cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An exploratory analysis of engaged individuals’ perceptions of their marriage preparation needs
Creators: name: Holmes, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This exploratory study analyzes the content and structural marriage preparation needs of engaged individuals. The volunteer sample consists of 74 of engaged individuals who attended one of three bridal shows. Questionnaire results found that communication was the predominantly preferred topic area, followed by problem solving/conflict resolution, money/financial management, having children/parenting, and building friendship in marriage. Subjects also reported that their preferred format for marriage preparation is participating in group discussions and that programs being effective is the most important format attribute. Friends and relatives were found to be the most influential referral source for marriage preparation programs. Results support the recommendations that programs be approximately 10 hours in length and cost no more than $135.72. Respondents reported that the best time to offer workshops is on weeknights and strong support was shown for programs to be held in community centres. Results are discussed in terms of implications for future research, as well as for marriage preparation providers to use in the design, promotion, implementation, facilitation, and evaluation of marriage preparation programs.
A STUDY OF ASIAN-AMERICAN RICE DEMAND IN HOUSTON, TEXAS
Creators: name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Rister, M. Edward
name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Rister, M. Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Responses to a product placement study of five long-grain rice varieties in 192 Asian-American households in Houston, Texas were utilized to estimate a quality-adjusted price model for rice demand. Quantity-dependent demand functions were estimated using actual price, quality-adjusted price, and no price scenarios. Results indicate that, although price was statistically significant, it explained very little of the variation in the quantity of rice demanded; further, income was not significant in determining rice demand for Asian Americans. Their demand appears to be driven primarily by ethnic and cultural considerations and household characteristics. Implications for retail marketing are discussed.
Observations of the binary pulsar system PSR B1718-19 -- The Role of Tidal Circularisation
Creators: name: Janssen, T.
name: van Kerkwijk, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical and infrared observations taken with the Very Large Telescope of the eclipsing binary pulsar system PSR B1718-19. The candidate companion of the pulsar, identified earlier in Hubble Space Telescope observations, has been detected in all three bands, R, I, and J. These detections allowed us to derive constraints on temperature, radius, and mass, pointing to a companion that has expanded to a radius between one of a main sequence star and one at the Roche-limit. We focus on the role of tidal circularisation in the system, which will have transformed the initially eccentric orbit expected from formation scenarios into the nearly circular orbit presently observed. Based on simple energy balance arguments, we are able to draw a picture of the companion's evolution resulting from the energy deposition in the star due to circularisation. In this picture, our measurement of the companion's parameters is consistent with the expected initial eccentricity. However, with the present understanding of tidal dissipation it remains difficult to account for the short time in which the system was circularised.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
A Two-Component Explosion Model for the Giant Flare and Radio Afterglow from SGR1806-20
Creators: name: Dai, Z. G.
name: Wu, X. F.
name: Wang, X. Y.
name: Huang, Y. F.
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The brightest giant flare from the soft $γ$-ray repeater (SGR) 1806-20 was detected on 2004 December 27. The isotropic-equivalent energy release of this burst is at least one order of magnitude more energetic than those of the two other SGR giant flares. Starting from about one week after the burst, a very bright ($\sim 80$ mJy), fading radio afterglow was detected. Follow-up observations revealed the multi-frequency light curves of the afterglow and the temporal evolution of the source size. Here we show that these observations can be understood in a two-component explosion model. In this model, one component is a relativistic collimated outflow responsible for the initial giant flare and the early afterglow, and another component is a subrelativistic wider outflow responsible for the late afterglow. We also discuss triggering mechanisms of these two components within the framework of the magnetar model.
description: 7 pages including 3 figures, emulateapj5.sty, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
PRICE, QUALITY, AND PESTICIDE RELATED HEALTH RISK CONSIDERATIONS IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PURCHASES: AN HEDONIC ANALYSIS OF TUCSON, ARIZONA SUPERMARKETS
Creators: name: Estes, Edmund A.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
name: Estes, Edmund A.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis

description: National opinion polls indicate that pesticide residues on fresh fruits and vegetables remain an important concern of American consumers, despite a decade-long increase in per capita consumption levels for fresh fruits and vegetables. Increased availability of organically grown fruits and vegetables may change consumer produce purchase behavior which is often dominated by appearance considerations. Domestic consumers likely consider and tradeoff price, visual appearance, and health risk when buying fresh produce. This paper uses an hedonic framework to examine price, appearance, and health risk considerations made by Tucson, Arizona shoppers in 1994.
99. Searching for Dyson spheres
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: I look at one specific search for alien civilisations which is being assisted by Gaia: the search for so-called Dyson spheres. These are hypothetical megastructures that might encompass a star, capturing a significant fraction of its emitted energy, and satisfying that civilisation's continuously growing energy needs.
Low MHD turbulence: the role of boundaries
Creators: name: Pothérat, Alban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short review, we present the main known features of MHD Turbulence at Low Magnetic Reynolds number, for which the flow isn't intense nor electrically conductive enough to disturb an externally applied magnetic field. The emphasis is deliberately placed on the very specific physical mechanisms of these flows, rather than their numerical modelling. We also focus on homogeneous magnetic fields which have received most attention. Since the basic properties of these flows have been thoroughly reviewed a number of times, this review is deliberately biased towards flows in bounded domains, in which the tendency to two-dimensionality observed in MHD flows casts the boundaries of the domain into a leading role.
Probing neutrino mass with displaced vertices at the Tevatron
Creators: name: de Campos, F.
name: Eboli, O. J. P.
name: Magro, M. B.
name: Porod, W.
name: Restrepo, D.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model exhibiting bilinear R-parity violation can generate naturally the observed neutrino mass spectrum as well mixings. One interesting feature of these scenarios is that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is unstable, with several of its decay properties predicted in terms of neutrino mixing angles. A smoking gun of this model in colliders is the presence of displaced vertices due to LSP decays in large parts of the parameter space. In this work we focus on the simplest model of this type that comes from minimal supergravity with universal R-parity conserving soft breaking of supersymmetry (RmSUGRA). We evaluate the potentiality of the Fermilab Tevatron to probe the RmSUGRA parameters through the analysis of events possessing two displaced vertices stemming from LSP decays. We show that requiring two displaced vertices in the events leads to a reach in m_{1/2} twice the one in the usual multilepton signals in a large fraction of the parameter space.
description: 19 pages with 8 figures
USING CUSTOMER SURVEYS TO PROMOTE FARMERS' MARKETS: A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Eastwood, David B.
name: Eastwood, David B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Changing food consumption patterns indicate that food retailers need to be responsive to patrons. Consumer surveys can be used to identify changes that should be made in the management of a facility and to identify relevant promotional messages for food shoppers. A survey of shoppers at a farmers' market is used to estimate a Poisson regression of the number of trips. Results provide a basis for the outlet becoming more responsive to consumer information needs.
ESTIMATION OF IMPERFECT COMPETITION IN FOOD MARKETING: A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE GERMAN BANANA MARKET
Creators: name: Deodhar, Satish Y.
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
name: Deodhar, Satish Y.
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Several studies have estimated the welfare effects of recent changes in the European Union's common policy on banana imports, based upon the assumption that the market is perfectly competitive. However, if the market is imperfectly competitive, predictions about changes in banana policy may be inaccurate. The objective of this paper is to estimate the degree of market imperfection in the German market for banana imports using dynamic methods. The hypothesis that this market is perfectly competitive is rejected, and, in addition, the degree of market imperfection is estimated to be higher using a dynamic model compared to previous static estimates.
The Dusty Disk of the Early Galaxy NGC 3656
Creators: name: Leeuw, Lerothodi L.
name: Davidson, Jacqueline
name: Dowell, C. Darren
name: Hildebrand, Roger H.
name: Matthews, Henry E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SHARC II, 350-micron continuum and archival HST J-H band maps are presented of NGC 3656, the brightest of our sample of six elliptical galaxies for which resolved CO gas disks have recently been detected with 7''-spatial-resolution, interferometry mapping. These gas disks confirm the conclusions of earlier results showing optical dust lanes and unresolved CO that implied the common existence of molecular gas in ellipticals and the disk-like structure of this gas. The presented SHARC II mapping results provide the best to date resolved FIR-submm extent of NGC 3656 and of any elliptical galaxy > 40 Mpc, showing that dust of 29 K exists out to at least 1.8 kpc in this galaxy. These new data are used in conjunction with the archival HST maps and other published data to determine dust properties and associations with galactic structures, including dominant heating sources such as nuclear-activity, star-formation or diffuse-stellar radiation.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the July 2005 Terschelling meeting on the "Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies"
Additional file 1 of 177Lu radiolabeling and preclinical theranostic study of 1C1m-Fc: an anti-TEM-1 scFv-Fc fusion protein in soft tissue sarcoma
Creators: name: J. A. Delage
name: A. Faivre-Chauvet
name: J. K. Fierle
name: S. Gnesin
name: N. Schaefer
name: G. Coukos
name: S. M. Dunn
name: D. Viertl
name: Prior, J. O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary data. Figure S1. SDS-page in non-reducing (b, c, d) and reducing conditions (e, f, g) using NuPAGE Bis-Tris gradient gels. (a) marker; (b, e) native 1C1m-Fc; (c, f) 1C1m-Fc conjugated with 3 DOTA; (d, g) 1C1m-Fc conjugated with 6 DOTA. Figure S2. Mass spectrometry analysis of native 1C1m-Fc (a) and of 1C1m-Fc conjugated with 3 DOTA (b). Figure S3. HPLC profile of [177Lu]Lu-1C1m-Fc conjugated with 3 DOTA. Figure S4. Saturation assay in Balb/c nu mice. 2.5 μg of [177Lu]Lu-1C1m-Fc conjugated with 3 DOTA was co-injected with an increasing amount of unlabeled native 1C1m-Fc (respectively 2.5, 50, 100, 200 and 500 μg). The %IA/g was evaluated at 24 hours. Table S1. Estimated number of DOTA per 1C1m-Fc based on mass spectrometry analysis
ANALYSIS OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR PACKAGE SIZES FOR BEEF AND PORK PRODUCTS AS RELATED TO THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
Creators: name: Gundry, Tami J.
name: Bacon, J. Richard
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
name: Shippy, R. Dean
name: Gundry, Tami J.
name: Bacon, J. Richard
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
name: Shippy, R. Dean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Delaware consumers were surveyed to obtain information about package size preferences for fresh beef and pork products. A chi-square and gamma analysis was made and age was found to be significant and positively correlated to the size of package chosen for various roasts and flank steak. Age and preferred package size was negatively correlated for ground beef, sirloin steak, spareribs, and pork chops. The larger the family the greater the tendency to buy larger packages of ground beef and roasts, as well as spareribs and pork chops. Those with higher incomes tended to purchase larger steaks. Females showed preferences for smaller packages while males preferred larger packages.
Are PAHs precursors of small hydrocarbons in Photo--Dissociation Regions? The Horsehead case
Creators: name: Pety, J.
name: Teyssier, D.
name: Fosse, D.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Roueff, E.
name: Abergel, A.
name: Habart, E.
name: Cernicharo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present maps at high spatial and spectral resolution in emission lines of C2H, c-C3H2, C4H, 12CO and C18O of the edge of the Horsehead nebula obtained with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI). The edge of the Horsehead nebula is a one-dimensional Photo--Dissociation Region (PDR) viewed almost edge-on. All hydrocarbons are detected at high signal--to--noise ratio in the PDR where intense emission is seen both in the H2 ro-vibrational lines and in the PAH mid--infrared bands. C18O peaks farther away from the cloud edge. Our observations demonstrate that C2H, cC3H2 and C4H are present in UV--irradiated molecular gas, with abundances nearly as high as in dense, well shielded molecular cores. PDR models i) need a large density gradient at the PDR edge to correctly reproduce the offset between the hydrocarbons and H2 peaks and ii) fail to reproduce the hydrocarbon abundances. We propose that a new formation path of carbon chains, in addition to gas phase chemistry, should be considered in PDRs: because of intense UV--irradiation, large aromatic molecules and small carbon grains may fragment and feed the interstellar medium with small carbon clusters and molecules in significant amount.
description: 16 pages, 10 PostScript figures. In press in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Uses aa LaTeX macros
Spiropyran Sulfonates for Photo and pH Responsive Air-Water Interfaces and Aqueous Foam
Creators: name: Schnurbus, Marco
name: Kabat, Malgorzata
name: Jarek, Ewelina
name: Krzan, Marcel
name: Warszynski, Piotr
name: Braunschweig, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Responsive foams and interfaces, are interesting for active materials that respond to external stimuli. We have used the photochromic reaction of a spiropyran surfactant to render interfacial, rising bubble as well as foaming properties active to light stimuli. In order to address the air-water interface, we have applied sum-frequency generation (SFG) which has provided qualitative information on the surface excess and the interfacial charging state as a function of light irradiation and pH. Under blue light, the surfactant forms a closed ring spiro form (SP), whereas under dark conditions the ring opens and the merocyanine (MC) form is generated. Using SFG, we show that different pH conditions of the bulk solution lead to changes in the interfacial charging state. We have exploited the fact that the MC surfactant's O-H group can be deprotonated with pH, and used that to tune the molecules net charge at the interface. In fact, SFG shows that with increasing pH the intensity of the OH stretching band from interfacial water molecules increases which we associate to an increase in surface net charge. At a pH of 5.3, irradiation with blue light leads to a reversible decrease of OH intensities, whereas the CH intensities were unchanged compared to the corresponding intensities under dark conditions. These results are indicative of changes in the surface net charge with light, which are also expected to influence the foam stability via changes in the electrostatic disjoining pressure. In fact, measurements of the foam stabilities are consistent with this hypothesis with higher foam stability in the dark. At pH 2.7 this behavior is reversed. This is corroborated by rising bubble experiments, which demonstrated an unprecedented reduction of ~30% in bubble velocity when the bubbles were irradiated with blue light compared to the velocity of bubbles with the surfactants in the dark state.
description: Pre-edited final version, 29 pages, 5 figures, supporting information available upon request
Strategies of Loop Recombination in Ciliates
Creators: name: Brijder, Robert
name: Hoogeboom, Hendrik Jan
name: Muskulus, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gene assembly in ciliates is an extremely involved DNA transformation process, which transforms a nucleus, the micronucleus, to another functionally different nucleus, the macronucleus. In this paper we characterize which loop recombination operations (one of the three types of molecular operations that accomplish gene assembly) can possibly be applied in the transformation of a given gene from its micronuclear form to its macronuclear form. We also characterize in which order these loop recombination operations are applicable. This is done in the abstract and more general setting of so-called legal strings.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 15 of Dynamic nanopore long-read sequencing analysis of HIV-1 splicing events during the early steps of infection
Creators: name: Quang, Nam Nguyen
name: Goudey, Sophie
name: Ségéral, Emmanuel
name: Ammara Mohammad
name: Lemoine, Sophie
name: Blugeon, Corinne
name: Versapuech, Margaux
name: Jean-Christophe Paillart
name: Berlioz-Torrent, Clarisse
name: Emiliani, Stéphane
name: Gallois-Montbrun, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 15: Figure S8. Relative abundance of viral transcripts expressed at early time points of HIV-1 infection in CD4+ T cells, determined by ONT sequencing. Abundance of all viral transcripts expressed in CD4+ T cells from donor 4 between 12 h and 24 hpi was determined as in Fig. 6. Each panel corresponds to a family of transcripts: (a) Nef, (b) Env/Vpu, (c) Vpr, (d) Rev, (e) Tat and (f) Vif.
The horofunction boundary of finite-dimensional normed spaces
Creators: name: Walsh, Cormac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23 (Primary) 51B20, 20F65 (Secondary)

description: We determine the set of Busemann points of an arbitrary finite-dimensional normed space. These are the points of the horofunction boundary that are the limits of "almost-geodesics". We prove that all points in the horofunction boundary are Busemann points if and only if the set of extreme sets of the dual unit ball is closed in the Painleve-Kuratowski topology.
description: 11 pages v2. Some proofs streamlined and another example added
Baryonic acoustic oscillations in simulated galaxy redshift surveys
Creators: name: Seo, Hee-Jong
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryonic acoustic oscillations imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum provide a promising tool for probing the cosmological distance scale and dark energy. We present results from a suite of cosmological N-body simulations aimed at investigating possible systematic errors in the recovery of cosmological distances. We show the robustness of baryonic peaks against nonlinearity, redshift distortions, and mild biases within the linear and quasilinear region at various redshifts. While mildly biased tracers follow the matter power spectrum well, redshift distortions do partially obscure baryonic features in redshift space compared to real space. We calculate the statistical constraints on cosmological distortions from N-body results and compare these to the analytic results from a Fisher matrix formalism. We conclude that the angular diameter distance will be constrained as well as our previous Fisher matrix calculations while the Hubble parameter will be less constrained because of nonlinear redshift distortions.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 16 pages, LaTeX
Reducing the total cost of ownership in radio access networks by using renewable energy resources
Creators: name: Pamuklu, Turgay
name: Ersoy, Cem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Increasing electricity prices motivates the mobile network operators to find new energy-efficient solutions for radio access networks (RANs). In this study, we focus on a specific type of RAN where the stand-alone solar panels are used as alternative energy sources to the electrical grid energy. First, we describe this hybrid energy based radio access network (HEBRAN) and formulate an optimization problem which aims to reduce the total cost of ownership of this network. Then, we propose a framework that provides a cost-efficient algorithm for choosing the proper size for the solar panels and batteries of a HEBRAN and two novel switch on/off algorithms which regulate the consumption of grid electricity during the operation of the network. In addition, we create a reduced model of the HEBRAN optimization problem to solve it in a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solver. The results show that our algorithms outperform the MILP solution and classical switch on/off methods. Moreover, our findings show that migrating to a HEBRAN system is feasible and has cost-benefits for mobile network operators.
Scaling flow diagram in the fractional quantum Hall regime of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures
Creators: name: Murzin, S. S.
name: Dorozhkin, S. I.
name: Maude, D. K.
name: Jansen, A. G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature driven flow lines of the Hall and dissipative magnetoconductance data (σ_{xy},σ_{xx}) are studied in the fractional quantum Hall regime for a 2D electron system in GaAs/Al_{x}Ga_{1-x}As heterostructures. The flow lines are rather well described by a recent unified scaling theory developed for both the integer and the fractional quantum Hall effect in a totally spin-polarized 2D electron system which predicts that one (σ_{xy},σ_{xx}) point determines a complete flow line.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Analysis of Transient Processes in a Radiophysical Flow System
Creators: name: Egorov, E. N.
name: Koronovskii, A. A.
name: Hramov, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transient processes in a third-order radiophysical flow system are studied and a map of the transient process duration versus initial conditions is constructed and analyzed. The results are compared to the arrangement of submanifolds of the stable and unstable cycles in the Poincare section of the system studied.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
ten Doornkaat, Hans, Die ökumenischen Arbeiten zur sozialen Frage
Creators: name: Menn, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (1955): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 4, Heft 1
Glutamate receptor-dependent modulation of dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens by the basolateral, but not the central, nucleus of the amygdala in rats
Creators: name: Howland, John George
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Dopaminergic neurotransmission in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) has been implicated in reward-related behavior. Recent experiments have described distinct roles of the central (CeN) and basolateral (BLA) amygdala nuclei in the context of associative rewardrelated learning. Given their direct and indirect connections to the NAc and ventral tegmental area (VTA), both the BLA and CeN may interact with the mesoaccumbens DA system during associative learning. The present experiments were designed to test if electrical stimulation of the BLA or CeN could increase dopamine (DA) efflux in the NAc. Microdialysis combined with HPLC-ED was used to monitor NAc DA efflux in freely moving rats. Results revealed that stimulation of the BLA (20 Hz, 10 sec, 300 μA) induced a long-lasting 25±4% increase in NAc DA efflux whereas CeN stimulation had no effect. Reverse dialysis of either the NMDA receptor antagonist AP-V (100 μM) or the AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist DNQX (100 μM), but not the metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist MCPG (100 μM), into the NAc blocked the stimulationinduced increase in DA efflux in the NAc. Intra-VTA infusion (2 uL, 0.5 μL/min, unilateral) of the reversible sodium channel blocker lidocaine (4%) significantly reduced basal DA levels for ~ 30 minutes but failed to suppress the increase in NAc DA efflux resulting from BLA stimulation. Consequently, we suggest that afferents from the BLA directly modulate DA efflux at the terminals in the NAc, not the cell bodies in the VTA. Results are discussed in the context of limbic-striatal interactions and associative learning.
A Fock space approach to representation theory of osp(2|2n)
Creators: name: Cheng, Shun-Jen
name: Wang, Weiqiang
name: Zhang, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A Fock space is introduced that admits an action of a quantum group of type A supplemented with some extra operators. The canonical and dual canonical basis of the Fock space are computed and then used to derive the finite-dimenisonal tilting and irreducible characters for the Lie superalgebra osp(2|2n). We also determine all the composition factors of the symmetric tensors of the natural osp(2|2n)-module.
description: 16 pages, to appear in Transform. Groups
Cavity Optomechanics with Photonic Bound States in the Continuum
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Jamie M.
name: Manjeshwar, Sushanth Kini
name: Wieczorek, Witlef
name: Tassin, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a versatile, free-space cavity optomechanics platform built from two photonic crystal membranes, one of which is freely suspended, and designed to form a microcavity less than one wavelength long. This cavity features a series of photonic bound states in the continuum that, in principle, trap light forever and can be favorably used together with evanescent coupling for realizing various types of optomechanical couplings, such as linear or quadratic coupling of either dispersive or dissipative type, by tuning the photonic crystal patterning and cavity length. Crucially, this platform allows for a quantum cooperativity exceeding unity in the ultrastrong single-photon coupling regime, surpassing the performance of conventional Fabry-Perot-based cavity optomechanical devices in the non-resolved sideband regime. This conceptually novel platform allows for exploring new regimes of the optomechanical interaction, in particular in the framework of pulsed and single-photon optomechanics.
A Study of the Type II-P Supernova 2003gd in M74
Creators: name: Hendry, M. A.
name: Smartt, S. J.
name: Maund, J. R.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Zampieri, L.
name: Benetti, S.
name: Turatto, M.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Meikle, W. P. S.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Jonker, P. G.
name: Vermaas, L.
name: Peletier, R. F.
name: van Woerden, H.
name: Exter, K. M.
name: Pollacco, D. L.
name: Leon, S.
name: Verley, S.
name: Benn, C. R.
name: Pignata, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present photometric and spectroscopic data of the type II-P supernova 2003gd, which was discovered in M74 close to the end of its plateau phase. SN 2003gd is the first type II supernova to have a directly confirmed red supergiant progenitor. We compare SN 2003gd with SN 1999em, a similar type II-P supernova, and estimate an explosion date of 18th March 2003. We determine a reddening towards the supernova of E(B-V) = 0.14+/-0.06, using three different methods. We also calculate three new distances to M74 of 9.6+/-2.8 Mpc, 7.7+/-1.7 Mpc and 9.6+/-2.2 Mpc. The former was estimated using the Standardised Candle Method (SCM), for type II supernovae, and the latter two using the Brightest Supergiants Method (BSM). When combined with existing kinematic and BSM distance estimates, we derive a mean value of 9.3+/-1.8 Mpc. SN 2003gd was found to have a lower tail luminosity compared to other ``normal'' type II-P SNe bringing into question the nature of this supernova. We present a discussion concluding that this is a ``normal'' type II-P supernova which is consistent with the observed progenitor mass of 8(+4/-2) Mo.
description: 23 pages, 24 figures to appear in MNRAS
Role of mean free path in spatial phase correlation and nodal screening
Creators: name: van Tiggelen, B. A.
name: Anache, D.
name: Ghysels, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spatial correlation function of the phase and its derivative, and related, fluctuations of topological charge, in two and three dimensional random media described by Gaussian statistics. We investigate their dependence on the scattering mean free path.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. submitted to Europhys. Lett
X-ray Spectroscopy of the gamma-ray Brightest Nova V906 Car (ASASSN-18fv)
Creators: name: Sokolovsky, Kirill V.
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Chomiuk, Laura
name: de Oliveira, Raimundo Lopes
name: Aydi, Elias
name: Li, Kwan-Lok
name: Steinberg, Elad
name: Vurm, Indrek
name: Metzger, Brian D.
name: Kawash, Adam
name: Linford, Justin D.
name: Mioduszewski, Amy J.
name: Nelson, Thomas
name: Ness, Jan-Uwe
name: Page, Kim L.
name: Rupen, Michael P.
name: Sokoloski, Jennifer L.
name: Strader, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shocks in gamma-ray emitting classical novae are expected to produce bright thermal and non-thermal X-rays. We test this prediction with simultaneous NuSTAR and Fermi/LAT observations of nova V906 Car, which exhibited the brightest GeV gamma-ray emission to date. The nova is detected in hard X-rays while it is still gamma-ray bright, but contrary to simple theoretical expectations, the detected 3.5-78 keV emission of V906 Car is much weaker than the simultaneously observed >100 MeV emission. No non-thermal X-ray emission is detected, and our deep limits imply that the gamma-rays are likely hadronic. After correcting for substantial absorption (N_H ~ 2 x 10^23 cm^-2), the thermal X-ray luminosity (from a 9 keV optically-thin plasma) is just ~2% of the gamma-ray luminosity. We consider possible explanations for the low thermal X-ray luminosity, including the X-rays being suppressed by corrugated, radiative shock fronts or the X-rays from the gamma-ray producing shock are hidden behind an even larger absorbing column (N_H >10^25 cm^-2). Adding XMM-Newton and Swift/XRT observations to our analysis, we find that the evolution of the intrinsic X-ray absorption requires the nova shell to be expelled 24 days after the outburst onset. The X-ray spectra show that the ejecta are enhanced in nitrogen and oxygen, and the nova occurred on the surface of a CO-type white dwarf. We see no indication of a distinct super-soft phase in the X-ray lightcurve, which, after considering the absorption effects, may point to a low mass of the white dwarf hosting the nova.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables; accepted to MNRAS
Super-Klein tunneling of Dirac fermions through electrostatic gratings in graphene
Creators: name: Contreras-Astorga, Alonso
name: Correa, Francisco
name: Jakubsky, Vit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Wick-rotated time-dependent supersymmetry to construct models of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in presence of an electrostatic grating. We show that there appears omnidirectional perfect transmission through the grating at specific energy. Additionally to being transparent for incoming fermions, the grating hosts strongly localized states.
Physogaleus Cappetta 1980
Creators: name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
name: Starnes, James E.
name: Phillips, George E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Physogaleus

description: Genus Physogaleus Cappetta, 1980
Type species
Trigonodus secundus Winkler, 1874, Lutetian, Belgium.
description: Published as part of Cicimurri, David J., Ebersole, Jun A., Stringer, Gary L., Starnes, James E. & Phillips, George E., 2025, Late Oligocene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi, USA, pp. 1-131 in European Journal of Taxonomy 984 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.984.2851, http://zenodo.org/record/15126034
Additional file 12 of Dynamic nanopore long-read sequencing analysis of HIV-1 splicing events during the early steps of infection
Creators: name: Quang, Nam Nguyen
name: Goudey, Sophie
name: Ségéral, Emmanuel
name: Ammara Mohammad
name: Lemoine, Sophie
name: Blugeon, Corinne
name: Versapuech, Margaux
name: Jean-Christophe Paillart
name: Berlioz-Torrent, Clarisse
name: Emiliani, Stéphane
name: Gallois-Montbrun, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 12: Figure S7. Correlation of viral isoform abundances quantified by ONT sequencing between biological replicates of HeLa cells expressing either wild-type or U1 D2upEx snRNA. Relative abundances of HIV-1 spliced RNAs were calculated as a % of the total number of viral annotated reads. Results were compared using a linear regression model supplied by Prism 7 between WT U1 HeLa cells samples: (a) sample 1 vs sample 2; (b) sample 1 vs sample 3; (c) sample 2 vs sample 3, and between U1 D2upEx HeLa samples : (d) sample 1 vs sample 2; (e) sample 1 vs sample 3; (f) sample 2 vs sample 3. Pearson correlation coefficients r are indicated. p<0.0001.
Regular projectively Anosov flows on three-dimensional manifolds
Creators: name: Asaoka, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D30, 57R30

description: We give the complete classification of regular projectively Anosov flows on closed three-dimensional manifolds. More precisely, we show that such a flow must be either an Anosov flow or decomposed into a finite union of $T^2 \times I$-models. We also apply our method to rigidity problems of some group actions.
description: 28 pages, no figures
Missing in Action: New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap
Creators: name: Croon, Djuna
name: McDermott, Samuel D.
name: Sakstein, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the power of the black hole mass gap as a novel probe of fundamental physics. New light particles that couple to the Standard Model can act as an additional source of energy loss in the cores of population-III stars, dramatically altering their evolution. We investigate the effects of two paradigmatic weakly coupled, low-mass particles, axions and hidden photons, and find that the pulsational pair instability, which causes a substantial amount of mass loss, is suppressed. As a result, it is possible to form black holes of $72\msun$ or heavier, deep inside the black hole mass gap predicted by the Standard Model. The upper edge of the mass gap is raised to $>130{\rm M}_\odot$, implying that heavier black holes, anticipated to be observed after LIGO's sensitivity is upgraded, would also be impacted. In contrast, thermally produced heavy particles would remain in the core, leading to the tantalizing possibility that they drive a new instability akin to the electron-positron pair instability. We investigate this effect analytically and find that stars that avoid the electron-positron pair instability could experience this new instability. We discuss our results in light of current and upcoming gravitational wave interferometer detections of binary black hole mergers.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Size effects and idealized dislocation microstructure at small scales: predictions of a phenomenological model of Mesoscopic Field Dislocation Mechanics: Part II
Creators: name: Roy, Anish
name: Acharya, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Part I of this set of two papers, a model of mesoscopic plasticity is developed for studying initial-boundary value problems of small scale plasticity. Here we make qualitative, finite element method-based computational predictions of the theory. We demonstrate size effects and the development of strong inhomogeneity in simple shearing of plastically-constrained grains. Nonlocality in elastic straining leading to a strong Bauschinger effect is analyzed. Stability of the time dependent, spatially homogeneous, simple shearing solution of PMFDM is studied. Results from thermal cycling of small scale beams/films with different degrees of constraint to plastic flow are presented showing size effects and reciprocal-film-thickness scaling of dislocation density boundary layer width.
Control of Invasive Species: Lessons from Miconia in Hawaii
Creators: name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Roumasset, James A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Once established, invasive species can rapidly and irreversibly alter ecosystems and degrade the value of ecosystem services. Optimal control of an exotic pest solves for a trajectory of removals that minimizes the present value of removal costs and residual damages from the remaining pest population. The shrubby tree, Miconia calvescens, is used to illustrate dynamic policy options for a forest invader. Potential damages to Hawaii's forest ecosystems are related to decreased aquifer recharge, biodiversity, and other ecosystem values. We find that population reduction is the optimal management policy for the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii. On the island of Kauai, where tree density is lower and search costs higher, optimal policy calls for deferring removal expenditures until the steady state population is reached.
100. The Fermi paradox
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Following my last three essays, which looked at the historical debate about the existence of life on other worlds, and the search for anomalous stars which may be the first steps along the path for discovering alien civilisations, I look in more details at the Fermi paradox: if such civilisations exist, where are they?
A numerical algorithm for efficiently obtaining a Feynman parameter representation of one-gluon loop QCD Feynman diagrams for a large number of external gluons
Creators: name: Kapoyannis, A. S.
name: Karanikas, A. I.
name: Ktorides, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical program is presented which facilitates a computation pertaining to the full set of one-gluon loop diagrams (including ghost loop contributions), with M attached external gluon lines in all possible ways. The feasibility of such a task rests on a suitably defined master formula, which is expressed in terms of a set of Grassmann and a set of Feynman parameters. The program carries out the Grassmann integration and performs the Lorentz trace on the involved functions, expressing the result as a compact sum of parametric integrals. The computation is based on tracing the structure of the final result, thus avoiding all intermediate unnecessary calculations and directly writing the output. Similar terms entering the final result are grouped together. The running time of the program demonstrates its effectiveness, especially for large M.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures. in press Computer Physics Communications
Striking properties of Superconductor/Ferromagnet structures with spin-dependent scattering
Creators: name: Faure, M.
name: Buzdin, A. I.
name: Golubov, A. A.
name: Kupriyanov, M. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Superconductor/Ferromagnet (S/F) hybrid structures in the dirty limit, described by the Usadel equations. More precisely, the oscillations of the critical temperature and critical current with the thickness of the ferromagnetic layers are studied. We show that spin-flip and spin-orbit scattering lead to the decrease of the decay length and the increase of the oscillations period. The critical current decay is more sensitive to these pair-breaking mechanisms than that of the critical temperature. These two scattering mechanisms should be taken into account to get a better agreement between experimental results and theoretical description. We also study the influence of the interface transparency on the properties of S/F structures.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B; reference added
Predicting the Right Mechanism for Hypervalent Iodine Reagents by Applying Two Types of Hypervalent Twist Models: Apical Twist and Equatorial Twist
Creators: name: Sun, Tian-Yu
name: Chen, Kai
name: You, Tingting
name: Yina, Penggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the hypervalent twist followed by reductive elimination is a general reaction pattern for hypervalent iodine reagents, mechanistic studies about the hypervalent twist step provide significant guidance for experiments. Our previous work showed there are two types of hypervalent twist models, i.e. apical twist and equatorial twist. We applied both hypervalent twist models to explain the isomerization mechanism of two important electrophilic trifluoromethylating reagents, Togni I and Togni II. To the best of our knowledge, there are less detailed studies about the different twist modes between both reagents, which are important to predict the right reaction mechanism and especially, understand well the differences of reactivity and stability. Here, we successfully identified Togni II's isomerization pathway via equatorial twist, and suggested different hypervalent twist models should be considered to predict the right mechanisms of reactions with hypervalent iodine reagents.
The Empirics of Environmental and Distributional Impacts of Conservation Targeting Strategies
Creators: name: Tanaka, Katsuya
name: Wu, JunJie
name: Tanaka, Katsuya
name: Wu, JunJie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study compares the environmental and economic effects of alternative targeting strategies (benefit, cost, and benefit-cost ratio targeting) for reducing nitrate-N water pollution in the Des Moines Watershed in Iowa. The objective is achieved by applying an integrated modeling system to nitrate-N runoff from the Des Moines Watershed. Our integrated modeling system consists of an econometric model and a physically-based hydrologic balance simulation model. The econometric model estimates the opportunity cost of CRP participation is calculated at each parcel. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is then used to simulate the level of nitrate-N runoff at each NRI parcel in the watershed. Our results show that the benefit-cost targeting achieves the highest nitrate-N runoff reduction for a given budget. The cost targeting results in the largest amount of land out of production. This strategy, however, results in the smallest environmental benefits. The benefit targeting takes the smallest amount of resource out of production and results in highest output level. The percent differences in the amount of land retired and total nitrate-N runoff reduction among alternative targeting strategies tend to be larger when the conservation budget is smaller. Finally, benefit targeting and benefit-cost ratio targeting tend to result in similar environmental and economic outcomes. Differences in nitrate-N runoff and acres of land retired between these two strategies are shown to be quite small.