cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shaping the University Imaginary. Configurations and Refigurations in British Fiction
Creators: name: SELIGARDI, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2014

description: The present dissertation stems from the attempt to deal with the literary representations of the university imaginary by focusing on mimesis. My purpose is to analyze the ways in which the university and its images have been addressed and represented in literature. Literary representations of academia find their expression through the configuration of a number of literary forms which I here propose to classify as ?university fiction?. In the first part of my dissertation I investigate the forms taken by University Fiction in the British context from the 19th century until the second half of the 20th, a period when the genre achieved specific and stable connotations that have been respectively classified as ?varsity novel? and ?campus novel?. The second part deals with what happens when the university imaginary and its representation go beyond the boundaries of university fiction as a genre. The case study that I propose is constituted by the works of A.S. Byatt. This case study allows me to analyze a different way in which the university imaginary has been configured, a way that is, of course, related to literary genres, but which also goes beyond the typical boundaries of genres as literary constructs. This re-figuration has been explained by resorting to a concept that originally came from theatre and adaptation studies, but which proves to be productive when applied to narrative texts: the concept of ?dramatization?.
Additional file 3 of Family planning for women with severe mental illness in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Zerihun, Tigist
name: Sorsdahl, Katherine
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Themes, major codes and sample quotes.
?Of Seint Alex of Rome?. A Middle English Version of the Life of the Saint
Creators: name: ANDREANI, ANGELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2009

description: In addition, a reassessment of the text?s literary merit is proposed, through a broader contextualisation of the narration. On the one hand Of Seint Alex of Rome is dealt with as part of the larger unit in which it is preserved, Ms. XIII B 29; on the other, its significance as literary discourse is analysed in relation to the cultural panorama that characterises the centuries of its diffusion in Western Europe.
Towards two-dimensional search engines
Creators: name: Ermann, Leonardo
name: Chepelianskii, Alexei D.
name: Shepelyansky, Dima L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistical properties of various directed networks using ranking of their nodes based on the dominant vectors of the Google matrix known as PageRank and CheiRank. On average PageRank orders nodes proportionally to a number of ingoing links, while CheiRank orders nodes proportionally to a number of outgoing links. In this way the ranking of nodes becomes two-dimensional that paves the way for development of two-dimensional search engines of new type. Statistical properties of information flow on PageRank-CheiRank plane are analyzed for networks of British, French and Italian Universities, Wikipedia, Linux Kernel, gene regulation and other networks. A special emphasis is done for British Universities networks using the large database publicly available at UK. Methods of spam links control are also analyzed.
description: 22 pages, 16 figures. Additional data available at http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/QWLIB/dvvadi/
Negotiating with robots : meshing plans and resolving conflicts in human-robot collaboration
Creators: name: Moon, AJung
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: For both humans and robots, one of the key elements of collaboration is the collaborating agents’ ability to communicate and mesh their individual plans with each other. Even after the collaborators have decided on a joint task, the details of the task such as the how, when, and where are often determined as the collaborative activity unfolds. The primary objective of this thesis is to enable fluent communication between human and robotic agents such that they can interactively figure out unspoken details and resolve unforeseen conflicts that arise during a human-robot collaboration. The author first explores whether robot nonverbal cues inspired by human behaviours can elicit desirable responses from a human user to interweave unspoken – yet essential – spatial-temporal details of an interaction. Results from a series of experiments demonstrate that a robot cue, like gaze, can have a significant influence on when a human recipient reaches out to receive an object from a robot. Subsequently, the author focuses on hesitation gestures – a type of gesture humans naturally use to express uncertainty – to explore whether members of a human-robot dyad can negotiate a desired outcome of an interaction through a nonverbal dialog. The author presents a reactive, real-time trajectory generator, the Negotiative Hesitation Generator (NHG), which has been devised to enable such nonverbal negotiation to take place between a human and a robot. The NHG was implemented on a robot for human-robot interaction experiments where, by design, spontaneous resource conflicts often arose between the two agents. Results from these studies suggest that use of the NHG can enable a type of nonverbal negotiation of resource conflicts to take place. They also demonstrate how such real-time negotiations between a human-robot dyad can lead to a faster resolution of conflicts and a significantly improved outcome of the collaborative task, without jeopardizing the safety of the user. This thesis advances our understanding of the influence that nonverbal robot behaviours can have on human users. It also demonstrates the feasibility and efficacy of nonverbal negotiations as a mode of interaction for human-robot collaboration.
Randy Akrofi MS Thesis
Creators: name: Akrofi, Randy
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organic chemical synthesis

description: Quinolines are benzopyridine complexes present in many modern antimalarial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and other useful pharmaceuticals and natural products.1,2 Quinolines form the scaffold for many potent anticancer drugs; this is because quinolines can undergo both nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution reactions, can be ingested and inhaled by humans without any harm, and possess a great deal of biological importance.3 My research has focused on synthesizing 3H-pyrazolo[4,3-f]quinoline analogs. The 3H-pyrazolo[4,3-f]quinoline scaffold was modified using various amine groups to obtain amide analogs as well as see how a change in the scaffold affects the anticancer activity of the synthesized complexes by screening them against kinases such as FLT3, CDK2, CDK4, and CDK9 to see if they are effective inhibitors. The synthesized complexes were then characterized using proton, carbon NMR and FTIR spectroscopy.
Semi-Analytic Stellar Structure in Scalar-Tensor Gravity
Creators: name: Horbatsch, M. W.
name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision tests of gravity can be used to constrain the properties of hypothetical very light scalar fields, but these tests depend crucially on how macroscopic astrophysical objects couple to the new scalar field. We develop quasi-analytic methods for solving the equations of stellar structure using scalar-tensor gravity, with the goal of seeing how stellar properties depend on assumptions made about the scalar coupling at a microscopic level. We illustrate these methods by applying them to Brans-Dicke scalars, and their generalization in which the scalar-matter coupling is a weak function of the scalar field. The four observable parameters that characterize the fields external to a spherically symmetric star (the stellar radius, R, mass, M, scalar `charge', Q, and the scalar's asymptotic value, phi_infty) are subject to two relations because of the matching to the interior solution, generalizing the usual mass-radius, M(R), relation of General Relativity. We identify how these relations depend on the microscopic scalar couplings, agreeing with earlier workers when comparisons are possible. Explicit analytical solutions are obtained for the instructive toy model of constant-density stars, whose properties we compare to more realistic equations of state for neutron star models.
description: 39 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 4 of Family planning for women with severe mental illness in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Zerihun, Tigist
name: Sorsdahl, Katherine
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ): 32-item checklist.
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF SKIN GROWTH TO IMPROVE TISSUE EXPANSION RECONSTRUCTION
Creators: name: Han, Tianhong
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Solid mechanics
Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation

description: Breast cancer affects 12.5\% of women over their life time and tissue expansion (TE) is the most common technique for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, the rate of complications with TE can be as high as 15\%. Even though the first documented case of TE happened in 1957, there has yet to be a standardized procedure established due to the variations among patients and the TE protocols are currently designed based on surgeon's experience. There are several studies of computational and theoretical framework modeling skin growth in TE but these tools are not used in the clinical setting. This dissertation focuses on bridging the gap between the already existing skin growth modeling efforts and it's potential application in the clinical setting.
 We started with calibrating a skin growth model based on porcine skin expansions data. We built a predictive finite element model of tissue expansion. Two types of model were tested, isotropic and anisotropic models. Calibration was done in a probabilistic framework, allowing us to capture the inherent biological uncertainty of living tissue. We hypothesized that the skin growth rate was proportional to stretch. Indeed, the Bayesian calibration process confirmed that this conceptual model best explained the data.
 Although the initial model described the macroscale response, it did not consider any activity on the cellular level. To account for the underlying cellular mechanisms at the microscopic scale, we have established a new system of differential equations that describe the dynamics of key mechanosensing pathways that we observed to be activated in the porcine model. We calibrated the parameters of the new model based on porcine skin data. The refined model is still able to reproduce the observed macroscale changes in tissue growth, but now based on mechanistic knowledge of the cell mechanobiology.
 Lastly, we demonstrated how our skin growth model can be used in a clinical setting. We created TE simulations matching the protocol used in human patients and compared the results with clinical data with good agreement. Then we established a personalized model built from 3D scans of a patient unique geometry. We verified our model by comparing the skin growth area with the area of the skin harvested in the procedure, again with good agreement.
 Our work shows that skin growth modeling can be a powerful tool to aid surgeons design TE procedures before they are actually performed. The simulations can help with optimizing the protocol to guarantee the correct amount of skin is growth in the shortest time possible without subjecting the skin to deformations that can compromise the procedure.
Comparing motor learning and mu suppression under short-term physical and observational practice in adults : a pilot study
Creators: name: Alhajri, Najah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Repeated physical practice is not always the optimal approach in rehabilitation, especially in individuals with severe motor-related problems. Research has shown the effectiveness of observational practice as a motor learning tool in various rehabilitation settings. However, little is known about the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this mode of learning and whether similar behavioral and neurophysiological changes occur during physical and observational practice. The purpose of this study was to compare short-term physical and observational practice during the acquisition and retention of a novel motor task and to evaluate how each type of practice modulates EEG mu rhythm (8-13Hz). Thirty healthy individuals were randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) physical practice (PP); (2) observational practice (OP); and (3) no practice (NP). The experiment consisted of three phases: training, testing (observing 10 minutes following training), and retention (performing 24 hours following training). Two behavioural measures (as indexed by total time and error) and brain responses (as indexed by mu suppression at the central regions) were examined. The results revealed: (1) that when comparing the PP group during their first exposure to the task to the OP group during their first exposure to the task, the OP group was significantly faster than the PP group, did not differ from the PP group in terms of error, (2) significant bilateral suppression of mu rhythm during PP and significant left lateralized mu suppression during OP, (3) significant bilateral mu suppression during observation after PP compared to that after OP and NP. Overall, the study demonstrates that OP induces neurophysiological (i.e., mu suppression) and behavioural (i.e., reduced total time) changes similar to that occur during PP. However, the different pattern of activation during the two types of practice suggests that OP does not activate the same brain areas activated during PP; rather, it triggers a subset of brain regions. Therefore, OP may be a good proxy for PP under conditions where PP is not possible. This is the first study to investigate changes in mu rhythm as a function of both PP and OP.
Generic Misalignment Aberration Patterns in Wide-Field Telescopes
Creators: name: Schechter, Paul L.
name: Levinson, Rebecca Sobel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axially symmetric telescopes produce well known "Seidel" off-axis third-order aberration patterns: coma, astigmatism, curvature of field and distortion. When axial symmetry is broken by the small misalignments of optical elements, additional third-order aberration patterns arise: one each for coma, astigmatism and curvature of field and two for distortion. Each of these misalignment patterns is characterized by an associated two-dimensional vector, each of which in turn is a linear combination of the tilt and decenter vectors of the individual optical elements. For an N-mirror telescope, 2(N-1) patterns must be measured to keep the telescope aligned. Alignment of the focal plane may require two additional patterns. For N = 3, as in a three mirror anastigmat, there is a two-dimensional "subspace of benign misalignment" over which the misalignment patterns for third-order coma, astigmatism and curvature of field are identically zero. One would need to measure at least one of the two distortion patterns to keep the telescope aligned. Alternatively, one might measure one of the fifth-order misalignment patterns, which are derived herein. But the fifth-order patterns are rather insensitive to misalignments, even with moderately wide fields, rendering them of relatively little use in telescope alignment. Another alternative would be to use telescope pointing as part of the alignment solution.
description: 50 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for Publication in PASP
Numerical convergence of the block-maxima approach to the Generalized Extreme Value distribution
Creators: name: Faranda, Davide
name: Lucarini, Valerio
name: Turchetti, Giorgio
name: Vaienti, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we perform an analytical and numerical study of Extreme Value distributions in discrete dynamical systems. In this setting, recent works have shown how to get a statistics of extremes in agreement with the classical Extreme Value Theory. We pursue these investigations by giving analytical expressions of Extreme Value distribution parameters for maps that have an absolutely continuous invariant measure. We compare these analytical results with numerical experiments in which we study the convergence to limiting distributions using the so called block-maxima approach, pointing out in which cases we obtain robust estimation of parameters. In regular maps for which mixing properties do not hold, we show that the fitting procedure to the classical Extreme Value Distribution fails, as expected. However, we obtain an empirical distribution that can be explained starting from a different observable function for which Nicolis et al. [2006] have found analytical results.
description: 34 pages, 7 figures; Journal of Statistical Physics 2011
Additional file 1 of Investigating the DNA methylation profile of e-cigarette use
Creators: name: Richmond, Rebecca C.
name: Sillero-Rejon, Carlos
name: Khouja, Jasmine N.
name: Prince, Claire
name: Board, Alexander
name: Sharp, Gemma
name: Suderman, Matthew
name: Relton, Caroline L.
name: Munafò, Marcus
name: Gage, Suzanne H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures.
Noncommutative integrability, paths and quasi-determinants
Creators: name: Di Francesco, Philippe
name: Kedem, Rinat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05, 81

description: In previous work, we showed that the solution of certain systems of discrete integrable equations, notably $Q$ and $T$-systems, is given in terms of partition functions of positively weighted paths, thereby proving the positive Laurent phenomenon of Fomin and Zelevinsky for these cases. This method of solution is amenable to generalization to non-commutative weighted paths. Under certain circumstances, these describe solutions of discrete evolution equations in non-commutative variables: Examples are the corresponding quantum cluster algebras [BZ], the Kontsevich evolution [DFK09b] and the $T$-systems themselves [DFK09a]. In this paper, we formulate certain non-commutative integrable evolutions by considering paths with non-commutative weights, together with an evolution of the weights that reduces to cluster algebra mutations in the commutative limit. The general weights are expressed as Laurent monomials of quasi-determinants of path partition functions, allowing for a non-commutative version of the positive Laurent phenomenon. We apply this construction to the known systems, and obtain Laurent positivity results for their solutions in terms of initial data.
description: 46 pages, minor typos corrected
Additional file 1 of GC-MS-based metabolite profiling of key differential metabolites between superior and inferior spikelets of rice during the grain filling stage
Creators: name: Min, Xiumei
name: Xu, Hailong
name: Huang, Fenglian
name: Wei, Yidong
name: Lin, Wenxiong
name: Zhang, Zhixing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Principal component analysis (PCA), Orthogonal projections to latent structures (OPLS) and S-plot analysis of the superior spikelets (SS) and inferior spikelets (IS) metabolomes. (A) PCA model of 10 DAF IS and SS. (B) PCA model of 10 DAF IS and 25 DAF IS. (C) PCA model of 25 DAF IS and 10 DAF SS. (D) OPLS model of 10 DAF IS and SS. (E) OPLS model of 10 DAF IS and 25 DAF IS. (F) OPLS model of 25 DAF IS and 10 DAF SS. (G) S-plot of 10 DAF IS and SS. (H) S-plot of 10 DAF IS and 25 DAF IS. (I) S-plot of 25 DAF IS and 10 DAF SS.
Divergent Thinking in Atypical Parkinsonism
Creators: name: MORONI, Federica
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2017

description: Creativity is strongly dependent on divergent thinking and divergent thinking appears to be strongly linked to frontal lobe function. Since Parkinson's disease (PD) depends also on a dysfunction of the frontal lobe, with this research we aim to investigate if a change in the divergent thinking of patients with this diagnosis can be observe. Moreover, since the atypical parkinsonism is a group of neurodegenerative diseases involving the combination of parkinsonian symptoms and other neurological signs, we would make a comparison between atypical parkinsonism (PKS) and PD cognitive and creative level. An appropriate battery of neuropsychological tests was given to 13 patients with idiopathic PD, to 13 multiple system atrophy (MSA) patients, to 13 patients with progressive sopranuclear palsy (PSP) and 13 normal control subjects (HC). An exploratory survey on 4 corticobasal degeneration (CBD) was conducted too. The Abbreviated Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking for Adults (ATTA), a known test assessing creativity along the dimensions of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration was used to examine divergent thinking. Nobody of the subjects plays a creative work. Comparing all the data we found that creative PSP level is lower then other groups. Instead, the creative PD and HC level are similar. The result seems to confirm the central role of frontal lobes in creativity. In particular, we hypotesize the involvement of dopaminergic midbrain circuits and limbic system while the role of dopaminergic treatment remains doubtful.
Formation of black hole and accretion disk in a massive high-entropy stellar core collapse
Creators: name: Sekiguchi, Yuichiro
name: Shibata, Masaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first numerical result of fully general relativistic axisymmetric simulations for the collapse of a rotating high-entropy stellar core to a black hole and an accretion disk. The simulations are performed taking into account the relevant microphysics. We adopt as initial condition a spherical core with constant electron fraction ($Y_e = 0.5$) and entropy per baryon $s$ = 8 $k_B$, and angular velocity is superimposed. In the early phase, the core collapses in a homologous manner. Then, it experiences a weak bounce due to the gas pressure of free nucleons. Because the bounce is weak, the core collapses eventually to a black hole. Subsequent evolution depends on initial angular velocity. When the rotation is not fast, a geometrically thin (but optically thick) accretion disk is formed, and shock waves are formed in the inner part of the disk. For the moderately rotating case, the thin accretion disk expands eventually to be a geometrically thick torus after sufficient accumulation of the thermal energy generated at the shocks. Furthermore, convection occurs inside the torus. Neutrino luminosities vary violently with time because of the convective motion. For the rapidly rotating case, by contrast, a geometrically thick torus is formed soon after the black hole formation, and convective activity is weak due to the presence of epicyclic mode.
description: 30 pages, 33 figures with low resolution, accepted for publication in ApJ
RELATIONSHIP FUNCTIONING AND PTSD SYMPTOMS POST DEPLOYMENT IN NATIONAL GUARD COUPLES
Creators: name: Dupree, Jessica Cooley
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been linked to different aspects of romantic relationship functioning. The literature demonstrates mixed results on which type of PTSD symptom is most impactful for successful romantic relationships. Many studies have examined this association both cross sectionally and longitudinally, and in many different populations. This association is of importance particularly for those highly exposed to trauma, such as those in the National Guard. The current study had two aims. The first was to examine the rates of change in Guard member’s (N = 175) PTSD and relationship functioning and their partners (N = 176) relationship functioning, across three waves following deployment. The second was to investigate the unique impact of each PTSD symptom cluster (re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal) occurring in the Guard Member on their own and their partner’s measures of relationship functioning. These aims were achieved through a secondary data analysis of a larger study that followed National Guard families from predeployment throughout reintegration. For the purposes of this analysis, Guard Member’s and their partners were assessed on relationship functioning measures 2 months, 8 months, and 13 months after deployment. The Guard member’s PTSD symptoms were assessed at the same time points. Multilevel modelling revealed that the Guard member’s PTSD symptoms and relationship functioning did not change significantly over time. Partner’s relationship functioning did not change either, with the exception of active engagement. Regression analysis revealed that Guard member’s PTSD avoidance symptoms are most strongly associated with both the Guard member and their partners ratings of relationship functioning. These findings identify an important area of possible intervention.
Single particle structure of exotic strontium isotopes
Creators: name: Cruz, Steffen James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The sudden onset of ground state deformation and the emergence of shape-coexisting states in the vicinity of N~60 and Z~40 has been a subject of substantial interest for many years. It has been shown that the emergence of deformed low-energy configurations can be explained in the shell model by the evolution of single particle structure and the interaction between protons and neutrons in certain valence orbitals. However, the numerous theoretical models that have been developed for this transitional region are limited by the experimental data that is available. In particular, a description of the underlying single particle configurations of low energy states is essential for a detailed description of this region. In this work, the single particle structure of states in ⁹⁵Sr and ⁹⁶Sr has been investigated through the one-neutron transfer reactions ⁹⁵ ⁹⁶Sr(d,p) in inverse kinematics at TRIUMF. In each of these experiments, a 5.5 MeV/u Sr beam was impinged on a 5.0 mg/cm² CD₂ target, and emitted particles and γ-rays were detected using the SHARC and TIGRESS detector arrays, respectively. Using an angular distribution analysis, firm spin assignments have been made for the first time of the low-lying 352 keV, 556 keV and 681 keV excited states in ⁹⁵Sr from ⁹⁴Sr(d,p), and a constraint has been made on the spin of the higher-lying 1666 keV excited state in ⁹⁵Sr. Similarly, angular distributions have been extracted for 14 states in 96Sr from ⁹⁵Sr(d,p), and new experimental constraints have been assigned to the spins and parities of 8 states in ⁹⁶Sr. Additionally, two new states in ⁹⁶Sr have been identified in this work. A measurement of the mixing strength between the 1229 keV and 1465 keV shape-coexisting states in ⁹⁶Sr was also made, which was found to be a²=0.48(17).
Critical point of $N_f = 3$ QCD from lattice simulations in the canonical ensemble
Creators: name: Li, Anyi
name: Alexandru, Andrei
name: Liu, Keh-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A canonical ensemble algorithm is employed to study the phase diagram of $N_f = 3$ QCD using lattice simulations. We lock in the desired quark number sector using an exact Fourier transform of the fermion determinant. We scan the phase space below $T_c$ and look for an S-shape structure in the chemical potential, which signals the coexistence phase of a first order phase transition in finite volume. Applying Maxwell construction, we determine the boundaries of the coexistence phase at three temperatures and extrapolate them to locate the critical point. Using an improved gauge action and improved Wilson fermions on lattices with a spatial extent of $1.8 \fm$ and quark masses close to that of the strange, we find the critical point at $T_E = 0.925(5) T_c$ and baryon chemical potential $μ_B^E = 2.60(8) T_c$.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, references added, published version
Skew Category Algebras Associated with Partially Defined Dynamical Systems
Creators: name: Lundström, Patrik
name: Öinert, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W50, 16S99

description: We introduce partially defined dynamical systems defined on a topological space. To each such system we associate a functor $s$ from a category $G$ to $\Top^{\op}$ and show that it defines what we call a skew category algebra $A \rtimes^σ G$. We study the connection between topological freeness of $s$ and, on the one hand, ideal properties of $A \rtimes^σ G$ and, on the other hand, maximal commutativity of $A$ in $A \rtimes^σ G$. In particular, we show that if $G$ is a groupoid and for each $e \in \ob(G)$ the group of all morphisms $e \rightarrow e$ is countable and the topological space $s(e)$ is Tychonoff and Baire, then the following assertions are equivalent: (i) $s$ is topologically free; (ii) $A$ has the ideal intersection property, that is if $I$ is a nonzero ideal of $A \rtimes^σ G$, then $I \cap A \neq \{0\}$; (iii) the ring $A$ is a maximal abelian complex subalgebra of $A \rtimes^σ G$. Thereby, we generalize a result by Svensson, Silvestrov and de Jeu from the additive group of integers to a large class of groupoids.
description: 16 pages. This article is an improvement of, and hereby a replacement for, version 1 (arXiv:1006.4776v1) entitled "Category Dynamical Systems and Skew Category Algebras"
Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of microfinance institutions
Creators: name: WIJESIRI, MAHINDA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation consists of three essays, each exploring MFIs? efficiency and productivity dynamics in presence of environment impacts.
The first essay examines technical efficiency and its determinants of 36 microfinance institutions in Sri Lanka using a two-stage double bootstrap approach. Efficiency levels are explored in terms of MFIs? dual objectives of financial sustainability and outreach. In the first stage, a bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) procedure is used to correct the bias and construct confidential intervals for the efficiency estimates. Then in the second stage, bias-corrected efficiency estimates are regressed on a set of environmental variables using a bootstrap regression approach. The results of the first stage analysis confirm the existence of financial and social inefficiency for the majority of MFIs in Sri Lanka. The second stage analysis suggests that such inefficiency is determined by a number of MFI characteristics such as its age, its organizational type (i.e. run as an Non-governmental Organization or not), its capitalization level, and its profitability.
The second essay uses a non-parametric Malmquist method to investigate the changes in productivity of 20 Kenyan microfinance institutions over the period 2009-2012. Productivity change is decomposed into indices of technological change, pure efficiency change and scale efficiency change. A bootstrap procedure is employed to construct confidence intervals for the Malmquist indices. This procedure makes it possible to investigate whether such changes are significant in a statistical sense. Additionally, a second-stage bootstrap procedure is employed to ascertain the sources of productivity change measures. Results show that productivity growths are primarily attributable to technical improvements at an average of 7%. Moreover, second stage results suggest that matured MFIs tend to have a lower productivity compared to the younger counterparts.
In the third essay, focus is shifted to investigate the relationship between efficiency and corporate governance in MFIs. Using a two-stage bootstrap procedure for a sample of 36 Sri Lankan MFIs, it explores the effect of several governance models (i.e. board size, proportion of women on the board, duality and presence/ absence of a female chief executive officer) on sustainability and outreach dimensions of efficiency estimates. Results suggest that financial efficiency improves with a small board and higher proportion of women on the board. Results also show that MFIs in which the same individual holds CEO and chairman of the board and MFIs in which a woman holds the position of CEO are less efficient in terms of reaching the lower strata of the rural poor.
Probabilistic Secret Sharing Through Noisy Quantum Channels
Creators: name: Adhikari, Satyabrata
name: Chakrabarty, Indranil
name: Agrawal, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the qubits are distributed over noisy channels. We focus on a specific noisy channel, the phase-damping channel. We propose a protocol for secret sharing of classical information with this and related noisy channels. This protocol can also be thought of as cooperative superdense coding. We also discuss other noisy channels to examine the possibility of secret sharing of classical information.
description: 5 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, Accepted for Publication in Quantum Information and Computation
Additional file 5 of GC-MS-based metabolite profiling of key differential metabolites between superior and inferior spikelets of rice during the grain filling stage
Creators: name: Min, Xiumei
name: Xu, Hailong
name: Huang, Fenglian
name: Wei, Yidong
name: Lin, Wenxiong
name: Zhang, Zhixing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. Primer sequences of genes related to sugar conversion and starch synthesis.
Energy performance assessment for existing multi unit residential buildings
Creators: name: Gamalath, Isuru Madhushan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Climate change is a major challenge in today’s world. Energy use is directly correlated to greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in climate change. As the residential sector is a major energy consumer, improving the energy performance of the residential building stock is imperative in mitigating this issue. Evaluation of building energy performance, life cycle impacts, and economic burdens of building energy use can facilitate improved decision making in operations of existing building stock. Hence, as the primary objective of this study, a life cycle thinking-based energy assessment tool was developed for multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs). A comprehensive review of popular building energy rating systems revealed the need to incorporate life cycle thinking in evaluating building energy performance. Further, based on a comprehensive review it was identified that current rating systems do not consider the uncertainty and vagueness associated with data used for performance assessments. Most of the existing energy rating systems focus only on energy consumption when assigning the rating. Energy rating systems rarely consider the factors affecting energy use and the impacts of energy use in assigning their score/rating for the building. An assessment tool with indicators representing the impacts of energy use and factors affecting operational energy use of buildings was developed to address the identified issues. A questionnaire survey was conducted to obtain expert views on the proposed assessment tool from professionals associated with MURBs. MURB owners, managers, designers, engineers, researchers, and government and other external stakeholders were the target audience of this survey. Feedback from this survey was used to refine the proposed tool and determine weights for indicators. In the proposed method, fuzzy set theory was used to consider the uncertainties and vagueness associated with qualitative and quantitative assessments of the identified indicator data. Fuzzy synthetic evaluation was used to aggregate the indicator value. The proposed approach extends the current body of knowledge on building energy ratings by integrating asset performance and operational performance through lifecycle thinking. A case study was conducted to demonstrate the application of the energy assessment tool. A java-based web tool was developed to assist the proposed assessment process.
Non-equilibrium and local detection of the normal fraction of a trapped two-dimensional Bose gas
Creators: name: Carusotto, Iacopo
name: Castin, Yvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to measure the normal fraction of a two-dimensional Bose gas, a quantity that generally differs from the non-condensed fraction. The idea is based on applying a spatially oscillating artificial gauge field to the atoms. The response of the atoms to the gauge field can be read out either mechanically from the deposited energy into the cloud, or optically from the macroscopic optical properties of the atomic gas. The local nature of the proposed scheme allows one to reconstruct the spatial profile of the superfluid component; furthermore, the proposed method does not require having established thermal equilibrium in the gas in the presence of the gauge field. The theoretical description of the system is based on a generalization of the Dum-Olshanii theory of artificial gauge fields to the interacting many-body context. The efficiency of the proposed measurement scheme is assessed by means of classical field numerical simulations. An explicit atomic level scheme minimizing disturbing effects such as spontaneous emission and light-shifts is proposed for Rb 87 atoms.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures; part of the numerics redone
Neotinea ×dietrichiana (N. tridentata × N. ustulata) in Abruzzo: primo ritrovamento nel Parco Nazionale della Majella e nuova segnalazione nell'Aquilano
Creators: name: Romieg Soca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neotinea

description: Ciaschetti G., Pezzetta A., Soca R. & Di Cecco M., 2017. Neotinea ×dietrichiana (N. tridentata × N. ustulata) in Abruzzo: primo ritrovamento nel Parco Nazionale della Majella e nuova segnalazione nell'Aquilano. GIROS Orchidee Spontanee d'Europa 60(2): 400-403.
"Frammenti di grammatica viva?. Nota su un uso anomalo del pronome atono le nell?italiano contemporaneo
Creators: name: CUZZOLIN, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2002

description: Nel presente lavoro viene descritto un fenomeno dell'italiano parlato, a quel che sembra piuttosto diffuso nella variet� di persone di alta scolarizzazione: in contesti dialogici, i parlanti, quando si riferiscono a una terza persona maschile assente, usano il pronome le al posto del corretto gli. La ragione di questa scelta � probabilmente legata al fatto che il pronome le viene sentito come caratterizzato da un tratto di cortesia che il parlante vuole conservare anche in assenza della persona alla quale mostra cortesia.
A Survey of the State of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Danilevsky, Marina
name: Qian, Kun
name: Aharonov, Ranit
name: Katsis, Yannis
name: Kawas, Ban
name: Sen, Prithviraj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Recent years have seen important advances in the quality of state-of-the-art models, but this has come at the expense of models becoming less interpretable. This survey presents an overview of the current state of Explainable AI (XAI), considered within the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We discuss the main categorization of explanations, as well as the various ways explanations can be arrived at and visualized. We detail the operations and explainability techniques currently available for generating explanations for NLP model predictions, to serve as a resource for model developers in the community. Finally, we point out the current gaps and encourage directions for future work in this important research area.
description: To appear in AACL-IJCNLP 2020
Implications of multiple high-redshift galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Hoyle, Ben
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Verde, Licia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To date, 14 high-redshift (z>1.0) galaxy clusters with mass measurements have been observed, spectroscopically confirmed and are reported in the literature. These objects should be exceedingly rare in the standard LCDM model. We conservatively approximate the selection functions of these clusters' parent surveys, and quantify the tension between the abundances of massive clusters as predicted by the standard LCDM model and the observed ones. We alleviate the tension considering non-Gaussian primordial perturbations of the local type, characterized by the parameter fnl and derive constraints on fnl arising from the mere existence of these clusters. At the 95% confidence level, fnl>467 with cosmological parameters fixed to their most likely WMAP5 values, or fnl > 123 (at 95% confidence) if we marginalize over WMAP5 parameters priors. In combination with fnl constraints from Cosmic Microwave Background and halo bias, this determination implies a scale-dependence of fnl at approx. 3 sigma. Given the assumptions made in the analysis, we expect any future improvements to the modeling of the non-Gaussian mass function, survey volumes, or selection functions to increase the significance of fnl>0 found here. In order to reconcile these massive, high-z clusters with an fnl=0, their masses would need to be systematically lowered by 1.5 sigma or the sigma8 parameter should be approx. 3 sigma higher than CMB (and large-scale structure) constraints. The existence of these objects is a puzzle: it either represents a challenge to the LCDM paradigme or it is an indication that the mass estimates of clusters is dramatically more uncertain than we think.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, modified to match published version
Simulating spin models on GPU
Creators: name: Weigel, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that of current CPUs by large factors, results from the relative simplicity of the GPU architectures as compared to CPUs, combined with a large number of parallel processing units on a single chip. To benefit from this setup for general computing purposes, the problems at hand need to be prepared in a way to profit from the inherent parallelism and hierarchical structure of memory accesses. In this contribution I discuss the performance potential for simulating spin models, such as the Ising model, on GPU as compared to conventional simulations on CPU.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, elsarticle