cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ophiocordyceps sinensis CO18 genome sequencing
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2013
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: Also known as Cordyceps sinensis, caterpillar fungus, Dong Chong Xia Cao in Chinese, yartsa gumba in Nepal, it is well-known as a Chinese traditional medicine. It has received world-wide attention for its pharmaceutical potential and known as "Himalayan viagra" or "Himalayan gold". The fungus grows in the pastures above 3,300 meters up to 4,000 meters in the Himalayan regions. Despite its increasing high market price, the biology of this fungus remains a mystery.
Kaluza-Klein reductions of maximally supersymmetric five-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes
Creators: name: Figueroa-O'Farrill, José
name: Franchetti, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A recent study of filtered deformations of (graded subalgebras of) the minimal five-dimensional Poincaré superalgebra resulted in two classes of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. One class are the well-known maximally supersymmetric backgrounds of minimal five-dimensional supergravity, whereas the other class does not seem to be related to supergravity. This paper is a study of the Kaluza--Klein reductions to four dimensions of this latter class of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. We classify the lorentzian and riemannian Kaluza--Klein reductions of these backgrounds, determine the fraction of the supersymmetry preserved under the reduction and in most cases determine explicitly the geometry of the four-dimensional quotient. Among the many supersymmetric quotients found, we highlight a number of novel non-homogeneous four-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes admitting $N=1$ supersymmetry, whose supersymmetry algebra is not a filtered deformation of any graded subalgebra of the four-dimensional $N=1$ Poincaré superalgebra. Any of these four-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes may serve as the arena for the construction of new rigidly supersymmetric field theories.
description: Updated to match the published version
Cherokee Indian Hospital: Becoming the Provider of Choice Through Trust, Cultural Humility and Continuous Quality Improvement
Creators: name: Laughrun, Leslie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This case study outlines the story of how the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians took control of their health system from Indian Health Services through self-governance and transformed population health outcomes through cultural humility, continuous process improvement, and addressing intergenerational trauma.
Phase-change metasurfaces for dynamic image display and information encryption
Creators: name: Liu, Tingting
name: Han, Zhou
name: Duan, Junyi
name: Xiao, Shuyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical metasurfaces enable to engineer the electromagnetic space and control light propagation at an unprecedented level, offering a powerful tool to achieve modulation of light over multiple physical dimensions. Here, we demonstrate a Sb$_{2}$S$_{3}$ phase-change metasurface platform that allows active manipulation of both amplitude and phase. In particular, we implement dynamic nanoprinting and holographic image display through tuning crystallization levels of this phase-change material. The Sb$_{2}$S$_{3}$ nanobricks tailored to function the amplitude, geometric and propagation phase modulation constitute the dynamic meta-atoms in the multiplexed metasurfaces. Using the incident polarizations as decoding keys, the encoded information can be reproduced into a naonprinting grayscale image in the near field and two holographic images in the far field. These images can be switched on and off by taking advantages of the reversible tunability of Sb$_{2}$S$_{3}$ nanostructure between amorphous and crystalline states. The proposed phase-change metasurfaces featuring manifold information and multifold encryption promise ultracompact data storage with high capacity and high security, which suggests an exciting direction for modern cryptography and security applications.
Theory of the sub-Sharvin charge transport in graphene disks
Creators: name: Rycerz, Adam
name: Witkowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ballistic graphene samples in a multimode regime show the sub-Sharvin charge transport, characterized by the conductance reduced by a factor of $π/4$ comparing to standard Sharvin contacts in two-dimensional electron gas, and the shot-noise power enhanced up to $F\approx{}1/8$ (with $F$ the Fano factor) [Phys. Rev. B 104, 165413 (2021)]. Here we consider the disk-shaped (Corbino) setup in graphene, with inner radius $r_1$ and outer radius $r_2$, finding that the multimode conductance is slightly enhanced for any $r_1
description: Refs. added; new Sec. V on transport via a finite disk section
End-to-End Privacy for Open Big Data Markets
Creators: name: Perera, Charith
name: Ranjan, Rajiv
name: Wang, Lizhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The idea of an open data market envisions the creation of a data trading model to facilitate exchange of data between different parties in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. The data collected by IoT products and solutions are expected to be traded in these markets. Data owners will collect data using IoT products and solutions. Data consumers who are interested will negotiate with the data owners to get access to such data. Data captured by IoT products will allow data consumers to further understand the preferences and behaviours of data owners and to generate additional business value using different techniques ranging from waste reduction to personalized service offerings. In open data markets, data consumers will be able to give back part of the additional value generated to the data owners. However, privacy becomes a significant issue when data that can be used to derive extremely personal information is being traded. This paper discusses why privacy matters in the IoT domain in general and especially in open data markets and surveys existing privacy-preserving strategies and design techniques that can be used to facilitate end to end privacy for open data markets. We also highlight some of the major research challenges that need to be address in order to make the vision of open data markets a reality through ensuring the privacy of stakeholders.
description: Accepted to be published in IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine: Special Issue Cloud Computing and the Law
Acianthera amsleri Rykacz., Driessen & Kolan. 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rykaczewski, Max
name: Driessen, Wiel
name: Kolanowska, Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Acianthera
Acianthera amsleri

description: Acianthera amsleri Rykacz., Driessen & Kolan. sp. nov. (Fig 1 & 2)
 Type:— BRAZIL. Flowered in cultivation at Panningen, Netherlands, June 2017, obtained from Roland Amsler (Switzerland), W. Driessen s.n. (UGDA p-3958!).
 Diagnosis:—Species similar to Acianthera hystrix (Kränzlin 1921: 7) Barros (2004: 10) and A. portilloi (Luer & Escobar: 1982: 144) Karremans & Rincón-González (2015: 178) but it differs by elliptic (vs. ovate), obtuse leaves (vs. acute), pubescent ovary (vs glabrous), oblanceolate, pubescent dorsal sepal (vs glabrous), lip with trapeziform lateral lobes, and lip disc ornamented with three lamellae (vs ciliate or ecallous).
 Plant small in size, epiphytic, repent, the rhizome stout, branching, up to 15 cm long, 6 mm between ramicauls. Ramicaul stout, 12-28 mm long, enclosed by single inflated sheath. Leaf 50-70 mm long including the petiole, 15 mm wide, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, elliptical to ovate cuneate into petiole, apex obtuse, incised. Inflorescence a single flower, borne at the base of the leaf behind the inflated, loose, 8 mm long spathe. Pedicel 6 mm long, incurved, glabrous. Ovary 2 mm long, carinate, pubescent. Dorsal sepal 18 mm long, 5 mm wide oblong-oblanceolate, fleshy, densely pubescent, apex acute, 3-veined. Lateral sepals 17 mm long, 6.5 mm wide, connate together near to the apex into bifid, oblong-ovate, concave at the base, fleshy, densely pubescent, 6-veined synsepal. Petals 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, spathulate, glabrous, apex acute, 1-veined. Lip elliptic in outline, trilobed, glabrous, 3.6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide unexpanded, the apex rounded; basal half with incurved, subtruncate, lateral lobes with subacute apices; disc with three parallel, erect, thick, glabrous lamellae running from the lip base; the blade with a transverse callus above the claw; claw short, less than 1 mm long, biauriculate, hinged to the column foot base. Column 3.5 mm long, terete, straight with prominent clinandrium; anther, rostellum and stigma ventral. Column foot 2 mm long. Pollinia 2.
Etymology:—Named in honour of Roland Amsler from Switzerland, co-discoverer of this species.
description: Published as part of Rykaczewski, Max, Driessen, Wiel & Kolanowska, Marta, 2018, A new species of Acianthera (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) from Brazil, pp. 291-295 in Phytotaxa 372 (4) on page 292, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.372.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13727273
Brassica rapa Chiifu-401-42 genome sequencing project
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: We have sequenced the B. rapa accession Chiifu-401-42, an inbreed Chinese cabbage line. Genomic DNA was isolated from calli grown without light at 25deg on MS medium for 3 weeks using a standard CTAB extraction method.Diploid Brassica species B. rapa,shows great morphological plasticity. This has led to their domestication and selective breeding resulting in a range of different crop types. This morphological diversity makes B. rapa an excellent species for the study of plant morphology evolution as well as the process of domestication and directed selection. Furthermore, the genome triplication existed in B. rapa made it a good source for investigating the mechanism of whole genome triplication in plants. Thus we believe this genome to be of scientific interest to the broader communities of comparative genomics and eukaryotic evolution, in addition to those interested in crop breeding, food security, health and industrial products.
Dynamic Load Altering EV Attacks Against Power Grid Frequency Control
Creators: name: Sayed, Mohammad Ali
name: Ghafouri, Mohsen
name: Debbabi, Mourad
name: Assi, Chadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Driven by the necessity to combat climate change, Electric Vehicles (EV) are being deployed to take advantage of their ability in reducing emissions generated by the transportation sector. This deployment has left the power grid vulnerable to attacks through the EV infrastructure. This paper is written from an attackerś perspective and proposes a dynamic load altering strategy through manipulating EV charging to destabilize the grid. The attack is formulated based on feedback control theory, i.e., designing an attack based on Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). After the stability metric and controller design have been established, we demonstrate our attack method against the Kundur 2 area grid. The attack scenario includes a cap of 200 MW EV load controlled by the attacker. However, the results show that even with this limitation, the attacker would be successful in pushing the grid toward instability and blackout.
description: "\c{opyright} 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works."
Three pilot studies for the 1000 Genomes project.
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2010

description: Three pilot studies were done to evaluate the study design and methods used prior to undertaking the full-scale project. One pilot provides deep sequencing in two mother-father-adult child trios, to understand how sequencing coverage relates to data quality. Another pilot provides light sequencing of 180 samples, to examine how well data can be combined across samples. The third pilot study evaluates detailed cataloging of protein-coding regions of the genome by sequencing 1000 gene regions in 1000 samples.
Coordination protocol for inter-operator spectrum sharing in co-primary 5G small cell networks
Creators: name: Singh, Bikramjit
name: Hailu, Sofonias
name: Koufos, Konstantinos
name: Dowhuszko, Alexis A.
name: Tirkkonen, Olav
name: Jäntti, Riku
name: Berry, Randall
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider spectrum sharing between a limited set of operators having similar rights for accessing spectrum. A coordination protocol acting on the level of the Radio Access Network (RAN) is designed. The protocol is non-cooperative, but assumes an agreement to a set of negotiation rules. The signaling overhead is low, and knowledge of competitor's channel state information is not assumed. No monetary transactions are involved; instead, spectrum sharing is based on a RAN-internal virtual currency. The protocol is applicable in a scenario of mutual renting and when the operators form a spectrum pool. The protocol is reactive to variations in interference and load of the operators, and shows gains in a simulated small cell scenario compared to not using any coordination protocol.
description: To be published in IEEE Communications Magazine, Jul. 2015
Points of Contact
Creators: name: McKinsey, Sally Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ritual
Thanatology
Performance art
Video installations (Art)
Manners and customs
Sculpture
Mortality
Bereavement
Installations (Art)
Healing--Religious aspects
Medical anthropology
Theological anthropology
Biotechnology
Southern States
Textile crafts

description: My practice complicates the boundaries between biomedicine and the social support systems that work alongside it. My practice keeps vigil with human limits through object and action, engaging critical craft theory as an approach to sculptural installation and a material lens for cultural investigation. Physical labor put toward healing in medical and social contexts forms us as persons wrapped in the tangible, material mystery of death. Using fiber materials, found objects, and performance, I explore practices of sustaining life in the midst of illness. These practices reveal dynamics of belief that address questions of mortality.
Gordonia neofelifaecis NRRL B-59395 genome sequencing project
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: Gordonia neofelifaecis NRRL B-59395 GenomicThe genus Gordonia is of great interest for its potential use in industrial and environmental biotechnology. Many species of them are able to degrade toxic environmental pollutants, such as rubber (Bröker et al., 2004), nitramine explosive, dibenzothiophene, phenol, hydrocarbons (Alves et al., 2005), and cholesterol (Liu et al., 2011). Some species of Gordonia are human pathogens. Gordonia neofelifaecis shows high ability to degrade cholesterol and other steroidal compounds.Among the family Gordoniaceae, only genome sequencing of Gordonia bronchialis was completed when our sequencing project was begun.
Detailed dynamics of discrete Gaussian semiflexible chains with arbitrary stiffness along the contour
Creators: name: Tejedor, Andres R.
name: Tejedor, Jaime R.
name: Ramirez, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit a model of semiflexible Gaussian chains proposed by Winkler \textit{et al}, solve the dynamics of the discrete description of the model and derive exact algebraic expressions for some of the most relevant dynamical observables, such as the mean-square displacement of individual monomers, the dynamic structure factor, the end-to-end vector relaxation and the shear stress relaxation modulus. The mathematical expressions are verified by comparing them with results from Brownian dynamics simulations, reporting an excellent agreement. Then, we generalize the model to linear polymer chains with arbitrary stiffness. In particular, we focus on the case of a linear polymer with stiffness that changes linearly from one end of the chain to the other, and study the same dynamical functions previously presented. We discuss different approaches to check whether a polymer has constant or heterogeneous stiffness along its contour. Overall, this work presents a new insight for a well known model for semiflexible chains and provides tools that can be exploited to compare the predictions of the model with simulations of coarse grained semiflexible polymers.
Envisioning the Plastic Planet
Creators: name: Kulhanek, Cassidy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: It would be an oversimplification to say that the research and body of work produced for my thesis—titled in its entirety Envisioning the Plastic Planet—is about climate change. The climate crisis itself may be the impetus for the work, but the focus has shifted as the work evolved to cover materiality, language and semiotics, economic structures, psychological responses, cultural approaches, performativity, and much, much more. In using the framework of the Kübler-Ross Model of Grief to discuss my thesis, my aim is to explore both my own processing of the knowledge I gained through my research and the ways in which I believe humanity is subconsciously processing the climate crisis worldwide. Of course, it is important to say that while I have listed my the works I produced mostly chronologically within this format, the model is not intended to be read as a chronological sequence—where some people may experience denial as an initial step, others may experience depression or anger—and, of course, the model is a speculative psychological framework: some people may grieve in ways that are not a part of this model at all. I believe that it is an act of activism, of kinship, of love, and of faith to attempt to bring others into a state of understanding and consciousness in approaching the climate crisis.
Ion Ursu, Populațiile turanice din spațiul est-carpatic în secolele X-XIV, Editura Pontos, Chișinău, 2022, 390 p. ISBN 978-9975-72-697-9
Creators: name: Bacumenco-Pîrnău, Ludmila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: prezentare de carte

description: Reconstituirea istoriei epocii marilor migrații a triburilor turanice pătrunse în valuri succesive din Asia Centrală în arealul Europei răsăritene în secolele X-XIV, fenomen cu repercusiuni dezastruoase asupra populației locale din spațiul de la est de Carpați, reprezintă una dintre direcțiile de cercetare majore ale istoriografiei noastre. Monografia elaborată de colegul dr. Ion Ursu, cercetător științific în domeniul arheologiei medievale și, în prezent, director al Institutului Patrimoniului Cultural din Chișinău, se înscrie în seria lucrărilor dedicate acestei problematici.
Improving Federally Qualified Health Centers' Original Mandate: Community Engagement
Creators: name: Hector K. Melgar Mendoza
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In this paper, we go over the history and evolution of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) located in Western North Carolina, in context with the broader evolution of FQHCs in the nation. 

Furthermore, given that community engagement is crucial for FQHCs we recommend seven indicators to gauge and improve upon the level of community engagement by FQHCs.
Reviving keV sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
Creators: name: Jaramillo, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new production mechanism for keV sterile neutrino dark matter which relies neither on the oscillations between sterile and active neutrinos nor on the decay of additional heavier particles. The dark matter neutrinos are instead produced by thermal freeze-out, much like a typical WIMP. The challenge consists in balancing a large Yukawa coupling so that the sterile neutrinos thermalize in the early universe on the one hand, and a small enough Yukawa coupling such that they are stable on cosmological scales on the other. We solve this problem by implementing varying Yukawa couplings. We achieve this by using a three-sterile neutrino seesaw extension to the SM and embedding it in a Froggatt-Nielsen model with a single flavon. Because the vev of the flavon changes during the electroweak phase transition, the effective Yukawa couplings of the fermions have different values before and after the phase transition, thus allowing for successful dark matter genesis. Additionally, the hierarchy in the flavour structure is alleviated and the origin of the light neutrino masses are explained by the interplay of the seesaw and Froggatt-Nielsen mechanisms.
description: 19 pages
Low-energy (anti)neutrino physics with Borexino: Neutrinos from the primary proton-proton fusion process in the Sun
Creators: name: Mosteiro, P.
name: Bellini, G.
name: Benziger, J.
name: Bick, D.
name: Bonfini, G.
name: Bravo, D.
name: Caccianiga, B.
name: Cadonati, L.
name: Calaprice, F.
name: Caminata, A.
name: Cavalcante, P.
name: Chavarria, A.
name: Chepurnov, A.
name: D'Angelo, D.
name: Davini, S.
name: Derbin, A.
name: Empl, A.
name: Etenko, A.
name: Fomenko, K.
name: Franco, D.
name: Gabriele, F.
name: Galbiati, C.
name: Gazzana, S.
name: Ghiano, C.
name: Giammarchi, M.
name: Goeger-Neff, M.
name: Goretti, A.
name: Gromov, M.
name: Hagner, C.
name: Hungerford, E.
name: Ianni, Al.
name: Ianni, An.
name: Kobychev, V.
name: Korablev, D.
name: Korga, G.
name: Kryn, D.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Lehnert, B.
name: Lewke, T.
name: Litvinovich, E.
name: Lombardi, F.
name: Lombardi, P.
name: Ludhova, L.
name: Lukyanchenko, G.
name: Machulin, I.
name: Manecki, S.
name: Maneschg, W.
name: Marcocci, S.
name: Meindl, Q.
name: Meroni, E.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Miramonti, L.
name: Misiaszek, M.
name: Montuschi, M.
name: Muratova, V.
name: Oberauer, L.
name: Obolensky, M.
name: Ortica, F.
name: Otis, K.
name: Pallavicini, M.
name: Papp, L.
name: Perasso, L.
name: Pocar, A.
name: Ranucci, G.
name: Razeto, A.
name: Re, A.
name: Romani, A.
name: Rossi, N.
name: Saldanha, R.
name: Salvo, C.
name: Schoenert, S.
name: Simgen, H.
name: Skorokhvatov, M.
name: Smirnov, O.
name: Sotnikov, A.
name: Sukhotin, S.
name: Suvorov, Y.
name: Tartaglia, R.
name: Testera, G.
name: Vignaud, D.
name: Vogelaar, R. B.
name: von Feilitzsch, F.
name: Wang, H.
name: Winter, J.
name: Wojcik, M.
name: Wright, A.
name: Wurm, M.
name: Zaimidoroga, O.
name: Zavatarelli, S.
name: Zuber, K.
name: Zuzel, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sun is fueled by a series of nuclear reactions that produce the energy that makes it shine. The primary reaction is the fusion of two protons into a deuteron, a positron and a neutrino. These neutrinos constitute the vast majority of neutrinos reaching Earth, providing us with key information about what goes on at the core of our star. Several experiments have now confirmed the observation of neutrino oscillations by detecting neutrinos from secondary nuclear processes in the Sun; this is the first direct spectral measurement of the neutrinos from the keystone proton-proton fusion. This observation is a crucial step towards the completion of the spectroscopy of pp-chain neutrinos, as well as further validation of the LMA-MSW model of neutrino oscillations.
description: Proceedings from NOW (Neutrino Oscillation Workshop) 2014
The future of the EVN
Creators: name: Paragi, Zsolt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The European VLBI Network is a major radio astronomical facility that extends well beyond Europe. In its 40+ years of existence, it has proven to be a fundamental facility serving generations of radio astronomers, one that was continuously able to renew itself as challenges emerged. How to address new challenges in the changing astronomical landscape is an important question. I will review what we have learned from the EVN Science Vision process and share my views on possible ways forward.
Quantification of Crystal Packing Similarity from Spherical Harmonic Transform
Creators: name: Zhu, Qiang
name: Tang, Weilun
name: Hattori, Shinnosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a new computational approach to characterize and classify molecular packing in the solid states. The key idea is to project each neighboring molecule (or short contact) from the centered molecule into a unit sphere according to the interaction energy. Consequently, the similarity between two spherical images can be evaluated from the spherical harmonics expansion based on the maximum cross-correlation. We apply this approach to successfully reproduce the previous packing assignment on a small amount of data with an improved categorization. Furthermore, we conduct a packing similarity analysis over 2000 hydrocarbon crystal data sets and uncover a set of abundant packing motifs. Unlike the previous approaches based on the subjective visual comparison at the real space, our approach provides a more robust way to measure the packing similarity, thus paving the way for a rapid classification of large scale crystal data.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Asheville Public Transit Service Frequency - A Health Impact Assessment
Creators: name: Turbyfill, Cat
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Asheville City Council approved a new Transit Master Plan in 2018. The plan aims to increase frequency, expand service coverage, and extend hours of operation. Public transit has risen to the top of City Government priorities, recognizing the need to improve service for existing and future riders. 

ARTC expressed interest in clarifying the connection between health and public transit. They were particularly interested in impacts across employment, early childhood education/childcare, and food access. After meeting with group leaders to discuss specific targets, consensus formed around conducting a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the frequency of bus service, specifically along the southern transit corridor of Hendersonville Road.
Acromyrmex echinatior genome sequencing project.
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: Short insert libraries (500 bp, 800bp and 2 kb) for Illumina sequencing were made from extracted DNA of a single male of colony Ae372, using the Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit and the protocol provided with the manufacturer. Long insert libraries (5 kb, 10 kb and 20 kb) for Illumina sequencing were made from DNA of 40 males from colony Ae372.
Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae SC01 genome sequencing
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is believed to be responsible for non-progressive pneumoniae in sheep, goats and small ruminants, distributes worldwide and causes significant economic loses in both sheep and goat industry. However, little has been known about the gene sequence and structure, hindering the further exploration of the organism. So, the genomic sequence of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae will be very useful for clarifing molecular biological characteristics of this organism. The strain was isolated from lung of a goat with pneumoniae.
Evaluating Effectiveness of Food Pantry Programs to Improve Client Nutrition and Food Security: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Carroll, Meredith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Food pantries are a common resource for low-income families in the United States and have traditionally provided mostly canned and processed goods. More recently, food pantries have expanded their focus, offering interventions to improve nutrition and food security. A single reviewer conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of food pantries on client nutrition and food security. The SCOPUS database was searched and food pantry studies with nutrition and food security outcomes from 2005-2019 were included. One hundred fifteen titles were identified. Of those, 55 met criteria for review and 12 articles met full inclusion criteria. Food pantries were associated with improved nutrition and food security. Quality of data were assessed as moderate to poor. We found that food pantries improve nutrition and food security among clients. More research and standard measures for common outcomes would advance understanding.
The Impact of Non-Gaussianity upon Cosmological Forecasts
Creators: name: Repp, Andrew
name: Szapudi, István
name: Carron, Julien
name: Wolk, Melody
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary science driver for 3D galaxy surveys is their potential to constrain cosmological parameters. Forecasts of these surveys' effectiveness typically assume Gaussian statistics for the underlying matter density, despite the fact that the actual distribution is decidedly non-Gaussian. To quantify the effect of this assumption, we employ an analytic expression for the power spectrum covariance matrix to calculate the Fisher information for BAO-type model surveys. We find that for typical number densities, at $k_\mathrm{max} = 0.5 h$ Mpc$^{-1}$, Gaussian assumptions significantly overestimate the information on all parameters considered, in some cases by up to an order of magnitude. However, after marginalizing over a six-parameter set, the form of the covariance matrix (dictated by $N$-body simulations) causes the majority of the effect to shift to the "amplitude-like" parameters, leaving the others virtually unaffected. We find that Gaussian assumptions at such wavenumbers can underestimate the dark energy parameter errors by well over 50 per cent, producing dark energy figures of merit almost 3 times too large. Thus, for 3D galaxy surveys probing the non-linear regime, proper consideration of non-Gaussian effects is essential.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS
VLBI surveys en route to the SKA
Creators: name: Deane, Roger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: High angular resolution radio astronomy has undergone several major advancements over the past decade at metre, cm, and mm wavelengths through the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique. Increased VLBI sensitivity, capabilities, and algorithm development enable wider area surveys that detect orders of magnitude more sources, while sophisticated imaging and Bayesian modelling enable higher and more robust scientific yield from individual sources of interest. This is set to dramatically accelerate over the course of the next decade as new stations are added and as the SKA-MID and LOW arrays become operational. Expanded wide-field VLBI survey programmes are timely given the survey-driven focus of SKA pathfinders and, more generally, the impetus on wide-area synoptic surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum. In this talk, I present the design, processing, and basic data products of several wide-field VLBI surveys over legacy extragalactic fields, and their synergies with the MeerKAT MIGHTEE survey, in particular. Novel survey design, imaging, and source-finding approaches will help broaden the discovery space for future wide-field surveys with upcoming arrays like Square Kilometre Array (SKA-VLBI).
Pomacea canaliculata transcriptome
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Monoisolate

description: We are sequencing the transcriptome cDNA of randomly collected Pomacea canaliculata snails from Hong Kong Wetland Park. Total RNA was extracted, and cDNA was synthesized in Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University. PI: Dr Jian-Wen QIU
Rhodococcus sp. R04 genome sequencing project.
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: The complete genomic DNA that was extracted by phenol-chloroform extraction.Rhodococcus sp. R04 is a potent polycholorinated biphenyl-degrading soil actinomycete that catabolizes a wide range of compounds and represents a genus of considerable industrial interest.
Black Hole Solutions as Topological Thermodynamic Defects
Creators: name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, employing the generalized off-shell free energy, we treat black hole solutions as defects in the thermodynamic parameter space. The results show that the positive and negative winding numbers corresponding to the defects indicate the local thermodynamical stable and unstable black hole solutions, respectively. The topological number $W$ defined as the sum of the winding numbers for all the black hole branches at an arbitrary given temperature is found to be a universal number independent of the black hole parameters. Moreover, this topological number only depends on the thermodynamic asymptotic behaviors of the black hole temperature at small and large black hole limits. Different black hole systems are characterized by three classes via this topological number. This number could help us well understanding the black hole thermodynamics, and further shed new light on the fundamental nature of quantum gravity.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, supplemental material is added. Version published in Physical Review Letters, selected as Editors' Suggestion
Non-Gaussianity effects on the primordial black hole abundance for sharply-peaked primordial spectrum
Creators: name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perturbatively study the effect of non-Gaussianities on the mass fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) at the time of formation by systematically taking its effect into account in the one-point probability distribution function of the primordial curvature perturbation. We focus on the bispectrum and trispectrum and derive formulas that describe their effects on the skewness and kurtosis of the distribution function. Then considering the case of narrowly peaked spectra, we obtain simple formulas that concisely express the effect of the bi- and trispectra. In particular, together with the $g_{\rm NL}$ and $τ_{\rm NL}$ parameters of the trispectrum, we find that non-Gaussianity parameters for various types of the bispectrum are linearly combined to give an effective parameter, $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm eff}$, that determines the PBH mass fraction in the narrow spectral shape limit.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, Matches with the published version
Velocity tuning of friction with two trapped atoms
Creators: name: Gangloff, Dorian
name: Bylinskii, Alexei
name: Counts, Ian
name: Jhe, Wonho
name: Vuletić, Vladan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Friction is the basic, ubiquitous mechanical interaction between two surfaces that results in resistance to motion and energy dissipation. In spite of its technological and economic significance, our ability to control friction remains modest, and our understanding of the microscopic processes incomplete. At the atomic scale, mismatch between the two contacting crystal lattices can lead to a reduction of stick-slip friction (structural lubricity), while thermally activated atomic motion can give rise to a complex velocity dependence, and nearly vanishing friction at sufficiently low velocities (thermal lubricity). Atomic force microscopy has provided a wealth of experimental results, but limitations in the dynamic range, time resolution, and control at the single-atom level have hampered a full quantitative description from first principles. Here, using an ion-crystal friction emulator with single-atom, single substrate-site spatial resolution and single-slip temporal resolution, we measure the friction force over nearly five orders of magnitude in velocity, and contiguously observe four distinct regimes, while controlling temperature and dissipation. We elucidate the interplay between thermal and structural lubricity in a system of two coupled atoms, and provide a simple explanation in terms of the Peierls-Nabarro potential. This extensive control at the atomic scale paves the way for fundamental studies of the interaction of many-atom surfaces, as for example in the Frenkel-Kontorova model, and possibly into the quantum regime.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
Entering the Era of Black Hole Cinema with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope
Creators: name: Issaoun, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Using a network of eight radio telescopes at six geographic locations spanning the Earth, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) produced the first images of supermassive black holes in 2019 and 2022, launching the field of direct horizon-scale study of the spacetime and environments around black holes via direct imaging. The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) is a project to double the number of telescopes in the current EHT and quadruple the recorded bandwidth. The resulting global interferometric array will have the capability to make detailed high-dynamic range millimeter and sub-millimeter polarimetric movies of M87, SgrA*, and other black hole targets – tracing the dynamical processes underlying black hole accretion and jet launching while zeroing in on stationary horizon-scale features that reveal the imprint of general relativity. I will provide an introduction to the ngEHT concept and array design, and highlight some of the scientific goals of the project.
Improving Federally Qualified Health Centers' Original Mandate: Community Engagement
Creators: name: Hector K. Melgar Mendoza
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This paper provides a brief history of a Westen North Carolina Federally Qualified Health Center in context with the evolution of Federally Qualified Health Centers in the Nation.

This paper also explores how to evaluate the level of community engagement by Federally Qualified Health Centers and how to improve on it.
Effects of Cadmium Exposure on Syncytialization in Relation to Placental Cell Formation and Function
Creators: name: Palakodety, Niharika Satya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal used ubiquitously in consumer and industrial products. Natural and anthropogenic activities can introduce Cd into the environment, thus exposing humans. Exposure to Cd has been associated with adverse health outcomes including kidney and bone damage, cancer, and pregnancy-related diseases, such as preeclampsia. Although there have been studies investigating the effects of prenatal exposure to Cd and pregnancy-related health outcomes, there are gaps in the literature regarding the underlying mechanisms for those associations. In particular, the effects of prenatal Cd exposure on placental cell fusion, also known as syncytialization, is vastly understudied. Syncytialization occurs when mononucleated trophoblasts fuse together to create the placental barrier between the mother and fetus. The fused multinucleated trophoblasts form the outer membrane of the placenta, and are in immediate contact with maternal blood; therefore, they are directly involved in the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste. Improper syncytialization may contribute to these adverse pregnancy-related health outcomes. Using in vitro methods, the relationship between prenatal Cd exposure and syncytialization was investigated. JEG-3 and BeWo cells, in vitro trophoblast cell lines, were treated with varying doses of Cd, or cotreated with forskolin, an inducer of syncytialization, and Cd. We measured human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a marker of syncytialization, using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). Data demonstrates that JEG-3 and BeWo cells exposed to Cd or Cd-forskolin cotreatments for 48 hours alter the secretion of hCG. These results may reflect a mechanism by which Cd exposure can affect proper development of the placenta in relation to the associations with pregnancy-related diseases.
Enabling VLBI for the upgraded GMRT
Creators: name: Marthi, Visweshwar Ram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The GMRT, despite being one of the most sensitive low-frequency imaging instruments, had not been able to fully realise its potential for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). This was partly because of engineering challenges in the pre-upgrade avatar including clock stability issues, frequency coverage and analog and digital receiver electronics. The upgraded GMRT has addressed many of these constraints and has unlocked the potential for global VLBI at low radio frequencies. Specifically, the adoption of the most up-to-date time-frequency standards, a modern, highly flexible digital receiver design and software-enabled signal processing instrumentation allows for harnessing the full VLBI potential of GMRT.

 Earlier last year, the GMRT participated separately in successful VLBI fringe test experiments with a subset of telescopes of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA). So far we have been able to demonstrate that all baselines to the GMRT, in all the three fringe test experiments with the EVN, have shown excellent phase and delay stability at a level that is better than sufficient for production-level correlations. The new VLBI capability has been made possible by unlocking new modes in the GMRT Wideband Backend (GWB) and the implementation of a sequence of signal processing steps. In the immediate term, several pilot experiments are being proposed to study the suitability of the GMRT for specific scientific investigations such as small-scale neutral Hydrogen in the Milky Way and VLBI Scintillometry of interesting pulsars. This will pave the way for the GMRT to integrate seamlessly with the SKA-VLBI observations in the future, an outlook that is even more promising.

 The GMRT has an indispensable role to play in the future of VLBI, particularly in the SKA era, being favourably located with respect to both SKA-Low (in Australia) and SKA-Mid (in South Africa) and having good frequency overlap with both these facilities. As the GMRT gears up its offline and real-time VLBI signal processing capabilities, we are exploring pathways to engage more meaningfully with other VLBI partners. In the near future, VLBI will be a regular observing mode offered by the GMRT, with many feature additions and signal processing upgrades being planned within the next 1-2 year timescale.
Interpretable Uncertainty Quantification in AI for HEP
Creators: name: Chen, Thomas Y.
name: Dey, Biprateep
name: Ghosh, Aishik
name: Kagan, Michael
name: Nord, Brian
name: Ramachandra, Nesar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Estimating uncertainty is at the core of performing scientific measurements in HEP: a measurement is not useful without an estimate of its uncertainty. The goal of uncertainty quantification (UQ) is inextricably linked to the question, "how do we physically and statistically interpret these uncertainties?" The answer to this question depends not only on the computational task we aim to undertake, but also on the methods we use for that task. For artificial intelligence (AI) applications in HEP, there are several areas where interpretable methods for UQ are essential, including inference, simulation, and control/decision-making. There exist some methods for each of these areas, but they have not yet been demonstrated to be as trustworthy as more traditional approaches currently employed in physics (e.g., non-AI frequentist and Bayesian methods). Shedding light on the questions above requires additional understanding of the interplay of AI systems and uncertainty quantification. We briefly discuss the existing methods in each area and relate them to tasks across HEP. We then discuss recommendations for avenues to pursue to develop the necessary techniques for reliable widespread usage of AI with UQ over the next decade.
description: Submitted to the Proceedings of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021)
Defect control in the Heisenberg-Kitaev candidate material NaRuO$_2$
Creators: name: Ortiz, Brenden R.
name: Sarte, Paul M.
name: Avidor, Alon H.
name: Wilson, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of geometric frustration, extended hopping, spin-orbit coupling, and a disordered magnetic ground state make NaRuO$_{2}$ an attractive Heisenberg-Kitaev candidate material. Historically, NaRuO$_2$ has been a challenging material to produce, even in polycrystalline form. Here we present synthetic efforts that identify a propensity for Na$_\text{Ru}$ defects to form in NaRuO$_2$, revealing a full solid-solution between NaRuO$_{2}$ and disordered Na$_2$RuO$_3$. We report the synthesis of alloys along the Na$_{3+x}$Ru$_{3-x}$O$_6$ solid solution and characterize changes in the bulk magnetization and electron transport as a function of Na-loading. Our results highlight the importance of stoichiometry control in NaRuO$_{2}$ when investigating and interpreting this material's physical properties.