cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New distance measures for classifying X-ray astronomy data into stellar classes
Creators: name: Baíllo, Amparo
name: Cárcamo, Javier
name: Getman, Konstantin V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35 (Primary) 62G20, 62N05 (secondary

description: The classification of the X-ray sources into classes (such as extragalactic sources, background stars, ...) is an essential task in astronomy. Typically, one of the classes corresponds to extragalactic radiation, whose photon emission behaviour is well characterized by a homogeneous Poisson process. We propose to use normalized versions of the Wasserstein and Zolotarev distances to quantify the deviation of the distribution of photon interarrival times from the exponential class. Our main motivation is the analysis of a massive dataset from X-ray astronomy obtained by the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP). This project yielded a large catalog of 1616 X-ray cosmic sources in the Orion Nebula region, with their series of photon arrival times and associated energies. We consider the plug-in estimators of these metrics, determine their asymptotic distributions, and illustrate their finite-sample performance with a Monte Carlo study. We estimate these metrics for each COUP source from three different classes. We conclude that our proposal provides a striking amount of information on the nature of the photon emitting sources. Further, these variables have the ability to identify X-ray sources wrongly catalogued before. As an appealing conclusion, we show that some sources, previously classified as extragalactic emissions, have a much higher probability of being young stars in Orion Nebula.
description: 29 pages
title: Refugee Children’s Access to Play in Meso-Environments: A Novel Approach Using Space Syntax and GIS
Creators: name: Chen, Siqi
name: Knöll, Martin
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: Being able to explore and play in quality open spaces in the neighbourhood is crucial for refugee children since refugee facilities often have inadequate playspaces indoors and outdoors. Access to meso-environment playspaces (around refugee accommodations) would provide refugee children with the opportunity for optimal physical, cognitive, emotional and social development and support their social inclusion. This study explores refugee children’s access to play areas in meso environments with six study sites in Berlin. Active space for refugee children’s play is assessed using: (1) open-source data collection, (2) method notions of perceived distance and spaces, (3) staff survey with site investigation and (4) space syntax theories of potential accessibility. Results indicated the fact of unequal playspace distributions for refugee children in Berlin with children-oriented assessment. The utilisation of space syntax in the context of refugee children is relatively unexplored. This study is thereby contributing to the space syntax literature by exploring the broader application potential of its methods. Further studies should broaden study sites with more precise environmental measures.
Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Rectilinear Steiner tree and Rectilinear Traveling Salesman Problem in the plane
Creators: name: Cambazard, Hadrien
name: Catusse, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2
subject: 90C39 (Primary), 90C27 (Secondary)

description: Given a set $P$ of $n$ points with their pairwise distances, the traveling salesman problem (TSP) asks for a shortest tour that visits each point exactly once. A TSP instance is rectilinear when the points lie in the plane and the distance considered between two points is the $l_1$ distance. In this paper, a fixed-parameter algorithm for the Rectilinear TSP is presented and relies on techniques for solving TSP on bounded-treewidth graphs. It proves that the problem can be solved in $O\left(nh7^h\right)$ where $h \leq n$ denotes the number of horizontal lines containing the points of $P$. The same technique can be directly applied to the problem of finding a shortest rectilinear Steiner tree that interconnects the points of $P$ providing a $O\left(nh5^h\right)$ time complexity. Both bounds improve over the best time bounds known for these problems.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables
Additional file 1 of Using metabolomics to predict severe traumatic brain injury outcome (GOSE) at 3 and 12 months
Creators: name: Banoei, Mohammad M.
name: Lee, Chel Hee
name: Hutchison, James
name: Panenka, William
name: Wellington, Cheryl
name: Wishart, David S.
name: Winston, Brent W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Includes clarification of methods as well as additional data tables and figures.
Thermodynamic Properties of Kehagias-Sfetsos Black Hole \& KS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Pradhan, Parthapratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We speculate on various thermodynamic features of the inner horizon~(${\mathcal H}^{-}$) and outer horizons~(${\mathcal H}^{+}$) of Kehagias-Sfetsos~(KS) black hole~(BH) in the background of Hořava Lifshitz gravity. We compute particularly the \emph{area product, area sum, area minus and area division} of the BH horizons. We find that they all are \emph{not} showing universal behavior whereas the product is a universal quantity~ [Pradhan P., \textit{Phys. Lett. B}, {\bf 747} (2015) {64}]. Based on these relations, we derive the area bound of all horizons. From the area bound we derive the entropy bound and irreducible mass bound for all the horizons~(${\mathcal H}^{\pm}$). We also observe that the \emph{First law} of BH thermodynamics and \emph {Smarr-Gibbs-Duhem } relations do not hold for this BH. The underlying reason behind this failure due to the scale invariance of the coupling constant. Moreover, we compute the \emph{Cosmic-Censorship-Inequality} for this BH which gives the lower bound for the total mass of the spacetime and it is supported by cosmic cencorship conjecture. Finally, we discuss the KS/CFT~(Conformal Field Theory) correspondence via a thermodynamic procedure.
description: Version accepted in EPL
Construction of Brownian Motions in Enlarged Filtrations and Their Role in Mathematical Models of Insider Trading
Creators: name: Wu, Ching-Tang
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Brownsche Bewegung
subject: Brownsche Filtrierung
subject: Insiderhandel
subject: Stochastische Filtering Theorie.
subject: Brownian motion
subject: Brownian filtration
subject: insider trading
subject: stochastic filtering theory
subject: 510 Mathematik
subject: 27 Mathematik
subject: SK 820

description: In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Struktur von Gausschen Prozessen, die durch gewisse lineare Transformationen von zwei Gausschen Martingalen erzeugt werden. Die Klasse dieser Transformationen ist durch nanzmathematische Gleichgewichtsmodelle mit heterogener Information motiviert. In Kapital 2 bestimmen wir für solche Prozesse, die zunächst in einer erweiterten Filtrierung konstruiert werden, die kanonische Zerlegung als Semimartin-gale in ihrer eigenen Filtrierung. Die resultierende Drift wird durch Volterra-Kerne beschrieben. Insbesondere charakterisieren wir diejenigen Prozesse, die in ihrer eigenen Filtrierung eine Brownsche Bewegung bilden. In Kapital 3 konstruieren wir neue orthogonale Zerlegungen der Brownschen Filtrierungen. In den Kapitaln 4 bis 6 wenden wir unsere Resultate zur Charakterisierung Brownscher Bewegungen im Kontext nanzmathematischer Modelle an, in denen es Marktteilnehmer mit zusätzlicher Insider-Information gibt. Wir untersuchen Erweiterungen eines Gleichgewichtsmodells von Kyle [42] und Back [7], in denen die Insider-Information in verschiedener Weise durch Gaussche Martingale spezifiziert wird. Insbesondere klären wir die Struktur von Insider-Strategien, die insofern unaufallig bleiben, als sich die resultierende Gesamtnachfrage wie eine Brownsche Bewegung verhält.
description: In this thesis, we study Gaussian processes generated by certain linear transformations of two Gaussian martingales. This class of transformations is motivated by nancial equilibrium models with heterogeneous information. In Chapter 2 we derive the canonical decomposition of such processes, which are constructed in an enlarged ltration, as semimartingales in their own ltration. The resulting drift is described in terms of Volterra kernels. In particular we characterize those processes which are Brownian motions in their own ltration. In Chapter 3 we construct new orthogonal decompositions of Brownian ltrations. In Chapters 4 to 6 we are concerned with applications of our characterization results in the context of mathematical models of insider trading. We analyze extensions of the nancial equilibrium model of Kyle [42] and Back [7] where the Gaussian martingale describing the insider information is specified in various ways. In particular we discuss the structure of insider strategies which remain inconspicuous in the sense that the resulting cumulative demand is again a Brownian motion.
Economic Evaluation of HPV Vaccine Implementation in Nigeria; A Systematic Review.docx
Creators: name: Fashoyin, Olugbuyi
name: Carne, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420602
subject: Health equity
classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion
classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health
classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420605
subject: Preventative health care

description: Cancers are emerging public health problems in developing countries like Nigeria accounting for over 85% of total global burden. Cervical Cancer is one of the most prevalent types of Cancer in Women globally; HPV infection is associated with cervical cancers. The most commonly associated subtypes are HPV-6, HPV-11, HPV-16, and HPV-18. Globally, several countries are implementing HPV vaccination programmes with the aim of preventing the development of cervical cancers in Women as young as 12 years of age. This study sought to investigate the economic evaluation of implementing HPV vaccination in Nigeria. Outcome of study is expected influence policy by advising relevant stakeholders on the socioeconomic impact of implementing HPV vaccination in Nigeria.
title: Gender Roles Presented in Children's Literature: A Random Selection and Analysis of Non-Award Winning Books
Creators: name: Poarch, Renae M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1999

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the gender role stereotyping that occurs in children's non-award winning literature. This vast selection of non-award winning books has been neglected by researchers when selecting a sample to study. Past research has concentrated on the Caldecott and Newbery Award Winning books, which are not the majority of those owned by public libraries, hence not the majority being read by young readers. The purpose of this study was not to provide a list of appropriate reading material for parents and educators to select from, but rather provide an awareness of the issues so that they can select literature that does not present limitations to either boys or girls.

This study concluded that females are still underrepresented in children's literature, both overall and in production roles (roles outside the home)in society. No authors, especially female authors, are making an attempt to change the status quo of picturing more male than female characters. This research found that male authors are more apt to depict both male and female characters outside the apt to depict both male and female characters outside the home, in the "male" arena, and female authors more often keeping both male and female characters in the home.
NIRS Calibration Models for the Prediction of Textural Attributes of Eba
Creators: name: Emmanuel, Alamu
name: Michael, Adesokan
name: Segun, Fawole
name: Busie, Maziya-Dixon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gari
Eba
NIRS
NIRS spectrophotometer
Texture

description: The experiment conducted in IITA, Nigeria, on NIRS model development for the prediction of textural attributes of Eba is reported in this document. Texture has been identified as a key quality trait that influences the consumer acceptability of Eba. Therefore, developing a high throughput technique that can be employed to evaluate texture rapidly will significantly benefit the breeders. The NIRS prediction model is a relatively cheap and fast technique that can screen samples quickly. In this experiment, NIRS models were developed to predict textural attributes of Eba samples which were prepared from forty Gari samples using standardized protocols. WP4 supplied the cassava genotypes used for producing Gari samples using the RTBfoods SOP (https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00604 ). The instrumental texture of the Eba samples was carried out using Stable Micro Systems TA.XTplus texture analyzer while the NIRS spectra data was also collected using a NIRS spectrophotometer (FOSS XDS Rapid content analyzer). Pre-treated of the spectra data was done using Standard Normal Variate Detrend (SNVD) and Savitzky Golay mathematical treatments. At the same time, the model was developed using a modified partial least square (MPLS) algorithm. In the developed model, cohesiveness had the highest R2cal of 0.94, followed by hardness with R2cal of 0.79, but the lowest R2cal was observed for gumminess (0.21). The models were validated using independent samples, and the coefficient of determination in prediction (R2pred) for chewiness and hardness were 0.58 and 0.54, respectively. The model developed in this experiment can be used for the routine prediction of the hardness of Eba. The models will also be further improved by introducing more data sets into the calibration and validation data.
Sparse spanning $k$-connected subgraphs in tournaments
Creators: name: Kang, Dong Yeap
name: Kim, Jaehoon
name: Kim, Younjin
name: Suh, Geewon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C20, 05C35, 05C40

description: In 2009, Bang-Jensen asked whether there exists a function $g(k)$ such that every strongly $k$-connected $n$-vertex tournament contains a strongly $k$-connected spanning subgraph with at most $kn + g(k)$ arcs. In this paper, we answer the question by showing that every strongly $k$-connected $n$-vertex tournament contains a strongly $k$-connected spanning subgraph with at most $kn + 750k^2\log(k+1)$ arcs.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of Bayesian spatiotemporal infectious disease models for prospective surveillance analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Joanne
name: Lawson, Andrew B.
name: Neelon, Brian
name: Korte, Jeffrey E.
name: Eberth, Jan M.
name: Chowell, Gerardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Details of the Bayesian implementation.
Moving mirrors and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Creators: name: Stargen, D. Jaffino
name: Kothawala, Dawood
name: Sriramkumar, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the random motion of a mirror in (1 + 1)-dimensions that is immersed in a thermal bath of massless scalar particles which are interacting with the mirror through a boundary condition. Imposing the Dirichlet or the Neumann boundary conditions on the moving mirror, we evaluate the mean radiation reaction force on the mirror and the correlation function describing the fluctuations in the force about the mean value. From the correlation function thus obtained, we explicitly establish the fluctuation-dissipation theorem governing the moving mirror. Using the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we compute the mean-squared displacement of the mirror at finite and zero temperature. We clarify a few points concerning the various limiting behavior of the mean-squared displacement of the mirror. While we recover the standard result at finite temperature, we find that the mirror diffuses logarithmically at zero temperature, confirming similar conclusions that have been arrived at earlier in this context. We also comment on a subtlety concerning the comparison between zero temperature limit of the finite temperature result and the exact zero temperature result.
description: v1: 14 pages, 1 figure; v2: 15 pages, 1 figure, discussions added, Phys. Rev. D version
Effects of male age on sperm and ejaculate traits in non-human animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Johnson, Sheri
name: PIzzari, Tommaso
name: Sepil, Irem
name: Vega-Trejo, Regina
name: Sanghvi, Krish
name: Salguero-Gomez, Rob
name: Nakagawa, Shinichi
name: Gascoigne, Samuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: ageing
subject: meta-analysis
subject: senescence
subject: sperm

description: Our study aims to test, using a systematic review and meta-analytic approach, whether advancing male age leads to deterioration in sperm and whole-ejaculate traits (WET) in non-human animals
Den Danske Sessionsdatabase
Creators: Merete Osler
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2023

description: Formålet med dette register er, at man med digitaliseringen af disse data muliggør forskning i udviklingen af folkesundheden. Datasættet indeholder oplysninger om højde, vægt, uddannelsesniveau ved session, samt intelligens, der er målt ved hjælp af Børge Prien test.
Regulation of innate immune responses by Mertk
Creators: name: Williams, Julie Clarke
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2009

description: The Tyro3/Axl/Mertk(TAM) family of receptors is important for phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, cytokine regulation, and suppression of autoimmune disease. Mice lacking Mertk present with a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-like syndrome; however, the etiology of the autoimmune phenotype in the mertk-/- mice is unknown. As such, our hypothesis is that Mertk is regulating innate immune responses that prevent the initiation of autoimmune disease. This dissertation examines the role of the TAM family of receptors in 1) the clearance and killing of bacteria, 2) the regulation of immune cells in the peritoneal cavity and 3) the regulation of cytoplasmic dsDNA-induced cell death through the regulation of p202. Chapter 2 shows the TAM receptors are dispensable for phagocytosis and killing of bacteria. Chapter 3 shows, Mertk regulates the immigration and the number of immune cells in the peritoneal cavity, particularly the T cells and B cells. In addition, this increase in peritoneal cells correlates to autoantibody formation found only in mertk-/- mice and not axl-/- or tyro3-/-. Finally, Chapter 4 shows that Mertk suppresses expression of the lupus susceptibility factor, p202, and that p202 may rescue macrophages from cytoplasmic dsDNA-induced cell death. These studies have clarified the literature with regards to TAM receptor family and bacteria clearance, have provided new insights to the autoimmune phenotype associated with the under studied peritoneal cavity, and have established a novel mechanism by which Mertk regulates death of APCs which may be critical in preventing the development of autoimmune disease.
Experimental analysis of DBD plasma jet properties using different gases and two kinds of transfer plate
Creators: name: Nascimento, Fellype do
name: Moshkalev, Stanislav
name: Machida, Munemasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma jets has been studied extensively in recent years because of its wide range of applications. DBD plasmas can be produced using many different gases and can be applied to a broad variety of surfaces and substrates. In this work, we provide a comparison of DBD plasmas generated using argon (Ar), helium (He) and nitrogen (N2), as well as their mixtures with water vapor in order to know how some plasma properties are affected by the use of different gases. All plasmas were studied in two different conditions, using a transfer plate made of a conductive material and using a transfer plate made of an insulating one. We observed that the processes of excitation and ionization of nitrogen molecules by direct collisions with Ar or He are more evident and significant in He plasmas, which means that He atoms in metastable states have greater ability to transfer energy to molecules of nitrogen in the plasma. The collisions of He atoms in metastable states with N2 molecules determine the vibrational temperature (Tvib) values in He plasmas, while in Ar and N2 plasmas the Tvib values are determined mainly by collisions of electrons with N2 molecules.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of Bayesian spatiotemporal infectious disease models for prospective surveillance analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Joanne
name: Lawson, Andrew B.
name: Neelon, Brian
name: Korte, Jeffrey E.
name: Eberth, Jan M.
name: Chowell, Gerardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Details of the simulation data generation.
Connections Between Participation in Early Reading First Classrooms and School-Aged Language and Literacy Development
Creators: name: Harper, Hillary
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education
Speech therapy

description: This investigation examined the effects of participation in The Time is Now in Pre-K Early Reading First (ERF) project on kindergarten, first, and second grade literacy outcomes. End-of-year language and literacy data collected by the participating school district was analyzed for 170 students (Year 1 = 89; Year 2 = 81). This investigation allowed for a multi-year examination of student performance following participation in an ERF project, and answered the call to conduct research on larger scale preschool programs that significantly improve student oral language and literacy skills. Independent t-tests demonstrated that intervention students performed statistically significantly better than comparison students on first grade measures of phoneme segmentation and oral retelling fluency. In kindergarten, there were no significant differences on tasks related to book and print awareness and writing. In first grade there were no significant differences on writing and phonological awareness tasks. Additional analyses examined whether the effects of participation in the ERF project were associated with or mediated by student-level demographics and environmental factors (i.e., teacher and school assignment) and if the effects of participation in the ERF project changed after one year of literacy instruction. Multiple regression equations determined that a full, six-variable model (i.e., age, gender, race, language spoken, exceptionality, and condition) significantly predicted student performance on a writing subtest. Intervention condition emerged as having the largest negative impact upon student performance with smaller negative impacts associated with language spoken, race, gender and an identified disability. Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling assuming fixed and random effects, the combined effect of teacher and school assignment had a statistically significant impact upon student receptive vocabulary, upper and lower case letter knowledge and use of oral language. Paired samples t-tests revealed that both intervention and comparison Year 1 student oral retelling scores significantly decreased between the end of kindergarten and the end of first grade. The results of this study provide positive support for the impact of ERF, and help identify for whom value-added impacts were achieved. This project offers valuable information regarding educational practices and future research related to the development of language- and literacy-related skills in young children
Moderatoreffekte bewusster und unbewusster Faktoren auf implizite und explizite Motive sowie die Motivkongruenz
Creators: name: Mempel, Gordon
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Tischtennis
subject: Schwimmen
subject: Tennis
subject: Badminton
subject: Selbststeuerung
subject: implizite Motive
subject: explizite Motive
subject: Impulskontrolle
subject: Wettkampfleistung
subject: Leistungsprognostik
subject: swimming
subject: implicit motives
subject: explicit motives
subject: tennis
subject: table tennis
subject: badminton
subject: activity inhibition
subject: self-regulation
subject: competition performance
subject: performance prediction
subject: 796 Sport
subject: 50 Sport, Spiele
subject: ZX 7150

description: Im Rahmen zweier Studien im Leistungssport werden die Effekte bewusster und unbewusster Faktoren auf implizite und explizite Motive untersucht. Es kann die Distinktheit der Vorhersagebereiche impliziter und expliziter Motivdiagnostik repliziert werden. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass die handlungsführenden Effekte impliziter und expliziter Motive jeweils exklusiv durch unbewusste Impulskontrolle und bewusste Selbststeuerungskompetenzen moderiert werden. Allein implizite Prozesse (implizite Motive, Impulskontrolle) besitzen prognostischen Wert für sportliches Leisten in Situationen die unbewusst verarbeitet werden. Explizite Prozesse (explizite Motive, bewusste Selbststeuerung) hingegen sagen sportliches Leisten in bewusst verarbeiteten Situationen des sportlichen Wettkampfs vorher. Die differentielle Prognostizität direkter und indirekter Motivdiagnostik in der Sportpsychologie kann durch die Berücksichtigung adäquater Faktoren verbessert werden. Aufgrund der Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit ist bei der Auswahl adäquater Persönlichkeitsvariablen darauf zu achten, dass das zu prognostizierende Kriterium und die Erhebungsmethodik bezüglich ihres Grades an bewusster Bearbeitung miteinander übereinstimmen.
description: The effects of conscious and unconscious factors on implicit and explicit motives were examined in the context of two studies. The distinct array of prediction by implicit and explicit motive diagnostic can be replicated. Though it was possible to provide evidence for the exclusive moderation of implicit motives by unconscious activity inhibition while explicit motives were moderated by conscious skills of self-regulation. Only the implicit processes (implicit motives and activity inhibition) proof a value to predicting human activity in situations coped without consciousness. In contrast only explicit processes (explicit motives and conscious skills of self-regulation) can predict the outcome of behaviour in situations coped with consciousness. The results of that paper can improve the differential prediction of direct and indirect motive diagnostic by regarding the adequate moderator factors. Further investigations will have the ability to improve the value of motivational predictors if they consider, that the level of consciousness is consistent within the situation of ascertainment the motivational predictor and the situation the criteria is imposed.
Raman Scattering Of Organic Charge Transfer Compounds
Creators: name: Vermeulen, Derek
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: Understanding the intrinsic nature of charge transport in organic semiconductors is very important in the design of and creation of new organic electronic technology. In particular, charge transfer (CT) compounds offer an interesting sub-species of organic semiconductor, in which one-dimensional transport, ambipolar transport, and the effect of chemical and structural modification can be studied so that one day an organic electronic device can be designed from the molecule up. Electron-phonon (eph) coupling and the degree of charge transfer (ρ) in CT compounds are essential parameters to consider in studying charge transport in OS. Substantial theoretical research has been completed to determine the influence of both non-local and local eph coupling on electronic properties such as charge carrier mobility. However, very few experimental investigations have been completed to test the assertions of theory concerning eph coupling, especially non-local coupling. The aim of this project is to experimentally investigate eph coupling and ρ in organic semiconducting binary CT compounds using Raman spectroscopy, and to compare the results with theoretical calculations where possible. The first part of this dissertation is focused on the PnT1 (Perylenen-Tetracyanoquinomethane; n=1,2,3) CT compound system consisting of three compounds of differing stoichiometric ratios of perylene to TCNQ. In this project I show that ρ increases as the number of perylenes in the unit cell increases, due to greater electronic coupling resulting from a closer spacing of perylene and TCNQ, which is confirmed by theoretical calculations and X-ray measurements. I also estimate the local eph coupling constants per phonon of PnT1 using resonance Raman spectroscopy and obtain polaron binding energies of perylene and TCNQ, which are consistent with theoretical calculations. The last part of this dissertation is focused on anthracene-PMDA (Pyromellitic Dianhydride). Using resonance Raman spectroscopy I apply to this crystalline CT compound a method usually constrained to the study of excited electronic states of molecules in solution. From this technique I am able to extract eph constants, both local and non-local, for inter- and intramolecular phonons and show that both are equally influential in affecting charge transport in organic semiconductors, as predicted by theory.
Additional file 3 of Evaluation of Bayesian spatiotemporal infectious disease models for prospective surveillance analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Joanne
name: Lawson, Andrew B.
name: Neelon, Brian
name: Korte, Jeffrey E.
name: Eberth, Jan M.
name: Chowell, Gerardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 3: Additional tables for the Results section. Table A1. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE for the simulation analysis for the window size 7 when time 15 to 21 (Increasing trend). Table A2. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE for the simulation analysis for the window size 7 when time 22 to 28 (Decreasing trend). Table A3. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE for the simulation analysis for the window size 3 when time 17 to 19 (Increasing trend). Table A4. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE for the simulation analysis for the window size 3 when time 23 to 25 (Decreasing trend). Table A5. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE table for the analysis of NJ and SC for the window size of 7 (t = 33–39 weeks (NJ) and t = 11–17 weeks (SC) with increasing trend). Table A6. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE table for the analysis of NJ and SC for the window size of 7 (t = 9–15 weeks (NJ) and t = 20–26 weeks (SC) with decreasing trend). Table A7. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE table for the analysis of NJ and SC for the window size of 3 (t = 33–35 weeks (NJ) and t = 13–15 weeks (SC) with increasing trend). Table A8. DIC, MSE and MAOSPE table for the analysis of NJ and SC for the window size of 3 (t = 9–11 weeks (NJ) and t = 22–24 weeks (SC) with decreasing trend).
Supplemental materials for preprint: STATISTICS -THE BASIC OF STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS: A CORRELATION
Creators: name: DATTA, JAYDIP
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Karl-Pearson Coefficiant
subject: Probability
subject: Randomisation
subject: Stirling's approximation
subject: Weights

description: In our earlier Review some descriptive statistical features like linear regression aspects of Karl-Pearson Coefficient / Correlation coefficient [ 1 ] has been studied specially. But the knowledge of Basic Statistics is the foundation course of STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS . The significant Correlation ( R^2 lies between 0.2 – 0.85 ) is nothing but the measure of PROBABILITY .Thus the Thermodynamic Probability (T.P ) is a function of Weights of the Configuration ( W ) [2] Stirling’s approximation [ 2 ] is also a good convergence with T.P as well randomisation aspects of Entropy or Weights of Configuration ( W ) .
Additional file 1 of Selection of optimal quantile protein biomarkers based on cell-level immunohistochemistry data
Creators: name: Yi, Misung
name: Zhan, Tingting
name: Peck, Amy R.
name: Hooke, Jeffrey A.
name: Kovatich, Albert J.
name: Shriver, Craig D.
name: Hu, Hai
name: Sun, Yunguang
name: Rui, Hallgeir
name: Chervoneva, Inna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Patient and tumor characteristics and association to dichotomized high or low Ki-67, PCNA, PD-L2, or PR levels in cancer cells for the screening cohort. Table S2: Patient and tumor characteristics and association to dichotomized high or low Ki-67, PCNA, PD-L2, or PR levels in cancer cells for the external validation cohort. Table S3: Three best quantile predictors identified in the screening data set. Table S4: Performance of the three best quantile predictors in the external validation cohort. Table S5: Performance of the optimal quantile biomarkers in the multivariable Cox model fitted to the external validation data. Figure S1: Scatter plots of log-transformed optimal quantile marker pairs. Subplot titles show the corresponding Spearman correlation coefficients (Rho) and p-values (p) for testing the null hypothesis that Rho=0. Only weak correlation was observed for Ki-67 log 30th quantile and PCNA log 5th quantile (a) and for PD-L2 log 45th quantile and PCNA log 5th quantile (d). All other pairs of optimal quantiles are not correlated (b, c, e, f).
Block-copolymer Adsorption on the Surface of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Dispersion in N,N dimethyl formamide Supplementary Materials
Creators: name: Cohen, Yachin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The following supporting information can be downloaded at: www.mdpi.com/xxx/s1, Figure S1: UV-vis absorbance of the 0.5%wt. MWCNT + 1%wt. S124VP12 (P3605) dispersions at five contrasts. Insert shows magnification of the peak area; Figure S2: SANS measurements of S12-4VP12 copolymer solutions at different DMF-d7 solvent compositions. Figure S3: SANS measurements of dS11.5-4VP11.3 copolymer solutions at different DMF-d7 solvent compositions. Top to bottom: 10, 50, 70, 85, 100 wt.% DMF-d7. Circle: data; dashes: fit of Lorentzian function (eq. 1 in the manuscript); Table S1: The parameters used to calculate the values of Y in the three equations (3) of the manuscript text, at three solvent contrasts (10, 85 and 100 wt.% DMF-d7); Figure S4: Scattering patterns of 0.5 wt.% MWCNT + 1 wt.% S12-4VP12 dispersions in 10 wt.% DMF-d7 solvent dispersion obtained by: (a) SANS and SAXS (SAXS data adjusted to the SANS intensity scale); (b) fit of the core-shell cylinder model to the SAXS data (one adjustable parameter: n; Figure S5: Validation of the core shell cylinder model parameters: SANS patterns of the 0.5 %wt. MWCNT + 1%wt. S12-4VP12 dispersions in 40, 60, 70 and 80% DMF-d7 solvent, with the model calculations, without adjustable parameters; Table S2: SLD values used in the core-shell cylinder model calculations at intermediate contrasts for parameter validation (Figure S5); Figure S6: Validation of the core shell cylinder model parameters: SANS patterns of the 0.5 %wt. MWCNT + 1%wt. dS11.5-4VP11.3 dispersions in 50, 70 and 85% DMF-d7 solvent, with the model calculations, without adjustable parameters; Figure S7: SANS patterns of solutions and dispersions in 10 wt.% DMF-d7 solvent using copolymers of different PS molecular weight: (a) solutions of S12-4VP12 (black), S48-4VP11 (blue) and S124-4VP12 (red) copolymers; (b),(c) MWCNT/polymer dispersions before and after background subtraction, respectively.
Psychological mechanisms to treatment adherence among people with severe mental illness: validating treatment motivation and working alliance measures
Creators: name: Ferron, Joëlle C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Working alliance and treatment motivation are important indicators for social work clinicians to assess in the course of their practice with individuals with severe mental illness. Measures of treatment motivation have yet to be validated for this population, and measures of working alliance need further confirmatory work. This study further evaluated the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) among people with severe mental illness and used confirmatory factor analysis to test the factor structure of the truncated Working Alliance Inventory short form (WAIs) among people with severe mental illness and their clinicians. Furthermore, the predictive validity of the TMQ and WAI short form was tested by relating these psychological constructs to treatment adherence. Results show that the TMQ had additional subscales of external motivation, which further supports Self Determination Theory. The truncated WAI short forms for clinicians and consumers were modestly supported, although a second-order confirmatory analysis was confirmed. Lastly, the WAI was minimally related to treatment adherence, and the TMQ was not predictive of treatment adherence.
Hermitian u-invariants over function fields of p-adic curves
Creators: name: Wu, Zhengyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E39

description: Let $p$ be an odd prime. Let $F$ be the function field of a $p$-adic curve. Let $A$ be a central simple algebra of period 2 over $F$ with an involution $σ$. There are known upper bounds for the $u$-invariant of hermitian forms over $(A, σ)$. In this article we compute the exact values of the $u$-invariant of hermitian forms over $(A, σ)$.
description: 12 pages. It merged the published paper and the errata, more typos are fixed
Finitely Additive, Modular and Probability Functions on Pre-semirings
Creators: name: Nasehpour, Peyman
name: Parvardi, Amir Hossein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16Y60, 20M14

description: In this paper, we define finitely additive, probability and modular functions over semiring-like structures. We investigate finitely additive functions with the help of complemented elements of a semiring. We also generalize some classical results in probability theory such as the Law of Total Probability, Bayes' Theorem, the Equality of Parallel Systems, and Poincaré's Inclusion-Exclusion Theorem. While we prove that modular functions over a couple of known semirings are almost constant, we show it is possible to define many different modular functions over some semirings such as bottleneck algebras and the semiring $(Id(D), + ,\cdot)$, where $D$ is a Dedekind domain.
description: Minor update, 24 pages, Published online on 15 Dec 2017 in the Journal of Communications in Algebra
Magnetic Field Design in a Cylindrical High-Permeability Shield: The Combination of Simple Building Blocks and a Genetic Algorithm
Creators: name: Packer, M.
name: Hobson, P. J.
name: Davis, A.
name: Holmes, N.
name: Leggett, J.
name: Glover, P.
name: Hardwicke, N. L.
name: Brookes, M. J.
name: Bowtell, R.
name: Fromhold, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetically-sensitive experiments and newly-developed quantum technologies with integrated high-permeability magnetic shields require increasing control of their magnetic field environment and reductions in size, weight, power and cost. However, magnetic fields generated by active components are distorted by high-permeability magnetic shielding, particularly when they are close to the shield's surface. Here, we present an efficient design methodology for creating desired static magnetic field profiles by using discrete coils electromagnetically-coupled to a cylindrical passive magnetic shield. We utilize a modified Green's function solution that accounts for the interior boundary conditions on a closed finite-length high-permeability cylindrical magnetic shield, and determine simplified expressions when a cylindrical coil approaches the interior surface of the shield. We use an analytic formulation of simple discrete building blocks to provide a complete discrete coil basis to generate any physically-attainable magnetic field inside the shield. We then use a genetic algorithm to find optimized discrete coil structures composed of this basis. We use our methodology to generate an improved linear axial gradient field, $\mathrm{d}B_z/\mathrm{d}z$, and transverse bias field, $B_x$. These optimized structures increase, by a factor of seven and three compared to the standard configurations, the volume in which the desired and achieved fields agree within $1\%$ accuracy, respectively. This coil design method can be used to optimize active--passive magnetic field shaping systems that are compact and simple to manufacture, enabling accurate magnetic field control in spatially-confined experiments at low cost.
description: The authors M. Packer and P. J. Hobson have contributed equally to this work. 24 pages, 16 figures
Additional file 2 of Selection of optimal quantile protein biomarkers based on cell-level immunohistochemistry data
Creators: name: Yi, Misung
name: Zhan, Tingting
name: Peck, Amy R.
name: Hooke, Jeffrey A.
name: Kovatich, Albert J.
name: Shriver, Craig D.
name: Hu, Hai
name: Sun, Yunguang
name: Rui, Hallgeir
name: Chervoneva, Inna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. This file contains the R source code.
Out-migration and rural livelihoods in the southern Ecuadorian Andes
Creators: name: Gray, Clark Langston
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This work draws on approaches from migration studies and population-environment research to investigate the drivers and consequences of rural out-migration in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, with a focus on connections to agriculture, the environment, and gender. Rural out-migration represents one of the primary forms of human population redistribution over the past century and is an important form of livelihood diversification for many rural households in the developing world. Out-migration commonly occurs in a context of land scarcity or environmental degradation and agricultural production may be further undermined by the loss of household labor to migration, but few quantitative studies have investigated these connections. To address these issues I conducted a household survey in a probability sample of 36 rural communities in southern Loja Province, Ecuador. The survey collected life histories for migrants and non-migrants as well as cross-sectional and retrospective information on household assets and livelihood activities. The household survey was supplemented by a community-level survey and the construction of a geographic information system that provided contextual information. To investigate the effects of agrarian and environmental contexts on out-migration I use these data to estimate a multinomial event history model of out-migration to local, rural, urban and international destinations. The results indicate that access to land decreases migration to urban areas but increases migration to rural and international destinations, particularly for men. Also, positive stable characteristics of the environment (e.g., flat topography) and characteristics that indicate environmental variation (e.g., soil erosion) both tend to increase migration. To investigate the consequences of out-migration and remittances for rural livelihoods I estimate a series of tobit and Poisson models of participation in various agricultural activities and changes in assets over time. The results reveal that migration and remittances have countervailing effects on agriculture, with primarily positive effects on market-oriented activities. Together, the findings challenge several prevailing assumptions from the literature on migration, development, and the environment and also highlight the utility of quantitative methods for the investigation of rural livelihoods.
Powers in orbits of rational functions: cases of an arithmetic dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture
Creators: name: Cahn, Jordan
name: Jones, Rafe
name: Spear, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37P05, 11G05, 37P15

description: Let $K$ be a finitely generated field of characteristic zero. We study, for fixed $m \geq 2$, the rational functions $ϕ$ defined over $K$ that have a $K$-orbit containing infinitely many distinct $m$th powers. For $m \geq 5$ we show the only such functions are those of the form $cx^j(ψ(x))^m$ with $ψ\in K(x)$, and for $m \leq 4$ we show the only additional cases are certain Lattès maps and four families of rational functions whose special properties appear not to have been studied before. With additional analysis, we show that the index set $\{n \geq 0 : ϕ^{n}(a) \in λ(\mathbb{P}^1(K))\}$ is a union of finitely many arithmetic progressions, where $ϕ^{n}$ denotes the $n$th iterate of $ϕ$ and $λ\in K(x)$ is any map Möbius-conjugate over $K$ to $x^m$. When the index set is infinite, we give bounds on the number and moduli of the arithmetic progressions involved. These results are similar in flavor to the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture, and motivate a new conjecture on the intersection of an orbit with the value set of a morphism. A key ingredient in our proofs is a study of the curves $y^m = ϕ^{n}(x)$. We describe all $ϕ$ for which these curves have an irreducible component of genus at most 1, and show that such $ϕ$ must have two distinct iterates that are equal in $K(x)^*/K(x)^{*m}$.