cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism and Integration Theory on Manifolds
Creators: name: Khudaverdian, O. M.
name: Nersessian, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correspondence between the BV-formalism and integration theory on supermanifolds is established. An explicit formula for the density on a Lagrangian surface in a superspace provided with an odd symplectic structure and a volume form is proposed.
description: 15 pages, plain TeX, no figures small corrections made in the formulae and two refs. added
Vacuum energy in the presence of a magnetic string with delta function profile
Creators: name: Scandurra, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the ground state energy of massive spinor fields and massive scalar fields in the background of an inhomogeneous magnetic string with potential given by a delta function. The zeta functional regularization is used and the lowest heat kernel coefficients are calculated. The rest of the analytical calculation adopts the Jost function formalism. In the numerical part of the work the renormalized vacuum energy as a function of the radius $R$ of the string is calculated and plotted for various values of the strength of the potential. The sign of the energy is found to change with the radius. For both scalar and spinor fields the renormalized energy shows no logarithmic behaviour in the limit $R\to 0$, as was expected from the vanishing of the heat kernel coefficient $A_2$, which is not zero for other types of profiles.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures
HARP Heshotauthla Polychrome INAA Results
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
Year: 1996
Subjects: Zuni Indian Reservation
Zuni
Cibola
Basketmaker III
Pueblo I
Pueblo II
Pueblo III
Pueblo IV
Ancestral Puebloan
Heshotauthla
Spier 81
LA15605
Spier 78
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Domestic Structures
Kiva / Great Kiva
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Ceramic
Harp
Cushing
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: Activation analysis reports for Heshotauthla Polychrome sherds
Finite-dimensional pseudo-bosons: a non-Hermitian version of the truncated harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Bagarello, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a deformed version of the commutation rule introduced in 1967 by Buchdahl to describe a particular model of the truncated harmonic oscillator. The rule we consider is defined on a $N$-dimensional Hilbert space $\Hil_N$, and produces two biorhogonal bases of $\Hil_N$ which are eigenstates of the Hamiltonians $h=\frac{1}{2}(q^2+p^2)$, and of its adjoint $h^\dagger$. Here $q$ and $p$ are non-Hermitian operators obeying $[q,p]=i(\1-Nk)$, where $k$ is a suitable orthogonal projection operator. These eigenstates are connected by ladder operators constructed out of $q$, $p$, $q^\dagger$ and $p^\dagger$. Some examples are discussed.
description: in press in Physics Letters A
title: MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR UNDERSAMPLED MRI RECONSTRUCTION
Creators: name: Kim, Minseo
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: machine learning
subject: medical imaging
subject: mri
subject: deep learning
subject: Engineering

description: Undersampled MRI is a critical technique to speed up MRI scans by captur- ing only a portion of the necessary k-space data for image reconstruction. This approach enables shorter scan times while still generating diagnostically useful images. By reducing patient discomfort and motion-related artifacts caused by lengthy scans, undersampled MRI holds great potential to improve the overall pa- tient experience. However, the undersampling can result in loss of image detail and introduce unwanted distortions, making accurate reconstruction quite chal- lenging. Recently, machine learning methods, especially diffusion models, have gained significant attention in the field of MRI reconstruction and have shown promising outcomes across various imaging tasks. We apply the score-based dif- fusion model with posterior sampling to better solve this medical imaging in- verse problem. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method on a FastMRI dataset with over 3000 images. This report will focus on the following key aspects: an introduction to diffusion probabilistic models, score modeling for training images, and application of the diffusion model to undersampled MRI images.
Characteristic Temperatures of Folding of a Small Peptide
Creators: name: Hansmann, Ulrich H. E.
name: Masuya, Masato
name: Okamoto, Yuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We perform a generalized-ensemble simulation of a small peptide taking the interactions among all atoms into account. From this simulation we obtain thermodynamic quantities over a wide range of temperatures. In particular, we show that the folding of a small peptide is a multi-stage process associated with two characteristic temperatures, the collapse temperature T_θ and the folding temperature T_f. Our results give supporting evidence for the energy landscape picture and funnel concept. These ideas were previously developed in the context of studies of simplified protein models, and here for the first time checked in an all-atom Monte Carlo simulation.
description: Latex, 6 Figures
BULK SEDIMENT ANALYSIS FOR A SAMPLE FROM ELK PARK, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MONTANA
Creators: name: Cummings, Linda Scott
name: Battillo, Jenna
Year: 2019
Subjects: Glacier Peak
Butte
Helena
Jefferson County (County)
Montana (State / Territory)
Macrobotanical
19-112
Macrofloral Analysis
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: Elk Park is located in Jefferson County, Montana, to the southwest of Helena and northeast of Butte. One bulk sediment sample, extracted from a small pond, approximately 60 cm above the Glacier Peak eruption ash, was submitted for flotation and charcoal recovery and analysis aimed toward identifying materials appropriate for AMS dating.
Type IIA Dual of the Six-Dimensional CHL Compactification
Creators: name: Schwarz, John H.
name: Sen, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a candidate for the dual (in the weak/strong coupling sense) of the six-dimensional heterotic string compactification constructed recently by Chaudhuri, Hockney and Lykken. It is a type IIA string theory compactified on an orbifold $K3/Z_2$, where the $Z_2$ action involves an involution of $K3$ with fixed points, and also has an embedding in the U(1) gauge group associated with the Ramond-Ramond sector of the type IIA string theory. This introduces flux of the U(1) gauge field concentrated at the orbifold points. This construction provides an explicit example where the dual of a super-conformal field theory background of the heterotic string theory is not a standard super-conformal field theory background of the type IIA string theory.
description: LaTeX file, 10 pages
title: Learning About Our Sun: Coronal Mass Ejection Detection
Creators: name: Greenleaf, Leo
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sun
subject: Radio Astronomy
subject: Space Engineering
subject: Solar Observations
subject: Engineering

description: NASA's SunRISE (to be launched part way through 2024) project involves a set of six satellites which will orbit the Sun and take data regarding the location and strength of Type II and Type III coronal mass ejections (giant gas bubbles coming from the sun with the mass of Lake Michigan). Another part of the SunRISE project is called the Ground Radio Lab. This part of the project focuses on STEM outreach to high schools throughout the country. We send them kits and enroll them in a canvas course with seminars being posted through the semester. The Heliophysics MDP project at the University of Michigan works on a parallel data processing pipeline using two types of antennas which help to validate and ensure the validity of the NASA data. As the student lead on the team I am in charge of the implementation of the mechanical and software elements of the project. I am also the point man for communication between the university and the high schools for the Ground Radio Lab and as such I am responsible for ensuring that NASA's mission of inspiring the next generation of bright minds interested in STEM is met.
Oral history interview with Harry Jonas 2002
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Obstetricians
Gynecologists
Abortion--United States
Abortion--Law and legislation--United States
Abortion--Law and legislation--Missouri
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--United States
Pro-choice movement--United States
Reproductive rights--United States

description: Education: Washington University School of Medicine; early experiences of abortion during internship at Barnes Hospital; the rigid state of abortion legislation in Missouri pre-Roe v. Wade; experiences at Planned Parenthood, practice in Missouri; discussion of abortion methods and operating within network without performing illegal abortions; National President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 1986/87, Missourians for Choice award; history of abortion issue, current religious/political obstacles; public stance in the pro-choice movement; fears regarding the future of pro-choice legislation.
Non-metricity with bounday terms: $f(Q,C)$ gravity and cosmology
Creators: name: De, Avik
name: Loo, Tee-How
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate $f(Q,C)$ gravity and cosmology. Such a construction is based on the symmetric teleparallel geometry, but apart form the non-metricity scalar $Q$ we incorporate in the Lagrangian the boundary term $C$ of its difference form the standard Levi-Civita Ricci scalar $\mathring R$. We extract the general metric and affine connection field equations, we apply them at a cosmological framework, and adopting three different types of symmetric teleparallel affine connections we obtain the modified Friedmann equations. As we show, we acquire an effective dark-energy sector of geometrical origin, which can lead to interesting cosmological phenomenology. Additionally, we may obtain an effective interaction between matter and dark energy. Finally, examining a specific model, we show that we can obtain the usual thermal history of the universe, with the sequence of matter and dark-energy epochs, while the effective dark-energy equation-of-state parameter can be quintessence-like, phantom-like, or cross the phantom-divide during evolution.
description: JCAP accepted version
Digital Marketing Tools used in Academic Libraries: a special reference to Fatima College, Madurai
Creators: name: Sujatha Sudhir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80611 Information Systems Theory
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Information Communication Technology has had a significant role in academic field. Numerous digital communication tools have emerged to promote the institutions primary mission and vision. Hence, the library has provided free access, it is necessary to promote their products and services through the technological way. They also used the digital marketing tools to promote themselves in the fast growing world.
New database for a sample of optically bright lensed quasars in the northern hemisphere
Creators: name: Gil-Merino, Rodrigo
name: Goicoechea, Luis J.
name: Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N.
name: Oscoz, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Gravitational LENses and DArk MAtter (GLENDAMA) project, we present a database of nine gravitationally lensed quasars (GLQs) that have two or four images brighter than $r$ = 20 mag and are located in the northern hemisphere. This new database consists of a rich variety of follow-up observations included in the GLENDAMA global archive, which is publicly available online and contains 6557 processed astronomical frames of the nine lens systems over the period 1999$-$2016. In addition to the GLQs, our archive also incorporates binary quasars, accretion-dominated radio-loud quasars, and other objects, where about 50% of the non-GLQs were observed as part of a campaign to identify GLQ candidates. Most observations of GLQs correspond to an ongoing long-term macro-programme with 2$-$10 m telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and these data provide information on the distribution of dark matter at all scales. We outline some previous results from the database, and we additionally obtain new results for several GLQs that update the potential of the tool for astrophysical studies.
description: Accepted to A&A; 32 pages. Tables 4-6, 8-11 and 13-16 are only available in electronic form at the CDS and https://grupos.unican.es/glendama/LQLM_results.htm
The rscript used to analyse Zosterophyllum plant fossil data from the Lower Devonian of South China.R
Creators: name: Wang, Jiashu
name: Huang, Pu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370506
subject: Palaeontology (incl. palynology)

description: The rscript used to analyse datas of a new tiny Zosterophyllum plant fossil from the Lower Devonian of South China.
Licnodamaeolus erfenisdamensis Ermilov & Hugo-Coetzee 2012
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Licnodamaeidae
Licnodamaeolus
Licnodamaeolus erfenisdamensis

description: Licnodamaeolus erfenisdamensis Ermilov & Hugo-Coetzee, 2012: 38
— Holotype male (NMBS), from Erfenis Dam Nature Reserve, central South Africa (28º 30'S, 26º48'E).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
title: LuCelegans: A 3-dimensional interactive installation of a nematode's nervous system
Creators: name: Bartimus, Haley
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: fabrication and design
subject: biology and neuroscience
subject: sensors and circuits
subject: Engineering

description: LuCelegans is a 6-foot long interactive art installation that represents the nervous system of the organism Caenorhabditis elegans. The nervous system of C. elegans has been studied extensively, making it a very useful research and education tool for neuroscience and biology. The installation represents the worm's neuronal circuits that are sparked by various triggers such as smell, touch, and heat. It also includes video animations and a sonic component to create a more immersive experience for viewers. The main factors in developing the installation consist of building and fabrication, sensors and circuits, and sonics and audio. The name LuCelegans comes from the latin word for light, luce, and the name of the organism, C. elegans.
Adaptively Placed Multi-Grid Scene Representation Networks for Large-Scale Data Visualization
Creators: name: Wurster, Skylar Wolfgang
name: Xiong, Tianyu
name: Shen, Han-Wei
name: Guo, Hanqi
name: Peterka, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scene representation networks (SRNs) have been recently proposed for compression and visualization of scientific data. However, state-of-the-art SRNs do not adapt the allocation of available network parameters to the complex features found in scientific data, leading to a loss in reconstruction quality. We address this shortcoming with an adaptively placed multi-grid SRN (APMGSRN) and propose a domain decomposition training and inference technique for accelerated parallel training on multi-GPU systems. We also release an open-source neural volume rendering application that allows plug-and-play rendering with any PyTorch-based SRN. Our proposed APMGSRN architecture uses multiple spatially adaptive feature grids that learn where to be placed within the domain to dynamically allocate more neural network resources where error is high in the volume, improving state-of-the-art reconstruction accuracy of SRNs for scientific data without requiring expensive octree refining, pruning, and traversal like previous adaptive models. In our domain decomposition approach for representing large-scale data, we train an set of APMGSRNs in parallel on separate bricks of the volume to reduce training time while avoiding overhead necessary for an out-of-core solution for volumes too large to fit in GPU memory. After training, the lightweight SRNs are used for realtime neural volume rendering in our open-source renderer, where arbitrary view angles and transfer functions can be explored. A copy of this paper, all code, all models used in our experiments, and all supplemental materials and videos are available at https://github.com/skywolf829/APMGSRN.
description: Accepted to IEEE VIS 2023. https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tg/2024/01/10297599/1RyYguiNBLO
UV/IR Mixing in Noncommutative Field Theory via Open String Loops
Creators: name: Kiem, Youngjai
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly evaluate one-loop (annulus) planar and nonplanar open string amplitudes in the presence of the background NS-NS two-form field. In the decoupling limit of Seiberg and Witten, we find that the nonplanar string amplitudes reproduce the UV/IR mixing of noncommutative field theories. In particular, the investigation of the UV regime of the open string amplitudes shows that certain IR closed string degrees of freedom survive the decoupling limit as previously predicted from the noncommutative field theory analysis. These degrees of freedom are responsible for the quadratic, linear and logarithmic IR singularities when the D-branes embedded in space-time have the codimension zero, one and two, respectively. The analysis is given for both bosonic and supersymmetric open strings.
description: 15 pages, 3 eps figures; v2. An error in gauge boson amplitudes corrected and now they are identical to the ones in hep-th/0003180
Random Neural Networks and Optimisation
Creators: name: Timotheou, Stelios
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis we introduce new models and learning algorithms for the Random Neural Network (RNN), and we develop RNN-based and other approaches for the solution of emergency management optimisation problems. With respect to RNN developments, two novel supervised learning algorithms are proposed. The first, is a gradient descent algorithm for an RNN extension model that we have introduced, the RNN with synchronised interactions (RNNSI), which was inspired from the synchronised firing activity observed in brain neural circuits. The second algorithm is based on modelling the signal-flow equations in RNN as a nonnegative least squares (NNLS) problem. NNLS is solved using a limited-memory quasi-Newton algorithm specifically designed for the RNN case. Regarding the investigation of emergency management optimisation problems, we examine combinatorial assignment problems that require fast, distributed and close to optimal solution, under information uncertainty. We consider three different problems with the above characteristics associated with the assignment of emergency units to incidents with injured civilians (AEUI), the assignment of assets to tasks under execution uncertainty (ATAU), and the deployment of a robotic network to establish communication with trapped civilians (DRNCTC). AEUI is solved by training an RNN tool with instances of the optimisation problem and then using the trained RNN for decision making; training is achieved using the developed learning algorithms. For the solution of ATAU problem, we introduce two different approaches. The first is based on mapping parameters of the optimisation problem to RNN parameters, and the second on solving a sequence of minimum cost flow problems on appropriately constructed networks with estimated arc costs. For the exact solution of DRNCTC problem, we develop a mixed-integer linear programming formulation, which is based on network flows. Finally, we design and implement distributed heuristic algorithms for the deployment of robots when the civilian locations are known or uncertain.
Additional file 1 of Contact pressure distribution of the hip joint during closed reduction of developmental dysplasia of the hip: a patient-specific finite element analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiqiang
name: Sui, Dashan
name: Qin, Haiyi
name: Li, Hai
name: Zhang, Ziming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional files 1.
Tertiary structure prediction of C-peptide of ribonuclease A by multicanonical algorithm
Creators: name: Hansmann, Ulrich H. E.
name: Okamoto, Yuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We have performed multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations of C-peptide of ribonuclease A. It is known by CD and NMR experiments that this peptide has high alpha-helix content in aqueous solution and that the side-chain charges of residues Glu-2$^-$ and His-12$^+$ play an important role in the stability of the alpha-helix. In order to confirm these experimental implications, we have used two analogues of the peptide with charged and neutral side chains of Glu-2 and His-12. Two dielectric functions, distance-dependent and constant, are considered to study the effects of solvent contributions. All the simulations were started from random initial conformations. Various thermodynamic quantities such as average helicity as a function of residue number and average distance between two side chains as a function of temperature are calculated. The results are found to be in accord with the implications of CD and NMR experiments. The lowest-energy conformation obtained has an alpha-helix from Ala-4 to Gln-11 in complete agreement with the corresponding structure deduced from an X-ray crystallography experiment of ribonuclease A. It is shown that the salt bridge between the side chains of Glu-2$^-$ and Arg-10$^+$, which is known to exist from both NMR and X-ray experiments, is formed only when the side chains are properly charged. Its formation is greatly enhanced when the distance-dependent dielectric function is used.
description: Latex, 3 Figures
Thermal control of graphene morphology: a signature of its intrinsic surface tension
Creators: name: Ramirez, R.
name: Herrero, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface tension $σ$ of free-standing graphene is studied by path-integral simulations as a function of the temperature and the in-plane stress. Even if the applied stress vanishes, the membrane displays a finite surface tension $σ$ due to the coupling between the bending oscillations and the real area of the membrane. Zero-point effects for $σ$ are significant below 100 K. Thermal cooling drives the membrane from a planar to a wrinkled morphology. Upon heating the change is reversible and shows hysteresis, in agreement to recent experiments performed on supported graphene.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
MOESM1 of A Novel Role for Programmed Cell Death Receptor Ligand-1 in Sepsis-Induced Intestinal Dysfunction
Creators: name: Wu, Youping
name: Chung, Chun-Shiang
name: Chen, Yaping
name: Monaghan, Sean
name: Patel, Sima
name: Huang, Xin
name: Heffernan, Daithi
name: Ayala, Alfred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A Novel Role for Programmed Cell Death Receptor Ligand-1 in Sepsis-Induced Intestinal Dysfunction
POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FOR A SAMPLE FROM SITE PICURIS PUEBLO, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Creators: name: Cummings, Linda Scott
Year: 2019
Subjects: Picuris Pueblo
Taos County (County)
New Mexico (State / Territory)
Pueblo
Pollen
sediment samples
Pollen Analysis
Phytolith Analysis
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar construction were observed in the fields. The sample was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to identify signatures representing agricultural crops that may have been grown in the fields.
Control of infection dynamics, with applications to the HIV disease
Creators: name: Chang, Hyeygjeon
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2009

description: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a dynamic process that can be modeled via differential equations. The primary goal of this thesis is to show how to drive any initial state into an equilibrium, called the long-term nonprogressor, in which the infected patient does not develop symptoms of AIDS. We first propose three control methods for HIV treatment. These methods are designed for antiretroviral drug therapy and are based on the understanding of the system dynamics. We apply these control strategies to several HIV dynamic models as well as a general disease dynamic model. Then we derive a new output feedback control scheme from one of the proposed methods. To show the feasibility of the output feedback control, the HIV model is studied analytically. This control method guarantees that the immune state is enhanced to a certain level, which is enough for a typical patient to be driven into the long-term nonprogressor. We also investigate methods to estimate approximately the state of the immune system based on the available outputs of the HIV model. The feasibility and effectiveness of the control strategies and estimation ideas are demonstrated by computer simulations. Key Words. HIV dynamic model, AIDS, output feedback control, drug scheduling, biological system analysis.
Fort Stanton Cave: A Cultural Resources Inventory of Rock Art and Other Archaeological Remains at LA195070
Creators: name: Yost, Scott
name: Miller, Kye
name: Norton, Brody
Publisher: name: PaleoWest
Year: 2020
Subjects: Rock Art
Petroglyph
Pictograph
Reconnaissance / Survey

description: The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Roswell Field Office contracted PaleoWest Archaeology to conduct a cultural resources inventory of an archaeologically relevant portion of Fort Stanton Cave in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Thirty previously identified loci containing historic carvings, inscriptions, and other cave surface modifications were documented. Evidence of prehistoric use, historic materials, a new inscription panel, and a masonry wall/entry were also recorded. A cursory analysis indicates that the frequency of distinguishable surface modifications on cave walls increased from the middle of the nineteenth century until the second decade of the twentieth century, when dated cave surface modifications decline. LA195070, Fort Stanton Cave, is historically important to the local region, the state of New Mexico, and our nation. The site is recommended eligible for the National Register Historic Places under Criteria A, B, and D.
Sampled sub-block hashing for large input randomness extraction
Creators: name: Ng, Hong Jie
name: Kon, Wen Yu
name: Primaatmaja, Ignatius William
name: Wang, Chao
name: Lim, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Randomness extraction is an essential post-processing step in practical quantum cryptography systems. When statistical fluctuations are taken into consideration, the requirement of large input data size could heavily penalise the speed and resource consumption of the randomness extraction process, thereby limiting the overall system performance. In this work, we propose a sampled sub-block hashing approach to circumvent this problem by randomly dividing the large input block into multiple sub-blocks and processing them individually. Through simulations and experiments, we demonstrate that our method achieves an order-of-magnitude improvement in system throughput while keeping the resource utilisation low. Furthermore, our proposed approach is applicable to a generic class of quantum cryptographic protocols that satisfy the generalised entropy accumulation framework, presenting a highly promising and general solution for high-speed post-processing in quantum cryptographic applications such as quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures. All comments are welcome
Digital Marketing Tools used in Academic Libraries: a special reference to Fatima College, Madurai
Creators: name: Sujatha Sudhir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Information Communication Technology has had a significant role in academic field. Numerous digital communication tools have emerged to promote the institutions primary mission and vision. Hence, the library has provided free access, it is necessary to promote their products and services through the technological way. They also used the digital marketing tools to promote themselves in the fast growing world.
Integral Transforms for Conformal Field Theories with a Boundary
Creators: name: McAvity, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method is developed for solving the conformally invariant integrals that arise in conformal field theories with a boundary. The presence of a boundary makes previous techniques for theories without a boundary less suitable. The method makes essential use of an invertible integral transform, related to the radon transform, involving integration over planes parallel to the boundary. For successful application of this method several nontrivial hypergeometric function relations are also derived.
description: 20 pagess, LateX file
Blast performance of silicone-bonded laminated glass
Creators: name: Hooper, Paul
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Blast resistant glazing systems typically use laminated glass to reduce the risk of flying glass debris in an explosion. Laminated glass has a bonded polymer interlayer that retains glass fragments upon fracture. With proper design, the flexibility of the interlayer in laminated glass can offer protection from significantly higher blast loads when compared to an equivalent monolithic pane. This thesis investigates the post-fracture behaviour of laminated glass under blast loading and aims to build the knowledge required to improve design methods for blast resistant glazing. Full-scale open-air blast tests were performed on laminated glass containing a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer. Test windows ranged in size from 1.5m×1.2m to 3.5m×1.8m and were bonded to robust frames using structural silicone sealant. Blast loads were produced using charge masses of 15 kg to 500 kg (TNT equivalent) and distances of 10m to 30 m. Deflection and shape measurements were obtained using high-speed digital image correlation. Measurements of loading at the joint were also made with strain gauges. The main failure mechanisms observed were the cohesive failure of the bonded silicone joint and tearing of the interlayer. These failure mechanisms were investigated further using a highspeed tensile test machine to reproduce blast loading conditions. Cracked laminated glass samples were loaded in tension at varying rates. Their response was characterised by a rate dependant plateau force which can be used to estimate the maximum load on the glazing joint. Delamination between the PVB and glass was found to play a key role in the laminate response. Thinner PVB and higher strain rates reduced the delamination area, leading to premature tearing of the interlayer. The strength of structural silicone sealant in a blast situation was also investigated. A novel test method was used to determine the bond length required to retain the laminated glass window in a blast event. A nominal strength of not greater than 1.1MPa should be used for design of conventional single-sided silicone joints. A finite element model of the laminated glass response to blast loading was developed using the results of the experimental investigations. The failure predictions of the model were compared against a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) model and showed good agreement. Differences in the deflected shape at maximum deflection were seen between the model and those measured in blast testing.
Viewpoints on how students with autism can best navigate university
Creators: name: Thompson, Craig
name: Bölte, Sven
name: Falkmer, Torbjörn
name: Girdler, Sonya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Background: Despite recognition of the challenges faced by students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) there is limited understanding of the barriers and facilitators to participation in major life areas, such as being a university student. Aim/Objective: This research aimed to examine viewpoints on what affects the success of Australian university students with ASD. Material and Method: Q-methodology was used to describe the viewpoints of university students with ASD, their parents and their mentors, on success at university for students with ASD. A total of 57 participants completed the Q-sort. Results/Findings: Three viewpoints emerged; Individualised Support, Contextual Support and Social Support. Conclusions: This study highlighted that supports need to be individualized to the barriers and facilitators faced by Australian students with ASD. Supports also need to be contextualized to the built and social environments of universities. Significance: This study supports the premise that environmental interventions can be effective in facilitating participation in major life areas, such as university education. Peer mentoring for students with ASD may have utility for this group, but should be extended to include social, emotional and psychological support.
SAFARI I: A SPHERE discovery of a super metal-rich M dwarf companion to the star HD 86006
Creators: name: Pantoja, B. M.
name: Jenkins, J. S.
name: Girard, J. H.
name: Vigan, A.
name: Salter, G. S.
name: Jones, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the direct detection of a fully convective, early-to-mid M-dwarf companion orbiting the star HD 86006, using ESO-SPHERE during Science Verification as part of the SAFARI program. HARPS+CORALIE radial velocity measurements first indicated a possible companion. Such work highlights the synergies that are now possible between these two observing methods. We studied the companion by comparing our observed spectra with BT-Settl models and template spectra, measuring spectral indices to obtain a spectral type, and used a joint radial velocity and astrometric fit to simulate the companion's orbit. The companion was found to be 4.14 mag fainter than the primary in the H2 band, residing at a physical separation of $\sim$ 25 AU, with a $T_\mathrm{eff}$ and spectral type of 3321 $\pm$ 111 K and M 4.1 $\pm$ 1.1, respectively. We note that the age derived from BT-Settl models for such a star is too low by over two orders of magnitude, similar to other known field mid-M stars. We searched for the radial velocity companion to HD 90520 without any clear detection, however we reached a low contrast level of $Δ$H2 = 10.3 mag (or $1.3 * 10^{-4}$) at 0.2$''$ and 12.6 mag (or $10^{-5}$) at 0.5$''$, allowing us to rule out any low-mass companions with masses of 0.07 and 0.05 M$_{\odot}$ at these separations. This discovery provides us with the exciting opportunity to better constrain the mass-luminosity relation for low-mass stars in the super metal-rich domain, expanding our understanding of the most-common types of stars and substellar objects.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Data Recovery Investigations at Site 15CT118 in Clinton County, Kentucky: Terminal Archaic-Early Woodland Occupations of South-Central Kentucky
Creators: name: DelCastello, Brian
Publisher: name: Cultural Resource Analysts Inc
Year: 2012
Subjects: Clinton County, Kentucky
Early Woodland
Terminal Archaic
Late Archaic
Archaeological Feature
Wood
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Dating Sample
Macrobotanical
Environment Research
Archaeological Overview
Consultation
Data Recovery / Excavation
Heritage Management
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: Between June 1 and June 9, 2011, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., personnel conducted data recovery investigations at Site 15Ct118 in southern Clinton County, Kentucky, for the planned west Albany bypass. The project was conducted at the request of David M. Waldner on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (Item No. 8-260.01). The site was situated along a knoll overlooking Spring Creek. A total of 15 prehistoric cultural features were identified at the site. The data recovery investigations consisted of the mechanized removal of the plow zone followed by the hand excavation of 11 of the prehistoric cultural features. Based on the three radiocarbon dates obtained from the features (2830+- 30 B.P.; 2670±40 B.P.; and 2190±40 B.P.), it appears that the site consists of at least three individual components dating to the Terminal Archaic and Early Woodland subperiods. Each of the three components was represented by a separate cluster of features The features appear to represent the remains of short-term occupations of the landform. The investigations also resulted in the recovery of a sparse artifact assemblage consisting of a narrow range of lithic, ceramic, and paleoethnobotanical remains. Given the sparseness of the artifact assemblage, it is difficult to more precisely define the activities conducted on-site during the various occupations. The site may likely have served as a short-term hunting or processing camp associated with a larger settlement system.
Collective Polaritonic Effects on Chemical Dynamics Suppressed by Disorder
Creators: name: Pérez-Sánchez, Juan B.
name: Mellini, Federico
name: Giebink, Noel C.
name: Yuen-Zhou, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a powerful formalism, disordered collective dynamics using truncated equations (d-CUT-E), to simulate the ultrafast quantum dynamics of molecular polaritons in the collective strong coupling regime, where a disordered ensemble of $N\gg10^{6}$ molecules couples to a cavity mode. Notably, we can capture this dynamics with a cavity hosting a single \textit{effective} molecule with $\sim N_{bins}$ electronic states, where $N_{bins}\ll N$ is the number of bins discretizing the disorder distribution. Using d-CUT-E we conclude that strong coupling, as evaluated from linear optical spectra, can be a poor proxy for polariton chemistry. For highly disordered ensembles, total reaction yield upon broadband excitation is identical to that outside of the cavity, while narrowband excitation produces distinct reaction yields solely due to differences in the initial states prepared prior to the reaction.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Development and use of methods to estimate chronic disease prevalence in small populations
Creators: name: Soljak, Michael
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Introduction National data on the prevalence of chronic diseases on general practice registers is now available. The aim of this PhD was to develop and validate epidemiological models for the expected prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, hypertension, overall cardiovascular disease (CVD) and high CVD risk at general practice and small area level, and to explore the extent of undiagnosed disease, factors associated with it, and its impact on population health. Methods Multinomial logistic regression models were fitted to pooled Health Survey for England data to derive odds ratios for disease risk factors. These were applied to general practice and small area level population data, split by age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation, rurality and smoking status, to estimate expected disease prevalence at these levels. Validation was carried out using external data, including population-based epidemiological research and case-finding initiatives. Practice-level undiagnosed disease prevalence i.e. expected minus registered disease prevalence, and hospital admission rates for these conditions, were evaluated as outcome indicators of the quality and supply of primary health care services, using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, geographically-weighted regression (GWR), and other spatial analytic methods. Results Risk factors, odds of disease and expected prevalence were consistent with external data sources. Spatial analysis showed strong evidence of spatial non-stationarity of undiagnosed disease prevalence, with high levels of undiagnosed disease in London and other conurbations, and associations with low supply of primary health care services. Higher hospital admission rates were associated with population deprivation, poorer quality and supply of primary health care services and poorer access to them, and for COPD, with higher levels of undiagnosed disease. Conclusion The epidemiologic prevalence models have been implemented in national data sources such as NHS Comparators, the Association of Public Health Observatories website, and a number of national reports. Early experience suggests that they are useful for guiding case-finding at practice level and improving and regulating the quality of primary health care. Comparisons with external data, in particular prevalence of disease detected by general practices, suggest that model predictions are valid. Practice-level spatial analyses of undiagnosed disease prevalence and hospital admission rates failed to demonstrate superiority of GWR over OLS methods. Disease modellers should be encouraged to collaborate more effectively, and to validate and compare modelling methods using an agreed framework. National leadership is needed to further develop and implement disease models. It is likely that prevalence models will prove to be most useful for identifying undiagnosed diseases with a slow and insidious onset, such as COPD, diabetes and hypertension.
Fields on the Poincare group: arbitrary spin description and relativistic wave equations
Creators: name: Gitman, D. M.
name: Shelepin, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, starting from pure group-theoretical point of view, we develop a regular approach to describing particles with different spins in the framework of a theory of scalar fields on the Poincare group. Such fields can be considered as generating functions for conventional spin-tensor fields. The cases of 2, 3, and 4 dimensions are elaborated in detail. Discrete transformations $C,P,T$ are defined for the scalar fields as automorphisms of the Poincare group. Doing a classification of the scalar functions, we obtain relativistic wave equations for particles with definite spin and mass. There exist two different types of scalar functions (which describe the same mass and spin), one related to a finite-dimensional nonunitary representation and another one related to an infinite-dimensional unitary representation of the Lorentz subgroup. This allows us to derive both usual finite-component wave equations for spin-tensor fields and positive energy infinite-component wave equations.
description: 70 pages, LaTex; v2: corrected version, references added. To appear in Int. J. Theor. Phys