cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Regulation of Facial Recognition Technology and Potential First Amendment Concerns
Creators: name: Ringel, Evan Sparks
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is designed to explore the patchwork regulatory structure that governs the useof facial recognition technology by government and private actors. With minimal federalregulation, state and local regulations are an important bulwark against the unregulated use offacial recognition technology. The author examines the few state and local regulations that doexist, analyzing statutes using a coding protocol created by the author. He then discusses anypotential First Amendment interests present in the use of facial recognition technology,ultimately concluding that facial recognition technology will likely receive some level of FirstAmendment protection under the rule of “information as speech” first stated in Sorrell v. IMSHealth. Lastly, the author evaluates how a First Amendment interest may hinder state and localattempts to regulate the use of facial recognition technology.
title: Report to the 200th Meeting of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council
Creators: name: Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02apffz65
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: PIFSC special publication ; SP-24-04
description: This report highlights research, projects, activities, and other events that are of direct interest to the Council including Guam BMUS data WPSAR, a new bycatch estimate interface, survey of Makapuʻu precious coral bed, PIFSC details on the economic contributions of small boat fisheries in Guam and the CNMI, and a list of our published research from this fiscal year.
Polymer nucleation and crystallization investigated by in situ combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and fast scanning calorimetry (FSC)
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: A chip based fast scanning calorimeter (FSC) is used as a fast hot-stage in an atomic force microscope (AFM). This way, the morphology of materials with a resolution from micro to nano meters after fast thermal treatments becomes accessible. FSC provides crystallization/melting curves of the sample just imaged by AFM. A combined AFM-FSC device is described, where the AFM sample holder is replaced by the FSC chip-sensor. The sample can be repeatedly annealed at pre-defined temperatures and times and the AFM images can be taken from exactly the same spot of the sample.
EPR pairing dynamics in Hubbard model with resonant $U$
Creators: name: Zhang, X. Z.
name: Song, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of the collision between two fermions in Hubbard model with on-site interaction strength $U$. The exact solution shows that the scattering matrix for two-wavepacket collision is separable into two independent parts, operating on spatial and spin degrees of freedom, respectively. The S-matrix for spin configuration is equivalent to that of Heisenberg-type pulsed interaction with the strength depending on $U$ and relative group velocity $\upsilon _{r}$. This can be applied to create distant EPR pair, through a collision process for two fermions with opposite spins in the case of $\left\vert \upsilon _{r}/U\right\vert =1$,\ without the need for temporal control and measurement process. Multiple collision process for many particles is also discussed.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
title: Final Restoration Plan Addendum and Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the May 14, 1996 Chevron Pipeline Oil Spill Into Waiau Stream and Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii
Creators: name: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
name: Hawaii Department of Health
name: Department of Land and Natural Resources
Publisher: name: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04k7dar27
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: This Restoration Plan Addendum and Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the Chevron Pipeline Oil Spill (RP Addendum/Supplemental EA) has been prepared by state and federal natural resource trustees responsible for restoring natural resources and resource services injured by the May 14, 1996 oil spill into Waiau Stream and Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii. This document is an addendum to the original Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (Final RP/EA) and it supplements the environmental assessment of one of the selected restoration alternatives in the Final RP/EA. The natural resource trustees (the Trustees) for the Chevron Pipeline Oil Spill are the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represented by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); the U.S. Department of Commerce, represented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and the State of Hawaii, represented by the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).1 The Trustees have selected to fund the Pouhala Marsh Enhancement Project with the remaining settlement balance for the Chevron Pipeline Oil Spill held in DOI’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Fund. The Pouhala Marsh Enhancement Project was evaluated and selected for implementation in the Final RP/EA, but the project was never fully funded or completed. This document provides a supplemental environmental assessment of the updated Pouhala Marsh Enhancement Project.
title: The Persistence of the Underground: The Evolution of Liverpool’s Dance Music Scenes, from Capital of Culture to COVID-19
Creators: name: Anderson, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2029

description: This thesis examines the concept of the underground within contemporary electronic dance music scenes. Despite the global commercial success of dance music, the term underground retains currency, and is frequently used in club culture rhetoric and academic studies. Yet its meaning remains ambiguous and lacks a concise definition in prior scholarship. This investigation aims to deepen understanding of the concept of the underground by critically examining how it is constructed, contested, and realised in practice within a case study dance music scene.

Employing an ethnomethodological approach, combining semi-structured interviews and survey data, this thesis explores the post-2008 proliferation of underground parties in Liverpool, a second-tier, post-industrial UK city. Commencing immediately prior to COVID-19’s onset, the project’s design was adapted to capture the pandemic experiences of dancers and scene infrastructure personnel as they navigated this uncertain time. The study provides a rare analysis of their reflections and sense of loss induced by the sixteen-month cessation of social dance activities. The thesis also charts the return to dancefloors in 2021 amidst significant post-COVID-19 economic impacts and the ongoing threat of gentrification facing dance venue spaces in the city. 

Building on Fikentscher’s (2000) description of the underground as a context and protected space, the research identifies three characteristic traits present within select parties that distinguish these as underground: a secretive resistance; a countercultural antithesis to the mainstream; and as temporal social imaginaries. These traits form a thematic thread that guides a critical analysis of underground’s influence on Liverpool’s club cultures. Following Smith’s (1993) work on ‘geographical scales’, the study analyses how individuals engage with their meaning of underground in practice through progressively expanding the fields of research, from the individual dancing body to a collective synchronicity of a ‘like-minded’ dancefloor, to the establishment of ‘intimate’, protected, and often theatrically enhanced venue spaces in peripheral zones of the city. This practice is framed within the unfolding of an underground dance music scene, at the juncture of cultural production and urban regeneration in a post-industrial city. The thesis argues that the emergence of culturally vibrant, non-mainstream parties within Liverpool’s repurposed industrial spaces demonstrates a persistence of the concept of underground. In doing so it contributes an ethnographically grounded understanding of how the underground is conceived of and socially constructed by scene-based practitioners.
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF MINIMUM GIFT AMOUNT FOR ATHLETIC FUNDRAISING ORGANIZATIONS IN NCAA DIVISION I
Creators: name: Kavanagh, Ashley Anne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: NCAA Division I college athletics departments are under pressure to generate greater revenue through donations, yet research related to strategic pricing structures of giving levels is underdeveloped. Tier rewards systems are a strategy designed to encourage donors to give specified amounts in exchange for benefits, such as access to football tickets and parking. The quantity and economic value of the incentives increase the more a donor gives. The purpose of this study is to examine the lowest tier giving level to determine: (a) the characteristics of this level and (b) to determine the relationship between key variables and both the minimum giving amount and number of donors at that level. Hierarchical regression was used to determine this relationship for athletic annual funds in Division I (n = 128). The number of donors at the lowest giving tier served as the dependent variable, while the minimum gift for membership served as the key independent variable. All other factors were control variables in the model. Results of the study suggest the number of full-time development staff, minimum gift amount at the lowest tier, and maximum gift amount at the lowest tier are statistically significant.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ‘FEMALE CAMOUFLAGE EFFECT’ IN YOUNG AUTISTIC FEMALES
Creators: name: Goldblum, Jessica Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Evidence suggests that ASD females “camouflage”, or mask, social difficulties in order to successfully navigate social situations. However, as ASD diagnostic tools account for social difficulties, camouflaging may prevent females from receiving an ASD diagnosis. Little research has examined early evidence of camouflaging, particularly in young children. In a study of 78 ASD boys and girls matched linguistically, diagnostically, and by chronological and developmental age, we completed a microanalysis of social communication. We hypothesized that while boys and girls demonstrated social difficulties on matched scores, girls would exhibit more joint attention, consistent with camouflaging. MANOVA analyses demonstrated that compared to boys, girls utilized more joint attention, with results driven largely by chronological and developmental age. This research demonstrates that young ASD girls appear to engage in emerging camouflaging behaviors to mask social difficulties, which has important implications for diagnostic tools that may not capture girls during the diagnostic process.
(3531) R Fulden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(3532) Marion Harrison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
View of the Work Community and Vocational Rehabilitation Services among Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Co-occurring Psychiatric Conditions
Creators: name: Doran, Julie Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses face challenges in establishing and maintaining employment (Hayward et al., 2019). These difficulties may be related to the symptoms of ASD, psychiatric diagnoses, or employer attitudes. Vocational rehabilitation (VR) can provide employment-related resources. This study sought to understand how adults with ASD view integration into workplace communities and VR services. Qualitative data was collected from 20 adults with ASD, 14 of whom reported the presence of at least one co-occurring psychiatric condition. Analysis identified themes of the importance of contributing in the workplace, a preference for interesting work, and positive workplace relationships contributing to feeling integrated into the workplace community. Responses were also examined for perspectives on the role of VR in integrating into the workplace community. Implications include the importance of attending to individual employment preferences and the need for VR follow-along services to explore opportunities for employment growth.
Violence against women caused by an intimate partner and its approach in Primary Health Care
Creators: name: Soares, Ana Keila
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Other Public Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Women's Health

description: Understanding the need to deepen this discussion on intimate partner violence against women in the context of Primary Care and the need to produce knowledge that contributes to the elucidation of obstacles present in practice, the present work seeks to answer the following question: How does the literature present the approach, in Primary Health Care, of Violence Caused by Intimate Partners against women?
(3528) Horan Abraham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Threshold Effects in Parameter Estimation from Compressed Data
Creators: name: Pakrooh, Pooria
name: Scharf, Louis L.
name: Pezeshki, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate threshold effects associated with swapping of signal and noise subspaces in estimating signal parameters from compressed noisy data. The term threshold effect refers to a sharp departure of mean-squared error from the Cramer-Rao bound when the signal-to-noise ratio falls below a threshold SNR. In many cases, the threshold effect is caused by a subspace swap event, when the measured data (or its sample covariance) is better approximated by a subset of components of an orthogonal subspace than by the components of a signal subspace. We derive analytical lower bounds on the probability of a subspace swap in compressively measured noisy data. These bounds guide our understanding of threshold effects and performance breakdown for parameter estimation using compression. As a case study, we investigate threshold effects in maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of directions of arrival of two closely-spaced sources using co-prime subsampling. Our results show the impact of compression on threshold SNR. A rule of thumb is that every doubling of compression ratio brings a penalty in threshold SNR of 3 dB.
Perceções sobre o sentido de comunidade: um estudo de caso de uma comunidade de aprendizagem transformativa
Creators: name: Gomes, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Nesta comunicação, procuramos identificar e compreender o sentido de comunidade, e sua manifestação, inicialmente percecionado pelos membros de uma comunidade de aprendizagem transformativa, em construção.
(3530) Violet Dutton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On Tverberg partitions
Creators: name: White, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A theorem of Tverberg from 1966 asserts that every set $X\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ of $n=T(d,r)=(d+1)(r-1)+1$ points can be partitioned into $r$ pairwise disjoint subsets, whose convex hulls have a point in common. Thus every such partition induces an integer partition of $n$ into $r$ parts (that is, $r$ integers $a_1,\ldots,a_r$ satisfying $n=a_1+\cdots+a_r$), where the parts $a_i$ correspond to the number of points in every subset. In this paper, we prove that for any partition $a_i\le d+1$, $i=1,\ldots,r$, there exists a set $X\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, such that every Tverberg partition of $X$ induces the same partition on $n$, given by the parts $a_1,\ldots,a_r$.
description: 4 pages, final version
Synchrotron spectral index and interstellar medium densities of star-forming galaxies
Creators: name: Basu, Aritra
name: Beck, Rainer
name: Schmidt, Philip
name: Roy, Subhashis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral index of synchrotron emission is an important parameter in understanding the properties of cosmic ray electrons (CREs) and the interstellar medium (ISM). We determine the synchrotron spectral index ($α_{\rm nt}$) of four nearby star-forming galaxies, namely NGC 4736, NGC 5055, NGC 5236 and NGC 6946 at sub-kpc linear scales. The $α_{\rm nt}$ was determined between 0.33 and 1.4 GHz for all the galaxies. We find the spectral index to be flatter ($\gtrsim -0.7$) in regions with total neutral (atomic + molecular) gas surface density, $Σ_{\rm gas} \gtrsim \rm 50~M_\odot pc^{-2}$, typically in the arms and inner parts of the galaxies. In regions with $Σ_{\rm gas} \lesssim \rm 50~M_\odot pc^{-2}$, especially in the interarm and outer regions of the galaxies, the spectral index steepens sharply to $
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, Accepted to be published in MNRAS
Efficient counting with optimal resilience
Creators: name: Lenzen, Christoph
name: Rybicki, Joel
name: Suomela, Jukka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Consider a complete communication network of $n$ nodes, where the nodes receive a common clock pulse. We study the synchronous $c$-counting problem: given any starting state and up to $f$ faulty nodes with arbitrary behaviour, the task is to eventually have all correct nodes labeling the pulses with increasing values modulo $c$ in agreement. Thus, we are considering algorithms that are self-stabilising despite Byzantine failures. In this work, we give new algorithms for the synchronous counting problem that (1) are deterministic, (2) have optimal resilience, (3) have a linear stabilisation time in $f$ (asymptotically optimal), (4) use a small number of states, and consequently, (5) communicate a small number of bits per round. Prior algorithms either resort to randomisation, use a large number of states and need high communication bandwidth, or have suboptimal resilience. In particular, we achieve an exponential improvement in both state complexity and message size for deterministic algorithms. Moreover, we present two complementary approaches for reducing the number of bits communicated during and after stabilisation.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure. Extended and revised version of two conference reports
(3527) Hensall Abraham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...But It Will Be Streamed": Spotify, Playlist Curation, and Social Justice Movements
Creators: name: Camp, Melissa Leigh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Since its launch in 2008, the Swedish-based audio streaming service Spotify has transformed how consumers experience music. During the same time, Spotify collaborated with social justice activists as a means of philanthropy and brand management. Focusing on two playlists intended to promote the Black Lives Matter movement (2013–) and support protests against the U.S. “Muslim Ban” (2017–2020), this thesis explores how Spotify’s curators and artists navigate the tensions between activism and capitalism as they advocate for social justice. Drawing upon Ramón Grosfoguel’s concept of subversive complicity (2003), I show how artists and curators help promote Spotify’s progressive image and bottom line while utilizing the company’s massive platform to draw attention to the people and causes they care most about by amplifying their messages.
(3529) Dorothy Steerman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Rebuilding Families after the Boxing Day Tsunami:  Trauma Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Fertility Outcomes
Creators: name: Stoutamire, Bethany Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Scholars have long been interested in the impact social upheavals and their subsequent trauma have on fertility expectations and fertility outcomes.  Most research in this realm has focused on the expectations and outcomes of women, yet research suggests that trauma may operate differentially through sex and that mortality shocks may exaggerate the fertility distributions of men and women.  In this thesis, I examine the role trauma and sex play in fertility expectations and outcomes and whether trauma operates differentially through sex.  Using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR), I use logistic regression to examine the role sex and trauma play in the odds of a respondent saying that they expect to have a child or a respondent having a child after the tsunami.  The results show that for people between the ages of 15-24 at the time of the tsunami, there is some significant association between trauma and fertility expectations as well as sex and fertility outcomes.  However, it does not appear that trauma operates differentially through sex in this age group.  The role of trauma and sex, as well as the interaction between the two, are much more salient in the fertility expectations and outcomes of individuals who were 25-44 at the time of the tsunami.  This thesis contributes to the literature on fertility after a considerable social upheaval and adds to our understanding of how men and women approach fertility after a disaster.
Sounding Race and Nation: Mário de Andrade’s Voice through Lorenzo Dow Turner’s Recording Ear
Creators: name: Sato, Eduardo Tadafumi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In 1940, the speaking and singing voice of the Brazilian poet and musicologist Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) was recorded in Rio de Janeiro. This is the only known register of the voice of the man who pursued the formation of a national language and music through artistic and intellectual projects. The disc containing these sounds was recently found in the archives of the North American black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890-1972). Turner travelled to Brazil to study African languages using a sound recorder, part of a broader project on the culture of the African diaspora in the Americas. In my thesis I study the recording of Andrade’s voice made through Lorenzo Dow Turner’s ear as an encounter mediated by different perspectives on race and nation. Drawing on archival research I trace a genealogy of the recording framed under the production and circulation of sounds in a transnational network of knowledge.
Charmed to Sit and Listen: Charles Kuralt, the Southern Oral Tradition, and Sound
Creators: name: Cusick, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Charles Kuralt (1934-1997), a native of North Carolina and a television journalist who spent 37 years working for CBS News, knew he wanted to be a journalist from an early age. Kuralt loved the radio, and began working for a radio station at age 13. His radio training meant that he approached stories through sound, even though most of his work was in the visual medium of television. Growing up in the South greatly influenced Kuralt and his work, especially in his folkloric series “On the Road,” that originated as part of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. In this series, Kuralt and a small crew visited all 50 states several times. Kuralt appreciated and sought out Americans who could tell interesting stories about themselves and their lives. Kuralt’s work is worthy of studying because of his expansive view of a United States of America.
Visions of Empire: Third Reich Colonialism and the "Islam Question"
Creators: name: Irvin, Kara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This thesis utilizes academic articles and monographs to examine Nazi Germany’s academic discourse regarding the “Muslim World” between 1935-1941. I argue that prominent Nazi thinkers considered the “Muslim World” to be a rising power but disagreed whether Muslims would enable or threaten Germany’s vision for a new Europe. Some theorists believed Muslims could function as important allies against Western Europe and the Soviet Union. Others worried that the same Islamic anticolonial-nationalism that rejected existing European colonial authorities would also spurn German leadership. Ultimately, these Nazi academics could not agree if the “Muslim World” presented an opportunity or an obstacle, and this fractured discourse foreshadowed the regime’s failure to adopt a concrete Islamic policy before its ill-fated invasion of the USSR, an invasion that would bring millions of Muslims under Nazi occupation.
Supplementary document for A vacuum-sealed silicon photonic MEMS tunable ring resonator with independent control over coupling an phase - 6216392.pdf
Creators: name: Edinger, Pierre
name: Jo, Gaehun
name: Nguyen, Chris
name: Takabayashi, Alain
name: Errando-Herranz, Carlos
name: Antony, Cleitus
name: Talli, Giuseppe
name: Verheyen, Peter
name: Khan, Umar
name: Bleiker, Simon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Analysis by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of the lung virome during mechanical ventilation
Creators: name: Vale, Julien Do
name: Roux, Damien
name: Bridier-Nahmias, Antoine
name: Salmona, Maud
name: Mercier-Delarue, Séverine
name: Ranger, Noémie
name: Ricard, Jean-Damien
name: Goff, Jérôme Le
name: Fromentin, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: lung microbiome
clinical metagenomics
metagenomic shotgun sequencing
lung virome
ventilator-associated pneumonia
metagenomic next-generation sequencing

description: Results of the quality control of the amplification verified using D5000 high sensitivity reagents in 4200 Tape Station Agilent bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies).
(3524) John Rolleston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Opinion dynamics: inhomogeneous Boltzmann-type equations modelling opinion leadership and political segregation
Creators: name: Düring, Bertram
name: Wolfram, Marie-Therese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and investigate different kinetic models for opinion formation, when the opinion formation process depends on an additional independent variable, e.g. a leadership or a spatial variable. More specifically, we consider:(i) opinion dynamics under the effect of opinion leadership, where each individual is characterised not only by its opinion, but also by another independent variable which quantifies leadership qualities; (ii) opinion dynamics modelling political segregation in the `The Big Sort', a phenomenon that US citizens increasingly prefer to live in neighbourhoods with politically like-minded individuals. Based on microscopic opinion consensus dynamics such models lead to inhomogeneous Boltzmann-type equations for the opinion distribution. We derive macroscopic Fokker-Planck-type equations in a quasi-invariant opinion limit and present results of numerical experiments.
description: 20 pages
Exebotrigona velteni Engel & Michener 2013, new species
Creators: name: Engel, Michael S.
name: Michener, Charles D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Exebotrigona
Exebotrigona velteni

description: Exebotrigona velteni Engel & Michener, new species
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A8C24349-5316-4914-9E6C-D1C62016FE84
(Figs. 1–4)
 DIAGNOSIS: As for the genus (vide supra).
 DESCRIPTION: ☿: As for the genus with the following additions: Total body length (as preserved) 2.36 mm. Forewing length 2.08 mm, width 0.76 mm. Head width 1.17 mm; interocellar distance 0.24 mm; ocellocular distance 0.21 mm. Mesoscutal width [measured just anterior to tegulae, sensu Brooks & Michener (1988)] 0.78 mm; intertegular distance 0.74 mm. Metatibia apical width 0.25 mm; inner surface with width of median convex zone 0.19 mm, bare anterior marginal zone width 0.06 mm; metabasitarsus width 0.17 mm, length 0.35 mm. Head impossible to see in facial view but the impression is wider than long with short malar areas. Body and legs, including tegulae and tarsi, dark, probably black; wings apparently clear.
♀: Unknown.
♂: Unknown.
HOLOTYPE: ☿, Eocene amber; Fushan coalfield, Liaoning, China; deposited in the collection of Jürgen Velten, Idstein, Germany.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a patronym honoring Jürgen Velten for his generosity in permitting us to study this fascinating material from his collections.
 COMMENTS: As shown in figure 1, with certain lighting, a pale band of reflection appears on the anterior and lateral margins of the mesoscutum. This is suggestive of integumental color patterns or of bands of pale tomentum of certain other bees. However, careful examination reveals no dense setal bands and probably no pigment pattern forming the marginal ‘bands’ appearing in figure 1 (cf. Figs. 2 and 3). This is merely a matter of reflected light in figure 1.
description: Published as part of Engel, Michael S. & Michener, Charles D., 2013, A minute stingless bee in Eocene Fushan amber from northeastern China (Hymenoptera: Apidae), pp. 1-10 in Journal of Melittology 2013 (14) on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.17161/jom.v0i14.4560, http://zenodo.org/record/13737185
Data for: Effects of nutrient heterogeneity on root foraging and plant growth at the individual and community level
Creators: name: Wang, Peng
name: Mou, Pu
name: Hu, Lingyan
name: Hu, Shuijin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: fertilization
nutrient distribution
patch contrast
patch scale
root foraging
root plasticity

description: Plants can respond to heterogeneous nutrient distribution through selective root placement to enhance nutrient uptake. It is believed that nutrient heterogeneity can better promote plant growth than homogeneous nutrient distribution, but comprehensive analyses are relatively few. We meta-analyzed the data from 131 comparative studies and synthesized the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on root foraging and plant growth, and examined the roles of patch scale and contrast. Plant responses to nutrient heterogeneity was phylogenetically conserved, and the response in shoot biomass was more correlated with the response in root biomass than with root foraging precision. Root precision depended on competition status, and plants in interspecific competition had lower precision. Community-level responses to nutrient heterogeneity were more significant than individual-level responses. With increasing patch scale, root foraging precision declined, while overall shoot and root responses of individuals increased. Moderate patch contrast significantly increased root responses compared to low and high patch contrast. Our results indicate that plants optimize nutrient acquisition from heterogeneous patches mainly through increasing root growth rate and exploit nutrients more effectively at the community than individual level. Patch attribute mediation of nutrient heterogeneity effects on plants may help design fertilization practices to promote productivity and conserve biodiversity.
Retrospective Analysis of Mandibular Two Implant Overdenture Outcomes in Dental School Setting
Creators: name: Keyser, Robert Wells
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: ABSTRACT      Robert Keyser: Retrospective Analysis of Mandibular Two Implant Overdenture Outcomes in Dental School Setting(Under the direction of Wendy Clark)      Purpose: Mandibular two implant overdentures have been a recommended restorative solution for many years.  Despite, their increasing popularity, there is currently a lack of literature regarding the success of mandibular implants based on healing method—submerged and non-submerged. The purpose of this retrospective study is to assess characteristics that can contribute to implant failure in mandibular two implant overdentures. The first aim is to assess implant characteristics’ relationship with implant failure in mandibular two implant overdentures, specifically loading protocol, healing technique, implant brand, implant site, implant diameter and implant length. The second aim is to quantify the prevalence of implant failures in mandibular two implant overdentures and assess existing trends based upon whether the implants were initially submerged or non-submerged.	Materials and Methods: A retrospective chart study with the institutional review board approval 13-3663, was conducted at the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry. Digital health records were used to review patient charts. Dental procedure codes were used to locate, identify, sort, and select records of patients that were treated with mandibular two-implant overdentures. Once charts were identified, variables were assessed including healing technique (one stage or two stage surgery), loading protocol (immediate or delayed loading), implant brand, implant size and site. Charts were further sub-categorized, using treatment notes and procedure codes, based on whether the implants had failed or had not failed. Failure was determined by whether the implant was removed from the patient or not. 	Results: From the 2,200 total charts reviewed, 574 charts were included in our study and 13 of the charts had at least one mandibular implant complications (failure). Of the characteristics assessed, a statistically significant difference (p<0.05) was noted between the experimental (implant failure) and control (non-failure) groups when assessing the loading protocol—delayed loading verses immediate loading.  Conclusion: Based on these retrospective study findings, no statistically significant relationship exists between healing method (submerged and non-submerged healing) and implant failure rate. Based on our data, either healing method could be used and similar failure rates would be expected between the two healing methods. Thus we fail to reject the null hypothesis with regards to healing method for implant failure rates in mandibular two implant overdentures. Our results showed that immediate loading of implants in overdenture prosthesis is significantly associated with implant failure vs delayed loading.
Formal exponential map for graded manifolds
Creators: name: Liao, Hsuan-Yi
name: Stiénon, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce, for every $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifold, a formal exponential map defined in a purely algebraic way and study its properties. As an application, we give a simple new construction of a Fedosov type resolution of the algebra of smooth functions of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds and we extend the Emmrich--Weinstein theorem to the context of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds.
description: 24 pages
Morgan English: Cancel Culture: An Examination of Cancel Culture Acts as a Form of Counterspeech to Regulate Hate Speech Online.
Creators: name: English, Morgan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the use of cancel culture as a form of counterspeech that regulates hate speech online. Opponents of cancel culture argue that it deters people from speaking by suppressing their speech, and it makes it harder for people to participate in the free speech environment. But cancel culture may be the preferred form of counterspeech that opponents of cancel culture complain about to redress hate speech.  The purpose of this thesis is to examine how cancel culture is a form of counterspeech that can effectively condemn people for their speech and serve the marketplace of ideas. Cancel culture has been studied as a communications and discourse phenomenon, but less has been said about its role as an effective strategy within the First Amendment’s counterspeech doctrine on online platforms. This paper will attempt to fill that gap.
State or Nonstate: The Wagner Group's Role in Contemporary Intrastate Conflicts Worldwide
Creators: name: Port, Jason Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The Wagner Group has long benefitted from its sense of ambiguity, enabling its aggressive pursuit of Russian foreign policy interests worldwide. In this thesis, I argue that the Wagner Group is a state actor and should be recognized as such by the West. I present four cases of Wagner involvement in intrastate conflicts. I demonstrate that, across all cases, the Group is fully integrated into Russia’s foreign policy infrastructure, benefits from all the resources and privileges of a state actor, closely coordinates with Russian state organs, and exhibits near-ubiquitous coordination with Russian interests. In this thesis, I broadly incorporate evidence derived from Open-Source Russian and English-language primary materials, including leaked video and audio, investigative journalism, interviews, and social media. By labeling Wagner as a Russian state actor in this thesis, I take a critical first step towards dispelling the Group’s ambiguity and aim to inform related U.S. policy responses.
Mutual Influences of Digit Span Recall and Concussion History During Interception of a Moving Target
Creators: name: Yang, Kou
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Second injury risk following concussion merits improved return to play assessments. Two studies examined deficits in athletes with a concussion history (Cx): 1) a secondary analysis to investigate an area under the curve (AUC) assessment for cognitive recall; 2) a dual-task paradigm (cognitive recall with moving target interception) in virtual reality to investigate perceptual-motor deficits. AUC was lower relative to Cx (2.523 ± 0.537 vs. 2.884 ± 0.599), t(48) =2.148, p =.037. Single-task recall resulted in a higher AUC (1.584 ± 0.330 vs. 1.418 ± 0.347), F(1,28) = 6.82, p =.014, independent of group. Single-task target interception led to a more efficient angle of interception (0.185° ± 0.239°) compared to dual-task 9-digit-span recall (0.551° ± 0.757°), t(28) = -4.031, p =.001. These results demonstrate the importance of novel indices of perceptual-motor and cognitive ability as a first step toward improved concussion return to play sensitivity.
title:  La modernità, un tropo problematico
Creators: name: Elsaesser, Thomas
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: Il saggio sottolinea come il termine Modernismo, sin dagli anni Settanta, debba essere inquadrato all’interno di un campo discorsivo diviso, in cui Modernismo, Modernizzazione e Modernità connotano approcci differenti e rappresentano perfino visioni del mondo opposte, a fronte dei cambiamenti e delle trasformazioni che l’idea di «moderno» vuole evidenziare. In particolare, possono essere identificati una quantità di tropi distinti di «modernità», come ad esempio «la metropoli e la vita moderna» (a partire da Walter Benjamin), «la città cinematografica» (che si concentra sull’impatto delle immagini in movimento sugli stili di vita urbani, sulle questioni di gender, e sul consumo) e il tropo della «storia della visione» che sostiene che la modernità è caratterizzata da poteri di visione non invadenti, ma comunque coercitivi e disciplinanti. L’intervento rivisita questi tropi alla luce degli studi di cinema e della rinnovata attenzione portata alle origini e alla preistoria del cinema.
description: Modernità nelle Americhe
IMPACT LOAD SYMMETRY FOLLOWING ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION AFTER RETURN TO SPORT IN COLLEGIATE ATHLETES
Creators: name: Hill, Tyler Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Anterior cruciate ligament injury and surgical reconstruction (ACLR) increases the risk of sustaining secondary injury in athletes returning to cutting and pivoting field sports. Changes in how an athlete loads each limb during sport-specific movements is thought to be a risk factor for sustaining secondary injury. It remains unclear as to how the ACLR population differs from healthy teammates in load symmetry during high-intensity running, cutting, pivoting, and jumping tasks as demanded on the field. Furthermore, little research has focused attention on the effects of muscular fatigue on field-based biomechanics such as load symmetry. The purpose of this research study is to find out if there are differences in load symmetry between collegiate athletes with a history of ACL reconstruction and healthy collegiate athletes without ACL injuries during sport-specific tasks. We will also investigate the effects of fatigue on load symmetry between ACLR individuals and determine the within-day reliability of measuring impact load symmetry during the designed test battery.
Horava-Lifshitz Gravity From Dynamical Newton-Cartan Geometry
Creators: name: Hartong, Jelle
name: Obers, Niels A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been established that torsional Newton-Cartan (TNC) geometry is the appropriate geometrical framework to which non-relativistic field theories couple. We show that when these geometries are made dynamical they give rise to Horava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity. Projectable HL gravity corresponds to dynamical Newton-Cartan (NC) geometry without torsion and non-projectable HL gravity corresponds to dynamical NC geometry with twistless torsion (hypersurface orthogonal foliation). We build a precise dictionary relating all fields (including the scalar khronon), their transformations and other properties in both HL gravity and dynamical TNC geometry. We use TNC invariance to construct the effective action for dynamical twistless torsional Newton-Cartan geometries in 2+1 dimensions for dynamical exponent 1
description: 48 pages