cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Increasing Accessibility of the Runs-on-Request Metadata, Data, and Services at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center
Creators: name: Petrenko, Maksym
name: Chinwe Didigu
name: Wiegand, Chiu
name: Light, Christopher
name: De Zeeuw, Darren
name: Resnik, Elana
name: Olsson, Elon
name: Wang, Jack
name: Yue, Jia
name: Jones, Joycelyn
name: Garcia-Sage, Katherine
name: Scheiber, Karen
name: Mays, Leila
name: Rastaetter, Lutz
name: Lesko, Matthew
name: Kuznetsova, Masha
name: Mendoza, Michelle
name: Min-Yang Chou
name: Alaoui, Mostafa El
name: Macneice, Peter
name: Poly Manessis
name: Mullinix, Rick
name: Taktakishvili, Sandro
name: Bakshi, Sarabjit
name: Tsui, Tina
name: Schiewe, Tyler
name: Yihua Zheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Space weather models are essential to our ability to understand and predict space weather events. For over 20 years, the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC, https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov) has been providing transformative tools and platforms for hosting space weather models and associated services, free and open to anyone interested in studying space weather. Runs-on-Request system (ROR) is one of the popular services at CCMC that permits researchers and other end-users to exercise cutting-edge hosted heliophysics and space weather models using a simple web interface, as well as collaborate on an extensive and continuously growing archive of over 28,000 model run results. Similar to other projects at CCMC, ROR has grown as a community project that strives to be open and transparent to its users. In this presentation, we will discuss some of our recent efforts to further expose ROR data, metadata, and services to the end users through both custom and community-developed access protocols. We will also discuss how in-house science support provided by the CCMC team plays a paramount role in making ROR data and services truly accessible by the community.
Black Women, Domestic Work and Expanding Resistance: 1909-1945
Creators: name: Godwin, Gregg
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: I set out to analyze the various ways that black female domestic workers exercised agency over their conditions, particularly the workplace. However, it gradually became obvious that confining the project exclusively to domestic workers was not entirely practical, since people move in and out of occupations quite frequently. A woman who was doing domestic work in 1933 may have been a farm worker in 1925 and might become a defense worker in 1942. For that reason, the project is centered on working-class black women, the majority of whom were engaged in domestic work during the early 20th century.  In addition, as the project came to focus more on resistance than on working conditions, I began to see workers leaving domestic service not as a challenging aspect of the sources but as another potential strategy they employed.
  At its core, this project is about activism, a term that takes various forms and can have a number of meanings. For the purposes of this essay, I will define activism as efforts to challenge broader societal restrictions. Activism took place within the workplace, as workers contested the racial hierarchy by pushing for more equal relations with the employer and thus a greater say in labor conditions. However, over time workers increasingly employed this definition of activism outside the domestic workplace, in new arenas such as public policy discussions and even broad societal conditions like public segregation. Some distinctions between forms of activism, such as individual strategies versus collective strategies, are self-explanatory. Others are not, including the term “protest,” which is used frequently in chapter 3. I use protest to describe a particularly assertive, usually public and collective form of activism that proposes a radical change. For example, striking to challenge segregated facilities in a factory is protest, but one person’s migration is simply an individual strategy or initiative. These distinctions are helpful to clarify and understand exactly how the nature of working-class black women’s efforts changed over time.
Upper bounds of spin-density wave energies in the homogeneous electron gas
Creators: name: Delyon, F.
name: Bernu, B.
name: Baguet, L.
name: Holzmann, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying the jellium model in the Hartree-Fock approximation, Overhauser has shown that spin density waves (SDW) can lower the energy of the Fermi gas, but it is still unknown if these SDW are actually relevant for the phase diagram. In this paper, we give a more complete description of SDW states. We show that a modification of the Overhauser ansatz explains the behavior of the jellium at high density compatible with previous Hartree-Fock simulations.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 supplemental files are downloadable
Reproducibility of Highly Cited Clinical Studies
Creators: name: da Costa, Gabriel
name: Amaral, Olavo
name: Neves, Kleber
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: clinical epidemiology
subject: meta-research
subject: metascience
subject: reproducibility

description: Reproducibility is in the core of science. Several disciplines estimated and continue to estimate the reproducibility of their findings after science realized that many studies could not reproduce. The objective of this study is to estimate the reproducibility of highly cited clinical studies published between 2005 and 2018. Our primary outcome is the rate of successful replication in these studies, accordingly to prespecified reproducibility definitions.
Tribal Communities and Opioids
Creators: name: Hill, Margo
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: American Indians/ Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) experience overdose rates higher than any other ethnic/ racial group in the US. In recent decades the opioid epidemic has had a particularly negative impact on AI/AN populations. To respond effectively to this issue, it is vital to understand its root cause. A range of factors are responsible, with some dating back hundreds of years. The main factors are the impact of colonization and exclusion; forced migration to peripheral areas; forced removal of children and attempts at cultural genocide; poor social environments; poverty and unemployment; adverse childhood experiences; and inadequate and under-funded Federal health services. Particular blame can be attributed to the pharmaceutical industry and its active over-promotion of opioid use. A number of strategies for tackling this scourge are outlined.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 6, 2022: Addiction & Dependency
Spatial Learning Using Acoustic Signals in the Túngara Frog (Physalaemus Pustulosus)
Creators: name: Clements, Casey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Spatial navigation is critical to an animal's procurement of food, mates, and territory. As a result of the importance of the visual system in an animal's survival, the majority of previous studies have investigated how animals associate visual cues with spatial locations. Because the sexual behavior of the túngara frog (Physalaemus pustulosus) relies heavily on the use of acoustic signals, I hypothesized that they would be able to use acoustic cues to learn spatial locations.  To test this hypothesis, I presented each individual with two arbitrary sounds, a tone and a recording of a mating call that had been reversed. The tone was initially associated with the correct door of the maze, which led to a shelter.  Once an individual learned the association, I switched the sounds so that the reversed mating call was now associated with the correct door.  My results indicate that túngara frogs are able to associate an arbitrary sound with a location and to reverse those associations.  This study is an important contribution to research on anuran cognition because it is the first to demonstrate the use of acoustic signals during spatial learning, as opposed to the predominant visual studies.
The Vlasov-Poisson System for Stellar Dynamics in Spaces of Constant Curvature
Creators: name: Diacu, Florin
name: Ibrahim, Slim
name: Lind, Crystal
name: Shen, Shengyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We obtain a natural extension of the Vlasov-Poisson system for stellar dynamics to spaces of constant Gaussian curvature $κ\ne 0$: the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$, for $κ>0$, and the unit hyperbolic sphere $\mathbb H^2$, for $κ<0$. These equations can be easily generalized to higher dimensions. When the particles move on a geodesic, the system reduces to a 1-dimensional problem that is more singular than the classical analogue of the Vlasov-Poisson system. In the analysis of this reduced model, we study the well-posedness of the problem and derive Penrose-type conditions for linear stability around homogeneous solutions in the sense of Landau damping.
description: 34 pages, 2 figures
Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations
Creators: name: Kominsky, Jonathan
name: Strickland, Brent
name: Baker, Lewis
name: Keil, Frank
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This project explored what cues are necessary to make people "fill in" the causal interaction in an event. We find evidence that cues to spatiotemporal continuity, rather than specific event schema, drive this filling-in effect. This registration updates the preregistration for the replication of Exp. 1 with a correction to the exclusion criterion. No data have been analyzed, and less than 10% of participant data has been collected.
The Cycle of Narrative Misdirection in the Novels of Donna Tartt
Creators: name: Twiddy, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This paper analyzes the way contemporary American novelist Donna Tartt uses a basic structure or cycle of "narrative misdirection" within her three novels, which is defined as an individually-constructed narrative that distorts the individual's grasp on reality. The paper notes the structural and thematic differences present among these cycles of narrative misdirection, and explores the significance of these differences.
ASDF - Advanced Scientific Data Format
Creators: name: Graham, Brett J
name: Greenfield, Perry
name: Dencheva, Nadia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The complexity and size of current astronomical data presents new problems for standard file formats. To address these challenges, the Advanced Scientific Data Format (ASDF) combines human-readable YAML and efficient binary array storage in one flexible format. Beyond its initial use for processing and storing data from the James Webb Space Telescope, ASDF has been adopted for use in processing and storing data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The needs of these varied missions have been met by implementing a python library, asdf, with an extensible plugin system that can read and write arbitrary structures to disk and customizable schemas used to validate the structure of ASDF files. This flexibility and verifiability makes ASDF an ideal format for scientific data. This presentation will cover how to use asdf to read and write scientific data. Beyond covering core features, this presentation will survey existing plugins relevant to astronomical data analysis and demonstrate how to extend asdf to store custom objects. Additionally, current and future development of the ASDF format will be discussed with the hope for feedback from the scientific community.
The Potential of Men’s Sheds as a Resource for Men Coping with Mental Health Challenges and Addiction
Creators: name: Heinz, Melinda
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Men’s Sheds are defined as grassroots community-based organizations comprised of men coping with mental health challenges and addiction. Men in need experience the benefits of receiving support from other men and feel that their levels of loneliness and depression declined after they joined the Men’s Shed. Men’s Sheds could serve as a mental health refuge for a variety of men with diverse needs. It may be worthwhile to pilot a program investigating the efficacy of using Men’s Sheds to support individuals recovering from addictions. Conflicts of interest: None declared Source of funding: None declared
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 6, 2022: Addiction & Dependency
title: Daylight illumination compensation for in-field camera systems
Creators: name: Moore, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine vision, machine learning, agriculture, comparison
classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision
valueUri: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/australian-and-new-zealand-standard-research-classification-anzsrc/latest-release

description: The Abstract is currently unavailable, due to the thesis being under Embargo.
A 'Deeper Shade of the Supernatural': Jane Eyre and the Occult
Creators: name: Whitten, Julia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre hangs in the balance between realism and supernaturalism, upending our notion of what qualifies as realist literature. Though suggestions of the supernatural are laced throughout the story, Jane and the reader are only faced with a truly inexplicable, supernatural phenomenon – the cry across the moors – by nearly end of the novel. This event creates a situation in which narrator and reader are forced to reconsider the previous suggestions and inklings of the supernatural as comprising the otherwise realistic world of Jane Eyre. In three chapters I explore Jane’s personal theological journey between orthodox and occult influences; the nineteenth-century electrical inventions which inspire Brontë’s descriptions of supernatural energy, passion, and action across distance; and the role that the uncanny and the fantastic play in creating the ambiguous natural-supernatural setting that is so unique to Jane Eyre.
Rapid scoping review of the effectiveness and safety of treatments for COVID-19 and other coronaviruses that cause serious respiratory tract infections
Creators: name: Amog, Krystle
name: Tricco, Andrea
name: Rios, Patricia
name: Pham, Ba'
name: Radhakrishnan, Amruta
name: Antony, Jesmin
name: Williams, Chantal
name: Ramkissoon, Naveeta
name: straus, sharon
name: Cormack, Gordon
name: Grossman, Maura
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: COVID-19
subject: knowledge synthesis
subject: pharmacologic therapy
subject: rapid review
subject: scoping review

description: A rapid scoping review of the effectiveness and safety of drug treatments currently under investigation for COVID-19 or that have been previously tested in SARS or MERS.
A geometric interpretation of the Schützenberger group of a minimal subshift
Creators: name: Almeida, J.
name: Costa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M05, 20E18, 37B10, 57M05, 20M50

description: The first author has associated in a natural way a profinite group to each irreducible subshift. The group in question was initially obtained as a maximal subgroup of a free profinite semigroup. In the case of minimal subshifts, the same group is shown in the present paper to also arise from geometric considerations involving the Rauzy graphs of the subshift. Indeed, the group is shown to be isomorphic to the inverse limit of the profinite completions of the fundamental groups of the Rauzy graphs of the subshift. A further result involving geometric arguments on Rauzy graphs is a criterion for freeness of the profinite group of a minimal subshift based on the Return Theorem of Berthé et. al.
title: Evaluation of the phytochemical constituents total phenol, total flavonoid and anti-oxidant activity of Delonix elata flower extract
Creators: name: Amabye, Teklit Gebregiorgis
name: Mekonen, Frehlwot
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2016

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv 453
The effects of intermittent fasting on cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease. A scoping review
Creators: name: Loh, Hong
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: A scoping review to understand the effects of intermittent fasting on cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases. For decades, many pre-clinical and clinical studies have shown beneficial health effects, beyond weight loss, of intermittent fasting. Particularly with the rising disease burden of cardiovascular diseases, this review is important to understand the potential effect of intermittent fasting on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health. This can potentially improve the outcome of intervention and reduce the disease burden through public health interventions. This study aims to identify the gaps in the current knowledge to guide future studies.
Stigma in the South How does HIV-related stigma act as a barrier to healthcare in the American South?
Creators: name: Shumpert, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: While rates of HIV transmission have generally been declining for the past few decades, there are still certain groups seeing a persistent and problematic increase in their risk for HIV. We know that there are many nuanced reasons why people are unable to seek prevention or treatment services for HIV, like cost or distance from care. My research focuses specifically on stigma and the ways in which it acts as a barrier to healthcare. I’m particularly interested in experiences of HIV stigma and discrimination in the American South, because HIV has become highly stigmatized in this region based on religious and cultural stereotypes, and social constructions of people who have HIV or are perceived to have HIV. My research methods include electronic surveys and interviews with health care providers in various settings (such as primary care providers, case managers, community health workers, policy advocates and nonprofit workers) in order to gain an understanding of what stigma looks like for the populations they serve and to what extent it keeps them from getting the medical care they want or need. This research is important because it helps us to better understand the intersectional consequences of stigma - the groups that are at highest risk of HIV are often those who are already facing compounded stigmas and inequality based on other parts of their identity. Studying stigma in the healthcare setting also helps us to inform social and healthcare policy in order to better serve patients and increase their access to high quality, inclusive healthcare.
Oscillations of radiation pressure supported tori near black holes
Creators: name: Mazur, Grzegorz P.
name: Zanotti, Olindo
name: Sądowski, Aleksander
name: Mishra, Bhupendra
name: Kluźniak, Włodek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of radiation pressure supported tori around Schwarzschild black holes, focusing on their oscillatory response to an external perturbation. Using KORAL, a general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics code capable of modeling all radiative regimes from the optically thick to the optically thin, we monitor a sample of models at different initial temperatures and opacities, evolving them in two spatial dimensions for $\sim 165$ orbital periods. The dynamics of models with high opacity is very similar to that of purely hydrodynamics models, and it is characterized by regular oscillations which are visible also in the light curves. As the opacity is decreased, the tori quickly and violently migrate towards the gas-pressure dominated regime, collapsing towards the equatorial plane. When the spectra of the $L_2$ norm of the mass density are considered, high frequency inertial-acoustic modes of oscillations are detected (with the fundamental mode at a frequency $68 M_{\rm BH}^{-1}\,\rm Hz$), in close analogy to the phenomenology of purely hydrodynamic models. An additional mode of oscillation, at a frequency $129 M_{\rm BH}^{-1}\,\rm Hz$, is also found, which can be unambiguously attributed to the radiation. The spectra extracted from the light curves are typically more noisy, indicating that in a real observation such modes would not be easily detected.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Factors Affecting Medical Students’ Acceptance of the Metaverse System in Medical Training in the United Arab Emirates
Creators: name: Alawadhi, Maryam
name: Alhumaid, Khadija
name: Almarzooqi, Sameeha
name: Aljasmi, Shaima
name: Aburayya, Ahmad
name: Salloum, Said A.
name: Almesmari, Waleid
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: Medical training activities have been disrupted in many regions following the outbreak and rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) across the globe. The most affected areas include organizations’ process of leveraging high-tech medical equipment from abroad to facilitate a practical approach to learning. Also, as countries implemented COVID-19 safety regulations, it became difficult for organizations to conduct face-to-face training. Consequently, non-face-to-face learning methods have been introduced in the medical field to enable instructors to remotely engage with learners. The current research investigated the students' perceptions of the use of metaverse systems in medical training within the medical community of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods: A conceptual model comprising the adoption properties of personal innovativeness, perceived enjoyment, and Technology Acceptance Model concepts was utilised. The current research targeted students in UAE medical universities. Data was obtained by conducting online surveys that were implemented in the winter semester of 2021/2022 between 15th February and 15th May 2022. 500 questionnaires were issued to students following their voluntary participation and 435 questionnaire responses were obtained i.e. an 87% response rate. The research team tested the measurement model employing Structural Equation Modeling using Smart Partial Least Squares Version (3.2.7). Results: Statistically significant associations were confirmed to exist between Personal Innovativeness (PI) influenced by both the Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU), and Perceived Usefulness (PU) (β= 0.456) and (β= 0.563) at P<0.001. The statistically significant associations involving Perceived Enjoyment (EJ) and PEOU and PU (β= 0.554, P<0.05), (β= 0.571, P<0.05) were further confirmed. Additionally, PEOU had a relationship with PU (β= 0.863, P<0.001). Eventually, PEOU and PU significantly influenced the participants’ inclination to use the metaverse technology with (β= 0.745, P<0.001) and (β= 0.416, P<0.001), respectively. Conclusion: Conclusions made during the research add to the existing literature regarding technology adoption by demonstrating how adoption properties, perceived enjoyment, and personal innovativeness influence students’ perceptions concerning innovational technologies used in education. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 5, 2022: Modern Health Systems Developments In the United Arab Emirates
Effekte von Fähigkeitsselbstkonzept, Selbstmitgefühl und Perfektionismus auf Arbeitsgedächtniskapazität und Lernaktivitäten nach Misserfolg
Creators: name: Laudel, Helena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Dieses Projekt verfolgt das Ziel, die Effekte ausgewählter individueller Faktoren (Fähigkeitsselbstkonzept, Selbstmitgefühl, Perfektionismus) auf Reaktionen nach Misserfolgsfeedback zu untersuchen. Desweiteren wird der positive Effekt einer Intervention mit funktionalem self-talk geprüft. Als Reaktionen nach Misserfolg werden die Arbeitsgedächtniskapazität und auf Lernhandlungen bezogene Aktivitäten untersucht. Die Zielgruppe sind Lehramtsstudierende.
Towards Adaptive Metadata Enrichment
Creators: name: Buonomo, Anthony
name: Ireland, Jack
name: Thomas, Brian
name: Fleck, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: machine learning
natural language processing
large language models
LLMS
metadata
automation

description: Identifying data sources within a given paper remains a crucial, yet labor-intensive task. We’ve made a system to identify papers that use SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) data. Due to the generality of our approach, the system can be easily adapted to other data sources and metadata more generally.
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Rich & Gureckis (2018)
Creators: name: Somo, Angela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Participants in the contingent condition of a ‘beehive’ approach/avoid task (where no feedback was provided when a participant avoided a hive) were susceptible to an inferior 1-dimension category strategy, while in the full-information condition (where participants were informed of whether the bee variety was friendly or dangerous and of what their payoff would have been had they harvested the hive.) participants were more likely to adopt the correct two-dimensional strategy as learning progressed. This reflects the following from the paper’s abstract: “We present evidence that people robustly fall into [the selective attention] trap, even in the presence of various interventions predicted to meliorate it.” Divergence of behavior between conditions was evaluated by calculating behavioral scores that reflected the degree to which responses were consistent with a particular response strategy. The one-dimensional (1D) was calculated by finding the proportion of responses that were consistent with each of the two 1D rules that participants might form on the relevant task dimensions, and then taking the maximum over these two proportions. Where the 95% posterior credible intervals (CI) for the difference between the conditions excludes zero, this can be interpreted as indicating high confidence that two conditions differ. Participants in the contingent feedback condition were more likely than participants in the full-information condition to adopt an inferior one-dimension categorization strategy (the 95% posterior credible intervals (CI) for the difference between the conditions excluded zero). Participants in the contingent-information condition had an average 1D score of .83, while those in the full-information condition had an average score of .75, CI = [.03, .14].
Generalized event structures and probabilities
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the classical mind, quantum mechanics is boggling enough; nevertheless more bizarre behavior could be imagined, thereby concentrating on propositional structures (empirical logics) that transcend the quantum domain. One can also consistently suppose predictions and probabilities which are neither classical nor quantum, but which are subject to subclassicality; that is, the additivity of probabilities for mutually exclusive, co-measurable observables, as formalized by admissibility rules and frame functions.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures in Information and Complexity, World Scientific Series in Information Studies: Volume 6, ed. by Mark Burgin and Cristian S Calude, Chapter 11, pp. 276-300, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2016)
Finite Element Modeling, Computer Simulations, and Experiments of Shear Wave Propagation for Tissue Mechanical Property Assessment
Creators: name: Pinosky, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The goal of this project is to develop a novel approach to tissue mechanical property measurement using Acoustic Radiation Force Ultrasound. This project aims to do so by incorporating the quantitative nature of shear wave imaging with the minimal lateral displacement requirement of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging to develop a novel approach to tissue mechanical property measurement using statistical signal separation techniques. By applying a wide tracking beam to a narrow push, it hypothesized that principal component analysis may be used to reconstruct the shear wave and get tissue mechanical property information. This new approach will not require spatial averaging, as alternative methods do, and will therefore better reflect the mechanical properties of heterogeneous tissues.
COVID-19 Response and Sub-types of Antisocial Behaviors
Creators: name: O'Connell, Katherine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this research is to help assess the ecological validity of the Sub-Types of Antisocial Behavior (STAB) questionnaire (Burt and Donnellan, 2009). Our laboratory has previously shown that the STAB (specifically, the social aggression sub-score) is associated with reduced empathic sensitivity in a laboratory-based task (O’Connell et al., under review), while other groups have linked heightened STAB scores to reduced ambiguity aversion (Buckholtz et al., 2017). We expect this measure will map onto real-world behavioral responses during the COVID-19 pandemic—that is, individuals reporting increased antisocial behaviors will report reduced engagement in social distancing.
Impact of multimodal strategies to reduce multidrug-resistant organisms in surgical intensive care units; knowledge, practices and transmission: A quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Kasatpibal, Nongyao
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are the greatest current threats to public health worldwide. We used direct observation with participation for collecting data on preventing and controlling MDRO practices. The findings documented that multimodal strategies could enhance knowledge and practices in preventing and controlling MDRO transmission among healthcare personnel and could reduce the MDRO transmission rate in surgical ICUs.
Model-independent comparison of simulation output
Creators: name: Fachada, Nuno
name: Lopes, Vitor V.
name: Martins, Rui C.
name: Rosa, Agostinho C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; I.2.2; I.5.2; I.6.4; I.6.6
subject: 68U20

description: Computational models of complex systems are usually elaborate and sensitive to implementation details, characteristics which often affect their verification and validation. Model replication is a possible solution to this issue. It avoids biases associated with the language or toolkit used to develop the original model, not only promoting its verification and validation, but also fostering the credibility of the underlying conceptual model. However, different model implementations must be compared to assess their equivalence. The problem is, given two or more implementations of a stochastic model, how to prove that they display similar behavior? In this paper, we present a model comparison technique, which uses principal component analysis to convert simulation output into a set of linearly uncorrelated statistical measures, analyzable in a consistent, model-independent fashion. It is appropriate for ascertaining distributional equivalence of a model replication with its original implementation. Besides model-independence, this technique has three other desirable properties: a) it automatically selects output features that best explain implementation differences; b) it does not depend on the distributional properties of simulation output; and, c) it simplifies the modelers' work, as it can be used directly on simulation outputs. The proposed technique is shown to produce similar results to the manual or empirical selection of output features when applied to a well-studied reference model.
description: The peer-reviewed version of this paper is published in Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2016.12.013 . This version is typeset by the authors and differs only in pagination and typographical detail
Temporal Comparison Effects on Environmentalism of Conservatives, Authoritarians and Social Dominants
Creators: name: Kim, Inkuk
name: Milfont, Taciano
name: Hammond, Matthew
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Replicating and Extending Baldwin and Lammers (2016, Study 1)
Sunxspex: A High-energy Spectral Analysis Tool in Python
Creators: name: Cooper, Kristopher
name: Ryan, Daniel
name: Maloney, Shane
name: Hayes, Laura
name: Mumford, Stuart
name: Hannah, Iain
name: Shih, Albert
name: Barnes, Will
name: Bajnokova, Natalia
name: Setterberg, William
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: X-rays, Spectral Fitting, High-energy

description: Sunxspex is a Python tool under development for the high-energy solar community to provide relevant spectral models and analyse observed data through forward-fitting and other methods. The community utilises several different spectral fitting tools; however, none can fit multiple spectra simultaneously with different fitting metrics while providing relevant models, being optimised for solar data products, and having a simple installation process. A software providing these features is desirable due to the increasing availability of solar observations from multiple instruments with the ability to investigate phenomena ranging over orders of magnitude. Sunxspex tackles these elements with a focus on community-led development. High-energy spectroscopic analysis involving forward-fitting has unique complications not faced in other disciplines. The process includes using physically driven models and a non-diagonal instrument-specific spectral response matrix to convert plasma parameters to a photon spectrum then to an instrument-modelled count spectrum which can finally be compared to the observed data. Therefore, converting from plasma parameters to instrument data is not a simple fitting process and requires a dedicated software package. Sunxspex must be agnostic to a range of data products from different instruments and different formats where the spectral data may be created from proprietary software, other python packages, or within Sunxspex itself. Sunxspex is also able to facilitate the inclusion of custom analytical tools and techniques which can be applied to the spectral data, such as MCMC analysis or other Bayesian methods.
Essential conformal actions of PSL(2,R) on real-analytic compact Lorentz manifolds
Creators: name: Pecastaing, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The main result of this paper is the conformal flatness of real-analytic compact Lorentz manifolds of dimension at least $3$ admitting a conformal essential (i.e. conformal, but not isometric) action of a Lie group locally isomorphic to PSL(2,R). It is established by using a general result of M. Gromov on local isometries of real-analytic $A$-rigid geometric structures. As corollary, we deduce the same conclusion for conformal essential actions of connected semi-simple Lie groups on real-analytic compact Lorentz manifolds. This work is a contribution to the understanding of the Lorentzian version of a question asked by A. Lichnerowicz.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
Confinement in the q-state Potts model: an RG-TCSA study
Creators: name: Lencses, M.
name: Takacs, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the ferromagnetic phase of the q-state Potts model, switching on an external magnetic field induces confinement of the domain wall excitations. For the Ising model (q = 2) the spectrum consists of kink-antikink states which are the analogues of mesonic states in QCD, while for q = 3, depending on the sign of the field, the spectrum may also contain three-kink bound states which are the analogues of the baryons. In recent years the resulting "hadron" spectrum was described using several different approaches, such as quantum mechanics in the confining linear potential, WKB methods and also the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Here we compare the available predictions to numerical results from renormalization group improved truncated conformal space approach (RG-TCSA). While mesonic states in the Ising model have already been considered in a different truncated Hamiltonian approach, this is the first time that a precision numerical study is performed for the 3-state Potts model. We find that the semiclassical approach provides a very accurate description for the mesonic spectrum in all the parameter regime for weak magnetic field, while the low-energy expansion from the Bethe-Salpeter equation is only valid for very weak fields where it gives a slight improvement over the semiclassical results. In addition, we confirm the validity of the recent predictions for the baryon spectrum obtained from solving the quantum mechanical three-body problem.
description: 22 pages, pdflatex source with pdf figures. Version 2: references added, introduction changed
Long Term Effectiveness of the Diabetes Conversation Map™ Program on Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Srulovici, Einav
name: Leventer-Roberts, Maya
name: Curtis, Bradley
name: He, Xuanyao
name: Hoshen, Moshe
name: Rotem, Mina
name: Reges, Orna
name: Key, Calanit
name: Levin-Iaina, Nomy
name: Strizek, Alena
name: Feldman, Becca
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This is the first study to evaluate the Diabetes Conversation Map™ Program with a large sample over long period of time. This nurse-led group intervention evaluation adds to the literature on health outcomes on the lives of patients with type 2 diabetes.
When gender incongruency is not a problem: Evidence from artificial language learning
Creators: name: Stupina, Ekaterina
name: Chrabaszcz, Anna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Research Data and Materials for an article
Secular diffusion in discrete self-gravitating tepid discs II: accounting for swing amplification via the matrix method
Creators: name: Fouvry, Jean-Baptiste
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Magorrian, John
name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The secular evolution of an infinitely thin tepid isolated galactic disc made of a finite number of particles is investigated using the inhomogeneous Balescu-Lenard equation expressed in terms of angle-action variables. The matrix method is implemented numerically in order to model the induced gravitational polarization. Special care is taken to account for the amplification of potential fluctuations of mutually resonant orbits and the unwinding of the induced swing amplified transients. Quantitative comparisons with ${N-}$body simulations yield consistent scalings with the number of particles and with the self-gravity of the disc: the fewer particles and the colder the disc, the faster the secular evolution. Secular evolution is driven by resonances, but does not depend on the initial phases of the disc. For a Mestel disc with ${Q \sim 1.5}$, the polarization cloud around each star boosts up its secular effect by a factor of the order of a thousand or more, promoting accordingly the dynamical relevance of self-induced collisional secular evolution. The position and shape of the induced resonant ridge are found to be in very good agreement with the prediction of the Balescu-Lenard equation, which scales with the square of the susceptibility of the disc. In astrophysics, the inhomogeneous Balescu-Lenard equation may describe the secular diffusion of giant molecular clouds in galactic discs, the secular migration and segregation of planetesimals in proto-planetary discs, or even the long-term evolution of population of stars within the Galactic centre. It could be used as a valuable check of the accuracy of ${N-}$body integrators over secular timescales.
description: 21 pages, 19 figures
Visualization Tools for Remote Sensing Data
Creators: name: Alzate, Nathalia
name: Morgan, Huw
name: Viall, Nicholeen
name: Vourlidas, Angelos
name: Di Matteo, Simone
name: Thompson, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Solar Physics
Solar Corona
Extreme Ultraviolet
White Light
Image Processing
Solar Wind Connectivity
Astronomical Techniques

description: Pushing the limits of current remote sensing (RS) instrumental sensitivity and resolution, state-of-the-art image processing techniques applied to coronal imaging data from extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and white-light (WL) coronagraph instruments can overcome faint signals and noise in data. In the past few years, we have developed a series of techniques that have proven to be crucial in linking the low to high corona and has facilitated the interpretation of in situ data. Uninterrupted views of the solar atmosphere from the solar surface to the outer corona can be obtained, with due limitations, by combining available multi-instrument and multi-observatory RS observations. Our advanced image processing techniques can then reveal structures (on various scales) in both EUV and WL data, namely: the NRGF technique, which reveals radial structures of the corona; the MGN technique, which enhances the contrast of multiscale features (mostly in EUV observations); the DST method, which separates dynamic and static features in WL; the BFF method, which isolates specific time scales of brightness variation. Depending on the type of observation and science question, these techniques can be combined to reveal the feature and properties of interest. Additionally, we have developed semi-automatic procedures of feature recognition in RS observations, namely: the persistence mapping tool, which can track the outmost profile of CMEs during their propagation; the non-radial methodology, which can identify the streamer boundary in EUV/WL composite images. The latter method was also used to define non-radial height-time plots, which, in combination with some of the previously described techniques, provided the possibility of continuous tracking of brightness enhancements from the coronal base out to the radial extended corona (mostly STEREO/SECCHI suite). Limitations due to line-of-sight (LOS) effects, inherent to RS observations, have also been addressed with time-dependent rotational tomography able to derive coronal density distributions. Combination of the non-radial method and tomography reconstruction have also enabled the development of a visualization tool to test if propagating features are due to real transients, or the rotation of finely spaced density rays that are structurally static and rotate with the Sun. Here, we provide an overview of these techniques with examples of application to specific science case studies.
The Effects of Pride and Admiration on Pain
Creators: name: Thio, Kara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: While positive affect has been shown to have a modulatory effect on the experience of pain, it is unclear what contributions are made by specific positive emotions. This study explored whether or not two positive emotions, pride and admiration, can increase tolerance time to a noxious stimulus. Forty-seven participants from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Introductory Psychology Course’s Participant Pool were randomly assigned to three groups, who wrote for 10 minutes about a previous experience. One group wrote about a time they experienced pride; another group, about a time they experienced admiration; and the third group wrote about a procedural task (control condition). Following this writing task, participants submerged their non-dominant hand in a painfully cold (6° C) water bath for as long as they could. Comparison of the tolerance times to the cold water among the conditions revealed significant differences in the average tolerance times between participants in the pride and control conditions, with participants in the pride condition having greater tolerance. The results did not support that admiration affected endurance to a noxious stimulus, but demonstrated an approaching significant difference between participants in the pride and admiration conditions, with participants in the pride condition having greater tolerance.
Associations between Genetic Variants and Clinical, Psychosocial and Pain Sensitivity Risk Factors of Chronic Temporomandibular Disorders
Creators: name: Xia, Yaoxuan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this article is to examine the potential associations between the 2657 single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 16 possible risk factors for temporomandibular disorders
(TMD) selected from two genetic association studies: Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and
Risk Assessment (OPPERA) study and COMT study.