components of the construction exhibit a high degree of flexibility in the material inserted. Based on this observation we argue that this is a productive pattern with some fully idiomatic representatives and propose a compositionally derived meaning constitution. The core meaning components are (i) a comparison of two adjectival properties conceptualised in terms of tropes, (ii) an attitudinal evaluative component and (iii) a modal operator accounting for non-referentiality effects of the internal PP-argument.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Follow Us On Twitter: The Use of Social Networking to Improve Public Health Around The Globe
Creators: name: DeMuro, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BACKGROUND: Social media websites provide great opportunities for health information to be easily and inexpensively disseminated to millions of users. Twitter specifically is the fastest-growing social media site with more than 250 million users. Online communication has proven successful in supporting public health intervention efforts. METHODS:This pilot study applied research through textual analysis of 350 tweets collected using a stratified random sample of seven different global public health organizations' Twitter accounts to examine how international government agencies, non-profit organizations, and non-governmental public health organizations employ their official Twitter accounts to communicate with interested parties from around the globe. The accounts were chosen based on seven geographically representatives health organizations (strata), and from each account, 50 tweets were chosen for textual analysis. Findings of that textual analysis, framed within health literacy and message framing theory, are presented and discussed here. Additionally, policy recommendations are included for a discussion on how Twitter may best be adapted to encourage and promote public health education and advocacy around the world. While this pilot study is not meant to be representative of all public health organizations and their work on twitter findings and recommendations include the following. RESULTS: First and most important, this study validated the fact that social media is quickly developing as a set of tools used by global public health organizations to disseminate mass communication pieces to disparate publics around the globe. Further, global public health organizations have shown difficulty in fully implementing all the functions and features of a site like Twitter to communicate health messages, perhaps instead wishing to be more risk-averse in their communication models online. Nevertheless, while these organizations could do more to interact, engage and develop cutting-edge social media campaigns, it is likely advisable for them to operate tightly within a sphere of strictly-defined guidelines while assessing risk and liability concerns of communicating health messages via social media. CONCLUSIONS: In a landscape as new as social media, many organizations appear to be erring on the side of caution—and closely guarding guidelines related to social media, instead of taking chances to further engage the public through unique and non-traditional messaging campaigns. Twitter itself, being only six years old, must be studied further as a vehicle for broadcasting information regarding global public health issues. Only time, and more research beyond this pilot study, will provide key information about insights regarding Twitter's value in hosting and promoting global public health campaigns and more.
Mandarin bare indefinites
Creators: name: Dong, Xiaoli
name: Le Bruyn, Bert
name: Liu, Jianan
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: The recent literature on bare nouns in articleless languages suggests that they are subject to cross-linguistic variation. In this paper, we add Mandarin bare nouns to the debate. We identify a hitherto unnoticed restriction on their indefinite readings in object position and argue that it is related to the notion of stereotypicality. We develop a formal analysis of stereotypical verb-noun combinations, and show how it allows us – in combination with the independently motivated assumption that Mandarin y? ‘one’ is developing into an indefinite article – to derive the relevant restriction. We conclude that Mandarin bare nouns cannot freely take on indefinite readings and that Mandarin can no longer be considered a run-of-the-mill articleless language.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Two types of inference in evidentials: Efficacy vs. doxastic worlds
Creators: name: Hoe, Semoon
name: Lim, Dongsik
name: Park, Yugyeong
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper we propose that Korean evidential -te- requires the inference from directly perceived evidence, and this inference should be based on efficacy (Copley and Harley, 2015). Then we show that this proposal can explain the apparent variable evidentiality of -te- between direct evidentiality and inferential evidentiality (Chung, 2007; Lee 2013; a.o.) without assuming relative tense (Lee, 2013; Smirnova, 2013; Koev, 2017; a.o.). We also argue that this proposal can easily account for the differences between -te- and other closely related categories such as epistemic modals and predictive futures. In addition to this, given that -te- introduces he speaker’s weak commitment due to its inference, we try to explain this weak commitment in terms of the scoreboard semantics (Farkas and Bruce, 2010; Malamud and Stephenson, 2015; a.o.). We also discuss the implication of our proposal, especially with respect to the typology of evidentials.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Emergent Supersymmetry in the Marginal Deformations of N=4 SYM
Creators: name: Jin, Qingjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the one loop renormalization group flow of the marginal deformations of N=4 SYM theory using the a-function. We found that in the planar limit some non-supersymmetric deformations flow to the supersymmetric infrared fixed points described by the Leigh-Strassler theory. This means supersymmetry emerges as a result of renormalization group flow.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Coherence-driven predictability and referential form: Evidence from English corpus data
Creators: name: Liao, Xixian
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: To refer to a discourse entity, speakers need to choose from a variety of expressions, such as a name Donald Trump or a pronoun he. While evidence has accumulated that more predictable words are more likely to be phonologically reduced, there is a long-standing debate regarding whether more reduced referring expressions (e.g., pronouns) are more frequently produced for more predictable referents. This study contributes to this debate with new evidence in two aspects. 1) Rhetorical relation-driven predictability: while the cases that have been studied in previous psycholinguistic studies have been fairly restricted to some particular verbs types, this study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt of broadening the empirical base with expectation primarily driven by rhetorical relations; 2) Naturally-occurring language in corpus data: instead of using constructed language to elicit production, we make use of natural coreference chains that can be automatically retrieved from corpora developed in the field of Computational Linguistics. We found uniform pronominalization rates across rhetorical relations despite the different next-mention rates, supporting a dissociation between likelihood of next mention and pronoun production.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Effect of Respiratory Viral Panel Testing on Antibiotic Use and Antimicrobial Resistance in Adults: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies.
Creators: name: Woodhouse, Will
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: Antibiotic stewardship efforts often support the use of viral diagnostics to distinguish viral from bacterial in respiratory infections. However, the utility of respiratory viral panels to identify a broad spectrum of viral pathogens and reduce unnecessary antibiotic consumption is unclear. This review systematically examined studies of these molecular diagnostics to evaluate the current evidence for their use in stewardship efforts.Methods: I conducted a search of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and ClincalTrials.gov. Eligible studies included randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies that examined the effect of respiratory viral panels (concurrently examining >3 viral pathogens) for adults on changes in antibiotic prescribing habits, antimicrobial resistance patterns, or economic outcomes.Results: I included eight studies, six randomized controlled trials and two prospective cohort studies. Studies were mostly low to moderate quality. Four studies showed some small changes in antibiotic use, but effects were inconsistent and not sustained. Four studies failed to show any reductions in inappropriate antibiotic utilization at all. No studies reported data on changes in antimicrobial resistance patterns and only two reported cost data.Conclusions: Insufficient evidence exists to recommend respiratory viral panel testing as a tool to reduce unnecessary antibiotic exposure and combat antimicrobial resistance. A large multi-center randomized controlled trial with blinding and concurrent cost and resistance analysis would be required. However, future stewardship research efforts should focus on the decision-making inputs providers use and study diagnostics that more closely match these inputs.
Implementation of a nurse-driven palliative care screening tool to improve early referral rate in the ICU
Creators: name: Bradford, Leah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Purpose of the Project: The primary goal of this quality improvement project was to identify and increase the number of patients who met the criteria for palliative care, and were subsequently referred for a palliative care consultation. There was a secondary goal which was to improve the timeliness of family meetings held by the palliative care team after the use of a nurse-driven palliative care screening tool in the intensive care unit. Methodology: This quality improvement project was developed and implemented in a 15-bed intensive care unit in New Jersey using a nurse-driven palliative care screening tool. A retrospective and prospective analysis was used to evaluate how a palliative care screening tool affected the incidence of palliative care consultations and the timeliness of family meetings pre-and-post intervention. Results: Post-intervention, there was a statistically significant increase in appropriately ordered palliative care consultation referrals with the implementation of the palliative care screening tool (X2 = 23.337, p = 0.000), and the timeframe in which palliative care consultations were referred (X2 = 20.545, p = 0.005). The number of family meetings post-implementation showed a statistically significant difference (X2 = 14.99, p =.001) as well as a significant difference in the timeliness of family meeting occurrence (X2 = 16.80, p =.01).Implications for Practice: The project results exhibited that with appropriately used palliative care screening criteria on all admissions to the ICU, there was an increased number of patients who received a palliative care consultation and enhanced earlier communication with the patient's family by the palliative care team. These findings support a change to current practice and a pronounced need to execute new palliative care screening and referral policies in the ICU. Keywords: palliative care, palliative care consultations, family meetings, ICU, screening tool
Kinetic Density Functional Theory: A microscopic approach to fluid mechanics
Creators: name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
name: Melchionna, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we give a brief summary of some recent theoretical advances in the treatment of inhomogeneous fluids and methods which have applications in the study of dynamical properties of liquids in situations of extreme confinement, such as nanopores, nanodevices, etc. The approach obtained by combining kinetic and density functional methods is microscopic, fully self-consistent and allows to determine both configurational and flow properties of dense fluids. The theory predicts the correct hydrodynamic behavior and provides a practical and numerical tool to determine how the transport properties are modified when the length scales of the confining channels are comparable with the size of the molecules. The applications range from the dynamics of simple fluids under confinement, to that of neutral binary mixtures and electrolytes where the theory in the limit of slow gradients reproduces the known phenomenological equations such as the Planck-Nernst-Poisson and the Smoluchowski equations. The approach here illustrated allows for fast numerical solution of the evolution equations for the one-particle phase-space distributions by means of the weighted density lattice Boltzmann method and is particularly useful when one considers flows in complex geometries.
description: 14 pages
Global Existence and Large Time Asymptotic Behavior of Strong Solutions to the Cauchy Problem of 2D Density-Dependent Magnetohydrodynamic Equations with Vacuum
Creators: name: Lv, Boqiang
name: Xu, Zhonghai
name: Zhong, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional (2D) nonhomogeneous incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with vacuum as far field density. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the 2D Cauchy problem on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^2$, provided that the initial density and the initial magnetic decay not too slow at infinity. In particular, the initial data can be arbitrarily large and the initial density can contain vacuum states and even have compact support. Furthermore, we also obtain the large time decay rates of the gradients of velocity, magnetic and pressure.
description: 20 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1506.03143, arXiv:1506.02156; text overlap with arXiv:1501.05417, arXiv:1310.1673 by other authors
A Review of Screening Accuracy for Geriatric Depression in Primary Care
Creators: name: Watson, Lea C., MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: OBJECTIVE: To determine the accuracy of depression screening instruments for older adults in the primary care setting. METHODS: Systematic review: databases employed were MEDLINE (search dates 1966-2001), and the Cochrane database on depression, anxiety and neurosis. We also searched the second Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, the 1993 AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline on Depression and recent systematic reviews. Hand-checking of bibliographies and extensive peer review were also used to identify potential articles. Our pre-defined search strategy targeted only studies of adults aged 65 or greater in primary care or community settings, including long-term care. Articles were included in this review if they reported original data and tested depression screening instruments against a criterion standard, yielding sensitivity and specificity. MAIN RESULTS: Seventeen articles met criteria and are included in this review, representing nine different screening instruments. The most commonly evaluated were the Geriatric Depression Scale, 30 and 15-item versions, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale, and the Self-Care D. There were minimal differences in the favorable performance of these three instruments, which had sensitivities ranging from 74-100% and specificities ranging from 53-98%. CONCLUSIONS: Accurate and feasible screening instruments are available for detecting late-life depression in primary care. More research is needed to determine the accuracy of depression screening instruments in demented individuals, and in those with subthreshold depressive disorders.
Internal reading and the comparative meaning
Creators: name: Li, Ang
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, I argue that the existing compositional accounts on the internal reading of same/different can’t directly extend to scalar comparatives. I also develop a new theory that explains away this empirical challenge and extends to the many uses of comparatives beyond the internal reading. The implementation crucially requires characterizing sentence meanings as relations between pairs of parallel information states.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Refined dual stable Grothendieck polynomials and generalized Bender-Knuth involutions
Creators: name: Galashin, Pavel
name: Grinberg, Darij
name: Liu, Gaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05

description: The dual stable Grothendieck polynomials are a deformation of the Schur functions, originating in the study of the K-theory of the Grassmannian. We generalize these polynomials by introducing a countable family of additional parameters, and we prove that this generalization still defines symmetric functions. For this fact, we give two self-contained proofs, one of which constructs a family of involutions on the set of reverse plane partitions generalizing the Bender-Knuth involutions on semistandard tableaux, whereas the other classifies the structure of reverse plane partitions with entries 1 and 2.
description: 29 pages. Ancillary files contain an alternative version with different exposition (including some material on the diamond lemma, which is implicit in the main version of the paper). Comments are welcome!
Additional file 1 of CXCR2 expression during melanoma tumorigenesis controls transcriptional programs that facilitate tumor growth
Creators: name: Yang, J.
name: Bergdorf, K.
name: Yan, C.
name: Luo, W.
name: Chen, S. C.
name: Ayers, G.D.
name: Liu, Q.
name: Liu, X.
name: Boothby, M.
name: Weiss, V.L.
name: Groves, S. M.
name: Oleskie, A. N.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Maeda, D. Y.
name: Zebala, J. A.
name: Quaranta, V.
name: Richmond, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Anthracene-bridged diarylamine isomers with identical amine–amine distances: Syntheses, (spectro)electrochemistry and theoretical calculations
Creators: name: Xu, Jingwen
name: Xiao, Wenbo
name: Xia, Yonglin
name: Ye, Lingyun
name: Luo, Yuanyang
name: Ou, Ya-Ping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Two athracene-bridged diarylamine isomers 1 and 2 were constructed and fully characterized. The electrochemical results showed that ΔE of compound 2 was significantly higher than that of 1, which indicated that the mixed-valence compound 2+ had higher thermodynamic stability than 1+. Spectroelectrochemistry reflected that the NIR absorption of 2+ exhibited a significant blue shift compared with reported compound 1+. The calculated electronic coupling constant and spin density distribution indicated that 2+ had larger charge delocalization than 1+ under the identical amine-amine distances. The TDDFT predicted β-HOSO→β-LUSO transition from 2+ which further confirmed the existence of N→N·+ IVCT transition.
Presupposition projection from 'or' vs. 'and' – an experimental comparison
Creators: name: Kalomoiros, Alexandros
name: Schwarz, Florian
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: We present experimental evidence that conjunction and disjunction differ in terms of presupposition projection: Presuppositions project asymmetrically from conjunction; a presupposition in the first conjunct projects regardless of any information in the second conjunct that could be used to satisfy the presupposition. Disjunction on the other hand shows a radically different profile, which points to symmetric behavior: as long as there is one disjunct which carries information that can filter the presupposition, no projection occurs. This result strongly argues against accounts that take all projection to be asymmetrically determined by linear order in a uniform way across connectives.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Semiconducting CdS quantum dots as a guest in a four ring bent-core nematic medium: modified dielectric and elastic properties
Creators: name: Khan, Raj Kumar
name: Mohapatra, Subhadra
name: Ghosh, Sharmistha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The nematic phase of the bent-core family proves to be particularly fascinating due to its distinct properties in comparison to its calamitic counterpart. Here we revealed after the dispersion of semiconducting CdS QD an achiral unsymmetrical (4′-fluoro phenyl azo) phenyl-4-yl 3-[N-(4′-n-hecyloxy two hydroxybenzylidene)amino]-2-methylbenzoate (6-2M-F) a bent-core nematic (BCN) liquid-crystalline medium made of bent-shaped molecules with short cores and low bend angles. These molecules are on the cusp between conventional bent-core molecules and rod-like molecules, with characteristics somewhere in between, resembling hockey sticks. The threshold voltage (Vth), dielectric permittivity (ε‖,ε⊥), and elastic constants (K33,K11) of pure BCN have been considerably influenced by semiconductor nanoparticles. The threshold voltage (Vth) of nano-disperse BCN has decreased with QD doping, and we know that the low operation voltage is one of the key considerations in the development of mobile liquid crystal display technology. Similar to other BCNs with smectic-like clusters previously described, the elastic anisotropy (ΔK= K33−K11) for 6-2M-F is negative; however, the insertion of CdS QDs causes the anisotropy to become very positive (bend elastic constant (K33) > splay elastic constant (K11)). While the parallel component of permittivity (ε‖) has declined with doping, the perpendicular component of permittivity (ε⊥) has increased, leading to a considerable reduction in dielectric anisotropy (Δε=ε‖−ε⊥) in the nanocomposite, which implies the effect on nematic ordering due to the interaction between CdS QDs and the LC molecules.
Gallup Poll # 1942-0265: War Effort/Taxes/1944 Presidential Election
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Business and industry (2); labor unions (2); farmers (2); president should/should not name a military leader to direct both army and navy (1); taxes (6); coming congressional elections (3); what does respondent think of certain men as presidential material for 1944 (11); CCC should/should not be done away with until the end of the war (1); National Youth Administration should/should not be done away with until the end of the war (1); farm benefits should/should not be done away with until the end of the war (1); India (3); how many hours per week should workers in war industries work before time and one-half pay for overtime starts (1); any relative in armed forces (2); 1940 presidential election (2).
Gallup Poll # 268
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Doing all to win war (2); Interested in coming election (3); Higher prices (2); Political party better to run state (1); Willkie vs. Dewey (1); War effort faster if Republicans had more power (1); Chief cash crop (3); Dairy farmers in Union (1); German people/government enemy (1); How long war will last (1); Hitler peace offer (1); governments conduct on war (2); Roosevelt's Domestic policies (1); Vote for congress (1); English get us to do most of fighting (1); Own car or truck (1); Ration card (1); Get along with gas ration (1); Give up driving (2); Rationing (4); Congressmen unlimited gas ration (1); Vote in 1940 (2).
Electric double layer of spherical pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes in an electrolyte solution: a strong stretching theory accounting for excluded volume interaction and mass action law
Creators: name: Sin, Jun-Sik
name: Choe, Il-Chon
name: Im, Chol-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the electrostatics of pH-responsive polyelectrolyte-grafted spherical particles by using a strong stretching theory that takes into account the excluded volume interaction and the density of chargeable sites on the polyelectrolyte molecules. Based on the free energy formalism, we obtain self-consistent field equations for determining the structure and electrostatics of spherical polyelectrolyte brushes. First, we find that the smaller the radius of the inner core, the longer the height of the polyelectrolyte brush. Then, we also prove that an increase in excluded volume interaction yields an swelling of the polyelectrolyte brush height. In addition, we demonstrate how the effect of pH, bulk ionic concentration, and lateral separation between adjacent polyelectrolyte chains on the electrostatic properties of a spherical polyelectrolyte brush is affected by the radius of inner core, the excluded volume interaction and the chargeable site density.
Temperature-driven and electrochemical-potential-driven adiabatic pumping via a quantum dot
Creators: name: Hasegawa, M.
name: Kato, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate adiabatic pumping via a single level quantum dot induced by periodic modulation of thermodynamic variables of reservoirs, i.e., temperatures and electrochemical potentials. We consider the impurity Anderson model and derive analytical formulas for coherent adiabatic charge pumping applicable to the strong dot-reservoir coupling within first-order perturbation with respect to Coulomb interaction. We show that charge pumping is induced by rectification effect due to delayed response of the quantum dot to time-dependent reservoir parameters. The presence of interaction is necessary because this delayed response rectifies charge current via Coulomb interaction. For temperature-driven charge pumping, one-way pumping is realized regardless of reservoir temperatures when an energy level of the quantum dot locates near the Fermi level. We clarify that this new feature of adiabatic pumping is caused by level broadening effect of the quantum dot due to strong dot-reservoir coupling.
description: 14 pages with 7 eps figures. This article is being submitted to JPSJ
Synthesis, crystal structure, density functional theory and vibration analysis of 5-(4-fluorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-amine
Creators: name: Wen, Kunqing
name: Dai, Hongyu
name: Mao, Yunhong
name: Zhou, Zhixu
name: Huang, Zhuyan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Virology

description: A pyrazole ring derivative 5-(4-fluorophenyl)-1H pyrazole-3-amine was synthesized. The title compound was characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, MS, FT-IR, and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The optimized molecular crystal structure was determined by B3LYP/6-311 + G(2d, p) functional method and based on density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Hirshfeld surface analysis illustrates the study of non-covalent interactions in the title compound. The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) and major molecular orbitals (FMOs) of the title compounds were analyzed by computational method. Finally, infrared vibration analysis was performed on the target compound.
Gallup Poll # 1942-0271: National Identity Card/World War II/Media
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Everyone in United States should/should not be required to carry an identification card (1); would like to see England and United States attempt a large-scale attack on Germany in near future/wait until they are stronger (1); president as commander-in-chief should/should not name a military leader to direct both the army and navy (1); what would do with Germany after she has been defeated if respondent was the one to decide (1); what should we and our allies do to prevent future wars (1); how does respondent account for British defeats in North Africa (1); respondent does/does not read a daily newspaper regularly (1); respondent does/does not have a radio (1); respondent does/does not listen regularly to news broadcasts (1); prefer to get news over the radio/in the daily newspaper (1); usually learn about an important event first from radio/newspaper (1); do/do not usually try to get more details from newspapers when hear news broadcasts over radio (1); names of news services or press organizations that gather news (1); more likely to believe radio/newspaper when the facts don't agree (1); Roosevelt and Churchill/military and naval leaders of United Nations should have final decision on military and naval plans of the war (1); think it would be a good/bad idea for Canada and U.S. to join together and form one large country (2); smallest amount of money per week a family of four must have to live decently (2); think British are/are not doing all they possibly can to win the war (1); think United States is/is not doing all it possibly can to win the war (1); people in respondent's home with colds at present time (3); nearest place where respondent can vote (2); coming congressional elections (2); Franklin D. Roosevelt job performance (1); 1940 presidential election (2); Free French (5); would/would not personally like to go to Europe and kill some German soldiers (1); speaking foreign languages (2).
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Congress/Mideast/2004 Presidential Election/Taxes
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Congressional Election (4); George W. Bush job performance (3); Political party job performance (2); US economic conditions (2); Political party and congressional control (2); Abortion laws (1); War on Terrorism (4); Middle East (22); Presidential election (4); Income taxes (7).
Nonspecific promises: Restitutive 'again' and intensional transfer-of-possession verbs
Creators: name: Johnston, William
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper I describe a novel pattern of infelicity, in which the restitutive reading of the adverbs again and back is infelicitous when combined with intensional ‘transfer-of- possesion’ verbs (e.g. promise, offer) that take nonspecific objects. I offer one possible analysis of this phenomenon under the so-called “‘re’-domain” framework of Zwarts (2019), a lexical analysis of the again ambiguity that describes the restitutive presupposition with reference to a semantic path. This predicts a key role for the theme of the modified event, leading to presupposition failure in cases where no unique theme can be identified.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Henssenia radiata Ertz 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Ertz, Damien
name: Poulsen, Roar S.
name: Charrier, Maryvonne
name: Søchting, Ulrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Peltigerales
Koerberiaceae
Henssenia
Henssenia radiata

description: Henssenia radiata (P. James & Henssen) Ertz comb. nov.
MycoBank: MB 822689
 Basionym: Steinera radiata P. James & Henssen, in Henssen & James, Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History, Botany series 10: 252 (1982). Type:— NEW ZEALAND. South Island, Fiordland Botanical District, Mount Barber, boulders in a brook in the subalpine scrub belt above Deep Cove, 3 March 1927, G. Einar & Greta Du Rietz 2063: 1 (holotype BM!, isotypes CHR, MB, UPS (Du Rietz), not seen).
 Notes: This species is a typical member of the new genus Henssenia justifying a new combination into that genus.
description: Published as part of Ertz, Damien, Poulsen, Roar S., Charrier, Maryvonne & Søchting, Ulrik, 2017, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Steinera (Arctomiales, Arctomiaceae) in the subantarctic islands of Crozet and Kerguelen, pp. 201-238 in Phytotaxa 324 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.324.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698300
Is Mental Health Screening Necessary as Part of the Comprehensive Health Screening for Refugees Resettled in Maryland?
Creators: name: Anude, Ndidi Nwamaka
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Refugees are vulnerable populations who have been forced to leave their homes and countries of origin as a result of persecutions, wars, political and civil unrest, etc. and are unable to return back. A significant number of the refugees resettled in the United States are resettled in the state of Maryland. The Federal Refugee Act of 1980 entitles refugees being resettled in the U.S to be screened systematically. This screening, though not mandatory, is intended to ensure that the unique health needs of refugees which may impede successful resettlement are addressed, while protecting public health. In Maryland the refugee health screening provided is geared towards reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Mental health screening is not part of this initial health screening. This paper looks at the policy issues around refugee health screening provided in Maryland. It focuses on the justification for mental health screening to be included as part of the comprehensive screening provided for refugees in Maryland outlining the mental health needs of refugees being resettled. Refugees have been shown to have psychological needs as a result of experiences undergone prior to, during flight and after resettlement. Post traumatic stress disorders, depression, and somatic illness are the mental illness commonly reported in refugees. These psychological problems can affect individual functioning and thus impede their ability to achieve the resettlement goal of financial self-sufficiency in good time. The benefits of knowing the mental health needs new refugees may have supports including mental health screening as part of the initial general health screenings provided for newly arrived refugees in Maryland. This will provide the refugee health program the opportunity to link individuals in need of psychological intervention to facilities where they can receive appropriate care early in resettlement.
Certain Integrals Arising from Ramanujan's Notebooks
Creators: name: Berndt, Bruce C.
name: Straub, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In his third notebook, Ramanujan claims that $$ \int_0^\infty \frac{\cos(nx)}{x^2+1} \log x \,\mathrm{d} x + \fracπ{2} \int_0^\infty \frac{\sin(nx)}{x^2+1} \mathrm{d} x = 0. $$ In a following cryptic line, which only became visible in a recent reproduction of Ramanujan's notebooks, Ramanujan indicates that a similar relation exists if $\log x$ were replaced by $\log^2x$ in the first integral and $\log x$ were inserted in the integrand of the second integral. One of the goals of the present paper is to prove this claim by contour integration. We further establish general theorems similarly relating large classes of infinite integrals and illustrate these by several examples.
Synthesis, crystal structure and DFT study of tert-butyl 5-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)indoline-1-carboxylate
Creators: name: Ma, Li-Xue
name: Shi, Yuan
name: Li, Jin-Lan
name: Zhou, Zhi-Xu
name: Huang, Zhu-Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Tert-butyl 5-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)indoline-1-carboxylate has three groups: indoline, boronate and tert-butylcarbonyl, which is an important pharmaceutical intermediate. The target compound is obtained from 5-bromoindole as raw material. The compound was confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, MS and FT-IR. DFT is used to computationally optimize the structure of compounds. The crystallographic analysis of its structure was carried out by X-ray single crystal diffraction. The results show that the DFT-optimized structure matches the crystal structure determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction. The molecular electrostatic potential and frontier molecular orbital of the compound were studied by DFT, revealing physicochemical properties of the compound.
Velocity Stabilization of a Wave Equation with a Nonlinear Dynamic Boundary Condition
Creators: name: Vanspranghe, Nicolas
name: Ferrante, Francesco
name: Prieur, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation with a nonlinear dynamic boundary condition and a Neumann-type boundary control acting on the other extremity. We consider a class of nonlinear stabilizing feedbacks that only depend on the velocity at the controlled extremity. The uncontrolled boundary is subject to a nonlinear first-order term, which may represent nonlinear boundary anti-damping. Initial data is taken in the optimal energy space associated with the problem. Exponential decay of the mechanical energy is investigated in different cases. Stability and attractivity of suitable invariant sets are established.
description: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, In press
The discourse function of adversative conjunction
Creators: name: Ippolito, Michela
name: Kiss, Angelika
name: Williams, Will
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This paper examines some discourse uses of adversative conjunctions ma in Italian and but in English: the discourse uses we analyze are occurrences of ma/but with only one clause, which can be a declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamative sentence. We limit our discussion to occurrences of ma/but with declaratives and interrogatives, and focus primarily on the latter. We observe that, while they can both appear with declaratives, ma and but differ with respect to what kinds of interrogative sentences they are compatible with: both ma and but are infelicitous in out-of-the-blue information-seeking questions, but while ma is acceptable in polar questions and in constituent questions, but is only acceptable in negative polar questions. We provide a semantic analysis of these particles that accounts for their distribution in both languages and for the cross-linguistic differences we discovered.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Is the Mano a Tulipano gesture compatible with canonical questions? An empirical study of a speech act marking gesture
Creators: name: Foppolo, Francesca
name: Ippolito, Michela
name: Panzeri, Francesca
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we present two experimental studies on the co-speech Mano a Tulipano (MAT), a gesture that is extensively used by native speakers of Italian and that typically accompanies interrogative speech acts. While there is broad consensus, in both the descriptive and the more formal literature, that MAT has a question meaning, there is no consensus on what kind of question is conveyed or marked by this gesture. Some researchers argue that co-speech MAT is ambiguous and can occur with both canonical and non-canonical questions. Other researchers have argued that MAT is presuppositional in nature and is only compatible with non-canonical questions. To test the hypothesis that MAT is fully compatible with non- canonical questions only, we conducted two acceptability judgment studies in which the participants’ task was to evaluate the appropriateness of the MAT gesture associated to two types of questions: a canonical question (i.e., a context in which, according to the presuppositional account of MAT, the presupposition is not satisfied), and a non-canonical (biased) question. We ran a binary forced-choice sentence evaluation task (Study 1) and a gradient acceptability judgment study (Study 2) to test if and at which rate Italian participants accepted the MAT gesture accompanying canonical questions. Our results show that MAT is fully acceptable only when the presupposition that the question is non-canonical is satisfied, compatibly with the presuppositional account. When this presupposition is not supported by the context, judgments on MAT were more variable across participants when a binary judgment was requested (Study 1); moreover, MAT received intermediate ratings by all the participants when a gradient judgment was required (Study 2).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung