cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aciculites Schmidt 1879
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Scleritodermidae
Aciculites

description: Genus Aciculites Schmidt, 1879 Distribution: Barbados, Cuba, Mediterranean, Madagascar, Kenya, Sri Lanka, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Philippines (Pisera and Lévi 2002; Manconi et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Avalanches in wood compression
Creators: name: Mäkinen, Tero
name: Miksic, Amandine
name: Ovaska, Markus
name: Alava, Mikko J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wood is a multi-scale material exhibiting a complex viscoplastic response. We study avalanches in small wood samples in compression. "Woodquakes" measured by acoustic emission are surprisingly similar to earthquakes and crackling noise in rocks and laboratory tests on brittle materials. Both the distributions of event energies and of waiting (silent) times follow power-laws. The stress- strain response exhibits clear signatures of localization of deformation to "weak spots" or softwood layers, as identified using Digital Image Correlation. Even though material structure-dependent localization takes place, the avalanche behavior remains scale-free.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Predicting functional sites in proteins using intelligent machine learning and data mining techniques
Creators: name: JIANGNING SONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

description: Proteins are fundamental building blocks and play a central role in defining behavior within all biological systems. Identification of functional residues is a crucial step towards understanding the functional mechanisms of proteins. Experimental elucidation of protein function can be prohibitively expensive. To address this, this thesis focuses on developing computational approaches to predict protein functional sites from sequence and/or structural information, by combining feature engineering and modern machine-learning algorithms. Specific techniques are developed for predicting functional sites of different types. These demonstrate the importance of leveraging heterogeneous features. Online servers have been created that make the developed computational techniques publicly available.
What's In There Anyway? A collection assessment of the UNC Law Library Rare Book Room
Creators: name: Taylor, Tamia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Books--Evaluation
Law libraries and collections
Rare books

description: This study focuses on the rare book collection in the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill Law Library Rare Book Room Collection. A collection and preservation
assessment was performed to weed books out of the collection and to see which books
need preservation treatment. A comparison of local University Law Library rare book
collections was done to assess the quality of the UNC collection.
Comparing Gaia, NED and SIMBAD source classifications in nearby galaxies
Creators: name: Hales, J.
name: Barmby, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides the first classifications for the sources in Gaia's all-sky database. Most Gaia sources are stars in the Milky Way, but DR3 also contains many sources that belong to nearby galaxies, as well as background galaxies and quasars. In this work, we compare the Gaia classifications from the Discrete Source Classifier (CU8-DSC) module to the more detailed and heterogeneous classifications in NED and/or SIMBAD for sources with sky positions within twice the Holmberg radius of nearby galaxies. Matching these catalogues gives approximately 3.2e5 unique Gaia matches for 4e5 sources over 1040 galaxies (excluding some large Local Group galaxies) in the Local Volume Galaxy catalogue. Matched sources contain a lower fraction of Gaia-classified stars and higher fractions of galaxies and quasars (~95, 2 and 2 per cent, respectively) than DR3 overall. Considering NED (SIMBAD) classifications as truth values, the balanced accuracy of Gaia classification is 0.80 (0.83): the most common disagreements are literature-classified galaxies Gaia-classified as stars and literature-classified stars Gaia-classified as quasars. Purity (P) and completeness (C) metrics show that agreement between Gaia classification and NED/SIMBAD classification is best for stars (P,C~0.9), and decreases for quasars (P<0.3, 0.7
description: MNRAS in press; 12 pages, 7 figures
Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Exponentially Small Bjorken Parameter Regime from the Holographic Softwall Model
Creators: name: Capossoli, Eduardo Folco
name: Boschi-Filho, Henrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the AdS/CFT correspondence and the holographic softwall model to investigate the Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) in the exponentially small $x$ (Bjorken Parameter) regime. We calculate the corresponding structure functions for scalar fields. Using these results we studied the problem of the saturation line in the strong interactions. Our results are consistent with those achieved using other models.
description: V.2: 29 pages, 2 figures. Text improved with one new section. New references included. Typos corrected. Results unchanged. To appear in PRD
Informal Language and Its Relationship to the Acquisition of Twitter Followers
Creators: name: Radabaugh, Jimi A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Virtual communities
Microblogs
Content analysis

description: This paper argues that increased use of Informal Language in an organization's Tweets will increase their number of Followers on Twitter. An unobtrusive content analysis was conducted on approximately 12,000 Tweets authored by 18 academic institutions, all members of the iSchools organization, in order to extract instances of Informal Language.   The findings suggest that Informal Language is an effective means of communication in the context of Twitter, and imply more broadly that conforming to the conventions established by any social media platform is an effective means of increasing presence and influence in a given medium.
Aciculites mediterranea Manconi, Serusi & Pisera 2006
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Scleritodermidae
Aciculites
Aciculites mediterranea

description: Aciculites mediterranea Manconi, Serusi & Pisera, 2006 Sardinia Sea, Grotta dei Laghi, 40°34’N 81°4’E, dark cave, 7.5 m of depth, VIII.2000, R. Barbieri leg., SCUBA diving, formalin/alcohol (Manconi et al. 2006) Distribution. Only known from the type locality aW-Mediterranean cave.
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Building better controlled vocabularies: Guidance from ISO 25964
Creators: name: Lindenthal, Jutta
name: Balzer, Detlev
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ISO 25964
subject: Standards
subject: Controlled vocabularies
subject: https://iskouk.org/subjects/JPQUM1MB
subject: https://iskouk.org/subjects/ZWK2RJRN

description: Based on examples of existing controlled vocabularies and use cases, some quality issues are evaluated against recommendations given by the ISO standard and SKOS. While many validity criteria can be applied as stated in the standard, some areas of conflict come to light when attempting to retain full conformance. The model elements of thesaurus array and compound equivalence leave the implementer with some ambiguity and for the latter, an alternative to the standard is suggested. The proposals for implementing facets provide for several options, but fall short of explaining the implications of the different approaches when applied to vocabulary management and information retrieval tasks. Existing applications of a top concept relation do not always conform with the notion as defined by the standard, giving rise to conflicts between declared and inferred hierarchy relationships. It is discussed whether explicitly asserted top concept relationships can augment a thesaurus beyond what is possible by automatic evaluation of concept hierarchies. Some of these issues are illustrated using SPARQL-based queries over existing thesauri.
Gov2.0: Public Value Enabler
Creators: name: MOHAMMED SAEED M ALADALAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This thesis examined the government use of social media applications (Gov2.0) towards citizen engagement to achieve Public Value. Taking a trans-disciplinary approach, it proposed the Gov2.0. Public Value Model (GPVM) to explain the synergy between citizens and governments that is needed to co-create PV via Gov2.0. Co-creation and PV are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that the use of collective resources will meet collective needs in a mutually beneficial manner. This is, if we think about it, quite a simple idea. This thesis offers both theoretical and practical contributions with regard to an emerging and evolving phenomenon (i.e., Gov2.0 and PV) that is attracting the interest of researchers and practitioners.
Drift instabilities driven by slab ion temperature gradient in suprathermal plasmas
Creators: name: Guo, Ran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The drift instabilities driven by the slab ion temperature gradient (ITG) in Kappa-distributed plasmas are investigated by the kinetic method. The linear dispersion relation is given in an integral representation involving only the standard plasma dispersion function. The wave frequency and growth rate are derived without the density inhomogeneity. Numerical solutions of the dispersion equation are conducted to show the different effects of the suprathermal ions and electrons. We find that the suprathermal ions can enhance the instability in large wavenumbers but suppress it in small wavenumbers. Thus, the suprathermalization of ions could be one of the factors leading to a lower limit of wavenumbers for the ITG instabilities. Besides, the numerical calculations also imply that the thermal speed ratio affects the intensities of the suprathermal effects. Finally, in the presence of density inhomogeneity, the ITG instability boundary is numerically analyzed.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
A Cognitive Model for Data Integration and Generalization Inspired by the Human Neocortex
Creators: name: PIN HUANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the current data rich environment, relatively little work has been done to design a holistic approach to perform data generalization, sequence capturing, data integration and prediction, while the human neocortex has the capability to achieve all of these functions as a whole. For this reason, the human neocortex is used as a biological inspiration for this research. The research has developed a novel brain inspired model for data generalization, sequence capturing and data integration, which can then be used for predicting future events and for predicting missing aspects in the input data.
A data-dependent dissimilarity measure: An effective alternative to distance measures
Creators: name: SUNIL ARYAL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In data mining, the task-specific performances of conventional distance-based similarity measures vary significantly in different data distributions because they are data-independent and sensitive to units or scales of measurement. This thesis investigates a measure, where the similarity of two instances is determined by the distribution of data. It introduces a new (dis)similarity measure, which is data-dependent and robust to units and scales of measurement. The empirical evaluation conducted across a wide range of datasets shows that the new measure produces better or at least more consistent task-specific performance than widely-used distance-based measures, particularly in high-dimensional datasets.
Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick 1903
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Scleritodermidae
Microscleroderma

description: Genus Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick, 1903 Distribution: Off KwaZulu-Natal, south Arabia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Caledonia, Caribbean, Mediterranean (Pisera and Lévi 2002; Perez et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Failure to Search: A Look at Searching as Related to User Emotion, Search Skill, and Confidence
Creators: name: Burch, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016
Subjects: Topic distillation
Information-seeking behavior
Information retrieval

description: This study describes a survey of participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk as they attempted to complete tasks and their thoughts as related to them.  The tasks were designed to be nearly impossible for the participant to complete and were designed to test user frustration when not being able to find relevant information on a topic.  Perceived participant emotion, search skill, and knowledge of the topic was determined through the use of two questionnaires which were administered before and after the task was completed.
Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?
Creators: name: Funderburk, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004
Subjects: Collection development--Evaluation
Public libraries--North Carolina
Fiction--Selection
Public libraries--Book collections
Romance Novels Selection
Book reviews and reviewing--Evaluation

description: The historically low status of romances in public libraries has improved to some extent with the recent advent of reviews and hardcover publishing of the genre. However, reviews remain in short supply and public library literature demonstrates a continuing preference for other genres over romance. Is this lack of regard reflected in the collections of public libraries? In this study, the collections of all public libraries in North Carolina are evaluated for the presence or absence of award winning romance, western, horror, science fiction/fantasy, and mystery titles. The relationship of review availability to title availability in these libraries is examined. Within the parameters of this study, correlations between reviews and title availability are significant. Study results show that while romance novel collections in North Carolina public libraries continue to improve, they still lag behind other genres. Additional selection tools may be necessary to create a successful, well-rounded romance collection.
Collisional modelling of the AU Microscopii debris disc
Creators: name: Schüppler, Ch.
name: Löhne, T.
name: Krivov, A. V.
name: Ertel, S.
name: Marshall, J. P.
name: Wolf, S.
name: Wyatt, M. C.
name: Augereau, J. -C.
name: Metchev, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatially resolved AU Mic debris disc is among the most famous and best-studied debris discs. We aim at a comprehensive understanding of the dust production and the dynamics of the disc objects with in depth collisional modelling including stellar radiative and corpuscular forces. Our models are compared to a suite of observational data for thermal and scattered light emission, ranging from the ALMA radial surface brightness profile at 1.3mm to polarisation measurements in the visible. Most of the data can be reproduced with a planetesimal belt having an outer edge at around 40au and subsequent inward transport of dust by stellar winds. A low dynamical excitation of the planetesimals with eccentricities up to 0.03 is preferred. The radial width of the planetesimal belt cannot be constrained tightly. Belts that are 5au and 17au wide, as well as a broad 44au-wide belt are consistent with observations. All models show surface density profiles increasing with distance from the star as inferred from observations. The best model is achieved by assuming a stellar mass loss rate that exceeds the solar one by a factor of 50. While the SED and the shape of the ALMA profile are well reproduced, the models deviate from the scattered light data more strongly. The observations show a bluer disc colour and a lower degree of polarisation for projected distances <40au than predicted by the models. The problem may be mitigated by irregularly-shaped dust grains which have scattering properties different from the Mie spheres used. From tests with a handful of selected dust materials, we derive a preference for mixtures of silicate, carbon, and ice of moderate porosity. We address the origin of the unresolved central excess emission detected by ALMA and show that it cannot stem from an additional inner belt alone. Instead, it should derive, at least partly, from the chromosphere of the central star.
description: Astronomy and Astrophysics (accepted for publication), 18 pages, 11 figures
The Visual Context of Foraging: Interactions Between Bee Vision and Floral Pollination with Computational Models
Creators: name: ZOE ELIZABETH BUKOVAC
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111303 Vision Science
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Computational Biology

description: Bees forage in a world of varied visual information. To find flowers, bees must cope with a variety of contextual conditions, including background colours, floral spatial distributions, and floral colour distributions. This visual context is known to affect the accuracy of bee decisions and has influenced both bee vision and flower evolution. Using a variety of computational techniques, including agent-based models, our results reveal how aspects of visual context contribute to the relationship between bees and flowers, and how we can harness contextual cues to direct improvements in agricultural pollination.
Scalar Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Generalization of the Gravitational Redshift
Creators: name: Tobar, Michael E
name: Hatzon, Michael T
name: Flower, Graeme R
name: Goryachev, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that demonstrates how potentials can have observable effects even when the classical fields associated with those potentials are absent. Initially proposed for electromagnetic interactions, this effect has been experimentally confirmed and extensively studied over the years. More recently, the effect has been observed in the context of gravitational interactions using atom interferometry. Additionally, recent predictions suggest that temporal variations in the phase of an electron wave function will induce modulation sidebands in the energy levels of an atomic clock, solely driven by a time-varying scalar gravitational potential [1]. In this study, we consider the atomic clock as a two-level system undergoing continuous Rabi oscillations between the electron's ground and excited state. We assume the photons driving the transition are precisely frequency-stabilized to match the transition, enabling accurate clock comparisons. Our analysis takes into account, that when an atom transitions from its ground state to an excited state, it absorbs energy, increasing its mass according to the mass-energy equivalence principle. Due to the mass difference between the two energy levels, we predict that an atomic clock in an eccentric orbit will exhibit a constant frequency shift relative to a ground clock corresponding to the orbit's average gravitational redshift, with additional modulation sidebands due to the time-varying gravitational potential.
An effective strong-coupling theory of composite particles in UV-domain
Creators: name: Xue, She-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly review the effective field theory of massive composite particles, their gauge couplings and characteristic energy scale in the UV-domain of UV-stable fixed point of strong four-fermion coupling, then mainly focus the discussions on the decay channels of composite particles into the final states of the SM gauge bosons, leptons and quarks. We calculate the rates of composite bosons decaying into two gauge bosons $γγ$, $γZ^0$, $W^+W^-$, $Z^0Z^0$ and give the ratios of decay rates of different channels depending on gauge couplings only. It is shown that a composite fermion decays into an elementary fermion and a composite boson, the latter being an intermediate state decays into two gauge bosons, leading to a peculiar kinematics of final states of a quark (or a lepton) and two gauge bosons. These provide experimental implications of such an effective theory of composite particles beyond the SM. We also present some speculative discussions on the channels of composite fermions decaying into $WW$, $WZ$ and $ZZ$ two boson-tagged jets with quark jets, or to four-quark jets. Moreover, at the same energy scale of composite particles produced in high-energy experiments, composite particles are also produced by high-energy sterile neutrino (dark matter) collisions, their decays lead to excesses of cosmic ray particles in space and signals of SM particles in underground laboratories.
description: Final version published in JHEP, 54 pages, 6 figures
On left-invariant semi-Kähler structures on six-dimensional nilpotent nonsymplectic Lie groups
Creators: name: Smolentsev, N. K.
name: Chernova, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C15, 53C25, 53C50. 22E25

description: It is known that there are 34 classes of six-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups, many of which admit left-invariant symplectic and complex structures. Among them there are three classes of groups on which there are no left-invariant symplectic structures, but there are complex structures. In this work, semi-Kähler and almost para-semi-Kähler structures are defined on such Lie groups and their geometric properties are studied.
description: 13 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2408.13736
Understanding Collective Intelligence in Agent-Based Systems: an Information-Theoretic Approach to the Measurement and Comparison of Intelligence in Groups
Creators: name: NADER CHMAIT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling

description: This research aims to better understand the phenomenon of collective intelligence across the three cognitive systems: human, animal and machine. Major characteristics shaping the spread of intelligence in groups are identified and their influences on group performance are measured using an intelligence test. We address how much groups, implementing different communication and co-operation protocols, can outperform individuals by. Moreover, a new predictive model for the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) agents is presented. Finally, using notions from information theory, the studies of intelligence in AI are linked to other disciplines, notably business decision-making and management.
Transcriptome studies on mac5a mutants of early flowering
Creators: name: 吴文武
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Monoisolate
Model organism

description: The mutants of mac5a and agb1 mac5a show early flowering as compared to agb1 and Col-0 plants. We studied the transcriptome changes between the samples potentially underlying the early flowering
Toward a Definition of Minimalism: Principles of Minimal Visual Design in Web Interfaces
Creators: name: Meyer, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Web sites
Web sites--Design
Graphical user interfaces

description: "Minimalist" has grown into more than just a buzzword amongst Web designers. In the
past ten years, a minimalist design aesthetic has rapidly gained popularity and respect in
mainstream Web audiences. Most Web design experts agree that minimalist Web
designers approach their work with a 'less-is-more' philosophy: only absolutely
necessary graphic and content elements should be included. However, Web design
experts differ in the details, and each has a slightly different argument about what
characteristics qualify as minimalist.
This study surveys the writings of several prominent Web design experts to tease out a
working definition of what constitutes a minimalist Web interface. The study then codes
a sample of minimalist interfaces based on the most important characteristics of
minimalism, as determined by the working definition. The results suggest that visual
focus on primary content, flat graphic design, and restricted color palettes are
important features of minimalist websites.
Microscleroderma lamina Perez, Vacelet, Bitar & Zibrowius 2004
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Scleritodermidae
Microscleroderma
Microscleroderma lamina

description: Microscleroderma lamina Perez, Vacelet, Bitar & Zibrowius, 2004 MNHN D JV 76-77-78, Levant basin, N-Lebanon, Chak El Hatab, lithistid dark cave, 34°17’63N 35°40’27E, 2 m of depth, 21.ix.2002, G. Bitar and H. Zibrowius leg., SCUBA diving, dry/formalin/alcohol (Perez et al. 2004) Distribution: Only known from the type locality an E-Mediterranean cave.
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Brown-York quasilocal energy in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity and black hole horizons
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
name: Dadhich, Naresh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A standard candidate for quasilocal energy in general relativity is the Brown-York energy, which is essentially a two dimensional surface integral of the extrinsic curvature on the two-boundary of a spacelike hypersurface referenced to flat spacetime. Several years back one of us had conjectured that the black hole horizon is defined by equipartition of gravitational and non-gravitational energy. By employing the above definition of quasilocal Brown-York energy, we have verified the equipartition conjecture for static charged and charged axi-symmetric blck holes in general relativity. We have further generalized the Brown-York formalism to all orders in Lanczos-Lovelock theories of gravity and have verified the conjecture for pure Lovelock charged black hole in all even d=2m+2 dimensions, where m is the degree of Lovelock action. It turns out that the equipartition conjecture works only for pure Lovelock, and not for Einstein-Lovelock, black holes.
description: v2, References added, 18 pages, No figures
snRNA-seq of mouse brain cortex
Creators: name: 王迪仙(Dixian Wang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Medical

description: GDF11 loxp mice aged 4-5M were treated in the prefrontal lobe with a focal injection of AAV9 CaMKIIa-Cre-P2A-GFP virus (KO group) or AAV9 CaMKIIa-GFP virus (Ctrl group). We used single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) to analyze the differential expressed genes (DEGs).
Public Libraries: Serving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families.
Creators: name: Broman, Holly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017
Subjects: Libraries & children
Library activity programs
Libraries & children with disabilities
Public libraries--Use studies
Library public services--Evaluation

description: Persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are a growing population that public libraries serve. This study sets out to discover what children with ASD use their public library for and what they would like the library to change or improve in order to best serve them. Eight children with ASD and their families were interviewed for this purpose. Results showed areas where public libraries are serving children with ASD effectively and ineffectively and pointed to a greater need for universal design.
the relationship between dietary starch digestion rate and amino acid oxidized energy supply in the intestinal mucosa
Creators: name: 罗财伟(Luo Caiwei)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metabolome
Multiisolate

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanisms of starch digestion rate and digestible lysine (dLys) level on the growth performance and their intestinal mucosal amino acid oxidized for energy supply of broilers from 0-3 weeks of age.
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing data of human carotid atherosclerotic plaque and control samples
Creators: name: 贾晓东(Xiaodong Jia)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multiisolate
Medical

description: In this study, one patient with carotid artery stenosis and one voluntary donor with normal carotid artery were included as subjects. To reveal the mechanism of carotid atherosclerotic plaque formation, we performed single-cell nuclear sequencing.
The Consequences of E-Books and E-Readers on the Cover Design Industry and the Use of Book Covers as an Effective Marketing Tool: An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Vaders, Natalie R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Book selection
Electronic books
Libraries--Marketing
Book industry
Book jackets
Books--Format

description: Through historical research and observations, the intention of this project is to explore the nature of the role of the book cover in today's market.  Further research into the industry will help librarians to make informed predictions about the future of book cover design with the rise of e-readers, which greatly diminish a reader's ability to make selections based on the cover alone.  As the technology of reading changes, designers will have to adapt, changing their cover art to gain more attention when covers are only displayed as small, even black and white, icons.   By examining this dynamic industry, insights will be gained for designers, readers, and librarians, who are increasingly making collection development decisions for e-books.  Books have historically had aesthetic value in their physical form, but as this form changes, perception of what a book is also changes, particularly for books that may exist only in electronic forms.
Expanding the Grid: Collaborative Opportunities in E-Science
Creators: name: Granatino, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Information networks
College and university libraries
Research and the library
Virtual library

description: In November 2007, the Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science from ARL  issued a report entitled the "Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries."  This report outlined critical areas for engagement, as well as strategies for libraries to  undertake in order to improve support for the E-Sciences at an institutional level. This  paper examines five on-campus laboratories from UNC-Chapel Hill, and using the ARL  guidelines and agendas projects how the UNC-CH library system can begin to improve  support for E-Sciences.
On Detecting Termination in Cognitive Radio Networks
Creators: name: Sharma, Shantanu
name: Singh, Awadhesh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The cognitive radio networks are an emerging wireless communication and computing paradigm. The cognitive radio nodes execute computations on multiple heterogeneous channels in the absence of licensed users (a.k.a. primary users) of those bands. Termination detection is a fundamental and non-trivial problem in distributed systems. In this paper, we propose a termination detection protocol for multi-hop cognitive radio networks where the cognitive radio nodes are allowed to tune to channels that are not currently occupied by primary users and to move to different locations during the protocol execution. The proposed protocol applies credit distribution and aggregation approach and maintains a new kind of logical structure, called the virtual tree-like structure. The virtual tree-like structure helps in decreasing the latency involved in announcing termination. Unlike conventional tree structures, the virtual tree-like structure does not require a specific node to act as the root node that has to stay involved in the computation until termination announcement; hence, the root node may become idle soon after finishing its computation. Also, the protocol is able to detect the presence of licensed users and announce strong or weak termination, whichever is possible.
description: Accepted in Wiley International Journal of Network Management (Wiley-IJNM) 2014, 12 figures
Hawkes graphs
Creators: name: Embrechts, Paul
name: Kirchner, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62M45 (Primary), 60G55 (Secondary)

description: This paper introduces the Hawkes skeleton and the Hawkes graph. These objects summarize the branching structure of a multivariate Hawkes point process in a compact, yet meaningful way. We demonstrate how graph-theoretic vocabulary (`ancestor sets', `parent sets', `connectivity', `walks', `walk weights', ...) is very convenient for the discussion of multivariate Hawkes processes. For example, we reformulate the classic eigenvalue-based subcriticality criterion of multitype branching processes in graph terms. Next to these more terminological contributions, we show how the graph view may be used for the specification and estimation of Hawkes models from large, multitype event streams. Based on earlier work, we give a nonparametric statistical procedure to estimate the Hawkes skeleton and the Hawkes graph from data. We show how the graph estimation may then be used for specifying and fitting parametric Hawkes models. Our estimation method avoids the a priori assumptions on the model from a straighforward MLE-approach and is numerically more flexible than the latter. Our method has two tuning parameters: one controlling numerical complexity, the other one controlling the sparseness of the estimated graph. A simulation study confirms that the presented procedure works as desired. We pay special attention to computational issues in the implementation. This makes our results applicable to high-dimensional event-stream data, such as dozens of event streams and thousands of events per component.
description: 22 pages
Improving Teen Library Program Attendance: Young Adult Librarians' Perspectives
Creators: name: Moore, Grace M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Libraries and teenagers
Public libraries--Activity programs
Young adult services librarians

description: This study aims to determine the best practices in planning and promoting young adult public library programs that successfully bring in teenage attendees. Data was gathered from in-person interviews with six young adult librarians in public libraries in North Carolina and Florida. The researcher also collected any available attendance data from the past year for the selected libraries. Interviewees expressed having mixed results with social media and email promotion, but consistently emphasized the value of personal relationships with teen patrons and word-of-mouth promotion. Attendance data revealed that programs at these libraries with guest presenters or creative performances by teens were the most highly-attended. This research was completed to offer guidance to the many young adult librarians who struggle to raise their program attendance.
Quantum nonlocality with arbitrary limited detection efficiency
Creators: name: Pütz, Gilles
name: Aktas, Djeylan
name: Martin, Anthony
name: Fedrici, Bruno
name: Tanzilli, Sébastien
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The demonstration and use of nonlocality, as defined by Bell's theorem, rely strongly on dealing with non-detection events due to losses and detectors' inefficiencies. Otherwise, the so-called detection loophole could be exploited. The only way to avoid this is to have detection efficiencies that are above a certain threshold. We introduce the intermediate assumption of limited detection efficiency, that is, in each run of the experiment, the overall detection efficiency is lower bounded by $η_{min} > 0$. Hence, in an adversarial scenario, the adversaries have arbitrary large but not full control over the inefficiencies. We analyse the set of possible correlations that fulfill Limited Detection Locality (LDL) and show that they necessarily satisfy some linear Bell-like inequalities. We prove that quantum theory predicts the violation of one of these inequalities for all $η_{min} > 0$. Hence, nonlocality can be demonstrated with arbitrarily small limited detection efficiencies. We validate this assumption experimentally via a twin-photon implementation in which two users are provided with one photon each out of a partially entangled pair. We exploit on each side a passive switch followed by two measurement devices with fixed settings. Assuming the switches are not fully controlled by an adversary, nor by hypothetical local variables, we reveal the nonlocality of the established correlations despite a low overall detection efficiency.
description: 5+5 pages, 3 figures. Theory part previously put on arXiv at arXiv:1507.04937 Accepted in Physical Review Letters
Faculty and student perceptions on the effectiveness of online course modules:  Are modules a hindrance or help?
Creators: name: Clanton, Clista
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001
Subjects: Bibliographic instruction
Surveys--Information needs
Computer-assisted instruction
Internet--College and university libraries
Information systems--Special subjects--Health sciences

description: The Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill currently develops online course modules in conjunction with the School of Pharmacy.  These modules are used to help in the teaching of course offerings, and there is a trend in several programs of developing online course content. Since there is a growing emphasis on online course modules within these curriculums, there should also be an evaluation of the perceived effectiveness of these teaching aids by both the faculty who administer them and the students who complete them. A study of these perceptions will support the development and future direction of online teaching aids in meeting both curriculum development within these programs, and the educational needs of the students. Major findings of the study include the majority of students (86%) preferred using online modules, while those who did not (14%) cited computer illiteracy as one reason.
Deformation-induced splitting of the monopole giant resonance in 24Mg
Creators: name: Kvasil, J.
name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Repko, A.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Kleinig, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong deformation splitting of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), recently observed in ($α,α'$) reaction in prolate $^{24}$Mg, is analyzed in the framework of the Skyrme quasiparticle random-phase-approximation (QRPA) approach with the Skyrme forces SkM*, SVbas and SkP$^δ$. The calculations with these forces give close results and confirm that the low-energy E0-peak is caused by the deformation-induced coupling of ISGMR with the K=0 branch of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, to be published in EPJ Web of Conferences (Proceedings of the International Conference NSRT15, Dubna, Russia, 2015)
Orthogonal Echo State Networks and stochastic evaluations of likelihoods
Creators: name: Mayer, Norbert Michael
name: Yu, Ying-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We report about probabilistic likelihood estimates that are performed on time series using an echo state network with orthogonal recurrent connectivity. The results from tests using synthetic stochastic input time series with temporal inference indicate that the capability of the network to infer depends on the balance between input strength and recurrent activity. This balance has an influence on the network with regard to the quality of inference from the short term input history versus inference that accounts for influences that date back a long time. Sensitivity of such networks against noise and the finite accuracy of network states in the recurrent layer are investigated. In addition, a measure based on mutual information between the output time series and the reservoir is introduced. Finally, different types of recurrent connectivity are evaluated. Orthogonal matrices show the best results of all investigated connectivity types overall, but also in the way how the network performance scales with the size of the recurrent layer.
Collaboration between librarians and information technologists: benefits to the corporate information consumer
Creators: name: McMannen, S. Renee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999
Subjects: Information systems
Corporate libraries
Special libraries
Interprofessional--cooperation

description: This study discusses collaboration between librarians and information technologists and the potential advantages to the information consumer.  It reviews changes in the information industry such as emergence of virtual and electronic environments, information anxiety and the convergence of technologies that are driving the two professions together.  However, as the findings show, the two professional cultures may not be natural allies and collaboration may not be painless.  The study describes the findings of research conducted with a project team composed of both types of information professionals and shows the benefits of collaboration to information technologists, to librarians, and most of all, to information consumers.
Manifestly gauge-covariant representation of scalar and fermion propagators
Creators: name: Latosiński, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new way to write the massive scalar and fermion propagators on a background of a weak gauge field is presented. They are written in a form that is manifestly gauge-covariant up to several additional terms that can be written as boundary terms in momentum space. These additional terms violate Ward-Takahashi identities and need to be renormalized by appropriate counterterms if the complete theory is to be gauge-covariant. This form makes it possible to calculate many amplitudes in a manifestly gauge-covariant way (at the same time reducing the number of Feynman diagrams). It also allows to express some counterterms in a way independent of the regularization scheme and provides an easy way to derive the anomalous term affecting the chiral current conservation.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Scalable Non-Markovian Sequential Modelling for Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: EHSAN SHAREGHI NOJEHDEH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80403 Data Structures
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80107 Natural Language Processing

description: We show that finite-order Markov models fail to capture long range dependencies that exist in human language and propose infinite-order non-Markovian (Bayesian and non-Bayesian) models which are capable of capturing unbounded dependencies. Presenting the structure of an infinite-order model amounts to a significant memory usage, and its very large space of parameters introduces computational and statistical burdens in the learning phase. We propose a framework based on compressed data structures which keeps the memory usage of modelling, learning, and inference steps independent from the order of the models. Our approach scales nicely with the order of the Markov model and data size, and is highly competitive with the state-of-the-art in terms of the memory and runtime, while allowing us to develop more accurate models.