cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Social Responsibility Reporting on Firm’s Investor Confident of Thai Listed Company
Creators: name: Nuttavong Poonpool
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social responsibility reporting
Value added statement
Sustainability disclosure
Firm’s investor confident

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 2, 463-479
America’s Forgotten Nuclear Waste Dump in the Pacific
Creators: name: Gerrard, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal
Nuclear weapons--Testing
Environmental law

description: During the Cold War the United States detonated sixty-seven nuclear weapons over the atolls of Bikini and Enewetak in the Marshall Islands. In the late 1970s the United States addressed the massive amount of residual contamination by abandoning Bikini as permanently uninhabitable and pushing much of the waste at Enewetak into the open lagoon. Much of the plutonium was dumped into the crater that had been left by an atomic bomb explosion, and then covered with a thin shell of cement. The resultant “Runit dome” sits unmarked and unguarded in a small island and one day will be submerged by the rising waters of the Pacific Ocean, unless it is first torn apart by typhoons. Radiation from the Marshall Islands has already been detected in the South China Sea. Using the experience of the Marshall Islands as a case study, this article seeks to shed light on the environmental and security challenges of nuclear waste disposal in the Pacific and beyond.
Exact conservation laws for neural network integrators of dynamical systems
Creators: name: Müller, Eike Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.1.7
subject: 65L05, 68T07, 70H33, 70H40, 83C10

description: The solution of time dependent differential equations with neural networks has attracted a lot of attention recently. The central idea is to learn the laws that govern the evolution of the solution from data, which might be polluted with random noise. However, in contrast to other machine learning applications, usually a lot is known about the system at hand. For example, for many dynamical systems physical quantities such as energy or (angular) momentum are exactly conserved. Hence, the neural network has to learn these conservation laws from data and they will only be satisfied approximately due to finite training time and random noise. In this paper we present an alternative approach which uses Noether's Theorem to inherently incorporate conservation laws into the architecture of the neural network. We demonstrate that this leads to better predictions for three model systems: the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a three-dimensional Newtonian gravitational potential, the motion of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric and a system of two interacting particles in four dimensions.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures; to appear in Journal of Computational Physics
Excitation of two-dimensional plasma wakefields by trains of equidistant particle bunches
Creators: name: Lotov, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear effects responsible for elongation of the plasma wave period are numerically studied with the emphasis on two-dimensionality of the wave. The limitation on the wakefield amplitude imposed by detuning of the wave and the driver is found.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Transport analysis and source attribution of seasonal and interannual variability of CO in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
Creators: name: Liu, J.
name: Logan, Jennifer A.
name: Murray, Lee T.
name: Schwartz, M. J.
name: Pumphrey, H. C.
name: Megretskaia, I. A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Carbon monoxide--Environmental aspects
Stratosphere--Measurement
Tropospheric chemistry
Atmospheric chemistry
Environmental sciences
Climatic changes

description: We used the GEOS-Chem chemistry-transport model to investigate impacts of surface emissions and dynamical processes on the spatial and temporal patterns of CO observed by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) in the upper troposphere (UT) and lower stratosphere (LS). Model simulations driven by GEOS-4 and GEOS-5 assimilated fields present many features of the seasonal and inter-annual variation of CO in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Both model simulations and the MLS data show a transition from semi-annual variations in the UT to annual variations in the LS. Tagged CO simulations indicate that the semi-annual variation of CO in the UT is determined mainly by the temporal overlapping of surface biomass burning from different continents as well as the north-south shifts of deep convection. Both GEOS-4 and GEOS-5 have maximum upward transport in April and May with a minimum in July to September. The CO peaks from the Northern Hemisphere (NH) fires propagate faster to the LS than do those from the Southern Hemisphere (SH) fires. Thus the transition from a semi-annual to an annual cycle around 80 hPa is induced by a combination of the CO signal at the tropopause and the annual cycle of the Brewer-Dobson circulation. In GEOS-5, the shift to an annual cycle occurs at a lower altitude than in MLS CO, a result of inadequate upward transport. We deduce vertical velocities from MLS CO, and use them to evaluate the velocities derived from the archived GEOS meteorological fields. We find that GEOS-4 velocities are similar to those from MLS CO between 215 hPa and 125 hPa, while the velocities in GEOS-5 are too low in spring and summer. The mean tropical vertical velocities from both models are lower than those inferred from MLS CO above 100 hPa, particularly in GEOS-5, with mean downward, rather than upward motion in boreal summer. Thus the models' CO maxima from SH burning are transported less effectively than those in MLS CO above 147 hPa and almost disappear by 100 hPa. The strongest peaks in the CO tape-recorder are in late 2004, 2006, and 2010, with the first two resulting from major fires in Indonesia and the last from severe burning in South America, all associated with intense droughts.
A Review of Causality for Learning Algorithms in Medical Image Analysis
Creators: name: Vlontzos, Athanasios
name: Rueckert, Daniel
name: Kainz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: General Literature (cs.GL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Medical image analysis is a vibrant research area that offers doctors and medical practitioners invaluable insight and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor disease. Machine learning provides an additional boost for this area. However, machine learning for medical image analysis is particularly vulnerable to natural biases like domain shifts that affect algorithmic performance and robustness. In this paper we analyze machine learning for medical image analysis within the framework of Technology Readiness Levels and review how causal analysis methods can fill a gap when creating robust and adaptable medical image analysis algorithms. We review methods using causality in medical imaging AI/ML and find that causal analysis has the potential to mitigate critical problems for clinical translation but that uptake and clinical downstream research has been limited so far.
description: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://www.melba-journal.org/papers/2022:028.html". ; Paper ID: 2022:028
Effect of vinasse from ethanol plant and chemical fertilizer on yield and nutrients uptake of sugarcane, and some soil properties
Creators: name: Tuchsarun Whangrattanacharoen, Daojarus Ketrot
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: vinasse, chemical fertilizer, sugarcane, sugarcane yield, plant nutrient uptake

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 6, 1276-1291
Symmetric projected entangled-pair states analysis of a phase transition in coupled spin-1/2 ladders
Creators: name: Hasik, Juraj
name: Mbeng, Glen B.
name: Capponi, Sylvain
name: Becca, Federico
name: Läuchli, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) have been introduced to accurately describe many-body wave functions on two-dimensional lattices. In this context, two aspects are crucial: the systematic improvement of the {\it Ansatz} by the optimization of its building blocks, i.e., tensors characterized by bond dimension $D$, and the extrapolation scheme to reach the "thermodynamic" limit $D \to \infty$. Recent advances in variational optimization and scaling based on correlation lengths demonstrated the ability of iPEPS to capture the spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry in phases such as the antiferromagnetic (Néel) phase with high fidelity, in addition to valence-bond solids which are already well described by finite-$D$ iPEPS. In contrast, systems in the vicinity of continuous quantum phase transitions still present a challenge for iPEPS, especially when non-abelian symmetries are involved. Here, we consider the iPEPS Ansatz to describe the continuous transition between the (gapless) antiferromagnet and the (gapped) paramagnet that exists in the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on coupled two-leg ladders. In particular, we show how accurate iPEPS results can be obtained down to a narrow interval around criticality and analyze the scaling of the order parameter in the Néel phase in a spatially anisotropic situation.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, source code available at https://github.com/jurajHasik/peps-torch
GRB 091024A and the nature of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Virgili, F. J.
name: Mundell, C. G.
name: Pal'shin, V.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Margutti, R.
name: Melandri, A.
name: Harrison, R.
name: Kobayashi, S.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Henden, A.
name: Updike, A. C.
name: Cenko, S. B.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Steele, I. A.
name: Cucchiara, A.
name: Gomboc, A.
name: Levan, A.
name: Cano, Z.
name: Mottram, C. J.
name: Clay, N. R.
name: Bersier, D.
name: Kopac, D.
name: Japelj, J.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Li, W.
name: Svinkin, D.
name: Golenetskii, S.
name: Hartmann, D. H.
name: Milne, P. A.
name: Williams, G.
name: O'Brien, P. T.
name: Fox, D. B.
name: Berger, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a broadband study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 091024A within the context of other ultra-long-duration GRBs. An unusually long burst detected by Konus-Wind, Swift, and Fermi, GRB 091024A has prompt emission episodes covering ~1300 s, accompanied by bright and highly structured optical emission captured by various rapid-response facilities, including the 2-m autonomous robotic Faulkes North and Liverpool Telescopes, KAIT, S-LOTIS, and SRO. We also observed the burst with 8- and 10-m class telescopes and determine the redshift to be z = 1.0924 \pm 0.0004. We find no correlation between the optical and gamma-ray peaks and interpret the optical light curve as being of external origin, caused by the reverse and forward shock of a highly magnetized jet (R_B ~ 100-200). Low-level emission is detected throughout the near-background quiescent period between the first two emission episodes of the Konus-Wind data, suggesting continued central-engine activity; we discuss the implications of this ongoing emission and its impact on the afterglow evolution and predictions. We summarize the varied sample of historical GRBs with exceptionally long durations in gamma-rays (>~ 1000 s) and discuss the likelihood of these events being from a separate population; we suggest ultra-long GRBs represent the tail of the duration distribution of the long GRB population.
description: Updated abstract, acknowledgements. Accepted for publication in ApJ; 21 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables
Arguments to Critique Transformative Learning Theory
Creators: name: Chanadda  Poohongthong
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transformative learning
Rationality
Validity claim
Argument
Critique

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 2, 494-505
Optimal Networks from Error Correcting Codes
Creators: name: Tomic, Ratko V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: C.2.1; E.4; G.2.2

description: To address growth challenges facing large Data Centers and supercomputing clusters a new construction is presented for scalable, high throughput, low latency networks. The resulting networks require 1.5-5 times fewer switches, 2-6 times fewer cables, have 1.2-2 times lower latency and correspondingly lower congestion and packet losses than the best present or proposed networks providing the same number of ports at the same total bisection. These advantage ratios increase with network size. The key new ingredient is the exact equivalence discovered between the problem of maximizing network bisection for large classes of practically interesting Cayley graphs and the problem of maximizing codeword distance for linear error correcting codes. Resulting translation recipe converts existent optimal error correcting codes into optimal throughput networks.
description: 14 pages, accepted at ANCS 2013 conference
Le développement durable? C’est de l’économie pure et dure
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Climatic changes--Government policy
Climatic changes--Decision making
Economics
Climatic changes
Public policy (Law)

description: Le réchauffement climatique arrive à une vitesse et avec une intensité que personne n’avait anticipées, et pourtant la droite partisane de l’énergie fossile a quasiment réussi à éliminer la question de l’ordre du jour, sous couvert d’une prétendue défense des «marchés libres».

En réaction, les écologistes ont eu tendance à se retirer encore davantage dans leurs enclaves biologiques, alors que ce qu’il faut réellement, c’est retourner aux bases de l’économie: les marchés ne peuvent être libres quand les bénéfices sont privatisés et quand d’énormes coûts sont socialisés. Le seul moyen de sortir de cette crise écologique est d’aligner les intérêts individuels des citoyens sur la santé de la planète.

French translation of Foreign Policy article “Cold, Hard Economics.”
Extension of HOPS Out to 500 ParSecs (eHOPS). I. Identification and Modeling of Protostars in the Aquila Molecular Clouds
Creators: name: Pokhrel, Riwaj
name: Megeath, S. Thomas
name: Gutermuth, Robert A.
name: Furlan, Elise
name: Fischer, William J.
name: Federman, Samuel
name: Tobin, John J.
name: Stutz, Amelia M.
name: Hartmann, Lee
name: Osorio, Mayra
name: Watson, Dan M.
name: Stanke, Thomas
name: Manoj, P.
name: Narang, Mayank
name: Atnagulov, Prabhani
name: Habel, Nolan
name: Zakri, Wafa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Spitzer/Herschel focused survey of the Aquila molecular clouds ($d \sim 436$~pc) as part of the eHOPS (extension of HOPS Out to 500 ParSecs) census of nearby protostars. For every source detected in the Herschel/PACS bands, the eHOPS-Aquila catalog contains 1-850~$μ$m SEDs assembled from 2MASS, Spitzer, Herschel, WISE, and JCMT/SCUBA-2 data. Using a newly developed set of criteria, we classify objects by their SEDs as protostars, pre-ms sequence stars with disks, and galaxies. A total of 172 protostars are found in Aquila, tightly concentrated in the molecular filaments that thread the clouds. Of these, 71 (42\%) are Class 0 protostars, 54 (31\%) are Class I protostars, 43 (25\%) are flat-spectrum protostars, and 4 (2\%) are Class II sources. Ten of the Class 0 protostars are young PACS Bright Red Sources similar to those discovered in Orion. We compare the SEDs to a grid of radiative transfer models to constrain the luminosities, envelope densities, and envelope masses of the protostars. A comparison of the eHOPS-Aquila to the HOPS protostars in Orion finds that the protostellar luminosity functions in the two star-forming regions are statistically indistinguishable, the bolometric temperatures/envelope masses of eHOPS-Aquila protostars are shifted to cooler temperatures/higher masses, and the eHOPS-Aquila protostars do not show the decline in luminosity with evolution found in Orion. We briefly discuss whether these differences are due to biases between the samples, diverging star formation histories, or the influence of environment on protostellar evolution.
description: Accepted in ApJS. NASA IPAC/IRSA Data Release DOI: 10.26131/IRSA553
Two-photon exchange in electron-trinucleon elastic scattering
Creators: name: Kobushkin, A. P.
name: Timoshenko, Ju. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss two-photon exchange (TPE) in elastic electron scattering off the trinucleon systems, 3He and 3H. The calculations are done in the semirelativistic approximation with the trinucleon wave functions obtained with the Paris and CD-Bonn nucleon-nucleon potentials. An applicability area of the model is wide enough and includes the main part of kinematical domain where experimental data exist. All three TPE amplitudes (generalized form factors) for electron 3He elastic scattering are calculated. We find that the TPE amplitudes are few times more significant in the scattring of electrons off 3He then in the electron proton scattering.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 7 of Diversity and composition of gut microbiota in healthy individuals and patients at different stages of hepatitis B virus-related liver disease
Creators: name: Lin, Meng-Ju
name: Su, Tung-Hung
name: Chen, Chieh-Chang
name: Wu, Wei-Kai
name: Hsu, Shih-Jer
name: Tseng, Tai-Chung
name: Liao, Sih-Han
name: Hong, Chun-Ming
name: Yang, Hung-Chih
name: Liu, Chun-Jen
name: Wu, Ming-Shiang
name: Kao, Jia-Horng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical 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: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. Statistical significance of beta diversity distance matrices among patients with HBeAg (+) chronic HBV infection, HBeAg (+) chronic hepatitis B, HBeAg (−) chronic HBV infection, HBeAg (−) chronic hepatitis B, and resolved HBV.
Chameleon Screening in Cosmic Voids
Creators: name: Tamosiunas, Andrius
name: Briddon, Chad
name: Burrage, Clare
name: Cutforth, Alan
name: Moss, Adam
name: Vincent, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key goal in cosmology in the upcoming decade will be to form a better understanding of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Upcoming surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid and the Square Killometer Array (SKA) will deliver key datasets required to tackle this and other puzzles in contemporary cosmology. With this data, constraints of unprecedented power will be put on different models of dark energy and modified gravity. In this context it is crucial to understand how screening mechanisms, which hide the deviations of these theories from the predictions of general relativity in local experiments, affect structure formation. In this work we approach this problem by using a combination of analytic and numerical methods to describe chameleon screening in the context of cosmic voids. We apply a finite element method (FEM) code, SELCIE, to solve the chameleon equation of motion for a number of void profiles derived from observational data and simulations. The obtained results indicate a complex relationship between the properties of cosmic voids and the size of the chameleon acceleration of a test particle. We find that the fifth force on a test particle in a void is primarily related to the depth and the inner density gradient of the void. For realistic void profiles, the obtained chameleon-to-Newtonian acceleration ratios range between $a_ϕ/a_{\rm Newt} \approx 10^{-6} - 10^{-5}$. However, it should be noted that in unusually deep voids with large inner density gradients, the acceleration ratios can be significantly higher. Similarly, other chameleon models, such as $f(R)$ Hu-Sawicki theory allow for significantly higher acceleration ratios. Given these results, we also discuss the optimal density profiles for detecting the fifth force in the upcoming observational surveys.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures. The SELCIE code is available at: https://github.com/C-Briddon/SELCIE. Submitted to JCAP
Extension of generalized additive models to graph-valued data with application to Covid-19 impacts on European air transportation
Creators: name: Simnacher, Marco
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphen wertige Regression
subject: Netzwerkdaten
subject: Objekt-orientierte Datenanalyse
subject: Covid-19 Passagiernetzwerk
subject: Graph-valued regression
subject: network data
subject: object-oriented data analysis
subject: Covid-19 transportation network
subject: 519 Wahrscheinlichkeiten und angewandte Mathematik

description: Die Entwicklung statistischer Methoden für Objekte mit geometrischer Struktur ermöglicht die Analyse komplexer Daten in dem zugrundeliegenden Raum. Graphen wertige Daten mit nicht gelabelten Knoten lassen sich mathematisch in einem nicht Euklidischen, metrischen Raum darstellen. Mithilfe dieser Darstellung wird ein lineares Regressionsmodell zu additiven und generalisierten additiven Regressionsmodellen für Graphen wertige Daten als Regressand erweitert. Außerdem werden Interpretationen und die Form der dazugehörigen Regressionsfunktionen untersucht. Abschließend wird ein generalisiertes additives Modell auf Teile des Europäischen Fluggastverkehrs während der Covid-19 Pandemie angewendet.
description: The development of statistics for objects with geometric structure enables researchers to account appropriately for the space of complex data in their analysis. Graph-valued data with unlabeled vertices can be represented mathematically in a non-Euclidean, metric space. Utilizing this representation, an extension of a linear regression framework to an additive as well as generalized additive regression framework for graph-valued data as response is developed. Potential interpretations for and the form of the respective regression functions are studied. Moreover, the generalized additive framework is applied to an air passenger network of parts of the European Union during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stability and dopability of native defects and group-V and -VII impurities in single-layer MoS2
Creators: name: Noh, Ji-Young
name: Park, Minkyu
name: Kim, Yong-Sung
name: Kim, Hanchul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the native defects, the Mo substitutional impurities of the group-VB and -VIIB elements, and the S substitutional impurities of the group-VA and -VIIA elements in single-layer MoS2, through density-functional theory calculations. It is found that the S-vacancy (V_S) and S-interstitial (S_i) are low in formation energy, about ~1 eV, in Mo- and S-rich conditions, respectively, but the carrier doping ability of the V_S and S_i is found to be poor, as they are deep level defects. The V, Nb, and Ta (group-VB) and Re (group-VIIB) impurities are found to be easily incorporated in single-layer MoS2, as Mo substitutional defects, where the V, Nb, and Ta are shallow acceptors and the Re is the only shallow donor among the considered. The unintentional n-type doping in single-layer MoS2 exfoliated from the naturally grown MoS2 bulk materials is suggested to originate from the Re impurity.
Forces for the Navier-Stokes equations and the Koch and Tataru theorem
Creators: name: Lemarié-Rieusset, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K55, 35Q30, 76D05

description: We consider the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^3$, with initial value $\vec u_0\in {\rm BMO}^{-1}$ (as in Koch and Tataru's theorem) and with force $\vec f=\Div \mathbb{F}$ where smallness of $\mathbb{F}$ ensures existence of a mild solution in absence of initial value. We study the interaction of the two solutions and discuss the existence of global solution for the complete problem (i.e. in presence of initial value and forcing term) under smallness assumptions. In particular, we discuss the interaction between Koch and Tataru solutions and Lei-Lin's solutions (in $L^2\mathcal{F}^{-1}L^1$) or solutions in the multiplier space $\mathcal{M}(\dot H^{1/2,1}_{t,x}\mapsto L^2_{t,x})$.
description: 21 pages
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Built Environment under NEPA and State EIA Laws: A Survey of Current Practices and Recommendations for Model Protocols
Creators: name: Wentz, Jessica A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental law
Regional planning
Environmental impact statements--Law and legislation
Climatic changes
Sustainability

description: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has developed a set of model protocols for assessing the impacts of climate change on the built environment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)  and similar laws.  This paper summarizes the legal and empirical research that underpinned the development of these protocols. Specifically: Section 1 describes the observed and anticipated impacts of climate change on the built environment and presents the rationale for incorporating climate risk assessments into project-level EIA. Section 2 outlines the legal requirements of NEPA and explains why the consideration of climate impacts falls squarely within the realm of the environmental analysis conducted by federal agencies under NEPA. Section 2 also briefly identifies other state, local, and foreign EIA laws which require consideration of climate change impacts on proposed projects. Section 3 reviews the existing guidelines for integrating climate impact and vulnerability assessments into EIA documents, including guidelines developed by governmental as well as non-governmental actors. Section 4 describes the results of a survey of how federal EISs currently address the impacts of climate change on projects subject to NEPA review. Section 5 summarizes the outcomes of a stakeholder workshop convened by the Sabin Center on June 18, 2015 to discuss this project with government employees, EIA consultants, and other interested parties. Section 6 contains the model protocols for assessing the impact of climate change on the built environment under NEPA and similar statutes. These protocols have been revised to reflect input from the June 18 stakeholder workshop.
Additional file 8 of Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of guidelines in rare diseases: a systematic review
Creators: name: Gittus, Matthew
name: Chong, Jiehan
name: Sutton, Anthea
name: Ong, Albert C. M.
name: Fotheringham, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file. 8 Granular infographic of determinants of practice distribution.
Influence of nuclear structure in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Ma, Yu-Gang
name: Zhang, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many probes are proposed to determine the quark-gluon plasma and explore its properties in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Some of them are related to initial states of the collisions, such as collective flow, Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlation, chiral magnetic effects and so on. The initial states can come from geometry overlap of the colliding nuclei, fluctuations or nuclear structure with the intrinsic geometry asymmetry. The initial geometry asymmetry can transfer to the final momentum distribution in the aspect of hydrodynamics during the evolution of the fireball. Different from traditional methods for nuclear structure study, the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions could provide a potential platform to investigate nuclear structures with the help of the final-state observables after the fireball expansion. This chapter first presents a brief introduction of the initial states in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and then delivers a mini-review for the nuclear structure effects on experimental observables in the relativistic energy domain.
description: 28 pages, 21 figures; contribution to the "Handbook of Nuclear Physics", Springer, 2022, edited by I. Tanihata, H. Toki, and T. Kajino
title: Determination of Essential and Non-essential Elements in Moringa stenopetala Leaves and Flowers Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) in Dawuro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Solomon Ragasa & Kusse Gudishe
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Inclusive Development, Wolaita Sodo University
Year: 2020

description: This study aimed at determining concentration levels of essential elements (K, Ca, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni) and non-essential elements (Pb, and Cd) present in leaves and flowers of Moringa stenopetala. Dry ash digestion method was deployed. The absorption intensity of the elements in Moringa stenopetala leaves and flowers were recorded by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy. Results indicate that the mean concentration of the elements in Moringa stenopetala leave samples are (in mg/kg): Ca (5,713.86 - 6621.14), K (27,587.10 - 28,315.40), Pb (0.73 - 0.81), Zn (41.17 - 47.00), Cd (0.05 - 0.83), Cu (2.41 - 4.74), Ni (0.54 - 0.80), Mn (26.75 - 26.92), Fe (61.05 - 65.30). Moreover, the mean concentration of the elements in Moringa stenopetala flower samples are (in mg/kg): Ca (2,796.97 - 3,028.67), K (28,358.30 - 36,008.60), Pb (0.54 - 0.68), Zn (24.48 - 30.66), Cd (ND - 0.03), Cu (1.83 - 4.69), Ni (0.53- 0.61), Mn (12.37- 14.52) and Fe (108.97 - 114.03). Results show that the levels of elements are higher in the leaves than in the flowers, except K. The levels of most elements analyzed in M. stenopetala plant samples of this study were compared well with those reported for different medicinal plants from some other parts of the world and standards set by FAO/WHO. Leaves of M. stenopetala, commonly consumed part in Southern Ethiopia, showed appreciable mineral contents and thus are good source of essential nutrients while toxic elements are found less than permissible limits set by FAO/WHO and are safe for human consumption.
Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening
Creators: name: Kruse, Mads
name: Petralanda, Urko
name: Gjerding, Morten N.
name: Jacobsen, Karsten W.
name: Thygesen, Kristian S.
name: Olsen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a high throughput computational search for two-dimensional ferroelectric materials. The starting point is 252 pyroelectric materials from the computational 2D materials database (C2DB) and from these we identify 64 ferroelectric materials by explicitly constructing adiabatic paths connecting states of reversed polarization. In particular we find 49 materials with in-plane polarization, 8 materials with out-of-plane polarization and 6 materials with coupled in-plane and out-of-plane polarization. Most of the known 2D ferroelectrics are recovered by the screening and the far majority of the new predicted ferroelectrics are known as bulk van der Waals bonded compounds, which implies that these could be experimentally accessible by direct exfoliation. For roughly 25{\%} of the materials we find a metastable state in the non-polar structure, which could have important consequences for the thermodynamical properties and may imply a first order transition to the polar phase. Finally, we list the magnetic pyroelectrics extracted from the C2DB and focus on the case of VAgP$_2$Se$_6$, which exhibits a three-state switchable polarization vector that is strongly coupled to the magnetic excitation spectrum.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
The Silver Bullet Of Climate Change Policy
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Litterman, Bob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emissions trading
Climatic changes--Decision making
Climatic changes--Government policy
Economics
Public policy (Law)
Climatic changes
Cognitive psychology

description: Whenever the conversation turns to climate change, someone is sure to opine that there’s no silver bullet. The issue is simply too complex to have one solution. When you focus on all the changes that need to occur to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally it seems like a multifaceted approach is the only way forward.

It turns out, though, that how you frame the issue is crucial. If you think like an engineer there are dozens of challenges. If you think like an economist, there is one. It’s guiding the ‘invisible hand’.

Published on Forbes.com on February 4th, 2014.
LEDs, Energy Efficiency and Consumption
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Gillingham, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Light emitting diodes
Energy consumption
Economics
Climatic changes

description: LEDs alone won’t solve global warming or global poverty, but they are a step in the right direction for both.

Published as Letter to the Editor in the New York Times on October 17th, 2014. For a more comprehensive response, see “Is energy efficiency a good thing even with rebound?” For a review paper, see “The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy.”
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations
Creators: name: Mata, Katia Camacho
name: Plunk, Gabriel G.
name: Jorge, Rogerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the formalism of the first order near-axis expansion of the MHD equilibrium equations described in Garren & Boozer (1991), Plunk et al. (2019) and Plunk et al. (2021), for the case of a quasi-isodynamic, N-field period, stellarator symmetric, single-well magnetic field equilibrium. The importance of the magnetic axis shape is investigated, and we conclude that control of the curvature and torsion is crucial to obtain omnigenous configurations with finite aspect ratio and low effective ripple, especially for a higher number of field periods. For this reason a method is derived to construct classes of axis shapes with favourable curvature and torsion. Solutions are presented, including a three-field-period configuration constructed at an aspect ratio of A=20, with a maximum elongation of e=3.2 and an effective ripple under 1%, which demonstrates that high elongation is not a necessary feature of QI stellarators.
description: 28 pages, 19 figures
New ways of working and quality of working life: a macroergonomic approach
Creators: name: KORUNKA, Christian
name: GERDENITSCH, Cornelia
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: “New ways of working” (NWW) environment is a denotation for modern
workplaces that are characterized by an increased use of media technologies, and temporal and spatial flexibilities.
In three empirical studies, the role of job resources (autonomy and social interaction) in NWW environments was investigated. Study 1 examined general NWW environments using qualitative data, whereas studies 2 and 3 focused on specific NWW environments (flexible office concepts, Coworking Spaces). The results indicate that autonomy and social interaction are present in NWW environments, but they also provide evidence for side effects like permanent accessibility or changes in the quality of social interactions.
Probing the Lorentz Symmetry Violation Using the First Image of Sagittarius A*: Constraints on Standard-Model Extension Coefficients
Creators: name: Khodadi, Mohsen
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thanks to unparalleled near-horizon images of the shadows of Messier 87* (M87*) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) delivered by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), two amazing windows opened up to us for the strong-field test of the gravity theories as well as fundamental physics. Information recently published from EHT about the Sgr A*'s shadow lets us have a novel possibility of exploration of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) within the Standard-Model Extension (SME) framework. Despite the agreement between the shadow image of Sgr A* and the prediction of the general theory of relativity, there is still a slight difference which is expected to be fixed by taking some fundamental corrections into account. We bring up the idea that the recent inferred shadow image of Sgr A* is explicable by a minimal SME-inspired Schwarzschild metric containing the Lorentz violating (LV) terms obtained from the post-Newtonian approximation. The LV terms embedded in Schwarzschild metric are dimensionless spatial coefficients ${\bar s}^{jk}$ associated with the field responsible for LSV in the gravitational sector of the minimal SME theory. In this way, one can control Lorentz invariance violation in the allowed sensitivity level of the first shadow image of Sgr A*. Actually, using the bounds released within $1σ$ uncertainty for the shadow size of Sgr A* and whose fractional deviation from standard Schwarzschild, we set upper limits for the two different combinations of spatial diagonal coefficients and the time-time coefficient of the SME, as well. The best upper bound is at the $10^{-2}$ level, which should be interpreted differently from those constraints previously extracted from well-known frameworks since unlike standard SME studies it is not obtained from a Sun-centered celestial frame but comes from probing the black hole horizon scale.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures. v3:discussion improved, references added, figures revised; matches the version accepted for publication in PRD
Comment on "Spin correlations in elastic $e^+ e^-$ scattering in QED"
Creators: name: Beck, Kort
name: Jacobo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the previous work, "Spin correlations in elastic $e^+ e^-$ scattering in QED" (Yongram, 2018), spin correlations for entangled electrons and positrons as emergent particles of electron-positron scattering (also known as Bhabha scattering) were calculated at tree level in QED. When trying to reproduce the author's work, we have found different results. In this work, we show the calculation for fully (initial and final polarized states) and partially (just final polarized states) polarized probability amplitudes for electron-positron scattering at all energies. While Yongram claims that violation of Clauser-Horne inequality (CHI) occurs at all energies for both mentioned cases, for fully polarized scattering we found violation of the CHI for speeds $β\gtrsim 0.696$, including the high energy limit, supporting the agreement between QED and foundations of quantum mechanics. However, for initially unpolarized particles we found no violation of the CHI.
Using 2D and 3D models as tools during a workplace design process - a question of how and when
Creators: name: BLIGÅRD, Lars-Ola
name: ÖSTERMAN, Cecilia
name: BERLIN, Cecilia
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: The benefits of involving users in a development process are well described. This paper describes a procedure for using 2D and 3D models in a workplace design process, which is based on three rounds of user studies within the maritime domain. The process includes various kinds of models that can be used in order to elicit design feedback in a cost-effective manner. Design teams can greatly benefit from using such mediating objects to draw out the users’ previous experiences. It was found that different model types allow different levels of reflection and questioning of the design from the prospective users.
title: FIS & EPub Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AG Forschungsinformationssystem und Elektronisches Publizieren
Creators: name: Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI), AG Forschungsinformationssysteme und AG Elektronisches Publizieren
Publisher: name: Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI), AG Forschungsinformationssysteme und AG Elektronisches Publizieren
Year: 2015

description: Dies ist ein gemeinsamer Weblog der beiden DINI Arbeitsgruppen Forschungsinformationssysteme (AG FIS) und Elektronisches Publizieren (AG E-Pub). Damit sind die Themen, die hier behandelt werden, sehr umfangreich. Gestartet wurde dieser Blog ursprünglich im Januar 2016 von der AG FIS. Im Juni 2020 kam dann nach einiger Planung die AG E-Pub hinzu, da die Themen sich immer wieder überschneiden bzw. ähnlich sind.
Additional file 9 of Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of guidelines in rare diseases: a systematic review
Creators: name: Gittus, Matthew
name: Chong, Jiehan
name: Sutton, Anthea
name: Ong, Albert C. M.
name: Fotheringham, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 9. Overview of the contribution of individual studies.
Speaking of Privacy: The Unstable Governance of Transatlantic Data Flows
Creators: name: Arnao, Zander
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: international data transfers
subject: privacy
subject: norms
subject: discourse
subject: discourse analysis

description: Over the last decade, the United States (US) and European Union (EU) have clashed over whether personal data can be transferred internationally between their jurisdictions. Scholars have largely attributed this disagreement to structural factors such as economic interdependence and different social understandings of privacy. In this thesis, I argue that the extant literature too heavily emphasizes structural explanations and overlooks how actors have strategically constructed the legal norms that govern transatlantic data flows. While I acknowledge that structural factors explain much about this disagreement, I maintain that the recent instability cannot be fully understood without carefully examining the strategies actors have employed to influence this governance. I examine these strategies through the method of discourse analysis. I collated many documents (n = 51) where actors attempted to speak persuasively about transatlantic data flows and then used these documents to analyze how data flows were rhetorically framed. I found meaningful variation in the framing strategies employed by different types of actors and the persuasive effects these frames have had. These findings show that, within the parameters of structure, actors in the US and EU have exercised their agency to defend and contest legal norms from the bottom up. I conclude by recommending policies that would foster greater agreement and stability in the governance of transatlantic data flows.
Why Bloomberg Endorsed Obama
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Climatic changes--Political aspects
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Climatic changes

description: When it rains, it pours. First came Sandy, the incarnation of the Rumsfeldian "unknown unknowns.” Then came the political hurricane, with three-term New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsing Barack Obama for his second.

Published in Foreign Policy on November 2nd, 2012.
Seismic Wavefield Reconstruction based on Compressed Sensing using Data-Driven Reduced-Order Model
Creators: name: Nagata, Takayuki
name: Nakai, Kumi
name: Yamada, Keigo
name: Saito, Yuji
name: Nonomura, Taku
name: Kano, Masayuki
name: Ito, Shin-ichi
name: Nagao, Hiromichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A seismic wavefield reconstruction framework based on compressed sensing using the data-driven reduced-order model (ROM) is proposed and its characteristics are investigated through numerical experiments. The data-driven ROM is generated from the dataset of the wavefield using the singular value decomposition. The spatially continuous seismic wavefield is reconstructed from the sparse and discrete observation and the data-driven ROM. The observation sites used for reconstruction are effectively selected by the sensor optimization method for linear inverse problems based on a greedy algorithm. The proposed framework was applied to simulation data of theoretical waveform with the subsurface structure of the horizontally-stratified three layers. The validity of the proposed method was confirmed by the reconstruction based on the noise-free observation. Since the ROM of the wavefield is used as prior information, the reconstruction error is reduced to an approximately lower error bound of the present framework, even though the number of sensors used for reconstruction is limited and randomly selected. In addition, the reconstruction error obtained by the proposed framework is much smaller than that obtained by the Gaussian process regression. For the numerical experiment with noise-contaminated observation, the reconstructed wavefield is degraded due to the observation noise, but the reconstruction error obtained by the present framework with all available observation sites is close to a lower error bound, even though the reconstructed wavefield using the Gaussian process regression is fully collapsed. Although the reconstruction error is larger than that obtained using all observation sites, the number of observation sites used for reconstruction can be reduced while minimizing the deterioration and scatter of the reconstructed data by combining it with the sensor optimization method.