cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Classical Ising model test for quantum circuits
Creators: name: Geraci, J.
name: Lidar, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exploit a recently constructed mapping between quantum circuits and graphs in order to prove that circuits corresponding to certain planar graphs can be efficiently simulated classically. The proof uses an expression for the Ising model partition function in terms of quadratically signed weight enumerators (QWGTs), which are polynomials that arise naturally in an expansion of quantum circuits in terms of rotations involving Pauli matrices. We combine this expression with a known efficient classical algorithm for the Ising partition function of any planar graph in the absence of an external magnetic field, and the Robertson-Seymour theorem from graph theory. We give as an example a set of quantum circuits with a small number of non-nearest neighbor gates which admit an efficient classical simulation.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures. v2: main result strengthened by removing oracular setting
title: Regional Economic Effects of Wilderness Designations in Six Western States
Creators: name: Hagenstad, Marca L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: This study investigated the existence of impacts on per capita incomes from the designations of wilderness areas. It developed one model to explain county-level per capita incomes in the six western states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming. This model examined effects of various factors believed to affect incomes, such as the industry mix of an economy, population densities, unemployment rates, government expenditures, and the existence of colleges, Indian reservations, and wilderness areas.
The analysis indicated that per capita incomes in these states did not fall by an increase in wilderness lands. In fact, counties in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho experienced higher incomes if they contained wilderness areas. Counties in all states experienced higher incomes if a greater percentage of revenues came from the tourism and extractive industry sectors. However, the analysis indicated that, on average, increases in revenues from tourism increased incomes more than increases in revenues from extractive industries.
No definitive analysis could be performed to determine the difference between wilderness and extractive industry effects because the variables are not measured in the same units. However, the income elasticities were calculated with respect to the means of the relevant explanatory variables. The income elasticity with respect to changes in the extractive industry was the highest elasticity computed, as extractive industry mean values were much larger than the other mean values.
As in all econometric studies, estimated coefficients suggest relationships, not causality. Results from this study in particular cannot be taken out of context and interpreted without close examination of all factors pertaining to the stated results.
Additional file 2 of Introduction and feeding practices of solid food in preterm infants born in Salzburg!
Creators: name: Hofstätter, Edda
name: Köttstorfer, Verena
name: Stroicz, Patricia
name: Schütz, Sebastian
name: Auer-Hackenberg, Lorenz
name: Brandner, Johannes
name: Wald, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
title: A Study of Hybrids Between Sugar Beets and Mangel Wurzels With Reference to Color Factors and Sugar Content
Creators: name: Berrey, Boyd
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1939

description: Preliminary unpublished work at the Salt Lake City Laboratory of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, indicates that beets showing the Y color factor (9) were larger than sugar-beet types recessive for this color factor (y y). It was suggested to the writer that an investigation be made to determine whether or not yield and sugar content were correlated with color factors in beets. Linkages between the R and Y color factors have been reported by Keller (9), and the results indicate a close linkage betwen color factorsR and Y, with about 7.5 percent recombinations. Abegg (1) has found linkage between the R color factor and the factor B for annual habit with a crossover percentage of about 15.5 percent. Unpublished data from the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations indicate several additional color factors in the R Y B linkage group.
Yield and sugar analysis, as related to presence and absence of the R factor, have been studied by Nuckols (10). Nuckols' studies were made from a commercial variety and plants recessive for the red color (genotype r r) were separated from plants with red hypocotyls (genotypes R r and R R) at thinning time. He reports no significant difference between the 2 color classes in yield or sugar content. Since these data were taken from a commercial variety of beets by thinning to color classes, no critical information was secured regarding possible genetic linkages; but satisfactory data were secured showing 1 color to be as good as the other as far as production of sugar is concerned.
In the present study hybrids were made between a sugar beet and a mangel wurzel. The sugar beet was a high sugar type of genetic constitution R r y y for color. The mangel wurzel was a high yield and low sugar type and of genetic constitution r r Y Y for color. A large F2 population resulting from hybrids between the sugar beet and the mangel made possible a critical study of the association of the R and Y color factors with yield and sugar analysis.
Integer and half-integer flux-quantum transitions in a niobium/iron-pnictide loop
Creators: name: Chen, C. -T.
name: Tsuei, C. C.
name: Ketchen, M. B.
name: Ren, Z. -A.
name: Zhao, Z. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of iron-based superconductors challenges the existing paradigm of high-temperature superconductivity. Owing to their unusual multi-orbital band structure, magnetism, and electron correlation, theories propose a unique sign reversed s-wave pairing state, with the order parameter changing sign between the electron and hole Fermi pockets. However, because of the complex Fermi surface topology and material related issues, the predicted sign reversal remains unconfirmed. Here we report a novel phase-sensitive technique for probing unconventional pairing symmetry in the polycrystalline iron-pnictides. Through the observation of both integer and half-integer flux-quantum transitions in composite niobium/iron-pnictide loops, we provide the first phase-sensitive evidence of the sign change of the order parameter in NdFeAsO0.88F0.12, lending strong support for microscopic models predicting unconventional s-wave pairing symmetry. These findings have important implications on the mechanism of pnictide superconductivity, and lay the groundwork for future studies of new physics arising from the exotic order in the FeAs-based superconductors.
description: 23 pages, including 4 figures and supplementary information
Quantum symmetric pairs and representations of double affine Hecke algebras of type $C^\vee C_n$
Creators: name: Jordan, David
name: Ma, Xiaoguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37

description: We build representations of the affine and double affine braid groups and Hecke algebras of type $C^\vee C_n$, based upon the theory of quantum symmetric pairs $(U,B)$. In the case $U=U_q(gl_N)$, our constructions provide a quantization of the representations constructed by Etingof, Freund and Ma in arXiv:0801.1530, and also a type $BC$ generalization of the results in arXiv:0805.2766.
description: Final version, to appear in Selecta Mathematica
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau
Creators: name: Ren, Liang
name: Huo, Jiaxuan
name: Xiang, Xiang
name: Pan, Yingping
name: Li, Yuanqiao
name: Wang, Yuanyuan
name: Meng, Dehui
name: Yu, Cheng
name: Huang, Yongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Terrestrial ecology
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)

description: This dataset is the supporting data and code for the article "Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau".
 unprocessed data.xlsx is all the data supporting this study, provided in different sheets by type. Sheet1 has a description of the original dataset. stability.csv is the supporting data used to complete all analyses in the main text, which has been organized into a format that can be analyzed directly using the R code provided. analysis.R is the R code that completes the main analysis of the paper.
title: The Effect of Time, Quantity, and Kind of Irrigation on the Yield of Sugar Beets
Creators: name: Archibald, Delos Boyd
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1949

description: Investigations on factors affecting yield of sugar beets during the past two years at Newton and Garland, Utah, have shown two outstanding facts about irrigating sugar beets. First, the amount of water applied may not be as important as the time at which they receive it. Second, sugar beets should not be made to suffer for water in the early part of their growing season.
These observations suggest the need for further studies on method, time and quantity of irrigation. Further information on the most economical use of irrigation water for sugar beets would be of great value to the sugar beet industry.
The object of this study was to determine the best time and type of irrigation, and quantity of water as they influence the yield of sugar beets. In order to reach this objective six moisture variables were used. They consisted of applying water by furrow and sprinkle methods; early and late irrigation in the spring; discontinuing irrigation for the last part of the growing season and continuous irrigation until harvesting; and, frequency of irrigation throughout the growing season. In order to determine the effect of moisture on the yield of sugar beets at different fertility levels, six different fertility levels were combined with each moisture variable.
Additional file 1 of Sex differences in the intergenerational link between maternal and neonatal whole blood DNA methylation: a genome-wide analysis in 2 birth cohorts
Creators: name: Hu, Jie
name: Xu, Xin
name: Li, Jun
name: Jiang, Yu
name: Hong, Xiumei
name: Rexrode, Kathryn M.
name: Wang, Guoying
name: Hu, Frank B.
name: Zhang, Hongmei
name: Karmaus, Wilfried J.
name: Wang, Xiaobin
name: Liang, Liming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figures.
Simple relationship between the virial-route hypernetted-chain and the compressibility-route Percus--Yevick values of the fourth virial coefficient
Creators: name: Santos, Andrés
name: Manzano, Gema
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As is well known, approximate integral equations for liquids, such as the hypernetted chain (HNC) and Percus--Yevick (PY) theories, are in general thermodynamically inconsistent in the sense that the macroscopic properties obtained from the spatial correlation functions depend on the route followed. In particular, the values of the fourth virial coefficient $B_4$ predicted by the HNC and PY approximations via the virial route differ from those obtained via the compressibility route. Despite this, it is shown in this paper that the value of $B_4$ obtained from the virial route in the HNC theory is exactly three halves the value obtained from the compressibility route in the PY theory, irrespective of the interaction potential (whether isotropic or not), the number of components, and the dimensionality of the system. This simple relationship is confirmed in one-component systems by analytical results for the one-dimensional penetrable-square-well model and the three-dimensional penetrable-sphere model, as well as by numerical results for the one-dimensional Lennard--Jones model, the one-dimensional Gaussian core model, and the three-dimensional square-well model.
description: 8 pages; 4 figures; v2: slight change of title; proof extended to multicomponent fluids
Geomorphology of the Central Kamchatka Depression, the Kamchatka Peninsula, NE Pacific
Creators: name: Zelenin, E.
name: Gurinov, A.
name: Garipova, S.
name: Zakharov, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The Kamchatka Peninsula lies on the eastern active margin of Eurasia, adjacent to the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone. In this study, we provide a geomorphological map of the Central Kamchatka Depression – the largest sedimentary basin in Kamchatka and also in all the island arcs of the North Pacific. The depression extends along Kamchatka at latitudes ∼44–46° N for more than 400 km and is up to 100 km wide. The geomorphological map of the Central Kamchatka Depression is designed at a scale of 1:500,000 and contains ∼3000 mapped objects. Volcanic and tectonic landforms have been collected from published sources and generalised to the map scale. Glacial and fluvial landforms have been mapped using remote sensing data and field geomorphological surveys. Areas of ambiguous interpretation have been outlined. This map is the most detailed geomorphological map published for this region that may guide further geomorphological and paleogeographical investigations.
From Anderson Localization to Mesoscopic Physics
Creators: name: Büttiker, Markus
name: Moskalets, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the late seventies an increasing interest in the scaling theory of Anderson localization led to new efforts to understand the conductance of systems which scatter electrons elastically. The conductance and its relation to the scattering matrix emerged as an important subject. This, coupled with the desire to find explicit manifestations of single electron interference led to the emergence of mesoscopic physics. We review electron transport phenomena which can be expressed elegantly in terms of the scattering matrix. Of particular interest are phenomena which depend not only on transmission probabilities but on both amplitude and phase of scattering matrix elements.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
title: Inheritance Studies in Kanred X Martin and in G-149 X Ridit
Creators: name: Hansen, Myron T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1924

description: The studies here reported involve two crosses, one of which was between a pure line of Kanred and a pure line of Martin from a bunt resistant selection. The other was between a pure line of G-149, a rust-resistant segregate from Sevier X Dicklow, and a pure line of Ridit. These were both economic breeding projects made in an effort to combine the good commercial qualities of Kanred and G-149 with the high bunt resistance of Martin and Ridit, respectively.
These crosses also furnished, as a by-product, some good genetic data, as in each cross one parent was fully awned and the other awnless, one had red grain and the other white grain.
Regional scale surface of the top of the Variscan basement in the central sector of Italy
Creators: name: Trumpy, Eugenio
name: Manzella, Adele
name: Pertusati, Piero Carlo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: In this study, we combined regional geology and geostatistical analytical processing to model the top surface of the Variscan basement in Italy. This surface, which is overlain by the pre-Alpine sedimentary cycle (Upper Carboniferous – Permian) followed by the Alpine Mesozoic and Tertiary cycles, covers a significant portion of the Italian peninsula and the Adriatic Sea. We integrated crustal seismic profiles, deep well litho-stratigraphic information and small-scale geological maps of Italy. A regional scale map of the depth of the investigated surface was thus produced using geostatistical processing. The level of reliability of our map varies depending on the distribution of subsurface data from wells and seismic profiles. However, this method is easily replicable, providing quick updates when new data become available. The map can help to identify areas with high potential for natural deep georesources and guide the exploration.
Fray Mocho and lunfardo
Creators: name: Aaron, Gerald Tingey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purposes of this thesis are to present a study of Jose S. Alvarez, known as Fray Mocho, and his works with particular attention paid to Memorias de un vigilante; to make a study of lunfardo, the slang of Buenos Aires - its origin, its nature, and its influence on language and literature; and to show the important place of Fray Mocho in the history of lunfardo. To accomplish these purposes, in Chapter I, I have undertaken to present a brief sketch of the life of Fray Mocho. Then I attempt to make a brief introduction to his literary work and place it into the literary history of Argentina. Chapter II contains first a discussion of the nature of and importance of Memorias de un vigilante and then a linguistic study, with definitions and etymologies, of the lunfardo vocabulary Fray Mocho gives in "Mundo lunfardo". This is a link with Chapter III which is a study of lunfardo and its historical and sociological background as well as a discussion of the sources of its vocabulary, and the nature of the language. This study of lunfardo closes with a discussion of the influence of lunfardo has had on literature and the spoken language. The conclusion is an attempt to bring together Fray Mocho and lunfardo and show his important place in the history of slang.
Flexible Shape Models for Marine Animal Detection in Underwater Images
Creators: name: Kelsall, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Many industries are benefiting from computer automation, however the area of image analysis is still limited. The process of finding a potential object in an image is hard in itself, let alone classifying it. Automating these tasks would significantly reduce the time it takes to complete them thus allowing much more data to be processed. This becomes a problem when data is collect faster than it can be analysed. Images and video sequences are captured for different purposes and need to be manually processed in order to discover their contents. The fishing industry is a perfect example of this. A fish farm needs to know the average size of the fish in a ring. At present, this involves either manually taking a sample of fish from the ring and measuring them, or taking a series of stereoscopic images and manually tracing a sample of fish. By using active shape models, the process of tracing a fish sample can be automated. The Active Shape Model (ASM) Toolkit is an implementation of active appearance models, an advanced type of active shape model. The wrapper application that was written as part of this research allows a more streamlined process to input region data into the ASM Toolkit for searching. Once a sample has been matched, it is possible to use the key points around it to base further calculations on such as its size and weight. The ASM Toolkit and the wrapper program demonstrate how the process of identifying a fish in an image can be automated and that it is possible to calculate the size and weight of fish. In an ideal manual test, the most effective model matched 68% of samples, and in the automated test matched 50% of the samples. If the program can run over several days collecting appropriate samples, the model will be able to match enough fish to estimate the average size and weight within a ring. It is shown that the types of samples used in training the model affects the performance more than the number of samples used.
title: Correlation Studies in Wheat
Creators: name: Reed, Joseph
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1926

description: Considerable work has been done by plant breeders and investigators in the study of individual plant characters, but only a few have attempted to work out correlations between characters in crop plants. One reason for this seems to be, that many investigators have felt that correlation studies were of very little practical value. This attitude was due perhaps to the interpretation given correlation data, especially the nature of the casual agency or agencies to which the correlation was attributed. Most of our plant breeders however, have been too busy working on experiments with single characters and have given little or no attention to correlation work. The few who have done work in correlations have usually found little or no correlation between the characters studied. The chief reason for lack of investigations in the field of correlations possibly lies in the fact that investigations in this field require very intricate and complex study. A number of characters must be studied and tabulated separately for each plant, the coefficient of correlation determined by means of a long mathematical process, and finally before the work is of any value, causal agencies must be considered and classified, and the data interpreted correctly. This makes the work slow and tedious.
It is quite natural then, in their rush to give to the world something new in plant breeding, that most of our investigators worked on individual characters. It is only recently that we have had men who have gone exhaustively into the field of correlations.
Before proceeding further, an explanation of correlations and what they indicate may be of value. Correlations as it relates to plant breeding is the association or relation that exists between plant characters due to a common casual agency or influence.
A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada
Creators: name: Smith, I. Rod
name: Deblonde, Christine
name: Hagedorn, Grant
name: Paulen, Roger C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study produced a drift thickness model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake area of northern Canada, using 12,692 lithostratigraphic records (seismic shothole drillers’ logs, diamond drill holes, petroleum wells), and field observations. Numerous algorithms and modelling parameters were tested using 6122 records of absolute drift thickness, and based on a cross-validation analysis, an empirical Bayesian kriging K-Bessel detrended algorithm was found to produce the best fit. The final model, incorporating selected maximum and minimum thickness estimate data, produced a root mean square error of 4.98 m, with 94.8% of the data points within ±2 m of the modelled drift thicknesses. The model identifies widespread areas of drift >10 m thick, and prominent southeast-northwest aligned bedrock ramps. Karst structures buried by ≤73 m of drift were identified southwest of Great Slave Lake and appear to be aligned with regional fault systems like ore-associated karst at Pine Point. These may be the source of anomalous glacial sediment-derived base metal indicators collected proximally to the west. The most striking drift anomaly is in Cameron Hills where the eastern and northern margins are comprised of shale and siltstone bedrock overlain by 20–40 m of glacial sediments, but the central and western uplands have petroleum well logs identifying glacial sediments up to 400 m thick. In addition to mineral exploration, results of this study provide baseline data that can be used predictively by the petroleum industry in designing future seismic and drilling (casing depth) operations, and by those modelling groundwater sources and flow.
title: Qualitative Mendelian Inheritance in Wheat Hybrids
Creators: name: Bracken, Aaron F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1924

description: Two methods of crop improvement are open to the plant breeder. Pure-line selection, which might be mentioned first, deals with the natural variability in plant populations. Thru selection, isolation, and comparative yield tests superior individuals are located. Nothing, however, can be added which the plant does not already have. Here hybridization provides a new starting point. Increased variation, new combination of characters, and thus greater opportunities are provided for improvement. The present investigation has for its purpose a study of the latter phase of this subject.
In certain parts of Utah the straw from dry-land wheat is used for feeding of cattle and horses. Turkey, the chief variety grown, is bearded in character. Some stockmen claim that the beards are not a disadvantage in feeding, but the majority of feeders favor straw free from this disagreeable feature. Heading and threshing outfits also make considerable complaint when handling Turkey. In fact, certain outfits have experienced difficulty in keeping men on Turkey jobs if any other work could be obtained. Yet, in spite of this fact, Turkey continues to be the predominating variety because of better quality which is reflected in the prices, and in addition higher-yielding power. So in contemplation of this situation it was deemed advisable to attempt crossing Turkey and others of the Crimean group with other winter wheats somewhat lower in quality and yielding power, yet having the desirable character of beardlessness. The bearded wheats, Turkey, Armavir, Beloglina, and Kharkov, were selected for the qualities of high yield, good milling, and drought resistance. Kofod and Gold Coin were chosen for the character of beardlessness. The aim in making the crosses was to determine the possibility of combining the desirable characters of these wheat types in single individual plants. While detailed genetic data were taken of the F1 and F2 plants, this work was only incidental to the main reason given for the crossing, except as it was of value in predicting and interpreting results.
Flexible Robot Platform For Autonomous Research
Creators: name: Hall, DJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The field of mobile robotics is receiving increasing levels of research. However, the simulation tools which are utilised in the creation of new mobile robot algorithms can produce algorithms which do not work in the real world. In order to try and minimise this problem a flexible robot platform has been created which allows the testing of a variety of algorithms. The platform facilitates the testing of algorithms normally only simulated by allowing algorithms to be easily tested in the real world. Utilising the flexible robot platform for testing algorithms allows higher quality research, as algorithms can be assessed with physical evidence.
Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations in Molise region (Italy): novel inventory and main geomorphological features
Creators: name: Discenza, Marco Emanuele
name: Esposito, Carlo
name: Di Luzio, Emiliano
name: Delchiaro, Michele
name: Di Martire, Diego
name: Minnillo, Mariacarmela
name: Rouhi, Javad
name: Martino, Salvatore
name: Della Seta, Marta
name: Troiani, Francesco
name: Calcaterra, Domenico
name: Mugnozza, Gabriele Scarascia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper focuses on Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations (DSGSDs) identified in the Molise region (Italy), along the central-southern sector of the Apennines chain. These phenomena were detected and mapped through a combination of aerial-photo interpretation, morphological analyses, and field surveys, integrated through satellite SAR interferometry (InSAR). The obtained general map is organized in different sections: inventory map with identification of DSGSDs and main geological and orographic features, geostructural scheme, representative cross sections, list and characteristics of DSGSDs, geomorphometric maps, landslides map, and seismotectonic setting. This study allowed us to realize a complete inventory of DSGSDs in the Molise region and define the main characteristics of each phenomenon. Through this research, it was possible to establish a general correlation between the analyzed deformations and the geological and geomorphological setting of the region as well as with its geodynamic context.
Residual Reinforcement Learning using Neural Networks
Creators: name: Woolford, E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A number of reinforcement learning algorithms have been developed that are guaranteed to converge to an optimal solution for look-up tables. However, it has also been shown that these algorithms become unstable when used directly with a function approximation system. A new class of algorithms developed by Baird (1995) were created to handle the problem that direct algorithms have with function approximation systems. This thesis focused on extending Baird's work further by comparing the performance of the residual algorithm against direct application of the Temporal Difference learning algorithm. Four benchmark experiments were used to test each algorithm with various values of lambda and alpha over a period of twenty trials. Overall it was shown that the residual algorithm outperformed direct application of the TD learning algorithm on all four experiments.
title: Mendelian Inheritance in Wheat Hybrids
Creators: name: Mortensen, J. Leo
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1923

description: Until the beginning of the present centry the general opinion was that Egypt and Mesopotamia were the earliest homes of cultivated plants. Recent translations of the old Chinese records, however, reveal the fact that many of our cultivated plants were grown by the ancient peoples of China prior to the time of the Egyptians.
Dettweiler (11) (1914) writes: "Today it is admitted--except by a few--that the original home of the primitive European population, the Indo-Germans, is not Asia but northern Europe, that they developed their culture there in the late stone age, and that they then dispersed in their wanderings to the South and East as far as India."
In some of the Swiss ruins of the ancient Lake Dwellers of the Neolithic age have been uncovered evidences of a highly advanced culture and several varieties of our cultivated plants 2000-4000 years B.C. Among them were found a short-eared, six-rowed barley, a two-rowed barley, small Lake Dwelling wheat, a true Binkel wheat, Egyptian or Indian wheat, Emmer, Einkorn, Meadow Millet, Club Millet, and Flax, although this is one of the present wild types. In another place the same varieties plus a few others and what appeared to be apple seeds were found. One thing seems evident, that is, some of our cultivated crops were grown by ancient peoples long before they made any record of it.
Additional file 1 of Cell membrane rupture: a novel test reveals significant variations among different brands of tissue culture flasks
Creators: name: Tchao, Ruy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Absence of fluid shear effect on MDA-MB231 cells.
title: Künstliche Intelligenz als Treiber der Veränderung in der Unternehmenskommunikation 4.0?
title: KI-Anwendungen als Lösung für Probleme der Kontingenz und Komplexität
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Banholzer, Volker Markus
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 33 Wirtschaft

description: Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird oft als Basisinnovation diskutiert, die Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft radikal verändern wird. Konsequenterweise werden sich auch Berufsbilder und Tätigkeits-beschreibungen transformieren, was auch auf Unternehmenskommunikation zutreffen wird. Allerdings: Technologieentwicklung und Digitalisierung haben seit Jahren auch vor der Einführung von KI die Aufgaben von Unternehmenskommunikation verändert. Kommunikation wird mobiler und kurzzyklischer (Staab 2019), was sowohl mit der fragmentalen Differenzierung und Netzwerkstrukturen (Passoth/Rammert 2016) als auch mit intensiviertem Wettbewerb durch die Globalisierung zu tun hat (Eckert 2016). Aus Sicht der Informationsökonomie (Stiglitz 2017) verschärft dies die strukturelle, asymmetrische Informationsverteilung unter Markakteuren. Information wird zu einem un‐knappen Gut (vgl. Staab 2019), Marken werden zu Sendern und auch Rezipienten verändern ihre Rezeptionsgewohnheiten. Diese Entwicklungen stellen die interne und externe Unternehmens-kommunikation vor neue Aufgaben und Herausforderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint KI als Werkzeug zur Lösung dieses Problems. Es fehlt derzeit ein Bewusstsein, welche Herausforderung die digitale Transformation für die Unternehmenskommunikation darstellt und konsequenterweise fehlen auch die Vorstellungen davon, wie KI helfen kann, diese zu bewältigen, was auch die explorativen Erhebung „KI in der Unternehmenskommunikation“ der Technischen Hochschule Nürnberg illustriert. Der Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, die Veränderung im Unternehmensumfeld aufzuzeigen, daraus Anforderungen an Unternehmens-kommunikation abzuleiten und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von KI‐Lösungen zu bewerten. Dazu werden Ansätze aus (Technik‐)Soziologie, Informations-ökonomie und Betriebswirtschaft sowie Kommunikationswissenschaft genutzt.
An effective thermodynamic potential from the instanton with Polyakov-loop contributions
Creators: name: Nam, Seung-il
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an effective thermodynamic potential (Omega_eff) at finite temperature (T>0) and zero quark-chemical potential (mu_R=0), using the singular-gauge instanton solution and Matsubara formula for N_c=3 and N_f=2 in the chiral limit. The momentum-dependent constituent-quark mass is also obtained as a function of T, employing the Harrington-Shepard caloron solution in the large-N_c limit. In addition, we take into account the imaginary quark chemical potential mu_I = A_4, translated as the traced Polayakov-loop (Phi) as an order parameter for the Z(N_c) symmsetry, characterizing the confinement (intact) and deconfinement (spontaneously broken) phases. As a result, we observe the crossover of the chiral (chi) order parameter sigma^2 and Phi. It also turns out that the critical temperature for the deconfinment phase transition, T^Z_c is lowered by about (5-10)% in comparison to the case with a constant constituent-quark mass. This behavior can be understood by considerable effects from the partial chiral restoration and nontrivial QCD vacuum on Phi. Numerical calculations show that the crossover transitions occur at (T^chi_c,T^Z_c) ~ (216,227) MeV.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Regional scale surface of the Variscan basement top surface in the central sector of Italy
Creators: name: Trumpy, Eugenio
name: Manzella, Adele
name: Pertusati, Piero Carlo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: In this study, we combined regional geology and geostatistical analytical processing to model the top surface of the Variscan basement in Italy. This surface, which is overlain by the pre-Alpine sedimentary cycle (Upper Carboniferous – Permian) followed by the Alpine Mesozoic and Tertiary cycles, covers a significant portion of the Italian peninsula and the Adriatic Sea. We integrated crustal seismic profiles, deep well litho-stratigraphic information and small-scale geological maps of Italy. A regional scale map of the depth of the investigated surface was thus produced using geostatistical processing. The level of reliability of our map varies depending on the distribution of subsurface data from wells and seismic profiles. However, this method is easily replicable, providing quick updates when new data become available. The map can help to identify areas with high potential for natural deep georesources and guide the exploration.
title: The Effect of Dry Heating on Alfalfa Seed and Adulterants
Creators: name: Staker, Ernest V.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1924

description: The relationship of artificial heating to the germination of seeds has been a subject of more or less interest for the last 75 years. Like other research work, experimenters first had their attention called to the problem largely as the result of innate curiosity. They were interested in the result as measured by germinative power, of the application to seeds of different amounts of heat for varying periods of time, consequently many divergent and sundry experiments were carried out. Seeds of a large number of plants have been subjected to tests and the results recorded. The investigations include the effect of heating seeds in soil, in water, in atmospheres of different relative humidities, in carbon dioxid, in ether, in carbon disulphid and in dry air. Each specific experiment has been associated with various temperatures and with various periods of tiem. It is of interest to note that the actual methods used in determining results are about as diversified as the time and temperature.
This thesis presents data showing only the effects of dry heating seed at high temperatures. Therefore in discussion of the literature only that material will be considered which has a direct bearing upon that phase of the heating problem.
Additional file 2 of Cell membrane rupture: a novel test reveals significant variations among different brands of tissue culture flasks
Creators: name: Tchao, Ruy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Methods and Materials.
Coastal inundation scenarios in the north-eastern sector of the Island of Gozo (Malta, Mediterranean Sea) as a response to sea level rise
Creators: name: Vandelli, Vittoria
name: Sarkar, Nabanita
name: Micallef, Anton S.
name: Soldati, Mauro
name: Rizzo, Angela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: According to the most recent scenarios, sea level is expected to keep rising during the next decades because of global warming. In this context, coastal areas are highly vulnerable to marine and climate-related processes, such as erosion and inundation. Such processes are expected to cause shoreline retreat and local morphological variations with consequent loss in natural ecosystems, exploitable coastal land, and significant socio-economic impacts. This paper aims at outlining future scenarios of potential coastal inundation along the NE coastal sector of the Island of Gozo (Malta). The study assessed expected coastline positions for the investigated coastal stretch by analysing high-resolution topographic data coupled with sea level projections for the years 2050 and 2100, accounting also for the contribution of storm surges. Results are expected to sensitize local authorities and communities about potential threats derived from sea level rise that could affect coastal areas in the near future.
How small can thermal machines be? The smallest possible refrigerator
Creators: name: Linden, Noah
name: Popescu, Sandu
name: Skrzypczyk, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the fundamental dimensional limits to thermodynamic machines. In particular we show that it is possible to construct self-contained refrigerators (i.e. not requiring external sources of work) consisting of only a small number of qubits and/or qutrits. We present three different models, consisting of two qubits, a qubit and a qutrit with nearest-neighbour interactions, and a single qutrit respectively. We then investigate fundamental limits to their performance; in particular we show that it is possible to cool towards absolute zero.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: The Effect of Alternate Freezing and Thawing on Impermeable Alfalfa and Dodder Seeds
Creators: name: Midgley, A. R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1926

description: It is surprising to know the small amount of work that has been done on alternate freezing and thawing of seeds. Many experiments, however, have been conducted to see the effect of very low temperatures on seeds and to notice the effect it had on their vitality. Some experimenters subjected seeds to temperatures as low as liquid hydrogen with very interesting results but in very few cases, if any, was the effect of alternate freezing and thawing studied.
The work that follows deals directly with the effects of alternate freezing and thawing on impermeable seeds of alfalfa and of dodder. It is known that this seed does not germinate readily; therefore it often lays over winter in the soil. Does this natural freezing and thawing aid or hinder this impermeable seed in it's later germination? this has been the main question kept in mind throughout this experiment.
The Heat Kernel on AdS_3 and its Applications
Creators: name: David, Justin R
name: Gaberdiel, Matthias R
name: Gopakumar, Rajesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the heat kernel for arbitrary tensor fields on S^3 and (Euclidean) AdS_3 using a group theoretic approach. We use these results to also obtain the heat kernel on certain quotients of these spaces. In particular, we give a simple, explicit expression for the one loop determinant for a field of arbitrary spin s in thermal AdS_3. We apply this to the calculation of the one loop partition function of N=1 supergravity on AdS_3. We find that the answer factorizes into left- and right-moving super Virasoro characters built on the SL(2, C) invariant vacuum, as argued by Maloney and Witten on general grounds.
description: 46 pages, LaTeX, v2: Reference added
Mottness on a triangular lattice
Creators: name: Galanakis, Dimitrios
name: Stanescu, Tudor
name: Phillips, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physics on the paramagnetic side of the phase diagram of the cobaltates, $Na_{x}CoO_{2}$, with an implementation of cellular dynamical mean field theory (CDMFT) with the non-crossing approximation (NCA) for the one-band Hubbard model on a triangular lattice. At low doping we find that the low energy physics is dominated by a quasi-dispersionless band. At half-filling, we find a metal-insulator transition at $U_{c}=5.6\pm0.15t$ which depends weakly on the cluster size. The onset of the metallic state occurs through the growth of a coherence peak at the chemical potential. Away from half filling, in the electron-doped regime, the system is metallic with a large, continuous Fermi surface as seen experimentally. Upon hole doping, a quasi non-dispersing band emerges at the top of the lower Hubbard band and controls the low-energy physics. This band is a clear signature of non-Fermi liquid behavior and cannot be captured by any weakly coupled approach. This quasi non-dispersive band, which persists in a certain range of dopings, has been observed experimentally. We also investigate the pseudogap phenomenon in the context of a triangular lattice and we propose a new framework for discussing the pseudogap phenomena in general. This framework involves a momentum-dependent characterization of the low-energy physics and links the appearance of the pseudogap to a reconstruction of the Fermi surface without invoking any long range order or symmetry breaking. Within this framework we predict the existence of a pseudogap for the two dimensional Hubbard model on a triangular lattice in the weakly hole-doped regime.
description: 14 pages, 21 figures
Additional file 2 of Community-based intervention for cervical cancer screening uptake in a semi-urban area of Pokhara Metropolitan, Nepal (COBIN-C): study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Shrestha, Aamod Dhoj
name: Neupane, Dinesh
name: Ghimire, Sarita
name: Campbell, Christine
name: Kallestrup, Per
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Questionnaire: COBIN-C.
Two-dimensional superconductivity at a Mott-Insulator/Band-Insulator interface: LaTiO3/SrTiO3
Creators: name: Biscaras, Johan
name: Bergeal, Nicolas
name: Kushwaha, Akhilesh
name: Wolf, Thomas
name: Rastogi, Ankur
name: Budhani, Ramesh Chandra
name: Lesueur, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition metal oxides display a great variety of quantum electronic behaviours where correlations often play an important role. The achievement of high quality epitaxial interfaces involving such materials gives a unique opportunity to engineer artificial structures where new electronic orders take place. One of the most striking result in this area is the recent observation of a two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between a strongly correlated Mott insulator LaTiO3 and a band insulator SrTiO3. The mechanism responsible for such a behaviour is still under debate. In particular, the influence of the nature of the insulator has to be clarified. Here we show that despite the expected electronic correlations, LaTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures undergo a superconducting transition at a critical temperature Tc=300 mK. We have found that the superconducting electron gas is confined over a typical thickness of 12 nm. We discuss the electronic properties of this system and review the possible scenarios.