cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Experiments on internal promotion and external hiring
Creators: name: Ďuriník, Michal
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The submitted thesis “Experiments on Internal Promotion and External Hiring” investigates the role of group identity as a factor in the Employer’s decision to promote an internal candidate or to hire an external candidate for a vacant position. In a series of three novel economic laboratory experiments, this thesis investigates the role of group identity in isolation and extends the scarce literature on post-promotion effort of Workers. Furthermore, the thesis makes a methodological contribution with regards to the framing of experiments. Study 1 finds the most Employers to consider their own earnings first and to favor in-group candidates only if this is not costly to them. Study 2 demonstrates an increase in experimental control when instructions contextually relevant to the labor market are used instead of neutrally framed instructions. Study 3 shows the Employers to have higher effort expectations from the in-group Workers and to promote accordingly. There is, however, no significant difference between the effort provided by the promoted in-group Workers and the promoted out-group Workers. The role of participants' beliefs is discussed for all three studies, as are the managerial and policy implications of the results.
Consistency tests of the stability of fundamental couplings and unification scenarios
Creators: name: Ferreira, M. C.
name: Frigola, O.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
name: Monteiro, A. M. R. V. L.
name: Solà, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the consistency of several independent astrophysical measurements of fundamental dimensionless constants. In particular, we compare direct measurements of the fine-structure constant $α$ and the proton-to-electron mass ratio $μ=m_p/m_e$ (mostly in the optical/ultraviolet) with combined measurements of $α$, $μ$ and the proton gyromagnetic ratio $g_p$ (mostly in the radio band). We point out some apparent inconsistencies, which suggest that hidden systematics may be affecting some of the measurements. These findings demonstrate the importance of future more precise measurements with ALMA, ESPRESSO and ELT-HIRES. We also highlight some of the implications of the currently available measurements for fundamental physics, specifically for unification scenarios.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Social Intelligence and Its Relationship to Level of Ambition among a sample from students of the second class of secondary in schools of Daraa countryside middle
Creators: name: Alhamoy, Yaseen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology

description: Abstract This research aimed to the investigate at the relationship between Social Intelligence and the level of ambition among students of the second class of secondary in schools of Daraa countryside middle and the investigate the differences in social intelligence and the level of ambition among the students , and it’s relation to the type of field (scientific , literary) and the sex (males , females) , The sample of research composed from 298 students from students of the second class of secondary with tow branch " scientific and literary scattered 138 males and 160 females ,and have been use in the research : the Social Intelligence test prepared by (silvera & others ,2001) and translate to the Arabic Mohamed Aliaan (2007) to the Palestinian ambience , and the level of ambition test prepared by Joida Biahmad (2015) ,The results of the research have shown: - that there a moderate level in total score on the scale of social intelligence. - that there a high level in total score on the scale of the Level of Ambition. - that there arestatistical significant correlation between social intelligence and the level of ambition that there a difference statistically significant between males and females in favor the males and between students of the scientific branch and students of the literary branch in favor students of the scientific branch on : the Social Intelligence test and the level of ambition test .
Effects of stellar flybys on planetary systems: 3D modeling of the circumstellar disks damping effects
Creators: name: Picogna, Giovanni
name: Marzari, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar flybys in star clusters are suspected to affect the orbital architecture of planetary systems causing eccentricity excitation and orbital misalignment between the planet orbit and the equatorial plane of the star. We explore whether the impulsive changes in the orbital elements of planets, caused by an hyperbolic stellar flyby, can be fully damped by the circumstellar disk surrounding the star. The time required to disperse stellar clusters is in fact comparable to circumstellar disk's lifetime. We have modelled in 3D a system made of a solar type star surrounded by a low density disk with a giant planet embedded in it approached on a hyperbolic encounter trajectory by a second star, of similar mass and with its own disk. We focus on extreme configurations where a very deep stellar flyby perturbs a Jovian planet on an external orbit. This allows to test in full the ability of the disk to erase the effects of the stellar encounter. We find that the amount of mass lost by the disk during the stellar flyby is less than in 2D models where a single disk was considered due to the mass exchange between the two disks at the encounter. The damping in eccentricity is slightly faster than in 2D models and it occurs on timescales of the order of a few kyr. The only trace of the flyby left in the planet system, after about 10^4 yr, is a small misalignment, lower than 9 degrees, between the star equatorial plane and the planet orbit. In a realistic model based on 3D simulations of star--planet--disk interactions, we find that stellar flybys cannot excite significant eccentricities and inclinations of planets in stellar clusters. The circumstellar disks hosting the planets damp on a short timescale all the step changes in the two orbital parameters produced during any stellar encounter. All records of past encounters are erased.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Super-Adiabatic Particle Number in Schwinger and de Sitter Particle Production
Creators: name: Dabrowski, Robert
name: Dunne, Gerald V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the time evolution of the adiabatic particle number in both time-dependent electric fields and in de Sitter spaces, and define a super-adiabatic particle number in which the (divergent) adiabatic expansion is truncated at optimal order. In this super-adiabatic basis, the particle number evolves smoothly in time, according to Berry's universal adiabatic smoothing of the Stokes phenomenon. This super-adiabatic basis also illustrates clearly the quantum interference effects associated with particle production, in particular for sequences of time-dependent electric field pulses, and in eternal de Sitter space where there is constructive interference in even dimensions, and destructive interference in odd dimensions.
description: 25 pages; 17 figures
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SUSTAINABLE LUNCH BOX, WHICH AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
Creators: name: Félix, Maria João
name: Duarte, Verónica
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Product design
SIPOC diagram
Emotional design
Quality of life
Healthy eating
Case study

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 4, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: Meals prepared at home are healthier than those that are purchased. So, we have been considering the possibility of offering an aesthetically appealing product whose purpose is to store, protect and carry meals, particularly meals prepared with healthy food in balanced quantities. The SIPOC diagrams were considered in the present work. The results obtained demonstrated that the SIPOC diagram plays an important role in the process definition and improvement and should be reflected firstly before the mapping process. The prototype under study triggered more positive than negative emotions in the respondents. We hope the product can contribute to future researches, both in the promotion of a strategic planning in the design of sustainable products, and also contribute to future research on the SIPOC diagram.
A protocol to estimate the average fidelity of the bipartite system
Creators: name: Huang, Long
name: Wu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In present work, we shall develope a protocol to estimate the average fidelity for the bipartite system. We show that the average fidelity should be known if the three measurable quantities, the average survive probability of the product state and the the average survive probablity of each subsystem, have been decided. Our protocol can be also applied to decide the selected element of the quantum proess matrix.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Advancing the Duboisia industry for sustainable alkaloids
Creators: name: Mason, Patric
name: Bandaralage, Jayeni Hiti
name: Yuxin Xue
name: Henry, Robert
name: Mitter, Neena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Duboisia, Field tiral , Tissue culture

description: Duboisia is a high value Australian native, utilised in the global alkaloid industry. The key alkaloid produced by Duboisia is called scopolamine which is used to synthesise anti-spasmodics. Commercial production of scopolamine is centered on the production of Duboisia leaves (97% of worldwide production) in the South Burnett region of South-East Queensland. Today this industry is worth $100 million per annum for Australia, however the potential for expansion is yet to be realised. The private nature of the Duboisia industry, has limited the creation of publicly available information pertaining to the agronomy, growth habit, seasonality, genetics, breeding for commercial traits, and clonal propagation. This project spans from developing new breeding lines through conventional breeding practices, establishment of mass propagation technology for elite lines generated, and on field performance evaluation of new breeding lines.
WEB QUALITY, SATISFACTION, TRUST AND ITS EFFECTS ON GOVERNMENT WEBSITE LOYALTY
Creators: name: Dyah Sugandini
name: Feriyanto, Nur
name: Yuliansyah Yuliansyah
name: Sukwadi, Ronald
name: Muafi
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Service quality
Experience
Reputation
Consumer satisfaction
Trust and Loyalty

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 4, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: This research aims to analyze tourist loyalty on government websites that affected by service quality, reputation, consumer experience, satisfaction, and trust. This research is using data from 148 respondents who have been interacted with the website of visitingjogja.com. The data analysis technique is using two steps approach to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The research result shows that responsiveness as dimensional quality of website services has no influence toward consumer satisfaction, and system quality also has no influence on trust, so the model is modified. Modification is done by eliminating two insignificant paths. The result shows that reputation and experience has positive influence toward consumer satisfaction. Information quality and consumer satisfaction has positive influence toward trust, and trust has positive influence on website loyalty. Website loyalty model that proposed in thie research shows a fit result. Thus, this research result can improve generalization of research findings about website loyalty in the setting of government website user.
Gauging reference and source bias over time: how Russia’s partially state-controlled search engine Yandex mediated an anti-regime protest event
Creators: name: Kravets, Daria
name: Toepfl, F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Massive efforts have been dedicated to studying political search engine bias in democratic contexts, and a growing body of literature has scrutinized search engine censorship in authoritarian China. By contrast, very little is known still about political search engine bias within Russia’s slightly more open authoritarian media system. In order to fill in this gap, this study asks: How has Russia’s leading partially state-controlled search engine Yandex mediated a large-scale anti-regime protest event (anti-corruption protests on 26 March 2017) in the twenty months thereafter? The study analyzes a data set of 30,471 results, retrieved in regular intervals for nine query terms from four platforms: Yandex.ru, News.yandex.ru, Google.ru, and News.google.ru. As the findings demonstrate, both Yandex algorithms (by comparison with their Google counterparts) referred users to significantly fewer websites that contained information about the protest event (reference bias). In a similar vein, both Yandex algorithms forwarded users to fewer websites that regularly featured criticism of Russia’s authoritarian leadership (source bias). Moreover, Yandex algorithms tended to be particularly biased in the event’s immediate aftermath. In the first week after the protests, for instance, the difference in reference ratios between Google and Yandex Web searches were massive (mean difference: 23% points), while they were less pronounced during the remaining time period studied (mean difference: 7% points). These findings are highly politically relevant because rapid diffusion of information about protest events can be considered of key importance to further protest mobilization.
The Complex Distribution of Recently Formed Stars. Bimodal Stellar Clustering in the Star-Forming Region NGC 346
Creators: name: Gouliermis, Dimitrios A.
name: Hony, Sacha
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed stellar clustering analysis with the application of the two-point correlation function on distinct young stellar ensembles. Our aim is to understand how stellar systems are assembled at the earliest stages of their formation. Our object of interest is the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is a young stellar system well-revealed from its natal environment, comprising complete samples of pre--main-sequence and upper main-sequence stars, very close to their formation. We apply a comprehensive characterization of the autocorrelation function for both centrally condensed stellar clusters and self-similar stellar distributions through numerical simulations of stellar ensembles. We interpret the observed autocorrelation function of NGC 346 on the basis of these simulations. We find that it can be best explained as the combination of two distinct stellar clustering designs, a centrally concentrated, dominant at the central part of the star-forming region, and an extended self-similar distribution of stars across the complete observed field. The cluster component, similar to non-truncated young star clusters, is determined to have a core radius of ~2.5 pc and a density profile index of ~2.3. The extended fractal component is found with our simulations to have a fractal dimension of ~2.3, identical to that found for the interstellar medium, in agreement to hierarchy induced by turbulence. This suggests that the stellar clustering at a time very near to birth behaves in a complex manner. It is the combined result of the star formation process regulated by turbulence and the early dynamical evolution induced by the gravitational potential of condensed stellar clusters.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 15 pages, 15 figures
Point compression for the trace zero subgroup over a small degree extension field
Creators: name: Gorla, Elisa
name: Massierer, Maike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 14G50, 11G25, 14H52, 11T71, 14K15

description: Using Semaev's summation polynomials, we derive a new equation for the $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational points of the trace zero variety of an elliptic curve defined over $\mathbb{F}_q$. Using this equation, we produce an optimal-size representation for such points. Our representation is compatible with scalar multiplication. We give a point compression algorithm to compute the representation and a decompression algorithm to recover the original point (up to some small ambiguity). The algorithms are efficient for trace zero varieties coming from small degree extension fields. We give explicit equations and discuss in detail the practically relevant cases of cubic and quintic field extensions.
description: 23 pages, to appear in Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Patient- specific prostate logical models allow clinical stratification of patients and personalized drug treatment
Creators: name: Montagud, Arnau
name: Beal, Jonas
name: Traynard, Pauline
name: Tobalina, Luis
name: Saez-Rodriguez, Julio
name: Barillot, Emmanuel
name: Calzone, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Boolean model
Prostate cancer
MaBoSS

description: We developed a logical model that considers major pathways responsible for prostate cancer development. This model has been extensively tested in silico by studying all single and double mutants and its robustness using our pipeline of tools. Additionally, we tailored our logical model to TCGA prostate cancer patients’ and GDSC cell lines’ data to capture their diversity of functioning and response to perturbations.

Finally, we simulated the effects of different drugs in prostate-specific cell lines models under different growth conditions in order to find proper combinations of drug concentrations in these cell lines.

Present results facilitate the use of logical models in personalized medicine, by allowing the instantiation of patient-specific models, and facilitates the study of patient-specific drug treatments that depend on the specific patient’s response.
Разработка цифрового двойника участка обескремнивания при производстве глинозёма
Creators: name: Мангушева, Алина
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2024
Subjects: desilication
aluminate solution
silicon module
alumina
virtual twin
material balance
mathematical models
sintered mass
обескремнивание
алюминатный раствор
кремниевый модуль
глинозём
виртуальный двойник
материальный баланс
математические модели
спек

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 9 (147) 2024
Quantum walks on graphs representing the firing patterns of a quantum neural network
Creators: name: Schuld, Maria
name: Sinayskiy, Ilya
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks have been shown to be fruitful tools in analysing the dynamic properties of quantum systems. This article proposes to use quantum walks as an approach to Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs). QNNs replace binary McCulloch-Pitts neurons with a qubit in order to use the advantages of quantum computing in neural networks. A quantum walk on the firing states of such a QNN is supposed to simulate central properties of the dynamics of classical neural networks, such as associative memory. It is shown that a biased discrete Hadamard walk derived from the updating process of a biological neuron does not lead to a unitary walk. However, a Stochastic Quantum Walk between the global firing states of a QNN can be constructed and it is shown that it contains the feature of associative memory. The quantum contribution to the walk accounts for a modest speed-up in some regimes.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Mapping online visuals of shale gas controversy: a digital methods approach
Creators: name: Rabello, Elaine Teixeira
name: Gommeh, Efrat
name: Benedetti, Andrea
name: Valerio-Ureña, Gabriel
name: Metze, Tamara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The internet is an increasingly influential actor and arena for debating emerging sustainability controversies, but studies often overlook the role of visualisations in online spreading of information. This paper offers a way to better understand this role: what images do competing online actors use, are there differences between opponents and proponents, differences between internet regions, and are there shifts in their online visualisations over time? Adopting a controversy studies perspective and the digital methods approach, we studied the online spread of visual information. We compared the use of visualisation about shale gas on top-ranked pages in the internet regions of South Africa, Mexico and the United Kingdom in 2018 and 2019. The results indicate a connection between the actor’s standpoints in the controversy and the type of image used. In Mexico, proponents and neutrals used, most of all, photographs of people (officials). Opponents posted more data visuals. South African and British neutral actors used more data visuals, while proponents posted landscapes and opponents photographs of people (protesters). Also, we noticed that changes in the actor’s position in the controversy between 2018 and 2019 coincided with changes in the use of type and content of visualisations. Context-specifics of each country offered possible explanations for these shifts in standpoint and visualisation of the controversy. Our study indicates that visuals are highly relevant digital objects in public debate and the decision-making process.
Complex Investigation of SBS Galaxies in Seven Selected Fields
Creators: name: Hakopian, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main criterium for the selection of active objects in the First Byurakan Survey was the presence of uv-excess on low-dispersion spectra registered on photographic plates obtained with the 1m Shmidt type Byurakan telescope. Using the presence of emission lines as the second criterium became possible during the Second Byurakan Survey due to its improved technique. Through this criterium a majority of objects, extended by morphology, were selected into the separate "sample of galaxies". Certainly, there were cases of untrue selection, particularly, on faint magnitudes, when absorption lines were taken for emission ones and so on. Study of SBS galaxies, including evaluation of an effectivity of selection criteria, was undertaken by means of complex investigation of their very representative part, pooled in our basic sample. The completion of the follow-up slit spectroscopy of these about 500 objects formed the main stage of implementation of this program. Also, the scheme was developed to provide homogeneous classification, directed, in particular, to separate galaxies of AGN activity, of known types, and starforming, SfG, activity. For starforming galaxies, which constitute more than 80% of the basic sample, we provided two classes, SfGcontinual and SfGnebular. Averaged statistics of our SfG galaxies show, that every fifth of them is in more active, nebular phase of starforming activity, most of which are known as blue compact galaxies. However, it must be noted, that, by the analysis, namely for the latter objects, the effectiveness of the survey is the highest, so that BCGs represent the best product of SBS among extended objects. Aimed on further specifications in classification of SfG galaxies, other generalizations and statistics in frames of ongoing investigation, detailed studies of individual galaxies are currently beeing held, based on data of panoramic spectroscopy.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables (extended version), prepared for the Conference Proceedings of IAU Symposium 304 "Multi-wavelength AGN Surveys and Studies" (Yeravan, Armenia, October 1-6, 2013)
Social Intelligence and Its Relationship to Level of Ambition among a sample from students of the second class of secondary in schools of Daraa countryside middle
Creators: name: Alhamoy, Yaseen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Abstract This research aimed to the investigate at the relationship between Social Intelligence and the level of ambition among students of the second class of secondary in schools of Daraa countryside middle and the investigate the differences in social intelligence and the level of ambition among the students , and it’s relation to the type of field (scientific , literary) and the sex (males , females) , The sample of research composed from 298 students from students of the second class of secondary with tow branch " scientific and literary scattered 138 males and 160 females ,and have been use in the research : the Social Intelligence test prepared by (silvera & others ,2001) and translate to the Arabic Mohamed Aliaan (2007) to the Palestinian ambience , and the level of ambition test prepared by Joida Biahmad (2015) ,The results of the research have shown: - that there a moderate level in total score on the scale of social intelligence. - that there a high level in total score on the scale of the Level of Ambition. - that there arestatistical significant correlation between social intelligence and the level of ambition that there a difference statistically significant between males and females in favor the males and between students of the scientific branch and students of the literary branch in favor students of the scientific branch on : the Social Intelligence test and the level of ambition test .
Effect of individual blade pitch angle misalignment on the remaining useful life of wind turbines
Creators: name: Saathoff, Matthias
name: Rosemeier, Malo
name: Kleinselbeck, Thorsten
name: Rathmann, Bente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: An empirical data set of laser-optical pitch angle misalignment measurements on wind turbines was analyzed, and
 showed that 38% of the turbines have been operating outside the accepted aerodynamic imbalance range. This imbalance results from deviations between the working pitch angle and the design angle set point. Several studies have focused on the consequences of this imbalance for the annual energy production (AEP) loss and mention a possible decrease in fatigue budget, i.e., remaining useful life (RUL). This research, however, quantifies the effect of the individual blade pitch angle misalignment and the resulting aerodynamic imbalance on the RUL of a wind turbine. To this end, several imbalance scenarios were derived from the empirical data representing various individual pitch misalignment configurations of the three blades. As the use case, a commercial 1.5 MW turbine was investigated which provided a good representation of the sites and the turbine types in the empirical data set. Aeroelastic load simulations were conducted to determine the RUL of the turbine components. It was found that the RUL decreased in most scenarios, while the non-rotating wind turbine components were affected most by an aerodynamic imbalance.
unWISE: unblurred coadds of the WISE imaging
Creators: name: Lang, Dustin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) satellite observed the full sky in four mid-infrared bands in the 2.8 to 28 micron range. The primary mission was completed in 2010. The WISE team have done a superb job of producing a series of high-quality, well-documented, complete Data Releases in a timely manner. However, the "Atlas Image" coadds that are part of the recent AllWISE and previous data releases were intentionally blurred. Convolving the images by the point-spread function while coadding results in "matched-filtered" images that are close to optimal for detecting isolated point sources. But these matched-filtered images are sub-optimal or inappropriate for other purposes. For example, we are photometering the WISE images at the locations of sources detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (York et al. 2000) through forward modeling, and this blurring decreases the available signal-to-noise by effectively broadening the point-spread function. This paper presents a new set of coadds of the WISE images that have not been blurred. These images retain the intrinsic resolution of the data and are appropriate for photometry preserving the available signal-to-noise. Users should be cautioned, however, that the W3- and W4-band coadds contain artifacts around large, bright structures (large galaxies, dusty nebulae, etc); eliminating these artifacts is the subject of ongoing work. These new coadds, and the code used to produce them, are publicly available at http://unwise.me .
Electromagnetic Energy Conversion in Downstream Fronts from 3D Kinetic Reconnection
Creators: name: Lapenta, Giovanni
name: Goldman, Martin
name: Newman, David
name: Markidis, Stefano
name: Divin, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an initial perturbation independent of the third dimension. However, downstream of the reconnection site, where the jetting plasma encounters the yet unperturbed pre-existing plasma, a downstream front (DF) is formed and made unstable by the strong density gradient and the unfavorable local acceleration field. The energy exchange between plasma and fields is most intense at the instability, reaching several $pW/m^3$, alternating between load (energy going from fields to particles) and generator (energy going from particles to fields) regions. Energy exchange is instead purely that of a load at the reconnection site itself in a region focused around the x-line and elongated along the separatrix surfaces. Poynting fluxes are generated at all energy exchange regions and travel away from the reconnection site transporting an energy signal of the order of about $\mathbf S \approx 10^{-3} W/m^2$.
description: Based on an invited talk presented at the APS-DPP2013 meeting in Denver. To appear on Phys. Plasmas
On the Influence of Spatial Dispersion on the Performance of Graphene-Based Plasmonic Devices
Creators: name: Correas-Serrano, Diego
name: Gomez-Diaz, Juan Sebastian
name: Alvarez-Melcon, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of spatial dispersion phenomenon on the performance of graphene-based plasmonic devices at THz. For this purpose, two different components, namely a phase shifter and a low-pass filter, are taken from the literature, implemented in different graphene-based host waveguides, and analyzed as a function of the surrounding media. In the analysis, graphene conductivity is modeled first using the Kubo formalism and then employing a full-$k_ρ$ model which accurately takes into account spatial dispersion. Our study demonstrates that spatial dispersion up-shifts the frequency response of the devices, limits their maximum tunable range, and degrades their frequency response. Importantly, the influence of this phenomenon significantly increases with higher permittivity values of the surrounding media, which is related to the large impact of spatial dispersion in very slow waves. These results confirm the necessity of accurately assessing non-local effects in the development of practical plasmonic THz devices.
description: 5 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables
Strengthening Children’s Privacy Literacy through Contextual Integrity
Creators: name: Kumar, Priya C.
name: Subramaniam, Mega
name: Vitak, Jessica
name: Clegg, Tamara L.
name: Chetty, Marshini
Publisher: name: Cogitatio
Year: 2020
Subjects: children
contextual integrity
digital technology
learning moments
password management
privacy education
privacy literacy
transmission principles

description: Researchers and policymakers advocate teaching children about digital privacy, but privacy literacy has not been theorized for children. Drawing on interviews with 30 families, including 40 children, we analyze children’s perspectives on password management in three contexts—family life, friendship, and education—and develop a new approach to privacy literacy grounded in Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity framework. Contextual integrity equates privacy with appropriate flows of information, and we show how children’s perceptions of the appropriateness of disclosing a password varied across contexts. We explain why privacy literacy should focus on norms rather than rules and discuss how adults can use learning moments to strengthen children’s privacy literacy. We argue that equipping children to make privacy-related decisions serves them better than instructing them to follow privacy-related rules.
Stamping single wall nanotubes for circuit quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Viennot, J. J.
name: Palomo, J.
name: Kontos, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a dry transfer technique for single wall carbon nanotube devices which allows to embed them in high finesse microwave cavity. We demonstrate the ground state charge readout and a quality factor of about 3000 down to the single photon regime. This technique allows to make devices such as double quantum dots which could be instrumental for achieving the strong spin photon coupling. It can easily be extended to generic carbon nanotube based microwave devices.
description: Version similar to the one accepted
Infrared extinction in the Inner Milky Way through the red clump giants
Creators: name: González-Fernández, Carlos
name: Ramos, Andrés Asensio
name: Garzón, Francisco
name: Cabrera-Lavers, Antonio
name: Hammersley, Peter L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the shape of the extinction curve on the infrared is considered to be set and the extinction ratios between infrared bands are usually taken to be approximately constant, a recent number of studies point either to a spatially variable behavior on the exponent of the power law or to a different extinction law altogether. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the overall behavior of the interstellar extinction by means of the red-clump population, and we apply it to those areas of the Milky Way where the presence of interstellar matter is heavily felt: areas located in 5 deg
description: Accepted for publication on ApJ
Domestic Architecture in Late Period and Ptolemaic Egypt
Creators: name: CHANDLEE, SARAH NICOLE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant

description: The thesis undertakes a comprehensive and holistic analysis of domestic architecture from Late Period and Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 664-332 BCE). It provides a current synthesis of this data, with examination of the architectural form, associated material culture, the lived-in spaces, and the broader context of neighbourhoods and settlements. This research also reviews the development of domestic architecture from the Late Period to the Ptolemaic, investigates the origins of the Egyptian tower house, and analyses household activities, in particular commercial ventures taking place within the house. This study illustrates the dynamic nature of these structures through a thorough contextual analysis.
Determining the Continuous Family of Quantum Fisher Information from Linear Response Theory
Creators: name: Shitara, Tomohiro
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum Fisher information represents the continuous family of metrics on the space of quantum states and places the fundamental limit on the accuracy of quantum state estimation. We show that the entire family of the quantum Fisher information can be determined from linear response theory through generalized covariances. We derive the generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem that relates the linear response function to generalized covariances and hence allows us to determine the quantum Fisher information from linear response functions, which is experimentally measurable quantities. As an application, we examine the skew information, which is one of the quantum Fisher information, of a harmonic oscillator in thermal equilibrium, and show that the equality of the skew information-based uncertainty relation holds.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Scattering and bound states of fermions in a mixed vector-scalar smooth step potential
Creators: name: Castilho, W. M.
name: de Castro, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering of a fermion in the background of a smooth step potential is considered with a general mixing of vector and scalar Lorentz structures with the scalar coupling stronger than or equal to the vector coupling. Charge-conjugation and chiral-conjugation transformations are discussed and it is shown that a finite set of intrinsically relativistic bound-state solutions appears as poles of the transmission amplitude. It is also shown that those bound solutions disappear asymptotically as one approaches the conditions for the realization of the so-called spin and pseudospin symmetries in a four-dimensional space-time.
description: 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.8473
A low memory, highly concurrent multigrid algorithm
Creators: name: Adams, Mark F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We examine what is an efficient and scalable nonlinear solver, with low work and memory complexity, for many classes of discretized partial differential equations (PDEs) - matrix-free Full multigrid (FMG) with a Full Approximation Storage (FAS) - in the context of current trends in computer architectures. Brandt proposed an extremely low memory FMG-FAS algorithm over 25 years ago that has several attractive properties for reducing costs on modern - memory centric -- machines and has not been developed to our knowledge. This method, segmental refinement (SR), has very low memory requirements because the finest grids need not be held in memory at any one time but can be "swept" through, computing coarse grid correction and any quantities of interest, allowing for orders of magnitude reduction in memory usage. This algorithm has two useful ideas for effectively exploiting future architectures: improved data locality and reuse via "vertical" processing of the multigrid algorithms and the method of $τ$-corrections, which allows for not storing the entire fine grids at any one time. This report develops this algorithm for a model problem and a parallel generalization of the original sweeping technique. We show that FMG-FAS-SR can work as originally predicted, solving systems accurately enough to maintain the convergence rate of the discretization with one FMG iteration, and that the parallel algorithm provides a natural approach to fully exploiting the available parallelism of FMG.
Определение вертикального градиента аномалий силы тяжести методом численного дифференцирования
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2024
Subjects: numerical differentiation
vertical gradient of gravity anomalies
spherical functions
численное дифференцирование
вертикальный градиент аномалий силы тяжести
сферические функции

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 9 (147) 2024
Supplemental data for JDS-10.3168/jds.2022-23136 supplemental Table S1
Creators: name: Yang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Veterinary medicine (excl. urology)

description: Supplemental data for “Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism during High Fatty Acid-Induced Lipid Deposition in Calf Hepatocytes”
Wide optical spectrum range, sub-volt, compact modulator based on electro-optic polymer refilled silicon slot photonic crystal waveguide
Creators: name: Zhang, Xingyu
name: Hosseini, Amir
name: Luo, Jingdong
name: Jen, Alex K. -Y.
name: Chen, Ray T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We design and demonstrate a compact and low-power band-engineered electro-optic (EO) polymer refilled silicon slot photonic crystal waveguide (PCW) modulator. The EO polymer is engineered for large EO activity and near-infrared transparency. A PCW step coupler is used for optimum coupling to the slow-light mode of the band-engineered PCW. The half-wave switching-voltage is measured to be Vπ=0.97+-0.02V over optical spectrum range of 8nm, corresponding to the effective in-device r33 of 1190pm/V and Vπ L of 0.291+-0.006V mm in a push-pull configuration. Excluding the slow-light effect, we estimate the EO polymer is poled with an efficiency of 89pm/V in the slot.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
A haplotype of the phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) gene is associated with myocardial infarction and with cardiometabolic parameters: the GEA study
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Pérez, José Manuel
name: Posadas-Sánchez, Rosalinda
name: Blachman-Braun, Ruben
name: Vargas-Alarcón, Gilberto
name: Posadas-Romero, Carlos
name: García-Flores, Esbeidy
name: López-Bautista, Fabiola
name: Tovilla-Zárate, Carlos Alfonso
name: González-Castro, Thelma Beatriz
name: Borgonio-Cuadra, Verónica Marusa
name: Pérez-Hernández, Nonanzit
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: phosphodiesterase
myocardial infarction
polymorphisms
Mexican population

description: The phosphodiesterase family is involved in a wide spectrum of diseases, including ischemic stroke. However, few studies have analyzed the relationship between phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) and myocardial infarction (MI). Therefore, the aim of this research was to evaluate the association of the PDE4D gene polymorphisms with MI, and with cardiometabolic parameters in the Mexican population. Six polymorphisms (rs2910829, rs1423246, rs966221, rs4502776, rs13172481, and rs6869495) were genotyped in 1023 MI patients and 1105 healthy controls. A similar distribution of the six polymorphisms was observed in both studied groups. However, after evaluating the linkage disequilibrium, we detected a risk haplotype for MI (AGAGAA; OR = 1.148; P = 0.025). In addition, the polymorphisms were associated with the presence of some clinical and metabolic parameters (central obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, Aspartate transaminase >p75, Lipoprotein (a) >30 mg/dL, TAT >p75, fatty liver, and vitamin D
description: EXCLI Journal; 17:Doc1182; ISSN 1611-2156
Inconsistencies in ocean temperature monitoring for coral reefs
Creators: name: Neo, Hui Fen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Coral reefs are extremely vulnerable to climate-driven warming of the ocean, which threatens their existence. Multiple sea surface temperature (SST) data sources are currently used to study and predict coral responses to rising temperatures. Understanding the differences between the different SST data sources applied to coral reefs may facilitate monitoring and understanding global warming's impact on coral reefs. Four types of SST data across North-Western and South-Western Australia are compared to assess their differences and ability to predict historical coral bleaching events. Four decades of coral bleaching indicators, Degree Heating Week (DHW) and Degree Heating Month (DHM) were calculated based on satellite-derived SST, global climate models (GCM), and coral core derived proxies. Both DHW and DHM were inconsistent among datasets and did not accurately predict moderate and severe bleaching events. Despite high DHW and DHM values, some reefs did not experience bleaching, suggesting site-specific coral adaptation. The SST data from different sources had better consistency for frequency, which highlights the utility of coral cores as proxies to predict temperature frequencies. By exploring the differences and similarities among data sources, this study highlights the need to compare thermal stress indicators from different datasets for a more robust prediction of coral bleaching.
Electric field sensor based on electro-optic polymer refilled silicon slot photonic crystal waveguide coupled with bowtie antenna
Creators: name: Zhang, Xingyu
name: Hosseini, Amir
name: Xu, Xiaochuan
name: Wang, Shiyi
name: Zhan, Qiwen
name: Zou, Yi
name: Chakravarty, Swapnajit
name: Chen, Ray T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the design of a compact and highly sensitive electric field sensor based on a bowtie antenna-coupled slot photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). An electro-optic (EO) polymer with a large EO coefficient, r33=100pm/V, is used to refill the PCW slot and air holes. Bowtie-shaped electrodes are used as both poling electrodes and as receiving antenna. The slow-light effect in the PCW is used to increase the effective in-device r33>1000pm/V. The slot PCW is designed for low-dispersion slow light propagation, maximum poling efficiency as well as optical mode confinement inside the EO polymer. The antenna is designed for operation at 10GHz.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, conference. "Electric field sensor based on electro-optic polymer refilled silicon slot photonic crystal waveguide coupled with bowtie antenna," Proc. SPIE 8624, 862418 (2013)