cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NORAD Intercepts Russian Jets on eve of Ukraine war anniversary
Creators: name: Punales, Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: On February 14, 2023, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted four Russian aircraft as they flew over international airspace near Alaska. Although the aircraft remained in international airspace and “did not pose a threat [for national security]”, NORAD actions reiterate their surveillance operations on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [1]
NORAD delineated their efforts to intercept the aircraft flying through its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a designated airspace where aircraft are required to identify themselves in the interest of national security. Two NORAD F-16 fighter jets were deployed to escort the Russian aircraft out of the ADIZ, which was carried out in a “routine and professional” manner. These efforts are contingent on common procedures applied on foreign aircraft movements over international waters. [2]
These incursions into the ADIZ have prompted NORAD to increase military operations across the Bering Sea – the region between Russia and Alaska – as Russia’s military infrastructure expands westward. As the year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine War approaches, neighboring countries – United States of America, Canada, and the Netherlands – are on heightened alert over Moscow’s aerial dominance. [3]
U.S military officials say that “the Russian flights were in no way related to recent incidents where unidentified objects [have been] shot down over U.S. and Canadian airspace.” [4] The presence of aerial incursions depicts a new phase of the Russian-Ukraine War, involving countries associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The increased use of aerial shows of defense implicates the United Nations’ stance on what complies with international law and a nation’s right to protect its airspace. Although the ADIZ is not explicitly stipulated in a legal framework, the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea (UNCLOS) recognizes the applicability of Article 51 of The United Nations Charter, where states can exercise “their inherent right of individual or collective self -defense, until the Security Council ensures international peace and security.” [5] Such demonstrations of defense will proceed to define themselves as the Russian-Ukraine war continues to unfold.
Дидактические принципы использования открытых ГИС при руководстве дипломными работами на эколого-географических факультетах ВУЗов [Didactical Principles of Using Open Source GIS for Thesis Writing at the Faculties of Geography & Environment]
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90901 Cartography
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: При подготовке курсовых и дипломных работ ВУЗов студенты зачастую сталкиваются с определенными методическими трудностями, связанными с поиском данных, материалов и выбором ПО. Настоящая работа направлена на решение этой проблемы. Лабораторные работы на географических факультетах должны сопровождаться открытыми ГИС для эффективной обработки материала в сопровождении тематических карт, атласов, баз данных и литературных источникиов. Эффективность такого подхода основана на фундаментальной объективности ГИС, наглядности картографической семиотики процессов природной среды. На основе выполненного экологического анализа оценки географических ситуаций акваторий студентами могут быть составлены итоговые тематические карты для выпускной работы 4 или 5 курса. Применение методов ГИС при подготовке диплома на географических факультетах является перспективным и обоснованным научно-практическим подходом, обеспечивающим высокий уровень изучения морских и прибрежных экосистем.
Renormalization-Scale Invariance, Minimal Sensitivity, and the Inclusive Hadronic Decays of a 115 GeV Higgs Particle
Creators: name: Chishtie, F. A.
name: Elias, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Known perturbative expressions for the decay rates of 115 GeV Higgs particle into either two gluons or a $b\bar{b}$ pair are shown to exhibit renormalization-scale-($μ$)-dependence that is largely removed via renormalization-group/Pade-approximant estimates of these rates' next order contributions. The extrema in $μ$ characterizing both rates, as determined from fully-known orders of perturbation theory, are very nearly equal to corresponding $μ$-insensitive rates obtained via estimation of their next order contributions, consistent with "minimal-sensitivity" expectations.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX
Geodata Management for the Environmental Assessment: a Case Study of Central Finland
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This research is focused on the effective management of spatial data: organizing geographical and environmental data of the Finnish ecosystems in a structured and systematical way for further environmental assessment. The research has been carried out on the Biogeochemistry Research Unit, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Department of the Environmental Sciences , University of Kuopio (Eastern Finland).
NORAD Intercepts Russian Jets on eve of Ukraine war anniversary
Creators: name: Punales, Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: On February 14, 2023, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted four Russian aircraft as they flew over international airspace near Alaska. Although the aircraft remained in international airspace and “did not pose a threat [for national security]”, NORAD actions reiterate their surveillance operations on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [1] NORAD delineated their efforts to intercept the aircraft flying through its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a designated airspace where aircraft are required to identify themselves in the interest of national security. Two NORAD F-16 fighter jets were deployed to escort the Russian aircraft out of the ADIZ, which was carried out in a “routine and professional” manner. These efforts are contingent on common procedures applied on foreign aircraft movements over international waters. [2] These incursions into the ADIZ have prompted NORAD to increase military operations across the Bering Sea – the region between Russia and Alaska – as Russia’s military infrastructure expands westward. As the year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine War approaches, neighboring countries – United States of America, Canada, and the Netherlands – are on heightened alert over Moscow’s aerial dominance. [3] U.S military officials say that “the Russian flights were in no way related to recent incidents where unidentified objects [have been] shot down over U.S. and Canadian airspace.” [4] The presence of aerial incursions depicts a new phase of the Russian-Ukraine War, involving countries associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The increased use of aerial shows of defense implicates the United Nations’ stance on what complies with international law and a nation’s right to protect its airspace. Although the ADIZ is not explicitly stipulated in a legal framework, the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea (UNCLOS) recognizes the applicability of Article 51 of The United Nations Charter, where states can exercise “their inherent right of individual or collective self -defense, until the Security Council ensures international peace and security.” [5] Such demonstrations of defense will proceed to define themselves as the Russian-Ukraine war continues to unfold.
Obama’s Concerns for American Democracy
Creators: name: Zelicof, Rachel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: Context: Obama goes to Philadelphia
On Saturday, former President Obama was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania campaigning for the U.S. Senate Candidate John Fetterman. [1] This U.S. Senate race “could potentially determine which political party is going to maintain control of the upper chamber.” [1] Fetterman acknowledged that he is “‘proud’” to campaign with Obama and President Biden. [2]
Key Ideas: What was said in Philadelphia?
Obama asserted that it is not complex to understand the “‘vile’” comments that have been made by people in positions of power. [1] In his speech, Obama referred to the recent antisemitic comments made by Ye and Kyrie Irving. [1] Obama continued to note how “‘dangerous and unacceptable’” this was. [1] Obama even called on Fetterman’s opponent, Mehmet Oz and said “If somebody’s willing to peddle snake oil to make a buck, then ‘he’s probably willing to sell snake oil to get elected.’” [1]
Implications: What do Obama’s ideas mean?
Obama is raising some important concerns about American Democracy. How do we know that our democracy will be stable in the future? There has been a recent uptick in threats of violence which have contributed to polarization. In order for our democracy to thrive, Levitsky and Ziblatt (scholars from Harvard University) argue that we should agree on some basic norms. [3] These norms include viewing opponents as legitimate, rejecting the use of violence in political processes, and accepting the results of the election. [3] It will be challenging to remedy the fractures within our democracy. Perhaps, these norms pose efficacious ideas which could facilitate a harmonious atmosphere between Democrats and Republicans.
A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud
Creators: name: May, Brian Harold
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2008

description: This thesis documents the building of a pressure-scanned Fabry-Perot Spectrometer, equipped with a photomultiplier and pulse-counting electronics, and its deployment at the Observatorio del Teide at Izaña in Tenerife, at an altitude of 7,700 feet (2567 m), for the purpose of recording high-resolution spectra of the Zodiacal Light. The aim was to achieve the first systematic mapping of the MgI absorption line in the Night Sky, as a function of position in heliocentric coordinates, covering especially the plane of the ecliptic, for a wide variety of elongations from the Sun. More than 250 scans of both morning and evening Zodiacal Light were obtained, in two observing periods – September-October 1971, and April 1972. The scans, as expected, showed profiles modified by components variously Doppler-shifted with respect to the unshifted shape seen in daylight. Unexpectedly, MgI emission was also discovered. These observations covered for the first time a span of elongations from 25º East, through 180º (the Gegenschein), to 27º West, and recorded average shifts of up to six tenths of an angstrom, corresponding to a maximum radial velocity relative to the Earth of about 40 km/s. The set of spectra obtained is in this thesis compared with predictions made from a number of different models of a dust cloud, assuming various distributions of dust density as a function of position and particle size, and differing assumptions about their speed and direction. The observations fit predominantly prograde models fairly well, but show a morning-evening asymmetry, different in the two observing periods. Models are investigated containing various components, including prograde and retrograde orbiting dust around the Sun, a drift of interstellar material though the Solar System, and light from distant emitting matter. The implications for possible asymmetries of the Zodiacal Cloud are discussed. Other researches on the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, before, during, and after my observations, are reviewed, including recent insights into its structure, orientation, and evolution, up to the present day, and my observations are evaluated in this context. Period of study, 1970-2007.
Using GIS for Monitoring Lacustrine Ecosystem: a Case Study of Laguna de Gallocanta, Spain [Мониторинг озерных экосистем методами ГИС на примере Лагуны де Галлоканта, Испания]
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 50206 Environmental Monitoring
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Current research presents study of the hydrological characteristics in the surroundings of the Laguna de Gallocanta (Spain) using remote sensing methods and combination of two GIS: ArcGIS and Idrisi GIS. The methodology includes following workflow: 1) selection of the multi-temporal Landsat images and creating color composites; 2) Masking and overlaying study area out of the whole image; 3) Calculation of the direction and length of stream flow in the lake basin; 4) assessment of possible risks of floods and stability of coastal slopes. The research has aim of hydrological assessment testing GIS tools for environmental monitoring.
Physics of muscle contraction
Creators: name: Caruel, Matthieu
name: Truskinovsky, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we report, clarify and broaden various recent efforts to complement the chemistry-centered models of force generation in muscles by mechanics-centered models. The physical mechanisms of interest can be grouped into two classes: passive and active. The main passive effect is the fast force recovery which does not require the detachment of myosin cross-bridges from actin filaments and can operate without a specialized supply ATP. In mechanical terms, it can be viewed as a collective folding-unfolding phenomenon in the system of interacting bistable units and modeled by near equilibrium Langevin dynamics. The parallel active force generation mechanism operates at slow timescales, requires detachment and is crucially dependent on ATP hydrolysis. The underlying mechanical processes take place far from equilibrium and are represented by stochastic models with broken time reversal symmetry implying non-potentiality, correlated noise or multiple reservoirs. The modeling approaches reviewed in this paper deal with both active and passive processes and support from the mechanical perspective the biological point of view that phenomena involved in slow (active) and fast (passive) force generation are tightly intertwined. They reveal, however, that biochemical studies in solution, macroscopic physiological measurements and structural analysis do not provide by themselves all the necessary insights into the functioning of the contractile system. In particular, the reviewed body of work emphasizes the important role of long-range interactions and criticality in securing the targeted mechanical response in the physiological regime of isometric contractions. The importance of the purely mechanical microscale modeling is accentuated at the end of the paper where we address the puzzling issue of the stability of muscle response on the so called descending limb of the isometric tetanus.
Bibliographic Resources and Data for Ecology Seminars
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80707 Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Аннотация. В настоящей работе рассмотрены отдельные аспекты проведения семинарских занятиях по географии на примере изучения Арктики. Так, рассмотрены принципы работы по проектированию индивидуальных ГИС на основе сбора и анализа доступной пространственной информацией по морской экологии с указаниями по составлению тематической базы данных карт. Abstract. This paper discusses some methodological aspects of the seminar classes on geography with a case study of Arctic Ocean. Particularly, is concerns general principles of the individual student work: how one can better design a GIS, how one can find, collect and analyze available geodata on the marine ecology. The paper presents a data reference sketch for the classes of geography.
Obama’s Concerns for American Democracy
Creators: name: Zelicof, Rachel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: Context: Obama goes to Philadelphia On Saturday, former President Obama was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania campaigning for the U.S. Senate Candidate John Fetterman. [1] This U.S. Senate race “could potentially determine which political party is going to maintain control of the upper chamber.” [1] Fetterman acknowledged that he is “‘proud’” to campaign with Obama and President Biden. [2] Key Ideas: What was said in Philadelphia? Obama asserted that it is not complex to understand the “‘vile’” comments that have been made by people in positions of power. [1] In his speech, Obama referred to the recent antisemitic comments made by Ye and Kyrie Irving. [1] Obama continued to note how “‘dangerous and unacceptable’” this was. [1] Obama even called on Fetterman’s opponent, Mehmet Oz and said “If somebody’s willing to peddle snake oil to make a buck, then ‘he’s probably willing to sell snake oil to get elected.’” [1] Implications: What do Obama’s ideas mean? Obama is raising some important concerns about American Democracy. How do we know that our democracy will be stable in the future? There has been a recent uptick in threats of violence which have contributed to polarization. In order for our democracy to thrive, Levitsky and Ziblatt (scholars from Harvard University) argue that we should agree on some basic norms. [3] These norms include viewing opponents as legitimate, rejecting the use of violence in political processes, and accepting the results of the election. [3] It will be challenging to remedy the fractures within our democracy. Perhaps, these norms pose efficacious ideas which could facilitate a harmonious atmosphere between Democrats and Republicans.
Nexura : A online Platform for mobile applications.
Creators: name: shelke, sarthak
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In today's digital age, mobile applications have become an integral part of our daily lives. The rapid growth of mobile technology has led to a surge in the development of mobile applications across various industries. However, hosting and managing these applications can be a complex and resource-intensive task for developers and businesses.Nexura is a cloud-based platform designed to streamline the process of hosting and managing mobile applications. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and features that cater to the needs of developers, from application deployment to scaling and performance optimization. By providing a user-friendly interface and automation capabilities, Nexura aims to enhance the overall mobile app development and hosting experience.
Remarks on gauge vortex scattering
Creators: name: MacKenzie, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the abelian Higgs model, among other situations, it has recently been realized that the head-on scattering of $n$ solitons distributed symmetrically around the point of scattering is by an angle $π/n$, independant of various details of the scattering. In this note, it is first observed that this result is in fact not entirely surprising: the above is one of only two possible outcomes. Then, a generalization of an argument given by Ruback for the case of two gauge theory vortices in the Bogomol'nyi limit is used to show that in the geodesic approximation the above result follows from purely geometric considerations.
description: 6 pages, revtex, missing authors added to one reference
Cyrtopodium flavum Rchb. f.
Creators: name: Barberena, Felipe Fajardo Villela Antolin
name: Silva, Roberto da
name: Lopes, Rosana Conrado
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Cyrtopodium
Cyrtopodium flavum

description: 5. Cyrtopodium flavum Link & Otto ex Rchb.f.,
Iconogr. Bot. Exot. 3: 7, t. 214. 1830. Fig. 2e
Rupicolous herb. Leaves 6, sessile, distributed along the caulome; blade green, immaculate, chartaceous, flat, plicate, linear, parallel-veined, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescence in raceme or panicle, lateral, multiflowered, glabrous. Flowers resupinate, ecalcarate; sepals and petals yellow to greenish-yellow, immaculate; lip yellow, trilobed.
Distribution: Restricted to Brazil and endemic to the Atlantic Forest domain (Flora do Brasil c2020).
Specimen examined: 22º57’31’’ S, 43º10’47’’ W, 9 Aug 2018 (fl), R. Silva s.n. (RFA 43324).
description: Published as part of Barberena, Felipe Fajardo Villela Antolin, Silva, Roberto da & Lopes, Rosana Conrado, 2022, Copacabana is more than a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: the orchid flora of Parque Estadual da Chacrinha, pp. 30-40 in Caldasia 44 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.15446/caldasia.v44n1.88156, http://zenodo.org/record/15265162
ESHITISHDA NUQSONI BO'LGAN BOLALARNING AHLOQIY TARBIYASI
Creators: name: Eshmatova, Rayxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Bugungi kunda maktabgacha yoshdagi bolalarda nutq o'stirishdagi ayrim muammo va eshitishida nuqsoni bo'lgan bolalardagi kamchiliklar chiroyli qilib yoritilgan. Oilada ota - onaning farzand tarbiyasi bilan birga bola bilan qanday gaplashish, unga ertaklar aytib berishi hamda tarbiyachilarni mohirona faoliyatiga oydinlik kiritib berilgan. Oilada va bog'chada nutqida nuqsoni bo'lgan bolalarga tavsiya va takliflar berilgan.
Additional file 5: of Construction and characterization of an infectious cDNA clone of potato virus S developed from selected populations that survived genetic bottlenecks
Creators: name: Li, Xin
name: Hataya, Tatsuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S4. Hydropathy plot of PVS-H95 and PVS-H00 replicases. (PDF 190 kb)
Failure of composite steel-concrete slabs under elevated temperatures
Creators: name: Omer, Echat
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2006

description: The behaviour of composite steel-concrete slabs under fire has attracted considerable attention over recent years and has led researchers to develop performance based models capturing the phenomena observed during fires. However, while the limit load proposed defined corresponds to fracture of the reinforcing mesh, the criterion employed is semi-empirical ignoring fundamental issues such as the bond slip characteristics. A recent model has addressed this issue for lightly reinforced beams, considering the bond slip response of the reinforcement along with other salient problem characteristics, however, it becomes complex for practical application when extended to slabs. In the current work, novel models are developed for the assessment of the failure load of lightly reinforced concrete slabs under fire conditions, considering simply supported rectangular slabs with and without planar edge restraints. In the limit, this load corresponds to the failure load of composite slabs under fire, since fire tests have demonstrated that the steel deck de-bonds leaving a lightly reinforced concrete slab. The developed models account for the temperature effect on the geometric and material properties, and they consider the tensile membrane action developed at large deflections. The deflected shape, used as the basis of model formulation, was observed experimentally to match the failure mode described by yield line theory, and in the developed models, it is assumed that cracks forming along the yield lines, penetrate through the slab depth. The strain concentration in the reinforcement along these cracks is established by considering the bond slip characteristics, and the failure load is determined as that corresponding to a specific rupture mechanical reinforcement strain. Comparisons against the non-linear finite element analysis program ADAPTIC and experimental results are presented along with case studies highlighting the influence of various parameters. Simplified versions of the proposed models are also presented for direct use by designers to assess the failure of composite slabs under elevated temperatures.
ОБЩАЯ КЛИНИЧЕСКАЯ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА ОБСЛЕДОВАННЫХ БЕРЕМЕННЫХ
Creators: name: Худоярова, Дильдора
name: Зубайдуллоева, Зарнигор
name: Хайитбоев, Дилшод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Данная патология плода не считается первичным нозологическим типом, она обусловлена различными патологическими изменениями системы мать-плацента-плод. В этой главе представлена общая клиническая характеристика 38 беременных с ПИ и 20 здоровых беременных из контрольной группы.  Отбор женщин в основную группу проводился при обращении за консультацией в родильный комплекс многопрофильной поликлиники No1 СамГМУ. Путем сравнения показателей гемостазиограммы до и после лечения у женщин, как ранний признак дистресса матки плода - низкий уровень гемоглобина, эритроцитов, количество тромбоцитов, высокое количество лейкоцитов в периферической крови, высокий уровень билирубина, мочевины и креатинина, уровень фибриногена, агрегация тромбоцитов. Мы выяснили, что показатели и протромбиновый индекс будут высокими.
The Physics of baking good Pizza
Creators: name: Varlamov, Andrey
name: Glatz, Andreas
name: Grasso, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical principles are involved in almost any aspect of cooking. Here we analyze the specific process of baking pizzas, deriving in simple terms the baking times for two different situations: For a brick oven in a pizzeria and a modern metallic oven at home. Our study is based on basic thermodynamic principles relevant to the cooking process and is accessible to undergraduate students. We start with a historical overview of the development and art of pizza baking, illustrate the underlying physics by some simple common examples, and then apply them in detail to the example of baking pizza.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Wobbling motion in the multi-bands crossing region
Creators: name: Oi, Makito
name: Ansari, Ahmad
name: Horibata, Takatoshi
name: Onishi, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The backbending in the A=180 mass region is expected to be caused by multi-bands crossing between low-K (g- and s-bands) and high-K bands. % We analyze a mechanism of coupling of these bands in terms of a dynamical treatment for nuclear rotations, i.e., the wobbling motion. The wobbling states are produced through the generator coordinate method after angular momentum projection, in which the intrinsic states are constructed through the 2d-cranked HFB calculations.
description: 9 pages, 3 PS figures: to appear in Phys.Lett.B
PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE ASSESSMENT OF TALL BUILDINGS
Creators: name: Vlassis, Anastasios G
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2007

description: The events of 11 September 2001 have instigated a comprehensive debate among the structural engineering community regarding the performance of tall buildings under extreme loading conditions such as blast, impact or fire. The main issues that have been identified include the dynamic robustness of such buildings, the parameters that could possibly initiate progressive collapse following the extreme event, and the design guidance that needs to be introduced in order for buildings to survive such events and assure life safety of their occupants. Since the structural components of buildings subject to extreme loading events are likely to undergo large inelastic deformations, which can induce excessive ductility demands in the joint regions of the members involved, the behaviour and modelling of joints is discussed in detail. With respect to design recommendations, this thesis proposes a multi-level framework for progressive collapse assessment of building structures subject to sudden column loss, which is the design scenario adopted by most recent guidelines to assess the potential of multi-storey buildings for progressive collapse. The proposed framework offers a rational and practical means for assessing structural robustness at various levels of structural idealisation, it accommodates both simplified and detailed models of the nonlinear structural response, and importantly it moves the debate on structural robustness towards the quantifiable. Application of the new approach is demonstrated with reference to steel-framed composite buildings with partial-strength joints. Furthermore, a methodology is developed, based on the proposed assessment framework for sudden column loss, to consider the impact of floor failure on a lower floor, in order to establish whether this would in fact trigger progressive collapse. Application of this methodology is also illustrated by means of a case study, where consideration is given to a floor grillage system subject to impact of the floor above, and the ability of the impacted floor members to sustain the dynamically induced loads associated with various impact scenarios is thoroughly examined. From the presented application studies, important conclusions are drawn relating to the inherent robustness of steel-framed structures, the factors influencing this robustness, and the adequacy of current regulations for the avoidance of progressive collapse.
Geodata Management for the Environmental Assessment: a Case Study of Central Finland (Управление геоданными для экологических проектов на примере ГИС центральной Финляндии)
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This research is focused on the effective management of spatial data: organizing geographical and environmental data of the Finnish ecosystems in a structured and systematical way for further environmental assessment. The research has been carried out on the Biogeochemistry Research Unit, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Department of the Environmental Sciences , University of Kuopio (Eastern Finland).
Oral history interview with Carlton B. (Carlton Benjamin) Goodlett, 1972
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Journalists
African American press
African American journalists
Newspapers--Circulation
Newspaper publishing--Economic aspects--United States
Advertising--Newspapers
Journalism--Political aspects
African Americans--Civil rights

description: In the first part of his two-session interview with Henry La Brie III, Goodlett describes the Black Power movement and his San Francisco community. He details how publication costs and advertiser discrimination censor the black media, inhibiting community control of both radio and newspaper communication. Also discussed are black businesses, black and Latino newspapers in California, the demands of black youth on the press, and the militancy of the Sun Reporter. The first session concludes with a summary of Goodlett's work with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and description of how the black press agitates white establishments. The second session begins with Goodlett's description of the events that led to his community's migration to Omaha, Nebraska, and his becoming racially conscious as a high school student. He proceeds to describe his experience in higher education. Goodlett goes on to describe the financial challenges of the Sun Reporter from 1949 to 1955, the tenets that guided his work, and the role the Sun Reporter had in local and national elections. In the last session, Goodlett speaks on the Sun Reporter's increasing circulation since the civil rights actions of 1962-1964, his activism regarding advertiser discrimination, and the importance of apprenticeships for young black reporters. Also discussed are the possibility of a black news service, the relative importance of a newspaper's various sections, the activist orientation of the black press, and why the black press will not be mainstreamed.
MAP588.pdf
Creators: name: Coffey, Grant
Publisher: name: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Southwestern United States
Terminal Pueblo III
Ancestral Pueblo
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Non-Domestic Structures
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Pollen
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Dating Sample
Fauna
Ground Stone
Human Remains
Macrobotanical
Mineral
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Viscoelastic finite element modeling of deformation transients of single cells
Creators: name: Teo, Soo Kng
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2008

description: The objective of this thesis is to use computational modeling to study the deformation of single cells subjected to mechanical stresses. Our motivation stems from experimental observations that cells are subjected to mechanical stresses arising from their environment throughout their lifetime, and that such stresses can regulate many important biological processes. While the exact mechanotransduction mechanisms involved are not well understood, quantitative models for cell deformation can yield important insights. In this thesis, we developed an axisymmetric finite element model to study the deformation of suspended fibroblasts in the optical stretcher and neutrophils in tapered micropipettes. The key feature of our model is the use of a viscoelastic constitutive equation whose parameters can be varied both spatially and temporally so as to mimic the experimentally-observed spatio-temporal heterogeneity of cellular material properties. Our model suggested that cellular remodeling, in the form of an increased cellular viscosity, occurred during optical stretching of fibroblasts. The increase would have to be approximately 20-fold to explain the experimental data for different loading time-scales. We also showed that cell size is a more important factor in determining the strain response of the optically-stretched fibroblasts compared to the thickness of the actin cortical region. This result can explain the higher optical deformability observed experimentally for malignant fibroblasts. In addition, our simulations showed that maximal stress propagates into the nuclear region for malignant fibroblasts whereas for normal fibroblasts, the maximal stress does not. Finally, results from modeling the tapered micropipette experiments also suggested that cellular remodeling, in the form of a decreased cellular elasticity and viscosity, occurred during the process of neutrophil aspiration. Taken together, our simulation results on optically-stretched fibroblasts and aspirated neutrophils suggested that cells in general are able to sense mechanical stresses and respond by varying their material properties during deformation.
An Evaluation of the Factors Controlling Biodegradation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals During Wastewater Treatment
Creators: name: Koh, Yoong Keat Kelvin
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2008

description: Endocrine disrupting chemicals such as steroid estrogens and alkylphenol polyethoxylates entering the environment via regular domestic or industrial discharges have been demonstrated to cause feminization of aquatic organisms at trace levels. The presence of these compounds in surface waters has been primarily attributed to their incomplete removal in sewage treatment works and to degradation products generated from alkylphenolic compounds such as alkylphenols and short chain one to three ethoxy units, ethoxylates. This study investigates the factors controlling biodegradation of these chemicals in four sewage treatment works with various configurations of the biological treatment stage. Analytical methodologies for these endocrine disrupting compounds have been developed to allow accurate quantification at nanogram per litre concentrations in sewage matrices. Three activated sludge plants and one trickling filter work were examined. Temperature variation (±10°C) has no impact on the removal of estrogens with the exception of the conjugated estrone-3-sulphate. Removal efficiencies for most of these compounds were >90% at most of these works however the biochemical activity of the biomass was found to be 50-60% more efficient in the nitrifying/denitrifying plant (STW2) compared to the biological nutrient removal plant (STW3). The presence of an anaerobic zone in STW3 did not provide additional benefit in the removal of these compounds compared to a conventional nitrifying/denitrifying plant. The biochemical activity in the nitrifying only pilot-scale plant (STW4) was in between that of the nitrifying/denitrifying plant (STW2) and the biological nutrient removal plant (STW3). It was found that most of the alkylphenols in the final effluents did not exceed and complied with the proposed predicted no effect concentration (PNEC) values of 330 ng l-1 and 122 ng l-1 for nonylphenol and octylphenol respectively. However, concentrations of estrogens at all the works potentially fail to comply with the proposed Environment Agency PNEC value (E2 equivalent = 1 ng l-1).
The Hierarchion, a Relaxion Addressing the Standard Model's Hierarchies
Creators: name: Davidi, Oz
name: Gupta, Rick S.
name: Perez, Gilad
name: Redigolo, Diego
name: Shalit, Aviv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mechanism that addresses the electroweak, the strong CP, and the flavor hierarchies of the Standard Model (including neutrino masses) in a unified way. The naturalness of the electroweak scale is solved together with the strong CP problem by the Nelson-Barr relaxion: the relaxion field is identified with the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of an abelian symmetry with no QCD anomaly. The Nelson-Barr sector generates the "rolling" potential and the relaxion vacuum expectation value at the stopping point is mapped to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa phase. An abelian symmetry accounts for the Standard Model's mass hierarchies and flavor textures through the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. We show how the "backreaction" potential of the relaxion can be induced by a sterile neutrino sector, without any extra state with electroweak quantum numbers. The same construction successfully explains neutrino masses and mixings. The only light field in our construction is the relaxion, which we call the hierarchion because it is essentially linked to our construct that accounts for all the Standard Model hierarchies. Given its interplay with flavor symmetries, the hierarchion can be probed in flavor-violating decays of the Standard Model fermions, motivating a further experimental effort in looking for new physics in rare decays of leptons and mesons.
description: 33 pages, 2 figures
The Nonlocal Model of Short-Range Wetting
Creators: name: Bernardino, Nelson Fernando Rei
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2008

description: Recently, a Nonlocal Model of short-range wetting was proposed that seems to overcome problems with simpler interfacial models. In this thesis we explore this model in detail, laying the foundations for its use. We show how it can be derived from a microscopic Hamiltonian by a careful coarse-graining procedure, based on a previous recipe proposed by Fisher and Jin. In the Nonlocal Model the substrate-interface interaction is described by a binding potential functional with an elegant diagrammatic expansion: W = a1 ∽ + b1+ ∽ + · · · . ∽ ∽ This model has the same asymptotic renormalisation group behaviour as the simpler model but with a much smaller critical region, explaining the mystery of 3D critical wetting. It also has the correct form to satisfy the covariance relation for wedge filling. We then proceed to check the robustness of the structure of the Nonlocal Model using perturbation theory to study the consequences of the use of a more general microscopic Hamiltonian. The model is robust to such generalisations whose only relevant effect is the change of the values of the coefficients of the Nonlocal Model. These same remarks are valid for the inclusion of a surface field: the generalised model still has the same structure, albeit with different coefficients. Another important extension is the inclusion of a longer-range substrate-fluid interaction or a bulk field. We finalise with a chapter exploring the structure of the correlation function at meanfield level. This allows us to prove that the Nonlocal Model obeys a sum-rule for complete wetting, and shed light on why the critical region is so small in the Nonlocal Model. The study of correlations at a capillary slit can provide a direct test of the Nonlocal Model.
Flow Direction and Length Determined by ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and Terrain Elevation Data Sets
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Geography

description: Current work presents results of the terrain data processing for hydrological analysis using two GIS software: ArcGIS and Idrisi GIS. The aim of the research is to analyse the situation of the river basin in the selected study area (Gallocanta, Spain), to assess possible risks for floods and landslides. The study aims to understand the processes and spatial and temporal patterns of surface-climate interaction in a watershed to assess the impacts of the local climate change on the hydrological conditions of the lake's surroundings and to develop geomorphic analysis using SRTM input data, for effective environmental management.
Dynamical chaotic phases and constrained quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Timpanaro, André M.
name: Wald, Sascha
name: Semião, Fernando
name: Landi, Gabriel T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In classical mechanics, external constraints on the dynamical variables can be easily implemented within the Lagrangian formulation. Conversely, the extension of this idea to the quantum realm, which dates back to Dirac, has proven notoriously difficult due to the noncommutativity of observables. Motivated by recent progress in the experimental control of quantum systems, we propose a framework for the implementation of quantum constraints based on the idea of work protocols, which are dynamically engineered to enforce the constraints. As a proof of principle, we consider the dynamical mean-field approach of the many-body quantum spherical model, which takes the form of a quantum harmonic oscillator plus constraints on the first and second moments of one of its quadratures. The constraints of the model are implemented by the combination of two work protocols, coupling together the first and second moments of the quadrature operators. We find that such constraints affect the equations of motion in a highly nontrivial way, inducing nonlinear behavior and even classical chaos. Interestingly, Gaussianity is preserved at all times. A discussion concerning the robustness of this approach to possible experimental errors is also presented.
Additional file 1 of Identification of key genes as predictive biomarkers for osteosarcoma metastasis using translational bioinformatics
Creators: name: Ding, Fu-peng
name: Tian, Jia-yi
name: Wu, Jing
name: Han, Dong-feng
name: Zhao, Ding
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Gene list of ROC curves in brown module
Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Nearby SN 2017cbv
Creators: name: Wee, Jerrick
name: Chakraborty, Nilotpal
name: Wang, Jiayun
name: Penprase, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On 2017 March 11, the DLT40 Transient Discovery Survey discovered SN 2017cbv in NGC5643, a Type 2 Seyfert Galaxy in the Lupus Constellation. SN 2017cbv went on to become a bright Type Ia supernova, with a $V_{max}$ of 11.51 $\pm$ 0.05 mag. We present early time optical and infrared photometry of SN 2017cbv covering the rise and fall of over 68 days. We find that SN 2017cbv has a broad light curve $Δm_{15}(B)$ = 0.88 $\pm$ 0.07, a $B$-band maximum at 2457840.97 $\pm$ 0.43, a negligible host galaxy reddening where $E(B-V)_{host}$ $\approx$ 0, and a distance modulus of 30.49 $\pm$ 0.32 to the SN, corresponding to a distance of $12.58_{-1.71}^{+1.98}$ Mpc. We also present the results of two different numerical models we used for analysis in this paper: SALT2, an empirical model for Type Ia supernova optical light curves that accounts for variability components; and SNooPy, the CSP-II light-curve model that covers both optical and near-infrared wavelengths and is used for distance estimates.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted to ApJ
Proposal to Test Quantum Wave-Particle Superposition on Massive Mechanical Resonators
Creators: name: Qin, Wei
name: Miranowicz, Adam
name: Long, Guilu
name: You, J. Q.
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and analyze a proposal for a macroscopic quantum delayed-choice experiment with massive mechanical resonators. In our approach, the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy impurity is employed to control the coherent coupling between the mechanical modes of two carbon nanotubes. We demonstrate that a mechanical phonon can be in a coherent superposition of wave and particle, thus exhibiting both behaviors at the same time. We also discuss the mechanical noise tolerable in our proposal and predict a critical temperature below which the morphing between wave and particle states can be effectively observed in the presence of environment-induced fluctuations. Furthermore, we describe how to amplify single-phonon excitations of the mechanical-resonator superposition states to a macroscopic level, via squeezing the mechanical modes. This approach corresponds to the phase-covariant cloning. Therefore, our proposal can serve as a test of macroscopic quantum superpositions of massive objects even with large excitations. This work, which describes a fundamental test of the limits of quantum mechanics at the macroscopic scale, would have implications for quantum metrology and quantum information processing.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures