cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Video Content Analysis of the Taliban, ISIS, and al-Qa'ida: Common Themes and the Utilization of Different Sonic Modes
Creators: name: Al Bayati, Umniah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Terrorist organizations, such as the Taliban, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and al-Qa?ida in the Arabian Peninsula, produce videos to disseminate their messages. Even though there are many studies closely examining the text in jihadi videos, there are fewer studies that examine multimodal messages, specifically the audiovisual messages. This study aims to examine the audiovisual messages in videos produced by three jihadi groups: the Taliban, ISIS, and AQAP. This research attempts to answer the following strategic questions. One, what are some common themes in propaganda videos produced by the Taliban, ISIS, and al-Qa?ida? Two, how does each group utilize different Sonic Modes in common themes? Three, how do the three jihadi groups compare in their utilization of different Sonic Modes? Some of the findings include the utilization of specific common themes amongst the three groups, and these groups differ in their utilization of the audiovisual messages.
Additional file 1 of Non-uptake of COVID-19 vaccines and reasons for non-uptake among healthcare workers in Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Kyakuwa, Nasimu
name: Abaasa, Andrew
name: Mpooya, Simon
name: Kalutte, Hamza
name: Atuhairwe, Christine
name: Perez, Laurent
name: Kikaire, Bernard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Lophocampa mixta
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa mixta

description: Lophocampa mixta (Neumoegen, 1882)
Halesidota mixta Neumoegen, 1882: 133.
Halisidota pseudocarye Rothschild, 1909c: 218. — Type locality: [USA], Arizona, Nogales. — Type specimens: Described from 2 male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
TYPE LOCALITY. — [USA], Arizona.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).
REMARK
No reference was found to document the occurrence of this taxon in Mexico, but the proximity to the border makes its occurrence in Mexico likely.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Adult colocolic intussusception due to colonic mass
Creators: name: SARANGI, PRADOSH
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 55 years
description: Clinical History: A 55 year old female presented with abdominal discomfort, constipation, weight loss and occasional vomitting for past 5 months. Final Diagnosis: colocolic intussusception (colonic mass as lead point)
What’s behind the global orange juice supply crisis and will Australian prices be affected?
Creators: name: Ali, Imran
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics
classificationCode: 300801
subject: Field organic and low chemical input horticulture

description: Global orange production, particularly in Brazil, the top producer of oranges and exporter of orange juice concentrate, is facing a severe crisis due to extreme drought, heat stress, and citrus greening disease. This has driven the shortage of frozen orange concentrate and the price of orange juice to an all-time high in the USA and Europe. The consumers in these markets have been switching to alternatives such as orange juice blended with apple, mango, pineapple and or mandarin juice Although Australian consumers have not yet felt the full impact, the over-reliance on imports, particularly from Brazil, suggests an impending supply crunch and rising prices of orange juice and related products. Nonetheless, the current supply shortages in the global markets open opportunities for Australian producers to increase supplies of orange, as well as mandarin (as an alternative), meeting domestic needs and increasing exports. However, challenges such as high input and labour costs, limited access to the international markets, lack of enough processing facilities and high bargaining power of supermarkets are key impediments. To enhance the resilience and growth of the industry, investments in automation, diversification of sales channels, the establishment of more processing facilities, research into climate-resilient varieties and more collaborative plans are recommended.
The Anti-Base Movement in Okinawa: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Social Movement Development
Creators: name: Roberts, Ariana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis analyzes two perspectives in the literature examining the development of social movements. The first perspective is based on the concept of political opportunity structure and emphasizes the influence of political structure and conditions on the development of social movements. The second perspective is based on new social movement theory and emphasizes the importance of collective identity, emotion, and culture on the development of social movements. Instead of emphasizing one factor over another, I argue that both collective identity and political structure/conditions have a significant impact on the development of social movements. I substantiate this argument through examining the development of the anti-base movement in Okinawa from the 1990s onward. The influence of both theoretical perspectives offers a cohesive explanation for the rise of the anti-base movement. First, I analyze each theoretical perspective separately in the context of the anti-base movement?s development then I present my own argument.
Observation of Spin Splitting in Room-Temperature Metallic Antiferromagnet CrSb
Creators: name: Zeng, Meng
name: Zhu, Ming-Yuan
name: Zhu, Yu-Peng
name: Liu, Xiang-Rui
name: Ma, Xiao-Ming
name: Hao, Yu-Jie
name: Liu, Pengfei
name: Qu, Gexing
name: Yang, Yichen
name: Jiang, Zhicheng
name: Yamagami, Kohei
name: Arita, Masashi
name: Zhang, Xiaoqian
name: Shao, Tian-Hao
name: Dai, Yue
name: Shimada, Kenya
name: Liu, Zhengtai
name: Ye, Mao
name: Huang, Yaobo
name: Liu, Qihang
name: Liu, Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, unconventional antiferromagnets that enable the splitting of electronic spins have been theoretically proposed and experimentally realized, where the magnetic sublattices containing moments pointing at different directions are connected by a novel set of symmetries. Such spin splitting (SS) is substantial, $k$-dependent, and independent of the spin-orbit coupling strength, making these magnets promising materials for antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here, combined with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we perform a systematic study on CrSb, a metallic spin-split antiferromagnet candidate with $T_N$ = 703 K. Our data reveals the electronic structure of CrSb along both out-of-plane and in-plane momentum directions, which renders anisotropic $k$-dependent SS and agrees well with the calculational results. The magnitude of such SS reaches up to at least 0.8 eV at non-high-symmetry momentum points, which is significantly higher than the largest known SOC-induced SS. This compound expands the choice of materials in the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics and is likely to stimulate subsequent investigations of high-efficiency spintronic devices that are functional at room temperature.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Compact Binary Coalescences in Dense Gaseous Environments Can Pose as ones in Vacuum
Creators: name: Roy, Soumen
name: Vicente, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravitational-wave events observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration are attributed to compact binary coalescences happening in vacuum. However, several studies suggest that gaseous environments may play a significant role in the formation and evolution of compact binaries. Why have we not seen environmental effects in LVK signals? While matched-filtering remains the most effective technique for gravitational-wave searches, it comes with a burden: we might only observe signals that align with our (vacuum) expectations, potentially missing unexpected or unknown phenomena. Even more concerning is the possibility that environmental effects could mimic vacuum waveforms, introducing biases in parameter estimation and impacting population studies. Here, we use numerical relativity simulations of binary black hole mergers inside stellar envelopes to show that: (i) a $\texttt{GW150914}$-like event would be detected (with a false alarm rate smaller than $10^{-4}\, \mathrm{yr^{-1}}$) using a template bank of vacuum waveforms, even when immersed in a stellar envelope of density larger than $10^{7}\,\mathrm{g/cm^3}$; (ii) environmental effects can pass routinely performed tests of vacuum General Relativity, while leading to considerable biases in parameter estimation; but (iii) phenomenological environment waveforms are effectual in detecting environmental effects and can resolve systematics.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, Comments are welcomed
The Effects of Atlanta?s Urban Regime Politics on the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal
Creators: name: Mungo, Johnathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Atlanta's Urban Regime was involved at every point in the APS cheating scandal and subsequent fall out. The Anglo-American business elites and African American political leaders cared about the image of Atlanta more than the academic well-being of the students. The business community was driving the policies affecting the school system. These policies ultimately benefitted the well-connected members of the regime. At no point did African American voters operationalize their potential political power in the 2013 city elections after the cheating scandal.
Desmoid tumor of the abdominal wall
Creators: name: Benzaid, Hanane
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdominal wall
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Surgery
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 28 years
description: Clinical History: A 28-year-old pregnant woman at five months gestational age presented with a 4-month history of a painless mass in the left lower abdomen.The patient stated that the mass was gradually increasing in size. On clinical admission,the mass was firm,nont... Final Diagnosis: desmoid tumor
Analyzing Media of ISIS, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda: Use of Cinematographic Techniques in Retributive Justice Videos
Creators: name: Mottet, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Major extremist organizations such as the Taliban, the Islamic State in al-Sham and Iraq, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula utilize the internet to disseminate media products such as videos that promote the group?s messages to a specific audience and craft self-images. This study analyzes the videos produced by these groups that contain themes of retributive justice through a novel lens: cinematographic techniques. This study analyzes the following questions: What are some common cinematographic techniques used by these groups? What are the systematic similarities and differences between the techniques employed, and what does this say about the audience and the self-image of these groups? Is there systematic variation in the techniques used in English and foreign language videos, and how does this impact the audience? Lastly, is there evidence that Taliban and AQAP have adopted techniques that were popularized by ISIS?
The Effects of Political Attacks on Independent High Courts in Global Cases of Democratic Backsliding After the Cold War
Creators: name: Stinson, Miranda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: This paper seeks to understand the connection between political attacks on independent judiciaries and democracy scores. This study analyzed 2700 observations of democratic countries from 1980 to 2015 to test and potentially to identify if political attacks on independent judiciaries decrease high court independence thus resulting in a decrease of democracy scores. This paper found evidence to support that political attacks on courts do negatively impact democracy scores and that there have been more political attacks on courts after 2000 than before 2000
Supplementary document for Emission color tuning of Mn, Yb, Er-NaGdF₄ upconverting nanoparticles by energy density variation and pulse modulation - 5672035.pdf
Creators: name: Avram, Radu Daniel
name: Patrascu, Andrei
name: Porosnicu, Ioana
name: Tiseanu, Carmen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental material
Graphical Abstract of "Effect of pairwise additivity on finite-temperature behavior of classical ideal gas"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.01.016
Creators: name: Shekaari, PhD, Ashkan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510304
subject: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
classificationCode: 490206
subject: Statistical mechanics, physical combinatorics and mathematical aspects of condensed matter

description: This is the graphical abstract of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.01.016.
Neural network distillation of orbital dependent density functional theory
Creators: name: Medvidović, Matija
name: Umana, Jaylyn C.
name: Ahmadabadi, Iman
name: Di Sante, Domenico
name: Flick, Johannes
name: Rubio, Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been approximated with increasing levels of complexity ranging from strictly local approximations to nonlocal and orbital-dependent expressions with many tuned parameters. In this paper, we formulate a general way of rewriting complex density functionals using deep neural networks in a way that allows for simplified computation of Kohn-Sham potentials as well as higher functional derivatives through automatic differentiation, enabling access to highly nonlinear response functions and forces. These goals are achieved by using a recently developed class of robust neural network models capable of modeling functionals, as opposed to functions, with explicitly enforced spatial symmetries. Functionals treated in this way are then called global density approximations and can be seamlessly integrated with existing DFT workflows. Tests are performed for a dataset featuring a large variety of molecular structures and popular meta-generalized gradient approximation density functionals, where we successfully eliminate orbital dependencies coming from the kinetic energy density, and discover a high degree of transferability to a variety of physical systems. The presented framework is general and could be extended to more complex orbital and energy dependent functionals as well as refined with specialized datasets.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures (supplementary material 8 pages, 3 figures)
Supplementary document for Emission color tuning of Mn, Yb, Er-NaGdF₄ upconverting nanoparticles by energy density variation and pulse modulation - 5672035.pdf
Creators: name: Avram, Radu Daniel
name: Patrascu, Andrei
name: Porosnicu, Ioana
name: Tiseanu, Carmen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental material
The Political Revolution in Managerial Power: Corporate Personhood and the American Plutocratic Class
Creators: name: Ammerman, Liam
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The extension of political rights to corporations through Supreme Court decisions has altered the makeup of the plutocratic class in the United States. I argue that classifying campaign finance as a first amendment right afforded to corporate entities gave political power to corporate managers and shifted American political ideology in turn. This shift is reflected in government policies that prioritize the interests of the plutocratic class, resulting in a feedback loop that amplifies their wealth and power. This analysis will review the Supreme Court decisions that caused this, the subsequent polices, and how both contribute to the political power of corporate managers and owners. I will conclude by considering how this influenced the current political situation in the United States.
Graphical Abstract of "Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics study of the melting behaviors of n-atom (n= 6, 10) graphene quantum dots"; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.058
Creators: name: Shekaari, PhD, Ashkan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510403
subject: Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory

description: This is the graphical abstract of "Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics study of the melting behaviors of n-atom (n= 6, 10) graphene quantum dots"; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.058.
An Intriguing Case Of Bile Duct Obstruction
Creators: name: Vukelic Markovic, Mirjana
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: MR
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Inflammation
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 80 years
description: Clinical History: An 80-year-old woman presented with jaundice and intermittent pain under right costal margin. The symptoms were worsening during the last week, accompanied with nausea and fever. She lost some weight (10 kg, approx.). Laboratory tests revealed signs of ob... Final Diagnosis: Choledochal inflammatory polyp
Does Economic Development Have an Influence on Human Labor Trafficking?
Creators: name: Smith, Ashley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: India and China are the top two countries in the world that have the has the highest number of victims of labor trafficking out of every country in the world. Using these countries that have the highest number of victims of labor trafficking, I will conduct a cross sectional analysis analyzing the rate of victims compared to the HDI. The cases of India and China show how HDI influences the number of victims of labor trafficking and this can be generalized to other countries. Generalizing this information to apply to other countries could change how policy is created to address labor trafficking. Policy that incorporates economic development and quality of life will lessen human labor trafficking by addressing the systematic issues that cause it. I hypothesize that the lower the Human Development Index Score the higher the number of victims that are in labor trafficking.
A Study on data selection for object detection in various lighting conditions for autonomous vehicles
Creators: name: Lin, Hao
name: Parsi, Ashkan
name: Mullins, Darragh
name: Horgan, Jonathan
name: Ward, Enda
name: Eising, Ciarán
name: Denny, Patrick
name: Deegan, Brian
name: Glavin, Martin
name: Jones, Edward
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Abstract: In recent years, significant advances have been made in the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and other technology for autonomous vehicles. Automated object detection is a crucial component of autonomous driving; however, there are still known issues that affect its performance. For automotive applications, object detection algorithms are required to perform at a high standard in all lighting conditions; however, a major problem for object detection is poor performance in low-light conditions due to objects being less visible. This study considers the impact of training data composition on object detection performance in low-light conditions. In particular, this study evaluates the effect of different combinations of images of outdoor scenes, from different times of day, on the performance of deep neural networks, and considers the different challenges encountered during the training of a neural network. Through experiments with a widely used public database, as well as a number of commonly used object detection architectures, we show that more robust performance can be obtained with an appropriate balance of classes and illumination levels in the training data. The results also highlight the potential of adding images obtained in dusk and dawn conditions for improving object detection performance in day and night.
Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian Approach for Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectra of Driven Systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Hao-Yue
name: Yao, Yi-Xuan
name: Huang, Bin-Yao
name: Jin, Jing-Yi-Ran
name: Ai, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (2DCS) offers significant advantages in terms of high temporal and frequency resolutions and signal-to-noise ratio. Until now, the response-function (RF) formalism has been the prevalent theoretical description. In this study, we compare the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian (NHH) method with the RF formalism in a three-level system with a constant control field. We obtain the signals from both approaches and compare their population dynamics and 2DCS. We propose the quasi-Green functions for the NHH method, which allows all dominant Liouville paths to be inferred. We further simulate the 2DCS of Rh(CO)$_2$C$_5$H$_7$O$_2$ (RDC) dissolved in hexane with the NHH method, which is in good agreement with the previous experiments. Although the NHH method overestimates relaxations, it provides all important paths by analytical solutions, which are different from the four paths used in the RF formalism. Our results demonstrate that the NHH method is more suitable than the RF formalism for investigating the systems including relaxation and control fields via the 2DCS.
Evidence of the quantum-optical nature of high-harmonic generation
Creators: name: Theidel, David
name: Cotte, Viviane
name: Sondenheimer, René
name: Shiriaeva, Viktoriia
name: Froidevaux, Marie
name: Severin, Vladislav
name: Mosel, Philip
name: Merdji-Larue, Adam
name: Fröhlich, Sven
name: Weber, Kim-Alessandro
name: Morgner, Uwe
name: Kovacev, Milutin
name: Biegert, Jens
name: Merdji, Hamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-harmonic generation is a light up-conversion process occurring in a strong laser field, leading to coherent bursts of extreme ultrashort broadband radiation [1]. As a new perspective, we propose that ultrafast strong-field electronic or photonic processes such as high-harmonic generation can potentially generate non-classical states of light well before the decoherence of the system occurs [2, 3]. This could address fundamental challenges in quantum technology such as scalability, decoherence or the generation of massively entangled states [4]. Here, we report experimental evidence of the non-classical nature of the harmonic emission in several semiconductors excited by a femtosecond infrared laser. By investigating single- and double beam intensity cross-correlation [5], we measure characteristic, non-classical features in the single photon statistics. We observe two-mode squeezing in the generated harmonic radiation, which depends on the laser intensity that governs the transition from Super-Poissonian to Poissonian photon statistics. The measured violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality realizes a direct test of multipartite entanglement in high-harmonic generation [6]. This result is supported by the theory of multimodal detection and the Hamiltonian from which the effective squeezing modes of the harmonics can be derived [7, 8]. With this work, we show experimentally that high-harmonic generation is a new quantum bosonic platform that intrinsically produces non-classical states of light with unique features such as multipartite broadband entanglement or multimode squeezing. The source operates at room temperature using standard semiconductors and a standard commercial fiber laser, opening new routes for the quantum industry, such as optical quantum computing, communication and imaging.
description: 39 pages, 11 figures
Lophocampa brunnea Vincent 2011
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa brunnea

description: Lophocampa brunnea Vincent, 2011
Lophocampa brunnea Vincent, 2011a: 73. Replacement name for Halisidota montana Gaede, 1928.
Halisidota montana Gaede, 1928b: 32. Junior primary homonym of Halisidota montana Schaus, 1911.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guatemala.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Search for new phenomena with top-quark pairs and large missing transverse momentum using 140 fb−1 of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2024

description: A search is conducted for new phenomena in events with a top quark pair and large missing transverse momentum, where the top quark pair is reconstructed in fnal states with one isolated electron or muon and multiple jets. The search is performed using the Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 . An analysis based on neural network classifers is optimised to search for directly produced pairs of supersymmetric partners of the top quark (stop), and to search for spin-0 mediators, produced in association with a pair of top quarks, that decay into dark-matter particles. In the stop search, the analysis is designed to target models in which the mass diference between the stop and the neutralino from the stop decay is close to the top quark mass. This new search is combined with previously published searches in fnal states with diferent lepton multiplicities. No signifcant excess above the Standard Model background is observed, and limits at 95% confdence level are set. Models with neutralinos with masses up to 570 GeV are excluded, while for small neutralino masses models are excluded for stop masses up to 1230 GeV. Scalar (pseudoscalar) dark matter mediator masses as large as 350 (370) GeV are excluded when the coupling strengths of the mediator to Standard Model and dark-matter particles are both set to one. At lower mediator masses, models with production cross-sections as small as 0.15 (0.16) times the nominal predictions are excluded. Results of this search are also used to set constraints on efective four-fermion contact interactions between top quarks and neutrinos.
Subsystem Evolution Speed as Indicator of Relaxation
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiaju
name: Rajabpour, M. A.
name: Heyl, Markus
name: Khasseh, Reyhaneh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In studying the time evolution of isolated many-body quantum systems, a key focus is determining whether the system undergoes relaxation and reaches a steady state at a given point in time. Traditional approaches often rely on specific local operators or a detailed understanding of the stationary state. In this letter, we introduce an alternative method that assesses relaxation directly from the time-dependent state by focusing on the evolution speed of the subsystem. The proposed indicator evaluates the rate of change in the reduced density matrix of the subsystem over time. We demonstrate that in systems reaching relaxation, as the overall system size increases, the evolution speed of sufficiently small yet still finite-sized subsystems notably diminishes. This leads to small fluctuations in the expectation values of operators, which is also consistent with the predictions made by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. We apply this approach across various models, including the chaotic Ising chain, XXZ chains with and without many-body localization, and the transverse field Ising chain. Our results confirm the robustness and accuracy of subsystem evolution speed as a reliable indicator for relaxation.
description: 12 pages, 3+4 figures
Is an Election More Than Just a Political Opinion: The Impact of Racial Microaggressions on College Students During the Trump Era
Creators: name: Hill, Jasmyne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Multiple studies concluded that the 2016 presidential election was psychologically traumatic for young people and people of color. I conducted an online survey on 272 Georgia State University college students to measure their experience with racial microaggressions, hyper vigilance and how their social and familial relationships, academic performance, school and workplace environment, and physical and mental health have been impacted by the Trump presidency. The statistical data and qualitative findings indicate that college students have been negatively affected from the Trump presidency. College students of color also experienced an increased amount of racial microaggressions during Trump?s presidency. These results solidify and strengthen the argument from previous literature acknowledging college students?, especially students of color, negative experience under the Trump presidency.
Lophocampa bicolor
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa bicolor

description: Lophocampa bicolor (Walker, 1855)
Halesidota bicolor Walker, 1855a: 734.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Holotype male (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Graphical Abstract of "Unveiling the first post-graphene member of silicon nitrides: A novel 2D material"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109693
Creators: name: Shekaari, PhD, Ashkan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510403
subject: Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory

description: This is the graphical abstract of "Unveiling the first post-graphene member of silicon nitrides: A novel 2D material"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109693
Re-examining the Cult of Personality: A Comparative Cross-national Case Study of Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh
Creators: name: Pham, Thach
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The thesis re-examines the utility of the charismatic leader?s cult of personality as a strategic power-enhancing tool by performing a cross-national comparative case study of three Asian personality cults ? Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh. To what extent did these cult leaders possess the godlike powers that the cult of personality literature implies? The thesis finds support for the conclusion that increasing deification of a leader is not always positively correlated with a leader?s godlike powers, operationalized as a leader?s unilateral decision-making powers over national policies. Kim Il Sung?s cult was manipulated by family members for their benefit. Mao Zedong attempted to wield the power of the cult of Mao during the Cultural Revolution but could not control the Red Guards. The Communist Party of Vietnam utilized the cult of Ho Chi Minh to maintain the image of national unity while ignoring his policy directives.
Puncturing Quantum Stabilizer Codes
Creators: name: Gundersen, Jaron Skovsted
name: Christensen, René Bødker
name: Grassl, Markus
name: Popovski, Petar
name: Wisniewski, Rafał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical coding theory contains several techniques to obtain new codes from other codes, including puncturing and shortening. For quantum codes, a form of puncturing is known, but its description is based on the code space rather than its generators. In this work, we generalize the puncturing procedure to allow more freedom in the choice of which coded states are kept and which are removed. We describe this puncturing by focusing on the stabilizer matrix containing the generators of the code. In this way, we are able to explicitly describe the stabilizer matrix of the punctured code given the stabilizer matrix of the original stabilizer code. The additional freedom in the procedure also opens up new ways to construct new codes from old, and we present several ways to utilize this for the search of codes with good or even optimal parameters. In particular, we use the construction to obtain codes whose parameters exceed the best previously known. Lastly, we generalize the proof of the Griesmer bound from the classical setting to stabilizer codes since the proof relies heavily on the puncturing technique.
description: Accepted version for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Under What Conditions do Ethnic Conflicts Occur? The Case of Cote d?Ivoire
Creators: name: Soro, Kamonon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The origins of ethnic conflicts have been a prominent part of the literature on civil wars, especially African civil wars. In this paper, I argue that political leaders' instrumentalization of ethnicity is made possible because of colonial administrations' ethnic configurations. Ethnic conflicts occur when political leaders instrumentalize preexisting ethnic configurations to gain or remain in power. I further claim that such strategies are more likely to result in conflicts in multiparty systems because the stakes are higher during elections. Under a multiparty system this instrumentalization occurs through two major mechanisms: (1) the ethnic polarization of political parties and (2) the installation of the fear of victimization. This conclusion has many implications for conflict resolution strategies and post-conflict statebuilding.
Lophocampa labaca
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa labaca

description: Lophocampa labaca (Druce, 1890)
Halisidota labaca Druce, 1890a: 214.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, Jalisco.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (BMNH; one female syntype labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Graphical Abstract of "Structural dynamics of COVID-19 main protease"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129235
Creators: name: Shekaari, PhD, Ashkan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510405
subject: Soft condensed matter
classificationCode: 510501
subject: Biological physics

description: This is the graphical abstract of "Structural dynamics of COVID-19 main protease"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129235.
'We Want Women?': An Examination of Female Political Leadership During National Public Health Crises
Creators: name: Quick, Kelsi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: While crises of terrorism have often prompted preference for male leadership, COVID-19 poses an ideal situation for examining the impact of gender stereotypes on executive approval in a new type of crisis tied to public health, seen as more of a ?woman?s domain.? Employing a survey experiment to examine public perception of male and female political leadership during different types of hypothetical national crises (terrorism v. highly contagious virus), this study ultimately finds that there is not a significant difference in average approval ratings between male and female executives in the virus crisis context, and a small difference with females outperforming men in the terrorist context. This study also reveals a few unexpected findings; while female executives seem to perform well in both crisis contexts, results indicate that male executives receive significantly higher approval in the virus context than in the terrorism context, providing an important avenue for future research.
Climate and Security: Evolution in the United States Political Discourses
Creators: name: da Costa Pereira de Souza, Luciano
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Climate change emerged as a high-level global issue in the Rio Earth Summit (1992). In the United States, the Clinton Administration was the first to associate climate and security in official documents. Since then, there has been an overall tendency to consolidate climate security in political discourses in the United States. Based on the Copenhagen School criteria, analysis of speeches by Post-Cold War U.S. governments (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden), and a review of each Administration?s climate change policies demonstrate how climate securitization has evolved in the United States. Climate securitization has evolved as a nonlinear process characterized by periods of progress and reversals of narratives and securitizing measures with a strong influence of partisanship.
Parabolic-scalings on large-time behavior of the incompressible Navier--Stokes flow
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Masakazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30 35B40 35C20 76C05

description: Through asymptotic expansion, the large-time behavior of incompressible Navier--Stokes flow in $n$-dimensional whole space is depicted. Especially, from their parabolic scalings, large-time behaviors of any terms on the expansion are clarified. The parabolic scalings also guarantee the uniqueness of the expansion. In the preceding work, the expansion with the $n$th order has already been derived. They also predicted that the flow has some logarithmic evolutions in higher-order decay. In this paper, an asymptotic expansion with $2n$th order is presented. Furthermore, logarithmic evolutions are discovered.
description: 14 pages
Lophocampa montana
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa montana

description: Lophocampa montana (Schaus, 1911)
Halisidota montana Schaus, 1911a: 184.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Costa Rica, [Alajuela], Volcan Poás.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 17 152 designated by Watson (1971: 62) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 326, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Hidden Conformal Symmetry of the Discrete Series Scalars in dS$_2$
Creators: name: Farnsworth, Kara
name: Hinterbichler, Kurt
name: Saha, Samanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In $D$ dimensional de Sitter space, a scalar field has an infinite tower of special tachyonic mass values at which enhanced shift symmetries appear. After modding out by these shift symmetries, these fields correspond to the unitary irreducible representations of the de Sitter group known as the discrete series. We show that in $D=2$ these theories have global conformal symmetry. In all but the massless case, these theories have no stress tensor and the conformal symmetry does not act in the usual way on the scalar field. We find the conformal symmetry by explicitly computing the correlators of the shift invariant local operators and showing that they take conformally invariant forms. We also demonstrate how these fields are self dual in $D=2$, and dual to the shift invariant massive vector fields, which are therefore also conformally invariant.
description: 30 pages
Morally Convicted Political Attitudes and the Importance of Democratic Norms in Maintaining a Strong Democracy
Creators: name: Frost Brewer, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Morally convicted political attitudes, operationalized as a measure of egalitarianism and moral traditionalism, affect how important people consider democratic norms to be in maintaining a strong democracy in the United States. Stronger agreement with egalitarianism and more disagreement with moral traditionalism are both associated with an increase in placing more importance on democratic norms.
Diplomacy as Pedagogy, Pedagogy as Diplomacy: Diplomatic Simulations, Constructivism, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
Creators: name: Selim, Sawsan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Diplomatic simulations, or simulations of international or regional organizations (i.e. Model United Nations), present great opportunities that extend beyond the pedagogical value suggested by limited literature. Operationalizing constructivism as both a pedagogical and international relations theory illuminates the implications of diplomatic simulations on participants, diplomacy, and multidisciplinary research. To accomplish this, this exploratory study first performs a thorough literature review to synthesize relevant works. An exploratory content analysis is then employed on documents in a Model United Nations simulation to investigate its utility in accomplishing the United Nations? 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, particularly Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: Quality Education. Findings suggest that while diplomatic simulations develop skills and knowledge of international relations, they also impact actual diplomacy by disrupting ethnocentrism, exporting political agents, and norm diffusion. Diplomatic simulations can also be used as nontraditional data sources and research methods, providing a unique solution to resource-constrained research endeavors.
Graphical Abstract of "Statistical mechanical modeling of a DNA nanobiostructure at the base-pair level"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.11.054
Creators: name: Shekaari, PhD, Ashkan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510304
subject: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
classificationCode: 510501
subject: Biological physics

description: This is the graphical abstract of "Statistical mechanical modeling of a DNA nanobiostructure at the base-pair level"; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.11.054.
Topological Rigidity and Non-Abelian defect junctions in chiral nematic systems with effective biaxial symmetry
Creators: name: Wu, Jin-Sheng
name: Valenzuela, Roberto Abril
name: Bowick, Mark J.
name: Smalyukh, Ivan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study topologically stable defect structures in systems where the defect line classification in three dimensions and associated algebra of interactions (the fundamental group) are governed by the non-Abelian 8-element group, the quaternions Q_8. The non-Abelian character of the defect algebra leads to a topological rigidity of bound defect pairs, and trivalent junctions which are the building blocks of multi-junction trivalent networks. We realize such structures in laboratory chiral nematics and analyze their behavior analytically, along with numerical modeling.
Variation in leaf carbon economics, energy balance, and heat tolerance traits highlights differing timescales of adaptation and acclimation
Creators: name: Bison, Nicole N.
name: Michaletz, Sean T.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Multivariate leaf trait correlations are hypothesized to originate from natural selection on carbon economics traits that control lifetime leaf carbon gain, and energy balance traits governing leaf temperatures, physiological rates, and heat injury. However, it is unclear whether macroevolution of leaf traits primarily reflects selection for lifetime carbon gain or energy balance, and whether photosynthetic heat tolerance is coordinated along these axes. To evaluate these hypotheses, we measured carbon economics, energy balance, and photosynthetic heat tolerance traits for 177 species (157 families) in a common garden that minimizes co-variation of taxa and climate. We observed wide variation in carbon economics, energy balance, and heat tolerance traits. Carbon economics and energy balance (but not heat tolerance) traits were phylogenetically structured, suggesting macroevolution of leaf mass per area and leaf dry matter content reflects selection on carbon gain rather than energy balance. Carbon economics and energy balance traits varied along a common axis orthogonal to heat tolerance traits. Our results highlight a fundamental mismatch in the timescales over which morphological and heat tolerance traits respond to environmental variation. Whereas carbon economics and energy balance traits are constrained by species’ evolutionary histories, photosynthetic heat tolerance traits are not and can acclimate readily to leaf microclimates.