cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dual Economies: Towards an Asymmetrical Reading of Georg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money
Creators: name: Crickmore, Ike
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money is separated into two parts, the first part being deemed “analytic” and the second being called “synthetic.” The book is a philosophical inquiry into the nature, origin, and historical/psychological effects of the money economy. Taking this economy (or money) as its object, Simmel’s inquiry ends up with two dyssynchronous conceptions of the money economy. These conceptions closely follow the opposing “economistic” and “non-economistic” concepts of political economy, which have been identified by Maurizio Lazzarato in his works on debt. In this thesis I argue that the analytic part of The Philosophy of Money shares the same conceptual elements of economy as the economistic concept, while the synthetic part shares the same elements as the non-economistic concept. These differing concepts of the money economy result from the fact that Simmel is employing two different philosophical methods, both found within a Neo-Kantian framework. Wilhelm Windelband elaborated this framework in his essay “Critical or Genetic Method?”, and the analytic part of Simmel’s book can be understood as employing the critical method, while the synthetic part can be understood as using the genetic method. This thesis ultimately addresses the problem of this asymmetry, and whether it can/should be escaped.
Places of Piety, Sites of Sovereignty: Temple and Mosque in Medieval Malwa, c.1050–1450
Creators: name: सार्थक सिंह
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Places of Piety, Sites of Sovereignty: Temple and Mosque in Medieval Malwa, c.1050–1450 (Dissertation presented to the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, New York, September 2023) © सार्थक सिंह
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting and codon usage bias
Creators: name: Garcia, Victor
name: Zoller, Stefan
name: Anisimova, Maria
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Codon usage bias
subject: Programmed ribosomal frameshifting
subject: mRNA translation
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 572: Biochemie

description: Experimental evidence shows that synonymous mutations can have important consequences on genetic fitness. Many organisms display codon usage bias (CUB), where synonymous codons that are translated into the same amino acid appear with distinct frequency. Within genomes, CUB is thought to arise from selection for translational efficiency and accuracy, termed the translational efficiency hypothesis (TEH). Indeed, CUB indices correlate with protein expression levels, which is widely interpreted as evidence for translational selection. However, these tests neglect -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF), an important translational disruption effect found across all organisms of the tree of life. Genes that contain -1 PRF signals should cost more to express than genes without. Thus, CUB indices that do not consider -1 PRF may overestimate genes’ true adaptation to translational efficiency and accuracy constraints. Here, we first investigate whether -1 PRF signals do indeed carry such translational cost. We then propose two corrections for CUB indices for genes containing -1 PRF signals. We retest the TEH in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under these corrections. We find that the correlation between corrected CUB index and protein expression remains intact for most levels of uniform -1 PRF efficiencies, and tends to increase when these efficiencies decline with protein expression. We conclude that the TEH is strengthened and that -1 PRF events constitute a promising and useful tool to examine the relationships between CUB and selection for translation efficiency and accuracy.
SKOS vocabulary development with Excel and GitHub
Creators: name: Linke, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: vocabulary
catalysis
SKOS
toolchain

description: To make SKOS vocabularies more approachable for people new to the linked data world NFDI4Cat has developed a toolchain based on Excel/xlsx as user interface and github as place for hosting and coordinating the maintenance. This presentation was given in 2nd Ontologies4Chem Workshop 2023, Ontologies for chemistry, DOI:10.25798/dd81-f712
Hasse principle for hermitian spaces over semi-global fields
Creators: name: Wu, Zhengyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E39, 11E72, 14G05, 20G35

description: In a recent paper, Colliot-Thélène, Parimala and Suresh conjectured that a local-global principle holds for projective homogeneous spaces of connected linear algebraic groups over function fields of p-adic curves. In this paper, we show that the conjecture is true for a linear algebraic group whose almost simple factors of its semisimple part are isogenous to unitary groups or special unitary groups of hermitian or skew-hermitian spaces over central simple algebras with involutions. The proof implements patching techniques of Harbater, Hartmann and Krashen. As an application, we obtain a Springer-type theorem for isotropy of hermitian forms over odd degree extensions of function fields of p-adic curves.
description: 22 pages. It merged the published paper and the corrigendum, more typos are fixed
Cabreramops aequatorianus Cabrera 1917
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Cabreramops
Cabreramops aequatorianus

description: 47. Equatorial Dog-faced Bat Cabreramops aequatorianus French: Molosse d'Equateur / German: Ecuador-Bulldogfledermaus / Spanish: Cabreramop de Ecuador Other common names: Cabrera’s Free-tailed Bat Taxonomy. Molossops aequatorianus Cabrera, 1917, “Babahoyo, sobre el rio Guayas,” Los Rios, Ecuador. This species was previously placed in the genus Molossops. Monotypic. Distribution. Known from only two localities in the coastal lowlands of WC Ecuador (Los Rios and Guayas provinces). Descriptive notes. Head-body 44-52 mm, tail 26-31 mm, ear c. 14 mm, hindfoot 7-8 mm, forearm 31-38 mm; weight c. 5 g. Dorsal fur of the Equatorial Dog-faced Bat is dark brown dorsal. Upperlip is wrinkled, but less so than in Tadarida. There is no raised ridge on muzzle as seen in Molossus. Inner bases of ears almost meet on forehead. Tragus is wide at base and narrows toward tip. Antitragus is square. Second phalanx of fourth digit of wing is slightly shorter than first phalanx. Rostrum ofskull is not greatly expanded because lacrimal width is similar to postorbital constriction breadth. Hard palate is not anteriorly emarginated between the premaxillae. Upper incisors are separated at base, but converge and meet at distal halfway to tip. These teeth do not project much beyond canines. Lower incisors are bilobate. Dental formulais11,/2,C1/1,P 1/2. M 3/3 (2) = 28. Habitat. Tropical dry forest at 20-50 m elevation. Food and Feeding. The Equatorial Dog-faced Bat feeds on insects. Breeding. An immature male was collected in late July. Activity patterns. The Equatorial Dog-faced Bat roosts in trees. Four females were collected from a crevice in an old tree and one male was netted over a shallow stream. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Endangered on The IUCN Red List (as Molossops aequatorianus), because it is known from only two locations and has a limited geographic range (extent of occurrence ¢. 4000 km?). The coastal forests of western Ecuador are threatened by land-use conversion to agriculture. Bibliography. Eger (2008), Ibanez (1981), Tirira (2017).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Molossidae, pp. 598-672 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 638, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418279
Genome Sequencing and Assembly for Cultivated Species of the Human Gut Microbiota
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: genome sequencing and assembly
Multispecies

description: Reference genomes of the gut microbiota are essential for metagenomic analysis, functional characterization, and pan-genome analysis. A culturable genome reference (CGR) was built to improve mapping rates for metagenomic analysis, as well as enable functional characterization and pan-genome analysis to human gut microbiota.
The CCGG Probe Database and Online Viewer
Creators: name: Chen, Ziwei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: A pan-genome is a collection of genomes that are organized in a single representation and used jointly in the downstream analysis. As the assembly of multiple intraspecific genomes becomes available, the trend is to build pan-genomes as an alternative to traditional reference genomes. We have built a pan-genome called the Collaborative Cross Graphical Genome (CCGG) for a mouse population known as the Collaborative Cross (CC). The CC is a widely-used genetic reference mouse population derived from eight genetically diverse founder strains. The CCGG was constructed by merging the eight founder genome assemblies into a single pan-genome represented as a graph.
In this thesis, I present the CCGG probe database that was developed for two purposes: 1) to assess the accuracy of the founder assemblies in the CCGG; 2) to characterize newly sequenced CC samples. In the CCGG, edges represent the sequence diversity in founder strains. The CCGG probe database identifies informative probes on edges to distinguish between founder assemblies. The selection of edge probes was designed to be unbiased relative to any founder assembly present in the CCGG. They contain at least one variant on 99% of edges and cover every base pair within the CCGG. Those probes were used to query the raw sequence data of 96 CC samples and eight newly sequenced CC founders for the read counts (i.e., the number of reads that include the given probe). The read counts were organized and compressed to speed up the online queries. This database has been used in three different applications, including compressing the CCGG, resolving the recombination boundaries of CC samples, and locating assembly errors. The CCGG probe database is available online and can be downloaded at http://devel.csbio.unc.edu/GraphicalGenome/supplementary.html.
Another contribution of this thesis is an online visualization of the CCGG. Currently, few bioinformatics tools have been developed for visualizing graph-based pan-genomes. As a result, their structure is hard to understand, which limits their usefulness. Thus, to promote the utilization of the CCGG, I provide the CCGG viewer to allow users to navigate any genomic regions in the CCGG at different scales. The CCGG viewer currently supports four different types of visualizations, including the anchor distribution, edge distribution, graph topology, and CCGG probe database. The CCGG viewer is available online and can be accessed at http://devel.csbio.unc.edu/GraphicalGenome/viewer/.
Schema di raccolta dati delle attestazioni qualificanti le prove di analisi di laboratorio degli alimenti della base di dati MIC su RaDISAN flusso unico, costruito partendo da ANLYREFMD _2.0 di EFSA Catalogue Browser 1.2.12
Creators: name: Saiu Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: RaSISAN

description: È stato utilizzato il prospetto ANLYREFMD _2.0, pubblicato in EFSA Catalogue browser. Nessuna modifica fatta /da fare
description: ANLYREFMD _2.0_MIC servirà a specificare la qualifica delle prove di analisi.
Production and Characterization of 228Th Calibration Sources with Low Neutron Emission for GERDA
Creators: name: Baudis, Laura
name: Benato, Giovanni
name: Carconi, Pierluigi
name: Cattadori, Carla Maria
name: De Felice, Pierino
name: Eberhardt, Klaus
name: Eichler, Robert
name: Petrucci, Andrea
name: Tarka, Michal
name: Walter, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GERDA experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76-Ge. In view of the GERDA Phase II data collection, four new 228-Th radioactive sources for the calibration of the germanium detectors enriched in 76-Ge have been produced with a new technique, leading to a reduced neutron flux from ( alpha; n ) reactions. The gamma activities of the sources were determined with a total uncertainty of 4 percent using an ultra-low background HPGe detector operated underground at LNGS. The emitted neutron flux was determined using a low background LiI(Eu) detector and a 3-He counter at LNGS. In both cases, a reduction of about one order of magnitude with respect to commercially available 228-Th sources was obtained. Additionally, a specific leak test with a sensitivity to leaks down to 10 mBq was developed to investigate the tightness of the stainless steel capsules housing the sources after their use in cryogenic environment.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Learning Complete Shapes of Concentric Tube Robots
Creators: name: Sethi, Armaan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Concentric tube robots, composed of nested pre-curved tubes, have the potential to perform minimally invasive surgery at difficult-to-reach sites in the human body.
In order to plan motions that safely perform surgeries in constrained spaces that require avoiding sensitive structures, the ability to accurately estimate the entire shape of the robot is needed.
Many state-of-the-art physics-based shape models are unable to account for complex physical phenomena and subsequently are less accurate than is required for safe surgery.
In this work, I present a learned model that can estimate the entire shape of a concentric tube robot. The learned model is based on a deep neural network that is trained using a mixture of simulated and physical data.
I evaluate multiple network architectures and demonstrate the model's ability to compute the full shape of a concentric tube robot with high accuracy.
The full shape of a concentric tube robot is necessary in order to plan collision free motions through an environment.
Asymptotic gravitational wave fluxes from a spinning particle in circular equatorial orbits around a rotating black hole
Creators: name: Harms, Enno
name: Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
name: Nagar, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new computation of the asymptotic gravitational wave energy fluxes emitted by a {\it spinning} particle in circular equatorial orbits about a Kerr black hole. The particle dynamics is computed in the pole-dipole approximation, solving the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations with the Tulczyjew spin-supplementary-condition. The fluxes are computed, for the first time, by solving the 2+1 Teukolsky equation in the time-domain using hyperboloidal and horizon-penetrating coordinates. Denoting by $M$ the black hole mass and by $μ$ the particle mass, we cover dimensionless background spins $a/M=(0,\pm0.9)$ and dimensionless particle spins $-0.9\leq S/μ^2 \leq +0.9$. Our results span orbits of Boyer-Lindquist coordinate radii $4\leq r/M \leq 30$; notably, we investigate the strong-field regime, in some cases even beyond the last-stable-orbit. We confirm, numerically, the Tanaka {\it et al.} [Phys.\ Rev.\ D 54, 3762] 2.5th order accurate Post-Newtonian (PN) predictions for the gravitational wave fluxes of a spinning particle in circular equatorial orbit: we find an unambiguos trend of the PN-prediction towards the numerical results when $r$ is large. At $r/M=30$ the fractional agreement between the full numerical flux, approximated as the sum over the modes $m=1,2,3$, and the PN prediction is $\lesssim0.5\%$ in all cases tested. This is close to our fractional numerical accuracy ($\sim 0.2\%$). For smaller radii, the agreement between the 2.5PN prediction and the numerical result progressively deteriorates. Our numerical data will be essential to develop suitably resummed expressions of the 2.5PN analytical fluxes in order to improve their accuracy in the strong-field regime.
description: Correction added since the publication
MPEC 2024-R157 : 2024 QB4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 QB4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Molossops neglectus S. L. Williams & Genoways 1980
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Molossops
Molossops neglectus

description: 48. Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus French: Molossope négligé / German: Verkannte Bulldogfledermaus / Spanish: Molosops rufo Taxonomy. Molossops (Molossops) neglectus S. L. Williams & Genoways, 1980, “ 1 km S, 2 km E Powaka, Suriname, Suriname (5°25’N, 55°03’W).” This species is monotypic. Distribution. Disjunct populations in W & S Colombia, E Venezuela, the Guianas, NE & C Peru, N, SE & S Brazil (Para, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, and Rio Grande do Sul), and NE Argentina (Misiones and Corrientes). Descriptive notes. Head-body 55-68 mm, tail 27-40 mm, ear 11-16 mm, hindfoot 6-10 mm, forearm 33-40 mm; weight 9-16 g. Males are larger than females in cranial measurements. Dorsal pelage is short (3-4 mm) and dark brown, with pale bases; ventral pelage is short (3 mm) and paler brown, with paler bases. Ears and wing membranes are blackish brown. Free portion oftail is about one-third the length of entire tail. Ears are pointed and separated. Antitragus is short and wide, with tragus about one-half this size. Upper incisors are separated by a gap. Dental formula for both members of Molossopsis11/1,C 1/1, P1/2,M3/3 (x2) = 26. Habitat. Primary lowland tropical rainforest, including humid coastal forest and drier semideciduous interior forest, and savanna with secondary forest, below 300 m. Food and Feeding. The Rufous Dog-faced Bat feeds on insects. Breeding. Non-reproductive females were caught in January, August, and October. Pregnant females occur in January, August, and September; lactating females have been documented in July, September, and October. A subadult was captured in March. Activity patterns. The Rufous Dog-faced Bat has been caught flying 20 m aboveground in forest canopy. Echolocation calls have three frequency alternations averaging 32-5 kHz, 38-3 kHz, and 56-2 kHz; they are QCEF, with either an upward or downward modulation. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. Althoff et al. (2018), Ascorra, Wilson & Handley (1991), Barquez et al. (1993), Eger (2008), Gregorin etal. (2004), Lim & Engstrom (2001), Rufray (2015), Velandia-Perilla et al. (2017), Williams & Genoways (1980b).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Molossidae, pp. 598-672 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on pages 638-639, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418279
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Platypus) genome sequencing and assembly, primary haplotype, v1
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2019
Subjects: genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: The raw data and assembly of this submission are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/about/data_use_policy. The platypus is a monotreme mammal that has both reptile and mammalian traits, such as laying eggs and a duck bill like reptiles and birds, and a coat of fur like mammals. It is native to Australia. This reference assembly of has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project and a BGI project on mammal evolution. The male sample was collected for Guojie Zhang and sequenced at Pacific Biosciences, BGI for Illumina data, and the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome lab for Bioanano and 10X data. HiC data was generated from a different individual at Phase Genomics. Genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, namely Arang Rhie and Sergey Koren of Adam Phillippy's lab at NIH. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL group led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, the Phillippy Lab, and Guojie Zhang and Yang Zhou of BGI. The primary haplotype contains the longest contigs of the Pacbio FALCON unzip assembly, scaffolded with 10X linked reads, Bionano optical maps, and Phase Genomics HiC reads, with multiple tools to further separate out haplotypes. Funding was provided by Pacbio as part of a promotion, BGI to Guojie Zhang, HHMI and Rockefeller start-up funds to Erich Jarvis, and individual grants and awards to the persons listed above.
Spit on My Grave: Silent Sam and the Communities it Created
Creators: name: Reasor, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This paper offers an anthropological perspective on the Confederate Monument Silent Sam, with a focus on its history and effects on the student body following its tearing down. Through semi-structured ethnographic interviews with participants within the conflicts surrounding Silent Sam, the actions, meanings, and significance of Silent Sam’s removal are analyzed, with the perspective of the student body being prioritized. Specifically, this paper explores how Victor Turner’s concept of a social drama can be utilized and applied to modern-day social conflicts. Furthermore, the outcome of the study considers how the relationship between the student body and the university administration was, continues to, and will be affected by the protests, rallies, and other conflicts surrounding Silent Sam.
INTEGRATED URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEM; THE CASE OF AYAT TO MEGENAGNA LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM ROUTE
Creators: name: Anteneh Zewdu Deriba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Addis Ababa is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa and urbanization is known to increase the amount of runoff generated from the urban catchment. Due to urbanization and lack of proper design and management, the cities transport infrastructure has experienced frequent flooding. The application of Integrated Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) is a recent trend in developed countries (like the UK) for flood mitigation with added benefit of amenity and water quality. The aim of this study was to assess SUDS applicability in solving the existing drainage problem and minimizing the flood risk associated to transport infrastructure.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Platypus) genome sequencing and assembly, alternate haplotype, v1
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2019
Subjects: genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: The raw data and assembly of this submission are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/about/data_use_policy. The platypus is a monotreme mammal that has both reptile and mammalian traits, such as laying eggs and a duck bill like reptiles and birds, and a coat of fur like mammals. It is native to Australia. This reference assembly of has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project and a BGI project on mammal evolution. The male sample was collected for Guojie Zhang and sequenced at Pacific Biosciences, BGI for Illumina data, and the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome lab for Bioanano and 10X data. HiC data was generated from a different individual at Phase Genomics. Genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, namely Arang Rhie and Sergey Koren of Adam Phillippy's lab at NIH. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL group led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, the Phillippy Lab, and Guojie Zhang and Yang Zhou of BGI. The primary haplotype contains the longest contigs of the Pacbio FALCON unzip assembly, scaffolded with 10X linked reads, Bionano optical maps, and Phase Genomics HiC reads, with multiple tools to further separate out haplotypes. Funding was provided by Pacbio as part of a promotion, BGI to Guojie Zhang, HHMI and Rockefeller start-up funds to Erich Jarvis, and individual grants and awards to the persons listed above.
Dynamic similarity promotes interpersonal coordination in joint-action
Creators: name: Słowiński, Piotr
name: Zhai, Chao
name: Alderisio, Francesco
name: Salesse, Robin
name: Gueugnon, Mathieu
name: Marin, Ludovic
name: Bardy, Benoit G.
name: di Bernardo, Mario
name: Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Human movement has been studied for decades and dynamic laws of motion that are common to all humans have been derived. Yet, every individual moves differently from everyone else (faster/slower, harder/smoother etc). We propose here an index of such variability, namely an individual motor signature (IMS) able to capture the subtle differences in the way each of us moves. We show that the IMS of a person is time-invariant and that it significantly differs from those of other individuals. This allows us to quantify the dynamic similarity, a measure of rapport between dynamics of different individuals' movements, and demonstrate that it facilitates coordination during interaction. We use our measure to confirm a key prediction of the theory of similarity that coordination between two individuals performing a joint-action task is higher if their motions share similar dynamic features. Furthermore, we use a virtual avatar driven by an interactive cognitive architecture based on feedback control theory to explore the effects of different kinematic features of the avatar motion on the coordination with human players.
Effects of Pharmacological Inhibition of AMPARs in the NAc and BLA on the Reinforcing Properties of Alcohol in Male C57BL/6J Mice
Creators: name: May, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Alcohol Use Disorder is a national public health problem affecting over 16 million Americans. Prior research shows that molecular subunits of a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors (AMPARs), expressed in reward-related brain regions, regulate the reinforcing effects of alcohol. Specifically, alcohol intake increases the expression of the AMPAR subunit GluA2 in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and also the expression of the AMPAR subunit GluA1 in the basolateral amygdala (BLA). This suggests to us that GluA2-containing AMPARs in the NAc and GluA1-containing AMPARs in the BLA help with the regulation of the positive reinforcing effects of alcohol. In this experiment, we determine if the pharmacological inhibition of GluA2-containing AMPARs in the NAc or GluA1-containing AMPARs in the BLA affects the reinforcing effects of alcohol. We also sought to explore the alcohol specificity of this finding by evaluating AMPAR subunit regulation of the reinforcing effects of a non-drug reward compared to alcohol by using a sucrose control. Male C57BL/6J mice were trained to self-administer ethanol or sucrose in operant conditioning chambers and implanted with injector guides in the NAc or BLA. Mice were infused with pep2M, a GluA2 inhibitor, into the NAc to inhibit GluA2-containing AMPARs or NASPM, a GluA1 inhibitor, into the BLA to inhibit GluA1-containing AMPARs. Ethanol-reinforced responses were significantly reduced by pep2M in the NAc while sucrose-reinforced responses were unaffected. For NASPM in the BLA, both sucrose- and ethanol-reinforced responses were significantly reduced. These results suggest that GluA2-containing AMPARs in the NAc specifically regulate alcohol reinforcement but GluA1-containing AMPARs in the BLA regulate general reward processes. Our results indicate that alcohol may have specific effects on GluA2-containing AMPARs in the NAc that drives the reinforcing, or addictive, effects of the drug. Supported by: R37-AAD14983
Casmerodius albus, Threskiornis aethiopicus, Eudocimus ruber and Mycteria ibis Genome sequencing and assembly
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: genome sequencing and assembly
Multispecies

description: Avian genomes from Casmerodius albus, Threskiornis aethiopicus, Eudocimus ruber and Mycteria ibis
A Night at the East Lincoln Motor Speedway: Faith, Family, and Pride
Creators: name: Williams, Kendall
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The East Lincoln Motor Speedway (ELMS) is a dirt track in Stanley, North Carolina that hosts stock car races on Saturday nights from March to October. ELMS serves as an outlet for the expression of certain values—namely, faith, family, and pride. In terms of faith, the track is an unconventional sanctuary for people to worship God in a setting that is less formal and more familiar and comfortable than traditional churches. Many generations are present at the track each week, and by engaging the youth, the adults effectively teach them the rules of the game—in terms of both racing and upholding important family values. Pride is demonstrated in the contexts of country, region, sport, track, and self. In carrying out my research, I relied on ethnographic techniques like interviewing and observing. I spoke with ELMS employees, drivers, and fans in an attempt to capture serveral perspectives. From these sources, I conclude that ELMS serves as a social institution that educates the younger generations on the values that they should uphold throughout their lives and ensures the future prosperity of the track.
Distance-2 MDS codes and latin colorings in the Doob graphs
Creators: name: Krotov, Denis
name: Bespalov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05B30

description: The maximum independent sets in the Doob graphs D(m,n) are analogs of the distance-2 MDS codes in Hamming graphs and of the latin hypercubes. We prove the characterization of these sets stating that every such set is semilinear or reducible. As related objects, we study vertex sets with maximum cut (edge boundary) in D(m,n) and prove some facts on their structure. We show that the considered two classes (the maximum independent sets and the maximum-cut sets) can be defined as classes of completely regular sets with specified 2-by-2 quotient matrices. It is notable that for a set from the considered classes, the eigenvalues of the quotient matrix are the maximum and the minimum eigenvalues of the graph. For D(m,0), we show the existence of a third, intermediate, class of completely regular sets with the same property.
description: v2: revised; accepted version
Resistance Made in Hollywood: American Movies on Nazi Germany, 1939-1945
Creators: name: Mercer Brady
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Resistance Made in Hollywood: American Movies on Nazi Germany, 1939-1945, is an exploration into American films released during World War II that were set in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe. These films were a commentary on an ongoing war and are a revealing set of primary sources. Hollywood went through an evolution during the war. Before the United States entered the Second World War, films about the war were controversial and groundbreaking. After the United States entered the war, Hollywood became an enormous part of a propaganda machine. The 44 films set in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe created a unique group of movies within the larger body of films about the war. These films most directly told Americans what to think about Nazi Germany and the war in Europe. They established recurring tropes and a cultural tone for the treatment of European theatre in film for years to come. Emigre filmmakers who often fled the Nazis became influential actors and filmmakers who made movies that focused on resistance against the Third Reich. Emigre influence often transformed many of these films from generic propaganda to forms of personal resistance.
Dehydration assessment and monitoring tools in the elderly: a scoping review
Creators: name: Zou, Ying
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Geriatric Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: assessment tools
subject: dehydration
subject: scoping review

description: Conduct a scoping review about dehydration assessment and monitoring tools used in the elderly. Provide an overview of the use condition of dehydration assessment tools in the elderly and summarize the ideas to choose different kinds of methods.
Health and Risk Preferences
Creators: name: Morris, Evelyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Most economic analyses assume that risk aversion is constant over the lifecycle, though an emerging body of empirical literature has provided contradictory evidence. This paper contributes to the literature by developing a theoretical model of the relationship between health and risk preferences and evaluating the model with an improved measure of risk preferences and an instrumental variables model. I find that health has an inverse relationship with risk aversion, but the effect of a health shock is sensitive to risk preference measurement, which explains the range of findings in the literature.
Examining the impact of Asian identity and cultural context on eating psychopathology
Creators: name: Kim, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Despite increasing globalization, more cross-cultural contact than ever, and a growing Asian American population, available research on the mental health of Asian Americans is extremely limited, especially with respect to eating disorders. The goal of the study was to examine the similarities and differences between Asian and non-Asian participants with respect to disordered eating and its associated risk factors, with a focus on the cultural and social attributes of Asian Americans. We hypothesized that Asian Americans would exhibit more perfectionism, collectivism, and conformity to norms in addition to more disordered eating. Using survey data collected from participants across the United States, we found that this was not the case, and that Asian participants actually showed less disordered eating than non-Asian participants. Asians showed more perfectionism related to parental expectations and criticism as well as conformity to norms. However, they did not show significantly different collectivism as compared to non-Asian participants, and exhibited more positive attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help. More research is needed to determine if Asian Americans at different levels of acculturation are at higher risk of disordered eating, and if those at different levels display more of the risk factors mentioned previously.
On the asymptotic distribution of block-modified random matrices
Creators: name: Arizmendi, Octavio
name: Nechita, Ion
name: Vargas, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study random matrices acting on tensor product spaces which have been transformed by a linear block operation. Using operator-valued free probability theory, under some mild assumptions on the linear map acting on the blocks, we compute the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of the modified matrices in terms of the initial asymptotic distribution. Moreover, using recent results on operator-valued subordination, we present an algorithm that computes, numerically but in full generality, the limiting eigenvalue distribution of the modified matrices. Our analytical results cover many cases of interest in quantum information theory: we unify some known results and we obtain new distributions and various generalizations.
2-CSRTT Behavior Box Optimization and Data Analysis
Creators: name: Lu, Zhouxiao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In this project, a substitute for 5-CSRTT has been developed. The new task includes traits from 5-CSRTT and CPT, called 2-CSRTT. To improve data accuracy and reduce human efforts in animal training, a new 2-CSRTT box is developed. The results suggest that the 2-CSRTT box reduces the reaction time in trials, implying that the efficacy of the test has been improved. Also, the automated part of the box has shown to reduce human efforts. This project will help researchers in the Frohlich Lab to train ferrets in a shorter time, and the behavioral results will be more useful in data analysis.
Track reconstruction at the LUXE experiment using quantum algorithms
Creators: name: Crippa, Arianna
name: Funcke, Lena
name: Hartung, Tobias
name: Heinemann, Beate
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Kropf, Annabel
name: Kühn, Stefan
name: Meloni, Federico
name: Spataro, David
name: Tüysüz, Cenk
name: Yap, Yee Chinn
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: computer, quantum
laser, yield
quantum electrodynamics
positron
track data analysis
tracking detector
strong field
binary
proposed experiment
hybrid
quantum algorithm
pixel
silicon
tracks
nonperturbative
electron positron
neural network
variational quantum eigensolver

description: LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) is a proposed experiment at DESY which will study Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in the strong-field regime, where QED becomes non-perturbative. Measuring the rate of created electron-positron pairs using a silicon pixel tracking detector is an essential ingredient to study this regime. Precision tracking of positrons traversing the four layers of the tracking detector becomes very challenging at high laser intensities due to the high rates, which can be computationally expensive for classical computers. In this work, we update our previous study of the potential of using quantum computing to reconstruct positron tracks. The reconstruction task is formulated as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation and is solved using simulated quantum computers and a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, namely the variational quantum eigensolver. Different ansatz circuits and optimisers are studied. The results are discussed and compared with classical track reconstruction algorithms using a graph neural network and a combinatorial Kalman filter.
Judicious Judges? Analyzing the Effects of Judicial Discretion and Crime Type on Sentencing Outcomes
Creators: name: Dodge, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In 2005, the Supreme Court case U.S. v. Booker (2005) increased judicial discretion (U.S. v. Booker, 2005). This paper analyzes the effects of that increase on sentencing outcomes. It adds to a body of literature assessing Booker’s impact by delineating the different effects depending on crime type. Specifically, I ask how the effects from Booker vary by crime type. Because judges’ personal experiences and ideologies may cause them to favor more or less punishment dependent on the type of crime, understanding the crime type variation in Booker’s effects will lead to a more accurate understanding of the overall implications from Booker. Using federal sentencing data from the United States Sentencing Commission, I estimate the effect of the interaction between Booker and specific crime types on sentence length. Additionally, I divide the data into subsets by crime type and assess the effect of Booker’s interaction with demographic variables for each subset. Generally, I find that Booker’s effects do vary by crime type and that these variations also manifest in demographic variable interactions between crime types.
Spin geometry and conservation laws in the Kerr spacetime
Creators: name: Andersson, Lars
name: Bäckdahl, Thomas
name: Blue, Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L65, 35Q61, 83C60, 83C50, 83C57

description: In this paper we will review some facts, both classical and recent, concerning the geometry and analysis of the Kerr and related black hole spacetimes. This includes the analysis of test fields on these spacetimes. Central to our analysis is the existence of a valence $(2,0)$ Killing spinor, which we use to construct symmetry operators and conserved currents as well as a new energy momentum tensor for the Maxwell test fields on a class of spacetimes containing the Kerr spacetime. We then outline how this new energy momentum tensor can be used to obtain decay estimated for Maxwell test fields. An important motivation for this work is the black hole stability problem, where fields with non-zero spin present interesting new challenges. The main tool in the analysis is the 2-spinor calculus, and for completeness we introduce its main features.
description: 30 pages. To appear in the volume "The Centenary of General Relativity" in "Surveys in Differential Geometry", edited by Lydia Bieri and Shing-Tung Yau, in the series "Surveys in Differential Geometry"
PROTECTION OF CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPANTS' RIGHTS: ETHICAL AND LEGAL STANDARDS
Creators: name: Toshmatova, Visolakhon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Clinical trials play a crucial role in the development of medicine by enabling the creation of new drugs, treatment methods, and medical technologies. However, their conduct involves certain risks for participants, emphasizing the importance of ethical and legal standards that ensure the protection of the rights and interests of people who voluntarily participate in these studies. In recent decades, clinical trial standards have evolved significantly, incorporating stricter ethical rules and the adoption of international legal norms aimed at protecting participants. This article will explore the topic of protecting the rights of clinical trial participants, including key ethical and legal standards that exist today.
Exploring Dephasing of a Solid-State Quantum Emitter via Time- and Temperature- Dependent Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiments
Creators: name: Thoma, A.
name: Schnauber, P.
name: Gschrey, M.
name: Seifried, M.
name: Wolters, J.
name: Schulze, J. -H.
name: Strittmatter, A.
name: Rodt, S.
name: Carmele, A.
name: Knorr, A.
name: Heindel, T.
name: Reitzenstein, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the indistinguishability of photons emitted by a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) via time- and temperature- dependent two-photon interference (TPI) experiments. An increase in temporal-separation between consecutive photon emission events, reveals a decrease in TPI visibility on a nanosecond timescale, theoretically described by a non-Markovian noise process in agreement with fluctuating charge-traps in the QD's vicinity. Phonon-induced pure dephasing results in a decrease in TPI visibility from $(96\pm4)\,$\% at 10\,K to a vanishing visibility at 40\,K. In contrast to Michelson-type measurements, our experiments provide direct access to the time-dependent coherence of a quantum emitter at a nanosecond timescale.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Behind the Popularity: Simulation Game in China
Creators: name: Rui, Li
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This thesis focuses on the popularity of simulation games in contemporary China. It aims to understand Chinese users’ motivations for playing and abandoning simulation games, and to explore the strategies that Chinese game designers use to attract players by capitalizing upon the Chinese sociological characteristics. It also attempts to examine the potential benefits of playing simulation games on Chinese gamers’ life by interpreting how simulation games promote people’s interpersonal relationships, character development, and other personal skills. This research mainly concentrates on three sub-genres of simulation games: life simulation, dating simulation, and construction and management simulation games. By analyzing the results of 30 semi-structured interviews with Chinese college students aged from 19 to 25, the author concludes that affective interaction, achieving a sense of satisfaction, and fantasy fulfillment are three crucial reasons that Chinese gamers are addicted to simulation games. On the other hand, three factors: a lack of immersion, money-oriented game systems, and repetitive game settings, contribute to their fatigue of playing simulation games. Furthermore, from highlighting the developers’ strategies such as creating a shared sense of identity, satisfying Chinese players’ nostalgia and yearn for farming life, and winning over the female players, the author sheds light on phenomena that are unique to contemporary Chinese society. In China, the public views Chinese video games mainly as a form of entertainment. However, this work highlights the possibilities of using simulation games as an educational and training tool.