cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Searches for new physics with neutrino oscillations in the high precision era
Creators: name: Sicking, Philipp
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neutrinos
subject: Neutrinooszillationen
subject: CP-Verletzung
subject: Sterile Neutrinos
subject: 530
subject: Neutrino
subject: CP-Parität
subject: Neutrinooszillation

description: Die vorliegende Dissertation behandelt den Einfluss neuer Physik auf die Messungen aktueller Neutrino-Oszillations-Experimente. Insbesondere wird eine neue modellunabhängige Methode zur Analyse der CP-Verletzung in Neutrino Oszillationen entwickelt, die auf Unitaritäts-Argumenten beruht. Es wird gezeigt, dass aktuelle Experimente wie T2K oder NOvA in der Lage sind, den Parameter-Bereich für viele Modelle stark einzuschränken. Durch Einbeziehen der Materie-Effekte in diese neue Methode ergeben sich zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die tiefgehender behandelt werden. Außerdem wird der Einfluss eines leichten sterilen Neutrinos auf die Bestimmung der Massen-Hierarchie beim JUNO Experiment untersucht. Zusätzlich wird das erste stringente Modell entwickelt, das alle aktuellen Anomalien im Neutrino Bereich erklären kann und gleichzeitig konsistent ist mit Messungen von atmosphärischen Neutrinos und Neutrinos aus Beschleuniger-Experimenten.
description: In this thesis we explore several new physics models and their implications on current neutrino oscillation experiments. In particular we develop a novel model-independent method to analyze the CP violation in neutrino oscillations, based on the unitarity constraints for the leptonic mixing matrix. We can show that current experiments like T2K or NOvA have su cient sensitivity to restrict new physics models signi cantly. The inclusion of matter e ects into this new approach leads to new challenges, that are studied in more detail. Additionally we analyzes the impact of a light sterile neutrino on the determination of the mass hierarchy at the JUNO experiment. We also propose the rst stringent model that can explain all current neutrino oscillation anomalies and is consistent with atmospheric and accelerator based neutrino experiments.
Sequencing and de novo analysis of Oviductus Ranae initial growth transcriptome using Illumina RNA-Seq Technology
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2014
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: To obtain an overview of the Oviductus Ranae gene expression profile during initial growing period, a cDNA sample was prepared from Oviductus Ranae and sequenced using the Illumina sequencing platform
Adolescents’ and adults’ perceptions of ‘natural’, ‘organic’ and ‘additive-free’ cigarettes, and the required disclaimers
Creators: name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Moracco, Kathryn E.
name: Baig, Sabeeh A.
name: Justin Byron,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We sought to investigate adolescents’ and adults’ perceptions of an American Spirit advertisement with “natural,” “organic,” and “additive-free” descriptors and related disclaimers.
Dalechampia anomala Pax & K. Hoffm.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae
Dalechampia
Dalechampia anomala

description: Dalechampia anomala Pax & K.Hoffm.
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
Source: Webster & Armbruster 1991, WCSP 2018.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
E-Cigarettes and the "Civilising" of Smoking
Creators: name: Hughes, Jason
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This paper explores the ascendancy of electronic cigarettes as part of a wider set of processes involving the “civilising” of tobacco use. I centrally argue that the growing popularity of e-cigarettes can only properly be understood when placed in the context of a broader set of historical developments that have centrally involved the “sanitisation” of smoking. In relation to this undertaking, I explore the curious convergence between devices which are intended to stop smoking (nicotine replacement therapies) and technologies designed to keep smoking (electronic nicotine delivery systems). I argue that regulatory and classificatory distinctions between nicotine “therapies” and “drugs” have increasingly come to collapse, highlighting the importance of exploring the social and psychological uses of tobacco in understanding, and informing, policy debates about tobacco regulation. The paper centrally draws upon the work of Norbert Elias and his concept of “civilising processes”. Where many analyses of changing patterns of drug use, consumption and regulation adopt the lens of medicalisation, this paper explores the utility of Elias’s key concepts in explaining long-term transitions and developments in the practice.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 4 No. 7 (2014)
Herbal Formula-3 alleviates food allergy in mice by modulating the composition of the gut microbiota
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Formula-3, an herbal medicine formula, had been demonstrated to inhibit food allergy in rats by stabilizing mast cells. However, it is not clear how Formula-3 modulates the composition of the intestinal microbiota and alleviates food allergy. We performed 16S rDNA sequencing of gut metagenome in fecal samples, and investigated the effect of Formula-3 on healthy mice and food allergy (FA) mice. We found that Formula-3 decreased gut community richness, increased Lactobacillus and the Bacteroides-to-Prevotella ratio in mice. Additionally, it altered the functional pathways such as energy metabolism and transport system metabolism. It will provide insights into the interaction between herbal formula and gut microbiota, and the potential mechanism of TCMs for disease alleviations.
Coix seed helps mice to lose weight and it is associated with the regulation of the gut microbiota.
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Coix seed is commonly used as food material and herbal medicine in Asian countries. Evidence showed it has hypolipidemic activity, and can decrease the level of serum lipid. But whether Coix seed takes effect by modulating the composition of the gut microbiota remains unknown. In our study, 44 mice were randomly allocated to three groups, receiving Chow, high fat, and high fat added Coix seeds diet for 5 weeks, respectively. Mice who received the high fat diet demonstrated significant increasing in body weight and fat mass compared with the Chow groups. Complementing Coix seed could help mice lose weight, and reduce the fat mass and total cholesterol. Through sequencing of the V4-V5 regions of 16S rRNA genes in fecal samples, we found the gut microbiota had a distinct change in HF diet group comparing to Chow group. Coix Seeds can regulate the abundance of serveral bacteria, which are probably contributed to losing weight and preventing diabetes.
Dolore privato, richiesta di giustizia e memoria politica. Madri e Nonne di Plaza de Mayo in Argentina
Creators: name: Vignola, Marta
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Memory as a social concept may be declined both theoretically and empirically. In the first case, it raises a number of questions related to the interconnectionbetween individual and collective identities. In the second, it may be adopted as a an interpretive tool to be used in the empirical analysis of social processes. Both perspective (theoretical and empirical) will be adopted here in order to understand the social and political relevance of memory and its recover in present-day Argentina. The human rights movement operating in Argentina since 1976, is our focus, conceived here as an instances of the employment of social memories as a political tool. As an example of the social recovery of memory as a political instrument, the organization of Madres (Mothers) and Abuelas (Grandmothers) de Plaza de Mayo. Those organizations adopt creative methods to make memory and the past, having been socially reconstructed by the regime, as a form of political struggle and vindication.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 4 No. 7 (2014)
Immigrazione irregolare e welfare invisibile. Il lavoro di cura attraverso le frontiere, di M. Ambrosini
Creators: name: Valzania, Andrea
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 4 No. 7 (2014)
Beyond excise taxes: a systematic review of literature on non-tax policy approaches to raising tobacco product prices
Creators: name: Roeseler, April
name: Smith, Margaret Holt
name: Feighery, Ellen C.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Rogers, Todd
name: Golden, Shelley D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Raising the price of tobacco products is considered one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use. In addition to excise taxes, governments are exploring other policies to raise tobacco prices and minimise price dispersion, both within and across price tiers. We conducted a systematic review to determine how these policies are described, recommended and evaluated in the literature.
Estimation of background carrier concentration in fully depleted GaN films
Creators: name: Chandrasekar, Hareesh
name: Singh, Manikant
name: Raghavan, Srinivasan
name: Bhat, Navakanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Buffer leakage is an important parasitic loss mechanism in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and hence various methods are employed to grow semi-insulating buffer layers. Quantification of carrier concentration in such buffers using conventional capacitance based profiling techniques is challenging due to their fully depleted nature even at zero bias voltages. We provide a simple and effective model to extract carrier concentrations in fully depleted GaN films using capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements. Extensive mercury probe C-V profiling has been performed on GaN films of differing thicknesses and doping levels in order to validate this model. Carrier concentrations as extracted from both the conventional C-V technique for partially depleted films having the same doping concentration, and Hall measurements show excellent agreement with those predicted by the proposed model thus establishing the utility of this technique. This model can be readily extended to estimate background carrier concentrations from the depletion region capacitances of HEMT structures and fully depleted films of any class of semiconductor materials.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Comparing projected impacts of cigarette floor price and excise tax policies on socioeconomic disparities in smoking
Creators: name: Golden, Shelley D.
name: Farrelly, Matthew C.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Luke, Douglas A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: About half of all US states have cigarette minimum price laws (MPLs) that require a per cent mark-up on prices, but research suggests they may not be very effective in raising prices. An alternative type of MPL sets a floor price below which packs cannot be sold, and may be more promising. This new type of MPL policy has only been implemented in 1 city, therefore its benefits relative to excise taxes is difficult to assess.
Type-II Weyl Semimetals
Creators: name: Soluyanov, Alexey A.
name: Gresch, Dominik
name: Wang, Zhijun
name: Wu, QuanSheng
name: Troyer, Matthias
name: Dai, Xi
name: Bernevig, B. Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermions in nature come in several types: Dirac, Majorana and Weyl are theoretically thought to form a complete list. Even though Majorana and Weyl fermions have for decades remained experimentally elusive, condensed matter has recently emerged as fertile ground for their discovery as low energy excitations of realistic materials. Here we show the existence of yet another particle - a new type of Weyl fermion - that emerges at the boundary between electron and hole pockets in a new type of Weyl semimetal phase of matter. This fermion was missed by Weyl in 1929 due to its breaking of the stringent Lorentz symmetry of high-energy physics. Lorentz invariance however is not present in condensed matter physics, and we predict that an established material, WTe$_2$, is an example of this novel type of topological semimetal hosting the new particle as a low energy excitation around a type-2 Weyl node. This node, although still a protected crossing, has an open, finite-density of states Fermi surface, likely resulting in a plethora physical properties very different from those of standard point-like Fermi surface Weyl points.
1000 Genomes Phase 1 Analysis
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2013
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Variant discovery and individual genotypes for 1092 individuals from the 1000 Genomes Project Phase 1 data release. This accession is a snapshot, as of June 26, 2013, of directory ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/phase1/analysis_results/integrated_call_sets Individual level genotype information is contained in a separate .vcf file for each chromosome; the variant site information (first eight columns of .vcf format) is also collected in a single sites-only .vcf file. The .vcf version 4.1 file format is described at http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-41 Variant discovery and genotyping are based on both low coverage whole genome sequencing and deep coverage exon capture sequencing by the 1000 Genomes Project. The Phase 1 low coverage sequencing was done between 2008 and 2010 using Illumina (86.4%), AB SOLiD (13%) and Roche LS 454 (0.6%) sequencing technologies, with a raw sequencing data freeze date of Nov 23, 2010. Exon capture sequencing was done in 2010 and early 2011, using either the NimbleGen SeqCap_EZ_Exome_v2 or Agilent SureSelect_All_Exon_V2 exome capture reagents, with a freeze date of May 21, 2011. After filtering, variant site discovery yields a total of 38 M SNPs, 1.4 M short indels and 14 K large deletions (longer than 50 bp). The short indels and large deletions in particular have been stringently filtered in order to achieve the project goal of not more than 5% false discovery rate. All coordinates are relative to the GRCh37 human genome reference sequence. Site discovery and genotyping for SNPs are based on both low coverage and exome capture sequence data; for short indels, only low coverage data, and for large deletions, only the 946 individuals with Illumina low coverage sequence data are used. As a final step, statistical genotype imputation using the linkage disequilibrium between nearby sites refines the individual genotypes and merges information from all three variant types. Details of data generation and processing for this data set are given in supplementary material to the 1000 Genomes Phase 1 paper: 1000 Genomes Project Consortium, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Adam Auton, Lisa D. Brooks, Mark A. DePristo, Richard M. Durbin, Robert E. Handsaker, Hyun M. Kang, Gabor T. Marth, Gil A. McVean (2012). An integrated map of genetic variation for 1,092 human genomes. Nature, v.491, n.7422, pp.56-65, Nov 1, 2012, PMID: 23128226, doi: 10.1038/nature11632. Further details and supporting data are in other subdirectories under: ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/phase1
Internet cigarette vendors make tax-free claims and sell cigarettes cheaper than retail outlets: Table 1
Creators: name: Williams, Rebecca S.
name: Hall, Marissa G.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Gammon, Doris G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This paper aims to (1) assess whether promotion of tax-free sales among Internet cigarette vendors (ICVs) changed between 2009 and 2011, (2) determine which types of ICVs are most likely to promote tax-free sales (e.g., US-based, international, or mixed location ICVs), and (3) compare the price of cigarettes advertised in ICVs to prices at brick-and-mortar retail outlets.
20 years of the Loughborough user centered assistive technology design process: has it made a difference?
Creators: name: Torrens, George Edward
name: Asghar, Salman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: An estimated 518 students were taught the Loughborough User Centered Assistive Technology design process, LUCAT, since 2000. Graduates were contacted via a professional networking website to take part in a survey with four being interviewed. The purpose of the survey was to find out if: 1) Did they still use any parts of the process; and 2) Where they had applied them. The respondents ranged from returning placement undergraduates to senior managers in research and development within major companies. From the 105 respondents 23% stated they used parts of the LUCAT process every working day, a further 25% once a week and 27% once a month. The elements of the process used were predominantly semi-structured interviews, concept generation, codesign, design presentation and feedback. Respondents highlighted the benefits of using this process including gaining insights from users, being time efficient, saving money, developing a relationship with end users and making a difference to the lives of people with disability. It was suggested some industries had still not incorporated a User Centered Design approach within New Product Development. The use of the process was shown to be useful beyond AT product design into most areas of design activity.
Motility of active fluid drops on surfaces
Creators: name: Khoromskaia, Diana
name: Alexander, Gareth P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Drops of active liquid crystal have recently shown the ability to self-propel, which was associated with topological defects in the orientation of active filaments [Sanchez {\em et al.}, Nature {\bf 491}, 431 (2013)]. Here, we study the onset and different aspects of motility of a three-dimensional drop of active fluid on a planar surface. We analyse theoretically how motility is affected by orientation profiles with defects of various types and locations, by the shape of the drop, and by surface friction at the substrate. In the scope of a thin drop approximation, we derive exact expressions for the flow in the drop that is generated by a given orientation profile. The flow has a natural decomposition into terms that depend entirely on the geometrical properties of the orientation profile, i.e. its bend and splay, and a term coupling the orientation to the shape of the drop. We find that asymmetric splay or bend generates a directed bulk flow and enables the drop to move, with maximal speeds achieved when the splay or bend is induced by a topological defect in the interior of the drop. In motile drops the direction and speed of self-propulsion is controlled by friction at the substrate.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
"Calling the Question": The Politics of Time in a Time of Polarized Politics
Creators: name: Krause, Elizabeth L.
name: Sharma, Anurag
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, we examine the role of time in shaping decision-making processes in a town meeting, a type of legislative body common in many New England towns. Town meetings are one of the oldest and most democratic institutions of local governance in the United States, and they provide a rich arena in which to investigate how large groups of people convene and make decisions together. A mixed-methods approach enabled our team of researchers to gain insight into the processes and dynamics that played out in one town meeting. We analyze the tensions between democratic values of “taking time” vs. “being efficient.” The dynamics are particularly compelling because of an absence of the typical two parties that dominate U.S. political culture. Attitudes toward time closely aligned with voting behaviors. Our study concludes that, even in the context of a culturally and economically homogenous New England town-meeting membership, orientations to temporality are contested and meaningful. Situated historically, these orientations reflect citizens’ embrace or rejection of “time-thrift” and suggest implications for participatory democracy.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Investigation of thermally induced phase separation process parameters for indirect selective laser sintering composite powder synthesis
Creators: name: Snarr, Patrick Lolachi
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Selective laser sintering
Indirect selective laser sintering
Thermally induced phase separation
Polyamide-12
Alumina

description: This thesis investigates thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) as a composite powder synthesis technique for use in indirect selective laser sintering. Three unique composite powder batches were produced where TIPS process parameters were varied to study their impact on the output composite powder. It was found that the input ceramic morphology governs the size, shape, and flowability of the output powder. Specifically, ceramic powder that has been de-agglomerated prior to TIPS will produce composite powder more suited for indirect selective laser sintering. The powder characterization also indicates that the cooling rate through the solubility point in the TIPS process is not significant in determining output composite powder characteristics. Finally, single layer scanning tests were performed to prove feasibility that composite powder produced via TIPS is suitable for indirect selective laser sintering. Future work will investigate the complete indirect selective laser sintering process utilizing composite powder produced by TIPS
Paramagnetic response of muscle-type systems
Creators: name: Caruel, Matthieu
name: Truskinovsky, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a prototypical description of mechanically-induced collective conformational change (folding), relevant in a variety of biological contexts from muscle contraction to hair cell gating and integrin binding. Our study is inspired by the seminal Huxley-Simmons (HS) model which we reinterpret from the perspective of stochastic dynamics involving rigidly coupled bi-stable elements. In this interpretation the HS model can be mapped to a paramagnetic Ising model, however, the equivalence is not complete due to the presence of elastic elements responsible for negative susceptibility and quasi-critical behavior. We go beyond the conventional chemo-mechanical description of such systems, revealing both its strengths and its limitations.
description: This article is in fact a first version of 1605.08314. Ideally these the two article should be merged. 1510.03011
MPEC 2023-T182 : 2023 TH7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TH7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Minimal intervention delivered by 2-1-1 information and referral specialists promotes smoke-free homes among 2-1-1 callers: a Texas generalisation trial
Creators: name: Fernández, Maria E.
name: Hovell, Mel
name: Mullen, Patricia Dolan
name: Savas, Lara S.
name: Haardörfer, Regine
name: Monroy, Jo Ann A.
name: Williams, Rebecca S.
name: Kreuter, Matthew W.
name: Kegler, Michelle C.
name: Bundy, Łucja T.
name: Jobe, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Replication of intervention research is reported infrequently, limiting what we know about external validity and generalisability. The Smoke Free Homes Program, a minimal intervention, increased home smoking bans by United Way 2-1-1 callers in randomised controlled trials in Atlanta, Georgia and North Carolina.
Solid electrolyte substrates for two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide growth, transistors and circuits
Creators: name: Alam, Md Hasibul
name: 0000-0002-4923-0873
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Solid-state electrolyte
Transistor
Circuit
CVD
Oxidation

description: The high surface charge carrier densities, accumulated by the electrostatic gating of two-dimensional (2D) materials with ionic liquids (ILs), have often been exploited in 2D transistors and devices. However, the intrinsic liquid nature, sensitivity to humidity, and the stress induced in frozen liquids prevent them from forming an ideal platform for electrostatic gating and surface probe techniques. This dissertation reports a lithium-ion (Li-ion) solid electrolyte substrate (or simply Li-ion glass) alternative to ILs, by demonstrating its application in high-performance transistors and circuits using 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). The back-gated n-type MoS² and p-type WSe² transistors resulted in sub-threshold values approaching the ideal limit of 60 mV/dec while maintaining a high ON/OFF ratio (> 10⁶) and a complementary inverter amplifier gain of 34 under a 1 V supply, the highest among comparable solid-state amplifiers. Microscopic studies using microwave impedance microscopy clearly show a uniform and homogeneous channel formation, indicating a smooth interface between the TMD and the underlying electrolytic substrate. This dissertation also reports the direct growth of few-layer (3-4L) single-crystal MoS² on lithium-ion solid electrolyte substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and demonstrates efficient gate control in the as-grown crystal via electrolytic gating. The gating efficiency of the transistors fabricated on the as-grown crystals, and back-gated by the solid electrolyte, are comparable to the devices with exfoliated and transferred material with an additional gain in mobility value. Field-effect mobility in the range of 42-49 cm²V⁻¹s⁻¹ with current densities as high as 120 μA/μm with 0.5 μm channel length has been achieved, as expected from devices free from material transfer-related damage and impurity. This CVD growth method can potentially be extended for other 2D TMDs to realize high-mobility transistors and study intrinsic device properties. To sum up, the dissertation demonstrates solid electrolytes as an ideal platform for 2D TMD synthesis, advanced thin-film transistors, and circuits, otherwise difficult to achieve with liquid electrolytes. The results, therefore, further establish solid electrolytes as a promising alternative to ILs for surface science experiments and advanced thin-film devices. Finally, based on the work presented in this dissertation, some future research directions have been proposed
Predicting Community Evolution in Social Networks
Creators: name: Saganowski, Stanisław
name: Gliwa, Bogdan
name: Bródka, Piotr
name: Zygmunt, Anna
name: Kazienko, Przemysław
name: Koźlak, Jarosław
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nowadays, sustained development of different social media can be observed worldwide. One of the relevant research domains intensively explored recently is analysis of social communities existing in social media as well as prediction of their future evolution taking into account collected historical evolution chains. These evolution chains proposed in the paper contain group states in the previous time frames and its historical transitions that were identified using one out of two methods: Stable Group Changes Identification (SGCI) and Group Evolution Discovery (GED). Based on the observed evolution chains of various length, structural network features are extracted, validated and selected as well as used to learn classification models. The experimental studies were performed on three real datasets with different profile: DBLP, Facebook and Polish blogosphere. The process of group prediction was analysed with respect to different classifiers as well as various descriptive feature sets extracted from evolution chains of different length. The results revealed that, in general, the longer evolution chains the better predictive abilities of the classification models. However, chains of length 3 to 7 enabled the GED-based method to almost reach its maximum possible prediction quality. For SGCI, this value was at the level of 3 to 5 last periods.
description: Entropy 2015, 17, 1-x manuscripts; doi:10.3390/e170x000x 46 pages
Pictorial cigarette pack warnings: a meta-analysis of experimental studies
Creators: name: Pepper, Jessica K.
name: Ribis, Kurt M.
name: Hall, Marissa G.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Francis, Diane B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To inform international research and policy, we conducted a meta-analysis of the experimental literature on pictorial cigarette pack warnings.
Dalechampia hassleriana Chodat.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae
Dalechampia
Dalechampia hassleriana

description: Dalechampia hassleriana Chodat.
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
 Source: Webster & Armbruster 1991, Govaerts et al. 2000, WCSP 2018.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
1000 Plant (1KP) Transcriptomes
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2013

description: 1KP is an international multidisciplinary consortium acquiring large-scale gene sequences for the Viridiplantae (green plants), incorporating at some phylogenetic/taxonomic level nearly all known species from angiosperms to algae. All data and analysis will be made available through the iPlant portal (http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/) as well as the GigaScience database (http://gigadb.org/).
Nuove e vecchie periferie popolari. Una ricerca etnografica in due aree di edilizia residenziale pubblica
Creators: name: Bruscaglioni, Livia
name: Cellini, Erika
name: Saracino, Barbara
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Public housing suburbs are often an important element in reshaping the social and spatial geography of the city. This article is based on the study of two areas of public housing in Livorno: an historical and a more recent one. In Livorno social housing has led the urban development and the concentration of homogeneous groups of inhabitants. We report some results of an ethnographic research reconstructing how the spatial separation interacts with social relations of inhabitants of physically and socially peripheral areas. This kind of so called weak suburbs, despite possible trajectories of change, present complex patterns of problems. Attention has also been paid to the way concepts of neighborhood, suburb and community are merged in different combinations in the two areas, highlighting the «neighborhood effect», segregation, and encapsulation forms.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Fractal percolation, porosity, and dimension
Creators: name: Chen, Changhao
name: Ojala, Tuomo
name: Rossi, Eino
name: Suomala, Ville
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 28A80, 60D05

description: We study the porosity properties of fractal percolation sets $E\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. Among other things, for all $0
description: 29 pages, 8 figures
Fast Gravitational Wave Radiometry using Data Folding
Creators: name: Ain, Anirban
name: Dalvi, Prathamesh
name: Mitra, Sanjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational Waves (GWs) from the early universe and unresolved astrophysical sources are expected to create a stochastic GW background (SGWB). The GW radiometer algorithm is well suited to probe such a background using data from ground based laser interferometric detectors. Radiometer analysis can be performed in different bases, e.g., isotropic, pixel or spherical harmonic. Each of these analyses possesses a common temporal symmetry which we exploit here to fold the whole dataset for every detector pair, typically a few hundred to a thousand days of data, to only one sidereal day, without any compromise in precision. We develop the algebra and a software pipeline needed to fold data, accounting for the effect of overlapping windows and non-stationary noise. We implement this on LIGO's fifth science run data and validate it by performing a standard anisotropic SGWB search on both folded and unfolded data. Folded data not only leads to orders of magnitude reduction in computation cost, but it results in a conveniently small data volume of few gigabytes, making it possible to perform an actual analysis on a personal computer, as well as easy movement of data. A few important analyses, yet unaccomplished due to computational limitations, will now become feasible. Folded data, being independent of the radiometer basis, will also be useful in reducing processing redundancies in multiple searches and provide a common ground for mutual consistency checks. Most importantly, folded data will allow vast amount of experimentation with existing searches and provide substantial help in developing new strategies to find unknown sources.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
"A Marseille il n'y a pas de banlieues". Un nuovo centro tra nord e sud
Creators: name: Buslacchi, Maria Elena
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This article aims to explore the complexity of suburbs transformation in cities which tend to be more and more integrated and multi-polar, by exploring the case-study of Marseille, European Capital of Culture in 2013, a city which is living a deep process of change that will radically modify its structure. Euroméditerranée, a project that since twenty years ago has been renovating the second city in France, is changing the relationships between centre and suburbs and putting at issue all existing balance. This process is not painless and impose an analysis of concepts that are commonly used in public discourse, even if they are often differently meant by several actors in the running, as banlieue, Quartiers Nord, Cité. This paper is the result of an ethnographic qualitative research and quotes expressions and definitions collected during interviews.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Desire for Diversity and Difference in Gentrified Brooklyn. Dialogue between a Planner and a Sociologist
Creators: name: Annunziata, Sandra
name: Manzo, Lidia K.C.
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This paper combines two ethnographic experiences conducted in two Brooklyn neighborhoods, with the aim to understand the gentrification process: its plural and multidimensional character and the contextual variables. However, coming from different paradigms they are less interested in doing a comparison of their case studies than presenting how different perspectives see and problematize gentrification and urban change in the face of diversity. In this light, the paper discusses the authors’ first-hand experiences and results from the field research as in a sort of dialogue with the academic reader. Reflection on how do they see and problematize gentrification and diversity, the social effects of displacement and the role of planning conclude the paper.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Price-related promotions for tobacco products on Twitter
Creators: name: Kim, Yoonsang
name: Jo, Catherine L.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Emery, Sherry
name: Kornfield, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This cross-sectional study examined price-related promotions for tobacco products on Twitter.
title: Blurring the Lines Between the Digital and Physical: Designing a User-Interface to Create the 21st Century Town Square
Creators: name: Humphrey, David
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information technology
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002293
subject: Internet (social aspects)
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127185
subject: Online social networks
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006006990
subject: Human-computer interaction
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003229
subject: Storytelling
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128407

description: Metaphors are instrumental to facilitate learning, and to the formation and maintenance of new ideas and concepts, especially in design thinking. This paper discusses the relationship of a specific metaphor in the design process, as well as in design outcomes of the collaborative project titled SQWhere. The thesis explores how a town square metaphor functioned as a creative thinking methodology and research tool throughout the design process. This metaphor provided novel ways of looking at the complex phenomena of digital social networks and human agency. Ultimately, this provides a detailed example of how a metaphorical approach to exploring a concept can guide a user-centered design process in Interaction Design. SQWhere, a mobile storytelling application for the urban pedestrian will connect people in real time and real space in environments. The SQWhere application for mobile phones will enable social interactions and information exchange through location-based storytelling— utilizing video, audio, images, and text. SQWhere will make connections happen at the grassroots level creating an environment of peer-to-peer knowledge exchange— storytelling.
Minimal sufficient positive-operator valued measure on a separable Hilbert space
Creators: name: Kuramochi, Yui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a concept of a minimal sufficient positive-operator valued measure (POVM), which is the least redundant POVM among the POVMs that have the equivalent information about the measured quantum system. Assuming the system Hilbert space to be separable, we show that for a given POVM a sufficient statistic called a Lehmann-Scheffé-Bahadur statistic induces a minimal sufficient POVM. We also show that every POVM has an equivalent minimal sufficient POVM and that such a minimal sufficient POVM is unique up to relabeling neglecting null sets. We apply these results to discrete POVMs and information conservation conditions proposed by the author.
description: 25 pages. The main result is improved, and a new appendix is added
Alla ricerca della socialità perduta? Prove generali di cohousing in Toscana
Creators: name: Bianchi, Francesca
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The subject of this essay deals with experiences of communitarian life and in particular on co-housing, a form of co-residence aiming to turn urban spaces into new social neighbourhood places. Co-housing represents a midway between life in apartment and life in a “wilful community” where it is possible to share deeply a common way of life: people live separately in their apartments but share some common spaces. This article essentially try answer to the question if co-housing can be a privileged place where it is possible for people to experience a lifestyle characterised by an active participation and sociability. In order to examine this phenomenon, the author interviewed some members of a main Italian Associations at regional level, that is Cohousing in Toscana. Although at present the results of the case study show that the Tuscan Association has not realised any co-housing settlements yet, however it’s carrying out a specific planning both in urban and country contexts: this paper refers specifically to this phase.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Standardized Tobacco Assessment for Retail Settings (STARS): dissemination and implementation research
Creators: name: Henriksen, Lisa
name: Esquivel, Nikie Sarris
name: Crew, Erin
name: Loomis, Brett
name: Combs, Todd
name: Moreland-Russel, Sarah
name: Rogers, Todd
name: Barker, Dianne M.
name: Ribis, Kurt M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Standardized Tobacco Assessment for Retail Settings (STARS) was designed to characterise the availability, placement, promotion and price of tobacco products, with items chosen for relevance to regulating the retail tobacco environment. This study describes the process to develop the STARS instrument and protocol employed by a collaboration of US government agencies, US state tobacco control programmes (TCPs), advocacy organisations, public health attorneys and researchers from the National Cancer Institute's State and Community Tobacco Control (SCTC) Research Initiative.
Relating Lepton Mixing Angles with Lepton Mass Hierarchy
Creators: name: Borah, Debasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the possibility of relating lepton mixing angles with lepton mass hierarchies in a model-independent way. Guided by the existence of such relations in the quark sector, we first consider all the mixing angles, both in charged lepton and neutrino sectors to be related to the respective mass ratios. This allows us to calculate the leptonic mixing angles observed in neutrino oscillations as functions of the lightest neutrino mass. We show that for both normal and inverted hierarchical neutrino masses, this scenario does not give rise to correct leptonic mixing angles. We then show that correct leptonic mixing angles can be generated with normal hierarchical neutrino masses if the relation between mixing angle and mass ratio is restricted to 1-2 and 1-3 mixing in both charged lepton and neutrino sectors leaving the 2-3 mixing angles as free parameters. We then restrict the lightest neutrino mass as well as the difference between 2-3 mixing angles in charged lepton and neutrino sectors from the requirement of producing correct leptonic mixing angles. We constrain the lightest neutrino mass to be around $0.002$ eV and leptonic Dirac CP phase $δ_{CP}$ such that $\sin^2{δ_{CP}}\sim(0.35-0.50)$. We also construct the leptonic mass matrices in terms of $2-3$ mixing angles and lightest neutrino mass and briefly comment on the possibility of realizing texture zeros in the neutrino mass matrix.
description: v2: 18 pages, 4 figures, to appear in IJMPA
title: Η επίδραση της πανδημίας Covid-19 στην συμπεριφορά των καταναλωτών του Νομού Αχαΐας
title: The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the behavior of consumers of Achaia Prefecture
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μπούμπουλας, Αθανάσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID 19- Πανδημία, 2020 -- Κοινωνικές απόψεις
subject: COVID 19- Πανδημία, 2020 -- Οικονομικές απόψεις
subject: Καταναλωτική συμπεριφορά
subject: Κορωνοϊός
subject: Πανδημία
subject: Ποσοτική έρευνα
subject: Consumers’ behavior
subject: Coronavirus
subject: Pandemic
subject: Quantitative survey

description: Μ.Δ.Ε. 08
description: Η πανδημία του κορωνοϊού (Covid-19) έχει αναγκάσει τις κυβερνήσεις όλων σχεδόν των κρατών να λάβουν αυστηρά μέτρα, προκειμένου να περιορίσουν την διάδοσή της στους πολίτες. Η απαγόρευση ελεύθερης μετακίνησης, η τηλεκπαίδευση και η τηλεργασία είναι ανάμεσα στα πιο σημαντικά μέτρα που έχουν προκαλέσει αλλαγές στην καθημερινότητα των πολιτών και στην λειτουργία των καταστημάτων. Αυτή η πρωτόγνωρη, για τα σύγχρονα ανθρώπινα δεδομένα, κατάσταση έχει επιφέρει ισχυρό πλήγμα τόσο στην ψυχική υγεία των πολιτών όσο και στην παγκόσμια οικονομία. Η παρούσα διατριβή επιχειρεί να διερευνήσει την επίδραση της πανδημίας του κορωνοϊού στην συμπεριφορά των καταναλωτών. Για τον σκοπό αυτό σχεδιάστηκε και πραγματοποιήθηκε ποσοτική έρευνα με την διανομή ενός κατάλληλα διαμορφωμένου ηλεκτρονικού ερωτηματολογίου στον Νομό Αχαΐας. Η έρευνα έλαβε Χώρα εν μέσω του τέταρτου κύματος της πανδημίας και συγκεκριμένα από τις 15 Νοεμβρίου 2021 έως και τις 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2021. Το τελικό δείγμα αποτέλεσαν 126 καταναλωτές. Από την συγκριμένη έρευνα προκύπτει ότι η πανδημία έχει επιφέρει κάποιες μειώσεις εσόδων. Επιπλέον, έχει μεταβάλλει τις δαπάνες για προϊόντα και υπηρεσίες σε σχέση με το παρελθόν. Στην νέα κανονικότητα που διαμορφώνουν τα περιοριστικά μέτρα, η υγιεινή και ασφάλεια και η ποιότητα θεωρούνται κύρια κριτήρια επιλογής προϊόντων. Αλλαγές βασικών καταστημάτων αγοράς προϊόντων αναφέρονται, δίχως η επιστροφή στα παλιά καταστήματα να είναι σίγουρη, μετά το πέρας της πανδημίας. Κύριες αιτίες αυτών των αλλαγών είναι η μικρότερη ουρά αναμονής κατά την είσοδο, η δυνατότητα γρήγορων αλλαγών και η ασφάλεια από άποψης υγιεινής που παρέχει το καινούργιο κατάστημα. Υψηλά ποσοστά προτίμησης συγκεντρώνουν οι διαδικτυακές αγορές και τα εγχώρια προϊόντα. Τέλος, η ανησυχία, η ανασφάλεια και ο θυμός που έχει προκαλέσει η εξάπλωση της πανδημίας στην Χώρα φαίνεται ότι έχουν επηρεάσει τις στάσεις και συνήθειες των καταναλωτών.
Tobacco retail policy landscape: a longitudinal survey of US states
Creators: name: Luke, Douglas A.
name: Ribis, Kurt M.
name: Combs, Todd
name: Moreland-Russell, Sarah
name: Henriksen, Lisa
name: Sorg, Amy A.
name: Robichaux, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: There are ∼380 000 tobacco retailers in the USA, where the largest tobacco companies spend almost $9 billion a year to promote their products. No systematic survey has been conducted of state-level activities to regulate the retail environment, thus little is known about what policies are being planned, proposed or implemented.
Arachis lignosa Krapov. & W. C. Greg.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Arachis
Arachis lignosa

description: Arachis lignosa (Chodat & Hassl.) Krapov. & W.C.Greg.
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
Source: Valls 2015.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946