cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implementing clinical pharmacogenomics in the classroom: student pharmacist impressions of an educational intervention including personal genotyping
Creators: name: El-Sabae, Hijrah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Pharmacogenomics provides a personalized approach to pharmacotherapy by using genetic information to guide drug dosing and selection; however, pharmacogenomic testing has not been fully implemented in clinical practice. A lack of pharmacogenomic-focused coursework in pharmacy education may be contributing to its low adoption into patient care.  With extensive pharmacotherapy training and accessibility to patients, pharmacists are ideally equipped to drive clinical pharmacogenomics. This study aims to assess an innovative pharmacogenomic teaching method and elucidate its impact on students' perceptions regarding pharmacogenomics. Student pharmacists (N=222) participated in a 15-week educational intervention including pharmacogenomic presentation materials, patient case scenarios, and personal genotyping with 23andMe. Students completed a pre- and post- intervention survey to evaluate their attitudes and self-efficacy towards clinical pharmacogenomics. Responses were analyzed with McNemar's test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. In the post-survey, 36% of students in the paired subset agreed they would recommend personal genotyping for a patient compared to 19% pre-intervention (p=0.0032). Students were significantly more confident in applying pharmacogenomics to manage patients’ medications post- intervention, and more students believed that personal genomics will likely play an important role in their future career (p=0.0072). An educational intervention improved student pharmacists' attitudes and confidence regarding pharmacogenomics in the clinical setting.
Genome-wide association study and genomic selection for sting nematode resistance in peanut using the USDA public data
Creators: name: Ravelombola, Waltram
name: Cason, John
name: Tallury, Shyamalrau
name: Manley, Aurora
name: Pham, Hanh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is valued at $1.28 billion annually in the USA. The sting nematode, Belonolaimus longicaudatus, is an ectoparasitic pathogen that can devastate peanut production. Breeding for resistance to this pathogen is one of the most affordable ways to limit its damaging effects on peanut. The use of molecular tools can further accelerate the development of sting nematode-resistant cultivars. The objectives of this study were to identify single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers associated with sting nematode resistance in peanuts using publicly available datasets and to assess the accuracy of genomic selection in predicting the resistance to sting nematode. SNP discovery was conducted using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in a peanut panel consisting of 775 USDA accessions, which were phenotyped for sting nematode resistance. GWAS was conducted using 13,306 filtered SNPs, run in TASSEL with three different statistical models. Results showed that (1) a total of 9, 13, 18, 2, and 4 SNPs, respectively, were found to be associated with sting nematode resistance using the single-marker regression, generalized linear model (PCA), generalized linear model (Q), and mixed linear model (PCA), and mixed linear model (Q), respectively; (2) two SNPs overlapped among the models; and (3) genomic selection was higher when the SNPs from GWAS were used to fit the model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on SNP markers associated with and genomic selection for sting nematode resistance in peanuts. These results can be used to develop a molecular breeding strategy to select for sting nematode resistance in peanuts.
Finite Size Effect in Amorphous Indium oxide
Creators: name: Mitra, Sreemanta
name: Tewari, Girish C.
name: Mahalu, Diana
name: Shahar, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low temperature magneto-transport properties of several highly disordered amorphous Indium oxide(a:InO) samples. Simultaneously fabricated devices comprising a 2-dimensional (2D) film and 10 $μ$m long wires of different widths were measured to investigate the effect of size as we approach the 1D limit, which is around 4 times the correlation length, and happens to be around 100 nm for a:InO. The film and the wires showed magnetic field ({\it B}) induced superconductor to insulator transition (SIT). In the superconducting side, the resistance increased with decrease in wire width, whereas, an opposite trend is observed in the insulating side. We find that this effect can be explained in light of charge-vortex duality picture of the SIT. Resistance of the 2D film follows an activated behavior over the temperature ($T$), whereas, the wires show a crossover from the high-$T$ activated to a $T$-independent behavior. At high temperature regime the wires' resistance follow the film's until they deviate and became independent of $T$. We find that temperature at which this deviation occurs evolve with magnetic field and the width of the wire, which show the effect of finite size on the transport.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, latex/revtex, Accepted in Phys.Rev. B
An Analysis of the Effects of Election Day Voter Registration on Political Outcomes
Creators: name: Conder, Keenan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This thesis will seek to study EDR’s [Election Day Registration]general political effect on the two main American political parties and on voting as a whole. In a country so divided, any shift in the political fortunes could change the US political landscape.
Spin States of Cobalt Ions in the Bulk and on the Surface of LaCoO3 Probed by X-ray Absorption, Emission, and Photoelectron Spectra
Creators: name: Galakhov, V. R.
name: Udintseva, M. S.
name: Smirnov, D. A.
name: Makarova, A. A.
name: Kuepper, K.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cobalt Ions
subject: Spin States
subject: LaCoO3
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::541 Physikalische Chemie

description: We present X-ray photoelectron, Co L2,3 and O K X-ray absorption, as well as Co Kβ1,3 X-ray emission spectroscopy results of studies of the spin states of trivalent cobalt ions in single-crystal cobaltite LaCoO3. We show that at room temperature, in the bulk of a LaCoO3 single crystal, Co3+ ions are in the low-spin state, while high-spin Co2+, high-spin Co3+, low-spin Co3+ , and probably also intermediate-spin Co3+ ions are localated on the surface.
Spatial models for seed yield, wilting, and maturity in furrow-irrigated soybean plots
Creators: name: Ravelombola, F.
name: Acuña, A.
name: Florez-Palacios, L.
name: Wu, C.
name: Harrison, D.
name: de Oliveira, M.
name: Winter, J.
name: Da Silva, M.P.
name: Mozzoni, L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Field experiments are subjected to spatial variability due to factors such as soil moisture, fertility, pH, and structure, as well as the pressure of diseases and pests. Soybean yields are highly variable across fields. Controlling spatial variability could decrease the risk of erroneous inferences in breeding trials. This study aims at evaluating the spatial variability of furrow-irrigated soybean for seed yield, wilting, and maturity under four different irrigation levels. The field experiment was conducted in four environmzents (location-year combination). A total of 165 soybean lines of similar relative maturity (maturity group 5) along with commercial checks were planted in an augmented strip plot design. Irrigation treatment decisions were triggered using an atmometer based on a threshold at a designated growth stage. Data were analyzed via Analysis of Variance as a linear mixed model using a blocking structure (block model) and spatial covariances using range and column. Two different spatial models were used: exponential and Gaussian. Results showed that the spatial models displayed better data fitting (lower AIC and/or BIC) than the block model in each different irrigation level across different environments and traits. Indeed, genotype ranking for seed yield was different between the block model and the best spatial model, suggesting that spatial adjustment may be necessary for soybean breeding operations under furrow irrigation. Further validation in a breeding yield trial demonstrated similar results of the effectiveness in terms of AIC and/or BIC of the spatial model compared to the block model for soybean seed yield.
Maximum Matchings in Geometric Intersection Graphs
Creators: name: Bonnet, Édouard
name: Cabello, Sergio
name: Mulzer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational geometry
subject: Geometric intersection graph
subject: Disk graph
subject: Unit-disk graph
subject: Matching
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: Let G be an intersection graph of n geometric objects in the plane. We show that a maximum matching in G can be found in O(ρ3ω/2nω/2) time with high probability, where ρ is the density of the geometric objects and ω>2 is a constant such that n×n matrices can be multiplied in O(nω) time. The same result holds for any subgraph of G, as long as a geometric representation is at hand. For this, we combine algebraic methods, namely computing the rank of a matrix via Gaussian elimination, with the fact that geometric intersection graphs have small separators. We also show that in many interesting cases, the maximum matching problem in a general geometric intersection graph can be reduced to the case of bounded density. In particular, a maximum matching in the intersection graph of any family of translates of a convex object in the plane can be found in O(nω/2) time with high probability, and a maximum matching in the intersection graph of a family of planar disks with radii in [1,Ψ] can be found in O(Ψ6log11n+Ψ12ωnω/2) time with high probability.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1513
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1674 col. 34. Philodemus, De rhetorica 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Sunstein and Thaler's Limited Paternalism
Creators: name: Burrows, Joshua
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In “Libertarian Paternalism is not an Oxymoron”, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler employ recent research in behavioral economics to suggest a way in which a government planner could both enact paternalistic policies and respect freedom of choice. I will assess their suggestion in light of two of the most common anti-paternalist arguments. John Stuart Mill and Joel Feinberg exemplify these anti-paternalist positions. Section 1 of this paper introduces the anti-paternalist arguments made by Mill and Feinberg. Section 2 outlines Sunstein and Thaler’s suggestion and the empirical research it is based on. Sections 3 and 4 assess their suggestion in light of arguments introduced in section 1. In section 3, some of the points raised by Mark White in his book The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism, which was written in response to Sunstein and Thaler, are considered. I side with Sunstein and Thaler against White.
Ramond Equations of Motion in Superstring Field Theory
Creators: name: Erler, Theodore
name: Konopka, Sebastian
name: Sachs, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the recently constructed NS superstring field theories in the small Hilbert space to give classical field equations for all superstring theories, including Ramond sectors. We also comment on the realization of supersymmetry in this framework.
description: 43 pages, 5 figures
Retrospective and Observational Analysis of Missing and Delayed Medications at a Large Community Teaching Hospital
Creators: name: Bartlett, Jenna Wood
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Medication errors are a national concern that can compromise patient care and increase health-care costs. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) defines omission errors as the failure to administer an ordered dose to a patient before the next scheduled dose. Wrong time errors are defined as the administration of medication outside a predefined time interval from its scheduled administration time. These errors can result in serious harm or even death. Pharmacists play a significant role in preventing medication errors. Pertaining to omission errors and wrong time errors, ASHP recommends that pharmacists ensure medications are delivered to the patient-care area in a timely fashion after the receipt of orders. In addition, pharmacists should review medications that are returned to the department to reveal system breakdowns. Because nurses are directly involved in patient-care activities including the administration of medications, they also play a large role in the prevention of medication errors. In order to prevent missing or delayed medications, communication is essential between nursing and pharmacy. Missing and delayed medications have been identified as a growing concern among providers and nurses at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which warranted a closer investigation of the entire medication delivery process. Although missing and delayed medication doses are a common type of medication error, it is often difficult to determine the cause of these errors. Doses are often sent again without trying to locate the original dose in order to prevent delays. The purpose of this study was to determine underlying causes for
missing medications hospital-wide through prospective analysis, as well as identify reasons for medication delays specific to the pediatric population through retrospective analysis.
Alternative to antibiotic growth promoters: beneficial effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and/or Lactobacillus acidophilus supplementation on the growth performance and sustainability of broilers’ production
Creators: name: Attia, Youssef A.
name: Basiouni, Shereen
name: Abdulsalam, Nisreen M.
name: Bovera, Fulvia
name: Aboshok, Afaf A.
name: Shehata, Awad A.
name: Hafez, Hafez M.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: antibiotic growth promoters
subject: blood biochemistry
subject: carcass traits
subject: digestibility
subject: meat quality probiotics
subject: productive performance
subject: symbiotics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Although antibiotics growth promoters (AGPs), including zinc-bacitracin (ZnB), can threaten human health due to developing antimicrobial resistance, as well as drug residue in animal and poultry products, ZnB is still widely used, particularly in developing countries, for the sustainability of poultry farming. The present investigation aims to assess the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus acidophilus, with or without a prebiotic (mannooligosaccharide, MOS), as alternatives to ZnB. For this reason, 150 one-day-old chicks were grouped into six groups, designated negative control, LA, SC, ZnB, SA + MOS, and LA + MOS (5 replicates of 5 chicks for each group). Chicks kept in the control group were fed the basal diet. Chickens kept in LA and SC groups received L. acidophilus, S. cerevisiae at a 1 g/kg diet and 2 g/Kg, respectively. Chickens kept in ZnB received ZnB at 0.5 g/kg. Chicks kept in the SC + MOS and LA + MOS were fed a basal diet containing 2 g S. cerevisiae + 1 g MOS/kg or 1 g L. acidophilus + 1 g MOS /kg, respectively. The efficacy was assessed based on the growth performance, carcass traits, meat quality, nutrient digestibility, and blood biochemistry composition during the entire trial 1–36 days of age. Results showed that chicks kept in the SC group had greater BW than the control (p < 0.05). Chicks kept in the SC, LA, SC + MOS, and LA + MOS consumed less feed than the control and Zn-B groups (p < 0.05). Supplementation with S. cerevisiae resulted in a better (p < 0.05) feed conversion rate (FCR) than the control group. Supplementation with L. acidophilus + MOS significantly increased (p < 0.05) the relative liver weight compared to those supplemented with ZnB, S. cerevisiae, and L. acidophilus. In addition, supplementation with ZnB-induced spleen hypertrophy compared to S. cerevisiae and L. acidophilus-supplemented groups (p < 0.05). Plasma, meat, and liver cholesterol, as well as the cholesterol-to-lipid ratio of meat and liver, were significantly decreased (p < 0.05) in both SC and LA groups compared to the control group. Our research indicates that adding 2 g/kg of S. cerevisiae to broiler feed can effectively replace ZnB and enhance productive performance and economic profits, making it a viable and sustainable option for broiler farming.
“What” and “when” predictions modulate auditory processing in a mutually congruent manner
Creators: name: Cappotto, Drew
name: Luo, Dan
name: Lai, Hiu Wai
name: Peng, Fei
name: Melloni, Lucia
name: Schnupp, Jan Wilbert Hendrik
name: Auksztulewicz, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: auditory neuroscience
subject: predictive coding
subject: temporal processing
subject: electroencephalography
subject: dynamic causal modeling
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Introduction: Extracting regularities from ongoing stimulus streams to form predictions is crucial for adaptive behavior. Such regularities exist in terms of the content of the stimuli and their timing, both of which are known to interactively modulate sensory processing. In real-world stimulus streams such as music, regularities can occur at multiple levels, both in terms of contents (e.g., predictions relating to individual notes vs. their more complex groups) and timing (e.g., pertaining to timing between intervals vs. the overall beat of a musical phrase). However, it is unknown whether the brain integrates predictions in a manner that is mutually congruent (e.g., if “beat” timing predictions selectively interact with “what” predictions falling on pulses which define the beat), and whether integrating predictions in different timing conditions relies on dissociable neural correlates. Methods: To address these questions, our study manipulated “what” and “when” predictions at different levels – (local) interval-defining and (global) beat-defining – within the same stimulus stream, while neural activity was recorded using electroencephalogram (EEG) in participants (N = 20) performing a repetition detection task. Results: Our results reveal that temporal predictions based on beat or interval timing modulated mismatch responses to violations of “what” predictions happening at the predicted time points, and that these modulations were shared between types of temporal predictions in terms of the spatiotemporal distribution of EEG signals. Effective connectivity analysis using dynamic causal modeling showed that the integration of “what” and “when” predictions selectively increased connectivity at relatively late cortical processing stages, between the superior temporal gyrus and the fronto-parietal network. Discussion: Taken together, these results suggest that the brain integrates different predictions with a high degree of mutual congruence, but in a shared and distributed cortical network. This finding contrasts with recent studies indicating separable mechanisms for beat-based and memory-based predictive processing.
Circle packing inside a regular tridecagon: supplemental material
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: circle packing
constrained optimization

description: We report the configurations of 2 ≤ N ≤ 200 congruent disks packed inside a regular tridecagon obtained using the algorithms developed by the author.
description: added three tables; data of the configurations made available on zenodo
Anxiety in response to the climate and environmental crises: validation of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale in Germany
Creators: name: Heinzel, Stephan
name: Tschorn, Mira
name: Schulte-Hutner, Michael
name: Schäfer, Fabian
name: Reese, Gerhard
name: Pohle, Carina
name: Peter, Felix
name: Neuber, Michael
name: Liu, Shuyan
name: Keller, Jan
name: Eichinger, Michael
name: Bechtoldt, Myriam
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: environmental crisis
subject: climate crisis
subject: climate change
subject: eco-anxiety
subject: climate anxiety
subject: Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background: As the climate and environmental crises unfold, eco-anxiety, defined as anxiety about the crises’ devastating consequences for life on earth, affects mental health worldwide. Despite its importance, research on eco-anxiety is currently limited by a lack of validated assessment instruments available in different languages. Recently, Hogg and colleagues proposed a multidimensional approach to assess eco-anxiety. Here, we aim to translate the original English Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS) into German and to assess its reliability and validity in a German sample. Methods: Following the TRAPD (translation, review, adjudication, pre-test, documentation) approach, we translated the original English scale into German. In total, 486 participants completed the German HEAS. We used Bayesian confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess whether the four-factorial model of the original English version could be replicated in the German sample. Furthermore, associations with a variety of emotional reactions towards the climate crisis, general depression, anxiety, and stress were investigated. Results: The German HEAS was internally consistent (Cronbach’s alphas 0.71–0.86) and the Bayesian CFA showed that model fit was best for the four-factorial model, comparable to the factorial structure of the original English scale (affective symptoms, rumination, behavioral symptoms, anxiety about personal impact). Weak to moderate associations were found with negative emotional reactions towards the climate crisis and with general depression, anxiety, and stress. Discussion: Our results support the original four-factorial model of the scale and indicate that the German HEAS is a reliable and valid scale to assess eco-anxiety in German speaking populations.
Cross-section Fluctuations in Open Microwave Billiards and Quantum Graphs: The Counting-of-Maxima Method Revisited
Creators: name: Dietz, B.
name: Richter, A.
name: Samajdar, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fluctuations exhibited by the cross-sections generated in a compound-nucleus reaction or, more generally, in a quantum-chaotic scattering process, when varying the excitation energy or another external parameter, are characterized by the width Gamma_corr of the cross-section correlation function. In 1963 Brink and Stephen [Phys. Lett. 5, 77 (1963)] proposed a method for its determination by simply counting the number of maxima featured by the cross sections as function of the parameter under consideration. They, actually, stated that the product of the average number of maxima per unit energy range and Gamma_corr is constant in the Ercison region of strongly overlapping resonances. We use the analogy between the scattering formalism for compound-nucleus reactions and for microwave resonators to test this method experimentally with unprecedented accuracy using large data sets and propose an analytical description for the regions of isolated and overlapping resonances.
Elaphoglossum andicola T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum andicola

description: Elaphoglossum andicola (Fée) T.Moore, Index Fil. 5. 1857. (Fig. 44A–E)
 Range: — Costa Rica; Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia (CO, LP, SC); Venezuelan tepuis; may also occur in Mesoamerica.
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic and less commonly terrestrial in humid forests; 1700–3200 m.
 Notes: —Together with E. buchtienii and E. productum, this species belongs to the difficult complex of E. latifolium. Most specimens in this group were previously called E. latifolium (e.g., Mickel 1993), but in the strict sense that species appears to be restricted to the Antilles. The species in this group are very similar to each other and often separated only by combinations of quantitative characters. Elaphoglossum andicola is quite variable, and specimens so determined may comprise more than one species.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1514
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1674 col. 35. Philodemus, De rhetorica 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Multiplicity and transverse momentum evolution of charge-dependent correlations in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on two-particle charge-dependent correlations in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions as a function of the pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle difference, $\mathrmΔη$ and $\mathrmΔφ$ respectively. These correlations are studied using the balance function that probes the charge creation time and the development of collectivity in the produced system. The dependence of the balance function on the event multiplicity as well as on the trigger and associated particle transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 7$, 5.02, and 2.76 TeV, respectively, are presented. In the low transverse momentum region, for $0.2 < p_{\mathrm{T}} < 2.0$ GeV/$c$, the balance function becomes narrower in both $\mathrmΔη$ and $\mathrmΔφ$ directions in all three systems for events with higher multiplicity. The experimental findings favor models that either incorporate some collective behavior (e.g. AMPT) or different mechanisms that lead to effects that resemble collective behavior (e.g. PYTHIA8 with color reconnection). For higher values of transverse momenta the balance function becomes even narrower but exhibits no multiplicity dependence, indicating that the observed narrowing with increasing multiplicity at low $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ is a feature of bulk particle production.
description: 32 pages, 12 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 27, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1869
The Impact of Pregnancy Intention on Child Assessment Scores
Creators: name: Levine, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Nearly half of all pregnancies resulting in live births in the United States are unwanted or mistimed. Understanding the long-term consequences of unintended births is key to determining the importance of allocating resources to programs that promote greater access to and knowledge about contraception. In this study, I use Seemingly Unrelated Regression systems both with and without fixed effects to evaluate whether children resulting from unintended pregnancies underperform on standardized assessments. When estimated without fixed effects, the relationship between maternal use of contraception at the time of conception, which should indicate an unintended pregnancy, and a child’s test scores appears significant and positive. However, after adding fixed effects, contraception use appears to actually be mildly detrimental to children’s test scores. These results suggest that the types of mothers who use contraception produce children that perform better on assessments, but that after controlling for unobservable differences in types of mothers, contraception use at the time of conception actually has a slight negative effect on a child’s performance.
Better than expected: the gap between self-reported and objective measures of cognitive performance in remitted bipolar disorder
Creators: name: Quinlivan, Esther
name: Renneberg, Babette
name: Schreiter, Stefanie
name: Friedel, Eva
name: Shmuilovich, Olga
name: Stamm, Thomas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: bipolar disorder
subject: self-reported cognitive functioning
subject: executive functions
subject: objective cognitive functioning
subject: self-esteem
subject: euthymic
subject: remitted bipolar disorder
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background: Studies comparing objective and self-reported cognitive functioning as well as influencing factors in individuals with remitted bipolar disorder are scarce and contradictory. Methods: The aim of this study was to compare executive functioning and other objective and self-reported cognitive impairment between 26 individuals with remitted bipolar disorder (15 BD I) and 24 healthy controls using a cross-sectional design. Executive functions were measured by the TAP Go/No-go subtest as well as the Stroop Task. Self-rated functioning was assessed using the Attention Deficit Experience Questionnaire. In addition, possible predictors of self-reported and objective cognitive functioning were examined to perform regression analyses. Results: Individuals with remitted bipolar disorder did not differ significantly in executive functions or other objective cognitive domains from the healthy control group, but showed a significantly lower level of self-reported cognitive functioning and self-esteem. While self-esteem was the strongest predictor in healthy controls for self-reported cognitive functioning, severity of illness and subthreshold depressive mood were the most important predictors in individuals with remitted bipolar disorder. Conclusion: The results once again demonstrate the cognitive heterogeneity in bipolar disorder. In the treatment of cognitive deficits, factors such as subthreshold depressive symptomatology and self-esteem should be focused on in addition to cognitive training in remitted patients.
Elaphoglossum ballivianii Rosenst., Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum ballivianii

description: Elaphoglossum ballivianii Rosenst., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 474. 1913. (Fig. 25A–C)
 Range: —Presently known only from Bolivia (CO, LP), but probably more widespread.
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic in humid forests; 800–2200(–3200) m.
 Notes: —Very nondescript, lacking clear identification characters. Previously often identified as E. petiolatum (Sw.) Urban from Mexico to Peru and Brazil, but that species has resinous dots and/or scales on the abaxial blade surfaces.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Perturbative calculation of quasi-potential in non-equilibrium diffusions: a mean-field example
Creators: name: Bouchet, Freddy
name: Gawedzki, Krzysztof
name: Nardini, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In stochastic systems with weak noise, the logarithm of the stationary distribution becomes proportional to a large deviation rate function called the quasi-potential. The quasi-potential, and its characterization through a variational problem, lies at the core of the Freidlin-Wentzell large deviations theory%.~\cite{freidlin1984}.In many interacting particle systems, the particle density is described by fluctuating hydrodynamics governed by Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory%, ~\cite{bertini2014},which formally fits within Freidlin-Wentzell's framework with a weak noise proportional to $1/\sqrt{N}$, where $N$ is the number of particles. The quasi-potential then appears as a natural generalization of the equilibrium free energy to non-equilibrium particle systems. A key physical and practical issue is to actually compute quasi-potentials from their variational characterization for non-equilibrium systems for which detailed balance does not hold. We discuss how to perform such a computation perturbatively in an external parameter $λ$, starting from a known quasi-potential for $λ=0$. In a general setup, explicit iterative formulae for all terms of the power-series expansion of the quasi-potential are given for the first time. The key point is a proof of solvability conditions that assure the existence of the perturbation expansion to all orders. We apply the perturbative approach to diffusive particles interacting through a mean-field potential. For such systems, the variational characterization of the quasi-potential was proven by Dawson and Gartner%. ~\cite{dawson1987,dawson1987b}. Our perturbative analysis provides new explicit results about the quasi-potential and about fluctuations of one-particle observables in a simple example of mean field diffusions: the Shinomoto-Kuramoto model of coupled rotators%. ~\cite{shinomoto1986}. This is one of few systems for which non-equilibrium free energies can be computed and analyzed in an effective way, at least perturbatively.
title: Prekäre Privilegien
title: Wie Ingenieur_innen ihren Alltag gestalten
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hausotter, Jette
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Prekarisierung
subject: Intersektionalität
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: Vereinbarkeit
subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Ingenieur_in
subject: Privilegien
subject: Intersektionale Mehrebenenanalyse
subject: Hochqualifizierte Angestellte
subject: Arbeitswissenschaft
subject: Interessen
subject: Work-Life-Balance

description: In einer qualitativen Studie werden, basierend auf 21 problemzentrierten Interviews und im Rückgriff auf ungleichheits- und intersektionalitätstheoretische Ansätze der Sozialwissenschaften, die Auswirkungen gesellschaftlicher Prekarisierungsprozesse auf die Berufsgruppe der Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure in Deutschland untersucht. Anhand von empirisch herausgearbeiteten Interessentypen wird analysiert, wie sich prekäre Privilegien im Alltag von Ingenieur_innen auswirken und wie sich die Ingenieur_innen in Spannungsfeldern zwischen eigenen Wünschen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen positionieren. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund der Arbeits- und Geschlechterforschung bewertet.
Impact of body mass index on worsening of diastolic function and impairment of left atrial strain in the general female urban population: a subanalysis of the Berlin female risk evaluation echocardiography follow-up study
Creators: name: Romero Dorta, Elena
name: Wolf, Adrian
name: Hübscher, Anne
name: Blaschke-Waluga, Daniela
name: Seeland, Ute
name: Crayen, Claudia
name: Bischoff, Sven
name: Mattig, Isabel
name: Dreger, Henryk
name: Stangl, Karl
name: Regitz-Zagrosek, Vera
name: Landmesser, Ulf
name: Knebel, Fabian
name: Stangl, Verena
name: Brand, Anna
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: body mass index
subject: left atrial strain
subject: diastolic dysfunction
subject: left atrium
subject: BEFRI
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The association of body mass index (BMI) with diastolic dysfunction (DD) is well described in the literature. However, there is conflicting evidence and long-term follow-up data regarding effects of BMI on preclinical DD and left atrial (LA) function are scarce, highlighting the importance of early detection tools, such as myocardial strain. Purpose: The aim of our study was to prospectively analyze the impact of clinical and demographic parameters, especially of BMI, on worsening of diastolic function and left atrial strain (LAS) in an urban population of women with a low prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors. Methods and Results: An extensive clinical and echocardiographic assessment comprising the analysis of phasic LAS using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D STE) was performed in 258 participants of the Berlin Female Risk Evaluation (BEFRI) trial between October 2019 and December 2020 after a mean follow-up period of 6.8 years. We compared clinical and echocardiographic parameters stratifying women by BMI < or ≥25 kg/m2, and we analyzed the impact of demographic characteristics on the worsening of DD and LA mechanics in the longer-term follow-up using univariate and multivariate regression analyses. 248 women were suitable for echocardiographic analysis of LAS using 2D STE. After a mean follow-up time of 6.8 years, LA reservoir strain (LASr) and LA conduit strain (LAScd) were significantly reduced in participants with a BMI ≥25 kg/m2 compared with women with a BMI <25 kg/m2 at baseline (30 ± 8% vs. 38 ± 9%, p < 0.0001; −14 ± 7% vs. −22 ± 8%, p < 0.0001). 28% of the overweighted women presented a deterioration of diastolic function at the time of follow-up in contrast with only 7% of the group with a BMI <25 kg/m2 (p < 0.0001). BMI remained significantly associated with LAS reductions after adjustment for other risk factors in multivariate regression analyses. Conclusion: Overweight and obesity are related to impaired LAS and to a worsening of diastolic function after a long-term follow-up in a cohort of randomly selected women.
Elaphoglossum buchtienii Rosenst., Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum buchtienii

description: Elaphoglossum buchtienii Rosenst., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 475. 1913. (Fig. 46A–C)
 Range: —Known with certainty only from Bolivia (CO, LP, SC), but probably more widespread in the tropical Andes.
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic and, less commonly, terrestrial in humid forests; 700–2950 m.
 Notes: —Typically occurs at lower elevations than E. andicola, but there is ample overlap. Some intermediates cannot be assigned with certainty to either species. Variable, possibly a species complex.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Minimizing BK Virus Renal Allograft Loss Through Immunosuppression Regimen Modification
Creators: name: Meyer, Alyson E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to examine graft loss rate following institution specific immunosuppression (IS) modulation in the treatment of BK virus re-activation post-renal transplant. Methods: A retrospective chart analysis identified 212 patients over 18 years of age receiving a single renal allograft at UNC Hospitals between 2005 and 2013 with reactivated BK virus as confirmed by the presence of decoy cells on urine cytology through follow-up until August 2014. Results: Of the 212 renal allografts with reactivated BK, 33 (15.6%) had progressed to BKVAN (BK virus-associated nephropathy). Renal biopsy identified 15 patients with Stage A BKVAN, 16 with Stage B and 2 with Stage C. IS regimen changes included reduction in tacrolimus trough goals (60.6%), reduction in mycophenolic acid (24.2%), discontinuation of mycophenolic acid (81.8%), the addition of leflunomide (57.5%) or azathioprine (18%) and re-initiation of corticosteroids (65%). IS changes preserved graft function in 97% of patients, with only one graft lost (3%) following confirmed diagnosis with BKVAN. Conclusion: UNC Hospitals reports a graft loss rate of only 3% among all diagnosed stages of BKVN. In contrast to current guidelines, UNC follows a protocol with more aggressive screening, a lower threshold for acquiring blood PCRs and IS adjustment, along with the addition of leflunomide and prednisone therapy.
Elaphoglossum carrascoense M. Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum carrascoense

description: Elaphoglossum carrascoense M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 95. 2006. (Fig. 3E–G)
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Local and uncommon; saxicolous in humid Polylepis forest areas, together with Asplenium castaneum Schltdl. & Cham., Melpomene moniliformis (Lag. ex Sw.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Polystichum nudicaule Rosenst., and Woodsia montevidensis (Spreng.) Hieron.; 3750–3950 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Strongly enhanced charge-density-wave order in monolayer NbSe$_2$
Creators: name: Xi, Xiaoxiang
name: Zhao, Liang
name: Wang, Zefang
name: Berger, Helmuth
name: Forró, László
name: Shan, Jie
name: Mak, Kin Fai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) atomic materials possess very different properties from their bulk counterparts. While changes in the single-particle electronic properties have been extensively investigated, modifications in the many-body collective phenomena in the exact 2D limit, where interaction effects are strongly enhanced, remain mysterious. Here we report a combined optical and electrical transport study on the many-body collective-order phase diagram of 2D NbSe$_2$. Both the charge density wave (CDW) and the superconducting phase have been observed down to the monolayer limit. While the superconducting transition temperature ($T_C$) decreases with lowering the layer thickness, the newly observed CDW transition temperature ($T_{\mathrm{CDW}}$) increases drastically from 33 K in the bulk to 145 K in the monolayers. Such highly unusual enhancement of CDWs in atomically thin samples can be understood as a result of significantly enhanced electron-phonon interactions in 2D NbSe$_2$, which cause a crossover from the weak coupling to the strong coupling limit. This is supported by the large blueshift of the collective amplitude vibrations observed in our experiment.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1515
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1674 col. 36. Philodemus, De rhetorica 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
White School Uniforms and Development Theory: How Menstrual Hygiene Management Became an International Issue for Female Education
Creators: name: Khan, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Research Question: What are the principle agents that would focus on menstrual hygiene management as a key obstacle to female enrollment and educational achievement, over and above more structural/systemic issues like patriarchy, illiteracy, etc.? This paper will provide an analysis on the frameworks and foundations that allow certain health and social issues, like MHM, to gain traction and precedence in development discourse. Specifically, certain ideas become suitable topics for research and intervention because certain cultural assumptions and constructions of the developing world remain uncontested, like the West’s commonly held beliefs of the East as being poor, backward, and irrational . My hypothesis is that development discourse and feminist development theory provided the frameworks that created MHM as an issue and a discourse. Through analyzing the MHM literature and the principal authors of the movement, I will provide evidence of the assumptions within MHM as a discourse that frames adequate MHM as necessary and sufficient to maintain girls’ school enrollment. I will also provide a case study from my field work in Lahore, Pakistan, where I found evidence that even when needs regarding adequate MHM are met- girls continue to miss school.
The purpose of my research is not to invalidate the MHM needs of girls around the world. If girls, mothers, and teachers state that schoolgirls need absorbents, functional toilets, and privacy so that they can handle their menstruation- that is completely valid, and they should be provided these resources. However, I want to deconstruct the idea that MHM interventions is a global, universal solution to the disparities within primary and secondary education between boys and girls in many parts of the world . We must be critical of the assumptions and values we ascribe to access to MHM that are either based on Western ideas or an unproven relationship to improved school enrollment. By understanding these assumptions and values, we will be better able to understand what girls really need for them to attend school, if obtaining an education is what they desire.