cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ECONOMIC STABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY AMONG SINGLE, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Bissig-Choisat, Beatrice
name: Wyatt, Cutter
name: Prass, Alexa
name: Ogbansiegbe, Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Economic stability is one of the social determinants of health outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This proposal focuses on poverty and food insecurity, two key components of economic stability in a rural North Carolina county. Food insecurity is often correlated with poverty. The 2019 poverty rate among single, female-headed households with children in Cleveland County was 45.9%, compared to 31.7% in North Carolina. This paper describes two community-based interventions to decrease poverty and food insecurity among this population. Accelerate Cleveland, an existing vocational training program, would be adapted to increase reach within the priority population, to address the poverty rate by increasing employability and raising wages. The Cleveland County Produce Prescription Program aims to increase food security through increased access to fruits and vegetables. Through partnership with multiple stakeholders and intentional engagement with the priority population, these community-based interventions have the potential to positively impact economic stability.
COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ECONOMIC STABILITY AND FOOD  SECURITY AMONG SINGLE, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY, NORTH  CAROLINA
Creators: name: Ogbansiegbe, Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Economic stability is one of the social determinants of health outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This proposal focuses on poverty and food insecurity, two key components of 
economic stability in a rural North Carolina County. Food insecurity is often correlated with poverty. The 2019 poverty rate among single, female-headed households with children in Cleveland County was 45.9%, compared to 31.7% in North Carolina. This paper describes two community-based interventions to decrease poverty and food insecurity among this population. Accelerate Cleveland, an existing vocational 
training program, would be adapted to increase reach within the priority population, to address the poverty rate by increasing employability and raising wages. The Cleveland County Produce Prescription Program 
aims to increase food security through increased access to fruits and vegetables. Through partnership with multiple stakeholders and intentional engagement with the priority population, these community-based interventions have the potential to positively impact economic stability.
Additional file 1 of Priorities for improvement across cancer and non-cancer related preventive services among rural and non-rural clinicians
Creators: name: Brtnikova, Michaela
name: Studts, Jamie L.
name: Robertson, Elise
name: Dickinson, L. Miriam
name: Carroll, Jennifer K.
name: Krist, Alex H.
name: Cronin, John T.
name: Glasgow, Russell E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Survey on Primary Care Priorities for Prevention Activities.
An Analysis of the Stresses in the Wall Slab of a Counterforted Retaining Wall
Creators: name: Heller, William Edwin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1947
Subjects: subject: (Civil Engineering)
subject: Civil Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the stresses in the wall slab of a counterforted retaining wall and to determine from this analysis, if possible, whether or not the conventional method of design for the slab is economical.

The conventional method of designing the wall slab of a counterforted retaining wall is to consider the wall as a series of independent horizontal strips between the counterforts. These strips are then designed either as continuous beams or as simple beams extending from one counterfort to the next. This method completely neglects the effect of cantilever action from the horizontal base slab where it joins the vertical wall. In the case of large counterfort spacing this effect may be considerable and it is possible that some reduction in material could be made if this effect were accounted for in the design calculations.

 In order to throw some light on the effect of neglecting the cantilever action, the following analysis has been made on a wall slab designed by the conventional method. The dimensions of the slab are as given in the drawing on page 5.
Pursuing Greater Diversity in Public Procurement
Creators: name: Saunders, Marielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Public entities spend billions of dollars every year on goods and services necessary for their
functionality and growth. There is clear evidence across the board that minority- and women-owned business enterprises (commonly known as MBEs and WBEs) are not accessing the same level of opportunity for public procurement. Whether a local government or public university, there is huge potential to improve long-term economic outcomes for the communities in which these entities are embedded in, while also addressing historical discriminatory behavior. This report seeks to gain insight into strategies for addressing barriers to diversification, especially for MBEs, and illuminate recommendations for the State of North Carolina moving forward. Various literature were examined in this report, including a comprehensive review of 100 disparity studies from a variety of government entities published in 2016 by the Minority Business Development Authority. In addition, four other state-level disparity studies completed since the start of the global pandemic were explored – Colorado, Virginia, Indiana, and Rhode Island.
Additional file 2 of Impact of hemodynamic instability during cytoreductive surgery on survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma
Creators: name: Kim, Se Ik
name: Lee, Hyung-Chul
name: Yoon, Hyun-Kyu
name: Kim, Hee Seung
name: Chung, Hyun Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Weon
name: Park, Noh Hyun
name: Song, Yong-Sang
name: Lee, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S1. Clinicopathologic characteristics in patients classified according to the cumulative duration of MAP <65 mmHg.
The intrinsic charge and spin conductivities of doped graphene in the Fermi-Liquid regime
Creators: name: Principi, Alessandro
name: Vignale, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is extremely high and dominates over the electron-impurity and electron-phonon scattering rates, which are therefore neglected. The system is brought to a local quasi-equilibrium described by a set of smoothly varying (in space and time) functions, {\it i.e.} the density, the velocity field and the local temperature. In this paper we calculate the charge and spin conductivities of doped graphene due solely to electron-electron interactions. We show that, in spite of the linear low-energy band dispersion, graphene behaves in a wide range of temperatures as an effectively Galilean invariant system: the charge conductivity diverges in the limit $T \to 0$, while the spin conductivity remains finite. These results pave the way to the description of charge transport in graphene in terms of Navier-Stokes equations.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.2940
Additional file 3 of Impact of hemodynamic instability during cytoreductive surgery on survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma
Creators: name: Kim, Se Ik
name: Lee, Hyung-Chul
name: Yoon, Hyun-Kyu
name: Kim, Hee Seung
name: Chung, Hyun Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Weon
name: Park, Noh Hyun
name: Song, Yong-Sang
name: Lee, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S2. Perioperative characteristics in patients classified according to the cumulative duration of MAP <65 mmHg, median performance error, and wobble.
Additional file 4 of Impact of hemodynamic instability during cytoreductive surgery on survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma
Creators: name: Kim, Se Ik
name: Lee, Hyung-Chul
name: Yoon, Hyun-Kyu
name: Kim, Hee Seung
name: Chung, Hyun Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Weon
name: Park, Noh Hyun
name: Song, Yong-Sang
name: Lee, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table S3. Factors associated with patients’ overall survival.
Expanding the Interpolator Basis in the Variational Method to Explicitly Account for Backward Running States
Creators: name: Schiel, Rainer W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, I show that backward (in time) running states can be explicitly accounted for by expanding the interpolator basis in the variational method in lattice QCD. The backward running states can then be removed by choosing an appropriate linear combination of interpolators, which improves the signal significantly. The proof of principle, which also makes use of the Time-Shift Trick (Generalized Pencil-of-Functions method), will be delivered at an example on a $64^4$ lattice close to the physical pion mass.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, revised version
Additional file 2 of Exploring factors influencing pregnant Women’s attitudes, perceived subjective norms and perceived behavior control towards male involvement in maternal services utilization: a baseline findings from a community based interventional study from Rukwa, rural Tanzania
Creators: name: Moshi, Fabiola V.
name: Kibusi, Stephen M.
name: Fabian, Flora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
The Design of PV Module Handling System for Defective Units: Comparative Study for Green Innova
Creators: name: Mohammed Mustafa, Zeeshan
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 401404
subject: Industrial engineering

description: Disposing and recycling of PV module waste is a rising concern globally and is expected to raise concerns in Bahrain in the coming years. Local Bahraini solar companies such as Green Innova (GI) anticipate dealing with high volumes of PV module waste in the near future. Research shows legislative action being taken by the European Union and solutions being implemented as a result of those policies by companies. This study investigates possible solutions that can be deployed by GI for handling PV module waste. Through the implementation of benchmarking and secondary information collection methods, decision alternatives were formulated namely: (1) landfill disposal, (2) outsource waste management process, (3) ship to manufacturer, and (4) GI treatment facility. These decision alternatives were compared analytically using the Analytical Hierarchal Process using a set of criteria formulated based on the WEEE directives 2012/19/EU and prioritized by the decision maker at GI. Results of the analysis show the decision alternative of setting up a GI treatment facility (4) to be most favorable given the set of criteria emphasizing on recovery of materials to gain business opportunities. Implicit implications and future work is further discussed.
INCREASING FOOD ACCESSIBILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES TO PROMOTE ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING IN A RURAL COMMUNITY
Creators: name: Enogieru, Idia
name: Malian, Hannah M
name: Watts, Laurin
name: Townley-Tilson, W.H. Davin
name: Statia, Gabriella
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The Neighborhood and Built Environment is one of five Social Determinants of Health domains and is defined as where one lives, works, plays, and learns — all factors that affect one’s health. Cleveland County, North Carolina has a high percentage of school-age children who live in poverty, and face greater adversities including financial hardships, food insecurity, and adverse childhood experiences. The objective of this proposal is to increase the proportion of schools with policies and practices that promote health and safety. To address these issues, the nutrition-focused recommendation is to increase access to healthy foods by providing free meals to all participating County School students by expanding the Community Eligibility Provision of the National School Lunch Program. The policy-focused recommendation is to implement the “Require All Schools to Staff Mental Health Counselors” policy, encouraging a sustainable mental health support system in schools.
Additional file 5 of Impact of hemodynamic instability during cytoreductive surgery on survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma
Creators: name: Kim, Se Ik
name: Lee, Hyung-Chul
name: Yoon, Hyun-Kyu
name: Kim, Hee Seung
name: Chung, Hyun Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Weon
name: Park, Noh Hyun
name: Song, Yong-Sang
name: Lee, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Table S4. Clinicopathologic characteristics in patients classified according to the median performance error.
Enhancing Protective Factors Among Children and Adolescents in Cleveland County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Klein, Samantha
name: Warechowski, Kayla
name: Ly, Christopher
name: Falls, Lucy
name: Redd, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Addressing the social and community context social determinant of health (SDOH) has the potential to greatly impact the health, daily functioning, and quality of life of individuals and communities. Increasing the proportion of children and adolescents who communicate positively with their parents would benefit Cleveland County, North Carolina. Positive communication promotes emotional and physical health throughout adolescence, reduces nutrient deficiencies and substance misuse, and improves mental health. Expanding the Family Check Up (FCU) program and the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P Program) in Cleveland County will improve parent-child communication. The FCU program aims to decrease or prevent adolescent substance use and improve associated nutrition outcomes by addressing parent-child communication and household factors. Triple P educates parents to create a positive learning environment that increases their confidence, reduces their stress, and improves communication between parenting partners and their children.
Additional file 6 of Impact of hemodynamic instability during cytoreductive surgery on survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma
Creators: name: Kim, Se Ik
name: Lee, Hyung-Chul
name: Yoon, Hyun-Kyu
name: Kim, Hee Seung
name: Chung, Hyun Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Weon
name: Park, Noh Hyun
name: Song, Yong-Sang
name: Lee, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Table S5. Clinicopathologic characteristics in patients classified according to wobble.
Targets of drugs are generally, and targets of drugs having side effects are specifically good spreaders of human interactome perturbations
Creators: name: Perez-Lopez, Aron R.
name: Szalay, Kristof Z.
name: Turei, Denes
name: Modos, Dezso
name: Lenti, Katalin
name: Korcsmaros, Tamas
name: Csermely, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network-based methods are playing an increasingly important role in drug design. Our main question in this paper was whether the efficiency of drug target proteins to spread perturbations in the human interactome is larger if the binding drugs have side effects, as compared to those which have no reported side effects. Our results showed that in general, drug targets were better spreaders of perturbations than non-target proteins, and in particular, targets of drugs with side effects were also better spreaders of perturbations than targets of drugs having no reported side effects in human protein-protein interaction networks. Colorectal cancer-related proteins were good spreaders and had a high centrality, while type 2 diabetes-related proteins showed an average spreading efficiency and had an average centrality in the human interactome. Moreover, the interactome-distance between drug targets and disease-related proteins was higher in diabetes than in colorectal cancer. Our results may help a better understanding of the network position and dynamics of drug targets and disease-related proteins, and may contribute to develop additional, network-based tests to increase the potential safety of drug candidates.
description: 49 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, 10 supplementary figures, 13 supplementary tables
Numerically exact solution of the many emitter -- cavity laser problem: application to the fully quantized spaser emission
Creators: name: Richter, Marten
name: Gegg, Michael
name: Theuerholz, T. Sverre
name: Knorr, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerically exact solution to the many emitter -- cavity problem as an open many body system is presented. The solution gives access to the full, nonperturbative density matrix and thus the full quantum statistics and quantum correlations. The numerical effort scales with the third power in the number of emitters. Notably the solution requires none of the common approximations like good/bad cavity limit. As a first application the recently discussed concept of coherent surface plasmon amplification -- spaser -- is addressed: A spaser consists of a plasmonic nanostructure that is driven by a set of quantum emitters. In the context of laser theory it is a laser in the (very) bad cavity limit with an extremely high light matter interaction strength. The method allows us to answer the question of spasing with a fully quantized theory.
BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT AND HOME ENVIRONMENT INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT ASTHMA ATTACKS AMONG MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Serena
name: Tucker, Anna Claire
name: Funsten, Jen
name: Horneffer, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Asthma is a condition caused by both biological and environmental factors that impacts 8% of Americans. Residents of Cleveland County, North Carolina report asthma as the 5th most common health issue, and the county’s asthma prevalence is almost twice that of the state and national average. Asthma and environmental determinants of asthma disproportionately impact Black, Latinx, and low-income populations. This intervention proposes to prevent the development of and manage the treatment of asthma in Black, Latinx, and low-income populations through two core interventions: breastfeeding promotion by certifying Atrium Health Cleveland as a Baby-Friendly hospital and indoor home environment assessments to manage asthma triggers. This approach will utilize partnerships with the County Health Department, community health workers, and hospital administrators, in addition to current residents with asthma. Short term and long-term impacts will be monitored and evaluated for program effectiveness analysis and data distribution.
BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT AND HOME ENVIRONMENT INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT ASTHMA ATTACKS AMONG MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Serena
name: Tucker, Anna Claire
name: Funsten, Jennifer
name: Horneffer, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Asthma is a condition caused by both biological and environmental factors that impacts 8% of Americans. Residents of Cleveland County, North Carolina report asthma as the 5th most common health issue, and the county’s asthma prevalence is almost twice that of the state and national average. Asthma and environmental determinants of asthma disproportionately impact Black, Latinx, and low-income populations. This intervention proposes to prevent the development of and manage the treatment of asthma in Black, Latinx, and low-income populations through two core interventions: breastfeeding promotion by certifying Atrium Health Cleveland as a Baby-Friendly hospital and indoor home environment assessments to manage asthma triggers. This approach will utilize partnerships with the County Health Department, community health workers, and hospital administrators, in addition to current residents with asthma. Short term and long-term impacts will be monitored and evaluated for program effectiveness analysis and data distribution.
title: Re-mining as remediation method for critical metals (Be and W) in historical skarn tailings
Creators: name:  Hällström ,   Lina
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Critical metals (CM) are important to develop a sustainable society in the EU. Today, more than 80% of most CM are imported and EU is striving for a higher internal production to reach the Green Deal. Historical tailings can be a source of CM due to high concentrations left in the waste. The possibility to re-mine Be and W from skarn tailings was studied in a research project between 2016-2021. The volume of the waste was low, the CM-concentrations were lower than in the primary ore, and the tailings has been physically stratified during deposition. Geochemical processes has partly relocated Be and W to secondary minerals, and altered the surface properties of their primary minerals. However, the project showed that if the environmental and social aspects are considered, re-mining can be beneficial for the tailings. Thus, the mine drainage contained high concentrations of Be, which caused adverse impact on ecosystems downstream the repository. Weathering of the tailings will continue for 100 of years, which stress the need for remediation. Traditional techniques such as cover and water-saturation are not suitable to use. Re-mining could instead be implemented to decrease the environmental impact. Future studies should develop extraction methods that targets both primary and secondary minerals enriched in CM to generate environmentally safe waste, and the extracted product could support the internal production of CM. Moreover, taking responsibility for contaminated tailings could increase the social license towards mining, which is an important factor to increase the metal production in the EU.
Breastfeeding support and home environment interventions to prevent asthma attacks among marginalized populations in Cleveland County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Funsten, Jen
name: Tucker, Anna Claire
name: Hutchinson, Serena
name: Horneffer, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Asthma is a condition caused by both biological and environmental factors that impacts 8% of Americans. Residents of Cleveland County, North Carolina report asthma as the 5th most common health issue, and the county’s asthma prevalence is almost twice that of the state and national average. Asthma and environmental determinants of asthma disproportionately impact Black, Latinx, and low-income populations. This intervention proposes to prevent the development of and manage the treatment of asthma in Black, Latinx, and low-income populations through two core interventions: breastfeeding promotion by certifying Atrium Health Cleveland as a Baby-Friendly hospital and indoor home environment assessments to manage asthma triggers. This approach will utilize partnerships with the County Health Department, community health workers, and hospital administrators, in addition to current residents with asthma. Short term and long-term impacts will be monitored and evaluated for program effectiveness analysis and data distribution.
LEVERAGING FARMERS MARKET PARTNERSHIPS TO IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF RURAL NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Wahl, Talia
name: Peyton, Taylor
name: Hammes, Noah
name: Wikoff, Tyler
name: Hamlett, Trevor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Healthy People 2030 (HP2030) is a national guide designed to set data-driven objectives to improve health and well-being in the United States over the next decade. To address HP2030 Objective NWS-02, Eliminating Very Low Food Security in Children in Cleveland County, NC, the county Board of Commissioners shall adopt an ordinance that will provide at-risk families increased opportunities to purchase nutritious foods by guaranteeing access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program North Carolina (SNAP) benefits at local farmers markets. Cleveland County classifies as a food desert, with over 30% of residing children and families currently living with food insecurity. Similar programs in comparable counties throughout the US have demonstrated an increase in fruit and vegetable purchases and consumption as well as increased annual revenues for local farmers. Future measures to mitigate food insecurity include a produce prescription program, providing families weekly subsidies and monthly nutrition education.
Duisburg-Essenberger Rheinmäander und der Limes - Paradigmen und Forschung
Creators: name: Gerlach, Renate
name: Röpke, Astrid
name: Kels, Holger
name: Meurers-Balke, Jutta
Publisher: name: Archäologie im Rheinland
Year: 2022

description: Archäologie im Rheinland, 2017(2018)
The Rabi Hamiltonian in the dispersive regime
Creators: name: Sandu, Titus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Rabi Hamiltonian is studied in the dispersive regime and ultra-strong coupling. We employ a recent unitary transformation to obtain not only the approximate Hamiltonian and its energy levels but also its eigenfunctions. The relationship of the approximation with other regimes and their approximations are also discussed.
description: 3 pages, to appear in Romanian Journal of Physics
Enhanced phase segregation induced by dipolar interactions in polymer blends
Creators: name: Kumar, Rajeev
name: Sumpter, Bobby G.
name: Muthukumar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalized theory for studying phase separation in blends of polymers containing dipoles on their backbone. The theory is used to construct co-existence curves and to study the effects of dipolar interactions on interfacial tension for a planar interface between the coexisting phases. We show that a mismatch in monomeric dipole moments, or equivalently a mismatch in the dielectric constant of the pure components, leads to destabilization of the homogeneous phase. Corrections to the Flory-Huggins phase diagram are predicted using the theory. Furthermore, we show that the interfacial tension increases with an increase in the mismatch of the dipole moments of the components. Density profiles and interfacial tensions are constructed for diffuse and sharp polymer-polymer interfaces by extending the formalisms of Cahn-Hilliard and Helfand-Tagami-Sapse, respectively.
Design of bi-tortuous, anisotropic graphite anodes for fast ion-transport in Li-ion batteries
Creators: name: Nemani, V. Pavan
name: Harris, Stephen J.
name: Smith, Kyle C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thick Li-ion battery electrodes with high ion transport rates could enable batteries that cost less and that have higher gravimetric and volumetric energy density, because they require fewer inactive cell-components. Finding ways to increase ion transport rates in thick electrodes would be especially valuable for electrodes made with graphite platelets, which have been shown to have tortuosities in the thru-plane direction about 3 times higher than in the in-plane direction. Here, we predict that bi-tortuous electrode structures (containing electrolyte-filled macro-pores embedded in micro-porous graphite) can enhance ion transport and can achieve double the discharge capacity compared to an unstructured electrode at the same average porosity. We introduce a new two-dimensional version of porous-electrode theory with anisotropic ion transport to investigate these effects and to interpret the mechanisms by which performance enhancements arise. From this analysis we determine criteria for the design of bi-tortuous graphite anodes, including the particular volume fraction of macro-pores that maximizes discharge capacity (approximately 20 vol.%) and a threshold spacing interval (half the electrode's thickness) below which only marginal enhancement in discharge capacity is obtained. We also report the sensitivity of performance with respect to cycling rate, electrode thickness, and average porosity/electroactive-material loading.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Systematic review of lifestyle interventions to improve weight, physical activity and diet among people with a mental health condition
Creators: name: Bradley, Tegan
name: Campbell, Elizabeth
name: Dray, Julia
name: Bartlem, Kate
name: Wye, Paula
name: Hanly, Grace
name: Gibson, Lauren
name: Fehily, Caitlin
name: Bailey, Jacqueline
name: Wynne, Olivia
name: Colyvas, Kim
name: Bowman, Jenny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Search Strategy (PSYCINFO). Supplementary Table 2. Approaches to calculate required data for meta-analyses when not presented in published studies. Supplementary Table 3. Summary of narrative synthesis. Supplementary Figure 1. Meta-analysis for weight loss (kgs). Supplementary Figure 2. Meta-analysis for weight loss (5% body weight loss). Supplementary Figure 3. Meta-analysis for weight maintenance (kgs). Supplementary Figure 4. Meta-analysis for physical activity (IPAQ - Met Minutes). Supplementary Figure 5. Meta-analysis for diet (fruit serves daily). Supplementary Figure 6. Meta-analysis for diet (vegetable serves daily). Supplementary Figure 7. Meta-analysis for BMI. Supplementary Figure 8. Meta-analysis for waist circumference (cms). Supplementary Table 4. Pooled measures for mental health. Supplementary Figure 9. Meta-analysis for Depression (SMD). Supplementary Figure 10. Meta-analysis for Anxiety (SMD). Supplementary Figure 11. Meta-analysis for Severity of Psychological Symptoms (SMD).
The Electron/Muon Specific Two Higgs Doublet Model at e+ e- Colliders
Creators: name: Johansen, Aria R.
name: Sher, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Kajiyama, Okada and Yagyu (KOY) proposed an electron/muon specific two Higgs doublet model. In this model, an S3 symmetry suppresses flavor changing neutral currents instead of a Z2 symmetry. In the "Type I" version of the model, the heavy Higgs bosons have a greatly enhanced coupling to electrons and muons. KOY studied the phenomenology of the heavy Higgs bosons at the LHC. In this paper, the phenomenology at electron-positron colliders is studied. For the heavy Higgs mass range between 150 and 210 GeV, bounds from LEP-200 are stronger than those from the LHC. The model allows for the interesting possibility that muon pair production at the ILC can be mediated by s-channel Higgs exchange. This requires an energy scan. The scanning rate and necessary resolution are discussed.
description: 5 pages
The Recommendation of a Management System for a Manufacturing Process: A Case Study of a Bahraini Pets Food Company
Creators: name: Buhardan,, Mubarak
name: Haddad, Ala
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 401404
subject: Industrial engineering
classificationCode: 350715
subject: Quality management

description: This project investigates an issue of high cycle time in Tails Pet Food Manufacturing Company, a small-medium sized local pet food manufacturing company. There was an issue with high cycle time in the production unit at Tails which negatively affected the process, the company’s goals, and the organization’s overall productivity. Lean Six Sigma thinking techniques were implemented to come up with recommendations to fix this issue, both qualitative and quantitative data were obtained by conducting interviews, observations, and gathering inventory data. Analysis and research were done on the process to identify the root causes of the problem. Several tools were used to identify the root causes such as the Fish-Bone Diagram, Time Motion Study, Spaghetti Diagram, Pareto Chart, and Pugh Matrix. After the process was analyzed, the findings showed that one of the biggest reasons that are leading to the high cycle time is the machines causing an increase in the cycle time, and the lack of a fixed schedule for the employees to start manufacturing which is leading employees to start the production and take breaks at any given time. Moreover, the back-and-forth movement is occurring because of the complex floor plan in the unit. A list of recommendations was proposed and was prioritized into short-, medium-, long- term recommendations. The results were to implement a fixed production schedule with specific timings for the workers to start the production and take breaks, the medium-term recommendation was to buy a new sealing machine that will increase productivity in this specific process by 100% and reducing the overall cycle time by half an hour. Lastly, the Long-term recommendation was to further investigate the complexity of the floor plan and to consider automating the sticking process since this process is done manually. By implementing these recommendations, cycle time can be reduced, and the overall total productivity can be enhanced. Overall, this paper provides beneficial insights and recommendations that can be used by pet food manufacturers to improve their productivity, reduce cycle time, and achieve better organizational goals.
Decay rates of magnetic modes below the threshold of a turbulent dynamo
Creators: name: Herault, Johann
name: Pétrélis, François
name: Fauve, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the decay rates of magnetic field modes in a turbulent flow of liquid sodium below the dynamo threshold.We observe that turbulent fluctuations induce energy transfers between modes with different symmetries (dipolar and quadrupolar). Using symmetry properties, we show how to measure the decay rate of each mode without being restricted to the one with the smallest damping rate.We observe that the respective values of the decay rates of these modes depend on the shape of the propellers driving the flow. Dynamical regimes, including field reversals, are observed onlywhen the modes are both nearly marginal. This is in linewith a recently proposed model.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, published in September 2014
A direct comparison of X-ray spectral models for tori in active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Liu, Yuan
name: Li, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several X-ray spectral models for tori in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are available to constrain the properties of tori; however, the accuracy of these models has not been verified. We recently construct a code for the torus using Geant4, which can easily handle different geometries (Liu & Li 2014). Thus, we adopt the same assumptions as Murphy & Yaqoob (2009, hereafter MY09) and Brightman & Nandra (2011, hereafter BN11) and try to reproduce their spectra. As a result, we can reproduce well the reflection spectra and the strength of the Fe K$α$ line of MY09, for both $\NH=10^{24}$ and $10^{25}$ cm$^{-2}$. However, we cannot produce the strong reflection component of BN11 in the low-energy band. The origin of this component is the reflection from the visible inner wall of the torus, and it should be very weak in the edge-on directions under the geometry of BN11. Therefore, the behaviour of the reflection spectra in BN11 is not consistent with their geometry. The strength of the Fe K$α$ line of BN11 is also different from our results and the analytical result in the optically thin case. The limitation of the spectral model will bias the parameters from X-ray spectral fitting.
description: 5 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS letter in press
Surface instability in nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors
Creators: name: Timm, Carsten
name: Rex, Stefan
name: Brydon, P. M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of topologically protected zero-energy flat bands at the surface of nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors, accounting for the alteration of the gap near the surface. Within a selfconsistent mean-field theory, we show that the flat bands survive in a broad temperature range below the bulk transition temperature. There is a second transition at a lower temperature, however, below which the system spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry. The surface bands are shifted away from zero energy and become weakly dispersive. Simultaneously, a spin polarization and an equilibrium charge current develop in the surface region.
description: 5+4 pages, 5+1 figures
Application of gas dynamical friction for planetesimals: I. Evolution of single planetesimals
Creators: name: Grishin, Evgeni
name: Perets, Hagai B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth of small planetesimals into large planetary embryos occurs much before the dispersal of the gas from the protoplanetary disk. The planetesimal - gaseous-disk interactions give rise to migration and orbital evolution of the planetesimals/planets. Small planetesimals are dominated by aerodynamic gas drag. Large protoplanets, $m\sim0.1M_{\oplus}$, are dominated by type I migration \emph{differential} torque. There is an additional mass range, $m\sim10^{21}-10^{25}g$ of \emph{intermediate mass} planetesimals (IMPs), where gravitational interactions with the disk dominate over aerodynamic gas drag, but for which such interactions were typically neglected. Here we model these interactions using the \emph{gas dynamical friction} (GDF) approach, previously used to study the disk-planet interactions at the planetary mass range. We find the critical size where GDF dominates over gas drag, and then study the implications of GDF on single IMPs. We find that planetesimals with small inclinations rapidly become co-planar. Eccentric orbits circularize within a few Myrs, provided the the planetesimal mass is large, $m\gtrsim10^{23}g$ and that the initial eccentricity is low, $e\lesssim0.1$. Planetesimals of higher masses, $m\sim10^{24}-10^{25}g$ inspiral on a time-scale of a few Myrs, leading to \emph{an embryonic migration} to the inner disk. This can lead to an over-abundance of rocky material (in the form of IMPs) in the inner protoplanetary disk ($<1$AU) and induce rapid planetary growth. This can explain the origin of super-Earth planets. In addition, GDF damps the velocities of IMPs, thereby cooling the planetesimal disk and affecting its collisional evolution through quenching the effects of viscous stirring by the large bodies.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Coherence and mode decomposition of weak twin beams
Creators: name: Perina, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of weak spatio-spectral twin beams in paraxial approximation are analyzed using the decomposition into appropriate paired modes. Numbers of paired modes as well as numbers of modes in the signal (or idler) field in the transverse wave-vector and spectral domains are analyzed as functions of pump-beam parameters. Spatial and spectral coherence of weak twin beams is described by auto- and cross-correlation functions. Relation between the numbers of modes and coherence is discussed.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, some references corrected
Additional file 1 of Risk perceptions of drinking bottled vs. tap water in a low-income community on the US-Mexico Border
Creators: name: Victory, Kerton R.
name: Wilson, Amanda M.
name: Cabrera, Nolan L.
name: Larson, Daniela
name: Reynolds, Kelly A.
name: Latura, Joyce
name: Beamer, Paloma I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Comparison of agreement with A) safety of tap vs. bottled water, and B) statements regarding advice from family and friends about drinking tap water and perception of taste of tap water. Figure S2. Distribution of responses to perception questions.
Five-Partite Entanglement Generation in A High-Q Microresonator
Creators: name: Wen, Yutian
name: Wu, Xufei
name: Li, Rongyu
name: Lin, Qiang
name: He, Guangqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to produce five-partite entanglement via cascaded four-wave mixing in a high-Q microresonator that may become a key to future one-way quantum computation on chip. A theoretical model is presented for the underlying continuous-variable entanglement among the generated comb modes that is expansible to more complicated scenarios. We analyze the entanglement condition when the van Loock and Furusawa criteria are violated, and discuss the device parameters for potential experimental realization that may be utilized to build an integrated compact five-partite entanglement generator. The proposed approach exhibits great potential for future large-scale integrated full optical quantum computation on chip.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review A on Dec 22nd, 2014
Leveraging Farmers Market Partnerships to Improve Food Security of Children and Families of Rural North Carolina
Creators: name: Wikoff, Tyler
name: Peyton, Taylor
name: Hammes, Noah
name: Wahl, Talia
name: Hamlett, Trevor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Healthy People 2030 (HP2030) is a national guide designed to set data-driven objectives to improve health and well-being in the United States over the next decade. To address HP2030 Objective NWS-02, Eliminating Very Low Food Security in Children in Cleveland County, NC, the county Board of Commissioners shall adopt an ordinance that will provide at-risk families increased opportunities to purchase nutritious foods by guaranteeing access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program North Carolina (SNAP) benefits at local farmers markets. Cleveland County classifies as a food desert, with over 30% of residing children and families currently living with food insecurity. Similar programs in comparable counties throughout the US have demonstrated an increase in fruit and vegetable purchases and consumption as well as increased annual revenues for local farmers. Future measures to mitigate food insecurity include a produce prescription program, providing families weekly subsidies and monthly nutrition education.
Green power grids: how energy from renewable sources affects network and markets
Creators: name: Mureddu, Mario
name: Caldarelli, Guido
name: Chessa, Alessandro
name: Scala, Antonio
name: Damiano, Alfonso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The increasing attention to environmental issues is forcing the implementation of novel energy models based on renewable sources, fundamentally changing the configuration of energy management and introducing new criticalities that are only partly understood. In particular, renewable energies introduce fluctuations causing an increased request of conventional energy sources oriented to balance energy requests on short notices. In order to develop an effective usage of low-carbon sources, such fluctuations must be understood and tamed. In this paper we present a microscopic model for the description and the forecast of short time fluctuations related to renewable sources and to their effects on the electricity market. To account for the inter-dependencies among the energy market and the physical power dispatch network, we use a statistical mechanics approach to sample stochastic perturbations on the power system and an agent based approach for the prediction of the market players behavior. Our model is a data-driven; it builds on one day ahead real market transactions to train agents behaviour and allows to infer the market share of different energy sources. We benchmark our approach on the Italian market finding a good accordance with real data.