cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An effective decomposition approach and heuristics to generate spanning trees with a small number of branch vertices
Creators: name: Melo, Rafael A.
name: Samer, Phillippe
name: Urrutia, Sebastián
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.6; G.2.2
subject: 90C27, 90C90, 05C05, 05C85

description: Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the minimum branch vertices problem consists in finding a spanning tree $T=(V,E')$ of $G$ minimizing the number of vertices with degree greater than two. We consider a simple combinatorial lower bound for the problem, from which we propose a decomposition approach. The motivation is to break down the problem into several smaller subproblems which are more tractable computationally, and then recombine the obtained solutions to generate a solution to the original problem. We also propose effective constructive heuristics to the problem which take into consideration the problem's structure in order to obtain good feasible solutions. Computational results show that our decomposition approach is very fast and can drastically reduce the size of the subproblems to be solved. This allows a branch and cut algorithm to perform much better than when used over the full original problem. The results also show that the proposed constructive heuristics are highly efficient and generate very good quality solutions, outperforming other heuristics available in the literature in several situations.
description: 18 pages; 5 figures; accepted for publication in Computational Optimization and Applications
title: Landscape Characteristics Predict Locations for Potential Human–Wildlife Interactions With Timber Rattlesnakes in Minnesota, USA
Creators: name: Borash, Ben M.
name: Pauli, Benjamin P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: While management measures cannot eliminate human–wildlife conflicts, they have the potential to minimize the damage done to both parties, especially if areas where the nature of the potential interaction can be predicted before an encounter occurs. The timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) represents a wildlife species associated with public misconceptions that may foster unwarranted fears and retribution. This species is native to the eastern and southern regions of the United States, including a small population remnant in the southeastern region of Minnesota. To gain a better understanding of the environmental predictors relevant to human–snake encounters in Minnesota (that require action such as relocation), we studied point locations of human–snake interactions requiring human intervention in Winona County in southeastern Minnesota over a 13-year period between 2006 and 2019. We used the points to create a model to predict areas of increased potential for human–snake interactions. Our analysis identified areas with high potential for such contact between humans and rattlesnakes. This research highlighted environmental factors favorable to timber rattlesnake encounters with humans and may serve as a guide for management efforts to mitigate human–snake conflicts.
What Concrete Forms Might an Activist Scholarly Archaeology Take? – Two Examples of Experimental Projects
Creators: name: Zorzin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Activism
subject: Archaeology
subject: Empowerment
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie

description: Since the 1970s, scholars like Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers (Meadows et al. 2022 [2004]: 383–454), have been actively proposing actions to guarantee the sustainability for life outside of the ideological framework imposed within the ‘Capitalocene’ (Moore 2016). In this specific context, activist archaeology certainly has a role to play in answering the questions: “is archaeology useful?” (Dawdy 2009: 131), or “why archaeology?” (Tilley 1989: 105; McGuire 2008: xi). The genesis of these questions likely emerges from the aim of millennial and Gen Z archaeologists to use their archaeological skills meaningfully, or at least in a way that does not harm people or the environment and preferably is somehow beneficial to communities. Thus, an activist archaeology is about reorienting the focus of archaeological research and emphasizing action itself as the heart of future research programs (Stottman 2010: 9) or even as a rescue program that seeks social, economic, political, and ecological justice. This active approach challenges and transgresses the traditional bounds of academic archaeology, rather than conceptualizing activism as a potential by-product of archaeological practice (McGuire 2008: xii).
Activism: The End of History – Adjourned
Creators: name: Müller, Johannes
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Activism
subject: Archaeology
subject: Empowerment
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie

description: What is a better world is answered very differently, especially in intellectual circles, but also in society as a whole. At the same time, the existence of a “bad” world is implied. In my observation, the constants have shifted towards a “better” world in the last twenty years: the clear differentiation of society into rulers and ruled is no longer obvious and decisive, for example, within North American and European late capitalist societies or between the global North and the global South. The structural differentiation into ruling and oppressed classes has given way to a constructivist diversification of issues. The shift of financial resources by the rulers of the South to the North also points to the fact that the global differentiation of power structures no longer corresponds to the classical scheme of “imperialist” exploitation. Overall, we can observe not only an atomisation of individuals, but also an individualisation of resistances against a supposed late capitalist system.
Vertebral endplate structural defects: nomenclature, classification and measurement methods - A scoping review
Creators: name: Lawan, Aliyu
name: Leung, Andrew
name: Battie, Michele
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Endplate defects/lesions observed on imaging are attracting increasing attention as possible causes or contributors to painful back conditions. Yet, related measurements are varied with few reporting on psychometric properties. We expect to advance measurement methods to help resolve questions of etiology and clinical relevance.
In Defense of Incremental Change
Creators: name: Tamur, Erhan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Activism
subject: Archaeology
subject: Empowerment
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie

description: We seem to live in an age of euphemism. A recent article in The Guardian titled “Iraqi discoveries help shed light on British Museum treasures” explains the lack of provenience of some antiquities as “owing to the circumstances of their discovery and retrieval during the buccaneering period of early archaeology.” Neither the word “circumstances” nor “buccaneering” do justice to the colonial legacy of the discipline and the complex and asymmetrical power relationships that led to the exhibition of such “discoveries” in Britain. Even in the well-documented case of the Benin Bronzes, a journalist for the New York Times prefers to put the word “looting” in quotation marks in the article’s title and speaks of the “so-called looted works of art” in the text, despite the fact that the curator who is interviewed in the same article refers to the same sculptures as “indisputably looted.”
Internal character dictates phase transition dynamics between isolation and cohesive grouping
Creators: name: Manrique, Pedro D.
name: Hui, Pak Ming
name: Johnson, Neil F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that accounting for internal character among interacting, heterogeneous entities generates rich phase transition behavior between isolation and cohesive dynamical grouping. Our analytical and numerical calculations reveal different critical points arising for different character-dependent grouping mechanisms. These critical points move in opposite directions as the population's diversity decreases. Our analytical theory helps explain why a particular class of universality is so common in the real world, despite fundamental differences in the underlying entities. Furthermore, it correctly predicts the non-monotonic temporal variation in connectivity observed recently in one such system.
Indigenous Concerns, Archaeology, and Activism
Creators: name: Porr, Martin
name: Piezonka, Henny
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Activism
subject: Archaeology
subject: Empowerment
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie

description: Archaeologists have been in contact with Indigenous communities since the origins of the discipline during the 19th century. From the beginning, this relationship was fundamentally structured by the fact that academic archaeology reflects the development of European/Western modernity, nationalism, and imperialism. As a consequence, during archaeology’s long and complex history, the relationship with Indigenous communities has often been characterised by confrontations, disputes, and misunderstandings. The dominant worldview upon which archaeology stands, rooted in Enlightenment philosophies and materialism, is often in contradiction to Indigenous perspectives. This applies, for example, to notions of time and history, the position and roles of humans within the natural world, ancestry and personhood, distinctions between life and death, and the animated and unanimated. These fundamental differences, and the associated unequal power relations between researchers on the one hand and Indigenous communities on the other, have caused innumerable instances of the appropriation and/or destruction of heritage sites and built structures and the removal and theft of artefacts and human remains. Accordingly, archaeological practices have been causing pain and suffering for Indigenous communities. However, these aspects are not restricted to archaeology but are more broadly related to the idea and reality of modern science and research practice itself. The perspective of Indigenous communities is encapsulated in Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s statement that “scientific research remains inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism […] The word itself, ‘research’, is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’s vocabulary” (Tuhiwai Smith 2012: 232). This understanding reflects the extensive and continuing experiences of objectification by Indigenous people in their engagements with researchers. It unmasks the position of Western (and other imperially rooted) science as yet another facet of extractive and exploitative practices of European domination. Indigenous communities have criticised that scientific practices can extract and claim ownership of Indigenous ways of knowing and heritage while excluding the people themselves from these processes and the subsequent results (Tuhiwai Smith 2012: 240).
The Radicalization Process of Homegrown Terrorists: A Case Study: The Boyd Family in North Carolina
Creators: name: Hart, Abigail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis, I hope to answer why and how Daniel Boyd radicalized, as well as
his influence on the other seven group members. Moreover, I will explore Daniel’s sons,
Zak and Dylan, and their pathways to radicalization to determine whether or not they
reached the final step of the radicalization process. I will also describe how their father
played a key role in each of their processes. I will use radicalization processes already
laid out by terrorism experts as well as my own research into the case of Daniel Boyd and
the other seven men in the Raleigh Jihadi group to attempt to explain the reasons and the
course of action in which the Boyd’s radicalized. I will connect the literature to the case
of Daniel Boyd to argue that even though parts of each theory can be applied to this case
study, no one theory correctly describes what happened to this family. Moreover, each
theory fails to clearly explain why individuals with similar circumstances to the Boyd
family do not radicalize. Therefore, I conclude that the current terrorism research is
inadequate and has a long way to go before we can truly understand how and why a
seemingly “normal” individual becomes a homegrown terrorist.
Archaeology as Radical Care
Creators: name: Rizvi, Uzma Z.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Activism
subject: Archaeology
subject: Empowerment
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie

description: A guiding frame for much of my activism is contending with the juxtaposition of how the world is and how I believe the world ought to be (i.e. just). I also think deeply about how our research practice can create the conditions to get there (i.e. to a just world). Within this process I have found that justice flourishes within frameworks of care, generosity, and a heart-centered approach.1 These acts of kindness and care are radical within the (settler) colonial frameworks which inform, code, and maintain archaeological practice in most of the world today: a world in which care is coded as unscientific and biased. It is important to recognize that it is precisely in those spaces of care and kindness that transformative practices emerge.2 These gestures have the capacity to become healing balms for the many bodies of difference who experience the violence of the institution and academy.
Frenkel Excitons in Tubular Geometries
Creators: name: Montoni, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Molecular aggregates with tubular geometries are chemically interesting because
of their light‐harvesting and energy transfer capabilities. Nature utilizes
these characteristics in the form of chloroplasts in green bacteria. These
tubular aggregates absorb photons at specific sites, and then transfer the
absorbed energy to acceptor sites in order to use that energy for
photosynthesis. In order to investigate the dynamics of such energy transfers,
a computational simulation was developed to generate molecular aggregates and
model the movement of energy from a donor molecule to an acceptor molecule. The
model utilizes Frenkel excitons, which regulate transport through fluctuations
in the molecules’ energy levels. Three geometries were investigated: a
single‐walled nanotube, a double‐walled nanotube, and a double-helix. It
was found that the rate of exciton transport was fastest in the helices and
slowest in the double-­walled nanotube, and that the exciton becomes far more
delocalized in a double-­helix than in a nanotube. Helices seem to be better
suited to high-­speed energy transfer, though whether helical aggregates are
plausible experimentally remains untested.
Nursing Care of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Adults with Cancer: Cultural Awareness Among Oncology Nurses
Creators: name: Betancur Grondona, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: With the changing demographic landscape, cancer hospitals throughout the United States have seen an increase in the number of adults with cancer who are considered Limited English Proficient (LEP). This population will need culturally responsive care provided to them by frontline health care professionals such as nurses. Cultural awareness enables nurses to understand the needs of patients and employ unconditional positive regard despite differences in race, language, or culture. Culturally aware nurses are mindful of their unconscious biases and are able to provide high quality and equitable care even when cultural differences exist or a language barrier is present, thus ensuring positive health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to assess cultural awareness among oncology nurses and identify areas in need of cross-cultural training and educational development. A cross-sectional study design was conducted in the form of an online survey containing rating scale and open-ended questions. The sample was 44 oncology nurses from an oncology adult inpatient unit in a large medical center. In addition to evaluating cultural awareness on the unit, nurses were asked about challenges when providing care to LEP Latinx adult patients with cancer. The results of the cross-sectional study showed a moderate to high level of cultural awareness among participants. Despite having a moderate to high level of cultural awareness, participants expressed the urgent need for tools and resources that would allow them to provide equitable and safe care to LEP Latinx adult patients with cancer. According to participants, tools and resources such as an assigned unit interpreter, an increase in bilingual nursing staff, and free Spanish lessons offered to unit staff would aid in the ability to provide culturally responsive care.
Future Orientation: Resilience Among Maltreated Youth
Creators: name: Cui, Zehua
name: Oshri, Assaf
name: Liu, Sihong
name: Smith, Emilie
name: Kogan, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Child Maltreatment
subject: Future Orientation
subject: Positive Youth Development
subject: Resilience

description: Examining the role of future orientation in the development of resilience among maltreated youth.
Stochastic cosmology, theories of perturbations and Lifshitz gravity
Creators: name: Khalatnikov, I. M.
name: Kamenshchik, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some works of E M Lifshitz connected with gravity and cosmology and also some later works, connected with his ideas. The main topics of this review are the stochastic cosmology of an anisotropic universe and of an isotropic universe with the scalar field, the quasi-isotropic (gradient) expansion in cosmology and Horava-Lifshitz gravity and cosmology.
description: 30 pages, to appear in Physics - Uspekhi. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0901.3775 by other authors
The Role of Environmental Drivers on the Distribution of Vermilion (Sebastes Miniatus) and Sunset Rockfishes (S. Crocotulus) in the Southern California Bight
Creators: name: Hughes, Austen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Logistic regression models have shown to be an effective tool at using geographic and environmental data to predict the occurrence of species and map their distribution (Osborne and Tigar, 1992). The biological and environmental data collected by NOAA’s annual Hook and Line Survey provides for a large data set that could be utilized for determining the factors which may influence differences in distribution between Sunset and Vermilion Rockfish. The objective of this study is to evaluate the importance of various environmental and spatial variables in Vermilion and Sunset Rockfish distribution in order to refine the ability of fisheries scientists to accurately assign individuals to a species.  Logistic regression models fitted to data from the NOAA Hook and Line survey allowed for the prediction of the proportion of each species given spatial and environmental covariates, which is useful to determine the species composition of catches as well as understand how management restrictions protect each species.
Observation of quantum dynamical oscillations of ultracold atoms in the F and D bands of an optical lattice
Creators: name: Wang, Zhongkai
name: Yang, Baoguo
name: Hu, Dong
name: Chen, Xuzong
name: Xiong, Hongwei
name: Wu, Biao
name: Zhou, Xiaoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of quantum dynamical oscillations of ultracold atomic gases in the F and D bands of a single-well optical lattice. We are able to control the Bragg reflections at the Brillouin zone edge up to the third order. As a result, we can switch the quantum dynamics from oscillations across both the F and D bands to oscillations only within the F-band. Our capability to observe these remarkable oscillations comes from the innovative non-adiabatic technique which allows us to load ultracold atoms efficiently to the G-band of an optical lattice.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Homotopy colimits – comparison lemmas for combinatorial applications
Creators: name: Welker, Volkmar
name: Ziegler, Günter M.
name: Živaljević, Rade T.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: We provide a “toolkit” of basic lemmas for the comparison of homotopy types of homotopy colimits of diagrams of spaces over small categories. We show how this toolkit can be used in quite different fields of applications. We demonstrate this with respect to 1. Björner's “Generalized Homotopy Complementation Formula” [5], 2. the topology of toric varieties, 3. the study of homotopy types of arrangements of subspaces, 4. the analysis of homotopy types of subgroup complexes.
Finite generation of iterated wreath products in product action
Creators: name: Vannacci, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E18, 20F05, 20B05, 20E22

description: Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a sequence of finite perfect transitive permutation groups with uniformly bounded number of generators. We prove that the infinitely iterated wreath product in product action of the groups in $\mathcal{S}$ is topologically finitely generated, provided that the actions of the groups in $\mathcal{S}$ are not regular. We prove that our bound has the right asymptotic behaviour. We also deduce that other infinitely iterated mixed wreath products of groups in $\mathcal{S}$ are finitely generated. Finally we apply our methods to find explicitly two generators of infinitely iterated wreath products in product action of special sequences $\mathcal{S}$.
description: 9 pages. Updated version with some added references. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1412.7809
Relationship of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Sickle Cell Disease Severity in Children
Creators: name: Rogers, Valerie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: adenotonsillectomy
subject: children
subject: health care utilization
subject: Sickle cell disease
subject: Sickle Cell Disease Severity Index
subject: sleep apnea
subject: vaso-occlusive events

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of obstructive sleep apnea with sickle cell disease severity in a retrospective case series of children aged 2 to 17 years undergoing evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing over 6 years, and outcomes following adenotonsillectomy in children with sleep apnea. Medical record data were collected for 12 months pre-polysomnography and 12 months post-polysomnography/adenotonsillectomy. Disease severity included utilization of urgent services (hospitalization, emergency department visits, acute care clinic visits) for painful crises and a composite Sickle Cell Disease Severity Index score. Forty children qualified, 58% female, mean age 8.7 ± 4.7 years. Sleep apnea was diagnosed in 78%. The youngest children had the most severe sleep apnea but sought urgent services least frequently compared to older children (p <0.01). Urgent services utilization did not change between the first and second year despite adenotonsillectomy. More severe sleep apnea in younger children with less severe sickle cell disease suggests an overlooked diagnosis in those who are young and relatively healthy. Frequent screening for sleep disorders and a low threshold for polysomnographic evaluation is warranted.
MPEC 2023-F168 : 2023 FC5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FC5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Estimates of the prevalence of speech and motor speech disorders in persons with complex neurodevelopmental disorders
Creators: name: Shriberg, Lawrence D.
name: Strand, Edythe A.
name: Jakielski, Kathy J.
name: Mabie, Heather L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Estimates of the prevalence of speech and motor speech disorders in persons with complex neurodevelopmental disorders (CND) can inform research in the biobehavioural origins and treatment of CND. The goal of this research was to use measures and analytics in a diagnostic classification system to estimate the prevalence of speech and motor speech disorders in convenience samples of speakers with one of eight types of CND. Audio-recorded conversational speech samples from 346 participants with one of eight types of CND were obtained from a database of participants recruited for genetic and behavioural studies of speech sound disorders (i.e., excluding dysfluency) during the past three decades. Data reduction methods for the speech samples included narrow phonetic transcription, prosody-voice coding, and acoustic analyses. Standardized measures were used to cross-classify participants’ speech and motor speech status. Compared to the 17.8% prevalence of four types of motor speech disorders reported in a study of 415 participants with idiopathic Speech Delay (SD), 47.7% of the present participants with CND met criteria for one of four motor speech disorders, including Speech Motor Delay (25.1%), Childhood Dysarthria (13.3%), Childhood Apraxia of Speech (4.3%), and concurrent Childhood Dysarthria and Childhood Apraxia of Speech (4.9%). Findings are interpreted to indicate a substantial prevalence of speech disorders, and notably, a substantial prevalence of motor speech disorders in persons with some types of CND. We suggest that diagnostic classification information from standardized motor speech assessment protocols can contribute to research in the pathobiologies of CND. Abbreviations: 16p: 16p11.2 deletion and duplication syndrome; 22q: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome; ASD: Autism Spectrum Disorder; CAS: Childhood Apraxia of Speech; CD: Childhood Dysarthria; CND: Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorder; DS: Down syndrome; FXS: Fragile X syndrome; GAL: Galactosemia; IID: Idiopathic Intellectual Disability; MSD: Motor Speech Disorder; No MSD: No Motor Speech Disorder; NSA: Normal(ized) Speech Acquisition; PEPPER: Programs to Examine Phonetic and Phonologic Evaluation Records; PSD: Persistent Speech Delay; PSE: Persistent Speech Errors; SD: Speech Delay; SDCS: Speech Disorders Classification System; SDCSS: Speech Disorders Classification System Summary; SE: Speech Errors; SMD: Speech Motor Delay; SSD: Speech Sound Disorders; TBI: Traumatic Brain Injury
A frequent acoustic sign of speech motor delay (SMD)
Creators: name: Shriberg, Lawrence D.
name: Wren, Yvonne E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Recent studies report prevalence, phenotype, and persistence findings for a paediatric motor speech disorder in addition to childhood dysarthria and childhood apraxia of speech termed Speech Motor Delay (SMD). The aim of the present study was to determine if there is a frequent acoustic sign of SMD, with implications for theory, assessment, and treatment. We examined the frequency of 19 acoustic signs of SMD in audio recordings of continuous speech and word-imitation tasks in three groups of speakers with SMD: 50 children (mean age 5.1 years) with idiopathic Speech Delay (SD) from 6 USA cities; 87 children, adolescents, and adults with eight types of complex neurodevelopmental disorders; and 9 children (mean age 8.8 years) with persistent idiopathic SD from a population-based study of children in the South West of England. The 19 acoustic signs of imprecise or unstable speech, prosody, and voice were standardized on typical speakers of the appropriate dialect. The criterion for a frequent acoustic sign was that it occurred in at least 50% of participants with SMD in each of the three groups. Findings indicated that lengthened mid-vowels and diphthongs was the one sign that met criteria, occurring in 64.4% of the 146 participants with SMD, including 71% of the 87 participants with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. Findings are interpreted to support the potential of this acoustic sign, and possibly several others associated with temporal dimensions of speech sound development, to inform explication of the neuromotor substrates of SMD.
Housing Credit: A Rural-Urban Comparison
Creators: name: Spurlock, Hughes H.
name: Bird, Ronald
name: Spurlock, Hughes H.
name: Bird, Ronald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: housing
subject: credit
subject: financing rural housing
subject: metro areas
subject: nonmetro areas
subject: credit mortgages
subject: banks
subject: savings and loan associations
subject: Farmers Home Administration
subject: home mortgages
subject: loans

description: Home mortgage credit is less available in rural areas than in urban. The major reason is the limited number of savings and loans (S&L's) operating in rural areas. Banks are the major source of housing credit in rural areas whereas S&L's are most active in metro areas. In 1975, the per capita amount of housing loans held by banks, S&L's, and Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) was about $498 in rural areas and $1,590 in metro areas. FmHA loans amounted to $169 in rural areas and $7 in metro areas; FmHA thus helped to reduce the lending differential between the two areas. Loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans' Administration were more prevalent in metro areas than in rural.
“Hockey is for Everyone”: A Semiotic Analysis of NHL Instagram Posts to Define Success for EDI-Focused Sports Marketing
Creators: Lovesy, Cambree J.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

In North America, the National Hockey League (NHL) is an example of an influential

organization that not only acts as a home for some of the world’s greatest athletes, but also fosters a strong community of hockey fans, who primarily engage with the organization and its teams online. The NHL “Hockey is for Everyone” campaign is a marketing initiative activated throughout the NHL and its clubs, focusing on the expression of the league’s commitment to EDI values. Through a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of ten Instagram posts made by NHL teams advertising a “Hockey is for Everyone” initiative, this study aims to define success for an EDI-focused professional sports marketing campaign through the use of Instagram as a means of advertising. This research employs Roland Barthes’ “connotation procedures” as a guide to a visual semiotic analysis of Instagram photos, based on traditional EDI principles.  Overall, the study concludes that based on a set of best practices that acknowledge a negative correlation between online engagement and EDI expression, it is possible to achieve both commercial and sociocultural success through the advertisement of a “Hockey is for Everyone” event or initiative on Instagram.
Fried Chicken, Orange Sherbet, and Teriyaki Tacos: Asian American Culinary Expressions of Place and Identity in North Carolina
Creators: name: Kwok, Mackenzie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Asian American voices are lacking in discourse about North Carolinian food, yet their narratives belong to the state’s culinary traditions and history at large. “Fried Chicken, Orange Sherbet, and Teriyaki Tacos” examines the ways in which Asian Americans in North Carolina navigate their identities through food. Oral history interviews with Sayaka Matsuoka, Monique Truong, and Elva Bennett provide three case studies where food plays an important role in identity formation. Research in the Asian American studies field examines how Asian Americans create their identities and negotiate their relationship to racialization and ethnicity. With food studies and folklore literature, I examine this negotiation of the self through the lens of food. Ultimately, this thesis shows food reflects the ways in which Asian Americans in North Carolina create their identities based on their relationships to racialization, ethnicity, place, and time.
Gravitational Microlensing Events as a Target for SETI project
Creators: name: Rahvar, Sohrab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of signals from a possible extrasolar technological civilization is one of the challenging efforts of science. In this work, we propose using natural telescopes made of single or binary gravitational lensing systems to magnify leakage of electromagnetic signals from a remote planet harbours an Extra Terrestrial Intelligent (ETI) technology. The gravitational microlensing surveys are monitoring a large area of Galactic bulge for searching microlensing events and they find more than $2000$ events per year. These lenses are capable of playing the role of natural telescopes and in some occasions they can magnify radio band signals from the planets orbiting around the source stars in gravitational microlensing systems. Assuming that frequency of electromagnetic waves used for telecommunication in ETIs is similar to ours, we propose follow-up observation of microlensing events with radio telescopes such as Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Low Frequency Demonstrators (LFD) and Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA). Amplifying signals from the leakage of broadcasting by an Earth-like civilizations will allow us to detect them up to center of Milky Way galaxy. Our analysis shows that in binary microlensing systems, the probability of amplification of signals from ETIs is more than that in single microlensing events. Finally we propose target of opportunity mode for follow-up observations of binary microlensing events with SKA as a new observational program for searching ETIs. Using the optimistic values for the factors of Drake equation provides detection of about one event per year.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted in ApJ
The Effect of Weather on Track Performances: A Panel Data Analysis on Carolina Godiva Track Club Summer Track Races
Creators: name: Zhao, Weichen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this paper is to study of how running times are affected by weather, in particular, focusing on how temperature and dew point will have an effect on the track performances using panel data. The research technique employed in the paper is linear mixed model method, which is commonly used to model datasets where multiple individuals perform over time. The regression results and descriptive statistics indicate that more sophisticated models than linear mixed model need to be used. The coding language used in the paper is R.
An Application-Aware Spectrum Sharing Approach for Commercial Use of 3.5 GHz Spectrum
Creators: name: Shajaiah, Haya
name: Abdelhadi, Ahmed
name: Clancy, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce an application-aware spectrum sharing approach for sharing the Federal under-utilized 3.5 GHz spectrum with commercial users. In our model, users are running elastic or inelastic traffic and each application running on the user equipment (UE) is assigned a utility function based on its type. Furthermore, each of the small cells users has a minimum required target utility for its application. In order for users located under the coverage area of the small cells' eNodeBs, with the 3.5 GHz band resources, to meet their minimum required quality of experience (QoE), the network operator makes a decision regarding the need for sharing the macro cell's resources to obtain additional resources. Our objective is to provide each user with a rate that satisfies its application's minimum required utility through spectrum sharing approach and improve the overall QoE in the network. We present an application-aware spectrum sharing algorithm that is based on resource allocation with carrier aggregation to allocate macro cell permanent resources and small cells' leased resources to UEs and allocate each user's application an aggregated rate that can at minimum achieves the application's minimum required utility. Finally, we present simulation results for the performance of the proposed algorithm.
description: Submitted to IEEE
MPEC 2023-F169 : 2023 FD5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FD5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Untersuchung des Einflusses von iatrogenen Schädigungen auf Marknägel
Creators: name: Bock, S. H.
name: Bechtold, J.E.
name: Kraft, Marc
name: Boenick, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: Marknagel
subject: Nagelbruch

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Marknägel werden zur internen Fixierung von Brüchen der langen Röhrenknochen benutzt. Dabei muß der Nagel physiologische Lasten durch Biegung, Druck (d.h. Verkürzung) und Verdrehung aufnehmen. Der Rotationsschutz zur notwendigen Drehmomentübertragung, sowie auch die Längenkontrolle, wird üblicherweise durch eine Verriegelung des Nagels mit Schrauben oder Bolzen erreicht, die in proximalen und distalen Querbohrungen des Marknagels sitzen.
Data Management White Paper
Creators: name: UBC Brain Circuits Cluster
name: LeDue, Jeffrey
name: Alejo, Glaynel
name: Bhudia, Ashutosh
name: Murphy, Timothy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This OSF project was created to support additional resources related to the Data Management White Paper written by Glaynel Alejo and Ashutosh Bhudia for the UBC Dynamic Brain Circuits and Connections in Health and Disease research cluster.
Strategies of Driving Academic Works for Developing Innovative Thinking Skills by Project-based Learning of Students at Sam Roi Yot Witthayakhom School under the Prachuap Khiri Khan Secondary Educational Service Area Office
Creators: name: Jinnanat Tharachiraset
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2023
Subjects: Participation Strategy
Project-based Learning
Innovative Thinking Skills

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 3, 1, 238-256
Does Apparent Hand Size Affect Thermal Pain Perception?
Creators: name: Whatley, Mary C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Pain serves an important role in our lives, but the pain we experience is not always accurately representative of the stimulus causing the pain. Many cognitive factors influence the way we perceive pain, including vision. Previous research has shown that vision acts as an individual cognitive system that can affect the representation of the body. By changing the visual size of the hand while administering a thermal pain stimulus, we attempted to examine the analgesic effects of visual input on pain perception. Based on prior hypotheses regarding multiple body systems and bodily control, we hypothesized that magnifying the hand would lead to greater control and less pain, while minifying the hand would lead to less control and more pain. Blocking the view of the hand would lead to the least control and most pain. We found no group differences in pain thresholds or in pain ratings of suprathreshold temperatures. There were also no differences between groups in the temperature of the hand. Previous research that reported an effect on pain may have been indirectly measuring the effects of seeing a stimulus, rather than the hand. We conclude that, while more research is needed to further understand the cognitive processes at work, there is not an effect of changing the size of the hand on pain.
3. Takayasu arteritis presents at an older age in Northern European population
Creators: name: Coath, Fiona
name: Ducker, Georgina
name: Ecclestone, Tegwen
name: Fordham, Sarah
name: Chetan Mukhtyar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vasculitis
ANCA
Abstracts
Giant Cell Arthritis
MPA
GPA
EGPA
Takayasu
IgA vasculitis

description: Background: The definition of Takayasu arteritis includes the age of onset of disease as being <50 years. It has been reported most frequently in young females from Asian populations. We investigated whether the epidemiological features are the same in Norfolk, UK, where the population is predominantly of Northern European ancestry. Methods: In our centre, cases are classified using validated international criteria. The electronic records of our vasculitis clinic were reviewed to identify all individuals with a new diagnosis of large vessel vasculitis between 2011-2020 who met a modified ACR 1990 criteria for Takayasu arteritis. The original criteria include decreased brachial artery pulse, bruit over subclavian arteries or aorta, and arteriogram abnormality. The respective modifications of these three criteria were to accept decreased radial pulse as well as the brachial pulse, bruit over the axillary artery as well as the subclavian artery, and abnormality of positron emission tomography and/or ultrasonography instead of arteriograms. Results: 14 individuals met the modified ACR 1990 criteria for Takayasu arteritis. 2 of them also met the criteria for GCA and were excluded. 12 individuals were classified as having Takayasu arteritis. 10 were female. The mean (standard deviation) age at diagnosis was 68.4 (7.6) years. None of individuals were <40 years old. On presentation - 8 had upper limb claudication, 6 had pulse discrepancy, 3 had a blood pressure difference >10 mm Hg systolic, 7 had an audible bruit over either subclavian or axillary artery. The diagnosis was confirmed on positron emission tomography in all 12. Ultrasonography of extracranial arteries was abnormal in 6 as well. The mean (standard deviation) ESR was 53.6 (35) and CRP was 40.6 (32.2). Conclusions: Takayasu arteritis can present at an older age in Norfolk, UK, where the population predominantly has Northern European ancestry. This has implications for treatment, identification of immunogenetic factors and disease classification. Disclosures: None
Can Compactifications Solve the Cosmological Constant Problem?
Creators: name: Hertzberg, Mark P.
name: Masoumi, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there have been claims in the literature that the cosmological constant problem can be dynamically solved by specific compactifications of gravity from higher-dimensional toy models. These models have the novel feature that in the four-dimensional theory, the cosmological constant $Λ$ is much smaller than the Planck density and in fact accumulates at $Λ=0$. Here we show that while these are very interesting models, they do not properly address the real cosmological constant problem. As we explain, the real problem is not simply to obtain $Λ$ that is small in Planck units in a toy model, but to explain why $Λ$ is much smaller than other mass scales (and combinations of scales) in the theory. Instead, in these toy models, all other particle mass scales have been either removed or sent to zero, thus ignoring the real problem. To this end, we provide a general argument that the included moduli masses are generically of order Hubble, so sending them to zero trivially sends the cosmological constant to zero. We also show that the fundamental Planck mass is being sent to zero, and so the central problem is trivially avoided by removing high energy physics altogether. On the other hand, by including various large mass scales from particle physics with a high fundamental Planck mass, one is faced with a real problem, whose only known solution involves accidental cancellations in a landscape.
description: 7 pages in double column format. V2: Updated references. Published in JCAP