cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A note on the solve phase of a multicore solver
Creators: name: Hogg, JD
name: Scott, JA
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Year: 2010
Subjects: solve phase
parallel
direct solver
sparse symmetric linear systems
DAG-based
multicore

description: When using a direct solver to solve large sparse linear systems of equations, the solve phase that follows the numerical factorization performs a relatively small proportion of the total number of numerical operations. However, it is responsible for a much higher proportion of the memory traffic. This makes it a potential bottleneck on newer multicore architectures that have a higher ratio of computational power to memory bandwidth than exhibited by traditional shared-memory parallel machines. In this note, we illustrate the problem through experiments and test a number of different approaches that aim to improve the performance of the solve phase on multicore machines. We extend the DAGbased approach that has been successfully used for the factorize phase on multicore machines to the solve phase and explore techniques for reducing memory throughput. Numerical experiments that illustrate the difficulties and the effectiveness of our approaches are performed on large-scale problems from practical applications using the sparse multicore solver HSL MA87.
Cyber Kittens, or Some First Steps Towards Categorical Cybernetics
Creators: name: Smithe, Toby St Clere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define a categorical notion of cybernetic system as a dynamical realisation of a generalized open game, along with a coherence condition. We show that this notion captures a wide class of cybernetic systems in computational neuroscience and statistical machine learning, exposes their compositional structure, and gives an abstract justification for the bidirectional structure empirically observed in cortical circuits. Our construction is built on the observation that Bayesian updates compose optically, a fact which we prove along the way, via a fibred category of state-dependent stochastic channels.
description: In Proceedings ACT 2020, arXiv:2101.07888. Includes a summary of arXiv:2006.01631
Die zweifache Vogelschau bei der umbrischen lustratio und dem römischen census
Creators: name: Dupraz, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2024

description: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, [N.F.] Bd. 42 (2018): Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
‘Enemies of Philebus’ and the ‘Wise’ of Republic 9
Creators: name: Alieva, Olga
Publisher: name: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2024

description: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, [N.F.] Bd. 42 (2018): Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Scrapbook 05
Creators: name: Erickson, Reed
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743617
subject: Transgender people--Employment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767917
subject: Gender transition--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114259
subject: Children of transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743618
subject: Human rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/963285
subject: Gender transition
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015111
subject: Gender nonconformity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765240
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Transgender people
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765239
subject: Transgender men
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003372
subject: Transgender women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003494
subject: Transgender youth
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743062
subject: Gender reassignment surgery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015145
subject: Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767928
subject: LGBT activism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2070293
subject: Transgender people--Identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1766527
subject: Transgender people--Civil rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1983680
subject: Transphobia
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1763039
subject: Transgender people--Violence against
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767881
subject: Transitioning (Gender)
subject: Legal status
subject: Trans men
subject: Trans women
subject: Gender identity
subject: Transgender culture
subject: Hormone therapy (Gender)
subject: Transgender community
subject: Human rights
subject: Transgender people
subject: Transgender activism
subject: Transgender movement

description: Part of a series consisting of nine scrapbooks containing comprehensive newspaper clippings provided by a clipping service relating to medical transition procedures, legal aspects of medical transition procedures, and related news concern human rights for transgender people.
Extremely low linear polarization of comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto)
Creators: name: Zubko, E.
name: Chornaya, E.
name: Zheltobryukhov, M.
name: Matkin, A.
name: Ivanova, O. V.
name: Bodewits, D.
name: Kochergin, A.
name: Kornienko, G.
name: Luk'yanyk, I.
name: Hines, D. C.
name: Videen, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the degree of linear polarization P of comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto) with the broadband Johnson V filter in mid-November of 2018. Within a radius of \r{ho}=17,000 km of the inner coma, we detected an extremely low linear polarization at phase angles from 83 to 91.2 degree and constrained the polarization maximum to Pmax = (6.8 +/- 1.8)%. This is the lowest Pmax ever measured in a comet. Using model agglomerated debris particles, we reproduced the polarimetric response of comet C/2018 V1. Four retrieved refractive indices closely match what was experimentally found in Mg-rich silicates with little or no iron content. Moreover, the size distribution of the agglomerated debris particles appears in good quantitative agreement with the in situ findings of comet 1P/Halley. The dust model of polarization of comet C/2018 V1 suggests a strongly negative polarization with amplitude |Pmin| = 5%-7%; whereas, an interpretation based on gaseous emission requires no negative polarization at small phase angles. This dramatic difference could be used to discriminate gaseous-emission and dust explanations in low-Pmax comets in future.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Alternate Scheme for Optical Cluster-State Generation without Number-Resolving Photon Detectors
Creators: name: Wilde, Mark M.
name: Spedalieri, Federico
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
name: Lee, Hwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We design a controlled-phase gate for linear optical quantum computing by using photodetectors that cannot resolve photon number. An intrinsic error-correction circuit corrects errors introduced by the detectors. Our controlled-phase gate has a 1/4 success probability. Recent development in cluster-state quantum computing has shown that a two-qubit gate with non-zero success probability can build an arbitrarily large cluster state with only polynomial overhead. Hence, it is possible to generate optical cluster states without number-resolving detectors and with polynomial overhead.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; made significant revisions and changed format
Die Freikirchen in der multilateralen Ökumene aus römisch-katholischer Sicht
Creators: name: Urban, Hans Jörg
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 3 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 3
Determining postoperative pain management interventions of nursing students
Creators: name: Ünver, Seher
name: Özkan, Zeynep Kızılcık
name: İlker Murat Avcıbaşı
name: Dığın, Figen Babacan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: This study is carried out to determine the pain management abilities of nursing students during their second nursing training year.
Bromeliophrya brasiliensis
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Hymenostomatida
Bromeliophryidae
Bromeliophrya
Bromeliophrya brasiliensis

description: Bromeliophrya brasiliensis 1,2 Foissner, 2003
Distribution. BRAZIL: (Dunthorn et al. 2012; Foissner et al. 2003); Paraná River between the Nupelia’s Field Station and the district of Porto São José, São Pedro do Paraná (Buosi et al. 2014 b, 2015), (Ad); Surroundings of the Village of Praia do Forte, about 81 km North of the town of Salvador, Bahia (Foissner 2003a), (As). ECUA-DOR: (Foissner et al. 2003). JAMAICA: (Dunthorn et al. 2012). MEXICO: Coffee plantation La Onza, near Coatepec (Durán-Ramírez et al. 2019), (Th); Dos Lagunas, near Village of Tzsiscao (ps), (Ch, Tg, Tm, Ws); El Tegolome, near the town of Tlanchinol (ps), (Ti); Santuario del Bosque de Niebla, near Xalapa (Durán-Ramírez et al. 2019), (Te, Ts); (ps), (Cs, Pv, Te); Village El Cerezal, near Santa Catarina Ixtepeji (ps), (To); (DuránRamírez et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
On the Self-Propulsion of a Rigid Body in a Viscous Liquid by Time-Periodic Boundary Data
Creators: name: Galdi, Giovanni P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consider a rigid body, $\mathscr B$, constrained to move by translational motion in an unbounded viscous liquid. The driving mechanism is a given distribution of time-periodic velocity field, $\bfv_*$, at the interface body-liquid, of magnitude $δ$ (in appropriate function class). The main objective is to find conditions on $\bfv_*$ ensuring that $\mathscr B$ performs a non-zero net motion, namely, $\mathscr B$ can cover any given distance in a finite time. The approach to the problem depends on whether the averaged value of $\bfv_*$ over a period of time is (case (b)) or is not (case (a)) identically zero. In case (a) we solve the problem in a relatively straightforward way, by showing that, for small $δ$, it reduces to the study of a suitable amd well-investigated time-dependent Stokes (linear) problem. In case (b), however, the question is much more complicated, because we show that it {\em cannot} be brought to the study of a linear problem. Therefore, in case (b), self-propulsion is a genuinely nonlinear issue that we solve directly on the nonlinear system by a contradiction argument approach. In this way, we are able to give, also in case (b), sufficient conditions for self-propulsion (for small $δ$). Finally, we demonstrate, by means of counterexamples, that such conditions are, in general, also necessary.
Inhalt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2024

description: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, [N.F.] Bd. 42 (2018): Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Spuren der Antike bei Robert Musil. Zum «Mann ohne Eigenschaften» im transhistorischen Kontext griechischer Philosophie
Creators: name: Hajduk, Stefan
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: This article focusses on the trains of thought and motifs that link the aesthetic and ethical foundation of The Man Without Qualities with philosophemes of the Greek antiquity. When Musil states that aesthetics is ethics and that everything is moral, he is drawing on classical ideas that converge in the idealistic notion of unity in diversity. The question of another condition is characteristic of the Romantic tradition that Musil continues (while  distancing himself from it), but has a much older heritage, that of the philosophy of antiquity.
description: Studia theodisca, Vol 22 (2015)
Titelei
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2024

description: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, [N.F.] Bd. 42 (2018): Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
ADE and SLE
Creators: name: Cardy, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the probability law of a single domain wall separating clusters in ADE lattice models in a simply connected domain is identical to that of corresponding chordal curves in the lattice O(n) and Q-state Potts models, for suitable n or Q. They are conjectured to be described in the scaling limit by chordal SLE(kappa) with kappa rational and >2. However in a multiply-connected domain the laws can differ from those for the corresponding O(n) or Potts model. The correspondence also sheds light on the scaling limit of multiple curves.
description: 14 pages. v.2: minor additions
On the energy and redshift distributions of fast radio bursts
Creators: name: Zhang, Rachel C.
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Li, Ye
name: Lorimer, Duncan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from cosmological distances. Their isotropic energies follow a power-law distribution with a possible exponential cutoff, but their intrinsic redshift distribution, which contains information about the FRB sources, is not well understood. We attempt to constrain both distributions by means of Monte Carlo simulations and comparing the simulations results with the available FRB specific fluence distribution, dispersion measure (DM) distribution, and the estimated energy distribution data. Two redshift distribution models, one tracking the star formation history of the universe and another tracking compact binary mergers, are tested. For the latter model, we consider three merger delay timescale distribution (Gaussian, log-normal, and power law) models. Two FRB samples detected by Parkes and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), respectively, are used to confront the simulation results. We confirm the $\sim -1.8$ power law index for the energy distribution but the exponential cutoff energy of the distribution, if any, is unconstrained. For the best energy distribution model, none of the redshift distributions we considered are rejected by the data. A future, larger, uniform FRB sample (such as the one collected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, CHIME) can provide better constraints on the intrinsic FRB redshift distribution using the methodology presented in this paper.
description: MNRAS, in press
Scrapbook 01
Creators: name: Erickson, Reed
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Transgender women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003494
subject: Gender transition
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015111
subject: Transgender men
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003372
subject: Transgender people--Employment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767917
subject: Gender transition--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114259
subject: Transgender people
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765239
subject: Transgender youth
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743062
subject: Transphobia
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1763039
subject: Human rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/963285
subject: Transgender people--Identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1766527
subject: Transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743617
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Children of transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743618
subject: Gender reassignment surgery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015145
subject: Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767928
subject: Transgender people--Civil rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1983680
subject: LGBT activism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2070293
subject: Gender nonconformity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765240
subject: Transgender people--Violence against
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767881
subject: Transgender activism
subject: Transitioning (Gender)
subject: Legal status
subject: Transgender people
subject: Trans men
subject: Transgender culture
subject: Hormone therapy (Gender)
subject: Human rights
subject: Trans women
subject: Transgender movement
subject: Gender identity
subject: Transgender community

description: Part of a series consisting of nine scrapbooks containing comprehensive newspaper clippings provided by a clipping service relating to medical transition procedures, legal aspects of medical transition procedures, and related news concern human rights for transgender people.
title: Trade-Offs in Lighting for DIC Strain Measurements in Vibration-Based Fatigue Testing
Creators: name: Rigby, Jacob R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Vibration based fatigue testing offers a fast and efficient method for determining the breaking point of a material. This method often uses a device, called a strain gage, to measure the deformation of a test sample at a single spot on the test sample. However, these strain gages often break before testing is complete. To overcome this premature break, a laser vibrometer is often used to measure the amount of movement or the speed of the test sample throughout the vibration test. The deformation measured by the strain gage is compared against the amount of movement or velocity of the test specimen as measured by the laser vibrometer to allow for future comparison after the strain gage breaks. As an alternative to strain gages, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is a popular camera-based, non-contacting method that determines the movement and deformation across the entire test sample. In a vibration-based fatigue test, DIC is desirable because DIC can continue to monitor the deformation in the test sample even after a strain gage would have broken. However, one of the major challenges of DIC is maintaining sufficient lighting on a test sample throughout a vibration test. Large motions towards the cameras require small apertures for improved depth of field while fast moving test samples require short exposure times to reduce motion blur. In this work, the trade-offs between aperture, exposure time, gain (artificial brightness), and external lighting (ring lights and strobe lights) is examined to compare the different lighting sources and determine if artificially increasing the brightness of an image by using gain can successfully be used without negatively impacting the deformation measurement from DIC. This was accomplished by first creating a series of tests that vary the aperture, exposure time, and gain for two different light sources. Second, an analytical solution was applied to the DIC movement measurements to allow for calculation of the strain on the test sample. Third, the deformation was compared to the calculated deformation from the movement measured by the laser vibrometer to provide a common comparison point between the different lighting tests. The tests performed showed the strobe lights provided the most stable and accurate results, but the ring lights had the lowest amount of difference between measurements. Artificially brightening the image through gain typically had no impact on the calculated deformation or the variation between measurements, except in the case of extremely small apertures. In this case, artificial brightening proved to be beneficial to increase the accuracy and decrease the variation of the analytical solution.
Toward the AdS/CFT gravity dual for High Energy Collisions: I.Falling into the AdS
Creators: name: Lin, Shu
name: Shuryak, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence we discuss the gravity dual of a high energy collision in a strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ SYM gauge theory. We suggest a setting in which two colliding objects are made of non-dynamical heavy quarks and antiquarks, which allows to treat the process in classical string approximation. Collision ``debris'' consist of closed as well as open strings. If the latter have ends on two outgoing charges, and thus are being ``stretched'' along the collision axes. We discuss motion in AdS of some simple objects first -- massless and massive particles -- and then focus on open strings. We study the latter in a considerable detail, concluding that they rapidly become ``rectangular'' in proper time -spatial rapidity $τ-y$ coordinates with well separated fragmentation part and a near-free-falling rapidity-independent central part. Assuming that in the collisions of ``walls'' of charges multiple stretching strings are created, we also consider the motion of a 3d stretching membrane. We then argue that a complete solution can be approximated by two different vacuum solutions of Einstein eqns, with matter membrane separating them. We identify one of this solution with Janik-Peschanski stretching black hole solution, and show that all objects approach its (retreating) horizon in an universal manner.
description: v2 was redone, with new material and different introduction. It now includes introduction to the second paper of the series as well, in which we calculate "holograms" of falling objects, namely their stress tensor on the boundary
Compositional Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling
Creators: name: Bakirtzis, Georgios
name: Vasilakopoulou, Christina
name: Fleming, Cody H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Assuring the correct behavior of cyber-physical systems requires significant modeling effort, particularly during early stages of the engineering and design process when a system is not yet available for testing or verification of proper behavior. A primary motivation for `getting things right' in these early design stages is that altering the design is significantly less costly and more effective than when hardware and software have already been developed. Engineering cyber-physical systems requires the construction of several different types of models, each representing a different view, which include stakeholder requirements, system behavior, and the system architecture. Furthermore, each of these models can be represented at different levels of abstraction. Formal reasoning has improved the precision and expanded the available types of analysis in assuring correctness of requirements, behaviors, and architectures. However, each is usually modeled in distinct formalisms and corresponding tools. Currently, this disparity means that a system designer must manually check that the different models are in agreement. Manually editing and checking models is error prone, time consuming, and sensitive to any changes in the design of the models themselves. Wiring diagrams and related theory provide a means for formally organizing these different but related modeling views, resulting in a compositional modeling language for cyber-physical systems. Such a categorical language can make concrete the relationship between different model views, thereby managing complexity, allowing hierarchical decomposition of system models, and formally proving consistency between models.
description: In Proceedings ACT 2020, arXiv:2101.07888
Generic Equality and Comparison for Common Lisp
Creators: name: Antoniotti, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Programming Languages
Common Lisp

description: Several Common Lisp functions rely on the :test keyword to pass a predicate to be used in their operations.
 This is a satisfactory solution in most cases, yet, while writing algorithms and libraries it would be useful to
 have "hooks" in the type and class system allowing for the definition of extensible equality and comparison
 tests.
 This proposal contains a minimal set of (generic) functions that can be recognized in several language
 specifications, e.g., Java.
 The specification is centered on two concepts: that of an equality test and that of a comparison generic
 operator. The comparison operator returns different values depending on whether the its execution determines
 the ordering relationship (or lack thereof) of two objects.
 In addition to these two basic concepts, the specification provides notion of generic hash function too.
 Of course, there are several "caveats" to be taken into consideration in the interplay between equality and
 hashing.
Transcription of a story about shooting a grouse
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-150711-01: Transcription of a story about shooting a grouse (file VP-020906-02), from the beginning of the story at 9:00 to 14:14.
Die Konsequenzen aus der gemeinsamen Taufe für das Verständnis von Kirche und für das ökumenische Bemühen um die sichtbare Einheit der Kirchen aus orthodoxer Sicht
Creators: name: Basioudis, Georgios
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 3 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 3
Sources of contamination to weak lensing three-point statistics: constraints from N-body simulations
Creators: name: Semboloni, Elisabetta
name: Heymans, Catherine
name: van Waerbeke, Ludovic
name: Schneider, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of the observed correlation between a galaxies shape and its surrounding density field on the measurement of third order weak lensing shear statistics. Using numerical simulations, we estimate the systematic error contribution to a measurement of the third order moment of the aperture mass statistic (GGG) from three-point intrinsic ellipticity correlations (III), and the three-point coupling between the weak lensing shear experienced by distant galaxies and the shape of foreground galaxies (GGI and GII). We find that third-order weak lensing statistics are typically more strongly contaminated by these physical systematics compared to second-order shear measurements, contaminating the measured three-point signal for moderately deep surveys with a median redshift z_m ~ 0.7 by ~ 15%. It has been shown that accurate photometric redshifts will be crucial to correct for this effect, once a model and the redshift dependence of the effect can be accurately constrained. To this end we provide redshift-dependent fitting functions to our results and propose a new tool for the observational study of intrinsic galaxy alignments. For a shallow survey with z_m ~ 0.4 we find III to be an order of magnitude larger than the expected cosmological GGG shear signal. Compared to the two-point intrinsic ellipticity correlation which is similar in amplitude to the two-point shear signal at these survey depths, third order statistics therefore offer a promising new way to constrain models of intrinsic galaxy alignments. Early shallow data from the next generation of very wide weak lensing surveys will be optimal for this type of study.
description: 10 pages, 7 Figures, MNRAS submitted
Effects of hadronic repulsive interactions on the fluctuations of conserved charges
Creators: name: Pal, Somenath
name: Kadam, Guruprasad
name: Mishra, Hiranmaya
name: Bhattacharyya, Abhijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of repulsive interaction between hadrons on the fluctuations of the conserved charges. We calculate the baryon,the electric charge and the strangeness susceptibilities within the ambit of hadron resonance gas model extended to include the short range repulsive interactions.The repulsive interactions are included through a mean-field approach where the single particle energy gets modified due to mean field interactions between hadrons proportional to the number density of hadrons.We assume different mean-field interactions for mesons and baryons. It is shown that the repulsive interactions play a very crucial role to describe hadronic matter near transition temperature. We also show that in order to consistently describe higher order conserved charge fluctuations mesonic repulsive interactions cannot be neglected. Further, we demonstrate that the repulsive interaction of baryons are essential to describe the lattice simulation results at finite baryonchemical potential for higher order fluctuations.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures
Differences in quantitative sensory testing measures in patients with poor outcomes following total knee replacement
Creators: name: Wright, Anthony
name: Moss, Penny
name: Sloan, Karen
name: Beaver, Richard
name: Pedersen, Jarle
name: Vehof, Gerard
name: Borge, Henrik
name: Maestroni, Luca
name: Cheong, Philip
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Background and aims:
Total Knee Replacement (TKR) is a standard intervention for painful knee osteoarthritis, yet up to 15% of patients report severe persistent postsurgical pain. The aim of this study was to determine whether patients with persistent pain post TKR exhibit widespread multi-modality hyperalgesia.

Conclusions:
Individuals with poor outcomes following TKR exhibited widespread mechanical and thermal (multi-modality) hyperalgesia. This may indicate that central augmentation of pain is an important contributor to poor outcomes following joint replacement surgery.
Scrapbook 06
Creators: name: Erickson, Reed
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/963285
subject: Gender nonconformity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765240
subject: Transgender youth
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743062
subject: Transgender people--Civil rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1983680
subject: Transgender people
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765239
subject: Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767928
subject: LGBT activism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2070293
subject: Gender transition
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015111
subject: Transgender women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003494
subject: Transphobia
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1763039
subject: Transgender people--Violence against
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767881
subject: Transgender people--Identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1766527
subject: Transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743617
subject: Transgender men
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003372
subject: Children of transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743618
subject: Transgender people--Employment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767917
subject: Gender reassignment surgery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015145
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Gender transition--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114259
subject: Transgender movement
subject: Transgender community
subject: Human rights
subject: Transgender activism
subject: Legal status
subject: Hormone therapy (Gender)
subject: Transitioning (Gender)
subject: Trans women
subject: Trans men
subject: Transgender culture
subject: Gender identity
subject: Transgender people

description: Part of a series consisting of nine scrapbooks containing comprehensive newspaper clippings provided by a clipping service relating to medical transition procedures, legal aspects of medical transition procedures, and related news concern human rights for transgender people
Heavy metal effects on the lysosomal membrane stability and respiratory rate in Chinese pond mussel (Anodonta woodiana) under Ex situ exposure
Creators: name: Yancheva, Vesela
name: Mollov, Ivelin
name: Velcheva, Iliana
name: Georgieva, Elenka
name: Stoyanova, Stela
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: The Chinese pond mussel (Anodonta woodiana) is a unionid mussel species that has recently been reported as being invasive worldwide. As a filter feeder, it is known to accumulate heavy metals, making the species useful for biomonitoring. However, the effects on some physiological functions of this species, after acute exposure to heavy metals, is still poorly studied. The current study aimed to investigate the lysosomal membrane stability in hemocytes of Chinese pond mussel (Anodonta woodiana) by applying the Neutral Red Retention assay (NRR), as well as changes in the respiratory rate under acute metal exposure. The mussels were treated with different concentrations of Ni and Pb in laboratory conditions for 72 hours. These metals are considered as priority substances according to Directive 2013/39/EU of the European parliament and the Council. The metal concentrations were prepared as 75, 50 and 25% of the maximum permissible levels set by law. After the 72 h exposure to Ni and Pb the lysosomes retained the dye between 30 to 60 minutes in the mussels exposed to the higher concentrations. We registered a negative, statistically significant correlation between the metal concentrations and the average time the lysosomes retained the dye after the 72nd hour. The respiratory rate was measured at the 24th and 72nd hour and it increased in a dose-dependent manner. We can conclude that the acute metal exposure, including all metal concentrations below the allowable concentrations, lead to destabilization of the lysosomal membrane stability and changes in the respiratory rate of the Chinese pond mussel, thus altered physiological functions.
Bromeliophrya quadristicha
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Hymenostomatida
Bromeliophryidae
Bromeliophrya
Bromeliophrya quadristicha

description: Bromeliophrya quadristicha 1 Foissner & Stoeck, 2013
Distribution. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Botanical Garden on the Pico Isabel de Torres, 800 m high mountain on the outskirts of the town of Puerto Plata (Foissner & Stoeck 2013). JAMAICA: Northern slope of the Blue Mountains, surroundings of the village of Silver Hill (Foissner & Stoeck 2013).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Researchers' experience of publishing academic books open access
Creators: name: UK Research and Innovation
Publisher: name: UK Research and Innovation
Year: 2025
Subjects: Open access

description: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supports and champions open research because open research enhances the quality, collaboration and impact of research.

UKRI commissioned Insights Media to develop case studies to help researchers learn from the experiences of authors who have published monographs and edited collections open access. The case studies share examples of opportunities, challenges, and lessons learnt. 

It is hoped the resources will help build the knowledge around open access publishing for academic books and inform researchers about the experiences of authors who published open access. We encourage the use of these resources to inform revision and future development of resources.

UKRI thanks all participants who shared their experiences and Insights Media who delivered this project on behalf of UKRI.

All materials are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International License.
NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ITS MAIN FUNCTIONS
Creators: name: Mukhtoraliyeva, Sabina
name: Tukhtamurodova, Zakhrokhon
name: Djuraeva, Barno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article provides a comprehensive exploration of the nervous system, the body's intricate communication network. From its anatomical components to its main functions, the article navigates through the central and peripheral nervous systems, emphasizing their roles in sensory perception, motor control, and cognitive processes. Key neuroscientific concepts, disorders, and contemporary research are also discussed, making it a valuable resource for medical professionals, researchers, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the nervous system.
Scrapbook 02
Creators: name: Erickson, Reed
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Gender transition--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114259
subject: Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767928
subject: Gender nonconformity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765240
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Human rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/963285
subject: Transgender people--Employment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767917
subject: Transgender people--Violence against
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1767881
subject: Transgender youth
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743062
subject: Transgender people--Identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1766527
subject: Transgender people--Civil rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1983680
subject: Transgender people
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765239
subject: Transphobia
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1763039
subject: Transgender women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003494
subject: Gender reassignment surgery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015145
subject: Transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743617
subject: LGBT activism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2070293
subject: Children of transgender parents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743618
subject: Gender transition
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2015111
subject: Transgender men
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003372
subject: Transitioning (Gender)
subject: Trans men
subject: Human rights
subject: Transgender culture
subject: Trans women
subject: Transgender community
subject: Legal status
subject: Transgender movement
subject: Transgender activism
subject: Transgender people
subject: Hormone therapy (Gender)
subject: Gender identity

description: Part of a series consisting of nine scrapbooks containing comprehensive newspaper clippings provided by a clipping service relating to medical transition procedures, legal aspects of medical transition procedures, and related news concern human rights for transgender people.
Resource allocation for solid organ transplantation : toward public and health care provider dialogue
Creators: name: Starzomski, Rosalie Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In examining methods to facilitate debate about resource allocation for health care, this qualitative study, using constructivist methods, was designed to: 1) describe attitudes, beliefs, values and moral reasoning processes used by stakeholder groups when discussing ethical issues related to resource allocation for solid organ transplantation; and 2) describe how these groups envisioned their role, and roles of other groups, in allocation of resources. Thirty-four consumer and health care provider groups (188 participants), were purposively selected from those with a major, moderate and minor stake in the development of transplantation. Data were collected through focus group interviews, with stimulus material (a case about transplantation) used in the discussion. Three moral reasoning processes emerged as participants reasoned about ethical concerns related to resource allocation. These included "deliberative," "examined emotion," and "emotional" reasoning processes. The processes were used by all groups at different times. The process used was dependent on the context of the problem, and influenced by the participant's views about transplantation. Integrated justice and care based approaches emerged when reasoning about the ethical problems. Participants differed in applying the values and principles identified during the discussion. In particular, different theoretical perspectives of justice were used. Moral reasoning ability did not appear to be associated with education, gender or membership in a group. Three patterns of viewing transplantation were identified: "through a glass brightly" (positively), "through a glass translucently" (ambivalently), and "through a glass darkly" (negatively). These were constructed from a synthesis of values, beliefs and attitudes held about transplantation, and were dependent on factors such as personal experience, culture, ethnicity, religion, family upbringing, relationships, work context, and actual experience with transplantation. Participants supported the idea of including multiple voices in the debate about resource allocation at the macro level of the system. Consumers expressed this as an opportunity to have input into decisions, but not necessarily make them. There was support to have consumers involved in meso level decision making, including being part of boards and selection committees. Collecting data using focus groups was a way of opening up moral space for discussions about resource allocation.
Letter to the B.C. Equipment Co. from James Goldie, May 23, 1930
Creators: name: Goldie, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to B.C. Equipment Co. from James Goldie, dated May 23, 1930, regarding the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District plan to create a pumping plant for the purpose of raising water out of a lake and delivering it into the natural channel.
Reconstructing Deconstruction: High-Velocity Cloud Distance Through Disruption Morphology
Creators: name: Peek, J. E. G.
name: Putman, M. E.
name: McKee, Christopher F.
name: Heiles, Carl
name: Stanimirovic, Snezana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Arecibo L-band Feed Array 21-cm observations of a sub-complex of HVCs at the tip of the Anti-Center Complex. These observations show morphological details that point to interaction with the ambient halo medium and differential drag within the cloud sub-complex. We develop a new technique for measuring cloud distances, which relies upon these observed morphological and kinematic characteristics, and show that it is consistent with H-alpha distances. These results are consistent with distances to HVCs and halo densities derived from models in which HVCs are formed from cooling halo gas.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabe, Accepted to ApJ
A Compositional Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Event-Based Systems
Creators: name: Zardini, Gioele
name: Spivak, David I.
name: Censi, Andrea
name: Frazzoli, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A compositional sheaf-theoretic framework for the modeling of complex event-based systems is presented. We show that event-based systems are machines, with inputs and outputs, and that they can be composed with machines of different types, all within a unified, sheaf-theoretic formalism. We take robotic systems as an exemplar of complex systems and rigorously describe actuators, sensors, and algorithms using this framework.
description: In Proceedings ACT 2020, arXiv:2101.07888. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2005.04715
The diagonal and off-diagonal quark number susceptibility of high temperature and finite density QCD
Creators: name: Hietanen, Ari
name: Rummukainen, Kari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quark number susceptibility of the hot quark-gluon plasma at zero and non-zero quark number density, using lattice Monte Carlo simulations of an effective theory of QCD, electrostatic QCD (EQCD). Analytic continuation is used to obtain results at non-zero quark chemical potential. We measure both flavor singlet (diagonal) and non-singlet (off-diagonal) quark number susceptibilities. The diagonal susceptibility approaches the perturbative result above 20T_c, but below that temperature we observe significant deviations. The results agree well with 4d lattice data down to temperatures 2T_c. The off-diagonal susceptibility is more prone to statistical and systematic errors, but the results are consistent with perturbation theory already at 10T_c.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures. Published version, references added, conclusions unchanged
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Paula Alice Harte, Naomi
name: Alfrey, Laura
name: Spray, Christopher
name: Cale, Lorraine
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Historically fitness testing has been identified as a common but controversial physical education (PE)-for-health practice across the globe. Despite this, little is known about the current prevalence and implementation of fitness testing. This paper therefore reports on findings from a survey which gathered both quantitative and qualitative data to explore the ‘if?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of fitness testing and provide new insights into teachers’ learning intentions, pedagogical practices, and attitudes towards it. The survey was distributed to PE departments in secondary schools across the UK, and responses were analysed and reported descriptively and thematically. Responses from 260 schools highlighted that fitness testing remains a common practice in PE, with 80% of PE teachers reporting it to feature in their curriculum. There was less consensus surrounding the ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of testing, with variation evident in teachers’ stated learning intentions, pedagogical practices, and attitudes. Despite its prevalence, PE teachers expressed concerns over negative pupil outcomes potentially arising from fitness testing, and over 60% of teachers were uncertain or agreed that fitness testing can have a negative impact on pupils’ psychological health. Given the findings and the reported widespread prevalence of fitness testing, further research should explore pupils’ perspectives, responses, and outcomes of fitness testing, including their motivational and emotional responses to testing. Working with teachers and encouraging them to critically reflect on the ‘if?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of fitness testing is recommended and will hopefully help to bridge the gap between research and practic