cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Universal recovery maps and approximate sufficiency of quantum relative entropy
Creators: name: Junge, Marius
name: Renner, Renato
name: Sutter, David
name: Wilde, Mark M.
name: Winter, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The data processing inequality states that the quantum relative entropy between two states $ρ$ and $σ$ can never increase by applying the same quantum channel $\mathcal{N}$ to both states. This inequality can be strengthened with a remainder term in the form of a distance between $ρ$ and the closest recovered state $(\mathcal{R} \circ \mathcal{N})(ρ)$, where $\mathcal{R}$ is a recovery map with the property that $σ= (\mathcal{R} \circ \mathcal{N})(σ)$. We show the existence of an explicit recovery map that is universal in the sense that it depends only on $σ$ and the quantum channel $\mathcal{N}$ to be reversed. This result gives an alternate, information-theoretic characterization of the conditions for approximate quantum error correction.
description: v3: 24 pages, 1 figure, final version published in Annales Henri Poincar\'e
Pro-Life and Pro-Woman: Complicating the Anti-Abortion Narrative in America
Creators: name: Newell, Abigail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Previous research characterizes the anti-abortion movement as anti-woman. This study suggests anti-abortion organizations are employing ‘pro-woman’ framing strategies. To examine how organizations strategically employ pro-woman discourse, I examine literature from two major anti-abortion organizations through narrative and discourse analysis across two critical periods of abortion policy. To demonstrate how this strategy varies across organizations, I compare major organizations’ strategies to those of a student-directed organization. Organizations employ the pro-woman strategy in three ways: 1) recasting women as victims, co-victims, or heroes in narratives as opposed to villains; 2) recontextualizing feminist discourse, while reinforcing dominant gender norms; 3) and crystallizing this strategy between and within organizations over time. While organizational identity and target audience shape deployment style, the pro-woman strategy is largely unified. Historical change in the discursive opportunity structure around women may encourage organizations to adopt the pro-woman strategy and render it more successful than the fetus-centric strategy.
On Hypoelliptic Bridge
Creators: name: Li, Xue-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that if the Markov generator of a diffusion process satisfies the two step strong Hörmander condition, the conditioned hypoelliptic bridge satisfies an integral bound and is a continuous semi-martingale.
The Measurable and the Real Quality of Life in the City. Urban regeneration as a technological correlation of resources, spaces and inhabitants
Creators: name: Angelucci, Filippo
name: Cellucci, Cristiana
name: Di Sivo, Michele
name: Ladiana, Daniela
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: This essay looks at urban regeneration beginning from the notion of the exclusive qualities of the contemporary city: selective, closed, introspective, and inaccessible. Focusing on the tactical/metadesign phase of the urban regeneration process and referring to the paradigms of resilience and bio-psycho-social inclusion, the paper proposes a technological design vision to recompose the qualities of the ‘common good’ known as the city into an inclusive, open, communicative and accessible reality. Operating through technological-environmental interfaces and need-based/ enabling macro-requirements, the paper considers the urban system as an inhabitable organism characterised by differences, tensions and balances between the apparatuses of the city, within a matrix of widespread quality.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Understanding the Relationship between MindTrails Intervention Users and TeleCoaches through Demographic and Clinical Characteristics
Creators: name: Patel, Suraj
name: Silverman, Alexandra
name: Teachman, Bethany
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: eHealth
subject: Engagement
subject: TeleCoaching

description: The present study will examine how demographic and clinical characteristics (e.g. gender, age, anxiety) affect engagement with TeleCoaches in MindTrails, an online Cognitive Bias Modification for interpretation program.
Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop Smart City strategies in large european cities
Creators: name: Bolici, Roberto
name: Mora, Luca
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The study documented in this paper has been carried out in order to acquire new knowledge concerning the development processes of smart city strategies. This aim has been achieved through the analysis of the initiatives proposed by the municipal administrations of Amsterdam and Barcelona. Two successful cases that have allowed to outline a step-by-step roadmap in which a possible approach for developing smart city strategies in large European cities is described. Despite its early stage of development, this procedure provides new knowledge, innovative research perspectives, and a conceptual framework for supporting future comparative research and theory- building. Activities that are fundamental to ensure its continuous growth and the refinement of its structure.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Efficient mesh management in Firedrake using PETSc-DMPlex
Creators: name: Lange, Michael
name: Mitchell, Lawrence
name: Knepley, Matthew G.
name: Gorman, Gerard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The use of composable abstractions allows the application of new and established algorithms to a wide range of problems while automatically inheriting the benefits of well-known performance optimisations. This work highlights the composition of the PETSc DMPlex domain topology abstraction with the Firedrake automated finite element system to create a PDE solving environment that combines expressiveness, flexibility and high performance. We describe how Firedrake utilises DMPlex to provide the indirection maps required for finite element assembly, while supporting various mesh input formats and runtime domain decomposition. In particular, we describe how DMPlex and its accompanying data structures allow the generic creation of user-defined discretisations, while utilising data layout optimisations that improve cache coherency and ensure overlapped communication during assembly computation.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, submitted to SISC CSE Special Issue
The long-term burden of anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Whittaker, Jackie
name: Skou, Søren
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Activity Participation
subject: Anterior Cruciate Ligament
subject: Co-morbidities
subject: DALY
subject: Meniscus
subject: Morbidity
subject: Mortality
subject: Obesity
subject: QALY
subject: Quality of Life

description: The primary objective of this systematic review is to determine the long-term burden of anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injury. The secondary objective is to determine the burden of living with radiographic and/or symptomatic osteoarthritis, following anterior cruciate ligament and/or meniscal injury.
The design of optical triode
Creators: name: Wu, Xiang-Yao
name: Ma, Ji
name: Liu, Xiao-Jing
name: Liang, Yu
name: Wang, Zhi-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the action of pump light, the conventional photonic crystal can be turned into function photonic crystal. In the paper, we have designed optical triode with one-dimensional function photonic crystal, and analyzed the effect of period number, medium thickness and refractive index, incident angle, the irradiation way and intensity of pump light on the optical triode magnification. We obtain some valuable results, which shall help to optimal design optical triode.
Ongoing star formation in the proto-cluster IRAS 22134+5834
Creators: name: Wang, Yuan
name: Audard, Marc
name: Fontani, Francesco
name: Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro
name: Busquet, Gemma
name: Palau, Aina
name: Beuther, Henrik
name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Estalella, Robert
name: Isella, Andrea
name: Gueth, Frederic
name: Jiménez-Serra, Izaskun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IRAS 22134+5834 was observed in the centimeter with (E)VLA, 3~mm with CARMA, 2~mm with PdBI, and 1.3~mm with SMA, to study the continuum emission as well as the molecular lines, that trace different physical conditions of the gas to study the influence of massive YSOs on nearby starless cores, and the possible implications in the clustered star formation process. The multi-wavelength centimeter continuum observations revealed two radio sources within the cluster, VLA1 and VLA2. VLA1 is considered to be an optically thin UCHII region with a size of 0.01~pc and sits at the edge of the near-infrared (NIR) cluster. The flux of ionizing photons of the VLA1 corresponds to a B1 ZAMS star. VLA2 is associated with an infrared point source and has a negative spectral index. We resolved six millimeter continuum cores at 2~mm, MM2 is associated with the UCHII region VLA1, and other dense cores are distributed around the UCH{\sc ii} region. Two high-mass starless clumps (HMSC), HMSC-E (east) and HMSC-W (west), are detected around the NIR cluster with N$_2$H$^+$(1--0) and NH$_3$ emission, and show different physical and chemical properties. Two N$_2$D$^+$ cores are detected on an NH$_3$ filament close to the UCHII region, with a projected separation of $\sim$8000~AU at the assumed distance of 2.6~kpc. The kinematic properties of the molecular line emission confirm the expansion of the UCHII region and that the molecular cloud around the near infrared (NIR) cluster is also expanding. Our multi-wavelength study has revealed different generations of star formation in IRAS 22134+5834. The formed intermediate- to massive stars show strong impact on nearby starless clumps. We propose that while the stellar wind from the UCHII region and the NIR cluster drives the large scale bubble, the starless clumps and HMPOs formed at the edge of the cluster.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, Accepted by A&A in Oct. 2015
Climate change risks and environmental design for resilient urban regeneration. Napoli Est pilot case
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Valeria
name: Leone, Mattia Federico
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The paper shows the results of the first phase of the research project “METROPOLIS - Methodologies and Technologies for integrated and sustainable adaptation and security of urban systems” developed by STRESS Scarl - High Technology District for Sustainable Building of the Campania Region. The project is aimed at the development of innovative strategies for a resilient urban system and design guidelines for appropriate choices of urban regeneration based on the assessment and mitigation of natural and man-made hazards. The paper describes the results concerning the definition of innovative methodologies for the knowledge and mapping of urban vulnerability to climate risks in the East Naples area. The cross-disciplinary and multi-scale approach integrates knowledge and technology from university and industrial partners to develop a decision support tool in the field of urban regeneration. The study of the impacts of extreme weather events, based on the simulation of climate change scenarios in the area of East Naples, includes the data management in a GIS environment from satellite remote sensing, direct surveys and simulation software, focusing on the environmental and technological performance of urban spaces and elements. The research results report risk scenarios for pluvial flood and heat waves hazards according to both climatic variables, both aggravating phenomena arising from the characteristics of urban settlements. The complex reading of the buildings-open spaces system and its response to climate change conditions has allowed to define the vulnerability of elements at risk, as well as adaptation and mitigation solutions to be implemented within urban regeneration interventions, identifying critical issues in relation to comfort and environmental risk conditions, consumption and efficient use of resources, compliance of the technological choices to specific requirements.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Critical behavior of the liquid gas transition of 4 He confined in a silica aerogel
Creators: name: Aubry, Geoffroy
name: Bonnet, Fabien
name: Melich, Mathieu
name: Guyon, Laurent
name: Despetis, Florence
name: Wolf, Pierre-Etienne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied 4 He confined in a 95% porosity silica aerogel in the vicinity of the bulk liquid gas critical point. Both thermodynamic measurements and light scattering experiments were performed to probe the effect of a quenched disorder on the liquid gas transition, in relation with the Random Field Ising Model (RFIM). We find that the hysteresis between condensation and evaporation present at lower temperatures disappears at a temperature T ch between 25 and 30 mK below the critical point. Slow relaxations are observed for temperatures slightly below T ch , indicating that some energy barriers, but not all, can be overcome. Above T ch , no density step is observed along the (reversible) isotherms, showing that the critical behavior of the equilibrium phase transition in presence of disorder, if it exists, is shifted to smaller temperatures, where it cannot be observed due to the impossibility to reach equilibrium. Above T ch , light scattering exhibits a weak maximum close to the pressure where the isotherm slope is maximal. This behavior can be accounted for by a simple model incorporating the compression of 4 He close to the silica strands.
description: 6 pages
Urban regeneration featuring environmental quality, the management of resources and social cohesion
Creators: name: Battisti, Alessandra
name: Tucci, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: This scientific project – developed over the past two years by Sapienza University’s PDTA in Rome, in partnership with the Technische Universität München, funded by the German DAAD – took as its starting point the differences between the buildings found in the consolidated/ historic city’s districts and the city’s continually evolving environmental, energy, technological, functional and social needs, creating urban situations where it becomes clear that it is not enough to regenerate individual buildings in environments that are gradually changing; rather it is necessary to take action on districts and widespread city clusters. The pilot case studied was the regeneration of two districts that were part of consolidated, yet neglected, areas in the city of Rome, the result was mainly geared towards determining the level of transferability of the results of this experiment.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Bemerkungen zu Militärdiplomen und ein neugefundenes Fragment aus Munningen, Ldkr. Nördlingen
Creators: name: Nuber, Hans Ulrich
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2023

description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 47 (1969)
Uniqueness Properties for Discrete equations and Carleman estimates
Creators: name: Fernández-Bertolin, Aingeru
name: Vega, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using Carleman estimates, we give a lower bound for solutions to the discrete Schrödinger equation in both dynamic and stationary settings that allows us to prove uniqueness results, under some assumptions on the decay of the solutions.
description: In the revised version, published in 2017, we improve our Carleman estimate and the method of proof of Theorem 1.1 in order to quantify the uniqueness result in the one dimensional case, proving the sharp uniqueness result conjectured by Lyubarskii, Jaming, Malinnikova and Perfekt
New responsabilities: rethinking regeneration
Creators: name: Focà, Alessandra
name: Laganà, Angela
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: “Regenerative Design, Green Strategy” is a research placed within the debate on the management of construction projects in urban areas with the aim of providing a scientific methodology of control of the effects (taking into consideration the relations among buildings, the environment and non-material elements of an urban area); this is also useful to reevaluate the pri- orities of construction projects, considering all the environmental, social, economic and technological aspects of the place; in other words, it represents a framework that gives same value to both the control of the transformation of the elements within the urban area and to the linkages among those elements. The testing phase takes place in the creation of design guidelines, structured at different levels, for regenerative interventions on the environmental system of the axis of the “Torrente Calopinace”, in the southern part of Reggio Calabria.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
What is the volume, diversity and nature of recent, robust evidence for the use of peer support in health and social care? Protocol for a systematic evidence map
Creators: name: Shaw, Liz
name: Facility, Exeter
name: Briscoe, Simon
name: Ahuja, Latika
name: Price, Anna
name: Shaw, Naomi
name: Bethel, Alison
name: Anderson, Rob
name: Thompson-Coon, Jo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: cost-effectiveness
subject: effectiveness
subject: health and social care
subject: mapping review
subject: peer support
subject: protocol
subject: systematic evidence map

description: Evaluating the potential of peer support is receiving abundant attention. This is in response to the increasing financial pressures on NHS, which has led health and social care sector to realise the importance of enabling patients and carers to support themselves more effectively. While there is strong evidence on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of peer support intervention, it is currently not clear how future research could contribute in better understanding peer support interventions. Also, limited synthesised literature is available on which method of delivery of peer support may be the most effective in achieving positive patient outcomes and in terms of costs incurred. Thus, we aim to systematically map the volume, diversity and nature of recent, robust evidence for the use of peer support interventions in health and social care using a systematic evidence map.
frühbronzezeitlicher Stabdolch im Römisch-Germanischen Museum Köln
Creators: name: Meier-Arendt, Walter
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2023

description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 47 (1969)
Architectural and environmental retrofit of public social housing: opportunity for contemporary city. A case history in Rome
Creators: name: Paris, Spartaco
name: Bianchi, Roberto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: Declension of the terms Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in relation to urban development, nowadays offers the opportunity for a new generation of spaces and architectures that interpret construction – dilapidated, neglected worn out or abandoned – as a real resource and hence value. Renewal activities concern new programmes and projects for rethinking uses, meanings and values which existing construction – from the individual building to the neighbourhood – contain and which can change. Indeed, nowadays, a series of design approaches can be acknowledged and consolidated; European best practices which reinterpret renewal projects – including energy regeneration –, not limiting themselves to technological and typological updating of buildings, but also to urban and social implications. The paper proposes to document these advanced reference scenarios, flanked by educational experimentation and research being performed in case studies developed together with Rome’s local building authority (ATER).
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Boundary terms of conformal anomaly
Creators: name: Solodukhin, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
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: We analyze the structure of the boundary terms in the conformal anomaly integrated over a manifold with boundaries. We suggest that the anomalies of type B, polynomial in the Weyl tensor, are accompanied with the respective boundary terms of the Gibbons-Hawking type. Their form is dictated by the requirement that they produce a variation which compensates the normal derivatives of the metric variation on the boundary in order to have a well-defined variational procedure. This suggestion agrees with recent findings in four dimensions for free fields of various spin. We generalize this consideration to six dimensions and derive explicitly the respective boundary terms. We point out that the integrated conformal anomaly in odd dimensions is non-vanishing due to the boundary terms. These terms are specified in three and five dimensions.
description: 9 pages; v2: new section on conformal anomaly in odd dimensions, more references added; v3: new term in (20) and new reference, version to appear in PLB
MYSTAT Potentiostat/Galvanostat
Creators: name: Irving, Paul
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Galvanostat
subject: HardwareX
subject: Potentiostat

description: Contains design files for the USB Potentiostat/Galvanostat described in "MYSTAT: A compact potentiostat/galvanostat for general electrochemistry measurements."
The soil preservation and renewal. From the planning strategies to the management of the disposal process in the built environment
Creators: name: Paleari, Michele
name: Campioli, Andrea
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The soil belongs to the nonrenewable resources and its preservation affects the different scales of architecture. The preservation has to be pursued through various actions: blocking the urban enlargement, redeveloping and renaturalizing the underused areas, reducing the row materials extraction, cautious managing of the end of life stage of buildings and materials. Within this contest, we briefly describe the outcomes of the environmental assessment of the 51 residential buildings demolition, near the Malpensa airport. The study inspires two considerations: at the urban scale, the ability to give a new identity to an area where the buildings life cycle comes to an end; at the materials scale, the possibility to reduce the environmental impacts on soil thanks to a favourable waste management.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Fractal Curves and Rugs of Prescribed Conformal Dimension
Creators: name: DiMarco, Claudio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80, 30L10, Secondary 28A78, 54F45

description: We construct Jordan arcs of prescribed conformal dimension which are minimal for conformal dimension. These curves are used to design fractal rugs, similar to Rickman's rug, that are also minimal for conformal dimension. These fractal rugs could potentially settle a standing conjecture regarding the existence of metric spaces of prescribed topological conformal dimension.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, Topology and Its Applications (2018)
Effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions to optimise symptomatic, functional, psychological and quality of life outcomes, and prevent reinjury after knee injury: A systematic review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Whittaker, Jackie
name: Culvenor, Adam
name: Bricca, Alessio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anterior Cruciate Ligament
subject: exercise
subject: manual therapy
subject: Meniscus
subject: physiotherapy
subject: rehabilitation

description: The objective of this review is to investigate the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions to optimise symptomatic, functional, psychosocial and quality of life outcomes, and prevent reinjury after ACL and/or meniscal injury.
Systematic review of the measurement properties of functional performance tests and muscle strength tests in persons with anterior cruciate ligament or meniscal injury
Creators: name: Whittaker, Jackie
name: Berg, Bjørnar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anterior Cruciate Ligament
subject: Functional tests
subject: Meniscus
subject: Performance-based tests
subject: Psychometric Properties
subject: Reliability
subject: Reproducibility
subject: Validation

description: The primary objective of this review is to critically appraise, compare and summarize the quality of the measurement properties of functional performance tests assessing physical function in persons with ACL or meniscus injury. A secondary objective is to critically appraise, compare and summarize the quality of the measurement properties of muscle strength tests assessing knee extensor or flexor muscle strength in persons with ACL or meniscus injury.
Nonlocal torque operators in ab initio theory of the Gilbert damping in random ferromagnetic alloys
Creators: name: Turek, Ilja
name: Kudrnovsky, Josef
name: Drchal, Vaclav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ab initio theory of the Gilbert damping in substitutionally disordered ferromagnetic alloys. The theory rests on introduced nonlocal torques which replace traditional local torque operators in the well-known torque-correlation formula and which can be formulated within the atomic-sphere approximation. The formalism is sketched in a simple tight-binding model and worked out in detail in the relativistic tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method and the coherent potential approximation (CPA). The resulting nonlocal torques are represented by nonrandom, non-site-diagonal and spin-independent matrices, which simplifies the configuration averaging. The CPA-vertex corrections play a crucial role for the internal consistency of the theory and for its exact equivalence to other first-principles approaches based on the random local torques. This equivalence is also illustrated by the calculated Gilbert damping parameters for binary NiFe and FeCo random alloys, for pure iron with a model atomic-level disorder, and for stoichiometric FePt alloys with a varying degree of L10 atomic long-range order.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures (several minor changes, accepted in the Physical Review B)
Effectively Measuring Listening Comprehension
Creators: name: Voogd, Mindel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: EFL listening skills
subject: listening comprehension
subject: listening proficiency

description: The study aimed to contribute to the discussion on how EFL listening comprehension proficiency can be measured effectively. Moreover, this study looked into the different tools available to assess the listening comprehension skills of students at a B2 level of EFL. The systematic review led to studies discussing various topics concerning the evaluation of listening skills. The findings show that a well-described construct is fundamental in creating listening assessments. This construct displays which listening skills students must possess and perform in order to reach the specific, corresponding listening comprehension proficiency level. One of the most important themes in reference to construct validity is that of authenticity. Namely, the more test-tasks and -input represent real-life target language use situations, the more authentic the assessment becomes. The performance on assessments mimicking these situations will reflect the students’ listening comprehension ability in a real-world context. Furthermore, assessments that effectively measure listening comprehension contain tasks which enable distinguishing between lower- and higher-level listening proficiency students. Moreover, there are various ways to modify test-input. These modifications often have a positive effect on students’ listening test performance. However, this raises the question of whether these modifications better reflect students’ actual listening abilities or rather if they aid students too much and consequently make the assessments simpler. Future research is needed to answer this question.
GENOMIC AND METABOLIC GENE CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES FROM THE NEUSE RIVER ESTUARINE SYTEM USING LONG READ METAGENOMICS
Creators: name: Fisch, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The productivity of estuaries is linked to the microbes in the estuary and their significant role in carbon cycling. The greatest challenge in studying these microbial communities is finding a method to capture their complexity. Metagenomics is the recovery and sequencing of DNA from an environmental sample and can be applied to studying the potential of a community to drive carbon cycling by identifying the carbon metabolism genes encoded in the community’s DNA. Long read sequencing technology produces DNA sequence fragments (reads) of ~ 1,000 to 50,000 base pairs which are long enough to contain multiple, complete functional genes. This study aims to understand the taxonomic identity and carbon metabolic pathways of estuarine microbial communities by applying long read sequencing technology from Oxford Nanopore Technologies to water samples collected from the Neuse River Estuary on March 8th and October 4th of 2018.
Local materials in the regeneration of urban space of the historic centre of the Metropolitan City of Naples
Creators: name: De Joanna, Paola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The contribution is part of the studies conducted by the Urban Planning Board, Land Management, Environment Laboratory for the “metropolitan city” and the Big Project “Historic centre of Naples, enhancement of the UNESCO site”. Among the issues under discussion, very important for the 92 municipalities of the Metropolitan City, is the preservation of different urban identities which, although united administratively, are claiming their own cultural profile rooted in the urban space, in the architecture of places and in local resources. The work is based on the principle that the use of local resources affects the quality and perception of urban space and, as evidence of belonging to the place, it is necessary to deal its exploitation under sustainable auspices.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Adam Marti (1857-1940), Kantonsschule Trogen, an Louis Rollier (1859-1931), mit Briefkonzept des Antwortschreibens von Louis Rollier
Creators: name: Marti, Adam
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1914

description: Brief aus Trogen.
Zusätzlich darauf vermerkt: Briefkonzept zur Beantwortung, verfasst am 21.8.1914 in Zürich von Louis Rollier
Alfred Troesch (1877-1928) an Louis Rollier (1859-1931), mit Beilage
Creators: name: Troesch, Alfred
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1905

description: Brief aus Bern.
Beilage: Paketetikette mit den Adressen von Absender Alfred Troesch und Empfänger Louis Rollier, vermutlich für die Lieferung des erwähnten Handstücks (Fossil - Belemnit?) verwendet
A local non-negative initial data scalar characterisation of the Kerr solution
Creators: name: Gómez-Lobo, Alfonso García-Parrado
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C15, 83C57, 83C05

description: For any vacuum initial data set, we define a local, non-negative scalar quantity which vanishes at every point of the data hypersurface if and only if the data are {\em Kerr initial} data. Our scalar quantity only depends on the quantities used to construct the vacuum initial data set which are the Riemannian metric defined on the initial data hypersurface and a symmetric tensor which plays the role of the second fundamental form of the embedded initial data hypersurface. The dependency is {\em algorithmic} in the sense that given the initial data one can compute the scalar quantity by algebraic and differential manipulations, being thus suitable for an implementation in a numerical code. The scalar could also be useful in studies of the non-linear stability of the Kerr solution because it serves to measure the deviation of a vacuum initial data set from the Kerr initial data in a local and algorithmic way.
description: 18 pages, no figures. Typos corrected and dropped artificial restriction on the vacuum initial data set used to define the positive scalar. To appear in Physical Review D
Urban regeneration and bioregionalism
Creators: name: Passaro, Antonio
name: Francese, Dora
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The sustainable development and the bioregionalism find their meeting point in the strategies of urban regeneration adoptable in the Campania Region. In the article, following a brief consideration about possible scenarios of short chain to be triggered between the agricultural and the building sector, three samples of experimental actions are described, which are under development in three areas, in S. Arsenio in the Diano valley, in S. Antonio Abate and in Naples. All the here presented cases are object of a collaboration between the University (Research and education institution), the local authorities and the Small and Medium Enterprises of the bioregions, which has led to application of those principles within design proposals of sustainable and bioregionalist urban regeneration.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
The Effects of Nicotinamide on Reinstatement to Cocaine Seeking
Creators: name: Williams, Emily Anne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Interventions for psychostimulant use disorders are of significant need. Nicotinamide (NAM) is a small molecule that can oppose cellular adaptations observed following cocaine use in a preclinical rodent self-administration model of addiction. In addition, utility of NAM against symptoms of withdrawal and vulnerability to relapse to cocaine use has been suggested by case studies and anecdotal reports. However, the empirical effects of nicotinamide on drug seeking behaviors have not been examined. The objective of the current study was to investigate the effects of systemic NAM administration on reinstatement to cocaine seeking, using the rat self- administration/extinction/reinstatement model of cocaine addiction. Male and female Sprague- Dawley rats were trained to self-administer i.v. cocaine or food pellets for 2 hrs per day for 12 days, followed by 14-17 days of extinction, during which i.p. NAM injections (0-120 mg/kg) were given 30 minutes prior to each extinction or reinstatement session. Rats were tested on cue- primed, cocaine-primed, or food-primed reinstatement, as well as locomotor activity. Chronic NAM administered throughout extinction dose-dependently attenuated cue-primed reinstatement in male rats, but not female rats. In contrast, acute NAM given once prior to reinstatement had no effect on reinstatement. Chronic NAM had no effect on locomotor activity or reinstatement to food seeking. The specificity of NAM against cue-primed reinstatement indicates that NAM may influence responsiveness to drug-associated cues, specifically in males. Future studies will examine the mechanism(s) by which NAM may exert this effect.
Emergence and destruction of macroscopic wave functions
Creators: name: Gertjerenken, Bettina
name: Holthaus, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of the macroscopic wave function is a key for understanding macroscopic quantum phenomena. The existence of this object reflects a certain order, as is present in a Bose-Einstein condensate when a single-particle orbital is occupied by a macroscopic number of bosons. We extend these ideas to situations in which a condensate is acted on by an explicitly time-dependent force. While one might assume that such a force would necessarily degrade any pre-existing order, we demonstrate that macroscopic wave functions can persist even under strong forcing. Our definition of the time-dependent order parameter is based on a comparison of the evolution of $N$-particle states on the one hand, and of states with $N - 1$ particles on the other. Our simulations predict the possibility of an almost instantaneous dynamical destruction of a macroscopic wave function under currently accessible experimental conditions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
A meta-epidemiologic study of power and sample size in randomized controlled trials published in Dermatology journals
Creators: name: Bridgman, Alanna
name: McPhie, Meghan
name: Voineskos, Sophocles
name: Chan, An-Wen
name: Drucker, Aaron
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dermatology
subject: Clinical Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties

description: This study will investigate the quality of power and sample size reporting for randomized controlled trials published in high-impact dermatology journals from 2015 - 2020. This current registration is an amendment on the first version, published on July 10, 2020. This amendment is published before data extraction begins.
Discrete Element Crowd Model for Pedestrian Evacuation Through an Exit
Creators: name: Lin, Peng
name: Ma, Jian
name: Lo, Siuming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of accidents caused by crowd within the last decades evoked a lot of scientific interest in modeling the movement of pedestrian crowds. Based on discrete element method, a granular dynamic model, in which human body is simplified as self-driven sphere, is proposed to simulate the characteristics of crowd flow through an exit. In this model, the repulsive force among people is considered to have an anisotropic feature, and the physical contact force due to body deformation is quantified by the Hertz contact model. The movement of human body is simulated by applying the second Newton's law. The crowd flow through an exit at different desired velocities is studied and simulation results indicated that crowd flow exhibits three distinct states, i.e., smooth state, transition state and phase separation state. In the simulation, clogging phenomenon occurs more easily when the velocity of desired is high and the exit may as a result be totally blocked at a desired velocity of 1.6m/s or above, leading to faster-to-frozen effect.
The list of tantalum lines for wavelengths calibration of the Hamilton echelle-spectrograph
Creators: name: Pakhomov, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present solution of the problem of wavelength calibration for Hamilton Echelle spectrograph using hollow cathode lamp, which was operated at Lick Observatory Shane telescope before June 9, 2011. The spectrum of the lamp claimed to be thorium-argon, contains, in addition to the lines of thorium and argon, a number of the unrecognized lines identified by us with tantalum. Using atomic data for measured lines of tantalum and thorium, we estimated the temperature of the gas in the lamp as T=3120+/-60 K. From the atomic line database VALD3 we selected all lines of TaI and TaII which can be seen in the spectrum of the lamp and compiled a list for the use in the processing of spectral observations. We note a limitation of the accuracy of calibration due to the influence of the hyperfine line splitting.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in the Astronomy Reports
DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM FLUVIAL TERRACES ON THE BLUE RIDGE ESCARPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF A PASSIVE MARGIN
Creators: name: White, Jasmine Jeanay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The mechanisms suggested for creating the Blue Ridge escarpment range from Triassic rift-flank uplift in the Coastal Plain to a series of normal faults at the base of the escarpment. Geomorphological processes on top of the escarpment, such as stream capture, have led previous workers to infer that the escarpment originated to the southeast of its present-day location. There are, however, unexplained fluvial terraces on top of the Eastern Continental Divide along the escarpment that contains rounded quartz-cobbles. The provenance of the fluvial terraces has yet to be explained but could provide evidence of the pre-rift/pre-uplift topography. I analyze detrital zircons from the terraces to reveal the provenance and ancient stream-flow directions. In this study, I present evidence that the zircons in the ancient terrace deposits were deposited by west-flowing streams that originated in the Piedmont. I use these ages to further constrain the origin of the Blue Ridge escarpment.
Louis Rollier (1859-1931) an Adam Marti (1857-1940), Kantonsschule Trogen, Briefkonzept
Creators: name: Rollier, Louis
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1914

description: Briefkonzept, verfasst auf einem Briefumschlag der ETH Zürich am 16.8.1914 in Zürich
Measuring Partial Balance in Signed Networks
Creators: name: Aref, Samin
name: Wilson, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C22, 05C38, 91D30, 90B10

description: Is the enemy of an enemy necessarily a friend? If not, to what extent does this tend to hold? Such questions were formulated in terms of signed (social) networks and necessary and sufficient conditions for a network to be "balanced" were obtained around 1960. Since then the idea that signed networks tend over time to become more balanced has been widely used in several application areas. However, investigation of this hypothesis has been complicated by the lack of a standard measure of partial balance, since complete balance is almost never achieved in practice. We formalize the concept of a measure of partial balance, discuss various measures, compare the measures on synthetic datasets, and investigate their axiomatic properties. The synthetic data involves Erdős-Rényi and specially structured random graphs. We show that some measures behave better than others in terms of axioms and ability to differentiate between graphs. We also use well-known datasets from the sociology and biology literature, such as Read's New Guinean tribes, gene regulatory networks related to two organisms, and a network involving senate bill co-sponsorship. Our results show that substantially different levels of partial balance is observed under cycle-based, eigenvalue-based, and frustration-based measures. We make some recommendations for measures to be used in future work.
description: Peer-reviewed author copy, 31 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Wright, T. M., & Diehl, P. F. (2016). in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Creators: name: Talbert, Eli
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: International and Area Studies

description: We selected the claim that militarized territorial disputes between institutionally mixed dyads are more likely to escalate to war than are disputes among institutionally similar dyads (Hypothesis 1) (Statement 2). This reflects the following statement from the paper's abstract: "This disparity in territorial goals makes mixed regime dyads more war-prone when territory is disputed" (Statement 1). The foci of the authors' analyses are so-called mixed institutional dyads, consisting of one democracy and one nondemocratic state. Table 2 displays logit results on war for all dyads and rival dyads from 1816 to 2001. The first two columns have the dependent variable of war within five years; the first column contains the selected analysis. The focal term is Territorial MID [militarized interstate dispute] x mixed regime dyad (jointly autocratic dyads is the reference category) (see Table 2 for details) (Statement 3). When institutionally mixed dyads fight over territory, war becomes more likely, within five years and in the full sample (from Table 2: estimate for 'Territorial MID x mixed regime dyad' term = 0.769; SE = 0.220; p < 0.01 [two-tailed significance]) (Statement 4) The focal test in the original paper is: estimate for 'Territorial MID x mixed regime dyad' term = 0.769; SE = 0.220; p < 0.01 [two-tailed significance]
THE EFFECTS OF BIOLOGICAL SEX ON FATIGUE DURING AND RECOVERY FROM RESISTANCE EXERCISE
Creators: name: Nuckols, Gregory L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate sex differences in fatigability and recovery from resistance exercise.  Male and female subjects with at least one year of bench press experience (N = 21 males and 21 females) performed a fatigue protocol consisting of barbell bench press with 75% 1RM loads for sets of 5 repetitions, with 90 seconds between sets, until concentric failure.  Recovery was monitored for the subsequent 72 hours using subjective ratings of soreness and estimated 1RM strength derived from load-velocity profiles.  The female subjects completed more reps during the fatigue protocol (Females: 58.3 ± 27.3; Males: 29.6 ± 10.6; p = 0.0001), but post-training soreness and recovery of estimated 1RM strength did not significantly differ between sexes.  Results suggest that women fatigue slower than men during multiple sets of bench press, and can recover from training at a similar rate despite completing a larger relative workload.