cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The large-scale magnetic fields of planet-hosting solar-type stars
Creators: name: Menge, Matthew W
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 020110 Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems

description: Stellar magnetic fields and their associated phenomena influence stellar behaviour and evolution, and potentially have significant impacts on any surrounding planetary system. However, the nature of star-planet interactions is unclear, especially the potential impact on a star of a closely orbiting massive planet with a powerful magnetic field.

This thesis presents a spectropolarimetric survey of the large-scale magnetic fields of planet-hosting solar-type stars. While little evidence is found for a systematic difference in the magnetic field characteristics of planet-hosting stars compared with the population of solar-type stars, a small positive correlation is indicated between the magnitude of the tidal effects of the planet on the star and the magnetic field strength. Nevertheless, further spectropolarimetric observations of hot Jupiter hosting systems are required to confirm this tentative relationship.

For the particular case of a moderately active star with a thin convective zone and a closely orbiting hot Jupiter (T Boötis) presented here, a remarkably rapid magnetic cycle with a period of - 240 d is discovered. For stars with shallow convective envelopes, this is an unusual occurrence and suggests a possible role for planetary tidal or magnetic interaction with the star’s convective zone and magnetic dynamo. More observations are required to verify this possible star-planet interaction and to extend the work to other similar systems as they come to light from exoplanet surveys.
Comparison of metabolism and clearance of bisphenols by UGT1 and UGT2 in mice
Creators: name: Saintsing, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: A number of studies indicate that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in the industrial production of many plastics, acts as an endocrine disruptor. In response to these concerns, BPA has been replaced with bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF) in many products, despite a dearth of research on the possible health consequences of these related compounds. The first step in understanding the risk posed by these environmental pollutants is to define the mechanisms with which organisms metabolize and clear them.
Spin-Orbit Physics Giving Rise to Novel Phases in Correlated Systems: Iridates and Related Materials
Creators: name: Rau, Jeffrey G.
name: Lee, Eric Kin-Ho
name: Kee, Hae-Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in correlated materials have become one of the most actively studied subjects in condensed matter physics, as correlations and SOC together can lead to the discovery of new phases. Among candidate materials, iridium oxides (iridates) have been an excellent playground to uncover such novel phenomena. In this review, we discuss recent progress in iridates and related materials, focusing on the basic concepts, relevant microscopic Hamiltonians, and unusual properties of iridates in perovskite- and honeycomb-based structures. Perspectives on SOC and correlation physics beyond iridates are also discussed.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures; To appear in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics
The burden of rare diseases: A systematic review of the specific problems and needs unique to patients with rare diseases and their families
Creators: name: Busby, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Purpose: The true challenges faced by patients with rare diseases (RDs) in their daily lives remain relatively unknown. This review aims to systematically investigate and describe what is known about the problems and needs of patients with RDs and the impacts of these issues in their daily lives.
Methods: A systematic review was undertaken using an electronic data base and research articles published after 2005. Eligible studies included those containing information relating to patients with RD and problems, needs, and/or impacts they faced in daily life. In all, a total of 27 studies were selected.
Results: Patients with RDs and their families face multiple challenges in their daily lives. They have problems concerning difficulty obtaining accurate and timely diagnoses, the detrimental effects of lack of physician knowledge, patient-physician role discrepancies, increased needs and use of health services, lack of adequate social services supports, and lack of treatment options and medications. They also have information needs, peer-support needs, and the need of patient support groups because of both the information and social support they can provide. In daily live they are impacted in a number of ways such as decreased quality of life (QoL), adverse impacts on daily life, negative effects on psychosocial health, and an overall significant impact on the family as a unit.
Conclusion: Patients with RDs face a tremendous amount of struggles and challenges in daily life. With a better understanding of these issues and subsequent policy changes, more comprehensive health care and social support may be provided to them such that the burden presented by RDs can be reduced.
Magnetic behavior of volborthite Cu3V2O7(OH)2(H2O)2 determined by coupled trimers rather than frustrated chains
Creators: name: Janson, O.
name: Furukawa, S.
name: Momoi, T.
name: Sindzingre, P.
name: Richter, J.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments on volborthite single crystals showing a wide 1/3-magnetization plateau, we perform microscopic modeling by means of density functional theory (DFT) with the single-crystal structural data as a starting point. Using DFT+U, we find four leading magnetic exchanges: antiferromagnetic J and J2, as well as ferromagnetic J' and J1. Simulations of the derived spin Hamiltonian show good agreement with the experimental low-field magnetic susceptibility and high-field magnetization data. The 1/3-plateau phase pertains to polarized magnetic trimers formed by strong J bonds. An effective J$\rightarrow\infty$ model shows a tendency towards condensation of magnon bound states preceding the plateau phase.
description: revised version: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table + Supplemental material (8 pages)
कंप्यूटर और कंप्यूटर भाषाः आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस और संस्कृत
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer vision and multimedia computation not elsewhere classified
Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems

description: हर व्यक्ति, समुदाय, देश एवं समाज की अपनी एक भाषा होती हैं और इसी भाषा के कारण लोग एक दूसरे से संवाद स्थापित करते हैं, तर्क-वितर्क करते हैं या सूचनाओं का आदान प्रदान करते हैं, इत्यादि। इसी तरह कंप्यूटर की भी अपनी एक भाषा होती है जिसे कंप्यूटर समझता है और विभिन्न गणनाएं करता है। इन्हीं गणनाओं के जरिए कंप्यूटर विभिन्न परिणाम देता हैद्य कंप्यूटर की इस भाषा को प्रोग्रामिंग भाषा कहा जाता है इस भाषा को कंप्यूटर के विशेषज्ञों ने विभिन्न एप्लिकेशनों को विकसित करने के लिए डिजाइन किया हैद्य पारंपरिक भाषाओं की तरह कंप्यूटर की प्रोग्रामिंग भाषाओँ के भी अपने व्याकरण, वर्ण, शब्द, वाक्य इत्यादि होते है। प्रस्तुत लेख कंप्यूटर की भाषाओँ की चर्चा करता है। लेख का उद्देश्य कंप्यूटर की वर्तमान प्रचलित भाषाओँ की आलोचना नहीं करता बल्कि लेख आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस में कौन सी भाषा सर्वश्रेष्ठ होगी इस तथ्य की पड़ताल करता है। लेख संस्कृत भाषा का एक विवेचनात्मक प्रस्तुतिकरण है जो ये तर्क देता है के वर्तमान आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस की भाषा के रूप में संस्कृत एक सुसंगठिक भाषा हो सकती है।
Quantum Merlin-Arthur with Clifford Arthur
Creators: name: Morimae, Tomoyuki
name: Hayashi, Masahito
name: Nishimura, Harumichi
name: Fujii, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the class QMA does not change even if we restrict Arthur's computing ability to only Clifford gate operations (plus classical XOR gate). The idea is to use the fact that the preparation of certain single-qubit states, so called magic states, plus any Clifford gate operations are universal for quantum computing. If Merlin is honest, he sends the witness plus magic states to Arthur. If Merlin is malicious, he might send other states to Arthur, but Arthur can verify the correctness of magic states by himself. We also generalize the result to QIP[3]: we show that the class QIP[3] does not change even if the computational power of the verifier is restricted to only Clifford gate operations (plus classical XOR gate).
description: 14 pages, no figure
The Affordable Care Act: Did it Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Women?
Creators: name: Allen, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This paper is an analysis of the Affordable Care Act in terms of its effectiveness in
creating healthier pregnancy outcomes. I use data collected by the CDC from mothers who gave
birth in the United States between 2004 and 2013 to analyze the trends in insurance coverage,
prenatal health care consumption, and pregnancy health outcomes all while controlling for
pertinent demographic factors. The findings of this study show that there is a positive
relationship between insurance coverage and consumption of prenatal health care. They also
show a positive relationship between consumption of prenatal health care and the probability of
having a child with a normal birth weight. Furthermore, this research also finds a sharp increase
in the consumption of prenatal health care in 2011 – approximately 9 months after the ACA was
signed into law.
RCT Evaluation of the Expansion of the Per Scholas Network Support Program
Creators: name: Roder, Anne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Economic Mobility Corporation (Mobility) is conducting a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the Per Scholas Network Support training program in two expansion sites in Columbus, OH and the Washington, DC area. The program provides 15 weeks of occupational skills training in preparation for passing the CompTIA A+ and Network+ certification exams as well as professional development training, job placement assistance, and two years of job retention and advancement support. Two prior rigorous studies of Per Scholas’ program in the South Bronx demonstrated that it had large, statistically significant impacts on participants’ earnings two to three years after enrollment. The current study will assess whether the earnings impacts found in earlier studies can be reproduced in labor markets outside of New York City. The study’s primary outcome is earnings in the third year after random assignment, measured with state unemployment insurance records. The study will also assess program impacts on secondary outcomes regarding employment, postsecondary education, and other indicators of financial well-being.
title: Exploring teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the use of Arabic language in grades 11-12 EFL classrooms in Oman: an in-depth investigation of EFL pedagogy
Creators: name: Alkhamis, Khalifa Mohammed
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Maori)
subject: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics

description: The argument over whether or not the learners’ first language (L1) should be applied in English language as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms has been a contentious matter for a long time. This pedagogical discussion is not only constant but also uncertain. The ongoing debate surrounding this issue needs further research, as proposed by the present study, with a focus on the Omani EFL context. This study therefore aims to add new insights into this continuous controversial issue of applying L1 in EFL classrooms. Furthermore, this mixed methods study aims to fill the specific gap in the current literature connected to the practical field of using Arabic language (L1) in Omani grades 11-12 EFL classrooms pedagogy. It explores teachers’ and students’ perspectives and possible reasons for using Arabic during the English language (L2) in Omani EFL contexts.

Aiming to explore and understand this subject from different broader perspectives, a mixed methods approach has been applied. Therefore, data was collected by adopting two forms of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and classroom observations as data collection instruments. The study was conducted based on a convenience sampling method from eight male and female grades 11-12 schools in 4 different governorates in Oman. The participants were composed of 50 male and female EFL teachers and 240 male and female students. Data were interpreted and analysed from both EFL teachers and students' responses.

The outcomes of this study showed that both EFL teachers and learners, throughout the lesson time, frequently used the Arabic language for different teaching and managerial reasons. The Arabic language facilitates learners’ understanding of meanings of new vocabulary words, in explaining difficult grammatical rules, in classroom management and discipline, and to motivate and encourage low proficiency level learners. This highlights the need for a curriculum framework that includes a systematic use of Arabic based on practical EFL teacher training programs whereby both teachers and learners recognise the reasons behind their L1 usage in EFL classrooms. The study also found that students are eventually able to eliminate their L1 use and improve the L2 learning process. The findings further help educators, administrators, and policymakers in fostering EFL pedagogical improvement in Omani English education.
Phase Diagram for Inertial Granular Flows
Creators: name: DeGiuli, E.
name: McElwaine, J. N.
name: Wyart, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flows of hard granular materials depend strongly on the interparticle friction coefficient $μ_p$ and on the inertial number ${\cal I}$, which characterizes proximity to the jamming transition where flow stops. Guided by numerical simulations, we derive the phase diagram of dense inertial flow of spherical particles, finding three regimes for $10^{-4} \lesssim {\cal I} \lesssim 10^{-1}$: \textit{ frictionless, frictional sliding, } and {\it rolling}. These are distinguished by the dominant means of energy dissipation, changing from collisional to sliding friction, and back to collisional, as $μ_p$ increases from zero at constant ${\cal I}$. The three regimes differ in their kinetics and rheology; in particular, the velocity fluctuations and the stress ratio both display non-monotonic behavior with $μ_p$, corresponding to transitions between the three regimes of flow. We rationalize { the phase boundaries between these regimes}, show that energy balance yields scaling relations { between microscopic properties} in each of them, and { derive the strain scale at which particles lose memory of their velocity. For the frictional sliding regime most relevant experimentally, we find for ${\cal I}\geq 10^{-2.5}$ that the growth of the macroscopic friction $μ({\cal I})$ with ${\cal I}$ is induced by an increase of collisional dissipation. This implies in that range that $μ({\cal I})-μ(0)\sim {\cal I}^{1-2b}$, where $b\approx 0.2$ is an exponent that characterizes both the dimensionless velocity fluctuations ${\cal L}\sim {\cal I}^{-b}$ and the density of sliding contacts $χ\sim {\cal I}^b$.
description: 6 pages + 6 pages SI
Effect of Arsenite and its Metabolite, Methylarsonite, on Glycogen Metabolism in Primary Murine Hepatocytes
Creators: name: Fennell, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Environmental inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure is a major health concern globally. iAs is
found in high concentrations in well water, rice products, and other foods. Epidemiological
evidence has linked iAs exposure to an increased prevalence and incidence of the diabetic
phenotypes, and studies using mouse models have shown that iAs exposure leads to impaired
glucose homeostasis, suggesting iAs is a diabetogen. However, the molecular mechanism by
which iAs exposure causes diabetes is not well understood. This project focuses on identifying
molecular mechanisms by which iAs exposure increases the risk of diabetes. We hypothesize
that exposure to iAs or its metabolites disrupts hepatic insulin signaling and impairs the
pathways of glycogen metabolism in the liver. Our results demonstrate that exposure to arsenite
and methylarsonite, a methylated metabolite of iAs, lead to inhibition of glycogen synthase and
activation of glycogen phosphorylase, and reduces glycogen content in primary murine
hepatocytes. This data suggests a new mechanism by which iAs exposure may disrupt glucose
homeostasis, leading to diabetes.
What Drives Voting for Euroskeptic Parties in EP Elections? A Discussion of Transnational Cleavage Theory and Second-Order Election Theory
Creators: name: Hanson, Madeline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This study analyzes how voter opinions on European issues—including immigration and national sovereignty—affect their vote choice for a more or less Euroskeptic party in the European Parliament (EP). Specifically, I am looking at these voting patterns for the 2014 EP election. I seek to answer the question: do anti-immigration and pro-national sovereignty opinions cause voters to vote for more Euroskeptic parties? I challenge the predominance of the second-order election model in explaining EP voting behavior. The second-order model posits that voters in EP elections select parties based on their motivations to reward or punish their incumbent national governments. I hypothesize instead that European elections have increasingly taken on a first-order character. The question is what kind of first-order issues drive voters? I argue that non-economic issues related to an emergent transnational cleavage co-determine voting behavior. I contrast this model with one that privileges economic factors. I use survey data gathered from voters after the 2014 EP election by the European Election Studies and data on party positioning from another source—the Chapel Hill Expert Survey. The chief findings of my study are a) immigration and national sovereignty opinions do affect voters’ decisions to vote Euroskeptic or Pro-European, b) the salience of these issues significantly strengthens the effect of these issues on voting behavior, and c) opinions on immigration in 2014 did not have as great of an effect on voting behavior as immigration salience did.
A logical account of quantum superpositions
Creators: name: Krause, Decio
name: Arenhart, Jonas R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P10, 81P05, 03B45

description: In this paper we consider the phenomenon of superpositions in quantum mechanics and suggest a way to deal with the idea in a logical setting from a syntactical point of view, that is, as subsumed in the language of the formalism, and not semantically. We restrict the discussion to the propositional level only. Then, after presenting the motivations and a possible world semantics, the formalism is outlined and we also consider within this schema the claim that superpositions may involve contradictions, as in the case of the Schrödinger's cat, which (it is usually said) is both alive and dead. We argue that this claim is a misreading of the quantum case. Finally, we sketch a new form of quantum logic that involves three kinds of negations and present the relationships among them. The paper is a first approach to the subject, introducing some main guidelines to be developed by a `syntactical' logical approach to quantum superpositions.
description: 17 pages, forthcoming in Probing the Meaning and Structure of Quantum Mechanics: Superpositions, Semantics, Dynamics and Identity, D. Aerts, C. de Ronde, H. Freytes and R. Giuntini (Eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 2015
A moderated mediation model to predict the development of resistance to peer influence in adolescence: Evidence from an adoption study
Creators: name: Yu, Li
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 520101
subject: Child and adolescent development
classificationCode: 520201
subject: Behavioural genetics

description: Adolescents are highly sensitive to peer influence and thus at higher risk of acquiring problematic behaviors through peer interactions. However, adolescents vary in the extent to which they are influenced by their peers. Resistance to peer influence (RPI), the tendency to refuse undesired peer norms and peer pressure, is one of the crucial explanations for this variation. Prior to designing effective interventive plans to improve RPI, it is important to elucidate the pathways of how RPI develops in childhood and adolescence. Therefore, the present study leverages an adopted-at-birth design and proposes a moderated mediation model to examine whether: 1) child phenotypic impulsivity mediates the association between birth parent impulsivity and adolescent RPI; 2) child phenotypic self-esteem mediates the association between birth parent self-esteem and adolescent RPI; 3) adoptive parent responsiveness buffers the impulsivity pathway; and 4) adoptive parent responsiveness strengthens the self-esteem pathway. The sample consists of 538 family triads, with adopted child, birth parents, and adoptive parents, drawn from a sample of 561 families recruited from 45 adoption agencies in the United States. Birth parents’ impulsivity and self-esteem were measured to index heritable factors for phenotypic impulsivity and self-esteem. Adoptive parents’ responsiveness was measured via home observations. Impulsivity and self-esteem of adopted adolescent were reported by their adoptive parents, whereas RPI was assessed via self-report. Covariates included adolescent sex, age, and the openness to adoption between birth parents and adoptive parents. Results of structural equation models revealed that none of the proposed mediating or moderating pathways reached statistically significant levels. Overall, girls reported higher RPI than boys. For future studies, researchers may want to consider more accurate proxies of genetic factors for impulsivity and self-esteem, and repeated measures designs.
औपनिवेशिक भारत में साम्यवादी दलः विचारधार, कार्यक्रम एवं नीतियां
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: प्रस्तुत लेख पराधीन भारत में साम्यवादी दल (भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी) की विभिन्न योजनाओं, कार्यक्रम, विचारधारा एवं नीतियों का विस्तृत अध्ययन प्रस्तुत करता है। लेख मुख्य रूप से सन 1920 के बाद के कालखंड का अध्ययन है, जिसमें साम्यवादी दल की स्थापना के कारण, उनके रुसी कम्युनिस्ट इंटरनेशनल से सम्बन्ध, कांग्रेस समाजवादी दल में भूमिका और विभिन्न आंदोलनों का आलोचनात्मक अध्ययन करता है। स्वतंत्रतापूर्व हुए विभिन्न घटनाक्रमों, आंदोलनों में साम्यवादी दल कैसी भूमिका अदा करता है, ये प्रश्न इस लेख का केंद्र बिंदु है और साम्यवादी दल की कई मिथ्या धारणाओं का समालोचनात्मक अध्ययन प्रस्तुत करता है। अंत में लेख ये जानने का प्रयास करता है के साम्यवादी दल की विचारधारा, कार्यक्रम, नीतियां कितनी भारतीय और देश हित में रहीं हैं।
Association between gambling and self-harm: A scoping review
Creators: name: Gray, Heather
name: Edson, Timothy
name: Nelson, Sarah
name: LaPlante, Debi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: gambling
subject: gambling disorder
subject: non-suicidal self-harm
subject: problem gambling
subject: self-harm
subject: suicide

description: Problem gambling might be associated with risk for self-harm, broadly construed (i.e., suicidal thoughts and behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury; see Nock, 2009 for a typology of intentional self-injury). Such associations would have urgent implications for self-harm screening, assessment, and intervention among people who experience problem gambling. However, it is unclear what kind of information is available in the literature about the potential association between problem gambling and self-harm. Further, gambling, more broadly, is associated with hazardous drinking and other risky behaviors. Given that risk behaviors tend to cluster, it is also important to consider gambling’s relationship with other dangerous behaviors including self-harm. Therefore, we will conduct a scoping review to systematically map the existing research in this area. We will search several electronic databases and chart included studies on a number of characteristics, including level of evidence (Ackley et al., 2008). We will construe “gambling” broadly, to encompass the full spectrum of gambling behavior (i.e., from gambling participation to clinically diagnosable Gambling Disorder). This scoping review will identify any potential gaps in knowledge and determine whether a formal meta-analysis identifying the strength of association between gambling and self-harm is feasible and of value.
Wetting and phase separation in soft adhesion
Creators: name: Jensen, K. E.
name: Sarfati, R.
name: Style, R. W.
name: Boltyanskiy, R.
name: Chakrabarti, A.
name: Chaudhury, M. K.
name: Dufresne, E. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the classic theory of solid adhesion, surface energy drives deformation to increase contact area while bulk elasticity opposes it. Recently, solid surface stress has been shown also to play an important role in opposing deformation of soft materials. This suggests that the contact line in soft adhesion should mimic that of a liquid droplet, with a contact angle determined by surface tensions. Consistent with this hypothesis, we observe a contact angle of a soft silicone substrate on rigid silica spheres that depends on the surface functionalization but not the sphere size. However, to satisfy this wetting condition without a divergent elastic stress, the gel separates from its solvent near the contact line. This creates a four-phase contact zone with two additional contact lines hidden below the surface of the substrate. While the geometries of these contact lines are independent of the size of the sphere, the volume of the phase-separated region is not, but rather depends on the indentation volume. These results indicate that theories of adhesion of soft gels need to account for both the compressibility of the gel network and a non-zero surface stress between the gel and its solvent.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
The CyI researcher at the Open Science era
Creators: name: Andreas, Athenodorou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science, FAIR data, Research Data Management

description: A course on Open Science given within the context of "COS 500: Frontiers & Methodologies in Computational Sciences" for the graduate students at The Cyprus Institute.
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Assessing the Understanding of "Suzhi" of Chinese Students Studying at Elite U.S. Universities and Colleges
Creators: name: Zhao, Chang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Although suzhi is wildly used by different people, people have different
understanding of this word, even among those people who are regarded as “high quality
people” by Yiting Liu, which are those who got accepted by top colleges in the United
States. In the context of globalization, a research study of those students who are
currently studying in the Western countries could help us to have a better understanding
of how the notion of Quality is perceived, and how it has changed overtime. Currently,
the only literature that focuses on both Chinese students and Quality oversea is Vanessa
Fong’s (2011) Paradise Redefined, which mainly focuses on students who lack academic
achievement and family wealth from Dalian; some of them even sell their houses and
borrow money from friends and relatives go study abroad (Fong, 2011). However, mega
cities, instead of relatively smaller cities like Dalian, a peripheral city in northern China, tend to have more resources and produce more students. Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing are the three largest feeder cities for students in the US and contribute almost a hundred thousand students in total. What is more, almost all subjects in Fong’s research attended “far less prestigious foreign-language schools, for-profit, technical, or community colleges, or low-ranked universities” (Fong, 2011). Yiting Liu’s quote earlier in the introduction, however, only talks about that being accepted by a “top colleges in the United States” could be an indication of “high quality”. At the same time, China now has held the top spot in foreign countries represented at many top colleges like University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California, Berkeley, or Cornell University for the past five years. As a result, Fong’s research result might not be comprehensive enough. My research, which extensively studies twenty-two students from different cities who are currently enrolled in the top 35 colleges in the United States (according to the US NEWS college ranking), will fill the gap of current studies by attempting to answer the following questions: • How is the notion of Quality perceived among Chinese students in the US? • Have their notions of Quality changed since Chinese students came to the US? • What are the factors that shape their understanding of Quality? Are there any divergences? • What are some consequences of those divergences?
“I Didn’t Want to Be Ignorant”: An Exploration of Why Preservice Teachers Sometimes Choose Silence in Critical Conversations About Texts With Elementary Children
Creators: name: Diaz, Amanda R
name: Schutz, Kristine
name: Woodard, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Discussions about texts can offer valuable opportunities for critical conversations about power and privilege. While we know such conversations are important to have in school, many teachers report feeling unprepared to facilitate them. In an effort to understand the in-the-moment decisions preservice teachers (PSTs) make in response to children’s contributions during critical conversations about texts, this qualitative, design-based study examines how PSTs responded to elementary-age children while facilitating discussions about texts in their field placements. Although various kinds of responses were made (e.g., eliciting children’s thinking, orienting children’s contributions to one another), in this analysis, we examine the moments where PSTs identified their silence as salient. Findings reveal that (1) some PSTs developing understanding of the role of talk and desire to efficiently accomplish the task did not seem to set them up to see critical conversations about texts as a space for sensemaking, and (2) other PSTs did see critical conversations about texts as spaces to engage in sensemaking but felt discomfort grappling with unanticipated issues that arose. We discuss implications for literacy researchers and teacher educators committed to supporting critical conversations with children in schools.
Conceptual Aspects of Gauge/Gravity Duality
Creators: name: De Haro, Sebastian
name: Mayerson, Daniel R.
name: Butterfield, Jeremy N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an introductory review of gauge/gravity duality, and associated ideas of holography, emphasising the conceptual aspects. The opening Sections gather the ingredients, viz. anti-de Sitter spacetime, conformal field theory and string theory, that we need for presenting, in Section 5, the central and original example: Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence. Sections 6 and 7 develop the ideas of this example, also in applications to condensed matter systems, QCD, and hydrodynamics. Sections 8 and 9 discuss the possible extensions of holographic ideas to de Sitter spacetime and to black holes. Section 10 discusses the bearing of gauge/gravity duality on two philosophical topics: the equivalence of physical theories, and the idea that spacetime, or some features of it, are emergent.
description: 49 pages, invited review for Foundations of Physics
Identifying Metropolitan Areas
Creators: name: Pritchard, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: There are endless ways in which we can group people together in space, the most common
ways are of course cities, towns, villages, and metropolitan areas. Today we define
cities, and metropolitan areas using a mixture of techniques such as historical boundaries
and strict rules that deal with commuting and population density to determine the
outlines of a metropolitan area[2]. The way in which these delineations are determined
is important because they are the basis for various statistical calculations detailing anything
from community diversity to median incomes. These statistics are then used to
help determine economic and infrastructure initiatives, which could be beneficial to the
community, but could also be wasteful if the statistics do not represent the true community.
Thus a robust method of community delineation that captures the true structure of
connections would allow for more representative statistics. These more representative
statistics will allow policy makers to have a better understanding of the issues. With
this better understanding they should then be better able to solve these problems. This
robust method can be found by turning to network theory, the study of connections
between entities. This field of study is useful one because metropolitan areas are supposed
to represent closely connected areas. Specifically it would be useful to look at
network theory in an attempt to find an algorithm that identifies the community structure
by looking data of the workers who commute to and from various counties. Using
these techniques we should be able to provide delineations that are judged to be both
significant and proper.
Rydberg-Blockade Effects in Autler-Townes Spectra of Ultracold Strontium
Creators: name: DeSalvo, B. J.
name: Aman, J. A.
name: Gaul, C.
name: Pohl, T.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Burgdörfer, J.
name: Hazzard, K. R. A.
name: Dunning, F. B.
name: Killian, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the effects of Rydberg interactions on Autler-Townes spectra of ultracold gases of atomic strontium. Realizing two-photon Rydberg excitation via a long-lived triplet state allows us to probe the thus far unexplored regime where Rydberg state decay presents the dominant decoherence mechanism. The effects of Rydberg interactions are observed in shifts, asymmetries, and broadening of the measured atom-loss spectra. The experiment is analyzed within a one-body density matrix approach, accounting for interaction-induced level shifts and dephasing through nonlinear terms that approximately incorporate correlations due to the Rydberg blockade. This description yields good agreement with our experimental observations for short excitation times. For longer excitation times, the loss spectrum is altered qualitatively, suggesting additional dephasing mechanisms beyond the standard blockade mechanism based on pure van der Waals interactions.
Unimodal and Cross-Modal Analogy: Exploration of General Analogical Ability
Creators: name: Weinberger, Adam
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The bulk of existing research on analogical mapping uses modality-specific stimuli (visuospatial or verbal). But is there an underlying ability that supports analogical reasoning independent of modality (i.e., a "general" analogy factor like g)? This project investigates whether people can form analogies across modalities, and if this performance can be explained by an underlying factor.
Fixed points and cycle structure of random permutations
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sumit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A05, 60C05, 60F05

description: Using the recently developed notion of permutation limits this paper derives the limiting distribution of the number of fixed points and cycle structure for any convergent sequence of random permutations, under mild regularity conditions. In particular this covers random permutations generated from Mallows Model with Kendall's Tau, $μ$ random permutations introduced in [11], as well as a class of exponential families introduced in [15].
description: Minor updates in presentation. The definition of cycles is now corrected, and Theorem 1.4 has been updated to reflect these changes. Electron. J. Probab. 21 (2016), paper no. 40
title: Climate justice and its impact on Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Aparajita
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Law

description: This thesis examines the impact of global climate change on Bangladesh. While some action on climate change is being undertaken internationally, such as through policies developed by the United Nations and other regional organisations, Bangladesh must itself take action to address this issue. This thesis focuses on identifying and prioritising measures to prevent and mitigate climate change impacts on Bangladesh and to formulate a strategic plan. It discusses how the Government of Bangladesh can ensure, in taking such action, that all constitutional and other human rights standards are maintained. Bangladesh does not have any climate change laws per se, so the thesis considers whether its current environmental laws and climate change policies are adequate to address the impacts of climate change and concludes that they are not. Accordingly, this thesis reviews legislation in other jurisdictions as a possible model for relevant legislation in Bangladesh. It also discusses whether economic mechanisms provided for in the international responses to climate change can be utilised to mitigate and adapt to climate change in Bangladesh.

Finally, the role of the judicial system and the judiciary in implementing and enforcing the law related to environment protection and climate change is discussed. The purpose of this thesis is to ensure that ‘climate justice’—the goal of resolving or alleviating the unequal impact of burdens created by climate change—is achieved in Bangladesh. As a result, this thesis aims to articulate and promote the principle of climate justice in the setting of Bangladesh.
Exercise: A Possible Mediator in the Enhanced Antibody Response to Influenza Vaccination in Healthy Weight and Overweight Individuals
Creators: name: Riley, Marissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In recent years, the obesity epidemic has continued to grow and has emerged as a huge
public health issue over the last decade. Obesity has been found to be associated with a
multitude of health problems including cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, arthritis
and overall morbidity. Additionally, obesity has been linked to a decreased antibody immune
response to influenza vaccination. Exercise is commonly understood to have health benefit,
both in mental and physical health, but the association between exercise and immune response
is an area of limited research. The present study aimed to investigate whether exercise in both
healthy weight and overweight individuals would enhance the antibody immune response
following influenza vaccination. Pre- and post- vaccination serum samples from the 2013-2014
study year were used to determine vaccine antibody titer response using haemagglutination
inhibition assays. Exercise data for the subjects was collected from a self-reported
questionnaire administered upon pre-vaccination blood draw. There were no significant
differences between pre- and post-vaccination antibody titers between non-exercisers and
exercisers nor was there one between the four body weight-exercise subgroups. As such there
was also no significant difference between antibody titer fold change between subgroups.
Although the data was restricted by limited sample size and possible subgroup
misclassifications and no significant differences were found, there were trends that may
suggest that exercise plays a role in mediating the antibody immune response in healthy weight
and overweight individuals.
भारत में सामाजिक और धार्मिक सुधार ही क्यों ? एक विवेचनात्मक अध्ययन
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: भारत में सामाजिक और धार्मिक सुधार आंदोलन 19 वीं शताब्दी में प्रारम्भ होता है। मुख्य रूप से ये आंदोलन दो मुद्दों पर केंद्रित रहता है, पहला ष्महिला सुधार और महिलाओं के समान अधिकार एवं दूसरा जाति प्रथा का उन्मूलन और छुआछूत प्रथा का अंत। अतः मुख्यतः समाज और धर्म सुधार आंदोलन लैंगिक एवं धार्मिक भेदभाव को खत्म कर, समानता के आधार पर एक समतामूलक समाज की स्थापना पर जोर दे रहा था। यह अध्याय इस बिंदु पर प्रकाश डालता हैं के भारत में सामजिक और धार्मिक सुधार आंदोलन हुए ही क्यों? क्यों भारत सिर्फ 1857 की एकमात्र क्रांति ही देखता है और भारतियों ने दुबारा 1857 की तर्ज पर गलतियों से सनक लेते हुए आखिर क्यों सशस्त्र विद्रोह या युद्ध नहीं किया? प्रस्तुत लेख इन्ही कुछ बिंदुओं पर प्रकाश डालने का प्रयास है।
title: The career paths of female Emirati graduates in the private sector in Dubai
Creators: name: Hawkswell, Pamela M
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130305 Educational Counselling

description: Should the importance of the constructs of self-efficacy, outcome expectations and goal setting from the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) in shaping Emirati female graduates’ careers in the private sector in Dubai be ignored? Although only a minority of female graduates opt to work in the private sector in the United Arab Emirates, there are indications that those who do, feel strongly about the opportunities afforded to them—opportunities that are perceived as being stepping stones to their future careers. In what has become an increasingly competitive labour market, females are no longer willing to sit and wait for a position in the public sector—a sector that has now become saturated and no longer guarantees locals a career. Private sector operators are constantly seeking a better understanding of the terms and conditions that would attract more locals to their sector.

In this mixed-methods study comprising two sets of interviews and an on-line survey conducted over a period of some 2 years, constructs of the SCCT were scrutinised in an endeavour to better judge the validity of the theory in a Middle-Eastern context. In addition, another aim of the study was to better understand female Emirati graduate perceptions of their career paths in the private sector. What factors play a role in how female graduates utilise opportunities and more specifically who or what influences them to make the decisions they do related to everyday work situations and to their career paths generally?

Study 1, the first of two qualitative studies, comprised five in-depth interviews. Questions examined the SCCT’s main constructs of self-efficacy, outcome expectations and goal setting. Responses were coded and themed accordingly. Contextual impacts were also considered. Responses to goal setting questions influenced the final item set for Study 2.

Study 2 was an on-line quantitative survey comprising 43 questions over five question sets. There were 41 respondents in total. Questions sought to further examine the constructs of self-efficacy, outcome expectations and goal setting, this time using ready-made questions from various scales. Scales used were the Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale (Rigotti, Shyns & Mohr, 2008), Utrecht’s Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli, Bakker & Salanova, 2006), the Vocational Outcome Expectations Scale (McWhirter & Metheny, 2009), and the Sources of Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations Scale (Lent, Ireland, Penn, Morris & Sappington 2017). Items for the final question set were researcher-designed.

Study 3, as a follow-up to Study 2, sought clarification of the information gathered in Study 2. It also sought further explanation for some unexpected data gathered in the study. Six in-depth interviews were conducted. Trends in responses were used to draw conclusions about specific aspects of a career in the private sector in Dubai.
Maupassant and Medicine: The intersection between the works of Guy de Maupassant and the development of psychiatry and neurology in fin-de-siecle France
Creators: name: Straub, Elizabeth E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This thesis will demonstrate that the French nineteenth-century author Guy de
Maupassant, through both his literary ability and his intimate knowledge of psychological and
neurological disorders, provides a unique insight into French medical attitudes of the nineteenth
century. Analysis will be based on a selection of short stories written by Maupassant which
reflect both his progressing neurological and psychiatric symptoms and intersect with
contemporary medical knowledge within the burgeoning field of psychiatry. Maupassant
expresses his opinions on hysteria and hypnotism, a diagnosis and treatment respectively, in
several of his writings — most notably in “Conte de Noël.” Further, through his writing,
Maupassant explores his own experiences with hallucinations at a time when nineteenth-century
French psychiatrists were beginning to characterize the phenomenon. Similarly, Maupassant
examines the descent into madness and its relationship with suicide in several other stories,
writing at a time in which outdated conceptions of insanity and modern diagnoses such as
depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder were evolving.