cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Tell me a story:" Are online stories storytelling?
Creators: name: Basney, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000
Subjects: Web sites
Storytelling--Evaluation
Oral history
Information retrieval--Social aspects

description: The craft of storytelling has survived and thrived throughout history. Though there are as many purposes as tellers, two are: to record history and pass it on; and, to entertain . These purposes continue today. But today's storytelling has been affected by the World Wide Web; storytellers provide web sites on which visitors can hear recordings of their stories. Four such sites are Nelson Lauver's, Thomas Doty's, Storyteller.net, and Dana Atchley's. But are these online stories really storytelling, as compared to oral tradition? This essay evaluates these online story sites as websites and compares their stories' characteristics with those shown by historical storytelling. The conclusion is that online stories are storytelling in the historical sense, but only based on the assumption that the stories being recorded does not invalidate that decision. More than one scholar, myself included, feel that the machines are no substitute for the live experience of storytelling.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1052
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1289 col. 9 col. 10 col. 11. Philodemus, De Epicuro 2
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Report on start-up accelerator programme. REGREEN Deliverable D8.6
Creators: name: Tedeschini, Francesca
name: Türk, Andreas
name: Kondrup, Stine Casparij
name: Spanier, Marie
name: Grandin, Gwendoline
name: Telling, Lone Nørgaard
name: Beber, Josip
Publisher: name: REGREEN - Fostering nature‐based solutions for smart, green and healthy urban transitions in Europe and China. Horizon2020 Grant No. 821016.
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nature Based Solutions
accelerator programme
Ideation

description: This report presents the outcomes of the ideation events and the accelerator program within Task 8.1 Innovation and Business Incubation of the REGREEN project. It emphasizes the increasing awareness of climate-resilient cities and the European Commission’s commitment to sustainable urban development. The REGREEN project seeks to establish evidence supporting nature-based solutions (NBS) by integrating ecosystem services and biodiversity into urban planning to address challenges like climate resilience, public health, and social inclusion.

The previously carried out market research, D8.2, detected emerging business models in the NBS market. It identified two main models: hybrid business models and private investment, recognizing the challenges like policy constraints and financial barriers. Organizations are shifting focus from merely addressing costs to embracing environmental and social advantages of NBS. However, the study highlighted the need for recognizing NBS, higher funding rates, and learning from best practices.

The ideation events across Aarhus, Paris, and Velika Gorica Urban Living Labs (ULLs) encountered adjustments due to COVID-19 restrictions. Despite challenges, Aarhus ULL engaged citizens in reimagining urban spaces, focusing on introducing more NBS. Paris ULL delved into micro urban forestry, advocating for an ecological approach. Velika Gorica witnessed a successful convergence of stakeholders promoting solutions beneficial to people, society, nature, and the climate.

Additionally, the accelerator program spotlighted the business potential of NBS, aiming to empower small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), practitioners, and municipalities, enabling knowledge exchange, innovation, and NBS implementation. In Aarhus, an accelerator workshop was organized to address barriers to NbS implementation and emphasize the importance of urban space management, financial support, and ecosystem awareness for successful NbS projects. In Paris, a training course brought together landscape and ecological professionals to discuss promoting biodiversity in urban green spaces. In Velika Gorica, a start-up accelerator event focused on inclusive finance and green infrastructure co-development. The event facilitated knowledge exchange, showcased NbS projects, and provided opportunities for stakeholders. Discussions addressed national challenges, emphasized the role of public funding, and outlined strategies for fostering innovation in NbS.
Dust attenuation of the nebular regions and optical emission lines of $z\sim2$ star-forming galaxies
Creators: name: de Barros, S.
name: Reddy, N.
name: Shivaei, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a sample of 149 spectroscopically confirmed UV-selected galaxies at $z\sim 2$ to investigate the relative dust attenuation of the stellar continuum and the nebular emission lines. For each galaxy in the sample, at least one rest-frame optical emission line (H$α$/[NII]$\lambda6583$ or [OIII]$\lambda5007$) measurement has been taken from the litterature, and 41 galaxies have additional Spitzer/MIPS 24$μ$m observations that are used to infer infrared luminosities. We use a spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code that predicts nebular line strengths when fitting the stellar populations of galaxies in our sample, and we perform comparisons between the predictions of our models and the observed/derived physical quantities. We find that on average our code is able to reproduce all the physical quantities (e.g., UV $β$ slopes, infrared luminosities, emission line fluxes), but we need to apply a higher dust correction to the nebular emission compared to the stellar emission for the largest SFR ($\log\mathrm{(SFR/M}_\odot\mathrm{yr}^{-1})>1.87$, Salpeter IMF). We find a correlation between SFR and the difference in nebular and stellar color excesses, which could resolve the discrepant results regarding nebular dust correction at $z\sim2$ from previous results.
description: 14 pages, 17 figures, paper updated addressing referee comments, two new figures (fig.6 and fig13), main results unchanged. Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Bone metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: Preoperative embolisation using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles
Creators: name: Eltinay, Yousif
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Embolisation
subject: Ethics
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 78-year-old lady was diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, including a hypervascular lesion in the left femoral diaphysis. The decision was taken to perform a preventive left femur fixation. However, a preoperative transarterial embolisation was needed to reduce the risk of intra-operative bleeding.

description: 78 years, female
EMBRACING PHYGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY: IKEA'S JOURNEY
Creators: name: KAAKANDIKAR, Dr.RISHIKAYSH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This case study explores how IKEA, a global home furnishings retailer, has successfully embracedphygital transformation to promote sustainability. By leveraging technology and digital initiatives, IKEAhas revolutionized the customer experience, reduced waste, and encouraged sustainable living. Thecase study delves into the key strategies and initiatives undertaken by IKEA, including introducing theIKEA Place app and implementing the "Second Life for Furniture" platform. It also highlights the positiveoutcomes and challenges faced during this transformative journey. Overall, IKEA's approach serves asan inspiring example for businesses looking to merge the physical and digital realms to achievesustainability goals
Effects of correlated hopping on electronic ferroelectricity in the extended Falicov-Kimball model in two dimensions
Creators: name: Farkašovský, P.
name: Jurečková, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation with the charge-density-wave (CDW) instability to study the effect of correlated hopping on the stability of electronic ferroelectricity in the extended Falicov-Kimball model (FKM) in two dimensions. It is shown that the effects of correlated hopping term are very strong, especially for negative values of the $f$-level energy $E_f$, where they lead to: (i) stabilization of the ferroelectric ground state with a spontaneous hybridization $P_{df}=\langle d^+f \rangle$ for positive values of correlated hopping parameter $t'_d$, (ii) stabilization of the antiferroelectric phase for $t'_d < t'_{d,crit.} < 0$ and (iii) suppression of the ferroelectric ground state for $t'_{d,crit.} \leqslant t'_d < 0$, The effects of correlated hopping on valence transitions are also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Sir David Allan (Dai) Rees - Bibliography from SIR DAVID ALLAN (DAI) REES. 28 April 1936 — 10 June 2021
Creators: name: Lawson, Chris
name: Lillford, Peter
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: Dai Rees was a carbohydrate chemist, who made major contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of naturally occurring polysaccharides. During his time at the University of Edinburgh he was the first to identify the self-association of polysaccharides from red algae such as agarose and the carrageenans into ordered double helical structures. This understanding of polysaccharide structure and functionality achieved in Edinburgh was of interest to carbohydrate chemists and the industries where these materials are widely used, such as foods and pharmaceuticals. Throughout the 1970s, Dai worked in the Unilever Colworth House laboratory as principal scientist. He continued his studies of polysaccharide structure and function, but also led fundamental research in emerging sciences of corporate interest to Unilever's long-term business future. Dai believed that high quality science was the source of uniqueness in innovation and technology. He identified that problems in research require a multidisciplinary approach, and at Colworth House he organized smaller projects into research themes, allowing faster development of both understanding and application. This philosophy was practised throughout his management career. He became director of the National Institute for Medical Research in 1982, and from 1987 to 1996 was the chief executive of the Medical Research Council. At the same time, he was a senior advisor to the UK National Technology Foresight exercise and president of the European Science Foundation. After retirement, he was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York, funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1053
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1289 col. 27. Philodemus, De Epicuro 2
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Web-based mapping: an evaluation of free mapping applications and Web GIS for library reference services
Creators: name: Kidd, John C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: College and university libraries--Reference services
Reference services--Automation
Geographic information systems
Maps--Internet resources
Geography--Internet resources

description: This study examines the functional elements and usability of a select group of web-based mapping applications and online mapping services. The goal of the study was to determine the appropriateness of these tools for use in library reference services, their usability by librarians and patrons who have little related experience, and the applicability of these tools as options to complex desktop geographic information systems (GIS). Previous studies have found that desktop GIS software is difficult to learn, includes functionalities that many beginner-level users do not need, and can discourage the use of GIS. This study found that many web-based tools are more user-friendly than desktop programs, require little time to learn, and possess the mapping functions that many beginner users need. However, this study also found that there remain issues with web-based mapping and online services. Examples include limitations in the types of spatial data analyses available and application errors.
title: Mean girls, queen bees and iron maidens? Female leadership and accusations of workplace bullying
Creators: name: Stolz, Celina
name: Reinhard, Marc-André
name: Ende, Luise
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: female leadership
subject: workplace bullying
subject: gender stereotypes
subject: communality deficit
subject: backlash
subject: credibility judgments
subject: moral outrage
subject: 150
subject: Weibliche Führungskraft
subject: Mobbing
subject: Arbeitswelt
subject: Moral

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant
Creators: name: Sasa, Shin-ichi
name: Yokokura, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a classical many-particle system with an external control represented by a time-dependent extensive parameter in a Lagrangian. We show that thermodynamic entropy of the system is uniquely characterized as the Noether invariant associated with a symmetry for an infinitesimal non-uniform time translation $t\to t+η\hbar β$, where $η$ is a small parameter, $\hbar$ is the Planck constant, $β$ is the inverse temperature that depends on the energy and control parameter, and trajectories in the phase space are restricted to those consistent with quasi-static processes in thermodynamics.
description: Discussions clarified, typos fixed, references added, but the result unchanged
AR: Accelerated Reader and Accurate Reflection?  A Collection Assessment of the Accelerated Reader Collection at an Elementary School in North Central North Carolina.
Creators: name: Lucas, Jennisen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003
Subjects: Reading Incentive Programs
Content analysis
School libraries--Collection development

description: This study describes the analysis of a North Carolina elementary school's Accelerated  Reader collection. The analysis was conducted to determine both the sufficiency of  the collection to support an active Accelerated Reader program and the accuracy with  which the fiction titles reflect the school's student demographic.  The total number of titles owned in support of the AR program makes up only 19% of  the total media collection, and only 36% of Renaissance Learning's recommended  number, with an overwhelming majority of these titles being fiction. Examining the  main characters in fiction AR titles in relation to the student demographic information  from the 2002-2003 school year shows that a huge discrepancy exists between  African American (35 titles) and Caucasian (404 titles) characters, even though the  student body contains 46.9% African American students. Girls make up the majority  (52.4%) of the students, but the majority of the books have male main characters  (51%).
The Evolving Photometric Lightcurve of Comet 1P/Halley's Coma During the 1985/86 Apparition
Creators: name: Schleicher, David G.
name: Bair, Allison N.
name: Sackey, Siobhan
name: Stinnett, Lorinda A. Alciator
name: Williams, Rebecca M. E.
name: Smith-Konter, Bridget R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new analyses of the photometric lightcurve of Comet 1P/Halley during its 1985/86 apparition. As part of a world-wide campaign coordinated by the International Halley Watch (IHW), narrowband photometry was obtained with telescopes at 18 observatories. Following submissions to and basic reductions by the Photometry and Polarimetry Network of the IHW, we computed production rates and created composite lightcurves for each species. These were used to measure how the apparent rotational period (~7.35 day), along with its shape, evolved with time during the apparition. The lightcurve shape systematically varied from double-peaked to triple-peaked and back again every 8-9 weeks, due to Halley's non-principal axis (complex) rotation and the associated component periods. Unexpectedly, we found a phase shift of one-half cycle also took place during this interval, and therefore the actual beat frequency between the component periods is twice this interval or 16-18 weeks. Preliminary modeling suggests that a single source might produce the entire post-perihelion lightcurve variability and associated evolution. The detailed evolution of the apparent period varied in a non-smooth manner between 7.2 and 7.6 day, likely due to a combination of synodic effects and the interaction of solar illumination with isolated source regions on a body in complex rotation. The need to simultaneously reproduce each of these characteristics will provide very strong additional constraints on Halley's component periods associated with its complex rotation. To assist in these and future analyses, we created a synthetic lightcurve based directly on the measured data. We unexpectedly discovered a strong correlation of ion tail disconnection event start times with minima in the comet's gas production, implying that a decrease in outgassing is another cause of these events.
description: To be published in AJ; 19 pages text, 5 figures, and 4 tables
Marketing and Creating Value from an Artists' Books Book Reading
Creators: name: Parisi, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Public relations in libraries
Artists' books

description: The marketing model of creating value, building relationships, and capturing value in return may be applied to library events and programs. A library event of an artists' books book reading combined many parts into a cohesive whole to create value for customers based on the marketing model. The research uses a case-study analysis of an event to suggest how value is created for customers attending the artists' books book reading.
Sensitivity of 2D hydrodynamic modelling of urban floods to the forcing inputs: lessons from two field cases
Creators: name: Paquier, André
name: Bazin, Pierre Henri
name: Abderrezzak, Kamal El Kadi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: This paper reports two urban floods in France: the September 2000 flood at the city of Marseille caused by heavy rainfall, and the November 2008 flood in Oullins induced by the Yzeron River overflow. A two-dimensional (2D) depth-averaged model was used to simulate flood hazard and to investigate the uncertainty associated to the forcing inputs. Using a rainfall simulator, several distributions of rainfall inputs over the whole domain were produced for the event of September 2000 in Marseille. Results showed these latter distributions changed the average peak water depth more than other input parameters. The Yzeron River water elevation was the main source of uncertainty in the case of Oullins, but the flow pattern in the floodplain was also influenced by the method representing the urban areas. For both cases, average uncertainty remains high (up to 20% for peak water depth or velocity) and local uncertainty is almost much higher.
C0VID-19 Testing Platforms - A Review of Latest Commercialization Efforts
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
subject: Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Clinical microbiology
subject: Clinimetrics
subject: Diagnostic radiography
subject: Infectious diseases
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Rural clinical health
subject: Applied immunology (incl. antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies)
subject: Allergy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Autoimmunity
subject: Humoural immunology and immunochemistry
subject: Immunogenetics (incl. genetic immunology)
subject: Innate immunity
subject: Immunology not elsewhere classified

description: This review delves into the existing in vitro technology platforms for COVID-19 testing and diagnostics—molecular tests and rapid antigen tests, serology or antibody tests, and tests for the management of COVID-19 patients—that have been granted emergency use authorization by the FDA to detect and diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infections. We also consider different strategies for scaled-up and faster screening, such as pooled testing, screening programs, and surveillance testing. However, the key challenge lies in finding solutions to make testing more widely accessible by detecting subtle infectivity profiles, mapping the transmission dynamics of new variants, reducing costs, training a larger healthcare workforce, and providing test kits to the masses. Our aim is to establish universal access to COVID-19 testing and diagnostics, recognizing the tradeoffs during the development and distribution cycles of new testing platforms.
 Benda, A.; Zerajic, L.; Ankita, A.; Cleary, E.; Park, Y.; Pandey, S. COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostics: A Review of Commercialized Technologies for Cost, Convenience and Quality of Tests. Sensors 2021, 21, 6581. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21196581
Impact of supernova and cosmic-ray driving on the surface brightness of the galactic halo in soft X-rays
Creators: name: Peters, Thomas
name: Girichidis, Philipp
name: Gatto, Andrea
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Walch, Stefanie
name: Wünsch, Richard
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Clark, Paul C.
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
name: Baczynski, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The halo of the Milky Way contains a hot plasma with a surface brightness in soft X-rays of the order $10^{-12}$erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ deg$^{-2}$. The origin of this gas is unclear, but so far numerical models of galactic star formation have failed to reproduce such a large surface brightness by several orders of magnitude. In this paper, we analyze simulations of the turbulent, magnetized, multi-phase interstellar medium including thermal feedback by supernova explosions as well as cosmic-ray feedback. We include a time-dependent chemical network, self-shielding by gas and dust, and self-gravity. Pure thermal feedback alone is sufficient to produce the observed surface brightness, although it is very sensitive to the supernova rate. Cosmic rays suppress this sensitivity and reduce the surface brightness because they drive cooler outflows. Self-gravity has by far the largest effect because it accumulates the diffuse gas in the disk in dense clumps and filaments, so that supernovae exploding in voids can eject a large amount of hot gas into the halo. This can boost the surface brightness by several orders of magnitude. Although our simulations do not reach a steady state, all simulations produce surface brightness values of the same order of magnitude as the observations, with the exact value depending sensitively on the simulation parameters. We conclude that star formation feedback alone is sufficient to explain the origin of the hot halo gas, but measurements of the surface brightness alone do not provide useful diagnostics for the study of galactic star formation.
description: ApJ Letters in press
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1054
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1289 col. 26. Philodemus, De Epicuro 2
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
A Survey of How Organizations Address the Information Needs of Farmworkers and Considerations for Mobile Solutions
Creators: name: Blaine, Alison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations
Farmworkers--Information needs
Farmworkers--Mobile phones

description: This study describes results from a survey of organizations that deliver information to farmworkers and three semi-structured interviews related to mobile technology projects that address farmworker information needs. The survey was conducted to determine how organizations currently meet farmworker information needs and explore whether mobile technology is part of their information solutions. The interviews were conducted to provide examples of mobile solutions and offer considerations for organizations interested in exploring mobile options.
Experimental Determination of the Fermi Surface of Sr3Ir4Sn13
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoye
name: Goh, Swee K.
name: Tompsett, David A.
name: Yu, Wing Chi
name: Klintberg, Lina
name: Friedemann, Sven
name: Tan, HongEn
name: Yang, Jinhu
name: Chen, Bin
name: Imai, M.
name: Yoshimura, Kazuyoshi
name: Gamza, Monika B.
name: Grosche, F. Malte
name: Sutherland, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stannide family of materials A3T4Sn13 (A = La,Sr,Ca, T = Ir,Rh) is interesting due to the interplay between a tunable lattice instability and phonon-mediated superconductivity with Tc ~ 5-7 K. In Sr3Ir4Sn13 a structural transition temperature T* ~ 147 K associated with this instability has been reported, which is believed to result from a superlattice distortion of the high temperature phase on cooling. Here we report the first experimental study of the electronic structure of a member of this material family - Sr3Ir4Sn13 through measurements of quantum oscillations and comparison with density functional theory calculations. Our measurements reveal good agreement with theory using the lattice parameters consistent with a body-centred cubic lattice of symmetry I-43d of the low temperature phase. The study of the fermiology of Sr3Ir4Sn13 we present here should help inform models of multiband superconductivity in the superconducting stannides.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Librarian Perceptions of Problematic Adult Behavior in the Teen Space
Creators: name: Defibaugh, Neda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Public libraries--North Carolina
Libraries & young adults
Young adult services librarians

description: This study investigated problematic adult behavior in the teen spaces of public libraries in North Carolina. Data was gathered through surveys and interviews, recruiting participants through the state listserv for children and youth services library staff. The results of this study found that problematic behavior commonly included adult use of space, invasion of teen privacy, predatory behavior, disregard of library policies or signage, and acting as authority figures towards teens within the space. This study concludes libraries should consider the role the physical library layout plays in problematic incidents, as well as foster cooperation among staff outside of youth or teen services in addressing problematic behavior in addition to current strategies for handling problematic adult behavior.
Tuning the nuclei-induced spin relaxation of localized electrons by the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects
Creators: name: Nedelea, Vitalie
name: Leppenen, Nikita V.
name: Evers, Eiko
name: Smirnov, Dmitry S.
name: Bayer, Manfred
name: Greilich, Alex
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Zeno dynamics
subject: Spin polarization
subject: Quantum dots
subject: Pump-probe spectroscopy
subject: 530

description: Quantum measurement back action is fundamentally unavoidable when manipulating electron spins. Here we demonstrate that this back action can be efficiently exploited to tune the spin relaxation of localized electrons induced by the hyperfine interaction. In optical pump-probe experiments, powerful probe pulses suppress the spin relaxation of electrons on Si donors in an InGaAs epilayer due to the quantum Zeno effect. By contrast, an increase of the probe power leads to a speed-up of the spin relaxation for electrons in InGaAs quantum dots due to the quantum anti-Zeno effect. The microscopic description shows that the transition between the two regimes occurs when the spin dephasing time is comparable to the probe pulse repetition period.
description: Physical review research;5(3)
Hydrologic performance assessment of regulated and alternative strategies for flood mitigation: a case study in São Paulo, Brazil
Creators: name: Calixto, Kalyl Gomes
name: Wendland, Edson Cezar
name: de Carvalho Diniz Melo, Davi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: This study examines the hydrologic performance of conventional and low-impact development (LID) stormwater approaches when implemented as retrofit measures in a highly urbanised catchment (10.23 km2). A hydrologic-hydrodynamic model was proposed to simulate different implementation scenarios. Rainfall data and downstream water level observations between 01/2016 and 02/2019 were used to calibrate and validate (0.77≤NSE≤0.97) the model for the current situation. The simulation of stormwater control, as indicated in the municipal regulation, involving on-site retention tanks at a lot scale, led to peak flow reductions of 5% for a 10-year design storm event. When the number of dwelling owners subjected to comply with the control measures was increased, a peak flow reduction of 18% for the same event was reached. Modelling tools can guide policy and rule-making processes from a catchment management perspective, supporting the evaluation and improvement of strategies adopted in urban stormwater management.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1055
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1289 col. 25. Philodemus, De Epicuro 2
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Equal Opportunities for Both: Julius Rosenwald, Jim Crow and the Charleston Free Library's Record of Service to Blacks, 1931-1960
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Suzanna W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000
Subjects: Blacks and the Library
Segregation and the Library
History--Public libraries
Afro-Americans
South Carolina--Public Libraries
Minorities--Library Service

description: From 1930 to 1935 the Julius Rosenwald Fund supported eleven county library demonstrations in the South, with the aim of establishing a model of county-wide service with "equal opportunities" for both races. This study examines Charleston Free Library's participation and its aftermath. Though CFL extended service to blacks for the first time, it was unequal to white service and declined further in percentage terms by 1960. The study concludes that CFL's inferior service to African-Americans was caused more by the Jim Crow environment and the worsening of white racial animus, than by variables under the library's control. Since public libraries are "creatures of government" this suggests the need for further study both to find ways to reduce their political vulnerability and increase their capacity to serve underserved minorities, and to assess the quality of current library service to blacks in Southern jurisdictions with large percentages of black population.
MRF-ZOOM: A Fast Dictionary Searching Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting
Creators: name: Wang, Ze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a new technique for simultaneously quantifying multiple MR parameters using one temporally resolved MR scan. But its brute-force dictionary generating and searching (DGS) process causes a huge disk space demand and computational burden, prohibiting it from a practical multiple slice high-definition imaging. The purpose of this paper was to provide a fast and space efficient DGS algorithm for MRF. Based on an empirical analysis of properties of the distance function of the acquired MRF signal and the pre-defined MRF dictionary entries, we proposed a parameter separable MRF DGS method, which breaks the multiplicative computation complexity into an additive one and enabling a resolution scalable multi-resolution DGS process, which was dubbed as MRF ZOOM. The evaluation results showed that MRF ZOOM was hundreds or thousands of times faster than the original brute-force DGS method. The acceleration was even higher when considering the time difference for generating the dictionary. Using a high precision quantification, MRF can find the right parameter values for a 64x64 imaging slice in 117 secs. Our data also showed that spatial constraints can be used to further speed up MRF ZOOM.
description: 7 figures
Yield, content, and nutrient uptake by winter wheat and spring barley in response to applications of digestate, cattle slurry, and NPK mineral fertilizers
Creators: name: Barłóg, Przemysław
name: Hlisnikovský, Lukáš
name: Kunzová, Eva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Digestate represents an alternative source of nutrients for crops in sustainable agriculture. We aimed to evaluate the effects of digestate fertilization on grain (GY) and straw yield (SY) and nutrient content and uptake in winter wheat (WW) and spring barley (SB). The study duration was from 2012 to 2016, with the following crop rotation: WW/WW/SB/WW. Every year, the same fertilizers were applied to each respective plot: control, digestate, digestate + straw, cattle slurry, and mineral NPK fertilizer. Significantly higher GY and SY were noted after fertilizer application each year compared to the non-fertilized control. The average effect of the fertilizers on GY of WW was control < NPK ≤ digestate + straw ≤ cattle slurry ≤ digestate. Fertilizer application also increased N, S, Na, Zn, and Fe content in the grains, especially when digestate was used as fertilizer. However, in non-fertilized plants (control), only the K content increased in the grains, although the uptake of K is positively correlated with GY. Our results show that digestate can be used not only as a replacement for cattle slurry but also as an alternative fertilizer, which, under certain soil conditions, is more effective than NPK fertilizer.
The scarcity and distribution of rainfall drove the performance (i.e., mitigation of N oxide emissions, crop yield and quality) of calcium ammonium nitrate management in a wheat crop under rainfed semiarid conditions
Creators: name: Guardia, Guillermo
name: González-Murua, Carmen
name: Fuertes-Mendizábal, Teresa
name: Vallejo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Selection and management of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers, including nitrification inhibitors, are considered an effective strategy to mitigate N oxide emissions, but depends strongly on soil characteristics and climatic conditions. We evaluated the effect of the use of a nitrification inhibitor (2-(3,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl) succinic acid isomeric mixture (DMPSA)) or splitting calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) on the N oxides and CH4 emissions, yield, N use efficiency (NUE) and bread-making quality in a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop. During a typical rainfall cropping season, neither splitting CAN nor using DMPSA reduced significantly the area-scaled or yield-scaled emissions in comparison to a single application of CAN without inhibitors. This could be explained by the low emissions in CAN amended plots. Conversely, in the subsequent extremely dry cropping season, higher N oxide peaks occurred after soil rewetting and the effectiveness of DMPSA was significant in these conditions (e.g. 83% mitigation for NO). No improvement in the NUE, yield or bread-making quality was achieved with a split application or DMPSA added to the fertilizer. Under the conditions of the study, splitting CAN should not be recommended from a yield-scaled emissions viewpoint, while the use of DMPSA may be encouraged due to large variability in the amount and distribution of rainfall.
Adult New Reader Materials Available Here: A Survey of Literacy Materials Available in Three North Carolina Public Library Systems
Creators: name: Borene, Elizabeth R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Public libraries--Book selection
New literates--Reading
Literacy
Public libraries--Services to illiterates
Immigrants--Reading

description: In 1999, researcher Denni Kay Scales asked the question: How do adult new readers find literacy materials in the public library? The following study is an attempt to continue the discussion by addressing a similar question in surveying three library systems in North Carolina, and also to evaluate the presence or absence of a separate literacy section.  The findings point to even more diversity in subject matter and location than Scales found. The results of this study indicate that literacy materials, when carried by a public library, are rarely shelved in a separate literacy section, and sometimes even in more than one section of the main collections.  This prompts the following questions: Is a literacy section needed in public libraries? What are the benefits of separating this material out for adult new readers? Should literacy materials be integrated with the main collections?
Towards a spin-ensemble quantum memory for superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Grezes, C.
name: Kubo, Y.
name: Julsgaard, B.
name: Umeda, T.
name: Isoya, J.
name: Sumiya, H.
name: Abe, H.
name: Onoda, S.
name: Ohshima, T.
name: Nakamura, K.
name: Diniz, I.
name: Auffeves, A.
name: Jacques, V.
name: Roch, J. -F.
name: Vion, D.
name: Esteve, D.
name: Moelmer, K.
name: Bertet, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews efforts to build a new type of quantum device, which combines an ensemble of electronic spins with long coherence times, and a small-scale superconducting quantum processor. The goal is to store over long times arbitrary qubit states in orthogonal collective modes of the spin-ensemble, and to retrieve them on-demand. We first present the protocol devised for such a multi-mode quantum memory. We then describe a series of experimental results using NV center spins in diamond, which demonstrate its main building blocks: the transfer of arbitrary quantum states from a qubit into the spin ensemble, and the multi-mode retrieval of classical microwave pulses down to the single-photon level with a Hahn-echo like sequence. A reset of the spin memory is implemented in-between two successive sequences using optical repumping of the spins.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1056
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1289 col. 24. Philodemus, De Epicuro 2
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Protestant Theological Libraries: Past, Present and Future
Creators: name: Mitchell, Christine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Religious libraries and collections
Association of Theological Schools
American Theological Library Association
Religious education History

description: Protestant theological education in the United States has progressed through three stages of development: college, parsonage and seminary. The theological library has progressed as well collecting, maintaining and disseminating a collection of resources that are the shared stories of believers in the Divine. Organizations such as the Association of Theological Schools and the American Theological Library Association have helped to further the work of theological libraries in the ministry of the seminary. What challenges will theological libraries face in the 21st century? Inextricably linked, theological education and the theological library must work together as partners to faithfully serve the Church.
Entanglement entropy and entropy production in the Color Glass Condensate framework
Creators: name: Kovner, Alex
name: Lublinsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the entanglement entropy of soft gluons in the wave function of a fast moving hadron and discuss its basic properties. We also derive the expression for entropy production in a high energy hadronic collision within the Color Glass formalism. We show that long range rapidity correlations give negative contribution to the production entropy. We calculate the (naturally defined) temperature of the produced system of particles, and show that it is proportional to the average transverse momentum of the produced particles.
description: 13 pages
Ethics Approval
Creators: name: Urry, Heather
name: Sifre, Erin
name: Song, Justin
name: Steinberg, Hannah
name: Bornstein, Michelle
name: Kim, Joan
name: Rimniceanu, Martha
name: Sashihara, Marissa
name: Artz, Annie
name: Chin, Kathy
name: Flynn, Eliza
name: Na, Elim
name: Andrews, Mel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: IRB protocol and (once IRB approval is received) approval notice, stamped consent forms, stamped debriefing form
D6.4 – Report on Environmental Assessment
Creators: name: Rettenmaier, Niels
name: Zinke, Christina
name: Wagner, Tobias
name: Reinhardt, Guido
name: Fernando, Ana Luisa
name: Costa, Jorge
name: Barbosa, Bruno
name: Duarte, Maria
name: Gonçalves, Margarida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomass
Biobased
BioFuels
Marginal Lands

description: Land availability is a major factor which limits the cultivation of industrial crops for bioenergy and bio-based products. Competition for arable land is likely to intensify worldwide over the coming decades. This conflict could partially be alleviated by using so-called marginal land – provided that the land is currently not used for the cultivation of crops. Against this back-ground, the EU-funded MAGIC project (“Marginal lands for Growing Industrial Crops”, GA No. 727698) aims at promoting the sustainable development of resource-efficient and eco-nomically profitable industrial crops grown on marginal land, considering that industrial crops can provide valuable resources for high value products and bioenergy.
 As part of the comprehensive integrated life cycle sustainability assessment within MAGIC, the life cycle environmental impacts associated with nine selected value chains (combina-tions of industrial crops and biomass conversion technologies) were analysed in this study. In order to cover the range of potential environmental impacts as completely as possible, the environmental assessment combined two methods: screening Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment (LC-EIA).
Holographic de Sitter Geometry from Entanglement in Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: de Boer, Jan
name: Heller, Michal P.
name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Neiman, Yasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the entanglement entropy are solutions of a Klein-Gordon equation in an auxiliary de Sitter (dS) spacetime. The role of the emergent time-like direction in dS is played by the size of the entangling sphere. For CFTs with extra conserved charges, e.g., higher spin charges, we show that each charge gives rise to a separate dynamical scalar field in dS.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. v2: reference added, title changed by journal, matches published version
Mixed & Matched: the Representation of Interracial Families in Children's Books
Creators: name: Neil, Dawna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Interracial families
Multiracial identity
Content analysis--Children's literature

description: As America's racial diversity includes an increasing number of multiracial families and children, it's imperative that diverse resources accurately showcase these families to help children discuss their racial identities. This study uses content analysis to explore how interracial families are portrayed in children's books and how these books address the subject of race. It discusses how the family representations match current population statistics and are affected by authors'/illustrators' racial identities. The research uses guidelines for identifying racism published by the Council on Interracial Books for Children and Rudine Sims Bishop's categories of cultural treatment to compare trends and locate deficiencies. This research identifies areas of improvement needed in regard to the number and types of multiracial children's books created, particularly for Hispanic (Latino) and Asian mixed race populations. It also helps parents, educators, librarians, and child care providers identify quality resources to guide children in multiracial self-identification.