cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the Thermodynamics of NUT charged spaces
Creators: name: Mann, Robert
name: Stelea, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss and compare at length the results of two methods used recently to describe the thermodynamics of Taub-NUT solutions in a deSitter background. In the first approach ($\mathbb{% C}$-approach), one deals with an analytically continued version of the metric while in the second approach ($\mathbb{R}$-approach), the discussion is carried out using the unmodified metric with Lorentzian signature. No analytic continuation is performed on the coordinates and/or the parameters that appear in the metric. We find that the results of both these approaches are completely equivalent modulo analytic continuation and we provide the exact prescription that relates the results in both methods. The extension of these results to the AdS/flat cases aims to give a physical interpretation of the thermodynamics of nut-charged spacetimes in the Lorentzian sector. We also briefly discuss the higher dimensional spaces and note that, analogous with the absence of hyperbolic nuts in AdS backgrounds, there are no spherical Taub-Nut-dS solutions.
description: 35pages, 4 figures. v.4 references added,few typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 1 of Association between periodontitis and all-cause and cancer mortality: retrospective elderly community cohort study
Creators: name: Ping-Chen Chung
name: Chan, Ta-Chien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Hazard ratios of different kinds of mortality. Table S2. Hazard ratios of variables and mortality by multivariate Cox proportional hazards model (baseline). Table S3. Hazard ratios of variables and mortality by multivariate Cox frailty model
Order-by-Disorder from Bond-Dependent Exchange and Intensity Signature of Nodal Quasiparticles in a Honeycomb Cobaltate
Creators: name: Elliot, M.
name: McClarty, P. A.
name: Prabhakaran, D.
name: Johnson, R. D.
name: Walker, H. C.
name: Manuel, P.
name: Coldea, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent theoretical proposals have argued that cobaltates with edge-sharing octahedral coordination can have significant bond-dependent exchange couplings thus offering a platform in 3$d$ ions for such physics beyond the much-explored realizations in 4$d$ and 5$d$ materials. Here we present high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering data within the magnetically ordered phase of the stacked honeycomb magnet CoTiO$_3$ revealing the presence of a finite energy gap and demonstrate that this implies the presence of bond-dependent anisotropic couplings. We also show through an extensive theoretical analysis that the gap further implies the existence of a quantum order-by-disorder mechanism that, in this material, crucially involves virtual crystal field fluctuations. Our data also provide an experimental observation of a universal winding of the scattering intensity in angular scans around linear band-touching points for both magnons and dispersive spin-orbit excitons, which is directly related to the non-trivial topology of the quasiparticle wavefunction in momentum space near nodal points.
description: 33 pages in total, main text (5 pages) + supplementary information, published version
Additional file 9 of Using intervention mapping to develop an occupational advice intervention to aid return to work following hip and knee replacement in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Coole, Carol
name: Baker, Paul
name: McDaid, Catriona
name: Drummond, Avril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Final performance objectives for members of the Hospital Orthopaedic Team
A structural change analysis of the cost efficiency of farms in Scotland 1989-2008
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farm efficiency
subject: stochastic cost frontier
subject: Scottish agriculture

description: One of the aims of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is to increase the competitiveness of farmers through increasing their exposure to markets. An aspect of competitiveness is the gains in economic efficiency. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to estimate indicators of farm efficiency for the period 1989 to 2008 by farm type and to analyse what the effect on efficiency of changes in the CAP has been. In terms of the methodology, the information used comes from the Scottish Farm Account Scheme (FAS) survey, which allows us to assemble panel dataset and to construct cost efficiency indicators. The results indicate while mixed farms and lowland farms have maintain their levels of efficiency. LFA farms have seen their efficiency reduced since approximately 2004 or 2005 (especially LFA sheep farm specialists). Also, the analysis shows that there seems to be an increase in the dispersion of farmers in terms of efficiency for some farm types in periods of change in agricultural policy.
Cosmic-Ray Driven Outflows to Mpc Scales from $L_{\ast}$ Galaxies
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Chan, T. K.
name: Ji, Suoqing
name: Hummels, Cameron
name: Keres, Dusan
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of cosmic rays (CRs) on outflows from star-forming galaxies in the circum and inter-galactic medium (CGM/IGM), in high-resolution, fully-cosmological FIRE-2 simulations (accounting for mechanical and radiative stellar feedback, magnetic fields, anisotropic conduction/viscosity/CR diffusion and streaming, and CR losses). We showed previously that massive ($M_{\rm halo}\gtrsim 10^{11}\,M_{\odot}$), low-redshift ($z\lesssim 1-2$) halos can have CR pressure dominate over thermal CGM pressure and balance gravity, giving rise to a cooler CGM with an equilibrium density profile. This dramatically alters outflows. Absent CRs, high gas thermal pressure in massive halos "traps" galactic outflows near the disk, so they recycle. With CRs injected in supernovae as modeled here, the low-pressure halo allows "escape" and CR pressure gradients continuously accelerate this material well into the IGM in "fast" outflows, while lower-density gas at large radii is accelerated in-situ into "slow" outflows that extend to $>$Mpc scales. CGM/IGM outflow morphologies are radically altered: they become mostly volume-filling (with inflow in a thin mid-plane layer) and coherently biconical from the disk to $>$Mpc. The CR-driven outflows are primarily cool ($T\sim10^{5}\,$K) and low-velocity. All of these effects weaken and eventually vanish at lower halo masses ($\lesssim 10^{11}\,M_{\odot}$) or higher redshifts ($z\gtrsim 1-2$), reflecting the ratio of CR to thermal+gravitational pressure in the outer halo. We present a simple analytic model which explains all of the above phenomena.
description: 24 pages, 20 figures, revised to match published MNRAS version. Comments welcome. Animations in CGM/IGM section at http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/animations/
Numerical indications of a q-generalised central limit theorem
Creators: name: Moyano, Luis G.
name: Tsallis, Constantino
name: Gell-Mann, Murray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide numerical indications of the $q$-generalised central limit theorem that has been conjectured (Tsallis 2004) in nonextensive statistical mechanics. We focus on $N$ binary random variables correlated in a {\it scale-invariant} way. The correlations are introduced by imposing the Leibnitz rule on a probability set based on the so-called $q$-product with $q \le 1$. We show that, in the large $N$ limit (and after appropriate centering, rescaling, and symmetrisation), the emerging distributions are $q_e$-Gaussians, i.e., $p(x) \propto [1-(1-q_e) β(N) x^2]^{1/(1-q_e)}$, with $q_e=2-\frac{1}{q}$, and with coefficients $β(N)$ approaching finite values $β(\infty)$. The particular case $q=q_e=1$ recovers the celebrated de Moivre-Laplace theorem.
description: Minor improvements and corrections have been introduced in the new version. 7 pages including 4 figures
Gendered filiality and heroism in the Tale of Golden Bell, a Choson fictional narrative
Creators: name: Olsen, Leif
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Gendered Filiality and Heroism in the Tale of Golden Bell, a Choson Fictional Narrative Heroic deeds depicted in a Choson-period fictional narrative, Kum pangul chon (Kumnyong chon [Chinese Characters] or the Tale of Golden Bell, are performed by the title character, born with supernatural attributes. All the while exemplifying filiality, Golden Bell wields miraculous power to defeat the enemy, bring solace to a troubled people, protect the nation, and aid Zhang Hailong, a filial young man. The tale portrays a female (born as a golden bell) who possesses power greater than men, but in the end it is through her filial devotion, beauty, polygynous marriage to Hailong, and mothering of two sons that she is deemed virtuous, and not through her feats. Golden Bell, a product of her mother's own filiality to her agnatic lineage, exhibits filial emotions, while Hailong plays the exemplar of filial Confucian virtues. Golden Bell's supernatural achievements are overshadowed by both Hailong's and Golden Bell's emulation of Confucian ideologies. Golden Bell, along with other similar fictional narratives with female protagonists, attracted a wide readership. Why were Golden Bell and similar works so popular among readers in Neo-Confiician Choson? How is heroism in Golden Bell and other stories with female heroes different from narratives with male heroes? This paper explores the kososol [Chinese Characters] (early fiction) genre; the widespread reading, transcription, and distribution of narratives; the characteristics of female hero narratives; and the heroic deeds presented in Golden Bell itself. A complete translation of Golden Bell and a transcription of the oldest extant copy are included in the appendices.
Additional file 3 of How do changes in flow magnitude due to hydroelectric power production affect fish abundance and diversity in temperate regions? A systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Harper, Meagan
name: Rytwinski, Trina
name: Taylor, Jessica J.
name: Bennett, Joseph R.
name: Smokorowski, Karen E.
name: Cooke, Steven J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Institutional subscriptions. Details of institutional subscriptions for the databases to be used to carry out searches.
Fluctuations superconductivity and giant negative magnetoresistance in a gate voltage tuned 2D electron liquid with strong spin-orbit impurity scattering
Creators: name: Maniv, Tsofar
name: Zhuravlev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative theory of the gate-voltage tuned superconductor-to-insulator transition (SIT) observed experimentally in the 2D electron liquid created in the (111) interface between crystalline SrTiO_3 and LaAlO_3 . Considering two fundamental opposing effects of Cooper-pair fluctuations; the critical conductivity enhancement, known as para-conductivity, and its suppression associated with the loss of unpaired electrons due to Cooper-pairs formation, we employ the standard thermal fluctuations theory, modified to include quantum fluctuations within a novel phenomenological approach. Relying on the quantitative agreement found between our theory and a large body of experimental sheet-resistance data, we conclude that spin-orbit scatterings, via significant enhancement of the interaction between fluctuations, strongly enhance the sheet resistance peak at high fields, and reveal anomalous metallic behavior at low fields, due to mixing of relatively heavy electron bands with a light electron band near a Lifshitz point.
description: supplemental material included
Abelian Toda field theories on the noncommutative plane
Creators: name: Cabrera-Carnero, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizations of GL(n) abelian Toda and $\widetilde{GL}(n)$ abelian affine Toda field theories to the noncommutative plane are constructed. Our proposal relies on the noncommutative extension of a zero-curvature condition satisfied by algebra-valued gauge potentials dependent on the fields. This condition can be expressed as noncommutative Leznov-Saveliev equations which make possible to define the noncommutative generalizations as systems of second order differential equations, with an infinite chain of conserved currents. The actions corresponding to these field theories are also provided. The special cases of GL(2) Liouville and $\widetilde{GL}(2)$ sinh/sine-Gordon are explicitly studied. It is also shown that from the noncommutative (anti-)self-dual Yang-Mills equations in four dimensions it is possible to obtain by dimensional reduction the equations of motion of the two-dimensional models constructed. This fact supports the validity of the noncommutative version of the Ward conjecture. The relation of our proposal to previous versions of some specific Toda field theories reported in the literature is presented as well.
description: v3 30 pages, changes in the text, new sections included and references added
Additional file 8 of Using intervention mapping to develop an occupational advice intervention to aid return to work following hip and knee replacement in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Coole, Carol
name: Baker, Paul
name: McDaid, Catriona
name: Drummond, Avril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Final patient performance objectives
Linkages between consanguinity, pregnancy outcomes and off spring mortality in twenty‑first century India
Creators: name: Azad Kalam, Mir
name: Sharma, Santosh Kumar
name: Ghosh, Saswata
name: Roy, Subho
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We hypothesized that consanguineous marriage will remain a risk factor for pregnancy outcome and off spring mortality, but the development in demographic, socioeconomic conditions and increased utilization of maternal and child health care services during post globalization era would work as a buffer in the reduction of child mortality rates. Data from National Family Health Surveys 4(2015– 2016) and 5(2019–2021) were pooled and used for the analysis. Binary logistic regression and Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to examine the effects of close (CC) and distant (DC) consanguinity on spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, neonatal mortality, post-neonatal, and child mortality respectively compared to non-consanguinity (NC). The final model showed that the risk of spontaneous abortion (both CC and DC, p< 0.001) and neonatal mortality (DC, p< 0.001) were significantly higher compared to NC. No significant association was found between consanguinity and child mortality. We conclude that the endogenous effect of consanguinity still pose a serious challenge to the survival of fetus and new born; but exogenous effect reduces the risk of child death. We propose to incorporate socially entrenched practice of consanguinity explicitly into Mosley and Chen’s (1984) framework for the aid in understanding child survival in developing countries.
Measurement of dynamic efficiency, a directional distance function parametric approach
Creators: name: Serra, Teresa
name: Stefanou, Spiro E.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Stefanou, Spiro E.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: structural dynamic efficiency
subject: dairy farms
subject: parametric approach

description: This research proposes a parametric estimation of the structural dynamic efficiency measures proposed by Silva and Oude Lansink (2009). Overall, technical and allocative efficiency measurements are derived based on a directional distance function and the duality between this function and the optimal value function. The applicability of the parametric proposal is illustrated by assessing dynamic efficiency ratings for a sample of Dutch dairy farms observed from 1995 to 2005.
Temperature and Magnetic Field Enhanced Hall Slope of a Dilute 2D Hole System in the Ballistic Regime
Creators: name: Gao, Xuan P. A.
name: Boebinger, G. S.
name: Mills, A. P.
name: Ramirez, A. P.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the temperature($T$) and perpendicular magnetic field($B$) dependence of the Hall resistivity $ρ_{xy}(B)$ of dilute metallic two-dimensional(2D) holes in GaAs over a broad range of temperature(0.02-1.25K). The low $B$ Hall coefficient, $R_H$, is found to be enhanced when $T$ decreases. Strong magnetic fields further enhance the slope of $ρ_{xy}(B)$ at all temperatures studied. Coulomb interaction corrections of a Fermi liquid(FL) in the ballistic regime can not explain the enhancement of $ρ_{xy}$ which occurs in the same regime as the anomalous metallic longitudinal conductivity. In particular, although the metallic conductivity in 2D systems has been attributed to electron interactions in a FL, these same interactions should reduce, {\it not enhance} the slope of $ρ_{xy}(B)$ as $T$ decreases and/or $B$ increases.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Four short stories on surprising algorithmic uses of treewidth
Creators: name: Marx, Dániel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article briefly describes four algorithmic problems where the notion of treewidth is very useful. Even though the problems themselves have nothing to do with treewidth, it turns out that combining known results on treewidth allows us to easily describe very clean and high-level algorithms.
description: 17 pages
title: The Many Faces of FKBP51
Creators: name: Hähle, Andreas
name: Merz, Stephanie
name: Meyners, Christian
name: Hausch, Felix
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The FK506-binding protein 51 (FKBP51) has emerged as a key regulator of endocrine stress responses in mammals and as a potential therapeutic target for stress-related disorders (depression, post-traumatic stress disorder), metabolic disorders (obesity and diabetes) and chronic pain. Recently, FKBP51 has been implicated in several cellular pathways and numerous interacting protein partners have been reported. However, no consensus on the underlying molecular mechanisms has yet emerged. Here, we review the protein interaction partners reported for FKBP51, the proposed pathways involved, their relevance to FKBP51’s physiological function(s), the interplay with other FKBPs, and implications for the development of FKBP51-directed drugs.
World water demand and supply, 1990 to 2025: scenarios and issues
Creators: name: Seckler, David
name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
name: Molden, David J.
name: De Silva, Radhika
name: Barker, Randolph
name: Seckler, David
name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
name: Molden, David J.
name: De Silva, Radhika
name: Barker, Randolph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Water balance
subject: River basins
subject: Basin irrigation
subject: Water use efficiency
subject: Water supply
subject: Water requirements
subject: Domestic water
subject: Water scarcity
subject: Water demand
subject: Water shortage
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Productivity
subject: Food security
subject: Recycling
subject: Rice

description: Presents two alternative scenarios of water demand and supply for 118 countries over the 1990 to 2025 period and develops indicators of water scarcity for each country and for the world as a whole. This study is the first step in IWMI's long-term research goal: to determine the extent and depth of water scarcity, its consequences for individual countries and what can be done about it.
ZAMONAVIY AXBOROT TEXNOLOGIYALAR DAVRIDA AXBOROT XAVFSIZLIGINI TAMINLASHNING G'OYAVIY-MAFKURAVIY ASOSLARI
Creators: name: Jabborov, Ziyo
name: Jabborova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: mazkur tezisda zamonaviy xalqaro munosabatlar tizimida axborot xavfsizligini ta'minlash muammosi va axborot xurujining salbiy jihatlari va koʻrinishlarini tahlil qilishga bagʻishlangan.
Fermion production in classical fields
Creators: name: Dietrich, Dennis D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The creation of quark-antiquark pairs by vacuum polarisation in the presence of classical fields is studied based on their propagators in the background. Especially the issue of gauge invariance and particularities of particle production in ultrarelativistic collider experiments are discussed.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 6th Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM04), Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 Jun 2004. 5 pages, no figures
Subsidies, production structure and technical change – A cross-country comparison
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Sauer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: technical change
subject: subsidies
subject: input bias
subject: crop farms

description: The effect of subsidies on production and technical change of crop farms in France and the United Kingdom (UK) during 1980-2006 is investigated. Subsidies were not neutral on production decisions, in terms of production intensity and type. Crop farms in both countries have experienced technical progress during the period studied, higher in France. Technical progress has favoured labour and chemicals in both countries, land in France, capital in the UK, while it has disfavoured land in the UK and capital in France. Technical change has been slowed down by crop area subsidies but increased by agri-environmental subsidies in both countries.
Curvature in Special Base Conformal Warped Products
Creators: name: Dobarro, Fernando
name: Unal, Bulent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 53C21, 53C25, 53C50; Secondary 35Q75, 53C80, 83E15, 83E30

description: We introduce the concept of a base conformal warped product of two pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We also define a subclass of this structure called as a special base conformal warped product. After, we explicitly mention many of the relevant fields where metrics of these forms and also considerations about their curvature related properties play important rolls. Among others, we cite general relativity, extra-dimension, string and super-gravity theories as physical subjects and also the study of the spectrum of Laplace-Beltrami operators on p-forms in global analysis. Then, we give expressions for the Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of a base conformal warped product in terms of Ricci tensors and scalar curvatures of its base and fiber, respectively. Furthermore, we introduce specific identities verified by particular families of, either scalar or tensorial, nonlinear differential operators on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. The latter allow us to obtain new interesting expressions for the Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of a special base conformal warped product and it turns out that not only the expressions but also the analytical approach used are interesting from the physical, geometrical and analytical point of view. Finally, we analyze, investigate and characterize possible solutions for the conformal and warping factors of a special base conformal warped product, which guarantee that the corresponding product is Einstein. Besides, we apply these results to a generalization of the Schwarzschild metric.
description: 56 pages, 8 tables, 1 figure; correction of misprints
title: An integrated and modular compartmentalized microfluidic system with tunable electrospun porous membranes for epithelialized organs-on-a-chip
Creators: name: Fardous, Roa S.
name: Alshmmari, Sultan
name: Tawfik, Essam
name: Khadra, Ibrahim
name: Ramadan, Qasem
name: Zourob, Moahammed
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2024

description: A modular and 3D compartmentalized microfluidic system with electrospun porous membranes (PMs) for epithelialized organ-on-a-chip systems is presented. Our novel approach involves direct deposition of polymer nanofibers onto a patterned poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) substrate using electrospinning, resulting in an integrated PM within the microfluidic chip. The in situ deposition of the PM eliminates the need for additional assembly processes. To demonstrate the high throughput membrane integration capability of our approach, we successfully deposited nanofibers onto various chip designs with complex microfluidic planar structures and expanded dimensions. We characterized and tested the fully PMMA chip by growing an epithelial monolayer using the Caco-2 cell line to study drug permeability. A comprehensive analysis of the bulk and surface properties of the membrane’s fibers made of PMMA and polystyrene (PS) was conducted to determine the polymer with the best performance for cell culture and drug transport applications. The PMMA-based membrane, with a PMMA/PVP ratio of 5:1, allowed for the fabrication of a uniform membrane structure along the aligned nanofibers. By modulating the fiber diameter and total thickness of the membrane, we could adjust the membrane’s porosity for specific cell culture applications. The PMMA–PVP nanofibers exhibited a low polydispersity index value, indicating monodispersed nanofibers and a more homogeneous and uniform fiber network. Both types of membranes demonstrated excellent mechanical integrity under medium perfusion flow rates. However, the PMMA–PVP composition offered a tailored porous structure with modulable porosity based on the fiber diameter and thickness. Our developed platform enables dynamic in vitro modeling of the epithelial barrier and has applications in drug transport and in vitro microphysiological systems.
Testing Physical Models for Cosmic Ray Transport Coefficients on Galactic Scales: Self-Confinement and Extrinsic Turbulence at GeV Energies
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Squire, Jonathan
name: Chan, T. K.
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Ji, Suoqing
name: Keres, Dusan
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microphysics of ~GeV cosmic ray (CR) transport on galactic scales remain deeply uncertain, with almost all studies adopting simple prescriptions (e.g. constant-diffusivity). We explore different physically-motivated, anisotropic, dynamical CR transport scalings in high-resolution cosmological FIRE simulations of dwarf and ~$L_{\ast}$ galaxies where scattering rates vary with local plasma properties motivated by extrinsic turbulence (ET) or self-confinement (SC) scenarios, with varying assumptions about e.g. turbulent power spectra on un-resolved scales, Alfven-wave damping, etc. We self-consistently predict observables including $γ$-rays ($L_γ$), grammage, residence times, and CR energy densities to constrain the models. We demonstrate many non-linear dynamical effects (not captured in simpler models) tend to enhance confinement. For example, in multi-phase media, even allowing arbitrary fast transport in neutral gas does not substantially reduce CR residence times (or $L_γ$), as transport is rate-limited by the ionized WIM and 'inner CGM' gaseous halo ($10^{4}-10^{6}$ K gas within 10-30 kpc), and $L_γ$ can be dominated by trapping in small 'patches.' Most physical ET models contribute negligible scattering of ~1-10 GeV CRs, but it is crucial to account for anisotropy and damping (especially of fast modes) or else scattering rates would violate observations. We show that the most widely-assumed scalings for SC models produce excessive confinement by factors >100 in the WIM and inner CGM, where turbulent and Landau damping dominate. This suggests either a breakdown of quasi-linear theory used to derive the CR transport parameters in SC, or that other novel damping mechanisms dominate in intermediate-density ionized gas.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures. Replaced with published MNRAS version
Towards a Formal Foundation of Intermittent Computing
Creators: name: Surbatovich, Milijana
name: Jia, Limin
name: Lucia, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intermittently powered devices enable new applications in harsh or inaccessible environments, such as space or in-body implants, but also introduce problems in programmability and correctness. Researchers have developed programming models to ensure that programs make progress and do not produce erroneous results due to memory inconsistencies caused by intermittent executions. As the technology has matured, more and more features are added to intermittently powered devices, such as I/O. Prior work has shown that all existing intermittent execution models have problems with repeated device or sensor inputs (RIO). RIOs could leave intermittent executions in an inconsistent state. Such problems and the proliferation of existing intermittent execution models necessitate a formal foundation for intermittent computing. In this paper, we formalize intermittent execution models, their correctness properties with respect to memory consistency and inputs, and identify the invariants needed to prove systems correct. We prove equivalence between several existing intermittent systems. To address RIO problems, we define an algorithm for identifying variables affected by RIOs that need to be restored after reboot and prove the algorithm correct. Finally, we implement the algorithm in a novel intermittent runtime system that is correct with respect to input operations and evaluate its performance.
description: Update acknowledgements with link to repo of Coq mechanization
Accretion relicts in the solar neighbourhood: debris from omegaCen's parent galaxy
Creators: name: Meza, Andres
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Abadi, Mario G.
name: Steinmetz, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use numerical simulations to investigate the orbital characteristics of tidal debris from satellites whose orbits are dragged into the plane of galactic disks by dynamical friction before disruption. We find that these satellites may deposit a significant fraction of their stars into the disk components of a galaxy, and use our results to motivate the search for accretion relicts in samples of metal-poor disk stars in the vicinity of the Sun. Satellites disrupted on very eccentric orbits coplanar with the disk are expected to shed stars in "trails" of distinct orbital energy and angular momentum during each pericentric passage. To an observer located between the pericenter and apocenter of such orbits, these trails would show as distinct groupings of stars with low vertical velocity and a broad, symmetric, often double-peaked distribution of Galactocentric radial velocities. One group of stars with these characteristics stands out in available compilations of nearby metal-poor stars. These stars have specific angular momenta similar to that of the globular cluster omegaCen, long hypothesized to be the nucleus of a dwarf galaxy disrupted by the Milky Way tidal field. In addition to their kindred kinematics, stars in the omegaCen group share distinct chemical abundance characteristics, and trace a well-defined track in the [alpha/Fe] versus [Fe/H] plane, consistent with simple closed-box enrichment models and a protracted star formation history. The dynamical and chemical coherence of this group suggests that it consists of stars that once belonged to the dwarf that brought omegaCen into the Galaxy. The presence of this and other "tidal relicts" in the solar neighbourhood suggest an extra-Galactic origin for the presence of nearby stars with odd kinematics and chemistry.
description: 11 pages, 11 color figures, new title and minor changes to match MNRAS accepted version
Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella transversoguttata

description: Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann
(Fig. 53d)
Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann, 1835: 454 (Type locality: Irkutsk, Russia).— Mulsant 1850 a: 117; Crotch 1874: 116; Poorani 2002a: 327; Kovář 2005: 149; Ren et al. 2009: 188.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.70–7.30 mm; width: 4.30–5.60 mm. Form (Fig. 53d) broadly oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head black, eye canthus and rather large roundly triangular spot on each side of frons white-yellow, each spot touching inner orbit of eye and frequently connected with eye canthus. Antenna pale brown, scape black with brown apex, two or three apical antennomeres infuscate. Scutellar shield black. Elytra orange-red with 11 black spots, scutellar spot rather large, triangular to pentagonal, rarely rhomboid, usually deeply emarginate posteriorly along suture, remaining spots arranged in a pattern of 1-1-1-2, elytral pattern often variable. Underside black, tips of antero-lateral corners of propleura and mesepimera whitish, metepimera dark or brownish with whitish stripe, elytral epipleuron orange-red. Legs black, anterior face of fore coxae with white-yellow to apricot spot as well as ventral furrow of each front femur in male with a long pale stripe (Slightly modified from Kovář 2005). See Kovář (2005) for detailed description and illustrations.
Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Manipur, Meghalaya (Ghosh et al. 1977)); Nepal; Palaearctic region; North America.
Seasonal occurrence. March–May, November, January (label data).
Notes. Ghosh et al. (1977) recorded it from Meghalaya, northeastern India. Kovář (2005) treated the Palaearctic species of the Coccinella transversoguttata species group with detailed descriptions and illustrations. Gordon & Vandenberg (1995) described and illustrated the larva.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Belief Propagation for Maximum Coverage on Weighted Bipartite Graph and Application to Text Summarization
Creators: name: Kitano, Hiroki
name: Takeda, Koujin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study text summarization from the viewpoint of maximum coverage problem. In graph theory, the task of text summarization is regarded as maximum coverage problem on bipartite graph with weighted nodes. In recent study, belief-propagation based algorithm for maximum coverage on unweighted graph was proposed using the idea of statistical mechanics. We generalize it to weighted graph for text summarization. Then we apply our algorithm to weighted biregular random graph for verification of maximum coverage performance. We also apply it to bipartite graph representing real document in open text dataset, and check the performance of text summarization. As a result, our algorithm exhibits better performance than greedy-type algorithm in some setting of text summarization.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Almost Affinely Disjoint Subspaces
Creators: name: Liu, Hedongliang
name: Polyanskii, Nikita
name: Vorobyev, Ilya
name: Wachter-Zeh, Antonia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we introduce a natural notion concerning finite vector spaces. A family of $k$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_q^n$, which forms a partial spread, is called almost affinely disjoint if any $(k+1)$-dimensional subspace containing a subspace from the family non-trivially intersects with only a few subspaces from the family. The central question discussed in the paper is the polynomial growth (in $q$) of the maximal cardinality of these families given the parameters $k$ and $n$. For the cases $k=1$ and $k=2$, optimal families are constructed. For other settings, we find lower and upper bounds on the polynomial growth. Additionally, some connections with problems in coding theory are shown.
description: 10 pages; Published in Finite Fields and Their Applications, Volume 75, October 2021, 101879
Impact assessment of irrigation management transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
Creators: name: Kloezen, Wim H.
name: Garces-Restrepo, Carlos
name: Johnson, Sam H.
name: Kloezen, Wim H.
name: Garces-Restrepo, Carlos
name: Johnson, Sam H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Privatization
subject: Assessment
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Legal aspects
subject: Data collection
subject: Water rights
subject: Water allocation
subject: Water distribution
subject: Groundwater
subject: Financing
subject: Maintenance
subject: Operations
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Water users' associations
subject: Farmer participation
subject: Mexico
subject: Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District

description: Tests the hypothesis that, in general, irrigation management transfer has positive impacts on operation performance, managerial accountability, O&M budgeting and expenditures, costs of water to farmers, and agricultural and economic productivity in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District in Mexico. Evaluates the potential of the Mexican IMT process as a model for other countries.
Shapelets "multiple multipole" shear measurement methods
Creators: name: Massey, Richard
name: Refregier, Alexandre
name: Bacon, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of weak gravitational lensing is currently limited to a precision of ~10% by instabilities in galaxy shape measurement techniques and uncertainties in their calibration. The potential of large, on-going and future cosmic shear surveys will only be realised with the development of more accurate image analysis methods. We present a description of several possible shear measurement methods using the linear "shapelets" decomposition. Shapelets provides a complete reconstruction of any galaxy image, including higher-order shape moments that can be used to generalise the KSB method to arbitrary order. Many independent shear estimators can then be formed for each object, using linear combinations of shapelet coefficients. These estimators can be treated separately, to improve their overall calibration; or combined in more sophisticated ways, to eliminate various instabilities and a calibration bias. We apply several methods to simulated astronomical images containing a known input shear, and demonstrate the dramatic improvement in shear recovery using shapelets. A complete IDL software package to perform image analysis and manipulation in shapelet space can be downloaded from the shapelets web site at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~rjm/shapelets/ .
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. To be published in "Impact of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmology", IAU Symposium 225, eds. Mellier & Meylan
Modelling Regional Agricultural Output Adjustments in Scotland in Response to CAP Reform
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: The purpose of the paper is to present an agricultural supply model for Scotland used to estimate regional changes in agricultural outputs due to the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. Supply functions were estimated for several farm types based on generalised trans-logarithmic multiproduct cost functions (Caves, Christensen and Tretheway, 1981). The data used for the estimation were an unbalanced panel dataset constructed using farm level data from the Scottish Government’s Farm Accounts Scheme (FAS) survey. Using the estimated supply adjustments, individual farm level responses to subsidy and price changes were aggregated using agricultural census weights to estimate the output changes for different regions
Fast self-testing Quantum Random Number Generator based on homodyne detection
Creators: name: Rusca, Davide
name: Tebyanian, Hamid
name: Martin, Anthony
name: Zbinden, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-testing and Semi-Device Independent protocols are becoming the preferred choice for quantum technologies, being able to certify their quantum nature with few assumptions and simple experimental implementations. In particular for Quantum Random Number Generators the possibility of monitoring in real time the entropy of the source only by measuring the input/output statistics is a characteristic that no other classical system could provide. The cost of this new possibility is not necessarily increased complexity and reduced performance. Indeed, here we show that with a simple optical setup consisting of commercially available components, a high bit generation rate can be achieved. We manage to certify 145.5~MHz of quantum random bit generation rate.
Additional file 6 of Using intervention mapping to develop an occupational advice intervention to aid return to work following hip and knee replacement in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Coole, Carol
name: Baker, Paul
name: McDaid, Catriona
name: Drummond, Avril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Parameters, methods and practical applications for patient determinants
The association between temporal processing and reading deficits in children with developmental dyslexia
Creators: name: Parrish, Emillie Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Children with developmental dyslexia and children without reading difficulties performed several perceptual temporal processing tasks and reading tasks to determine if performance on perceptual temporal processing tasks can: a) differentiate between children with dyslexia and children with average reading skills; b) differentiate between dyslexia subtypes based on orthographic and phonological reading skills. Children with dyslexia were impaired on two of the three perceptual tasks, global motion perception and dichotic pitch tone identification, relative to the age-matched control group. The reading tasks were all positively correlated, in the dyslexia group, regardless of whether the task assessed orthographic,or phonological processing. Global motion and dichotic pitch identification were both significant predictors of orthographic word reading in all the children. None of the tasks were significant predictors of phonological word reading. The current findings suggest that orthographic reading deficits in dyslexia are associated with impaired visual and auditory temporal processing.
Additional file 7 of Using intervention mapping to develop an occupational advice intervention to aid return to work following hip and knee replacement in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Coole, Carol
name: Baker, Paul
name: McDaid, Catriona
name: Drummond, Avril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Parameters, methods and practical applications for staff determinants