cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perceived Importance of Health Concerns Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adults in a National, Probability-Based Phone Survey, 2017
Creators: name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Boynton, M.H.
name: Gilbert, J.
name: Lee, J.G.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Perceptions of the importance of health problems can drive advocacy, policy change, resource distribution, and individual behaviors. However, little is known about how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), that is, sexual and gender minority (SGM) adults view the health problems facing SGM populations. In a 2017 national, probability-based survey of U.S. SGM adults (N = 453), we asked respondents to identify the most serious health problem facing SGM people today. Participants also rated the seriousness of five specific health problems (HIV/AIDS, suicide, hate crimes, harmful alcohol use, tobacco use). Analyses accounted for the complex sampling design and were stratified by gender identity. One quarter of U.S. SGM adults identified the most serious health problem facing SGM people to be HIV/AIDS (95% confidence interval [20.3, 31.2]). More respondents stated there were no serious LGBT health differences compared with straight/cisgender adults (4.2%, confidence interval [2.6, 5.9]) than identified tobacco use, hate crimes, chronic diseases, cancer, or suicide as the most serious. Importance ratings differed by gender and tobacco/alcohol use were perceived as less serious compared with HIV/AIDS, suicide, and hate crimes. Attention paid to HIV/AIDS by the SGM public, while important, may hinder efforts to address chronic diseases and other health issues affecting SGM people.
title: Αρχιτεκτονικής Λόφος. Η εγκατάσταση της Σχολής Αρχιτεκτόνων στον λόφο Καστέλι-Χανιά ως ευκαιρία ανάκτησης του δημόσιου λόγου περί αρχιτεκτονικής
Creators: name: Καλατζιδακης Ευστρατιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Στην διπλωματική αυτή εργασία επιχειρείται η ανάκτηση ενός μεγάλου ανενεργού τμήματος της παλιάς πόλης των Χανίων, στο βόρειο άκρο του λόφου Καστέλι. Βασικό εργαλείο αποτελεί ο σχεδιασμός υπό το πρίσμα του χρόνου και των κλίσεων του τόπου. Προτείνεται η σταδιακή εγκατάσταση της σχολής Αρχιτεκτόνων στον πυρήνα της πόλης ως μια συνθήκη αναγκαία για την επανέναρξη του διαλόγου που θα αφορά στον δημόσιο χώρο του ιστορικού κέντρου. Η ερευνητική ιδέα της πρότασης είναι μια επεξεργασία του παλίμψηστου επάνω στον λόφο, μέσα από διεργασίες, που θα μπορούσαν να εφαρμοστούν σε τρεις διακριτές φάσεις δράσεων, με βασικό στόχο να αναδείξουν έναν τρόπο επέμβασης στους διαφορετικούς συντελεστές του ιστορικού τοπίου της πόλης.
α.1 |  Επανάχρηση ιστορικών κτιρίων - Προστασία αρχαιολογικών ανασκαφών
α.2 |  Αποκατάσταση - Συμπλήρωση υφιστάμενων μνημείων
α.3 |  Ένταξη νέου κτιρίου στον ιστορικό ιστό
Πρόκειται για μια αποσπασματική ως προς τα επιμέρους τμήματα αφήγηση, η οποία προσπαθεί να ενσωματώσει παρελθόν και παρόν σε μια προσεχή μεταμόρφωση ικανή να ενεργοποιεί την μνήμη. Η ιστορική πόλη και η Αρχιτεκτονική σχολή των Χανίων θα αποτελούν ένα δίπολο αναφοράς επί του οποίου διαμορφώνεται μία επικαιροποιημένη ταυτότητα του λόφου.
MPEC 2023-O89 : COMET P/2004 V3 = P/2023 O1 (Siding Spring)
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: COMET P/2004 V3 = P/2023 O1 (Siding Spring)

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.
(500) Stephenson [Louise] Nixon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tuning the electronic structure of Sr2IrO4 thin films by bulk electronic doping using molecular beam epitaxy
Creators: name: Li, M. Y.
name: Liu, Z. T.
name: Yang, H. F.
name: Zhao, J. L.
name: Yao, Q.
name: Fan, C. C.
name: Liu, J. S.
name: Gao, B.
name: Shen, D. W.
name: Xie, X. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of oxide molecular beam epitaxy with shutter-growth mode, we have fabricated a series of electron-doped (Sr1-xLax)2IrO4(001)(x = 0, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.15) single crystalline thin films and then investigated the doping dependence of electronic structure utilizing in-situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We find that with increasing doping proportion, the Fermi levels of samples progressively shift upward. Prominently, an extra electron pocket crossing the Fermi level around the M point has been evidently observed in 15 % nominal doping sample. Moreover, bulk-sensitive transport measurements confirm that doping effectively suppresses the insulating state with respect to the as-grown Sr2IrO4, though doped samples still remain insulating at low temperatures due to the localization effect possibly stemming from disorders including oxygen deficiencies. Our work provides another feasible doping method to tune electronic structure of Sr2IrO4.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
(501) Kate Johnston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Brown-York mass and the hoop conjecture in non-spherical massive systems
Creators: name: Malec, Edward
name: Xie, Naqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the relation between the concentration of the Brown-York mass and the formation of trapped surfaces in non-spherical massive systems. In particular, we formulate and prove a precise version of the Thorne hoop conjecture in conformally flat three-geometries sliced by equipotential foliation leaves. An intriguing relationship between the total rest mass and the Brown-York mass is shown. This is a further investigation of the previous work on the Brown-York mass hoop conjecture in spherical symmetry.
A new species of hesionid worm, Hesiocaeca methanicola sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Hesionidae), living in ice-like methane hydrates in the deep Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: DESBRUYÈRES, Daniel
name: TOULMOND, André
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1998

description: On July 14, 1997, in the Gulf of Mexico, a dense population of polychaete worms dwelling in methane hydrates
 associated with cold seeps was discovered and sampled at 538 meters depth. The worms belong to the family Hesionidae
 and represent a new species of the genus Hesiocaeca. They differ from the two previously described species by the shape of
 the prostomium, the shape of the setae and the presence of anal cirri.
Spaces of invariant circular orders of groups
Creators: name: Baik, Hyungryul
name: Samperton, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F60, 37E10, 20F10, 20F65

description: Motivated by well known results in low-dimensional topology, we introduce and study a topology on the set CO(G) of all left-invariant circular orders on a fixed countable and discrete group G. CO(G) contains as a closed subspace LO(G), the space of all left-invariant linear orders of G, as first topologized by Sikora. We use the compactness of these spaces to show the sets of non-linearly and non-circularly orderable finitely presented groups are recursively enumerable. We describe the action of Aut(G) on CO(G) and relate it to results of Koberda regarding the action on LO(G). We then study two families of circularly orderable groups: finitely generated abelian groups, and free products of circularly orderable groups. For finitely generated abelian groups A, we use a classification of elements of CO(A) to describe the homeomorphism type of the space CO(A), and to show that Aut(A) acts faithfully on the subspace of circular orders which are not linear. We define and characterize Archimedean circular orders, in analogy with linear Archimedean orders. We describe explicit examples of circular orders on free products of circularly orderable groups, and prove a result about the abundance of orders on free products. Whenever possible, we prove and interpret our results from a dynamical perspective.
description: Minor errors corrected and exposition improved throughout. Provides a more careful analysis of cases in the proof of Theorem 4.3. Fixed the proof that Archimedean implies free
Risk, Resilience, and Smoking in a National, Probability Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults, 2017, USA
Creators: name: Ranney, L.M.
name: Gilbert, J.
name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Boynton, M.H.
name: Goldstein, A.O.
name: Lee, J.G.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Background. There are well-documented inequities in smoking between sexual and gender minority (SGM; e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT]) and straight and cisgender people. However, there is less information about risk for and resilience against smoking among SGM people. Such information is critical for understanding etiology and developing interventions. Aims. To conduct a within-group assessment of risks and resiliencies relating to smoking status. Method. In 2017, we conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey with a national, probability-based sample of SGM adults (N = 453). We assessed theory-informed risks (adverse childhood events, substance use–oriented social environment, mental distress, stigma, discrimination, social isolation, and identity concealment) and resiliencies (advertising skepticism, identity centrality, social support, and SGM community participation). We applied survey weights, standardized predictor variables, and fit logistic regression models predicting smoking status. We stratified by age and SGM identity. Results. Patterns of risk and resilience differ by age and identity. Effects were consistently in the same direction for all groups for participating in substance use–oriented social environments, pointing to a potential risk factor for all groups. Advertising skepticism and having people you can talk to about being LGBTQ were potential protective factors. Discussion. Intervention development should address risk and resilience that differs by SGM identity. Additionally, our findings suggest interventionists should consider theoretical frameworks beyond minority stress. Conclusion. While much of the literature has focused on the role of stress from stigma and discrimination in tobacco use, addressing social norms and bolstering protective factors may also be important in SGM-targeted interventions.
Incarceration and Number of Sexual Partners after Incarceration among Vulnerable US Women, 2007-2017
Creators: name: Konkle-Parker, D.
name: Michel, K.G.
name: Donohue, J.
name: Foster, A.
name: Edmonds, A.
name: Knittel, A.K.
name: Taylor, T.
name: Ramirez, C.
name: Adedimeji, A.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Milam, J.
name: Cohen, J.
name: Rudolph, J.
name: Fischl, M.
name: Adimora, A.A.
Publisher: name: American Public Health Association Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Objectives. To examine whether women's incarceration increases numbers of total and new sexual partners. Methods. US women with or at risk for HIV in a multicenter cohort study answered incarceration and sexual partner questions semiannually between 2007 and 2017. We used marginal structural models to compare total and new partners at visits not following incarceration with all visits following incarceration and visits immediately following incarceration. Covariates included demographics, HIV status, sex exchange, drug or alcohol use, and housing instability. Results. Of the 3180 participants, 155 were incarcerated. Women reported 2 partners, 3 or more partners, and new partners at 5.2%, 5.2%, and 9.3% of visits, respectively. Relative to visits not occurring after incarceration, odds ratios were 2.41 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.20, 4.85) for 2 partners, 2.03 (95% CI = 0.97, 4.26) for 3 or more partners, and 3.24 (95% CI = 1.69, 6.22) for new partners at visits immediately after incarceration. Odds ratios were similar for all visits following incarceration. Conclusions. Women had more total partners and new partners immediately and at all visits following incarceration after confounders and loss to follow-up had been taken into account.
The reconstruction of inflationary potentials
Creators: name: Lin, Jianmang
name: Gao, Qing
name: Gong, Yungui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observational data on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background constraints the scalar spectral tilt $n_s$ and the tensor to scalar ratio $r$ which depend on the first and second derivatives of the inflaton potential. The information can be used to reconstruct the inflaton potential in the polynomial form up to some orders. However, for some classes of potentials, $n_s$ and $r$ behave as $n_s(N)$ and $r(N)$ universally in terms of the number of e-folds $N$. The universal behaviour of $n_s(N)$ can be used to reconstruct a class of inflaton potentials. By parametrizing one of the parameters $n_s(N)$, $ε(N)$ and $ϕ(N)$, and fitting the parameters in the models to the observational data, we obtain the constraints on the parameters and reconstruct the classes of the inflationary models which include the chaotic inflation, T-model, hilltop inflation, s-dual inflation, natural inflation and $R^2$ inflation.
description: use mnras class, more discussions on the motivation are added
POLYCARPA ÄRNBÄCKAE n.sp., STYELIDAE INTERSTITIELLE DES SABLES COQUILLIERS DE LA CÔTE OUEST DE SUÈDE
Creators: name: MONNIOT, Françoise
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1964

description: Polycarpa ärnbäckae is a new example of interstitial styelid tunicate. Its external feathures agree with the characters known of other families described of the same type of ground. This convergency and the great number of individuals in the littoral gravels of all european seas show how important is this adaptation.
The impact of greeting personalization on prevalence estimates in a survey of sexual assault victimization
Creators: name: Berzofsky, M.E.
name: Enders, K.P.
name: Langton, L.
name: Griggs, A.K.
name: Planty, M.
name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Lindquist, C.H.
name: Krebs, C.P.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Although personalized invitations tend to increase response rates in web surveys, little is known about how personalization impacts data quality. To evaluate the impact of personalization on survey estimates of sensitive items, the effects of personalized and generic greetings in a survey (n = 9,673) on an extremely sensitive topic-sexual assault victimization-were experimentally compared. Personalization was found to have increased response rates with negligible impact on victimization reporting, and this impact was similar across most demographic groups. The findings suggest that future studies may benefit from the use of a personalized greeting when recruiting sample members to participate in a sensitive survey, but that further research is necessary to better understand how the impact of personalization on reporting may differ across some demographic groups.
(497) Elizabeth Lashman Roger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(498) Henry Nixon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
BIONOMIE BENTHIQUE DE LA PARTIE ORIENTALE DU GOLFE DU MORBIHAN
Creators: name: GLÉMAREC, Michel
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1964

description: The oriental part of the Gulf of Morbihan is defined by its marine characteristics, its small depth and silty sediments. The infauna units all belong to the Abra alba community (Thorson, 1957) locally characterised by Abra alba, Corbula gibba and Tapes aureus. The qualitative study of the populationsis accompanied by quantitative appreciations, of which a presence coefficient is used to compare the gattering frequency of a same species in different facies.
The heterogeneous bottoms, where the total of fine elements inferior to 50 u. is superior to 25 p. 100, is characterised by a Nuculanucleus population. The other sediments, where this ratio equals 85 p. 100, are defined by a Nucula turgidapopulation. On compact silt, an Ampharetidae facies, under or between tidemarks, settles there where before were the Zostera marina beds, very reduced today. Between tidemarks (Zosteranana and hornemanniana) or lower (Zosteramarina), those beds do not realise very good conditions for the infauna; they are characterised by Abraovata and Loripeslucinalis. They make the transition with the Macomabalthica community in brackish waters. On soft silt of channels, which collects dead Zostera, giving anaerobical conditions, the Nucula turgida - Abra nitida population is studied in a detailed way. A Turritella communis population on not stabilised soft silt, is characterised by dominating competitive species.
The sedimentological study and that of the organic carbon and nitrogen rates shows how the great number of individuals in the population is related to the high presence of organic matter and of fine elements sedimented in calm areas. The different values of the sorting coefficient of the sanded part, even very small, are to be considered parallel with the number of individuals. The high values of the C/N ratio correspond to the channels where there are amounts of dead Zostera and to the silty shelves where they are incorporated to the sediment. The biovolumes show more exactly than a simple number of individuals what are the rea
Neutrino astrophysics : recent advances and open issues
Creators: name: Volpe, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We highlight recent advances in neutrino astrophysics, the open issues and the interplay with neutrino properties. We emphasize the important progress in our understanding of neutrino flavor conversion in media. We discuss the case of solar neutrinos, of core-collapse supernova neutrinos and of SN1987A, and of the recently discovered ultra-high energy neutrinos whose origin is to be determined.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings for "DISCRETE 2014" Symposium
Comparison of sampling strategies for tobacco retailer inspections to maximize coverage in vulnerable areas and minimize cost
Creators: name: Lee, J.G.L.
name: Bowling, J.M.
name: Ribisl, K.M.
name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Introduction In the United States, tens of thousands of inspections of tobacco retailers are conducted each year. Various sampling choices can reduce travel costs, emphasize enforcement in areas with greater noncompliance, and allow for comparability between states and over time. We sought to develop a model sampling strategy for state tobacco retailer inspections. Methods Using a 2014 list of 10,161 North Carolina tobacco retailers, we compared results from simple random sampling; stratified, clustered at the ZIP code sampling; and, stratified, clustered at the census tract sampling. We conducted a simulation of repeated sampling and compared approaches for their comparative level of precision, coverage, and retailer dispersion. Results While maintaining an adequate design effect and statistical precision appropriate for a public health enforcement program, both stratified, clustered ZIP- and tract-based approaches were feasible. Both ZIP and tract strategies yielded improvements over simple random sampling, with relative improvements, respectively, of average distance between retailers (reduced 5.0% and 1.9%), percent Black residents in sampled neighborhoods (increased 17.2% and 32.6%), percent Hispanic residents in sampled neighborhoods (reduced 2.2% and increased 18.3%), percentage of sampled retailers located near schools (increased 61.3% and 37.5%), and poverty rate in sampled neighborhoods (increased 14.0% and 38.2%). Conclusions States can make retailer inspections more efficient and targeted with stratified, clustered sampling. Use of statistically appropriate sampling strategies like these should be considered by states, researchers, and the Food and Drug Administration to improve program impact and allow for comparisons over time and across states. Implications The authors present a model tobacco retailer sampling strategy for promoting compliance and reducing costs that could be used by US states and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The design is feasible to implement in North Carolina. Use of the sampling design would help document the impact of FDA's compliance and enforcement program, save money, and emphasize inspections in areas where they are needed most. FDA should consider requiring probability-based sampling in their inspections contracts with states and private contractors.
(495) Ann Morison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Stick it to Global Warming: Characterizing Catalytic Performance of CO2 Reduction with Catalyst Attached to Electrode Surface
Creators: name: Nehemiah Stewart
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Release of CO2 from fossil fuel consumption has become a growing concern in recent years, with every ecosystem feeling its effects. There has been significant research in recent years on the performance of molecular electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction, because they are highly tunable and can be optimized. Unfortunately, molecular catalysts are difficult to recycle, and the majority of the catalyst placed in solution is effectively inactive as it is far from the electrode surface where reduction takes place. My group aims to mitigate these complications by covalently linking known molecular catalysts directly to the electrode surface, wherein it can immediately reduce CO2 that diffuses nearby. Towards this goal, I will study a manganese catalyst supported by a bipyridine ligand which will be covalently attached to a glassy carbon electrode. I predict that once attached to the surface, unproductive dimerization in solution will be inhibited, and we will be able to achieve higher catalytic efficiencies by significant enhancement of the local catalyst concentration near the electrode. Moreover, the proposed covalent immobilization of the catalyst to the electrode should impart higher stability in comparison to typically used immobilization strategies like absorption. This project will take a large step in the use of renewable energy sources by providing platform to begin integrating this well practiced CO2 reduction outside of the laboratory and into physical devices.
Hypergeometric Connotations of Quantum Equations
Creators: name: Plastino, A.
name: Rocca, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon equations can both be derived from an Hypergeometric differential equation. The same applies to non linear generalizations of these equations.
description: 16 pages, no figures
Signature of Massive Neutrinos from the Clustering of Critical Points. I. Density-threshold-based Analysis in Configuration Space
Creators: name: Moon, Jeongin
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Yu, Hogyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Critical points represent a subset of special points tracing cosmological structures, carrying remarkable topological properties. They thus offer a richer high-level description of the multiscale cosmic web, being more robust to systematic effects. For the first time, we characterize here their clustering statistics in massive neutrino cosmologies, including cross-correlations, and quantify their simultaneous imprints on the corresponding web constituents - i.e., halos, filaments, walls, and voids - for a series of rarity levels. Our first analysis is centered on a density-threshold-based approach in configuration space. In particular, we show that the presence of massive neutrinos does affect the baryon acoustic oscillation peak amplitudes of all of the critical point correlation functions above/below the rarity threshold, as well as the positions of their correspondent inflection points at large scales: departures from analogous measurements carried out in the baseline massless neutrino scenario can reach up to ~7% in autocorrelations and ~9% in cross-correlations at z=0 when M_nu=0.1 eV, and are more pronounced for higher neutrino mass values. In turn, these combined multiscale effects can be used as a novel technique to set upper limits on the summed neutrino mass and infer the type of hierarchy. Our study is particularly relevant for ongoing and future large-volume redshift surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will provide unique datasets suitable for establishing competitive neutrino mass constraints.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables. ApJS, 264, 26
A GENDER SENSITIVE ANALYSIS OF REFUGEE PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS DURING THE FIRST FIVE YEARS AFTER RESETTLEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Brandt, Carolyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Title: A Gender Sensitive Analysis of Refugee Perspectives on Social Work Interventions After the First Five Years After Resettlement in the United States

Objective: To identify refugee perspectives of social work interventions intended to address emotional distress as a means of understanding the feasibility and acceptability of mental health treatment. Methods: A heterogeneous convenience sample of adult refugees (N=152) who were referred to a refugee mental health agency completed in-depth interviews with masters of social work students. Grounded theory was used to assess gender-based perspectives on interventions. Results: Refugee women and men suggested that home visiting, group intervention, the RHS-13, case management, and individualized treatment were acceptable and feasible interventions to address emotional distress. All refugees endorsed the importance of social engagement, and the reasoning for this differed by gender. Poor communication about scope and termination of treatment caused emotional distress. Conclusions: Findings provide the groundwork for practitioners to adapt interventions to be responsive to refugee specific needs. Additional research is warranted to examine the efficacy of interventions at decreasing emotional distress.
Extreme bendability of DNA double helix due to bending asymmetry
Creators: name: Salari, Hossein
name: Eslami-Mossallam, B.
name: Naderi, M. S.
name: Ejtehadi, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental data of the DNA cyclization (J-factor) at short length scales, as a way to study the elastic behavior of tightly bent DNA, exceed the theoretical expectation based on the wormlike chain (WLC) model by several orders of magnitude. Here, we propose that asymmetric bending rigidity of the double helix in the groove direction can be responsible for extreme bendability of DNA at short length scales and it also facilitates DNA loop formation at these lengths. To account for the bending asymmetry, we consider the asymmetric elastic rod (AER) model which has been introduced and parametrized in an earlier study (B. Eslami-Mossallam and M. Ejtehadi, Phys. Rev. E 80, 011919 (2009)). Exploiting a coarse grained representation of DNA molecule at base pair (bp) level, and using the Monte Carlo simulation method in combination with the umbrella sampling technique, we calculate the loop formation probability of DNA in the AER model. We show that, for DNA molecule has a larger J-factor compared to the WLC model which is in excellent agreement with recent experimental data.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
(496) Henry Nixon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Maternal Mortality in the United States
Creators: name: Sherman, Sophia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Maternal health services--Government policy

description: This work includes a policy brief describing maternal mortality in the United States and analyzing four policy options to address the issue. The policy option that scored the highest on the evaluation, a pregnancy medical home (PMH) pilot program, was determined to be the preferred policy option. Following this policy analysis are an Excel budget analysis to outline the costs of implementing the PMH program, as well as a budget assumptions document to explain the assumptions included in the budget.
Assessing the Influence of Diesel Exhaust Particles on Peanut Sensitization
Creators: name: Zachary Allen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This project investigated the physiological effects of diesel exhaust particles on food allergy prevalence in a mouse model. The results were assessed by use of temperature probes to measure anaphylaxis rates upon peanut exposure during the challenge as well as various immunological assays for characterizing differential lung and airway-mediated immune cell compositions. Using a 2 week treatment period followed by an allergen challenge, it was observed that DEP exposure induces a statistically significant increase in the prevalence of peanut-induced anaphylaxis upon intraperitoneal (i.p.) peanut challenge.
Acceptability of a Virtual Cooking and Nutrition Education Program within UNC Weight Management Clinic: Study Protocol
Creators: name: Varechtchouk, Olga
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Background:
Obesity is associated with adverse health outcomes and is increasing in prevalence in the United States. Improved education about nutrition and meal preparation is one potential target for intervention.  Although multiple prior studies have evaluated the effects of such educational cooking demonstrations on individual behavior, lack of consistency in study design and outcome measures make it difficult to draw conclusions about their effectiveness.  Additionally, studies assessing virtual cooking education programs are even more sparce. As such virtual programs have potential to improve adherence by decreasing travel-related and scheduling barriers, they present a unique avenue for intervention.  This paper highlights a protocol design, outcome measure, and dissemination plan for a virtual cooking demonstration and educational intervention within an existing weight management program.  

Methods:
We developed a protocol for a 6-month randomized controlled trial comparing video interventions to no video interventions to assess the acceptability of a virtual cooking demonstration and weight management education program (Virtual Healthy Habits) within the UNC Family Medicine Weight Management Program.  The video intervention will include cooking demonstrations, food facts, and general weight management education videos, and the intervention group will receive instruction to view at least one video every two weeks.  Primary outcomes will include number of views per video, post-video survey completion trends over the duration of the trial, and program satisfaction.  Secondary outcomes will include changes in cooking comfort, motivation, and behavior.  

Discussion:
This protocol creates a layout for how to develop and assess the acceptance of a virtual cooking demonstration and educational intervention integrated into an existing Weight Management program.  If such a program deems to be acceptable to patients, future trials can be established to assess its effectiveness in weight loss and weight-related outcome measures.
(492) William Morrison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Metal Catalyst-Free Synthesis of Poly(Vinyl Ether)s with Desirable Properties
Creators: name: Jacky, Paige
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Polymer tacticity has a profound influence on macroscopic material properties, including the thermal, mechanical, and optical behavior of a material. Despite advancements in coordination-insertion polymerization methods used for the synthesis of stereoregular poly(alpha-olefin)s, polar isotactic polymers have remained a challenging synthetic target. This research contributes to our lab's approach to synthesize a unique class of polar, semi-crystalline thermoplastics through stereoselective cationic polymerization. Through exploiting the chirality of bio-derived vinyl ether monomers, we strive to achieve isotactic polymerization through chain-end control using simple, inexpensive achiral initiators.
title:  Sulla tecno-riforma del processo e su un possibile programma di ricerca nel campo dei sistemi linguistici, giuridici e informatici
Creators: name: Di Benedetto, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: Il processo telematico suggerisce una riflessione (a) sulle ripercussioni dell’informatica nell’attività dell’interprete (b) sulle caratteristiche di neutralità che i sistemi devono possedere (c) sul bagaglio teorico di cui il giurista deve essere oggi munito. La ricerca che si propone è sulle grammatiche di trasformazione - comuni alla lingua naturale, al diritto e ai sistemi informatici - con le quali il diritto viene declinato o più semplicemente “detto” all’interno del processo.

description: Scritti dedicati a Maurizio Converso
Structural instabilities and sequence of phase transitions in SrBi$_2$Ta$_2$O$_9$ and SrBi$_2$Nb$_2$O$_9$ from first principles and Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Petralanda, Urko
name: Etxebarria, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite their structural similarities, SrBi$_2$Ta$_2$O$_9$ (SBT) and SrBi$_2$Nb$_2$O$_9$ (SBN) undergo a different sequence of phase transitions. The phase diagram of SBT as a function of the temperature includes an intermediate phase between the high-temperature phase and the ferroelectric ground state, while in the Niobium compound the intermediate phase is suppressed and a single transition between the high- and low temperature structures is observed. We present \emph{ab initio} calculations that reveal the relevance of a trilinear coupling between three symmetry-adapted modes to stabilize the ground sate in both compounds, being this coupling much stronger in SBN. Within the framework of the phenomenological Landau theory, it is shown that by solely increasing the strength of the trilinear coupling the topology of the phase diagram of SBT can change up to suppress the intermediate phase. Monte Carlo simulations on an idealized $ϕ^4$ Hamiltonian confirm that the trilinear coupling is the key parameter that determines the sequence of phase transitions and that for higher dimensionality of the order parameters the stability region of the intermediate phase is narrower.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title:  Dati, computazione, scienza: estendere i confini del processo civile telematico
Creators: name: Fabiani, Ernesto
name: Lettieri, Nicola
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: Il contributo evidenzia le enormi potenzialità della informatizzazione della giustizia in considerazione delle nuove tecnologie di analisi dei dati. La digitalizzazione, infatti, può condurre ad un utilizzo del patrimonio informativo generato all’interno del processo civile telematico per scopi che vanno oltre l’efficienza del processo: grazie all’analisi computazionale di sentenze ed atti processuali, si spazia dall’identificazione automatica dei precedenti giurisprudenziali più rilevanti, allo studio dell’evoluzione storica degli ordinamenti e del linguaggio giuridico fino allo svolgimento di indagini di carattere sociologico.
description: Scritti dedicati a Maurizio Converso
ULTRASTRUCTURE DE LA LARVE PARENCHYMELLA DE DÉMOSPONGE. I. MYCALE CONTARENII (Martens)
Creators: name: LEVI, Claude
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1964

description: Seven cell types are recognized in Mycale parenchymella larva; six of them, in the larval mesenchyme, highly differentiated. Their cytological characters are described. The collagen producted at the surface of the collencytes, already before and after the hatching, is abundant (and will form an important part of the mésothélial lamina at the beginning of metamorphosis).
(493) Ann [Morrison]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Identifying mechanisms that predict weight trajectory after bariatric surgery: rationale and design of the biobehavioral trial
Creators: name: Heinberg, L.J.
name: Fodor, A.
name: Peat, C.
name: Carroll, I.
name: Gunstad, J.
name: Fouladi, F.
name: Steffen, K.
name: Crosby, R.
name: Bond, D.S.
name: Mitchell, J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Bariatric surgery is currently the most efficacious and durable intervention for severe obesity. The most commonly performed procedures in the United States are the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and the sleeve gastrectomy, which involve significant anatomic and physiologic alterations that lead to changes in behavior and biology. Unfortunately, many patients experience suboptimal weight loss and/or substantial weight regain. Eating and physical activity/sedentary behaviors, mood, cognition, and the gut microbiome all change postoperatively and have an association with weight change. The longitudinal relationship between changes in the gut microbiome and postoperative weight trajectory has not been explored thoroughly, and the interactive associations among the gut microbiome and the other variables that impact weight have been similarly understudied. The following is a methods and design description for a prospective, 24-month longitudinal study of 144 bariatric surgery patients, at 2 sites, that aimed to identify predictors of weight loss trajectories over 24 months after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and the sleeve gastrectomy. Specifically, the study will examine the relationships between empirically supported behavioral and biological variables and their combined impact on postoperative weight trajectories. Novel data collection will include intensive measurement of problematic eating behaviors and diet and physical activity postoperatively, which may be altered in parallel with, or in response to, changes observed in the gut microbiota. Identifying postoperative predictors of weight loss and co-morbidity resolution should inform development of novel interventions that are tailored to individual patients’ risk profiles to optimize and sustain more favorable weight trajectories.
ÉTUDES SUR LES VARIATIONS DE LITTORINA SAXATIUS VI.QUELQUES CAS QUI POSENTDE DIFFICILES PROBLÈMES.
Creators: name: FISCHER-PIETTE, E.
name: GAILLARD, J.-M.
name: B.-L, James
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1964

description: The authors, from a study of Littorina saxatilis on Ile Hoedic in Brittany, Ria del Barquero in Spain and from Brittain, show that:
a)Some populations are homogeneous with respect to shell characters andothers, in similar environmental conditions, are heterogeneous;
b)Some heterogeneous populations have intermediates between extremes butothers, again in similar conditions, do not;
c)Stations with similar topography may have populations with widely different shell characters ;
d)Populations of some varieties occur discontinuously and randomly inregions with, apparently, different topography;
e)Some variations in shell characters, which are usually correlated with changes in the environment, may sometimes occur without, with apparent disregard for or even against, such changes.
These observations further illustrate the extreme variation of L. saxatilis and the difficulty in trying to understand the causes of this variation. In addition to the above a short account is given of the general distribution, shell characters and anatomy of the subspecies of L. saxatilis in Britain.