cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Human-Compatible Digital Protection, Consenting and Controlling
Creators: name: Human, Soheil
Publisher: name: Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation examines the rapidly evolving terrain of digital protection, focusing on the challenges inherent in current practices and advocating for a shift towards frameworks that are more human-compatible. It conceptualizes digital protection as a complex socio-cognitive-techno-legal phenomenon, proposing a transition from conventional dataprotection paradigms to more holistic approaches that accountforhumans’cognitive characteristics,contextual circumstances, and collective dynamics. The dissertation introduces and develops innovative concepts and mechanisms, such as the Advanced Data [Digital] Protection Control (ADPC) and the Personal Digital Protection, Consenting and Controlling Assistant Systems (PDPCAS), designed to empower individuals and enhance the practice of digital rights in contemporary society. The dissertation underscores the necessity of a transition from individual-centric data protection to human-compatible digital protection. It emphasizes the importance of developing inclusive and adaptable frameworks that safeguard the digital rights of all individuals across diverse environments, while addressing broader societal imperatives such as democracy, security, and economic growth. By developing a variety of concepts and frameworks, this research offers foundationalinsightsandactionablesolutions, pavingthewayforfuture innovations in digital protection and advocating for a more equitable and sustainable digital future.
Unsupervised Pretraining for Neural Machine Translation Using Elastic Weight Consolidation
Creators: name: Variš, Dušan
name: Bojar, Ondřej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work presents our ongoing research of unsupervised pretraining in neural machine translation (NMT). In our method, we initialize the weights of the encoder and decoder with two language models that are trained with monolingual data and then fine-tune the model on parallel data using Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) to avoid forgetting of the original language modeling tasks. We compare the regularization by EWC with the previous work that focuses on regularization by language modeling objectives. The positive result is that using EWC with the decoder achieves BLEU scores similar to the previous work. However, the model converges 2-3 times faster and does not require the original unlabeled training data during the fine-tuning stage. In contrast, the regularization using EWC is less effective if the original and new tasks are not closely related. We show that initializing the bidirectional NMT encoder with a left-to-right language model and forcing the model to remember the original left-to-right language modeling task limits the learning capacity of the encoder for the whole bidirectional context.
description: ACL-SRW 2019 (camera-ready)
Self-Supervised Physics-Guided Deep Learning Reconstruction For High-Resolution 3D LGE CMR
Creators: name: Yaman, Burhaneddin
name: Shenoy, Chetan
name: Deng, Zilin
name: Moeller, Steen
name: El-Rewaidy, Hossam
name: Nezafat, Reza
name: Akçakaya, Mehmet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac MRI (CMR) is the clinical standard for diagnosis of myocardial scar. 3D isotropic LGE CMR provides improved coverage and resolution compared to 2D imaging. However, image acceleration is required due to long scan times and contrast washout. Physics-guided deep learning (PG-DL) approaches have recently emerged as an improved accelerated MRI strategy. Training of PG-DL methods is typically performed in supervised manner requiring fully-sampled data as reference, which is challenging in 3D LGE CMR. Recently, a self-supervised learning approach was proposed to enable training PG-DL techniques without fully-sampled data. In this work, we extend this self-supervised learning approach to 3D imaging, while tackling challenges related to small training database sizes of 3D volumes. Results and a reader study on prospectively accelerated 3D LGE show that the proposed approach at 6-fold acceleration outperforms the clinically utilized compressed sensing approach at 3-fold acceleration.
Thermodynamics of black holes in $(n+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Born-Infeld dilaton gravity
Creators: name: Sheykhi, A.
name: Riazi, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a new class of $(n+1)$-dimensional $(n\geq3)$ black hole solutions in Einstein-Born-Infeld-dilaton gravity with Liouville-type potential for the dilaton field and investigate their properties. These solutions are neither asymptotically flat nor (anti)-de Sitter. We find that these solutions can represent black holes, with inner and outer event horizons, an extreme black hole or a naked singularity provided the parameters of the solutions are chosen suitably. We compute the thermodynamic quantities of the black hole solutions and find that these quantities satisfy the first law of thermodynamics. We also perform stability analysis and investigate the effect of dilaton on the stability of the solutions.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures
Bethe roots and refined enumeration of alternating-sign matrices
Creators: name: Razumov, A. V.
name: Stroganov, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the most probable ground state candidate for the XXZ spin chain with the anisotropy parameter equal to -1/2 and an odd number of sites is considered. Some linear combinations of the components of the considered state, divided by the maximal component, coincide with the elementary symmetric polynomials in the corresponding Bethe roots. It is proved that those polynomials are equal to the numbers providing the refined enumeration of the alternating-sign matrices of order M+1 divided by the total number of the alternating-sign matrices of order M, for the chain of length 2M+1.
description: LaTeX 2e, 12 pages, minor corrections, references added
Global Protoplanetary Disk Simulations: Dead Zone Formation and FUor Outbursts
Creators: name: Kadam, Kundan
name: Vorobyov, Eduard
name: Regály, Zsolt
name: Kóspál, Ágnes
name: Ábráham, Péter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted global hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disk evolution with an adaptive Shakura-Sunyaev α prescription to represent the layered disk structure, and starting with the collapse phase of the molecular cloud. With the canonical values of model parameters, self-consistent dead zones formed at the scale of a few au. The instabilities associated with the dead zone and corresponding outbursts, similar to FUor eruptions, were also observed in the simulations.
Hassanein, Diaa Eldin: Der Hamburger Weg des Religionsunterrichts
Creators: name: Andrée, Uta
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 63 Nr. 1 (2014): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 63, Heft 1
Geometric magnonics with chiral magnetic domain walls
Creators: name: Lan, Jin
name: Yu, Weichao
name: Xiao, Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin wave, the collective excitation of magnetic order, is one of the fundamental angular momentum carriers in magnetic systems. Understanding the spin wave propagation in magnetic textures lies in the heart of developing pure magnetic information processing schemes. Here we show that the spin wave propagation across a chiral domain wall follows simple geometric trajectories, similar to the geometric optics. And the geometric behaviors are qualitatively different in normally magnetized film and tangentially magnetized film. We identify the lateral shift, refraction, and total reflection of spin wave across a ferromagnetic domain wall. Moreover, these geometric scattering phenomena become polarization-dependent in antiferromagnets, indicating the emergence of spin wave birefringence inside antiferromagnetic domain wall.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Unital ${A}_\infty$-categories
Creators: name: Lyubashenko, Volodymyr
name: Manzyuk, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that three definitions of unitality for A-infinity-categories suggested by the first author, by Kontsevich and Soibelman, and by Fukaya are equivalent.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX, close to published version
D-JIP2-4.1.2 Description of the links and the linked databases (COHESIVE)
Creators: name: Di Pasquale, Adriano
name: Caldarelli, Valentina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: OHEJP
COHESIVE
Description of the links and the linked databases
Workpackage 4
D-JIP2-4.1.2 Description of the links and the linked databases
D 4.1.2 Description of the links and the linked databases
IZSAM

description: OHEJP Project: COHESIVE Project JIP2 COHESIVE COHESIVE: One Health Structure In Europe
 Deliverable D-4.1.2 Deliverable D-JIP2-4.1.2 Workpackage 4 D 4.1.2 Description of the links and the linked databases
description: The initial code of this deliverable was D-4.1.2. Now the code is D-JIP2-4.2.
A Physical Theory of the Competition that Allows HIV to Escape from the Immune System
Creators: name: Wang, Guanyu
name: Deem, Michael W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Competition within the immune system may degrade immune control of viral infections. We formalize the evolution that occurs in both HIV-1 and the immune system quasispecies. Inclusion of competition in the immune system leads to a novel balance between the immune response and HIV-1, in which the eventual outcome is HIV-1 escape rather than control. The analytical model reproduces the three stages of HIV-1 infection. We propose a vaccine regimen that may be able to reduce competition between T cells, potentially eliminating the third stage of HIV-1.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Quantum teleportation over the Swisscom telecommunication network
Creators: name: Landry, Olivier
name: van Houwelingen, J. A. W.
name: Beveratos, Alexios
name: Zbinden, Hugo
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantum teleportation experiment in the quantum relay configuration using the installed telecommunication network of Swisscom. In this experiment, the Bell state measurement occurs well after the entanglement has been distributed, at a point where the photon upon which data is teleported is already far away, and the entangled qubits are photons created from a different crystal and laser pulse than the teleported qubit. A raw fidelity of 0.93+/-0.04 has been achieved using a heralded single-photon source.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, updated references on May 3rd. To be published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Feature issue "Optical Quantum-Information Science", February 2007
The boundary of the Eulerian number triangle
Creators: name: Gnedin, Alexander
name: Olshanski, Grigori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J50; 60C05

description: The Eulerian triangle is a classical array of combinatorial numbers defined by a linear recursion. The associated boundary problem asks one to find all extreme nonnegative solutions to a dual recursion. Exploiting connections with random permutations and Markov chains we show that the boundary is discrete and explicitly identify its elements.
description: 21 pages
On Cartan Spaces with the $m$-th Root Metric $K(x,p)=\sqrt[m]{a^{i_{1}i_{2}...i_{m}}(x)p_{i_{1}}p_{i_{2}}...p_{i_{m}}}$
Creators: name: Atanasiu, Gheorghe
name: Neagu, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B40, 53C60, 53C07

description: The aim of this paper is to expose some geometrical properties of the locally Minkowski-Cartan space with the Berwald-Moor metric of momenta. This space is regarded as a particular case of the $m$-th root Cartan space. Thus, Section 2 studies the $v$-covariant derivation components of the $m$-th root Cartan space. Section 3 computes the $v$-curvature d-tensor $S^{hijk}$ of the m-th root Cartan space and studies conditions for $S3$-likeness. Section 4 computes the $T$-tensor $T^{hijk}$ of the m-th root Cartan space. Section 5 particularizes the preceding geometrical results for the Berwald-Moor metric of momenta.
description: 9 pages
Do Link Polynomials Detect Causality In Globally Hyperbolic Spacetimes?
Creators: name: Allen, Samantha
name: Swenberg, Jacob H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 57K14 (Primary) 53C50, 83C75, 83C80 (Secondary)

description: Let $X$ be a $(2+1)$-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime with a Cauchy surface $Σ$ whose universal cover is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^2$. We provide empirical evidence suggesting that the Jones polynomial detects causality in $X$. We introduce a new invariant of certain tangles related to the Conway polynomial, and prove that the Conway polynomial does not detect the connected sum of two Hopf links among relevant 3-component links, which suggests that the Conway polynomial does not detect causality in the scenario described.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures
Optical Photometrical Observations and Variability for Quasar 4C 29.45
Creators: name: Fan, J. H.
name: Tao, J.
name: Qian, B. C.
name: Gupta, A. C.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Yuan, Y. H.
name: Yang, J. H.
name: Wang, H. G.
name: Huang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reported the result of long term optical variability of the blazar 4C 29.45 (QSO 1156+295, Ton 599), carried out optical photometric observations in Johnson V, Cousins RI passbands during April 1997 to March 2002 using the 1.56 meter telescope of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) at Sheshan, China, compiled the post-1974 optical photometric data of the blazar by combining our new observations with the published optical data, and found maximum variations in different passbands: $Δ$U = 4.41 mag, $Δ$B = 5.55 mag, $Δ$V = 4.53 mag, $Δ$R = 5.80 mag, and $Δ$I = 5.34 mag. The average color indices are: U$-$B = $-0.54\pm$0.18 mag, B$-$V = 0.56$\pm$0.21 mag, B$-$R = 0.93$\pm$0.18 mag, B$-$I = 1.51$\pm$0.24 mag, V$-$R = 0.44$\pm$0.15 mag and V$-$I = 1.03$\pm$0.23 mag. The post-1974 data give us an excellent opportunity to search for the existence of possible periodicity in the light curve. In search for periodicity in the R passband light curve, we performed Jurkevich test and power spectral (Fourier) analysis methods, and CLEANest algorithms to remove false signals. We found possible periods of 3.55 and 1.58 years. The possible mechanism for the periodic variability was discussed.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables; PASJ in press
Early Stage Benefit Cost Analysis for Estimating Economic Impacts
Creators: name: Kreis, Doug
name: Howell, Brian
name: O'Connell, Lenahan
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study reviewed the various software packages and other methods in use for estimating the economic impacts of proposed transportation projects. A total of 13 economic software packages were examined as potential applications in meeting KYTC’s business needs. It was determined that only the TREDIS model from the Economic Development Research Group, Inc. or the TranSight model from Regional Economic Models, Inc. could potentially meet Kentucky’s needs as defined in the project.
The dialogue between theatre and politics : Gambaro, Pavlovsky, and contemporary Argentine society
Creators: name: Shenassa, Shirin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The proposal of this thesis will be threefold: firstly, to study the phenomenon and structure of power in relation to Argentine drama during the period of the 1960s to the 1980s as exemplified by various works from two leading Argentine dramatists of this period; secondly, elaborating and specifying from the these works, to investigate certain determined manifestations of power, for example, discourse manipulation, hierarchies, violence, discipline, and torture, and the expression and presentation of these manifestations of power in dramatic form; thirdly, I will analyze the relation between political theatricality and power, and the reflections of this phenomenon in the chosen plays. The four elements which will be the focus of this thesis, and in many ways, will help weave the chapers together are: 1) Internalization of the Master's Discourse 2) Process and Effects of Torture 3) Evolution of Space 4) Metatheatricality These elements are found in all the chapters, even though, some with a more discernable presence than others. Through the discussion of the plays and these four elements I hope to construct an investigation which illuminates the process and relationship between theatre and politics.
Cost Containment and Participant Access in USDA's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Evidence from the Greater Los Angeles, CA, Area
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Patrick W.
name: Saksena, Michelle
name: Saitone, Tina L.
name: Ma, Meilin
name: Volpe, Richard
name: Wu, Qi
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: McLaughlin, Patrick W.
name: Saksena, Michelle
name: Saitone, Tina L.
name: Ma, Meilin
name: Volpe, Richard
name: Wu, Qi
name: Sexton, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Women, Infants and Children, WIC, seller concentration, Above 50, A-50, cost containment, food access, food cost, market power, retail food prices

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides food assistance, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care to participating low-income and nutritionally at-risk pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5. Participants exchange WIC vouchers or electronic benefits for specific WIC foods at commercial retail stores authorized by State WIC programs. Authorized WIC vendors may be large grocers, supermarkets, and supercenters such as Walmart or Target, or small and nontraditional food retailers like convenience and drug stores. In addition, some States authorize vendors that specialize in serving WIC clients, referred to as “above-50-percent vendors” or simply “A50 vendors” because they derive the majority of their food sales from WIC transactions.
Interplay of mass imbalance and frustration in correlated band insulators
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Anwesha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the emergence or broadening of exotic magnetic metallic phases upon explicit breaking of $SU(2)$ symmetry by introduction of mass imbalance in a variant of Hubbard model, known as the ionic Hubbard model in the presence of frustration at half-filling on a square lattice. The ionic Hubbard model has in addition to hopping($\sim t$) and onsite coulomb repulsion ($\sim U$), a staggered ionic potential ($\sim Δ$) which breaks translational symmetry of the underlying lattice. In the low to intermediate ranges of $U$ and $Δ$, we use unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory to construct the phase diagram in the $U-Δ$ plane for a fixed mass imbalance($\simη$). Where as in the limit where both $U,Δ$ are comparable and much larger than the first $(\sim t_σ)$ and second $(\sim t_σ')$ neighbor hopping amplitudes , we employ the technique of generalized Gutzwiller approximation and subsequently use renormalized mean field theory to construct the phase diagram for varying values of hopping asymmetry. In both cases, starting from a correlated band insulator with weak antiferromagnetic spin density wave order, if we tune $U/Δ$, we observe the opening of novel magnetically ordered metallic phases such as spin imbalanced ferromagnetic metal, ferrimagnetic metal and antiferromagnetic half metal. We also study singlet superconductivity in the d-wave and extended s-wave channels in the strong coupling limit of this model in the presence of mass imbalance.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
A Combined Microwave Imaging Algorithm for Localization and Moisture Level Estimation in Multilayered Media
Creators: name: Omrani, Adel
name: Yadav, Rahul
name: Link, Guido
name: Vauhkonen, Marko
name: Lahivaara, Timo
name: Jelonnek, John
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2021

description: In this work, a multistatic uniform diffraction tomography (MUDT) method, that was proposed by the authors as a new qualitative imaging method just recently, is combined with the quantitative Bayesian inversion framework. In this combined approach, MUDT is applied to find the location of the moisture and this localization is employed as a pre-knowledge for the Bayesian framework to estimate the moisture levels in a polymer foam. The proposed combined algorithm might become a major part of the development of a new kind of intelligent industrial microwave drying systems. The imaging algorithm is tested with simulated measurement data. The frequency band from 8 GHz to 12 GHz (X-band) is used for the MUDT algorithm whereas a single frequency of 8.2 GHz is assumed for the Bayesian framework. The first results demonstrate the ability of the developed combined algorithm for optimizing the computational load unlike seen in the quantitative inversion approaches.
Gott des LEBENS, weise uns den (Pilger-) WEG zu Gerechtigkeit und Frieden!
Creators: name: Schürer-Behrmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 63 Nr. 1 (2014): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 63, Heft 1
Closer to home: complete communities from a local perspective : a case study of the Lynn Valley community planning process in the District of North Vancouver
Creators: name: Grant, Charlene Marie Barabash
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Greater Vancouver Region is in an era of growth, fundamental change, and reexamination of regional and local quality of life. Within this context, the complete community policies of the Livable Region Strategic Plan have been developed to help achieve a region where human community flourishes within the built and natural environment. At the same time as these policies respond to change, they also demand significant alterations to community and regional priorities and practices. Accepting and pursuing complete community objectives of compactness, diversity and choice in existing suburban communities represents particular challenges. While regional policy reflects a general appreciation of this fact, understanding these challenges from a local perspective is essential to successfully weaving complete community goals into the existing regional fabric, and is the problem addressed by this thesis. Through both a literature review and case study approach, the research sought to identify the factors which support and constrain progress towards more complete communities through local planning in established neighbourhoods. The thesis focuses on the case study of the Lynn Valley community planning process in order to explore how the local perspective might modify inherently regional complete community goals and expectations. The study concludes that achieving a balance between regional goals and local interests is most critical in the Greater Vancouver metropolitan setting. The Lynn Valley case suggests that factors affecting community planning outlined in the literature are realistic and valid in practice. It further suggests that the prospects for achieving complete communities in established neighbourhoods will be influenced by local perspectives on: growth, change, aging in place, and a spirit of fairness in accepting change among local communities. The complete community vision resonates at the local level. Complete community objectives and strategies may be accepted locally to the degree they are seen as a means to achieve community aspirations and improve the quality of life of residents over their life cycle.
Temporal boundary solitons and extreme super-thermal light statistics
Creators: name: Liang, Chunhao
name: Ponomarenko, Sergey A.
name: Wang, Fei
name: Cai, Yangjian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discover the formation of a temporal boundary soliton (TBS) in the close proximity of a temporal boundary, moving in a nonlinear optical medium, upon high-intensity pulse collision with the boundary. We show that the TBS excitation causes giant intensity fluctuations in reflection (transmission) from (through) the temporal boundary even for very modest input pulse intensity fluctuations. We advance a statistical theory of the phenomenon and show that the TBS emerges as an extremely rare event in a nonintegrable nonlinear system, heralded by colossal intensity fluctuations with unprecedented magnitudes of the normalized intensity autocorrelation function of the reflected/transmitted pulse ensemble.
CMB constraints on the fine structure constant
Creators: name: Ichikawa, Kazuhide
name: Kanzaki, Toru
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study constraints on time variation of the fine structure constant alpha from cosmic microwave background (CMB) taking into account simultaneous change in alpha and the electron mass m_e which might be implied in unification theories. We obtain the constraints -0.097 < Delta alpha/alpha < 0.034 at 95% C.L. using WMAP data only, and -0.042 < Delta alpha/alpha < 0.026 combining with the constraint on the Hubble parameter by the HST Hubble Key Project. These are improved by 15% compared with constraints assuming only alpha varies. We discuss other relations between variations in alpha and m_e but we do not find evidence for varying alpha.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Magnetic Branes in $(n+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity
Creators: name: Sheykhi, A.
name: Dehghani, M. H.
name: Riazi, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct two new classes of spacetimes generated by spinning and traveling magnetic sources in $(n+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity with Liouville-type potential. These solutions are neither asymptotically flat nor (A)dS. The first class of solutions which yields a $(n+1)$-dimensional spacetime with a longitudinal magnetic field and $k$ rotation parameters have no curvature singularity and no horizons, but have a conic geometry. We show that when one or more of the rotation parameters are nonzero, the spinning branes has a net electric charge that is proportional to the magnitude of the rotation parameters. The second class of solutions yields a static spacetime with an angular magnetic field, and have no curvature singularity, no horizons, and no conical singularity. Although one may add linear momentum to the second class of solutions by a boost transformation, one does not obtain a new solution. We find that the net electric charge of these traveling branes with one or more nonzero boost parameters is proportional to the magnitude of the velocity of the branes. We also use the counterterm method and calculate the conserved quantities of the solutions.
description: 15 pages, the last version to appear in PRD
First record of three alien termite species (Insecta: Isoptera) in Belgium
Creators: name: Vanden Abeele, Samuel
name: Vanderheyden, Ann
name: Dekoninck, Wouter
name: Smitz, Nathalie
name: Kratz, Fanny
name: Segers, Brigitte
name: Breugelmans, Karin
name: De Meyer, Marc
name: Backeljau, Thierry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: invasive alien species
Reticulitermes flavipes
Cryptotermes brevis
Reticulitermes banyulensis
new record
Belgium

description: The presence of subterranean termites (Family Rhinotermitidae) and drywood termites (Family Kalotermitidae) poses significant challenges as potential pests, capable of causing substantial damage to wooden structures and leading to economic losses. Some species within these families exhibit high levels of destructiveness and have become invasive in numerous regions worldwide. Introductions or expansions of termite populations often result from the importation of infested wood, plants, or soils. Here, we document the initial occurrences of three exotic termite species in Belgium: Cryptotermes brevis and Reticulitermes banyulensis in Brussels (Brussels Capital Region), and Reticulitermes flavipes in Brugelette (Hainaut province; Walloon region). Morphological identification of specimens was corroborated through DNA-barcoding validation. While infestations of Cryptotermes brevis and Reticulitermes banyulensis are likely inconsequential due to unfavorable local climatic conditions, the establishment and spread of Reticulitermes flavipes in Belgium is more likely and will be monitored closely. These findings underscore the importance of vigilance and effective pest management strategies to mitigate potential impacts.
The entropy of network ensembles
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we generalize the concept of random networks to describe networks with non trivial features by a statistical mechanics approach. This framework is able to describe ensembles of undirected, directed as well as weighted networks. These networks might have not trivial community structure or, in the case of networks embedded in a given space, non trivial distance dependence of the link probability. These ensembles are characterized by their entropy which evaluate the cardinality of networks in the ensemble. The general framework we present in this paper is able to describe microcanonical ensemble of networks as well as canonical or hidden variables network ensemble with significant implication for the formulation of network constructing algorithms. Moreover in the paper we define and and characterize in particular the "structural entropy", i.e. the entropy of the ensembles of undirected uncorrelated simple networks with given degree sequence. We discuss the apparent paradox that scale-free degree distribution are characterized by having small structural entropy but are so widely encountered in natural, social and technological complex systems. We give the proof that while scale-free networks ensembles have small structural entropy, they also correspond to the most likely degree distribution with the corresponding value of the structural entropy.
description: (10 pages)
Dicyclomine Misuse and Regulation in Punjab
Creators: name: Mehta, Manan
Publisher: name: Manan Mehta
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Dicyclomine/blood
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: Bio Statistics
subject: Drug Misuse

description: This research explores the emerging issue of the misuse of dicyclomine, a commonly prescribed antispasmodic medication, particularly in the Indian state of Punjab. Originally used to treat gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, dicyclomine has increasingly been found to be misused for its intoxicating effects, often in combination with other substances. The paper investigates the pharmacological properties, patterns of misuse, and sociological impact of dicyclomine abuse, using recent data, news reports, and case studies. Additionally, the research analyzes the government restrictions imposed in Punjab, evaluating their potential effectiveness and unintended consequences. The study also offers a balanced view of the regulation's positive outcomes, such as reduced misuse, while highlighting negative consequences, including limited access for genuine patients. Overall, the paper aims to raise awareness of a lesser-known but significant public health concern, contributing to the discourse on drug control, pharmaceutical ethics, and substance abuse prevention in India.
"Breathing" rogue wave observed in numerical experiment
Creators: name: Ruban, Victor P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of the recently derived fully nonlinear equations of motion for weakly three-dimensional water waves [V.P. Ruban, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 71}, 055303(R) (2005)] with quasi-random initial conditions are reported, which show the spontaneous formation of a single extreme wave on the deep water. This rogue wave behaves in an oscillating manner and exists for a relatively long time (many wave periods) without significant change of its maximal amplitude.
description: 6 pages, 12 figures
A Hybrid Simulation-based Duopoly Game Framework for Analysis of Supply Chain and Marketing Activities
Creators: name: Xu, Dong
name: Meng, Chao
name: Zhang, Qingpeng
name: Bhardwaj, Puneet
name: Son, Young-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A hybrid simulation-based framework involving system dynamics and agent-based simulation is proposed to address duopoly game considering multiple strategic decision variables and rich payoff, which cannot be addressed by traditional approaches involving closed-form equations. While system dynamics models are used to represent integrated production, logistics, and pricing determination activities of duopoly companies, agent-based simulation is used to mimic enhanced consumer purchasing behavior considering advertisement, promotion effect, and acquaintance recommendation in the consumer social network. The payoff function of the duopoly companies is assumed to be the net profit based on the total revenue and various cost items such as raw material, production, transportation, inventory and backorder. A unique procedure is proposed to solve and analyze the proposed simulation-based game, where the procedural components include strategy refinement, data sampling, gaming solving, and performance evaluation. First, design of experiment and estimated conformational value of information techniques are employed for strategy refinement and data sampling, respectively. Game solving then focuses on pure strategy equilibriums, and performance evaluation addresses game stability, equilibrium strictness, and robustness. A hypothetical case scenario involving soft-drink duopoly on Coke and Pepsi is considered to illustrate and demonstrate the proposed approach. Final results include P-values of statistical tests, confidence intervals, and simulation steady state analysis for different pure equilibriums.
description: 39 pages, 10 figures, 9 tables
The carrier ''antibinding'' in quantum dots: a charge separation effect
Creators: name: Combescot, Monique
name: Dupertuis, Marc-André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the carrier ''antibinding'' observed recently in semiconductor quantum dots, i.e., the fact that the ground state energy of two electron-hole pairs goes above twice the ground-state energy of one pair, can entirely be assigned to a charge separation effect, whatever its origin. In the absence of external electric field, this charge separation comes from different ''spreading-out'' of the electron and hole wavefunctions linked to the finite height of the barriers. When the dot size shrinks, the two-pair energy always stays below when the barriers are infinite. On the opposite, because barriers are less efficient for small dots, the energy of two-pairs in a dot with finite barriers, ends by behaving like the one in bulk, i.e., by going above twice the one-pair energy when the pairs get too close. For a full understanding of this ''antibinding'' effect, we have also reconsidered the case of one pair plus one carrier. We find that, while the carriers just have to spread out of the dot differently for the ''antibinding'' of two-pairs to appear, this ''antibinding'' for one pair plus one carrier only appears if this carrier is the one which spreads out the less. In addition a remarkable sum rule exists between the "binding energies" of two pairs and of one pair plus one carrier.
description: 9 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in European Journal of Physics B
Teleportation of two-particle entangled state via cluster state
Creators: name: Li, Da-Chuang
name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two schemes for teleporting an unknown two-particle entangled state from a sender (Alice) to a receiver (Bob) via a four-particle entangled cluster state. As it is shown, the unknown two-particle entangled state can be teleported perfectly, and the successful possibilities and fidelities of the two schemes both reach unit.
description: six pages, no figure
Derivative non-linear Schrödinger equation: Singular manifold method and Lie symmetries
Creators: name: Albares, Paz
name: Estévez, Pilar García
name: Lejarreta, Juan Domingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalized study and characterization of the integrability properties of the derivative non-linear Schrödinger equation in 1+1 dimensions. A Lax pair is derived for this equation by means of a Miura transformation and the singular manifold method. This procedure, together with the Darboux transformations, allow us to construct a wide class of rational soliton-like solutions. Lie classical symmetries have also been computed and similarity reductions have been analyzed and discussed.
Post Earthquake Investigation Field Manual for the State of Kentucky
Creators: name: Sardo, Ann G.
name: Sardo, Thomas E.
name: Harik, Issam E.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The rapid assessment of a bridge structure’s safety and functionality is an essential component to restoring vital lifeline routes after a major earthquake. Appropriate posting categories are used to assure the safety of the traveling public. The objective of this manual is to provide a rapid and efficient method of inspecting bridge structures after an earthquake. The primary users of this manual are intended to be the initial Kentucky Transportation Cabinet personnel who will initially reach the bridge sites. It is recognized that such first-line personnel will possess a variety of backgrounds and, therefore, a systematic method of evaluating the damage is necessary. This manual represents a rapid and efficient method of inspecting damaged bridge structures in a uniform manner. Evaluation forms are intended to be filled out electronically, whereby, the resulting posting will be determined through an internal program developed from the expert opinions of the authors. Appropriate posting actions and recommendations are then produced from the inspection results on the evaluation forms. The information gathered on these forms will also be used to prioritize the follow-up inspections by trained bridge engineers and plan repair efforts.
Das Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) - eine neue Initiative im Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen
Creators: name: Koslowski, Jutta
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 63 Nr. 1 (2014): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 63, Heft 1
BPS preons and the AdS-M-algebra
Creators: name: Bandos, Igor A.
name: de Azcarraga, Jose A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the AdS generalization of BPS preons, which were introduced as the hypothetical constituents of M-theory preserving all but one supersymmetries. Our construction, suggested by the relation of `lower dimensional preons' with higher spin theories, can be considered as a deformation of the M-algebraic description of the single supersymmetry broken by a preon, and provides another reason to identify the AdS generalization of the M-algebra, which we call the AdS-M-algebra, with osp(1|32).
description: Plain latex, no figures, 19 pages minor corrections, one ref. added, as published in JHEP 04 (2008) 069
Functional dissection of the gene, bli-4, in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Chiu, Readman Yue-Bok
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The bli-4 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes at least four gene products by the mechanism of alternative splicing. Termed blisterases A-D, these isoforms contain unique carboxyl termini and exhibit distinct structural homology to different members of the kexin family of proprotein convertases. Two different kinds of phenotypes have been identified in our collection of bli-4 mutants: blistering at the adult stage of the allele e937, and embryonic (or early larval) lethality of thirteen alleles, suggesting bli-4 plays a functional role not only in the assembly or maintenance of the adult cuticle but also in the early development of the animal. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the functions of the individual blisterases using isoform-specific minigenes in a bli-4 mutant background. Three minigenes were constructed. Together with pCeh226 containing the carboxyl terminus for blisterase A , these constructs provide minigenes specific for three of the isoforms, pCeh299 for blisterase B, pCeh308 and pCeh309 for blisterase C. The blistered mutant lacks the 3' exon of blisterase A. As expected, a high copy number of the minigene providing the blisterase A isoform rescued this phenotype. In addition, the blisterase A minigene also rescued the lethal mutants, suggesting either that blisterase A is required early in development or inappropriately provides the function of the other isoforms. At high copy number, the blisterase B minigene also rescued both the blistering and the lethal phenotypes whereas a modified blisterase C minigene (pCeh309) only rescued the blistering phenotype. At low copy number, three out of five transgenic lines containing the blisterase B minigene and one putative integrated line containing blisterase C (pCeh308) also rescued blistering. None of the arrays carrying a low copy number of minigenes rescued the lethal mutants tested. The results support the hypothesis that high copy number lines can inappropriately provide the function of other isoforms. This is compatible with the suggestion that there is functional redundancy between the isoforms, with blisterases A and B probably playing a more important role than blisterase C as indicated by the present results. Biological specificity may result from the developmental, or tissue-specific distribution of the processing enzyme with its substrate.
Notebook A (May 1972-July 1972)
Creators: name: Hutchison, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poetry, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067769
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Poets, Scottish
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1068037
subject: College teachers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/868114
subject: Philosophy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060777
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/999953
subject: Theology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1149559

description: Alexander ("Sandy") Hutchison (1943-2015) was a Scottish poet who taught at various colleges and universities on Vancouver Island between the 1960s-80s, including the Department of English at the University of Victoria in 1966. These notebooks contain content ranging from notes about/from various philosophers, to personal correspondence, to drafts of his poetry.
Annual Update of Data for Estimating ESALS
Creators: name: Pigman, Jerry G.
name: Graves, Clark
name: Rister, Brad
name: Cain, David
name: Tollner, Neil
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A revised procedure for estimating equivalent single axleloads (ESAL’s) was developed in 1985. This procedure used weight, classification, and traffic volume data collected by the Transportation Cabinet’s Division of Planning. The procedure was developed and documented as Research Report UKTRP-85-30, and was titled “Estimation of Equivalent Axleloads”. Since the revised procedure was adopted, there have been several changes; the most recent being documented as Report KTC-95-7 titled “Equivalent Single Axleload Computer Program Enhancements”. Results documented in Report KTC-95-7 included improvements in the processing of ESAL data by aggregation of the functional classes to increase the accuracy of the estimates within a class, and conversion of computer programs used to process the data from mainframe to personal computer.