cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiplicative renormalizability of gluon and ghost propagators in QCD
Creators: name: Bloch, J. C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reformulate the coupled set of continuum equations for the renormalized gluon and ghost propagators in QCD, such that the multiplicative renormalizability of the solutions is manifest, independently of the specific form of full vertices and renormalization constants. In the Landau gauge, the equations are free of renormalization constants, and the renormalization point dependence enters only through the renormalized coupling and the renormalized propagator functions. The structure of the equations enables us to devise novel truncations with solutions that are multiplicatively renormalizable and agree with the leading order perturbative results. We show that, for infrared power law behaved propagators, the leading infrared behavior of the gluon equation is not solely determined by the ghost loop, as concluded in previous studies, but that the gluon loop, the three-gluon loop, the four-gluon loop, and even massless quarks also contribute to the infrared analysis. In our new Landau gauge truncation, the combination of gluon and ghost loop contributions seems to reject infrared power law solutions, but massless quark loops illustrate how additional contributions to the gluon vacuum polarization could reinstate these solutions. Moreover, a schematic study of the three-gluon and four-gluon loops shows that they too need to be considered in more detail before a definite conclusion about the existence of infrared power behaved gluon and ghost propagators can be reached.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Anaphothrips yalgooi Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips yalgooi

description: Anaphothrips yalgooi sp. n.
(Figs 168–171)
 Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow with brown markings; tergites II–VIII brown medially and across anterior half; mesonotum and metascutum brown laterally; pronotum with brown markings; antennal segment I white, II dark brown, III and basal half of IV brownish yellow, V–IX light brown; wings faintly shaded; tergite IX setae light brown. Head wider than long, with closely spaced sculpture lines behind eyes; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae III just outside ocellar triangle (Fig. 168). Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with sensorium forked, II with three rows of microtrichia; VI not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII oblique (Fig. 171). Pronotum with irregular transverse lines of sculpture; posteromarginal setae S1 larger than remaining setae (Fig. 169). Metascutal sculpture reticulate, lines with slight craspedal flanges; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS absent. Prosternal ferna almost complete medially. Fore wing relatively broad, first vein with about 15 setae basally, 2 setae medially and 2 setae near apex; second vein with about 16 setae; clavus with 6 veinal setae and one basal seta. Abdominal tergites V–VII with no sculpture medially, II–IV with some lines medially; tergites laterally with up to 10 striae bearing numerous pale ciliate microtrichia with triangular bases, sculpture extending mesad of setae S2 almost to campaniform sensilla (Fig. 170); VIII with long regular marginal comb; IX with many transverse sculpture lines. Sternite VII median setae close to posterior margin.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1380. Head, length 90; width across eyes 155. Pronotum, length 120; maximum width 185. Fore wing, length 730; median width 60; first vein longest seta in basal row 30. Tergite IV S1 setae 15. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 85. Tergite X PM S1 setae 75. Antennal segments III–IX, 42, 37, 37, 32, 10, 10, 12.
 Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite lateral sculpture lines with distinct craspeda but not microtrichia; IX with median setae not stout; sternites with no pore plates.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Western Australia, 63km south-west of Yalgoo, from leaves of Eremophila species (Myoporaceae), 26.iv.1997 (LAM 3238).
Paratypes: 2 females 1 male taken with holotype.
 Comments. Although the metascutal sculpture is similar to that of A. geijerae, that species has a neat transverse suture between antennal segments VI–VII, and also lacks pigmented eye facets.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Tidal heating as a discriminator for horizons in extreme mass ratio inspirals
Creators: name: Datta, Sayak
name: Brito, Richard
name: Bose, Sukanta
name: Pani, Paolo
name: Hughes, Scott A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The defining feature of a classical black hole is being a perfect absorber. Any evidence showing otherwise would indicate a departure from the standard black-hole picture. Energy and angular momentum absorption by the horizon of a black hole is responsible for tidal heating in a binary. This effect is particularly important in the latest stages of an extreme mass ratio inspiral around a spinning supermassive object, one of the main targets of the future LISA mission. We study how this effect can be used to probe the nature of supermassive objects in a model independent way. We compute the orbital dephasing and the gravitational-wave signal emitted by a point particle in circular, equatorial motion around a spinning supermassive object to the leading order in the mass ratio. Absence of absorption by the central object can affect the gravitational-wave signal dramatically, especially at high spin. This effect will make it possible to put an unparalleled upper bound on the reflectivity of exotic compact objects, at the level of ${\cal O}(0.01)\%$. This stringent bound would exclude the possibility of observing echoes in the ringdown of a supermassive binary merger.
description: v2: 8+4 pages, 5 figures, one new plot. Version to appear in PRD
The Art of Not Seeing: The Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Failed Search for Nazi Collaborators in the United States, 1945-1979
Creators: name: Davis, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: From 1945 to 1979, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was responsible for identifying and prosecuting Nazi collaborators and potential war criminals in the United States. It failed in this task for a number of reasons. The first of these was that the agency was severely disorganized and mismanaged. Reliance on interagency cooperation, lack of manpower and resources, and lack of institutional support for “Nazi hunters” posed further problems. Morale crises among employees and the legal difficulties of actually prosecuting Nazi collaborators also hampered the agency’s effectiveness. Most importantly, the agency was overwhelmingly focused on policing the southern border and preventing the entry of unauthorized Mexican migrants. This policy focus prevented resources from being devoted to other initiatives, including investigating the presence of Nazi collaborators in the United States.
In this paper I analyze the existing historiography on this topic and discuss its shortcomings. These include a focus on the small number of cases prosecuted by the INS, from which historians have tended to make inapplicable generalizations, and a focus on the Cold War and anticommunism as explanations for the INS’s failure. I have also surveyed historical works on denazification in Germany, which I argue provide a better template for historians working on the collaborator presence in the United States.
Dodonaeathrips Mound & Masumoto 2009, gen. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Dodonaeathrips

description: Dodonaeathrips gen. n.
 Diagnosis. Macropterous; antennae 8-segmented (Fig. 178), sensorium on segments III–IV forked, II–VI with microtrichial rows, I without dorso-apical setae. Head transverse, eyes large with 6 pigmented facets; 3 pairs of ocellar setae, pair III within ocellar triangle (Fig. 172); 2 pairs of postocular setae; maxillary palps 2- segmented. Pronotum transverse, with no long setae. Mesonotum and metascutum without campaniform sensilla, median setae arise medially (Fig. 173). Prosternal ferna entire; basantra without setae. Mesothoracic and metathoracic furcae each with prominent spinula (Fig. 176); mesothoracic sternopleural sutures complete. Metapre-episternum weakly developed. Tarsi 1-segmented. Fore wing first vein setal row incomplete, 2 setae distally; clavus with 4 veinal setae and 1 basal submarginal (?discal) seta (Fig. 173). Tergites and sternites without craspeda (Figs 177, 179); tergites with little sculpture, median setae wider apart than their length; VI–VII with S3 and S4 equally stout and larger than S1 and S2; tergite VIII with no comb; tergite IX without campaniform sensilla, or with one pair posteromedially, MD setae short and arising laterally. Sternites III–VII with 3 pairs of marginal setae, S1 and S2 on VII arising sub-marginally, without discal setae. Males with thick-walled pore plate on sternite III (Figs 174, 175); tergite IX without thorn-like setae.
 Type species Dodonaeathrips eremiae sp. n.
 Comments. This genus is erected for a single species with several unusual characteristics. No other member of the Anaphothrips group is known to have single segmented tarsi, a furca is present on the metathorax as well as the mesothorax, the maxillary palps are 2-segmented, and the condition of the campaniform sensilla on the ninth tergite in females (usually absent or with one pair present posteromedially) is unusual amongst Thripinae. The metathoracic furca is rather thick, with poorly defined margins, in contrast to the clearly delimited mesothoracic furca. Demonstration of the porous nature of the thick-walled pore plate on the third sternite of males requires particularly careful adjustment of a microscope’s illumination (Figs 174, 175). Currently, it is not possible to suggest any generic relationships for this taxon.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Rapid Method of Processing Sperm for Nucleic Acid Extraction in Clinical Research
Creators: name: de Gannes, Matthew K
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Background: Sperm contain highly compact nuclei, inhibiting DNA extraction using traditional techniques. Current methods extracting sperm DNA involve lengthy lysis and no means of stabilizing DNA, hindering clinical research.
Objective: We sought to optimize an efficient method of extracting high quality human sperm DNA.
Methods: Sperm from three volunteers were isolated using PureCeption. We tested 1) proteinase K with DNA/RNA Shield, 2) DTT and TCEP as reducing agents, 3) QIAshredder homogenization, and 4) stability of sperm DNA fresh (baseline) or after 4 weeks of storage at 4OC in DNA/RNA Shield using modified Quick-gDNA MiniPrep. DNA was PCR amplified using ALU primers and digested with Hinf1 restriction enzymes. DNA methylation was measured by MassARRAY.
Results: DNA concentrations were similar with (30.1+0.28ng/μL, 33.4+0.21ng/μL) and without (28.9+0.00ng/μL, 30.9+0.85ng/μL) proteinase K. Sperm cells were lysed after 1 and 20 minutes with 25mM TCEP and 100mM DTT respectively. TCEP (50mM) produced greater DNA concentrations (17.2+0.50ng/μL, 21.3+0.71ng/μL) than 50mM DTT (12.6+0.28ng/μL, 12.3+0.35ng/μL). Adding QIAshredder to 50mM TCEP increased DNA concentrations (25.9+0.35ng/μL, 21.7+0.49ng/μL versus 18.6+0.99ng/μL, 12.3+0.35ng/μL). At baseline and 4 weeks: 1) DNA concentrations were similar (36.2+2.75 ng/μL, 32.2+1.38ng/μL, 44.3+3.93ng/μL versus 40.0+2.98ng/μL, 37.6+1.38ng/μL, 38.7+3.93ng/μL respectively) and 2) DNA was equally amplified by PCR and digested with restriction enzymes. DNA methylation was similar at baseline and 4 weeks for SNURF (1.43+1.02%, 1.55+0.95%), PEG10 (3.69+0.66%, 4.28+1.52%), and H19 (88.93+3.24%, 91.78+2.00%).
Conclusions: We stabilized and isolated high quality DNA from human sperm using 5 minute versus > 2 hour lysis in other methods. Our methods may facilitate efficient clinical research.
Searching for Fracton Orders via Symmetry Defect Condensation
Creators: name: Tantivasadakarn, Nathanan
name: Vijay, Sagar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a set of constraints on the ground-state wavefunctions of fracton phases, which provide a possible generalization of the string-net equations used to characterize topological orders in two spatial dimensions. Our constraint equations arise by exploiting a duality between certain fracton orders and quantum phases with "subsystem" symmetries, which are defined as global symmetries on lower-dimensional manifolds, and then studying the distinct ways in which the defects of a subsystem symmetry group can be consistently condensed to produce a gapped, symmetric state. We numerically solve these constraint equations in certain tractable cases to obtain the following results: in $d=3$ spatial dimensions, the solutions to these equations yield gapped fracton phases that are distinct as conventional quantum phases, along with their dual subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) states. For an appropriate choice of subsystem symmetry group, we recover known fracton phases such as Haah's code, along with new, symmetry-enriched versions of these phases, such as non-stabilizer fracton models which are distinct from both the X-cube model and the checkerboard model in the presence of global time-reversal symmetry, as well as a variety of fracton phases enriched by spatial symmetries. In $d=2$ dimensions, we find solutions that describe new weak and strong SSPT states, such as ones with both line-like subsystem symmetries and global time-reversal symmetry. In $d=1$ dimension, we show that any group cohomology solution for a symmetry-protected topological state protected by a global symmetry, along with lattice translational symmetry necessarily satisfies our consistency conditions.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, 15 tables. v2: published version
Isolated Vertices in Continuous-Time Quantum Walks on Dynamic Graphs
Creators: name: Wong, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently shown that continuous-time quantum walks on dynamic graphs, i.e., sequences of static graphs whose edges change at specific times, can implement a universal set of quantum gates. This result treated all isolated vertices as having self-loops, so they all evolved by a phase under the quantum walk. In this paper, we permit isolated vertices to be loopless or looped, and loopless isolated vertices do not evolve at all under the quantum walk. Using this distinction, we construct simpler dynamic graphs that implement the Pauli gates and a set of universal quantum gates consisting of the Hadamard, $T$, and CNOT gates, and these gates are easily extended to multi-qubit systems. For example, the $T$ gate is simplified from a sequence of six graphs to a single graph, and the number of vertices is reduced by a factor of four. We also construct a generalized phase gate, of which $Z$, $S$, and $T$ are specific instances. Finally, we validate our implementations by numerically simulating a quantum circuit consisting of layers of one- and two-qubit gates, similar to those in recent quantum supremacy experiments, using a quantum walk.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Fractional operators and special functions. I. Bessel functions
Creators: name: Durand, Loyal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C, 33C80

description: Most of the special functions of mathematical physics are connected with the representation of Lie groups. The action of elements $D$ of the associated Lie algebras as linear differential operators gives relations among the functions in a class, for example, their differential recurrence relations. In this paper, we define fractional generalizations $D^μ$ of these operators in the context of Lie theory, determine their formal properties, and illustrate their use in obtaining interesting relations among the functions. We restrict our attention here to the Euclidean group E(2) and the Bessel functions. We show that the two-variable fractional operator relations lead directly to integral representations for the Bessel functions, reproduce known fractional integrals for those functions when reduced to one variable, and contribute to a coherent understanding of the connection of many properties of the functions to the underlying group structure. We extend the analysis to the associated Legendre functions in a following paper.
description: 15 pages, Latex2e
Evolution of Off-Fault Deformation along Analog Strike-Slip Faults
Creators: name: Hatem, Alexandra E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Strike-slip faults evolve to accommodate more fault slip, resulting in less off-fault deformation. In analog experiments, the measured fault slip to off-fault deformation ratios are similar to those measured in crustal strike-slip systems, such as the San Andreas fault system. Established planar faults have the largest fault slip to off-fault deformation ratio of ~0.98. In systems without a pre-existing fault surface, crustal thickness and basal detachment conditions affect shear zone width and roughness. However, once the applied plate displacement is 1-2 times the crustal thickness, partitioning of deformation between fault slip and off-fault distributed shear is >0.90, regardless of the basal boundary conditions. In addition, at any moment during the evolution of the analog fault system, the ratio of fault slip to off-fault deformation is larger than the cumulative ratio. We also find that the upward and lateral propagation of faults as an active shear zone developing early in the experiments has greater impact on the system’s strike-slip efficiency than later interaction between non-collinear fault segments. For bends with stepover distance of twice the crustal thickness, the fault slip to off-fault deformation ratio increases up to ~0.80-0.90, after applied plate displacement exceeds twice the crustal thickness. Propagation of new oblique-slip faults around sharp restraining bends reduces the overall off-fault deformation within the fault system. In contrast, fault segments within gentle restraining bends continue to slip and the propagation of new oblique-slip faults have less effect on the system’s efficiency than for sharp restraining bends.
Dodonaeathrips eremiae Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Dodonaeathrips
Dodonaeathrips eremiae

description: Dodonaeathrips eremiae sp. n.
(Figs 172–179)
 Female macroptera. Body brownish yellow to light brown, tergite IX darkest, head with dark post-occipital ridge; legs yellowish brown, tarsi yellow; antennal segment I white, II–VIII light brown; fore wings uniformly but weakly shaded. Head usually without sculpture except on posterior third; ocellar setae short and blunt, pair I close to fore ocellus. Pronotum almost without sculpture, all setae short and blunt. Metascutum reticulate. Fore wing relatively broad; first vein with about 7 setae on basal half, 2 setae distally; second vein with 7–10 setae. Tergites with lateral setae blunt (Fig. 179); tergite X with dorsal split short. Sternite II with 2 pairs of marginal setae but apparently no setae near anterior margin; posterior sternites with short weak microtrichia on transverse lines of sculpture.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1100. Head, length 70; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 85; maximum width 160. Fore wing, length 640; median width 60; first vein longest seta in basal row 10. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 15; PM S1 setae 55. Tergite X PM S1 setae 45. Antennal segments III–VIII, 32, 30, 35, 37, 10, 15.
 Male macroptera. Similar to female; sternite III pore plate thick-walled, internal markings scarcely visible (Figs 174, 175); tergite IX without campaniform sensilla, dorsal setae slender.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera. New South Wales, 80km east of Wilcannia, from Dodonaea? viscosa leaves, 1.vi.2003 (LAM 4317).
 Paratypes: 5 females 1 male taken with a larva and the holotype; New South Wales, 5km east of Cobar, 10 females from Dodonaea? viscosa leaves, 31.v.2003; Mutawintji, 8 females from Dodonaea? viscosa leaves, 2.vi.2003; Mutawintji, 1 female from Acacia aneura, 27.xi.1998. Queensland, Windorah, 1 female from Dodonaea? viscosa leaves, 13.iv.2005. South Australia, 82km north of Maree, 3 females 1 male from Acacia stenophylla, 8.iv.1998; Renmark, 6 females swept, 14.ii.2000.
 Comments. Although found on Dodonaea (Sapindaceae) widely across the semi-desert areas of eastern Australia, in more moist areas this thrips is replaced on this host plant by Scirtothrips albomaculatus Bianchi (Hoddle & Mound, 2003).
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
High Curie temperature GaMnAs obtained by resistance-monitored annealing
Creators: name: Edmonds, K. W.
name: Wang, K. Y.
name: Campion, R. P.
name: Neumann, A. C.
name: Farley, N. R. S.
name: Gallagher, B. L.
name: Foxon, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that by annealing Ga1-xMnxAs thin films at temperatures significantly lower than in previous studies, and monitoring the resistivity during growth, an unprecedented high Curie temperature Tc and conductivity can be obtained. Tc is unambiguously determined to be 118 K for Mn concentration x=0.05, 140 K for x=0.06, and 120 K for x=0.08. We also identify a clear correlation between Tc and the room temperature conductivity. The results indicate that Curie temperatures significantly in excess of the current values are achievable with improvements in growth and post-growth annealing conditions.
description: 4 pages, submitted to Applied Physics Letters
Packed red blood cell transfusion: a catalyst for thrombosis in patients with traumatic brain injury?
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lily
name: Nahmias, Jeffry
name: Chen, Patrick
name: Chen, Jefferson
name: Lekawa, Michael
name: Shin, Jordan
name: Grigorian, Areg
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: This study investigated the relationship between trauma patients with TBI who did and did not receive blood product transfusions and the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) hypothesizing transfusions increase VTE risk. The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) was queried from 2017 to 2021 to identify adult (≥18 years-old) patients with TBI. Patients with TBI receiving any blood product transfusions within 4 h of arrival were compared to those who did not. Outcomes were compared using bivariate analyses and a multivariable logistic regression to identify predictors of VTE. Of 451,061 patients with TBI, 32,276 (7.2%) patients received a blood transfusion. Thrombotic events were more frequently observed in transfused patients such as VTE (7.6% vs 1.4%, p < 0.001), comprised of deep vein thrombosis (6.0% vs 1.1%, p < 0.001) and pulmonary embolism (2.3% vs 0.4%, p < 0.001). Blood product transfusion was associated with an increased risk of VTE (OR 1.34, CI 1.11–1.62, p = 0.003). However, when individually analyzed, only pRBC transfusion was independently associated with increased VTE risk (OR 1.37, CI 1.24–1.51, p < 0.001). Trauma patients with TBI undergoing early blood product transfusion had a nearly 50% increased risk of VTE, compared to patients not undergoing transfusion. This risk was primarily attributed to the use of pRBC. IV (therapeutic)
High Energy QCD and the Large Nc Limit
Creators: name: Kovchegov, Yuri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in understanding QCD at high energies and the role played in it by the large Nc limit. We discuss unitarization of total hadronic cross sections and saturation of structure functions at high energies.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, to be published in the proceedings of "The Phenomenology of Large Nc QCD" workshop, 9-11 January 2002, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
A NLO calculation of the hadron-jet cross section in photoproduction reactions
Creators: name: Fontannaz, M.
name: Guillet, J. Ph.
name: Heinrich, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the photoproduction of large-p_T charged hadrons in e p collisions, both for the inclusive case and for the case where a jet in the final state is also measured. Our results are obtained by a NLO generator of partonic events. We discuss the sensitivity of the cross section to the renormalisation and factorisation scales, and to various fragmentation function parametrisations. The possibility to constrain the parton densities in the proton and in the photon is assessed. Comparisons are made with H1 data for inclusive charged hadron production.
description: 28 pages LaTeX, 14 figures
Electroweak Precision Tests with a Future Linear Collider
Creators: name: Menges, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future high energy linear electron positron colliders with centre-of-mass enegies between 90 and 1000 GeV offer a unique opportunity to study precisely the Standard Model and phenomena from new physics. Most important, the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking can be established in full depth if one or more Higgs bosons are observed. Precision measurements of electroweak processes open a window into the multi-TeV energy range for searching for new physics, which is of particular importance if no light Higgs boson is observed.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, uses JHEP3 style, Talk given at EPSHEP 2001, Budapest. To appear in the proceedings
Agent-Based Simulation of the Two-Dimensional Patlak-Keller-Segel Model
Creators: name: Bae, Gyu Ho
name: Baek, Seung Ki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Patlak-Keller-Segel equation describes the chemotactic interactions of small organisms in the continuum limit, and a singular peak appears through spontaneous aggregation when the total mass of the organisms exceeds a critical value. To deal with this singular behavior numerically, we propose an agent-based simulation method in which both the organisms and the chemicals are represented as particles. Our numerical estimates for the threshold behavior are consistent with the analytic predictions.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures (to appear in J. Korean Phys. Soc.)
INVESTIGATION OF THE CONSONANT ENDINGS OF THE CHAOSHAN DIALECT: A RESULT OF LANGUAGE CONTACT AND HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION
Creators: name: Chen, Jin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis studies the inter-group variation of the consonant endings among five principal subgroups of the Chaoshan dialect, a branch of the South Min dialect in Eastern Guangdong Province, from the perspective of language contact and horizontal transmission. I conduct a quantitative study to present the synchronic variance of the consonant endings among five Chaoshan subgroups and the diachronic variance from Middle Chinese to modern Chaoshan dialect on a numerical scale.
The current literature tends to take the change of the consonant endings as a process of weakening governed by regular rules. My research findings challenge this conventional view. First, the change of the consonant endings from Middle Chinese to five subgroups of modern Chaoshan dialect is irregular, which is an exception to the linguistic laws proposed in the existing literature. Secondly, I find that some characters without consonant endings or with a weakened ending in Chaozhou in the 19th century reverse to have a consonant ending in modern Chaoshan dialect. This reversal contradicts to the weakening hypothesis that regards the change of the consonant endings as a process of simplifying. Finally, my quantitative research shows that Chaozhou dialect in the 19th century in much closer to modern Xiamen dialect than to five subgroups of modern Chaoshan dialect in terms of the relativeness in consonant endings, which is the opposite to the prediction that languages become more and more different and have no consequent contact with other daughter languages after separating from the proto-language.
We propose that the actual situation of the consonant endings in different subgroups of the Chaoshan dialect can be better explained from the perspective of language contact and horizontal transmission. The interaction between Han Chinese and non-Han Chinese is the primary reason for the change of the consonant endings of the Chaoshan dialect. Also, the language contact between Chaoshan aborigines and migrants from the Fujian Province leads to the divergence of the consonant endings in different Chaoshan subgroups.Population structure and other social factors determine what phonetic features survive after several times of horizontal transmission.
LE CONTE AFRICAIN DANS L’ENSEIGNEMENT DU FRANCAIS : ASPECTS SOCIO-EDUCATIFS ET EXEMPLES PRATIQUES
Creators: name: Diame, Maguette
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Ce mémoire explore le rôle du conte dans l’enseignement de la langue française. L’étude se focalise sur les aspects culturels, socio-éducatifs et didactique des contes en se focalisant sur le conte Africain d’expression française. Pour ce faire, l’étude a d’abord revu des articles et ouvrages pertinents à la littérature africaine d’expression orale y compris le conte avant d’explorer la place du conte dans la littérature africaine d’expression française. Cette revue de la littérature montre différentes approches utilisées par les écrivains pour inclure les contes dans la littérature. Le recueil de contes et l’intertextualité sont les formes les plus présentes dans cette étude car étant les plus utilisées par les écrivains de contes africains.
Sur le plan pédagogique et didactique, cette étude s’est basée sur la méthode communicative d’enseignement de la langue (CLT) pour proposer des cas pratiques d’enseignement/apprentissage de deux contes africains (La Cuillère Sale et Le Roi et Ses Trois Enfants) et un conte français (Le Petit Prince, Chapitre xv). Ces leçons, destinées aux élèves des Collèges D’enseignement Moyen des pays Francophone et aux élèves/étudiants de niveau intermédiaire en français aux États-Unis, constitue un prétexte pour explorer la littéraire et la cultures africaine et françaises à travers des exercices communicatifs.
L’étude a montré que le conte est sous exploite dans l’enseignement du français à travers le monde alors qu’il regorge d’aspects socio-éducatifs et culturels bénéfiques aux apprenants. L’étude suggère aussi une formation préalable des enseignants sur la littéraire et l’histoire africaine avant de s’engager sur l’enseignement du conte africain en particulier pour en tirer le meilleur et éviter interprétations inexactes ou de renforcer certains stéréotypes.
Effect of Spring And Winter Temperatures on Winter Moth (Geometridae: Lepidoptera) Larval Eclosion in New England
Creators: name: Hibbard, Emily L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Field and laboratory experiments were conducted to elucidate various factors influencing the temperature-dependent larval eclosion of winter moth, Operophtera brumata L, in New England. We found no difference in duration of the embryonic stage of eggs reared from larvae collected in Massachusetts (MA) and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), where winter temperatures are rarely below freezing. The number of growing degree days (GDD) required for larval eclosion declined with the number of days chilled in the laboratory and number of days below freezing in the field, confirming the findings of previous studies. Thus, eggs hatched with fewer GDD, when the spring came later than usual. Date of oviposition had no effect on date of hatch. Eggs laid by naturally occurring (feral) females hatched sooner with lower GDD than eggs from laboratory-reared females from MA and BC held on the same trees over the winter. South-facing eggs on the stems of trees hatched on average 1.6 days sooner than north-facing eggs. Growing degree days calculated from bi-hourly measures of temperature were 15% greater than GDD estimates based on the average of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, as used by many GDD estimates made for online sources. Over two years, the mean GDD in ⁰C for hatch of feral eggs based on bihourly temperature measurements, a 1 Jan start date and a 3.9⁰C developmental threshold was 176.53 ± 6.35SE
A strategic protection approach to biosecurity: Policy implications of an ‘immune system’ model for addressing the risks and consequences of invasive species
Creators: name: Cook, David C.
name: Lonsdale, Mark
name: Cook, David C.
name: Lonsdale, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Adaptive governance
subject: invasive species
subject: biosecurity

description: Like the human immune system, a biosecurity system is a constellation of responses to external attacks comprising of many facets, a number of which can change to optimize the response to these unwanted intrusions. When either system hits the wrong target, or is inhibited or crippled somehow, the consequences for the body and the economy can be dire. Like an immune response, an effective response to an invasive alien species incursion may be the result of a series of failed attempts or past experiences rather than being perfect the first time. In view of the enormously complex environment in which responses are made, this paper discusses institutional changes that may facilitate an adaptive approach to biosecurity policies where governance is viewed as a multi-disciplinary, interactive experiment acknowledging uncertainty.
Mass Segregation in Eccentric Nuclear Disks: Enhanced Tidal Disruption Event Rates for High Mass Stars
Creators: name: Foote, Hayden R.
name: Generozov, Aleksey
name: Madigan, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eccentric nuclear disks (ENDs) are a type of star cluster in which the stars lie on eccentric, apsidally-aligned orbits in a disk around a central supermassive black hole (SMBH). These disks can produce a high rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) via secular gravitational torques. Previous studies of ENDs have included stars with only one mass. Here, we present the first study of an eccentric nuclear disk with two stellar species. We show that ENDs show radial mass segregation consistent with previous results from other cluster types. Additionally, ENDs show vertical mass segregation by which the heavy stars sink to lower inclinations than light stars. These two effects cause heavy stars to be more susceptible to tidal disruption, which can be seen in the higher fraction of heavy stars that are disrupted compared to light stars.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, Accepted to ApJ
Mouse Trmt2B protein is a dual specific mitochondrial metyltransferase responsible for m5U formation in both tRNA and rRNA
Creators: name: Laptev, Ivan
name: Shvetsova, Ekaterina
name: Levitskii, Sergey
name: Serebryakova, Marina
name: Rubtsova, Maria
name: Bogdanov, Alexey
name: Kamenski, Piotr
name: Sergiev, Petr
name: Dontsova, Olga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: RNA molecules of all species contain modified nucleotides and particularly m5U residues. The vertebrate mitochondrial small subunit rRNA contains m5U nucleotide in a unique site. In this work we found an enzyme, TRMT2B, responsible for the formation of this nucleotide and m5U residues in a number of mitochondrial tRNA species. Inactivation of the Trmt2B gene leads to a reduction of the activity of respiratory chain complexes I, III and IV, containing the subunits synthesized by the mitochondrial protein synthesis apparatus. Comparative sequence analysis of m5U-specific RNA methyltransferases revealed an unusual evolutionary pathway of TRMT2B formation which includes consecutive substrate specificity switches from the large subunit rRNA to tRNA and then to the small subunit rRNA.
A Preliminary Consideration of Use and Non-Use Values Circumscribing the Lake Hume Water and Foreshore Management Plan
Creators: name: Crase, Lin
name: Gillespie, Rob
name: Crase, Lin
name: Gillespie, Rob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water quality
subject: Non-market valuation
subject: Travel cost method
subject: Hedonic Pricing

description: Lake Hume is a significant water storage located at the headwaters of the River Murray. It provides irrigation water, urban water supplies, flood mitigation and recreational benefits to a large and economically significant region. Water quality in Lake Hume has recently been the subject of intense investigation in response to continued evidence of eutrophication, in the form of blue-green algal blooms. As part of this investigation Goulburn-Murray Water has published a draft management plan that endeavours to explore a range of options that might potentially improve water quality. This paper reports the results of some preliminary estimates of recreational and other non-market values of visitors and residents which will ultimately assist in framing the final management strategy.
Ozanaphothrips Mound & Masumoto 2009
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Ozanaphothrips

description: Key to species of Ozanaphothrips
1. Abdominal sternites with craspeda on posterior margin (Fig. 181)............................................................................. 2
-. Abdominal sternites without craspeda......................................................................................................................... 3
 2. Body brown to dark brown; macroptera with ocellar setae pair III within ocellar triangle (Fig. 188)... fenarius sp. n.
 -. Body bicoloured, mainly yellow with head and abdominal segments VIII–X brown; macroptera with pterothorax brown; macroptera with ocellar setae pair III anterolateral to ocellar triangle................................. condaminei sp. n.
3. Antennal segment IV with sensorium forked............................................................................................................. 4
- Antennal segment IV with sensorium simple.............................................................................................................. 5
 4. Sternal marginal setae arising in front of margin (Fig. 202); macroptera with metascutal reticulation equiangular [aptera metascutum almost smooth]; tergal craspeda strongly lobed (Figs 201, 203); pronotal posteromarginal setae all equally short [male bicoloured]........................................................................................................... perotis sp. n.
 -. Sternal marginal setae arising at margin (Fig. 206); macroptera with metascutal sculpture irregularly longitudinal (Fig. 207); tergal craspeda not strongly lobed; pronotal posteromarginal setae pair 8 at least twice as long as posteromarginal setae pair 1 [male unknown]......................................................................................... thulius sp. n.
 5. Abdominal tergite I with no craspedum (Fig. 196), II–VIII with narrow craspedum; pronotum transverse (Fig. 193); tergites III–VI with no sculpture medially; sternites II–III usually without discal setae................... kununurrai sp. n.
 -. Abdominal tergites I–VIII each with broad craspedum on posterior margin (Fig. 208); pronotum trapezoidal (Fig. 209); tergites III–VI with reticulate sculpture medially; sternites II–III with discal setae.................... torridus sp. n.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
The Built Environment and Well-Being: Designing for Well-Being in Post-Industrial Communities During the Age of Urbanization
Creators: name: O'Neil, Tyler
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Well-being is a major cultural concern today and is increasingly a priority for architects and designers. However, the meaning of well-being is hard to define and often misunderstood. Well-being is frequently seen rather narrowly, even though it is essentially a holistic concept that includes physical, mental, social, and economic well-being. To achieve a state of well-being these different aspects must remain in balance. In the age of urbanization, with the world’s urban population expected to nearly double by 2050, the notion of well-being becomes especially important for architects and urban designers when considering the implications for the urban environment to accommodate this influx of people.
This thesis focuses both on understanding the impact that the urban built environment has on holistic well-being across a variety of factors as well as understanding how architecture and design can support well-being in changing urban environments. By clearly defining well-being, assessing current standards for well-being, analyzing a variety of case studies, and ultimately proposing a new, mixed-use development in Providence, RI as an exemplar of urban design and architecture that supports well-being, this thesis outlines a model for how to design for well-being in a way that both supports existing communities while anticipating the growth of these communities as a result of continued urbanization.
Profitability and financial feasibility of strategies to increase native vegetation in Victorian hill country
Creators: name: Crosthwaite, Jim
name: Moll, Jim
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Crosthwaite, Jim
name: Moll, Jim
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm businesses
subject: native vegetation
subject: strategies
subject: profitability
subject: financial feasibility
subject: investment

description: The capacity of farmers to adapt their businesses and adopt management practices that improve environmental outcomes varies greatly from case to case. Factors influencing this include the state of the farm business and its resources, the extent of the environmental problems, condition of native vegetation (and existing provision of ecosystem services), availability of labour, current financial position, and age of farmer, and family goals. In this paper, results are reported from a study based on 17 sheep-beef farms in Victorian hill country. Information about vegetation, agronomic potential and farm business situation was collected, and the effect on the farm business of adopting four management strategies that could potentially improve farm environmental outcomes was tested. It is shown that reorganizational strategies are available that are economically, financially and environmentally sound. Implications for environmental policy are discussed.
Correlation properties of interfering electrons in a mesoscopic ring under nonclassical microwave radiation
Creators: name: Tsomokos, D. I.
name: Chong, C. C.
name: Vourdas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interfering electrons in a mesoscopic ring are irradiated with both classical and nonclassical microwaves. The average intensity of the charges is calculated as a function of time and it is found that it depends on the nature of the irradiating electromagnetic field. For various quantum states of the microwaves, the electron autocorrelation function is calculated and it shows that the quantum noise of the external field affects the interference of the charges. Two-mode entangled microwaves are also considered and the results are compared with those of the corresponding separable state. In both cases, the results depend on whether the ratio of the two frequencies is rational or irrational.
description: 7 pages, World Scientific Proceedings, Seventh International School on Theoretical Physics - Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter (SSPCM 2002, Myczkowce, Poland)