cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond lag and singularity: the current situation of Brazilian social and political thought
Creators: name: Martins, Maro Lara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social theory
Latin and South American history

description: A part ir da complexa conjuntura atual, que enseja as questões supracitadas, e do papel central que as interpretações do Brasil possuem na academia e no debate público, temos como objetivo discutir a atualidade do pensamento social e político brasileiro. A rique za e a variedade das interpretações sobre a vida social e política sugerem direções muito distintas para compreender a crise brasileira em diálogo com teorias e abordagens mais recentes. Categorias clássicas como personalismo , patrimonialismo , populismo , a utocracia burguesa são capazes de compreender nossos dilemas ? O Brasil contemporâneo possui problemas essencialmente seus ou trata - se de dilemas mais gerais vivenciados por muitos outros países, mesmo que em intensidades distintas ? Qual é o potencial heurístico do pensamento social e político brasileiro ? Nesse texto introdutório, nosso objetivo é apresentar traços gerais do pensamento social e político brasileiro, algumas críticas aos seus pressupostos e teorias sociais e políticas brasileiras que são decisivas para a necessária ruptura com as leituras dos dilemas brasileiros que os circunscrevem como atraso e singularidades sociais e políticas.
Physical mechanisms for droplet size and effective viscosity asymmetries in turbulent emulsions
Creators: name: Yi, Lei
name: Wang, Cheng
name: van Vuren, Thomas
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Risso, Frederic
name: Toschi, Federico
name: Sun, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By varying the oil volume fraction, the microscopic droplet size and the macroscopic rheology of emulsions are investigated in a Taylor-Couette (TC) turbulent shear flow. Although here oil and water in the emulsions have almost the same physical properties (density and viscosity), unexpectedly, we find that oil-in-water (O/W) and water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions have very distinct hydrodynamic behaviors, i.e., the system is clearly asymmetric. By looking at the micro-scales, the average droplet diameter hardly changes with the oil volume fraction neither for O/W nor for W/O. However, for W/O it is about 50% larger than that of O/W. At the macro-scales, the effective viscosity of O/W is higher when compared to that of W/O. These asymmetric behaviors can be traced back to the presence of surface-active contaminants in the system. By introducing an oil-soluble surfactant at high concentration, remarkably, we recover the symmetry (droplet size and effective viscosity) between O/W and W/O emulsions. Based on this, we suggest a possible mechanism responsible for the initial asymmetry. Next, we discuss what sets the droplet size in turbulent emulsions. We uncover a -6/5 scaling dependence of the droplet size on the Reynolds number of the flow. Combining the scaling dependence and the droplet Weber number, we conclude that the droplet fragmentation, which determines the droplet size, occurs within the boundary layer and is controlled by the dynamic pressure caused by the gradient of the mean flow, as proposed by Levich (1962), instead of the dynamic pressure due to turbulent fluctuations, as proposed by Kolmogorov (1949). The present findings provide an understanding of both the microscopic droplet formation and the macroscopic rheological behaviors in dynamic emulsification, and connects them.
Solar Magnetized Tornadoes: Rotational Motion in a Tornado-like Prominence
Creators: name: Su, Yang
name: Gömöry, Peter
name: Veronig, Astrid
name: Temmer, Manuela
name: Wang, Tongjiang
name: Vanninathan, Kamalam
name: Gan, Weiqun
name: Li, Youping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Su et al. 2012 proposed a new explanation for filament formation and eruption, where filament barbs are rotating magnetic structures driven by underlying vortices on the surface. Such structures have been noticed as tornado-like prominences when they appear above the limb. They may play a key role as the source of plasma and twist in filaments. However, no observations have successfully distinguished rotational motion of the magnetic structures in tornado-like prominences from other motions such as oscillation and counter-streaming plasma flows. Here we report evidence of rotational motions in a tornado-like prominence. The spectroscopic observations in two coronal lines were obtained from a specifically designed Hinode/EIS observing program. The data revealed the existence of both cold and million-degree-hot plasma in the prominence leg, supporting the so-called "the prominence-corona transition region". The opposite velocities at the two sides of the prominence and their persistent time evolution, together with the periodic motions evident in SDO/AIA dark structures, indicate a rotational motion of both cold and hot plasma with a speed of $\sim$5 km s$^{-1}$.
description: accepted by ApJ Letters
PCBs in Fish: A Comprehensive Survey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Office of Cancer and Toxic Substances Research (OCTSR), Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP),
Year: 1982

description: In 1976, stimulated by the discovery of broad range PCB contamination of fish and sediments on the upper Hudson River in New York State, DEP instituted a program to conduct a comprehensive survey of possible PCB contamination of finfish and shellfish both within the lower Hudson River and throughout the state. Since then the 'PCB Project' has caught fish annually and analyzed them from Aroclor 1254, the most persistent and toxic mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls. In 1978 analysis for various organochloride pesticides was also performed after the discovery of widespread chlordane contamination in the Camden area resulted in fishing bans on the affected drainages.
Hochleistungsrechnen (HPC) - für wen und wie eignet sich HPC in der Forschung?
Creators: name: Reimann, Thorsten
name: Iwainsky, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Hochleistungsrechnen
Simulation
Infrastruktur
Rechenzentrum
high performance computing
simulation
infrastructure
data centre

description: Hochleistungsrechnen (HPC) ist in vielen Bereichen der Forschung längst als Methode etabliert. Doch immer noch erweitert sich - nicht zuletzt dank Big Data und Künstlicher Intelligenz - der Kreis der Einsatzgebiete. Zudem werden Forschende im Studium selten an diese wichtige Forschungsmethode herangeführt. Thorsten Reimann und Christian Iwainsky vom HKHLR zeigen gängige HPC-Anwendungen und Techniken, erläutern das HPC-Ökosystem in Hessen und beschreiben die Serviceangebote für die Nutzenden in Hessischen Hochschulen. Der Talk soll allen Interessierten einen Einblick in die Möglichkeiten, die HPC für die eigene Forschung hat, bieten.
description: Die HeFDI Data Talks sind eine zweiwöchentliche offene Informations- und Diskussionsveranstaltung rund um das Thema Datenmanagement im Wissenschaftskontext, in deren Rahmen sich einschlägige NFDI-Konsortien sowie Forschungsdatenmanagements-Dienste vorstellen. Die Reihe diskutiert aktuelle Themen und stellt zahlreiche – auch lokale und regionale – Tools und Services vor. Angeboten werden die HeFDI Data Talks von der Landesinitiative HeFDI - Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen, welche vom Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (HMWK) finanziert wird.
Soft-Gluon Corrections in FCNC Top-Quark Production via Anomalous Gluon Couplings
Creators: name: Kidonakis, Nikolaos
name: Martin, Elwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of soft-gluon corrections in FCNC top-quark production via anomalous $t$-$q$-$g$ couplings. The soft anomalous dimension matrix is explicitly calculated at one-loop accuracy. This calculation allows threshold resummation at next-to-leading-logarithm accuracy. We also derive expressions for the soft-gluon corrections at NLO and at NNLO.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures; a new section with two figures has been added
Commissioner's Update, September - October 2004
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Office of the Commissioner
Year: 2004

description: This newsletter, provided alongside a message from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Commissioner, aims to educate and inform New Jersey citizens on environmental issues. This edition highlights new initiatives to combat diesel emissions and other threats to air quality. It also discusses degradation of the ozone layer and standards for mercury emissions.
Red Knot: Calidris canutus rufa
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Year: 2005

description: This brochure gives information about the migrating Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) and threats these birds face. The red knot is a little shorebird that weighs less than a cup of coffee but is a master of long-distance aviation. Biologists have identified five races of red knot, three of them living in the Western Hemisphere. Surveys of wintering knots along the coasts of southern Chile and Argentina, and during spring migration in Delaware Bay on the U.S. coast, indicate a serious population decline.
School Radon Testing Program: Summary of Testing Requirements
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2003

description: The New Jersey state law requiring testing of public schools for radon every five years is being implemented by the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) incooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). This document provides guidelines for radon testing procedures that must be followed by schools.
The Kronig-Penney model in a quadratic channel with $δ$ interactions. II : Scattering approach
Creators: name: Smilansky, Uzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main purpose of the present paper is to introduce a scattering approach to the study of the Kronig-Penney model in a quadratic channel with $δ$ interactions, which was discussed in full generality in the first paper of the present series. In particular, a secular equation whose zeros determine the spectrum will be written in terms of the scattering matrix from a single $δ$. The advantages of this approach will be demonstrated in addressing the domain with total energy $E\in [0,\frac{1}{2})$, namely, the energy interval where, for under critical interaction strength, a discrete spectrum is known to exist for the single $δ$ case. Extending this to the study of the periodic case reveals quite surprising behavior of the Floquet spectra and the corresponding spectral bands. The computation of these bands can be carried out numerically, and the main features can be qualitatively explained in terms of a semi-classical framework which is developed for the purpose.
Double perovskite heterostructures: Magnetism, Chern bands, and Chern insulators
Creators: name: Cook, A. M.
name: Paramekanti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments demonstrating the controlled growth of oxide heterostructures have raised the prospect of realizing topologically nontrivial states of correlated electrons in low dimensions. Here, we study heterostructures consisting of {111}-bilayers of double perovskites separated by inert band insulators. In bulk, these double perovskites have well-defined local moments interacting with itinerant electrons leading to high temperature ferromagnetism. Incorporating spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb geometry of a {111}-bilayer, we find a rich phase diagram with tunable ferromagnetic order, topological Chern bands, and a C=2 Chern insulator regime. An effective two-band model of Zeeman-split j=3/2 states captures this nontrivial band topology. Our results are of broad relevance to oxide materials such as Sr2FeMoO6, Ba2FeReO6, and Sr2CrWO6.
description: 7 pgs,7 figs. Version to appear in PRL
Emergency Room Visits and Hospital Admissions of Asthmatics in NJ as an Indicator of Ozone Exposure
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Division of Science, Research and Technology of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2003

description: This research project evaluates progress in ozone reduction by examining the extent to which health effects associated with ozone are being reduced. Previous studies have established an association between atmospheric ozone concentrations and severe asthma symptoms (those resulting in emergency room (ER) visits or hospital admissions for asthma). The results of this study suggest that, in general, current ozone levels in NJ are close to the threshold for detecting an association with severe asthma symptoms. Continued reductions in ozone levels can further reduce the remaining associations. Further prospective and retrospective analysis can clarify the nature of the ozone-asthma relationship in New Jersey and can help determine when ozone levels are sufficiently low to eliminate all detectable associations.
Smart Growth, NJ: Vol. 1, Issue 1, Fall 2003
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Office of Smart Growth
Year: 2003

description: This newsletter serves as a Smart Growth resource so citizens can keep track of New Jersey's Smart Growth efforts, current events, county and municipal Smart Growth initiatives, and many other topics that deal with New Jersey's future through Smart Growth. This issue contains information on greyfields and cross-acceptance of the New Jersey Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Total Maximum Daily Loads for Phosphorus to Address 13 Eutrophic Lakes in the Atlantic Coastal Water Region
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Watershed Management
Year: 2003

description: The state of New Jersey's 2002 Integrated List of Waterbodies identified several lakes in the Atlantic Coastal Water Region as being eutrophic. This report establishes Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for total phosphorus (TP) that address eutrophication of nine lakes in the region. These TMDLs serve as the foundation on which restoration plans will be developed to restore eutrophic lakes and thereby attain applicable surface water quality standards.
Snapshot: A Report Card on the Health of Delaware River Basin Waterways
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Delaware River Basin Commission
Year: 2000

description: This document reports on the annual event in 2000 in which volunteers take part in monitoring the Delaware River basin waterways. The event is designed to create an awareness of local watersheds and the crucial role they play. Volunteers collect data which are merged together no matter the precision of the analytical method used or the expertise of the analyst. The results do not reflect exact science, but instead a record of the public's commitment to learn more about the quality of the basin's waters.
Unfolding the band structure of disordered solids: from bound states to high-mobility Kane fermions
Creators: name: Rubel, O.
name: Bokhanchuk, A.
name: Ahmed, S. J.
name: Assmann, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supercells are often used in ab initio calculations to model compound alloys, surfaces and defects. One of the main challenges of supercell electronic structure calculations is to recover the Bloch character of electronic eigenstates perturbed by disorder. Here we apply the spectral weight approach to unfolding the electronic structure of group III-V and II-VI semiconductor solid solutions. The illustrative examples include: formation of donor-like states in dilute Ga(PN) and associated enhancement of its optical activity, direct observation of the valence band anticrossing in dilute GaAs:Bi, and a topological band crossover in ternary (HgCd)Te alloy accompanied by emergence of high-mobility Kane fermions. The analysis facilitates interpretation of optical and transport characteristics of alloys that are otherwise ambiguous in traditional first-principles supercell calculations.
description: Improved figure quality, minor changes in text. Please refer to PS-file, in case the figure quality in PDF is impacted by JPEG compression
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact and Rules and Regulations
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC)
Year: 2003

description: This document contains the "Act granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate Compact relating to the better utilization of the fisheries (marine, shell and anadromous) of the Atlantic seaboard and creating the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC)" (Public Law 539, Seventy-Seventh Congress, approved by the President on May 4, 1942,); amended by Act of Congress (Public Law 721, 81st Congress, approved by the President August 19, 1950). It also contains the rules and regulations for the conduct of ASMFC business, adopted in 1942 and last amended in 2003.
Echoes of charged black-bounce spacetimes
Creators: name: Wu, S. R.
name: Wang, B. Q.
name: Liu, Dong
name: Long, Z. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In present work, the evolution of scalar field and electromagnetic field under the background of the charged black-bounce spacetimes are investigated, and we obtain an obvious echoes signal which appropriately reports the properties of the charged black-bounce spacetimes and disclose the physical reasons behind such phenomena. Furthermore, by studying the quasinormal ringdown, we analyze the three states of the charged black-bounce spacetimes in detail, our results show that the echoes signal only appears when $(\rvert {Q}\rvert \le m)$ and $(\rvert {l}\rvert > m+ \sqrt{m ^{2}-Q^{2} })$ in this spacetime, while when the parameters demand $(\rvert {Q}\rvert>m)$, the echoes signal will be transformed into a quasinormal ringdown of the two-way traversable wormhole, and the charged black-bounce is a regular black hole with normal horizons by requiring $(\rvert {Q}\rvert \le m)$ and $(\rvert {l}\rvert < m- \sqrt{m ^{2}-Q^{2} })$.
New Roles for Science in Developing Environmental Indicators: A New Jersey Example
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2001

description: This paper discusses the importance of indicators in evaluating economic, social, environmental and other systems and the best ways for scientists to establish and use them.  Indicators can be defined as "select sets of data intended to show changes and trends in larger systems over time."  Due to the interdisciplinary nature of environmental issues, reliable indicators are particularly important and require the cooperation of scientists, governments and the public.  The authors use the New Jersey Center for Environmental Indicators (NJCEI) as an example of this kind of collaboration.  The paper contains examples of community, regional and state studies and projects that exemplify the new model of cooperation.
An Extended and Fragmented Alfvén Zone in the Young Solar Wind
Creators: name: Chhiber, Rohit
name: Matthaeus, William H.
name: Usmanov, Arcadi V.
name: Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi
name: Goldstein, Melvyn L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by theoretical, numerical, and observational evidence, we explore the possibility that the critical transition between sub-Alfvénic flow and super-Alfvénic flow in the solar atmosphere takes place in fragmented and disconnected subvolumes within a general Alfvén critical zone. The initial observations of sub-Alfvénic periods by Parker Solar Probe near \(16~R_\odot\) do not yet provide sufficient evidence to distinguish this possibility from that of a folded surface that separates simply-connected regions. Subsequent orbits may well enable such a distinction, but here we use a global magnetohydrodynamic model of the solar wind, coupled to a turbulence transport model, to generate possible realizations of such an Alfvén critical zone. Understanding this transition will inform theories of coronal heating, solar wind origin, solar angular momentum loss, and related physical processes in stellar winds beyond the Sun.
A New Mechanism of Dynamical Spontaneous Breaking of Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Guendelman, Eduardo
name: Nissimov, Emil
name: Pacheva, Svetlana
name: Vasihoun, Mahary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a qualitatively new mechanism for dynamical spontaneous breakdown of supersymmetry. Specifically, we construct a modified formulation of standard minimal N=1 supergravity. The modification is based on an idea worked out in detail in previous publications by some of us, where we proposed a new formulation of (non-supersymmetric) gravity theories employing an alternative volume form (volume element, or generally-covariant integration measure) in the pertinent Lagrangian action, defined in terms of auxiliary (pure-gauge) fields instead of the standard Riemannian metric volume form. Invariance under supersymmetry of the new modified N=1 supergravity action is preserved due to the addition of an appropriate compensating antisymmetric tensor gauge field. This new formalism naturally triggers the appearance of a dynamically generated cosmological constant as an arbitrary integration constant which signifies a spontaneous (dynamical) breaking of supersymmetry. Furthermore, applying the same formalism to anti-de Sitter supergravity allows us to appropriately choose the above mentioned arbitrary integration constant so as to obtain simultaneously a very small positive effective observable cosmological constant as well as a large physical gravitino mass as required by modern cosmological scenarios for slowly expanding universe of today.
description: v2 7 pages, few minor improvements for clarity, reformatted to conform the journal style, to appear in Bulgarian Journal of Physics, vol.41, #4
NJ Environmental Federation News, Spring 2001
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Environmental Federation, the New Jersey Chapter of Clean Water Action
Year: 2001

description: The goal of the NJEF is to ensure safe drinking water for all NJ residents, reduce the use of pesticides, promote recycling and lobby for sound and sustainable environmental practices on a local, state, and national level. This issue of the newsletter features environmental violations, arsenic, sprawl, the West Nile Virus and more.
Hairpin RF Resonators for Transceiver Arrays with High Inter-channel Isolation and B1 Efficiency at Ultrahigh Field 7T MR Imaging
Creators: name: Payne, Komlan
name: Ying, Leslie L.
name: Zhang, Xiaoliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Electromagnetic decoupling among a close-fitting or high-density transceiver RF array elements is required to maintain the integrity of the magnetic flux density from individual channel for enhanced performance in detection sensitivity and parallel imaging. High-impedance RF coils have demonstrated to be a prominent design method to circumvent these coupling issues. Yet, inherent characteristics of these coils have ramification on the B1 field efficiency and SNR. In this work, we propose a hairpin high impedance RF resonator design for highly decoupled multichannel transceiver arrays at ultrahigh magnetic fields. Due to the high impedance property of the hairpin resonators, the proposed transceiver array can provide high decoupling performance without using any dedicated decoupling circuit among the resonant elements. Because of elimination of lumped inductors in the resonator circuit, higher B1 field efficiency in imaging subjects can be expected. In order to validate the feasibility of the proposed hairpin RF coils, systematical studies on decoupling performance, field distribution, and SNR are performed, and the results are compared with those obtained from existing high-impedance RF coil, e.g., "self-decoupled RF coil". To further investigate its performance, an 8-channel head coil array using the proposed hairpin resonators loaded with a cylindrical phantom is designed, demonstrating a 19 % increase of the B1+ field intensity compared to the "self-decoupled" coils at 7T. Furthermore, the characteristics of the hairpin RF coils are evaluated using a more realistic human head voxel model numerically. The proposed hairpin RF coil provides excellent decoupling performance and superior RF magnetic field efficiency compared to the self-decoupled high impedance coils. Bench test of a pair of fabricated hairpin coils prove to be in good accordance with numerical results.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Second version: Add bench test results and One dimensional profile of the simulated B1+
Quark condensate in QCD at nonzero magnetic field and temperature
Creators: name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic form of the quark condensate for arbitrary values of external magnetic field and temperature, is derived using the field equations with account of confinement. The resulting expression of the chiral condensate is shown to be proportional to square of the singlet $q\bar q$ ground state wave function at origin, $|ϕ_0(0)|^2$. For light quarks without magnetic field the condensates are proportional to $σ^{3/2}$ ($σ$ is the string tension). Numerical results are presented in 5 Tables and shown to be in good agreement with the lattice data, both for nonzero magnetic field $eB$ and temperature $T$ in the range $0
description: 15 pages,5 tables
Nonlocal supercurrent in mesoscopic multiterminal SNS Josephson junction in the low-temperature limit
Creators: name: Golikova, T. E.
name: Wolf, M. J.
name: Beckmann, D.
name: Batov, I. E.
name: Bobkova, I. V.
name: Bobkov, A. M.
name: Ryazanov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocal supercurrent was observed in mesoscopic planar SNS Josephson junction with additional normal metal electrodes when nonequilibrium quasiparticles were injected from the normal metal electrode in one of the superconducting banks of the Josephson junction in the absence of net transport current through the junction. We claim that the effect observed is due to a supercurrent counterflow appearing to compensate the quasiparticle flow in the SNS weak link. We have measured SNS junction response for different distances from the quasiparticle injector to the SNS junction at temperatures far below the superconducting transition temperature. The charge-imbalance relaxation length was estimated by using modified Kadin, Smith and Skocpol scheme in the case of planar geometry. The model developed allows to describe the interplay of the charge imbalance and Josephson effects in the nanoscale proximity system in detail.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Communication-Efficient Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization for Federated Learning
Creators: name: Fang, Wenzhi
name: Yu, Ziyi
name: Jiang, Yuning
name: Shi, Yuanming
name: Jones, Colin N.
name: Zhou, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Federated learning (FL), as an emerging edge artificial intelligence paradigm, enables many edge devices to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private data. To enhance the training efficiency of FL, various algorithms have been proposed, ranging from first-order to second-order methods. However, these algorithms cannot be applied in scenarios where the gradient information is not available, e.g., federated black-box attack and federated hyperparameter tuning. To address this issue, in this paper we propose a derivative-free federated zeroth-order optimization (FedZO) algorithm featured by performing multiple local updates based on stochastic gradient estimators in each communication round and enabling partial device participation. Under non-convex settings, we derive the convergence performance of the FedZO algorithm on non-independent and identically distributed data and characterize the impact of the numbers of local iterates and participating edge devices on the convergence. To enable communication-efficient FedZO over wireless networks, we further propose an over-the-air computation (AirComp) assisted FedZO algorithm. With an appropriate transceiver design, we show that the convergence of AirComp-assisted FedZO can still be preserved under certain signal-to-noise ratio conditions. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the FedZO algorithm and validate the theoretical observations.
description: This work was accepted to Transaction on Signal Processing
Final recommendations for FAIR Photon and Neutron Data Management
Creators: name: Soler, Nicolas
name: McBirnie, Abigail
name: Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra
name: Vukolov, Andrey
name: Minotti, Carlo
name: Goerzig, Heike
name: Krisztian Pozsa
name: Matthews, Brian
name: Ounsy, Majid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR
metadata
ExPaNDS
European Photon and Neutron facilities
Experimental lifecycle

description: The present deliverable pursues the work initiated in ExPaNDS deliverable 2.2, which established a common metadata framework for FAIR data generated in Photon and Neutron (PaN) facilities. The modalities of implementation of this framework across facilities are examined and current practices and tools for metadata capture, storage and exposure are highlighted. This work is also the occasion to examine the commonalities of the framework with other initiatives developed inside and outside ExPaNDS such as the common search API, the data catalogues (ExPaNDS WP3), the EOSC discovery platforms B2FIND and OpenAire as well as the NeXus data format. It also provides the reader with guidelines on current tools and schemata available to record provenance and digital preservation information. The essence of these discussions is summarised as a list of practical recommendations at the end.
description: This deliverable is not yet approved by the European Commission.
Signal/noise enhancement strategies for stochastically estimated correlation functions
Creators: name: Detmold, William
name: Endres, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop strategies for enhancing the signal/noise ratio for stochastically sampled correlation functions. The techniques are general and offer a wide range of applicability. We demonstrate the potential of the approach with a generic two-state system, and then explore the practical applicability of the method for single hadron correlators in lattice quantum chromodynamics. In the latter case, we determine the ground state energies of the pion, proton, and delta baryon, as well as the ground and first excited state energy of the rho meson using matrices of correlators computed on an exemplary ensemble of anisotropic gauge configurations. In the majority of cases, we find a modest reduction in the statistical uncertainties on extracted energies compared to conventional variational techniques. However, in the case of the delta baryon, we achieve a factor of three reduction in statistical uncertainties. The variety of outcomes achieved for single hadron correlators illustrates an inherent dependence of the method on the properties of the system under consideration and the operator basis from which the correlators are constructed.
description: 40 pages, 21 figures; revisions made to the abstract and Section VI C, one additional figure and five tables added; published version
Telescope Array Radar (TARA) Observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Abbasi, R.
name: Othman, M. Abou Bakr
name: Allen, C.
name: Beard, L.
name: Belz, J.
name: Besson, D.
name: Byrne, M.
name: Farhang-Boroujeny, B.
name: Gardner, A.
name: Gillman, W. H.
name: Hanlon, W.
name: Hanson, J.
name: Jayanthmurthy, C.
name: Kunwar, S.
name: Larson, S. L.
name: Myers, I.
name: Prohyra, S.
name: Ratzlaff, K.
name: Sokolsky, P.
name: Takai, H.
name: Thomson, G. B.
name: Von Maluski, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Construction was completed during summer 2013 on the Telescope Array RAdar (TARA) bi-static radar observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). TARA is co-located with the Telescope Array, the largest "conventional" cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, in radio-quiet Western Utah. TARA employs an 8 MW Effective Radiated Power (ERP) VHF transmitter and smart receiver system based on a 250 MS/s data acquisition system in an effort to detect the scatter of sounding radiation by UHECR-induced atmospheric ionization. TARA seeks to demonstrate bi-static radar as a useful new remote sensing technique for UHECRs, extending their detection aperture far beyond what is accessible by conventional means. In this report, we describe the design and performance of the TARA transmitter and receiver systems.
Total Maximum Daily Loads for Fecal Coliform to Address 27 Streams in the Lower Delaware Water Region
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Watershed Management
Year: 2003

description: In accordance with the federal Clean Water Act, New Jersey developed the 2002 Integrated List of Waterbodies, addressing the overall water quality of the state's waters and identifying impaired waterbodies for which Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) may be necessary. The list identified several waterbodies in the Lower Delaware Water Region as being impaired by pathogens, as indicated by the presence of fecal coliform concentrations in excess of standards. This report establishes 27 TMDLs addressing fecal coliform loads in waterbodies in the Lower Delaware Water Region. These 27 TMDLs will serve as management approaches or restoration plans aimed at indentifying the sources of fecal coliform and for setting goals for fecal coliform load reductions in order to attain applicable surface water quality standards.
Non universality of entanglement convertibility
Creators: name: Braganca, Helena
name: Mascarenhas, Eduardo
name: Luiz, G. I.
name: Duarte, C.
name: Pereira, R. G.
name: Santos, M. F.
name: Aguiar, M. C. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it has been suggested that operational properties connected to quantum computation can be alternative indicators of quantum phase transitions. In this work we systematically study these operational properties in 1D systems that present phase transitions of different orders. For this purpose, we evaluate the local convertibility between bipartite ground states. Our results suggest that the operational properties, related to non-analyticities of the entanglement spectrum, are good detectors of explicit symmetries of the model, but not necessarily of phase transitions. We also show that thermodynamically equivalent phases, such as Luttinger liquids, may display different convertibility properties depending on the underlying microscopic model.
description: 5 pages + references, 4 figures - improved version
Establishing a Split Luciferase Assay for Proteinkinase G (PKG) Interaction Studies
Creators: name: Schramm, Andrea
name: Mueller-Thuemen, Philip
name: Littmann, Timo
name: Harloff, Manuela
name: Ozawa, Takeaki
name: Schlossmann, Jens
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: PKG; cGK; RGS2; cGMP; PCA; luciferase; protein–protein interaction
subject: 540 Chemie

description: Nitric oxide (NO/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-regulated cellular mechanisms are involved in a variety of (patho-) physiological processes. One of the main effector molecules in this system, proteinkinase G (PKG), serves as a molecular switch by phosphorylating different target proteins and thereby turning them on or off. To date, only a few interaction partners of PKG have been described although the identification of protein–protein interactions (PPI) is indispensable for the understanding of cellular processes and diseases. Conventionally used methods to detect PPIs exhibit several disadvantages, e.g., co-immunoprecipitations, which depend on suitable high-affinity antibodies. Therefore, we established a cell-based protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) for the identification of PKG target proteins. Here, a reporter protein (click beetle luciferase) is split into two fragments and fused to two different possible interaction partners. If interaction occurs, the reporter protein is functionally complemented and the catalyzed reaction can then be quantitatively measured. By using this technique, we confirmed the regulator of G-Protein signaling 2 (RGS2) as an interaction partner of PKGI� (a PKG-isoform) following stimulation with 8-Br-cGMP and 8-pCPT-cGMP. Hence, our results support the conclusion that the established approach could serve as a novel tool for the rapid, easy and cost-efficient detection of novel PKG target proteins.
Well-posedness, ill-posedness, and traveling waves for models of pulsatile flow in viscoelastic vessels
Creators: name: Kim, Hyeju
name: Ambrose, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study dispersive models of fluid flow in viscoelastic vessels, derived in the study of blood flow. The unknowns in the models are the velocity of the fluid in the axial direction and the displacement of the vessel wall from rest. We prove that one such model has a well-posed initial value problem, while we argue that a related model instead has an ill-posed initial value problem; in the second case, we still prove the existence of solutions in analytic function spaces. Finally we prove the existence of some periodic traveling waves.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure
Correlations in the Monte Carlo Glauber model
Creators: name: Blaizot, Jean-Paul
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
name: Ollitrault, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Event-by-event fluctuations of observables are often modeled using the Monte Carlo Glauber model, in which the energy is initially deposited in sources associated with wounded nucleons. In this paper, we analyze in detail the correlations between these sources in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. There are correlations arising from nucleon-nucleon correlations within each nucleus, and correlations due to the collision mechanism, which we dub twin correlations. We investigate this new phenomenon in detail. At the RHIC and LHC energies, correlations are found to have modest effects on size and eccentricity fluctuations, such that the Glauber model produces to a good approximation a collection of independent sources.
description: minor improvements, 14 pages, 9 figures
New Jersey Reef News 2000
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: Newsletter of the New Jersey Reef Program, a program to construct hard-substrate reef habitat in the ocean for certain species of fish and shellfish, new fishing grounds for anglers and underwater structures for scuba divers. In constructing and managing reefs, the goal is to spread the benefits of reef resources to as many people as possible. The intent of the program is not to change New Jersey's marine environment, but rather to enhance a small portion, less than 1 percent of the sea floor, to benefit 150 species of marine life that prefer structured habitat.
Seasons, Spring 2005
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Hudson County Improvement Authority (HCIA)
Year: 2005

description: This is the Spring 2005 issue of Seasons, the newsletter of the Hudson County Improvement Authority (HCIA). This edition features the following articles: 'Capital' Cooperation for Hudson County - The HCIA, the County of Hudson and local municipalities working closely to make major capital improvements around Hudson County; Household Hazardous Waste Days May 7th and 15th; Family Fun at Earth Day; Annual Earth Day Poster Contest; The 2005 HCIA Earth Day Celebration is Coming; Earth-Friendly Educational Initiatives; Stormwater ALERT; Coalition Formed to Enforce Solid Waste Regulations; Recycle - It's the Law; Spring 2005 Household Hazardous Waste Days.
Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) Fact sheet
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Rutgers Cooperative Extension, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1998

description: This document details the set of regulations entitled Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) that were established by the Environmental Protection Agency. The goal of CAM is to improve air quality while making monitoring for permit compliance more practical by enhancing monitoring requirements and providing industry with more flexibility in the selection of monitoring methods and the development of monitoring protocols. CAM revises Parts 64, 70, and 71 of Chapter 40 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
Vacuum stability of conformally invariant scalar dark matter models
Creators: name: Kim, Yeong Gyun
name: Lee, Kang Young
name: Lee, Jungil
name: Nam, Soo-hyeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss vacuum structure and vacuum stability in classically scale-invariant renormalizable models with a scalar dark matter multiplet of global O(N) symmetry together with an electroweak singlet scalar mediator. Our conformally invariant scalar potential generates the electroweak symmetry breaking via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, and the new scalar singlet mediator acquires its mass through radiative corrections of the scalar dark matters as well as of the standard model particles. Taking into account the present collider bounds, we find the region of parameter space where the scalar potential is stable and all the massless couplings are perturbative up to the Planck scale. With the obtained parameter sets satisfying the vacuum stability condition, we present the allowed region of new physics parameters satisfying the recent measurement of relic abundance, and predict the elastic scattering cross section of the new scalar multiplet into target nuclei for a direct detection of the dark matter. We also discuss the collider signatures and future discovery potentials of the new scalars.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures (partly updated), journal version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1904.10209
A Collaborative Report Presenting Air Quality Strategies for Further Consideration by the State of New Jersey: The  Diesel Initiatives Workgroup Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Reducing Air Pollution Together Initiative, The Diesel Initiatives Workgroup
Year: 2005

description: This report summarizes the recommendations of the Diesel Workgroup, which was tasked with developing a menu of diesel control strategies to be submitted to NJDEP Management for consideration as the NJDEP develops its State Implementation Plan (SIP) for PM2.5 and Ozone. The Diesel Initiatives Workgroup's mission was to recommend potential ways to control and/or reduce emissions from diesel engines. Topics in this report include onroad vehicles (all categories - Light Duty Diesel Vehicles (LDDVs), Medium Duty Diesel Vehicles (MDDVs) and Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles (HDDVs)), nonroad equipment (e.g. construction equipment), commercial marine vessels (ships), locomotives and stationary diesel engines. Discussion topics include use of fuels that would reduce emissions, as well as retrofit technologies and idling strategies.
Many-Body Quantum Interference and the Saturation of Out-of-Time-Order Correlators
Creators: name: Rammensee, Josef
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Out-of-time-order correlator, many-body, semiclassics, chaos, Ehrenfest time, scrambling
subject: 530 Physik

description: Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as sensitive probes for chaos in interacting quantum systems. They exhibit a characteristic classical exponential growth, but saturate beyond the so-called scrambling or Ehrenfest time τE in the quantum correlated regime. Here we present a path-integral approach for the entire time evolution of OTOCs for bosonic N-particle systems. We first show how the growth of OTOCs up to τE=(1/λ)logN is related to the Lyapunov exponent λ of the corresponding chaotic mean-field dynamics in the semiclassical large-N limit. Beyond τE, where simple mean-field approaches break down, we identify the underlying quantum mechanism responsible for the saturation. To this end we express OTOCs by coherent sums over contributions from different mean-field solutions and compute the dominant many-body interference term amongst them. Our method further applies to the complementary semiclassical limit ℏ→0 for fixed N, including quantum-chaotic single- and few-particle systems.
description: Submitted to PRL
On a semilinear wave equation in anti-de Sitter spacetime: the critical case
Creators: name: Palmieri, Alessandro
name: Takamura, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the present paper we prove the blow-up in finite time for local solutions of a semilinear Cauchy problem associated with a wave equation in anti-de Sitter spacetime in the critical case. According to this purpose, we combine an ODI result with an iteration argument, by using an explicit integral representation formula for the solution to a linear Cauchy problem associated with the wave equation in anti-de Sitter spacetime in one space dimension.