cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: IRPact: Agent-based Modelling of Sustainable Product Diffusion
title: Integrated Resource Planning & Interaction: Agent-based Modelling of Sustainable Product Diffusion
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Johanning
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: agent-based modeling
innovation diffusion
computational social science
photovoltaic diffusion
modeling framework

description: The poster gives an overview of the innovation diffusion agent-based framework IRPact (Integrated Resource Planning & Interaction) with references to key publications (up to February 2023) involving the framework or derived models.
It is structured in five parts: i) the motivation & context, ii) the framework, iii) the PVact municipal rooftop PV diffusion model and a case study on the city of Leipzig, iV) the calibration & validation of derived, v) future work & ideas for calibration.
The research was funded by SPARCS Project. The SPARCS Project has received funding from the Euro pean Union′s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 864242 and the poster was printed at the University Computing Centre of Leipzig University
Invasive Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Respiratory Virus Co-infections
Creators: name: Klugman, Keith P.
name: Haber, Michael
name: Farley, Monica M.
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Ray, Susan
name: Panozzo, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Each year, especially in the winter, many get sick and some die of invasive pneumococcal pneumonia. Does this type of pneumonia increase in the winter because people are in closer contact indoors? Or are people more susceptible to this bacterial disease after having had a seasonal respiratory virus infection? A season-by-season analysis found an association between pneumococcal pneumonia and two viruses (influenza and respiratory syncytial virus). The association varied by season and was strongest when the predominant influenza virus subtype was H3N2. Vaccination against influenza and RSV should also help protect against pneumococcal pneumonia.To confirm whether respiratory virus infections increase susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal pneumonia, we examined data from 11 influenza seasons (1994–2005) in the United States. Invasive pneumococcal pneumonia was significantly associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus activities in 5 seasons. Association strength was higher when strain H3N2 was the predominant influenza A virus strain.
Animating Fashion Design Concepts
Creators: name: McKelvey, Kathryn
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Unsuspected Dengue Causes Acute Febrile Illness in Rural and Semi-Urban Southern Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Østbye, Truls
name: Strouse, John J.
name: Devasiri, Vasantha
name: Reller, Megan E.
name: Woods, Christopher W.
name: Kodikara-Arachichi, Wasantha
name: de Silva, Aravinda
name: Bodinayake, Champika
name: Broadwater, Anne
name: Nagahawatte, Ajith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Acute dengue may be under-recognized in other regions because of limited studies and tools for rapid diagnosis.Dengue virus (DENV), a globally emerging cause of undifferentiated fever, has been documented in the heavily urbanized western coast of Sri Lanka since the 1960s. New areas of Sri Lanka are now being affected, and the reported number and severity of cases have increased. To study emerging DENV in southern Sri Lanka, we obtained epidemiologic and clinical data and acute- and convalescent-phase serum samples from patients >2 years old with febrile illness. We tested paired serum samples for DENV IgG and IgM and serotyped virus by using isolation and reverse transcription PCR. We identified acute DENV infection (serotypes 2, 3, and 4) in 54 (6.3%) of 859 patients. Only 14% of patients had clinically suspected dengue; however, 54% had serologically confirmed acute or past DENV infection. DENV is a major and largely unrecognized cause of fever in southern Sri Lanka, especially in young adults.
Africasia ruksa Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Africasia
Africasia ruksa

description: Africasia ruksa Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Kerala—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Mountain streams.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Quenched dynamics of the momentum distribution of the unitary Bose gas
Creators: name: Ancilotto, Francesco
name: Rossi, Maurizio
name: Salasnich, Luca
name: Toigo, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quenched dynamics of the momentum distribution of a unitary Bose gas under isotropic harmonic confinement within a time-dependent density functional approach based on our recently calculated Monte Carlo (MC) bulk equation of state. In our calculations the inter-atomic s-wave scattering length of the trapped bosons is suddenly increased to a very large value and the real-time evolution of the system is studied. Prompted by the very recent experimental data of $^{85}$Rb atoms at unitarity [Nature Phys. 10, 116 (2014)] we focus on the momentum distribution as a function of time. Our results suggest that at low momenta, a quasi-stationary momentum distribution is reached after a long transient, contrary to what found experimentally for large momenta which equilibrate on a time scale shorter than the one for three body losses.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to a Special Issue of Few-Body Systems "Systems on the verge of the stability"
Med-CORDEX Baseline Runs: ERA5-driven evaluation runs
Creators: name: Somot, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: RCM CORDEX Med-CORDEX run simulation ERA5 evaluation hindcast

description: List of the ERA5-driven simulations for the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline Runs.
 These runs correspond to the Phase 3 of Med-CORDEX
 Note that contrary to most of the CORDEX RCMs, the Med-CORDEX models are full-coupled ocean-atmosphere RCMs.
 Some models also includes river coupling, ocean biogeochemistry or interactive aerosols.
Workshop Knowledge Hub Process Flow 2023
Creators: name: Nele Schouteden
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The FRDN-Knowledge Hub's goal is to clarify the Data Management Plan (DMP) process, making it easier for everyone involved to understand. So that is the goal of this workshop of the Knowledge hub, as this knowledge empowers better decision-making and enables more effective contributions in the field. The full context/framework can be found within the additional blog that you can find here: Workshop Enter the DMP process - FRDN
title: Natural immunity to influenza virus in humans following 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza
Creators: name: Mahallawi, Waleed
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Influenza is a highly contagious and acute respiratory infection caused by influenza virus in the mucosa of the respiratory tract. Both seasonal and pandemic influenza continue to cause substantial morbidity and mortality in humans. The 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza and the potential of a highly pathogenic avian H5N1 (aH5N1) pandemic highlighted the need for effective preventative strategies. Understanding the development of natural immunity following the pH1N1 pandemic may provide important information on host protective immunity in humans, which could inform future more effective vaccination strategies against influenza. In this thesis, naturally developed mucosal immunity to 2009 pH1N1 virus was studied in children and adults using cells derived from human nasal-associated lymphoid tissue (NALT). Firstly, the frequency of HA-specific memory B cells in human NALT to pH1N1 virus and their ability to produce cross-reactive antibodies were studied. Patients who had serological evidence of previous exposure to pH1N1 virus developed large numbers of IgG memory B cells in NALT that produce crossreactive neutralizing antibodies against a number of influenza subtypes upon pH1N1 virus antigen stimulation. The presence of such memory B cells in human NALT appears to have primed the host for cross-reactive mucosal memory response against other H1N1 and the highly pathogenic aH5N1 virus strains. These findings may have important implications in future vaccination strategies against influenza. Secondly, serum specific anti-pH1N1 HA IgG antibodies were analysed using ELISA. HA-specific antibody levels to pH1N1 in adults were significantly higher than that of children. The results may suggest that adults had been exposed to more cross-reactive influenza viruses than children, and developed more cross-reactive memory responses against some influenza viruses than in children. Significantly higher HA-specific IgG antibody titres to pH1N1 HA (measured using ELISA) were found in subjects who had HAI titres≥40 than in those with HAI antibody titre
The Hippocampus on Blast-related Traumatic Brain Injury at Single-cell Resolution（Sham Group）
Creators: name: Liang, Weibo
name: Chen, Xiameng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: Group: Sham group The file contains the sham expression matrices, UMI counts for each gene and in each cell in mice hippocampus as matrix.mtx.gz, features.tsv.gz and barcodes.tsv.gz in a matrix format.
Assessing the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based Approach: Empirical Evidence from Australia
Creators: name: Tarca, Silvio
name: Rutkowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The Basel II internal ratings-based (IRB) approach to capital adequacy for credit risk implements an asymptotic single risk factor (ASRF) model. Measurements from the ASRF model of the prevailing state of Australia's economy and the level of capitalisation of its banking sector find general agreement with macroeconomic indicators, financial statistics and external credit ratings. However, given the range of economic conditions, from mild contraction to moderate expansion, experienced in Australia since the implementation of Basel II, we cannot attest to the validity of the model specification of the IRB approach for its intended purpose of solvency assessment. With the implementation of Basel II preceding the time when the effect of the financial crisis of 2007-09 was most acutely felt, our empirical findings offer a fundamental assessment of the impact of the crisis on the Australian banking sector. Access to internal bank data collected by the prudential regulator distinguishes our research from other empirical studies on the IRB approach and recent crisis.
description: Addressed critiques of the Basel II IRB approach in the literature and updated figures, as well as general editing to tighten the prose
The Hippocampus on Blast-related Traumatic Brain Injury at Single-cell Resolution（bTBI Group）
Creators: name: Liang, Weibo
name: Chen, Xiameng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: Group: bTBI group The file contains the bTBI expression matrices, UMI counts for each gene and in each cell in mice hippocampus as matrix.mtx.gz, features.tsv.gz and barcodes.tsv.gz in a matrix format.
Definition and Applications of "Narrative Bibliometrics"
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
name: Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: COARA
Evaluative Bibliometrics
Narrative Bibliometrics

description: The paper explores the concept of Narrative Bibliometrics as a novel approach in academic evaluation. It presents a bridge between traditional metrics and the storytelling aspects of a researcher's contributions, offering more nuanced and contextualized evaluations. The paper identifies four types of narratives—Position, Context, Agents, and Audience—that provide practical applications of bibliometric indicators beyond mere "bean counting." It asserts that Narrative Bibliometrics aligns with Evaluative Bibliometrics and advocates for its systematic incorporation into narrative Curriculum Vitae (CV). The article not only adds transparency to academic evaluations but also suggests a methodology for the practical application of this concept.
Concentrations of inertial particles in the turbulent wake of an immobile sphere
Creators: name: Homann, Holger
name: Bec, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct numerical simulations are used to study the interaction of a stream of small heavy inertial particles with the laminar and turbulent wakes of an immobile sphere facing an incompressible uniform inflow. Particles that do not collide with the obstacle but move past it, are found to form preferential concentrations both in the sphere boundary layer and in its wake. In the laminar case, the upstream diverging flow pattern is responsible for particle clustering on a cylinder that extends far downstream the sphere. The interior of this surface contains no particles and can be seen as a shadow of the large obstacle. Such concentration profiles are also present in the case of turbulent wakes but show a finite extension. The sphere shadow is followed by a region around the axis of symmetry where the concentration is higher than the average. It originates from a resonant centrifugal expulsion of particles from shed vortices. The consequence of this concentration mechanism on monodisperse inter-particle collisions is also briefly discussed. They are enhanced by both the increased concentration and the presence of large velocity differences between particles in the wake.
Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection after Fractionated CO 2 Laser Resurfacing
Creators: name: Culton, Donna A.
name: MacKuen, Courteney
name: Cox, Gary M.
name: Miller, Becky A.
name: White, Becky
name: Lachiewicz, Anne M.
name: Miller, Melissa B.
name: Groben, Pamela
name: Stout, Jason E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Nontuberculous mycobacteria are increasingly associated with cutaneous infections after cosmetic procedures. Fractionated CO2 resurfacing, a widely used technique for photorejuvenation, has been associated with a more favorable side effect profile than alternative procedures. We describe 2 cases of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection after treatment with a fractionated CO2 laser at a private clinic. Densely distributed erythematous papules and pustules developed within the treated area within 2 weeks of the laser procedure. Diagnosis was confirmed by histologic analysis and culture. Both infections responded to a 4-month course of a multidrug regimen. An environmental investigation of the clinic was performed, but no source of infection was found. The case isolates differed from each other and from isolates obtained from the clinic, suggesting that the infection was acquired by postprocedure exposure. Papules and pustules after fractionated CO2 resurfacing should raise the suspicion of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection.
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) abnormis Tomar & Raychaudhuri 1983
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus abnormis

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) abnormis Tomar & Raychaudhuri, 1983
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Tomar & Raychaudhuri (1983b); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Med-CORDEX Baseline Runs: ERA5-driven evaluation runs
Creators: name: Somot, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: RCM CORDEX Med-CORDEX run simulation ERA5 evaluation hindcast

description: List of the ERA5-driven simulations for the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline Runs.
 These runs correspond to the Phase 3 of Med-CORDEX
 Note that contrary to most of the CORDEX RCMs, the Med-CORDEX models are full-coupled ocean-atmosphere RCMs.
 Some models also includes river coupling, ocean biogeochemistry or interactive aerosols.
Med-CORDEX Baseline Runs: CMIP6-driven historical and scenario runs
Creators: name: Somot, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: RCM
CORDEX
Med-CORDEX
run
simulation
CMIP6
historical
scenario
SSP3-7.0
SSP1-2.6
SSP2-4.5
SSP5-8.5

description: List of the CMIP6-driven simulations for the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline Runs.
 These runs correspond to the Phase 3 of Med-CORDEX
 Note that contrary to most of the CORDEX RCMs, the Med-CORDEX models are full-coupled ocean-atmosphere RCMs.
 Some models also includes river coupling, ocean biogeochemistry or interactive aerosols.
Med-CORDEX Baseline Runs: CMIP6-driven historical and scenario runs
Creators: name: Somot, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: RCM
CORDEX
Med-CORDEX
run
simulation
CMIP6
historical
scenario
SSP3-7.0
SSP1-2.6
SSP2-4.5
SSP5-8.5

description: List of the CMIP6-driven simulations for the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline Runs.
 These runs correspond to the Phase 3 of Med-CORDEX
 Note that contrary to most of the CORDEX RCMs, the Med-CORDEX models are full-coupled ocean-atmosphere RCMs.
 Some models also includes river coupling, ocean biogeochemistry or interactive aerosols.
Small noise may diversify collective motion in Vicsek model
Creators: name: Chen, Ge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Natural systems are inextricably affected by noise. Within recent decades, the manner in which noise affects the collective behavior of self-organized systems, specifically, has garnered considerable interest from researchers and developers in various fields. To describe the collective motion of multiple interacting particles, Vicsek et al. proposed a well-known self-propelled particle (SPP) system, which exhibits a second-order phase transition from disordered to ordered motion in simulation; due to its non-equilibrium, randomness, and strong coupling nonlinear dynamics, however, there has been no rigorous analysis of such a system to date. To decouple systems consisting of deterministic laws and randomness, we propose a general method which transfers the analysis of these systems to the design of cooperative control algorithms. In this study, we rigorously analyzed the original Vicsek model under both open and periodic boundary conditions for the first time, and developed extensions to heterogeneous SPP systems (including leaderfollower models) using the proposed method. Theoretical results show that SPP systems switch an infinite number of times between ordered and disordered states for any noise intensity and population density, which implies that the phase transition indeed takes a nontraditional form. We also investigated the robust consensus and connectivity of these systems. Moreover, the findings presented in this paper suggest that our method can be used to predict possible configurations during the evolution of complex systems, including turn, vortex, bifurcation and flock merger phenomena as they appear in SPP systems.
title: The molecular and clinical implications of human papillomavirus-16 mediated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Schache, Andrew G
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: The last three decades have seen a fundamental change in the profile of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) within the developed world. The incidence of OPSCC attributable to tobacco and alcohol exposure has been gradually declining whilst Human papillomavirus (HPV)-related OPSCC has seen a rapid increase. Detection of High Risk HPV has profound prognostic significance as it correlates with both a disease-specific and an overall survival advantage. The stringency of testing, both in terms of diagnostic and prognostic capacity is therefore of increasing importance. This study sought to define the relative abilities of the diagnostic tests presently available in clinical practice and to explore the potential of a novel test in reaching the improved stringency called for by the clinical community. Diagnostic biomarkers with prognostic capacity, such as those utilised in defining HPV status in this research have been well described, however, despite HPV positive OPSCC being biologically distinct from HPV negative malignancy, predictive biomarkers defining the transition from persistent to transforming infection are yet to be forthcoming. A lack of an apparent premalignant state, akin to that seen in HPV-mediated cervical malignancy has restricted biomarker recognition. This research aimed to better define the epigenetic state and clarify the impact of viral integration for the virus and host in HPV positive OPSCC. Although detectable epigenetic alterations, within the genome of the virus and that of the host, were capable of providing an improved description of this burgeoning disease state, they fell short of providing clinically relevant biomarkers. It was however demonstrated that the previously held concept of preferential E2 cleavage during viral integration as a means to disrupt gene expression, is overstated and the model persists to the exclusion of other viral and host genome disruptions. A paradigm shift may be necessary in HPV positive OPSCC to an understanding of obligatory viral integration, the significance of which however, is yet to be fully elucidated.
title: Psychologists’ attitudes and clinical communication towards lesbians and gay men
Creators: name: Montenegro, Jose Miguel Pinto de Mendonca
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Research suggests that people may hold positive explicit attitudes whilst holding negative implicit attitudes towards Lesbian and Gay (LG) people. While this seems evident amongst the general population, a previous systematic review (e.g. Boysen, 2009) only identified one study investigating explicit and implicit attitudes towards LG identities amongst counsellors. There are no similar systematic reviews using samples of psychologists, so this review aims to bridge that gap by conducting an analysis on studies completed between January 1990 and May 2013. In this review were included studies that: a) investigated attitudes of psychologists or psychologists-in-training towards LG people; b) included original data and findings; c) included comparison groups; and d) had been carried out in countries where homosexuality is not criminalised and where there is anti-homophobia legislation currently in place. Of the initial 933 studies identified, 18 met the main inclusion criteria. Designs were diverse and used a range of attitude measures. Only one study investigated implicit attitudes. Despite the diverse range of designs and measures it appears that positive attitudes to LG people may be conditional upon several factors, including gender, religiosity, socialisation, training, and level of education of psychologists. Training courses can potentially address such needs, but these need to be designed specifically to address LG topics, since general training on diversity topics may not promote positive implicit attitudes to LG people.
Entity Linking für Softwarearchitektur Dokumentation
Creators: name: Klaus, Philipp Domenik
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: Softwarearchitekturdokumentationen enthalten Fachbegriffe aus der Domäne der Softwareentwicklung. Wenn man diese Begriffe findet und zu den passenden Begriffen einer Datenbank verknüpft, können Menschen und Textverarbeitungssysteme diese Informationen verwenden, um die Dokumentation besser zu verstehen. Die Fachbegriffe in Dokumentationen entsprechen dabei Entitätserwähnungen im Text. In dieser Ausarbeitung stellen wir unser domänenspezifisches Entity-Linking-System vor. Das System verknüpft Entitätserwähnungen innerhalb von Softwarearchitekturdokumentationen zu den zugehörigen Entitäten innerhalb einer Wissensbasis. Der von uns entwickelte Ansatz ist modular aufgebaut. Das System enthält eine domänenspezifische Wissensbasis, ein Modul zur Vorverarbeitung und ein Entity-Linking-System. Die domänenspezifische Wissensbasis haben wir im Rahmen dieser Ausarbeitung selbst erstellt. Die Wissensbasis enthält Entitäten aus der Domäne der Softwareentwicklung. Die Vorverarbeitung untergliedert sich in die Named-Entity-Recognition zum Finden von Entitätserwähnungen und eine Abkürzungsverarbeitung zur Auflösung selbstdefinierter Abkürzungen. Das Entity-Linking-System untergliedert sich in weitere Module und verbindet identifizierte Entitätserwähnungen zu den passenden Entitäten unserer Wissensbasis. Für die Evaluation unseres Systems werden Architekturdokumentationen verwendet. Wir haben für eine Auswahl von vier Fallstudien zugehörige Gold-Standards erstellt. Mit Hilfe der Gold-Standards haben wir das gesamte Entity-Linking-System mit den Metriken Präzision, Ausbeute und F1-Wert evaluiert. Unser Ansatz erreicht einen durchschnittlich gewichteten F1-Wert von 0,7271.
Genetic Evidence of Importation of Drug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum to Guatemala from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Luis Demetrio
name: Lindblade, Kim
name: Patel, Jaymin C.
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Taylor, Steve M.
name: Parobek, Christian M.
name: Janko, Mark
name: Tshefu, Antoinette K.
name: Padilla, Norma
name: Juliao, Patricia C.
name: Emch, Michael
name: Ortiz, Lucia
name: Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Molecular markers and population genetics were effective tracking tools.Imported malaria threatens control and elimination efforts in countries that have low rates of transmission. In 2010, an outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria was reported among United Nations peacekeeping soldiers from Guatemala who had recently returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Epidemiologic evidence suggested that the soldiers were infected in the DRC, but local transmission could not be ruled out in all cases. We used population genetic analyses of neutral microsatellites to determine the outbreak source. Genetic relatedness was compared among parasites found in samples from the soldiers and parasite populations collected in the DRC and Guatemala; parasites identified in the soldiers were more closely related to those from the DRC. A phylogenetic clustering analysis confirms this identification with >99.9% confidence. Thus, results support the hypothesis that the soldiers likely imported malaria from the DRC. This study demonstrates the utility of molecular genotyping in outbreak investigations.
title: The computational complexity of approximation of partition functions
Creators: name: McQuillan, Colin
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: This thesis studies the computational complexity of approximately evaluating partition functions. For various classes of partition functions, we investigate whether there is an FPRAS: a fully polynomial randomised approximation scheme. In many of these settings we also study “expressibility”, a simple notion of defining a constraint by combining other constraints, and we show that the results cannot be extended by expressibility reductions alone. The main contributions are: -� We show that there is no FPRAS for evaluating the partition function of the hard-core gas model on planar graphs at fugacity 312, unless RP = NP. -� We generalise an argument of Jerrum and Sinclair to give FPRASes for a large class of degree-two Boolean #CSPs. -� We initiate the classification of degree-two Boolean #CSPs where the constraint language consists of a single arity 3 relation. -� We show that the complexity of approximately counting downsets in directed acyclic graphs is not affected by restricting to graphs of maximum degree three. -� We classify the complexity of degree-two #CSPs with Boolean relations and weights on variables. -� We classify the complexity of the problem #CSP(F) for arbitrary finite domains when enough non-negative-valued arity 1 functions are in the constraint language. -� We show that not all log-supermodular functions can be expressed by binary logsupermodular functions in the context of #CSPs.
title: Adolescents in the youth justice system and future goal pursuit
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Edel
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Goal pursuit is a central element to the developmental stage of adolescence. However, little is known about how adolescents within the Youth Justice System think about their personal future. This present study explores how 14 adolescents in a Youth Offending Service think about their goal aspirations and personal future. Grounded Theory was used to focus upon individual and situational factors that contributed to the process. A theoretical framework was developed which outlined that engaging in thinking about one’s personal future and developing goal aspirations is influenced by appraisal of past and present life events. Central to the development of the theoretical framework was the recognition that participants employed a range of self protecting strategies to avoid against uncertainty and threat of future disappointment. Findings of the study are discussed and clinical implications, methodological considerations and possible areas for further research are presented.
Main channel width effects on overtopping-induced non-cohesive fluvial dike breaching
Creators: name: Schmitz, Vincent
name: Rifai, Ismail
name: Kheloui, Lydia
name: Erpicum, Sebastien
name: Archambeau, Pierre
name: Violeau, Damien
name: Pirotton, Michel
name: Abderrezzak, Kamal El Kadi
name: Dewals, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Laboratory experiments were conducted on the breaching of homogeneous non-cohesive sandy fluvial dikes induced by flow overtopping. Tests were conducted using a main channel, an erodible lateral dike and a floodplain. The main channel width and Froude number prior to overtopping were systematically varied. Breach discharge was deduced from water level measurements and mass conservation. High-resolution 3D reconstructions of the evolving breach geometry were obtained using a non-intrusive laser profilometry technique. The main channel width and Froude number show significant influence on the breach expansion and hydrograph. Breach hydrographs are divided into three types, depending on the Froude number and a non-dimensional main channel width. An adapted fluvial dike breaching model based on the concept of “effective breach width” is proposed. Using the laboratory data, the computed breach discharge is found extremely satisfactory, although the breach downstream expansion is not accurately reproduced by the model.
Independent Lineages of Highly Sulfadoxine-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Haplotypes, Eastern Africa
Creators: name: Rogerson, Stephen J.
name: Mwapasa, Victor
name: Duffy, Patrick E.
name: Fried, Michal
name: ter Kuile, Feiko O.
name: Goheen, Morgan M.
name: Kabyemela, Edward
name: Kalilani-Phiri, Linda
name: Antonia, Alejandro L.
name: Tshefu, Antoinette K.
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Chaluluka, Ebbie
name: Khairallah, Carole
name: Madanitsa, Mwayi
name: Harrington, Whitney E.
name: Taylor, Steve M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Parasites with increased resistance to sulfadoxine might undermine malaria control measures.Sulfadoxine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum undermines malaria prevention with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine. Parasites with a highly resistant mutant dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) haplotype have recently emerged in eastern Africa; they negated preventive benefits of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, and might exacerbate placental malaria. We explored emerging lineages of dhps mutant haplotypes in Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania by using analyses of genetic microsatellites flanking the dhps locus. In Malawi, a triple-mutant dhps SGEG (mutant amino acids are underlined) haplotype emerged in 2010 that was closely related to pre-existing double-mutant SGEA haplotypes, suggesting local origination in Malawi. When we compared mutant strains with parasites from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania by multiple independent analyses, we found that SGEG parasites were partitioned into separate lineages by country. These findings support a model of local origination of SGEG dhps haplotypes, rather than geographic diffusion, and have implications for investigations of emergence and effects of parasite drug resistance.
An improved sweeping domain decomposition preconditioner for the Helmholtz equation
Creators: name: Stolk, Christiaan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N55, 65N22

description: In this paper we generalize and improve a recently developed domain decomposition preconditioner for the iterative solution of discretized Helmholtz equations. We introduce an improved method for transmission at the internal boundaries using perfectly matched layers. Simultaneous forward and backward sweeps are introduced, thereby improving the possibilities for parallellization. Finally, the method is combined with an outer two-grid iteration. The method is studied theoretically and with numerical examples. It is shown that the modifications lead to substantial decreases in computation time and memory use, so that computation times become comparable to that of the fastests methods currently in the literature for problems with up to 10^8 degrees of freedom.
description: v4: minor changes; 26 pages, 4 figures, 9 tables
HIF, hypoxia and the role of angiogenesis in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Kim, William Y
name: Zhou, Bing
name: Jackson, Autumn L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The role of angiogenesis in the initiation and progression of NSCLC and the molecular alterations leading to the growth of tumor vasculature are areas of great interest and recent therapeutic success.
Taking aim at Mer and Axl receptor tyrosine kinases as novel therapeutic targets in solid tumors
Creators: name: Earp, H Shelton
name: Linger, Rachel MA
name: Keating, Amy K
name: Graham, Douglas K
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Axl and/or Mer expression correlates with poor prognosis in several cancers. Until recently, the specific role of these receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) in the development and progression of cancer remained unexplained. Studies demonstrating that Axl and Mer contribute to mechanisms of cell survival, migration, invasion, metastasis, and chemosensitivity justify further investigation of Axl and Mer as novel therapeutic targets in cancer.
Happiness unpacked: Positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience.
Creators: name: Conway, Anne M.
name: Brown, Stephanie L.
name: Cohn, Michael A.
name: Fredrickson, Barbara L.
name: Mikels, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Happiness – a composite of life satisfaction, coping resources, and positive emotions – predicts desirable life outcomes in many domains. The broaden-and-build theory suggests that this is because positive emotions help people build lasting resources. To test this hypothesis we measured emotions daily for one month in a sample of students (N=86) and assessed life satisfaction and trait resilience at the beginning and end of the month. Positive emotions predicted increases in both resilience and life satisfaction. Negative emotions had weak or null effects, and did not interfere with the benefits of positive emotions. Positive emotions also mediated the relation between baseline and final resilience, but life satisfaction did not. This suggests that it is in-the-moment positive emotions, and not more general positive evaluations of one’s life, that form the link between happiness and desirable life outcomes. Change in resilience mediated the relation between positive emotions and increased life satisfaction, suggesting that happy people become more satisfied not simply because they feel better, but because they develop resources for living well.
title: Hope, flow, mindfulness and subjective well-being: a study of relationships
Creators: name: Marks, Kate
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: The first chapter is a narrative literature review in which key constructs relevant to this thesis are introduced, relevant literature is summarised and critiqued, and areas for future research are identified. Subjective well-being (SWB) is defined and hope (both goal-focused hope and spiritual hope) is identified as important to SWB. It is suggested that two concepts that may help explain the relationship between goal-focused hope and spiritual hope and SWB are flow and mindfulness, which are each examined. It is highlighted that goals are important to both goal-focused hope and flow, and that spirituality is important to both spiritual hope and mindfulness. Based on the literature reviewed, theoretically based hypotheses are proposed. The second chapter is an empirical paper, the intention of which is to build upon the literature review by examining the theoretically derived hypotheses proposed within the review. The aim of the study is to examine the relationships between goal-focused hope, spiritual hope, flow, mindfulness, and SWB, and to explore mechanisms through which hope may affect SWB. The main study variables are examined using a university sample and an online study. The last chapter of the thesis is the concluding section, which has three main sections. This first section is a general overview of the work done, followed by an expanded discussion of possible explanations and interpretations, methodological considerations, and clinical implications. Section two presents a lay summary of the study for dissemination. The summary is presented in a form suitable for publication in a university magazine, with a target audience of university staff and students. The aim of the final section is to explore areas for future research. References are provided at the end of each chapter and appendices are at the end of the thesis.
Dynamic infant–parent affect coupling during the face-to-face/still-face.
Creators: name: Messinger, Daniel S.
name: Chow, Sy-Miin
name: Haltigan, John D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We examined dynamic infant-parent affect coupling using the Face-to-Face/Still-Face (FFSF) paradigm. The sample included 20 infants whose older siblings had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD-sibs), and 18 infants with comparison siblings (COMP-sibs). A series of extended autoregressive models was used to represent the self-regulation and interactive dynamics of infants and parents during FFSF. Significant bidirectional affective coupling was found between infants and parents, with the former serving as the “leading members” of the dyads. Further analysis of within-dyad dynamics revealed ongoing changes in concurrent infant-parent linkages both within and across different FFSF episodes. The importance of considering both inter- and intra-dyad differences is discussed.
Helmholtz AI: Diversity in Teaching Machine Learning Supports Democratizing AI
Creators: name: Cea, Donatella
name: Hoffmann, Helene
name: Kesselheim, Stefan
name: Steinbach, Peter
name: Weiel, Marie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Teaching Machine Learning
Helmholtz AI

description: “Democratizing AI” – that is the motto for the Helmholtz AI consultants. With our scientific consulting, we enable Helmholtz researchers from all domains to leverage AI for their datasets by providing comprehensive support with AI methods, tools, and software engineering. And this does not only apply to scientists working on their own research projects. We also offer courses, workshops, lectures, and challenges on various AI-related topics. On our poster, you can find an overview of past teaching experiences from the different consultant teams. These include an in-depth introductory course to deep learning using the flipped classroom approach, advanced courses on AutoML and explainable AI with multiple hands-on sessions, data challenges introducing the learners to domain adaptation tasks and making them experiment and search for personal solutions to complex and current problems, and crash courses on AI for a broader and less technical audience.
 You are curious to learn more? Then drop by our poster and let’s have a chat.
description: https://www.helmholtz.ai/
A Tuesday in the life of a flourisher: The role of positive emotional reactivity in optimal mental health.
Creators: name: Fredrickson, Barbara L.
name: Catalino, Lahnna I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Flourishing—a state of optimal mental health—has been linked to a host of benefits for the individual and society, including fewer workdays lost and the lowest incidence of chronic physical conditions. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether and how routine activities promote flourishing. The authors proposed that flourishers thrive because they capitalize on the processes featured in the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, specifically by experiencing greater positive emotional reactivity to pleasant events and building more resources over time. To test these hypotheses, the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) was administered to a prescreened community sample of adults (n = 208) and they were recontacted 2–3 months later. Results showed that relative to those who did not flourish or were depressed, people who flourish generally responded with bigger “boosts” in positive emotions in response to everyday, pleasant events (helping, interacting, playing, learning, spiritual activity) and this greater positive emotional reactivity, over time, predicted higher levels of two facets of the cognitive resource of mindfulness. In turn, these higher levels of mindfulness were positively associated with higher levels of flourishing at the end of study, controlling for initial levels of flourishing. These results suggest that the promotion of well-being may be fueled by small, yet consequential differences in individuals’ emotional experience of pleasant everyday events. Additionally, these results underscore the utility of the broaden-and-build theory in understanding the processes by which flourishing is promoted, and provide support for a positive potentiation perspective.
Emotion perception, but not affect perception, is impaired with semantic memory loss.
Creators: name: Gendron, Maria
name: Barrett, Lisa Feldman
name: Lindquist, Kristen A.
name: Dickerson, Bradford C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have hypothesized that the ability to perceive emotions on others’ faces is inborn, pre-linguistic, and universal. Concept knowledge about emotion has been assumed to be epiphenomenal to emotion perception. In this paper, we report findings from three patients with semantic dementia that cannot be explained by this “basic emotion” view. These patients, who have substantial deficits in semantic processing abilities, spontaneously perceived pleasant and unpleasant expressions on faces, but not discrete emotions such as anger, disgust, fear, or sadness, even in a task that did not require the use of emotion words. Our findings support the hypothesis that discrete emotion concept knowledge helps transform perceptions of affect (positively or negatively valenced facial expressions) into perceptions of discrete emotions such as anger, disgust, fear and sadness. These findings have important consequences for understanding the processes supporting emotion perception.
2014 Update of the Discoveries of Nuclides
Creators: name: Thoennessen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2014 update of the discovery of nuclide project is presented. Only six new nuclides were observed for the first time in 2014 while the assignments of seventeen other nuclides were revised. In addition, for another fourteen nuclides the laboratories where they were discovered were reassigned.
description: Accepted for publication in IJMPE
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) bharatensis Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus bharatensis

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) bharatensis Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Remarks: Lundblad (19690 did not feel certain about the locality of his specimens, they were either from Calcutta (West Bengal) or Colombo (Sri Lanka).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964