cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Reconstructing historic and contemporary drought patterns and the societal impacts across China
Creators: name: Tang, LingYun
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2026

description: Drought has long existed in the natural world; however, it is not always easily identified, especially in the pre-instrumental period. Contemporary research presents characteristics to help understand drought parameters, including drought type, classification, mechanisms, alarm systems, and threats. The occurrence of drought is inherently closely related to climatic and hydrological conditions, but sensitive to population growth, increased demand from agriculture, energy, and industry, presenting changes to socio-economic systems. This thesis examines three population centres in China to understand and investigate historical and contemporary drought risk. In China most continuous instrumental temperature and rainfall data series began after 1950, however historical records enable us to examine pre-instrumental records with accounts retrieved from newspapers, missionary books, and other documents. For periods where only documentary records are available, we can convert archival descriptions to drought indices, ultimately enabling the examination of information from pre-instrumental and instrumental periods to create long-term drought series. By collecting drought information from documentary data and researching drought vulnerability from long-term drought series, the risks from meteorological, hydrological, agricultural, and socio-economic droughts can be determined. Drought events with serious consequences and disasters often occur when people have a shallow understanding of drought and when societies lack infrastructure, early warning technology or awareness of the risks to plan, mitigate and alleviate drought impacts, which have historically caused large-scale famine, refugees, and even large numbers of fatalities. For a better understanding drought risk and social impacts across China, this study explores these different aspects of drought, using historic and contemporary sources and instrumental data. It presents several novel aspects including the construction of the longest homogeneous instrumental precipitation series for Shanghai; a new 5-point grading system for the classification of droughts recorded in qualitative sources; and the development of the longest climate series available in Asia (Beijing), providing a drought series spanning 1368-2019.
(500602) Thomas Bowman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(500588) Ellen [Helen] Berry
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cosmic microwave background radiation temperature in a dissipative universe
Creators: name: Komatsu, Nobuyoshi
name: Kimura, Shigeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relationship between the cosmic microwave background radiation temperature and the redshift, i.e., the $T$--$z$ relation, is examined in a phenomenological dissipative model. The model contains two constant terms, as if a nonzero cosmological constant $Λ$ and a dissipative process are operative in a homogeneous, isotropic, and spatially flat universe. The $T$--$z$ relation is derived from a general radiative temperature law, as appropriate for describing nonequilibrium states in a creation of cold dark matter (CCDM) model. Using this relation, the radiation temperature in the late universe is calculated as a function of a dissipation rate ranging from $\tildeμ =0$, corresponding to a nondissipative $Λ$CDM model, to $\tildeμ =1$, corresponding to a fully dissipative CCDM model. The $T$--$z$ relation for $\tildeμ =0$ is linear for standard cosmology and is consistent with observations. However, with increasing dissipation rate $\tildeμ$, the radiation temperature gradually deviates from a linear law because the effective equation-of-state parameter varies with time. When the background evolution of the universe agrees with a fine-tuned pure $Λ$CDM model, the $T$--$z$ relation for low $\tildeμ$ matches observations, whereas the $T$--$z$ relation for high $\tildeμ$ does not. Previous work also found that a weakly dissipative model accords with measurements of a growth rate for clustering related to structure formations. These results imply that low dissipation is likely for the universe. The weakly dissipative model should be further constrained by recent observations.
description: Final version accepted for publication in PRD. References are updated. [11 pages, 6 figures, and 1 table]
The gendered construction of teachers’ identities and practices: feminist critical discourse analysis of policy texts in Ireland
Creators: name: MOONEY SIMMIE, GERALDINE
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: While gender and education studies abound, there are fewer studies examining how the gendered construction of teachers’ identities and practices are enabled, and constrained, in policy and research. Here, I conduct a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of this gendered construction in four policy texts in teacher education in Ireland, set within a neoliberal imaginary playing-out across OECD countries, and in mainstream research of teacher effectiveness. The analysis uses a metaphor of confinement to trouble the problem, and to generate wider representations and emancipatory possibilities. The findings reveal how this reform ensemble in Ireland acts more often than not in sync with a global education reform movement in gender-blind ways to constrain, if not actively confine (mostly women) teachers’ voices and agency, often in assumed, theory-weak and patriarchal ways. The study foregrounds the gendered politics of teacher education within a pressing need for egalitarian rather than conservative gender discourses.
(500590) George Austin Lowe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Are Small Studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews More Heterogeneous?
Creators: name: Stanley, T
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This project aims to assess whether small studies are more heterogeneous, and thereby less reliable. If they are, this has important implications for the reliability of conventional meta-analysis and whether the random-effects models should continue to be employed in medicine and health systematic reviews.
Detection of knots and a cabling formula for A-polynomials
Creators: name: Ni, Yi
name: Zhang, Xingru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: We say that a given knot $J\subset S^3$ is detected by its knot Floer homology and $A$-polynomial if whenever a knot $K\subset S^3$ has the same knot Floer homology and the same $A$-polynomial as $J$, then $K=J$. In this paper we show that every torus knot $T(p,q)$ is detected by its knot Floer homology and $A$-polynomial. We also give a one-parameter family of infinitely many hyperbolic knots in $S^3$ each of which is detected by its knot Floer homology and $A$-polynomial. In addition we give a cabling formula for the A-polynomials of cabled knots in $S^3$, which is of independent interest. In particular we give explicitly the A-polynomials of iterated torus knots.
description: 29 pages, 5 figures
(500591) Edward Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Ultrasound Echogenicity as an Indicator of Muscle Fatigue during Functional Electrical Stimulation
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Iyer, Ashwin
name: Kim, Kang
name: Sharma, Nitin
name: Lambeth, Krysten
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a potential neurorehabilitative intervention to enable functional movements in persons with neurological conditions that cause mobility impairments. However, the quick onset of muscle fatigue during FES is a significant challenge for sustaining the desired functional movements for more extended periods. Therefore, a considerable interest still exists in the development of sensing techniques that reliably measure FES-induced muscle fatigue. This study proposes to use ultrasound (US) imaging-derived echogenicity signal as an indicator of FES-induced muscle fatigue. We hypothesized that the US-derived echogenicity signal is sensitive to FES-induced muscle fatigue under isometric and dynamic muscle contraction conditions. Eight non-disabled participants participated in the experiments, where FES electrodes were applied on their tibialis anterior (TA) muscles. During a fatigue protocol under either isometric and dynamic ankle dorsiflexion conditions, we synchronously collected the isometric dorsiflexion torque or dynamic dorsiflexion angle on the ankle joint, US echogenicity signals from TA muscle, and the applied stimulation intensity. The experimental results showed an exponential reduction in the US echogenicity relative change (ERC) as the fatigue progressed under the isometric (R2=0.891±0.081) and dynamic (R2=0.858±0.065) conditions. The experimental results also implied a strong linear relationship between US ERC and TA muscle fatigue benchmark (dorsiflexion torque or angle amplitude), with R2 values of 0.840±0.054 and 0.794±0.065 under isometric and dynamic conditions, respectively. The findings in this study indicate that the US echogenicity signal is a computationally efficient signal that strongly represents FES-induced muscle fatigue. Its potential real-time implementation to detect fatigue can facilitate an FES closed-loop controller design that considers the FES-induced muscle fatigue.
How Do Population Flows Promote Urban–Rural Integration? Addressing Migrants’ Farmland Arrangement and Social Integration in China’s Urban Agglomeration Regions
Creators: name: Song, Yan
name: Li, Yanan
name: Xiong, Chan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: China’s urban–rural relationships have been changed dramatically by the intensifying population flows, especially in urban agglomeration regions. This study contributes to the interpretation of urban–rural integration mechanisms in urban agglomeration by constructing a conceptual framework of migration-related resource flows. Taking the Wuhan urban agglomeration as an example, migrants’ farmland arrangement, migration pattern, and social integration have been investigated to uncover the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban–rural interaction, based on the data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2012–2017. The findings indicate that the farmland circulation in the Wuhan urban agglomeration was generally low, but slightly higher than that of the national average. The central city, Wuhan, had a high degree of family migration and social integration, indicating stronger resource flows in developed areas. However, its farmland circulation level was lower than that of non-central cities. The unsynchronized interaction of resources in urban and rural areas should be taken seriously, especially in areas with a relatively developed urban economy. The advantages of the central city in absorbing and settling migrants confirmed the positive impact of the urban agglomeration on promoting urban–rural integration.
Anticipate Study Baseline Profile and Care Outcomes of Patients attending Mater Misericordiae University Hospital with Covid-19 Infection
Creators: name: Avramovic, Gordana
name: McHugh, Tina
name: Connolly, Stephen
name: Cullen, Walter
name: Lambert, John S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
Coronavirus
outcome
follow-up
care
Hospital care
complications
virtual clinic

description: Abstract  Background: While the COVID-19 pandemic is currently impacting on health and social care in Ireland, this impact is most marked in metropolitan Dublin. This is especially the case for the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) in Dublin’s North Inner, which is situated in an area where local socially deprived communities are at high risk of infection and of experiencing adverse outcomes. Aims: To determine baseline characteristics and longer-term care outcomes of COVID-19 patients presenting to / attending the Infectious Diseases Department at MMUH, including the virtual clinic. Methods: Retrospective study: we will retrospectively examine clinical records and extract anonymised data on patient demographics, baseline morbidity and outcomes. Prospective study: we will prospectively examine healthcare outcomes among patients who consent to follow up at two time points (three months, and six months to 12 months after discharge/onset of disease). Two patient groups will be assessed for morbid complications: those hospitalised with COVID infection and those followed-up remotely with confirmed COVID infection.
A diamond AGPM coronagraph for VISIR
Creators: name: Delacroix, Christian
name: Absil, Oliver
name: Mawet, Dimitri
name: Hanot, Charles
name: Karlsson, Mikael
name: Forsberg, Pontus
name: Pantin, Eric
name: Surdej, Jean
name: Habraken, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, phase mask coronagraphy has become increasingly efficient in imaging the close environment of stars, enabling the search for exoplanets and circumstellar disks. Coronagraphs are ideally suited instruments, characterized by high dynamic range imaging capabilities, while preserving a small inner working angle. The AGPM (Annular Groove Phase Mask, Mawet et al. 2005) consists of a vector vortex induced by a rotationally symmetric subwavelength grating. This technique constitutes an almost unique solution to the achromatization at longer wavelengths (mid-infrared). For this reason, we have specially conceived a mid-infrared AGPM coronagraph for the forthcoming upgrade of VISIR, the mid-IR imager and spectrograph on the VLT at ESO (Paranal), in collaboration with members of the VISIR consortium. The implementation phase of the VISIR Upgrade Project is foreseen for May-August 2012, and the AGPM installed will cover the 11-13.2 μm spectral range. In this paper, we present the entire fabrication process of our AGPM imprinted on a diamond substrate. Diamond is an ideal material for mid-infrared wavelengths owing to its high transparency, small dispersion, extremely low thermal expansion and outstanding mechanical and chemical properties. The design process has been performed with an algorithm based on the rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA), and the micro-fabrication has been carried out using nano-imprint lithography and reactive ion etching. A precise grating profile metrology has also been conducted using cleaving techniques. Finally, we show the deposit of fiducials (i.e. centering marks) with Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP). We conclude with the ultimate coronagraph expected performances.
description: 9 pages
Gracilaria parva sp. nov. (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) a Diminutive Species from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
Creators: name: Williamson, Bo
name: Freshwater, D. Wilson
name: Gabrielson, Paul W.
name: Brandt, Margarita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: DNA sequencing of the plastid encoded rbcL gene supported by morpho-anatomical features reveals Gracilaria parva sp. nov. from Panama and Ecuador in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. In the rbcL phylogram, G. parva occurs in a clade sister to the western Atlantic species G. galatensis. Morphologically and anatomically, G. parva is distinguished from two similar, described tropical eastern Pacific species, G. brevis and G. veleroae by its small size, to 2.5 cm tall with branch widths mostly <2 mm occasionally to 4 mm, and by its two to three cell layered cortex. Gracilaria brevis and G. veleroae are taller, have wider branches, and a one cell layered cortex. DNA sequencing is needed to resolve the many diminutive species in the tropical eastern Pacific, particularly those occurring in turf communities. DNA sequencing of historical type specimens from the 19th and 20th centuries is also needed to correctly apply names in this region.
Structure, dynamical impact and origin of magnetic fields in nearby galaxies in the SKA era
Creators: name: Beck, Rainer
name: Bomans, Dominik
name: Colafrancesco, Sergio
name: Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen
name: Ferrière, Katia
name: Fletcher, Andrew
name: Heald, George
name: Heesen, Volker
name: Horellou, Cathy
name: Krause, Marita
name: Lou, Yu-Qing
name: Mao, Sui Ann
name: Paladino, Rosita
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Sokoloff, Dmitry
name: Stil, Jeroen
name: Tabatabaei, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85-06

description: Magnetic fields are an important ingredient of the interstellar medium (ISM). Besides their importance for star formation, they govern the transport of cosmic rays, relevant to the launch and regulation of galactic outflows and winds, which in turn are pivotal in shaping the structure of halo magnetic fields. Mapping the small-scale structure of interstellar magnetic fields in many nearby galaxies is crucial to understand the interaction between gas and magnetic fields, in particular how gas flows are affected. Elucidation of the magnetic role in, e.g., triggering star formation, forming and stabilising spiral arms, driving outflows, gas heating by reconnection and magnetising the intergalactic medium has the potential to revolutionise our physical picture of the ISM and galaxy evolution in general. Radio polarisation observations in the very nearest galaxies at high frequencies (>= 3 GHz) and with high spatial resolution (<= 5") hold the key here. The galaxy survey with SKA1 that we propose will also be a major step to understand the galactic dynamo, which is important for models of galaxy evolution and for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics in general. Field amplification by turbulent gas motions, which is crucial for efficient dynamo action, has been investigated so far only in simulations, while compelling evidence of turbulent fields from observations is still lacking.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures; to appear as part of 'Cosmic Magnetism' in Proceedings 'Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA' (AASKA14) as article PoS(AASKA14)094
(500578) Stephen Wilkinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Ancient and Evolved Mouse Sperm-Associated Antigen 6 Genes Have Different Biologic Functions In Vivo
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Haj-Diab, Sarah
name: Williams, David C.
name: Chowdhury, Dipanwita Dutta
name: Strauss, Jerome F.
name: Vaishnav, Asmita
name: Zhang, Zhibing
name: Harding, Pamela
name: Yap, Yi Tian
name: Edwards, Brian F.
name: Zhou, Qi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Sperm-associated antigen 6 (SPAG6) is the mammalian orthologue of Chlamydomonas PF16, an axonemal central pair protein involved in flagellar motility. In mice, two Spag6 genes have been identified. The ancestral gene, on mouse chromosome 2, is named Spag6. A related gene originally called Spag6, localized on mouse chromosome 16, evolved from the ancient Spag6 gene. It has been renamed Spag6-like (Spag6l). Spag6 encodes a 1.6 kb transcript consisting of 11 exons, while Spag6l encodes a 2.4 kb transcript which contains an additional non-coding exon in the 3′-end as well as the 11 exons found in Spag6. The two Spag6 genes share high similarities in their nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Unlike Spag6l mRNA, which is widely expressed, Spag6 mRNA expression is limited to a smaller number of tissues, including the testis and brain. In transfected mammalian cells, SPAG6/GFP is localized on microtubules, a similar localization as SPAG6L. A global Spag6l knockout mouse model was generated previously. In addition to a role in modulating the ciliary beat, SPAG6L has many unexpected functions, including roles in the regulation of ciliogenesis/spermatogenesis, hearing, and the immunological synapse, among others. To investigate the role of the ancient Spag6 gene, we phenotyped global Spag6 knockout mice. All homozygous mutant mice were grossly normal, and fertility was not affected in both males and females. The homozygous males had normal sperm parameters, including sperm number, motility, and morphology. Examination of testis histology revealed normal spermatogenesis. Testicular protein expression levels of selected SPAG6L binding partners, including SPAG16L, were not changed in the Spag6 knockout mice, even though the SPAG16L level was significantly reduced in the Spag6l knockout mice. Structural analysis of the two SPAG6 proteins shows that both adopt very similar folds, with differences in a few amino acids, many of which are solvent-exposed. These differences endow the two proteins with different functional characteristics, even though both have eight armadillo repeats that mediate protein–protein interaction. Our studies suggest that SPAG6 and SPAG6L have different functions in vivo, with the evolved SPAG6L protein being more important. Since the two proteins have some overlapping binding partners, SPAG6 could have functions that are yet to be identified.
(500584) George Brumell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(500585) Dorothy Thornton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Hybrid Implementation of Cascade Control for GaN-Based Modular Multilevel Converter for Low-Voltage Grid
Creators: name: Kiehnle, Philip
name: Katzenburg, Niklas
name: Stefanski, Lukas
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC)
Grid-connected converter
Control strategy
Proportional Resonant Control
Fault ride-through

description: A hybrid control system implementation for a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) prototype is presented in this paper. The cascade control using an ARM processor for the energy controller and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) for the current controllers, allows the GaN semiconductors to generate an output current with an effective ripple frequency of 200 kHz. The MMC system model and the partitioning of the cascade control are shown. With its dynamic current limit, implemented in the FPGA, the MMC is able to provide AC currents above the nominal current. Finally, prototype measurements of an emulated grid fault are shown.
On the Accelerating of Two-dimensional Smart Laplacian Smoothing on the GPU
Creators: name: Zhao, Kunyang
name: Mei, Gang
name: Xu, Nengxiong
name: Zhang, Jiayin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a GPU-accelerated implementation of two-dimensional Smart Laplacian smoothing. This implementation is developed under the guideline of our paradigm for accelerating Laplacianbased mesh smoothing [13]. Two types of commonly used data layouts, Array-of-Structures (AoS) and Structure-of-Arrays (SoA) are used to represent triangular meshes in our implementation. Two iteration forms that have different choices of the swapping of intermediate data are also adopted. Furthermore, the feature CUDA Dynamic Parallelism (CDP) is employed to realize the nested parallelization in Smart Laplacian smoothing. Experimental results demonstrate that: (1) our implementation can achieve the speedups of up to 44x on the GPU GT640; (2) the data layout AoS can always obtain better efficiency than the SoA layout; (3) the form that needs to swap intermediate nodal coordinates is always slower than the one that does not swap data; (4) the version of our implementation with the use of the feature CDP is slightly faster than the version where the CDP is not adopted.
description: The author declares that this paper has been submitted to the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2015. 10 pages, 4 figures
(500576) Stephen Wilkinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Multi-Omics Analysis of Multiple Glucose-Sensing Receptor Systems in Yeast
Creators: name: Li, Yuanyuan
name: Rushing, Blake R.
name: Harris, Sarah E.
name: Li, Shuang
name: Sumner, Susan J.
name: Dominguez, Daniel
name: Dohlman, Henrik G.
name: McRitchie, Susan L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has long been used to produce alcohol from glucose and other sugars. While much is known about glucose metabolism, relatively little is known about the receptors and signaling pathways that indicate glucose availability. Here, we compare the two glucose receptor systems in S. cerevisiae. The first is a heterodimer of transporter-like proteins (transceptors), while the second is a seven-transmembrane receptor coupled to a large G protein (Gpa2) that acts in coordination with two small G proteins (Ras1 and Ras2). Through comprehensive measurements of glucose-dependent transcription and metabolism, we demonstrate that the two receptor systems have distinct roles in glucose signaling: the G-protein-coupled receptor directs carbohydrate and energy metabolism, while the transceptors regulate ancillary processes such as ribosome, amino acids, cofactor and vitamin metabolism. The large G-protein transmits the signal from its cognate receptor, while the small G-protein Ras2 (but not Ras1) integrates responses from both receptor pathways. Collectively, our analysis reveals the molecular basis for glucose detection and the earliest events of glucose-dependent signal transduction in yeast.
Mindful Parenting and Parent Technology Use: Examining the Intersections and Outlining Future Research Directions
Creators: name: McDaniel, Brandon T.
name: Lippold, Melissa A.
name: Jensen, Todd M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Popular media attention and scientific research in both mindful parenting and technology use in the context of parenting has expanded in the 21st century; however, these two streams of research have largely evolved separately from one another. Thus, in this conceptual paper, we integrate the research on mindful parenting with that on parents’ technology use and parenting to examine how parent technology use may impact or be linked with aspects of mindful parenting. Mindful parenting theory outlines five key components: listening with full attention, self-regulation in the parent–child relationship, emotional awareness of self and child, nonjudgmental acceptance of self and child, and compassion for self and child. Parent technology use, in particular the use of mobile devices, has the potential to impact all five elements of mindful parenting. However, the relationship between mindful parenting and technology is complex, and there can be both positive and negative implications of parent technology use on mindful parenting. On the positive side, technology use might help parents regulate their emotions; access support; and develop more empathy, acceptance, and compassion for themselves and their children. Yet, parent technology use also has the potential to create distractions and disrupt parent–child interactions, which may make it more difficult for parents to listen with full attention, maintain awareness of their own and their child’s emotions, and calmly respond to child behaviors with intentionality. Technology use may also create more opportunities for social comparisons and judgement, making it more difficult for parents to accept their children nonjudgmentally and have compassion for their children as they are. Future research is needed to understand the conditions under which technology use can hinder or promote mindful parenting and how interventions can promote mindful parenting skills and a positive uses of technology.
Frequency spectra of turbulent thermal convection with uniform rotation
Creators: name: Pharasi, Hirdesh K.
name: Kumar, Krishna
name: Bhattacharjee, Jayanta K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The frequency spectra of the entropy and kinetic energy along with the power spectrum of the thermal flux are computed from direct numerical simulations for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with uniform rotation about a vertical axis in low-Prandtl-number fluids ($\mathrm{Pr} < 0.6$). Simulations are done for convective Rossby numbers $\mathrm{Ro} \ge 0.2$. The temporal fluctuations of these global quantities show two scaling regimes: (i) $ω^{-2}$ at higher frequencies for all values of $\mathrm{Ro}$ and (ii) $ω^{-γ_1}$ at intermediate frequencies with $γ_1 \approx 4$ for $\mathrm{Ro} > 1$, while $4 < γ_1 < 6.6$ for $0.2 \le \mathrm{Ro} < 1$.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
Dynamics of Microbial Communities during the Removal of Copper and Zinc in a Sulfate-Reducing Bioreactor with a Limestone Pre-Column System
Creators: name: Zambrano-Romero, Aracely
name: Ramirez-Villacis, Dario X.
name: Leon-Reyes, Antonio
name: Cardenas, Paul
name: Sierra-Alvarez, Reyes
name: Ochoa-Herrera, Valeria
name: Trueba, Gabriel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Biological treatment using sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) is a promising approach to remediate acid rock drainage (ARD). Our purpose was to assess the performance of a sequential system consisting of a limestone bed filter followed by a sulfate-reducing bioreactor treating synthetic ARD for 375 days and to evaluate changes in microbial composition. The treatment system was effective in increasing the pH of the ARD from 2.7 to 7.5 and removed total Cu(II) and Zn(II) concentrations by up to 99.8% and 99.9%, respectively. The presence of sulfate in ARD promoted sulfidogenesis and changed the diversity and structure of the microbial communities. Methansarcina spp. was the most abundant amplicon sequence variant (ASV); however, methane production was not detected. Biodiversity indexes decreased over time with the bioreactor operation, whereas SRB abundance remained stable. Desulfobacteraceae, Desulfocurvus, Desulfobulbaceae and Desulfovibrio became more abundant, while Desulfuromonadales, Desulfotomaculum and Desulfobacca decreased. Geobacter and Syntrophobacter were enriched with bioreactor operation time. At the beginning, ASVs with relative abundance <2% represented 65% of the microbial community and 21% at the end of the study period. Thus, the results show that the microbial community gradually lost diversity while the treatment system was highly efficient in remediating ARD.
Dominant dimensions, derived equivalences and tilting modules
Creators: name: Chen, Hongxing
name: Xi, Changchang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G10, 18G20, 18E30, 16S50

description: The Nakayama conjecture states that an algebra of infinite dominant dimension should be self-injective. Motivated by understanding this conjecture in the context of derived categories, we study dominant dimensions of algebras under derived equivalences induced by tilting modules, specifically, the infinity of dominant dimensions under tilting procedure. We first give a new method to produce derived equivalences from relatively exact sequences, and then establish relationships and lower bounds of dominant dimensions for derived equivalences induced by tilting modules. Particularly, we show that under a sufficient condition the infinity of dominant dimensions can be preserved by tilting, and get not only a class of derived equivalences between two algebras such that one of them is a Morita algebra in the sense of Kerner-Yamagata and the other is not, but also the first counterexample to a question whether generalized symmetric algebras are closed under derived equivalences.
description: 28 pages. The only change in this version is that the original section 3 is divided into two parts, in order to make the structure of the paper more reasonable
Optimal Derivative Liquidation Timing Under Path-Dependent Risk Penalties
Creators: name: Leung, Tim
name: Shirai, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper studies the risk-adjusted optimal timing to liquidate an option at the prevailing market price. In addition to maximizing the expected discounted return from option sale, we incorporate a path-dependent risk penalty based on shortfall or quadratic variation of the option price up to the liquidation time. We establish the conditions under which it is optimal to immediately liquidate or hold the option position through expiration. Furthermore, we study the variational inequality associated with the optimal stopping problem, and prove the existence and uniqueness of a strong solution. A series of analytical and numerical results are provided to illustrate the non-trivial optimal liquidation strategies under geometric Brownian motion (GBM) and exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models. We examine the combined effects of price dynamics and risk penalty on the sell and delay regions for various options. In addition, we obtain an explicit closed-form solution for the liquidation of a stock with quadratic penalty under the GBM model.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
Reconstructing the WIMP Velocity Distribution from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data with a Non-Negligible Threshold Energy
Creators: name: Shan, Chung-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the modification of our expressions developed for the model-independent data analysis procedure of the reconstruction of the (time-averaged) one-dimensional velocity distribution of Galactic Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with a non-negligible experimental threshold energy. Our numerical simulations show that, for a minimal reconstructable velocity of as high as O(200) km/s, our model-independent modification of the estimator for the normalization constant could provide precise reconstructed velocity distribution points to match the true WIMP velocity distribution with a
description: 21 pages, 6 figures (8 eps plots), 1 table; v2: typos fixed, revised version for publication. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1403.5610, arXiv:1003.5283
Nonviolence
Creators: name: Hildebrandt, Toni
Publisher: name: Terms: CIHA Journal of Art History
Year: 2023

description: Nonviolence resembles the aporetic structure and ambiguity of many works of art or our conceptualization of them. As a term of engagement in the arts, nonviolence is insightful as an operational and comparative concept: operational insofar as it unfolds performative strategies in the arts and comparative insofar as those strategies often resemble the aesthetics of political gestures, e.g., Mahatma Gandhis nonviolent approach to political engagement and change. This essay examines the potential of the term nonviolence in three short case studies—three performances by Akira Takayama (McDonald’s Radio University, 2017), Kandis Williams (Eurydice, Orpheus, and the Maenads, 2019) and Petr Pavlensky (Lightning, 2017).
description: Terms: CIHA Journal of Art History, Vol. 1: 2021(2023): Terms of Engagement
Distinct Roles of Distress and Coping Capacity in the Effects of Psychological Stress on Energy Intake and Percentage of Energy from Macronutrients
Creators: name: Wang, Huijun
name: Du, Shufa
name: Huang, Feifei
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Du, Wenwen
name: Zhang, Xiaofan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this study was to explore the association of perceived stress on energy intake and percentage of energy from macronutrients. We examined cross-sectional data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey among Chinese adults. Perceived stress scale was used to assess psychological stress, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to calculate the two latent variable scores: distress factor and coping factor of perceived stress. Combined two-level random effect model and structural equation modeling were used to explore the association between distress, coping, and energy intake. The study involved 6865 adults with an average age of 46.9 years. The intake of energy was 2047.9 ± 666.6 kcal/d, 51.1% from carbohydrate and 35.2% from fat. Neither distress nor coping capacity had an association with energy intake. The coping factor score was positively associated with the sum of percentage of energy intake from carbohydrate and fat (%C&F) in females (β = 0.149, p = 0.015) but not in males. Compared to the lowest tertile, %C&F of females with a coping factor score in the medium and top tertiles were 0.44 and 0.81 significantly higher, respectively (pmedium = 0.0013, ptop < 0.0001). Psychological stress was positively associated with %C&F in females. It was insufficient capacity to cope with stress that led to unhealthy eating behavior.
Essays on Social Capital and Wellbeing
Creators: name: Slater, Giulia
Publisher: name: Università di Siena
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Capital Wellbeing Mental Health Income Social Comparisons Covid-19
subject: SECS-P/01 ECONOMIA POLITICA
subject: SECS-P/06 ECONOMIA APPLICATA
subject: Social Capital Wellbeing Mental Health Income Social Comparisons Covid-19

description: This thesis is comprised of four empirical papers. The first paper (coauthored with Stefano Bartolini, Marcin Pieka lkiewicz and Francesco Sarracino), entitled “Social capital reduces the impact of social comparisons on subjective wellbeing: Evidence from international datasets”, uses EU-SILC, ESS and EVS-WVS cross-sectional data, and German SOEP panel data to show that social capital changes the association between income and subjective wellbeing, and the one between social comparisons and subjective wellbeing. The paper also tests the hypothesis that at the macro-level, in countries that are rich in social capital, the differences in subjective wellbeing between income groups are small, which is a consequence of the relatively smaller impact that income and social comparisons exert on wellbeing. The second paper, entitled “The wellbeing effects of social capital in times of a health crisis: the case of the Covid-19 pandemic”, uses monthly UKHLS data to assess whether social capital influenced the way people fared throughout the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper provides a theoretical intuition of the mechanisms via which social capital affects wellbeing and mental health in times of a health crisis, and provides evidence that social capital is beneficial to subjective wellbeing as it allows resilience. The third paper, entitled “Loneliness increases the probability of worse mental distress development during Covid-19” uses latent class analysis, a non-parametric model, to explore the heterogeneity in mental distress development in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. It subsequently relates individuals’ loneliness, a measure of lack of social capital, to the probability of being on either class of distress development. Results suggest that the probability of being on a trajectory of continuously high distress was significantly higher for people who are often or sometimes lonely, compared to non-lonely people. The last paper (coauthored with Stefano Bartolini and Francesco Sarracino), entitled “Do epidemics impose a trade-off between freedom and health? Evidence from Europe during Covid-19” analyses whether the extent to which governments imposed stringent containment policies in face of the pandemic was determined by the trust levels of citizens. Additionally it tests whether less stringent containment policies came at the expense of health. The findings suggest the trade-off between freedom and health depends on the levels of trust, in particular that the trade-off reduces with higher levels of trust. The conclusions of these papers all point to the need of promoting social capital as a critical element for people’s and societal wellbeing.
First-Principles Study of Hybrid Graphene and MoS$_2$ Nanocomposites
Creators: name: Hu, Wei
name: Wang, Tian
name: Yang, Jinlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining the electronic properties of graphene and molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) monolayers in two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin hybrid nanocomposites have been synthesized experimentally to create excellent electronic, electrochemical, photovoltaic, photoresponsive and memory devices. Here, first-principles calculations are performed to investigate the electronic, electrical and optical properties in hybrid G/MoS$_2$ and G/MoS$_2$/G nanocomposites. It turns out that weak van der Waals interactions dominate between graphene and MoS$_2$ with their intrinsic electronic properties preserved. Interestingly, tunable p-type doping of graphene is very easy to achieve by applying electric fields perpendicular to hybrid G/MoS$_2$ and G/MoS$_2$/G nanocomposites, because electrons can easily transfer from the Dirac point of graphene to the conduction band of MoS$_2$ due to the work function of graphene close to the electronic affinity of MoS$_2$. Vertical electric fields can generate strong p-type but weak n-type doping of graphene, inducing electron-hole pairs in hybrid G/MoS$_2$/G sandwiched nanocomposites. Moreover, improved optical properties in hybrid G/MoS$_2$ and G/MoS$_2$/G nanocomposites are also expected with potential photovoltaic and photoresponsive applications.
description: 12 pages,5 figures