cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Building and Evaluating the Campus Online File Sharing Tool: UNC Dropbox System
Creators: name: Zhu, Xinyu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Surveys--Evaluation
Information systems--Design
Information systems--Evaluation
Peer-to-peer computing
Web sites--Design

description: In this project, a web-based online file sharing system called UNC Dropbox System was designed and implemented to provide UNC-CH affiliated personnel a free and secure file sharing platform. The system adopted the UNC Single Sign-on Service for authentication, which not only ensured the system security but also seamlessly integrated the system to the existing UNC web services.   A small group user testing with 12 participants from three UNC departments was conducted after system implementation. Participants were asked to test the system and submit a survey to evaluate the system from five aspects (content, accuracy, format, ease of use and timeliness). Survey answers were quantified to calculate user satisfaction scores on the performance of the system. The final results indicated that testing participants were generally satisfied with their experience with the system. User suggestions have also been collected during the system testing as important guidance for the future system improvements.
Dynamics of Disordered States in the Bose-Hubbard Model with Confinement
Creators: name: Yan, Mi
name: Hui, Hoi-Yin
name: Scarola, V. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of center of mass dynamics offer a straightforward method to identify strongly interacting quantum phases of atoms placed in optical lattices. We theoretically study the dynamics of states derived from the disordered Bose-Hubbard model in a trapping potential. We find that the edge states in the trap allow center of mass motion even with insulating states in the center. We identify short and long-time scale mechanisms for edge state transport in insulating phases. We also argue that the center of mass velocity can aid in identifying a Bose-glass phase. Our zero temperature results offer important insights into mechanisms of transport of atoms in trapped optical lattices while putting bounds on center of mass dynamics expected at non-zero temperature.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, published version
Unbounded composition operators via inductive limits: cosubnormal operators with matrix symbols. II
Creators: name: Budzynski, Piotr
name: Dymek, Piotr
name: Planeta, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47B33, 47B37, secondary 47A05, 28C20

description: The paper deals with unbounded composition operators with infinite matrix symbols acting in $L^2$-spaces with respect to the gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^\infty$. We introduce weak cohyponormality classes $\EuScript{S}_{n,r}^*$ of unbounded operators and provide criteria for the aforementioned composition operators to belong to $\EuScript{S}_{n,r}^*$. Our approach is based on inductive limits of operators.
EVOLVING_CONCERNS_IN_INDIAN_ARCHITECTURAL-1.pdf
Creators: name: Das, Bijay
name: Bongirwar, Raksha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Architecture management
Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: The roots of architecture as a career embedded in the field of arts and sciences. The primary
 focus of the architectural profession's operational realm is the construction of structures that
 are meant to be a blend of aesthetics, technology, and the humanities.Buildings are constructed
 to be as efficient as possible in addition to giving end users a comfortable environment inside.
 Along with being trash producers, buildings are recognised to be significant energy and
 resource consumers. Architectural education is experiencing many difficulties due to the rapid
 growth of institutions, including problems with the quality of instruction provided, the lack of
 qualified faculty,the proliferation of institutions engaged in architecture, increasing disparity
 between learning and employment, the difficulties of globalisation and privatization, and the
 evolution of the architectural language.innovative building materials, construction technology,
 and architectural education norms and standards, in addition to the regulatory agencies' role
 The study makes an effort to establish methods and pinpoint best worldwide practises that
 would aid in creating architecture education more targeted, more quantative and qualitative,
 more Collaborative, more efficient, and culturally relevant. By supplying qualified
 professionals to construct a new demand of built environment that is economical, time
 effective, furthermore it increases user productivity and health in addition to creating buildings
 that are least energy consumers and advocates of local and global sustainability, it would aid
 in and promote profession.
High Resolution Image Reconstruction Method for a Double-plane PET System with Changeable Spacing
Creators: name: Gu, Xiao-Yue
name: Zhou, Wei
name: Li, Lin
name: Yin, Peng-Fei
name: Shang, Lei-Min
name: Yun, Ming-Kai
name: Lu, Zhen-Rui
name: Huang, Xian-Chao
name: Wei, Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) imaging systems with the ability in detection of millimeter-sized tumors were developed in recent years. And some of them have been well used in clinical applications. In consideration of biopsy application, a double-plane detector configuration is practical for the convenience of breast immobilization. However, the serious blurring effect in the double-plane system with changeable spacing for different breast size should be studied. Methods: We study a high resolution reconstruction method applicable for a double-plane PET system with a changeable detector spacing. Geometric and blurring components should be calculated at real time for different detector distance. Accurate geometric sensitivity is obtained with a tube area model. Resolution recovery is achieved by estimating blurring effects derived from simulated single gamma response information. Results: The results show that the new geometric modeling gives a more finite and smooth sensitivity weight in double-plane system. The blurring component yields contrast recovery levels that could not be reached without blurring modeling, as well as better visual recovery of the smallest spheres and better delineation of the structures in the reconstructed images. Statistical noise has lower variance at the voxel level with blurring modeling than without at matched resolution. Conclusion: In the distance-changeable double-plane PET, the finite resolution modeling during reconstruction achieves resolution recovery, without noise amplification.
Making Sense of Leased Popular Literature Collections
Creators: name: Odess-Harnish, Kerri A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Special collections--Special subjects--Popular culture
College and university libraries--Acquisitions
Surveys--College and university libraries
College and university libraries--Collection development
Fiction--Acquisitions

description: There is a well-publicized debate in the library field on whether or not it should be an academic library's responsibility to collect and preserve popular culture materials. Budget constraints, space issues, and the "quality" of these materials, are all widely documented concerns as to why popular culture materials - especially popular literature titles - are still not making their way into an academic library's permanent collection. This study describes a survey of 22 academic libraries throughout the country that use a leased popular literature collection in addition to or instead of purchasing popular literature titles for their permanent collection. The study was designed to answer the following research questions and others: Why do academic libraries choose to use a leasing plan to provide a popular literature collection for their users? What are the values/benefits these collections provide for the library and its users?
Optical investigation of monolayer and bulk tungsten diselenide (WSe$_{2}$) in high magnetic fields
Creators: name: Mitioglu, A. A.
name: Plochocka, P.
name: del Aguila, Á. Granados
name: Christianen, P. C. M.
name: Deligeorgis, G.
name: Anghel, S.
name: Kulyuk, L.
name: Maude, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical spectroscopy in high magnetic fields $B\leq65$ T is used to reveal the very different nature of carriers in monolayer and bulk transition metal dichalcogenides. In monolayer WSe$_{2}$, the exciton emission shifts linearly with the magnetic field and exhibits a splitting which originates from the magnetic field induced valley splitting. The monolayer data can be described using a single particle picture with a Dirac-like Hamiltonian for massive Dirac fermions, with an additional term to phenomenologically include the valley splitting. In contrast, in bulk WSe$_{2}$ where the inversion symmetry is restored, transmission measurements show a distinctly excitonic behavior with absorption to the 1s and 2s states. Magnetic field induces a spin splitting together with a small diamagnetic shift and cyclotron like behavior at high fields, which is best described within the hydrogen model.
description: just accepted in Nano Letters http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00626 (equations corrected)
Constraints on fourth order gravity from binary pulsar and gravitational waves
Creators: name: Banerjee, Shreya
name: Bera, Sayantani
name: Banerjee, Srimanta
name: Singh, Tejinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have earlier proposed a fourth order gravity model as a possible explanation for late time cosmic acceleration, and for flattened galaxy rotation curves. The model has a free length parameter whose value depends on the scale of the system under study (e.g. the whole Universe, a galaxy, or a compact binary pulsar). In the present work, we investigate the constraints imposed on the free model parameter by Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar data: periastron advance; and emission of gravitational waves and consequent period decay. It is shown that the model is consistent with these observations, provided the length parameter is bounded from above.
description: 11 pages plus appendices (total 18 pages), 1 figure, 1 table, text modified, new calculations and references added, conclusions unchanged
¡A la escuela! Identification of the information needs of Hispanic/Latino parents in North Carolina, and how school district's Web sites may address those needs: An exploratory user study
Creators: name: Cueva Chacón, Lourdes M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: World Wide Web
User studies Hispanic--Latino
Web Sites Evaluation
Elementary and High Schools Web sites

description: The Hispanic/Latino community is a fast growing and younger community in North Carolina. Therefore, we can expect that public service providers, commerce and professionals aren't familiar with their language, culture and information needs. As immigrants, Hispanic families face several challenges in their process of adaptation. The language, among others, is also a big barrier for Spanish-speaking parents to learn about, and get involved in their children's school activities, delaying and making more complex the adaptation to U.S. schools system.  Results of this study reveal that the information needs of the group studied are related to learning about the school enrollment process, the structure of the U.S. education system, and additional services provided at schools. Based on these results and qualitative data collected from Web browsing sessions with Hispanic parents, an effective Web site design oriented to the Latino community is proposed.
Mediating the global and the local: A natural crossroads for planning and planners?
Creators: name: Wight, Ian
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Globalization
subject: Planners
subject: Glocalization

description: Globalization is all around us. It is a fundamental dimension of the changing world that planners-and others-have to come to terms with these days. It was an almost inevitable focus of one of the 1998 CIP Conference sessions, attracting a particularly large contingent of curious and questioning attendees. This article discusses how the global dimension of the planners' changing world was considered in a series of presentations by Pamela Robinson, Gillian Mason, and Ian Wight. Collectively, the presentations yielded the notion that mediating the global and the local might be a natural crossroads for planning and planners-connecting relevant knowledge with necessary action.
description: Summary of conference sessions from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6650/Wight.pdf?sequence=3
Cognitive performance and lifetime cannabis use in patients with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum episode
Creators: name: Hájková, M.
name: Knížková, K.
name: Siroňová, A.
name: Keřková, B.
name: Jonáš, J.
name: Šustová, P.
name: Dorazilová, A.
name: Rodriguez, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience

description: Article used in scoping review
Dynamic self-assembly of microscale rotors and swimmers
Creators: name: Wykes, Megan S. Davies
name: Palacci, Jeremie
name: Adachi, Takuji
name: Ristroph, Leif
name: Zhong, Xiao
name: Ward, Michael D.
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Shelley, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biological systems often involve the self-assembly of basic components into complex and function- ing structures. Artificial systems that mimic such processes can provide a well-controlled setting to explore the principles involved and also synthesize useful micromachines. Our experiments show that immotile, but active, components self-assemble into two types of structure that exhibit the fundamental forms of motility: translation and rotation. Specifically, micron-scale metallic rods are designed to induce extensile surface flows in the presence of a chemical fuel; these rods interact with each other and pair up to form either a swimmer or a rotor. Such pairs can transition reversibly be- tween these two configurations, leading to kinetics reminiscent of bacterial run-and-tumble motion.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Poincaré-like approach to Landau Theory. I. General theory
Creators: name: Gaeta, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a procedure to simplify the Landau potential, based on Michel's reduction to orbit space and Poincaré normalization procedure; and illustrate it by concrete examples. The method makes use, as in Poincaré theory, of a chain of near-identity coordinate transformations with homogeneous generating functions; using Michel's insight, one can work in orbit space. It is shown that it is possible to control the choice of generating functions so to obtain a (in many cases, substantial) simplification of the Landau polynomial, including a reduction of the parameters it depends on. Several examples are considered in detail.
An evaluation of the business plan and web site of ECB, an E-commerce business
Creators: name: Kemp, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000
Subjects: Human-computer interaction
Business--E-Commerce--Deans Achievement Award--Best Masters Papers Awarded 2001
World Wide Web--Usability
User interface design

description: This research conducted a study of ECB's Web site, focusing on 1) whether this site functions as both a communication medium and a transaction medium for ECB's current business plan, and 2) the site's overall usability.  Through interviews with ECB personnel, ECB's business plan, Web site users and tasks, and Web site organization were documented.  The site organization and business plan were compared to determine the extent to which the site supports the business plan.  Utilizing the user population and task data, a two-part usability text with eight participants was then developed and conducted to determine user satisfaction with the site and navigational efficiency.  The results of the usability test were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively and recommendations for the improvement of ECB's site were made.
Weak entanglement approximation for nuclear structure
Creators: name: Gorton, Oliver C.
name: Johnson, Calvin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interacting shell model, a configuration-interaction method, is a venerable approach for low-lying nuclear structure calculations; but it is hampered by the exponential growth of its basis dimension as one increases the single-particle space and/or the number of active particles. Recent, quantum-information-inspired work has demonstrated that the proton and neutron sectors of a nuclear wave function are weakly entangled. Furthermore, the entanglement is smaller for nuclides away from $N=Z$, such as heavy, neutron-rich nuclides. Here we implement a weak entanglement approximation to bipartite configuration-interaction wave functions, approximating low-lying levels by coupling a relatively small number of many-proton and many-neutron states. This truncation scheme, which we present in the context of past approaches, reduces the basis dimension by many orders of magnitude while preserving essential features of nuclear spectra.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Exploring Salient Thumbnail Generation for Archival Collections Online
Creators: name: Jones, Bailey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016
Subjects: Image saliency
Archives--Internet resources
Thumbnail images

description: This study developed and evaluated a method for generating thumbnails for archival documents utilizing open source image saliency software. Salient thumbnails were evaluated against a baseline by running a lab study that assessed the thumbnails' usefulness during finding and re-finding tasks. Results did not find any significant difference in time, user confidence, or user preference of salient thumbnails compared to the baseline.  However, salient thumbnails resulted in improved accuracy during re-finding tasks, suggesting that they may offer some advantage for representing archival correspondence.
The initial software development process at an internet start-up company: a study of team communication, product definition and the resulting design decisions
Creators: name: Duffy, Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999
Subjects: Software engineering
Computer software--Development
Teamwork in industry
Organizational communication

description: This paper is a study of a software development process at an Internet start-up company that offers an information product delivered over the World Wide Web.  This product gives specific information about customer usage patterns and activity on the Internet to Internet Service Providers, e-merchants, and advertising agencies.  An analysis of the product development process, which includes defining and then building this application, is the central issue of this discussion.  Questions are explored that relate to communication and workflow within a development team, as well as questions relating to design decisions specific to a Web-based implementation environment.  The paper is written from the perspective of the web developer.
Linear Contextual Bandits with Hybrid Payoff: Revisited
Creators: name: Das, Nirjhar
name: Sinha, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the Linear Contextual Bandit problem in the hybrid reward setting. In this setting every arm's reward model contains arm specific parameters in addition to parameters shared across the reward models of all the arms. We can reduce this setting to two closely related settings (a) Shared - no arm specific parameters, and (b) Disjoint - only arm specific parameters, enabling the application of two popular state of the art algorithms - $\texttt{LinUCB}$ and $\texttt{DisLinUCB}$ (Algorithm 1 in (Li et al. 2010)). When the arm features are stochastic and satisfy a popular diversity condition, we provide new regret analyses for both algorithms, significantly improving on the known regret guarantees of these algorithms. Our novel analysis critically exploits the hybrid reward structure and the diversity condition. Moreover, we introduce a new algorithm $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$ that crucially modifies $\texttt{LinUCB}$ (using a new exploration coefficient) to account for sparsity in the hybrid setting. Under the same diversity assumptions, we prove that $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$ also incurs only $O(\sqrt{T})$ regret for $T$ rounds. We perform extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrating strong empirical performance of $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$.For number of arm specific parameters much larger than the number of shared parameters, we observe that $\texttt{DisLinUCB}$ incurs the lowest regret. In this case, regret of $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$ is the second best and extremely competitive to $\texttt{DisLinUCB}$. In all other situations, including our real-world dataset, $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$ has significantly lower regret than $\texttt{LinUCB}$, $\texttt{DisLinUCB}$ and other SOTA baselines we considered. We also empirically observe that the regret of $\texttt{HyLinUCB}$ grows much slower with the number of arms compared to baselines, making it suitable even for very large action spaces.
description: Accepted at ECML PKDD 2024 as a Research Track Paper
Measurement-feedback formalism meets information reservoirs
Creators: name: Shiraishi, Naoto
name: Matsumoto, Takumi
name: Sagawa, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been two distinct formalisms of thermodynamics of information: One is the measurement-feedback formalism, which concerns bipartite systems with measurement and feedback processes, and the other is the information reservoir formalism, which considers bit sequences as a thermodynamic fuel. In this paper, we derive a second-law-like inequality by applying the measurement-feedback formalism to information reservoirs, which provides a stronger bound of extractable work than any other known inequality in the same setup. In addition, we demonstrate that the Mandal-Jarzynski model, which is a prominent model of the information reservoir formalism, is equivalent to a model obtained by the contraction of a bipartite system with autonomous measurement and feedback. Our results provide a unified view on the measurement-feedback and the information-reservoir formalisms.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Effect of the spatial curvature on light bending and time delay in curved Einstein-Straus--de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Guenouche, Mourad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method of general applicability has been developed, whereby the null geodesic equations of the Einstein-Straus-de Sitter metric can be integrated simultaneously in terms of the curvature constant $k$. The purpose is to generalize the computation of light deflection and time delay by a spherical mass distribution. Assuming a flat Universe with most recent measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ and the cosmological constant $Λ$, five time delays between the four bright images of the lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 have been forecasted and compared to others in the field. In addition, we have reviewed the question of the possible contribution of a positive $Λ$ to reduce the light bending, and concluded that the changes are seemingly too small to be appreciable on cosmological scales. The same conclusion has been reached regarding the time delay. Having addressed the question of the effect of the spatial curvature in both closed and open Universe, we have found that the strong lensing is slightly affected by the expected small curvature density $Ω_{k0}$ of the current Universe within its error bar $|Ω_{k0}|\lessapprox 0.001$, in such a way that it may safely be neglected. However, it's only if $Ω_{k0}$ gets quite larger that the effect being noticeable. While it is only theoretically possible for $Ω_{k0}$ to be higher, it's worthwhile to stress that this should impact the light bending and time delay, causing them to decrease or increase depending upon whether the spatial curvature is positive or negative. Furthermore, one can infer that the observed light deflection and time delay independently, that are found to be significantly deviated from those of the flat Universe, may serve as a useful means to provide constraints on $Ω_{k0}$, thus making the approach employed in this work more promising than others.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables
Publications Disseminated by the U. S. Government During the Early 20th Century for the American Housewife: A Selected Bibliography
Creators: name: Satterfield, Antoinette W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Government publications--Bibliography
Women's Literature Bibliography
Library School Theses--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Government Publications Evaluation

description: This selective, annotated bibliography compiles documents made available by the  U.S. Government to housewives during the first four decades of the 20th Century. Many  of the publications aided the housewives in growing, preserving, and serving food to their  families in the most nutritious and cost-effective manner. Other documents helped them  in making important larger purchasing decisions, such as how to decide which winter  coats or blankets to buy, all the while considering their family budget. This annotated  bibliography presents a segment of America's social history during the years known as  the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, and World War I. The publications listed can  all be found in the Federal Documents Collection in the Walter B. Davis Library at the  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Community-based planning
Creators: name: Tollefsen, Peter
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: City planning--Ontario--Ajax

description: The Town of Ajax is located in the Region of Durham on the north shore of Lake Ontario. With a current population of 65,000, Ajax is experiencing considerable growth. The need for a new approach to planning became increasingly evident as current practices failed to produce the desired results.
description: Summary of a conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6651/Tollefsen.pdf?sequence=3
Reshaping planning at the City of Winnipeg
Creators: name: Buckley, Valdene
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: City planning--Manitoba--Winnipeg
subject: Ajax (Ont.)--Politics and government

description: In 1994, the City of Winnipeg embarked on a reorganization, labeled New Directions, which affected both the political and administrative structures. Under New Directions, the Planning Department was eliminated and its functions were split up and moved to other departments within the corporation. The loss of the Planning Department and the Director of Planning and Chief Planner positions meant that reporting and management strength for the planning function was severely reduced. It was also a blow to the profession. At the time, Winnipeg was the only Canadian city without a planning department.
description: Summary of a conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6652/Buckley.pdf?sequence=3
Characterisation of the L-mode Scrape Off Layer in MAST: decay lengths
Creators: name: Militello, F.
name: Garzotti, L.
name: Harrison, J.
name: Omotani, J. T.
name: Scannell, R.
name: Allan, S.
name: Kirk, A.
name: Lupelli, I.
name: Thornton, A. J.
name: team, the MAST
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work presents a detailed characterisation of the MAST Scrape Off Layer in L-mode. Scans in line averaged density, plasma current and toroidal magnetic field were performed. A comprehensive and integrated study of the SOL was allowed by the use of a wide range of diagnostics. In agreement with previous results, an increase of the line averaged density induced a broadening of the midplane density profile.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures
The Availability of Community Information in Public Libraries through Programming
Creators: name: Lukmire, Katherine D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Public libraries
Community resources--Information services--North Carolina

description: This study examines the availability of community information at public libraries through programming.  The study analyzed the websites of nine public library systems in North Carolina to determine what, if any, programs were offered that provided community information.  Programming information on the websites was examined to find programs containing five types of community information:  adult education, business and professional information, government services information, health information, and job and career information. The study findings show that while population size and operating income have a small impact on the amount of community information programming, the amount and type of community information programming present is largely dependent on the interest of the particular library system studied.
Mobile workshop: Planning in disaster-prone areas
Creators: name: Robertson, James
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Emergency management
subject: Planning--Fieldwork--Manitoba
subject: Planning--Canada--Congresses
subject: Flood damage prevention
subject: Red River flood of 1997

description: How would you plan viable and sustainable communities situated in disasterprone regions? Can you answer this question effectively? Participants of the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg were asked to answer this question during a mobile workshop that examined the experiences of Manitoba in the 1997 Flood of the Century. As part of the workshop, participants were toured through some of the hardest-hit areas of the Red River Valley.
description: Summary of a conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6653/Robertson.pdf?sequence=3
Plan monitoring: Are we getting it right? (Part 2) - an update on monitoring the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Livable Region Strategic Plan
Creators: name: Knight, Nancy
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Regional planning--British Columbia--Greater Vancouver Regional District
subject: Regional planning--British Columbia--Metro Vancouver Regional District
subject: Strategic planning--British Columbia--Greater Vancouver Regional District
subject: Strategic planning--British Columbia--Metro Vancouver Regional District
subject: Livable Region Strategic Plan (LRSP)

description: In the November 1997 issue of Plan Canada, Alan Young summarized the 1997 CIP Conference session titled Plan Monitoring: Are we getting it right?. The session included a general overview of monitoring and case studies of how Calgary and Greater Vancouver are approaching the challenges of plan monitoring. A year later, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) completed an annual report, while further developing various aspects of a monitoring program for the Livable Region Strategic Plan (LRSP). These efforts have answered some questions, raised others, and helped us learn about the possibilities and pitfalls of plan monitoring.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6654/Knight.pdf?sequence=3
Representativeness and openness: A model for public participation
Creators: name: Knight, Ruth
name: Caldwell, Wayne J.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Regional planning--Ontario--Huron County--Citizen participation

description: In 1995, the County of Huron (population 60,000) located in Southwestern Ontario embarked upon the development of a new Official Plan. The County's original Plan (adopted in the early 1970s) had gradually lost relevance to many current issues. This, combined with legislative changes, led to a political commitment to renew the Plan. This commitment included a transfer of the Plan renewal process and implementation into the hands of the public through innovative public participation and a willingness to allow the public to develop the new Official Plan.
description: Summary of a conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6655/Knight.Caldwell.pdf?sequence=3
Influences on the decision-making process
Creators: name: Baxter, Theresa
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: City planning--Alberta--Calgary
subject: Cities and towns--Alberta--Calgary--Growth

description: Local government decisions tend to reflect those who utilize power well and the prevailing ideology. This discussion presents two participants in the decision-making process in Calgary, Alberta - City planners and the development industry. Issues are explored within the milieu of growth pressures and public controversy surrounding the City's proposed Municipal Development Plan (MDP) released in 1998.
description: Summary of a conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6656/Baxter.pdf?sequence=3
The University Center for International Studies. International Faculty Expertise Online Database Project
Creators: name: Liu, Lu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval--Design
Information systems--Design
Databases
Web databases
Database management systems

description: This project is sponsored by the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The main purpose of the project is to update current International Faculty Expertise Database, which is outdated and corrupted in a mySQL database to a new Oracle database server and a new PHP web server. Main tasks are developing a concrete plan to upgrade database application based on project evaluation; evaluating current database structure, determining specific changes that need to be made to database structure, reports, forms, and user login features; incorporating recommendations/requests from project manager, which will be gathered by the project manager from each of the Title VI center directors, UCIS was designated by the U.S. department of education as a Title VI national resource center; developing supporting application documentation for current and future users; and testing, incorporating feedback into application.
The ecstasy and the agony
Creators: name: Golden, Anne
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Regional planning--Ontario--Greater Toronto Area
subject: Greater Toronto Area (Ont.)--Politics and government

description: The following article presents excerpts from Anne Golden's keynote presentation at the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba: "Greater Toronto: The Ecstasy and the Agony."
description: Summary of a plenary conference session from the 1998 CIP Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6657/Golden.pdf?sequence=3
Tidal Love numbers of a slowly spinning neutron star
Creators: name: Pani, Paolo
name: Gualtieri, Leonardo
name: Ferrari, Valeria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By extending our recent framework to describe the tidal deformations of a spinning compact object, we compute for the first time the tidal Love numbers of a spinning neutron star to linear order in the angular momentum. The spin of the object introduces couplings between electric and magnetic distortions and new classes of spin-induced ("rotational") tidal Love numbers emerge. We focus on stationary tidal fields, which induce axisymmetric perturbations. We present the perturbation equations for both electric-led and magnetic-led rotational Love numbers for generic multipoles and explicitly solve them for various tabulated equations of state and for a tidal field with an electric (even parity) and magnetic (odd parity) component with $\ell=2,3,4$. For a binary system close to the merger, various components of the tidal field become relevant. In this case we find that an octupolar magnetic tidal field can significantly modify the mass quadrupole moment of a neutron star. Preliminary estimates, assuming a spin parameter $χ\approx0.05$, show modifications $\gtrsim10\%$ relative to the static case, at an orbital distance of five stellar radii. Furthermore, the rotational Love numbers as functions of the moment of inertia are much more sensitive to the equation of state than in the static case, where approximate universal relations at the percent level exist. For a neutron-star binary approaching the merger, we estimate that the approximate universality of the induced mass quadrupole moment deteriorates from $1\%$ in the static case to roughly $6\%$ when $χ\approx0.05$. Our results suggest that spin-tidal couplings can introduce important corrections to the gravitational waveforms of spinning neutron-star binaries approaching the merger.
description: v1: 16+11 pages, 6 appendices, 11 figures. v2: improved estimates of the tidal-spin corrections to the quadrupole moment of spinning neutron-star binaries approaching the merger. v3: version published in PRD
Study of deterioration of minced beef of portuguese maronesa breed stored under various atmospheres and temperatures
Creators: name: M.M. de Almeida, Jose Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300605
subject: Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity

description: The aim of this work was to study the onset of spoilage of minced meat from bovine Portuguese autochthonous Maronesa bulls stored at 2 and 8 °C, under different packaging conditions.9th International Conference on Predictive Modelling in Food, 2015https://www.icpmf.org/
Static neutral black holes in Kalb-Ramond gravity
Creators: name: Liu, Wentao
name: Wu, Di
name: Wang, Jieci
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity theory, a modified gravity theory that nonminimally couples a KR field with a nonzero vacuum expectation value for the gravitational field, can spontaneously break the Lorentz symmetry of gravity. In a recent work, Yang et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 124004 (2023)] successfully derived Schwarzschild-like black hole solutions both with and without a nonzero cosmological constant within the framework of KR gravity. However, their analysis did not address the more general case of static, neutral, spherically symmetric black holes. In this paper, we fill this gap by resolving the field equations to construct more general static, neutral, spherically symmetric black hole solutions both with and without a nonzero cosmological constant. Our black hole solutions are shown to obey the first law and the Bekenstein-Smarr mass formulas of black hole thermodynamics. Moreover, we demonstrate that our static neutral spherically symmetric AdS black hole does not always satisfy the reverse isoperimetric inequality (RII), as the isoperimetric ratio can be larger or smaller than unity depending on the placement of the solution parameters within the parameter space. This behavior contrasts with the above-mentioned Schwarzschild-like AdS black hole in the KR gravity theory, which always obeys the RII. Significantly, the present more general static, neutral, spherically symmetric AdS black hole is the first example of a static AdS black hole that can violate the RII.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, revtex4-1.cls, to appear in JCAP
The Digital Divide at Home: How Computer and Internet Access Impacts 21st Century Learning
Creators: name: Barker, Megan M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Young Adults--Minorities
Digital divide
Use Studies--Computers
Use studies--Internet
Young Adults--Socio-economic Problems

description: This study examines how access to computers and the internet at home affects student learning. Teenage students in grades seven through 12 were surveyed about their computer and internet access at home, how they use the technology for school and recreation, and how they think at-home access impacts their academic performance. The students attended after-school programs at four Boys and Girls Clubs in central North Carolina. This study indicates that computer ownership positively affects students' academic performances. Unfortunately, the digital divide still exists, and minority and low-income students have less access to computers and the internet at home. The study also shows that students spend more time using technology at home for social networking and entertainment than for educational reasons. However, students use a variety of technologies to access the internet at home, which may explain why they spend more time using technology for recreational purposes.
title: Airports and community planning
title: Les aéroports et l'aménagement du territoire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hazra, Robert
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Airports--Planning
subject: Aéroports, Aménagement

description: Airports can have a major economic, social, and physical influence on a community or a region. This influence can only be expected to grow as air travel continues to expand throughout the world. As airports continue to evolve, the benefits of integrating airport planning with land use planning of communities around these airports will become more apparent.
description: Les aéroports peuvent avoir une influence économique, sociale et physique majeure sur une collectivité ou une région. Cette influence ne fera que s'intensifier, puisqu'on prévoit que le transport aérien continuera de prendre de l'ampleur a l'échelle mondiale. À mesure que les aéroports continuent d'évoluer, les avantages d'integrér la planification des aéroports à l'aménagement des collectivités entourant ces aéroports deviendront plus évidents.
description: Text in English and French.
description: Wide range/En dehors des sentiers battus
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6665/Hazra.pdf?sequence=3
Rethinking our watersheds: A community based approach for mitigating the effects of climate change in the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia
Creators: name: Jerop, Diana
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Watershed management--British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo
subject: Land use--British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo--Planning
subject: Sustainable development--British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo
subject: Intergovernmental cooperation--British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo

description: Over the last two decades, British Columbia (BC) has adopted a significant number of legislative changes to address the governance of watersheds and management of natural resources. Among the legislation(s) created is the recent Water Sustainability Act of 2016. As part of BC’s Water Act modernization process, public involvement and discussion on crucial aspects of water management including water policies, governance structures, and decision making bodies are a concern. With the increase in population and new developments in the Regional District of Nanaimo, we see a growing demand for the existing water and land resources, thereby driving conflict and concern on the inability of the current watershed management models to address these emerging pressures and challenges. As the Regional District of Nanaimo is adopting various approaches for watershed management, it is imperative to understand the link between adaptation of sustainable watershed governance and collaborative decision making. To ensure clean, fresh water supply currently and for the future, new forms of partnerships and collaborative watershed management need to be explored from individual levels to organizational and government levels.
description: Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Community Planning in the Department of Community Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6666/JeropThesis.pdf?sequence=3
MPEC 2023-T91 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 October 8)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

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.