cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A critical analysis of research of a mass-housing programme
Creators: name: Kowaltowski, Doris C. C. K.
name: Muianga, Elisa Atália Daniel
name: Granja, Ariovaldo Denis
name: de Carvalho Moreira, Daniel
name: Bernardini, Sidney Piochi
name: Castro, Mariana Rios
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A recent expansion of mass-housing programmes has occurred in emerging economies. The analysis of research on programmes raises questions about what type of research is produced and what its impact is on housing. The Brazilian ‘My House, My Life’ (Minha Casa, Minha Vida – MCMV) programme demonstrates that more of the same type of housing is produced and that the focus of most research repeats the same mistakes. Three million homes have been built and the research community has examined the programme’s social, economic and environmental impacts. A total of 2477 scientific studies on MCMV are analyzed. Few studies were found to assess living conditions from a user perspective at the residential unit scale. Although improvements have occurred on some social issues, the siting of housing on the urban periphery is problematic for urban mobility, social segregation and aesthetic monotony. Also, the design model does not respond to the diverse needs of inhabitants. Opportunities are identified for actions and essential missing research on mass housing. Retrofit strategies are urgent and social cost studies should induce change to the design model. Evidence-based research is needed to support policies and design processes for affordable and quality housing solutions that value users, their needs and aspirations.
Magnetic and dielectric properties of YbMnO3 perovskite thin films
Creators: name: Rubi, D.
name: Venkatesan, Sriram
name: Kooi, B. J.
name: De Hosson, J. Th. M.
name: Palstra, T. T. M.
name: Noheda, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metastable manganite perovskites displaying the antiferromagnetic so-called E-phase are predicted to be multiferroic. Due to the need of high-pressures for the synthesis of this phase, this prediction has only been confirmed in bulk HoMnO3. Here we report on the growth and characterization of YbMnO3 perovskite thin films grown under epitaxial strain. Highly-oriented thin films, with thickness down to ~30nm, can be obtained showing magneto-dielectric coupling and magnetic responses as those expected for the E-phase. We observe that the magnetic properties depart from the bulk behavior only in the case of ultrathin films (d< 30nm), which display a glassy magnetic behavior. We show that strain effects alone cannot account for this difference and that the film morphology plays, instead, a crucial role.
description: RevTEX. 4 two-column pages, 5 figures. To appear in PRB-Rapids
Additional file 1 of Valuing end-of-life care: translation and content validation of the ICECAP-SCM measure
Creators: name: Gühne, Uta
name: Dorow, Marie
name: Grothe, Jessica
name: Stein, Janine
name: Löbner, Margrit
name: Dams, Judith
name: Coast, Joanna
name: Kinghorn, Philip
name: Hans-Helmut König
name: Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. ICECAP-SCM-English.pdf (Original questionnaire, English version).
Paying one’s dues : the fine as the sentence of the court
Creators: name: Edelman, Sandra Dale
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is about the fine, an everyday transaction of an involuntary nature, resulting from the finding or deeming of guilt by a criminal court. Existing literature and official statistics are reported to describe the use of the fine in Canada and abroad with particular emphasis on the situation in the Province of British Columbia. The fine is found to be a common disposition for property and motoring offences and even for crimes of violence against persons in most of the countries reviewed with the notable exception of the United States which utilizes the fine for motoring offences but for little else. Based on the available evidence, the fine appears to be steadily increasing in use in Western European countries and in England but this is not strictly the case in British Columbia. The overall proportion of offenders receiving fines decreased recently in B.C. due it seems to the imposition of short term jail sentences rather than the fine for provincial statute offences. This is believed to result from "get tough", law enforcement policies directed at the more serious motoring offenders. Recent data on the use of the fine in the remaining provinces of Canada are not available. The fine is examined also in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness as a sanction and the extent to which it demonstrates both economy, as a social control technique, and notions of social justice and humaneness. Payment of the fine with little or no enforcement is the norm, due in large part to the practice of fining "good risks", i.e., casual offenders likely able to afford the fine. For the same reason, the recidivism rate of fined offenders is lower than that for offenders placed on probation or imprisoned. The most pressing problem associated with the fine is the utilization of imprisonment for offenders who default in payment. This practice is not only costly but raises the issue of the social justice of the fine since those imprisoned are more likely to have no means of paying their penalty. For this reason, the day-fine system which calculates the size of the fine according to both the seriousness of the offence and the offender's ability to pay is considered as a scheme which upholds notions of fairness and justice. The fine exercises the least surveillance and consequently control over the behaviour, and indirectly the attitudes, of offenders. As a result it is one of the least expensive sanctions to administer, particularly when the practice of imprisoning defaulters is curtailed. The fine and its administration by the justice system is considered also within the context of the structural mechanisms, functions, and finances of the state. The fine affords a concrete example of the dynamics of the state as it attempts to balance its major, albeit often contradictory, functions of accumulation, legitimation, and coercion.
title: Chick's Beach
Creators: name: Perrel, Teresa E.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1998

description: The seven stories in this collection deal with the wonders and horrors of love, especially within families. The narrators include teenagers, a working mother; a middle-aged divorcee, a young woman with a secret past; a disillusioned husband, and a grieving mother. Change — love, death, and what comes in between — puts them at odds with themselves and the world. As they encounter the alienation and destruction that come in life, they struggle with their own limitations and those of others.

All of these stories are set during contemporary times in Virginia Beach. Many refer to Chick's Beach, a small stretch of land by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
Life cycle assessment of a Danish office building designed for disassembly
Creators: name: Eberhardt, Leonora Charlotte Malabi
name: Birgisdóttir, Harpa
name: Birkved, Morten
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The building industry is responsible for a large proportion of anthropogenic environmental impacts. Circular economy (CE) is a restorative and regenerative industrial economic approach that promotes resource efficiency to reduce waste and environmental burdens. Transitioning from a linear approach to a CE within the building industry will be a significant challenge. However, an insufficient number of quantitative studies exist to confirm the potential (positive) environmental effects of CE within the built environment as well as a consistent method for characterizing these effects. This paper considers key methodological issues for quantifying the environmental implications of CE principles and proposes a life cycle assessment (LCA) allocation method to address these issues. The proposed method is applied to a case study of a Danish office building where the concrete structure is designed for disassembly (DfD) for subsequent reuse. The potential environmental impact savings vary between the different impact categories. The savings are significantly influenced by the building’s material composition, particularly the number of component-use cycles as well as the service life of the building and its components. The substitution of other material choices (e.g. glass and wood) for the concrete structure exhibited a potential increase in impact savings.
MPTP: Motion-Planning-aware Task Planning for Navigation in Belief Space
Creators: name: Thomas, Antony
name: Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio
name: Baglietto, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an integrated Task-Motion Planning (TMP) framework for navigation in large-scale environments. Of late, TMP for manipulation has attracted significant interest resulting in a proliferation of different approaches. In contrast, TMP for navigation has received considerably less attention. Autonomous robots operating in real-world complex scenarios require planning in the discrete (task) space and the continuous (motion) space. In knowledge-intensive domains, on the one hand, a robot has to reason at the highest-level, for example, the objects to procure, the regions to navigate to in order to acquire them; on the other hand, the feasibility of the respective navigation tasks have to be checked at the execution level. This presents a need for motion-planning-aware task planners. In this paper, we discuss a probabilistically complete approach that leverages this task-motion interaction for navigating in large knowledge-intensive domains, returning a plan that is optimal at the task-level. The framework is intended for motion planning under motion and sensing uncertainty, which is formally known as belief space planning. The underlying methodology is validated in simulation, in an office environment and its scalability is tested in the larger Willow Garage world. A reasonable comparison with a work that is closest to our approach is also provided. We also demonstrate the adaptability of our approach by considering a building floor navigation domain. Finally, we also discuss the limitations of our approach and put forward suggestions for improvements and future work.
description: Accepted for publication in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.11683, arXiv:2010.00780
Optimal spaces for those living with dementia: principles and evidence
Creators: name: Barrett, Peter
name: Sharma, Monika
name: Zeisel, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper presents a synthesis of diverse and disparate evidence in the research literature that provide insights into the impacts of aspects of the built environment on the wellbeing of those living with dementia. The individually focused findings are structured into a set of practical design parameters driven by three overarching needs-driven design principles: manageable cognitive load, clear sequencing and appropriate level of stimulation. These needs are contextualized within a general model that suggests that action in any one area (such as the built environment) also has to take into account other key dimensions, namely any support from the caring/social environment and any pharmacological treatment. Addressing these elements holistically should maximize the opportunity to improve the quality of life of the individual. This paper, however, explicitly focuses on the built environment.
Conceptual approaches to wellbeing in buildings: a scoping review
Creators: name: Hanc, Madalina
name: McAndrew, Claire
name: Ucci, Marcella
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Several industry-led initiatives in various countries demonstrate a new interest in wellbeing and buildings. This paper adopts a scoping review method aiming to establish the most prevalent and insightful definitions and dimensions of wellbeing in buildings applied in the recent published literature. The paper adopts a two-step method for identifying and categorizing the conceptual approaches to wellbeing encountered in the current literature. First, an overview is presented of the term ‘wellbeing’ and its development over time. Second, the broad wellbeing categories identified are further refined and complemented via a deductive approach, drawing the final set of conceptual themes informed by the papers reviewed in this study. Nine themes were identified, two of which deductively emerged from the papers included in this study: environmental satisfaction/comfort and cognitive performance/productivity. The findings emphasize the heterogeneity of conceptual approaches to research concerning ‘wellbeing in buildings’, an ambiguity between wellbeing outcomes or determinants, and the need for greater clarity on the relative contributions of different wellbeing dimensions to overall individual or population wellbeing. Based on these findings, future work could be carried out to provide guidance on how to evaluate claims of evidence-based building design which foster individual or population wellbeing.
Additional file 1 of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome-2 alters mitochondrial homeostasis in the alveolar epithelium of the lung
Creators: name: Cuevas-Mora, Karina
name: Roque, Willy
name: Hoora Shaghaghi
name: Gochuico, Bernadette R.
name: Rosas, Ivan O.
name: Summer, Ross
name: Romero, Freddy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. qPCR primers used in this study.
Sparse and stable Markowitz portfolios
Creators: name: Brodie, Joshua
name: Daubechies, Ingrid
name: De Mol, Christine
name: Giannone, Domenico
name: Loris, Ignace
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P20, 91B28

description: We consider the problem of portfolio selection within the classical Markowitz mean-variance framework, reformulated as a constrained least-squares regression problem. We propose to add to the objective function a penalty proportional to the sum of the absolute values of the portfolio weights. This penalty regularizes (stabilizes) the optimization problem, encourages sparse portfolios (i.e. portfolios with only few active positions), and allows to account for transaction costs. Our approach recovers as special cases the no-short-positions portfolios, but does allow for short positions in limited number. We implement this methodology on two benchmark data sets constructed by Fama and French. Using only a modest amount of training data, we construct portfolios whose out-of-sample performance, as measured by Sharpe ratio, is consistently and significantly better than that of the naive evenly-weighted portfolio which constitutes, as shown in recent literature, a very tough benchmark.
description: Better emphasis of main result, new abstract, new examples and figures. New appendix with full details of algorithm. 17 pages, 6 figures
Signature of new physics in B -> phi pi decay
Creators: name: Mawlong, B.
name: Mohanta, R.
name: Giri, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of an extra fourth quark generation and FCNC mediated $Z$ and $Z'$ bosons on the rare decay mode $B^- \to ϕπ^-$. In the standard model, this mode receives only $b \to d$ penguin contributions and therefore, highly suppressed with branching ratio $\sim 5 \times 10^{-9}$. This in turn makes this mode a very sensitive probe for new physics. We find that due to the above mentioned new physics contributions there is a significant enhancement in its branching ratio. Furthermore, the direct CP violation parameter which is identically zero in the SM is found to be quite significant. If this mode will be observed in the upcoming LHCb experiment, it will not only provide a clear signal of new physics but also can be used to constrain the new physics parameter space.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Joint free energy distribution in the random directed polymer problem
Creators: name: Dotsenko, V. S.
name: Ioffe, L. B.
name: Geshkenbein, V. B.
name: Korshunov, S. E.
name: Blatter, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two configurations of a random directed polymer of length L confined to a plane and ending in two points separated by 2u. Defining the mean free energy $\bar F$ and the free energy difference F' of the two configurations, we determine the joint distribution function P_{L,u}(\bar F,F') using the replica approach. We find that for large L and large negative free energies $\bar F$, the joint distribution function factorizes into longitudinal (P_{L,u} (\bar F)) and transverse (P_{u}(F')) components, which furthermore coincide with results obtained prevously via different independent routes.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Crowding breaks the forward/backward symmetry of transition times in biased random walks
Creators: name: Shin, Jaeoh
name: Berezhkovskii, Alexander M.
name: Kolomeisky, Anatoly B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microscopic mechanisms of natural processes are frequently understood in terms of random walk models by analyzing local particle transitions. This is because these models properly account for dynamic processes at the molecular level and provide a clear physical picture. Recent theoretical studies made a surprising discovery that in complex systems the symmetry of molecular forward/backward transition times with respect to local bias in the dynamics may be broken and it may take longer to go downhill than uphill. The physical origins of these phenomena remain not fully understood. Here we explore in more detail the microscopic features of the symmetry breaking in the forward/backward transition times by analyzing exactly solvable discrete-state stochastic models. In particular, we consider a specific case of two random walkers on four-sites periodic lattice as the way to represent the general systems with multiple pathways. It is found that the asymmetry in transition times depends on several factors that include the degree of deviation from equilibrium, the particle crowding and methods of measurements of dynamic properties. Our theoretical analysis suggests that the asymmetry in transition times can be explored experimentally for determining the important microscopic features of natural processes by quantitative measuring the local deviations from equilibrium and the degrees of crowding.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, To appear in J. Chem. Phys
การศึกษาระดับการปฏิบัติการประกันคุณภาพระบบการดูแลช่วยเหลือนักเรียนในสถานศึกษาสังกัดสำนักงานเขตพื้นที่การศึกษากาฬสินธุ์ เขต 1
Creators: name: สมรรถชัย ศิริกุล
name: สานิตย์ กายาผาด
name: ยุพาศรี ไพรวรรณ
name: จีระนัน เสนาจักร์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2009
Subjects: ระบบดูแลช่วยเหลือนักเรียน, ช่วงชั้น 3-4

description: 3, 3, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคามมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์
Centers of F-purity
Creators: name: Schwede, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A35, 14B05

description: In this paper, we study a positive characteristic analogue of the centers of log canonicity of a pair $(R, Δ)$. We call these analogues centers of $F$-purity. We prove positive characteristic analogues of subadjunction-like results, prove new stronger subadjunction-like results, and in some cases, lift these new results to characteristic zero. Using a generalization of centers of $F$-purity which we call uniformly $F$-compatible ideals, we give a characterization of the test ideal (which unifies several previous characterizations). Finally, in the case that $Δ= 0$, we show that uniformly $F$-compatible ideals coincide with the annihilators of the $\mathcal{F}(E_R(k))$-submodules of $E_R(k)$ as defined by Smith and Lyubeznik.
description: Typos corrected. To appear in Math. Z
Declaration of Intention of Robert Grube
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1900

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Robert Grube Applicant age:34Occupation: unknownCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: unknownSailed to the US aboard the vessel: unknown City of residence at time of declaration: unknownDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:27 September 1900
Non static Global monopole in Lyra geometry
Creators: name: Rahaman, F.
name: Mondal, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of non static solutions around a global monopole resulting from the breaking of a global S0(3) symmetry based on Lyra geometry are obtained. The solutions are obtained using the functional separability of the metric coefficients. We have shown that the monopole exerts attractive gravitational effects on test particles.
description: 7 pages
Declaration of Intention of Gerhard Machlsheim
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1899

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by:   Gerhard MachlsheimApplicant age:46Occupation: UnknownCountry of Origin:AustriaDate of Birth: UnknownSailed to the US aboard the vessel:  Unknown City of residence at time of declaration: UnknownDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:12 December 1899
DataPrep.EDA: Task-Centric Exploratory Data Analysis for Statistical Modeling in Python
Creators: name: Peng, Jinglin
name: Wu, Weiyuan
name: Lockhart, Brandon
name: Bian, Song
name: Yan, Jing Nathan
name: Xu, Linghao
name: Chi, Zhixuan
name: Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey
name: Wang, Jiannan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is a crucial step in any data science project. However, existing Python libraries fall short in supporting data scientists to complete common EDA tasks for statistical modeling. Their API design is either too low level, which is optimized for plotting rather than EDA, or too high level, which is hard to specify more fine-grained EDA tasks. In response, we propose DataPrep.EDA, a novel task-centric EDA system in Python. DataPrep.EDA allows data scientists to declaratively specify a wide range of EDA tasks in different granularity with a single function call. We identify a number of challenges to implement DataPrep.EDA, and propose effective solutions to improve the scalability, usability, customizability of the system. In particular, we discuss some lessons learned from using Dask to build the data processing pipelines for EDA tasks and describe our approaches to accelerate the pipelines. We conduct extensive experiments to compare DataPrep.EDA with Pandas-profiling, the state-of-the-art EDA system in Python. The experiments show that DataPrep.EDA significantly outperforms Pandas-profiling in terms of both speed and user experience. DataPrep.EDA is open-sourced as an EDA component of DataPrep: https://github.com/sfu-db/dataprep.
Additional file 1 of Survey of faculty development in four Israeli medical schools: clinical faculty development is inadequate and clinical teaching is undervalued in Israeli faculties of medicine
Creators: name: Nothman, Simon
name: Kaffman, Michael
name: Nave, Rachel
name: Flugelman, Moshe Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Self-Confidence and Improvement in Self-Confidence. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great extent. Table S2. Motivation of physicians to be involved in education. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great extent. Table S3. Important attributes of a clinical teacher. “To what extent are the following attributes important in a clinical teacher who is a role model?”. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great extent. Table S4. Appreciation and reward for medical education. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great extent. Table S5. Sub-analysis of responses to the question “I believe that good teaching is appropriately rewarded and appreciated”, according to the experience of the respondents and the timing of the teaching. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great extent. Table S6. Sub-analysis of attitudes to the statement “In my opinion, improving appreciation and/or compensation for medical education would result in improved teaching for medical students”, according to the experience of the respondents and the timing of the teaching. Scale: 1 – not at all, 5 – to a very great degree. Table S7. Sub-analysis of responses to the question “I feel that, relative to involvement in research, involvement in medical education is better (scale: 5) / similarly (scale: 3) / more poorly (scale: 1) rewarded and appreciated” by variables. Table S8. Representative examples of responses to the open question “What are the aspects of greatest importance in your opinion regarding the training of doctors for teaching in the clinical environment?” broadly categorized by theme. n = 126.
Near-Field Focusing Plates and Their Design
Creators: name: Grbic, A.
name: Merlin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the design of near-field focusing plates, which are grating-like structures that can focus electromagnetic radiation to spots or lines of arbitrarily small subwavelength dimension. A general procedure is outlined for designing a near-field plate given a desired image, and its implementation at microwave frequencies is discussed. Full-wave (method of moments) simulations clearly demonstrate the near-field plate's ability to overcome the diffraction limit. Finally, it is shown that the performance of near-field plates is weakly affected by losses.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 North Carolina 09 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); North Carolina Congressional District 09 (1); Democratic Candidate Dan McCready (1); Republican Candidate Mark Harris (1); opinion of various public figures (2); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump job performance (1); political partisanship (1).
Comments on the negative grade KdV hierarchy
Creators: name: Adans, Y. F.
name: Gomes, Jose F.
name: Lobo, G. V.
name: Zimerman, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The construction of negative grade KdV hierarchy is proposed in terms of a Miura-gauge transformation. Such gauge transformation is employed within the zero curvature representation and maps the Lax operator of the mKdV into its couterpart within the KdV setting. Each odd negative KdV flow is obtained from an odd and its subsequent even negative mKdV flows. The negative KdV flows are shown to inherit the two different vacua structure that characterizes the associated mKdV flows.
description: 8 pages, 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
Timing observations of three Galactic millisecond pulsars
Creators: name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Kawash, A. M.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Smith, D. A.
name: Kerr, M.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Mickaliger, M. B.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Barr, E.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Cameron, A. D.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Jankowski, F.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: Keith, M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Possenti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report observed and derived timing parameters for three millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from observations collected with the Parkes 64-m telescope, Murriyang. The pulsars were found during re-processing of archival survey data by Mickaliger et al. One of the new pulsars (PSR J1546-5925) has a spin period $P=7.8$ ms and is isolated. The other two (PSR J0921-5202 with $P=9.7$ ms and PSR J1146-6610 with $P=3.7$ ms) are in binary systems around low-mass ($>0.2 M_{\odot}$) companions. Their respective orbital periods are $38$.2 d and $62.8$ d. While PSR J0921-5202 has a low orbital eccentricity $e=1.3 \times 10^{-5}$, in keeping with many other Galactic MSPs, PSR J1146-6610 has a significantly larger eccentricity, $e = 7.4 \times 10^{-3}$. This makes it a likely member of a group of eccentric MSP-He white dwarf binary systems in the Galactic disk whose formation is poorly understood. Two of the pulsars are co-located with previously unidentified point sources discovered with the Fermi satellite's Large Area Telescope, but no $γ$-ray pulsations have been detected, likely due to their low spin-down powers. We also show that, particularly in terms of orbital diversity, the current sample of MSPs is far from complete and is subject to a number of selection biases.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Interpolating Dispersionless Integrable System
Creators: name: Dunajski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a dispersionless integrable system which interpolates between the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation and the hyper-CR equation. The interpolating system arises as a symmetry reduction of the anti--self--dual Einstein equations in (2, 2) signature by a conformal Killing vector whose self--dual derivative is null. It also arises as a special case of the Manakov-Santini integrable system. We discuss the corresponding Einstein--Weyl structures.
description: 11 pages. New title, some errors corrected, section 5 removed. Final version, to appear in J. Phys. A
Additional file 2 of Survey of faculty development in four Israeli medical schools: clinical faculty development is inadequate and clinical teaching is undervalued in Israeli faculties of medicine
Creators: name: Nothman, Simon
name: Kaffman, Michael
name: Nave, Rachel
name: Flugelman, Moshe Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
“Joie de la cort / joie de l’acort”. L’armonia degli elementi discordi nell’«Erec et Enide»
Creators: name: Barbiellini Amidei, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: Erec et Enide, Marziano Capella

description: L’articolo si sofferma sulla tematica delle nozze e dell’accordo degli elementi discordanti nell’Erec et Enide di Chrétien de Troyes, e sull’interpretazione allegorica della conjointure, con riferimento a Marziano Capella e a Macrobio. Una lettura allegorica viene proposta anche per il nome dell’avventura della «joie de la cort» che si può anche intendere come «joie de l’acort», in cui l’autore sintetizza come en abyme gli intenti del romanzo.

The article treats the theme of the marriage and the armony of discordant elements in the Erec and Enide of Chrétien de Troyes, underlining the allegorical meaning of the conjointure, with reference to Martianus Capella and Macrobius. An allegorical interpretation is proposed also for the final adventure of the «joie de la cort» ‘Joy of the Court’, that is to be regarded also as a «joie de l’acort» ‘Joy of Agreement’, in which the author reveals and summarizes the focus of his romance.
description: Carte romanze, Vol 2, No 2 (2014)
Regional development in the new global economy
Creators: name: Jessop, Joanne Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is about regional development in the new global economy. Changes in the world economy, notably the trend toward multinational big business and an international division of labour, are affecting, in various ways and in varying degrees, those people and places that are part of this interdependent system. Nevertheless, one constant theme is becoming discernable: the operating rules of global capitalism are antagonistic to attempts by regions to develop a self-sustaining, self-reliant economy. The resulting crisis of development is an aspect of the new economic order that mainstream development paradigms of industrial society are ill-equipped to explain, let alone resolve. In an effort to come to grips with this crisis of development there has been a growing interest in the possibility of social and economic reconstruction at the regional and community level. This bottom-up approach, referred to here as Communal Cooperation, is being advocated as a more socially responsive and economically viable alternative to the dependence and underdevelopment that follow in the wake of functional integration into the international network of economic relations. However, as this thesis argues, Communal Cooperative strategies of self-management must be complemented with the kind of overall management and coordination that has become necessary in today's interdependent economy. The purpose of this thesis is to translate these general principles into practical terms by presenting a development strategy for the province of British Columbia. British Columbia is a resource economy, exporting its raw materials to the industrial centres of the world and, given the dynamics of economic globalism, there is little opportunity to break out of this mold and develop a self-sustaining, diversified economic base. The development options outlined in this thesis are designed to counteract this trend and ensure that international trade serves regional and community interests.
Collision Between Molecular Clouds-III: The effects of cloud initial density profile on head-on collisions
Creators: name: Tanvir, Tabassum S
name: Dale, James E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this third paper in our cloud-collision series, we present the results from simulations of head-on collisions with a strongly centrally-condensed initial density profile of $\rm ρ\propto R^{-2}$. We investigate the impact of these density profiles on the overall evolution of the simulations: the structures formed, their dynamical evolution, and their star formation activity. We consider clouds which are globally bound and globally unbound, leading to three different scenarios -- the collision of a bound cloud with a bound cloud, the collision of two unbound clouds, or the collision of one cloud of each type. In all the simulations dense star clusters form before the collisions occur, and we find that star formation remains confined to these systems and is little affected by the collisions. If the clouds' are both initially bound, the collision forms a filamentary structure, but otherwise, this does not occur. We observe that rotating structures form around the clusters, but they also form in our non-colliding control simulations, so are not a consequence of the collisions. Dissipation of kinetic energy in these simulations is inefficient because of the substructure created in the clouds by turbulence before the collisions. As a result, although some gas is left bound in the COM frame, the star clusters formed in the simulations do not become bound to each other.
description: 16 Pages, 21 Figures; Accepted by MNRAS
Decentralized Power Allocation for MIMO-NOMA Vehicular Edge Computing Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Zhu, Hongbiao
name: Wu, Qiong
name: Wu, Xiaojun
name: Fan, Qiang
name: Fan, Pingyi
name: Wang, Jiangzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is envisioned as a promising approach to process the explosive computation tasks of vehicular user (VU). In the VEC system, each VU allocates power to process partial tasks through offloading and the remaining tasks through local execution. During the offloading, each VU adopts the multi-input multi-out and non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA) channel to improve the channel spectrum efficiency and capacity. However, the channel condition is uncertain due to the channel interference among VUs caused by the MIMO-NOMA channel and the time-varying path-loss caused by the mobility of each VU. In addition, the task arrival of each VU is stochastic in the real world. The stochastic task arrival and uncertain channel condition affect greatly on the power consumption and latency of tasks for each VU. It is critical to design an optimal power allocation scheme considering the stochastic task arrival and channel variation to optimize the long-term reward including the power consumption and latency in the MIMO-NOMA VEC. Different from the traditional centralized deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based scheme, this paper constructs a decentralized DRL framework to formulate the power allocation optimization problem, where the local observations are selected as the state. The deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm is adopted to learn the optimal power allocation scheme based on the decentralized DRL framework. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed power allocation scheme outperforms the existing schemes.
description: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Support de cours "Zotero"
Creators: name: Latour, Marie
name: Boiteux, Caroline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Master
Doctorat
Pluridisciplinaire
Zotero
Logiciel de gestion de références bibliographiques

description: Vous trouverez ci-joint le support de cours au logiciel de gestion des références bibliographiques libre et gratuit "Zotero" que nous utilisons dans le cadre des formations que nous dispensons aux Doctorants et aux Masters.
INSIGHTS ON TOOTH HOMOLOGY AND LINEAGE RICHNESS OF DESMOSTYLIANS BASED ON A NEW SPECIMEN FROM ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Creators: name: Awalt, Katrina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: desmostylia
paleoparadoxiid
ontogeny
morphology
phylogeny
fossil

description: Desmostylians are an extinct group of marine mammals from the North Pacific that lived ~33-10 million years ago. No modern analog exists, so their biology is highly speculative. Orange County, CA, is a hotspot for desmostylian fossils, but most are undescribed. Thesis specimen, LACM 131889, is just the third desmostylian from Orange County to be studied in detail. This specimen represents a new species and ontogenetic stage for its lineage (Paleoparadoxiidae). My thesis resolves conflicting interpretations of tooth homology and diastema (gap between teeth) formation (loss of p2 vs. jaw lengthening). The dental formula is p1, p3, p4, m1, m2, m3, with a diastema between p1 and p3. The diastema was created by both jaw lengthening and the loss of p2. Because it has an erupted p3, it is the most ontogenetically advanced paleoparadoxiid specimen known. I incorporated these insights into a revision of desmostylian phylogenetic characters and performed a revised analysis. The quantification of desmostylian lineage richness through time suggests that the timing of desmotylian extinction may have been as early as the middle Miocene.
Differential phase shift quantum secret sharing using twin field
Creators: name: Gu, Jie
name: Cao, Xiao-Yu
name: Yin, Hua-Lei
name: Chen, Zeng-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is essential for multiparty quantum communication, which is one of cornerstones in the future quantum internet. However, a linear rate-distance limitation severely constrains the secure key rate and transmission distance of QSS. Here, we present a practical QSS protocol among three participants based on the differential phase shift scheme and twin field ideas for the solution of high-efficiency multiparty communication task. In contrast to formerly proposed differential phase shift QSS protocol, our protocol can break the linear rate-distance bound, theoretically improving the secret key rate by three orders of magnitude in a 300-km-long fiber. Furthermore, the new protocol is secure against Trojan horse attacks that cannot be resisted by previous differential phase shift QSS.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
EGI-ACE D2.2 EGI-ACE Strategic Plan
Creators: name: Andreozzi, Sergio
name: Sipos, Gergely
name: Dietrich, Mark
name: Ferrari, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Strategy, federation, data spaces, EOSC Compute Platform

description: The document provides the strategic direction of the project in alignment with the EOSC SRIA and the EGI Federation strategy based on the learning and evolution of the external environment. The aim is to serve as guidance for the project and to provide inputs on the evolution of the EOSC and EGI strategies. At the end of the project, there will be a follow-up deliverable (D2.10) focusing on recommendations for the relevant EOSC stakeholders to ensure a lasting impact of the project results.
Evidence for charged B meson decays to a1(1260)+/- pi0 and a1(1260)0 pi+/-
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the branching fractions for the decays B+/- --> a1(1260)+/- pi0 and B+/- --> a1(1260)0 pi+/- from a data sample of 232 * 10^6 BB pairs produced in e+e- annihilation through the Y(4S) resonance. We measure the branching fraction B(B+/- --> a1(1260)+/- pi0) * B(a1(1260)+/- --> pi- pi+ pi+/-) = (13.2 +/- 2.7 +/- 2.1) * 10^-6 with a significance of 4.2 sigma, and the branching fraction B(B+/- --> a1(1260)0 pi+/-) * B(a1(1260)0 --> pi- pi+ pi0) = (20.4 +/- 4.7 +/- 3.4) * 10^-6 with a significance of 3.8 sigma, where the first error quoted is statistical and the second is systematic.
description: 7 pages, 2 postscript figures; version published in Phys. Rev. Lett., minor typographical changes from version 2
On the multifractal statistics of the local order parameter at random critical points : application to wetting transitions with disorder
Creators: name: Monthus, Cecile
name: Garel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disordered systems present multifractal properties at criticality. In particular, as discovered by Ludwig (A.W.W. Ludwig, Nucl. Phys. B 330, 639 (1990)) on the case of diluted two-dimensional Potts model, the moments $\bar{ρ^q(r)}$ of the local order parameter $ρ(r)$ scale with a set $x(q)$ of non-trivial exponents $x(q) \neq q x(1)$. In this paper, we revisit these ideas to incorporate more recent findings: (i) whenever a multifractal measure $w(r)$ normalized over space $ \sum_r w(r)=1$ occurs in a random system, it is crucial to distinguish between the typical values and the disorder averaged values of the generalized moments $Y_q =\sum_r w^q(r)$, since they may scale with different generalized dimensions $D(q)$ and $\tilde D(q)$ (ii) as discovered by Wiseman and Domany (S. Wiseman and E. Domany, Phys Rev E {\bf 52}, 3469 (1995)), the presence of an infinite correlation length induces a lack of self-averaging at critical points for thermodynamic observables, in particular for the order parameter. After this general discussion valid for any random critical point, we apply these ideas to random polymer models that can be studied numerically for large sizes and good statistics over the samples. We study the bidimensional wetting or the Poland-Scheraga DNA model with loop exponent $c=1.5$ (marginal disorder) and $c=1.75$ (relevant disorder). Finally, we argue that the presence of finite Griffiths ordered clusters at criticality determines the asymptotic value $x(q \to \infty) =d$ and the minimal value $ α_{min}=D(q \to \infty)=d-x(1) $ of the typical multifractal spectrum $f(α)$.
description: 17 pages, 20 figures
Quantum Cloning without Interference
Creators: name: Roubert, Benoit
name: Braun, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of interference in the process of quantum cloning. We show that in order to achieve better than classical cloning of a qubit no interference is needed. In particular, a large class of symmetric universal 1$\to$ 2 qubit cloners exists which achieve the optimal average fidelity 5/6 for such machines, without using any interference. We also obtain optimal average fidelities for interference--free cloning in asymmetric situations, and discuss the relation of the quantum cloners found to the Bužek--Hillery quantum cloner.
description: 14 pages revtex, 1 eps figure