cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Browers, platforms, and monitors, Oh My!!!  Maintaining compatibility on the Yellow Brick Road of Web Design
Creators: name: Ahlas, Harry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001
Subjects: Internet Electronic Commerce--Standards
Information systems--Design
World Wide Web--Accessibility

description: This study describes data collected regarding design decisions Web developers make in order to make their interfaces and content compatible across user environments. Qualitative data was gathered through interviews with developers across the United States. Quantitative data was collected through an examination of several Web sites' source code. Web content does not render the same in every environment. A site may have an attractive interface when viewed through one browser while being completely incomprehensible in another browser. Web developers face the complex task of deciding what types of environments to design for. This research explores the current trends and standards that developers implement to achieve compatibility.
Quantum State Preparation Using an Exact CNOT Synthesis Formulation
Creators: name: Wang, Hanyu
name: Tan, Bochen
name: Cong, Jason
name: De Micheli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Minimizing the use of CNOT gates in quantum state preparation is a crucial step in quantum compilation, as they introduce coupling constraints and more noise than single-qubit gates. Reducing the number of CNOT gates can lead to more efficient and accurate quantum computations. However, the lack of compatibility to model superposition and entanglement challenges the scalability and optimality of CNOT optimization algorithms on classical computers. In this paper, we propose an effective state preparation algorithm using an exact CNOT synthesis formulation. Our method represents a milestone as the first design automation algorithm to surpass manual design, reducing the best CNOT numbers to prepare a Dicke state by 2x. For general states with up to 20 qubits, our method reduces the CNOT number by 9% and 32% for dense and sparse states, on average, compared to the latest algorithms.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
The polygon relation and subadditivity of entropic measures for discrete and continuous multipartite entanglement
Creators: name: Liu, Lijun
name: Ge, Xiaozhen
name: Cheng, Shuming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent work [Ge {\it et al.}, arXiv: 2312. 17496 (2023)], we have derived the polygon relation of bipartite entanglement measures that is useful to reveal the entanglement properties of discrete, continuous, and even hybrid multipartite quantum systems. In this work, with the information-theoretical measures of Rényi and Tsallis entropies, we study the relationship between the polygon relation and the subadditivity of entropy. In particular, the entropy-polygon relations are derived for pure multi-qubit states and generalized to multi-mode Gaussian states, by utilizing the known results from the quantum marginal problem. Moreover, the equivalence between the polygon relation and subadditivity is established, in the sense that for all discrete or continuous multipartite states, the polygon relation holds if and only if the underlying entropy is subadditive. As byproduct, the subadditivity of Rényi and Tsallis entropies is proven for all bipartite Gaussian states. Finally, the difference between polygon relations and monogamy relations is clarified, and generalizations of our results are discussed. Our work provides a better understanding of the rich structure of multipartite states, and hence is expected to be helpful for the study of multipartite entanglement.
description: 9 pages; Any comments are welcome
Additional file 2 of Clostridioides difficile toxin is infrequently detected in inflammatory bowel disease and does not associate with clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Bernard, Rachel
name: Hammami, Muhammad B.
name: Arnold, Forest W.
name: Mcgrath, Brian
name: Patel, Alieysa
name: Wuerth, Brandon
name: Nicholson, Maribeth R.
name: Rao, Krishna
name: Micic, Dejan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. ANOVA table for full model including toxin status, inpatient status and age for hemoglobin. Accompanying graph shows hemoglobin values across toxin status for both inpatients and outpatients. Table S2. ANOVA table for full model including toxin status, inpatient status and age for albumin. Accompanying graph shows serum albumin values across toxin status for both inpatients and outpatients.
Inter-stimulus Interval Study for the Tactile Point-pressure Brain-computer Interface
Creators: name: Shimizu, Kensuke
name: Makino, Shoji
name: Rutkowski, Tomasz M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents a study of an inter-stimulus interval (ISI) influence on a tactile point-pressure stimulus-based brain-computer interface's (tpBCI) classification accuracy. A novel tactile pressure generating tpBCI stimulator is also discussed, which is based on a three-by-three pins' matrix prototype. The six pin-linear patterns are presented to the user's palm during the online tpBCI experiments in an oddball style paradigm allowing for "the aha-responses" elucidation, within the event related potential (ERP). A subsequent classification accuracies' comparison is discussed based on two ISI settings in an online tpBCI application. A research hypothesis of classification accuracies' non-significant differences with various ISIs is confirmed based on the two settings of 120 ms and 300 ms, as well as with various numbers of ERP response averaging scenarios.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for EMBC 2015, IEEE copyright
Regularity estimates for elliptic nonlocal operators
Creators: name: Dyda, Bartlomiej
name: Kassmann, Moritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B05, 35B45, 35B05, 35R11, 47G20, 60J75

description: We study weak solutions to nonlocal equations governed by integrodifferential operators. Solutions are defined with the help of symmetric nonlocal bilinear forms. Throughout this work, our main emphasis is on operators with general, possibly singular, measurable kernels. We obtain regularity results which are robust with respect to the differentiability order of the equation. Furthermore, we provide a general tool for the derivation of Hölder a-priori estimates from the weak Harnack inequality. This tool is applicable for several local and nonlocal, linear and nonlinear problems on metric spaces. Another aim of this work is to provide comparability results for nonlocal quadratic forms.
description: 43 pages, 1 figure
ASQC/Gallup Poll # 1991-103190: Public Opinion Toward the Quality of American, German and Japanese Products
Creators: name: American Society For Quality Control
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Determination of product quality (1); influences on purchase decision (11); willingness to pay for quality (4); determination of service quality (1); rating the quality of certain service industries (7); rating the quality of American/Japanese/German products (3); effort of business to deliver quality (4); importance of quality to American/Japanese/German workers (3); Japanese/German product purchases (7); foreign product purchases (1); rating product quality by country of origin (7).
Additional file 1 of Mapping research evidence on perinatal asphyxia within the sustainable development era in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Mensah, Michael K.
name: Tano Kofi, Franky K.
name: Ansu-Mensah, Monica
name: Bawontuo, Vitalis
name: Kuupiel, Desmond
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist
Locally-homogeneous Riemann-Cartan geometries with the largest symmetry group
Creators: name: McNutt, D. D.
name: Hoogen, R. J. van den
name: Coley, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The symmetry frame formalism is an effective tool for computing the symmetries of a Riemann-Cartan geometry and, in particular, in metric teleparallel geometries. In the case of non-vanishing torsion in a four dimensional Riemann-Cartan geometry, the Minkowski geometry is the only geometry admitting ten affine frame symmetries. Excluding this geometry, the maximal number of affine frame symmetries is seven. A natural question is to ask what four dimensional geometries admit a seven-dimensional group of affine frame symmetries. Such geometries are locally homogeneous and admit the largest isotropy group permitted, and hence are called maximally isotropic. Using the symmetry frame formalism to compute affine frame symmetries along with the additional structure of the torsion tensor, we employ the Cartan-Karlhede algorithm to determine all possible seven-dimensional symmetry groups for Riemann-Cartan geometries.
description: 43 pages. Corrections have been made to the irreducible form of the curvature tensor and the resulting analysis for the largest symmetry groups
Bush/Terrorism/Government Priorities/Economy
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: George W. Bush job performance (7); war on terrorism (5); congress job performance (1); opinion of public figures (8); legislative priorities (2); most important issues (4); congressional elections (8); congressional proposals (5); democratic nominations (1); Bush vs. Gore (1); George W. Bush qualities (7); future terrorist attacks (1); Osama bin Laden (2); economy (11); federal budget deficits (2); tax cuts (3); confidence in American Institutions (6); Enron Energy Corporation (3); Cloning humans (1).
Find the Pulse: An Analysis of the Learning Management System Needs Assessment Process at the UNC School of Medicine
Creators: name: Moynihan, Brian F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009
Subjects: Learning Management Systems

description: This paper analyzes the University of North Carolina School of Medicine's search for a Learning Management System (LMS) as part of a larger project to upgrade its student processing application suite in 2008 and 2009. It describes the needs assessment process that the School undertook to gather requirements, the Request For Proposals and other documents that resulted, and the process by which an LMS was chosen. Two LMSs were finally considered to fill this role: Blackboard, a leading proprietary system, and Sakai, an open source alternative. This paper also describes the complex factors that necessitated this needs assessment and shaped its development, the role of open source software on campus, and the larger implications of the decision for UNC Chapel Hill.
Bayesian inference of multimessenger astrophysical data: Joint and coherent inference of gravitational waves and kilonovae
Creators: name: Breschi, Matteo
name: Gamba, Rossella
name: Carullo, Gregorio
name: Godzieba, Daniel
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
name: Perego, Albino
name: Radice, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Bayesian framework for joint and coherent analyses of multimessenger binary neutron star signals. The method, implemented in our bajes infrastructure, incorporates a joint likelihood for multiple datasets, support for various semi-analytical kilonova models and numerical-relativity (NR) informed relations for the mass ejecta, as well as a technique to include and marginalize over modeling uncertainties. As a first application, we analyze the gravitational-wave GW170817 and the kilonova AT2017gfo data. These results are then combined with the most recent X-ray pulsars analyses of PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620 to obtain EOS constraints.Various constraints on the mass-radius diagram and neutron star properties are then obtained by resampling over a set of ten million parametrized EOS built under minimal assumptions. We find that a joint and coherent approach improves the inference of the extrinsic parameters (distance) and, among the instrinc parameters, the mass ratio. The inclusion of NR informed relations strongly improves over the case of using an agnostic prior on the intrinsic parameters. Comparing Bayes factors, we find that the two observations are better explained by the common source hypothesis only by assuming NR-informed relations. These relations break some of the degeneracies in the employed kN models. The EOS inference folding-in PSR J0952-0607 minimum-maximum mass, PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620 data constrains, among other quantities, the neutron star radius to $R_{1.4}={12.30}^{+0.81}_{-0.56}$ km ($R_{1.4}={13.20}^{+0.91}_{-0.90}$ km) and the maximum mass to $M_{max}={2.28}^{+0.25}_{-0.17}~{\rm M_\odot}$ ($M_{max}={2.32}^{+0.30}_{-0.19}~{\rm M_\odot}$) where the ST+PDT (PDT-U) analysis of Vinciguerra et a (2023) for PSR J0030+0451 is employed. Hence, the systematics on PSR J0030+0451 data reduction currently dominate the mass-radius diagram constraints.
Olvidados Entre la Cosecha: Understanding Social Needs and Health Disparities through Farm Workers' Perspectives
Creators: name: Ruiz Malagon, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Farmworkers, Social Health Disparities, Community Wellbeing, Race and Trauma

description: Background: Although farm workers are integral to the agricultural industry, they are systematically excluded from health and social resources. Such exclusion has created economic, social, and health disparities (Anthony et al., 2008; Liebman et al., 2021; Ramos A. K, 2018). Objectives: This study aims to explore farmworkers’ experiences related to health pre and post COVID, and to understand social disparities in their lives while narrating their priorities and concerns. Political and economic factors contributing to the unmet social and health needs of farmworkers are discussed. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in full partnership with a farmworker community organization on the San Mateo coast. Testimonios and semi-structured interview questions were developed with input from farmworker advocates and farmworkers. Transcripts were coded and analyzed using an inductive approach. Results: Four core themes regarding the community’s lived experiences and needs emerged: (a) Racialization and Dehumanization; (b) Social Welfare and Basic Needs; (c) Cultural Wealth and Community Agency (d) Violence and Trauma. Conclusion: Findings yield implications for the impact of this methodology and of community organizations on improving farmworker lives and to center lived experiences to inform program development and policy priorities to aid farm workers and bridge social and health outcome gaps.
Additional file 1 of Towards a unified English technology-based writing curriculum in the Arabian Gulf countries: the case of Oman
Creators: name: Al Sharoufi, Hussain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Report on Dr. Hussein Al-Sharoufi’s Visit.
General Gauge Mediation at the Weak Scale
Creators: name: Knapen, Simon
name: Redigolo, Diego
name: Shih, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We completely characterize General Gauge Mediation (GGM) at the weak scale by solving all IR constraints over the full parameter space. This is made possible through a combination of numerical and analytical methods, based on a set of algebraic relations among the IR soft masses derived from the GGM boundary conditions in the UV. We show how tensions between just a few constraints determine the boundaries of the parameter space: electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB), the Higgs mass, slepton tachyons, and left-handed stop/sbottom tachyons. While these constraints allow the left-handed squarks to be arbitrarily light, they place strong lower bounds on all of the right-handed squarks. Meanwhile, light EW superpartners are generic throughout much of the parameter space. This is especially the case at lower messenger scales, where a positive threshold correction to $m_h$ coming from light Higgsinos and winos is essential in order to satisfy the Higgs mass constraint.
description: 43 pages, 20 figures, mathematica package included in the source
I Don't Get any Inspiration Sitting at my Desk: The Patterns of Flow Experiences in Expert Researchers
Creators: name: Aronson, Elliot
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Consciousness States--Flow (consciousness state)
Academic discourse
Research--Methodology

description: This study describes the findings from coding the transcripts of personal interviews with associate and full professors within the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science. The interviews were conducted to determine whether and how fully-present states of consciousness, known often as flow states in the literature, occurred in the research process.
A definite pattern was discovered wherein fully-present states of consciousness were occurring, but most often not during the active work of research, such as reading or writing. Rather, flow came to researchers when they would take a break from their work to do something less intellectually demanding. Here they would receive a personal insight on how to proceed with their work. Then the researchers would return to work to address the challenge of how to package what they had synthesized in their flow experience into language that could be understood and accepted by other researchers.
MPEC 2023-F145 : 2023 FD4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FD4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Isotropic Cooper Pairs with Emergent Sign Changes in Single-Layer Iron Superconductor
Creators: name: Rodriguez, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model a single layer of heavily electron-doped FeSe by spin-1/2 moments over a square lattice of iron atoms that include the 3d xz and 3d yz orbitals, at strong on-site Coulomb repulsion. Above half filling, we find emergent hole bands below the Fermi level at the center of the one-iron Brillouin zone in a half metal state characterized by hidden magnetic order and by electron-type Fermi surface pockets at wavenumbers that double the unit cell along the principal axes. "Replicas" of the emergent hole bands exist at lower energy in the two-iron Brillouin zone. Exact calculations with two mobile electrons find evidence for isotropic Cooper pairs that alternate in sign between the electron bands and the emergent hole bands.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, notes possibility of hidden magnetic order in intercalated FeSe
Metadata for Resource Description on Corporate Intranets
Creators: name: Obershaw, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001
Subjects: Information retrieval
Dublin Core
Metadata
Online searching
Cataloging
Intranets

description: Since resource discovery has become a difficult and time-consuming task, some corporations are instituting metadata initiatives to alleviate these problems. This paper reports on an exploratory study of the metadata schemas supporting corporate intranets. The study consists of two parts; an examination of the metadata elements currently in use for corporate intranets and a comparison of these elements to the schema developed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Schemas were collected from ten such corporations and the aggregate data was examined to uncover what types of elements are likely to be important for resource description on a corporate intranet. The results found that thirteen of the fifteen metadata elements most commonly used by schemas in this study are supported by the Dublin Core. An additional 20 elements not supported by the Dublin Core were also found. These additional elements show how corporations can enhance the Dublin Core to meet the needs of their own intranet.
title: Berufsbedingte Pendelmobilität, Geschlecht und Stress
title: Berufsbedingte Pendelmobilität, Geschlecht und Stress
Creators: name: Augustijn, Lara
Publisher: name: UD-E - Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 11006 Health Policy
subject: 20200 Women´s Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies

description: Berufsbedingte Pendelmobilität hat in Deutschland erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen, insbesondere für weibliche Erwerbstätige. Das Pendeln zwischen Wohn- und Arbeitsort ist jedoch in hohem Maße ambivalent, da Pendelmobilität nicht nur mit vorteilhafteren Arbeitsbedingungen verbunden ist, sondern auch als Stressor wirken kann. Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich daher der Frage, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen berufsbedingter Pendelmobilität und der subjektiven Wahrnehmung von Stress beobachtet werden kann. Zudem wird untersucht, wie das Geschlecht der Pendler auf diesen Zusammenhang wirkt. Analysen auf Basis des deutschen Beziehungs- und Familienpanels (pairfam, Welle 7, 2014/2015) belegen, dass berufsbedingte Pendelmobilität tatsächlich mit einer höheren Stressbelastung bei den Betroffenen einhergeht, allerdings nur bei weiblichen Pendlern. Faktoren wie die Pendeldauer und der Partnerschaftsstatus üben keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Wahrnehmung von Stress aus, allerdings trägt das Zusammenleben mit Kindern bei pendelnden Frauen zu einer erhöhten Stressbelastung bei.
description: Commuting between home and work has gained substantial importance for employees in Germany, especially for women. Commuting is, however, highly ambivalent: On the one hand it
may lead to more advantageous working conditions, on the other hand commuting can be a
stressor. This contribution investigates whether there is an association between commuting to
work and the commuters’ subjective perception of stress. In addition, it is also taken into account how the commuters’ gender may influence the potential link between commuting and
stress perception. The results of the analyses, which are based on the German Family Panel
(pairfam, wave 7, 2014/2015), indicate that commuters indeed show a higher stress level compared to other employees, although this finding only applies to women. While factors such as commuting time and partnership status have no significant impact on the level of perceived
stress, living together with children does increase the stress burden for commuting women.
description: Duisburger Beiträge zur soziologischen Forschung - DBsF
description: Duisburger Beiträge zur soziologischen Forschung - DBsF
Additional file 10 of Analysis of lineage-specific protein family variability in prokaryotes combined with evolutionary reconstructions
Creators: name: Karamycheva, Svetlana
name: Wolf, Yuri I.
name: Persi, Erez
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
name: Makarova, Kira S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Table S5. Correlation between the fraction of microsatellite regions (MSR) and low complexity regions (LCR) across csCOGs.
Kondo breakdown in multi-orbital Anderson lattices induced by destructive hybridization interference
Creators: name: Eickhoff, Fabian
name: Anders, Frithjof B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider a multi band extension to the periodic Anderson model. We use a single site DMFT(NRG) in order to study the impact of the conduction band mediated effective hopping of the correlated electrons between the correlated orbitals onto the heavy Fermi liquid formation. Whereas the hybridization of a single impurity model with two distinct conduction bands always adds up constructively, $T_{K}\propto \exp(-\mathrm{const}\, U/(Γ_1+Γ_2))$, we show that this does not have to be the case in lattice models, where, in remarkable contrast, also an low-energy Fermi liquid scale $T_0\propto \exp(-\mathrm{const}\, U/(Γ_1-Γ_2))$ can emerge due to quantum interference effects in multi band models, where $U$ denotes the local Coulomb matrix element of the correlated orbitals and $Γ_i$ the local hybridization strength of band $i$. At high symmetry points, heavy Fermi liquid formation is suppressed which is associated with a breakdown of the Kondo effect. This results in an asymptotically scale-invariant (i.e., power-law) spectrum of the correlated orbitals $\propto|ω|^{1/3}$, indicating non-Fermi liquid properties of the quantum critical point, and a small Fermi surface including only the light quasi-particles. This orbital selective Mott phase demonstrates the possibility of metallic local criticality within the general framework of ordinary single site DMFT.
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Veterans Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Time/branch/rank in military (7); 1984 elections (2); education before/after war (2); physical/mental health after the war (11); benefits/detriments of Vietnam service (6); U.S. war tactics (5); activities in Vietnam/Southeast Asia (9); presence at deaths of Vietnamese/Americans (5); retrospective opinion on U.S. involvement in the war (5); Westmoreland's performance as commanding general (2); trust in our leaders (3); likelihood of new U.S. involvement overseas(4); economic prospects/opportunities (2); Ronald Reagan ratings (2).
The First Five Years of the Charlotte County Library, 1937-1942
Creators: name: Peaden, Lucy H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rural libraries
Rural libraries--History
Rural libraries--Virginia
Public libraries--Virginia

description: On November 2, 1937, the Charlotte County Free Library opened its doors with five service goals to meet for the rural community. As the trailblazers of "David's Children," the name given to the nine other public libraries given by David K.E. Bruce to Southside Virginia communities, the librarians and trustees of the Charlotte County Free Library worked together to make the institution an overwhelming success. Over the next five years, despite a recession, Jim Crow politics, and World War Two, the library became a vital part of the rural farming community. How these goals were accomplished and the individuals behind these achievements will be investigated in this paper against the backdrop of the history of American public libraries.
HI-deficient galaxies in intermediate density environments
Creators: name: Denes, Helga
name: Kilborn, Virginia A.
name: Koribalski, Baerbel S.
name: Wong, O. Ivy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations show that spiral galaxies in galaxy clusters tend to have on average less neutral hydrogen (HI) than galaxies of the same type and size in the field. There is accumulating evidence that such HI-deficient galaxies are also relatively frequent in galaxy groups. An important question is, which mechanisms are responsible for the gas deficiency in galaxy groups. To gain a better understanding of how environment affects the gas content of galaxies, we identified a sample of six HI-deficient galaxies from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) using HI-optical scaling relations. One of the galaxies is located in the outskirts of the Fornax cluster, four are in loose galaxy groups and one is in a galaxy triplet. We present new high resolution HI observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of these galaxies. We discuss the possible cause of HI-deficiency in these galaxies based on HI observations and various multi-wavelength data. We find that the galaxies have truncated HI disks, lopsided gas distribution and some show asymmetries in their stellar disks. We conclude that both ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions are important gas removal mechanisms in low density environments.
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 17 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables
Above-Threshold Poles in Model-Independent Form Factor Parametrizations
Creators: name: Grinstein, Benjamin
name: Lebed, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model-independent parametrization for exclusive hadronic form factors commonly used for semileptonic decays is generalized to allow for the inclusion of above-threshold resonant poles of known mass and width. We discuss the interpretation of such poles, particularly with respect to the analytic structure of the relevant two-point Green's function in which they reside. Their presence has a remarkably small effect on the parametrization, as we show explicitly for the case of $D \to πe^+ ν_e$.
description: 8 pages, no figures, REVTeX. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D. References and clarifying remarks added
Additional file 1 of Analysis of lineage-specific protein family variability in prokaryotes combined with evolutionary reconstructions
Creators: name: Karamycheva, Svetlana
name: Wolf, Yuri I.
name: Persi, Erez
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
name: Makarova, Kira S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Features used for association analysis.
Impact of Cultural Markers on Localized Website Usability: A Case Study on Chinese and American Version of Multilingual Websites of MSN and Air China
Creators: name: Zhou, Mengze
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Website usability
Cultural markers

description: This study investigates how the web usability and design preferences differ under different cultural contexts by examining two multilingual websites in China and the United States, i.e., Air China and MSN. The study was performed in three phases: a usability test was carried out to evaluate the performance of two localized versions upon the same user's request, and then post-test questionnaires was given out to identify user's perceptions on five main types of cultural markers, and lastly a semi-structured interview was conducted to explore user's opinion about the impact of cultural dimensions on the web design and usability.  The findings indicate that cultural factors play a significant role in the way users approach their interaction with multilingual websites. And the comparison and analysis procedure can also be adapted for other websites under other cultural contexts.
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll # 2003-6035: 2004 Presidential Election/George W. Bush/Economic Policy/Iraq
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: Direction of the country (1); George W. Bush job performance (4); Congress job performance (1); feelings towards public figures/groups (10); 2004 Presidential election (4); Presidential primary (3); rating of George W. Bush qualities (7); top priorities for the President/Congress to address (1); views on government programs to stimulate the economy (1); economy (5); economic policy (14); foreign policy (10); judicial nomination review process (1); SARS virus (1); military service (2); vote in 2000 Presidential election (1).
Molecular-beam epitaxy of monolayer and bilayer WSe2: A scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy study and deduction of exciton binding energy
Creators: name: Liu, H. J.
name: Jiao, L.
name: Xie, L.
name: Yang, F.
name: Chen, J. L.
name: Ho, W. K.
name: Gao, C. L.
name: Jia, J. F.
name: Cui, X. D.
name: Xie, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interests in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides have prompted some recent efforts to grow ultrathin layers of these materials epitaxially using molecular-beam epitaxy. However, growths of monolayer and bilayer WSe2, an important member of the transition-metal dichalcogenides family, by the molecular-beam epitaxy method remain uncharted probably because of the difficulty in generating tungsten fluxes from the elemental source. In this work, we present a scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study of molecular-beam epitaxy-grown WSe2 monolayer and bilayer, showing atomically flat epifilm with no domain boundary defect. This contrasts epitaxial MoSe2 films grown by the same method, where a dense network of the domain boudaries defects is present. The scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements of monolayer and bilayer WSe2 domains of the same sample reveal not only the bandgap narrowing upon increasing the film thickness from monolayer to bilayer, but also a band-bending effect across the boundary between monolayer and bilayer domains. This band-bending appears to be dictated by the edge states at steps of the bilayer islands. Finally, comparison is made between the scanning tunneling spectroscopy-measured electronic bandgaps with the exciton emission energies measured by photoluminescence, and the exciton binding energies in monolayer and bilayer WSe2/MoSe2 are thus estimated.
Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Disaster Planning for Virginia's Public Libraries
Creators: name: DeVoe, Anna M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Disasters
Public libraries--Virginia
Disaster planning

description: This research is a study of disaster plans of public libraries in Virginia, and it serves to relay the importance of creating an effective disaster plan. Libraries were contacted in order to collect information on whether or not they had a disaster plan in place. Out of two-hundred and thirty-three libraries, sixty-four gave clear responses, and thirteen had electronically available plans. These plans were analyzed by examining two types of data: quantitative, such as presence of table of contents, number of pages, and creation date or last update, and qualitative, such as the overall content in relation to man-made and natural disasters, supplemental materials, and the three main aspects of disaster planning (preparedness, response, and recovery).
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll # 2004-6042: 2004 Presidential Election/War on Terrorism/Iraq/Economy/Same-Sex Marriage
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Direction of country (1); George W. Bush job performance (3); think George W. Bush does/does not deserve to be re-elected (1); opinion of certain public figures and groups (7); intention to vote in this November's elections for president and Congress (1); George W. Bush vs. John Kerry (1); will/will not definitely vote for candidate (2); how important to respondent that George W. Bush be re-elected (1); how important to respondent that George W. Bush be defeated (1); George W. Bush vs. John Kerry vs. Ralph Nader (1); George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. John Kerry and John Edwards vs. Ralph Nader (1); George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. John Kerry and Dick Gephardt (1); George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton (1); John Kerry (5); preference for outcome of next year's congressional elections (1); most important issues in choosing between presidential candidates (1); war on terror (1); proposed laws and regulations (18); Iraq (8); economy (14); personal finances (1); Social Security (2); favor/oppose rights and benefits for gay and lesbian couples (1); gay marriage (3); approve/disapprove of President Bush deploying Marines in Haiti (1); importance of presidential candidates' military records during Vietnam War in deciding vote (1); do/do not own a gun (1).
Dynamical transition from localized to uniform scrambling in locally hyperbolic systems
Creators: name: Steinhuber, Mathias
name: Schlagheck, Peter
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Fast scrambling of quantum correlations, reflected by the exponential growth of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) on short pre-Ehrenfest time scales, is commonly considered as a major quantum signature of unstable dynamics in quantum systems with a classical limit. In two recent works [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160401 (2019)] and [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 140602 (2020)], a significant difference in the scrambling rate of integrable (many-body) systems was observed, depending on the initial state being semiclassically localized around unstable fixed points or fully delocalized (infinite temperature). Specifically, the quantum Lyapunov exponent λq quantifying the OTOC growth is given, respectively, by λq=2λs or λq=λs in terms of the stability exponent λs of the hyperbolic fixed point. Here we show that a wave packet, initially localized around this fixed point, features a distinct dynamical transition between these two regions. We present an analytical semiclassical approach providing a physical picture of this phenomenon, and support our findings by extensive numerical simulations in the whole parameter range of locally unstable dynamics of a Bose-Hubbard dimer. Our results suggest that the existence of this crossover is a hallmark of unstable separatrix dynamics in integrable systems, thus opening the possibility to distinguish the latter, on the basis of this particular observable, from genuine chaotic dynamics generally featuring uniform exponential growth of the OTOC.
Finding Propertius: Access to European Medieval Manuscripts
Creators: name: Pennow, Carolyn A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Manuscripts--History
Manuscripts--European
Manuscripts--Cataloging

description: This paper examines the analog and digital methods of medieval manuscript  description and cataloging in several European repositories, focusing on a  single Latin author, Propertius, whose Monobiblos continues to provide an  exercise in textual transmission for Classical scholars.  One hundred forty-six manuscripts, dating from the late twelfth century to the  early sixteenth century CE, survive to this day. They are held solely at  European repositories, in Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,  Germany, Spain, France, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, and  Russia. Each country has different access points and metadata standards, and  this paper examines many of them in an attempt to find a viable standard for  future manuscript catalogue digitization.
Drops of volatile binary mixtures on brush-covered substrates
Creators: name: Diekmann, Jan
name: Thiele, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a mesoscopic hydrodynamic model for drops of binary mixtures of volatile partially wetting liquids on brush-covered substrates, i.e., we model the coupled dynamics of spreading, evaporation, imbibition, diffusion and partial demixing of the two volatile components across the three phases - brush, drop and gas. The formulation of the model as gradient dynamics on an underlying free energy functional allows us to systematically account for cross-couplings between the six scalar fields needed to describe the dynamics of both components within each of the three phases. The energy accounts for concentration- and brush state-dependent capillarity and wettability, miscibility of the two components within drop and brush, and entropy in the gas. Finally, the usage of the model is illustrated by employing numerical time simulations to study the dynamics of a sessile drop.
VRS 1992 Washington Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1993

description: Vote in 1992 presidential election(1); vote in 1992 senatorial election (1); national economy situation(1); voting record(1); voting intention (1); personal economy situation(1); party preference(1); opinion of Judge Clarence Thomas(1); term limits for officials(1); abortion(1); vote in 1992 governor election(1); women in senate(1).
A Public Library Learning Organization: A Case Study
Creators: name: Pierce, Cynthia C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Public libraries--Case studies
Public libraries--Administration
Staff participation in administration
In-service education
Personnel--Administration
Public libraries--Staff

description: This study examined the practices of one public library system operating as a learning organization. The library bases its practices on the five disciplines described by Peter Senge: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking. Eight managers participated in detailed interviews, and 94 employees completed questionnaires designed to elicit information about their experiences and perceptions of working in a learning organization. A strong commitment to staff development and learning is a hallmark of the library's operation. It reflects managers' understanding that an organization's ability to serve its users and to thrive in an ever-changing environment is based on its ability to learn, and that learning begins with every individual employee. While respondents offered unique perspectives on the details of the library's functioning, there was a general agreement that it was successfully working as a learning organization.
Additional file 2 of Analysis of lineage-specific protein family variability in prokaryotes combined with evolutionary reconstructions
Creators: name: Karamycheva, Svetlana
name: Wolf, Yuri I.
name: Persi, Erez
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
name: Makarova, Kira S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. The scheme of phylogenetic tree for WcaE-like glycosyltransferases of COG1216. Approximate maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree was built using FastTree (WAG evolutionary model, gamma distributed site rates) [52] based on multiple alignment of 1423 COG1216 sequences from complete genomes of archaea and bacteria. Six branches (A-D, colored red) belong to same csCOG (sulfo9.00007) and are indicated on the Fig. 6 for respective genes. Other archaeal sequences or branches are colored yellow and bacterial—black.
Alexandria's ashes: war and the loss of libraries
Creators: name: Hamblin, Penelope
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999
Subjects: Libraries--Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--20th century
Libraries--Louvain (Belgium)--History--20th century
Jewish libraries--Lithuania--History -20th century
Libraries--Germany--17th century
Libraries--History--20th century

description: For as long as libraries have existed, they have been vulnerable to plunder, damage, and destruction during periods of war and political conflict.  This study explores four notorious instances in which libraries were deliberately targeted.  Historical and journalistic accounts, official statements, eyewitness  testimony, and gestures are analyzed for what they may reveal about the personal and cultural value of these libraries at the moment of their loss.  Belligerents may destroy or appropriate library collections in order to deprive their opponents of material treasure, to disarm them intellectually, or to control or destroy cherished cultural relics.  At the moment of their catastrophic loss, libraries also appear to assume symbolic value as the embodiment of a civilization or a culture.  For these reasons, it is likely that libraries will continue to be targeted during ideological conflicts despite international legal conventions guaranteeing their protection.
Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes
Creators: name: Schaller, Matthieu
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Theuns, Tom
name: Calore, Francesca
name: Bertone, Gianfranco
name: Bozorgnia, Nassim
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Fattahi, Azadeh
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Sawala, Till
name: Schaye, Joop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) programme. Galactic halos in the simulation have significantly different properties from those assumed in the "standard halo model" often used in dark matter detection studies. The formation of the galaxy causes a contraction of the dark matter halo, whose density profile develops a steeper slope than the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile between $r\approx1.5$ kpc and $r\approx10$ kpc. At smaller radii, $r\lesssim1.5$ kpc, the halos develop a flatter than NFW slope. This unexpected feature may be specific to our particular choice of subgrid physics model but nevertheless the dark matter density profiles agree within 30% as the mass resolution is increased by a factor 150. The inner regions of the halos are almost perfectly spherical (axis ratios $b/a > 0.97$ within $r=1$ kpc) and there is no offset larger than 45 pc between the centre of the stellar distribution and the centre of the dark halo. The morphology of the predicted dark matter annihilation radiation signal is in broad agreement with $γ$-ray observations at large Galactic latitudes ($b\gtrsim3^\circ$). At smaller angles, the inferred signal in one of our four galaxies is similar to that which is observed but it is significantly weaker in the other three.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, corrected typos