cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phenomenological Equations of State for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Meisinger, Peter N.
name: Miller, Travis R.
name: Ogilvie, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two phenomenological models describing an SU(N) quark-gluon plasma are presented. The first is obtained from high temperature expansions of the free energy of a massive gluon, while the second is derived by demanding color neutrality over a certain length scale. Each model has a single free parameter, exhibits behavior similar to lattice simulations over the range T_d - 5T_d, and has the correct blackbody behavior for large temperatures. The N = 2 deconfinement transition is second order in both models, while N = 3,4, and 5 are first order. Both models appear to have a smooth large-N limit. For N >= 4, it is shown that the trace of the Polyakov loop is insufficient to characterize the phase structure; the free energy is best described using the eigenvalues of the Polyakov loop. In both models, the confined phase is characterized by a mutual repulsion of Polyakov loop eigenvalues that makes the Polyakov loop expectation value zero. In the deconfined phase, the rotation of the eigenvalues in the complex plane towards 1 is responsible for the approach to the blackbody limit over the range T_d - 5T_d. The addition of massless quarks in SU(3) breaks Z(3) symmetry weakly and eliminates the deconfining phase transition. In contrast, a first-order phase transition persists with sufficiently heavy quarks.
description: 22 pages, RevTeX, 9 eps files
The Private Provision of Public Goods: Tests of a Provision Point Mechanism for Funding Green Power Programs
Creators: name: Rose, Steven K.
name: Clark, Jeremy
name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Rondeau, Daniel
name: Schulze, William D.
name: Rose, Steven K.
name: Clark, Jeremy
name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Rondeau, Daniel
name: Schulze, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: public goods
subject: provision point
subject: green pricing
subject: renewable energy
subject: experiments
subject: free riding
subject: altruism.

description: This paper utilizes laboratory and field experiments to test the use of a provision point mechanism to finance renewable energy programs, commonly known as green pricing programs. The mechanism solicits discrete contributions towards a provision threshold using a money-back guarantee for insufficient contributions and extended benefits for contributions in excess of the threshold. In the laboratory, a single shot environment with a large group of potential participants produces contribution levels that are found to be partially demand revealing as well as motivated by altruism or wann-glow. Also, in contrast to most green pricing programs, relatively high participation is found in the field. Field participation is shown to be responsive to program goals and the provision point mechanism.
Goniocolletes colletellus
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Goniocolletes
Goniocolletes colletellus

description: Goniocolletes colletellus (Cockerell, 1905)
 Paracolletes colletellus * Cockerell 1905c: 485; 1906: 29; 1934: 24.
 Leioproctus (Goniocolletes) colletellus (Cockerell). Michener 1965: 66.
 Types
 Paracolletes colletellus — Northern Territory: holotype ♂, Adelaide River (BMNH 17 a. 431); paratype, ♂, same data as holotype (BMNH).
 Additional material examined: 4♀, 11♂. Queensland: 7 miles (11.2k) W Charleville; 4 miles (6.4k) W Charleville; Dulbydilla Ck, 29k E Morven; 8 k W Cunnamulla. New South Wales: 80 k NE Wentworth. Victoria: 20 miles (32k) SE Mildura. Western Australia: Great Northern Highway, 9 k N Newman turnoff; 10 k E Carnarvon.
 Months collected: January, November, December.
 Floral visitations: Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus floribunda, Eucalyptus largiflorens, Eucalyptus spp ..
 Female —Length ca 10 mm, head and mesosoma dark brown to black. Head —Clypeus often mottled orange; mandibles orange with dark tips; facial fovea impressed, most strongly above, clearly defined all round; scape yellow, denudate; flagellum yellow ventrally, darker dorsally; hair appressed on supraclypeal area and clypeus; malar space length about 0.16 x width at the base of the mandibles, polished. Mesosoma — Propodeum often paler than surrounding area, legs pale orange; propodeal triangle with basal area clearly defined smooth to slightly roughened; inner hind tibial spur obscured by dense, fine branched hairs. Metasoma —Integument pale orange with occasional black patches; apical tergal margins translucent; T2–4 with short appressed apical and basal hair bands; T1 basally with moderately long, dense hair; caudal fimbria dense, pale brown; pygidial plate flat, rough, broadly rounded apically; gradulus indistinct.  Male —  As for female except as follows: Length ca 9 mm. Head —Malar space almost non-existent; entire face covered in pale yellow dense, appressed hair; long, white to pale yellow beard. Mesosoma —Legs simple, brown, with femoral-tibial joints yellow. Metasoma— Most with a definite black apex; hair bands weak; pygidial plate clearly defined triangular area; S3–5 with short, white sternal fringes; S5 fringe weak. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 202–204.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387
Allotrochosina Roewer 1960
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Allotrochosina

description: Genus Allotrochosina Roewer, 1960
 Allotrochosina Roewer, 1960: 927. Type species: Lycosa schauinslandi Simon, 1899, from New Zealand.
Remarks. This is the first record of this genus from China. Prior to this study, three species were known, all from Australia and New Zealand (WSC, 2020). Diagnostic characteristics include: lack of bristles on tip of the male palp; subtegulum elongated, situated along the prolateral margin of the cymbium; embolus and terminal apophysis reduced and crowded together at tip of bulb (Vink, 2001; Framenau, 2008).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Assessment of the effectiveness of a multi-site stochastic weather generator on hydrological modelling in the Red Deer River watershed, Canada
Creators: name: C. Dai
name: X. S. Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: To improve the convergence of multiple-site weather generators (SWGs) based on the brute force algorithm (MBFA), a genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to search the overall optimal correlation matrix. Precipitation series from weather generators are used as input to the hydrological model, the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT), to generate runoff over the Red Deer watershed, Canada for further runoff analysis. The results indicate that the SWAT model using SWG-generated data accurately represents the mean monthly streamflow for most of the months. The multi-site generators were capable of better representing the monthly streamflow variability, which was notably underestimated by the single-site version. In terms of extreme flows, the proposed method reproduced the observed extreme flow with smaller bias than MBFA, while the single-site generator significantly underestimated the annual maximum flows due to its poor capability in addressing partial precipitation correlations.
Public Forest Land Allocation: A Dynamic Spatial Perspective on Environmental Timber Management
Creators: name: Rose, Steven K.
name: Rose, Steven K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The complicated process of public forest land allocation involves competing economies of scale. While harvesting cost economies of scale may benefit harvesters, where average costs decline as contiguous harvested acreage increases, larger harvested areas can generate diseconomies in terms of environmental and ecosystem damage. This paper extends existing timber rotation models to more completely account for spatial synergies. Simulations are used to illustrate potential impacts. Simulations find that adjacency economies of scale may be an important determinant of the optimal spatial harvest configuration and intertemporal harvest sequence. The consequences of scheduling harvests ignorant of fixed costs are also discussed.
Computer classification of linear codes based on lattice point enumeration and integer linear programming
Creators: name: Kurz, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94B05, 05E20

description: Linear codes play a central role in coding theory and have applications in several branches of mathematics. For error correction purposes the minimum Hamming distance should be as large as possible. Linear codes related to applications in Galois Geometry often require a certain divisibility of the occurring weights. In this paper we present an algorithmic framework for the classification of linear codes over finite fields with restricted sets of weights. The underlying algorithms are based on lattice point enumeration and integer linear programming. We present new enumeration and non-existence results for projective two-weight codes, divisible codes, and additive $\mathbb{F}_4$-codes.
description: 9 pages
Probing and dressing magnetic impurities in a superconductor
Creators: name: Akkaravarawong, Kamphol
name: Väyrynen, Jukka I.
name: Sau, Jay D.
name: Demler, Eugene A.
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
name: Yao, Norman Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to probe and control the interactions between an ensemble of magnetic impurities in a superconductor via microwave radiation. Our method relies upon the presence of sub-gap Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states associated with the impurities. Depending on the sign of the detuning, radiation generates either a ferro- or antiferromagnetic contribution to the exchange interaction. This contribution can bias the statistics of the random exchange constants stemming from the RKKY interaction. Moreover, by measuring the microwave response at the YSR resonance, one gains information about the magnetic order of the impurities. To this end, we estimate the absorption coefficient as well as the achievable strength of the microwave-induced YSR-interactions using off-resonant radiation. The ability to utilize microwave fields to both probe and control impurity spins in a superconducting host may open new paths to studying metallic spin glasses.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Super Resolution Convolutional Neural Network Models for Enhancing Resolution of Rock Micro-CT Images
Creators: name: Da Wang, Ying
name: Armstrong, Ryan
name: Mostaghimi, Peyman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) techniques based on Super Resolution Convolutional Neural Networks (SRCNN) are applied to micro-computed tomography (μCT) images of sandstone and carbonate rocks. Digital rock imaging is limited by the capability of the scanning device resulting in trade-offs between resolution and field of view, and super resolution methods tested in this study aim to compensate for these limits. SRCNN models SR-Resnet, Enhanced Deep SR (EDSR), and Wide-Activation Deep SR (WDSR) are used on the Digital Rock Super Resolution 1 (DRSRD1) Dataset of 4x downsampled images, comprising of 2000 high resolution (800x800) raw micro-CT images of Bentheimer sandstone and Estaillades carbonate. The trained models are applied to the validation and test data within the dataset and show a 3-5 dB rise in image quality compared to bicubic interpolation, with all tested models performing within a 0.1 dB range. Difference maps indicate that edge sharpness is completely recovered in images within the scope of the trained model, with only high frequency noise related detail loss. We find that aside from generation of high-resolution images, a beneficial side effect of super resolution methods applied to synthetically downgraded images is the removal of image noise while recovering edgewise sharpness which is beneficial for the segmentation process. The model is also tested against real low-resolution images of Bentheimer rock with image augmentation to account for natural noise and blur. The SRCNN method is shown to act as a preconditioner for image segmentation under these circumstances which naturally leads to further future development and training of models that segment an image directly. Image restoration by SRCNN on the rock images is of significantly higher quality than traditional methods and suggests SRCNN methods are a viable processing step in a digital rock workflow.
description: 24 pages
Lake Echo
Creators: name: Valley, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

“Lake Echo” is a collection of poems in three parts. It centers around a fictionalized rural landscape, and the nuanced family dynamics and social systems that accompany rural spaces. The poems focus on memory and trauma, and how trauma can be performed by the body – theatre and staging are central metaphors in the collection, as the narrator considers her own modes of performance, and the disembodiment caused by trauma and unhealthy learned behaviors. The poems are bound by a repeating title, “Lake Echo,” in which the narrator reflects again and again on both physical and emotional landscapes. In the Afterword, I discuss poetic and theatrical influences for the collection, as well as ways of knowing that come from animal interaction and engagement; animals populate the collection, and are a primary source of inspiration for the text. I also discuss Vievee Francis’s “antipastoral” poems, and the idea of remaking or redefining rural poetics.
Unveiling the inconsistency of the Proca theory with non-minimal coupling to gravity
Creators: name: Hell, Anamaria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the degrees of freedom of the Proca theory, non-minimally coupled to gravity. In the Minkowski background, this theory propagates five degrees of freedom -- a massive longitudinal mode, two massive vector ones, and two massless tensor modes. At first sight, the non-linear coupling between the metric perturbations and the vector field indicates that both longitudinal and tensor modes become strongly coupled, at the same scale. This would imply that no matter how small the photon mass is if non-minimal coupling is taken into account, gravitational waves would necessarily be strongly coupled. We show that the way out of this inconsistency is through the introduction of the disformal coupling to the metric perturbations that resemble the vector-type disformal transformations. This way, the unphysical coupling between the two types of modes can be avoided, rendering the model consistent. As a result, we show that only the longitudinal modes enter a strong coupling regime, while both tensor and transverse modes remain weakly coupled at all scales up to the Planck length. Finally, using the same form of the disformal transformation, we introduce a disformal frame in which the recently reported runaway modes are absent.
description: 21 pages, To appear in PTEP
Unitarized chiral perturbation theory of hadrons
Creators: name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exposition is made of recent developments using techniques of unitary chiral perturbation theory, $U χP T$, which allows one to extend predictions using chiral Lagrangians to higher energies than ordinary chiral perturbation theory, including the region of low lying mesonic and baryonic resonances, some of which are dynamically generated in the approach. Results for meson meson scattering, pion and kaon form factors and meson baryon scattering are shown. Applications are done for nuclear problems showing the results for the kaon and eta selfenergies, phi renormalization in a nuclear medium and $σ$ renormalization in the medium, comparing results with recent experiments.
description: Talk at PANIC2002 Conference, Osaka, October 2002
Hyperviscosity stabilisation of the RBF-FD solution to natural convection
Creators: name: Vaupotič, Žiga
name: Rot, Miha
name: Kosec, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The numerical stability of fluid flow is an important topic in computational fluid dynamics as fluid flow simulations usually become numerically unstable in the turbulent regime. Many mesh-based methods have already established numerical dissipation procedures that dampen the effects of the unstable advection term. When it comes to meshless methods, the prominent stabilisation scheme is hyperviscosity. It introduces numerical dissipation in the form of a higher-order Laplacian operator. Many papers have already discussed the general effects of hyperviscosity and its parameters. However, hyperviscosity in flow problems has not yet been analyzed in depth. In this paper, we discuss the effects of hyperviscosity on natural convection flow problems as we approach the turbulent regime.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, prepared for EUROTHERM 2024
Hippasa Simon 1885
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Hippasa

description: Genus Hippasa Simon, 1885
 Hippasa Simon, 1885: 31. Type species: Pirata agelenoides Simon, 1884, from India.
Remarks. Currently 37 species are known worldwide, of which 3 species are reported from China (WSC, 2020).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Green product design with competition and fairness concerns in the circular economy era
Creators: name: Qingying Li
name: Xiaotong Guan
name: Tianqin Shi
name: Jiao, Wen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: In this paper, we consider green product design in a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and two retailers, where retailer 1 aims at monetary profit maximisation, and retailer 2 has fairness concern. We consider two kinds of green products: a marginal-intensive green product (MIGP) and a development-intensive green product (DIGP). For the former, the green investment cost depends on the green level and the production quantity; while for the latter, the green investment cost depends on the green level solely. In each case, we investigate the impact of the retailer’s fairness concern by comparing the optimal solutions and supply chain performance with those in the basic models in which all the supply chain members aim at profit maximisation. We find that retailer 2 will set a higher retailing price and earn a smaller market share. Such inferiority increases as retailer 2’s inequity aversion increases or as the substitutability degree of the products offered by the two retailers increases. We also find that retailer 2’s fairness concern will always harm the manufacturer. If an equity outcome is achieved, the supply chain may achieve a better performance; however, if an inequity outcome is attained, the supply chain always performs worse.
Holographic integral geometry with time dependence
Creators: name: Czech, Bartlomiej
name: Olivas, Yaithd D.
name: Wang, Zi-zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We write down Crofton formulas--expressions that compute lengths of spacelike curves in asymptotically AdS$_3$ geometries as integrals over kinematic space--which apply when the curve and/or the background spacetime is time-dependent. Relative to their static predecessor, the time-dependent Crofton formulas display several new features, whose origin is the local null rotation symmetry of the bulk geometry. In pure AdS$_3$ where null rotations are global symmetries, the Crofton formulas simplify and become integrals over the null planes, which intersect the bulk curve.
description: 21 pages plus references, 6 figures
16196986976138-1.pdf
Creators: name: Anuvrat Sinha
name: Dr  M  Premjit Ray
name: Dr  D Ravi
name: Dr  KVV Satyanarayana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: ACT In this era of urbanization and motorization, Traumatic Brain Injuries have emerged as a challenge to the modern society and has varied economic, social and medical implications. There are numerous factors like age, sex, mode of injury to admission interval, alcoholism, co-morbidities and severity of injury among others, that have an impact on the survival of Traumatic Brain Injury patients. The present study was designed to study the epidemiology and the demographic profile of patients presenting with operative Traumatic Brain Injury planned for decompressive craniotomy at a tertiary care centre in East Godavari district of South India.
Suppression of decoherence in quantum registers by entanglement with a nonequilibrium environment
Creators: name: Gheorghiu-Svirschevski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a nonequilibrium environment can be instrumental in suppressing decoherence between distinct decoherence free subspaces in quantum registers. The effect is found in the framework of exact coherent-product solutions for model registers decohering in a bath of degenerate harmonic modes, through couplings linear in bath coordinates. These solutions represent a natural nonequilibrium extension of the standard solution for a decoupled initial register state and a thermal environment. Under appropriate conditions, the corresponding reduced register distribution can propagate in an unperturbed manner, even in the presence of entanglement between states belonging to distinct decoherence free subspaces, and despite persistent bath entanglement. As a byproduct, we also obtain a refined picture of coherence dynamics under bang-bang decoherence control. In particular, it is shown that each radio-frequency pulse in a typical bang-bang cycle induces a revival of coherence, and that these revivals are exploited in a natural way by the time-symmetrized version of the bang-bang protocol.
description: RevTex3, 26 pgs., 2 figs.. This seriously expanded version accepted by Phys.Rev.A. No fundamentally new content, but rewritten introduction to problem, self-contained introduction of thermal coherent-product states in standard operator formalism, examples of zero-temperature decoherence free Davydov states. Also fixed a typo that propagated into an interpretational blunder in old Sec.3 [fortunately of no consequence]
Economic value and cost-effectiveness of biventricular versus right ventricular pacing: results from the BLOCK-HF study
Creators: name: Chung, Eugene S.
name: Sutton, Martin G. St. John
name: Mealing, Stuart
name: Manpreet K. Sidhu
name: Padhiar, Amie
name: Tsintzos, Stelios I.
name: Xiaoxiao Lu
name: Verhees, Koen J. P.
name: Lautenbach, Amy A.
name: Curtis, Anne B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Aims: The Biventricular vs Right Ventricular Pacing in Heart Failure Patients with Atrioventricular Block (BLOCK-HF) demonstrated that biventricular (BiV) pacing resulted in better clinical and structural outcomes compared to right ventricular (RV) pacing in patients with atrioventricular (AV) block and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF; ≤50%). This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of BiV vs RV pacing in the patient population enrolled in the BLOCK-HF trial. Methods: All-cause mortality, New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class distribution over time, and NYHA-specific heart failure (HF)-related healthcare utilization rates were predicted using statistical models based on BLOCK-HF patient data. A proportion-in-state model calculated cost-effectiveness from the Medicare payer perspective. Results: The predicted patient survival was 6.78 years with RV and 7.52 years with BiV pacing, a 10.9% increase over lifetime. BiV pacing resulted in 0.41 more quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) compared to RV pacing, at an additional cost of $12,537. The “base-case” incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was $30,860/QALY gained. Within the clinical sub-groups, the highest observed ICER was $43,687 (NYHA Class I). Patients receiving combined BiV pacing and defibrillation (BiV-D) devices were projected to benefit more (0.84 years gained) than BiV pacemaker (BiV-P) recipients (0.49 years gained), compared to dual-chamber pacemakers. Conclusions: BiV pacing in AV block patients improves survival and attenuates HF progression compared to RV pacing. ICERs were consistently below the US acceptability threshold ($50,000/QALY). From a US Medicare perspective, the additional up-front cost associated with offering BiV pacing to the BLOCK-HF patient population appears justified.
Some observations regarding the RBF-FD approximation accuracy dependence on stencil size
Creators: name: Kolar-Požun, Andrej
name: Jančič, Mitja
name: Rot, Miha
name: Kosec, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: When solving partial differential equations on scattered nodes using the Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) method, one of the parameters that must be chosen is the stencil size. Focusing on Polyharmonic Spline RBFs with monomial augmentation, we observe that it affects the approximation accuracy in a particularly interesting way - the solution error oscillates under increasing stencil size. We find that we can connect this behaviour with the spatial dependence of the signed approximation error. Based on this observation we are able to introduce a numerical quantity that could indicate whether a given stencil size is locally optimal. This work is an extension of our ICCS 2023 conference paper.
description: 41 pages, 18 Figures, Submitted to the Journal of Computational Science. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2303.02252
The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: The halo star SMSS J160540.18-144323.1
Creators: name: Nordlander, T.
name: Bessell, M. S.
name: Da Costa, G. S.
name: Mackey, A. D.
name: Asplund, M.
name: Casey, A. R.
name: Chiti, A.
name: Ezzeddine, R.
name: Frebel, A.
name: Lind, K.
name: Marino, A. F.
name: Murphy, S. J.
name: Norris, J. E.
name: Schmidt, B. P.
name: Yong, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of SMSS J160540.18-144323.1, a new ultra-metal poor halo star discovered with the SkyMapper telescope. We measure [Fe/H] = -6.2 +- 0.2 (1D LTE), the lowest ever detected abundance of iron in a star. The star is strongly carbon-enhanced, [C/Fe] = 3.9 +- 0.2, while other abundances are compatible with an alpha-enhanced solar-like pattern with [Ca/Fe] = 0.4 +- 0.2, [Mg/Fe] = 0.6 +- 0.2, [Ti/Fe] = 0.8 +- 0.2, and no significant s- or r-process enrichment, [Sr/Fe] < 0.2 and [Ba/Fe] < 1.0 (3σ limits). Population III stars exploding as fallback supernovae may explain both the strong carbon enhancement and the apparent lack of enhancement of odd-Z and neutron-capture element abundances. Grids of supernova models computed for metal-free progenitor stars yield good matches for stars of about 10 solar mass imparting a low kinetic energy on the supernova ejecta, while models for stars more massive than roughly 20 solar mass are incompatible with the observed abundance pattern.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Lycosa grahami Fox 1935
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Lycosa
Lycosa grahami

description: Lycosa grahami Fox, 1935 (Figs 26A–F, 27A–D)
 Lycosa grahami Fox, 1935: 455, fig. 3 (♀). For full list of publications and synonyms concerning this species, see WSC (2020).
 Description. See Yin et al. (1997) for both sexes. Habitus, male palp and epigyne as in Figs 26A–F, 27A–D.
Material examined. 1♂ 1♀, Haikou City, Xiuying District, near Overseas Chinese Middle School, 25.XI.2015, T. L. Lv leg. (SWUC).
Distribution. China (Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking via Domain-Like Structures in the QCD Vacuum
Creators: name: Kalloniatis, Alex C.
name: Nedelko, Sergei N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A qualitative mechanism for the emergence of domain structured background gluon fields due to singularities in gauge field configurations is considered, and a model displaying a type of mean field approximation to the QCD partition function based on this mechanism is formulated. Estimation of the vacuum parameters (gluon condensate, topological susceptibility, string constant and quark condensate) indicates that domain-like structures lead to an area law for the Wilson loop, nonzero topological susceptibility and spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry. Gluon and ghost propagators in the presence of domains are calculated explicitly and their analytical properties are discussed. The Fourier transforms of the propagators are entire functions and thus describe confined dynamical fields.
description: RevTeX, 48 pages (32 pages + Appendices A-E), new references added [1,2,4,5] and minor formulae corrected for typographical errors
The MINOS Light Injection Calibration System
Creators: name: Adamson, P.
name: Alner, J.
name: Anderson, B.
name: Chase, T.
name: Dervan, P. J.
name: Durkin, T.
name: Falk, E.
name: Harris, P. G.
name: Michael, D. G.
name: Morse, R.
name: Nichol, R.
name: Saakyan, R.
name: Smith, C.
name: Smith, P. N.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Webb, R.
name: White, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A description is given of the light-injection calibration system that has been developed for the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The system is based upon pulsed blue LEDs monitored by PIN photodiodes. It is designed to measure non-linearities in the PMT gain curves, as well as monitoring any drifts in PMT gain, at the 1% level.
description: 28 pages, 21 figures
Nonperturbative vacuum and condensates in QCD below thermal phase transition
Creators: name: Agasian, N. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic properties of the QCD nonperturbative vacuum with two light quarks are studied. It is shown that at low temperatures T
description: 9 pages, LaTeX2e, 3 figures, replaced by a version to be published in Physics Letters B
Assessment of the effectiveness of a multi-site stochastic weather generator on hydrological modelling in the Red Deer River watershed, Canada
Creators: name: D. Chao
name: X.S. Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: To improve the convergence of multiple-site weather generators (SWGs) based on the brute force algorithm (MBFA), a genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to search the overall optimal correlation matrix. Precipitation series from weather generators are used as input to the hydrological model, the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT), to generate runoff over the Red Deer watershed, Canada for further runoff analysis. The results indicate that the SWAT model using SWG-generated data accurately represents the mean monthly streamflow for most of the months. The multi-site generators were capable of better representing the monthly streamflow variability, which was notably underestimated by the single-site version. In terms of extreme flows, the proposed method reproduced the observed extreme flow with smaller bias than MBFA, while the single-site generator significantly underestimated the annual maximum flows due to its poor capability in addressing partial precipitation correlations.
Additional file 2 of Bone marrow stromal antigen 2 (BST-2) genetic variants influence expression levels and disease outcome in HIV-1 chronically infected patients
Creators: name: Mlimi, Hlelolwenkosi
name: Naidoo, Kewreshini K.
name: Mabuka, Jenniffer
name: Ndung’u, Thumbi
name: Madlala, Paradise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Association of bst-2 genetic variation (rs919267 and rs9576) with ADCP and ADCC activity. A: gp120 phagoschore as a surrogate marker of ADCP activity obtained from HIV-1 infected participants with known genotypes, wildtype rs919267CC (circles), heterozygous mutant rs919267CT (squares) and homozygous mutant rs919267TT (tringles). B: gp120 CD107α as a surrogate marker for degranulation obtained from HIV-1 infected participants with known genotypes, wildtype rs919267CC (circles), heterozygous mutant rs919267CT (squares) and homozygous mutant rs919267TT (tringles). C: gp120 phagoschore as a surrogate marker of ADCP activity obtained from HIV-1 infected participants with known genotypes, wildtype rs9576CC (circles), heterozygous mutant rs9567CT (squares). D: gp120 CD107α as a surrogate marker for degranulation obtained from HIV-1 infected participants with known genotypes, wildtype rs9576CC (circles), heterozygous mutant rs9576CA (squares). Group comparisons were performed using the Mann–Whitney test.
Baryon Resonance Dynamics in pi N \to N V Reactions Near Threshold
Creators: name: Kampfer, B.
name: Titov, A. I.
name: Reznik, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rho - omega interference in the exclusive reaction pi N \to N' e+ e- is studied within a schematic model including the established baryon resonances up to 1720 MeV. Near threshold the interference can be used to separate the isoscalar part of the electromagnetic current. The role of various baryon resonances is highlighted.
description: talk and contribution to PANIC02, Osaka, Japan, September 30 - October 4, 2002
Maximal-entropy-production-rate nonlinear quantum dynamics compatible with second law, reciprocity, fluctuation-dissipation, and time-energy uncertainty relations
Creators: name: Beretta, Gian-Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the recent quest for well-behaved nonlinear extensions of the traditional Schroedinger-von Neumann unitary dynamics that could provide fundamental explanations of recent experimental evidence of loss of quantum coherence at the microscopic level, in this paper, together with a review of the general features of the nonlinear quantum (thermo)dynamics I proposed in a series of papers [see references in G.P. Beretta, Found.Phys. 17, 365 (1987)], I show its exact equivalence with the maximal-entropy-production variational-principle formulation recently derived in S. Gheorghiu-Svirschevski, Phys.Rev. A 63, 022105 (2001). In addition, based on the formalism of general interest I developed for the analysis of composite systems, I show how the variational derivation can be extended to the case of a composite system to obtain the general form of my equation of motion, that turns out to be consistent with the demanding requirements of strong separability. Moreover, I propose a new intriguing fundamental ansatz: that the time evolution along the direction of steepest entropy ascent unfolds at the fastest rate compatible with the time-energy Heisenberg uncertainty relation. This ansatz provides a possible well-behaved general closure of the nonlinear dynamics, compatible with the nontrivial requirements of strong separability, and with no need of new physical constants. In any case, the time-energy uncertainty relation provides lower bounds to the internal-relaxation-time functionals and, therefore, upper bounds to the rate of entropy production.
description: RevTeX; 19 pages; submitted to Phys.Rev.A on Feb.9, 2001; revised version submitted on Sept.14, 2001 with slightly modified derivation in Section III, improved discussion on strong separability in Sections X and IX, added Eqs. 64b, 64c and 113
Pardosa C. L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Pardosa

description: Genus Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847
 Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847. Type species: Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833, from Europe.
Remarks. Currently, 539 species are known worldwide, of which 121 species are reported from China (WSC, 2020).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Electron-phonon interaction, magnetic phase transition, charge density waves and resistive switching in VS2 and VSe2 revealed by Yanson point contact spectroscopy
Creators: name: Bashlakov, D. L.
name: Kvitnitskaya, O. E.
name: Aswartham, S.
name: Shipunov, G.
name: Harnagea, L.
name: Efremov, D. V.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Naidyuk, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: VS2 and VSe2 have attracted particular attention among the transition metals dichalcogenides because of their promising physical properties concerning magnetic ordering, charge density wave (CDW), emergent superconductivity, etc., which are very sensitive to stoichiometry and dimensionality reduction. Yanson point contact (PC) spectroscopic study reveals metallic and nonmetallic states in VS2 PCs, as well as a magnetic phase transition was detected below 25 K. Analysis of PC spectra of VS2 testifies the realization of the thermal regime in PCs. At the same time, rare PC spectra, where the magnetic phase transition was not visible, shows a broad maximum of around 20 mV, likely connected with electron-phonon interaction (EPI). On the other hand, PC spectra of VSe2 demonstrate metallic behavior, which allowed us to detect features associated with EPI and CDW transition. The Kondo effect appeared for both compounds, apparently due to interlayer vanadium ions. Besides, the resistive switching was observed in PCs on VSe2 between a low resistive, mainly metallic-type state, and a high resistive nonmetallic-type state by applying bias voltage (about 0.4V). In contrast, reverse switching occurs by applying a voltage of opposite polarity (about 0.4V). The reason may be the alteration of stoichiometry in the PC core due to the displacement of V ions to interlayer under a high electric field. The observed resistive switching characterize VSe2 as a potential material, e.g., for non-volatile resistive RAM, neuromorphic engineering, and for other nanoelectronic applications. At the same time, VSe2 attracts attention as a rare layered van der Waals compound with magnetic transition.
description: 12 pages, 6 figs. Presented on IV International Workshop on Point-Contact Spectroscopy: http://www.ilt.kharkov.ua/pcs2024/
Light-Induced Charge Density Wave in LaTe$_3$
Creators: name: Kogar, Anshul
name: Zong, Alfred
name: Dolgirev, Pavel E.
name: Shen, Xiaozhe
name: Straquadine, Joshua
name: Bie, Ya-Qing
name: Wang, Xirui
name: Rohwer, Timm
name: Tung, I-Cheng
name: Yang, Yafang
name: Li, Renkai
name: Yang, Jie
name: Weathersby, Stephen
name: Park, Suji
name: Kozina, Michael E.
name: Sie, Edbert J.
name: Wen, Haidan
name: Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo
name: Fisher, Ian R.
name: Wang, Xijie
name: Gedik, Nuh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When electrons in a solid are excited with light, they can alter the free energy landscape and access phases of matter that are beyond reach in thermal equilibrium. This accessibility becomes of vast importance in the presence of phase competition, when one state of matter is preferred over another by only a small energy scale that, in principle, is surmountable by light. Here, we study a layered compound, LaTe$_3$, where a small in-plane (a-c plane) lattice anisotropy results in a unidirectional charge density wave (CDW) along the c-axis. Using ultrafast electron diffraction, we find that after photoexcitation, the CDW along the c-axis is weakened and subsequently, a different competing CDW along the a-axis emerges. The timescales characterizing the relaxation of this new CDW and the reestablishment of the original CDW are nearly identical, which points towards a strong competition between the two orders. The new density wave represents a transient non-equilibrium phase of matter with no equilibrium counterpart, and this study thus provides a framework for unleashing similar states of matter that are "trapped" under equilibrium conditions.
Regulation of Migration of Chemotactic Tumor Cells by the Spatial Distribution of the Collagen Fibers' Orientation
Creators: name: Azimzade, Youness
name: Saberi, Abbas Ali
name: Sahimi, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collagen fibers, an important component of the extracellular matrix (ECM), can both inhibit and promote cellular migration. {\it In-vitro} studies have revealed that the fibers' orientations are crucial to cellular invasion, while {\it in-vivo} investigations have led to the development of tumor-associated collagen signatures (TACS) as an important prognostic factor. Studying biophysical regulation of cell invasion and the effect of the fibers' oritentation not only deepens our understanding of the phenomenon, but also helps classifying the TACSs precisely, which is currently lacking. We present a stochastic model for random/chemotactic migration of cells in fibrous ECM, and study the role of the various factors in it. The model provides a framework, for the first time to our knowledge, for quantitative classification of the TACSs, and reproduces quantitatively recent experimental data for cell motility. It also indicates that the spatial distribution of the fibers' orientations and extended correlations between them, hitherto ignored, as well as dynamics of cellular motion all contribute to regulation of the cells' invasion length, which represents a measure of metastatic risk. Although the fibers' orientations trivially affect randomly moving cells, their effect on chemotactic cells is completely nontrivial and unexplored, which we study in this paper.
description: 5 figures (accepted, Phys. Rev. E (2019))
Revisiting W gamma production at RHIC
Creators: name: Kawamura, H.
name: Kiyo, Y.
name: Kodaira, J.
name: Morii, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss W gamma production in polarized p p collisions at RHIC energy. We point out that the RHIC collider has two advantages over other hadron colliders to measure the characteristic feature of W gamma production: (1) the RHIC energy is not so high and (2) the polarized beams are available. We calculate the tree level cross section for W gamma production using a generic spin basis for W and discuss both the angular dependence and spin correlation.
description: 14 pages, 15 Postscript figures