cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Racial capitalism and the US formula shortage: A policy analysis of the formula industry as a neocolonial system
Creators: name: Palmquist, Aunchalee E. L.
name: Tomori, Cecília
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The U.S. is currently experiencing a formula shortage and an infant feeding crisis that began with a formula recall and the hospitalization of 4 infants, 2 of whom died. Since 1981, governments around the world have been calling for an end to blatant human rights violations made by the commercial milk formula (CMF) industry. These practices not only involve targeting nutritionally vulnerable populations of mothers and newborns to turn a profit, but also actively undermining the implementation of policies, legislation, and regulatory oversight that might compromise their accumulation of wealth. In this paper we analyze the 2022 formula-shortage-as-infant-feeding-crisis through the lens of the history of colonialism and critical theory in the anthropology of reproduction. First, we provide an overview of the colonial roots of the formula industry from a global perspective. We then focus on how the mechanisms of racial exploitation remain entrenched in the U.S. approach to infant feeding policies, regulation and investment, setting the stage for the current infant feeding crisis. Through our analysis of the 2022 infant feeding crisis we demonstrate how the multinational CMF industry perpetuates racial capitalism and racialized health inequities and disparities through its operations as a neocolonial enterprise. Finally, we offer policy interventions and potential solutions that are grounded in structural interventions for more equitable, anticolonial, antiracist infant feeding systems.
Anisotropic angle-dependent Andreev reflection at the ferromagnet/superconductor junction on the surface of topological insulators
Creators: name: Salehi, Morteza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically demonstrate that a ferromagnetic/superconductor junction on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) has an anisotropic angle-dependent Andreev reflection when the in-plane magnetization has a component perpendicular to the junction. In the presence of in-plane magnetization, the Dirac cone's location adjusts in the $k$-space, whereas its out-of-plane component induces a gap. This movement leads to the anisotropic angle-dependent Andreev reflection and creates transverse conductance flows parallel to the interface. Also, an indirect gap induces in the junction, which removes the transport signatures of Majorana bound states. Because of the full spin-momentum locking of Dirac fermions on the surface of 3DTIs, a torque that called \textit{Andreev Transfer Torque} (ATT) imposes on the junction. Moreover, we propose a setup to detect them experimentally.
description: 8 Pages, 5 figures
Electrostatics on the sphere with applications to Monte Carlo simulations of two dimensional polar fluids
Creators: name: Caillol, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two methods for solving the electrostatics of point charges and multipoles on the surface of a sphere, \textit{i.e.} in the space $\mathcal{S}_{2}$, with applications to numerical simulations of two-dimensional polar fluids. In the first approach, point charges are associated with uniform neutralizing backgrounds to form neutral pseudo-charges, while, in the second, one instead considers bi-charges, \textit{i.e.} dumbells of antipodal point charges of opposite signs. We establish the expressions of the electric potentials of pseudo- and bi-charges as isotropic solutions of the Laplace-Beltrami equation in $\mathcal{S}_{2}$. A multipolar expansion of pseudo- and bi-charge potentials leads to the electric potentials of mono- and bi-multipoles respectively. These potentials constitute non-isotropic solutions of the Laplace-Beltrami equation the general solution of which in spherical coordinates is recast under a new appealing form. We then focus on the case of mono- and bi-dipoles and build the theory of dielectric media in $\mathcal{S}_{2}$. We notably obtain the expression of the static dielectric constant of a uniform isotropic polar fluid living in $\mathcal{S}_{2}$ in term of the polarization fluctuations of subdomains of $\mathcal{S}_{2}$. We also derive the long range behavior of the equilibrium pair correlation function under the assumption that it is governed by macroscopic electrostatics. These theoretical developments find their application in Monte Carlo simulations of the $2D$ fluid of dipolar hard spheres. Some preliminary numerical experiments are discussed with a special emphasis on finite size effects, a careful study of the thermodynamic limit, and a check of the theoretical predictions for the asymptotic behavior of the pair correlation function.
description: 45 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures
Multi-Camera Lighting Estimation for Photorealistic Front-Facing Mobile Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Zhao, Yiqin
name: Fanello, Sean
name: Guo, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lighting understanding plays an important role in virtual object composition, including mobile augmented reality (AR) applications. Prior work often targets recovering lighting from the physical environment to support photorealistic AR rendering. Because the common workflow is to use a back-facing camera to capture the physical world for overlaying virtual objects, we refer to this usage pattern as back-facing AR. However, existing methods often fall short in supporting emerging front-facing mobile AR applications, e.g., virtual try-on where a user leverages a front-facing camera to explore the effect of various products (e.g., glasses or hats) of different styles. This lack of support can be attributed to the unique challenges of obtaining 360$^\circ$ HDR environment maps, an ideal format of lighting representation, from the front-facing camera and existing techniques. In this paper, we propose to leverage dual-camera streaming to generate a high-quality environment map by combining multi-view lighting reconstruction and parametric directional lighting estimation. Our preliminary results show improved rendering quality using a dual-camera setup for front-facing AR compared to a commercial solution.
Radio AGN in spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Kaviraj, Sugata
name: Shabala, Stanislav S.
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Middelberg, Enno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio AGN in the nearby Universe are more likely to be found in galaxies with early-type morphology, the detection rate in spiral or late-type galaxies (LTGs) being around an order of magnitude lower. We combine the mJy Imaging VLBA Exploration at 20cm (mJIVE-20) survey with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), to study the relatively rare population of AGN in LTGs that have nuclear radio luminosities similar to that in their early-type counterparts. The LTG AGN population is preferentially hosted by galaxies that have high stellar masses (M* > 10^10.8 MSun), red colours and low star-formation rates, with little dependence on the detailed morphology or local environment of the host LTG. The merger fraction in the LTG AGN is around 4 times higher than that in the general LTG population, indicating that merging is an important trigger for radio AGN in these systems. The red colours of our systems extend recent work which indicates that merger-triggered AGN in the nearby Universe appear after the peak of the associated starburst, implying that they do not strongly regulate star formation. Finally, we find that in systems where parsec-scale jets are clearly observed in our VLBI images, the jets are perpendicular to the major axis of the galaxy, indicating alignment between the accretion disc and the host galaxy stellar disc.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Citizens’ Protests: causes and consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita
Creators: name: Gilli, Mario
name: Giorgini, Filippo
name: Gilli, Mario
name: Giorgini, Filippo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: protests
subject: political regimes
subject: sociopolitical variables

description: Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens’ protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing different degree of transparency in public information. Also the social characteristics of a country, such as citizens’ diversity and radicalization, matter for citizens political participation. The aim of this paper is to analyze causes and consequences of citizens’ protests, focusing on how private and public information affect citizens’ opinion and political behavior, and on how they depend on sociopolitical factors as well as on the political regime. In Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs, Bueno de Mesquita proposed a seminal model to study why revolutionary vanguards might use violence to mobilize citizens against a regime. We claim that the model can be used more generally to investigate citizens’ protest. We refer to his model to understand citizens’ political behavior, studying the relationship between the model’s structural parameters and the causes and consequences of citizens’protests, adopting a partially different approach and extending his results.
On the consistency of magnetic field measurements of Ap stars: lessons learned from the FORS1 archive
Creators: name: Landstreet, J. D.
name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Fossati, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CONTEXT. The ESO archive of FORS1 spectropolarimetric observations may be used to create a homogeneous database of magnetic field measurements. However, no systematic comparison of FORS field measurements to those obtained with other instruments has been undertaken so far. AIMS. We exploit the FORS archive of circular spectropolarimetric data to examine in a general way how reliable and accurate field detections obtained with FORS are. METHODS. We examine the observations of Ap and Bp stars, on the grounds that almost all of the unambiguous detections of magnetic fields in the FORS1 archive are in these kinds of stars. We assess the overall quality of the FORS1 magnetic data by examining the consistency of field detections with what is known from previous measurements obtained with other instruments, and we look at patterns of internal consistency. RESULTS. FORS1 magnetic measurements are fully consistent with those made with other instruments, and the internal consistency of the data is excellent. However, it is important to recognise that each choice of grism and wavelength window constitutes a distinct instrumental measuring system, and that simultaneous field measurements in different instrumental systems may produce field strength values that differ up to 20 %, or more. Furthermore, we found that field measurements using hydrogen lines only yield results that meaningfully reflect the field strength as sampled specifically by lines of hydrogen for stars with effective temperatures above about 9000 K. CONCLUSIONS. In general the magnetic field measurements of Ap and Bp stars obtained with FORS1 are of excellent quality, accuracy and precision, and FORS1 provides an extremely useful example that offers valuable lessons for field measurements with other low- resolution Cassegrain spectropolarimeters.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in section 13 of Astronomy & Astrophysics on 13 October 2014
Cooperative Concurrent Games
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Julian
name: Kowara, Szymon
name: Kraus, Sarit
name: Steeples, Thomas
name: Wooldridge, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In rational verification, the aim is to verify which temporal logic properties will obtain in a multi-agent system, under the assumption that agents ("players") in the system choose strategies for acting that form a game theoretic equilibrium. Preferences are typically defined by assuming that agents act in pursuit of individual goals, specified as temporal logic formulae. To date, rational verification has been studied using non-cooperative solution concepts - Nash equilibrium and refinements thereof. Such non-cooperative solution concepts assume that there is no possibility of agents forming binding agreements to cooperate, and as such they are restricted in their applicability. In this article, we extend rational verification to cooperative solution concepts, as studied in the field of cooperative game theory. We focus on the core, as this is the most fundamental (and most widely studied) cooperative solution concept. We begin by presenting a variant of the core that seems well-suited to the concurrent game setting, and we show that this version of the core can be characterised using ATL*. We then study the computational complexity of key decision problems associated with the core, which range from problems in PSPACE to problems in 3EXPTIME. We also investigate conditions that are sufficient to ensure that the core is non-empty, and explore when it is invariant under bisimilarity. We then introduce and study a number of variants of the main definition of the core, leading to the issue of credible deviations, and to stronger notions of collective stable behaviour. Finally, we study cooperative rational verification using an alternative model of preferences, in which players seek to maximise the mean-payoff they obtain over an infinite play in games where quantitative information is allowed.
Evaluating the efficacy of bar code medication administration use in an emergency department
Creators: name: Lieb, Derrick
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Background: Safe medication administration through Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) had been widely supported in the literature, however, evidence on the efficacy of tethered versus non-tethered bar code scanners in the emergency department setting was lacking. Objective: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the efficacy of medication scanning devices on patient scanning rates in an emergency department and to fully implement the most efficient technology. Method: This was a quality improvement project using retrospective data from an existing database. Patient scanning rates for the emergency department were obtained in a retrospective manner. Results: Patient scanning rates were found to be higher on tethered computers then non-tethered computers. There was no significant relationship to support either tethered or non-tethered BCMA scanners as it related to patient scanning compliance. Conclusion: The recommendation from this study is to leave the current technology in place Given the results of this project, recommendations for the type of BCMA scanner should be based on cost of the product initially and rate of replacement. Further study should be conducted with a larger sample size in a more diverse clinical setting.
De Lubac, Henri, EI eterno feminino. Ed. Sígueme. Col. «Hinneni», vol. 91. Vol. de 288 ps. 121x190. Salamanca 1969
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 1 (1974)
Schmucker, Josef, Las fuentes primarias de la fe en Dios. Ed. Herder. Col. «Quaestiones Disputatae», n. 8. Vol. de 264 ps. 141x216. Barcelona 1971
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 1 (1974)
Rethinking creativity and innovation in community education: A practical approach
Creators: name: Betiang, Peter
name: Asor, L.J.
name: Erim, C.M.
name: Andong, H.A.
name: Beshel, C.A.
name: Ulayi, Agnes
name: Obibessong, V.M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 330401
subject: Community planning
classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation

description: The need to reinvent the approach to teaching and learning in community education cannot be overemphasized. Being education in the non-formal mode, community education seeks to address the immediate needs of the recipients at the personal, group and community levels. This education targets the felt and shared needs of the community, through a collaborative approach that seeks to involve all stakeholders. Sadly however, it has been observed that community education is slipping gradually into the pattern, mode and focus of formal school education, with its attendant shortcomings and incapacity in tackling immediate problem, such as crime, corruption, unemployment, restiveness, ethnic Chauvinism, etc. This paper argues that through adopting creative approaches to the theory and practice of community education, some of these problems could be mitigated planning, conceptualization; such innovation should cover implementation and evaluation processes, hence rendering itself more relevant and responsive to the immediate needs and aspirations of contemporary Nigerian society.
PHENIX Beam Use Proposal Run-10 and Run-11
Creators: name: Jacak, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: rhic
phenix
run10
run11
bup
fcal
hbd
vtx
fvtx
daq
p+p
au+au

description: The PHENIX Collaboration proposes a scientific program of precision measurements to pursue key goals in the study of heavy ion collisions and the spin of the proton using RHIC in 2010-2011.
Placental transcriptional signatures associated with cerebral white matter damage in the neonate
Creators: name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Roell, Kyle
name: O'Shea, T. Michael
name: Kuban, Karl
name: Marable, Carmen Amelia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Cerebral white matter is the most common anatomic location of neonatal brain injury in preterm newborns. Factors that predispose preterm newborns to white matter damage are understudied. In relation to studies of the placenta-brain-axis, dysregulated placental gene expression may play a role in preterm brain damage given its implication in programming early life origins of disease, including neurological disorders. There is a critical need to investigate the relationships between the placental transcriptome and white matter damage in the neonate. In a cohort of extremely low gestational age newborns (ELGANs), we aimed to investigate the relationship between the placental transcriptome and white matter damage as assessed by neonatal cranial ultrasound studies (echolucency and/or ventriculomegaly). We hypothesized that genes involved in inflammatory processes would be more highly expressed in placentas of ELGANs who developed ultrasound-defined indicators of white matter damage. Relative to either form of white matter damage, 659 placental genes displayed altered transcriptional profiles. Of these white matter damage-associated genes, largely distinct patterns of gene expression were observed in the study (n = 415/659 genes). Specifically, 381 genes were unique to echolucency and 34 genes were unique to ventriculomegaly. Pathways involved in hormone disruption and metabolism were identified among the unique echolucency or ventriculomegaly genes. Interestingly, a common set of 244 genes or 37% of all genes was similarly dysregulated in the placenta relative to both echolucency and ventriculomegaly. For this common set of white matter damage-related genes, pathways involved in inflammation, immune response and apoptosis, were enriched. Among the white matter damage-associated genes are genes known to be involved in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and endocrine system disorders. These data highlight differential mRNA expression patterning in the placenta and provide insight into potential etiologic factors that may predispose preterm newborns to white matter damage. Future studies will build upon this work to include functional measures of neurodevelopment as well as measures of brain volume later in life.
The significance of taxonomic publications to understand biodiversity in the digital world
Creators: name: Agosti, Donat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: biodiversity
treatmentBank
digital literature
FAIR data
swissuniversities
ebiodiv
arcadia fund
GBIF
SIBiLS

description: Bauhin’s pioneering Flora of Basel „Catalogus Plantarum circa Basileam sponte nascentium“ exactly 400 years ago is a precursor to the artificially identified beginning of taxonomic publishing with Linnaeus Systema plantarum … 1753. Indeed, botanical publishing existed far before Linnaeus’, however his contribution has not only been the Latin Binomen, but the highly structured way he published the taxonomic treatments for each species, and to cite previous works. In the digital age, this kind of structuring of the information and the existing implicit citation links allows building the biodiversity knowledge graph, opening up the entire corpus of taxonomic treatments imprisoned in publications by providing it in a format that can be found and reused, cited and linked to data referenced in the publications. This provides access to all the published data about a specimen in a natural history collection, to trace back the history of a taxonomic name or the traits used to describe and deliminit the species. The Swiss based Biodiversity Literature Repository and TreatmentBank provide access to over 750,000 taxonomic treatments, over 1M material citations and are the largest data set provider to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This highly automated workflow has and continues to liberate data from over 70,000 publications, which are further converted to RDF and structured into Linked Open Data via the OpenBiodiv Biodiversity Knowledge Graph. At the same time new ways to structure publications so that their resident data can immediately be reused upon publication are being developed in collaboration with Pensoft publishers, the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Paris and the CETAF publishing group. The Swiss NGO Plazi, Zenodo at CERN and SIBiLS at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics are involved in the EU Horizon 2020 project BiCIKL and the Swissuniversities funded project eBioDiv to develop ways to link data in publications to specimens, taxonomic names and genes and vice versa. This lecture will explain the concept and state of the art in taxonomic publishing, access and reuse of its data.
A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics
Creators: name: Daly, K.G.
name: Sauer, E.
name: Arbuckle, B.S.
name: Bradley, D.G.
name: Atici, L.
name: Lawlor, P.A.
name: Rossi, C.
name: Lesur, J.
name: Erek, C.M.
name: Mashkour, M.
name: Mattiangeli, V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Direkli Cave, located in the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey, was occupied by Late Epipaleolithic hunters-gatherers for the seasonal hunting and processing of game including large numbers of wild goats. We report genomic data from new and published Capra specimens from Direkli Cave and, supplemented with historic genomes from multiple Capra species, find a novel lineage best represented by a ~14,000 year old 2.59 X genome sequenced from specimen Direkli4. This newly discovered Capra lineage is a sister clade to the Caucasian tur species (Capra cylindricornis and Capra caucasica), both now limited to the Caucasus region. We identify genomic regions introgressed in domestic goats with high affinity to Direkli4, and find that West Eurasian domestic goats in the past, but not those today, appear enriched for Direkli4-specific alleles at a genome-wide level. This forgotten 'Taurasian tur' likely survived Late Pleistocene climatic change in a Taurus Mountain refuge and its genomic fate is unknown.
Additional file 2 of Determinants of employees’ creativity: modeling the mediating role of organizational motivation to innovate
Creators: name: Yesuf, Yohannes Mekonnen
name: Getahun, Demis Alamirew
name: Debas, Asemamaw Tilahun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Measurement model.
Del Valle, José Maria González, Derechos fundamentales y derechos públicos subjectivos en la Iglesia. Ed. Eunsa. Vol. de 159 ps. 170x210. Pamplona s. d.
Creators: name: Gigante, José António Martins
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 1 (1974)
Inflaton dark matter from incomplete decay
Creators: name: Bastero-Gil, Mar
name: Cerezo, Rafael
name: Rosa, Joao G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the decay of the inflaton field may be incomplete, while nevertheless successfully reheating the universe and leaving a stable remnant that accounts for the present dark matter abundance. We note, in particular, that since the mass of the inflaton decay products is field-dependent, one can construct models, endowed with an appropriate discrete symmetry, where inflaton decay is kinematically forbidden at late times and only occurs during the initial stages of field oscillations after inflation. We show that this is sufficient to ensure the transition to a radiation-dominated era and that inflaton particles typically thermalize in the process. They eventually decouple and freeze out, yielding a thermal dark matter relic. We discuss possible implementations of this generic mechanism within consistent cosmological and particle physics scenarios, for both single-field and hybrid inflation.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 3 of Determinants of employees’ creativity: modeling the mediating role of organizational motivation to innovate
Creators: name: Yesuf, Yohannes Mekonnen
name: Getahun, Demis Alamirew
name: Debas, Asemamaw Tilahun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Quadratic effect & Gaussian copula results.
PROVIDING VILLAGES WITH CLEAN WATER
Creators: name: Abduganiyev, Madiyorjon
name: Abdukodirova, M.N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Clean water, Water access, Water sources, Boreholes In order to provide the villages with clean drinking water, in order to reduce the amount of excess bacteria and salts in the water, I recommend IBK-1-2 devices for disinfecting and disinfecting the microbes in the process of preparing domestic drinking water from artesian, surface and plaster water. Water delivery through this device will be much cheaper than water supplied from public water supply networks.
African American English speaking 2nd graders, verbal-s, and educational achievement: Event related potential and math study findings
Creators: name: Terry, J.M.
name: Thomas, E.R.
name: Hirotani, M.
name: Jackson, S.C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: A number of influential linguistic analyses hold that African American English (AAE) has no verbal-s, the-s that, for example, turns drink into drinks in more mainstream English varieties.On such accounts, sentences like Mary drinks coffee are ungrammatical in AAE. Previous behavioral studies suggest that in addition to being ungrammatical, AAE speaking children find these sentences cognitively demanding, and that their presence in mathematical reasoning tests can depress scores. Until now, however, no online sentence processing study nor investigation of neurophysiological markers has been done to support these findings. Aimed at addressing this gap in the literature, the auditory ERP experiment described herein revealed two different processes associated with AAE speaking 2nd graders listening to this type of sentence: a morphosyntactic structure building problem, reflected in a bilateral early anterior-central negativity; and an increase in working memory load, indicated by a bilateral late long-lasting anterior-central negativity. Study participants also took an orally administered test of math word problems. Consistent with previous findings, results showed they answered fewer questions correctly when those questions contained verbal-s than when they did not.
Gigantic diphoton rate of heavy Higgs bosons in the aligned two Higgs doublet models with small $\tanβ$
Creators: name: Song, Jeonghyeon
name: Yoon, Yeo Woong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implications of the LHC heavy neutral Higgs search data on the aligned two Higgs doublet model with softly broken $Z_2$ symmetry. When $\tanβ$ is small, the gluon fusion production of the heavy CP-even scalar $H^0$ or the CP-odd scalar $A^0$ becomes large enough to constrain the model by the current $γγ$, $τ^+τ^-$, and $t\bar{t}$ data. By reinvestigating this small $\tanβ$ region, we find that the indirect constraints like $Δρ$, $b\to s γ$, $ΔM_{B_d}$, $R_b$, $ε_K$, and the perturbativity of running top Yukawa coupling are rather weak to be $\tanβ> 0.5$. The current heavy Higgs search results are shown to put more significant bounds. If $m_H \simeq m_A$, the $t\bar{t}$ mode excludes $\tanβ< 1.5$ for $m_{H,A}=500-600\,$GeV in all four types, and the $γγ$ and $τ^+τ^-$ modes exclude $\tanβ< 1-3$ ($\tanβ< 3-10$) for $m_{H,A}=120-340\,$GeV in Type I, II, and Y (Type X).
description: 27 pages, 11 figure, 2 tables
LitAR: Visually Coherent Lighting for Mobile Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Zhao, Yiqin
name: Ma, Chongyang
name: Huang, Haibin
name: Guo, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An accurate understanding of omnidirectional environment lighting is crucial for high-quality virtual object rendering in mobile augmented reality (AR). In particular, to support reflective rendering, existing methods have leveraged deep learning models to estimate or have used physical light probes to capture physical lighting, typically represented in the form of an environment map. However, these methods often fail to provide visually coherent details or require additional setups. For example, the commercial framework ARKit uses a convolutional neural network that can generate realistic environment maps; however the corresponding reflective rendering might not match the physical environments. In this work, we present the design and implementation of a lighting reconstruction framework called LitAR that enables realistic and visually-coherent rendering. LitAR addresses several challenges of supporting lighting information for mobile AR. First, to address the spatial variance problem, LitAR uses two-field lighting reconstruction to divide the lighting reconstruction task into the spatial variance-aware near-field reconstruction and the directional-aware far-field reconstruction. The corresponding environment map allows reflective rendering with correct color tones. Second, LitAR uses two noise-tolerant data capturing policies to ensure data quality, namely guided bootstrapped movement and motion-based automatic capturing. Third, to handle the mismatch between the mobile computation capability and the high computation requirement of lighting reconstruction, LitAR employs two novel real-time environment map rendering techniques called multi-resolution projection and anchor extrapolation. These two techniques effectively remove the need of time-consuming mesh reconstruction while maintaining visual quality.
Anisotropic interfacial tension, contact angles, and line tensions: A graphics-processing-unit-based Monte Carlo study of the Ising model
Creators: name: Block, Benjamin J.
name: Kim, Suam
name: Virnau, Peter
name: Binder, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a generic example for crystals where the crystal-fluid interface tension depends on the orientation of the interface relative to the crystal lattice axes, the nearest neighbor Ising model on the simple cubic lattice is studied over a wide temperature range, both above and below the roughening transition temperature. Using a thin film geometry $L_x \times L_y \times L_z$ with periodic boundary conditions along the z-axis and two free $L_x \times L_y$ surfaces at which opposing surface fields $\pm H_{1}$ act, under conditions of partial wetting, a single planar interface inclined under a contact angle $θ< π/2$ relative to the yz-plane is stabilized. In the y-direction, a generalization of the antiperiodic boundary condition is used that maintains the translational invariance in y-direction despite the inhomogeneity of the magnetization distribution in this system. This geometry allows a simultaneous study of the angle-dependent interface tension, the contact angle, and the line tension (which depends on the contact angle, and on temperature). All these quantities are extracted from suitable thermodynamic integration procedures. In order to keep finite size effects as well as statistical errors small enough, rather large lattice sizes (of the order of 46 million sites) are found necessary, availability of very efficient code implementation of graphics processing units (GPUs) was crucial for the feasibility of this study.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
LC-ESI-MS/MS analysis of GlcNAc-Transferase I activity
Creators: name: Core Facility Mass Spectrometry, BOKU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crassostrea gigas
Glycosyltransferase
Mollusca
UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:α-1,3-D-mannoside β-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I

description: The dabsylated acceptor Man5GlcNAc2-Asn was incubated with recombinat UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:α-1,3-D-mannoside β-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I from the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas in order to test  the enzyme´s substrat specificity. The substrate and the product were analysed by LC-ESI-MS/MS.
title: Examining the training design and training transfer of a boundary management training: A randomized controlled intervention study
Creators: name: Reinke, Kathrin
name: Ohly, Sandra
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: boundary creation
subject: boundary management
subject: intervention study
subject: recovery
subject: training design
subject: training transfer
subject: well-being
subject: 150
subject: 330
subject: Work-Life-Balance
subject: Abgrenzung
subject: Erholung
subject: Telearbeit

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
A pilot study in the screening of depression in post-myocardial infarction patients
Creators: name: Sferlazza, Andrea
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In the United States, there is an estimated annual incidence of approximately 600,000 new and 320,000 recurring myocardial infarctions (MI). Within this patient population, there is often the evolution of depressive symptoms. Depression after an MI has been associated with unfavorable outcomes, recurrent cardiac events, and increased mortality. The American Heart Association (AHA), has recommended routine depression screenings, utilizing the PHQ-2 and PHQ-9. There is a 20% prevalence of depression within this patient population, that often goes unrecognized (Zuidersma, Ormel, Conradi, & De Jonge, 2012). The purpose of this pilot study was to implement the AHA recommendation and institute the PHQ-2 and the PHQ-9 depression screening in post-MI patients. The population was identified using a provider worksheet that is populated daily. The duration of the study was 8 weeks with a final sample size was 35 patients, with a total of 5 patients (14.3%) having positive depression screenings. Among those five patients with positive depression screenings, four were male and one female with a mean age of 75.6. Three of the participants screened positive for mild depression, one screened positive for moderate depression and one screened positive for moderate-severe depression. Three of the participants experienced a STEMI and two experience a NSTEMI. Further breakdown of demographic data included two male widowed patients, one male married patient, one single female patient and one male divorced patient. This pilot study supports the AHA recommendation for depression screenings in post-MI patients and will lend itself to an automatic electronic mental health referral for patients screening positive on the PHQ depression screening.
Realization of single-qubit positive operator-valued measurement via a one-dimensional photonic quantum walk
Creators: name: Bian, Zhihao
name: Li, Jian
name: Qin, Hao
name: Zhan, Xiang
name: Zhang, Rong
name: Sanders, Barry C.
name: Xue, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform generalized measurements of a qubit by realizing the qubit as a coin in a photonic quantum walk and subjecting the walker to projective measurements. Our experimental technique can be used to realize photonically any rank-1 single-qubit positive operator-valued measure via constructing an appropriate interferometric quantum-walk network and then projectively measuring the walker's position at the final step.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. This paper combines, improves and supplants the two earlier arXiv papers 1412.2355 and 1410.2407
Racial and ethnic differences in cervical cancer screening barriers and intentions: The My Body My Test-3 HPV self-collection trial among under-screened, low-income women
Creators: name: Jackson, S.
name: Sanusi, B.O.
name: Spees, L.P.
name: Brewer, N.T.
name: Des Marais, A.C.
name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Barclay, L.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Zeno, E.E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Under-screened women are more likely to be diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer at later stages and have worse survival outcomes. Under- or un-insured women, low-income women, and minoritized groups face barriers to screening. Intention to screen is an indicator of future screening behavior, yet is understudied among low-income, under-screened women. Participants were 710 low-income, uninsured or publicly insured women ages 25–64 years in North Carolina who were not up to date on cervical cancer screening according to national guidelines. Participants were asked about barriers to screening and intention to screen. We estimated reported barriers to cervical cancer screening stratified by race and ethnicity (categorized as White, Black, and Hispanic) and assessed predictors of intention to screen. Sixty-one percent of all participants reported 5 or more barriers to screening. The most commonly reported reasons for not getting screened were lack of insurance (White: 71%, Black: 62%, Hispanic/Latina: 63%) and cost (White: 55%, Black: 44%, Hispanic/ Latina: 61%). Women were more likely to have an intention to screen if they reported “it was not hard to get screening” (OR: 1.47 (1.00, 2.15)). Older women reported being less likely to intend to screen. Black women reported being more likely to intend to screen than White women. Lack of health insurance and cost were frequently reported barriers to cervical cancer screening. Increasing knowledge of affordable clinics and expanding access to Medicaid may reduce barriers and increase cervical cancer screening uptake.
Doubly Robust Counterfactual Classification
Creators: name: Kim, Kwangho
name: Kennedy, Edward H.
name: Zubizarreta, José R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study counterfactual classification as a new tool for decision-making under hypothetical (contrary to fact) scenarios. We propose a doubly-robust nonparametric estimator for a general counterfactual classifier, where we can incorporate flexible constraints by casting the classification problem as a nonlinear mathematical program involving counterfactuals. We go on to analyze the rates of convergence of the estimator and provide a closed-form expression for its asymptotic distribution. Our analysis shows that the proposed estimator is robust against nuisance model misspecification, and can attain fast $\sqrt{n}$ rates with tractable inference even when using nonparametric machine learning approaches. We study the empirical performance of our methods by simulation and apply them for recidivism risk prediction.
A search for giant flares from soft gamma-repeaters in nearby galaxies in the Konus-Wind short burst sample
Creators: name: Svinkin, D. S.
name: Hurley, K.
name: Aptekar, R. L.
name: Golenetskii, S. V.
name: Frederiks, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The knowledge of the rate of soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) giant flares is important for understanding the giant flare mechanism and the SGR energy budget in the framework of the magnetar model. We estimate the upper limit to the rate using the results of an extensive search for extragalactic soft gamma-repeater giant flares (GFs) among 140 short gamma-ray bursts detected between 1994 and 2010 by Konus-Wind using InterPlanetary Network (IPN) localizations and temporal parameters. We show that Konus-Wind and the IPN are capable of detecting GFs with energies of 2.3x10^46 erg (which is the energy of the GF from SGR 1806-20 assuming a distance of 15 kpc) at distances of up to about 30 Mpc and GFs with energies of <10^45 erg (which is the energy of the GF from SGR 0526-66) at distances of up to about 6 Mpc. Using a sample of 1896 nearby galaxies we found that only two bursts, GRB 051103 and GRB 070201, have a low chance coincidence probability between an IPN localization and a nearby galaxy. We found the upper limit to the fraction of GFs among short GRBs with fluence above ~5x10^-7 erg cm^-2 to be <8% (95% confidence level). Assuming that the number of active SGRs in nearby galaxies is proportional to their core-collapse supernova rate, we derived the one-sided 95% upper limit to the rate of GFs with energy output similar to the GF from SGR 1806-20 to be (0.6--1.2)x10^-4 Q_46^-1.5 yr^-1 per SGR, where Q_46 is the GF energy output in 10^46 erg.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Comparison of the efficacy of fish oil and probiotic supplementation on glucose and lipid metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Mei
name: Yang, Fan
name: Feng, Qiu
name: Ou, Yanghong
name: Zhang, Jiaxing
name: Wan, Haiyan
name: Cao, Hongyi
name: Ning, Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Complete list of 3 electronic library search terms. Table S2. SUCRA ranking table for each outcome indicator. Table S3. The league table of mean difference and 95% confidence intervals for secondary outcome indicators. Fig. S1. The network plots. Fig. S2. SUCRA analysis column chart.
Additional file 1 of Persisting in tough times across Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Philippines: grit, achievement goal orientation, and science engagement
Creators: name: Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.
name: Chiu, Ming Ming
name: Mateo, Nino Jose
name: Yang, Lan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Unstandardized factor loadings (their standard errors) and standardized factor loadings for single factor of science engagement. Table S2. Unstandardized factor loadings (their standard errors) and standardized factor loadings for single factor structure of conscientious. Table S3. Unstandardized factor loadings (their standard errors) and standardized factor loadings for nested structure of grit, perseverance, consistent interest, and adaptability. Table S4. Unstandardized factor loadings (their standard errors) and standardized factor loadings for separate factors of mastery-approach goals, mastery-avoidance goals, performance-approach goals, and performance-avoidance goals. Table S5. Results of measurement invariance tests
Analytical Parameterization of Self-Consistent Polycrystal Mechanics: Fast Calculation of Upper Mantle Anisotropy
Creators: name: Goulding, Neil J.
name: Ribe, Neil M.
name: Castelnau, Olivier
name: Walker, Andrew M.
name: Wookey, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Progressive deformation of upper mantle rocks via dislocation creep causes their constituent crystals to take on a non-random orientation distribution (crystallographic preferred orientation or CPO) whose observable signatures include shear-wave splitting and azimuthal dependence of surface wave speeds. Comparison of these signatures with mantle flow models thus allows mantle dynamics to be unraveled on global and regional scales. However, existing self-consistent models of CPO evolution are computationally expensive when used in 3-D and/or time-dependent convection models. Here we propose a new method, called ANPAR, which is based on an analytical parameterisation of the crystallographic spin predicted by the second-order (SO) self-consistent theory. Our parameterisation runs approximately 2-3 x 10^4 times faster than the SO model and fits its predictions for CPO and crystallographic spin with a variance reduction > 99%. We illustrate the ANPAR model predictions for three uniform deformations (uniaxial compression, pure shear, simple shear) and for a corner-flow model of a spreading ridge.
description: Submitted to GJI December 2014