cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Displacement receiver for phase-shift-keyed coherent states
Creators: name: Izumi, Shuro
name: Takeoka, Masahiro
name: Fujiwara, Mikio
name: Pozza, Nicola Dalla
name: Assalini, Antonio
name: Ema, Kazuhiro
name: Sasaki, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum receiver is an important tool for overcoming the standard quantum limit (SQL) of discrimination errors in optical communication. We theoretically study the quantum receivers for discriminating ternary and quaternary phase shift keyed coherent states in terms of average error rate and mutual information. Our receiver consists of on/off-type photon detectors and displacement operations w/o electrical feedforward operations. We show that for the ternary signals, the receiver shows a reasonable gain from the SQL even without feedforward. This scheme is realizable with the currently available technology. For the quaternary signals feedforward operation is crucial to overcome the SQL with imperfect devices. We also analytically examine the asymptotic limit of the performance of the proposed receiver with respect to the number of feedforward steps.
Alienation Beyond the Human: From Marx to Simondon
Creators: name: Fritz, Carson
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: alienation
subject: marx
subject: simondon
subject: technology
subject: time
subject: futurity

description: Alienation as a diagnostic political concept is frequently dismissed due to its reliance, in Marx’s account, on a dubious notion of human essence. Such conceptual foundations tend to stunt the potential critical force the concept might have thanks to its psycho-social and politico-existential character. This paper contends that the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon provides a revised notion of alienation which retains its force while moving beyond its dubious foundations. Simondon allows us to see alienation as alienation from time, and subsequently to found a category of political critique which has diagnostic force free from anthropocentric and essentialist assumptions. The first section gives an overview of Simondon’s philosophy, while the second section puts this philosophy in conversation with Marx, ultimately leading to a notion of non-human alienation gestured to by the example of the machine which is usually taken merely as ‘means of production.’ The third section engages Simondon’s ‘genetic account’ of the machine as a way of understanding the general sense of non-human alienation through a particular example. The fourth section then outlines, through the notion of a transindividual relation, what a non-alienated and non-anthropocentric relation to time and becoming might look like. The final section spells out the specifically human dimensions of the problematic of alienation in an attempt to reconnect it not only with Marx, but with a humanistic politics more generally.
title: Integration of Human and Organizational Factors with Quantitative Risk Assessment Based on Accident Investigation
Creators: name: Leva, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: Technological University Dublin
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a statistical analysis of past accidents that occurred between 1988 and 2012 reported to the European Commission’s Major Accident Reporting System (eMARS) focusing on Human and Organizational Factors (HOF). The main purpose of this work is to quantify the HOF integrated with conventional risk assessment approaches and to provide future guidelines to relevant standards and current best practices. The accident analysis results are further used to quantify the HOF assessment based on the probabilistic Rasch model. A new approach, Method for Error Deduction and Incident Analysis (MEDIA) is proposed which can be used with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) studies for chemical process industry
title: The relationship between native richness and exotic success depends on the index of exotic success and environmental gradients
Creators: name: Slakey, Daniel
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2010

description:
The theory of resource use pre-emption suggests that diverse communities may be more resistant to invasion than simple communities due to lack of niche space for invaders. Studies examining the relationship of native species richness to exotic success have provided mixed support for this idea. To test this theory, I measured plant diversity and cover across topographic gradients differing in resource availability in a California serpentine grassland, and measured exotic success as either species richness, absolute cover, or dominance of exotic species. I then evaluated models predicting these different measures of exotic success, using either native richness alone or in conjunction with environmental variables as predictors. Species richness was a poor index of exotic success, as it was relatively weakly related to more direct measures of exotic success, exotic cover and dominance, and varied differently along environmental gradients from those two variables. Native richness was a significant negative predictor of exotic success whether environmental variables were included or excluded, although the relationship was stronger when using exotic cover or dominance than exotic richness. My results contrast with observational studies that have found positive relationships between native and exotic richness, in part because environmental conditions favoring native richness at the site (low Ca:Mg) were opposite to those favoring exotics, and in part because exotics likely out-competed natives in more fertile habitats. Using cover or dominance as an index of exotic success and incorporating underlying environmental gradients provided a more realistic assessment of the factors controlling native and exotic success than simple models correlating native and exotic richness.
By the Book: Early Modern Women's Artistic Education and the Silent Instruction of Print Culture
Creators: name: Haselberger, Mallory Nicole
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Art history
subject: European studies
subject: Women's studies
subject: artistic education
subject: bibliography
subject: early modern
subject: print culture
subject: seventeenth century
subject: women artists

description: Across early modern Europe, the use of the hand as a tool, full of vigor, and comparatively, attentive to both medium and content, remained at the forefront of artistic practice. For many artists, particularly women, a question of refining the skilled work of the hand became central to understanding the gendered nature of art itself and the limits of contemporary artistic education. This thesis broadly considers the changing nature of women’s artistic education between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, guided by the work of the woman artist through print culture and self-instruction. With central case studies exploring the artistic texts of Giovanna Garzoni, Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron, and Catherine Perrot, this thesis traces the private means by which women artists utilized rising access to print culture for artistic instruction in domestic spaces, commensurate with mass production and expansion of printed volumes in Europe between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Chern numbers of topological phonon band crossing determined with inelastic neutron scattering
Creators: name: Jin, Zhendong
name: Hu, Biaoyan
name: Liu, Yiran
name: Li, Yangmu
name: Zhang, Tiantian
name: Iida, Kazuki
name: Kamazawa, Kazuya
name: Kolesnikov, A. I.
name: Stone, M. B.
name: Zhang, Xiangyu
name: Chen, Haiyang
name: Wang, Yandong
name: Zaliznyak, I. A.
name: Tranquada, J. M.
name: Fang, Chen
name: Li, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological invariants in the band structure, such as Chern numbers, are crucial for the classification of topological matters and dictate the occurrence of exotic properties, yet their direct spectroscopic determination has been largely limited to electronic bands. Here, we use inelastic neutron scattering in conjunction with ab initio calculations to identify a variety of topological phonon band crossings in MnSi and CoSi single crystals. We find a distinct relation between the Chern numbers of a band-crossing node and the scattering intensity modulation in momentum space around the node. Given sufficiently high resolution, our method can be used to determine arbitrarily large Chern numbers of topological phonon band-crossing nodes.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures including supplemental material
Additional file 5 of Unravelling the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on childhood malaria in Malawi
Creators: name: Tangena, Julie-Anne A.
name: Mategula, Donnie
name: Sedda, Luigi
name: Atkinson, Peter M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Comparison of malaria prevalence calculated using RDT and blood smear results.
Shape Evolution of Massive Early-Type Galaxies: Confirmation of Increased Disk Prevalence at z>1
Creators: name: Chang, Yu-Yen
name: van der Wel, Arjen
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Wuyts, Stijn
name: Zibetti, Stefano
name: Ramkumar, Balasubramanian
name: Holden, Bradford P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-resolution K-band VLT/HAWK-I imaging over 0.25 square degrees to study the structural evolution of massive early-type galaxies since z~1. Mass-selected samples, complete down to log(M/M_sun)~10.7 such that `typical' L* galaxies are included at all redshifts, are drawn from pre-existing photometric redshift surveys. We then separated the samples into different redshift slices and classify them as late- or early-type galaxies on the basis of their specific star-formation rate. Axis-ratio measurements for the ~400 early-type galaxies in the redshift range 0.61 are, on average, flatter than at z<1 and the median projected axis ratio at a fixed mass decreases with redshift. However, we also find that at all epochs z11.3) are the roundest, with a pronounced lack among them of galaxies that are flat in projection. Merging is a plausible mechanism that can explain both results: at all epochs merging is required for early-type galaxies to grow beyond log(M/M_sun)~11.3, and all early types over time gradually and partially loose their disk-like characteristics.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ; 11 pages; 10 figures; 4 tables
A model for COVID-19 and bacterial pneumonia coinfection with community- and hospital-acquired infections
Creators: name: Pérez, Angel G. C.
name: Oluyori, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 34C60 (Primary) 34D20, 92D30 (Secondary)

description: We propose a new mathematical model to study the coinfection dynamics of COVID-19 and bacterial pneumonia. Our model includes two infection ways for pneumonia, corresponding to community-acquired and hospital-acquired infections. We show that the existence and local stability of equilibria depend on three different parameters, which are interpreted as the basic reproduction numbers of COVID-19, bacterial pneumonia, and bacterial population. Numerical simulations are performed to complement our theoretical analysis, and we show that both diseases can persist if the basic reproduction number of COVID-19 is greater than one.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Mitigation of the Turbulence within an Arteriovenous Fistula with a Stent Implantation
Creators: name: Gunasekera, Sanjiv
name: Barber, Tracie
name: Ng, Olivia
name: Thomas, Shannon
name: Varcoe, Ramon
name: de Silva, Charitha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transitional flow which initiates within the junction (anastomosis) of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is known to be a contributing factor in the onset of vascular disease. A novel treatment method involving the implantation of a flexible stent across the anastomosis has enabled the retention of a large proportion of functioning AVFs, despite the propensity for stent malapposition to occur at the sharp inner curve of the anastomosis. Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of a patient-specific AVF with and without the presence of a stent captured oscillatory flow behaviour emanating from the interface of the two inlet flows in the stent-absent case, however, these oscillatory features were subdued in the stented case. The stent-absent case generally had higher Turbulent Kinetic Energy (TKE) in the anastomosis which led to larger cycle-to-cycle variations in wall shear stress (WSS). The significantly lower TKE generated at the heel of the stented AVF was contained within the malapposed stent, thereby resulting in lower WSS fluctuations. However, a slight increase in turbulence downstream of the malapposed stent edge was noted. This detailed study reveals a significant decrease in turbulence within the AVF in the presence of the stent, thereby, providing a level of understanding underpinning the success of the treatment strategy from a fluid dynamic perspective.
Insect Politics: Presidential Optics and the Promises of Manly Monsters in 1980s Horror Film
Creators: name: Santos, James Nolan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Film studies
subject: Gender studies
subject: Film Studies
subject: Gender Studies
subject: History
subject: Horror Film
subject: Political Communications
subject: Psychoanalysis

description: In their own terms, the intellectual and political spheres of the American 1980s spoke on conversations on gender through human bodies. Feminist theorist Sandy Stone wrote the foundational text for transgender studies in 1987 at the height of the Reagan Administration, which was defined by its own masculine politics. Between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, their White House Office of Communications staffers were tasked with upholding this image of masculinity, specifically upholding the physical bodies of men, going against 1980s feminist theorists that upheld binary views on gender. Horror filmmakers in Hollywood, however, more closely aligned with feminist thought regarding the flexibility of gender, and like the White House Office of Communications, used the bodies of characters onscreen to convey their ideas. This thesis is a comparative history of Washington and Hollywood in the 1980s, using the psychoanalytic framework of Julia Kristeva’s abject as a means to look beyond the gendered boundaries set by Washington and seeing how those same boundaries were manipulated by Hollywood.
How do people with eating disorders experience the stigma associated with their condition? A mixed-methods systematic review
Creators: name: O’Connor, Cliodhna
name: McNamara, Niamh
name: O’Hara, Lesley
name: McNicholas, Megan
name: McNicholas, Fiona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Public opinion research shows that eating disorders (EDs) are a major target of stigmatisation. To understand the implications of this stigma, research investigating how stigma is experienced by individuals with EDs is critical. This paper aims to collate, evaluate and synthesise the extant empirical research illuminating how people with EDs experience the stigma associated with their condition. A systematic mixed-methods literature search was performed. Articles that met a specified set of inclusion criteria underwent a quality assessment and thematic synthesis. Twenty-nine articles were included in the review. Studies were mostly qualitative and of reasonable methodological quality. The literature was characterised by five research themes, illuminating (i) the nature and prevalence of stigma experienced, (ii) stigma in families, (iii) stigma in healthcare contexts, (iv) self-stigmatisation and illness concealment, and (v) stigma resistance. The reviewed research showed that people with EDs have extensive experience of stigma in diverse settings. They report that stigma has negative implications for their psychological wellbeing and likelihood of help-seeking. However, research also shows that people with EDs actively seek to resist and challenge stigma. The review identifies the outstanding gaps and weaknesses in this literature.
Additional file 6 of Unravelling the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on childhood malaria in Malawi
Creators: name: Tangena, Julie-Anne A.
name: Mategula, Donnie
name: Sedda, Luigi
name: Atkinson, Peter M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Blood smear malaria prevalence in urban and rural areas for 2012, 2014 and 2017 with median.
Bring the BitCODE -- Moving Compute and Data in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems
Creators: name: Lu, Wenbin
name: Peña, Luis E.
name: Shamis, Pavel
name: Churavy, Valentin
name: Chapman, Barbara
name: Poole, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a framework for moving compute and data between processing elements in a distributed heterogeneous system. The implementation of the framework is based on the LLVM compiler toolchain combined with the UCX communication framework. The framework can generate binary machine code or LLVM bitcode for multiple CPU architectures and move the code to remote machines while dynamically optimizing and linking the code on the target platform. The remotely injected code can recursively propagate itself to other remote machines or generate new code. The goal of this paper is threefold: (a) to present an architecture and implementation of the framework that provides essential infrastructure to program a new class of disaggregated systems wherein heterogeneous programming elements such as compute nodes and data processing units (DPUs) are distributed across the system, (b) to demonstrate how the framework can be integrated with modern, high-level programming languages such as Julia, and (c) to demonstrate and evaluate a new class of eXtended Remote Direct Memory Access (X-RDMA) communication operations that are enabled by this framework. To evaluate the capabilities of the framework, we used a cluster with Fujitsu CPUs and heterogeneous cluster with Intel CPUs and BlueField-2 DPUs interconnected using high-performance RDMA fabric. We demonstrated an X-RDMA pointer chase application that outperforms an RDMA GET-based implementation by 70% and is as fast as Active Messages, but does not require function predeployment on remote platforms.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, to be published in IEEE CLUSTER 2022
A family of Alltop functions that are EA-inequivalent to the cubic function
Creators: name: Hall, Joanne L.
name: Rao, Asha
name: Gagola, Stephen M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sequences with optimal correlation properties are much sought after for applications in communication systems. In 1980, Alltop (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 26(3):350-354, 1980) described a set of sequences based on a cubic function and showed that these functions were optimal with respect to known bounds on auto and crosscorrelation. Subsequently these sequences were used to construct mutually unbiased bases, a structure of importance in quantum information theory. The key feature of this cubic function is that its difference function is a planar function. Functions with planar difference functions have been called \emph{Alltop functions}. This paper provides a new family of Alltop functions and establishes the use of Alltop functions for construction of sequence sets and MUBs.
description: 15 pages
Waves in the Skyrme--Faddeev model and integrable reductions
Creators: name: Martina, L.
name: Pavlov, M. V.
name: Zykov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present article we show that the Skyrme--Faddeev model possesses nonlinear wave solutions, which can be expressed in terms of elliptic functions. The Whitham averaging method has been exploited in order to describe slow deformation of periodic wave states, leading to a quasi-linear system. The reduction to general hydrodynamic systems have been considered and it is compared with other integrable reductions of the system.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 7 of Unravelling the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on childhood malaria in Malawi
Creators: name: Tangena, Julie-Anne A.
name: Mategula, Donnie
name: Sedda, Luigi
name: Atkinson, Peter M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7. Insecticide treated net indicators mapped for 2012, 2014 and 2017.
Semiquantum secret sharing by using x-type states
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a semiquantum secret sharing (SQSS) protocol based on x-type states is proposed, which can accomplish the goal that only when two classical communicants cooperate together can they extract the shared secret key of a quantum communicant. Detailed security analysis turns out that this protocol is completely robust against an eavesdropper. This protocol has some merits: (1) it only requires one kind of quantum entangled state as the initial quantum resource; (2) it doesn't employ quantum entanglement swapping or unitary operations; and (3) it needn't share private keys among different participants beforehand.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables
Additional file 8 of Unravelling the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on childhood malaria in Malawi
Creators: name: Tangena, Julie-Anne A.
name: Mategula, Donnie
name: Sedda, Luigi
name: Atkinson, Peter M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8. The geographically weighted regression analysis results with β the estimated coefficient range and the standard error (se).
Electro-Optical Sampling of Single-Cycle THz Fields with Single-Photon Detectors
Creators: name: Shields, Taylor
name: Dada, Adetunmise C.
name: Hirsch, Lennart
name: Yoon, Seungjin
name: Weaver, Jonathan M. R.
name: Faccio, Daniele
name: Caspani, Lucia
name: Peccianti, Marco
name: Clerici, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electro-optical sampling of Terahertz fields with ultrashort pulsed probes is a well-established approach for directly measuring the electric field of THz radiation. This technique usually relies on balanced detection to record the optical phase shift brought by THz-induced birefringence. The sensitivity of electro-optical sampling is, therefore, limited by the shot noise of the probe pulse, and improvements could be achieved using quantum metrology approaches using, e.g., NOON states for Heisenberg-limited phase estimation. We report on our experiments on THz electro-optical sampling using single-photon detectors and a weak squeezed vacuum field as the optical probe. Our approach achieves field sensitivity limited by the probe state statistical properties using phase-locked single-photon detectors and paves the way for further studies targeting quantum-enhanced THz sensing.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
A new proof of the Lie-Trotter-Kato formula in Hadamard spaces
Creators: name: Bacak, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Lie-Trotter-Kato product formula has been recently extended into Hadamard spaces by [Stojkovic, Adv. Calc. Var., 2012]. The aim of our short note is to give a simpler proof relying upon weak convergence instead of an ultrapower technique.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1211.0414
Epitaxial growth, magnetoresistance, and electronic band structure of GdSb magnetic semimetal films
Creators: name: Inbar, Hadass S.
name: Ho, Dai Q.
name: Chatterjee, Shouvik
name: Pendharkar, Mihir
name: Engel, Aaron N.
name: Dong, Jason T.
name: Khalid, Shoaib
name: Chang, Yu Hao
name: Guo, Taozhi
name: Fedorov, Alexei V.
name: Lu, Donghui
name: Hashimoto, Makoto
name: Read, Dan
name: Janotti, Anderson
name: Palmstrøm, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by observations of extreme magnetoresistance (XMR) in bulk crystals of rare-earth monopnictide (RE-V) compounds and emerging applications in novel spintronic and plasmonic devices based on thin-film semimetals, we have investigated the electronic band structure and transport behavior of epitaxial GdSb thin films grown on III-V semiconductor surfaces. The Gd3+ ion in GdSb has a high spin S=7/2 and no orbital angular momentum, serving as a model system for studying the effects of antiferromagnetic order and strong exchange coupling on the resulting Fermi surface and magnetotransport properties of RE-Vs. We present a surface and structural characterization study mapping the optimal synthesis window of thin epitaxial GdSb films grown on III-V lattice-matched buffer layers via molecular beam epitaxy. To determine the factors limiting XMR in RE-V thin films and provide a benchmark for band structure predictions of topological phases of RE-Vs, the electronic band structure of GdSb thin films is studied, comparing carrier densities extracted from magnetotransport, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. ARPES shows hole-carrier rich topologically-trivial semi-metallic band structure close to complete electron-hole compensation, with quantum confinement effects in the thin films observed through the presence of quantum well states. DFT predicted Fermi wavevectors are in excellent agreement with values obtained from quantum oscillations observed in magnetic field-dependent resistivity measurements. An electron-rich Hall coefficient is measured despite the higher hole carrier density, attributed to the higher electron Hall mobility. The carrier mobilities are limited by surface and interface scattering, resulting in lower magnetoresistance than that measured for bulk crystals.
Therapeutic Expression: An Architectural Path to Mind and Body
Creators: name: Dandy, Selina Michelle
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: To design with the intent to influence a user’s psychological and physical well-being. Neuroarchitecture constructs an understanding of how the brain of its occupants works. This is designed by providing users with spaces that arouse their stimuli. When correctly done a space can effectively influence behavior, well-being, cognition, emotion, and perception. In attempts to grow our built environment, neuroarchitecture will help enhance our connection to the natural world as well as create the importance of human health and well-being. By implementing natural light, views/access to nature, materials, spatial layout, acoustics, temperature, and air quality, these principles will promote positive emotions and sensory experience. These design principles will be shown throughout the project. Allowing the user to connect with their mind and body where one can find their therapeutic expression. Although this does not present a cure but based on research with architecture and neuroscience at play, it can positively affect the outcome of human stress levels and mood. All of which are goals that will be set throughout this therapeutic retreat.
Double Exchange Ferromagnetism in the Peierls Insulator State
Creators: name: Nishimoto, S.
name: Ohta, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of opening of the band gap on the double exchange ferromagnetism. Applying the density-matrix renormalization group method and an analytical expansion from the dimer limit to the one-dimensional double exchange model, we demonstrate for a relevant region of the exchange coupling that, in the weak dimerization regime, the Peierls gap opens in the fully spin-polarized conduction band without affecting its ferromagnetism, whereas in the strong dimerization regime, the ferromagnetism is destroyed and the Mott gap opens instead, leading the system to the antiferromagnetic quasi-long-range order. An insulator version of the double exchange ferromagnetism is thus established.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett., in press
The lightest scalar meson in a simple approach
Creators: name: Wolkanowski, Thomas
name: Giacosa, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study basic properties of scalar hadronic resonances within a quantum field theoretical toy model. In particular, we focus on the spectral function, the mass and the decay width of the resonance $f_{0}(500)$. In this work, this meson is understood as a seed state in an effective Lagrangian which couples to pions. With such a setup we use the position of the pole on the second Riemann sheet in order to obtain its spectral function. We confirm that $f_{0}(500)$ cannot be described by an ordinary Breit--Wigner function, and that a more complicated structure is needed.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; prepared for proceedings of the conference "Excited QCD 2013", 3-9 February, Bjelasnica Mountain, Sarajevo
Tunneling and Revival of Anderson Localization in Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Raghav, Sriganapathy
name: Halder, Barun
name: Basu, Pradosh
name: Roy, Utpal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an analytical model to fabricate an exponential localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate under bichromatic optical lattice. Such localization is famously known as Anderson localization. The degree of localization is investigated by the Participation Ratio to recognize the laser parameter domain for Anderson localization. The exponential nature of the localization is proved, where we also identify the Localization Length. The tunneling of Anderson-localized condensate with time is observed, and the revival phenomenon of Anderson localization is reported. Slowing down of Anderson localization is noticed for higher laser intensity. We also study the dynamical and structural stability of the condensate during Anderson localization, which suggests the preferred values of laser power and time instance to encounter minimal mean difference in the presence of noise.
Liberating Higgs couplings in supersymmetry
Creators: name: Petersson, Christoffer
name: Romagnoni, Alberto
name: Torre, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the MSSM, the Higgs couplings to down-type quarks and leptons, normalized with respect to their corresponding Standard Model values, coincide at tree-level and this degeneracy is only slightly broken at the quantum level. Motivated by the latest results of the Higgs searches at the LHC and Tevatron, we explore the possibility of disentangling these couplings from each other by considering a scenario in which supersymmetry is broken spontaneously at a low scale. In such a scenario, all the Higgs couplings, except the ones to the Z and W bosons, receive tree level corrections that depend on the MSSM soft parameters. In particular, the corrections to the Yukawa couplings depend on the A-term soft parameter for the corresponding fermion, allowing for the freedom to break their usual relations, even in the MSSM decoupling limit. We highlight the main features of this scenario in terms of a benchmark point for which the normalized Higgs coupling to the tau leptons is depleted, the coupling to photons is enhanced, while all the other Higgs couplings, including the one to the bottom quarks, are close to their corresponding SM values. We also discuss the experimental bounds arising mainly from di-tau searches and comment on the discovery/exclusion prospects at the LHC.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Bryaninops natans Larson 1985
Creators: name: Suzuki, Toshiyuki
name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Randall, John E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Gobiidae
Bryaninops
Bryaninops natans

description: Bryaninops natans Larson, 1985
Figure 12
 Bryaninops natans Larson, 1985: 77, figs. 10–12 (type locality, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef). Bryaninops natans Herler and Hilgers, 2005: 105, fig. 1 (Gulf of Aqaba).
 Diagnosis. Dorsal-fin rays VI + I,7-1,9 (usually I,8); anal-fin rays I,8 or I,9 (usually I,9); pectoral-fin rays usually 14–16; scales on body extending forward at most to below interdorsal space, the longitudinal scale series 19–40 (mean count 31); canine tooth present on side of lower jaw; head and body compressed; body depth at origin of anal fin 16–25% SL; snout usually shorter than orbit diameter; gill opening reaching to or anterior to posterior margin of orbit; caudal fin usually slightly emarginate; pelvic fins forming a shallow cup, the spines as fleshy lobes; body transparent in life, except for yellow over abdomen; interorbital and iris bright pink. Largest specimen, 19.5 mm SL.
 Distribution. A wide-ranging Indo-Pacific species from the Cook Islands and Caroline Islands to the islands of the western Indian Ocean and throughout the Red Sea.
 Remarks. Reported from lagoon and seaward reefs at depths of 7– 33 m. Usually seen in small aggregations feeding on zooplankton a few cm above live coral of the genus Acropora, including A. loripes and A. squarrosa in the Red Sea. Often rests on tips of coral branches, moving basally among the branches when threatened. Its mode of life has earned the common name of Hovering Goby.
description: Published as part of Suzuki, Toshiyuki, Bogorodsky, Sergey V. & Randall, John E., 2012, Gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the Red Sea, with description of two new species and two new records, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 3170 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279799
Predictors of unplanned discharge from community-based residential mental health rehabilitation for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness
Creators: name: Arnautovska, Urska
name: McKeon, Gemma
name: Dark, Frances
name: Siskind, Dan
name: Harris, Meredith
name: Parker, Stephen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Little is known about what predicts disengagement from rehabilitation treatment for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). To identify predictors of unplanned discharge among consumers admitted to community-based residential rehabilitation units in Australia. Secondary analysis of data from a prospective cohort study of consumers admitted to three Community Care Units (CCUs) between 2014 and 2017 (n = 139). CCUs provide transitional residential rehabilitation support to people affected by SPMI. Demographic, treatment-related and clinical predictors of unplanned discharge were identified using binomial regression models controlling for site-level variability. Factors associated with self- vs staff-initiated unplanned discharge were also examined. 38.8% of consumers experienced unplanned discharge. Significant predictors of unplanned discharge were younger age, higher alcohol consumption and disability associated with mental illness, as well as recovery stage indicating a sense of growth and higher competence in daily task performance. 63.0% of unplanned discharges were initiated by staff, mostly for substance-related reasons (55.9%). History of trauma was more likely among consumers with self-initiated discharge than those with staff-initiated unplanned and planned discharge. Assertive intervention to address alcohol-use, and ensuring care is trauma-informed, may assist in reducing rates of unplanned discharge from rehabilitation care.
Bell states generation on a III-V semiconductor chip at room temperature
Creators: name: Orieux, Adeline
name: Eckstein, Andreas
name: Lemaître, Aristide
name: Filloux, Pascal
name: Favero, Ivan
name: Leo, Giuseppe
name: Coudreau, Thomas
name: Keller, Arne
name: Milman, Pérola
name: Ducci, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs at room temperature and telecom wavelength in a AlGaAs semiconductor waveguide. The source is based on spontaneous parametric down conversion with a counterpropagating phase-matching scheme. The quality of the two-photon state is assessed by the reconstruction of the density matrix giving a raw fidelity to a Bell state of 0.83; a theoretical model, taking into account the experimental parameters, provides ways to understand and control the amount of entanglement. Its compatibility with electrical injection, together with the high versatility of the generated two-photon state, make this source an attractive candidate for completely integrated quantum photonics devices.
title: Hyde within the Boundaries of Mere Jekyll: Strange Cases of Evil in Kant & Stevenson
Creators: name: Brower, Virgil W.
Publisher: name: The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
Year: 2020

description: This essay experiments with Kant’s writings on rational religion distilled through the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as canonical confrontations with primal problems of evil. It suggests boundaries between Stevenson’s characters and their occupations comparable to those conflicted in the Kantian university, namely, law, medicine, theology, and philosophy (which makes a short anticipatory appearance in his earlier text on rational religion). With various faculties it investigates diffuse comprehensions—respectively, legal crime, biogenetic transmission, and original sin—of key ethical modes: will, inheritance, incorporation, freedom, duty, obligation, love, living, and killing to conclude on the possible logic of evil (or evils of logic) collateral and possibly innate to Kant’s comprehension of radical evil. Keywords: Reason, Religion, Morality, Freedom, Hermeneutics
H. Ott, Die Klostergrundherrschaft St. Blasien im Mittelalter
Creators: name: Jakobs, Hermann
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: H. Ott, Die Klostergrundherrschaft St. Blasien im Mittelalter. Beiträge zur Besitzgeschichte, Stuttgart 196
description: Francia, Bd. 1 (1973)
Analysing the Memorability of a Procedural Crime-Drama TV Series, CSI
Creators: name: Cummins, Sean
name: Sweeney, Lorin
name: Smeaton, Alan F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the memorability of a 5-season span of a popular crime-drama TV series, CSI, through the application of a vision transformer fine-tuned on the task of predicting video memorability. By investigating the popular genre of crime-drama TV through the use of a detailed annotated corpus combined with video memorability scores, we show how to extrapolate meaning from the memorability scores generated on video shots. We perform a quantitative analysis to relate video shot memorability to a variety of aspects of the show. The insights we present in this paper illustrate the importance of video memorability in applications which use multimedia in areas like education, marketing, indexing, as well as in the case here namely TV and film production.
description: 7 pages, accepted to CBMI 2022
CREATING SPACE FOR NATURE RX AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: Smith, Marci-Ann
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Landscape architecture
subject: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
subject: Nature Rx

description: With the rising trend of mental health issues among young adults, many colleges are trying to establish an approach to combat those issues for the well-being of their students. One such approach is Nature Rx. Nature Rx is a program that encourages people, sometimes with an actual prescription, to spend time in nature in order to relieve stress and improve overall health. Nature Rx is a holistic way of addressing mental issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression that are prevalent among college students. The evidence is strong that time spent in and engaging with nature can improve mental and physical health. Colleges like Cornell University and University of Maryland College Park are taking advantage of their existing beautiful landscape as part of their Nature Rx program to help their students. Other schools are implementing this program and providing spaces for their students to find reprieve from the stresses of studies. However, there is a gap in the presence of Nature Rx programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). To date, no HBCU has a nature Rx program. This project seeks to fill that gap by using the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an HBCU, as a case study to answer the following thesis question: “How could a Nature Rx design at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, a Historically Black College and University, benefit the health and well-being of its students?”
The chemistry of C3 & Carbon Chain Molecules in DR21(OH)
Creators: name: Mookerjea, B.
name: Hassel, G.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Giesen, T.
name: Stutzki, J.
name: Herbst, E.
name: Black, J. H.
name: Goldsmith, P. F.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Krelowski, J.
name: De Luca, M.
name: Csengeri, T.
name: Joblin, C.
name: Kazmierczak, M.
name: Schmidt, M.
name: Goicoechea, J. R.
name: Cernicharo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We have observed velocity resolved spectra of four ro-vibrational far-infrared transitions of C3 between the vibrational ground state and the low-energy nu2 bending mode at frequencies between 1654--1897 GHz using HIFI on board Herschel, in DR21(OH), a high mass star forming region. Several transitions of CCH and c-C3H2 have also been observed with HIFI and the IRAM 30m telescope. A gas and grain warm-up model was used to identify the primary C3 forming reactions in DR21(OH). We have detected C3 in absorption in four far-infrared transitions, P(4), P(10), Q(2) and Q(4). The continuum sources MM1 and MM2 in DR21(OH) though spatially unresolved, are sufficiently separated in velocity to be identified in the C3 spectra. All C3 transitions are detected from the embedded source MM2 and the surrounding envelope, whereas only Q(4) & P(4) are detected toward the hot core MM1. The abundance of C3 in the envelope and MM2 is \sim6x10^{-10} and \sim3x10^{-9} respectively. For CCH and c-C3H2 we only detect emission from the envelope and MM1. The observed CCH, C3, and c-C3H2 abundances are most consistent with a chemical model with n(H2)\sim5x10^{6} cm^-3 post-warm-up dust temperature, T_max =30 K and a time of \sim0.7-3 Myr. Post warm-up gas phase chemistry of CH4 released from the grain at t\sim 0.2 Myr and lasting for 1 Myr can explain the observed C3 abundance in the envelope of DR21(OH) and no mechanism involving photodestruction of PAH molecules is required. The chemistry in the envelope is similar to the warm carbon chain chemistry (WCCC) found in lukewarm corinos. The observed lower C3 abundance in MM1 as compared to MM2 and the envelope could be indicative of destruction of C3 in the more evolved MM1. The timescale for the chemistry derived for the envelope is consistent with the dynamical timescale of 2 Myr derived for DR21(OH) in other studies.
description: 11 Pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
E. Schulin, Handelsstaat England. Das politische Interesse der Nation am Außenhandel vom 16. bis ins frühe 18. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Hildebrand, Klaus
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: E. Schulin, Handelsstaat England. Das politische Interesse der Nation am Außenhandel vom 16. bis ins frühe 18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden 1969
description: Francia, Bd. 1 (1973)