cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detection of current-sheet and bipolar ion flows in a self-generated antiparallel magnetic field of laser-produced plasmas for magnetic reconnection research
Creators: name: Morita, T.
name: Matsukiyo, S.
name: Isayama, S.
name: Kojima, T.
name: Matsuo, S.
name: Pan, Y.
name: Yamazaki, R.
name: Tanaka, S. J.
name: Aihara, K.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Shiota, J.
name: Tomita, K.
name: Takezaki, T.
name: Kuramitsu, Y.
name: Sakai, K.
name: Egashira, S.
name: Ishihara, H.
name: Kuramoto, O.
name: Matsumoto, Y.
name: Maeda, K.
name: Sakawa, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic reconnection in laser-produced magnetized plasma is investigated by using optical diagnostics. The magnetic field is generated via Biermann battery effect, and the inversely directed magnetic field lines interact with each other. It is shown by self-emission measurement that two colliding plasmas stagnate on a mid-plane forming two planar dense regions, and that they interact later in time. Laser Thomson scattering spectra are distorted in the direction of the self-generated magnetic field, indicating asymmetric ion velocity distribution and plasma acceleration. In addition, the spectra perpendicular to the magnetic field show different peak intensity, suggesting an electron current formation. These results are interpreted as magnetic field dissipation, reconnection, and outflow acceleration. Two-directional laser Thomson scattering is, as discussed here, a powerful tool for the investigation of microphysics in the reconnection region.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, Physical Review E, in press
A derivation of the planar limit of ${\cal N}=2$ chiral correlators
Creators: name: Fiol, Bartomeu
name: Fukelman, Alan Rios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive analytically the terms of maximal transcendality of the planar 2- and 3-point functions of single-trace chiral primary operators of ${\cal N}=2$ SQCD on $\bR^4$, to all orders in the 't Hooft coupling. These results prove two conjectures we formulated in previous work. Furthermore, we also provide an explicit expression for the terms in the planar 2-point functions of these operators that contain products of two values of the $ζ$ function.
description: 22 pages
Adopt-a-Swamp Pink Population
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Year: 2003

description: New Jersey supports more than 70 percent of the world's swamp pink populations. Recovery of this species is dependent upon the long-term stability of existing populations; however, many New Jersey populations are not monitored on an annual basis. This brochure describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service New Jersey Field Office's Adopt-a-Swamp Pink Population program, in which volunteers play a significant role in recovering this threatened species by monitoring specific sites.
Physical modelling of galaxy clusters and Bayesian inference in astrophysics
Creators: name: Javid, Kamran
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mathematical modelling
Computational Astrophysics
Computational Statistics
Bayesian inference
Applied statistics
Monte Carlo methods
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Data analysis
Bayesian statistics
Galaxy cluster modelling

description: This thesis is concerned with the modelling of galaxy clusters, applying these models to real and simulated data using Bayesian inference, and the development of Bayesian inference algorithms applicable to a wide range of astrophysical problems. I present a comparison of mass estimates for $54$ galaxy cluster candidates from the second Planck catalogue (PSZ2) of Sunyaev--Zel'dovich sources. I compare the mass values obtained with data taken from the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) radio interferometer system and from the Planck satellite. The former of these uses a Bayesian analysis pipeline that parameterises a cluster in terms of its physical quantities, and models the dark matter \& baryonic components of a cluster using Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) and generalised-NFW profiles respectively. The mass estimates derived from Planck data are obtained from the results of the Bayesian detection algorithm PowellSnakes (PwS). I also analyse simulated AMI data with input values based on PwS mass estimates. I then compare three cluster models using AMI data for the 54 cluster sample. The two observational models considered only model the gas content of the cluster. To compare the physical and observational models I consider their posterior parameter estimates, including the calculation of a metric defined between two probability distributions. The models' fit to the cluster data is evaluated by looking at the Bayesian evidence values. Improvements to the physical modelling of galaxy clusters are then considered, either by relaxing some of the assumptions underlying the physical model, or by introducing a new profile for the dark matter component of clusters. The resultant models are compared with the physical model introduced previously. The final part of the cluster analysis work focuses on Bayesian analysis using a joint likelihood function of data from both AMI and the Planck satellite simultaneously. The results of this joint analysis are compared with those obtained from the individual likelihood analyses using simulated data and with real data taken from the $54$ cluster sample. Finally, a new Bayesian inference algorithm based on nested sampling is presented. The algorithm, named the "geometric nested sampler", is an adaption of the Metropolis-Hastings nested sampler and makes use of the geometrical interpretation of sets of parameters to sample from their domains efficiently. The geometric nested sampler is tested on several toy models as well as a model representing the emission of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. The results obtained using the geometric nested sampler are compared with those from popular nested sampling algorithms.
description: STFC funded studentship
Melanogaster parumplicata
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Boletales
Paxillaceae
Melanogaster
Melanogaster parumplicata

description: Melanogaster parumplicata (Loew, 1840) ČS: VU Druh znÁmý od severnÍ Evropy až po BalkÁn. VzÁcný mokřadnÍ druh břehových porostů přirozeně zarůstajÍcÍch stojatých i tekoucÍch vodnÍch ploch v nivnÍch loukÁch a lužnÍch lesÍch. Meandry Smědé PR [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 1 ♀ (MT), 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (YPT); 19.-31.V.2005, 2 ♀♀ (MT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Evaluation of CO2 Emission Allocations as Part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Final Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy (CEEE), Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Year: 2005

description: This report examines the implications of three allocation approaches on the cost of CO2 allowances, wholesale electricity prices, production decisions by different types of generation units, and generation profitability. These interrelationships are illustrated using calculations and examples that may be typical of the types of qualitative impacts such a cap-and-trade program is likely to have. In addition, the report discusses several important issues related to the economic impact of the program, including leakage and several administrative issues. The report concludes that allocation of CO2 allowances is critical because it involves distributing, in effect, a large amount of money. The total value of the allowances is far greater than the compliance cost to meet the cap. The allocation scheme also has critical implications on the cost of electricity, the profitability of generation units, and the amount of leakage, and each allocation approach affects these issues differently.
Towards Stable Co-saliency Detection and Object Co-segmentation
Creators: name: Li, Bo
name: Tang, Lv
name: Kuang, Senyun
name: Song, Mofei
name: Ding, Shouhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a novel model for simultaneous stable co-saliency detection (CoSOD) and object co-segmentation (CoSEG). To detect co-saliency (segmentation) accurately, the core problem is to well model inter-image relations between an image group. Some methods design sophisticated modules, such as recurrent neural network (RNN), to address this problem. However, order-sensitive problem is the major drawback of RNN, which heavily affects the stability of proposed CoSOD (CoSEG) model. In this paper, inspired by RNN-based model, we first propose a multi-path stable recurrent unit (MSRU), containing dummy orders mechanisms (DOM) and recurrent unit (RU). Our proposed MSRU not only helps CoSOD (CoSEG) model captures robust inter-image relations, but also reduces order-sensitivity, resulting in a more stable inference and training process. { Moreover, we design a cross-order contrastive loss (COCL) that can further address order-sensitive problem by pulling close the feature embedding generated from different input orders.} We validate our model on five widely used CoSOD datasets (CoCA, CoSOD3k, Cosal2015, iCoseg and MSRC), and three widely used datasets (Internet, iCoseg and PASCAL-VOC) for object co-segmentation, the performance demonstrates the superiority of the proposed approach as compared to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.
Proximity and Innovation: Analyzing the path through topic modeling and business model design
Creators: name: Devigili, Matteo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: This thesis aims to deepen the relationship between the different forms of proximity that emerge between economic actors and the consequent influence on their innovative capacity. Over the years, this topic has generated a great deal of attention in conference proceedings and scientific publications. The first step to deepen the understanding of this amount of knowledge was to identify a suitable methodology. In so do- ing, the recent advances of the Machine Learning community ? particularly Natural Language Processing academics - have offered interesting insights. In particular, "Topic Modeling" was identified as a suitable methodology to bring out latent semantic structures. Therefore, the first chapter tries to study how this methodology has been implemented in the social sciences and, in particular, in management. The contribution offered is a rationalization of the achievable goals and their relationship with evaluation practices. Once clarified how to use this algorithm, the second chapter studied the relationship between proximity and innovation. Using an unsupervised machine learning technique, the research attempts to identify thematic management cores in a multifocal literature such as proximity. Together with a qualitative analysis, the study attempts to bring out the theoretical and empirical contributions offered to the management community. Once the theoretical and empirical expectations have been clarified, the third chapter introduces a strategic theme, namely the business model. This section proposes a mediating effect of the business model concerning the central relationship between proximity and innovation. After a theoretical introduction, the conceptual model is studied with an exploratory approach. Without any presumption of generalizability and completeness, a novel analytical key is offered to open further debate in the community of proximity.
Hamiltonian perspective on parquet theory
Creators: name: Green, Frederick
name: Ainsworth, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding collective phenomena calls for tractable descriptions of correlations in assemblies of strongly interacting constituents. Capturing the essence of their self-consistency is central. The parquet theory admits a maximum level of self-consistency for strictly pairwise many-body correlations. While perturbatively based, the core of parquet and allied models is a set of strongly coupled nonlinear integral equations for all-order scattering; tightly constrained by crossing symmetry, they are nevertheless heuristic. Within a formalism due to Kraichnan, we present a Hamiltonian analysis of fermionic parquet's structure. The shape of its constitutive equations follows naturally from the resulting canonical description. We discuss the affinity between the derived conserving scattering amplitude and that of standard parquet. Whereas the Hamiltonian-derived model amplitude is microscopically conserving, it cannot preserve crossing symmetry. The parquet amplitude and its refinements preserve crossing symmetry, yet cannot safeguard conservation at any stage. Which amplitude should be used depends on physics rather than on theoretically ideal completeness.
description: 14 pp, 8 figs. Sequel to DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062118. Submitted to PRA
Jacob of Serugh's Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre
Creators: name: Moss, Charles
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1935

description: This fascinating volume contains excerpts from four otherwise unedited (and untranslated) homilies from Jacob of Sarug on the theatre. These homilies, extant only in a single manuscript (BM Add. 17158), which is unfortunately poorly preserved, are unique for the light they cast on the Greek theatre in the Byzantine period. In this article, originally published in Le Muséon 48 (1935), Moss gives a substantive introduction to the selections presented from these homilies, and then presents the texts in Syriac and in English translation. Scholars and readers interested in Syriac literature, and in Jacob of Sarug in particular, as well as students of the history of the theatre, will find this work of great interest.
Is the achievement motive gender-biased? The validity of TAT/PSE in women and men
Creators: name: Gruber, Nicole
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST; IMPLICIT MOTIVES; QUESTIONNAIRE; PERSONALITY; AFFILIATION; MOTIVATION; NEEDS; POWER; TAT; implicit motive; achievement; Thematic Apperception Test; gender; sex; validity
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: In picture story exercises like the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Heckhausen, 1963), different pictures are presented to a person with the instruction to create a story using the scenes portrayed in the image. It is assumed, that people identify themselves with the people in the images and project their unconscious motives (e.g., achievement motive) onto them. As the TAT shows only men in the pictures, critics claimed the test is gender-biased; assuming women cannot identify with men in pictures. However, it was not assessed, whether female protagonists of the picture really trigger the same achievement motive as men. Therefore, two studies were conducted to address the gender difference and validity of the TAT using a version with only men in the pictures (study 1) or only women in the pictures (study 2). The results shows that the original TAT of Heckhausen is a valid instrument for women and men, but the modified version with only women in the pictures cannot validly measure the achievement motive in the male sample.
Towards a Cosmology with Minimal Length and Maximal Energy
Creators: name: Ali, Ahmed Farag
name: Majumder, Barun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe and Bianchi I,II universes are investigated in the framework of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) with a linear and a quadratic term in Planck length and momentum, which predicts minimum measurable length as well as maximum measurable momentum. We get a dynamic cosmological bounce for the FRW universe. With Bianchi universe, we found that the universe may be still isotropic by implementing GUP. Moreover, the wall velocity appears to be stationary with respect to the universe velocity which means that when the momentum of the Universe evolves into a maximum measurable energy, the bounce is enhanced against the wall which means no maximum limit angle is manifested anymore.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, To appear in Class.Quant.Grav
Measurement of the t-channel single-top-quark production cross section and of the |Vtb| CKM matrix element in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements are presented of the t-channel single-top-quark production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross section is measured inclusively, as well as separately for top (t) and antitop (t-bar), in final states with a muon or an electron. The measured inclusive t-channel cross section is sigma[t-ch] = 83.6 +/- 2.3 (stat.) +/- 7.4 (syst.) pb. The single t and t-bar cross sections are measured to be sigma[t-ch,t] = 53.8 +/- 1.5 (stat.) +/- 4.4 (syst.) pb and sigma[t-ch,t-bar] = 27.6 +/- 1.3 (stat.) +/- 3.7 (syst.) pb, respectively. The measured ratio of cross sections is R[t-ch] = sigma[t-ch,t]/sigma[t-ch,t-bar] = 1.95 +/- 0.10 (stat.) +/- 0.19 (syst.), in agreement with the standard model prediction. The modulus of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element Vtb is extracted and, in combination with a previous CMS result at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, a value abs(Vtb) = 0.998 +/- 0.038 (exp.) +/- 0.016 (theo.) is obtained.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Linear optics schemes for entanglement distribution with realistic single-photon sources
Creators: name: Lasota, Mikołaj
name: Radzewicz, Czesław
name: Banaszek, Konrad
name: Thew, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the operation of linear optics schemes for entanglement distribution based on nonlocal photon subtraction when input states, produced by imperfect single-photon sources, exhibit both vacuum and multiphoton contributions. Two models for realistic photon statistics with radically different properties of the multiphoton "tail" are considered. The first model assumes occasional emission of double photons and linear attenuation, while the second one is motivated by heralded sources utilizing spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We find conditions for the photon statistics that guarantee generation of entanglement in the relevant qubit subspaces and compare it with classicality criteria. We also quantify the amount of entanglement that can be produced with imperfect single-photon sources, optimized over setup parameters, using as a measure entanglement of formation. Finally, we discuss verification of the generated entanglement by testing Bell's inequalities. The analysis is carried out for two schemes. The first one is the well-established one-photon scheme, which produces a photon in a delocalized superposition state between two nodes, each of them fed with one single photon at the input. As the second scheme, we introduce and analyze a linear-optics analog of the robust scheme based on interfering two Stokes photons emitted by atomic ensembles, which does not require phase stability between the nodes.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, title change, minor corrections in the text
Periodically bursting edge states in plane Poiseuille flow
Creators: name: Zammert, Stefan
name: Eckhardt, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the laminar-turbulent boundary in plane Poiseuille flow by the method of edge tracking. In short and narrow computational domains we find for a wide range in Reynolds number that all states in the boundary converge to a period orbit with a period of the order of $10^{3}$ time units. The attracting states in these small domains are periodically extended in the spanwise and streamwise direction, but always localized to one side of the channel in the normal direction. In short and wide domains the edge states are localized in the spanwise direction. The periodic motion found in the small domains then induces a large variety of dynamical activity. The findings are very similar to the ones in the asymptotic suction boundary layer.
description: Revised version
The star formation history of Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus
Creators: name: Miret-Roig, N.
name: Galli, P. A. B.
name: Olivares, J.
name: Bouy, H.
name: Alves, J.
name: Barrado, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to study spatial and kinematic substructures of the region encompassed by Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus star-forming regions, determining dynamical traceback ages and studying the star formation history of the complex. We identified seven different groups in this region. Four groups (nu Sco, beta Sco, sigma Sco and delta Sco) are part of Upper Scorpius, two groups (rho Oph and alpha Sco) are in Ophiuchus, and another group (pi Sco) is a nearby young population. We found an age gradient from the rho Oph group (the youngest) to the delta Sco group (<~5 Myr), showing that star formation was a sequential process for the past 5 Myr. Our traceback analysis shows that Upper Scorpius and rho Oph groups share a common origin. The closer group of pi Sco is probably older, and the traceback analysis suggests that this group and the alpha Sco group have a different origin, likely related to other associations in the Sco-Cen complex. Our study shows that this region has a complex star formation history that goes beyond the current formation scenario, likely a result of stellar feedback from massive stars, supernovae explosions, and dynamic interactions between stellar groups and the molecular gas. In particular, we speculate that photo-ionisation from the massive delta Sco star could have triggered star formation first in the beta Sco group and then in the nu Sco group. The perturbations of stellar orbits due to stellar feedback and dynamical interactions could also be responsible for the 1-3 Myr difference that we found between dynamical traceback ages and isochronal ages.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
A new formulation of non-relativistic diffeomorphism invariance
Creators: name: Banerjee, Rabin
name: Mitra, Arpita
name: Mukherjee, Pradip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a new formulation of nonrelativistic diffeomorphism invariance. It is generated by localising the usual global Galilean Symmetry. The correspondence with the type of diffeomorphism invariant models currently in vogue in the theory of fractional quantum Hall effect has been discussed. Our construction is shown to open up a general approach of model building in theoretical condensed matter physics. Also, this formulation has the capacity of obtaining Newton - Cartan geometry from the gauge procedure.
description: minor changes, new reference added, to appear in PLB
Loop Quantum Gravity motivated multihorizon rotating black holes
Creators: name: Kumar, Jitendra
name: Islam, Shafqat Ul
name: Ghosh, Sushant G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a semiclassical polymerization in the loop quantum gravity (LQG), the interior of Schwarzschild black holes provides a captivating single-horizon regular black hole spacetime. The shortage of rotating black hole models in loop quantum gravity (LQG) substantially restrains the progress of testing LQG from observations. Motivated by this, starting with a spherical LQG black hole as a seed metric, we construct a rotating spacetime using the revised Newman-Janis algorithm, namely, the LQG-motivated rotating black holes (LMRBH), which encompasses Kerr ($l=0$) black holes as an exceptional case. We discover that for any random $l>0$, unlike Kerr black hole, an extremal LMRBH refers to a black hole with angular momentum $a>M$. The rotating metric, in parameter space, describes (1) black holes with an event and Cauchy horizons, (2) black holes with three horizons, (3) black holes with only one horizon or (4) no horizon spacetime. We also discuss the horizon and global structure of the LMRBH spacetimes and its dependence on $l/M$ that exhibits rich spacetime structures in the ($M,\;a,\;l$) parameter space.
description: 12 Pages, 9 Figures, 1 Table, Minor typos corrected, Accepted for publication in JCAP
Seismology of adolescent neutron stars: Accounting for thermal effects and crust elasticity
Creators: name: Krüger, C. J.
name: Ho, W. C. G.
name: Andersson, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the oscillations of relativistic stars, incorporating key physics associated with internal composition, thermal gradients and crust elasticity. Our aim is to develop a formalism which is able to account for the state-of-the-art understanding of the complex physics associated with these systems. As a first step, we build models using a modern equation of state including composition gradients and density discontinuities associated with internal phase-transitions (like the crust-core transition and the point where muons first appear in the core). In order to understand the nature of the oscillation spectrum, we carry out cooling simulations to provide realistic snapshots of the temperature distribution in the interior as the star evolves through adolescence. The associated thermal pressure is incorporated in the perturbation analysis, and we discuss the presence of $g$-modes arising as a result of thermal effects. We also consider interface modes due to phase-transitions and the gradual formation of the star's crust and the emergence of a set of shear modes.
description: 27 pages, 14 figures
Excited-State Response Theory Within the Context of the Coupled-Cluster Formalism
Creators: name: Mosquera, Martín A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-dependent response theories are foundational to the development of algorithms that determine quantum properties of electronic excited states of molecules and periodic systems. They are employed in wave-function, density-functional, and semiempirical methods, and are applied in an incremental order: linear, quadratic, cubic, etc. Linear response theory is known to produce electronic transitions from ground to excited state, and vice versa. In this work, a linear-response approach, within the context of the coupled cluster formalism, is developed to offer transition elements between different excited states (including permanent elements), and related properties. Our formalism, second linear response theory, is consistent with quadratic response theory, and can serve as an alternative to develop and study excited-state theoretical methods, including pathways for algorithmic acceleration. This work also formulates an extension of our theory for general propagations under non-linear external perturbations, where the observables are given by linked expressions which can predict their time-evolution under arbitrary initial states and could serve as a means of constructing general state propagators. A connection with the physics of wavefunction theory is developed as well, in which dynamical cluster operator amplitudes are related to wavefunction linear superposition coefficients.
description: 44 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review A
Nature and origin of the operators entering the master equation of an open quantum system
Creators: name: Spaventa, Giovanni
name: Verrucchi, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By exploiting the peculiarities of a recently introduced formalism for describing open quantum systems (the Parametric Representation with Environmental Coherent States) we derive an equation of motion for the reduced density operator of an open quantum system that has the same structure of the celebrated Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad equation, but holds regardless of markovianity being assumed. The operators in our result have explicit expressions in terms of the Hamiltonian describing the interactions with the environment, and can be computed once a specific model is considered. We find that, instead of a single set of Lindblad operators, in the general (non-markovian) case there one set of Lindblad-like operators for each and every point of a symplectic manifold associated to the environment. This intricacy disappears under some assumptions (which are related to markovianity and the classical limit of the environment), under which it is possible to recover the usual master equation formalism. Finally, we find such Lindblad-like operators for two different models of a qubit in a bosonic environment, and show that in the classical limit of the environment their renown master equations are recovered.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Beyond the Curb... (Winter 2007)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR)
Year: 2007

description: This is the Winter 2007 edition of the Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR) Newsletter, Beyond the Curb... ANJR is a non-profit, non-partisan network whose mission is to serve as the voice of recycling in New Jersey through education, advocacy, and the promotion of professional standards. Articles featured in this issue include: A Message From ANJR President; New Jersey's Official Recycling Logo; Chill - Global Warming, the 26th AnnualRecycling Symposium and Awards Luncheon; The Recycling Coordinator's Primer ; City of Vineland Receives NJClean Communities Award; and 2007 Calendar of Events.
Orthonevra brevicornis Loew 1843
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Orthonevra
Orthonevra brevicornis

description: Orthonevra brevicornis Loew, 1843 ČS: VU Eurosibiřský druh, vyskytujÍcÍ se velmi vzÁcně v okolÍ neregulovaných přirozeně zarůstajÍcÍch stojatých i tekoucÍch vodnÍch ploch a pramenišť. SaprofÁgně akvatické larvy se zřejmě vyvÍjejÍ v rÁkosinÁch. Bílý Potok [1a]: 3.-19.V.2005, 1 ♂ (MT); 19.V.-3.VI.2005, 1 ♀ (YPT); [1b]: 22.V.2003, 1 ♂. Frýdlant [7]: 22.V.2006, 4 ♂♂ (SW). Harta [8]: 12.V.2006, 1 ♂ (SW). Meandry Smědé PR [22a]: 31.V.-22.VI.2005, 2 ♀♀ (MT); [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 1 ♂ (YPT); 19.-31.V.2005, 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (MT), 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (YPT). Mníšek [24]: 24.V.2003, 3 ♂♂.
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
New Jersey Ambient Monitoring Program : Report on Marine and Coastal Water Quality
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Year: 1999

description: This report describes the results of this monitoring program for data collected from July 1993 to June 1997.  This monitoring program produces high quality data for parameters such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and the major nutrients affecting primary productivity. Fecal coliform bacteria have been included as a means to assess the sanitary quality of the waters and to test for correlation with the other parameters being analyzed.
New Jersey 2003 Forest Health Highlights
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Forestry Services
Year: 2004

description: This document highlights NJ forest health issues in 2003 involving exotic invasive pests along with native pest infestations and continued threat of bacterial leaf scorch to red oaks. About 42% of NJ's 4.2 million acres are forested, and 1.8 million acres of public forested lands are administered by the NJ Forest Service. Forest health issues pose many challenges to the health and sustainability of NJ's forests and their critical role in the protection of the water supply for the people of NJ. The document includes the following sections: The Forest Resource; Exotic Pest Issues (Gypsy Moth, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Emerald Ash Borer); Native Pest Issues (Southern Pine Beetle); Special Pest Issues (Bacterial Leaf Scorch); and Urban and Community Forestry Tree Health Initiatives (Urban Airshed Reforestation Project, Governor's Cool Cities Initiative, No Net Loss Act).
Competing order in correlated electron systems made simple: Consistent fusion of functional renormalization and mean-field theory
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Eberlein, Andreas
name: Metzner, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an efficient and unbiased method for computing order parameters in correlated electron systems with competing instabilities. Charge, magnetic and pairing fluctuations above the energy scale of spontaneous symmetry breaking are taken into account by a functional renormalization group flow, while the formation of order below that scale is treated in mean-field theory. The method captures fluctuation driven instabilities such as $d$-wave superconductivity. As a first application we study the competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the ground state of the two-dimensional Hubbard model.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Technical Potential for Peak Load Management Programs in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Year: 2002

description: This report explores mechanisms to reduce, when necessary, the peak load in New Jersey's electricity market. It examines load pricing and technical load reduction programs used in recent years in New Jersey and discuss how they can be made more effective in controlling summer peaks and attendant high prices of electricity. Particular attention is given to load curtailment programs now in place and utility opinions relating to them.
Competing states in the t-J model: uniform d-wave state versus stripe state
Creators: name: Corboz, Philippe
name: Rice, T. M.
name: Troyer, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variational studies of the t-J model on the square lattice based on infinite projected-entangled pair states (iPEPS) confirm an extremely close competition between a uniform d-wave superconducting state and different stripe states. The site-centered stripe with an in-phase d-wave order has an equal or only slightly lower energy than the stripe with anti-phase d-wave order. The optimal stripe filling is not constant but increases with J/t. A nematic anisotropy reduces the pairing amplitude and the energies of stripe phases are lowered relative to the uniform state with increasing nematicity.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 4 pages of supplemental material
Constant intensity acoustic propagation in the presence of non-uniform properties and impedance discontinuities: Hermitian and non-Hermitian solutions
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagation of sound through a non-uniform medium without scattering is possible, in principle, if the density and acoustic compressibility assume complex values, requiring passive and active mechanisms, also known as Hermitian and non-Hermitian solutions, respectively. Two types of constant intensity wave conditions are identified: in the first the propagating acoustic pressure has constant amplitude, while in the second the energy flux remains constant. The fundamental problem of transmission across an impedance discontinuity without reflection or energy loss is solved using a combination of monopole and dipole resonators in parallel. The solution depends on an arbitrary phase angle which can be chosen to give a unique acoustic metamaterial with both resonators undamped and passive, requiring purely Hermitian acoustic elements. For other phase angles one of the two elements must be active and the other passive, resulting in a gain/loss non-Hermitian system. These results prove that uni-directional and reciprocal transmission through a slab separating two half spaces is possible using passive Hermitian acoustic elements without the need to resort to active gain/loss energetic mechanisms.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
"I want to move my house close to school so i can cycle". Exploring the wishes and barriers of children's school commutes
Creators: name: Tori, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This is a presentation from the YRS2023 - 11th Young Researchers Seminar, held from 15 to 17 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering).
Clean Ocean Advocate, March 2006
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Clean Ocean Action (COA)
Year: 2006

description: The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Articles in this issue include: PCBs, Fish, and Human Health: Updates and Proposals Show Need to Track-Down and Stop Sources of PCB Pollution in Marine Environment; Updated NJ Fish Consumption Advisories; Proposed Rules for Monitoring PCBs; GE Spent Millions to Avoid Cleanup of Hudson River PCBs; Coastal Water Quality Issues: Update on Oyster Creek Nuclear Station's Final Discharge Permit; Citizens Can Help the Monmouth County Bayshore Region; Citizen Action Leads to Shut Down of Manasquan River Dredging and ACOE Project in Area Questioned; Clean Ocean Zone: An Addiction to Oil Drilling
CLASH: Weak-Lensing Shear-and-Magnification Analysis of 20 Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Umetsu, Keiichi
name: Medezinski, Elinor
name: Nonino, Mario
name: Merten, Julian
name: Postman, Marc
name: Meneghetti, Massimo
name: Donahue, Megan
name: Czakon, Nicole
name: Molino, Alberto
name: Seitz, Stella
name: Gruen, Daniel
name: Lemze, Doron
name: Balestra, Italo
name: Benitez, Narciso
name: Biviano, Andrea
name: Broadhurst, Tom
name: Ford, Holland
name: Grillo, Claudio
name: Koekemoer, Anton
name: Melchior, Peter
name: Mercurio, Amata
name: Moustakas, John
name: Rosati, Piero
name: Zitrin, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a joint shear-and-magnification weak-lensing analysis of a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high-magnification galaxy clusters at 0.19
description: Accepted by ApJ on 11 August 2014. Textual changes to improve clarity (e.g., Sec.3.2.2 "Number-count Depletion", Sec.4.3 "Shape Measurement", Sec.4.4 "Background Galaxy Selection"). Results and conclusions remain unchanged. For the public release of Subaru data, see http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/clash/
BAO+BBN revisited -- Growing the Hubble tension with a 0.7km/s/Mpc constraint
Creators: name: Schöneberg, N.
name: Verde, L.
name: Gil-Marín, H.
name: Brieden, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data together with light element abundance measurements from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) has been shown to constrain the cosmological expansion history to an unprecedented degree. Using the newest LUNA data and DR16 data from SDSS, the BAO+BBN probe puts tight constraints on the Hubble parameter ($H_0 = 67.6 \pm 1.0 \mathrm{km/s/Mpc}$), resulting in a $3.7σ$ tension with the local distance ladder determination from SH0ES in a $Λ$CDM model. In the updated BAO data the high- and low-redshift subsets are mutually in excellent agreement, and there is no longer a mild internal tension to artificially enhance the constraints. Adding the recently-developed ShapeFit analysis yields $H_0 = 68.3 \pm 0.7 \mathrm{km/s/Mpc}$ ($3.8 σ$ tension). For combinations with additional data sets, there is a strong synergy with the sound horizon information of the cosmic microwave background, which leads to one of the tightest constraints to date, $H_0 = 68.30\pm 0.45\mathrm{km/s/Mpc}$, in $4.2σ$ tension with SH0ES. The region preferred by this combination is perfectly in agreement with that preferred by ShapeFit. The addition of supernova data also yields a $4.2σ$ tension with SH0ES for Pantheon, and a $3.5σ$ tension for PantheonPLUS. Finally, we show that there is a degree of model-dependence of the BAO+BBN constraints with respect to early-time solutions of the Hubble tension, and the loss of constraining power in extended models depends on whether the model can be additionally constrained from BBN observations.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Comments are welcome!
Distinct Genetic Risk Profile of the Rapidly Progressing Diffuse-Trickling Subtype of Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Creators: name: Fleckenstein, Monika
name: Grassmann, Felix
name: Lindner, Moritz
name: Pfau, Maximilian
name: Czauderna, Joanna
name: Strunz, Tobias
name: von Strachwitz, Claudia
name: Schmitz-Valckenberg, Steffen
name: Holz, Frank G.
name: Weber, Bernhard H. F.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ONSET RETINAL DEGENERATION; PIGMENT-EPITHELIUM DEPOSITS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY VARIANTS; MUTATION; C1QTNF5; DISEASE; DRUSEN; MODEL; CTRP5; AMD; fundus autofluorescence imaging; diffuse-trickling phenotype; late-onset retinal degeneration; C1QTNF5 gene; genetic risk factors
subject: 610 Medizin

description: PURPOSE. To genetically characterize a subphenotype of geographic atrophy (GA) in AMD associated with rapid progression and a diffuse-trickling appearance on fundus autofluorescence imaging. METHODS. Patients from the Fundus Autofluorescence in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Study were phenotyped for diffuse-trickling GA (dt-GA; n = 44). DNA was analyzed for 10 known AMD-associated genetic variants. A genetic risk score (GRS) was calculated and compared with patients with nondiffuse-trickling GA (ndt-GA; n = 311) and individuals from the 1000 genomes project (1000G; n = 267). Given the phenotypic overlap between diffuse trickling and late-onset retinal degeneration (LORD), all C1QTNF5 exons and their exon/ intron boundaries were sequenced. RESULTS. A statistically significant difference in allele frequencies between dt-GA and ndt-GA were found for CFH: rs1061170 and CFH: rs800292 (P-corrected = 0.03). The ARMS2 variant rs10490924 was significantly more frequent in dt-GA than in 1000G individuals (P-corrected < 0.01). The GRS of dt-GA patients was in-between the score of the 1000G individuals and that of patients with ndt-GA, significantly differing from both (P-corrected < 0.01). Sequencing of C1QTNF5 revealed 28 unique variants although none showed a statistically significant association with dt-GA when compared with 1000G individuals. CONCLUSIONS. The dt-GA phenotype shows a remarkably different genetic risk profile from other GA phenotypes secondary to AMD. Disease-associated C1QTNF5 mutations were not identified. Together, these results suggest that the dt-GA phenotype is associated with a genetic background substantially different from other GA phenotypes and underlines the necessity to refine the clinical phenotyping, specifically when aiming for individualized therapies in AMD.
A Pricing-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sharing Stackelberg Game
Creators: name: Ali, Ramy E.
name: Seddik, Karim G.
name: Nafie, Mohammed
name: Digham, Fadel F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of cooperative spectrum sharing among a primary user (PU) and multiple secondary users (SUs) under quality of service (QoS) constraints. The SUs network is controlled by the PU through a relay which gets a revenue for amplifying and forwarding the SUs signals to their respective destinations. The relay charges each SU a different price depending on its received signal-to-interference and-noise ratio (SINR). The relay can control the SUs network and maximize any desired PU utility function. The PU utility function represents its rate, which is affected by the SUs access, and its gained revenue to allow the access of the SUs. The SU network can be formulated as a game in which each SU wants to maximize its utility function; the problem is formulated as a Stackelberg game. Finally, the problem of maximizing the primary utility function is solved through three different approaches, namely, the optimal, the heuristic and the suboptimal algorithms.
description: 7 pages. IEEE, WiOpt 2014