cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social pathologies of stress, depression and anxiety as a result of increased powers of relfection: A meta-cognitive perspective
Creators: name: Ebbrecht, Christopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The purpose of this study is to develop a meta-cognitive theoretical framework on how a particular aspect of individualization, namely increased powers of individual reflection, can contribute in explaining the rise of social pathologies of especially stress, depression and anxiety in modern times.
title: Intracranial atheromatous disease treatment with the Wingspan stent system: evaluation of clinical, procedural outcome and restenosis rate in a single-center series of 21 consecutive patients with acute and mid-term results
Creators: name: Chiaravalloti, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CNS
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Stents
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Outcomes
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: It has been reported that intracranial atherosclerosis may be the underlying pathology in up to 15% of patients with ischemic stroke, but may account for about 40% of strokes in some populations as african-americans, hispanics and asians 1-7 . After...
Toward Sustainable Urbanism: Measureing Projects With LEED For Neighborhood Development
Creators: name: Cable, Faith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Stapleton International Airport
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System

description: Sustainable development is seen as a solution that combines economic, environmental and social goals. By addressing environmental challenges, sustainable development can reduce the urgent threat of global warming caused by urban greenhouse gas emissions. During the 1990s, the smart growth movement and the Congress for the New Urbanism began to rethink the way cities are planned. LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) recognizes developments that meet the goals of sustainable development and livable communities. The Congress for the New Urbanism, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council have partnered to create the new LEED-ND standards--a private certification system that will undergo it's pilot program in 2007. LEED-ND will certify projects that adhere to both green building standards and smart growth goals. This analysis uses the LEED-ND pilot program standard to measure three different projects: Stapleton, Noisette and Bloomington Central Station. Based on the evaluation of these projects according to the LEED-ND standards, differences among them are noticeable. Their initial site condition heavily affects the ability of each project to earn LEED-ND credits. As all of these projects are infill sites, they benefit from an inherent advantage according to the LEED-ND standards. However, the projects vary based on regional goals and priorities. Stapleton and Bloomington Central Station do a better job with transit service since their regions, Denver and Minneapolis/St. Paul respectively, have invested heavily in transit. Noisette does not have strong transit service; however it does have more attention paid to site design qualities and a master plan that exhibits the most recent thinking on sustainability. The analysis also shows where the LEED-ND standards do well in assessing different projects but it also highlights credits where the projects meet the intent of the credit yet do not meet the criteria. LEED-ND will be revised throughout the pilot program; however this assessment offers an early view of credits most likely to be problematic and in need of modification. Measuring sustainable development has been problematic in the past; however the LEED-ND offers the first way to measure developments on a nationwide scale. While LEED-ND is not a perfect or ideal standard, it does provide an achievable goal that developers of new neighborhoods can strive for. By setting high yet reachable goals, LEED-ND can help change standard business practice to a culture that uses sustainability objects as a competitive advantage in the development of new neighborhoods.
Qualitative study of ballistic capture at Mars via Lagrangian descriptors
Creators: name: Quinci, Alessio
name: Merisio, Gianmario
name: Topputo, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lagrangian descriptors reveal the dynamical skeleton governing transport mechanisms of a generic flow. In doing so, they unveil geometrical structures in the phase space that separate regions with different qualitative behavior. This work investigates to what extent Lagrangian descriptors provide information about non-Keplerian motion in Mars proximity, which is modeled under the planar elliptic restricted three-body problem. We propose a novel technique to reveal ballistic capture orbits extracting separatrices of the phase space highlighted by Lagrangian descriptor scalar fields. The Roberts' operator to approximate the gradient is used to detect the edges in the fields. Results demonstrate the chaos indicator ability to distinguish sets of initial conditions exhibiting different dynamics, including ballistic capture ones. Separatrices are validated against reference weak stability boundary derived on similar integration intervals. Compared to other techniques, Lagrangian descriptors provide dynamics insight bypassing the propagation of the variational equations.
description: Post-print submitted to "Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation". EXTREMA - Engineering Extremely Rare Events in Astrodynamics for Deep-Space Missions in Autonomy, European Research Council (ERC), European Union (EU), Horizon 2020. The content of this document reflects only the author's view. ERC is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
title: Основы электромеханики
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Кочетков В.П.
name:  Беспалов В.Я.
name:  Глушкин Е.Я.
name:  Котеленец Н.Ф.
name:  Подборский Э.Н.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Эр Медиа
Year: 2018

description: Учебное пособие соответствует программе курса лекций по электромеханике (электрическим машинам), теории автоматического управления, теории электропривода и силовым преобразовательным установкам. В первом разделе основ электромеханики рассмотрены теория, физические основы работы и эксплуатационные качества трансформаторов и электрических машин. Основы классической и современной теории автоматического управления включены в содержание второго раздела книги. Статика и динамика механической части, а также рабочие свойства электроприводов постоянного и переменного тока представлены в третьем разделе. В четвертом разделе рассмотрены устройства и работа преобразовательных устройств. Предназначено для студентов вузов, обучающихся по направлению «Электроэнергетика и электротехника», а также может быть полезно инженерам и аспирантам.
description: Study guide corresponds to the program of a course of lectures on electrical engineering (electrical machines), automatic control theory, theory of electric drive and power Converter settings. In the first section of the foundations of electromechanics are considered theory, physical fundamentals and performance of transformers and electrical machines. Fundamentals of classical and modern automatic control theory is included in the content of the second section of the book. Statics and dynamics of mechanical parts, and performance characteristics of electric drives of AC and DC presented in the third section. The fourth Chapter deals with the device and work conversion devices. Designed for students enrolled in the direction "power industry and electrical engineering", and can also be useful to engineers and graduate students.
title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based Differential Diagnosis of Congenital Müllerian Duct Anomalies and Their Mimics
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Youn
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Congenital
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To review key magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of various congenital Müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) and their mimics. 2. To illustrate the systemic approach to MR imaging-based differential diagnosis of these conditions, by using a flow...
Election outcome and political legitimacy
Creators: name: ZENKYO, Masahiro
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Political Science
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: 1. Purpose Does a ruling party that has lost trust by the people recover legitimacy for running the government by winning the election? This study aims to examine the causal effect of the election outcomes on people’s preferences for the policy process through original survey experiments that are fielded pre-and-after national election. Concretely, this study investigates citizen preferences for the “most preferable actor” and the effect of the election outcomes on those preferences in different stages of policy processes about COVID-19 in Japan. 2. Background Political legitimacy is one of the indispensable resources to maintain political system and to make the people acceptable to governmental decisions. Under representative democracy, elected politicians or parties determine the basis of the government policy and the people basically accept the governmental decisions, because they obtain political legitimacy from the people by winning the election. However, the effect of the election outcome on voters’ perception related to political legitimacy has not been sufficiently examined. Japan is a suitable case to examine the effect of the election outcome on political legitimacy. Generally, the ruling party that has lost public trust is difficult to obtain legitimacy by winning the election, because voters vote for the opposition party instead of the ruling party, and regime change occurs as the consequence. However, few people support the opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party in Japan, even if many Japanese criticize the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Regime change thus is hard to occur in contemporary Japanese national politics. The LDP may be able to recover the legitimacy without regime change, by winning the election. Trust in the national government that is managed by the LDP has decreased from 2019 to 2021 due to the failure of the measures to prevent the expansion of COVID-19. Although most Japanese positively evaluate the measures of COVID-19 taken by prefecture governments, they dissatisfy with and claim the measures by the national government. The 49th Lower House general election will be held on October 31 in 2021 in this situation. However, many analysts predict that the LDP will again be ruling the government, because of the low level of public support for the opposition parties. This means that Japan is a suitable case to examine whether the ruling party can regain the legitimacy it has lost by winning the election. Note: The supplemental file of this preregistration is a modified one of the earlier version file that was registered on October 8, 2021.
Double parton scattering: Impact of nonperturbative parton correlations
Creators: name: Ostapchenko, Sergey
name: Bleicher, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the phenomenological Reggeon Field Theory framework to investigate the relative importance of perturbative and nonperturbative multiparton correlations for the treatment of double parton scattering (DPS) in proton-proton collisions. We obtain a significant correction to the so-called effective cross section for DPS due to nonperturbative parton splitting. When combined with the corresponding perturbative contribution, this results in a rather weak energy and transverse momentum dependence of the effective cross section, in agreement with experimental observations at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider. In addition, we observed that color fluctuations have a sizable impact on the calculated rate of double parton scattering and on the relative importance of the perturbative parton splitting mechanism.
You can tell me what to do, sometimes: local zoning ordinance application to North Carolina and its political subdivisions
Creators: name: Breece, Bradley Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A delegation of the State's police power, North Carolina municipalities since the 1920s and counties since the 1950s have been empowered to impose local zoning regulations. In its initial iteration, the zoning enabling statute for municipalities did not address whether local zoning codes would apply to the State or its political subdivisions. To fill this breach, North Carolina courts developed a governmental-proprietary use test to determine if local zoning regulations would apply to government projects. Since 1951 for cities and 1959 for counties, North Carolina statutory law has superseded this judicial test and presently declares that local zoning laws are applicable to the "erection, construction, and use of buildings by the State of North Carolina and its political subdivisions." The term "building" is left undefined in the zoning enabling statutes. While a pair of judicial decisions and standard tools of statutory interpretation, including legislative history, give some suggestion on how a court may interpret "building" prospectively, more guidance is needed from the General Assembly in order to better elucidate and effectuate its intent. Faced with an undefined scope of "building," as well as the General Assembly's plenary ability to exempt the State and its political subdivisions from local zoning regulations on an ad hoc basis, local governments are forced to strike a "delicate balance" with State actors based more on politics and bargaining power than on a more legally principled basis. To better meet the general policy goals of enabling North Carolina municipalities and counties to zone as well as the policy of subjecting State and political subdivision buildings, but not other non-building uses to those local zoning laws, the General Assembly would do well to better define and cement their limitations on local zoning authority.
title: Chronic periaortitis imaging: What radiologists should know.
Creators: name: Galletto, Athena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Inflammation
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to: Describe the classification, the main pathophysiology mechanisms and the clinical features of chronic periaortitis (CP) Illustrate a review of the main imaging findings of the disease with different...
Trigonal warping, pseudodiffusive transport, and finite-system version of the Lifshitz transition in magnetoconductance of bilayer-graphene Corbino disks
Creators: name: Rut, Grzegorz
name: Rycerz, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the transfer matrix in the angular-momentum space we investigate the impact of trigonal warping on magnetotransport and scaling properties of a ballistic bilayer graphene in the Corbino geometry. Although the conductivity at the charge-neutrality point and zero magnetic field exhibits a one-parameter scaling, the shot-noise characteristics, quantified by the Fano factor $\mathcal{F}$ and the third charge-transfer cumulant $\mathcal{R}$, remain pseudodiffusive. This shows that the pseudodiffusive transport regime in bilayer graphene is not related to the universal value of the conductivity but can be identified by higher charge-transfer cumulants. For Corbino disks with larger radii ratios the conductivity is suppressed by the trigonal warping, mainly because the symmetry reduction amplifies backscattering for normal modes corresponding to angular-momentum eigenvalues $\pm{}2\hbar$. Weak magnetic fields enhance the conductivity, reaching the maximal value near the crossover field $B_L=\frac{4}{3}\sqrt{3}\,({\hbar}/{e})\,t't_\perp\!\left[{t_0^2a(R_{\rm o}-R_{\rm i})}\right]^{-1}$, where $t_0$ ($t_\perp$) is the nearest-neighbor intra- (inter-)layer hopping integral, $t'$ is the skew-interlayer hopping integral, and $R_{\rm o}$ ($R_{\rm i}$) is the outer (inner) disk radius. For magnetic fields $B\gtrsim{}B_L$ we observe quasiperiodic conductance oscillations characterized by the decreasing mean value $\langleσ\rangle-σ_0\propto{}B_L/B$, where $σ_0=(8/π)\,e^2/h$. The conductivity, as well as higher charge-transfer cumulants, show beating patterns with an envelope period proportional to $\sqrt{B/B_L}$. This constitutes a qualitative difference between the high-field ($B\gg{}B_L$) magnetotransport in the $t'=0$ case (earlier discussed in Ref. [1]) and in the $t'\neq{}0$ case, providing a finite-system analog of the Lifshitz transition.
description: Minor revisions; new Ref. [41]. A version accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Planning for growth: an analysis of city and regional land use change models for eastern North Carolina
Creators: name: Lenahan, Nora M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In Eastern North Carolina, increasing development rates have created several challenges for cities, towns and counties including increased housing prices, loss of wildlife habitat, water pollution, increased demand for infrastructure, and a change in community character (SERPPAS 2009). Rapid urbanization also causes problems for military installations that are threatening military training activities of the Army. Also it alters future development patterns around military installations, and presents challenges to the sustainability of defense and natural and economic resources (Westervelt 2006). Additionally, fast changing land use patterns are creating challenges for urban and regional planning authorities in both forecasting and managing new development, transportation, utility infrastructure issues, and economic forecasting and assessment (Westervelt 2006). It is important for the sustainability of this region to work collaboratively with planners, policy makers, stakeholders and citizens to protect natural resources, balance the health and safety of communities, and promote economic development and military readiness (Deal and Schunk 2004; SERPPAS 2009). A land use change model is a tool that can effectively address these concerns. Several meta-studies have been published that evaluate land-use change models (Agarwal 2002, EPA 2000; Berling-Wolff & Wu 2004). However, gaps are evident in the literature with regards to studies that specifically focus on city and regional level modeling needs for Eastern North Carolina. This report attempts to close the gaps and provides a study that takes a critical look at the most widely used land-use change models, assesses their capabilities, and makes recommendations regarding models that would be best used to address Eastern North Carolina concerns related to sensitive lands surrounding military bases for Craven, New Bern and Onslow Counties.
title: Transgluteal echo-guided arterial access: an unusual approach to treat type II endoleak following endovascular repair of an aortic and internal iliac artery aneurysm.
Creators: name: Capannelli, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Aneurysms
subject: Puncture
subject: Embolisation
subject: Arterial access
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of the educational exhibit is: - to discuss the limits of traditional treatment options of type II endoleak after endovascular aneurysms repair (EVAR); - to present transcutaneous direct puncture of the superior gluteal artery as a novel...
In Situ Characterisation of an Optically Thick Atom-Filled Cavity
Creators: name: Munns, J. H. D.
name: Qiu, C.
name: Ledingham, P. M.
name: Walmsley, I. A.
name: Nunn, J.
name: Saunders, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A means for precise experimental characterization of the dielectric susceptibility of an atomic gas inside and optical cavity is important for design and operation of quantum light matter interfaces, particularly in the context of quantum information processing. Here we present a numerically optimised theoretical model to predict the spectral response of an atom-filled cavity, accounting for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening at high optical densities. We investigate the regime where the two broadening mechanisms are of similar magnitude, which makes the use of common approximations invalid. Our model agrees with an experimental implementation with warm caesium vapour in a ring cavity. From the cavity response, we are able to extract important experimental parameters, for instance the ground state populations, total number density and the magnitudes of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening.
description: Author accepted version
title: Aortic intramural hematoma: Importance of advanced MDCT imaging technique at diagnosis and follow-up.
Creators: name: Boccalini, Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Dissection
subject: Acute
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to: Describe the classification, the main pathophysiology mechanisms and the clinical features of aortic intramural hematoma (IMH) Illustrate a review of the main imaging findings of the disease with...
title: Evaluation of an iterative reconstruction algorithm (iDose): applications in computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA).
Creators: name: Stathis, George
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a noninvasive imaging technique widely used for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD). It provides high diagnostic performance that is constantly increasing as the CT technology advances [1]. CCTA is...
Additional file 6 of Climate influences the gut eukaryome of wild rodents in the Great Rift Valley of Jordan
Creators: name: Khadem, Sanaz
name: Berry, David
name: Al-khlifeh, Enas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 6.
title: Acute aortic pathology, the on call nightmare
Creators: name: Del Blanco, Miguel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dissection
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Emergency
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review most common radiological findings in acute aortic...
Increasing Prosocial Behavior
Creators: name: Meyer, Andrea
name: Rinner, Marcia
name: Gloster, Andrew
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2020

description: This study aims to investigate whether a micro-intervention targeting psychological flexibiliy can increase prosocial behavior in dyads of couples. The effects of the micro-intervention were examined in the lab using a behavioral game paradigm and in the couples' everyday lifes using Event Sampling Methodology.
Distributionally Robust Safety Filter for Learning-Based Control in Active Distribution Systems
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoang Tien
name: Choi, Dae-Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Operational constraint violations may occur when deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents interact with real-world active distribution systems to learn their optimal policies during training. This letter presents a universal distributionally robust safety filter (DRSF) using which any DRL agent can reduce the constraint violations of distribution systems significantly during training while maintaining near-optimal solutions. The DRSF is formulated as a distributionally robust optimization problem with chance constraints of operational limits. This problem aims to compute near-optimal actions that are minimally modified from the optimal actions of DRL-based Volt/VAr control by leveraging the distribution system model, thereby providing constraint satisfaction guarantee with a probability level under the model uncertainty. The performance of the proposed DRSF is verified using the IEEE 33-bus and 123-bus systems.
Double Utility: Operating Public Transportation in Utility Rights-of-Way
Creators: name: Freer, Walker McGovney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: As urbanized regions progressively densify and congested roadways continue to reduce vehicular mobility, identifying and securing funding for dedicated rights-of-way for public transportation projects will become increasingly contentious and costly for local governments and transit agencies, but equally essential. However, in most urban and suburban regions, accessible and unobstructed Greenfield rights-of-way (ROW) corridors are already scarce, especially between heavily populated areas containing the potential for high trip generation. Recognizing these limitations, this research analyzes the feasibility of siting and operating public transportation in active utility rights-of-way.
Fit for Practice - NAT-ABBE secondary Data Analysis -
Creators: name: Spichiger, Frank
name: Volken, Thomas
name: Bucher, Thomas
name: Koppitz, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: nurses
retention
turnover
expectations
switzerland

description: Presentation for the research meeting 2022-04-27. Presenting our gap analysis.
Additional file 4 of Prehospital guidelines on in-water traumatic spinal injuries for lifeguards and prehospital emergency medical services: an international Delphi consensus study
Creators: name: Breindahl, Niklas
name: Bierens, Joost L. M.
name: Wiberg, Sebastian
name: Barcala-Furelos, Roberto
name: Maschmann, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
Child oral health knowledge and professional practice of General Medical Practitioners: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Alzard, Dalya
name: Crocombe, Leonard
name: Dickson-Swift, Virginia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to comprehensively exploring the peer-reviewed literature to map the current knowledge and practice of general practitioners of child oral health.
Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots
Creators: name: Duarte, Miguel
name: Costa, Vasco
name: Gomes, Jorge
name: Rodrigues, Tiago
name: Silva, Fernando
name: Oliveira, Sancho Moura
name: Christensen, Anders Lyhne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots. While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to obtain robust and efficient self-organized behaviors for robot swarms, most studies have been conducted in simulation, and the few that have been conducted on real robots have been confined to laboratory environments. In this paper, we demonstrate for the first time a swarm robotics system with evolved control successfully operating in a real and uncontrolled environment. We evolve neural network-based controllers in simulation for canonical swarm robotics tasks, namely homing, dispersion, clustering, and monitoring. We then assess the performance of the controllers on a real swarm of up to ten aquatic surface robots. Our results show that the evolved controllers transfer successfully to real robots and achieve a performance similar to the performance obtained in simulation. We validate that the evolved controllers display key properties of swarm intelligence-based control, namely scalability, flexibility, and robustness on the real swarm. We conclude with a proof-of-concept experiment in which the swarm performs a complete environmental monitoring task by combining multiple evolved controllers.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures, journal
Building a Fact Base for Local Decision Support: A Test of the NC Coastal Federation Watershed Restoration Planning Guidebook
Creators: name: Boivin, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The 20 coastal counties of North Carolina are known throughout the world for their beautiful
beaches and bountiful, yet vulnerable, estuarine ecosystems. For many of these areas,
resources derived from the coastal setting represent the heart of local economies.
Unfortunately, over the last century the health of these ecosystems has deteriorated at
increasingly expedient rates due to a variety of factors, such as increased upstream agriculture
and livestock operations, increases to impervious cover, and overuse of hard engineering
stormwater management practices. In assessing the health of waterbodies, non-point sources of
pollution have been identified as the leading cause of impairment in the United States (USEPA,
2002a). Under the Clean Water Act of 1972, states are required to identify all waters that are
impaired due to pollution, based on the use(s) to be made of the waterbody. The North Carolina
Coastal Federation (NCCF) estimates that in North Carolina over 2.4 million acres of marshes,
sounds and lakes and over 2.2 million acres of coastal shellfish and swimming waters are now
registered as legally impaired on the EPA’s 303(d) listing (2014).
title: Endovascular repair of anastomotic aneurysms after previous open aortic reconstruction
Creators: name: Shehadeh, Sana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Aneurysms
subject: Stents
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Anastomotic aneurysms may occur after aortic reconstruction either in aneurysmal or occlusive disease, the diagnosis usually takes place 8 to 10 years after the original surgery [1]. The incidence of anastomotic aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta and...
Testing the Validity of Lineup Fairness Measures
Creators: name: Mansour, Jamal
name: Penrod, Steven
name: Lee, Jungwon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: eyewitness identification
subject: lineup bias
subject: lineup fairness
subject: lineups
subject: lineup size

description: In this project, we explore the validity of extant measure of lineup fairness as well as novel methods of measuring lineup fairness, with the goal of determining which measures are the best or most desirable for evaluating lineup fairness.
Dynamics of dissipative Bose-Einstein condensation
Creators: name: Caspar, Stephan
name: Hebenstreit, Florian
name: Mesterházy, David
name: Wiese, Uwe-Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We resolve the real-time dynamics of a purely dissipative $s = 1/2$ quantum spin or, equivalently, hard-core boson model on a hypercubic $d$-dimensional lattice. The considered quantum dissipative process drives the system to a totally symmetric macroscopic superposition in each of the $S^3$ sectors. Different characteristic time scales are identified for the dynamics and we determine their finite-size scaling. We introduce the concept of cumulative entanglement distribution to quantify multiparticle entanglement and show that the considered protocol serves as an efficient method to prepare a macroscopically entangled Bose-Einstein condensate.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures; version accepted for publication in PRA
Two Candidate Obscured Tidal Disruption Events Coincident with High-energy Neutrinos
Creators: name: Jiang, Ning
name: Zhou, Ziying
name: Zhu, Jiazheng
name: Wang, Yibo
name: Wang, Tinggui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, three optical tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have been suggested to be coincident with high-energy neutrinos. They all exhibit unusually strong dust infrared (IR) echoes, with their peak times matching the neutrino arrival time even better than the optical peaks. We hereby report on two new TDE candidates that are spatially and temporally coincident with neutrinos by matching our sample of mid-infrared outbursts in nearby galaxies (MIRONG) with Gold alerts of IceCube high-energy neutrino events up to June 2022. The two candidates show negligible optical variability according to their ZTF light curves and can therefore be classified as part of the growing population of obscured TDE candidates. The chance probability of finding two such candidates about $\sim3\%$ by redistributing the MIRONG sources randomly in the SDSS footprint, which will be as low as $\sim0.1\%$ (or $\sim0.2\%$) if we limit to sources with increased fluxes (or variability amplitudes) comparable with the matched two sources. Our findings further support the potential connection between high-energy neutrinos and TDEs in dusty environments by increasing the total number of neutrino-associated TDE and TDE candidates to five, although the underlying physics remains poorly understood.
description: Published, ApJL, 953, L12
Additional file 1 of Co-detection of respiratory pathogens among ILI patients: characterization of samples collected during the 2018/19 and 2019/20 pre-pandemic seasons
Creators: name: Ferrari, Allegra
name: Schiavetti, Irene
name: Ogliastro, Matilde
name: Minet, Carola
name: Sibilio, Raffaella
name: Giberti, Irene
name: Costa, Elisabetta
name: Massaro, Elvira
name: Lai, Piero Luigi
name: Mosca, Stefano
name: Bruzzone, Bianca
name: Orsi, Andrea
name: Panatto, Donatella
name: Icardi, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
SMT-Solving Induction Proofs of Inequalities
Creators: name: Uncu, Ali K.
name: Davenport, James H.
name: England, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.1.4; G.4
subject: 68W30

description: This paper accompanies a new dataset of non-linear real arithmetic problems for the SMT-LIB benchmark collection. The problems come from an automated proof procedure of Gerhold--Kauers, which is well suited for solution by SMT. The problems of this type have not been tackled by SMT-solvers before. We describe the proof technique and give one new such proof to illustrate it. We then describe the dataset and the results of benchmarking. The benchmarks on the new dataset are quite different to the existing ones. The benchmarking also brings forward some interesting debate on the use/inclusion of rational functions and algebraic numbers in the SMT-LIB.
description: Presented at the 2022 SC-Square Workshop
X-ray echo spectroscopy
Creators: name: Shvyd'ko, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray echo spectroscopy, a counterpart of neutron spin-echo, is being introduced here to overcome limitations in spectral resolution and weak signals of the traditional inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) probes. An image of a point-like x-ray source is defocused by a dispersing system comprised of asymmetrically cut specially arranged Bragg diffracting crystals. The defocused image is refocused into a point (echo) in a time-reversal dispersing system. If the defocused beam is inelastically scattered from a sample, the echo signal acquires a spatial distribution, which is a map of the inelastic scattering spectrum. The spectral resolution of the echo spectroscopy does not rely on the monochromaticity of the x-rays, ensuring strong signals along with a very high spectral resolution. Particular schemes of x-ray echo spectrometers for 0.1--0.02-meV ultra-high-resolution IXS applications (resolving power $> 10^8$) with broadband $\simeq$~5--13~meV dispersing systems are introduced featuring more than $10^3$ signal enhancement. The technique is general, applicable in different photon frequency domains.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
title: Doppler ultrasound for preoperative assessment of hemodialysis access creation – tips and tricks
Creators: name: Paixao, Pedro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Extremities
subject: Anatomy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Shunts
subject: Education and training
subject: Fistula

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To show the practical steps for arterial and venous mapping and functional assessment; - To illustrate normal findings in each...
Exotic Superconducting Properties in Topological Nodal Semimetal PbTaSe$_2$
Creators: name: Zhang, Cheng-Long
name: Yuan, Zhujun
name: Bian, Guang
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
name: Jia, Shuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the electronic properties of superconductivity in the topological nodal-line semimetal PbTaSe$_2$. Angle-resolved photoemission measurements accompanied by band calculations confirmed the nodal-line band structure in the normal state of single crystalline PbTaSe$_2$. Resistivity, magnetic-susceptibility and specific heat measurements have also been performed on high-quality single crystals. We observed upward features and large anisotropy in upper critical field ($H_{c2}$) measured in-plane (H//\textbf{ab}) and out-plane (H//\textbf{c}), respectively. Especially, $H_{c2}$ measured in H//\textbf{ab} shows sudden upward features rather than a signal of saturation in ultralow temperatures. The specific heat measurements under magnetic field reveal a full superconducting gap with no gapless nodes. These behaviors in this clean noncentrosymmetric superconductor is possibly related to the underlying exotic physics, providing important clue for realization of topological superconductivity.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures,1 table;Accepted for publication on PRB
Mapping CO Gas in the GG Tauri A Triple System with 50 AU Spatial Resolution
Creators: name: Tang, Ya-Wen
name: Dutrey, Anne
name: Guilloteau, Stephane
name: Chapillon, Edwige
name: Pietu, Vincent
name: Di Folco, Emmanuel
name: Bary, Jeff
name: Beck, Tracy
name: Beust, Herve
name: Boehler, Yann
name: Gueth, Frederic
name: Hure, Jean-Marc
name: Pierens, Arnaud
name: Simon, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to unveil the observational imprint of physical mechanisms that govern planetary formation in the young, multiple system GG Tau A. We present ALMA observations of $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO 3-2 and 0.9 mm continuum emission with 0.35" resolution. The $^{12}$CO 3-2 emission, found within the cavity of the circumternary dust ring (at radius $< 180$ AU) where no $^{13}$CO emission is detected, confirms the presence of CO gas near the circumstellar disk of GG Tau Aa. The outer disk and the recently detected hot spot lying at the outer edge of the dust ring are mapped both in $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO. The gas emission in the outer disk can be radially decomposed as a series of slightly overlapping Gaussian rings, suggesting the presence of unresolved gaps or dips. The dip closest to the disk center lies at a radius very close to the hot spot location at $\sim250-260$~AU. The CO excitation conditions indicate that the outer disk remains in the shadow of the ring. The hot spot probably results from local heating processes. The two latter points reinforce the hypothesis that the hot spot is created by an embedded proto-planet shepherding the outer disk.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by ApJ
Double Bottom Line Investment Funds: Comparison of Models for Non-Profit Organizations
Creators: name: Jones, Jordan A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: For more than a century in the United States, non-traditional finance institutions have
been responding to the need for capital in economically disadvantaged communities, both rural
and urban. Historically, traditional capital has not flown easily into these communities, in
particular to finance community economic development (“CED”) projects such as affordable
housing. In particular, CED projects have difficulty accessing equity capital. Double Bottom Line
Private Equity Investment Funds (“DBL Funds”) have emerged across the United States to
provide this much needed equity capital. Capitalized with private equity, DBL Funds focus on
both financial and mission-related returns to their investors. DBL Funds have a strong track
record of investing equity in CED projects in rural and urban communities across the United
States. Four operating models for DBL Funds have emerged.
• In the Contractual Model, a non-profit organization initiates a DBL Fund and
contracts with a for-profit fund manager to manage the fund.
• The Fund Manager Model involves only the for-profit fund manager that establishes
and manages its own fund.
• State legislation is needed to create the Legislative Model. This model has only been
used by the insurance industry in Massachusetts.
• In the Ownership Model, the non-profit organization owns the for-profit fund
manager.
For non-profit organizations evaluating whether to establish a DBL Fund, only two of
these models are applicable. The Legislative Model requires state legislation and the resulting
fund is commonly a for-profit entity. The Fund Manager Model also does not apply because this
model does not involve a non-profit organization.
Purpose of Study:
The purpose of this study is to provide information to non-profit organizations
evaluating whether to establish their own Fund Manager as called for in the Ownership Model
DBL Fund. These Funds are discussed in the literature, but from a more theoretical perspective.
This study researches important components of how these funds have been implemented by
various non-profit organizations. These components include the legal and operating structures
of Ownership Model DBL Funds, potential operating requirements of the non-profit and its
Fund Manager, as well as compensation.
title: “Spot the dead ringer!” – Usage of various MDCT signs to differentiate true and false lumen in aortic dissection
Creators: name: Subramanian, Manickam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dissection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To discuss the MDCT techniques and imaging features of aortic dissection. 2. To review various MDCT signs to differentiatetrue lumen from falselumen. 3. To briefly discuss complications and management of aortic dissection 4. To briefly discuss...
title: Trigeminal nerve: imaging of normal anatomy and pathologic conditions.
Creators: name: Cabero Moyano, Jordi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To explain and illustrate trigeminal nerve anatomy. To describe the imaging findings for different pathologies involving the trigeminal nerve in its...