cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of novel 18F-labeled Glu-urea-Glu-based PSMA inhibitors for prostate cancer imaging: a comparison with 18F-DCFPyl and 18F-PSMA-1007
Creators: name: Robu, Stephanie
name: Schmidt, Alexander
name: Eiber, Matthias
name: Schottelius, Margret
name: GĂźnther, Thomas
name: Behrooz Hooshyar Yousefi
name: Schwaiger, Markus
name: Hans-JĂźrgen Wester
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supporting information contains the description of the chemical synthesis and radiolabeling of all compounds investigated in this study, the methods and results for the determination of the PSMA binding affinities (IC50) and internalization studies, the metabolite analyses and the time-activity curves for the blood pool derived from dynamic small-animal PET. (PDF 911kb)
A High Statistics Lattice Calculation of The B-meson Binding Energy
Creators: name: Gimenez, V.
name: Martinelli, G.
name: Sachrajda, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a high statistics lattice calculation of the B--meson binding energy $\overlineΛ$ of the heavy--quark inside the pseudoscalar B--meson. Our numerical results have been obtained from several independent numerical simulations at $β=6.0$, $6.2$ and $6.4$, and using, for the meson correlators, the results obtained by the APE group at the same values of $β$. Our best estimate, obtained by combining results at different values of $β$, is $\overlineΛ=180^{+30}_{-20}$ MeV. For the $\overline{MS}$ running mass, we obtain $\overline{m}_{b}(\overline{m}_{b})=4.15 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.20$ GeV, in reasonable agreement with previous determinations. The systematic error is the truncation of the perturbative series in the matching condition of the relevant operator of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory.
description: Latex, 13 pages, 1 figure appended in uuencoded gzip.tar.file
title: The relationship between new brand information exposure and future purchase intention
title: The moderating role of brand implicit image
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sultan, Abdullah J.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Brand name products

description: A measure of individual differences in brand implicit image (BII), defined as the extent to which consumers believe that brand attributes are fixed (brand-entity theorists) versus changeable (brand-incremental theorists), was introduced and validated. Scale development results confirmed the reliability and demonstrated the convergent and discriminant validity of the BII scale. A series of studies were conducted to establish the predictive validity of the BII scale. In these studies, participants indicated their purchase intentions after being exposed to new brand information (i.e., changes in brand pricing, changes in service quality, and introduction of a new product). The results generally supported the hypothesis that the impact of new brand information on purchase intentions is moderated by BII which suggests that brand-incremental theorists are more influenced by new brand information than brand-entity theorists. At the end of the dissertation, implications for practice and theory, limitations, and future research directions for BII were discussed.
Supplementary document for Solvents modulated luminescence of Carbon Dots for ion sensing and fingerprint detection - 6912485.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinxing
name: zhang, you
name: Chen, Mingjun
name: Ding, Yanan
name: Liu, Baoyou
name: Yue, Gang
name: Guan, Li
name: Wang, Chunsheng
name: Liang, Bao-Lai
name: Li, Xu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental information
Prior protocol
Creators: name: Shi, Xinping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320221
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
classificationCode: 420504
subject: Mental health nursing
classificationCode: 321104
subject: Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy)

description: This is a priori protocol according to the methodological guidance of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Feedback on how this might be adapted would be most welcome.
Supplementary document for Solvents modulated luminescence of Carbon Dots for ion sensing and fingerprint detection - 6897670.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinxing
name: zhang, you
name: Chen, Mingjun
name: Ding, Yanan
name: Liu, Baoyou
name: Yue, Gang
name: Guan, Li
name: Wang, Chunsheng
name: Liang, Bao-Lai
name: Li, Xu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised supplemental information
Additional file 3 of Treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia with multi-drug resistant organism by Buzhong Yiqi decoction based on Fuzheng Quxie classical prescription: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Deng, Dong
name: Chen, Zhenyi
name: Jia, Liyang
name: Bu, Jianhong
name: Ye, Miaoqing
name: Sun, Lihua
name: Gen, Yun
name: Zhang, Wen
name: Chen, Gang
name: Fang, Bangjiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. CPIS scoring.
Public Engagement - More than just fun
Creators: name: Corbett, Greg
name: Collier, Ian
name: Palmer, Sophy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Public Engagement (PE) with science should be more than "fun" for the staff involved. PE should be a strategic aim of any publically funded science organisation to ensure the public develops an understanding and appreciation of their work, its benefits to everyday life and to ensure the next generation is enthused to take up STEM careers. Most scientific organisations do have aims to do this, but very few have significant budgets to deliver this. In a landscape of ever tightening budgets, how can we develop a sustainable culture of PE within these organisations? UKRI/STFC's Scientific Computing Department present how we have worked to embed a culture of PE with the department by developing our early career staff members; highlighting the impact PE makes at the departmental and project level; and linking PE to our competency framework. We will also discuss how our departmental work interacts with and complements STFC's organisational-wide PE effort, such as making use of a shared evaluation framework that allows us to evaluate our public engagement activities against their goals and make strategic decisions about the programmes future direction.
title: Topics in health economics
title: Prevention, addiction and fraud
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Goates, Scott Anthony
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Medical policy -- Economic aspects

description: These three articles use empirical data to examine important questions regarding public health policy. The first article, Detecting Selection Effects in Community Implementations of Family-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Programs discusses the implications of self-selection in to universal prevention programs and implements an innovative statistical procedure to identify such selection in Washington State for the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth. The second article, Unintended Consequences: Medicare s Impact on the Diagnosis of Non-Enrollees models the incentive for fraudulent diagnosis when provider reimbursement is based on diagnosis for a portion of the population. Importantly, I find evidence that providers which treat a large portion of Medicare patients are more likely to over diagnose (upcode) both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The third article examines the role of peer perceptions in young people s desire to smoke. Using data from the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey, I show that the youth s expectation of social rewards is a significant predictor of smoking behavior, and interacts with tobacco control policies.
Conservation Laws and Symmetries of Semilinear Radial Wave Equations
Creators: name: Anco, Stephen C.
name: Ivanova, Nataliya M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70S10; 35L65; 37K05; 35Q53; 35Q55

description: Classifications of symmetries and conservation laws are presented for a variety of physically and analytically interesting wave equations with power onlinearities in n spatial dimensions: a radial hyperbolic equation, a radial Schrodinger equation and its derivative variant, and two proposed radial generalizations of modified Korteweg--de Vries equations, as well as Hamiltonian variants. The mains results classify all admitted local point symmetries and all admitted local conserved densities depending on up to first order spatial derivatives, including any that exist only for special powers or dimensions. All such cases for which these wave equations admit, in particular, dilational energies or conformal energies and inversion symmetries are determined. In addition, potential systems arising from the classified conservation laws are used to determine nonlocal symmetries and nonlocal conserved quantities admitted by these equations. As illustrative applications, a discussion is given of energy norms, conserved H^s norms, critical powers for blow-up solutions, and one-dimensional optimal symmetry groups for invariant solutions.
description: 16 pages. Final version with minor revisions
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering: Its geometric quantification and witness
Creators: name: Ku, Huan-Yu
name: Chen, Shin-Liang
name: Budroni, Costantino
name: Miranowicz, Adam
name: Chen, Yueh-Nan
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a measure of quantum steerability, namely a convex steering monotone, based on the trace distance between a given assemblage and its corresponding closest assemblage admitting a local-hidden-state (LHS) model. We provide methods to estimate such a quantity, via lower and upper bounds, based on semidefinite programming. One of these upper bounds has a clear geometrical interpretation as a linear function of rescaled Euclidean distances in the Bloch sphere between the normalized quantum states of: (i) a given assemblage and (ii) an LHS assemblage. For a qubit-qubit quantum state, the above ideas also allow us to visualize various steerability properties of the state in the Bloch sphere via the so-called LHS surface. In particular, some steerability properties can be obtained by comparing such an LHS surface with a corresponding quantum steering ellipsoid. Thus, we propose a witness of steerability corresponding to the difference of the volumes enclosed by these two surfaces. This witness (which reveals the steerability of a quantum state) enables finding an optimal measurement basis, which can then be used to determine the proposed steering monotone (which describes the steerability of an assemblage) optimized over all mutually-unbiased bases.
Additional file 2: of Identifying bottlenecks in the iron and folic acid supply chain in Bihar, India: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Wendt, Amanda
name: Stephenson, Rob
name: Young, Melissa
name: Verma, Pankaj
name: Sridhar Srikantiah
name: Webb-Girard, Amy
name: Hogue, Carol
name: Ramakrishnan, Usha
name: Martorell, Reynaldo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: IDI District official: In-depth interview guide for district officials. (DOCX 19Â kb)
Electrical transport and optical band gap of NiFe$_\textrm{2}$O$_\textrm{x}$ thin films
Creators: name: Bougiatioti, Panagiota
name: Manos, Orestis
name: Klewe, Christoph
name: Meier, Daniel
name: Teichert, Niclas
name: Schmalhorst, Jan-Michael
name: Kuschel, Timo
name: Reiss, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We fabricated NiFe$_\textrm{2}$O$_\textrm{x}$ thin films on MgAl$_2$O$_4$(001) substrates by reactive dc magnetron co-sputtering varying the oxygen partial pressure during deposition. The fabrication of a variable material with oxygen deficiency leads to controllable electrical and optical properties which would be beneficial for the investigations of the transport phenomena and would, therefore, promote the use of such materials in spintronic and spin caloritronic applications. We used several characterization techniques in order to investigate the film properties, focusing on their structural, magnetic, electrical, and optical properties. From the electrical resistivity measurements we obtained the conduction mechanisms that govern the systems in high and low temperature regimes, extracting low thermal activation energies which unveil extrinsic transport mechanisms. The thermal activation energy decreases in the less oxidized samples revealing the pronounced contribution of a large amount of electronic states localized in the band gap to the electrical conductivity. Hall effect measurements showed the mixed-type semiconducting character of our films. The optical band gaps were determined via ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. They follow a similar trend as the thermal activation energy, with lower band gap values in the less oxidized samples.
Licensing and fluency of sacrosanct experience recall
Creators: name: Raska, David
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2074
Subjects: Consumer Behavior

description: This dissertation advances the notion that when consumers recall their past sacrosanct experiences (i.e., experiences portraying the self as moral, lovable, and capable), they affirm themselves of their positive self-concept and subsequently feel licensed to self-indulge. Building on research in accessibility experiences and licensing effects in consumer decision making, I demonstrate that recall of past sacrosanct experiences can render two distinctly different processes: retrieval fluency versus substance of retrieved content. While each requires retrieval of a different amount of past experiences as evidence for a positive self-concept, each necessarily leads to licensing effects. According to both theoretical and empirical work presented in this dissertation, it seems that the process that comes into play is likely to depend on the accessibility of sacrosanct experiences. This accessibility is determined by the type of sacrosanct experience and its compatibility with one's self-construal, but only for those whose self-concept is construed predominantly around independence. When people with independent self-construal recalled self-centered sacrosanct experiences (more compatible with independent self-construal), they evaluated their positive self-concept more favorably and were more likely to license after having recalled a large number of sacrosanct behaviors in which they had previously engaged. In this view, licensing increased as a function of increasing substance of recalled experiences (content-based licensing effect). When people recalled other-centered sacrosanct experiences (less compatible with independent self-construal), a reverse effect emerged. Indeed, people evaluated their positive self-concept more favorably and were more likely to license after having recalled just a small number of such experiences. Licensing increased as a function of increasing fluency with which experiences were retrieved from memory (fluency-based licensing effect). No such effects, however, were found for interdependent self-construals, presumably due to activation of their self-regulation goals that help them avoid making decisions associated with negative self-attributions such as self-indulgent consumption. Work described herein contributes particularly to marketing literature by advancing a novel approach to understanding how consumers' sacrosanct beliefs about the self affect self-indulgent consumption.
title: Soil characteristics of long-traveling landslides and a hybrid model to predict travel distance
Creators: name: Usuki, Nobuhiro
name: Yoshino, Kousuke
name: Mizumaya, Takahisa
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2019
Subjects: long-traveling landslide
soil properties of landslides
simulation
hybrid model

description: When landslides liquefy and sediment movement takes on characteristics of a debris flow, travel distance increases, expanding the range of potential damage. Clarifying the liquefaction mechanism for such phenomena and predicting travel distance are important for evaluating hard and soft measures for controlling landslide damage. The authors have compiled data on landslide travel distance in Japan, used the travel coefficient (Tr) to classify movement of landslide soil masses, and investigated the relationship between landslide movement and soil characteristics with the goal of clarifying the liquefaction mechanism. These results were used to analyze the soil characteristics of long-traveling landslides. The hybrid model developed by Satofuka (2004) was used as a liquefaction model and sensitivity analysis was conducted for the model parameters. Model validity was evaluated by comparing the simulated and actual sediment flow, deposition, and displacement velocity of a landslide that occurred in Niigata Prefecture in March 2004.
XRootD and Object Store: A new paradigm
Creators: name: Dewhurst, Alastair
name: Ellis, Katy
name: Adye, Tim
name: Brew, Chris
name: Patargias, George
name: Johnson, Ian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The XRootD software framework is essential for data access at WLCG sites. The WLCG community is exploring and expanding XRootD functionality. This presents a particular challenge at the RAL Tier-1 as the Echo storage service is a Ceph based Erasure Coded object store. External access to Echo uses gateway machines which run GridFTP and XRootD servers. This paper will describe how third party copy, WebDav and additional authentication protocols have been added to these XRootD servers. This allows ALICE to use Echo as well as preparing for the eventual phase out of GridFTP. Local jobs access Echo via XCaches on every worker node. Remote jobs are increasingly accessing data via XRootD on Echo. For CMS jobs this is via their AAA service. For ATLAS, who are consolidating their storage at fewer sites, jobs are increasingly accessing data remotely. This paper describes the coninuting work to optimise both types of data access by testing different caching methods, including remotely configured XCaches (using SLATE) running on the RAL OpenStack cloud infrastructure.
Discrete ellipsoidal statistical BGK model and Burnett equations
Creators: name: Zhang, Yudong
name: Xu, Aiguo
name: Zhang, Guangcai
name: Chen, Zhihua
name: Wang, Pei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To simulate non-equilibrium compressible flows, a new discrete Boltzmann model, discrete Ellipsoidal Statistical(ES)-BGK model, is proposed. Compared with the original discrete BGK model, the discrete ES-BGK has a flexible Prandtl number. For the discrete ES-BGK model in Burnett level, two kinds of discrete velocity model are introduced; the relations between non-equilibrium quantities and the viscous stress and heat flux in Burnett level are established. The model is verified via four benchmark tests. In addition, a new idea is introduced to recover the actual distribution function through the macroscopic quantities and their space derivatives. The recovery scheme works not only for discrete Boltzmann simulation but also for hydrodynamic ones, for example, based on the Navier-Stokes, the Burnett equations, etc.
description: 8 figures
title: Does group member experience affect decision quality and user satisfaction with collaborative technology?
title: a study of the technology-group interaction process
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Benson, Adam Douglas
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Group work in research

description: Two goals of collaboration technology (CT) research are improved outcomes, like high decision quality, and continued systems use. Current CT designed and implementation practices seem to offer persistent support structures that help improve decision quality, but at the expense of system flexibility. This lack of flexibility may lead to a drop in user satisfaction, which would threaten continued system use. This study suggests an explanation for this phenomenon by referring to group interaction process (GIP), a premise of McGrath's time, interaction, and process (TIP) theory (1991). GIP states people's skills as well as perceptions/expectations of themselves and others change with experience. This study applies this theory in the context of CT by looking at the effects of an technological external support structure influencing GIP, technology-group interaction process (T-GIP). As system users learn to use the system, the support structures may not only be unnecessary, they may be an obstruction to performance and satisfaction. In this study, data is collected in a longitudinal experiment to capture the changes in the measures of performance and satisfaction over time. The findings of this study suggest that dynamic support structures within CT can both improve outcome and maintain high levels of satisfaction.
A generalized Pancharatnam geometric phase formula for three level systems
Creators: name: Arvind
name: Mallesh, K. S.
name: Mukunda, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a generalisation of the well known Pancharatnam geometric phase formula for two level systems, to evolution of a three-level system along a geodesic triangle in state space. This is achieved by using a recently developed generalisation of the Poincare sphere method, to represent pure states of a three-level quantum system in a convenient geometrical manner. The construction depends on the properties of the group $SU(3)\/$ and its generators in the defining representation, and uses geometrical objects and operations in an eight dimensional real Euclidean space. Implications for an n-level system are also discussed.
description: 12 pages, Revtex, one figure, epsf used for figure insertion
MOESM1 of The effect of case management and vector-control interventions on spaceâ time patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda
Creators: name: Ssempiira, Julius
name: Kissa, John
name: Nambuusi, Betty
name: Kyozira, Carol
name: Rutazaana, Damian
name: Mukooyo, Eddie
name: Opigo, Jimmy
name: Makumbi, Fredrick
name: Kasasa, Simon
name: Vounatsou, Penelope
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Climatic data processing.
title: Aawaatowapsiiksi "those people that have sacred ceremonies" Indigenous women's bodies
title: recovering the sacred, restoring our lands, decolonizaton [sic]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pepion, Jody
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Indians of North America -- History

description: This dissertation project is recorded in three ways: writing, video and voice. The writing is primarily to comply with the academy's requirements; the video is to tell the story both orally and visually to all the people. The academy demands the elites' language to be placed within the space of Indigenous storytelling--and that is a problem. The voice of the academy serves as a colonized gaze. One of the primary things this project accomplishes is to expose the violence committed by the nation-state. It holds governmental institutions, including the university, and individuals accountable for their violence against and violation of the Blackfeet People. This dissertation--the video in conjunction with the text--maps the effects of this continuing colonial violence--to show its ripples and echoes in the lives, homes, and homeland of my people.
The effects of sleep loss on dissociated components of executive functioning
Creators: name: Tucker, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Sleep deprivation -- Psychological aspects

description: The effects of sleep deprivation on executive functioning are poorly understood. A chief source of confusion is that although most executive functions tasks are a mixture of executive and non-executive components most researchers focus on a single global outcome score. Yet, a low score on an executive functions task does not necessarily mean a deficit in the executive function(s) of interest. Thus, the current study included a battery of executive functions tasks that each allowed for the dissociation of executive and nonexecutive components of performance. For contrast, a non-executive battery of tests known to be sensitive to sleep deprivation was also included. Twenty-three healthy adults (22-40 years; 12 females) spent 7 consecutive 24-hour days in a laboratory with continuous behavioral monitoring. 12 subjects were randomized to 62 hours of total sleep deprivation preceded and followed by two days with 10 hours time in bed; 12 controls had 10 hours time in bed each night. Executive functions testing was performed once at baseline, at 51 hours of total sleep deprivation, and after recovery; the non-executive functions battery was administered about every 2 hours throughout scheduled waking periods of the study. Well-known effects of sleep deprivation were replicated on psychomotor vigilance, digit-symbol substitution, and subjective sleepiness. However, working memory scanning efficiency, dissociated using a modified Sternberg task, was maintained at baseline levels during sleep deprivation. The ability to overcome proactive interference, dissociated with the modified Sternberg task as well as with a probed recall task, was similarly maintained. These findings challenge a prevailing view that executive functions are specifically vulnerable to impairment due to sleep deprivation. Instead, the current results suggest that specific components of executive functioning are resistant to the effects of sleep loss, and that previous observations of performance impairment on executive functions tasks during sleep deprivation may have been due to deficits in nonexecutive aspects of cognition.
Breeding wheat for efficient nitrogen use in low-input and organic systems in the Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: Dawson, Julie
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Wheat -- Breeding -- Washington (State)

description: This study sought to elucidate the sources of variation for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in wheat grown in organic and low-input agricultural systems. Wheat selected under different N regimes was compared for traits related to NUE in the field and in the greenhouse. Annual winter wheat varieties and breeding lines and a perennial bulk population were used in the field study, and annual spring wheat varieties, perennial breeding lines and a series of chromosome addition lines was used in the greenhouse. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and a principal components analysis (PCA) were used to assess variation for traits of interest. From the ANCOVA, it is apparent that there is significant genetic variation for traits related to N use in organic systems in this sample of genotypes. Environmental and genotype by environmental interactions are also present. PCA was useful in determining the relationships among measured variables and in grouping genotypes according to their agronomic responses to organic nitrogen management. In addition to the field and greenhouse experiments, the role of participatory plant breeding in meeting the needs of farmers in organic and low-input systems was studied. A mail survey of Washington wheat growers and a series of focus-group roundtables were conducted to obtain input from farmers on the wheat breeding program goals. The survey revealed that 52% of respondents are interested in a participatory wheat breeding program. An analysis of the survey data looked at farmer interest in participatory research to help the breeding program meet its goal of including more farmers in the breeding process.
Power to the city: Assessing the rooftop solar photovoltaic potential in multiple cities of Ecuador
Creators: name: Tapia, Mariela
name: Ramos, Leonard
name: Heinemann, Detlev
name: Zondervan, Edwin
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecuador
subject: Geographic Information Systems
subject: resource assessment
subject: rooftop photovoltaic potential
subject: urban solar potential
subject: 600

description: Solar energy plays a crucial role in helping cities to decentralize energy production and thus decarbonize the energy mix. Reliable resource assessments are needed to support the deployment of solar power systems, especially in cities of developing countries where large solar potential remains untapped. The aim of this work is to assess the potential of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in three populated cities in Ecuador’s mainland (Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca) and in the Galapagos Islands. The assessment involves (i) the estimation of the available rooftop area based on geographic information system data, (ii) the calculation of energy yield based on hourly satellite-derived irradiance and meteorological data, and (iii) the economic feasibility assessment in terms of levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) compared to representative electricity tariffs. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is carried out to assess the variability of the estimated technical and economic potential with respect to changes in the input parameters. The results reveal a total available rooftop area of about 144 km2, mainly concentrated in urban parishes. The estimated energy yield is 16.94 ± 3.38 TWh/a, which could cover almost twice the annual energy consumption in 2019 of the study areas. The economic assessment shows that the LCOE ranges between 7.65 and 21.12 USD cents/kWh. However, the comparison of LCOE against representative residential tariff suggests that rooftop PV technology is not cost-competitive under most of the financial scenarios. The findings from this study will be of interest for local authorities and other decision makers to design policies and financing strategies to increase the penetration of rooftop PV and thus exploiting the large potential assessed in the study areas. The described methodology can be used for assessing the potential in other regions of Ecuador and thereby support the diversification and decarbonization of the energy mix in the country.
Self-Gravity Driven Instabilities in the ISM
Creators: name: Hueckstaedt, R. M.
name: Hunter, J. H.
name: Lovelace, R. V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to understand star formation it is important to understand the dynamics of atomic and molecular clouds in the interstellar medium (ISM). Nonlinear hydrodynamic flows are a key component to the ISM. One route by which nonlinear flows arise is the onset and evolution of interfacial instabilities. Interfacial instabilities act to modify the interface between gas components at different densities and temperatures. Such an interface may be subject to a host of instabilities, including the Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities. Recently, a new density interface instability was identified. This self-gravity interfacial instability (SGI) causes any displacement of the interface to gr ow on roughly a free-fall time scale, even when the perturbation wavelength is much less than the Jeans length. In previous work, we used numerical simulations to confirm the expectations of linear theory and examine the nonlinear evolution of the SGI. We now continue our study by generalizing our initial conditions to allow the acceleration due to self-gravity to be non-zero across the interface. We also consider the behaviour of the SGI for perturbation wavelengths near the Jeans wavelength. We conclude that the action of self-gravity across a density interface may play a significant role in the ISM either by fueling the growth of new instabilities or modifying the evolution of existing instabilities.
description: 10 pages, 19 figures, to be published in MNRAS
title: The relationship between the undocumented immigrant battered Latina and U.S. immigration policy
title: "I feel at peace here, I don't want to leave"
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mowder, Denise L.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Abused women -- Government policy -- United States

description: In the United States currently 10% of all women are immigrants. Within this category are women who reside in the country in an undocumented immigrant status. This illegitimate status places these women in a precarious position of dependence on their spouse or partner. Federal immigration laws facilitate this dependence by mandating the filing of immigration petitions by the documented spouse, a process which allows them to become the immigrant's "sponsor." At this point, the immigrants in question lose complete control over their immigration filing status because the "sponsor" can decide when to file or withdraw a petition. For an immigrant woman who is also being abused, the result becomes a choice between enduring intimate partner violence (IPV) or facing deportation. Thus, the lives of this subset of "hidden" women are placed in jeopardy by the epidemic of IPV that permeates much of our society. Legislative changes in the 1990s pushed public officials to recognize the patriarchal origins of the law and create relief for immigrant battered women. This reprieve was short-lived however and mostly due to the aftermath of September 11, 2001 further changes were made in regards to US immigration enforcement policy and the active employment of local law enforcement in federal immigration law enforcement. This project looks specifically at immigrant battered Latinas and will directly address the following research questions: (1) does the fear of possible deportation negatively influence the undocumented battered Latina's decision to contact the police or other community agencies? (2) does undocumented immigration status place battered Latinas in continuing exposure to further victimization? and (3) what impact, if any, exists on the safety of undocumented battered Latinas when local police agencies participate in federal immigration enforcement. In particular, does the department's immigration enforcement participation influence the decisions made by battered immigrants? Understanding when and why an abused immigrant woman will seek help from law enforcement will educate policy makers on how new immigration enforcement policies can influence the victims of abuse. This study will help legislators, law enforcement officials, and women's advocacy agencies to understand how to keep women and children safe while holding offenders accountable.
Scalable quantum computing model in the circuit-QED lattice with circulator function
Creators: name: Kim, Mun Dae
name: Kim, Jaewan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model for a scalable quantum computing in the circuit-quantum electrodynamics(QED) architecture. In the Kagome lattice of qubits three qubits are connected to each other through a superconducting three-junction flux qubit at the vertices of the lattice. By controlling one of the three Josephson junction energies of the intervening flux qubit we can achieve the circulator function that couples arbitrary pair of two qubits among three. This selective coupling enables the interaction between two nearest neighbor qubits in the Kagome lattice, and further the two-qubit gate operation between any pair of qubits in the whole lattice by performing consecutive nearest neighbor two-qubit gates.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Quantum Information Processing
Additional file 1: of Sub-cellular markers highlight intracellular dynamics of membrane proteins in response to abiotic treatments in rice
Creators: name: Chu, Thi
name: Hoang, Thi
name: Trinh, Duy
name: Bureau, Charlotte
name: Donaldo Meynard
name: Vernet, Aurore
name: Ingouff, Mathieu
name: Do, Nang
name: PĂŠrin, Christophe
name: Guiderdoni, Emmanuel
name: Gantet, Pascal
name: Maurel, Christophe
name: Doan-Trung Luu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. Subcellular localisation of rice proteins in Arabidopsis root cells. Figure S2. Autofluorescence background in rice primary root cells. Figure S3. Re-localization of rice aquaporins in Arabidopsis root under salt and osmotic stresses. Figure S4. Re-localization of plasma membrane aquaporins in rice primary root under salt and osmotic stresses. Figure S5. Subcellular localization of plasma-membrane protein-marker LTi6a-CFP in rice root under salt and osmotic stresses. (PDF 623Â kb)
Giant tunnel magnetoresistance with a single magnetic phase-transition electrode
Creators: name: Zhang, Jia
name: Chen, X. Z.
name: Song, C.
name: Feng, J. F.
name: Wei, H. X.
name: Lü, Jing-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic phase transition tunnel magnetoresistance (MPT-TMR) effect with a single magnetic electrode has been investigated by first-principles calculations. The calculations show that the MPT-TMR of FeRh/MgO/Cu tunnel junction can be as high as hundreds of percent when the magnetic structure of FeRh changes from G-type antiferromagnetic (GAFM) to ferromagnetic order. This new type of MPT-TMR may be superior to the tunnel anisotropic magnetoresistance because of its huge magneto-resistance effect and similar structural simplicity. The main mechanism for the giant MPT-TMR can be attributed to the formation of interface resonant states at GAFM-FeRh/MgO interface. A direct FeRh/MgO interface is found to be necessary for achieving high MPT-TMR experimentally. Moreover, we find the FeRh/MgO interface with FeRh in ferromagnetic phase has nearly full spin-polarization due to the negligible majority transmission and significantly different Fermi surface of two spin channels. Thus, it may act as a highly efficient and tunable spin-injector. In addition, electric field driven MPT of FeRh-based hetero-magnetic nanostructures can be utilized to design various energy efficient tunnel junction structures and the corresponding lower power consumption devices. Our results will stimulate further experimental investigations of MPT-TMR and other fascinating phenomenon of FeRh-based tunnel junctions that may be promising in antiferromagnetic spintronics.
Supplementary document for Nonlinearity vs Nonlocality with Emphasis on Bandwidth Broadening in Semiconductor-Based 1d Metamaterials - 6871547.pdf
Creators: name: Goncharenko, Anatoliy
name: Silkin, Vyacheslav
name: Chang, Yia-Chung
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Enhancement of the 3rd-order nonlinear susceptibility for the linear dependence of the free carrier density and the calculation of the mesoscopic electric fields
Exact Results for the Ionization of a Model Quantum System
Creators: name: Costin, O.
name: Rokhlenko, A.
name: Lebowitz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q05

description: We prove that a model atom having one bound state will be fully ionized by a time periodic potential of arbitrary strength r and frequency omega. Starting with the system in the bound state, the survival probability is for small r given by exp(-Gamma t) for times of order GAMMA^(-1)~r^(-2n) where n is the minimum number of 'photons' required for ionization (with large modifications at resonances). For late times the decay is as t^(-3) with the power law modulated by oscillations. As r increases, the time over which there is exponential decay becomes shorter and the power law behaviour starts earlier. Results are for a parametrically excited one-dimensional system with zero-range potential but comparison with analyticalworks and with experiments indicates that many features are general.
Growth and optimization of piezoelectric single crystal transducers for energy harvesting from acoustic sources
Creators: name: Dhar, Romit
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Energy conversion

description: Low power requirements of modern sensors and electronics have led to the examination of the feasibility of several energy harvesting schemes. This thesis describes the fabrication and performance of an acoustic energy harvester with single crystal piezoelectric unimorph. The unimorphs were fabricated from single crystal relaxor ferroelectric (1-x)PMN - xPT grown with x = 0.3 and 0.32 as the starting composition. It is demonstrated that significant power can be harvested using unimorph structures from an acoustic field at resonance. Passive circuit components were used for output circuit with a resistive load in series with a tunable inductor. A tuning capacitor connected in parallel to the device further increased the power output by matching the impedance of the unimorph. The power harvested can be either used directly for running low-power devices or can be stored in a rechargeable battery. A comparison of the performance of PMN-PT and PZT unimorphs at the resonance of the coupled structure under identical excitation conditions was done. For a certain optimized thickness ratio and circuit parameters, the single crystal PMN-PT unimorph generated 30 mW of power while a PZT unimorph generated 7.5 mW at resonance and room temperature. The harvested output power from the single crystal PMN-PT unimorphs depends on several material properties, physical and ambient parameters and an effort has been made to study their effect on the performance. A self-seeding high pressure Bridgman (HPB) technique was used to grow the PMN-PT single crystal ingots in a cost-effective way in our laboratories. Several techniques of material processing were developed to fabricate the PMN-PT single crystal unimorphs from as grown bulk ingots. This growth technique produced good quality single crystals for our experiments, with a k33 = 0.91 for a <001> oriented bar.
CloudScheduler V2: Distributed Cloud Computing in the 21st century
Creators: name: Leavett-Brown, Colin Roy
name: Colson Driemel
name: Danika MacDonell
name: Galindo, Fernando Fernandez
name: Berghaus, Frank
name: Ebert, Marcus
name: Paterson, Michael
name: Sobie, Randall
name: Seuster, Rolf
name: Shaelyn Tolkamp
name: Tahya Weiss-Gibbons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The cloudscheduler VM provisioning service has been running production jobs for ATLAS and Belle II for many years using commercial and private clouds in Europe, North America and Australia. Initially released in 2009, version 1 is a single Python 2 module implementing multiple threads to poll resources and jobs, and to create and destroy virtual machine. The code is difficult to scale, maintain or extend and lacks many desirable features, such as status displays, multiple user/project management, robust error analysis and handling, and time series plotting, to name just a few examples. To address these shortcomings, our team has re-engineered the cloudscheduler VM provisioning service from the ground up. The new version, dubbed cloudscheduler version 2 or CSV2, is written in Python 3 runs on any modern Linux distribution, and uses current supporting applications and libraries. The system is composed of multiple, independent Python 3 modules communicating with each other through a central MariaDB (version 10) database. It features both graphical (web browser), and command line user interfaces and supports multiples users/projects with ease. Users have the ability to manage and monitor their own cloud resources without the intervention of a system administrator. The system is scalable, extensible, and maintainable. It is also far easier to use and is more flexible than its predecessor. We present the design, highlight the development process which utilizes unit tests, and show encouraging results from our operational experience with thousands of jobs and workernodes. We also present our experience with containers for running workloads, code development and software distribution.
Stable-unstable transition for a Bose-Hubbard chain coupled to an environment
Creators: name: Guo, Chu
name: de Vega, Ines
name: Schollwöck, Ulrich
name: Poletti, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactions in quantum systems may induce transitions to exotic correlated phases of matter which can be vulnerable to coupling to an environment. Here, we study the stability of a Bose-Hubbard chain coupled to a bosonic bath at zero and non-zero temperature. We show that only above a critical interaction the chain loses bosons and its properties are significantly affected. The transition is of a different nature than the superfluid-Mott insulator transition and occurs at a different critical interaction. We explain such a stable-unstable transition by the opening of a charge gap. The comparison of accurate matrix product state simulations to approximative approaches that miss this transition reveals its many-body origin.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures and supplementary material