cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Teaching Piano to Students with Disabilties: A Collective Case Study
Creators: name: Tracia, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this collective case study was to explore the ways in which piano teachers most effectively alter their curriculum to accommodate students with disabilities. Three piano teachers were recruited for this study and were interviewed about their education and teaching experiences. The interview questions used in this study were constructed to detail their educational background, specifically considering their background in special education, if any, and to describe specific ways in which they have accommodated students with disabilities. The questions also sought to discover how familiar they were with the resources available for accommodating students with disabilities.
The participants mentioned several important factors in accommodating students with disabilities in piano lessons. Teacher-student collaboration was found to be essential in accommodating those with physical disabilities, while cognitive or behavioral disabilities seemed to have more complex solutions. Student interest and varying lesson pacing was noted to be particularly effective with students who had behavioral issues. According to the participants, physical disabilities were easiest to accommodate, while accommodations for students with behavioral or emotional disabilities required the most planning.
The participants of this study found their preparation for special education from their higher education institutions particularly lacking. They stressed that although they received poor training for accommodating disabilities, there is no substitute for experience. Experience in teaching students with disabilities was shown to be the most helpful tool in making more informed decisions about their accommodations for these students.
Nonsingular bouncing cosmology from general relativity: Scalar metric perturbations
Creators: name: Klinkhamer, F. R.
name: Wang, Z. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the equations of motion for scalar metric perturbations in a particular nonsingular bouncing cosmology, where the big bang singularity is replaced by a spacetime defect with a degenerate metric. The adiabatic perturbation solution is obtained for nonrelativistic hydrodynamic matter. We get the same result by working with conformal coordinates. This last method is also valid for vector and tensor metric perturbations, and selected results are presented. We, finally, discuss several new effects from the linear perturbations of this nonsingular bouncing cosmology, such as across-bounce information transfer and the possible imprint on cosmological perturbations from a new phase responsible for the effective spacetime defect.
description: 20 pages, v4: published version
"Found in Translation" – Neural machine translation models for chemical reaction prediction
Creators: name: Schwaller, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Forward Reaction Prediction

description: https://plan.core-apps.com/acsboston18/abstract/eada8bf1-80f2-4b60-8d06-4eaf83748fde When designing experiments chemists face a complex multidimensional optimization problem and have to explore the nearly endless chemical space based on intuition acquired over years of training and experience. Although intensively studied, predicting the success of a chemical transformation remains a major challenge in Organic Chemistry and is often perceived as an art only human experts can do. Exploiting the analogies between human language and Organic Chemistry, neural machine translation models have recently outperformed templated-based methods and achieved state-of-the-art results in predicting the outcome of chemical reactions. In this work, we analyze the results of such fully data-driven neural sequence-to-sequence models, gain insight into the learned reaction mechanisms using a set of classified reactions and outline the potential of attention weight matrices for atom mappings generation.
Einstein-Maxwell fields generated from the gamma-metric and their limits
Creators: name: Richterek, L.
name: Novotny, J.
name: Horsky, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two solutions of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell field equations are found by means of the Horsky-Mitskievitch generating conjecture. The vacuum limit of those obtained classes of spacetimes is the seed gamma-metric and each of the generated solutions is connected with one Killing vector of the seed spacetime. Some of the limiting cases of our solutions are identified with already known metrics, the relations among various limits are illustrated through a limiting diagram. We also verify our calculation through the Ernst potentials. The existence of circular geodesics is briefly discussed in the Appendix.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX2e, 8 eps-figures. to be published in Czech. J. Phys
Ecology and Conservation of Endangered Species in Sumatra: Smaller Cats and the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis) As Case Studies
Creators: name: Pusparini, Wulan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: While we should celebrate the bicentennial of naming the Sumatran rhinoceros (SR), the only extant population on earth might be on the island of Sumatra. Since Strien's 1986 study in Mamas Valley, Leuser, very little more has been learned about how this species distributed and what factors are influencing its extirpation. This study is the first conducted in Sumatra at an Island-wide scale. Using hierarchical models, I estimate the occurrence rates (%) and indices of abundance of SR on three remaining population areas: Leuser Landscape (LL) in 2007 (2.77%, 26 (CI 12-61)), Way Kambas (WK) in 2008 (33.58%, 27 (CI 14-50)) and Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBS) in 2010 (36.4%, 31 (CI 19-66)). Primary dry land forest and rivers are factors affecting SR occurrence in LL, but the index of abundance also is affected by deforestation, roughness of terrain, and and a vegetation index. The index of abundance in WK is more affected by major roads, and brush and savannah cover types, and the occurrence there is additionally affected by deforestation. Secondary dry land forest, regular roads, and deforestation is affecting both the occurrence rate and index of abundance of SR in BBS. The identification of these environmental and disturbance factors is translated into spatially explicit map that can be used to update the IUCN distribution map. In LL, by comparison to the historical distribution based on Strien (1986), the small population in Bendahara Mountain might still persist outside the core population in Mamas Valley.
Constraints on scalar leptoquarks from lepton and kaon physics
Creators: name: Mandal, Rusa
name: Pich, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive analysis of low-energy signals of hypothetical scalar leptoquark interactions in lepton and kaon transitions. We derive the most general effective four-fermion Lagrangian induced by tree-level scalar leptoquark exchange and identify the Wilson coefficients predicted by the five possible types of scalar leptoquarks. The current constraints on the leptoquark Yukawa couplings arising from lepton and kaon processes are worked out, including also loop-induced transitions with only leptons (or quarks) as external states. In the presence of scalar leptoquark interactions, we also derive the differential distributions for flavour-changing neutral-current transitions in semileptonic kaon modes, including all known effects within the Standard Model. Their interference with the new physics contributions could play a significant role in future improvements of those constraints that are currently hampered by poorly-determined non-perturbative parameters.
description: Bounds updated with the most recent experimental information from Kaon 2019. Additional references included
A Case Study of Spreadsheet Use within the Finance and Academic Registry units within a Higher Education Institution
Creators: name: Thorne, Simon
name: Hancock, Jamie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the findings of a case study of spreadsheet use in a higher education institution in the UK. The paper considers the use of spreadsheets in two units of the organisation, academic registry and finance. Spreadsheet use is explored in terms of importance, training, experience, purpose, techniques deployed, size of spreadsheets created and sharing of spreadsheets. The implications of the results are then considered in terms of accurate reporting to external funding bodies such the funding councils, internal data integrity and internal data efficiencies. The results show a large volume of spreadsheets being created and used, that the profile of spreadsheet developers is typical of other studies of spreadsheet use and the need for the organisation to have clear principles and guidelines for the development of spreadsheet models in the organisation to ensure data integrity, reduce duplication of effort and to optimise the use of spreadsheets to meet the institutions goals.
description: 15 Pages, 20 Tables
Phaelota Jacoby 1887
Creators: name: Prathapan, K. D.
name: Konstantinov, A. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Phaelota

description: Genus Phaelota Jacoby
 Phaelota Jacoby, 1887: 94 (Type species: Phaelota semifasciata Jacoby, 1887, Sri Lanka, by monotypy); Maulik, 1926: 176; Chen, 1936: 659; Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940: 511; Scherer, 1969: 8, 18, 218; Seeno and Wilcox, 1982: 144; Prathapan and Viraktamath, 2004: 1–18.
 Thrylaea Jacoby, 1887: 98 (Type species: Thrylaea variabilis Jacoby, 1887, Sri Lanka, by monotypy); Maulik, 1926: 284, 307; Chen, 1936: 659; Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940: 528; Scherer, 1969: 7, 233; Seeno and Wilcox, 1982: 144. New synonym.
Distribution. India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Borneo.
 Diagnostic characters. Alate or apterous, 1.9 to 5.2 mm long, convex, ovoid, narrowed posteriorly. Antennal callus well developed, transverse to oblique, anteromesal end triangular and entering into interantennal space. Distance between eye and adjacent antennal socket subequal to transverse diameter of a socket or slightly less; distance between antennal sockets 1.5 – 4.7 times diameter of a socket and less than transverse diameter of one eye. Frontal ridge wide, widening anteriorly. Anterofrontal ridge lower than frontal ridge, flat. Labrum with a transverse row of four setiferous punctures. First antennomere as long as next two combined, last five or six antennomeres thickened. Pronotum transverse, 1.3 – 1.8 times wider than long, with poorly developed antebasal transverse impression delimited on either end by curved longitudinal impressions. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Prosternum broad. Elytra as wide as prothorax at base, widening at humerus. Elytral punctures arranged in striae. Epipleuron moderately wide, reaching beyond 4/5 th of elytron. Dorsal surface of metatibia more or less flat. Metabasitarsus slightly longer than next two tarsomeres combined. In repose, metatibia received over a longitudinal ridge along mesal side of metafemur, edge of this ridge being distinctly serrulate in male.
 Remarks. Though described in the same paper, Jacoby (1887) did not compare Phaelota with Thrylaea as in the case of Ivalia and Amphimeloides (Duckett et al., 2006). A syntype of Thrylaea variabilis Jacoby was examined and found to be a typical alate Phaelota with all the salient features of the genus including the serrulate metafemur in the male. No significant character separates it from P. semifasciata Jacoby or other congenerics. Hence Thrylaea is synonymised with Phaelota and as both the names were published in the same paper, we here give precedence to Phaelota.
description: Published as part of Prathapan, K. D. & Konstantinov, A. S., 2009, Descriptions of eight new species of Phaelota (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with a new generic synonymy and a key to species of Indian subcontinent, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1991 on pages 1-2
Knowledge-scapes as Resources: An Archaeological Approach to the Construction of Cultural and Social Identities
Creators: name: Schweizer, Beat
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Concepts of ‘cultural memory’ almost directly equate knowledge of the past with culture, usually referring to textual and/or mythological evidence. From this perspective, research on cultural knowledge has its focus on valuation and canonization in relation to the construction, sustaining or altering of identities, rather than on practical and useful skills securing subsistence. However, cultural knowledge is based not only on texts and myths, but also on things, monuments and landscapes, representations as well as body practices and emotions. Thus, knowledge-scapes as networks or meshed bundles connecting knowledge with shaped things, designed spaces and monuments, as well as associated body practices directed at senses and emotions, can be seen as resources in which cultural memories are actualized, representations of social groups are constructed and social spaces are generated. It will be argued that knowledge-scapes conceptualized as resources of identity building are closely connected to sacred spaces in a broad sense of important public spaces set apart. From an archaeological perspective, different types of features related to sacred spaces can be analysed as evidence of knowledge-scapes. The Heroon of Poseidonia/Paestum is discussed as a case study of knowledge-scapes related to the construction of the past.
Enzymatic Digestion Improved Bacteria Separation from Leafy Green Vegetables
Creators: name: Wang, Danhui
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: An effective and rapid method for the separation of bacteria from food matrix remains a bottleneck for rapid bacteria detection for food safety. Bacteria can strongly attach to the food surface or internalize within the matrix which makes their isolation extremely difficult. Traditional methods of separating bacteria from foods routinely involve stomaching, blending and shaking, however these methods may not be efficient at removing all the bacteria from complex matrices. Here, we investigate the benefits of using enzyme digestion followed by immunomagnetic separation to isolate Salmonella from spinach and lettuce. Enzymatic digestion using pectinase and cellulase was able to break down the structure of the leafy green vegetables resulting in the detachment and release of Salmonella from the leaves. Immunomagnetic separation of Salmonella from the liquefied sample allowed an additional separation step to achieve a more pure sample without leaves debris that may benefit additional downstream applications. We have investigated the optimal combination of pectinase and cellulase for the digestion of spinach and lettuce to improve sample detection yields. The concentrations of enzymes used to digest the leaves were confirmed to have no significant effect on the viability of the inoculated Salmonella. Results reported that the recovery of the Salmonella from the produce after enzyme digestion of the leaves was significantly higher (P
Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates for January, February, and March 2014
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Connecticut
subject: milk
subject: production

description: Farm milk prices in Connecticut reached historical highs in the first quarter of 2014, averaging approximately $24/cwt. However, the total cost of producing milk has remained high, averaging approximately $34/cwt. and the minimum sustainable cost of production averaging approximately $28/cwt. Thus, in spite of the rapid increase in farm milk prices experienced in Connecticut recently, the negative gap between prices and the minimum sustainable cost of production has narrowed but not closed. In fact prices were on average $3.84 lower than the minimum sustainable cost of production during the first quarter of 2014, supporting the continued need for payments to state dairy farmers under Public Act 09-229. 2014 Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates, Statistical Uniform Price, and Application of Public Act 09-229
Relic Neutralino Density in Scenarios with Intermediate Unification Scale
Creators: name: Khalil, S.
name: Munoz, C.
name: Torrente-Lujan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the relic neutralino density in supersymmetric models with an intermediate unification scale. In particular, we present concrete cosmological scenarios where the reheating temperature is as small as $\cal{O}$ $1 - 1000$ MeV). When this temperature is associated to the decay of moduli fields producing neutralinos, we show that the relic abundance increases considerably with respect to the standard thermal production. Thus the neutralino becomes a good dark matter candidate with $0.1\lsim Ωh^2 \lsim 0.3$, even for regions of the parameter space where large neutralino-nucleon cross sections, compatible with current dark matter experiments, are present. This is obtained for intermediate scales $M_I\sim 10^{11}-10^{14}$ GeV, and moduli masses $m_ϕ\sim 100-1000$ GeV. On the other hand, when the above temperature is associated to the decay of an inflaton field, the relic abundance is too small.
description: Latex, 11 pages, 2 figures
The Minimal Supersymmetric Model without a mu term
Creators: name: Nelson, Ann E.
name: Rius, Nuria
name: Sanz, Veronica
name: Unsal, Mithat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a supersymmetric extension of the standard model which is a realistic alternative to the MSSM, and which has several advantages. No ``mu'' supersymmetric Higgs/Higgsino mass parameter is needed for sufficiently heavy charginos. An approximate U(1) R symmetry naturally guarantees that tan beta is large, explaining the top/bottom quark mass hierarchy. This symmetry also suppresses supersymmetric contributions to anomalous magnetic moments, b to s gamma, and proton decay, and these processes place no lower bounds on superpartner masses, even at large tan beta. The soft supersymmetry breaking mass parameters can easily be obtained from either gauge or Planck scale mediation, without the usual mu problem. Unlike in the MSSM, there are significant upper bounds on the masses of superpartners, including an upper bound of 114 GeV on the mass of the lightest chargino. However the MSSM bound on the lightest Higgs mass does not apply.
description: 3 figures, 20 pages, minor changes to discussion and to parameters used for figures, references added
Chemistry Puppeteer
Creators: name: Toniato, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Noise Reduction, Chemical Reactions, Artificial Intelligence, Model Training

description: https://plan.core-apps.com/acs_sf20/abstract/edd1eb95-f39d-4f74-b2d1-c332c4ec4a25 Presentation by Alessandra Toniato at ACS Fall Meeting 2020, talking about increasing the diversity of retro-synthetic predictions.
EVALUATING FEATURES FOR BROAD SPECIES BASED CLASSIFICATION OF BIRD OBSERVATIONS USING DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
Creators: name: Werth, Sheila
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing segments of the world energy market; however, wind energy facilities can have detrimental effects on wildlife, especially birds and bats. The ability to monitor vulnerable species in the vicinity of proposed wind sites could enable site selection that favors more vulnerable species, but current monitoring tools lack this classification capability. This work analyzes polarimetric and Doppler measurements of migrating birds for species based variation.
A novel two stage feature extraction technique was developed to enable comparison between birds. Stage one involves mapping time changing radar measurements to the birds behavioral state in time (i.e. flapping and gliding); stage two uses this behavioral state information to produce temporal and statistical features that describe the frequency and appearance of these different behavioral states.
General trends of temporal features (ex. wing-beat frequency) in the dataset match Ecological literature and validate the feature extraction approach. Preliminary clustering of bird detection data suggests possible species based subgroups of targets, although a larger dataset is needed for further validation.
Carleman estimates for a stochastic degenerate parabolic equation and applications to null controllability and an inverse random source problem
Creators: name: Wu, Bin
name: Chen, Qun
name: Wang, Zewen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we establish two Carleman estimates for a stochastic degenerate parabolic equation. The first one is for the backward stochastic degenerate parabolic equation with singular weight function. Combining this Carleman estimate and an approximate argument, we prove the null controllability of the forward stochastic degenerate parabolic equation with the gradient term. The second one is for the forward stochastic degenerate parabolic equation with regular weighted function, based on which we obtain the Lipschitz stability for an inverse problem of determining a random source depending only on time in the forward stochastic degenerate parabolic equation.
“Stick Them with the Pointy End”: The Knowledge-scape of Sword Fighting in Archaic Central Italy
Creators: name: Scarsella, Elena
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Learning to fight with a sword is not a straightforward task: it takes years and intense practice to master a fighting discipline. Although having previous knowledge on how to use a different sword can be useful, it does not guarantee quick learning. In the case of warrior societies, investing into the training becomes a matter of survival, as warriors entrust their weaponry with their lives. Around the end of the seventh century BC, a radical change in sword typology involved most of Central Italy. Although the area of origin of these new objects is still unclear, they soon appeared all over the region under examination. In this paper, I will investigate the mechanisms of reception, appropriation and local adaptation of a communal and widespread combat style in order to outline their role in the definition of Central Italian pre-Roman identity/identities.
THE SPATIALITY IN STORYTELLING
Creators: name: Yu, Xiang
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Theatre has always been played a irreplaceable role in people’s lives, even nowadays where people have multiple choices for entertainment. Some theater architecture has also become the symbol of the city, such as Paris Opéra and Sydney Opera House. By taking a close look at various case studies, one will understand how the theatre architecture corresponds with their city representing its history, culture and visions for the future.
The development of my thesis is based on the integration of the ‘space’ of storytelling and the space of design. Will the quality of space bring out the memories that have been stored with in it? How the space provide with most flexibility for its users? Explorations in acoustic and lighting design as well as the spectators’ experience in the space will be discussed. My attention is to create a design that will heighten perception and arouse the audience’s sensory experience even before the start of the show.
The relationship between nature and the architecture is also one of my attentions. Questions arise such as how to use a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the intersection of architecture and landscape. Should the architecture become a new definition towards the context or an expression that abstract from the landscape？ This thesis explores the relationship between the performer and audience, and how the architecture space can contribute to the theater experience. The design for this project offers one solution for the whole site serving as a place for performing arts as well as a public space and a destination for the city of Boston.
Innovation of the Residential Buildings and Community in the Emerging City Rongcheng
Creators: name: Yu, Xing
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Nowadays in China, every province is implementing urbanization, which is a national policy goal. In this process, Copinism is very obvious. Almost everything is being done by Western World rules, from buildings to lifestyles; apparently, China needs to learn a lot from the western world. However, with the development of urbanization, the inadequacy of this approach becomes more and more evident, especially in old cities with rich culture heritages. The overly rapid development speed even sharpens the resulted contradictions when it brings chances. With decades of “copying”, it’s time for China, a country with such a different culture system from the West, to turn to substantive innovation, but renovation.
Rongcheng, which is located in the middle-east of China, is a thriving new city with traditional villages occupying the majority of the land. The residential buildings & community typology in Rongcheng have great potentials and opportunities for major innovation. Both village buildings and city buildings have elements that people yearn for. At the meantime, any innovation must consider the general political and economic system in China as a major underlying force. Meanwhile, by starting from the most basic requirements of the residents, including lifestyles and old customs and combining them selectively with mainstream-rules, I aim to create a new kind of building and community that is fitting to the local soil, meets the needs of local people, and directly addresses facets of China. This study about my hometown, Rongcheng, will become a start point for my studies of my homeland.
Learning how to do chemical reactions from data
Creators: name: Vaucher, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chemical Reactions, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental Procedures

description: https://fm20.chemistrycongresses.ch/en/component/scs/abstract/260?layout=preview&tmpl=component&show=yes Presentation by Alain Vaucher at the Swiss Chemical Society Meeting, August 25th 2020.
Multiplicity Fluctuations in DIS
Creators: name: Zawiejski, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged multiplicity fluctuations in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) are investigated to test perturbative QCD and local parton hadron duality (LPHD). The fluctuations were measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA in restricted phase space domains in the current Breit frame region. The measurements are compared to analytic pQCD + LPHD predictions and QCD-based Monte Carlo models.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD, Bologna, Italy, Apr. 27- May 1, 2001, LaTeX2e, .eps-files included, ws-p8-50x6-00.cls included
Tunable Plasmonic Thermal Emitter Using Metal-Coated Elastomeric Structures
Creators: name: Zando, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: This project was focused on the creation of a gold-coated grating structure capable of inducing a surface plasmon polariton within the mid-infrared region, enhancing emissions at specific wavelengths based on the grating periodicity. The grating structure was formed on a silicone elastomer, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), in order to give the structure, the ability to have the periodicity dimensions of the grating altered by applying a stress, thereby changing the location of the emission enhancement, giving the device the potential to be used as an infrared strain sensor.
Creation of the structure employed a top-down, micro-scale fabrication technique referred to as Direct Laser Writing (DLW). Using a light-sensitive, negative-tone photoresist material, a grating was patterned onto a glass substrate via photopolymerization, in which areas exposed to an ultraviolet (UV) laser were rendered insoluble by forming cross-links on the portions of the resist which interacted with the UV source. This grating was then placed under a custom-designed mold which was then filled with liquid PDMS and cured for 3 hours at 60°C to cure (harden or cross-link) and leaving an inverse elastomer pattern behind once the cured PDMS was peeled off the substrate.
Upon coating the structure with a ~80 nm thick layer of gold, a Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer was used to measure the thermal emissions spectrum of the sample grating at a high temperature (~200°C) and under different strains. These spectra were then analyzed to look for selective emission enhancements caused by the grating structure due to the inducing of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP), as well as changes in the location and nature of these enhancements based on applied strains. Final results showed two sets of enhancement behaviors with the application of uniaxial strain: a shifting of the region of peak emission enhancement to higher wavelengths, and a broadening of the region of enhancement. However, more testing is needed in order to determine the precise causes of the behavior and to quantify it in such a way that it could be turned into a functioning sensor device.
MOESM1 of Human mesenchymal stromal cells broadly modulate high glucose-induced inflammatory responses of renal proximal tubular cell monolayers
Creators: name: Md Islam
name: TomÃ¡S Griffin
name: Sander, Elizabeth
name: Rocks, Stephanie
name: Junaid Qazi
name: Cabral, Joana
name: McCaul, Jasmin
name: McMorrow, Tara
name: Griffin, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods document.
Molecular transformer for chemical reaction prediction and uncertainty estimation
Creators: name: Schwaller, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: https://plan.core-apps.com/acsorlando2019/abstract/f83d2c28-4580-4984-b99e-efa2bf8adb2f Organic synthesis is one of the key stumbling blocks in medicinal chemistry. The necessary yet unsolved step in planning synthesis is solving the forward problem: given reactants and reagents, predict the products. We treat reaction prediction as a machine translation problem between SMILES strings of reactants-reagents and the products. We show that a multi-head attention Molecular Transformer model outperforms all algorithms in the literature, achieving a top-1 accuracy above 90% on a common benchmark dataset. Our algorithm requires no handcrafted rules, and accurately predicts subtle chemical transformations. Crucially, our model can accurately estimate its own uncertainty, with an uncertainty score that is 89\% correct in terms of classifying whether a prediction is correct. Furthermore, we show that model is able to handle inputs without reactant-reagent split and including stereochemistry, which makes our method universally applicable across existing datasets.
New black holes with hyperscaling violation and transports of quantum critical points with magnetic impurity
Creators: name: Ge, Xian-Hui
name: Seo, Yunseok
name: Sin, Sang-Jin
name: %, Geunho Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the magneto-transports of quantum matters doped with magnetic impurities near the quantum critical points(QCP). For this, we first find new black hole solution with hyper-scaling violation which is dual to such system. By considering the fluctuation near this exact solution, we calculated all transport coefficients using the holographic method. We applied our result to the surface state of the topological insulator with magnetic doping and found two QCP's, one bosonic and the other fermionic. It turns out that doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$ correspond to different QCP's. We also investigated transports of QCP's as functions of physical parameters and found that there are phase transitions as well as crossovers from weak localization to weak anti-localization.
description: 35 pages, 26 figures
Youth Narrative in Feng Tang's The Beijing Trilogy
Creators: name: Zhang, Mingjia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: In the past fifteen years, the Beijing writer Feng Tang has enjoyed great popularity, especially among young readers. As a versatile writer, he published not only novels but also essays and poems. His representative work is the semi-autobiographical The Beijing Trilogy which depicts the coming-of-age of a boy named Qiushui and his friends. The main theme of this trilogy is the growth of youth and thus establishes a youth narrative. Based on a close reading of the trilogy, this paper aims to explore the true nature of the youth narrative that Feng Tang presents in his The Beijing Trilogy. This paper is divided into five sections: section one introduces the writer Feng Tang and The Beijing Trilogy; section two discusses the feature of youth narrative in the realm of the genre bildungsroman; section three analyzes the counter-sublime tendency associated with the writer’s rebellion from the official discourse and mainstream ideology; section four focuses on the phallocentrism that is pervasive in the story; and section five is the conclusion.
Art and Life - Make invisible visible in Cao changdi village, Beijing, China
Creators: name: zhang, peng
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: ABSTRACT
Why do we design architecture? How we design it? Why do we design architecture in this way, not in that way? What‘s the most important characteristic for architecture? How we can identity if architecture has realized all ideas we proposed before? With these questions, with the help from kind professors, I found one interesting place - Cao changdi, Beijing, China. Luckily, I found one interesting street and noticed there are some problems here. I needed to figure out what exactly are the problems and try to solve the problems with architecture.
I found that relations and connections are missing at this street. They are supposed to be there, but they are invisible. Why not make them visible?
I tried to direct this design based on the user’s stories or experiences. My approach was to visualize peoples’ experience in a new architecture through story boards, or ‘frame’ of applying the film director’s skills and design minds to approach architecture.
Let peoples’ experience in an architecture become a movie. Applying the film director’s skills and minds to the design of architecture.
Space plays an important role in architecture design. What happened in that space is what is important. Of course, stories would happen in that space. Then what’s the story?
My thesis project would illustrate how three stories - visitor, villager and artist‘s experience help to direct the design.
Multi-block Bregman proximal alternating linearized minimization and its application to orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization
Creators: name: Ahookhosh, Masoud
name: Hien, Le Thi Khanh
name: Gillis, Nicolas
name: Patrinos, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce and analyze BPALM and A-BPALM, two multi-block proximal alternating linearized minimization algorithms using Bregman distances for solving structured nonconvex problems. The objective function is the sum of a multi-block relatively smooth function (i.e., relatively smooth by fixing all the blocks except one) and block separable (nonsmooth) nonconvex functions. It turns out that the sequences generated by our algorithms are subsequentially convergent to critical points of the objective function, while they are globally convergent under KL inequality assumption. Further, the rate of convergence is further analyzed for functions satisfying the Łojasiewicz's gradient inequality. We apply this framework to orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization (ONMF) that satisfies all of our assumptions and the related subproblems are solved in closed forms, where some preliminary numerical results is reported.
MOESM2 of Phenotypic analysis combined with tandem mass tags (TMT) labeling reveal the heterogeneity of strawberry stolon buds
Creators: name: Guan, Ling
name: Mizhen Zhao
name: Yaming Qian
name: Hongmei Yu
name: Xia, Jin
name: Ejiao Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Statistical analysis of volcano plot for evaluating the quality of fold change in each group ASB/DSB (A), RLB/DSB (B) and RLB/ASB (C), respectively. Data upon the horizontal and vertical dotted lines, which colored in pink, means the significant changes in the abundance of DEPs with 1.2-fold-change cut-off and P value<0.05.
Development of Low Radioactive Molecular Sieves for Ultra-Low Background Particle Physics Experiment
Creators: name: Ogawa, H.
name: Abe, K.
name: Matsukura, M.
name: Mimura, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study develops low radioactive molecular sieves (MS) for ultra-low background particle physics experiment. The manufactured MS is of type 4A. $^{226}$Ra and $^{232}$Th have concentrations of about 57 and 198 mBq/kg, respectively, measured by applying high-purity germanium (HPGe) measurement. The reduction of the radioactivity from the commercial one is about 99 and 97 percent for $^{226}$Ra and $^{232}$Th, respectively. Furthermore, the radon emanation rate from MS filter is about 2.1 mBq, which is measured by utilizing pin-photo type radon detector. This developed MS is expected to remove the impurity from the noble gas, in which low radioactivity is needed such as dark matter search experiment.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Curcumin and Its Oxidative Degradation Products: Their Comparative Effects on Inflammation
Creators: name: Zhu, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: The anti-inflammatory agent curcumin degrades rapidly, leading to speculations that curcumin’s reported effects stem from its degradation products. Curcumin can degrade via hydrolysis, and more recently it was discovered that curcumin can degrade via oxidation at physiological pH. Additionally, bicyclopentadione is the major degradation product from this oxidation reaction. Evidence from the literature suggests that curcumin degrades primarily through oxidation. However, the biology of the oxidation products is not well characterized, and there is debate on whether oxidation intermediates or curcumin itself is more biologically active. To further elucidate the biology of the oxidation products, their effects on inflammation were examined. RAW264.7 murine macrophage cells were stimulated with E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and treated with curcumin, curcumin’s total oxidative degradation products, and bicyclopentadione. Curcumin strongly decreased LPS-induced nitric oxide production and iNOS expression in a dose dependent manner; total degradation products slightly decreased nitric oxide production and iNOS expression, while bicyclopentadione failed to decrease either. Additionally, curcumin was significantly more effective than either bicyclopentadione or total degradation products in inhibiting COX-2 expression. iNOS and COX-2 arise from the activation of the NF-kB pathway, which curcumin is known to modulate; thus, the oxidation products’ effect on key proteins in this pathway was also examined. Neither total degradation products nor bicyclopentadione inhibited translocation of NF-kB into the nucleus, prevented degradation of IκBα, nor inhibited phosphorylation of IKK as effectively as curcumin. In conclusion, curcumin is significantly more effective at inhibiting inflammation than the oxidation degradation products.
MOESM3 of Phenotypic analysis combined with tandem mass tags (TMT) labeling reveal the heterogeneity of strawberry stolon buds
Creators: name: Guan, Ling
name: Mizhen Zhao
name: Yaming Qian
name: Hongmei Yu
name: Xia, Jin
name: Ejiao Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Quality deviation of all identified peptides was mainly within 10â€‰ppm.
Measurement of charm production in deep inelastic scattering with the ZEUS detector
Creators: name: Schagen, S. E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of charm production in DIS using the ZEUS detector. Data with an integrated luminosity of 83 pb$^{-1}$ have been analysed. For the channel $D^{*+} \to D^{0}π_{s}^{+} \to K^{-}π^{+}π_{s}^{+} (+ c.c.)$ a cross section has been extracted, differential in the kinematical variables $Q^{2}$ and Bjorken $x$. In addition the decay $\overline{c}q \to e^-\overlineν_e X$ has been studied in a data sample of an integrated luminosity of 34 pb$^{-1}$. This results in a cross section, differential in $Q^2$,$x$ and $W$ of the event and in $p_{T}$ and $η$ of the decay electron. The structure function f2-charm has also been determined for this channel. All measured cross sections show good agreement with NLO pQCD predictions from HVQDIS.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. As presented at DIS01 Bologna, Italy
Trophic Relationships Among Caribou Calf Predators in Newfoundland
Creators: name: Zieminski, Chris
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Using specially trained scat detection dogs we located fecal samples from black bear (Ursus americanus) and coyote (Canis latrans) throughout three study areas in Newfoundland, Canada, to describe these predators diet. Our sampling efforts were designed around seasons which were important to woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) calving and resource use. We identified hairs microscopically to prey species and grouped other remains to facilitate our analysis. Bear exhibited an omnivorous diet throughout the study areas, ecological seasons and inside and outside the caribou calving grounds while coyote were limited to caribou, moose and snowshoe hare.
Anderson localization of polaron states
Creators: name: Bronold, Franz X.
name: Fehske, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the vanishing of the typical polaron tunneling rate as an indicator of the breakdown of itinerancy, we study the localization of polaron states in a generic model for a disordered polaronic material. We find that extremely small disorder causes an Anderson localization of small polaron states. However, the ratio between the critical disorder strength needed to localize all states in the polaron band and the renormalized bandwidth is not necessarily smaller than for a bare electron.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Special Values of the Zeta Function of an Arithmetic Surface
Creators: name: Flach, Matthias
name: Siebel, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G40 14F20 14F10

description: We study the special value conjecture for the Zeta function of a proper regular arithmetic scheme X introduced by Flach and Morin in the case n=1. We compute the correction factor C(X,1) left unspecified in the original statement of the Flach-Morin Conjecture, thereby developing some results on the eh-topology introduced by Geisser. We then specialize further to the case where X is an arithmetic surface and show that the conjecture of Flach and Morin is equivalent to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.
title: 03_0445
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/