cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RelA NF-κB subunit activation as a therapeutic target in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Ponzoni, Maurilio
name: Choi, William W.L.
name: Møller, Michael B.
name: Piris, Miguel A.
name: Dybkaer, Karen
name: Orazi, Attilio
name: Xu-Monette, Zijun Y.
name: Li, Ling
name: Tzankov, Alexandar
name: Zu, Youli
name: Ferreri, Andrés J.M.
name: Hsi, Eric D.
name: Visco, Carlo
name: Bhagat, Govind
name: Winter, Jane N.
name: Chiu, April
name: Richards, Kristy L.
name: Montes-Moreno, Santiago
name: Manyam, Ganiraju C.
name: Medeiros, L. Jeffrey
name: Pham, Lan V.
name: Young, Ken H.
name: Zhang, Mingzhi
name: Parsons, Ben M.
name: Huh, Jooryung
name: Han van Krieken, J.
name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: It has been well established that nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) activation is important for tumor cell growth and survival. RelA/p65 and p50 are the most common NF-κB subunits and involved in the classical NF-κB pathway. However, the prognostic and biological significance of RelA/p65 is equivocal in the field. In this study, we assessed RelA/p65 nuclear expression by immunohistochemistry in 487 patients with de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and studied the effects of molecular and pharmacological inhibition of NF-κB on cell viability. We found RelA/p65 nuclear expression, without associations with other apparent genetic or phenotypic abnormalities, had unfavorable prognostic impact in patients with stage I/II DLBCL. Gene expressionprofiling analysis suggested immune dysregulation and antiapoptosis may be relevant for the poorer prognosis associated with p65 hyperactivation in germinal center B-cell–like (GCB) DLBCL and in activated B-cell–like (ABC) DLBCL, respectively. We knocked down individual NF-κB subunits in representative DLBCL cells in vitro, and found targeting p65 was more effective than targeting other NF-κB subunits in inhibiting cell growth and survival. In summary, RelA/p65 nuclear overexpression correlates with significant poor survival in early-stage DLBCL patients, and therapeutic targeting RelA/p65 is effective in inhibiting proliferation and survival of DLBCL with NF-κB hyperactivation.
Generation of Rabi frequency radiation using exciton-polaritons
Creators: name: Barachati, Fábio
name: De Liberato, Simone
name: Kéna-Cohen, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the use of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities to generate radiation spanning the infrared to terahertz regions of the spectrum by exploiting transitions between upper and lower polariton branches. The process, which is analogous to difference-frequency generation (DFG), relies on the use of semiconductors with a nonvanishing second-order susceptibility. For an organic microcavity composed of a nonlinear optical polymer, we predict a DFG irradiance enhancement of $2.8\cdot10^2$, as compared to a bare nonlinear polymer film, when triple resonance with the fundamental cavity mode is satisfied. In the case of an inorganic microcavity composed of (111) GaAs, an enhancement of $8.8\cdot10^3$ is found, as compared to a bare GaAs slab. Both structures show high wavelength tunability and relaxed design constraints due to the high modal overlap of polariton modes.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Buckled Diamond-like Carbon Nanomechanical Resonators
Creators: name: Tomi, Matti
name: Isacsson, Andreas
name: Oksanen, Mika
name: Lyashenko, Dmitry
name: Kaikkonen, Jukka-Pekka
name: Tervakangas, Sanna
name: Kolehmainen, Jukka
name: Hakonen, Pertti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed capacitively-transduced nanomechanical resonators using sp$^2$-rich diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films as conducting membranes. The electrically conducting DLC films were grown by physical vapor deposition at a temperature of $500{\,\,}^\circ$C. Characterizing the resonant response, we find a larger than expected frequency tuning that we attribute to the membrane being buckled upwards, away from the bottom electrode. The possibility of using buckled resonators to increase frequency tuning can be of advantage in rf applications such as tunable GHz filters and voltage-controlled oscillators.
description: 5 + 4 pages, 3 + 4 figures
Chronic and Gradual-Onset Injuries and Conditions in the Sport of Surfing: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Hanchard, Samuel
name: Duncan, Ashley
name: Furness, James
name: Simas, Vini
name: Climstein, Mike
name: Kemp-Smith, Kevin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This protocol has been developed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 checklist with recommended items to address in a systematic review (Shamseer et al., 2015). The protocol will be registered prospectively with the Open Science Framework (OSF). Injuries within surfing have previously been analysed, however, the majority of the research has focused upon acute or traumatic injuries. Most of the injury data has been collected from emergency departments or online surveys. This review will aim to collate and summarise the currently available research, specific to chronic and gradual-onset surfing injuries.
OurMED D3.1 Report on the Stakeholder Mapping and Water Governance for Demo Sites. Version 1.1
Creators: name: Ceseracciu, Chiara
name: Roggero, Pier Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Stakeholder mapping
Particpatory approach
Mediterranean region
Water management
Water policy

description: The objective of this document is to assess and understand the present water and ecosystem governance in demo studies. To fulfill this objective, this document contains system characterization of the demo studies, stakeholder mapping and governance analysis. The case studies include Agia (Greece), Arborea (Italy), Bode (Germany), Jucar (Spain), Mujib (Jordan), Sebou (Morocco), Medjerda (Tunisia), Konya (Turkey) and the MED regional scale.
description: This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 2222
Quasi-Bell inequalities from symmetrized products of noncommuting qubit observables
Creators: name: Gamel, Omar E.
name: Fleming, Graham R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noncommuting observables cannot be simultaneously measured, however, under local hidden variable models, they must simultaneously hold premeasurement values, implying the existence of a joint probability distribution. We study the joint distributions of noncommuting observables on qubits, with possible criteria of positivity and the Fréchet bounds limiting the joint probabilities, concluding that the latter may be negative. We use symmetrization, justified heuristically and then more carefully via the Moyal characteristic function, to find the quantum operator corresponding to the product of noncommuting observables. This is then used to construct Quasi-Bell inequalities, Bell inequalities containing products of noncommuting observables, on two qubits. These inequalities place limits on local hidden variable models that define joint probabilities for noncommuting observables. We find Quasi-Bell inequalities have a quantum to classical violation as high as $\frac{3}{2}$, higher than conventional Bell inequalities. The result demonstrates the theoretical importance of noncommutativity in the nonlocality of quantum mechanics, and provides an insightful generalization of Bell inequalities.
description: 17 pages
Ontology Modelling for Materials Science Experiments
Creators: name: Alam, Mehwish
name: Birkholz, Henk
name: Dessì, Danilo
name: Eberl, Christoph
name: Fliegl, Heike
name: Gumbsch, Peter
name: Von Hartrott, Philipp
name: Mädler, Lutz
name: Niebel, Markus
name: Sack, Harald
name: Thomas, Akhil
Publisher: name: Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: Ontology Design
subject: Data Curation
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 004
subject: 620

description: Materials are either enabler or bottleneck for the vast majority of technological innovations. The digitization of materials and processes is mandatory to create live production environments which represent physical entities and their aggregations and thus allow to represent, share, and understand materials changes. However, a common standard formalization for materials knowledge in the form of taxonomies, ontologies, or knowledge graphs has not been achieved yet. This paper sketches the e_orts in modelling an ontology prototype to describe Materials Science experiments. It describes what is expected from the ontology by introducing a use case where a process chain driven by the ontology enables the curation and understanding of experiments.
Aging effects on intestinal homeostasis associated with expansion and dysfunction of intestinal epithelial stem cells
Creators: name: Van Landeghem, Laurianne
name: Santoro, M. Agostina
name: Blue, R. Eric
name: Moorefield, Emily C.
name: Mah, Amanda T.
name: Ding, Shengli
name: Andres, Sarah F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Intestinal epithelial stem cells (IESCs) are critical to maintain intestinal epithelial function and homeostasis. We tested the hypothesis that aging promotes IESC dysfunction using old (18-22 months) and young (2-4 month) Sox9-EGFP IESC reporter mice. Different levels of Sox9-EGFP permit analyses of active IESC (Sox9-EGFPLow), activatable reserve IESC and enteroendocrine cells (Sox9-EGFPHigh), Sox9-EGFPSublow progenitors, and Sox9-EGFPNegative differentiated lineages. Crypt-villus morphology, cellular composition and apoptosis were measured by histology. IESC function was assessed by crypt culture, and proliferation by flow cytometry and histology. Main findings were confirmed in Lgr5-EGFP and Lgr5-LacZ mice. Aging-associated gene expression changes were analyzed by Fluidigm mRNA profiling. Crypts culture from old mice yielded fewer and less complex enteroids. Histology revealed increased villus height and Paneth cells per crypt in old mice. Old mice showed increased numbers and hyperproliferation of Sox9-EGFPLow IESC and Sox9-EGFPHigh cells. Cleaved caspase-3 staining demonstrated increased apoptotic cells in crypts and villi of old mice. Gene expression profiling revealed aging-associated changes in mRNAs associated with cell cycle, oxidative stress and apoptosis specifically in IESC. These findings provide new, direct evidence for aging associated IESC dysfunction, and define potential biomarkers and targets for translational studies to assess and maintain IESC function during aging.
Underground study at LUNA of proton-induced reactions on 6Li at astrophysical energies
Creators: name: Chillery, Thomas William
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: observed primordial abundances
Big Bang models
lithium-6
Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics
S-factors

description: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) theory coupled with Cosmic Microwave Background measurements provide predictions on the modern day abundances of low mass isotopes, which are then compared to observations from stellar environments. Specifically 6,7Li isotopic abundances are determined from spectral analysis of radiation emitted from the outer atmospheres of low mass pre-main sequence (PMS) stars. Current literature reports measured abundance of 6Li is 1000 times higher than predicted. Two reactions which destroy 6Li: 6Li(p,a)3He and 6Li(p,g)7Be, have an impact on the predicted 6Li abundances. A previous study measured the 6Li(p,g)7Be reaction at relevant energies and proposed a new resonance which may affect the 6Li abundances predicted from BBN. Until now the existence of this resonance has yet to be confirmed by an independent measurement. This thesis work reports an experimental campaign aimed to measure both proton-induced destructive reactions on 6Li across astrophysically relevant energies. These reactions were measured concurrently at the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA) located under the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, which benefits from a reduced natural background (10^4 - 10^5 reduced gamma-ray flux) compared to surface laboratories. A proton beam was accelerated at energies Ep = 80 - 395 keV onto 6Li-enriched solid targets nominally composed of Li2O or Li2WO4 and evaporated on a tantalum backing. The charged particles and gamma rays were simultaneously detected using a Silicon and a High Purity Germanium detector, respectively. The experimental yields were calculated from the data and deconvolved using a median energy approach to determine astrophysical S-factors for both 6Li destruction reactions. Due to incomplete knowledge of the target stoichiometries during beam bombardment, the present S-factors were normalised to previously reported 6Li(p,a)3He reaction S-factors. Results from this work do not confirm the existence of the proposed resonance in 6Li(p,g)7Be. Present thermonuclear reaction rates are calculated to the highest precision to date and the astrophysical implications discussed. Comparisons to previous literature are presented.
Registration of Outcome Measures used in Treatment of Narcolepsy: Scoping Review
Creators: name: Schokman, Aaron
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Sleep Medicine
subject: narcolepsy
subject: outcome measures
subject: randomized trials
subject: treatment

description: This registration details the scoping review on outcome measures used in treatment of narcolepsy
A robust DPG method for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems
Creators: name: Heuer, Norbert
name: Karkulik, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present and analyze a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions for a reaction-dominated diffusion problem in two and three space dimensions. We start with an ultra-weak formulation that comprises parameters $α$, $β$ to allow for general $\varepsilon$-dependent weightings of three field variables ($\varepsilon$ being the small diffusion parameter). Specific values of $α$ and $β$ imply robustness of the method, that is, a quasi-optimal error estimate with a constant that is independent of $\varepsilon$. Moreover, these values lead to a norm for the field variables that is known to be balanced in $\varepsilon$ for model problems with typical boundary layers. Several numerical examples underline our theoretical estimates and reveal stability of approximations even for very small $\varepsilon$.
Epigenetic clock analysis of diet, exercise, education, and lifestyle factors
Creators: name: Tsao, Philip S.
name: Ritz, Beate
name: Assimes, Themistocles L.
name: Tanaka, Toshiko
name: Wallace, Robert B.
name: Quach, Austin
name: Ferrucci, Luigi
name: Lu, Ake T.
name: Snetselaar, Linda
name: Bandinelli, Stefania
name: Baccarelli, Andrea A.
name: Neuhouser, Marian L.
name: Beasley, Jeannette M.
name: Absher, Devin
name: Chen, Brian H.
name: Hou, Lifang
name: Whitsel, Eric A.
name: Stewart, James D.
name: Horvath, Steve
name: Levine, Morgan E.
name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Behavioral and lifestyle factors have been shown to relate to a number of health-related outcomes, yet there is a need for studies that examine their relationship to molecular aging rates. Toward this end, we use recent epigenetic biomarkers of age that have previously been shown to predict all-cause mortality, chronic conditions and age-related functional decline. We analyze cross-sectional data from 4,173 postmenopausal female participants from the Women's Health Initiative, as well as 402 male and female participants from the Italian cohort study, Invecchiare nel Chianti.
The psychological appeal of fake news attributions
Creators: name: Axt, Jordan
name: Kay, Aaron
name: Landau, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The term fake news is increasingly used to discredit information from reputable news organizations. We tested the possibility that fake-news claims are appealing because they satisfy the need to see the world as structured. Believing that news organizations are involved in an orchestrated disinformation campaign implies a more orderly world than believing that the news is prone to random errors. Across six studies (N > 2,800), individuals with dispositionally high or situationally increased need for structure were more likely to attribute contested news stories to intentional deception than to journalistic incompetence. The effect persisted for stories that were ideologically consistent and ideologically inconsistent and after analyses controlled for strength of political identification. Political orientation showed a moderating effect; specifically, the link between need for structure and belief in intentional deception was stronger for Republican participants than for Democratic participants. This work helps to identify when, why, and for whom fake-news claims are persuasive.
Potential and Behavioral Self-Expansion in Relationships Study 1
Creators: name: Dobson, Kiersten
name: HARP Lab
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: relationship commitment
subject: relationship satisfaction
subject: self-expansion

description: This preregistration includes the hypotheses and analytic plan document for Study 1 of this project.
The Relationship between $ε$-Kronecker and Sidon Sets
Creators: name: Hare, Kathryn
name: Ramsey, L. Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 43A46, 42A15, Secondary 42A55

description: A subset $E$ of a discrete abelian group is called $ε$-Kronecker if all $E$-functions of modulus one can be approximated to within $ε$ by characters. $E$ is called a Sidon set if all bounded $E$-functions can be interpolated by the Fourier transform of measures on the dual group. As $ε$-Kronecker sets with $ε<2$ possess the same arithmetic properties as Sidon sets, it is natural to ask if they are Sidon. We use the Pisier net characterization of Sidonicity to prove this is true.
description: 7 pages
Randomized QR with Column Pivoting
Creators: name: Duersch, Jed A.
name: Gu, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The dominant contribution to communication complexity in factorizing a matrix using QR with column pivoting is due to column-norm updates that are required to process pivot decisions. We use randomized sampling to approximate this process which dramatically reduces communication in column selection. We also introduce a sample update formula to reduce the cost of sampling trailing matrices. Using our column selection mechanism we observe results that are comparable in quality to those obtained from the QRCP algorithm, but with performance near unpivoted QR. We also demonstrate strong parallel scalability on shared memory multiple core systems using an implementation in Fortran with OpenMP. This work immediately extends to produce low-rank truncated approximations of large matrices. We propose a truncated QR factorization with column pivoting that avoids trailing matrix updates which are used in current implementations of level-3 BLAS QR and QRCP. Provided the truncation rank is small, avoiding trailing matrix updates reduces approximation time by nearly half. By using these techniques and employing a variation on Stewart's QLP algorithm, we develop an approximate truncated SVD that runs nearly as fast as truncated QR.
Psychometric properties of health-related quality of life questionnaires in patients with chronic venous insufficiency: a systematic review
Creators: name: de Almeida, Igor
name: Silva, Whesley
name: Ávila, Matheus
name: Lima, Vanessa
name: Figueiredo, Pedro
name: Costa, Henrique
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Quality of Life; HRQOL; Chronic Venous Disease; Psychometric properties; Questionnaires

description: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a condition with high prevalence and incidence in general population. The clinical expression is wide, ranging from asymptomatic or with reticulating veins to recurrent venous ulcers. The analysis of the psychometric properties of health-related quality of life questionnaires in patients with CVI is necessary in order to assist as a good tool in clinical practice and in the scope of research. Searches will be made at MEDLINE, CINAHL, Science Web, LILACS and Scopus databases, using the terms “Venous insufficiency”, “Quality of Life “Chronic venous disease”, “HRQOL”, “Chronic venous disease”, and “Varicose veins”.
Osteoporosis in the Post Stroke Population: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Knight, Sydney
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
subject: PMR
subject: Post Stroke Osteoporosis
subject: Stroke

description: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to osteoporosis and bone health in the post stroke population.
THE FINANCIAL DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA.
Creators: name: Brhane Teklay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: This study mainly emphasized on the financial determinants of private sector investment in Ethiopia using annual time series data from1975-2015. Using Johansen co integration test they have a significant relationship among variables and OLS regression analysis was undertake to estimate long run model and ECM has been used to find out the short run dynamics. In both long run and short run model the financial determinants variable like broad money supply, bank credit and availability of foreign exchange were positive relation with the private investment. The other macro variable taken was the capital expenditure, which is negatively affect in the long run and positively affect private investment in the short run. The researchers conclude based on past literature result’s capital expenditure is positively association with private investment. The short run dynamics of estimated coefficient ECM which suggests a relatively quick speed of adjustment back to the long-run equilibrium. The findings of the study provide evidence that private investment in Ethiopia, like in other developing countries is affected by important financial and macroeconomic variables. The empirical evidence however has certain important policy implications, and in view of that recommendations have also been provided, in an attempt to help increase and stimulate private investment in Ethiopia
Anomalous perception in a gazfeld condition: a meta-analysis of more than 40 years of investigation
Creators: name: Tressoldi, Patrizio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: anomalous cognition
subject: ganzfeld
subject: meta-analysis
subject: registered report

description: This meta-analysis is an investigation into anomalous perception (i.e., conscious identification of information without any conventional sensorial means). The technique used for eliciting an effect is the ganzfeld condition (a form of sensory homogenization that eliminates distracting peripheral noise). The database consists of peer-reviewed studies published between January 1974 and June 2020 inclusive, for a total of XX studies. The overall effect size will be estimated using a frequentist model, and a Bayesian random model. Moderator analysis will be used to examine the level of experience of participants and the type of task. Publication bias will be estimated by using three different tests. Trend analysis will be conducted on the cumulative database.
Editorial of the Special issue on Cultural heritage and semantic web
Creators: name: Alam, Mehwish
name: De Boer, Victor
name: Daga, Enrico
name: Van Erp, Marieke
name: Hyvönen, Eero
name: Meroño-Peñuela, Albert
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : IOS Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Editorial of the Special issue on Cultural heritage and semantic web
subject: 004

description: [no abstract available]
A Chip-Firing Game on the Product of Two Graphs and the Tropical Picard Group
Creators: name: Lazar, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E45, 14T05

description: In his preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3813, Cartwright introduced the notion of a weak tropical complex in order to generalize the concepts of divisors and the Picard group on graphs from Baker and Norine's paper Riemann-Roch and Abel-Jacobi Theory on a Finite Graph. A tropical complex $Γ$ is a $Δ$-complex equipped with certain algebraic data. Divisors in a tropical complex are formal linear combinations of ridges, and piecewise-linear functions on a tropical complex give rise in a natural way to divisors. Divisors that arise from PL-functions are called principal, and divisors that are locally principal are called Cartier. Two divisors that differ by a principal divisor are said to be linearly equivalent. The linear equivalence classes of Cartier divisors on a tropical complex $Γ$ form a group called the Picard group of $Γ$, by analogy to the definition of the Picard group of a variety in algebraic geometry. Every graph has a unique tropical complex structure. If $G$ and $H$ are graphs, and $Γ$ is a triangulation of their product, then $Γ$ has a weak tropical complex structure that is compatible with the tropical complex structures on $G$ and $H$. Thus, divisors on $Γ$ can be thought of as states in a higher-dimensional chip-firing game on $Γ$. Cartwright conjectured that the Picard groups of $Γ$, $G$, and $H$ were closely related. Let $Pic(Γ)$ be the tropical Picard group of $Γ$, and $Pic(G)$ and $Pic(H)$ be the tropical Picard groups of $G$ and $H$. Then, it was conjectured that there is a map $γ: Pic(G) \times Pic(H) \to Pic(Γ)$ that is always injective and is surjective if at least one of $G$ or $H$ is a tree. In this paper, we prove the conjecture. In preparation, we discuss some basic properties of tropical complexes, along with some properties specific to the product-of-graphs case.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures. Removed Section 2 and reworked Sections 3 and 4 into a new Section 2
Collecting and Documenting Faculty and Student Artwork in Institutional Repositories in U.S. Colleges and Universities
Creators: name: McKeehan, Morgan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Studio art--Documentation
Institutional repositories
Education--Studio art

description: The past decade has seen significant development within colleges and universities in establishing digital institutional repositories (IRs) for collecting, preserving, and providing long-term access to scholarly production and research assets. Although there has been a correspondingly large amount of research into the role and functioning of IRs broadly speaking, a focused investigation of contributions by Studio Art Departments to these new platforms for sharing research has not yet been conducted. This paper describes the results of an exploratory study which collected the dual perspectives of Art Department and IR administrators to gather information about collection practices for documentation of artworks created by students and faculty, Art Departments' awareness of and engagement with IRs for depositing these collections, and how repositories support digital documentation of artwork in terms of specifications for file types, metadata creation procedures, and access conditions.
The Gap Between Us: Income Inequality Reduces Social Affiliation in Dyadic Interactions
Creators: name: Stancato, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This project consists of two experiments examining the effects of income inequality between two individuals on social capital—defined in terms of affiliative intent and social warmth—in the context of a face-to-face interaction. Overall, we demonstrate that greater inequality produces more negative emotional responses, reduced desire to affiliate with one’s partner, harsher evaluations of one’s partner, and lower observer ratings of behavioral warmth.
A THESIS PRESENTED TO ADDIS ABABA SCHOOL OF COMMERCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Tamiru Demeke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Abstract

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is the most important component in the project

management. Despite its importance, the effectiveness of M&E system is affected by various

factors. Addis Ababa HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (AAHAPCO) runs HIV/AIDS

projects which are supported by government of Ethiopia and international organizations.

This research aims to assess the practices of M&E in AAHAPCO and identify the challenges.

The method used for this study was census. This method was selected for two main reasons.

The first reason is the number of staffs who were engaged in project implementation and

M&E activities were few. The second reason was to obtain sufficient data from the

aforementioned staff. During data collection, out of the total project and M&E staffs who

were supposed to be fill the questionnaire, more than 90% of them filled and returned the

questionnaires provided to them. The research found that although most of the respondents

have first degree and ample work experience in project management and M&E, majority of

them did not have sufficient knowledge about M&E policy, framework, guidelines and

procedures of the office because they were neither oriented nor provided these documents at

the time of or after employment. The second finding of this research is that M&E is practiced

regularly and in participatory approach and also the management utilise the information

produced by M&E staff. However, the M&E officers do not have sufficient technical

knowledge of M&E but perform their activities using the tradition method that they were told

to do. The third finding is that the practice of M&E is challenged by lack of budget, the

existence of different reporting requirement by different funders, time consuming

implementing activities, and lack of skill in M&E. Thus, it is recommended that AAHAPCO

should build the capacity of M&E officer by providing orientation and providing the M&E

policy, procedures and manuals to new employees and also enabling the old-timer M&E staff

to get training or formal education in M&E. Moreover, AAHAPCO should allocate sufficient

budget for M&E activities
Functional Series Symmetry: A Structural Approach to the Riemann Hypothesis
Creators: name: Yıldırım, Begüm
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 490499
subject: Pure mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: The Riemann Hypothesis (RH), one of the most significant unsolved problems in mathematics, posits that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line (R(s)=1/2). Despite numerous attempts, a universal proof remains elusive. This paper introduces Functional Series Symmetry (FSS) ,Weighted Derivatives and Functional Level Theory (FLT), which together provide a structured approach to understanding the behavior of zeros.The author acknowledges the use of OpenAI’s language model for assistance in drafting certain sections of this workl
Smooth braneworld models possibility in modified gravities
Creators: name: de Brito, G. P.
name: da Silva, J. M. Hoff
name: da Silva, P. Michel L. T.
name: Dutra, A. de Souza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the consideration of the braneworld consistency conditions within the framework of bulk modified gravities allows for the existence of thick branes in the five- dimensional case with compact extra dimension. In studing the specific consistency conditions in the Brans-Dicke gravity we were able to show that the brane generating scalar field potential is relevant for relaxing the gravitational constraints.
Effectiveness and safety of baricitinib in patients with alopecia areata: a systematic review and Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Abdelrahman Mohamed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Since there is now no medication available that has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune condition that has a detrimental impact on individuals. Recent clinical trials using baricitinib demonstrated that it may be effective in treating AA. This meta-analysis was done to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of baricitinib in comparison to placebo. Author looked through Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PubMed, for all published, randomized, clinical trials. This meta-analysis included 1282 participants from two citations (reporting three stand-alone studies). In term of SALT score, baricitinib significantly outperformed placebo; MD = −34.07, 95% CI [–37.90, −30.23], p < .00001. Additionally, the proportion of patients in the baricitinib group that attained SALT ≤ 20 was significantly higher than in the placebo group; RR = 6.41, 95% CI [4.57, 8.98], p < .00001. The results of the safety analysis revealed no significant differences between the baricitinib and placebo groups for any of the outcomes with the exception of acne, which was significantly higher in the placebo group when compared to the baricitinib group (RR= 4.79, 95% CI [2.38, 9.66], p .0001). When compared to placebo, baricitinib is an effective and well-tolerated medication for the treatment of AA.
Analysis of Railway Vehicle End Protection
Creators: name: Abdullahi, Youssouf Daher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ethiopia is building a modern and reliable railway transportation industry to fulfill the needs of transportation system, in which one of the main considerations in building the railway transportation system is safety of the passenger and driver’s crew. This thesis will attempt to redesign and improve the railway vehicle end protection, for the safety of passenger and drivers crew. General existing vehicle end protection design has been reviewed to identify candidate equipment for the passenger cab. This review shows that the use of shear bolts is the most common approach to pushback coupler trigger mechanism. Ribbed anti-climbers are the most common approach in providing the interlock between colliding vehicles in the event of collision.
Quantum criticality of bosonic systems with the Lifshitz dispersion
Creators: name: Wu, Jianda
name: Zhou, Fei
name: Wu, Congjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum criticality of the Lifshitz $φ^4$-theory below the upper critical dimension. Two fixed points, one Gaussian and the other non-Gaussian, are identified with zero and finite interaction strengths, respectively. At zero temperature the particle density exhibits different power-law dependences on the chemical potential in the weak and strong interaction regions. At finite temperatures, critical behaviors in the quantum disordered region are mainly controlled by the chemical potential. In contrast, in the quantum critical region critical scalings are determined by temperature. The scaling ansatz remains valid in the strong interaction limit for the chemical potential, correlation length, and particle density, while it breaks down in the weak interaction one. As approaching the upper critical dimension, physical quantities develop logarithmic dependence on dimensionality in the strong interaction region. These results are applied to spin-orbit coupled bosonic systems, leading to predictions testable by future experiments.
description: 10 pages, 2 figure
Do a Consumer Health Radio Show and Blog Advance Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility?
Creators: name: Richardson, Lee M.
name: Ottosen, Terri
name: Renner, Barbara Rochen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Low health literacy contributes to health issues. Librarians must be involved in making high quality health information available conveniently to a diverse population. Librarians partner with physicians on a weekly consumer health radio show and blog. They find, evaluate and select resources to meet these needs. Despite some content gaps, there are a number of shows on diversity and inclusion topics that librarians are making more discoverable.
CoralCam: a flexible, low-cost ecological monitoring platform
Creators: name: Greene, Austin
name: Forsman, Zac
name: Toonen, Robert
name: Donahue, Megan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: arduino
subject: camera
subject: conservation
subject: coral
subject: ecology
subject: low cost
subject: management
subject: marine
subject: monitoring
subject: photo
subject: remote
subject: subsurface
subject: timelapse
subject: video

description: A flexible, Arduino-based camera platform for long-term timelapse photography and monitoring of remote habitats.
Tenascin-C: a marker and driver of inflammation
Creators: name: Ozanne, James Henry John
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: Tenascin-C
inflammatory response
biomarker
Dextran Sulphate Sodium model
disease marker
DSS colitis model

description: Tenascin-C, the founding member of the matricellular tenascin family, is a large multifunctional hexameric extracellular matrix (ECM) glycoprotein. It is abundantly expressed in the developing embryo but its expression becomes tightly regulated in the adult. However, during inflammatory responses tenascin-C becomes highly upregulated where it acts to create a local pro-inflammatory ‘niche’. In this proinflammatory role tenascin-C has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), both of which are characterised by upregulated tenascin-C locally and systemically. The work of this thesis has looked to expand upon this earlier work, identifying tenascin-C as a key driver as well as marker of inflammation, and further probe its mechanistic role in the inflammatory response and utility as a biomarker of inflammatory disease. To answer the first question regarding tenascin-C’s role in pathological inflammation a murine Dextran Sulphate Sodium (DSS) model of chemically induced colitis was utilised. This thesis details the spatial and temporal expression of tenascin-C in the colon under basal conditions as well as the inflammatory state of the DSS model. Tenascin-C demonstrated a marked upregulation within the inflamed mucosa coinciding with the upregulation of other pro-inflammatory mediators and immune cell infiltration. Following this descriptive characterisation, subsequent studies probed the mechanistic relevance of this upregulation utilising the same model in combination with a tenascin-C knockout mouse. These studies showed a protective effect of tenascin-C’s genetic ablation on the severity of the colitis induced. This included reductions in gross pathology as well as histopathology including lower inflammation and tissue damage observed during the acute stage. Finally, with this mechanistic link clearly established between tenascin-C and the inflammatory diseased state this thesis aimed to explore tenascin-Cs utility as a disease marker, with a focus on RA. To this end, a number of novel immunoassays were established and validated for the measurement of tenascin-C and autoantibodies against in human serum samples. Screening of serum samples with these assays showed significantly higher levels of tenascin-C or autoantibodies against it in the serum of RA patients compared to healthy controls. These changes were not entirely RA specific however with a number of other inflammatory diseases tested also showing higher serum tenascin-C levels. The work described herein has utilised the DSS colitis model in combination with tenascin-C knockout mice to demonstrate the role of tenascin-C as a driver of inflammatory disease and has further shown translational relevance as a disease marker in human patients.
Measurement of interaction between antiprotons
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the primary goals of nuclear physics is to understand the force between nucleons, which is a necessary step for understanding the structure of nuclei and how nuclei interact with each other. Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, and the large body of knowledge about the nuclear force since acquired was derived from studies made on nucleons or nuclei. Although antinuclei up to antihelium-4 have been discovered and their masses measured, we have no direct knowledge of the nuclear force between antinucleons. Here, we study antiproton pair correlations among data taken by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and show that the force between two antiprotons is attractive. In addition, we report two key parameters that characterize the corresponding strong interaction: namely, the scattering length (f0) and effective range (d0). As direct information on the interaction between two antiprotons, one of the simplest systems of antinucleons, our result provides a fundamental ingredient for understanding the structure of more complex antinuclei and their properties.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Nature. Under media embargo
Experiential Learning: Voices of Librarians-to-Be
Creators: name: Renner, Barbara Rochen
name: Clark, Michele
name: Delaney, Shannon
name: Haddock, Amanda
name: Richardson, Lee M.
name: Walker, Jennifer S.
name: Dodd, Adam
name: Dwigans, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Academic libraries, and particularly specialized ones, often can provide a broad range of career-building opportunities to those thinking about or in the process of becoming librarians.  Participants in a variety of experiences at one of UNC’s specialized libraries have ranged from teens to graduate students to recent graduates transitioning to new careers in libraries.  Hear several current and recent librarians-to-be discuss their efforts to acquire hands-on practical skills, learn more about the field of librarianship, receive mentoring and career planning assistance, and participate in library meetings, events and other professional activities inside and outside of the library.  Challenges include matching potential candidates with appropriate experiential opportunities tailored to their needs, while meeting Human Resources requirements and ensuring students enrolled for credit satisfy the expectations of their specific institutions and programs.  To further aid in making career resources more accessible to fledgling professionals, the library also created an online guide.
β-delayed neutron emission from r-process nuclei along the N=82 shell closure
Creators: name: Hall, Oscar Benjamin
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: β-delayed neutron emission
rapid neutron capture process
r-process
r-process abundance predictions
r-process calculations
modelling

description: The rapid-neutron capture process (r -process) is thought to be responsible for the production of around half the elements heavier than iron. Despite first being proposed almost six decades ago, the astrophysical site of the r-process remains an open question. The multi-messenger observation of gravitational waves originating from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) and its electromagnetic counterpart provided evidence indicating that a possible r-process had occurred, providing a possible answer to this question. The accurate modelling of the nucleosynthesis processes taking place in such mergers requires precise nuclear input data, including nuclear masses, β-decay half-lives, and β-delayed neutron emission probabilities. A challenge here is that for the exotic neutron-rich nuclei that are of importance to the r-process, relatively few values are known experimentally. There is, therefore, high demand for experimental measurements along the r-process path which can be used as inputs in r-process calculations. In addition to being used as inputs in nucleosynthesis calculations, experimentally measured values act as reference points for the development of theoretical models in regions far from stability. This thesis presents the first measurement of the β-delayed neutron emission probabilities of 21 neutron-rich isotopes and improves upon the precision of a further four. In addition to this, measurements of the half-lives of 31 neutron-rich isotopes are presented. These neutron-rich isotopes are located along the N = 82 shell closure, a region that has been highlighted as being important in the production of the r-process A = 130 peak. These values, therefore, represent a significant contribution to the experimental data available for use in r-process calculations. The measurements were carried out at the Radioactive Ion Beam Factory in Japan, where the β-decays of neutron-rich ions were measured using the Advanced Implantation Detector Array in coincidence with their β-delayed neutrons that were measured using the BRIKEN neutron counter array.
The interplay between bullying victimization and rejection sensitivity over time (Update)
Creators: name: Kellij, Sanne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The update (anonymous version) of the pre-registration "The interplay between bullying victimization and rejection sensitivity over time".
A Library and a Radio Show: The Story of a Successful Partnership at 10 Years and Counting
Creators: name: Richardson, Lee M.
name: Goldstein, Adam O.
name: Ottosen, Terri
name: Renner, Barbara Rochen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019

description: Your Health® Radio is a weekly one-hour radio show about consumer health produced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Family Medicine.  It provides practical, health-related news and information to listeners in an easy to understand style.  Hosted by a family medicine physician faculty member and co-hosted by other health professionals, it airs on a local radio station.  Since 2009, Health Sciences librarians have collaborated on the show, bringing their expertise in information discovery and organization, consumer health, and health literacy to this consumer health endeavor. In the process, the librarians and libraries have also benefited.