cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Positivity Bias in Judging In-group Members’ Emotional Expressions
Creators: name: Lazerus, Talya
name: Cikara, Mina
name: Ingbretsen, Zachary
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We investigate how group membership impacts valence judgments of in- and out-group members’ emotional expressions. In Experiment 1, participants, randomized into two novel, competitive groups, rated the valence of in- and out-group members’ facial expressions (fear, happy, neutral) using a circumplex affect grid. Across all emotions, participants judged in-group members’ expressions as more positive than out-group members’ expressions. In Experiment 2, participants categorized fear and happy expressions as being either positive or negative using a mouse-tracking paradigm. Participants exhibited the most direct trajectories toward the positive label for in-group happy expressions and an initial attraction toward ‘positive’ for in-group fear expressions, with out-group emotion trajectories falling in between. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 and demonstrated that the effect could not be accounted for by targets’ gaze direction. Overall, people judged in-group faces as more positive, regardless of emotion, both in deliberate and implicit judgments.
African-American Access Policies at the Consolidated University of North Carolina Libraries, 1951-1958
Creators: name: Kephart, Anna J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Academic libraries--North Carolina--History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Libraries
Access to libraries
African Americans and libraries--Southern states--History

description: The policies developed by the libraries of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; The North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina, Raleigh; and The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro) over the period from 1951 to 1958 demonstrate the difficulties African-Americans faced when pursuing scholarly research, as well as the broader challenges of integrating higher education institutions. Although all three schools shared an overarching administration, each one handled African-American library patrons differently. This inconsistency became a source of contention during the early 1950s, as the University system attempted to maintain "separate but equal" facilities for African-Americans, in an effort to put off integration. This preliminary report outlines and analyzes these policies, places them in the context of African-American scholarship and higher education during the time period, and suggests avenues for further research.
Supplementary materials for Beneficial Microbes BM-20220120: Effects of food matrix on the prebiotic efficacy of inulin-type fructans: a randomised trial
Creators: name: Jackson, P.P.J.
name: Wijeyesekera, A.
name: Theis, S.
name: Van Harsselaar, J.
name: Rastall, R.A.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Food technology
Food chemistry and food sensory science

description: Recently there is much debate in the scientific community over the impact of the food matrix on prebiotic efficacy of inulin-type fructans. Previous studies suggest that prebiotic selectivity of inulin-type fructans towards bifidobacteria is unaffected by the food matrix. Due to differences in study design, definitive conclusions cannot be drawn from these findings with any degree of certainty. In this randomised trial, we aimed to determine the effects that different food matrices had on the prebiotic efficacy of inulin-type fructans following a standardised 10-day, 4-arm, parallel, randomised protocol with inulin either in pure form or incorporated into shortbread biscuits, milk chocolate or a rice drink. Similar increases in Bifidobacterium counts were documented across all four interventions using both fluorescence in situ hybridisation (pure inulin: +0.63; shortbread: +0.59; milk chocolate: +0.65 and rice drink: +0.71 (log10 cells/g wet faeces) and 16S rRNA sequencing quantitative microbiome profiling data (pure inulin: +1.21×109; shortbread: +1.47×109; milk chocolate: +8.59×108 and rice drink: +1.04×109 (cells/g wet faeces) (all P≤0.05). From these results, we can confirm that irrespective of the food matrix, the selectivity of inulin-type fructans towards Bifidobacterium is unaffected, yet the compositional make-up of the food matrix may have implications regarding wider changes in the microbiota.
Xenopus workflow: KapoorLabs
Creators: name: Kapoor, Varun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: VollSeg, Sentinal, NapaTrackMater, TrackMate, Jean Zay, IDRIS, Xenopus, Nuclei, CZI, Kapoorlabs

description: Presentation material for workflow developed for cell segmentation, cell action type classification, tracking and auto track correction with track analysis and track classification for the group of Dr. Jakub Sedzinski at University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the PhD student of the lab, Mari Tolonen.
description: Computational support provided by Jean Zay dynamic access grants : AD011013724R1, AD011013695R1, AD011013695R1, AD011013396R1, AD011013396R1
Building A Strategy For Digital Game Preservation Based On The Practices Of Communities Of Players
Creators: name: Heiberg, Cherie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Digital preservation--Digital forensics
Digital preservation--Video games
Virtual communities--Video game players

description: This paper describes an interview and observation-based study on the practices of communities of game players in preserving digital games using disk images and hardware emulators. An emulation-based preservation strategy was built based on the findings from this study.
Five hobbyist digital game preservers were interviewed via online text-based chat clients, two online forum-based discussions were conducted, and seven forums and eight websites dedicated to the practice of game preservation and the distribution of disk images or ROMs were read and analyzed. The game players were found to adhere to high standards of authenticity and data integrity and demonstrated a concern that not enough was being done to preserve digital games. The resulting strategy of emulation-based digital preservation derived from their practices could be adapted to the need of a heritage institution. However, more research is necessary before a complete strategy with an appropriate metadata structure adapted to the specific needs of digital games can be developed.
Transitive perfect colorings of the non-regular Archimedean tilings
Creators: name: Gentuya, Junmar
name: Felix, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B45, 52C20, 20H15

description: In this work, we give a method to obtain nontrivial transitive perfect colorings of the non-regular Archimedean tilings using the least possible number $n$ of colors. We also look for other non-equivalent transitive perfect $n$-colorings of a given non-regular Archimedean tiling.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
MS Gr. class. c. 4 930
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 13. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
U. S. Agricultural Exports in Fiscal Year 1964-65 Totaled a Record $6.1 Billion, for Second Consecutive Year
Creators: name: Rahe, Dewain H.
name: Rahe, Dewain H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Excerpts from the report: U.S. agricultural exports totaled a record $6,096 million in fiscal year 1964-65 compared with the $6,067 million a year earlier. The export picture in 1964-65 was dominated by a substantial rise in U.S. exports of corn, soybeans, cottonseed and soybean oils, oilcake and meal, inedible tallow, hides and skins, and dairy products. However, these gains were about offset by declines in wheat and flour, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, meats and products, poultry meat, and rye. Export records were established for corn, grain sorghums, soybeans, inedible tallow and greases, variety meats, hides and skins, oilcake and meal, and soybean oil. Commercial sales for dollars, accounting for about three-fourths of the total, amounted to $4.4 billion, while exports under Government-financed programs totaled an estimated $1.7 billion.
description: Reprinted from Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States August-September 1965
Bookmobiles as a Method of Outreach to Poor Communities
Creators: name: Molloy, Jill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Public libraries--Case studies
Librarians--Social Responsibility
Bookmobile services--public libraries
Public libraries--Services to low income users and the working poor
Bookmobile services-- United States

description: The purpose of this case study is to explore the use of bookmobile programs as a method of outreach to poor communities by looking closely at one bookmobile program. The researcher used the methods of participant observation and semi-structured interviews to gather data about one bookmobile program in the United States. Study findings revealed that cutbacks to the bookmobile program, as well as upcoming budget reductions and the appointment of a new director, have left it in a somewhat transitional stage. This situation presents an opportunity to reflect on the program's past successes and shortcomings and to plan for an even better future for the program. The case study findings revealed a number of important issues to be considered during this transition time. In response to these issues, the researcher offers a series of recommendations for best practices that will help the program effectively serve its community.
Discrete quantum spectrum of black holes
Creators: name: Lochan, Kinjalk
name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum genesis of Hawking radiation is a long-standing puzzle in black hole physics. Semi-classically one can argue that the spectrum of radiation emitted by a black hole look very much sparse unlike what is expected from a thermal object. It was demonstrated through a simple quantum model that a quantum black hole will retain a discrete profile, at least in the weak energy regime. However, it was suggested that this discreteness might be an artifact of the simplicity of eigen-spectrum of the model considered. Different quantum theories can, in principle, give rise to different complicated spectra and make the radiation from black hole dense enough in transition lines, to make them look continuous in profile. We show that such a hope from a geometry-quantized black hole is not realized as long as large enough black holes are dubbed with a classical mass area relation in any gravity theory ranging from GR, Lanczos-Lovelock to f(R) gravity. We show that the smallest frequency of emission from black hole in any quantum description, is bounded from below, to be of the order of its inverse mass. That leaves the emission with only two possibilities. It can either be non-thermal, or it can be thermal only with the temperature being much larger than 1/M.
description: Matches the published version
MS Gr. class. c. 4 931
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 14. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Diffusion LMS Strategies in Sensor Networks with Noisy Input Data
Creators: name: Abdolee, Reza
name: Champagne, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the performance of distributed least-mean square (LMS) algorithms for parameter estimation over sensor networks where the regression data of each node are corrupted by white measurement noise. Under this condition, we show that the estimates produced by distributed LMS algorithms will be biased if the regression noise is excluded from consideration. We propose a bias-elimination technique and develop a novel class of diffusion LMS algorithms that can mitigate the effect of regression noise and obtain an unbiased estimate of the unknown parameter vector over the network. In our development, we first assume that the variances of the regression noises are known a-priori. Later, we relax this assumption by estimating these variances in real-time. We analyze the stability and convergence of the proposed algorithms and derive closed-form expressions to characterize their mean-square error performance in transient and steady-state regimes. We further provide computer experiment results that illustrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithms and support the analytical findings.
description: IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, 2014
The Impact of Temporary Space: A Case Study of the Chapel Hill Public Library
Creators: name: McNamara, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Moving of libraries
Public libraries--Space utilization
Public libraries

description: The Chapel Hill Library is located in University Mall while renovations are being completed on the permanent library building. The paper will discuss the impact of being in a temporary location on library services and patron experiences. A patron survey and interviews with librarians provide insight into the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a temporary space.
Inflation due to a non-minimal coupling of singlet scalars in the radiative seesaw model
Creators: name: Budhi, Romy H. S.
name: Kashiwase, Shoichi
name: Suematsu, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radiative neutrino mass model with inert doublet dark matter is a promising model for the present experimental issues which cannot be explained within the standard model. We study an extension of this model focusing on cosmological features brought about from the scalar sector. Inflation due to singlet scalars with hierarchical non-minimal couplings with the Ricci scalar may give a favorable solution for both neutrino masses and baryon number asymmetry in the Universe.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, typos fixed, reference added, additional comment
MS Gr. class. c. 4 932
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 15. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
A Storyteller's Database: Project Report
Creators: name: Kahn, Sarah N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Educational technology
Computer-assisted instruction
Digital libraries
Storytelling
Databases

description: During the course of this project, an Internet accessible database was created for the use of Dr. Brian  Sturm. It will contain materials generated by students enrolled in the 'Principles and Techniques of  Storytelling' class. These materials will be available to educators, librarians, and amateur storytellers at  large. It is located online at http://www.ibiblio.org/storytime.
Paraviral cutaneous manifestations associated to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
Creators: name: Zupin, Luisa
name: Moltrasio, Chiara
name: Tricarico, Paola Maura
name: Del Vecchio, Cecilia
name: Fontana, Francesco
name: Marzano, Angelo Valerio
name: Crovella, Sergio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is probably due to its increased transmissibility and ability to escape from neutralising antibodies. Cutaneous manifestations have been reported after infection with the Omicron strain, consisting mainly of generalised urticarial eruption and prickly heat rash, also known as miliaria, that can persist for several days. Here the impact of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 on skin was investigated. The case series of 10 patients with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant-related cutaneous manifestations were described; moreover, skin derived cells were challenged in vitro with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The main clinical cutaneous features observed were urticarial lesions lasting more than 24 h, mainly involving the trunk and sometimes extending to the extremities, and miliaria presenting with clusters of small sweat-filled vesicles, sometimes surrounded by slight erythema. HaCaT keratinocytes, BJ fibroblast cell lines and outer root sheath (ORS) keratinocytes were not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection; they also did not present any evident cytopathic effect or modification of cells viability. Our findings suggests that, despite the high number of nucleotide mutations in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, responsible to the higher transmissibility of this virus, and the increased reports of cutaneous manifestation in COVID-19 affected patients, the virus is not able to directly infect and damage the keratinocytes and fibroblasts, thus suggesting an indirect virus-induced activation of the immune system as the major pathogenetic driver.
Aperiodic crystals and beyond
Creators: name: Grimm, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crystals are paradigms of ordered structures. While order was once seen as synonymous with lattice periodic arrangements, the discoveries of incommensurate crystals and quasicrystals led to a more general perception of crystalline order, encompassing both periodic and aperiodic crystals. The current definition of crystals rests on their essentially point-like diffraction. Considering a number of recently investigated toy systems, with particular emphasis on non-crystalline ordered structures, the limits of the current definition are explored.
description: 33 pages, many pictures
Variations of Natural Language Questions and Impacts On Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Iona, Adam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Question-answering systems
Information retrieval--Research

description: This paper is an investigation of the impact that varieties of natural language questions have on information retrieval. Ten questions were chosen and ten paraphrases of each were input into Google and Bing. The results indicated that the templates do not have a significant impact on the performance of these search engines. Instead, the results showed that questions about culturally salient information is more likely to yield an effective query, regardless of how it is phrased. Queries about other kinds of information do not perform as well because the indexing of web pages does not appear to favor more obscure topics.
Differences in the distribution of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections in migrants compared with non-migrants in Denmark
Creators: name: Nielsen, Rikke Thoft
name: Andersen, Christian Østergaard
name: Schønheyder, Henrik Carl
name: Petersen, Jørgen Holm
name: Knudsen, Jenny Dahl
name: Jarløv, Jens Otto
name: Norredam, Marie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: We wish to study disparities in bloodstream infections in migrants and non-migrants by comparing the distribution of pathogens and their resistance patterns in long-term migrants with that in non-migrants in Denmark. The study is based on a cohort of migrants, who received residency in Denmark between 1993 and 2015 and a control group of non-migrants. The cohort was linked to a database of bloodstream infections from 2000 to 2015 covering two regions in Denmark. First-time bloodstream infections in individuals ≥18 years of age at the time of sampling were included. We calculated odds ratios adjusted for age, sex, year of sampling, comorbidity, and place of acquisition (hospital- or community-acquired). We identified 4,703 bloodstream infection cases. Family-reunified migrants and refugees had higher odds of Escherichia coli than non-migrants (OR 1.89 95%CI: 1.46–2.44 and OR 1.55 95%CI: 1.25–1.92) and lower odds of Streptococcus pneumoniae (OR 0.38 95%CI: 0.21–0.67 and OR 0.52 95%CI: 0.34–0.81). Differences in pathogen distribution were only prevalent in community-acquired bloodstream infections. Refugees had higher odds of Escherichia coli resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam, ciprofloxacin, and gentamicin compared with non-migrants. Family-reunified migrants had higher odds of Escherichia coli and other Enterobacterales resistant to ciprofloxacin. Migrants had a higher proportion of community-acquired bloodstream infections with Escherichia coli as well as higher odds of bloodstream infections with resistant Escherichia coli compared with non-migrants. These novel results are relevant for improving migrant health by focussing on preventing and treating infections especially with Escherichia coli such as urinary tract and abdominal infections.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 933
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 16. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Librarians' Use of Instructional Techniques: Effective in Enhancing Chat Reference Services from the Patrons' Perspective?
Creators: name: Daly, Emily K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Use studies--Reference services
Libraries--User satisfaction
Information literacy
Electronic reference services (Libraries)--Evaluation
Reference services (Libraries)--North Carolina

description: This content analysis of virtual reference transcripts taken from NCknows, North Carolina's statewide chat reference collaborative, considers librarians' use of instructional techniques in reference transactions and their effect on patron satisfaction, as demonstrated through voluntarily completed exit surveys and within the transactions themselves. One hundred and forty-five out of 149 usable transcripts exhibit instances of information literacy instruction; the instructional techniques that occur most frequently are those that involve locating and retrieving information. One hundred and twenty-one patrons reported complete satisfaction with their NCknows experiences through their exit surveys, while 16 reported that they were "somewhat satisfied," and 12 conveyed dissatisfaction with their service. Patrons tended to demonstrate satisfaction most frequently when librarians directed them to the exact locations or URLs of sources, instructed them on negotiating the technical aspects of locating information, or informed them of library policies.
Progress of Hepatitis C elimination in Viennese people living with HIV after two decades of increasing cure rates
Creators: name: Chromy, David
name: Bauer, David
name: Simbrunner, Benedikt
name: Jachs, Mathias
name: Hartl, Lukas
name: Schwabl, Philipp
name: Binter, Teresa
name: Steininger, Lisa
name: Schwarz, Caroline
name: Rieger, Armin
name: Grabmeier-Pfistershammer, Katharina
name: Trauner, Michael
name: Ferenci, Peter
name: Peck-Radosavljevic, Markus
name: Mandorfer, Mattias
name: Reiberger, Thomas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Interferon(IFN)-based hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy has been replaced by direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). We assessed temporal trends in patient characteristics, transmission risks, treatment initiation, and cure rates in eras of IFN, restricted DAA-access, and unrestricted DAA-access in Viennese HCV/HIV-coinfected patients (HIV/HCV). Consecutive HIV/HCV-coinfected patients starting HCV treatment at the Vienna General Hospital between 2002 and 2020 were retrospectively enrolled. Of all N = 508 HIV/HCV, 78% (398/508) were male and the mean age was 41.8 ± 9.5 years. ‘People-who-inject-drugs’ (PWID) accounted for 61% (311/508), while 31% (156/508) were ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM). In the IFN-era, restricted DAA-era and unrestricted DAA-era, N = 152, N = 129, and N = 227 HCV treatments were started and 49% (74/152), 95% (122/129), and 88% (200/227) achieved sustained virologic response, respectively. Treatment during the IFN-era was a strong predictor for virologic non-response (aOR 12.69; 6.93–23.24) and loss-to-follow-up (aOR 6.12; 2.99–12.54), while virologic non-response was less common in ‘MSM’ (aOR 0.28; 0.13–0.62). Ninety three percent (50/54) of the observed HCV reinfections occurred in the unrestricted DAA-era. A substantial increase in ‘MSM’ transmission was observed since 2010 with 66% (107/161) in the DAA-era versus 15% (49/330) prior to the DAA-era. HCV cure rates in Viennese HIV patients increased from 49% in the IFN-era to 88–95% in the DAA-era. MSM-related risk behaviour and reinfections became the key challenges towards HCV elimination in HIV-coinfected patients.
title: A case of retroperitoneal lymphoma with intraspinal extension
Creators: name: Amrutiya, Datesh
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Cancer
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 35-year-old male, known case of pulmonary Koch’s, complains of back pain and weakness of bilateral lower limb since 1 month. Clinicians suspected Potts spine as patient is known case of pulmonary Koch’s.

description: 35 years, male
MS Gr. class. c. 4 934
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 17. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
JIRA and READScale: Two Tools Libraries Can Use to Enhance Reporting of Reference Transactions
Creators: name: Reed, Jason
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer software
Academic libraries--Reference services--United States
Special libraries

description: This paper looks at two tools that libraries can use to better reflect the service provided during reference transactions.  The first tool is a six point scale called the READScale.  The READScale allows librarians to assign a point value to reference transactions.  The second tool is a project management software developed by Atlassian called JIRA, that libraries can customize to use for reference transactions.  This easily customized software allows librarians to capture and store more information about reference transactions and can be used in conjunction with the READScale or independently.  Information that can be collected include requestor, department or office of requestor, time to complete transaction, type of transaction, and any other information the library deems valuable.  Having the data from these two tools provides the library with quantitative data they can use to demonstrate their value to decision makers.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 935
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 18. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Multiwavelength Transit Observations of the Candidate Disintegrating Planetesimals Orbiting WD 1145+017
Creators: name: Croll, Bryce
name: Dalba, Paul A.
name: Vanderburg, Andrew
name: Eastman, Jason
name: Rappaport, Saul
name: DeVore, John
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Muirhead, Philip S.
name: Han, Eunkyu
name: Latham, David W.
name: Beatty, Thomas G.
name: Wittenmyer, Robert A.
name: Wright, Jason T.
name: Johnson, John Asher
name: McCrady, Nate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present multiwavelength, multi-telescope, ground-based follow-up photometry of the white dwarf WD 1145+017, that has recently been suggested to be orbited by up to six or more, short-period, low-mass, disintegrating planetesimals. We detect 9 significant dips in flux of between 10% and 30% of the stellar flux from our ground-based photometry. We observe transits deeper than 10% on average every ~3.6 hr in our photometry. This suggests that WD 1145+017 is indeed being orbited by multiple, short-period objects. Through fits to the multiple asymmetric transits that we observe, we confirm that the transit egress timescale is usually longer than the ingress timescale, and that the transit duration is longer than expected for a solid body at these short periods, all suggesting that these objects have cometary tails streaming behind them. The precise orbital periods of the planetesimals in this system are unclear from the transit-times, but at least one object, and likely more, have orbital periods of ~4.5 hours. We are otherwise unable to confirm the specific periods that have been reported, bringing into question the long-term stability of these periods. Our high precision photometry also displays low amplitude variations suggesting that dusty material is consistently passing in front of the white dwarf, either from discarded material from these disintegrating planetesimals or from the detected dusty debris disk. For the significant transits we observe, we compare the transit depths in the V- and R-bands of our multiwavelength photometry, and find no significant difference; therefore, for likely compositions the radius of single-size particles in the cometary tails streaming behind the planetesimals in this system must be ~0.15 microns or larger, or ~0.06 microns or smaller, with 2-sigma confidence.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ on October 8th, 2015
Nonlinear electronic excitations in crystalline solids using meta-generalized gradient approximation and hybrid functional in time-dependent density functional theory
Creators: name: Sato, Shunsuke A.
name: Taniguchi, Yasutaka
name: Shinohara, Yasushi
name: Yabana, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop numerical methods to calculate electron dynamics in crystalline solids in real-time time-dependent density functional theory employing exchange-correlation potentials which reproduce band gap energies of dielectrics; a meta generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) proposed by Tran and Blaha [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 226401 (2009)] (TBm-BJ) and a hybrid functional proposed by Heyd, Scuseria, and Ernzerhof [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 8207 (2003)] (HSE). In time evolution calculations employing the TB-mBJ potential, we have found it necessary to adopt a predictor-corrector step for stable time-evolution. Since energy functional is not known for the TB-mBJ potential, we propose a method to evaluate electronic excitation energy without referring to the energy functional. Calculations using the HSE hybrid functional is computationally expensive due to the nonlocal Fock-like term. We develop a computational method for the operation of the Fock-like term in Fourier space, for which we employ massively parallel computers equipped with graphic processing units. To demonstrate significances of utilizing potentials providing correct band gap energies, we compare electronic excitations induced by femtosecond laser pulses using the TB-mBJ, HSE, and a simple local density approximation (LDA). At low laser intensities, electronic excitations are found to be sensitive to the band gap energy: results using TB-mBJ and HSE are close to each other, while the excitation of the LDA calculation is more intensive than the others. At high laser intensities close to a damage threshold, we have found that electronic excitation energies are similar among the three cases.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
Mulher, antropóloga & emérita: meio século de engajamento político e científico nas fronteiras amazônicas
Creators: name: Batista, Ramiro Esdras Carneiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Entrevista com a Profa. Dra. Jane Felipe Beltrão. Entrevistador Ramiro Esdras Carneiro Batista.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 936
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 19. Philodemus, De signis
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Waning of humoral immunity depending on the types of COVID-19 vaccine
Creators: name: Lim, So Yun
name: Kim, Ji Yeun
name: Jung, Jiwon
name: Yun, Sung-Cheol
name: Kim, Sung-Han
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: There are limited data on the rates of the waning of antibody levels after two-dose and booster vaccination according to the different platforms of COVID-19 vaccines. We enrolled healthcare workers (HCWs) in a tertiary care hospital who received homologous two-dose vaccination, followed by a homologous or heterologous booster mRNA vaccine. SARS-CoV-2 S1-specific IgG was measured using ELISA. A linear mixed regression model was used to compare the slope from the peak antibody titre to the lowest antibody titres 3 months after vaccination. A total of 113 HCWs (BNT162b2 (n = 48 [42%]), ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (n = 52 [46%]) or mRNA-1273 (n = 13 [12%])) were enrolled in this prospective cohort study. More gradual antibody waning was observed over 3 months with the two-dose ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (ChAdOx1) than with the two-dose BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 (p < 0.001 and p = 0.001, respectively). In addition, homologous mRNA-1273 booster induced a more durable antibody response than homologous BNT162b2 booster (p < 0.001) or heterologous ChAdOx1-BNT162b2 booster (p < 0.001). Two-dose homologous ChAdOx1 vaccination or homologous mRNA-1273 booster appears to induce more-durable antibody responses than 2-dose homologous mRNA vaccination, homologous BNT162b2 booster, or 2-dose ChAdOx1 followed by BNT62b2 booster, although our findings are based on the relatively short term (3-month) follow-up after the vaccinations and the evaluation of the slopes from different antibody peak levels. Further studies on long-term durability depending on the types of vaccines are needed.
Anti-cytomegalovirus preemptive therapy to prevent cytomegalovirus disease in HIV-infected patients: a systematic review
Creators: name: Sattwika, Prenali Dwisthi
name: Subronto, Yanri Wijayanti
name: Retnowulan, Heni
name: Sattwika, Karina Ambar
name: Nurdiati, Detty Siti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: HIV patients are at higher risk of contracting and developing into an asymptomatic form of CMV infection. This review aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of preemptive therapy for preventing CMV disease in HIV patients. The electronic search was conducted in MEDLINE/PubMed and CENTRAL from inception until 9 September 2022. Studies were included if they assessed the efficacy or safety of anti-CMV preemptive therapy compared to placebo or no therapy. Risk of bias were assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool for randomized trials version 2 or the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions. The random-effects model was used to calculate effect sizes. We identified six RCTs (2135 participants) and four observational studies (395 participants), with five RCTs were performed before highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era. Preemptive therapy did not reduce the incidence of CMV disease (RR 0.84, 95% CI: 0.59–1.18), yet reduced the RR of all-cause mortality rate by 26% (RR 0.85, 95% CI: 0.74–0.97) with a low quality of evidence. The incidence of neutropenia as an adverse event increased significantly (RR 2.47, 95% CI: 1.12–5.45) with moderate quality of evidence. With the advent of HAART, a limited number of studies have been performed to explore anti-CMV preemptive therapy due to the improved outcomes of HIV patients with CMV viremia. Therefore, optimal HAART should take precedence over anti-CMV preemptive therapy. The protocol for this review was registered in the Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (CRD42020145765).
Japan's Institutional Repositories:  Where Did They Come From and Where Are They Headed?
Creators: name: Matsuura, Katherine K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Institutional repositories--Japan
Comparative librarianship
College and university libraries--Japan
Open access

description: This study follows the rapid and substantial growth of institutional repositories in Japan, and evaluates the publicly searchable content of 86 IRs made available through Japan's web portal, JAIRO, and the NII Institutional Repositories DataBase Contents Analysis System. The findings are examined from an international and comparative framework, and highlight variations in Japanese academic scholarship and publishing, as well as ongoing challenges in the areas of faculty participation, copyright and peer-review.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 937
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 20. Philodemus, De signis
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Tecnologia educacional digital sobre HIV/AIDS para adolescentes e jovens: protocolo de revisão de escopo
Creators: name: Piran, Camila
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Objetivo: mapear as evidências científicas acerca do uso de tecnologia educacional digital em saúde relacionada ao HIV/AIDS, direcionada a adolescentes e jovens adultos. Método: trata-se de um protocolo de revisão de escopo, estruturado conforme diretrizes metodológicas do Instituto Joanna Briggs (JBI). Serão utilizadas seis bases de informação, com emprego dos descritores de saúde. O processo de busca, identificação e avaliação de artigos, será realizado por dois avaliadores independentes, norteado pelos pressupostos estabelecidos pelo JBI, buscando responder à seguinte questão norteadora: Quais as evidências científicas encontradas acerca do uso de tecnologia educacional digital em saúde relacionada ao HIV/AIDS, direcionada a adolescentes e jovens adultos? Serão incluídos artigos publicados no idioma inglês, português ou espanhol, de domínio público e privado e, com diferentes abordagens metodológicas. Os resultados serão apresentados conforme as orientações do Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 938
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1065 col. 21. Philodemus, De signis
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Everything Has Changed: The Depiction of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks in Historical Fiction for Young Adults
Creators: name: Lanier, Casey D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017
Subjects: Historical fiction
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Fiction
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Psychological aspects
Content analysis (Communication)
Young adult fiction
Young adults--Books & reading

description: This study utilizes content analysis to examine 19 historical fiction novels for young adults, ages 12-18, which address the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This study was conducted to identify any important trends regarding publication and supplemental information included in the sample, the scope of 9/11 described in the selected texts, and the diversity of the protagonists in each novel, and their connections and responses to the 9/11 attacks. Increasing numbers of 9/11 related historical fiction novels for young adults are being published that are better researched and offer readers a broader scope of the day’s events than earlier works in this genre. While white characters are most prominent, diversity is becoming more common over time, as well as the desire to portray the stories of characters that were directly affected by the terrorist attacks. Protagonists’ multifaceted grieving cycles have been a hallmark of this genre throughout time as well.
Graphical vs. Command User Interface: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduate Students' OPAC Interface Preferences
Creators: name: Meadows, Issac
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Online catalogs
College and university libraries--Services to undergraduate students
Graphical user interfaces

description: This paper presents the findings of a study designed to identify the user library catalog interface style preferences of undergraduate students and to attempt to identify factors that contribute to these preferences. Twelve participants from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used two different OPAC interface styles (graphical and command line) to complete ten tasks and an exit questionnaire. The results of the study suggest that undergraduate students prefer the graphical user interface style.  The study was performed with a small sample of convenience and should be considered as exploratory in nature.
Promoting fiction: readers' advisory and the use of public library web sites
Creators: name: Kelly, James M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000
Subjects: Web sites--Evaluation
Reader guidance
Fiction
Internet--Public libraries

description: This paper examines the importance of fiction collections in the public library.  It outlines the librarian's role in fiction promotion through readers' advisory and the techniques that are employed in delivering readers' advisory services.  Since the number of libraries offering this service via their web pages in increasing, web sites were evaluated to determine any patterns in this emerging service.  Finally, the budgets, staff sizes, and populations for each of these libraries were compared to note any similarities in demographics.
Randomization Aversion and Trust as Drivers of Participation in Experiments
Creators: name: Johnson, Tim
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Efforts to understand the drivers of participation in research experiments remain embryonic, despite the salience of experimental studies in the social, psychological, and economic sciences. The research plan described here seeks to contribute to this nascent body of knowledge via an experiment that studies how randomization and trust affect a participant’s decision to enter an experiment. First, past research hypothesizes that the randomization of treatments in experimental studies deters participation due to widely-held aversions toward uncertainty and risk; however, informed consent letters sometimes fail to inform participants about whether randomization is used to assign treatments. This variation in informed consent letters raises the question – does informing prospective participants about randomization deter experimental entry? Complicating this question, however, is the fact that information about methods of assigning participants to treatments comes from experimenters; participants might not trust the information that those experimenters provide, given decades of deceptive experimental research. Thus, this variation in trust raises additional questions: Does variation in trust influence participation rates and does trust in the information provided by an experimenter interact with aversion toward randomization? In this pre-registration plan, I propose an experimental study that seeks to answer these questions.
Exploring the effects of a graduate level trauma-informed care education program for child welfare professionals
Creators: name: Lotty, Maria
name: O’Shea, Tadgh
name: Frederico, Margarita
name: Kearns, Noreen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4409
subject: Social work
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The national child welfare agency in Ireland identified the integration of trauma-informed practices as a service need, in the current significantly challenging practice climate. A promising program that meets the need of child welfare professionals to support need has been developed and is reported on in this paper. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a newly developed post-graduate level trauma-informed care program for professionals in the national child welfare agency in Ireland. Study participants were 41 child welfare professionals that included front-line practitioners, supervisors, and senior managers. A pretest–posttest study design was used, data was collected over three-time points to measure the effects of the program on pre-defined outcomes of Trauma-informed Knowledge, Professional Self-efficacy, Professional Quality of Life, and Intention to Leave. Statistically significant positives effects were found in trauma-informed knowledge, professional confidence, burn-out and compassion fatigue/secondary traumatic stress, with effect sizes ranging from medium-large to large (η2=.133toη2=.721) across the intervention time period. The positive impacts arising from the program were sustained for 3 months post-intervention. The results of this initial evaluation are promising in supporting child welfare professionals’ capacity to integrate trauma-informed practices and addressing the need for trauma informed practitioners. The need for further research is highlighted.