cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving Fuel Price Adjustments for State Departments of Transportation: A National Survey of Practice
Creators: name: Holmgren, Mark
name: Jessup, Eric
name: Casavant, Ken
name: Larzarus, Jon
name: Holmgren, Mark
name: Jessup, Eric
name: Casavant, Ken
name: Larzarus, Jon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Price volatility of construction materials and supplies can lead to price speculation and inflated bid prices by the contractor to protect against possible price increases. State and Departments of Transportation have, since 1974, handled this problem by allowing specific price adjustments of selected commodities in highway contracting, thus decreasing the risk to the contactor from the price fluctuations over the life of a contract. However, for many states, this process has not changed over the past 33 years, despite obvious changes in the purchasing power of construction dollars, construction techniques, industry innovations and fuel types being used for the various construction activities. Of particular concern, fuel price adjustments for structures and miscellaneous construction are measured by gallons per $1,000 of construction. What this amount of capital buys in physical construction compared to earlier years has decreased considerably, resulting in higher fuel price allowances for a given physical structure. The recent dramatic fuel price increases during the summer of 2008 has also significantly contributed to the overall difficulty and price sensitivity regarding vendor reimbursement. This report directly evaluates the impact of inflation on the applicability of current fuel price adjustments in the state of Oregon and the nation. A national survey was developed to collect information and better understand how different states account for fuel price adjustments. This survey compiled information regarding when and why the fuel price adjustment was implemented, recent changes in the process, and if there are current problems. Historical information was gathered about the way the states developed the method, whether there had been any changes overtime and if any forthcoming changes were expected. The results of this study reveal some variation across states in how they implement a fuel price adjustment in the contract, in addition to the calculation and implementation procedure utilized. A summary of these findings are presented and lead to the development of a national and state (Oregon specific) index to more accurately reflect changes in structural costs over time.
Deciding Differential Privacy for Programs with Finite Inputs and Outputs
Creators: name: Barthe, Gilles
name: Chadha, Rohit
name: Jagannath, Vishal
name: Sistla, A. Prasad
name: Viswanathan, Mahesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet allows for accurate statistical results. Thanks to its mathematical definition, differential privacy is also a natural target for formal analysis. A broad line of work uses logical methods for proving privacy. However, these methods are not complete, and only partially automated. A recent and complementary line of work uses statistical methods for finding privacy violations. However, the methods only provide statistical guarantees (but no proofs). We propose the first decision procedure for checking the differential privacy of a non-trivial class of probabilistic computations. Our procedure takes as input a program P parametrized by a privacy budget $ε$, and either proves differential privacy for all possible values of $ε$ or generates a counterexample. In addition, our procedure applies both to $ε$-differential privacy and $(ε,δ)$-differential privacy. Technically, the decision procedure is based on a novel and judicious encoding of the semantics of programs in our class into a decidable fragment of the first-order theory of the reals with exponentiation. We implement our procedure and use it for (dis)proving privacy bounds for many well-known examples, including randomized response, histogram, report noisy max and sparse vector.
Spatial 't Hooft loop to cubic order in hot QCD
Creators: name: Giovannangeli, P.
name: Altes, C. P. Korthals
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial 't Hooft loops of strength k measure the qualitative change in the behaviour of electric colour flux in confined and deconfined phase of SU (N) gauge theory. They show an area law in the deconfined phase, known analytica lly to two loop order with a ``k-scaling'' law k(N-k). In this paper we comput e the O(g^3) correction to the tension. It is due to neutral gluon fields that get their mass through interaction with the wall. The simple k-scaling is lost in cubic order. The generic problem of non-convexity shows up in this order an d the cure is provided. The result for large N is explicitely given. We show tha t nonperturbative effects appear at O(g^5).
description: 22 pages. Apart from a discussion on the renormalization effect of the Polyakov loop to cubic order only cosmetic changes with respect to the earlier hep-ph/0212298
Additional file 2 of Circ-RNF121 regulates tumor progression and glucose metabolism by miR-1224-5p/FOXM1 axis in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhipeng
name: Hu, Hao
name: Hu, Wenli
name: Hou, Zehui
name: Liu, Wei
name: Yu, Zhuomin
name: Liang, Zhiqiang
name: Chen, Shuang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The effects of circ-RNF121 knockdown on the expression of HK2 and PKM2 were determined by western blot in the primary tissues from SW480 cells. **P<0.01 and ***P<0.001.
G-Structures and Wrapped NS5-Branes
Creators: name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Martelli, Dario
name: Pakis, Stathis
name: Waldram, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We analyse the geometrical structure of supersymmetric solutions of type II supergravity of the form R^{1,9-n} x M_n with non-trivial NS flux and dilaton. Solutions of this type arise naturally as the near-horizon limits of wrapped NS fivebrane geometries. We concentrate on the case d=7, preserving two or four supersymmetries, corresponding to branes wrapped on associative or SLAG three-cycles. Given the existence of Killing spinors, we show that M_7 admits a G_2-structure or an SU(3)-structure, respectively, of specific type. We also prove the converse result. We use the existence of these geometric structures as a new technique to derive some known and new explicit solutions, as well as a simple theorem implying that we have vanishing NS three-form and constant dilaton whenever M_7 is compact with no boundary. The analysis extends simply to other type II examples and also to type I supergravity.
description: 29 pages. v2: typos fixed, references added, and Discussion expanded
MOESM1 of Changes in waist circumference and risk of all-cause and CVD mortality: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) cohort study
Creators: name: Mulligan, Angela
name: Lentjes, Marleen
name: Luben, Robert
name: Wareham, Nicholas
name: Kay-Tee Khaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information. Baseline characteristics of EPIC-Norfolk men and women who attended 1HE, and those who attended both 1HE and 2HE, before and after exclusion criteria were applied. Cox multivariable-adjusted HRs after 16â years of follow-up for CVD mortality in 5469 men.
A sustainable supply chain management: an integrated marketing communications perspective
Creators: name: Abel, Lauren
name: Laric, Michael V.
name: Libonate, David
name: Logsdail, Jeffery
name: Lynagh, Peter M.
name: Abel, Lauren
name: Laric, Michael V.
name: Libonate, David
name: Logsdail, Jeffery
name: Lynagh, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in today’s business world. All firms operating in domestic and global business must be cognizant of all the myriad aspects of sustainability. All areas of Marketing, including Supply-Chain Management {SCM} have to operate in this new environment. This paper looks at sustainability and its importance in today's business world from the perspective of marketing and Integrated Marketing Communications {IMC}. More and more online marketing is helping businesses build and develop new, innovative and successful IMC programs, and special attention will be given to this function and how it works with other components. This paper will focus on the interaction between IMC and SCM in terms of sustainability. The paper first examines SCM macro aspects. Next several SCM micro examples are used to show how various SCM members tackle the challenge of sustainability from the perspective of IMC. These firms and organizations will be selected from different components of the supply-chain. For example, there will be a railroad {CSX}, a trucking company {YRC-The merged Yellow Freight and Roadway Express}, a distribution center {Giant Food}, a freight forwarder {UPS}, and a port {Port of Baltimore}. The paper will wind up with a relevant summary and conclusions section. The paper emphasizes the synergistic importance in developing excellent IMC programs to promote sustainability and for individual SCM members to promote their sustainability efforts.
Correlation functions in a cascading N=1 gauge theory from supergravity
Creators: name: Krasnitz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study fluctuations around the warped conifold supergravity solution of Klebanov and Tseytlin [hep-th/0002159], known to be dual to a cascading N=1 gauge theory. Although this supergravity background is not asymptotically AdS, corresponding to a non-conformal field theory, it is possible to apply the usual methods of AdS/CFT duality to extract the high energy behavior of field theory correlators by solving linearized equations of motion for fluctuations around the background. We consider the Goldstone vector dual to the anomalous R-symmetry current and compute its mass, which exactly matches the general prediction of [hep-th/0009156]. We find the high energy 2-point functions for the R-current and two other vectors. As expected, the R-current 2-point function has a longitudinal part because R-symmetry is broken. We also calculate the high energy 2-point function of the energy-momentum tensor from fluctuations of modes in the graviton sector. This 2-point function has a trace part corresponding to broken conformal symmetry.
description: JHEP, 29 pages
Two cases of rare late onset life-threatening pseudoprogression with immune check point inhibitors in advanced cancer patients – a case report
Creators: name: Coudert, Valentin
name: Yves-Marie Robin
name: Williams Tessier
name: Forestier, Alexandra
name: Penel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Two cases of rare late onset life-threatening pseudoprogression with immune check point inhibitors in advanced cancer patients – a case report
xGASS: The Impact of Photometric Bulges on the Scatter of HI Scaling Relations
Creators: name: Cook, Robin H. W.
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Robotham, Aaron S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a structural decomposition analysis of the galaxies in the extended GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (xGASS) using (gri) images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Utilising the 2D Bayesian light profile fitting code ProFit, we fit single- and double-component models taking advantage of a robust Markov chain Monte Carlo optimisation algorithm in which we assume a Sersic profile for single-component models and a combination of a Sersic bulge and near-exponential disc (0.5 < n < 1.5) for double-component models. We investigate the effect of bulges on the atomic hydrogen (HI) content in galaxies by revisiting the HI-to-stellar mass scaling relations with the bulge-to-total ratio measured in the ProFit decompositions. We show that, at both fixed total and disc stellar mass, more bulge-dominated galaxies have systematically lower HI masses, implying that bulge-dominated galaxies with large HI reservoirs are rare in the local Universe. We see similar trends when separating galaxies by a bulge-to-total ratio based either on luminosity or stellar mass, however, the trends are more evident with luminosity. Importantly, when controlling for both stellar mass and star formation rate, the separation of atomic gas content reduces to within 0.3 dex between galaxies of different bulge-to-total ratios. Our findings suggest that the presence of a photometric bulge has little effect on the global HI gas reservoirs of local galaxies.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Knowledge Graph Construction and Refinement for Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries
Creators: name: Tan, Mary Ann
Publisher: name: CEUR-WS
Year: 2024

description: Digital Libraries containing metadata of diverse cultural heritage objects are meant to be accessible not only to domain experts but also to the general population. This calls for information services that can provide ease and efficiency to search, retrieval and exploration. Knowledge graphs (KGs) are essential for representation, organization, integration, and analysis of hierarchical and heterogeneous information. However, most KGs suffer from incompleteness and inaccuracies. This work intends to address various challenges arising from construction and refinement of a KG populated with historical objects, by defining domain- and application-appropriate ontologies and leveraging approaches in information extraction (IE) for improving metadata quality.
Predicting Arrival Delays: An Application of Spatial Analysis
Creators: name: Diana, Tony
name: Diana, Tony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Analysts have many tools available to forecast delays. However, spatial analysis does not readily come to mind when predicting delays. Based on the case study of Newark Liberty International airport (EWR), this study proposes to illustrate the potential application of prevalent geostatistical techniques to delay forecast. Arguably, there is a high degree of dependence among delays in a space or neighborhood defined by hour of operation and by day. Local spatial autocorrelation statistics can help determine how delays in a space are autocorrelated to other ones. Among the other spatial analytical techniques, kriging enables the interpolation of delay estimates at unobserved spaces based on the values at observed spaces. Error estimates can be mapped to define spatial patterns (spaces where delays are likely to be more intense). Finally, spatial error regression provides a method for analysts to test the reliability of their findings when spatial dependency in errors is not taken into account.
Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933
Creators: name: Katz, Amanda
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: History

description: This dissertation argues that modern highway engineering first emerged as all levels of government, in collaboration with industry and academia, faced the challenge of rural road improvement. Initially important for connecting communities to cities and vital markets, rural roads were not typically considered engineering marvels. Often builthaphazardly or primitively, country roads seem incomparable to interurban superhighways. Beyond interpreting the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) as a centralizing technocratic authority, I engage with educational and environmental history to illustrate how the BPR coordinated local, state, and national cooperation around materials science,maintenance, and professionalization. Using federal, state, interest group, and university archives, corporate and political correspondence, and personal papers and diaries, my research positions the BPR within a decentralized, nationwide, program of distributive expertise and community development. I demonstrate how BPR experts workedalongside corporate executives, land-grant and research university faculty, scientists and machinists, state and county administrators, and residents to ensure “scientific localism”in roadbuilding. This approach emphasized location-based variability, including geography, labor, materials, and finances. Interdisciplinary construction projects capitalized on local knowledge, materials, and resources. Throughout the good roads movement, railroad and machinery companies provided transportation, equipment, andtechnology. As the demand for trained engineers increased after World War I, agriculture and engineering faculty offered certification programs and partnered with the BPR todevelop a standardized highway curriculum that included engineering courses, testing and experimentation, and maintenance and inspection. The rise of the automobile andlong-distance transportation altered needs of the nation’s infrastructure and resulted in public works projects that prioritized transcontinental routes, interstate travel, tourism,and scenic and park drives. During the 1920s, the BPR turned toward beautification, adding botany and landscape architecture as components of scientific roadbuilding.Showcasing the BPR’s cooperative network of expertise provides a more accurate portrayal of the agency’s institutional history and points to the significance of both anexpansive and inclusive view of the rural origins of modern highway engineering.
The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: Lessons from the VLT and ISO
Creators: name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Potter, Dan
name: Sheppard, Scott S.
name: Moneti, Andrea
name: Zinnecker, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is strong evidence that the planets in the solar system evolved from a disk-shaped solar nebula ~4.56 Gyr ago. By studying young stars in various evolutionary stages, one aims at tracing back the early history of the solar system, in particular the timescales for disk dissipation and for the formation of planetary systems. We used the VLT & ISAAC, and ESA's Infrared Space Observatory & ISOCAM to study the circumstellar environment of young low-mass stars.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Exosomes from adipose-derived stem cells regulate M1/M2 macrophage phenotypic polarization to promote bone healing via miR-451a/MIF
Creators: name: Li, Rui
name: Li, Dize
name: Wang, Huanan
name: Chen, Kaiwen
name: Wang, Si
name: Xu, Jie
name: Ji, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences for RT-qPCR.
MOESM3 of Influence of pig gut microbiota on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae susceptibility
Creators: name: Nair, Meera Surendran
name: Eucker, Tyson
name: Martinson, Brian
name: Neubauer, Axel
name: Victoria, Joseph
name: Nicholson, Bryon
name: Pieters, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 3. Difference in bacterial composition among different samples. The PERMANOVA results showed that the microbiome composition in samples was influenced by age (p = 0.01). Litters were represented in sequential numbers 0–5. L0 included uninoculated control piglets. Litters 1–5 included all M. hyopneumonaie experimentally inoculated piglets.
Analysis of factors affect high speed train ridership in the united states —The acela express case study
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenhua
name: Chen, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In this study, we focus on the Acela Express, and try to find out how selected internal and external factors affect the Acela Express’s ridership. A two-stage least square regression model is introduced in order to eliminate the endogeneity problem caused by price and ridership. Also the Cochrane-Orcutt Procedure is adopted to solve autocorrelation. The result shows that ticket price and train on-time performances, which are used to being thought as important factors affect ridership become insignificant, while other factors like employment of business and professional in the Northeast Corridor areas have higher influence on high speed train ridership. The broader objective of this research is to provide policy suggestions for building of an efficient high-speed rail network that can both be profitable and solve practical problems that the contemporary transportation system faces.
A Framework For Modelling the Design and Operation of Shared Vehicles Systems
Creators: name: Hossain, Akhtar
name: Hossain, Akhtar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Three major system innovations have transformed transportation in the past two centuries with profound and far-reaching impacts (Shaheen, 1999). First came the widespread adoption of interurban rail in the mid 1800s, several decades later came the introduction of electric urban rail, and then automobiles in the early 1900s. Railroads transformed the nature of business, electric-rail transformed collection of neighborhoods into metropolitan regions, and finally the automobile transformed lifestyle with maximum comfort and convenience in personal mobility. These innovations not only shaped transportation but also much more of our economy and society (Shaheen, 1999). In the modern world of rapid change, it is remarkable how profoundly the motor vehicle has revolutionized society, and economy (Shaheen, 1999). Providing large mobility benefits, private automobiles have become deeply entrenched, continuing to increase their share of travel, even in countries with high fuel and vehicle taxes, dense land use pattern, and high quality transit services. Indeed, private vehicles now account for about 80 percent of all motorized passenger travel in virtually all OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries (Shaheen et al, 1998). This sweeping transformation of travel from collective conveyance to private vehicle generates large benefit on mobility and flexibility but also large costs including higher energy consumption, severe congestion, air pollution, noise pollution, accident, and other related impacts (Shaheen, et al, 1998). Public space in cities is increasingly dominated by cars, both in moving and parked, which are preventing other activities that are the lifeblood of the city from taking place. These spatial problems cannot really be solved by technical fixes (Shaheen, et al, 1998). Shaheen, et al (1999), in their paper mentioned that transportation services and activities could be conducted more efficiently. But they are not, information about alternative modes and services is not well matched to travelers‟ needs, public transit is either unavailable or inconvenient, and private vehicles are not the economic match to all mobility needs. In order to encourage a change, a „new form of urban mobility‟ called carsharing or shared vehicle system has recently evolved in many cities in Europe, North America, and around the world (Bernard and Collins, 1998).
An End to End Gluing Construction for Metrics of Constant Positive Scalar Curvature
Creators: name: Ratzkin, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C

description: Complete constant positive scalar curvature metrics on S^n - {p_1, ..., p_k} admit a definite asymptotic structure; i.e. the metric is asymptotic to a specific S^{n-1}-invariant metric near the puncture points. This allows one to glue together two such metrics near their puncture points, provided the asymptotic structures match, and create a metric whose scalar curvature is very close to constant. In this paper we perturb this new metric to obtain a metric of constant scalar curvature.
description: 18 pages
Non-renormalization and operator mixing via on-shell methods
Creators: name: Bern, Zvi
name: Parra-Martinez, Julio
name: Sawyer, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using on-shell methods, we present a new perturbative non-renormalization theorem for operator mixing in massless four-dimensional quantum field theories. By examining how unitarity cuts of form factors encode anomalous dimensions we show that longer operators are often restricted from renormalizing shorter operators at the first order where there exist Feynman diagrams. The theorem applies quite generally and depends only on the field content of the operators involved. We apply our theorem to operators of dimension five through seven in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, including examples of nontrivial zeros in the anomalous-dimension matrix at one through four loops. The zeros at two and higher loops go beyond those previously explained using helicity selection rules. We also include explicit sample calculations at two loops.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Discovery of a 0.15" Binary Brown Dwarf 2MASSJ 1426316+155701 With Gemini/Hokupa'a Adaptive Optics
Creators: name: Close, L. M.
name: Potter, D.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Lloyd-Hart, M.
name: Liebert, J.
name: Burrows, A.
name: Siegler, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Use of the highly sensitive Hokupa'a curvature wavefront sensor has allowed for the first time direct adaptive optics (AO) guiding on brown dwarfs and VLM stars (SpT=M7-L2). An initial survey of 9 such objects discovered one 0.15" binary (2MASSJ 1426316+155701). The companion is about half as bright as the primary (Delta K = 0.61+/-0.05$, Delta H = 0.70+/-0.05) and has even redder colors H-K=0.59+/-0.14 than the primary. The blended spectrum of the binary has been previously determined to be M9.0. We modeled a blend of an M8.5 template and a L1-L3 template reproducing a M9.0 spectrum in the case of Delta K = 0.61+/-0.05,Delta H = 0.70\pm0.05$. These spectral types also match the observed H-K colors of each star. Based the previously observed low space motion and $H_α$ activity we assign an age of $0.8^{+6.7}_{-0.3} Gyr$. Utilizing this age range and the latest DUSTY models of the Lyon group we assign a photometric distance of $18.8^{+1.44}_{-1.02} pc$ and masses of $M_{A}=0.074^{+0.005}_{-0.011} M_\odot$ and $M_{B}=0.066^{+0.006}_{-0.015} M_\odot$. We therefore estimate a system separation of $2.92_{+0.22}^{-0.16}AU$ and a period of $13.3{+3.18}^{-1.51} yr$ respectively. Hence, 2M1426 is among the smallest separation brown dwarf binaries resolved to date.
Towards Order alpha_s^4 Accuracy in tau-decays
Creators: name: Baikov, P. A.
name: Chetyrkin, K. G.
name: Kühn, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently computed terms of orders O(α_s^4 n_f^2) in the perturbative series for the tau decay rate, and similar (new) strange quark mass corrections, are used to discuss the validity of various optimization schemes. The results are then employed to arrive at improved predictions for the complete terms order O(α_s^4) and O(α_s^5) in the massless limit as well as for terms due to the strange quark mass. Phenomenological implications are presented.
description: 14 pages, REVTeX4. The complete paper is also available via the www at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Preprints/
MultilevelModeling of the Local and Regional Economic Impacts of Bypasses
Creators: name: Mills, Joshua
name: Fricker, Jon D
name: Mills, Joshua
name: Fricker, Jon D
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Bypasses, which redirect through traffic around a community’s downtown area, could have substantial impacts. Identifying these impacts and attributing these impacts solely to the presence of a bypass has posed a challenge to decisionmakers and researchers. The economic impacts have the potential to be longterm and farreaching. Because impacts take place over a long period of time, and because these impacts cannot be easily isolated due to economic externalities (such as recessions), researchers have found it difficult to establish a standard estimation framework for determining bypass impacts. Recent studies (Mills and Fricker 2009, for example) have used econometric and other quantitative methods to determine the extent of these economic impacts. This study will use longitudinal mixedeffects models to study the economic impacts of eight bypasses located in north central Indiana.
On the digraph of a unitary matrix
Creators: name: Severini, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C20; 51F25; 81P68

description: Given a matrix M of size n, a digraph D on n vertices is said to be the digraph of M, when M_{ij} is different from 0 if and only if (v_{i},v_{j}) is an arc of D. We give a necessary condition, called strong quadrangularity, for a digraph to be the digraph of a unitary matrix. With the use of such a condition, we show that a line digraph, LD, is the digraph of a unitary matrix if and only if D is Eulerian. It follows that, if D is strongly connected and LD is the digraph of a unitary matrix then LD is Hamiltonian. We conclude with some elementary observations. Among the motivations of this paper are coined quantum random walks, and, more generally, discrete quantum evolution on digraphs.
description: 6 pages
Forecasting Wheat Commodity Prices using a Global Vector Autoregressive model
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Luciano
name: Piras, Francesco
name: Olmeo, Maria Grazia
name: Gutierrez, Luciano
name: Piras, Francesco
name: Olmeo, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: forecasting
subject: global dynamic models
subject: price analysis
subject: wheat market

description: In this paper the performance of a Global Vector Autoregression model in forecasting export wheat prices is evaluated in comparison to different benchmark models. Forecast evaluation results are based on different statistics including RMSE, MAPE, the Diebold-Mariano (DM) tests and turning points forecast accuracy. The results show that the GVAR forecasts tend to outperform forecasts based on the benchmark models, emphasizing the interdependencies in the global wheat market.
Spatial coherence characterization of light: an experimental study using digital micromirror devices
Creators: name: Magalhães, Tiago E. C.
name: Rebordão, José M.
name: Cabral, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78A45, 78-05

description: We present spatial coherence measurements of partially coherent light in the far-field of incoherent sources with an experimental setup based on the Thompson-Wolf and Partanen-Turunen-Tervo experiments, to be performed in the context of a possible solar coherence measurement space instrument. The optical setup consists of a telescope to collimate light from a source, to diffract it by a digital micromirror device implementing a Young double-aperture interferometer in retroreflection mode, and finally to image the source into a two-dimensional sensor. Two multimode optical fibers with different diameters were used as incoherent sources and the results obtained for the spectral degree of coherence are compared to those expected from the van Cittert-Zernike theorem.
description: Preprint submitted to Elsevier, 7 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of MKL1 regulates hepatocellular carcinoma cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis via the COMPASS complex and NF-κB signaling
Creators: name: Liu, Zhao
name: Sun, Jiuzheng
name: Li, Chuanzhi
name: Xu, Liyou
name: Liu, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: The apoptosis-related protein abundances in HepG2 and Huh-7 with siMKL1.
Caldwellia angularis
Creators: name: Hyman, Isabel T.
name: Ponder, Winston F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Helicarionidae
Caldwellia
Caldwellia angularis

description: Caldwellia angularis (Férussac, 1821)
Figures 22K, 29A, 31D–F
 Material examined. Mauritius: AM C205299 (one specimen dissected, radula examined), E slopes of Mt. Bambous, W of Grand Sable, E Mauritius, on ‘Liane Cerf’, native forest, 400 m alt., Dec. 2000, O.L. Griffiths, V. Florens.
 Description. External morphology: Shell 4.1 whorls, orange-brown; whorl profile rounded above and below angular periphery; otherwise shell shape and sculpture as for genus. Animal cream. Mantle laps and lobes as for genus. Caudal apparatus as for genus; caudal horn large; caudal foss diamond-shaped slit in tail.
 Mantle cavity: As for genus. Mantle with visible minor blood vessels.
 Digestive system: As for genus.
 Genital system (Figures 22K, 29A): As for genus. Free oviduct long, internally with partially fused pustules. Bursa copulatrix internally with longitudinal pilasters. Vagina internally with wavy longitudinal pilasters. Penis short; epiphallus enters penis through simple pore; nine longitudinal penis pilasters present; penial diverticulum absent. Penis retractor muscle attached to epiphallus. Epiphallus much longer than penis, simple internally. Epiphallic retractor caecum absent.
 Radula (Figure 31D–F): As for genus. Radular formula estimated to contain at least 400 teeth per half-row and at least 200 rows.
 Remarks. Caldwellia angularis grouped with Helicarion mastersi and Brevisentis atratus in the phylogenetic analysis (Figures 1–3). However, in the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Hyman et al. (2007) it usually grouped with a different clade of Australian taxa, made up of three species from Lord Howe Island and Nitor circumcincta from southeastern Australia.
description: Published as part of Hyman, Isabel T. & Ponder, Winston F., 2010, A morphological phylogenetic analysis and generic revision of Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora), and an assessment of the relationships of the family 2462, pp. 1-148 in Zootaxa 2462 (1) on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2462.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5312710
Solving the problem of simultaneous diagonalization of complex symmetric matrices via congruence
Creators: name: Bustamante, Miguel D.
name: Mellon, Pauline
name: Velasco, M. Victoria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A, 65K, 90C, 94A

description: We provide a solution to the problem of simultaneous $diagonalization$ $via$ $congruence$ of a given set of $m$ complex symmetric $n\times n$ matrices $\{A_{1},\ldots,A_{m}\}$, by showing that it can be reduced to a possibly lower-dimensional problem where the question is rephrased in terms of the classical problem of simultaneous $diagonalization$ $via$ $similarity$ of a new related set of matrices. We provide a procedure to determine in a finite number of steps whether or not a set of matrices is simultaneously diagonalizable by congruence. This solves a long standing problem in the complex case.
Characterizations of the Lebesgue measure and product measures related to holomorphic functions having non-negative imaginary or real part
Creators: name: Nedic, Mitja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A25, 28A99, 32A26, 32A99

description: In this paper, we study a class of Borel measures on $\mathbb{R}^n$ that arises as the class of representing measures of Herglotz-Nevanlinna functions. In particular, we study product measures within this class where products with the Lebesgue measures play a special role. Hence, we give several characterizations of the $n$-dimensional Lebesgue measure among all such measures and characterize all product measures that appear in this class of measures. Furthermore, analogous results for the class of positive Borel measures on the unit poly-torus with vanishing mixed Fourier coefficients are also presented, and the relation between the two classes of measures with regard to the obtained results is discussed.
description: 24 pages
MOESM2 of Influence of pig gut microbiota on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae susceptibility
Creators: name: Nair, Meera Surendran
name: Eucker, Tyson
name: Martinson, Brian
name: Neubauer, Axel
name: Victoria, Joseph
name: Nicholson, Bryon
name: Pieters, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 2. Rarefaction curves of the sequencing data. The observed species of each sample was in plateaued saturation phase over 1000 reads. Each color indicates a litter and sample size denotes the reads length/per sample. Litters were represented in sequential numbers 0â 5. L0 included uninoculated control piglets. Litters 1â 5 included all M. hyopneumonaie experimentally inoculated piglets.
Primary pericardial mesothelioma: a case report of a patient treated with an immune checkpoint inhibitor as the second-line treatment
Creators: name: Otso Arponen
name: Salo, Virpi
name: Lönnberg, Annika
name: Vaalavirta, Leila
name: Koivu, Hannu
name: Nyandoto, Paul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Primary pericardial mesothelioma: a case report of a patient treated with an immune checkpoint inhibitor as the second-line treatment
Passive irradiated circumstellar disks with an inner hole
Creators: name: Dullemond, C. P.
name: Dominik, C.
name: Natta, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model for irradiated dust disks around Herbig Ae stars is proposed. The model is based on the flaring disk model of Chiang & Goldreich (1997), but with the central regions of the disk removed. The inner rim of the disk is puffed up and is much hotter than the rest of the disk, because it is directly exposed to the stellar flux. If located at the dust evaporation radius, its reemitted flux produces a conspicuous bump in the SED which peaks at 2-3 micron. We propose that this emission is the explanation for the near-infrared bump observed in the SEDs of Herbig Ae stars. We study for which stellar parameters this bump would be observable, and find that it is the case for Herbig Ae stellar parameters but not for T-Tauri stars, confirming what is found from the observations. We also study the effects of the shadow cast by the inner rim over the rest of the flaring disk. The shadowed region can be quite large, and under some circumstances the entire disk may lie in the shadow. This shadowed region will be much cooler than an unshadowed flaring disk, since its only heating sources are radial radiative diffusion and possible indirect sources of irradiation. Under certain special circumstances the shadowing effect can suppress, or even completely eliminate, the 10 micron emission feature from the spectrum, which might explain the anomalous SEDs of some isolated Herbig Ae stars in the sample of Meeus et al. (2001). At much larger radii the disk emerges from the shadow, and continues as a flaring disk towards the outer edge. The complete model, including structure of the inner edge, shadowed region and the flared outer part, is described in detail in this paper, and we show examples of the general behavior of the model for varying parameters.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: Von Seesternen und Sexspielen – Lustformen in queerer Pornografie
Creators: name: Wehrlin, Rahel Sophia
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Körperpraxis
subject: Pornografie
subject: Queer Theory
subject: Sexualität
subject: Sexuelle Sprache
subject: Trans-Non-Binarität
subject: ddc:300

description: Sexualität ist voller ambivalenter Kräfte. Als Diskurs sexueller Begegnungen transformiert queere Pornografie kulturelle Vorstellungen von Sexualität. In diesem Beitrag untersuche ich das Potenzial der inszenierten Lust als kollektive Praxis und Kritik an der binären sexuellen Ordnung und Orientierung sowie an normativen Körperbildern. Folglich analysiere ich zwei queere Pornofilme explorativ und diskutiere dabei die dargestellten (Un-)Möglichkeiten einer lustvollen Sexualität. Wie werden marginalisierte Körper inszeniert? Wie unterlaufen die Bilder die binäre, hetero- und homonormative Geschlechterund Sexualordnung und erweitern dadurch das Wissen? Aus meiner Analyse geht hervor, dass in den Pornos Sexualität jenseits von binären Körpern und Lüsten imaginiert und Geschlecht als Quelle der Erregung am Set und im Kinosaal infrage gestellt werden. Sexualität wird als Körperpraxis inszeniert und mittels sexueller Kommunikation sowie einem vielfältigen Spektrum erogener Körperzonen und nichtnormativer Fantasien neu definiert. Darin liegt meines Erachtens ein aufklärerisches, subversives und affektives Potenzial.
Energy storage reduces costs and emissions even without large penetration of renewable energy: The case of China Southern Power Grid
Creators: name: Virguez, Edgar
name: Ma, Haichao
name: Shan, Rui
name: Gao, Shuo
name: Li, Mingquan
name: Patiño-Echeverri, Dalia
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
Variable renewable energy (VRE) and energy storage systems (ESS) are essential pillars of any strategy to decarbonize power systems. However, there are still questions about the effects of their interaction in systems where coal’s electricity generation share is large. Some studies have shown that in the absence of significant VRE capacity ESS can increase CO2 emissions. This paper shows that contrary to this intuition, ESS reduces operational costs and emissions even without higher penetration of VRE in power systems with large shares of coal. It also shows that when combined with VRE, ESS delivers higher benefits. These findings are based on the examination of China Southern Power Grid under seven VRE and ESS penetration scenarios. Results show that at the 2018 penetration levels, ESS alone reduced operational costs by 2.8% and CO2 emissions by 1% and that by being paired with VRE, these reductions increased to 8.1% and 6.5%, respectively. The results clarify the synergy between ESS and VRE and explain the underlying mechanism. While VRE lowers coal units’ economic efficiency and environmental performance (measured in RMB/MWh and kg CO2/MWh), ESS offsets this effect by increasing large coal units’ power generation and improving their efficiency. ESS reduces coal consumption and CO2 emissions by substituting power generation from low-efficiency coal units with electricity from high-efficiency units and allowing them to operate at levels closer to full capacity and avoid start-ups.
MOESM5 of The broad spectrum mixed-lineage kinase 3 inhibitor URMC-099 prevents acute microgliosis and cognitive decline in a mouse model of perioperative neurocognitive disorders
Creators: name: Miller-Rhodes, Patrick
name: Cuicui Kong
name: Baht, Gurpreet
name: Saminathan, Priyanka
name: Rodriguiz, Ramona
name: Wetsel, William
name: Gelbard, Harris
name: NiccolĂ˛ Terrando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Representative Z-projections of intact, rhodamine B-labeled vasculature during 2PLSM acquisition post-surgery for vehicle- (left) and URMC-099-treated (right), 3-month-old mice.
MOESM1 of Influence of pig gut microbiota on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae susceptibility
Creators: name: Nair, Meera Surendran
name: Eucker, Tyson
name: Martinson, Brian
name: Neubauer, Axel
name: Victoria, Joseph
name: Nicholson, Bryon
name: Pieters, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Reads summary of pig fecal samples.