cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Caregiver Characteristics Associated with Physician-Based Preventive Oral Health Services (PB-POHS)
Creators: name: Boudreau, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Public health
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Alexandra AC Boudreau: Caregiver Characteristics Associated with Physician-Based Preventive Oral Health Services (PB-POHS) (Under the direction of Jessica Lee) BACKGROUND: Most states have adopted Physician-Based Preventive Oral Health Services (PB-POHS) to address challenges related to the oral health care for young children. Our aims were to describe caregiver and child characteristics of children who received PB-POHS versus those who did not, while comparing characteristics of children receiving the optimal number of PB-POHS to those not. METHODS: We examined a cohort of 1,405 child-caregiver dyads enrolled in the Carolina Oral Health Literacy (COHL) Study. Caregivers completed a structured interview and each child's Medicaid medical, dental and hospital claims for the three-year period of study was evaluated. RESULTS: Our analytical sample included 831 children. Sixty-four percent received PB-POHS; only 11% received the optimal number of visits. Other than county of residence, there were no significant differences in caregiver characteristics among recipients and non-recipients of PB-POHS. CONCLUSIONS: PB-POHS programs may overcome the traditional barriers to dental care noted in the literature.
Mathematical Models of Population Dynamics in Discrete Heterogeneous Space
Creators: name: Althagafi, Hashem A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Habitat fragmentation remains the severest threat to biodiversity globally, making it the focus of research for more than two decades. However, due to the issue's complexity, there are still various matters that are yet to be understood, especially how the habitat's fragmented spatial structure and intersite coupling in habitats with randomly distributed attributes impact population persistence or extinction. This thesis addresses the two problems by developing a population dynamics model that combines dynamic demographic noise with 'frozen' environmental noise and conducting numerical simulations respectively. In the simulations, an idealized single-species spatially-discrete system is used. Since it is well documented that global climate change promotes habitat fragmentation, this thesis argues that the two issues must not be disjointed but addressed together. The study also postulates that the two stochastic processes interact in an entangled and counterintuitive manner and argues that although unbiased demographic noise increases the chances of extinction, its effect may be reversed by a biased noise. Through the simulations, the study illustrates the impact of increased intersite coupling on the population distribution, which forms persistence domains bounded by extinction domains.
Calculating transition amplitudes by variational quantum deflation
Creators: name: Ibe, Yohei
name: Nakagawa, Yuya O.
name: Earnest, Nathan
name: Yamamoto, Takahiro
name: Mitarai, Kosuke
name: Gao, Qi
name: Kobayashi, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an appealing candidate for the application of near-term quantum computers. A technique introduced in [Higgot et al., Quantum 3, 156 (2019)], which is named variational quantum deflation (VQD), has extended the ability of the VQE framework for finding excited states of a Hamiltonian. However, no method to evaluate transition amplitudes between the eigenstates found by the VQD without using any costly Hadamard-test-like circuit has been proposed despite its importance for computing properties of the system such as oscillator strengths of molecules. Here we propose a method to evaluate transition amplitudes between the eigenstates obtained by the VQD avoiding any Hadamard-test-like circuit. Our method relies only on the ability to estimate overlap between two states, so it does not restrict to the VQD eigenstates and applies for general situations. To support the significance of our method, we provide a comprehensive comparison of three previously proposed methods to find excited states with numerical simulation of three molecules (lithium hydride, diazene, and azobenzene) in a noiseless situation and find that the VQD method exhibits the best performance among the three methods. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of our method by calculating the oscillator strength of lithium hydride, comparing results from numerical simulations and real-hardware experiments on the cloud enabled quantum computer IBMQ Rome. Our results illustrate the superiority of the VQD to find excited states and widen its applicability to various quantum systems.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
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Creators: name: Ribaldus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1196
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Ribaldus, Sohn des verstorbenen Gufredus aus Casalbuttano, belehnt Bonus Saveris und Girardus aus Lodi, Söhne des verstorbenen Johannes aus Lodi, sowie die namentlich genannten Neffen des Girardus mit Gütern.
Flexible occlusion rendering for improved views of three-dimensional medical images
Creators: name: Borland, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The goal of this work is to enable more rapid and accurate diagnosis of pathology from three-dimensional (3D) medical images by augmenting standard volume rendering techniques to display otherwise-occluded features within the volume. When displaying such data sets with volume rendering, appropriate selection of the transfer function is critical for determining which features of the data will be displayed. In many cases, however, no transfer function is able to produce the most useful views for diagnosis of pathology. Flexible Occlusion Rendering (FOR) is an addition to standard ray cast volume rendering that modulates accumulated color and opacity along each ray upon detecting features indicating the separation between objects of the same intensity range. For contrast-enhanced MRI and CT data, these separation features are intensity peaks. To detect these peaks, a dual-threshold method is used to reduce sensitivity to noise. To further reduce noise and enable control over the spatial scale of the features detected, a smoothed version of the original data set is used for feature detection, while rendering the original data at high resolution. Separating the occlusion feature detection from the volume rendering transfer function enables robust occlusion determination and seamless transition from occluded views to non-occluded views of surfaces during virtual fly-throughs. FOR has been applied to virtual arthroscopy of joints from MRI data. For example, survey views of entire shoulder socket surfaces have been rendered to enable rapid evaluation by automatically removing the occluding material of the humeral head. Such views are not possible with standard volume rendering. FOR has also been successfully applied to virtual ureteroscopy of the renal collecting system from CT data, and knee fracture visualization from CT data.
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Creators: name: Rainaldus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1199
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Rainaldus, praepositus der Kirche St. Gataldi in Cremona, übereignet dem Hospital St. Gataldi, vertreten durch Sicardus, Bischof von Cremona, alle Rechte, die er am Hospital hat.
3-dimensional defect TQFTs and their tricategories
Creators: name: Carqueville, Nils
name: Meusburger, Catherine
name: Schaumann, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We initiate a systematic study of 3-dimensional `defect' topological quantum field theories, that we introduce as symmetric monoidal functors on stratified and decorated bordisms. For every such functor we construct a tricategory with duals, which is the natural categorification of a pivotal bicategory. This captures the algebraic essence of defect TQFTs, and it gives precise meaning to the fusion of line and surface defects as well as their duality operations. As examples, we discuss how Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro theories embed into our framework, and how they can be extended to defect TQFTs.
description: 60 pages; v2: improved exposition
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Creators: name: Tutobonus Caneuarius
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1195
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Tutobonus Caneuarius und genannte Personen, alle als rustici bezeichnet, versichern dem Amicus, praepositus der Kirche St. Mariae in Dorno, und dem Dalfinus, Kanoniker ebendort, dass die Grenzziehung von 33 Grundstücken, die der genannten Kirche in Dorno gehören, korrekt ist.
Smooth and Collision-Free Navigation for Multiple Mobile Robots and Video Game Characters
Creators: name: Snape, Jamie Robert
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: The navigation of multiple mobile robots or virtual agents through environments containing static and dynamic obstacles to specified goal locations is an important problem in mobile robotics, many video games, and simulated environments. Moreover, technological advances in mobile robot hardware and video games consoles have allowed increasing numbers of mobile robots or virtual agents to navigate shared environments simultaneously. However, coordinating the navigation of large groups of mobile robots or virtual agents remains a difficult task. Kinematic and dynamic constraints and the effects of sensor and actuator uncertainty exaggerate the challenge of navigating multiple physical mobile robots, and video games players demand plausible motion and an ever increasing visual fidelity of virtual agents without sacrificing frame rate. We present new methods for navigating multiple mobile robots or virtual agents through shared environments, each using formulations based on velocity obstacles. These include algorithms that allow navigation through environments in two-dimensional or three-dimensional workspaces containing both static and dynamic obstacles without collisions or oscillations. Each mobile robot or virtual agent senses its surroundings and acts independently, without central coordination or inter-communication with its neighbors, implicitly assuming the neighbors use the same navigation strategy based on the notion of reciprocity. We use the position, velocity, and physical extent of neighboring mobile robots or virtual agents to compute their future trajectories to avoid collisions locally and show that, in principle, it is possible to theoretically guarantee that the motion of each mobile robot or virtual agent is smooth. Moreover, we demonstrate direct, collision-free, and oscillation-free navigation in experiments using physical iRobot Create mobile robots, simulations of multiple differential-drive robots or simple-airplanes, and video games levels containing hundreds of virtual agents.
Sum-of-squares decompositions for a family of noncontextuality inequalities and self-testing of quantum devices
Creators: name: Saha, Debashis
name: Santos, Rafael
name: Augusiak, Remigiusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Violation of a noncontextuality inequality or the phenomenon referred to `quantum contextuality' is a fundamental feature of quantum theory. In this article, we derive a novel family of noncontextuality inequalities along with their sum-of-squares decompositions in the simplest (odd-cycle) sequential-measurement scenario capable to demonstrate Kochen-Specker contextuality. The sum-of-squares decompositions allow us to obtain the maximal quantum violation of these inequalities and a set of algebraic relations necessarily satisfied by any state and measurements achieving it. With their help, we prove that our inequalities can be used for self-testing of three-dimensional quantum state and measurements. Remarkably, the presented self-testing results rely on a single assumption about the measurement device that is much weaker than the assumptions considered in Kochen-Specker contextuality.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, an error is corrected
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Creators: name: Airoldus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1189
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Airoldus und seine genannten Brüder, Söhne des verstorbenen Janonus aus Casalbuttano, investieren venditionis nomine mit Erlaubnis des Sicardus, Bischof von Cremona, magister Ghirardus, canonicus der Kathedrale von Cremona und stellvertretend für diese, mit einem Viergzigstel des castrum Casalbuttano und weiteren Ländereien.
Compulsive Shopping Disorder: Is It Real And Can It Be Measured?
Creators: name: Moore, Monique
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In recent decades, diagnostic criteria to identify individuals who repeatedly engage in extreme and problematic over-spending have been proposed and used by clinicians and researchers. A prolonged pattern of over-spending that interferes with life-functioning is referred to as compulsive shopping or compulsive buying disorder. Some investigators have argued that individuals suffering from the disorder are numerous enough to merit the syndrome's inclusion in the next version of the DSM. Despite growing clinical and mainstream attention to compulsive shopping, several key issues stand in the way of the syndrome's inclusion in the DSM. First, measures used to identify individuals with compulsive shopping disorder have not been adequately tested. Therefore, it remains uncertain whether psychometrically valid and reliable screeners exist. Second, debates over how to best classify compulsive shopping behaviors remain unresolved. While some investigators argue that compulsive shopping should be classified as a sub-type of impulse-control disorder, others argue that it should be classified as a sub-type of obsessive-compulsive disorder or addiction. Finally, a major block to classifying compulsive shopping as a distinct disorder is that there remains a paucity of empirical research tying together core differential factors and what characteristics of the proposed disorder best define the difference between compulsive and non-compulsive shoppers.
Nearest Points on Toric Varieties
Creators: name: Helmer, Martin
name: Sturmfels, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We determine the Euclidean distance degree of a projective toric variety. This extends the formula of Matsui and Takeuchi for the degree of the $A$-discriminant in terms of Euler obstructions. Our primary goal is the development of reliable algorithmic tools for computing the points on a real toric variety that are closest to a given data point.
description: 20 pages
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Creators: name: Opitio
name: , Albertus
name: Oliuerus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1197
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Opitio aus Casalbuttano und seine Neffen Albertus und Oliuerus geben dem capitaneus Airoldus und dessen genannten Brüdern ihr Einverständnis, die Belehnung des Bischofs [von Cremona] mit einem Zehntel des Honor curtis Casalis Butani und mit einem bewaldeten Grunstück an einem Ort, genannt Albereto, zu beenden.
Epidemiology of breast cancer among young black women and the rise in young-onset distant disease in the U.S.
Creators: name: Chollet Hinton, Lynn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: Rates of distant (stage IV) breast cancer have significantly increased since 1976 among young women <40 years. Young-onset breast cancers tend to be more aggressive with poorer prognosis than older-onset disease, particularly among black women. This dissertation sought to clarify the impact of shifting incidence by (1) characterizing the epidemiology of young black women’s breast cancer, and (2) investigating temporal shifts in breast cancer biology and diagnostic imaging use as contributors to rising young-onset distant disease. Methods: We examined tumor characteristics and breast cancer risk factors associated with premenopausal young (<40) vs. older (≥40) black women’s breast cancer in the African American Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Risk Consortium (2,008 cases; 5,144 controls) using unconditional logistic regression. Additionally, we examined longitudinal breast cancer incidence using joinpoint regression among young women (20-39 years) from 1992-2011 according to breast tumor characteristics in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. Temporal patterns in imaging use (positron emission tomography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scans) were examined separately among Medicare-eligible breast cancer cases using SEER-Medicare-linked data. Results: Premenopausal black women <40 years had higher frequency of poorer-prognostic tumor characteristics compared to older (≥40) women, including negative estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PR) status, triple-negative subtype, high grade, higher stage, and larger tumor size. Adiposity, family history of breast cancer, and oral contraceptive use were associated with increased risk for young women while breastfeeding was more strongly protective. In SEER, the frequency of favorable tumor characteristics significantly increased while less favorable characteristics declined among young women. Imaging use dramatically increased from 1992-2011 among SEER-Medicare cases and was significantly associated with less favorable characteristics, including ER/PR negativity, high grade, and tumor size >2cm. Conclusions: Among premenopausal black women, young age (<40 years) was associated with more aggressive breast tumor biology. Modifiable risk factors including breastfeeding, adiposity, and oral contraceptive use may be important targets for mitigating harms of young-onset breast cancer. In SEER, the frequency of aggressive disease decreased while imaging use dramatically increased from 1992-2011, suggesting that stage migration rather than shifting tumor biology has contributed to rising incidence of young-onset distant breast cancer.
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Creators: name: Riboldus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1197
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Der clericus Riboldus gibt in Stellvertretung des Bischofs [von Cremona] dem capitaneus Airoldus und dessen genannten Brüdern das Einverständnis, die Belehnung des Bischofs mit einem Zehntel des Honor curtis Casalis Butani und mit einem bewaldeten Grundstück an einem Ort, genannt Albereto, zu beenden.
Divergent Pathways: Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Wealth and Health Trajectories
Creators: name: Brown, Tyson H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Extensive empirical evidence documents racial/ethnic disparities in both wealth and health: compared to Whites, Hispanics and Blacks have considerably less wealth and worse health. However, it remains unclear why racial/ethnic inequalities in wealth and health emerge, and whether these inequalities decrease, remain stable, or increase with age. This dissertation aims to fill these gaps in the literature by drawing on life course perspectives and methods to investigate racial/ethnic differences in wealth and health trajectories (i.e., long-term patterns of intra-individual change and stability in wealth and health with age) and how social disadvantage contributes to racial/ethnic wealth and health disparities. The first empirical chapter utilizes panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), a nationally representative survey, and growth curve models to examine racial/ethnic differences in wealth trajectories between ages 21 and 45. Findings reveal that relatively small wealth gaps between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics exist in their early 20s, but these initial inequalities are magnified with age. In the second substantive chapter, data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative, longitudinal dataset is used to examine whether racial/ethnic wealth gaps narrow, remain stable, or widen between during the years leading up to retirement (ages 51 and 73). Results show that Whites experience more rapid rates of wealth accumulation than their minority counterparts during middle and later life, resulting in accelerating wealth disparities with age, consistent with a process of cumulative disadvantage. At age 73, the average White household has a net worth of approximately $122,000, whereas both Hispanic and Black household have less than $5,000. Substantial racial/ethnic disparities in wealth trajectories persist after controlling for group differences in life course capital suggesting that other factors such as racial/ethnic differences in portfolio composition, financial transfers, and exposure to discrimination may contribute to wealth disparities. The third substantive chapter uses HRS data to examine racial/ethnic differences in health trajectories. Results indicate that there are dramatic racial/ethnic disparities in both the levels and rates of change in health. Overall, findings from this study show that racial/ethnic inequalities result in divergent aging experiences for Black, Hispanic, and White Americans.
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Creators: name: Airoldus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1196
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Airoldus aus Casalbuttano und weitere genannte Personen versichern der canonica der Kathedrale von Cremona, vertreten durch Petrus, archipresbyter und praepositus daselbst, ein Zehntel des Honor curtis de Casalibutano, ein Achtel vom Zehnt für die Communis und ein bewaldetes Stück Land an einem Ort, genannt Albareto, an die canonica abzutreten.
Maps of Mori dream spaces
Creators: name: Hochenegger, Andreas
name: Martinengo, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14A20, 14L24, 14E30

description: Given a map $ϕ: X \to Y$ of $\mathbb Q$-factorial Mori dream spaces, one can ask whether this map is induced by a homogeneous homomorphism $R(Y) \to R(X)$ of Cox rings. As soon as $Y$ is singular, such a homomorphism needs not to exist, as pulling back Weil divisors is not well-defined. In this article, we prove that there is a unique Cox lift $Φ: \mathcal X \to \mathcal Y$ of Mori dream stacks coming from a homogeneous homomorphism $R(Y) = R(\mathcal Y) \to R(\mathcal X)$, where $\mathcal Y$ is a canonical stack to $Y$ and $\mathcal X$ is obtained from $X$ by root constructions. Moreover, $ϕ$ is induced from $Φ$ by passing to coarse moduli spaces.
description: 20 pages, content identical to published version
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Creators: name: , Bernardus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1196
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Bernardus aus Casalbuttano, Bruder des Airoldus, schwört, dass dem Petrus, archipresbyter und praepositus der canonica der Kathedrale von Cremona, als Stellvertreter der canonica wahrheitsgemäß ein Zehntel des Honor curtis de Casalibutano und ein bewaldetes Stück Land abgetreten wurde und dass bei dieser Gelegenheit die weitere Abtretung eines Vierzehntels des Honor curtis de Casalibutano und eines Stück Lands erfolgt ist.
The Large D Limit of Einstein's Equations
Creators: name: Emparan, Roberto
name: Herzog, Christopher P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in taking the large dimension limit of Einstein's equations. Most of our analysis is classical in nature and concerns situations where there is a black hole horizon although we briefly discuss various extensions that include quantum gravitational effects. The review consists of two main parts: the first a discussion of general aspects of black holes and effective membrane theories in this large dimension limit, and the second a series of applications of this limit to interesting physical problems. The first part includes a discussion of quasinormal modes which leads naturally into a description of effective hydrodynamic-like equations that describe the near horizon geometry. There are two main approaches to these effective theories -- a fully covariant approach and a partially gauge-fixed one -- which we discuss in relation to each other. In the second part we divide the applications up into three main categories: the Gregory-Laflamme instability, black hole collisions and mergers, and the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT). AdS/CFT posits an equivalence between a gravitational theory and a strongly interacting field theory, allowing us to extend our spectrum of applications to problems in hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics, and nuclear physics. A final, shorter part of the review describes further promising directions where there have been, as yet, few published research articles.
description: 59 pages, 10 figures; formatted for submission as a review to RMP; please send us feedback
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Creators: name: Sicardus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1198
Subjects: subject: Bischofsurkunde
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Sicardus, Bischof von Cremona und Graf, lässt mittels seines Bevollmächtigten Johannes de Orsolario den [Petrus], archipresbyter der Kathedrale von Cremona, in Güter und Einkünfte einsetzen, die derselbe Johannes von Airoldus aus Casalbuttano und dessen Brüdern in Casalbuttano erworben hatten.
Ariadne’s Thread: Unraveling the Archive in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Fernando Vallejo’s Mi hermano el alcalde
Creators: name: Gray, Jesse David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: In this thesis I examine two texts –William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Fernando Vallejo’s Mi hermano el alcalde– not as they relate to studies of influence, nor the categorical imperatives of period studies, but as they relate in and to systems of archivization and narration. Within the novels are tropes of many elements of the Archive –the Archive as place, authority, and document of the past– that also serve as the structuring principle whereby the principle narrators are able to narrate.
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation from generalized exact uncertainty principle
Creators: name: Rudnicki, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), which adds gravitational effects to the standard description of quantum uncertainty, we extend the exact uncertainty principle (EUP) approach by Hall and Reginatto [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. (2002) 35 3289], and obtain a (quasi)nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This quantum evolution equation of unusual form, enjoys several desired properties like separation of non-interacting subsystems or planewave solutions for free particles. Starting with the harmonic oscillator example, we show that every solution of this equation respects the gravitationally-induced minimal position uncertainty proportional to the Planck length. Quite surprisingly, our result successfully merges the core of classical physics with non-relativistic quantum mechanics in its extremal form. We predict that the commonly accepted phenomenon, namely a modification of a free-particle dispersion relation due to quantum gravity might not occur in reality.
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Creators: name: Lanfrancus
name: , Johannes
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1198
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Lanfrancus, Sohn des verstorbenen capiteneus Albertus aus Casalbuttano, und Johannes, Sohn des verstorbenen capitaneus Osbertus aus Casalbuttano, verzichten zugunsten des Petrus, archipresbyter der Kathedrale von Cremona, im Namen des Sicardus, Bischof von Cremona, auf jedwedes Recht auf die Gebiete, die Petrus von Johannes de Orsolario erworben hatte.
MSIQ: Joint Modeling of Multiple RNA-seq Samples for Accurate Isoform Quantification
Creators: name: Li, Wei Vivian
name: Zhao, Anqi
name: Zhang, Shihua
name: Li, Jingyi Jessica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 97K80, 47N30

description: Next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology has been widely used to assess full-length RNA isoform abundance in a high-throughput manner. RNA-seq data offer insight into gene expression levels and transcriptome structures, enabling us to better understand the regulation of gene expression and fundamental biological processes. Accurate isoform quantification from RNA-seq data is challenging due to the information loss in sequencing experiments. A recent accumulation of multiple RNA-seq data sets from the same tissue or cell type provides new opportunities to improve the accuracy of isoform quantification. However, existing statistical or computational methods for multiple RNA-seq samples either pool the samples into one sample or assign equal weights to the samples when estimating isoform abundance. These methods ignore the possible heterogeneity in the quality of different samples and could result in biased and unrobust estimates. In this article, we develop a method, which we call "joint modeling of multiple RNA-seq samples for accurate isoform quantification" (MSIQ), for more accurate and robust isoform quantification by integrating multiple RNA-seq samples under a Bayesian framework. Our method aims to (1) identify a consistent group of samples with homogeneous quality and (2) improve isoform quantification accuracy by jointly modeling multiple RNA-seq samples by allowing for higher weights on the consistent group. We show that MSIQ provides a consistent estimator of isoform abundance, and we demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of MSIQ compared with alternative methods through simulation studies on D. melanogaster genes. We justify MSIQ's advantages over existing approaches via application studies on real RNA-seq data from human embryonic stem cells, brain tissues, and the HepG2 immortalized cell line.
Precursory collapse in Neutron Star-Black Hole mergers
Creators: name: Emparan, Roberto
name: Marin, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of the event horizon in the merger between a large black hole and a smaller neutron star. We find that, if the star is compact enough, then, in its rest frame a horizon begins to grow inside the star before it merges with the black hole, in a manner analogous to the growth of the event horizon in stellar collapse. We may say that, ahead of its fall into the larger black hole, the neutron star begins to become a black hole itself. We discuss how the phenomenon, even if not directly observable, can be invariantly characterized. We demonstrate it quantitatively by explicitly constructing the merger event horizon in the extreme-mass-ratio limit. We show that the effect is present for realistic neutron star models and admissible values of the compactness.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures. v2: minor clarifications and added references. Matches published version
Military defeats, casualties of war and the success of Rome
Creators: name: Turner, Brian David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation examines how ancient Romans dealt with the innumerable military losses that the expansion and maintenance of their empire demanded. It considers the prose writers from Polybius (c. 150 B.C.E.) through Dio Cassius (c. 230 C.E.), as well as many items from the material record, including triumphal arches, the columns of Trajan and Marcus, and other epigraphic and material evidence from Rome and throughout the empire. By analyzing just how much (or how little) the Romans focused on their military defeats and casualties of war in their cultural record, I argue that the various and specific ways that the Romans dealt with these losses form a necessary part of any attempt to explain the military success of Rome. The discussion is organized into five chapters. The first chapter describes the treatment and burial of the war dead. Chapter two considers the effect war losses had on the morale of Roman soldiers and generals. The third chapter compares the response at Rome to news of a defeat in both the republican and imperial periods. Chapter four examines the memory and commemoration of Roman war losses. Finally, the fifth chapter analyzes the inclusion of casualty figures in the sources, and pays particular attention to the Roman idea of winning a bloodless victory. Underpinning the analysis is the explanatory model developed by military historian John Lynn in his book, Battle: A History of Combat and Culture (2003). The model argues that the discourse of war, which encompasses all the cultural depictions of war (including monuments, texts, and ideologies), necessarily influences the reality of battle. While this discourse can never perfectly match that reality, it is, nevertheless, constantly evolving to mirror better how war was actually fought. This model helps explain why the Romans responded to military losses the way that they did, and why these responses were so fundamental to the success of Rome.
Mobile Cloud Business Process Management System for the Internet of Things: A Survey
Creators: name: Chang, Chii
name: Srirama, Satish Narayana
name: Buyya, Rajkumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a comprehensive environment that consists of a large number of smart devices interconnecting heterogeneous physical objects to the Internet. Many domains such as logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, urban computing, home automation, ambient assisted living and various ubiquitous computing applications have utilised IoT technologies. Meanwhile, Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) have become a successful and efficient solution for coordinated management and optimised utilisation of resources/entities. However, past BPMS have not considered many issues they will face in managing large scale connected heterogeneous IoT entities. Without fully understanding the behaviour, capability and state of the IoT entities, the BPMS can fail to manage the IoT integrated information systems. In this paper, we analyse existing BPMS for IoT and identify the limitations and their drawbacks based on Mobile Cloud Computing perspective. Later, we discuss a number of open challenges in BPMS for IoT.
description: 56 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables
Development and Analysis of Dermal Wound Image Processing Techniques Using Chan-Vese and Edge Active Contour Methods
Creators: name: Mueller, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Present methods for evaluation of burn wounds rely heavily on qualitative and Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) estimations. Herein, a digital method for calculating the surface area of burn wounds is proposed as a useful tool for monitoring and measuring changes in burns. This study tested two segmentation methods: a statistical analysis technique, and an active contours technique using edges and Chan-Vese. All methods were tested on images of burns taken from a DSLR camera, and Microsoft Kinect V2 and compared to digitally drawn traces of the wounds. Using Dice’s Coefficient as a measure for agreement between masks, the DSLR images resulted in agreeable segmentations (D=0.939 for edge, D=0.9362 for Chan-Vese), while images taken with the Kinect did not meet the threshold for agreeability (D=0.815 for edge, D=0.819 for Chan-Vese). This testing shows the active contours method is the plausible method for characterizing high-resolution color burn wounds.
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Creators: name: , Bernardus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1197
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Bernardus, Sohn des verstorbenen Ianonus aus Casalbuttano, belehnt die Brüder Petrus de Guarnerio und Odolinus mit einem Stück Land, gelegen in Braida Tempestata, und mit einem Sechzigstel des Honor curia Casalisbutani.
Four-junction superconducting circuit
Creators: name: Qiu, Yueyin
name: Xiong, Wei
name: He, Xiao-Ling
name: Li, Tie-Fu
name: You, J. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory for the quantum circuit consisting of a superconducting loop interrupted by four Josephson junctions and pierced by a magnetic flux (either static or time-dependent). In addition to the similarity with the typical three-junction flux qubit in the double-well regime, we demonstrate the difference of the four-junction circuit from its three-junction analogue, including its advantages over the latter. Moreover, the four-junction circuit in the single-well regime is also investigated. Our theory provides a tool to explore the physical properties of this four-junction superconducting circuit.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Surface Pressure of Liquid Interfaces Laden with Micron-Sized Particles
Creators: name: Mears, R.
name: Muntz, I.
name: Thijssen, J. H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the surface pressure of a colloid-laden liquid interface. As micron-sized particles of suitable wettability can be irreversibly bound to the liquid interface on experimental timescales, we use the canonical ensemble to derive an expression for the surface pressure of a colloid-laden interface. We use this expression to show that adsorption of particles with only hard-core interactions has a negligible effect on surface pressures from typical Langmuir-trough measurements. Moreover, we show that Langmuir-trough measurements cannot be used to extract typical interparticle potentials. Finally, we argue that the dependence of measured surface pressure on surface fraction can be explained by particle coordination number at low to intermediate particle surface fractions. At high surface fractions, where the particles are jammed and cannot easily rearrange, contact-line sliding and/or deformations of the liquid interface at the length scale of the particles play a pivotal role.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Free-fall of photons in a planar optical cavity
Creators: name: Richard, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a planar optical cavity with its main axis oriented perpendicular to the earth's local gravity field. We examine the motion of a wavepacket of light trapped within the cavity spacer under the action of gravity. Within a relativistic framework, we find that the wavepacket initially at rest in terms of in-plane group velocity is accelerated by $g$ at early time in agreement the non-relativistic limit of free-fall. We show that this phenomenon is a manifestation of gravitational redshift, applied on photons at rest within the cavity.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Conditional Betas: Asymmetric Responses to Good and Bad News
Creators: name: Chague, Fernando
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: In this dissertation we propose a theoretical model for conditional betas. Within a rational expectation equilibrium model, we provide a precise characterization of the dynamics of betas and the price of beta risk in terms of the model's primitive parameters and state variables. The expressions reveal that during periods of higher uncertainty, the investor requires a higher market premium. Likewise, the conditional betas also respond to levels of uncertainty; depending on the cash-flow properties of the asset, the asset's beta can increase or decrease on higher uncertainty. Because of the connection with uncertainty, conditional betas derive the stochastic properties from investor beliefs. One of such properties is the asymmetric response to positive and negative news. We also provide empirical evidence of the model's predictions about the dynamics of betas. For this empirical investigation, we propose an econometric specification that provides time-varying estimates of betas and relates them, non-linearly, to investor beliefs. As a by-product, we suggest proxies for investor beliefs and uncertainty that can be extracted from stock returns. The dynamics implied by the estimated parameters confirms the model's prediction that value and growth betas have opposing sensitivity to the levels of uncertainty.
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Creators: name: Felinus
name: , Jacobus
name: , Albertus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1197
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Felinus aus Casaleggio Novara und seine Söhne Jacobus und Albertus verkaufen dem Kapitel von St. Gaudencii [in Novara] vertreten durch Oldebertus Torniello, praepositus von St. Gaudencii, verschiedene Güter.
Birth-Kindergarten Licensure Graduates' Perceptions of Their Current Practices and Pre-Service Preparation Relative to Individualization Strategies for Young Children
Creators: name: Gillis, Margaret C.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the current practices and pre-service preparation of recent graduates of North Carolina Birth-Kindergarten (B-K) teacher licensure programs related to individualizing curriculum and instruction for children. Participants were 142 individuals who graduated from B-K licensure programs in four-year institutions from 2007 to 2010. Participants completed the Birth- Kindergarten Licensure Graduates Survey, providing ratings of their perceptions of the frequency with which they engaged in specific assessment, instructional, and collaborative practices and ratings of their perceptions of their B-K preparation for each practice. Participants also provided information regarding their work settings and their familiarity with recent innovative practices and policy, such as evidence-based practice, early intervening services, and Response to Intervention. Results were analyzed through descriptive statistics and gamma correlations. Results indicated B-K graduates report using a variety of assessment, instructional, and collaborative practices frequently. The practices participants reported using least frequently were using supplemental literacy and math curricula and collaborating with other professionals for a variety of tasks. Results also indicated that participants felt well prepared for most individualizing tasks. Participants reported being least prepared to conduct assessments for screening and to use supplemental literacy and math curricula. Gamma correlations were calculated to examine the relationships between perceived preparation and practice for each assessment, instructional, and collaborative task. Significant relationships were found for conducting screenings, using supplemental literacy curricula, and using supplemental math curricula. This suggests individuals who felt more prepared for each of these tasks were more likely to incorporate them into their practice. Participants also reported some familiarity with the concepts of evidence-based practice, early intervening services, and Response to Intervention. The findings of this study suggest B-K licensure programs prepare graduates well for a variety of assessment, instructional, and collaborative practices related to individualizing for children. The findings also suggest graduates frequently employ a variety of strategies to meet individual children's needs. However, further research is necessary to understand how early childhood educators use these strategies. Further research is also needed to determine if early childhood educators use assessment, instructional, and collaborative strategies in a systematic manner to identify and address children's individual needs. Limitations, future directions, and implications for practice and preparation are also discussed.