cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and correlations of schistosomiasis mansoni and schistosomiasis haematobium among humans and intermediate snail hosts: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Xin-Yao
name: Li, Qin
name: Li, Yin-Long
name: Guo, Su-Ying
name: Li, Shi-Zhu
name: Zhou, Xiao-Nong
name: Guo, Jia-Gang
name: Bergquist, Robert
name: Juma, Saleh
name: Zhang, Jian-Feng
name: Yang, Kun
name: Xu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Prevalence Critical Appraisal Tool. Figure S1. Global distribution showing country location of included studies. Figure S2. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infection in the students, community and others. Figure S3. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infection in different years. Figure S4. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infection in Africa, South America and Asia. Figure S5. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infection in the S. mansoni and S. haematobium. Figure S6. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of snail infectivity indifferent years. Figure S7. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infectivity in the Africa, South America and Asia. Figure S8. Forest plot of subgroup PPE analysis of infection in the Biomphalaria spp. and Bulinus spp. Figure S9. Funnel plot with 95% confidence limit showing publication bias across studies on the prevalence of S. mansoni and S. haematobium. Figure S10. Funnel plot with 95% confidence limit showing publication bias across studies on the prevalence of S. mansoni and S. haematobium among freshwater snails.
Project RISE Workshops- Oct 2021 Amendment
Creators: name: Schmader, Toni
name: Bergsieker, Hilary
name: Dennehy, Tara
name: Aday, Audrey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Project RISE Cultivating Collaborative Cultures is a longitudinal study of men and women working as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) professionals working in for-profit or non-profit settings. The goal of this project is to use a randomized-control trial to test the short- and longer-term effects of participating in a face-to-face evidence-based workshop on gender inclusion (treatment) or leadership skills (control). Some interventions designed to create identity-safe contexts have been shown to narrow the gender gap in academic performance (Walton & Spencer, 2009) and diversity training and other bias-reduction efforts can sometimes, but not always, have positive effects (Bezrukova et al., 2016; Kalev et al., 2006; Paluck, 2016). There is, however, a need for more experimentally based research conducted in organizational settings (especially in STEM) where women often feel a lower sense of fit and increased social identity threat (Ely, Ibarra, & Kolb, 2011; Hall et al., 2015, 2018; Kalokerinos, von Hippel, & Zacher, 2014). The amendment is made to capture new details pertaining to follow-up data collection at the T2 and T3 time points. Additional information and resources related to Project RISE can be found on the website for our broader consortium Engendering Success in STEM: http://successinstem.ca/projects/rise
Protein function prediction using family-specific structural motifs
Creators: name: Kietsakorn, Tanarat
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: Protein function prediction using structural motifs is expected to be more reliable and informative than using global sequences/structures or sequence motifs. In the first part of this thesis, we report a novel application of two structural motif-based methods, FFSM and CASIM, for predicting family-specific structural motifs and conserved key residues in Metallo-dependent phosphatase (Metallophos) structures. We also introduced the novel function prediction approach based on 3D-1D Cumulative Support Profiles, which represents degree of conservation of amino acid residues specific to Metallophos family. In the second part of this thesis, we present novel structural motif-based approaches for function annotation of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) sequences. This is the first report of non-traditional function inference, from structure to sequence to function. Compared to other state-of-the art methods, our approaches were able to reveal more comprehensive information such as the 3D structure of the potential active site including key residues.
On randomization of neural networks as a form of post-learning strategy
Creators: name: Kapanova, K. G.
name: Dimov, I.
name: Sellier, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today artificial neural networks are applied in various fields - engineering, data analysis, robotics. While they represent a successful tool for a variety of relevant applications, mathematically speaking they are still far from being conclusive. In particular, they suffer from being unable to find the best configuration possible during the training process (local minimum problem). In this paper, we focus on this issue and suggest a simple, but effective, post-learning strategy to allow the search for improved set of weights at a relatively small extra computational cost. Therefore, we introduce a novel technique based on analogy with quantum effects occurring in nature as a way to improve (and sometimes overcome) this problem. Several numerical experiments are presented to validate the approach.
description: 15 pages, 26 figures
Academic research groups: evaluation of their quality and quality of their evaluation
Creators: name: Berche, Bertrand
name: Holovatch, Yurij
name: Kenna, Ralph
name: Mryglod, Olesya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, evaluation of the quality of academic research has become an increasingly important and influential business. It determines, often to a large extent, the amount of research funding flowing into universities and similar institutes from governmental agencies and it impacts upon academic careers. Policy makers are becoming increasingly reliant upon, and influenced by, the outcomes of such evaluations. In response, university managers are increasingly attracted to simple indicators as guides to the dynamics of the positions of their various institutions in league tables. However, these league tables are frequently drawn up by inexpert bodies such as newspapers and magazines, using rather arbitrary measures and criteria. Terms such as "critical mass' and "metrics" are often bandied about without proper understanding of what they actually mean. Rather than accepting the rise and fall of universities, departments and individuals on a turbulent sea of arbitrary measures, we suggest it is incumbent upon the scientific community itself to clarify their nature. Here we report on recent attempts to do that by properly defining critical mass and showing how group size influences research quality. We also examine currently predominant metrics and show that these fail as reliable indicators of group research quality.
description: Presented at the International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and Beyond in Moscow, 2015. The Proceedings will appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Additional file 2 of Deubiquitinase USP10 promotes osteosarcoma autophagy and progression through regulating GSK3β-ULK1 axis
Creators: name: Feng, Zuxi
name: Ou, Yanghuan
name: Deng, Xueqiang
name: Deng, Minghao
name: Yan, Xiaohua
name: Chen, Leifeng
name: Zhou, Fan
name: Hao, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary material 2: Figure S2.USP10 was downregulated in 143B cells. The protein levels of GSK3β were assessed through western blotting.After overexpressing USP10 in 143B and U2OS cells, the protein levels of GSK3β were assessed using western blotting. Western blotting and q-RT-PCR analysis of GSK3β expression in 143B and U2OS cells stably knocked down or overexpressed GSK3β.Western blotting analysis of ULK1 and p-ULK1expression in HOS and MG-63 cells stably knocked down or overexpressed GSK3β.Western blotting analysis of GSK3β expression in HOS and MG-63 cells stably overexpressed ULK1.Western blotting analysis of NRF2 expression in HOS and MG-63 cells stably overexpressed USP10.Western blotting analysis of NRF2 expression in HOS and MG-63 cells stably overexpressed GSK3β.Western blotting analysis of ULK1 expression in 143B and U2OS cells knockdown NRF2 by siRNA.Western blotting analysis of ULK1 expression in HOS and MG-63 cells stably overexpressed NRF2.
Coronavirus (nCovid-19) in Bangladesh: An interactive dashboard
Creators: name: Hussain, A H M Belayeth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Bangladesh
subject: Coronavirus
subject: Covid-19
subject: dynamic graphs
subject: India
subject: Malaysia
subject: R markdown
subject: United states

description: This Dashboard demonstrates an overview of the latest coronavirus (nCovid-19) situations in Bangladesh and beyond. It is analyzed and constructed with R language utilizing the R Markdown developed by Rami Krispin (https://ramikrispin.github.io/coronavirus_dashboard/). This dashboard updates daily provided that the latest data are available in and fetched from the website Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at JHU. You can view the interactive Dashboard at https://rpubs.com/belayeth/Bangladesh-covid19. Citation for analysis dashboard: Hussain, A. H. M. B. (2020, April 10). Coronavirus (nCovid-19) in Bangladesh: An interactive dashboard. R Pubs. Retrieved from https://rpubs.com/belayeth/Bangladesh-covid19. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/9UMDW
The indirect Need for Cognitive Closure effect on preference for men in authority
Creators: name: Baldner, Conrad
name: Viola, Marta
name: Pierro, Antonio
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2022

description: A recent research has found an effect of the need for cognitive closure, or the desire for stable and certain knowledge, on the acceptance on stereotypes of women as not wanting, and not being good at, roles involving authority. This study found an indirect, experimentally manipulated (i.e., acute) NCC effect, through these harmful gender stereotypes, on preference for men in positions of authority. According to NCC theory, individuals who have either an acute or chronic desire for stable and certain knowledge can accept many kinds of stereotypes, given that stereotypes themselves are perceived to be sources of stable and certain knowledge. As the NCC can be acute as well as chronic (i.e., an individual difference), we sought to assess the indirect effect of chronic NCC on preference for men in authority through acceptance of harmful gender stereotypes. We conceptually replicated this finding in a sample of 199 participants recruited from the United States. Given these results, we suggest avenues for future research.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol. 39 No. 3 (2022)
title: Workshop zur Implementierung von FDM-Services nach dem DIAMANT-Modell
title: ein Workshopkonzept zur Anwendung des FDM-Referenzmodells DIAMANT an Forschungseinrichtungen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lemaire, Marina
name: Gerhards, Lea
name: Kellendonk, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Forschungsdaten
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/1098579690
subject: Management
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4037278-9

description: Es wird ein Workshopkonzept dargelegt, um das im Rahmen des PODMAN-Projektes entwickelte DIAMANTModell zur Implementierung einer institutionellen FDM-Servicelandschaft kennenzulernen. Anhand von Beispielen erfahren die Teilnehmenden, wie die entwickelten Instrumente auf die eigene Forschungseinrichtung angewendet werden. Primär wird das Konzept für den Initial-Workshop vorgestellt, der alle FDM-Akteur*innen einer Forschungseinrichtung zusammenbringt, um das DIAMANT-Modell zunächst auf die gesamte Forschungseinrichtung zu applizieren. Daraus wurde ein weiteres Workshopkonzept abgeleitet, das insbesondere für die fach- oder abteilungsspezifische Bedarfserhebung vorgesehen ist.
description: A workshop concept to introduce the DIAMANT model for the implementation of an institutional RDM service andscape developed within the PODMAN project is presented. By means of examples, the participants learn how to apply the developed instruments to their own research institution. Primarily, the concept for the initial workshop is introduced, which brings together all RDM actors of a research institution in order to apply the DIAMANT model to the entire research institution. A further workshop concept was derived from this, which is intended for the subject- or department-specific needs assessment.
Forcing homogeneous turbulence in DNS of particulate flow with interface resolution and gravity
Creators: name: Chouippe, Agathe
name: Uhlmann, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the case of finite-size spherical particles which are settling under gravity in a homogeneous turbulent background flow. Turbulence is forced with the aid of the random forcing method of Eswaran and Pope [Comput. Fluids, 16(3):257-278, 1988], while the solid particles are represented with an immersed-boundary method. The forcing scheme is used to generate isotropic turbulence in vertically elongated boxes in order to warrant better decorrelation of the Lagrangian signals in the direction of gravity. Since only a limited number of Fourier modes are forced, it is possible to evaluate the forcing field directly in physical space, thereby avoiding full-size transforms. The budget of box-averaged kinetic energy is derived from the forced momentum equations. Medium-sized simulations for dilute suspensions at low Taylor-scale Reynolds number $Re_λ=65$, small density ratio $ρ_p/ρ_f=1.5$ and for two Galileo numbers $Ga=0$ and 120 are carried out over long time intervals in order to exclude the possibility of slow divergence. It is shown that the results at zero gravity are fully consistent with previous experimental measurements and available numerical reference data. Specific features of the finite-gravity case are discussed with respect to a reduction of the average settling velocity, the acceleration statistics and the Lagrangian auto-correlations.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Fluids
Temporal and spatial abstraction for theory of mind inference
Creators: name: Folke, Tomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

description: This is a project on how artificial systems can infer human knowledge states from observed behavior.
Modelling arbitrarily shaped and tightly focused laser pulses in electromagnetic codes
Creators: name: Thiele, Illia
name: Skupin, Stefan
name: Nuter, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigation of laser matter interaction with electromagnetic codes requires to implement sources for the electromagnetic fields. A way to do so is to prescribe the fields at the numerical box boundaries in order to achieve the desired fields inside the numerical box. Here we show that the often used paraxial approximation can lead to unexpected field profiles with strong impact on the laser matter interaction results. We propose an efficient numerical algorithm to compute the required laser boundary conditions consistent with the Maxwell's equations for arbitrarily shaped, tightly focused laser pulses.
Understanding the links between soil, plants, and pollinators
Creators: name: David, Thomas
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: Global nitrogen (N) deposition has risen steeply since the mid-19th Century and is forecasted to rise further. This increased flux of N to ecosystems is increasingly considered as a worldwide driver of environmental change. Impacts to botanical communities have been shown across a range of ecosystems and regions, but evidence on consequential impacts to further trophic levels is currently limited. Our understanding of how N affects plant-pollinator interactions is relatively poor. Declining trends in pollinating insects have been widely reported during recent decades and a key factor in this is losses of floral resources. The research chapters presented in this thesis seek to address the wide knowledge gap of how N affects pollinators by investigating how soil N affects 1) the composition of floral functional traits in a plant community, 2) intra-specific variation in key floral functional traits: phenology and nectar, and 3) the potential impacts to plant-pollinator interaction networks. This research was undertaken using the Park Grass Long-term Experiment (PGE) at Rothamsted Research, UK, a long-term nutrient-enrichment experiment. The study found extensive impacts of N on the provision of floral resources. Floral resources were lost with N-enrichment, with morphologically specialised floral units particularly threatened. Flowering phenology of plant species was influenced by N-enrichment with a notable contrast between early-season species, which had an extended flowering duration, and peak-season species that had a reduced flowering duration. Responses of nectar traits varied across species but were shown to respond to N applications. The observed pollinator visitation networks were impacted by the soil treatments; N additions typically led to Diptera-dominant communities and networks that were potentially less robust to stochastic events. The research project provided evidence that soil N can act as an underlying driver of plant-pollinator networks and should be considered as a factor in pollinator ecology and trends.
Monte Carlo Predictions of Proton SEE Cross-Sections from Heavy Ion Test Data
Creators: name: Xi, Kai
name: Geng, Chao
name: Zhang, Zhan-Gang
name: Hou, Ming-Dong
name: Sun, You-Mei
name: Luo, Jie
name: Liu, Tian-Qi
name: Wang, Bin
name: Ye, Bing
name: Yin, Ya-Nan
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The limits of previous methods promote us to design a new approach (named PRESTAGE) to predict proton single event effect (SEE) cross-sections using heavy-ion test data. To more realistically simulate the SEE mechanisms, we adopt Geant4 and the location-dependent strategy to describe the physics processes and the sensitivity of the device. Cross-sections predicted by PRESTAGE for over twenty devices are compared with the measured data. Evidences show that PRESTAGE can calculate not only single event upsets induced by proton indirect ionization, but also direct ionization effects and single event latch-ups. Most of the PRESTAGE calculated results agree with the experimental data within a factor of 2-3.
Do text messages impact adolescents’ sleep? A Narrative Review
Creators: name: Mesce, Martina
name: Cerniglia, Luca
name: Cimino, Silvia
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2022

description: New technologies, such as cell phones, are now a fundamental part of daily life and have become an essential tool in the social lives of all individuals. Adolescent sleep has been explored through various conceptual and empirical models and the most recent research shows that electronic media use has a significant role in sleep, especially during adolescence. This paper reviews the current knowledge of the impact of adolescents’ text messaging habits and their sleep health. A narrative review of the literature on the impact of texting habits on adolescents' sleep was performed. Empirical evidence concerning adolescents' sleep confirms the relevance of texting habits in developing and maintaining sleep disturbances. In particular, increased time spent texting after getting into bed is associated with insufficient sleep, insomnia, and irregular sleep patterns, such as social jetlag, tiredness in school, difficulties in both waking up and falling asleep, and differences between weeknights and weekends.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol. 39 No. 3 (2022)
Parametric Amplification of a Terahertz Quantum Plasma Wave
Creators: name: Rajasekaran, Srivats
name: Casandruc, Eliza
name: Laplace, Yannis
name: Nicoletti, Daniele
name: Gu, Genda D.
name: Clark, Stephen R.
name: Jaksch, Dieter
name: Cavalleri, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many applications in photonics require all-optical manipulation of plasma waves, which can concentrate electromagnetic energy on sub-wavelength length scales. This is difficult in metallic plasmas because of their small optical nonlinearities. Some layered superconductors support weakly damped plasma waves, involving oscillatory tunneling of the superfluid between capacitively coupled planes. Such Josephson plasma waves (JPWs) are also highly nonlinear, and exhibit striking phenomena like cooperative emission of coherent terahertz radiation, superconductor-metal oscillations and soliton formation. We show here that terahertz JPWs in cuprate superconductors can be parametrically amplified through the cubic tunneling nonlinearity. Parametric amplification is sensitive to the relative phase between pump and seed waves and may be optimized to achieve squeezing of the order parameter phase fluctuations or single terahertz-photon devices.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
title: The Question of the Human in Holocaust Writing
Creators: name: Simon, Angie
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2010

description: This thesis confronts the challenges of a paradox that both suggests the Holocaust is unintelligible and yet demands our unending efforts to understand the persecution and annihilation of millions of human beings. The Nazi project was undertaken because certain groups were considered non-human, and my purpose is to show why I believe that whatever the offence or suffering undergone, the human being is indivisible and retains his/her status as human. Whilst I consider the Holocaust to be intelligible in its unintelligibility, problems remain in understanding what happens to the human when the boundaries of humanity and humanness are reached, and crossed. This demands a consideration of what is meant by the human, the inhuman and the non-human, and is discussed in Chapter 1. Chapters II and III examine discourses about the limits and burdens of trauma, memory and mourning, the connections between them, and the effects on concepts of the human. I specifically consider the impossible demand to recall not only the survivor's own dehumanization and annihilation, but also that of others, and how memory and trauma are connected to mourning and Levinasian ideas about responsibility. I also argue that there is another type of Holocaust writing that attempts to articulate the human experience via a displaced mode of representation that is no less potent than more forthright accounts, and particularly analyses adult recollections of traumatised childhoods. In Chapter IV, Enlightenment humanist ethics are interrogated when I ask if there is an irreversible crisis for humanism or whether a possibility for a regenerated humanist ethics exists. I conclude that in order to be human and go forward with any remnant of hope, we must be ever watchful and resistant to any ideology that can result in absolute domination and tyranny of others as practiced by the Nazis.
From continuum QCD to hadron observables
Creators: name: Binosi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the form of the renormalization group invariant quark-gluon interaction predicted by a refined nonperturbative analysis of the QCD gauge sector is in quantitative agreement with the one required for describing a wide range of hadron observables using sophisticated truncation schemes of the Schwinger-Dyson equations relevant in the matter sector.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the "21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB21)", Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 18th to 22nd, 2015
Additional file 3 of Deubiquitinase USP10 promotes osteosarcoma autophagy and progression through regulating GSK3β-ULK1 axis
Creators: name: Feng, Zuxi
name: Ou, Yanghuan
name: Deng, Xueqiang
name: Deng, Minghao
name: Yan, Xiaohua
name: Chen, Leifeng
name: Zhou, Fan
name: Hao, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary material 3: Figure S3.143B cells, with or without USP10 overexpression, were treated with MG132 for 6 hours. Next, whole-cell lysates underwent immunoprecipitation with an anti-GSK3β antibody. Western blot analysis was performed using anti-Ubiquitin antibodies targeting either the K48 or K63 linkage to investigate GSK3β ubiquitination.Cells with stable knockdown of GSK3β were treated with spautin-1 at a concentration of 10 μM for 48 hours. Protein levels of ULK1, LC3B-II, and p62 were assessed using western blotting
Spin textures and spin-wave excitations in doped Dirac-Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Araki, Yasufumi
name: Nomura, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study correlations and magnetic textures of localized spins, doped in three-dimensional Dirac semimetals. An effective field theory for magnetic moments is constructed by integrating out the fermionic degrees of freedom. The spin correlation shows a strong anisotropy, originating from spin-momentum locking of Dirac electrons, in addition to the conventional Heisenberg-like ferromagnetic correlation. The anisotropic spin correlation allows topologically nontrivial magnetic excitation textures such as a transient hedgehog state, as well as the ferromagnetic ground state. The spin-wave dispersion in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal also becomes anisotropic, being less dispersed perpendicular to the magnetization.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures + 9 pages of Supplemental Material
Regulating food and pharmaceuticals in the EU: a comparison of styles of governance
Creators: name: Dudley, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The spread of Mad Cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) across Europe revealed critical flaws in European health regulation. In 2000, the European Commission attempted to indulge public perception by establishing strong, proactive and coherent risk regulation policy, as set down in their 2000 Communication on the Precautionary Principle. However, the Precautionary Principle does not apply to all industrial sectors equally. This thesis compares food safety regulation to pharmaceutical regulation. It clearly shows that each system of regulation is governed by a different mode or style. These different styles of governance predate the 2000 Communication but have also continued unchanged since then.
Representations of immigration on Facebook: A lexicographic analysis of the communication of Italian populist and non-populist leaders (2019-2021)
Creators: name: Prislei, Laura
name: Di Cicco, Gabriele
name: Sensales, Gilda
name: D'Urso, Enrico
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2022

description: This study proposes a psycho-social reading of immigration communication on Facebook by five Italian political leaders during the Conte II government (5 September 2019 to 13 February 2021). The research is inserted into the theoretical framework of social representations that presuppose the complexity and tendentiousness of language by actively participating in constructing reality. We analyzed the discursive construction of the migration phenomenon in the posts published by two leaders of the right and center-right populist parties (Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, respectively), the leader of the populist catch-all party 5-Star Movement (Luigi Di Maio), and two left-wing non-populist leaders (Nicola Zingaretti and Laura Boldrini), in order to ensure a comprehensive coverage of the different political ideologies in the Italian context. From the entire corpus of posts published by the five leaders under examination during the analysed period, only the posts concerning immigration were selected, for a total of 1171 posts. Of these, 311 were pubblished by Giorgia Meloni, 760 by Matteo Salvini, 45 by Luigi Di Maio, 30 by Laura Boldrini and 25 by Nicola Zingaretti. We noticed important differences in communication regarding the migration phenomenon, with the two right-wing populist leaders (Salvini and Meloni) more likely to publish posts about immigration and promoting a negative representation of the migration phenomenon, showing support for restriction policies and adopting an 'exclusionary' populist style, in contrast to Di Maio (who, despite being a populist leader, maintains a more neutral style) and especially the two left-wing non populist leaders Boldrini and Zingaretti who are advocates of a humanitarian attitude towards immigration.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol. 39 No. 3 (2022)
Lifting of the Landau level degeneracy in graphene devices in a tilted magnetic field
Creators: name: Chiappini, F.
name: Wiedmann, S.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Mishchenko, A.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Maan, J. C.
name: Zeitler, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on transport and capacitance measurements of graphene devices in magnetic fields up to 30 T. In both techniques, we observe the full splitting of Landau levels and we employ tilted field experiments to address the origin of the observed broken symmetry states. In the lowest energy level, the spin degeneracy is removed at filling factors $ν=\pm1$ and we observe an enhanced energy gap. In the higher levels, the valley degeneracy is removed at odd filling factors while spin polarized states are formed at even $ν$. Although the observation of odd filling factors in the higher levels points towards the spontaneous origin of the splitting, we find that the main contribution to the gap at $ν= -4,-8$, and $-12$ is due to the Zeeman energy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Covid-19 Outbreak and Italian College Students’ Well-being: Evidence for both Negative and Positive Consequences
Creators: name: Loscalzo, Yura
name: Giannini, Marco
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2022

description: Background: The Covid-19 virus rapidly spread worldwide, with Italy being one of the most affected countries. College students might have experienced psychological and physical impairment due to this threat to their health and the uncertainty concerning their academic path because of universities’ unexpected and sudden closure. Hence, we aim to analyze college students’ well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: We gathered 6075 Italian college students (Mage = 23.60±5.02). They have been evaluated for depression, anxiety, stress, daytime sleepiness, and sleep quality impairment. MANOVAs, MANCOVAs, and one-sample t-tests (with students gathered before the pandemic as the reference group) have been performed. Results: During the Covid-19 pandemic, females and Humanities students experienced higher psychological and physical impairment than males and Technology students. Though, the participants generally experienced an amelioration in their well-being compared to students evaluated before the Covid-19 outbreak, indicating a positive effect of the pandemic. Conclusions: We suggest that Universities should increase their psychological services’ offering, including group counseling interventions. They should also plan to reduce the burden felt by their students during the “regular” academic life. They could allow students to attend lessons from home through recording, and they should try to reduce the overstudying climate.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol. 39 No. 3 (2022)
Additional file 1 of Impact of sympathetic hyperactivity induced by brain microglial activation on organ damage in sepsis with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Nishihara, Masaaki
name: Shinohara, Keisuke
name: Ikeda, Shota
name: Akahoshi, Tomohiko
name: Tsutsui, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1
Electromagnetic cloaking in convex and concave media with surface modelled as a parameterised function
Creators: name: Sidhwa, H. H.
name: Aiyar, R. P.
name: Kulkarni, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The onset of transformation optics has opened avenues for designing of a plenitude of applications related to propagation of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed using a coordinate transformation and a piecewise function for the purpose of designing a three dimensional cloak having an arbitrary geometry which could be convex or non-convex in nature. The surfaces of the cloak as well as of the body under consideration are assumed to be conformal to each other. For an arbitrary geometry, the coordinate system needed to model the surface can be a non-orthogonal system. For the purpose of verification of the algorithm, a ray tracing process is carried out for an ellipsoid as well as for a concave surface having axial symmetry. In order to solve the Hamiltonian equation for the purpose of ray tracing, the process of finding the derivatives analytically, for an arbitrary geometry as considered here, becomes very cumbersome. Here, a numerical method is described which provides a better approximation to the partial derivatives than the conventional finite difference approach based on forward differences.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
The effects of high-frequency hearing loss on speech perception in people with aphasia
Creators: name: Gaven, Julie M.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: Whereas many studies have investigated hearing loss in non-aphasic elderly populations, relatively little is known about the effects of hearing loss on people with aphasia (PWA). Due to the exclusion of individuals with hearing loss from the majority of speech perception studies, the link between PWA's hearing ability and their performance on tests of speech perception has not been addressed in the literature (despite the fact that many PWA also have hearing loss). This pilot study was designed as a four-group comparison to examine the influence of hearing loss on the perception of stop consonant place of articulation in PWA. Specifically, we were interested in exploring whether perception of place of articulation or voice onset time would be more affected by aphasia or the presence of hearing loss, and whether the combination of these two conditions would deteriorate participants' performance on a speech discrimination task more than either condition in isolation.
Do text messages impact adolescents’ sleep? A Narrative Review
Creators: name: Subramanian, Bala R.
name: Thakur, Munish
name: Chalil, Gloryson
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2022

description: Despite the interest shown in the concept of gratitude over the last decade, there is no agreement on its definition and underlying dimensions. This paper provides a critical review of the definitions of gratitude and other similar constructs. A total of 22 definitions for gratitude were identified. The identified definitions were analyzed against each other for their commonality and differences. After highlighting the lacunae, lack of consensus, and overlap among the available definitions of gratitude, this paper differentiates gratitude from other similar constructs.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol. 39 No. 3 (2022)
Quantum plasmonics: An energy perspective to quantify nonclassical effects
Creators: name: Yan, Wei
name: Mortensen, N. Asger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasmons are commonly interpreted with classical electrodynamics, while nonclassical effects may influence the dynamics of plasmon resonances as the plasmon confinement is approaching the few--nanometer scale. However, an unambiguous approach to quantify the degree of nonclassical dynamics remains. We propose a nonclassical-impact parameter (NCI) to characterize the degree of nonclassical effects from an energy perspective, i.e. which fraction of the total electromagnetic energy is attributed to classical electrodynamic terms and which fraction is correspondingly to be assigned to nonclassical degrees of freedom? We show that the NCI relates directly to two fundamental parameters of plasmon resonances: the loss function and the quality factor. Guided by the NCI, we discuss the nonclassical effects of plasmon waveguiding modes of metallic slab waveguides, and highlight the general features of the nonclassical effects at different microscopic levels by contrasting the numerical results from the semi-classical hydrodynamic Drude model (HDM) and the microscopic random-phase approximation (RPA). The formal relation between the HDM and the RPA is also established for metals by exploring the limit of an infinite work function.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Sandwich priming and reading skills
Creators: name: Gomez, Pablo
name: Marcet, Ana
name: Perea, Manuel
name: Rocabado, Francisco
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: lexical decision
subject: priming
subject: reading skills

description: This preregistration outlines the analysis strategy for a sandwich priming experiment and its relationship with a standardized reading skills test.
Computational Investigations on Polymerase Actions in Gene Transcription and Replication Combining Physical Modeling and Atomistic Simulations
Creators: name: Yu, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Polymerases are protein enzymes that move along nucleic acid chains and catalyze template-based polymerization reactions during gene transcription and replication. The polymerases also substantially improve transcription or replication fidelity through the non-equilibrium enzymatic cycles. We briefly review computational efforts that have been made toward understanding mechano-chemical coupling and fidelity control mechanisms of the polymerase elongation. The polymerases are regarded as molecular information motors during the elongation process. It requires a full spectrum of computational approaches from multiple time and length scales to understand the full polymerase functional cycle. We keep away from quantum mechanics based approaches to the polymerase catalysis due to abundant former surveys, while address only statistical physics modeling approach and all-atom molecular dynamics simulation approach. We organize this review around our own modeling and simulation practices on a single-subunit T7 RNA polymerase, and summarize commensurate studies on structurally similar DNA polymerases. For multi-subunit RNA polymerases that have been intensively studied in recent years, we leave detailed discussions on the simulation achievements to other computational chemical surveys, while only introduce very recently published representative studies, including our own preliminary work on structure-based modeling on yeast RNA polymerase II. In the end, we quickly go through kinetic modeling on elongation pauses and backtracking activities. We emphasize the fluctuation and control mechanisms of the polymerase actions, highlight the non-equilibrium physical nature of the system, and try to bring some perspectives toward understanding replication and transcription regulation from single molecular details to a genome-wide scale.
Additional file 7 of Direct aortic TAVI via anterior right mini-thoracotomy using 32 mm myval for pure aortic regurgitation
Creators: name: Aljanadi, Firas
name: McNeilly, Graham
name: Manoharan, Ganesh
name: McNiece, Andrew
name: Jeganathan, Reuben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 7
Additional file 2 of Impact of sympathetic hyperactivity induced by brain microglial activation on organ damage in sepsis with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Nishihara, Masaaki
name: Shinohara, Keisuke
name: Ikeda, Shota
name: Akahoshi, Tomohiko
name: Tsutsui, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Light emission from particle beam induced plasma - An overview
Creators: name: Ulrich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments to study the light emission from plasma produced by particle beams are presented. Fundamental aspects in comparison with discharge plasma formation are discussed. It is shown that the formation of excimer molecules is an important process. This paper summarizes various studies of particle beam induced light emission and presents first results of a direct comparison of light emission induced by electron- and ion beam excitation. Both high energy heavy ion beam and low energy electron beam experiments are described and an overview over applications in the form of light sources, lasers, and ionization devices is given.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Project 2: Effects of Presentation Order on Consensus, Accuracy, and Between-Target Variability in Person Judgment (Pre-Registration 3)
Creators: name: Wiedenroth, Anne
name: Leising, Daniel
name: Unkelbach, Christian
name: Wessels, Nele
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is the pre-registration for the third round of analyses.
Electron-beam-sustained discharge revisited - light emission from combined electron beam and microwave excited argon at atmospheric pressure
Creators: name: Dandl, T.
name: Hagn, H.
name: Neumeier, A.
name: Wieser, J.
name: Ulrich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel kind of electron beam sustained discharge is presented in which a 12keV electron beam is combined with a 2.45GHz microwave power to excite argon gas at atmospheric pressure in a continuous mode of operation. Optical emission spectroscopy is performed over a wide wavelength range from the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to the near infrared (NIR). Several effects which modify the emission spectra compared to sole electron beam excitation are observed and interpreted by the changing plasma parameters such as electron density, electron temperature and gas temperature.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Landscapes of Continuity, Landscapes of Change: A Study on Fuelwood Collection in the North Carolina Piedmont Before and During Contact
Creators: name: Graham, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Examinations of human-environmental relations in the contact period southeastern United States have not been commonly undertaken but have the potential to shed light on people’s daily lives and experiences. The relationship between humans and their surroundings, mediated through subsistence practices and daily routines, creates landscapes. In this study I use archaeological wood charcoal from daily, domestic fires as a proxy for these human-landscape interactions. I analyzed wood charcoal from three Native American village sites in the North Carolina Piedmont that span the pre-contact period into the early middle contact period (A.D. 1400-1750). My analysis reveals a high degree of continuity in the wood types used for fuelwood across all three sites. I argue that this demonstrates continuity of daily practice despite any disruptions brought by the experience of contact.
Electron-beam-ignited, high-frequency-driven vacuum ultraviolet excimer light source
Creators: name: Dandl, T.
name: Hagn, H.
name: Heindl, T.
name: Krücken, R.
name: Wieser, J.
name: Ulrich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transformation of a table-top electron beam sustained 2.45 GHz RF discharge in rare gases into a self burning discharge has been observed for increasing RF-amplitude. Thereby, the emission spectrum undergoes significant changes in a wide spectral range from the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to the near infrared. A strong increase of VUV excimer emission is observed for the self burning discharge. The so called first excimer continuum, in particular, shows a drastic increase in intensity. For argon this effect results in a brilliant light source emitting near the 105 nm short wavelength cutoff of LiF windows. The appearance of a broad-band continuum in the UV and visible range as well as effects of RF excitation on the atomic line radiation and the so called third excimer continuum are briefly described.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures