cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantitative Hypersonic Flow Measurements using Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence
Creators: name: McDougall, Connor Charles
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluorescence
subject: Engineering

description: The present work focuses on the development, testing, and assessment of several new quantitative analysis methods for nitric oxide planar laser-induced fluorescence experiments. The methods are based on performing a spectral scan with a pulsed laser, exciting multiple nitric oxide transitions,and analyzing the resulting spectra. The nitric oxide fluorescence spectra is processed using the developed quantitative analysis methods to produce temperature, mole fraction and heat flux. The temperature measurement is based on fitting a fluorescence model to the spectra from multiple transitions. The mole fraction measurement uses the fluorescence signal combined with the principle of conservation of mass. The heat flux measurement uses the principle of conservation of energy combined with temperature and velocimetry measurements. To assess these methods, experiments were performed at NASA Langley’s 31-in. Mach 10 wind tunnel, in Hampton Virginia, USA.A nitric oxide planar laser-induced fluorescence experiment investigating a hypersonic boundary layer was performed. The boundary layer was seeded with nitric oxide through a slot located nearthe leading edge. A pulsed laser was directed into the boundary layer from above, exciting the nitric oxide, and spectrally scanning across six fluorescence transitions. The data received from this experiment were processed using the quantitative analysis methods developed, to produce temperature, mole fraction and heat flux measurements. To assess the accuracy of the present methods,each quantitative measurement was compared to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation results. Temperature measurements agreed with CFD predictions within 3-7% in most regions of the boundary layer. Mole fraction measurements agreed with CFD predictions within 6-10%and the heat flux measurement was approximately 26% lower than CFD results. Finally, important experimental design considerations are discussed to enhance these analysis methods in future applications. Overall, nitric oxide planar laser-induced fluorescence measurement methods are demonstrated and applied to a hypersonic boundary layer in a Mach 10 flow, with good agreement when compared to CFD results.
MELDC: A Reflective Object-Oriented Coordination Language
Creators: name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: Hseush, Wenwey
name: Leez, James C.
name: Wu, Shyhtsun Felix
name: Woo, Esther
name: Hilsdale, Eric
name: Meyer, Scott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Computer science

description: A coordination language, MELDC, for open systems programming is presented. MELDC is a C-based, concurrent, distributed object-oriented language built on a reflective architecture. Unlike other language research, the focus of MELDC is not only to study what specific language features should be designed for solving certain open system problems but also to provide programmers a high-level and efficient way to construct new features without modifying the language internals. The key to the reflective feature is the metaclass that supports shadow objects to implement secondary behaviors of objects. Thus, the behavior of an object can be extended by dynamically composing multiple secondary behaviors with the object‘s primary behavior defined in the class. In this paper, both the MELDC programming model and the reflective architecture are described. Then, we introduce the mechanism of dynamic composition as well as its application in building distributed and persistent systems. In particular, a soft real-time network management system, MELDNET, is built on top of MELDC to monitor the EtherNet performance. Finally, the current status of MELDC is given.
Synchronization of Multiple Agents in Rule-Based Development Environments
Creators: name: Barghouti, Naser S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: The Rule-Based Development Environment (RBDE) is recently-developed approach for providing intelligent assistance to developers working on a large-scale software projects. RBDEs model the development process in terms of rules, and then enact this model by automatically firing rules at the appropriate time. The RBDE approach has been used to develop single-user environment, but support for multiple developers cooperating on the same project is still not available because of the lack of mechanisms that can synchronize the efforts of multiple developers, who concurrently select commands, causing the firing of multiple rules (either directly or via chaining) that concurrently access shared data. Conflicts between different rules and concurrent .access to shared data may cause the violation of consistency in the project database, and thus necessitate the synchronization of concurrent activities. The conjecture of this proposal is that an RBDE can provide the required synchronization if it is provided with knowledge about what it means for the data of a specific project to be in a consistent state, and about the semantics of operations that developers perform on the data. The research that this paper proposes will formulate a frame work for specifying consistency of data in an RBDE, and formulate a mechanism for synchronizing the actions of concurrent rules fired on behalf of multiple developers cooperating on a common or different tasks.
Pressure-Tuned Point-Contact Spectroscopy of URu2Si2 from Hidden Order to Antiferromagnetic States: Similarity of the Fermi Surface Gapping
Creators: name: Lu, Xin
name: Ronning, F.
name: Tobash, P. H.
name: Gofryk, K.
name: Bauer, E. D.
name: Thompson, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report soft point-contact spectroscopy studies of URu2Si2 both in the hidder order (HO) and the large-moment antiferromagnetic (LMAF) states accessed by pressure. In the HO state at ambient pressure, the spectroscopy shows two asymmetric peaks around the Fermi energy that emerge below the hidden order temperature T_{HO}. In the LMAF state at higher pressures, the spectra are remarkably similar to those in the HO state, indicating a similar Fermi surface gapping in the HO and LMAF states and providing a new clue to unraveling the puzzling HO state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to be published in Phys. Rev. B as rapid communication
Development Tools For Communication Protocols
Creators: name: Nounou, Nihal
name: Yemini, Yechiam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Computer science

description: The past decade has witnessed a surge in research efforts aimed at developing tools to aid the designer of communication protocols. Most of these efforts have been directed towards designing individual tools. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in building development environments that support an integrated set of such tools. This paper presents a survey of commonly used protocol development tools. Two categories of protocol development tools are examined: construction tools to successively refine communication protocols from specifications to working systems and validation tools to assess whether the refinements meet functional and performance protocol objectives. Construction tools surveyed include tools for specification, synthesis, and implementation. Validation tools surveyed include tools for formal verification, performance analysis and testing. A simple send-and-wait protocol is used as an example throughout the paper.
Welfare Costs of Catastrophes: Lost Consumption and Lost Lives
Creators: name: Martin, Ian W. R.
name: Pindyck, Robert S.
name: Martin, Ian W. R.
name: Pindyck, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Catastrophes
subject: Catastrophic Events
subject: Macroeconomic Contractions
subject: Disasters, Fatalities
subject: Value of Life
subject: Willingness to Pay
subject: Pandemics

description: Most of the literature on the economics of catastrophes assumes that such events cause a reduction in the stream of consumption, as opposed to widespread fatalities. Here we show how to incorporate death in a model of catastrophe avoidance, and how a catastrophic loss of life can be expressed as a welfare-equivalent drop in consumption. We examine how potential fatalities affect the policy interdependence of catastrophic events and “willingness to pay" (WTP) to avoid them. Using estimates of the “value of a statistical life" (VSL), we find the WTP to avoid major pandemics, and show it is large (10% or more of annual consumption) and partly driven by the risk of macroeconomic contractions. Likewise, the risk of pandemics significantly increases the WTP to reduce consumption risk. Our work links the VSL and consumption disaster literatures.
Director: An Interpreter for Rule-based Programs
Creators: name: Moerdler, Galina Datskovsky
name: Ensor, J. Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Computer science

description: Programs interacting with users via natural language interfaces generally require more sophisticated control structures than those needed by programs interacting with users through less flexible mechanisms. This paper describes our development of Director, an interpreter (inference engine) for rule-based programs. Providing an efficient combination of forward and backward chaining, heuristic and user control of inference, and ready access to portions of its internal structure, Director facilitates the construction of systems with natural language interfaces as well as other rule-based systems in which queries are expensive.
On the existence and number of $(k+1)$-kings in $k$-quasi-transitive digraphs
Creators: name: Galeana-Sánchez, Hortensia
name: Hernández-Cruz, César
name: Juárez-Camacho, Manuel Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C20

description: Let $D=(V(D), A(D))$ be a digraph and $k \ge 2$ an integer. We say that $D$ is $k$-quasi-transitive if for every directed path $(v_0, v_1,..., v_k)$ in $D$, then $(v_0, v_k) \in A(D)$ or $(v_k, v_0) \in A(D)$. Clearly, a 2-quasi-transitive digraph is a quasi-transitive digraph in the usual sense. Bang-Jensen and Gutin proved that a quasi-transitive digraph $D$ has a 3-king if and only if $D$ has a unique initial strong component and, if $D$ has a 3-king and the unique initial strong component of $D$ has at least three vertices, then $D$ has at least three 3-kings. In this paper we prove the following generalization: A $k$-quasi-transitive digraph $D$ has a $(k+1)$-king if and only if $D$ has a unique initial strong component, and if $D$ has a $(k+1)$-king then, either all the vertices of the unique initial strong components are $(k+1)$-kings or the number of $(k+1)$-kings in $D$ is at least $(k+2)$.
description: 17 pages
Evolution of optimal Lévy-flight strategies in human mental searches
Creators: name: Radicchi, Filippo
name: Baronchelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent analysis of empirical data [F. Radicchi, A. Baronchelli & L.A.N. Amaral. PloS ONE 7, e029910 (2012)] showed that humans adopt Lévy flight strategies when exploring the bid space in on-line auctions. A game theoretical model proved that the observed Lévy exponents are nearly optimal, being close to the exponent value that guarantees the maximal economical return to players. Here, we rationalize these findings by adopting an evolutionary perspective. We show that a simple evolutionary process is able to account for the empirical measurements with the only assumption that the reproductive fitness of a player is proportional to her search ability. Contrarily to previous modeling, our approach describes the emergence of the observed exponent without resorting to any strong assumptions on the initial searching strategies. Our results generalize earlier research, and open novel questions in cognitive, behavioral and evolutionary sciences.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Reconstruction of Paley-Wiener functions on the Heisenberg group
Creators: name: Pesenson, Isaac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $M$ be a Riemmanian manifold with bounded geometry. We consider a generalization of Paley-Wiener functions and Lagrangian splines on $M$. An analog of the Paley-Wiener theorem is given. We also show that every Paley-Wiener function on a manifold is uniquely determined by its values on some discrete sets of points. The main result of the paper is a generalization of the Whittaker-Shannon formula for reconstruction of a Paley-Wiener function from its values on a discrete set. It is shown that every Paley- Wiener function on $M$ is a limit of some linear combinations of fundamental solutions of the powers of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The result is new even in the one-dimentional case.
Structure of Complexity Classes: Separations, Collapses, and Completeness
Creators: name: Hemachandra, Lane A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: During the last few years, unprecedented programs has been made in structural complexity theory; class inclusions and relativised separations were discovered, and hierarchies collapsed. We survey this progress, highlighting the central role of counting techniques. We also present a new result whose proof demonstrate the power of combinational arguments: there is a relativezed world in which UP has no Turing complete sets.
Additional file 1 of In vitro and in vivo efficacy of thiacloprid against Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanchuan
name: Fan, Haining
name: Ma, Jie
name: Ma, Lan
name: Ge, Ri-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Chemical structure and functional groups of neonicotinoids. a Chemical structure of neonicotinoids. Chemical structure obtained from PubChem database. b Functional group information of neonicotinoids.
Magnetic activity and accretion on FU Tau A: Clues from variability
Creators: name: Scholz, Aleks
name: Stelzer, Beate
name: Costigan, Grainne
name: Barrado, David
name: Eislöffel, Jochen
name: Lillo-Box, Jorge
name: Riviere-Marichalar, Pablo
name: Stoev, Hristo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FU Tau A is a young very low mass object in the Taurus star forming region which was previously found to have strong X-ray emission and to be anomalously bright for its spectral type. In this study we discuss these characteristics using new information from quasi-simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic monitoring. From photometric time series obtained with the 2.2m telescope on Calar Alto we measure a period of ~4d for FU Tau A, most likely the rotation period. The short-term variations over a few days are consistent with the rotational modulation of the flux by cool, magnetically induced spots. In contrast, the photometric variability on timescales of weeks and years can only be explained by the presence of hot spots, presumably caused by accretion. The hot spot properties are thus variable on timescales exceeding the rotation period, maybe due to long-term changes in the accretion rate or geometry. The new constraints from the analysis of the variability confirm that FU Tau A is affected by magnetically induced spots and excess luminosity from accretion. However, accretion is not sufficient to explain its anomalous position in the HR diagram. In addition, suppressed convection due to magnetic activity and/or an early evolutionary stage need to be invoked to fully account for the observed properties. These factors cause considerable problems in estimating the mass of FU Tau A and other objects in this mass/age regime, to the extent that it appears questionable if it is feasible to derive the Initial Mass Function for young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, 'Note added in proof' included
Colorado water, April 1996
Creators: name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute.
The one-way unlocalizable quantum discord
Creators: name: Xi, Zhengjun
name: Fan, Heng
name: Li, Yongming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present the concept of the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord and investigate its properties. We provide a polygamy inequality for it in tripartite pure quantum system of arbitrary dimension. Several tradeoff relations between the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord and other correlations are given. If the von Neumann measurement is on a part of the system, we give two expressions of the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord in terms of partial distillable entanglement and quantum disturbance. Finally, we also provide a lower bound for bipartite shareability of quantum correlation beyond entanglement in a tripartite system.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections, references added
Deconstructing graviphoton from mass-deformed ABJM
Creators: name: Gustavsson, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mass-deformed ABJM theory has a maximally supersymmetric fuzzy two-sphere vacuum solution where the scalar fields are proportional to the TGRVV matrices. We construct these matrices using Schwinger oscillators. This shows that the ABJM gauge group that corresponds to the fuzzy two-sphere geometry is $U(N)\times U(N-1)$. We deconstruct the graviphoton term in the D4 brane theory. The normalization of this term is fixed by topological reasons. This gives us the correct normalization of the deconstructed U(1) gauge field and fixes the Yang -Mills coupling constant to the value which corresponds to M5 brane compactified on $\mb{R}^ {1,2} \times S^3/{\mb{Z}_k}$. The graviphoton term also enable us to show that the zero mode contributions to the partition functions for the D4 and the M5 brane agree.
description: 26 pages
Reconstruction of f(R, T) gravity describing matter dominated and accelerated phases
Creators: name: Houndjo, M. J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmological reconstruction in modified f(R,T) gravity, where R is the Ricci scalar and T the trace of the stress-energy tensor. Special attention is attached to the case in which the function f is given by f (R, T) = f1 (R) + f2 (T). The use of auxiliary scalar field is considered with two known examples for the scale factor corresponding to an expanding universe. In the first example, where ordinary matter is usually neglected for obtaining the unification of matter dominated and accelerated phases with f(R)gravity, it is shown in this paper that this unification can be obtained without neglect ordinary matter. In the second example, as in f(R)gravity, model of f(R, T) gravity with transition of matter dominated phase to the acceleration phase is obtained. In both cases, linear function of the trace is assumed for f2(T) and it is obtained that f1(R) is proportional to a power of R with exponents depending on the input parameters.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD)
SMILE/ MARVEL: Two Approaches to Knowledge-Based Programming Environments
Creators: name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: Feiler, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Computer science

description: This technical report consists of three related papers in the area of intelligent assistance for software development and maintenance. Intelligent Assistance without Artificial Intelligence describes SMILE, a software engineering environment that assists teams of programmers without using AI technology. An Architecture for Intelligent Assistance in Software Development presents an AI approach to generalizing the capabilities of SMILE. Granularity Issues in a Knowledge-Based Programming Environment briefly describes MARVEL, an intelligent assistant based on this AI approach, and compares it to SMILE.
Exploring cross-group relationships among students at a Canadian university: what factors promote lasting relationships and positive university experiences?
Creators: name: Buliga, Elena
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cross-group Friendships
subject: Peer Mentoring
subject: Psychology--Social

description: Cross-group friendships, defined as close and meaningful relationships among individuals belonging to different social groups (e.g., different nationality groups) are associated with positive outcomes but are more likely to dissolve relative to friendships between individuals belonging to same social group. The aims of this research project are to examine potential conditions under which cross-group relationships last and promote positive outcomes among students at a Canadian university. Based on previous literature, several qualities that may promote lasting cross-group friendships were examined: closeness (both subjective and inclusion of other in self), perceived similarity (both subjective and personality similarity), social network integration and salience of group membership. In Study 1 the extent to which these qualities existed in self-reported current and past cross-group friendships was explored in a sample of 325 students. The friendship qualities listed above were present to a greater extent in current than in past same- and cross-group friendships, although there were some differences based on cross-group friendship type. Thus, these qualities may contribute to cross-group friendships lasting versus dissolving. In Study 2 outcomes of cross-group relationships between international students and students at a Canadian university registered in a peer mentoring program were explored as well as the influence of friendship promoting qualities in these relationships. Although sample size was lower than anticipated for this study (mentee N = 16, mentor N = 29, control N = 30), some promising outcomes were observed. For new international student mentees, mentoring relationships promoted university engagement and for domestic student mentors mentoring relationships reduced intergroup anxiety. Friendship qualities were associated with more positive attitudes toward the partner. Findings from this research can inform efforts to promote the development of cross-group friendships.
Additional file 2 of In vitro and in vivo efficacy of thiacloprid against Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanchuan
name: Fan, Haining
name: Ma, Jie
name: Ma, Lan
name: Ge, Ri-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Screening of the neonicotinoids on E. multilocularis metacestodes in vitro. Confirmation of active drugs by testing at 20 μM in triplicates. Relative PGI release as assessed by PGI-assay is shown. 100% PGI release was defined as the release upon treatment with the positive control 0.1% Triton-100. Drugs were considered as active if they exceeded 20% relative PGI release (dashed line).
Uniformity of harmonic map heat flow at infinite time
Creators: name: Lin, Longzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 58E20

description: We show an energy convexity along any harmonic map heat flow with small initial energy and fixed boundary data on the unit 2-disk. In particular, this gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by W. Minicozzi asking whether such harmonic map heat flow converges uniformly in time strongly in the W^{1,2}-topology, as time goes to infinity, to the unique limiting harmonic map.
description: 19 pages
Colorado water, June 2004
Creators: name: Flanagan, Marian
name: Blumanhourst, Gloria
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Water Center of Colorado State University.
SHIM: A Deterministic Approach to Programming with Threads
Creators: name: Tardieu, Olivier
name: Edwards, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Computer science

description: Concurrent programming languages should be a good fit for embedded systems because they match the intrinsic parallelism of their architectures and environments. Unfortunately, most concurrent programming formalisms are prone to races and nondeterminism, despite the presence of mechanisms such as monitors. In this paper, we propose SHIM, the core of a concurrent language with disciplined shared variables that remains deterministic, meaning the behavior of a program is independent of the scheduling of concurrent operations. SHIM does not sacrifice power or flexibility to achieve this determinism. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous paradigms---loosely and tightly synchronized threads---the dynamic creation of threads and shared variables, recursive procedures, and exceptions. We illustrate our programming model with examples including breadth-first-search algorithms and pipelines. By construction, they are race-free. We provide the formal semantics of SHIM and a preliminary implementation.
A clinical appraisal of propofol-mediated, antioxidant-based cardioprotection during coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass
Creators: name: Raedschelders, Koen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in North America. The invasiveness of its treatment depends on its severity; less severe disease can be treated pharmacologically or surgically without significantly different outcomes, but coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) clearly reduces mortality among medium- and high-risk patients compared to percutaneous and non-surgical intervention. Although the majority of patients undergoing surgical revascularization emerge without severe postoperative complications, a significant portion of patients encounter a postoperative complication known as low cardiac output syndrome which can quadruple the overall mortality rate for CABG. Intraoperative ischemia reperfusion injury is a major factor in the development of low cardiac output syndrome; so effective intraoperative myocardial protection is central to reducing its incidence, and represents an opportunity to considerably improve patient outcomes. The introductory chapter of this thesis describes the origin and role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. In addition, it introduces key strategies targeted to reduce ROS-mediated myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, highlighting key clinical studies that translated these strategies to reduce the severity of ischemia-reperfusion injury during CABG. The central hypothesis of the clinical project on which this thesis is based states that propofol reduces the incidence of low cardiac output syndrome subsequent to CABG with CPB by decreasing the magnitude of 15-F₂t-isoprostane generation during ischemia-reperfusion. The second chapter introduces propofol, and will review previous studies that explore its cardioprotective potential. The experimental section of this thesis describes the development of a quantitative technique for propofol analysis in whole blood, and its application in a dose finding study that define the parameters for achieving experimentally relevant concentrations of propofol during cardiopulmonary bypass. These two studies were fundamental to the development of a clinical study evaluating ROS generation and the incidence low cardiac output syndrome in patients undergoing CABG surgery. Preliminary results that address the central hypothesis are subsequently presented, along with an alternative proposed mechanism for propofol-mediated cardioprotection. This thesis will conclude with a summary of findings and a description of several future studies aimed at testing, generating, and evaluating new hypotheses.
Uniformly accelerating observer in $κ$-deformed space-time
Creators: name: Harikumar, E.
name: Kapoor, A. K.
name: Verma, Ravikant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the effect of $κ$-deformation of the space-time on the response function of a uniformly accelerating detector coupled to a scalar field. Starting with $κ$-deformed Klein-Gordon theory, which is invariant under a $κ$-Poincaré algebra and written in commutative space-time, we derive $κ$-deformed Wightman functions, valid up to second order in the deformation parameter $a$. Using this, we show that the first non-vanishing correction to the Unruh thermal distribution is only in the second order in $a$. We also discuss various other possible sources of $a$-dependent corrections to this thermal distribution.
description: 12 pages, minor changes, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 3 of In vitro and in vivo efficacy of thiacloprid against Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanchuan
name: Fan, Haining
name: Ma, Jie
name: Ma, Lan
name: Ge, Ri-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Isolation of metacestodes from Mongolian gerbil. The black arrows show the protoscoleces.
Guion entrevista a docentes del Grado en Maestro de Educación Primaria
Creators: name: Pineda-Martínez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Guion entrevista a docentes del Grado en Maestro de Educación Primaria

Anexo perteneciente a la Tesis Doctoral: Diseño Universal para el Aprendizaje (DUA) en la formación inicial de Maestros y Maestras de Educación Primaria

Septiembre 2024
Off-line data quality monitoring for the GERDA experiment
Creators: name: Zavarise, P.
name: Agostini, M.
name: Machado, A. A.
name: Pandola, L.
name: Volynets, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GERDA is an experiment searching for the neutrinoless ββ decay of Ge-76. The experiment uses an array of high-purity germanium detectors, enriched in Ge-76, directly immersed in liquid argon. GERDA recently started the physics data taking using eight enriched coaxial detectors. The status of the experiment has to be closely monitored in order to promptly identify possible instabilities or problems. The on-line slow control system is complemented by a regular off-line monitoring of data quality. This ensures that data are qualified to be used in the physics analysis and allows to reject data sets which do not meet the minimum quality standards. The off-line data monitoring is entirely performed within the software framework GELATIO. In addition, a relational database, complemented by a web-based interface, was developed to support the off-line monitoring and to automatically provide information to daily assess data quality. The concept and the performance of the off-line monitoring tools were tested and validated during the one-year commissioning phase.
description: Contribution prepared for the proceeding of the TAUP 2011 conference
Through a Window: A Networked Music Composition for Four to Six Instruments and Electronics
Creators: name: Bosse, Naithan
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Networked Music Performance
subject: Algorithmic Music
subject: Computer-Assisted Composition
subject: Interactive Electronics
subject: Interval Cycles
subject: Telemedia
subject: Distributed Performers
subject: Chamber Music
subject: Music

description: Through a Window is a three movement networked composition for four to six variable instruments and electronics. In this work, musicians are distributed between three performance sites and connected by sending multi-channel audio streams across a high-bandwidth network. The composition explores how the networked setting together with live sound-processing, soundfile playback, amplification, and spatialization creates a unique sonic performance environment. By applying sound-processing differently at each location, the composition creates dynamic configurations in which elements of the work such as harmony and orchestration are perceived differently at each location. As the physical distance between performance sites increases, the time delay required to send audio between the sites also increases. This poses a significant challenge for music performance since tight synchronization becomes impossible. In Through a Window I employ several practical strategies to accommodate ensemble performance in the presence of network latency such as composing audible cues within the music, adopting proportional notation, and using networked stopwatches. Formally, the composition presents a variety of musical processes based upon evolutionary algorithms, recursive algorithms, and swarm algorithms. These processes occupy multiple sections throughout the composition and contribute to aspects of the composition such as the harmony and melodic contours. As the composition unfolds, these algorithmic materials recur in new configurations and contribute to create an interlocking macrostructure in which the musical tension increases and recedes in a pattern inspired by ocean waves.
Colorado water, June 1993
Creators: name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute.
Additional file 5 of In vitro and in vivo efficacy of thiacloprid against Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanchuan
name: Fan, Haining
name: Ma, Jie
name: Ma, Lan
name: Ge, Ri-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Antibody information.
Manifestations of nematic degrees of freedom in the magnetic, elastic, and superconducting properties of the iron pnictides
Creators: name: Fernandes, Rafael M.
name: Schmalian, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how emergent nematic order and nematic fluctuations affect several macroscopic properties of both the normal and superconducting states of the iron pnictides. Due to its magnetic origin, long-range nematic order enhances magnetic fluctuations, leaving distinctive signatures in the spin-lattice relaxation rate, the spin-spin correlation function, and the uniform magnetic susceptibility. This enhancement of magnetic excitations is also manifested in the electronic spectral function, where a pseudogap can open at the hot spots of the Fermi surface. In the nematic phase, electrons are scattered by magnetic fluctuations that are anisotropic in momentum space, giving rise to a non-zero resistivity anisotropy whose sign changes between electron-doped and hole-doped compounds. We also show that due to the magneto-elastic coupling, nematic fluctuations soften the shear modulus in the normal state, but harden it in the superconducting state. The latter effect is an indirect consequence of the competition between magnetism and superconductivity, and also causes a suppression of the orthorhombic distortion below T_{c}. We also demonstrate that ferro-orbital fluctuations enhance the nematic susceptibility, cooperatively promoting an electronic tetragonal symmetry-breaking. Finally, we argue that T_{c} in the iron pnictides might be enhanced due to nematic fluctuations of magnetic origin.
description: 17 pages, revised version to appear in Superconductor Science Technology focus issue on Fe-based superconductors
Lattice Gauge Theory - Gravity duality and Coulomb's constant in five dimensions
Creators: name: Irges, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this paper is to perform a quantitative check of gauge theory - gravity duality in a nonconformal, nonsupersymmetric context. In order to do so we define k5, an object extracted from the Wilson Loop, that plays the role of Coulomb's constant for SU(N) gauge theories in five dimensions and we argue that one of its virtues is that it could be minimally sensitive to N. This allows us to compute k5 on one hand from the gravitational backreation of a large number N of D4-branes, and on the other from a lattice mean-field expansion for N=2. We find a 2% numerical agreement between the two approaches.
description: Version to appear in PRD. Slightly expanded, abstract changed. Typos corrected
Additional file 4 of In vitro and in vivo efficacy of thiacloprid against Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanchuan
name: Fan, Haining
name: Ma, Jie
name: Ma, Lan
name: Ge, Ri-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Specific primer sequences.
An Annotated Bibliography of NY/NJ Harbor: Emphasis on Biological Studies
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1996

description: This bibliography resulted from several studies the U.S. Army Engineer District New York did in NY/NJ Harbor between 1992 and 1995. The Coastal Ecology Branch (CEB) of the Environmental Laboratory (EL), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), was the primary group responsible for its preparation. Under their direction, Normandeau Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH, searched local libraries and electronic databases mostly during the fall of 1994 for reports of biological and general environmental studies that included parts of the Newark, Upper, Lower, and Raritan Bay portions of NY/NJ Harbor. Ms. Virginia Dickerson (CEB) and Dr. Pace Wilber (NOAA Coastal Services Center) supplemented this compilation and assembled the bibliography. Electronic copies of the bibliography are available upon request. The bibliography contains 572 entries, and over 80% of the entries have abstracts or summaries. Entries cover the target time period (1981-1994) fairly evenly (Figure 1). Reports that have not been cataloged by local libraries are not likely to be included in the bibliography because uncatalogued reports cannot be readily located nor are copies generally available. The most common type of study was examinations of the effects of power plants on the abundance of anadromous fish, usually striped bass (Morone saxatilis) or white perch {Morone americana). A keyword index is provided at the end, and it's based only on the titles, abstracts and summaries. Keywords are as specific as possible but general terms were sometimes necessary when reports covered many species or the titles, abstracts, and summaries were general.
Type I migration in optically thick accretion discs
Creators: name: Yamada, K.
name: Inaba, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the torque acting on a planet embedded in an optically thick accretion disc, using global two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The temperature of an optically thick accretion disc is determined by the energy balance between the viscous heating and the radiative cooling. The radiative cooling rate depends on the opacity of the disc. The opacity is expressed as a function of the temperature. We find the disc is divided into three regions that have different temperature distributions. The slope of the entropy distribution becomes steep in the inner region of the disc with the high temperature and the outer region of the disc with the low temperature, while it becomes shallow in the middle region with the intermediate temperature. Planets in the inner and outer regions move outward owing to the large positive corotation torque exerted on the planet by an adiabatic disc, on the other hand, a planet in the middle region moves inward toward the central star. Planets are expected to accumulate at the boundary between the inner and middle regions of the adiabatic disc. The positive corotation torque decreases with an increase in the viscosity of the disc. We find that the positive corotation torque acting on the planet in the inner region becomes too small to cancel the negative Lindblad torque when we include the large viscosity, which destroys the enhancement of the density in the horseshoe orbit of the planet. This leads to the inward migration of the planet in the inner region of the disc. A planet with 5 Earth masses in the inner region can move outward in a disc with the surface density of 100 g/cm^2 at 1 AU when the accretion rate of a disc is smaller than 2x10^{-8} solar mass/yr.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures
MPEC 2025-C113 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2025 February 7)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A Generic Framework for Expert Data Analysis Systems
Creators: name: Burns, Luanne
name: Pasik, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Computer science

description: DTEX, a generic expert system building tool, attempts to minimize (or in the best cases eliminate) the role of the knowledge engineer by providing the expert with an interactive system that facilitates the knowledge acquisition process as well as automates the generation of an executable expert system. DTEX addresses database analysis domains by providing a framework for communication between database management systems and expert systems. Details of the database manipulation language are not incorporated directly into the knowledge base. The inference and support knowledge of the expert system are isolated from the syntax of the particular DBMS, thus providing a uniform method for the design and execution of expert data analysis systems.
Cooperation Between Stations in Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Forte, Andrea G.
name: Schulzrinne, Henning G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Computer science

description: In a wireless network, mobile nodes (MNs) repeatedly perform tasks such as layer 2 (L2) handoff, layer 3 (L3) handoff and authentication. These tasks are critical, particularly for real-time applications such as VoIP. We propose a novel approach, namely Cooperative Roaming (CR), in which MNs can collaborate with each other and share useful information about the network in which they move. We show how we can achieve seamless L2 and L3 handoffs regardless of the authentication mechanism used and without any changes to either the infrastructure or the protocol. In particular, we provide a working implementation of CR and show how, with CR, MNs can achieve a total L2+L3 handoff time of less than 16 ms in an open network and of about 21 ms in an IEEE 802.11i network. We consider behaviors typical of IEEE 802.11 networks, although many of the concepts and problems addressed here apply to any kind of mobile network.
Additional file 3 of Genome-wide analysis of the AP2/ERF gene family in Tritipyrum and the response of TtERF_B2-50 in salt-tolerance
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaojuan
name: Zhou, Guangyi
name: Chen, Songshu
name: Jia, Zhenzhen
name: Zhang, Suqin
name: Ren, Mingjian
name: He, Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3.