cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Environmental Quality Management for Soil Protection: The Role of Citizen Science in the Process
Creators: name: Bone, James
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Soil is a vital and non-renewable resource, which performs many important functions. Soil quality management is faced with a number of challenges including overcoming objections to policies for soil protection, and the resource requirements implementation will entail. Further to this, soil is often neglected, as it is not high on the public or regulatory agenda. This work has focused on collecting large and cost effective data sets and raising awareness of soil, through the use of members of the public or ‘citizen scientists’. The aim of this PhD research was to assess the challenges facing soil protection and to evaluate role of citizen science for this purpose. The emergence of policies dealing with soil degradation is likely to increase the requirement for soil quality assessment. Despite this, there remains an issue with soil protection policy, which has not been implemented to the same extent as for water and air policy. To increase understanding of these issues, this work evaluated soil quality, and the reservations which it faces. Findings reveal the need for a method of assessment that is not soil function dependent, but uses a number of cross-functional indicators. Examination of the policy drivers for water and air highlight the importance of moving toward more holistic management and protection of soil. To help to address challenges for soil protection policy, this work proposes a set of indicators that can be collected by members of the public, and which can be used to direct further detailed soil quality assessment. With the need for evidence based policy, and recognition that involving the public in environmental monitoring is an effective way of increasing understanding and commitment, there has been growing interest in public surveys. The development of a mass public soil survey, the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) Soil and Earthworm Survey, is presented as an example of public participation in soil surveys. This approach can deliver improvements in the quality of the evidence collected and provide effective public involvement in policymaking and implementation, on top of direct educational benefits. Such data from the public have been analysed to provide information about soils and earthworm distributions, and has indicated apparent differences in earthworm abundance across England. Investigation of the reliability of patterns shows the importance of following up apparent findings from public data with more detailed investigation. Examination of patterns in public data provided important information on threats to soil, and has allowed further examination of the main environmental drivers of earthworm distribution, as well as distribution and fate of contaminants. The work highlights the important role to be played by members of the public in the move toward a holistic and harmonised protection of soil resources, with great value in public participation in data collection, education and policy formation.
A flexible format for exchanging pulsar data
Creators: name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Jessner, A.
name: Seiradakis, J. H.
name: Lyne, A. G.
name: D'Amico, N.
name: Athanasopoulos, A.
name: Xilouris, K. M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Wielebinski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a data format currently in use amongst European institutions for exchanging and archiving pulsar data. The format is designed to be as flexible as possible with regard to present and future compatibility with different operating systems. One application of the common format is simultaneous multi-frequency observations of single pulses. A data archive containing over 2500 pulse profiles stored in this format is now available via the Internet (see http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pulsar/data), together with a small suite of computer programs that can read, write and display the data.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Low-noise 750-MHz spaced Yb:fiber frequency combs
Creators: name: Ma, Yuxuan
name: Xu, Bo
name: Ishii, Hirotaka
name: Meng, Fei
name: Nakajima, Yoshiaki
name: Matsushima, Isao
name: Schibli, Thomas R.
name: Zhang, Zhigang
name: Minoshima, Kaoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate two fully and tightly phase locked 750 MHz ytterbium (Yb) fiber frequency combs that are independently stabilized to a continuous wave (CW) laser with <1 rad RMS phase error. A bulk EOM and a single stack PZT are separately utilized as the fast actuators for cavity length stabilization. The carrier envelop frequencies are phase locked by single loop feedback to laser diode current, showing 1.6 MHz servo bumps. The in-loop fractional frequency instabilities are ~1.5e-18 at 1s for both combs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest repetition rate in fiber based low phase noise combs tightly locked to optical frequency reference.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Two Loop Renormalization of Massive (p,q) Supersymmetric Sigma Models
Creators: name: Lambert, N. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the beta-functions of the general massive (p,q) supersymmetric sigma model to two loop order using (1,0) superfields. The conditions for finiteness are discussed in relation to (p,q) supersymmetry. We also calculate the effective potential using component fields to one loop order and consider the possibility of perturbative breaking of supersymmetry. The effect of one loop finite local counter terms and the ultra-violet behaviour of the off-shell (p,q) models to all orders in perturbation theory are also addressed.
description: 43 pages phyzzx with 5 figures
Successive Convex Approximation Algorithms for Sparse Signal Estimation with Nonconvex Regularizations
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
name: Pesavento, Marius
name: Chatzinotas, Symeon
name: Ottersten, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a successive convex approximation framework for sparse optimization where the nonsmooth regularization function in the objective function is nonconvex and it can be written as the difference of two convex functions. The proposed framework is based on a nontrivial combination of the majorization-minimization framework and the successive convex approximation framework proposed in literature for a convex regularization function. The proposed framework has several attractive features, namely, i) flexibility, as different choices of the approximate function lead to different type of algorithms; ii) fast convergence, as the problem structure can be better exploited by a proper choice of the approximate function and the stepsize is calculated by the line search; iii) low complexity, as the approximate function is convex and the line search scheme is carried out over a differentiable function; iv) guaranteed convergence to a stationary point. We demonstrate these features by two example applications in subspace learning, namely, the network anomaly detection problem and the sparse subspace clustering problem. Customizing the proposed framework by adopting the best-response type approximation, we obtain soft-thresholding with exact line search algorithms for which all elements of the unknown parameter are updated in parallel according to closed-form expressions. The attractive features of the proposed algorithms are illustrated numerically.
description: submitted to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue in Robust Subspace Learning
Homesteads on Fort Richardson, Alaska
Creators: name: Hollinger, Kristy
Publisher: name: Center for Ecological Management of Military Lands; Colorado State University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Cook Inlet
Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Fort Richardson, AK
ANC-1166
ANC-1167
Edwin L. Meier
Harry Krueth
Christ Folberg
Clarence Harpham
George Johnston
Leopold Nieminen
Samuel E. Sly
John J. Harrington
Donald Clarence
Claude L. Fenton
James W. Kennedy
Cultural Recourses
John R. Hogland
Henry S. LaMothe
Victor Ogren
John H. Thompson
Ray Otto
Warren O'Malley
Daisy Whitney
Clyde Nettleton
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Victor Harder
Gus Hunter
Victor Carlson
John Keynote
Leon L. Porlier
Benson Hitchock
Keith Kinney
George Kolp
John Eric Kulin
James H. Wilson
Frank E. Harpham
WM Chambers
James Murray
Eligibility
Albert Hoserud
WM H. Weaver
Fred Zinis
Edvart Kjosen
Homesteads
Robert Prize
John Whitney
Alvin Meier
WM A. Stolt
Environment Research
Ethnohistoric Research
Historic Background Research
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

description: This study was intended to be a companion to the Elmendorf Air Force Base Homestead Study, though the scope and focus are somewhat different due to the later date at which the majority of homestead applications were filed in this area. Fort Richardson probably received less initial homestead settlement because it was further away from Anchorage. The intent of this study is to document the history of homesteading in the area and establish a historic context of the time period. This is necessary in order to accurately identify, document and manage any cultural resources related to homesteading that may exist within the military boundaries. Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 mandates this process. This study focuses on those who were homesteading in the Fort Richardson area during the land withdrawals and those whose land and improvements were subsequently purchased by the government. This study further focused on those homesteads that received patents, were close to receiving patents, or those that had built on or improved the land to some extent. It should be noted, however, that others may have homesteaded in the area and given up their claims for various reasons before the 1940s. Homesteading we a labor-intensive endeavor. There were those unable or unwilling to meet the requirements necessary in order to gain patent to the land.
Additional file 2: of The palatine tonsil bacteriome, but not the mycobiome, is altered in HIV infection
Creators: name: Yuto Fukui
name: Aoki, Kotaro
name: Ishii, Yoshikazu
name: Tateda, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Principal coordinates analysis plots of bacterial beta diversity using weighted UniFrac distance. The HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected individuals are colored red and blue, respectively. (PDF 50 kb)
U.S. Army Alaska, Cold War Resources Inventory
Creators: name: Blythe, Jeff
Publisher: name: Gene Stout and Associates
Year: 1998
Subjects: Fort Greely, AK
Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Fort Wainwright, AK
Fort Richardson, AK
Cold War Era
Building 2203
Building 2202
Building 2206
Building 2205
Hanger 5
Building 59008
Building 59005
Building 59007
Building 2077
Building 59004
Building 59001
Building 2085
Building 59006
Building 59003-8
Building 59003
Hanger 4
Building 59000
Building 4065
Hanger 6
Building 2204
Building 47432
Building 61
Building 47430
Building 47433
Building 48000
Building 47431
Hanger 1
Building 2201
Building 2207
Building 1
Military Missions
Geophysical Resources
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Legacy Program
Building Report
Cultural Resources
Building Inventory
Architectural Documentation
Historic Background Research
Architectural Survey
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Records Search / Inventory Checking

description: This report is an inventory of physical and literary properties and relics associated with the Cold War heritage of US. Army Alaska (USARAK). During the Cold War the Army in Alaska was tasked with a number of missions. During World War II, the Army was responsible for ground defense of Alaska. Throughout most of the Cold War, US. Army Alaska faced this challenge with a force of about 10,000 soldiers. The Army was also a major participant in the joint air defense of Alaska and provided surface-to-air antiaircraft defense. Environmental characteristics of Alaska's posts provided the Army with unique opportunities for cold weather training, equipment testing, and warfare doctrine development. The Army also fulfilled other roles in Alaska. It supported Air Force and Navy operations, trained Alaska Army National Guard and US. Army Reserve personnel, and provided internal security for the state. The Cold War saw the Army in Alaska evolve from two mechanized brigades to a streamlined global contingency force; the primary Cold War doctrinal contribution of the Army in Alaska was the development of the northern "light infantry." This inventory of Cold War properties concentrates on the three USARAK posts: Fort Richardson, Fort Wainwright, and Fort Greely (excluding properties identified for closure by BRAC). Each post played a significant role in USARAK's Cold War mission.
Oral history interview with Kathleen Carlson 1983
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educators
Endowments
Endowment of research
Endowments--Officials and employees

description: Research Associate, Spencer Foundation 1978-81: reviews of grant proposals, preparation of precis, foundation criteria for approval, grant proposal approval procedure, program committee meetings, staff development of grant proposals, site visits; administrator, Northeastern Illinois University from 1981; influences of Spencer Foundation work on her personally; perception of Spencer Foundation as elitist; impressions of Tom James.
Atelophyllodes atyeoi Mironov & Proctor 2009
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Acari
Proctophyllodidae
Atelophyllodes
Atelophyllodes atyeoi

description: Atelophyllodes atyeoi Mironov & Proctor, 2009: 57
— Holotype male (QM), from Menura alberti Bonaparte, 1850, Acacia Plateau, Queensland, Australia (152º18'E, 28º20'S).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Evolving of a massless scalar field in Reissner--Nordström Anti--de Sitter spacetimes
Creators: name: Wang, B.
name: Molina, C.
name: Abdalla, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of a scalar field propagating in Reissner--Nordström Anti--de Sitter spacetime. Due to the characteristic of spacetime geometry, the radiative tails associated with a massless scalar field propagation have an oscillatory exponential decay. The object--picture of the quasinormal ringing has also been obtained. For small charges, the approach to thermal equilibrium is faster for larger charges. However, after the black hole charge reaches a critical value, we get the opposite behavior for the imaginary frequencies of the quasinormal modes. Some possible explanations concerning the wiggle of the imaginary frequencies have been given. The picture of the quasinormal modes depending on the multipole index has also been illustrated.
description: version published in Physical Review D
Public and Teacher Response to Einsteinian Physics in Schools
Creators: name: Foppoli, Alexander
name: Choudhary, Rahul
name: Kaur, Tejinder
name: Blair, David
name: Zadnik, Marjan
name: Moschilla, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Einsteinian physics represents a distinct paradigm shift compared to Newtonian physics. There is worldwide interest in introducing Einsteinian physics concepts early in school curriculum and trials have demonstrated that this is feasible. However introducing Einsteinian concepts from an early age requires more than suitable curriculum and teaching resources - it also requires teacher training and public support. This paper describes a pilot study used in an attempt to gauge public and teacher support. This entailed giving teachers, who included the entire staff of a primary school, and self-selected family groups an in-depth understanding of proposed curriculum content through public outreach and professional development workshops. We assessed their attitudes through questionnaires. Comments and opinions from the public were also collected from online resources. Results show overwhelming support from both teachers and the public. We assessed attitudes of children as well as adults and obtained opinions regarding the appropriate age at which to begin to introduce Einsteinian concepts.
The Planck Surveyor mission and gravitational lenses
Creators: name: Blain, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extremely sensitive all-sky survey will be carried out in the millimetre/submillimetre waveband by the forthcoming ESA mission Planck Surveyor. The main scientific goal of the mission is to make very accurate measurements of the spatial power spectrum of primordial anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation; however, hundreds of thousands of distant dusty galaxies and quasars will also be detected. These sources are much more likely to be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies as compared with sources discovered in surveys in other wavebands. Here the number of lenses expected in the survey is estimated, and techniques for discriminating between lensed and unlensed sources are discussed. A practical strategy for this discrimination is presented, based on exploiting the remarkable sensitivity and resolving power of large ground-based millimetre/submillimetre-wave interferometer arrays. More than a thousand gravitational lenses could be detected: a sample that would be an extremely valuable resource in observational cosmology.
description: 6 pages, 3 single-frame figures, 2 double-frame figures, to be published in MNRAS
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 667
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 667, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 667, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 1 of Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of dementia on midlife cerebral small vessel disease in cognitively healthy middle-aged adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study
Creators: name: Low, Audrey
name: Prats-Sedano, Maria A.
name: McKiernan, Elizabeth
name: Carter, Stephen F.
name: Stefaniak, James D.
name: Nannoni, Stefania
name: Su, Li
name: Dounavi, Maria-Eleni
name: Muniz-Terrera, Graciela
name: Ritchie, Karen
name: Lawlor, Brian
name: Naci, Lorina
name: Malhotra, Paresh
name: Mackay, Clare
name: Koychev, Ivan
name: Ritchie, Craig W.
name: Markus, Hugh S.
name: O’Brien, John T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Scoring of global cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) burden, hypertensive arteriopathy, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy scores. Supplementary Table 2. Factor loadings from confirmatory factor analysis of measurement models.
Enhancing resource effectiveness: An environmental and economic analysis of thermal and biological treatment of discarded material
Creators: name: Castillo Castillo, Arturo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Waste-to-energy technology addresses several societal concerns. It protects human health and the environment, treats waste and recovers material. It mitigates climate change by reducing the carbon intensity of energy generation whilst increasing energy security. Often, these multiple services are not sufficiently recognised. This thesis informs energy and waste management policy by characterising the benefits that can justify appropriate support to address the currently limited awareness. To investigate the greenhouse gas emissions, economic viability and energy efficiency potential, a model was created using performance metrics and, where possible, real plant data. Gasification, as a novel technology, was compared with incineration in combined thermal treatment scenarios. Anaerobic digestion was analysed independently. Gasification can achieve higher energy efficiency with lower carbon intensity and higher flexibility of location. At low levels of support gasification is less attractive than incineration; but more competitive with increased support similar to current levels. Without incentives for its electricity output, relying only on the price for carbon and high landfill tax, small-scale gasification would be ruled out. Commercial viability of anaerobic digestion is significantly influenced by support for its heat and electricity outputs. Particularly small-scale plants would not be viable without support or appropriate valuation of the multiple objectives they fulfil. Established waste management companies are necessary partners for new technology providers to access finance. Industrial interest in new technologies, however, is driven by their qualifying for support. Analysis shows that an efficiency-linked escalating reward could incentivise development and use of gasification (with combined-cycle gas turbine) instead of deployment of less risky but less efficient configurations. An extended assessment framework was developed to recognise the contribution to resource effectiveness of waste-to-energy technology by characterising energy security (in size of the contribution and through abundant, negative-cost national feedstock); the contribution to renewable energy targets; the higher energy system resilience (through increased predictability, variety, disparity and balance); and lower carbon intensity of the economy.
Alaska Archaeological/Historical Survey Record Card: Fort Richardson Cemetery (ANC-013)
Creators: name: Fort Richardson Army Base
Year: 1972
Subjects: Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Fort Richardson, AK
World War II
1941
ANC-00013
Fort Richardson Post Cemetery
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Cemetery
Historical Survey
Kermit Roosevelt
Plaque
Entrance Gate
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Cultural Resources
Archaeological Survey
Survey Record
Archaeological Overview

description: This resources is the Alask Archaeological and Historical Survey Site Record for the Fort Richardson Cemetery (ANC-013).
Functional network analysis of human brain systems under pharmacological modulation
Creators: name: Cole, David Michael
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Complex alterations in brain function and neurochemistry underlie pathology and treatment in multiple neuropsychiatric disorders, yet remain incompletely characterised. This thesis outlines possibilities for human neuroimaging techniques sensitive to spontaneous fluctuations in large-scale neurobiological signalling, or ‘resting-state network (RSN) functional connectivity’, to address such knowledge gaps. Novel RSN-sensitive analysis approaches to functional magnetic resonance imaging data are introduced. These techniques are then evaluated experimentally, in contexts relevant for maladaptive cognitive and motivational processing, for their utility to identify and characterise systems-level signatures of individual differences in neurochemistry and psychopharmacological responsiveness. Firstly, RSN functional connectivity measures are investigated in the context of pharmacological intervention with nicotine replacement therapy in habitual smokers. Results identify connectivity between executive control and ‘default mode’ RSNs as a neural signature of pharmacotherapeutic efficacy in treating cognitive symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Secondly, RSN connectivity is investigated alongside specific neuroreceptor-sensitive measures to investigate the extent to which network connectivity patterns reflect fundamental neurobiology in healthy subjects. Individual differences in dopamine D3 receptor availability - a possible marker for reward-related behaviours -are associated with topographic connectivity signatures within RSNs implicated in cognitive and motivational control. Thirdly, the ability of RSN metrics to characterise distinct neurochemical manipulations is tested in healthy subjects. Dopamine agnostic and antagonistic neuromodulations display differential effects on signalling in cortico-cubcortical and cortico-cortical reward circuitry and interact selectively with subject impulsivity. Finally, RSN cortico-subcortical connectivity metrics are investigated for their sensitivity to clinical-pharmacological effects in Parkinson’s disease. Results reveal evidence for both compensatory large-scale network mechanisms and ‘non-normalising’ dopaminergic medication effects in patients. Overall, findings indicate novel systems-level neuroimaging methodology probing interactions within and between RSNs to provide sensitive, biologically plausible markers for behavioural and neuropharamacological characteristics of neuropsychiatric disorders. Continued developments of functional network analysis approaches may facilitate their direct application to clinical and drug development domains.
String Propagator: a Loop Space Representation
Creators: name: Ansoldi, S.
name: Aurilia, A.
name: Spallucci, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The string quantum kernel is normally written as a functional sum over the string coordinates and the world--sheet metrics. As an alternative to this quantum field--inspired approach, we study the closed bosonic string propagation amplitude in the functional space of loop configurations. This functional theory is based entirely on the Jacobi variational formulation of quantum mechanics, {\it without the use of a lattice approximation}. The corresponding Feynman path integral is weighed by a string action which is a {\it reparametrization invariant} version of the Schild action. We show that this path integral formulation is equivalent to a functional ``Schrodinger'' equation defined in loop--space. Finally, for a free string, we show that the path integral and the functional wave equation are {\it exactly } solvable.
description: 15 pages, no figures, ReVTeX 3.0
Monte Carlo simulations for the optimization and data analysis of experiments with ultracold neutrons
Creators: name: Ayres, N. J.
name: Chanel, E.
name: Clement, B.
name: Harris, P. G.
name: Picker, R.
name: Pignol, G.
name: Schreyer, W.
name: Zsigmond, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold neutrons (UCN) with kinetic energies up to 300 neV can be stored in material or magnetic confinements for hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool for probing fundamental symmetries of nature, by searching for charge-parity violation by a neutron electric dipole moment, and yielding important parameters for Big Bang nucleosynthesis, e.g. in neutron-lifetime measurements. Further increasing the intensity of UCN sources is crucial for next-generation experiments. Advanced Monte Carlo (MC) simulation codes are important in optimization of neutron optics of UCN sources and of experiments, but also in estimation of systematic effects, and in bench-marking of analysis codes. Here we will give a short overview of recent MC simulation activities in this field.
description: NOP2017 conference proceedings paper accepted in JPS Conference Proceedings
Oral history interview with Kathy, 1980
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drug addicts--United States
Drug traffic--History--20th century.--United States
Heroin abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Morphine abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Laundry workers
Crime--New York (State)

description: In this interview, Kathy discusses her life in Virginia and New York City, with a special focus on her drug use. She describes her career in domestic work and shirt pressing at a laundry and dry cleaning business in Manhattan called Victor's as well as Quartermaster Laundry on Fort Eustis in Virginia. She explains how she was able to meet a daily, personal quota of one thousand shirts, and describes how her work ethic made her a valuable employee. She describes how she was first introduced to morphine in 1936 through a friend who regularly obtained a doctor's prescription. She also explains how soon after she began using morphine, the police cracked down on doctors who prescribed the drug, and she was no longer able to acquire morphine. She discusses establishments which she calls "coke joint" that she frequented with her boyfriend in the late 1930s. Kathy touches on her transition from morphine to heroin. She compares the price of heroin in New York City to the price of heroin in her hometown in Virginia, which she would visit once a year. She discusses the several times she self-detoxed from heroin over the years. She also describes the period of her life she spent with her husband from 1943 when they got married to 1968 when they separated. She explains that he was a car thief and was intermittently incarcerated in federal prison, and discusses the ways she would support herself when he was in prison, including pickpocketing
Lelong classes of plurisubharmonic functions on an affine variety
Creators: name: hart, Jesse
name: Ma`u, Sione
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the Lelong classes $\mathcal{L}(V),\mathcal{L}^+(V)$ of psh functions on an affine variety $V$. We compute the Monge-Ampère mass of these functions, which we use to define the degree of a polynomial on $V$ in terms of pluripotential theory (the Lelong degree). We compute the Lelong degree explicitly in a specific example. Finally, we derive an affine version of Bézout's theorem.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures
Gravitational lensing and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the millimetre/submillimetre waveband
Creators: name: Blain, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intensity of the cosmic microwave background radiation in the fields of clusters of galaxies is modified by inverse Compton scattering in the hot intracluster gas - the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The effect is expected to be most pronounced at a frequency of about 350 GHz (a wavelength of about 800 microns), and has been detected in the centimetre and millimetre wavebands. In the millimetre/submillimetre waveband, the gravitationally-lensed images of distant dusty star-forming galaxies in the background of the cluster are predicted to dominate the appearance of clusters on scales of several arcseconds, and could confuse observations of the SZ effect at frequencies greater than about 200 GHz (wavelengths shorter than about 1.5 mm). Recent observations by Smail, Ivison & Blain (1997) confirm that a significant population of confusing sources are present in this waveband. Previous estimates of source confusion in observations of the millimetre/submillimetre-wave SZ effect did not include the effects of lensing by the cluster, and so the accuracy of such measurements could be lower than expected. Source subtraction may be required in order to measure the SZ effect accurately, and a careful analysis of the results of an ensemble of SZ measurements could be used to impose limits to the form of evolution of distant star-forming galaxies.
description: 9 pages, 4 single-panel figures, 1 four-panel figure. To be published in MNRAS
Screening, isolation and characterisation of antibodies that block aggrecanase activity of ADAMTS-5
Creators: name: Santamaria, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase with ThromboSpondin Motif (ADAMTS)-5 is considered to play a key role in degradation of aggrecan during the progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, ADAMTS-5 inhibitors are emerging as potential disease-modifying OA drugs. The generation of small molecule inhibitors of metalloproteinases has not achieved successful outcomes primarily due to the lack of selectivity. On the other hand, monoclonal antibodies were proved potent and selective binders of many biologically relevant targets. We therefore aimed to isolate inhibitory antibodies against ADAMTS-5. A human naïve single-chain variable fragment library was used to select and isolate anti-ADAMTS-5 antibodies. Among the isolated antibodies, clones 2D3 and 2D5 inhibited ADAMTS-5 cleavage both of a peptide substrate (Ki app values of 2 nM and 18 nM, respectively) and bovine aggrecan (Ki app values of 30 nM and 300 nM, respectively). Antibody 2B9 did not inhibit ADAMTS-5 activity against the peptide substrate, but it inhibited the cleavage of aggrecan (Ki app: 300 nM). Surface plasmon resonance studies with a series of deletion mutants of ADAMTS-5 indicated that 2D3 and 2D5 bind to the catalytic/disintegrin domain (KD values of 3 nM and 55 nM, respectively), whereas 2B9 binds to the spacer domain of this enzyme (KD value of 6 nM), thus being an exosite inhibitor. Kinetic studies indicated that the anti-ADAMTS-5 antibodies described here do not act through a zinc-chelating mechanism of inhibition. Moreover, inhibition and co-immunoprecipitation data suggested that for some antibodies, such as 2D5, the binding site is different from that of TIMP-3. The efficacy of ADAMTS-5-blocking antibodies was investigated using model systems of aggrecan degradation (IL-1α/oncostatin M-stimulated porcine and human articular cartilage explants). The results indicated that antibodies 2D3 and 2B9 effectively inhibited aggrecanase activity in these systems. These antibodies may therefore be useful as chondroprotectant agents in OA.
Additional file 11: of Focal ischemic stroke leads to lung injury and reduces alveolar macrophage phagocytic capability in rats
Creators: name: Samary, Cynthia
name: Ramos, Alane
name: Maia, Lígia
name: Nazareth Rocha
name: Santos, Cíntia
name: Magalhães, Raquel
name: Clevelario, Amanda
name: Pimentel-Coelho, Pedro
name: Mendez-Otero, Rosália
name: Cruz, Fernanda
name: Capelozzi, Vera
name: Ferreira, Tatiana
name: Koch, Thea
name: Abreu, Marcelo De
name: Santos, Claudia Dos
name: Pelosi, Paolo
name: Silva, Pedro
name: Rocco, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S6. Real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of biological markers associated with inflammation (interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α) in brain (left panels) and lung (right panels) in Sham and Stroke groups. Boxes show interquartile (25–75%) range, whiskers denote range (minimum–maximum), horizontal lines represent median in 6 animals/group (DOCX 2504 kb)
National Register of Historic Places Determination of Eligibility for the Bryant Airfield Air Traffic Control Tower, Building 48000, Fort Richardson, AK
Creators: name: Gomez, Valerie
Publisher: name: Northern Land Use, Inc.
Year: 2010
Subjects: Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Fort Richardson, AK
Cold War Era
Historic
World War II
Bryant Airfield
ANC-01095
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Architectural Documentation
Historic Background Research
Architectural Survey
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

description: Northern Land Use Research, Inc. (NLUR) conducted a Section 106 evaluation of one building located at Bryant Army Airfield, Alaska. This report details this evaluation. The facility is an Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) facility located in the northeast portion of Fort Richardson, Alaska, northeast of Anchorage. The AKARNG proposes to rehabilitate the Bryant Air Traffic Control Tower. The building has been vacant since 1996. The building has been assigned Alaska Heritage Resources Survey (AHRS) number ANC-01095. NLUR documented and evaluated the building using the criteria for eligibility for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. It is Northern Land Use Research, Inc.' s professional opinion that the Bryant Air Traffic Control Tower does not meet the criteria for eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The property lacks significant association under Criteria A, B, and C, and is unlikely to contribute to our understanding of history (D).
Oral history interview with Kathy Lass, 2001
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
School integration--Missouri
Civil rights workers--History--20th century.--Virginia
African Americans--Suffrage--Virginia

description: Lass begins this interview by discussing her family dynamics and early upbringing in St. Louis, Missouri. Lass describes Glenridge Elementary School, the Crispus Attucks School, and the effects of school integration in 1954. Lass goes on to describe her year at Northwestern University and her exposure to activism at the University of Missouri. Additionally, Lass offers insight into her family history and political background, including a discussion of her father's political influence. During the second year of her undergraduate studies, organizers from SCOPE, backed by the SCLC, recruited student volunteers. Lass describes her decision to participate and the reaction of her family. She chronicles the week-long orientation at Morris Brown College, naming Andy and Jean Young, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, and Hosea Williams as workshop leaders. Lass outlines the conditions of her placement in Southampton, Virginia in June 1965 and the impact of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. Lass describes her role she played in the project, segregation in Southampton society, the experience of church visits across Southampton County, and the hardships of families who hosted her. Lass describes her employment after SCOPE, including her first job after graduate school at a D.C. neighborhood center. She also describes her brief time with corporate employment and her position at the Red Cross. Lass continues her reminisces of Southampton, recalling particular acts of harassment and intimidation, especially in the town of Boykins. Lass concludes this interview with a brief discussion of September 11th, her experience returning from Southampton, and a desire to reconnect with her SCOPE team
Photo of the Anchorage Matanuska Highway Site
Creators: name: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Year: 1991
Subjects: Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Historic
Road
Daughters of American Revolution
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Anchorage-Matanuska Highway
Cultural Resources
Tablet

description: This document includes photographs of a tablet that was created to commemorate the opening of the Anchorage-Matanuska Highway.
AutoML in heavily constrained applications
Creators: name: Neutatz, Felix
name: Lindauer, Marius
name: Abedjan, Ziawasch
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: AutoML
subject: constraints
subject: meta-learning

description: Optimizing a machine learning pipeline for a task at hand requires careful configuration of various hyperparameters, typically supported by an AutoML system that optimizes the hyperparameters for the given training dataset. Yet, depending on the AutoML system’s own second-order meta-configuration, the performance of the AutoML process can vary significantly. Current AutoML systems cannot automatically adapt their own configuration to a specific use case. Further, they cannot compile user-defined application constraints on the effectiveness and efficiency of the pipeline and its generation. In this paper, we propose Caml, which uses meta-learning to automatically adapt its own AutoML parameters, such as the search strategy, the validation strategy, and the search space, for a task at hand. The dynamic AutoML strategy of Caml takes user-defined constraints into account and obtains constraint-satisfying pipelines with high predictive performance.
Historic American Buildings Survey Building 9570, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson
Creators: name: Humphreys, George
name: MaryNell Nolan-Whatley
Publisher: name: Ch2M Hill
Year: 2014
Subjects: Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Elmendorf Air Force Base
World War II
Cold War
World War II era
ANC-00920
Building 9551
Building 9570
Building 21-883
Building 8565
Building 9549
Building 11-320
Building 11-230
Building 11540
Building 10550
Building 10571
Building 11551
Building 11525
Building 11550
National Register
Hangar
Historic Building Survey
Field Investigations
Eligible
War Readiness Material Storage Facility
Flight Line Historic District
Cold Storage Building,
Blood transshipment Center
Forward Supply Point
Medical Supply Storage Building
Aircraft Engine Storage Building
Historic American Building Survey
Supply Squadron Repair Cycle Support and Repair Cycle Maintenance Facility
NRHP
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Historic District
Aircraft Parts Storage
National Register of Historic Places
Cultural Resources
Architectural Documentation
Historic Background Research
Architectural Survey
Heritage Management
Records Search / Inventory Checking

description: This report is an assessment of Building 9570 and historic district. Building 9570 is a contributing resource to the Flight Line Historic District, which is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion A for its significant role as part of Elmendorf Air Field during World War II (WWII). The 10 contributing buildings that comprise the Flight Line Historic District are examples of the earliest construction at Elmendorf Air Field and the rapid development of Fort Richardson in the early 1940s. Elmendorf Air Field is significant for its association with aviation and the defensive role it played during WWII. Building 9570, constructed in 1941, is eligible for listing in the NRHP as a contributing building to the Flight Line Historic District and for its association with WWII activities on Elmendorf Air Field.
Ethnohistoric Land Use Patterns: Elmendorf Air Force Base (Knik Arm) Area, Draft Report
Creators: name: Davis, Nancy Yaw
name: The Dena'ina Team
Year: 1994
Subjects: Knik Arm
Anchorage, AK
Cairn Point
Alaska (State / Territory)
Elmendorf Air Force Base
20th Century
Prehistoric
Homestead Era
Early Historic Period
Homestead
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
National Park Service
Cultural Resources
Denaina Team
Land Use Patterns
Architectural Documentation
Ethnohistoric Research
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Reconnaissance / Survey
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: This draft report provides a background paper contributing toward the long range planning for the management of cultural resources on Elmendorf Air Force Base. One goal is to address general prehistoric and historic land use patterns in this specific area; another is to provide a guide suggesting what to look for during a subsequent more comprehensive survey. This report reviews the context of the study, methods employed and innovated, literature reviewed, and introduces an Indian team organized to assist in the research and the plan. The Description of the 15 significant locations identified during the initial visual survey are presented in geographical order from south to north, focusing on beach and bluff areas along the eastern side of Knik Arm. Finally, the key findings to date are summarized, and some suggestions for the next steps are made.
Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes and the Earthquake Deformation Cycle Around Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska
Creators: name: Shennan, Ian
name: Hamilton, Sarah
Publisher: name: Sea Level Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham
Year: 2005
Subjects: Anchorage, AK
Alaska (State / Territory)
Upper Cook Inlet
Kenai Peninsula
Late Holocene
Earthquake Deformation Cycle
Sea Level Research Unit
Earthquake Cycle
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Cultural Resources
Earthquake
coastal environments
GPS
Environment Research
Historic Background Research
Geophysical Survey

description: This document details the history of relative seas level changes and earthquake deformation cycles in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Multiple peat-silt couplets preserved in tidal marsh sediment sequences suggest that numerous great plate boundary earthquakes caused the coast around Cook Inlet, Alaska, to subside over the past 3500 years. Field and laboratory analyses of the two youngest couplets record the well-documented earthquake of AD 1964 and the penultimate one, approximately 850 call yr BP. Diatom assemblages from a range of modern day estuarine environments from tidal flat through salt marsh to acidic bog produce quantitative diatom transfer function models for elevation reconstructions based on fossil samples. Only nine out of 124 fossil assemblages analyzed, including previously published data for the AD 1964 earthquake, have a poor modern analogue. Calibration of fossil samples indicate co-seismic subsidence of 1.5070.32m for AD 1964, similar to measurements taken after the earthquake, and 1.4570.34m for the 850 call yr BP earthquake. Elevation standard errors for individual fossil samples range from 0.08m in peat layers to 0.35m in silt units. Lack of a chronology within fossil silt units prevents identification of changes in the rate of recovery and land uplift between the post-seismic and inter-seismic periods.