cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aesthetics of Disppearance
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation

description:
 For lapstee/electric guitar, 2 low strings, 1 low wind, percussion, organ and sub tone
 For Daryl Buckley. In memorium Paul Virilio.
 You will need the Decibel ScorePlayer to perform this work (see below).
 PROGRAM NOTE This piece is in the memory of Paul Virillo, whose book Art and Fear (2003) was a huge influence on my thinking. In his 1991 book,The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Virilio traces out the relationship of biological optics to technologies of "production of appearance." This piece tests this idea with audibility, rather than optics. Perceptual gaps create illusions of continuity, where I attempt to highlight the paradox of empiricism in acoustic science as a kind of motion without mobility," as Virllo attempts in his book with optics.
 NOTE TO PERFORMERS
 The majority of my compositions use scores that are read on an iPad tablet computer, using the Decibel ScorePlayer, an application available on the App Store . Any fixed media is embedded in the score, and some feature automated functions. In the case of ensemble works, multiple iPads can be networked on a LAN or over the Internet so parts can be read in a synchronised way. You should upload the score file (ending with.dsz) to your iPad from your computer via AirDrop on an Apple, or cable from a PC. Instructions on how to do this and using the Decibel ScorePlayer, more generally are included in the Application, which ships with five other scores. Thus my works have different versions of the score, as you may see above. A PDF/PNG file of the score ‘image’, a DSZ file to upload onto the iPad for performance, and for some less complex scores, a video version. Hardcopies are also available from my publisher. You can find out more about the Decibel ScorePlayer, and how to make your own scores for it, here.
 PERFORMANCES Premiered at Monash University, TENOR conference, July 2019 by ELISION and Decibel in collaboration. Elision Ensemble, August 2022, The Melbourne Recital Centre.
Axions/Axion like particles and the CMB asymmetric dipole
Creators: name: Yang, Qiaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axions and axion like particles are very attractive dark matter candidates. In this review, we briefly investigate how the cosmological observations reveal the existence of dark matter and some unique properties of axions/axion like particles which make them more interesting.
description: 9 pages, a contribution to the special issue "Composite dark matter" in the International Journal of Modern Physics D
Polymer models with competing collapse interactions on Husimi and Bethe lattices
Creators: name: Pretti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of Husimi and Bethe lattices, we investigate a generalized polymer model that incorporates as special cases different models previously studied in the literature, namely, the standard interacting self-avoiding walk, the interacting self-avoiding trail, and the vertex-interacting self-avoiding walk. These models are characterized by different microscopic interactions, giving rise, in the two-dimensional case, to collapse transitions of an apparently different nature. We expect that our results, even though of a mean-field type, could provide some useful information to elucidate the role of such different theta points in the polymer phase diagram. These issues are at the core of a long-standing unresolved debate.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
The Dynamical Process of Meaning-Making across the Lifespan: Protocol for a Systematic Review
Creators: name: Zambelli, Michela
name: Milani, Martina
name: Tagliabue, Semira
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: lifespan
subject: meaning in life
subject: meaning-making

description: This systematic review’s aim is to evaluate the current evidences on the conceptualization and measurement of the process of meaning-making. More details in the attached file.
Family-oriented interventions in long-term care residential settings: A scoping review
Creators: name: Eltaybani, Sameh
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Long-term care
subject: Nursing homes
subject: older people
subject: Residential facilities
subject: Scoping review

description: This is a scoping review to map existing literature on family-oriented interventions in long-term care residential settings
Of Gods and Man: The Biocognitive Turn in Religious Studies
Creators: name: Aghapour, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: This thesis surveys and analyzes the biocognitive turn in Religious Studies over the last decade, which is characterized by a rise in cognitive and evolutionary accounts of religious beliefs and practices. Using Michel Foucault's archaeological method, I analyze three key discourses--evolutionary and cognitive explanations of religion, sui generis defenses of religion as irreducible by science, and inaugural projects for streamlining Religious Studies--with attention to how they mobilize a set of shared intellectual categories and presuppositions. Central to all of these biocognitive discourses, I argue, is Foucault's analytic of finitude, or the epistemological framing of Man as both an object of knowledge and a subject who knows.
Life and Death Beyond a "Pre-Invented Existence": The Subversive Possibilities of Abjection in the Work of David Wojnarowicz
Creators: name: Yee, Gillian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 1905

description:
My thesis focuses on David Wojnarowiczs exploration of the essence of death through his art. I argue that Wojnarowicz had specifically employed the aesthetics of the abject to challenge what he termed a pre-invented existence, living and dying on the terms of a necropolitical state that seeks to control lifes intensities. Through visual manifestations of death, dying, decay, and disease, the artist used the abject to express existence beyond the grasp of political and social systems that refuse to afford minority groups the resources, opportunities, and dignity to survive.
title: A Distributed Audit Trail for the Internet of Things
Creators: name: Schärer, Jakob
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
subject: 510 Mathematics

description: Sharing Internet of Things (IoT) data over open-data platforms and digital data
marketplaces can reduce infrastructure investments, improve sustainability by
reducing the required resources, and foster innovation. However, due to the
inability to audit the authenticity, integrity, and quality of IoT data, third-party
data consumers cannot assess the trustworthiness of received data. Therefore,
it is challenging to use IoT data obtained from third parties for quality-relevant
applications. To overcome this limitation, the IoT data must be auditable. Distributed
Ledger Technology (DLT) is a promising approach for building auditable
systems. However, the existing solutions do not integrate authenticity,
integrity, data quality, and location into an all-encompassing auditable model
and only focus on specific parts of auditability.
This thesis aims to provide a distributed audit trail that makes the IoT auditable
and enables sharing of IoT data between multiple organizations for
quality relevant applications. Therefore, we designed and evaluated the Veritaa
framework. The Veritaa framework comprises the Graph of Trust (GoT) as
distributed audit trail and a DLT to immutably store the transactions that build
the GoT. The contributions of this thesis are summarized as follows. First, we
designed and evaluated the GoT a DLT-based Distributed Public Key Infrastructure
(DPKI) with a signature store. Second, we designed a Distributed
Calibration Certificate Infrastructure (DCCI) based on the GoT, which makes
quality-relevant maintenance information of IoT devices auditable. Third, we
designed an Auditable Positioning System (APS) to make positions in the IoT
auditable. Finally, we designed an Location Verification System (LVS) to verify
location claims and prevent physical layer attacks against the APS. All these
components are integrated into the GoT and build the distributed audit trail.
We implemented a real-world testbed to evaluate the proposed distributed audit
trail. This testbed comprises several custom-built IoT devices connectable
over Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) or Long-Term Evolution
Category M1 (LTE Cat M1), and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based Angle
of Arrival (AoA) positioning system. All these low-power devices can manage
their identity and secure their data on the distributed audit trail using the IoT
client of the Veritaa framework. The experiments suggest that a distributed
audit trail is feasible and secure, and the low-power IoT devices are capable
of performing the required cryptographic functions. Furthermore, the energy
overhead introduced by making the IoT auditable is limited and reasonable
for quality-relevant applications.
Kopuły gipsowe i wietrzeniowe skorupy gipsowe w rzeźbie krasowej zachodniej Ukrainy / Gypsum domes and weathering gypsum crusts in the karst relief of western Ukraine
Creators: name: Bąbel, Maciej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Geomorphology and earth surface processes

description: The paper describes gypsum domes (gypsum tumuli and other forms) and weathering gysum crusts occurring in karst relief in Poland and Ukraine
Processing of irony in text: A systematic review of eye tracking studies
Creators: name: Olkoniemi, Henri
name: Kaakinen, Johanna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Discourse and Text Linguistics
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Semantics and Pragmatics
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We present a meta-analysis of the eye tracking studies in a standard case of irony, and a systematic review of the factors that have been shown to influence the time-course of irony processing.
The effect of sintering process on zirconia's optical and physical properties
Creators: name: Swann, Lida
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: Zirconia restorations present an alternative dental restorative option with an average flexural strength of 1000 MPA. One of the challenges of this material is the decreased translucency when compared with less strong ceramic materials like feldespatic porcelain or lithium disilicate. A potential solution to this challenge is to the increase of sintering temperature and or increase holding times. The present study evaluated the effect of different sintering temperatures and holding times on contrast ratio as a measure of translucency, and evaluated if any temperatures or holding times could have a negative effect on materials strength. We also looked at the effect of cyclic loading vs conventional load to failure testing. One hundred and twenty (120) milled zirconia disks with .2mm thickness and 14mm diameter were sintered . Temperatures vary in 50 degree increments from 1450 to1600 F. Each of those temperatures was held for different times including 1h, 2h, 3h. The ziconia disks used were pure white Zenostar, 10 disks were obtained to test each variable. Contrast ration was measured on a spectophotometer for all specimens. 60 specimens (5 per group) were subjected to mechanical cyclic loading under water at a load of 100N for 100,000 cycles at a frequency of 1.5Hz. After fatigue loading samples and control group were tested on an Instron machine until catastrophic failure occurred. Under the conditions measured, increasing temperature and / or holding time did not alter translucency or significantly affected physical properties.
Additional file 1 of Impact of different cover letter content and incentives on non-response bias in a sample of Veterans applying for Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits: a randomized, 3X2X2 factorial trial
Creators: name: Murdoch, Maureen
name: Clothier, Barbara A.
name: Beebe, Timothy J.
name: Bangerter, Ann K.
name: Noorbaloochi, Siamak
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Men and Women’s Survey Response (n) and Response Rate (%) by each Factorial Combination. Table S2a. Mean bias (SD) by study-arm manipulation for men. Table S2b. Mean bias (SD) by study-arm manipulation for women.
The Alchemy of Competitive Success: An Analysis of Division I Women's Rowing Resources
Creators: name: Burger, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Using the Resource Based View of competitive advantage, the present research identified and analyzed potential resources associated with competitive success in Division I women’s rowing, with the goal of empowering these programs to make data-driven decisions to improve their likelihood of competitive success. Employing a voluntary survey of Division I women’s rowing head coaches and a collection of secondary data, thirty-nine variables were explored to determine their significance based on three institutional and program characteristic groups. The research suggests that many variables cannot be sources of sustained competitive advantage, as all programs have the potential to develop them; however, the limitations that exist for programs to develop those resources can result in the creation of temporary competitive advantage for others. Variables within the Financial and Human Resources categories were particularly significant, which furthers the findings of current research. In discussing these results, recommendations for future research were also offered.
Poincare Duality Complexes with Highly Connected Universal Covers
Creators: name: Bleile, Beatrice
name: Bokor, Imre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57P10

description: Baues and Bleille showed that, up to oriented homotopy equivalence, a Poincare duality complex of dimension $n \ge 3$ with $(n-2)$-connected universal cover, is classified by its fundamental group, orientation class and the image of its fundamental class in the homology of the fundamental group. We generalise Turaev's results for the case $n=3$, by providing necessary and sufficient conditions for a triple $(G, ω, μ)$, comprising a group, $G$, $ω\in H^{1}(G;\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$ and $μ\in H_{3}(G, \mathbb{Z}^ω)$ to be realised by a Poincaré duality complex of dimension $n$ with $(n-2)$-connected universal cover, and by showing that such a complex is a connected sum of two such complexes if and only if its fundamental group is a free product of groups.
Debt Capacity Calculator
Creators: name: Cirin, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: debt capacity
debt capacity base
annuity
balloon payment
decreasing installments
working capital
free cash flow
creditworthiness
affordability

description: The debt capacity calculator allows you to calculate the maximum loan value based on the specified debt capacity base. The algorithms for determining the maximum debt capacity implemented in the calculator were based on the loan repaid in the following forms: 1) in annuity installments (equal principal and interest installments), 2) in decreasing installments (equal principal installments with decreasing interest), 3) as part of a balloon installment (one-time repayment of principal and interest at the end of the loan period). The algorithms contained in the calculator can be used to determine the maximum debt capacity for enterprises as well as individuals (both for investment loans and in the case of overdraft/debt in the account). Debt capacity is an alternative category to the concept of a financial gap, it is not shown in the balance sheet, we will not find it in other financial statements of the company, it is a possible or expected value, it may have a weighted average cost of its use being a function of debt prices on the capital market, the cost of using debt capacity can be considered in terms of average or marginal cost. If there is a positive effect of financial leverage, it should be considered as the required value of debt maximizing the value of the enterprise. Determining the debt capacity is necessary in the process preceding the implementation of investment projects financed by debt, ensuring a positive rate of return on investment. For business owners, the debt capacity determines the value of a potential investment with an individual cost and risk.
description: {"references": ["Cirin, P. (2020). The Relationship between Debt Capacity Base and Structural Risk: Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie, 988(4), 83-102.", "Piotr Cirin, Strategie finansowania, podstawa pojemno\u015bci zad\u0142u\u017ceniowej i d\u017awignia finansowa wybranych sp\u00f3\u0142ek notowanych na gie\u0142dzie papier\u00f3w warto\u015bciowych w Warszawie w okresie pandemii COVID-19, [w:] Teresa Pakulska, Patrycja Szczepa\u0144ska (red.), Badania m\u0142doych naukowc\u00f3w w zakresie nauk ekonomicznych - wyzwania gospodarcze w czasie pandemii, Oficyna Wydawnicza SGH - Szko\u0142a G\u0142\u00f3wna Handlowa w Warszawie, 2021, s. 25-50, ISBN 978-83-8030-482-6."]}
An Analysis of NCAA Member Athletic Programs that Added or Discontinued Football Programs from 1996 to 2005
Creators: name: Dunham, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the primary reasons why colleges and universities added or dropped football programs during the ten-year period of 1996 to 2005. A secondary purpose was to analyze the opinions and outcomes of these institutions’ respective decisions. The results of this study were obtained through an online survey of athletics administrators at those institutions that added or dropped football during the relevant time period. Specifically, the results showed more athletics administrators cited the desire to increase enrollment as a factor behind the decision than any other single factor. For those schools that dropped football between 1996 and 2005, the desire to reduce total athletic department expenses was viewed by more athletics administrators as an important factor behind their decisions than any other single factor. This study serves as an aid to those athletic departments currently contemplating whether to add or drop football, and given the lack of empirical research on this topic, will hopefully serve to facilitate future research.
Performance Evaluation of Microservices Architectures using Containers
Creators: name: Amaral, Marcelo
name: Polo, Jordà
name: Carrera, David
name: Mohomed, Iqbal
name: Unuvar, Merve
name: Steinder, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microservices architecture has started a new trend for application development for a number of reasons: (1) to reduce complexity by using tiny services; (2) to scale, remove and deploy parts of the system easily; (3) to improve flexibility to use different frameworks and tools; (4) to increase the overall scalability; and (5) to improve the resilience of the system. Containers have empowered the usage of microservices architectures by being lightweight, providing fast start-up times, and having a low overhead. Containers can be used to develop applications based on monolithic architectures where the whole system runs inside a single container or inside a microservices architecture where one or few processes run inside the containers. Two models can be used to implement a microservices architecture using containers: master-slave, or nested-container. The goal of this work is to compare the performance of CPU and network running benchmarks in the two aforementioned models of microservices architecture hence provide a benchmark analysis guidance for system designers.
description: Submitted to the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA15). Partially funded by European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 639595) - HiEST Project
Prospective, Comparative Assessment of Peri-Implant Mucosal Architecture at Different Implant Abutment Interfaces. A 1 year Evaluation.
Creators: name: Limpiphipatanakorn, Praephun
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this study is to compare the buccal soft tissue changes occurring around single-tooth replacements in the maxilla using three different implant-abutment interface designs over a one year period. The study was an open, prospective, randomized multicenter study in 141 subjects. Subjects were randomized to Group A (Conical interface, n=48), B (Flat-to-flat interface, n=49) or C (Platform switch, n=44). This study evaluated the soft tissue changes longitudinally through collection of standardized oral photographs using Canfield apparatus. Comparisons between restorative platform types and between time points were evaluated statistically. There was not statistically significant change of buccal soft tissue level (mean -0.1 ± 0.7 mm) at 12 month followed implant placement, with no statistically significant difference between three implant abutment designs. Overall papilla height showed slight increase (mesial papilla 0.3±0.5 mm, distal papilla 0.2±0.5 mm), with no statistically significant difference between treatment groups.
Hopping Over Complex Terrain: Sample Efficiency through Reinforcement Learning for Step-Level Control
Creators: name: Cerruto, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Navigation of legged robots on complex terrains requires them to achieve precise control of foot placement and speed as a slight miss-step or lack of momentum will lead to failure. Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a viable alternative to achieve this objective. However, learning low-level joint torques, typically at 200+ Hz, scales poorly even for the simplest sys tems. For example, with n actuators, this would require learning 200n control parameters per second. This thesis takes an alternate approach. A suitable low-level controller that maps the joint torques to the sensor values is assumed. This low-level controller has a few parameters that are tuned once per step by the RL algorithm, typically at 5 Hz (assuming a step time of 0.2 sec). For example, with m free parameters, this requires tuning of only 5m parameters per second. Since 5m ≪ 200n, the proposed approach scales better than the traditional RL approach. The approach is demonstrated on a single-leg hopping robot with two actuators, a rotary actuator for hip swing, and a linear actuator for foot clearance and push-off. The low-level controller is a simple position derivative controller with two free parameters, a proportional gain, and a set-point. There are four sensor measurements at every step, the robot speed and height, and the obstacle height and distance. Here the free parameters m=2 and actuators n=2, hence 10 (5m) ≪ 400 (200n) ensuring scalability. Using proximal policy optimization the control pol icy learns 2 free parameters based on the 4 measurements in about 100,000 to 400,000 trials. The resulting control policy can achieve navigation of the hopper in novel scenarios without re-training or re-tuning.
Índice de Integridad Biótica con Macroinvertebrados acuáticos en ríos del Alto Balsas (IIBAB)
Creators: name: Avilez-Avila Favio César
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Integridad biótica
Ecohidrología
México
Cuenca del río Balsas

description: Los ríos y sus sistemas asociados, son ecosistemas importantes que brindan innumerables servicios ambientales a la sociedad. Sin embargo, son considerados como los ecosistemas que presentan el mayor grado de degradación, y a menudo, las acciones de conservación no se enfocan estos sistemas ya que se requiere de esfuerzos multidisciplinarios a gran escala. En el presente trabajo se desarrolló un Índice de Integridad Biótica en ríos del Alto Balsas (IIBAB), que se fundamenta en muestreos multianuales y temporales en las cuencas de los ríos Amatzinac, Cuautla y Yautepec, en un periodo del 2014-2019, en 26 sitios de monitoreo. Para la generación del IIBAB se trabajó con 27 parámetros fisicoquímicos; la caracterización biológica del ensamble de Macroinvertebrados acuáticos a nivel taxonómico de familia, sus propiedades emergentes, taxones tolerantes e intolerantes a la contaminación, taxones exóticos e introducidos, grupos funcionales alimenticios, y tres índices de evaluación ambiental: a) Índice de calidad de Bosque de ribera “IBR”, b) Índice de valoración por perturbación “IVP” y c) Índice biótico de Familias “IBF”. Mediante métodos exploratorios y de ordenaciones multivariadas se seleccionaron aquellas métricas que presentaron la mayor importancia. Se establecieron sitios de referencia mediante análisis de componentes principales (CAP) con los índices de evaluación ambiental y la densidad de los Macroinvertebrados acuáticos. Como resultado, el índice se integró por las métricas de Equitatividad de Brillouin (EHB’), Porcentaje de Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera y Odonata (Gomphidae) (%EPTO), porcentaje de Chironomidae (%Ch), porcentaje de Thiaridae-Corbiculidae (%TC), porcentaje de colectores recolectores (%CR), porcentaje de filtradores (%F), porcentaje de fragmentadores (%Fr), y el Índice biótico de Familias (IBF). A cada métrica se le calculó su eficiencia discriminativa y con base en los percentiles 75 y 25 se establecieron cinco categorías de integridad biótica para el IIBAB: Excelente, muy buena, buena, regular y mala.
Epigenetic regulation of murine Stab2 expression in determining atherosclerotic susceptibility
Creators: name: Dong, Sharlene
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease characterized by the accumulation of lipids and fibrous elements in the arteries. In mice, the aortic arch and root show distinct patterns of lesion development. A quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of an intercross between apoE-null mice on 129S6 and DBA/2J backgrounds has revealed a significant locus on chromosome 10, Aath5, that affects plaque size in the arch. One candidate gene in the Aath5 locus is the Stab2 gene, which encodes a receptor for hyaluronan. The DBA allele of the Stab2 gene includes a unique intracisternal A-particle (IAP) retrotransposon inserted in reverse in the promoter region, which drives Stab2 expression. Methylation status of this region was analyzed through allele-specific bisulfite sequencing and correlated with ectopic Stab2 expression in the heart and kidneys. Thus, epigenetic regulation of this IAP element may play a role in regulating Stab2 expression and affect atherosclerotic susceptibility in the aortic arch.
Alternative cosmetic and medical applications of injectable deoxycholic acid: a systematic review
Creators: name: Liu, Chaocheng
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dermatology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: ATX-101
subject: Belkyra
subject: body contouring
subject: deoxycholate
subject: deoxycholic acid
subject: dermatology
subject: injectable lipolysis
subject: Kybella

description: This systematic review is designed to evaluate the current evidence regarding the medical and cosmetic uses and applications of injectable deoxycholic acid other than for submental fat contouring.
Above-threshold ionization and photoelectron spectra in atomic systems driven by strong laser fields
Creators: name: Suárez, Noslen
name: Chacón, Alexis
name: Ciappina, Marcelo
name: Biegert, Jens
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Above-threshold ionization (ATI) results from strong field laser-matter interaction and it is one of the fundamental processes that may be used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular target. Moreover, it can also be used to characterize the laser field itself. Here, we develop an analytical description of ATI, which extends the theoretical Strong Field Approximation (SFA), for both the direct and re-scattering transition amplitudes in atoms. From a non-local, but separable potential, the bound-free dipole and the re-scattering transition matrix elements are analytically computed. In comparison with the standard approaches to the ATI process, our analytical derivation of the re-scattering matrix elements allows us to study directly how the re-scattering process depends on the atomic target and laser pulse features -we can turn on and off contributions having different physical origins or corresponding to different physical mechanisms. We compare SFA results with the full numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation (TDSE) within the few-cycle pulse regime. Good agreement between our SFA and TDSE model is found for the ATI spectrum. Our model captures also the strong dependence of the photoelectron spectra on the carrier envelope phase of the laser field.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRA
The Impact of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders on Social Connectedness, Psychological Outcomes, and Help-Seeking Attitudes
Creators: name: Garagozzo, Ariana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Data on social connectedness, anxiety, depression, perceived stress, and help-seeking attitudes in a sample of adults residing in IL, USA during COVID stay-at-home orders.
Effect of Chinese Development Assistance on Compliance with Western Aid Conditionality
Creators: name: Watkins, James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study investigates the effect of Chinese development assistance on compliance with Western aid conditionality. I develop a formal model that incorporates Chinese development assistance into the existing aid-for-policy framework commonly used to model aid conditionality. The model is utilized in an infinitely-repeated simultaneous game to analyze the impact of Chinese development assistance on recipient country compliance with Western aid conditionality. The model predicts that Chinese development assistance has a negative impact on recipient country compliance with conditionality attached to Western aid. The empirical analysis focuses on compliance with World Bank conditionality and utilizes recent China AidData and World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) Project Assessment Ratings datasets that cover 135+ developing countries over the 2000-2010 time period. The empirical results find consistent support for the hypothesis under multilevel random effects and country-level fixed effects model frameworks.
Measuring multivariate redundant information with pointwise common change in surprisal
Creators: name: Ince, Robin A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The problem of how to properly quantify redundant information is an open question that has been the subject of much recent research. Redundant information refers to information about a target variable S that is common to two or more predictor variables Xi. It can be thought of as quantifying overlapping information content or similarities in the representation of S between the Xi. We present a new measure of redundancy which measures the common change in surprisal shared between variables at the local or pointwise level. We provide a game-theoretic operational definition of unique information, and use this to derive constraints which are used to obtain a maximum entropy distribution. Redundancy is then calculated from this maximum entropy distribution by counting only those local co-information terms which admit an unambiguous interpretation as redundant information. We show how this redundancy measure can be used within the framework of the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) to give an intuitive decomposition of the multivariate mutual information into redundant, unique and synergistic contributions. We compare our new measure to existing approaches over a range of example systems, including continuous Gaussian variables. Matlab code for the measure is provided, including all considered examples.
description: v3: revisions based on review process at Entropy (expand game-theory and max-ent motivation), v2: add game-theoretic operational definition for maximum entropy constraints; remove thresholding and normalisation of values on lattice
In the midst of Europe: the United States and European security cooperation
Creators: name: Haislip, Zesely Bryan, III
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: Given recent focus on a supposed U.S. policy shift to the Pacific region, this research looks to Europe and the security cooperation organizations to understand if this new focus has come due to increased distance between the United States and European countries. The analysis intends to show that there is still a strong connection between the two sides of the Atlantic, and that the United States has many avenues through which to stay in touch with decisions made in European security organizations. Important background on the institutional development of the two case organizations creates a foundation to understand the analysis and conclusions. Through analysis of NATO and CSDP, it is clear that the United States has a strong ability to influence the civilian and military operations carried out by the European Union's supposedly independent defense institution.
First-principles method for electron-phonon coupling and electron mobility: Applications to 2D materials
Creators: name: Gunst, Tue
name: Markussen, Troels
name: Stokbro, Kurt
name: Brandbyge, Mads
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present density functional theory calculations of the phonon-limited mobility in n-type monolayer graphene, silicene and MoS$_2$. The material properties, including the electron-phonon interaction, are calculated from first-principles. We provide a detailed description of the normalized full-band relaxation time approximation for the linearized Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) that includes inelastic scattering processes. The bulk electron-phonon coupling is evaluated by a supercell method. The method employed is fully numerical and does therefore not require a semi-analytic treatment of part of the problem and, importantly, it keeps the anisotropy information stored in the coupling as well as the band structure. In addition, we perform calculations of the low-field mobility and its dependence on carrier density and temperature to obtain a better understanding of transport in graphene, silicene and monolayer MoS$_2$. Unlike graphene, the carriers in silicene show strong interaction with the out-of-plane modes. We find that graphene has more than an order of magnitude higher mobility compared to silicene. For MoS$_2$, we obtain several orders of magnitude lower mobilities in agreement with other recent theoretical results. The simulations illustrate the predictive capabilities of the newly implemented BTE solver applied in simulation tools based on first-principles and localized basis sets.
RECOGNIZING AND REDUCING HORIZONTAL VIOLENCE AMONG NURSES AT A VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER: A COGNITIVE REHEARSAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Creators: name: Igwe, Ivuoma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Aim: The aim of this project was to help nurses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Durham, North Carolina recognize and reduce horizontal violence in the workplace using an evidence-based educational session with a cognitive rehearsal technique.
      Background: Mounting evidence compiled over the last two decades has established the existence of horizontal violence in the nursing profession. Further, horizontal violence continues to be an ongoing challenge despite substantial evidence that it can negatively affect a nurse’s quality of life and compromise patient safety.
      Methods: VAMC staff nurses attended two educational sessions (one hour in total) of training about ways to combat horizontal violence and to learn cognitive rehearsal techniques. The first session presented the theoretical concept of horizontal violence, discussed how horizontal violence affects nurses, and included discussion of nurses’ responses to three open-ended questions. In the second educational session, participants learned about and practiced appropriate responses to the most common forms of horizontal violence through cognitive rehearsal, an interactive role-playing experience. At the end of the session, each participant was given cue cards that each stated a common form of horizontal violence and its appropriate response. A
      follow-up survey was conducted at the end of the session to determine participants’ satisfaction with and perspectives about the educational intervention.                                            Results: Participants reported that participation in the educational session (1) increased their awareness of horizontal violence and (2) enabled them to identify at least three strategies to combat horizontal violence. Further, participants recommended that nursing colleagues would greatly benefit from the training.
      Conclusion: This educational session targeted the negative effects of horizontal violence and used an evidenced-based cognitive rehearsal technique to increase awareness of interventions to offset negative behaviors associated with horizontal violence. Raising awareness and labeling this problem are the first steps in reducing the occurrence of horizontal violence among nurses. These initial steps establish horizontal violence as a legitimate problem and hopefully will set in motion an action plan for change at the VAMC.
      Keywords: horizontal violence, cognitive rehearsal technique, hostile workplace, bully, nurses.
The Approximate Capacity of the MIMO Relay Channel
Creators: name: Jin, Xianglan
name: Kim, Young-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Capacity bounds are studied for the multiple-antenna complex Gaussian relay channel with t1 transmitting antennas at the sender, r2 receiving and t2 transmitting antennas at the relay, and r3 receiving antennas at the receiver. It is shown that the partial decode-forward coding scheme achieves within min(t1,r2) bits from the cutset bound and at least one half of the cutset bound, establishing a good approximate expression of the capacity. A similar additive gap of min(t1 + t2, r3) + r2 bits is shown to be achieved by the compress-forward coding scheme.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
A Critical Assessment of EU-Russia Relations: Conflict, Competition, or Consensus?
Creators: name: Georgieva, Antoniya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine EU-Russian relations from an analytical point of view. Due to the changing climate in the European Union and Russia, caused by such factors as the EU's expansion to twenty-seven member states and Russia's establishment of itself as the main European petrol and gas provider, the relationship between the two is by necessity now vigorous and essential. This ultimately translates into numerous clashes, and competitive situations, but also an effort from the two powers to find new effective ways to make the relationship work. This paper aims to discover which term - conflict, competition, or consensus - best describes the target relationship and sets the tone for the future. Different countries from the EU have established different approaches to deal with the Russian superpower. As a result the EU- Russian relationship appears to be a combination of all of the above.
Multiferroic RMnO3 thin films
Creators: name: Fontcuberta, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiferroic materials have received an astonishing attention in the last decades due to expectations that potential coupling between distinct ferroic orders could inspire new applications and new device concepts. As a result, a new knowledge on coupling mechanisms and materials science has dramatically emerged. Multiferroic RMnO3 perovskites are central to this progress providing a suitable platform to tailor spin-spin and spin-lattice interactions. With views towards applications, development of thin films of multiferroic materials have also progressed enormously and nowadays thin film manganites are available with properties mimicking those of bulk compounds. Here we review achievements on the growth and characterization of magnetic and ferroelectric properties of hexagonal and orthorhombic RMnO3 epitaxial thin films, discuss some challenging issues and we suggest some guidelines for future research and developments.
description: Review paper
Association between cortical thickness and anxiety measures: a scoping review
Creators: name: Sobral, Mónica
name: Ganho-Ávila, Ana
name: Guiomar, Raquel
name: da Cruz Moreira, Helena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: anxiety
subject: cortical thickness
subject: fear
subject: protocol
subject: scoping review
subject: vulnerability

description: This registration contains the protocol for a scoping review of the association between cortical thickness and anxiety measures. The detailed protocol is attached as a supplemental file.
Phase separation and coexistence of hydrodynamically interacting microswimmers
Creators: name: Blaschke, Johannes
name: Maurer, Maurice
name: Menon, Karthik
name: Zöttl, Andreas
name: Stark, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: A striking feature of the collective behavior of spherical microswimmers is that for sufficiently strong self-propulsion they phase-separate into a dense cluster coexisting with a low-density disordered surrounding. Extending our previous work, we use the squirmer as a model swimmer and the particle-based simulation method of multi-particle collision dynamics to explore the influence of hydrodynamics on their phase behavior in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry. The coarsening dynamics towards the phase-separated state is diffusive in an intermediate time regime followed by a final ballistic compactification of the dense cluster. We determine the binodal lines in a phase diagram of Peclet number versus density. Interestingly, the gas binodals are shifted to smaller densities for increasing mean density or dense-cluster size, which we explain using a recently introduced pressure balance [S. C. Takatori, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014, 113, 028103] extended by a hydrodynamic contribution. Furthermore, we find that for pushers and pullers the binodal line is shifted to larger Peclet numbers compared to neutral squirmers. Finally, when lowering the Peclet number, the dense phase transforms from a hexagonal "solid'' to a disordered "fluid'' state.
Evaluating determinants of perceptions of corruption in the European Union
Creators: name: Marek, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Corruption is one of the key problems facing the European Union (EU) as it seeks to integrate the 27 member states into an even more cohesive economic unit during a period of austerity. A number of studies have documented regional patterns of corruption and corruption perception within the EU. Explanations for other variations in perceptions of corruption, however, are left incomplete in the literature. To explain these variations, this author analyzes 2005, 2007, and 2009 Eurobarometer data. This author finds EU-wide increases in the perceived amount of corruption can be linked to the economic downturn. Moreover, exceptional increases can be explained by well-publicized political scandals. In one particularly interesting case, Spain, sizable fluctuations in perceptions of corruption in law enforcement can be associated to the perceived effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts. EU policymakers, who are in the process of structuring programs to reduce corruption, should incorporate these factors into their programs.
Additional file 1 of Should samples be weighted to decrease selection bias in online surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic? Data from seven datasets
Creators: name: Haddad, Chadia
name: Sacre, Hala
name: Zeenny, Rony M.
name: Hajj, Aline
name: Akel, Marwan
name: Iskandar, Katia
name: Salameh, Pascale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Effect of Valerian Extracts on GABRB3 Gene mRNA Expression and Motor Coordination in BALB/c mice
Creators: name: Mulyawan, Erwin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Anesthesia and Analgesia
subject: Natural Products Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
subject: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

description: Determine the effect of Valerian Extract on GABRB3 Gene mRNA Expression and Motor Coordination in BALB/c mice