cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Evolution Modeled as a Dependent Hidden Markov Process
Creators: name: Jing, Renzhi
name: Lin, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hidden Markov model is developed to simulate tropical cyclone intensity evolution dependent on the surrounding large-scale environment. The model considers three unobserved (hidden) discrete states of intensification and associates each state with a probability distribution of intensity change. The storm's transit from one state to another is described as a Markov chain. Both the intensity change and state transit components of the model are dependent on environmental variables including potential intensity, vertical wind shear, relative humidity, and ocean feedback. This Markov environment-dependent hurricane intensity model (MeHiM) is used to simulate the evolution of storm intensity along the storm track over the ocean, and a simple decay model is added to estimate the intensity change when the storm moves over land. Data for the North Atlantic (NA) basin from 1979-2014 (555 storms) are used for model development and evaluation. Probability distributions of 6-h and 24-h intensity change, lifetime maximum intensity, and landfall intensity based on model simulations and observations compare well. Although the MeHiM is still limited in fully describing rapid intensification, it shows a significant improvement over previous statistical models (e.g., linear, nonlinear, and finite mixture models).
title: Discursive Construction of Post-9/11 American National Identity: United by “the Enemy”
Creators: name: Parker, Robin A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: National identity
subject: Critical discourse analysis
subject: Post-9/11 rhetoric
subject: Social constructionism
subject: American national identity

description: National identity derives from a sense of sameness and cohesion; however, scholars across fields accept the nation as an “imagined community” and that national identity changes. In this thesis, I conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis of political speeches and informal interviews to investigate the post-9/11 discursive construction of American national identity. With a theoretical backing in social constructionism and Norman Fairclough’s articulation of CDA, I focused on lexico-grammatical features and intertextuality and interdiscursivity. Taking head from Ruth Wodak’s study of Austrian national identity, I also analyzed my corpus for constructive strategies of assimilation. Although many discourses contribute to the construction of national identity, the post-9/11 discourse overtly addresses what it means to be American and constructs a stark “other” in the form of terrorism. This study finds that while citizens criticize politics, their sense of “sameness” becomes most concrete when faced with a threat or opposition in the form of terrorism, or when discussing Muslims not associated with terrorism.
Frustration in Lattice Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Azcoiti, Vicente
name: Di Carlo, Giuseppe
name: Follana, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a U(1) lattice gauge theory which incorporates explicit frustration in $d>2$. We show, by identifying an appropiate order parameter and through computer simulations, the existence of a frustrated region in the phase diagram of the model. We study this phase diagram and the nature of the transition lines.
description: 3 pages, Latex, 5 figures, espcrc2.sty needed, Talk presented by E. Follana at LATTICE 97
Visualization and Control of Single Electron Charging in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Velasco, Jairo
name: Lee, Juwon
name: Wong, Dillon
name: Kahn, Salman
name: Tsai, Hsin-Zon
name: Costello, Joseph
name: Umeda, Torben
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Zettl, Alex
name: Wang, Feng
name: Crommie, Michael F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene p-n junctions provide an ideal platform for investigating novel behavior at the boundary between electronics and optics that arise from massless Dirac fermions, such as whispering gallery modes and Veselago lensing. Bilayer graphene also hosts Dirac fermions, but they differ from single-layer graphene charge carriers because they are massive, can be gapped by an applied perpendicular electric field, and have very different pseudospin selection rules across a p-n junction. Novel phenomena predicted for these massive Dirac fermions at p-n junctions include anti-Klein tunneling, oscillatory Zener tunneling, and electron cloaked states. Despite these predictions there has been little experimental focus on the microscopic spatial behavior of massive Dirac fermions in the presence of p-n junctions. Here we report the experimental manipulation and characterization of massive Dirac fermions within bilayer graphene quantum dots defined by circular p-n junctions through the use of scanning tunneling microscopy-based (STM) methods. Our p-n junctions are created via a flexible technique that enables realization of exposed quantum dots in bilayer graphene/hBN heterostructures. These quantum dots exhibit sharp spectroscopic resonances that disperse in energy as a function of applied gate voltage. Spatial maps of these features show prominent concentric rings with diameters that can be tuned by an electrostatic gate. This behavior is explained by single-electron charging of localized states that arise from the quantum confinement of massive Dirac fermions within our exposed bilayer graphene quantum dots.
Search for gamma gamma decays of a Higgs boson produced in association with a fermion pair in e+e- collisions at LEP
Creators: name: ALEPH Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A serach for gamma gamma decays of Higgs boson is performed in the data sample collected at LEP with the ALEPH detector between 1991 and 1999. This corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 672 pb-1 centre-of-mass energies ranging from 88 to 202 GeV. The search is based on topologies arising from a Higgs boson produced in association with a fermion pair via the Higgs-strahlung process e+e- -> Hffbar, with ffbar = nunubar, e+e-, mu+mu-, tau+tau- or qqbar... (CERN)
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, ICHEP 2000
Additional file 1: of EMPATHIC-N in a Greek-Cypriot sample: confirming its factorial structure
Creators: name: Papamichael, Elena
name: Myria Ioannou
name: Talias, Michael A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: EMPATHIC-N original questionnaire items and translated version of items in Greek. (DOCX 37 kb)
DLA and sub-DLA metallicity evolution: A case study of absorbers towards Q0338-0005
Creators: name: Bashir, Waqas
name: Zafar, Tayyaba
name: Khan, Fazeel M.
name: Chishtie, Farrukh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The damped and sub-damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs and sub-DLAs) traced in absorption against bright background quasars represent the main reserve of neutral hydrogen at high redshifts. We used the archival Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrument Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) high-resolution data of Q0338-0005 (zem = 3.049) to study abundances of the DLA (zabs = 2.2298) and sub-DLA (zabs =2.7457) along the line of sight. We estimated column densities of HI and various elements present in the DLA and sub-DLA through Voigt profile fitting. The DLA trough shows the Lyman alpha emission from its host galaxy. We derive the metallicities of the DLA and sub-DLA with [Zn/H] = -0.67 +/- 0.18 and [S/H] = -1.45 +/-0.17, respectively. We compared our abundances of the DLA and sub-DLA with other high resolution DLA and sub-DLA metallicities and find that both populations show an overall increase of metallicity with decreasing redshift. However, sub-DLAs usually have higher metallicities than the DLAs.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for New Astronomy
title: On the Performance of Satellite-based Precipitation Products for Simulating Stream Water Quality
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation presents an investigation on the use of satellite-based precipitation products (SPPs) in a hydrologic model to estimate water quality indicators in stream simulations. Three SPPs based on different retrieval algorithms are considered: the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, TMPA 3B42-V7; the Climate Prediction Center’s CMORPH V1.0 product; and the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks Cloud Classification System, PERSIANN-CCS. The three SPPs are compared to rain gauge-based records over a 5-year period across the Occoquan Watershed, a 1500 square kilometer area, located in the suburban Washington D.C. area. The three SPPs are then used as input to the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) hydrology and water quality model. Each SPP-forced simulation is compared to the reference model simulation forced with the gauge-based observations, in terms of streamflow and several water quality indicators including stream temperature and concentrations of total suspended solids, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, orthophosphate phosphorus, total phosphorus, ammonium-nitrate, and nitrate-nitrogen. First, the skill of each SPP is evaluated on a continuous basis over the 5-year study period. Second, the propagation of errors from input SPPs to simulated streamflow and water quality indicators are evaluated. Third, the model is evaluated during eight extreme hydrometeorological events in terms of simulated streamflow and water quality indicators. Results indicate that the spatiotemporal variability of SPPs, along with their algorithms to estimate precipitation, have a quantifiable impact on both SPP-simulated streamflow and water quality indicators during both continuous and event-based modeling of extreme hydrometeorological events.
L-R asymmetries and signals for new bosons
Creators: name: Montero, J. C.
name: Pleitez, V.
name: Rodriguez, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several left-right parity violating asymmetries in lepton-lepton scattering in fixed target and collider experiments are considered as signals for doubly charged vector bosons (bileptons).
description: Revtex, 7 pages, one .eps figure. Contribution to the VIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields, Oaxaca de Ju\'arez, Oax, M\'exico, November 20--29, 1998
Personensicherheit im Mehrfamilienhaus : Untersuchung der Rauchgasströmung bei einem Kellerbrand in Bezug zum einsatztaktischen Vorgehen der Feuerwehr
Creators: name: Mayer, Moritz
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rauchgasströmung
subject: abwehrender Brandschutz
subject: Multiple-Mesh Geometrie
subject: FDS-Simulation
subject: Pyrolysemodell
subject: Bemessungsbrandszenario
subject: 628.92

description: In close cooperation with the Landesfeuerwehrschule Baden-Württemberg, both a 'design fire’ and an 'observation fire' is elaborated and simulated with the Fire Dynamics Simula-tor (FDS) software. It is characterized in the context of the building regulations and engi-neering methods in the area of fire protection. An apartment building in an urban area is the object of interest. As an assumption, an extended basement fire with an open base-ment door and realistic ventilation opening areas is studied. Respecting various modeling configurations of the fire and flue gas simulation using CFD, an extensive and highly de-tailed building structure can be implemented. Based on the functional requirements and quantification of the personal safety protection objective, three meaningful performance and verification criteria are defined. Thermal, toxic, and visual properties of the fire smoke are analyzed based on the procedure of the self-rescue and external rescue phase of the residents. In addition to the investigation of the necessary stairwell, the assessment of the damaging effect of smoke and toxic inha-lation by the residents behind a tightly closed apartment door is highly relevant. By devel-oping and implementing a model for the behavior of smoke leakage through tightly clos-ing apartment doors, corresponding times for defensive fire protection can be derived. The integration of tactical approaches of the fire department into the simulation results in a detailed recreation of the described scenario. For the practical implementation of all relevant aspects, six fire and smoke gas simulations are carried out with varied parame-ters. Both an uninfluenced development and simulated intervention by the fire depart-ment are considered. The three performance and verification criteria are exceeded in the area of the necessary stairwell in all carried out simulations before the arrival of the emergency forces. By inte-grating tactical measures, a positive change of the surrounding conditions in the stairwell and apartments can be observed. A focused combination of fire fighting and ventilation measures in the course of the external rescue phase, results in a significant improvement.
title: Collaborating to Meet Community Needs: Improving Access to Support Services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Washington, DC
Creators: name: Fecher, Shauna M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: LGBT intimate partner violence
subject: LGBT domestic violence
subject: Same-sex IPV
subject: Same-sex domestic violence
subject: Community organizing DC
subject: Improving LGBT resources

description: There is a widespread need for education and resources capable of addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. This thesis describes the collaborative community response to IPV within the LGBT communities in Washington, DC by analyzing the collective efforts of advocates, law enforcement, and domestic violence service providers. Specifically, this study examines collaborative efforts to raise awareness and educate communities about IPV, help survivors report abuse to law enforcement, and help survivors seek immediate protection from abuse. The participants in this study work cooperatively to improve services for LGBT survivors; however, funding and capacity issues frequently inhibit progress. Results from this study lead to four major conclusions about successful collaborations.
Monte Carlo Renormalization Group calculation in $λϕ^4_3$
Creators: name: Travesset, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We start by discussing some theoretical issues of renormalization group transformations and Monte Carlo renormalization group technique. A method to compute the anomalous dimension is proposed and investigated. As an application, we find excellent values for critical exponents in $λϕ^4_3$. Some technical questions regarding the hybrid algorithm and strong coupling expansions, used to compute the critical couplings of the canonical surface, are also briefly discussed.
description: 3 pages, 2 PostScript files. Parallel talk given at Lattice97
title: ADCO, Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491) (11 H 1179), f. 00546
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179), f. 00546, 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
MOESM2 of Exposure to Yersinia pestis increases resistance to plague in black rats and modulates transmission in Madagascar
Creators: name: Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana
name: Minoarisoa Rajerison
name: Jambou, Ronan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Wilcoxon paired test analysis of anti-F1 IgM and IgG variations during challenge experiment. *(pc) post challenge.
Additional file 1: of Male involvement in the maternal health care system: implication towards decreasing the high burden of maternal mortality
Creators: name: Amanual Mersha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Questionnaire. (DOCX 2172 kb)
Modular Invariance of Finite Size Corrections and a Vortex Critical Phase
Creators: name: Nash, Charles
name: O'Connor, Denjoe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a continuous spin Gaussian model on a toroidal triangular lattice with periods $L_0$ and $L_1$ where the spins carry a representation of the fundamental group of the torus labeled by phases $u_0$ and $u_1$. We find the {\it exact finite size and lattice corrections}, to the partition function $Z$, for arbitrary mass $m$ and phases $u_i$. Summing $Z^{-1/2}$ over phases gives the corresponding result for the Ising model. The limits $m\rightarrow0$ and $u_i\rightarrow0$ do not commute. With $m=0$ the model exhibits a {\it vortex critical phase} when at least one of the $u_i$ is non-zero. In the continuum or scaling limit, for arbitrary $m$, the finite size corrections to $-\ln Z$ are {\it modular invariant} and for the critical phase are given by elliptic theta functions. In the cylinder limit $L_1\rightarrow\infty$ the ``cylinder charge'' $c(u_0,m^2L_0^2)$ is a non-monotonic function of $m$ that ranges from $2(1+6u_0(u_0-1))$ for $m=0$ to zero for $m\rightarrow\infty$.
description: 12 pages of Plain TeX with two postscript figure insertions called torusfg1.ps and torusfg2.ps which can be obtained upon request from denjoe@stp.dias.ie
title: Restavèk: The Life of Haiti's Most Vulnerable Population and the Fight against Child Trafficking
Creators: name: Valmond, Fabienne
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Restavèk
subject: Child domestic workers
subject: Haiti
subject: Human rights
subject: Human trafficking
subject: Child labor

description: The purpose of my research project was to conduct an in-depth analysis of restavèk, a social system in Haiti where parents send their children off to other families that potentially can give them a better life than the one in which they were born into. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes the conditions that enable this social phenomenon to continue to exist. It is important to note that there is a debate as to whether or not restavèk is a form of child trafficking. Therefore, an examination has been conducted of the root causes of child trafficking, restavèk and the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate these problems. In doing so, this thesis endeavors to situate the restavèk phenomenon within the global definition of human trafficking. The primary population for this study is poor village dwellers in Haiti that send their children to relatives, friends and strangers for a “better life” with the urban dwellers that receive them. Part of this project is to understand how the concept of giving a child a better life may, at times, resemble servitude—a reality that is less desirable for the well-being of the child. In severe cases, a child can be given to an overtly abusive family and is therefore in a worse situation. Using ethnographic research methods, this thesis will address the following three questions: 1) What are the larger cultural, economic, and political structures that create the conditions that compel parents to send their children to live with other relatives, friends and strangers where they might be vulnerable to human trafficking—and how are these factors correlated to socioeconomic-economic characteristics that influence family decisions around the well-being of the child? 2) How might the practice of child fostering as an opportunity for a better life lead parents to accept the risk of child trafficking? And, lastly, 3) Are the existing frameworks for understanding "human trafficking” appropriate or useful in studying restavèk?
ОБУЧЕНИЕ РУССКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ КАК ИНОСТРАННОМУ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ
Creators: name: Рахматуллаева, Сугдиёна
name: Таштемирова, Замира
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Статья рассматривает вопросы обучения русскому языку как иностранному в условиях быстро развивающихся информационных технологий. Статья призвана способствовать более эффективному преподаванию и изучению русского языка в условиях современных информационных технологий.
Twistor structures and boost-invariant solutions to field equations
Creators: name: Kassandrov, Vladimir V.
name: Rizcallah, Joseph A.
name: Markova, Nina V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a brief overview of a non-Lagrangian approach to field theory based on a generalization of the Kerr-Penrose theorem and algebraic twistor equations. Explicit algorithms for obtaining the set of fundamental (Maxwell, SL(2, C)-Yang-Mills, spinor Weyl and curvature) fields associated with every solution of the basic system of algebraic equations are reviewed. The notion of a boost-invariant solution is introduced, and the unique axially-symmetric and boost-invariant solution which can be generated by twistor functions is obtained, together with the associated fields. It is found that this solution possesses a wide variety of point-, string- and membrane-like singularities exhibiting nontrivial dynamics and transmutations.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Report on benefits produced by implemented NBS
Creators: name: Chiara Baldacchini
name: Carlo Calfapietra
name: Gabriele Guidolotti
name: Martina Ristorini
name: Giovanni Sanesi
name: Giuseppina Spano
name: Vincenzo Giannico
name: Payam Dadvand
name: Mònica Ubalde
name: Isabel Botey
name: Monica Vercelli
name: Federica Paradiso
name: Chiara Ferracini
name: Simona Bonelli
name: Yaoyang Xu
name: Tian Ruan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: progireg
Report on benefits produced by implemented NBS

description: Baldacchini, C. (2021): Report on benefits produced by implemented NBS, Deliverable No.4.5, proGIreg.Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No 776528, European Commission, 146.
A New Dark Matter Candidate: Non-thermal Sterile Neutrinos
Creators: name: Shi, Xiangdong
name: Fuller, George M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new and unique dark matter candidate: $\sim 100$ eV to $\sim 10$ keV sterile neutrinos produced via lepton number-driven resonant MSW (Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein) conversion of active neutrinos. The requisite lepton number asymmetries in any of the active neutrino flavors range from 10$^{-3}$ to 10$^{-1}$ of the photon number - well within primordial nucleosynthesis bounds. The unique feature here is that the adiabaticity condition of the resonance strongly favors the production of lower energy sterile neutrinos. The resulting non-thermal (cold) energy spectrum can cause these sterile neutrinos to revert to non-relativistic kinematics at an early epoch, so that free-streaming lengths at or below the dwarf galaxy scale are possible. Therefore, the main problem associated with light neutrino dark matter candidates can be circumvented in our model.
description: Latex 11 pages + 1 figure
Search for charged Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions at energies up to sqrt(s) = 189GeV
Creators: name: ALEPH Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The data collected at centre-of-mass energies of 188.6 GeV by ALEPH at LEP, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 176.2 pb-1, are analysed in a search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons H+/-. Three analyses are employed to select the taunutaunu, taunucs and cscs final states. No evidence for a signal is found. Upper limits are set on the production cross section as a function of the branching fraction BR(H+ to tau nu) and of the mass M(H+), assuming that the sum of the branching ratios is equal to one. In the framework of a two-Higgs-doublet model, charged Higgs bosons with masses below 65.4 GeV/c2 are excluded at 95% confidence level independently of the decay mode.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, ICHEP2000 Osaka
title: Small Peptide Derived from Human MMP12 CTD Is Antibacterial against Gram-negative and Gram-positive Pathogens, Including Multi-drug Resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Creators: name: Leverone, Nicholas A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: MMP12
subject: KY-27
subject: Antimicrobial peptide
subject: MRSA

description: Matrix Metalloproteinase 12 (MMP12) is a macrophage produced proteolytic enzyme also known as macrophage elastase. The proteinase activity is located at its N-terminal. The C-terminal of the protein is cleaved during processing, releasing the Hemopexin-like Carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) [1-3]. The biological function of the CTD is not known. Previous work by our group demonstrated that murine MMP12 had bactericidal activity in a small peptide contained within the middle third of the CTD [4]. The goal of this study was to examine human MMP12 to determine if similar CTD-antibacterial activity could be identified. We investigated the antimicrobial properties of human MMP12 CTD with the goal of identifying potential antimicrobial peptides within this hemopexin-like protein. We tested the full-length human CTD domain for antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and other bacteria. We used three-dimensional structure analysis, comparison of known human peptides identified in blood, and bioinformatic analysis of sequences using peptide databases in order to identify strong candidates for antimicrobial activity. These candidate peptides were then synthesized and tested for antimicrobial peptide activity against S. aureus. Active peptides from this screen were further tested against other organisms, for biofilm inhibition, and for their effect on bacterial membrane integrity. The human CTD of MMP12 is antibacterial against S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, E. coli, and A. baumannii. We tested small peptides derived from CTD for antibacterial activity. Five active peptides were identified. One peptide, KY-27, displayed the lowest half-maximal effective concentration (EC50), 27.8 μM against S. aureus, and 47.45 μM against MRSA. This peptide was antimicrobial against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, but did not inhibit biofilm formation by these organisms. When tested in an in vivo model, this peptide was able to increase survival in G. mellonella when challenged with P. aeruginosa. Our studies demonstrate that the human MMP12 CTD is antibacterial against S. aureus. We also identified a small 27 AA peptide of the CTD, KY-27, which has strong antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and multiple other pathogenic bacteria. These results suggest that KY-27 may be a vital component of the CTD bactericidal effects.
Topological structure in the SU(2) vacuum
Creators: name: DeGrand, Thomas
name: Hasenfratz, Anna
name: Kovacs, Tamas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the topological content of the vacuum of SU(2) pure gauge theory using lattice simulations. We use a smoothing process based on the renormalization group equation. This removes short distance fluctuations but preserves long distance structure. The action of the smoothed configurations is dominated by instantons, but they still show an area law for Wilson loops with an unchanged string tension. The average radius of an instanton is about 0.2 fm, at a density of about 2 fm${}^{-4}$.
description: 3 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, uses espcrc2.sty, Talk given at LATTICE97
The Large Mixing of the Pseudoscalars in QCD and Large Flavor Mixing of Neutrinos
Creators: name: Fritzsch, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In analogy to the mixing pattern of the pseudoscalar mesons in QCD we discuss the mixing of massive neutrinos. Unlike the quarks flavor mixing angles the leptonic mixing angles are large, nearly maximal. The three massive neutrinos are nearly degenerate.
description: 5 latex pages
Ghost-free Palatini derivative scalar-tensor theory: desingularization and the speed test
Creators: name: Gal'tsov, Dmitri
name: Zhidkova, Sophia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We disclose remarkable features of the scalar-tensor theory with the derivative coupling of the scalar field to the curvature in the Palatini formalism. Using the disformal transformations, we show that this theory is free from Otrogradski ghosts. For a special relation between two coupling constants, it is disformally dual to the Einstein gravity minimally coupled to the scalar, which opens the way to constructing several exact solutions. The disformal transformation degenerates at the boundary of the physical region, near which the properties of desingularization are revealed, illustrated by exact solutions: non-singular accelerating cosmology and a static spherically symmetric geon. We also construct the exact pp-waves of this theory propagating at the speed of light.
description: New references added, discussion of disformal duality extended, misprints corrected
Scale--dependent Hayward black hole and the generalized uncertainty principle
Creators: name: Contreras, E.
name: Bargueño, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a technique to obtain bounds on the generalized uncertainty principle deformation parameter by using an improved Schwarzschild solution represented by the Hayward metric in the context of scale--dependent gravity. Specifically, this deformation parameter can be interpreted in terms of a running parameter which controls the deviation from the standard Einstein--Hilbert action in the scale--dependent scenario.
description: 5 pages. References added. Accepted in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 618
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 618, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 618, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
title: Geovisualisation Mashup Tool to Provide Better Situation Awareness for Earthquakes
Creators: name: Dias, Shawn Bosco
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geovisualization
subject: Routing
subject: Earthquake
subject: Web GIS

description: Important information pertaining to earthquake and its response is spread all over the Internet. In the event of a disaster like an earthquake, rapid access to information is critical. The public usually has a hard time retrieving and combining information from various sources spread all across the Internet thus preventing them from making quick decisions. Most of the current earthquake mashups do not provide relevant information like location of first responders and routing to important facilities like hospitals, emergency operation centers, police stations and fire stations which could save important time and lives. To address the challenges, I developed an Earthquake Information Mashup Tool which demonstrates a mashup approach to provide a web visualization tool that provides real-time monitoring of earthquakes and traffic conditions, the location of important facilities and routing to them, and the ability for users to depict a description of the situation around them. Users are thus able to integrate information from various near real time sources and get better situation awareness of the environment around them and are able to make important decisions. The Earthquake Information Mashup tool demonstrates an effective means to achieve situation awareness and a routing tool to important facilities in the vicinity of the user.
Dielectric modulation of ion transport near interfaces
Creators: name: Antila, Hanne S.
name: Luijten, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ion mobility and ionic conductance in nanodevices are known to deviate from bulk behavior, a phenomenon often attributed to surface effects. We demonstrate that dielectric mismatch between the electrolyte and the surface can qualitatively alter ionic transport in a counterintuitive manner. Instead of following the polarization-induced modulation of the concentration profile, mobility is enhanced or reduced by changes in the ionic atmosphere near the interface and affected by a polarization force parallel to the surface. In addition to revealing this mechanism, we explore the effect of salt concentration and electrostatic coupling.
title: Adolescent obesity: The role of parenting styles and adolescent emotion regulation
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Obesity rates among adolescents have increased significantly in the past decade, and while strong intervention efforts are evident, obesity rates are not slowing down. Notably, parenting styles are thought to be important in the development of adolescent obesity; however, these findings are highly mixed due to several critical limitations. Further, literature investigating possible mechanisms to help explain how parenting styles are associated with adolescent weight is limited. This dissertation presents two studies that investigate parenting styles and adolescent weight. Study one examined how negative and positive parenting styles predict adolescent weight over three years from early to middle adolescence. Results revealed that high levels of negative parenting predict initially high adolescent BMI for age and gender percentiles in early adolescence and that these high BMI scores remain stable across three years. Additionally, low levels of negative parenting styles predicted initially lower adolescent BMI for age and gender percentiles, and these BMI scores grew significantly across three years. Study two longitudinally examined parenting styles’ associations with adolescent BMI through adolescents’ difficulties in emotion regulation. Unexpectedly, emotion regulation did not mediate the association between parenting styles and adolescent BMI over time.
Late Inflation and the Moduli Problem of Sub-Millimeter Dimensions
Creators: name: Csaki, Csaba
name: Graesser, Michael
name: Terning, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a recent model with sub-millimeter sized extra dimensions, where the field that determines the size of the extra dimensions (the radion) also acts as an inflaton. The radion is also a stable modulus, and its coherent oscillations can potentially overclose the Universe. It has been suggested that a second round of late inflation can solve this problem, however we find that this scenario does not allow for sufficient reheating of the Universe.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX
Robustness of functional networks at criticality against structural defects
Creators: name: Goodarzinick, Abdorreza
name: Niry, Mohammad D.
name: Valizadeh, Alireza
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The robustness of dynamical properties of neuronal networks against structural damages is a central problem in computational and experimental neuroscience. Research has shown that the cortical network of a healthy brain works near a critical state, and moreover, that functional neuronal networks often have scale-free and small-world properties. In this work, we study how the robustness of simple functional networks at criticality is affected by structural defects. In particular, we consider a 2D Ising model at the critical temperature and investigate how its functional network changes with the increasing degree of structural defects. We show that the scale-free and small-world properties of the functional network at criticality are robust against large degrees of structural lesions while the system remains below the percolation limit. Although the Ising model is only a conceptual description of a two-state neuron, our research reveals fundamental robustness properties of functional networks derived from classical statistical mechanics models.
description: 7 two-column pages, 8 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Integrable O(n) model on the honeycomb lattice via reflection matrices : Surface critical behaviour
Creators: name: Yung, C. M.
name: Batchelor, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $O(n)$ loop model on the honeycomb lattice with open boundary conditions. Reflection matrices for the underlying Izergin-Korepin $R$-matrix lead to three inequivalent sets of integrable boundary weights. One set, which has previously been considered, gives rise to the ordinary surface transition. The other two sets correspond respectively to the special surface transition and the mixed ordinary-special transition. We analyse the Bethe ansatz equations derived for these integrable cases and obtain the surface energies together with the central charges and scaling dimensions characterizing the corresponding phase transitions.
description: LaTeX, 29 pages, with 5 PostScript figures
title: Lady of Courage
Creators: name: Newell, Marique H.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Marriage
subject: Love
subject: Parents
subject: Pennsylvania
subject: Daughter

description: Lady of Courage chronicles three specific events—a first visit to a Quaker meetinghouse and serve, a day trip to Concord, Mass., and the author’s 27th birthday. Within each, the present relationship between the author and her parents and the author’s parents is explored and understood through reflections on the author’s childhood experiences. Within these reflections, the author confronts several pressing issues regarding the ups and downs in her parent’s 38-year marriage and the ups and downs in her relationship with her mother and her father.
MOESM1 of Exposure to Yersinia pestis increases resistance to plague in black rats and modulates transmission in Madagascar
Creators: name: Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana
name: Minoarisoa Rajerison
name: Jambou, Ronan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Location of field collection of F1 ratsâ parents. Betafo represents the plague-endemic area, whereas Toamasina and Miandrivazo are considered as plague-free areas. Dashed line: limits of the main plague-endemic area in the central highlands of Madagascar.
Topological superconductivity in Landau levels
Creators: name: Jeon, Gun Sang
name: Jain, J. K.
name: Liu, C. -X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intense search for topological superconductivity is inspired by the prospect that it hosts Majorana quasiparticles. We explore in this work the optimal design for producing topological superconductivity by combining a quantum Hall state with an ordinary superconductor. To this end, we consider a microscopic model for a topologically trivial two-dimensional p-wave superconductor exposed to a magnetic field, and find that the interplay of superconductivity and Landau level physics yields a rich phase diagram of states as a function of $μ/t$ and $Δ/t$, where $μ$, $t$ and $Δ$ are the chemical potential, hopping strength, and the amplitude of the superconducting gap. In addition to quantum Hall states and topologically trivial p-wave superconductor, the phase diagram also accommodates regions of topological superconductivity. Most importantly, we find that application of a non-uniform, periodic magnetic field produced by a square or a hexagonal lattice of $h/e$ fluxoids greatly facilitates regions of topological superconductivity in the limit of $Δ/t\rightarrow 0$. In contrast, a uniform magnetic field, a hexagonal Abrikosov lattice of $h/2e$ fluxoids, or a one dimensional lattice of stripes produces topological superconductivity only for sufficiently large $Δ/t$.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures including supplemental material
title: Address: James W. Rouse, "Cities That Work For Man - Victory Ahead," October 18, 1967
Creators: name: Rouse, James W.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Address, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Address by James W. Rouse entitled "Cities That Work For Man - Victory Ahead" dated October 18, 1967. This address was given at the Lions International and University of Puerto Rico Symposium on "The City of the Future" which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In this address, Rouse discusses new community development and the potential for new communities to produce positive change. Planned Community Archives Collection, 638.05.03
Further one-loop results in O(a) improved lattice QCD
Creators: name: Sint, Stefan
name: Weisz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Schrödinger functional we have computed a variety of renormalized on-shell correlation functions to one-loop order of perturbation theory. By studying their approach to the continuum limit we have determined the O($a$) counterterms needed to improve the quark mass and a number of isovector quark bilinear operators.
description: 3 pages Latex using espcrc2.sty, to appear in the conference proceedings of Lattice '97, Edinburgh
title: The Dangers of Displacement: Vulnerabilities to Trafficking within Georgian IDP Populations
Creators: name: Willingham, Kelsey J. V.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Georgia
subject: Russia

description: This study uses key socioeconomic factors, which increase the risk of trafficking as identified in international literature.1 Research aimed to determine if a deviation in vulnerabilities exists between the IDP population and the overall population of Georgia. The study analyzed results of the research - which attempted to determine specific risk factors faced by displaced populations, including inadequate housing, lack of economic opportunity, and willingness to migrate. The research attempted to extrapolate trends on IDP vulnerabilities, which might be applied to other displaced populations not only in Georgia but worldwide.
Additional file 1: of Using automated electronic medical record data extraction to model ALS survival and progression
Creators: name: Karanevich, Alex
name: Weisbrod, Luke
name: Jawdat, Omar
name: Barohn, Richard
name: Gajewski, Byron
name: Jianghua He
name: Statland, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Linearity of 16 randomly selected patients who had >â 3 visits. For 16 randomly selected patients with more than three recorded visits, we show their ALSFRS-R score versus time in months, along with the fit regression line. This gives the reader a general idea of the linear decline of the ALSFRS-R seen in patients. (PDF 8 kb)