cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The open XXZ spin chain in the SoV framework: scalar product of separate states
Creators: name: Kitanine, N.
name: Maillet, J. M.
name: Niccoli, G.
name: Terras, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous paper [1] we have obtained, for the XXX spin-1/2 Heisenberg open chain, new determinant representations for the scalar products of separate states in the quantum separation of variables (SoV) framework. In this article we perform a similar study in a more complicated case: the XXZ open spin-1/2 chain with the most general integrable boundary terms. To solve this model by means of SoV we use an algebraic Vertex-IRF gauge transformation reducing one of the boundary K-matrices to a diagonal form. As usual within the SoV approach, the scalar products of separate states are computed in terms of dressed Vandermonde determinants having an intricate dependency on the inhomogeneity parameters. We show that these determinants can be transformed into different ones in which the homogeneous limit can be taken straightforwardly. These representations generalize in a non-trivial manner to the trigonometric case the expressions found previously in the rational case. We also show that generically all scalar products can be expressed in a form which is similar to - although more cumbersome than - the well-known Slavnov determinant representation for the scalar products of the Bethe states of the periodic chain. Considering a special choice of the boundary parameters relevant in the thermodynamic limit to describe the half infinite chain with a general boundary, we particularize these representations to the case of one of the two states being an eigenstate. We obtain simplified formulas that should be of direct use to compute the form factors and correlation functions of this model.
description: 55 pages
Economic Impact of Food Loss and Waste
Creators: name: Kotykova, O.
name: Babych, M.
name: Kotykova, O.
name: Babych, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Economic damage
subject: food loss
subject: food waste
subject: cereal crops
subject: potato
subject: vegetables
subject: fruits and fruits
subject: meat
subject: milk
subject: regions
subject: Ukraine

description: Research background: The unproductive use of natural resources such as land and water, resulting from food loss and waste, constrains the pursuit of such tasks as overcoming hunger and poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, increasing income and economic growth. Purpose of the article: According to the results of empirical research to identify the level of economic damage and lost revenue as a result of the food loss and waste, as well as to identify potential benefits for the agricultural land use in reducing those losses. Methods: The analysis was conducted in terms of regions and product types. The methodology proposed by FAO is used to calculate the food loss and waste for each type of product in Ukraine. Findings & Value added: Firstly, it has been empirically proven that food loss and waste result in significant economic damage and lost revenue. Secondly, the reduction of food loss and waste has positive environmental and social consequences.
Vanishing k-space fidelity and phase diagram's bulk-edge-bulk correspondence
Creators: name: Sacramento, P. D.
name: Mera, B.
name: Paunkovic, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fidelity between two infinitesimally close states or the fidelity susceptibility of a system are known to detect quantum phase transitions. Here we show that the k-space fidelity between two states far from each other and taken deep inside (bulk) of two phase s, generically vanishes at the k-points where there are gapless points in the energy spectrum that give origin to the lines (edges) separating the phases in the phase diagram. We consider a general case of two-band models and present a sufficient condition for the existence of gapless points, given there are pairs of parameter points for which the fidelity between the corresponding states is zero. By presenting an explicit counter-example, we showed that the sufficient condition is not necessary. Further, we showed that, unless the set of parameter points is suitably constrained, the existence of gapless points generically imply the accompanied pairs of parameter points with vanishing fidelity. Also, we showed the connection between the vanishing fidelity and gapless points on a number of concrete examples (topological triplet superconductor, topological insulator, 1d Kitaev model of spinless fermions, BCS superconductor, Ising model in a transverse field, graphene and Haldane Chern insulator), as well as for the more general case of Dirac-like Hamiltonians. We also briefly discuss the relation between the vanishing fidelity and gapless points at finite temperatures.
title: Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior: The Role of Shame, Guilt, Anxiety and Depression
Creators: name: VanDerhei, Susan E.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Self-injurious behavior
subject: Anxiety
subject: Shame
subject: Depression
subject: Guilt
subject: Moderation

description: Previous research has identified strong links between non-suicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSIB) and emotional vulnerabilities such as anxiety and depression. However, to date no studies have been published that examined the potential role of moral emotions such as shame and guilt on the presentation of NSSIB. This study examined the relationship of shame and guilt with NSSIB and the extent to which they may affect anxiety and depression as predictors of NSSIB (i.e., the presence of NSSIB and estimated daily rate of NSSIB). The participants were 378 university undergraduate students, who were predominantly female (71.2%), between 18 to 51 years old (M = 20.89, SD = 4.77). Participants completed the Inventory of Statements about Self-Injury (ISAS; Klonsky & Olino, 2008), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck & Steer, 1990), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; Beck, Steer & Brown, 1996), and the Test of Self- Conscious Affect (TOSCA-3; Tangney, Dearing, Wagner, & Gramzow, 2000). Emotion dysregulation (defined as combined anxiety and depression scores), and shame were positively related to the presence of NSSIB; guilt was negatively related to the presence of NSSIB. There was no interaction between emotion dysreglation and shame, nor between emotional dysregulation and guilt when predicting the presence of NSSIB. However, guilt and emotion dysregulation did interact to predict the daily rate of NSSIB, such that those participants with lower guilt scores had a stronger positive relationship between emotional dysregulation and daily rate of NSSIB than their high-guilt counterparts. The interaction between emotion dysregulation and shame approached significance, with patterns showing that participants with high shame scores had a stronger, more positive relationship between emotional dysregulation and daily rate of NSSIB, than those who were low on shame. These relationships were also examined in only the subsample of participants who had self-injured. Results suggest that guilt serves as a protective factor, while shame serves as a risk factor for the presence and rate of NSSIB.
Application of Exponential Smoothing Models and Arima Models in Time Series Analysis from Telco Area
Creators: name: Köppelová, J.
name: Jindrová, A.
name: Köppelová, J.
name: Jindrová, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: ICT and environment
subject: ICT and sustainable rural development
subject: mobile telco services
subject: time series
subject: exponential smoothing models
subject: Box-Jenkins methodology
subject: combined models

description: The use of ICT has been steadily increasing in both business and social life. Apparently, the most essential communication technology today is a mobile phone. However, the use of mobile phones also has its downside, which is their impact on the environment, which is not negligible. Despite the negative impact on the environment, few of us can imagine a life without a mobile phone. The mobile telecommunications market is one of the most important sectors of the modern economy. Analysing past developments - as well as predicting future developments - of indicators in this area plays a very important role in decision making, as in any other area of the national economy. The extrapolation methods have been the most often applied methods in the area of time series analysis and forecasting in practice. Currently, the combined methods in time series forecasting is more and more favoured. The main aim of this paper is an examination of applicability of the Box-Jenkins methodology models and the exponential smoothing models for providing extrapolation forecasts, but for past development modelling of selected indicators from the telecom area, too. Information on the indicators under study was collected on monthly and daily basis. Quality of the models selected was then assessed using the MAPE and AIC metric. In conclusion, a comparative analysis was performed of both the groups of models. The best individual models were further aggregated and quality of these was assessed using the same assessment criteria. SAS statistical system was applied for effective implementation of the analysis. The research has demonstrated that the exponential smoothing models can only be recommended for the analysis of indicators under study from the mobile telecom area. The detailed analysis has proved, anyway, a higher level of success with the combined models.
Task performance influences general self-efficacy, even without increases in the skills required to achieve success
Creators: name: Howard, Matt C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The current article tests whether task performance influences general self-efficacy without increases in the skills required to achieve success. To do so, an experimental design is applied in which participants predict a random future event, and the relationship between prediction task performance and self-efficacy is observed. This article also tests whether this specific performance/self-efficacy relationship is moderated by (a) perceived illegitimacy of predicting the future and (b) self-assessed ability to predict the future. The results show that prediction task performance indeed influences general self-efficacy, and neither of these two moderators has a significant effect on this relationship. Therefore, performance on a low-stakes task does influence general self-efficacy—at least temporarily. More importantly, task performance is shown to influence self-efficacy even without increases in the skills required to achieve success.
title: Using Neuron Activation as Way of Powering Artificial Muscle Fibers
Creators: name: Lombardo, Anthony
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural Engineering
subject: Artificial muscle

description: Developing technologies and mechanisms that perform like our biological muscles have great potential of being useful for prosthetics research. Developing these technologies can be thought of as the easy part of the design, but the difficult part is having them work in synchronicity with all the accompanying muscle fibers within the body. This is important because biological muscles have high power to weight ratios, compliance, damping, and fast actuation. However, to date the robotic models are not able to perform up to the standards of biological muscles due to the complexity of the biological systems (Mirvakili et al., 2014). This is especially true in attempting to create prosthetics mechanisms that are as thin and small as the biological muscles. Novel technology, first developed by Disney, is the use of super coiled polymer actuators that perform extremely like biological muscle fibers when subjected to electrical current. These super coiled polymer actuators are super thin because they are constructed using nylon fishing line. The fishing line is coiled upon itself and then heat treated to set the fishing line in the coiled shape. In order to activate these super coiled polymer actuators two additional aspects, need to be added. First, the nylon fishing line needs to be coated in silver so that they can conduct current and furthermore be heated and cooled. When heated and cooled the fishing line coils will expand and contract, and in turn will act very similarly to biological muscle fibers (Yip & Niemeyer, 2015). Second, electrodes and computer coding need to be utilized so that the artificial muscle fibers are operating at the same time as the biological muscle. This technology has been proven in laboratory settings to be capable of lifting cars when the super coiled polymer actuators are coupled together. Combining these technologies can have a major impact on the prosthetics industry by providing an efficient and cost-effective method for creating powerful novel prosthetic devices (Fishing Line Makes for Superhuman Artificial Muscles—IEEE Spectrum, n.d.).
Approximate quantum error correction can lead to better codes
Creators: name: Leung, D. W.
name: Nielsen, M. A.
name: Chuang, I. L.
name: Yamamoto, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present relaxed criteria for quantum error correction which are useful when the specific dominant noise process is known. These criteria have no classical analogue. As an example, we provide a four-bit code which corrects for a single amplitude damping error. This code violates the usual Hamming bound calculated for a Pauli description of the error process, and does not fit into the GF(4) classification.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Supplemental_data_cardiometabolic_parameters_in_hormone_treatment.docx
Creators: name: Velzen, Daan Van
name: A. Paldino
name: M. Klaver
name: N.M. Nota
name: J. Defreyne
name: G.K. Hovingh
name: A. Thijs
name: S. Simsek
name: G. T'Sjoen
name: M. Den Heijer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine

description: Additional data regarding changes in lipids and blood pressure during gender affirming hormone treatment
Pyrenula aspistea Ach.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Pyrenula
Pyrenula aspistea

description: Pyrenula aspistea (Afzel. ex Ach.) Ach.
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Müller (1884).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 131, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Hydrodynamics and Nonlocal Conductivities in Vortex States of Type II Superconductors
Creators: name: Ikeda, Ryusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hydrodynamical description for vortex states in type II superconductors is presented based on the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation (TDGL). In contrast to the familiar extension of a single vortex dynamics based on the force balance, our description is consistent with the known hydrodynamics of a rotating neutral superfluid and correctly includes informations on the Goldstone mode. Further it enables one to examine nonlocal conductivities perpendicular to the magnetic field in terms of Kubo formula. The nonlocal conductivities deviate from the usual vortex flow expressions typically when the nonlocality parallel to the field becomes weaker than the perpendicular one measuring a degree of positional correlations, and, for instance, the superconducting contribution of dc Hall conductivity nonlocal only in directions perpendicular to the field becomes vanishingly small in the situations with large shear viscosity, leading to an experimentally measurable relation $ρ_{xy} \sim {ρ_{xx}^2}$ among the total resistivity components. Other situations are also discussed on the basis of the resulting expressions.
description: 12 pages, no figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. in October, 1995
Robust Measurement for the Discrimination of Binary Coherent States
Creators: name: DiMario, M. T.
name: Becerra, F. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discrimination of two nonorthogonal states is a fundamental element for secure and efficient communication. Quantum measurements of nonorthogonal coherent states can enhance information transfer beyond the limits of conventional technologies. We demonstrate a strategy for binary state discrimination based on optimized single-shot measurements with photon number resolving (PNR) detection with finite number resolution. This strategy enables a high degree of robustness to noise and imperfections while being scalable to high rates and in principle allows for surpassing the quantum noise limit (QNL) in practical situations. These features make the strategy inherently compatible with high-bandwidth communication and quantum information applications, providing advantages over the QNL under realistic conditions.
description: 6 pages, 4 Figures. Includes Suppl. Material
title: MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency
Creators: name: Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio
name: Rouleau, Mark
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agent-based models
subject: Irregular warfare
subject: Cultural dynamics
subject: War
subject: Socio-natural environments

description: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Mark Rouleau Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, Fairfax (Washington DC). Mason-HRAF Joint Project on Computational Eastern Africa.
description: Problem overview: explore the complex relationship between Society, Government, and Issues, using an explicit polity (political system) model; understand the feedback amongst Citizen Satisfaction, Issue Management, and Government Legitimacy; and generate emergence of civil unrest and polity instability from the “Bottom Up” within an Agent-Based Model.
Quantum computation with phase drift errors
Creators: name: Miquel, Cesar
name: Paz, Juan Pablo
name: Zurek, Wojciech Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of numerical simulations of the evolution of an ion trap quantum computer made out of 18 ions which are subject to a sequence of nearly 15000 laser pulses in order to find the prime factors of N=15. We analyze the effect of random and systematic phase drift errors arising from inaccuracies in the laser pulses which induce over (under) rotation of the quantum state. Simple analytic estimates of the tolerance for the quality of driving pulses are presented. We examine the use of watchdog stabilization to partially correct phase drift errors concluding that, in the regime investigated, it is rather inefficient.
description: 5 pages, RevTex, 2 figures
title: Ending the Armed Conflict in Tajikistan
Creators: name: Short, Elliot
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Peacekeeping
subject: Mediation

description: A series of multilateral peacekeeping and monitoring missions and the mediation efforts of the UN and the Inter-Tajik Dialogue helped to bring an end to the intrastate armed conflict in Tajikistan in 1997.
Predicting spatial and temporal effects of climate change on the South American lizard genus Teius (Squamata: Teiidae): Supplementary material
Creators: name: Minoli, Ignacio
name: Cacciali, Pier
name: Morando, Mariana
name: Avila, Luciano Javier
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The consequences of past or future climate change have been studied in many physical and biological systems, and their effects could change the ecology and spatial distribution of suitable areas for a wide variety of organisms. We analyzed the environmental and geographic space of the current suitable area projecting these conditions into Mid-Holocene and 2050 RCP8.5 scenarios to quantify whether climate change would affect the distribution and size of environmental and geographic space for lizard species of the genus Teius. The potentially suitable geographic area for the Mid-Holocene was found to be smaller than today for T. oculatus (-29.55%) and for T. teyou (-6.82%), but for T. suquiensis it was inferred as a larger suitable area (+26%). For the future scenario all species showed a decrease in the potentially suitable area compared to the present (T. oculatus = -9.30%, T. teyou = -0.79%, T. suquiensis = -37.58%). The PCA axes in the environmental space showed a higher contribution for PC1-2 in Mid-Holocene and Present were mostly related to temperature and for PC3 with altitude variables, for the 2050 scenario were temperature for PC1, precipitation for PC2 and altitude-temperature for PC3. The current Teius' potentially suitable geographic space results versus the other temporal forecasts, showed specific differences in magnitude changes. This work illustrates how ectothermic organisms might have to face major changes in their environmental and geographic space as a consequence of the effect of climate changes.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0127
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0127, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0127, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
title: The Biochemical Effects of Tau and Zinc in A Tau Mouse Model
Creators: name: Craven, Kristen Marie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Tau
subject: Western Blot
subject: Zinc
subject: Thioflavin-S
subject: Zinpyr-I

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 6 months and will not be available until June 2018 at the earliest.
description: Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease affecting millions worldwide. The hallmark signs are progressive memory loss, confusion, lack of spatial awareness, and changes in personality. This debilitating disease has no known cure and many drug treatments have failed the final stages of testing. Hyperphosphorylated tau is a key pathology within the Alzheimer’s disease brain as well as frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, and Parkinson’s disease. Using a transgenic mouse model that contains the human gene for tau protein (P301L), this study assessed the effects of excess chronic zinc supplementation on tau pathology. Zinc is an essential trace element that is vital for neuronal communication and can be found in high concentrations in the hippocampus, a structure that is affected in Alzheimer’s disease. Zinc has been shown to bind directly to tau and has also been shown to alter levels of phosphorylation. The pSer396 and Tau-5 antibodies were utilized in this study. The amount of phosphorylated tau protein at that site as well as the total amount of tau was semi-quantified (n = 4). Furthermore, Zinpyr-1 was used to semi-quantify the amount of free-zinc (n = 4). Finally, Thioflavin-S was utilized to determine the presence of tau tangles (n = 3). Results show that transgenic tau mice supplemented with zinc water demonstrated higher concentrations of phosphorylation at Ser396 whereas total tau levels remained steady. Furthermore, transgenic tau mice had significantly less free-zinc in the hippocampus compared to wildtype mice as determined by Zinpyr-1 staining, indicating that tau tangles may be sequestering the zinc. Finally, transgenic tau mice given zinc water demonstrated a higher number of tangles in the hippocampus at 7 months of age when compared with transgenic tau mice given standard lab water. These results show that zinc exacerbates tau pathology. Caution should be taken with regard to zinc supplementation, particularly in populations that are already at-risk of tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Pyrenula inframamillana Aptroot & M. Caceres
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Pyrenula
Pyrenula inframamillana

description: Pyrenula inframamillana Aptroot & M.Cáceres
NEW REPORT. — Mineiros, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 53099. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 131, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
SUSY Higgs at the LHC: Large stop mixing effects and associated production
Creators: name: Belanger, G.
name: Boudjema, F.
name: Sridhar, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the effect of the large stop mixing on the decay and production of the lightest SUSY Higgs at the LHC. We stress that whenever the inclusive 2-photon signature is substantially reduced, associated production, $Wh$ and $t\bar t h$, with the subsequent decay of the Higgs into photons is enhanced and becomes an even more important discovery channel. We also point out that these reductions in the inclusive channel do not occur for the smallest Higgs mass where the significance is known to be lowest. We show that in such scenarios the Higgs can be produced in the decay of the heaviest stop. For not too heavy masses of the pseudo-scalar Higgs where the inclusive channel is even further reduced, we show that large stop mixing also allows the production of the pseudo-scalar Higgs through stop decays. These large mixing scenarios therefore offer much better prospects than previously thought. As a by-product we have recalculated stop1-stop1-h production at the LHC and give a first evaluation of stop1-stop1-Z.
description: latex file, 48 pages, 24 figures
On the Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Discrete Structures
Creators: name: Alpers, Andreas
name: Gritzmann, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49N45, 68Q25, 68R05, 94A08

description: We study inverse problems of reconstructing static and dynamic discrete structures from tomographic data (with a special focus on the `classical' task of reconstructing finite point sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$). The main emphasis is on recent mathematical developments and new applications, which emerge in scientific areas such as physics and materials science, but also in inner mathematical fields such as number theory, optimization, and imaging. Along with a concise introduction to the field of discrete tomography, we give pointers to related aspects of computerized tomography in order to contrast the worlds of continuous and discrete inverse problems.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures, 211 references
title: Victim Articulation in Mainstream Online News Coverage: A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy
Creators: name: Ro, Patricia K.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Online news media
subject: Hurricane Sandy
subject: Frame analysis
subject: Hurricane Katrina
subject: Marginalization
subject: Homo sacer

description: This thesis intends to review and integrate disaster research and their myths, media’s use of frames, and theory of homo sacer and marginalization to determine how disaster victims can potentially be marginalized through the way they are articulated through mainstream online news media. This thesis will review how disaster victims can be articulated as understood through already existing works and frame analyses of Hurricane Katrina; and then, determine how those directly affected by Hurricane Sandy are articulated by carrying out a frame analysis of select online news media coverage.
A comparative study on nonparametric estimation procedures for survival quantiles
Creators: name: Kim, Seong W.
name: Hon Keung Tony Ng
name: Jung-Dong Lee
name: Jinheum Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In survival or reliability data analysis, it is often useful to estimate the quantiles of the lifetime distribution, such as the median time to failure. Different nonparametric methods can construct confidence intervals for the quantiles of the lifetime distributions, some of which are implemented in commonly used statistical software packages. We here investigate the performance of different interval estimation procedures under a variety of settings with different censoring schemes. Our main objectives in this paper are to (i) evaluate the performance of confidence intervals based on the transformation approach commonly used in statistical software, (ii) introduce a new density-estimation-based approach to obtain confidence intervals for survival quantiles, and (iii) compare it with the transformation approach. We provide a comprehensive comparative study and offer some useful practical recommendations based on our results. Some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the methodologies developed.
Current research toward optimizing dosing of first-line antituberculosis treatment
Creators: name: McIlleron, Helen
name: Chirehwa, Maxwell T
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Introduction: Drug concentrations in tuberculosis patients on standard regimens vary widely with clinically important consequences. Areas covered: We review the available literature identifying factors correlated with pharmacokinetic variability of antituberculosis drugs. Based on population pharmacokinetic models and the weight, height, and sex distributions in a large data base of African tuberculosis patients, we propose simplified weight-based doses of the available fixed dose combination(FDC) for adults with drug susceptible tuberculosis. Emerging studies will support optimized weight-based dosing for children. Other sources of important pharmacokinetic variability include genetic variants, drug-drug interactions, formulation quality, and methods of preparation and administration. Expert commentary: Optimized weight band-based dosing will result in more equitable distribution of drug exposures by weight. The use of high doses of isoniazid in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis would be safer and more effective if a feasible test was developed to allow stratified dosing according to acetylator type. There is an urgent need for more suitable formulations of many second-line drugs for children. The adoption of new technologies and efficient FDC design may allow further advances for patients and treatment programs. Lastly, current efforts to ensure adequate quality of antituberculosis drug products are not preventing the use of substandard products to treat patients with tuberculosis.
Pyrenula mamillana Trevis.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Pyrenula
Pyrenula mamillana

description: Pyrenula mamillana (Ach.) Trevis.
NEW REPORT. — Mineiros, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 52621. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 131, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Two interacting particles in an effective 2-3d random potential
Creators: name: Borgonovi, Fausto
name: Shepelyansky, Dima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of coherent propagation of two interacting particles in an effective 2-3-d disordered potential. Our numerical data demonstrate that in dimension $d > 2$, interaction can lead to two--particles delocalization below one--particle delocalization border. We also find that the distance between the two delocalized particles (pair size) grows logarithmically with time. As a result pair propagation is subdiffusive.
description: 15 Latex pages, + 15 figures compressed with uufiles
Exact solution of an exciton energy for a monolayer medium
Creators: name: Guvendi, Abdullah
name: Sahin, Ramazan
name: Sucu, Yusuf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present exact solutions of an energy spectrum of 2-interacting particles in which they seem to be relativistic fermions in 2+1 space-time dimensions. The 2x2 spinor equations of 2-interacting fermions through general central potential were separated covariantly into the relative and center of mass coordinates. First of all, the coupled first order differential equations depending on radial coordinate were derived from 2x2 spinor equations. Then, a second order radial differential equation was obtained and solved for Coulomb interaction potential. We apply our solutions to exciton phenomena for a free-standing monolayer medium. Since we regard exciton as isolated 2-interacting fermions in our model, any other external effect such as substrate was eliminated. Our results show that the obtained binding energies in our model are in agreement with the literature. Moreover, the decay time of an exciton was found out spontaneously in our calculations.
description: 5 pages
Pyrenula quassiicola Fee
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Pyrenula
Pyrenula quassiicola

description: Pyrenula quassiicola (Fée) Fée
 NEW REPORT. — Mineiros, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva s.n. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 131, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
title: Kick, Push, Coast: An Ethnographic Exploration of Pulaski Park
Creators: name: Woodward, Janis
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Skateboarding
subject: Freedom Plaza
subject: Intergenerationality
subject: Urban design
subject: Urban politics
subject: Aging

description: Considered one of the most popular skate spots in the world, Pulaski Park (formally referred to as Freedom Plaza) has been a beloved place for skateboarders since the late 1980s. Although skaters from around the United States come to skate this spot, skateboarding in the plaza is illegal. This has led to increased policing and surveillance of skateboarders and a burgeoning fear that the plaza will eventually undergo redevelopment to completely eradicate skateboarding. The potential eradication of street skateboarding could then lead to the disintegration of the skateboarding community that has frequented the plaza for over thirty years. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between April and August 2021, this thesis provides an ethnographic exploration of the complexities of skate spots like Pulaski Park. Through an analysis of street skateboarding at Pulaski, I highlight the infrastructural, intergenerational, and corporeal patterns that emerge in historical street skating spaces. By highlighting these intricacies, I call for urban planners and policymakers to recognize the significance of the Pulaski skateboarding community and how it contributes to the liveliness of the city. This thesis also contributes to literature on the city, urban space, politics, and intergenerationality and aging by bringing the multidimensions of street skateboarding into these conversations.
Weak Decays, CKM and CP Violation
Creators: name: Stone, Sheldon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review several topics pertaining to Weak decays of b and c quarks, including measurements of Vcb, |Vub/Vcb|, fDs and b->s gamma.
description: Presented at "The 17th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN99)," Capetown, South Africa, Jan. 1999, 14 pages 9 figures
title: Conflict and Immigration in Norway: Breivik and the Rise of the Far Right
Creators: name: Nicholas, Inga H.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Immigration
subject: Islamophobia
subject: Norway
subject: Islam
subject: Breivik
subject: Nationalism

description: This thesis examines far right discourse in Europe and in Norway, and the increasing stigmatization and antagonism aimed at Muslim immigrants. The focus of this thesis is on Norway. Written a year after the terrorist acts by Anders Behring Breivik, it examines his motives and argues that far from being a product of political deviation confined to the fringes of society, much of his reasoning follows a broader political discourse that has been developing in Europe and also in Norway. The second part of this thesis examines nationalism and societal barriers that immigrants face in Norway, and investigates whether Muslims immigrants face more hostility than other immigrants. The third part focuses on the Norwegian media and its role in framing Muslim immigrants.
Open Subtitles Paraphrase Corpus for Six Languages
Creators: name: Creutz, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper accompanies the release of Opusparcus, a new paraphrase corpus for six European languages: German, English, Finnish, French, Russian, and Swedish. The corpus consists of paraphrases, that is, pairs of sentences in the same language that mean approximately the same thing. The paraphrases are extracted from the OpenSubtitles2016 corpus, which contains subtitles from movies and TV shows. The informal and colloquial genre that occurs in subtitles makes such data a very interesting language resource, for instance, from the perspective of computer assisted language learning. For each target language, the Opusparcus data have been partitioned into three types of data sets: training, development and test sets. The training sets are large, consisting of millions of sentence pairs, and have been compiled automatically, with the help of probabilistic ranking functions. The development and test sets consist of sentence pairs that have been checked manually; each set contains approximately 1000 sentence pairs that have been verified to be acceptable paraphrases by two annotators.
Small world of Ulam networks for chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics
Creators: name: Frahm, Klaus M.
name: Shepelyansky, Dima L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Ulam method applied to dynamical symplectic maps generates Ulam networks which belong to the class of small world networks appearing for social networks of people, actors, power grids, biological networks and Facebook. We analyze the small world properties of Ulam networks on examples of the Chirikov standard map and the Arnold cat map showing that the number of degrees of separation, or the Erdös number, grows logarithmically with the network size for the regime of strong chaos. This growth is related to the Lyapunov instability of chaotic dynamics. The presence of stability islands leads to an algebraic growth of the Erdös number with the network size. We also compare the time scales related with the Erdös number and the relaxation times of the Perron-Frobenius operator showing that they have a different behavior.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Pyrenula subducta Mull. Arg.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Pyrenula
Pyrenula subducta

description: Pyrenula subducta (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
 NEW REPORT. — Chapada do Céu, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. A. Aptroot s.n. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 131, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
A comparative study on nonparametric estimation procedures for survival quantiles
Creators: name: Kim, Seong W.
name: Hon Keung Tony Ng
name: Jung-Dong Lee
name: Jinheum Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In survival or reliability data analysis, it is often useful to estimate the quantiles of the lifetime distribution, such as the median time to failure. Different nonparametric methods can construct confidence intervals for the quantiles of the lifetime distributions, some of which are implemented in commonly used statistical software packages. We here investigate the performance of different interval estimation procedures under a variety of settings with different censoring schemes. Our main objectives in this paper are to (i) evaluate the performance of confidence intervals based on the transformation approach commonly used in statistical software, (ii) introduce a new density-estimation-based approach to obtain confidence intervals for survival quantiles, and (iii) compare it with the transformation approach. We provide a comprehensive comparative study and offer some useful practical recommendations based on our results. Some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the methodologies developed.
Order-Parameter Flow in the SK Spin-Glass II: Inclusion of Microscopic Memory Effects
Creators: name: Laughton, S. N.
name: Coolen, A. C. C.
name: Sherrington, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop further a recent dynamical replica theory to describe the dynamics of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass in terms of closed evolution equations for macroscopic order parameters. We show how microscopic memory effects can be included in the formalism through the introduction of a dynamic order parameter function: the joint spin-field distribution. The resulting formalism describes very accurately the relaxation phenomena observed in numerical simulations, including the typical overall slowing down of the flow that was missed by the previous simple two-parameter theory. The advanced dynamical replica theory is either exact or a very good approximation.
description: same as original, but this one is TeXable
Magnetogenesis by non-minimal coupling to gravity in the Starobinsky inflationary model
Creators: name: Savchenko, Oleg
name: Shtanov, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $R^2$ term in the Starobinsky inflationary model can be regarded as a leading quantum correction to the gravitational effective action. We assume that parity-preserving and parity-violating (axial) non-minimal couplings between curvature and electromagnetic field are also present in the effective action. In the Einstein frame, they turn into non-trivial couplings of the scalaron and curvature to the electromagnetic field. We make an assessment of inflationary magnetogenesis in this model. In the case of parity-preserving couplings, amplification of magnetic field is negligibly small. In the case of axial couplings, magnetogenesis is hampered by strong back-reaction on the inflationary process, resulting in possible amplification of magnetic field at most by the factor $10^5$ relative to its vacuum fluctuations.
description: 17 pages