cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
King_RSOS_Supplementary_Material.docx from Reproductive success of jack and full-size males in a wild coho salmon population
Creators: name: King, Erika M.
name: Tallmon, David A.
name: Vulstek, Scott C.
name: Russell, Joshua R.
name: McPhee, Megan V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Despite the wealth of research on Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. life histories there is limited understanding of the lifetime reproductive success of males that spend less time at sea and mature at a smaller size (jacks) than full-size males. Over half of returning male spawners can be jacks in some populations, so it is crucial to understand their contribution to population productivity. We quantified adult-to-adult reproductive success (RS) of jacks and their relative reproductive success (RRS) compared to full-size males in a wild population of Coho Salmon in the Auke Creek watershed, Juneau, AK. We used genetic data from nearly all individuals (approx. 8,000) returning to spawn over a decade (2009–2019) to conduct parentage analysis and calculate individual RS. The average adult-to-adult RS of jacks (mean = 0.7 & s.e. = 0.1) was less than that of full-size males (mean = 1.1 & s.e. = 0.1). Jack RRS was consistently below 1.0 but ranged widely (0.23 to 0.96). Despite their lower average success, jacks contributed substantially to the population by siring 23% of the total returning adult offspring (1.033 of 4.456) produced between 2009 and 2015. Our results imply that jacks can affect evolutionary and population dynamics, and are relevant to the conservation and management of Pacific salmon.
QuGAN: A Quantum State Fidelity based Generative Adversarial Network
Creators: name: Stein, Samuel A.
name: Baheri, Betis
name: Chen, Daniel
name: Mao, Ying
name: Guan, Qiang
name: Li, Ang
name: Fang, Bo
name: Xu, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tremendous progress has been witnessed in artificial intelligence where neural network backed deep learning systems have been used, with applications in almost every domain. As a representative deep learning framework, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been widely used for generating artificial images, text-to-image or image augmentation across areas of science, arts and video games. However, GANs are computationally expensive, sometimes computationally prohibitive. Furthermore, training GANs may suffer from convergence failure and modal collapse. Aiming at the acceleration of use cases for practical quantum computers, we propose QuGAN, a quantum GAN architecture that provides stable convergence, quantum-state based gradients and significantly reduced parameter sets. The QuGAN architecture runs both the discriminator and the generator purely on quantum state fidelity and utilizes the swap test on qubits to calculate the values of quantum-based loss functions. Built on quantum layers, QuGAN achieves similar performance with a 94.98% reduction on the parameter set when compared to classical GANs. With the same number of parameters, additionally, QuGAN outperforms state-of-the-art quantum based GANs in the literature providing a 48.33% improvement in system performance compared to others attaining less than 0.5% in terms of similarity between generated distributions and original data sets. QuGAN code is released at https://github.com/yingmao/Quantum-Generative-Adversarial-Network
description: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
Indohya beieri Harvey Pedipalpal 1993
Creators: name: Harvey, Mark S.
name: Burger, Mieke A. A.
name: Abrams, Kym M.
name: Finston, Terrie L.
name: Huey, Joel A.
name: Perina, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Pseudoscorpiones
Hyidae
Indohya
Indohya beieri

description: Indohya beieri Harvey, 1993 (Fig. 6A) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3C6BED2E-5223-47A7-BF9F-E8E376595690 Indohya beieri Harvey 1993: 25–26, figs. 3, 74–80; Harvey and Volschenk 2007: 386, figs. 5–9, 15. Material examined. Holotype female. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 3.4 km SW. of Manning Creek, Prince Frederick Harbour (CALM site 8/4), 15°00′15″S, 125°21′E, rainforest litter, January 1989, CALM staff (WAM T23615, formerly 91/1363). Diagnosis. Indohya beieri most closely resembles I. jacquelinae as both have 16 carapaceal setae and two small eyes. It differs from I. jacquelinae by its smaller size [e.g. pedipalpal femur 0.365 (♀) mm vs. 0.402 (Ô), 0.467 (♀) mm], carapace with lateral setae of ocular row located on same level as median ocular setae (vs. located anterior to median ocular setae), and median setae of the intermediate row located slightly anterior to lateral setae of intermediate row (located anterior to lateral setae of intermediate row). Description (adult). See Harvey (1993). Distribution and remarks. Indohya beieri has been recorded from a single rainforest locality on Prince Frederick Harbour (Fig. 6A). The site is situated within the Northern Kimberley bioregion. The sole specimen was collected with I. pusilla. Conservation assessment. Although Indohya beieri has only been collected at a single location, there is no reason to believe that it is not more widely distributed in the local area. The species does not meet the status of threatened using the criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (2012).
description: Published as part of Harvey, Mark S., Burger, Mieke A. A., Abrams, Kym M., Finston, Terrie L., Huey, Joel A. & Perina, Giulia, 2023, The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 5342 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5342.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8323879
description: {"references": ["Harvey, M. S. & Volschenk, E. S. (2007) The systematics of the Gondwanan pseudoscorpion family Hyidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisioidea): new data and a revised phylogenetic hypothesis. Invertebrate Systematics, 21, 365 - 406. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 05030"]}
Failed Lactation and Perinatal Depression: Common Problems with Shared Neuroendocrine Mechanisms?
Creators: name: Meltzer-Brody, Samantha
name: Pedersen, Cort A.
name: Propper, Cathi
name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: Grewen, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: In the early postpartum period, mother and infant navigate a critical neuroendocrine transition from pregnancy to lactation. Two major clinical problems that occur during this transition are failed lactation and perinatal mood disorders. These disorders often overlap in clinical settings. Failed lactation is common. Although all major medical organizations recommend 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, only 13% of women in the United States achieve this recommendation. Perinatal mood disorders affect 10% of mothers, with substantial morbidity for mother and child. We hypothesize that shared neuroendocrine mechanisms contribute to both failed lactation and perinatal mood disorders. In this hypothesis article, we discuss data from both animal models and clinical studies that suggest neuroendocrine mechanisms that may underlie these two disorders. Research to elucidate the role of these underlying mechanisms may identify treatment strategies both to relieve perinatal depression and to enable women to achieve their infant feeding goals.
Interaction force in a vertical dust chain inside a glass box
Creators: name: Kong, Jie
name: Qiao, Ke
name: Matthews, Lorin S.
name: Hyde, Truell W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small number dust particle clusters can be used as probes for plasma diagnostics. The number of dust particles as well as cluster size and shape can be easily controlled employing a glass box placed within a GEC rf reference chamber to provide confinement of the dust. The plasma parameters inside this box and within the larger plasma chamber have not yet been adequately defined. Adjusting the rf power alters the plasma conditions causing structural changes of the cluster. This effect can be used to probe the relationship between the rf power and other plasma parameters. This experiment employs the sloshing and breathing modes of small cluster oscillations to examine the relationship between system rf power and the particle charge and plasma screening length inside the glass box. The experimental results provided indicate that both the screening length and dust charge decrease as rf power inside the box increases. The decrease in dust charge as power increases may indicate that ion trapping plays a significant role in the sheath.
Differentiate Quality of Experience Scheduling for Deep Learning Inferences with Docker Containers in the Cloud
Creators: name: Mao, Ying
name: Yan, Weifeng
name: Song, Yun
name: Zeng, Yue
name: Chen, Ming
name: Cheng, Long
name: Liu, Qingzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the prevalence of big-data-driven applications, such as face recognition on smartphones and tailored recommendations from Google Ads, we are on the road to a lifestyle with significantly more intelligence than ever before. Various neural network powered models are running at the back end of their intelligence to enable quick responses to users. Supporting those models requires lots of cloud-based computational resources, e.g., CPUs and GPUs. The cloud providers charge their clients by the amount of resources that they occupy. Clients have to balance the budget and quality of experiences (e.g., response time). The budget leans on individual business owners, and the required Quality of Experience (QoE) depends on usage scenarios of different applications. For instance, an autonomous vehicle requires an real-time response, but unlocking your smartphone can tolerate delays. However, cloud providers fail to offer a QoE-based option to their clients. In this paper, we propose DQoES, differentiated quality of experience scheduler for deep learning inferences. DQoES accepts clients' specifications on targeted QoEs, and dynamically adjusts resources to approach their targets. Through the extensive cloud-based experiments, DQoES demonstrates that it can schedule multiple concurrent jobs with respect to various QoEs and achieve up to 8x times more satisfied models when compared to the existing system
Biophysical investigation of biomolecules in bio-membrane models
Creators: name: Di Marino, Sara
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CHIM/08 CHIMICA FARMACEUTICA
subject: Spettroscopia

description: 2010 - 2011
description: Many drugs are available for the treatment of systemic or superficial mycoses, but only a limited number of them are effective antifungal drugs, devoid of toxic and undesirable side effects. Therefore there remains an urgent need for a new generation of antifungal agents. The present work concerns the synthesis, the antifungal activity and the biophysical characterization of a set of linear and cyclic peptides (AMT1, cyclo-AMT1, AMT2, cyclo-AMT2, AMT3, cyclo-AMT3) including aminoacids characteristic of membrane-active antimicrobial peptides (AMP). The peptides were tested against different yeast species, and displayed general antifungal activity, with a therapeutically promising antifungal specificity against Cryptococcus neoformans. To shed light on the role played by the membrane cell in the antifungal activity an extensive biophysical study was carried out using different spectroscopic techniques. Our structural investigation provides data to exclude the ability of the peptides to penetrate the membrane of the fungal cell, highlighting their attitude to interact with the external surface of the bilayer. Taken together our data support the hypothesis that the membrane cell of the fungi may be an important platform for specific interactions of the synthesized peptides with more specific targets involved in the cell wall synthesis. Viral fusion glycoproteins present a membrane-proximal external region (MPER) which is usually rich in aromatic residues and presents a marked tendency to stably reside at the membrane interfaces, leading, through unknown mechanisms, to a destabilization of the bilayer structure. This step has been proposed to be fundamental for the fusion process between target membrane and viral envelope. In present work, we investigate the interaction between an octapeptide (C8) deriving from the MPER domain of gp36 of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus and different membrane models by combining experimental results obtained by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Electron Spin Resonance, Circular Dichroism and Fluorescence Spectroscopy with Molecular Dynamics simulations. Our data indicate that C8 binds to the lipid bilayer adsorbing onto the membrane surface without deep penetration. As a consequence of this interaction, the bilayer thickness decreases. The association of the peptide with the lipid membrane is driven by hydrogen bonds as well as hydrophobic interactions that the Trp side chains form with the lipid headgroups. Notably these interactions may be the key to interpret at molecular level the function played by Trp residues in all the fragments of viral envelope involved in fusion mechanism with target membrane. [edited by author]
Gender associations and risk aversion Fall 2023
Creators: name: Do, Sydni Fomas
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: BSRI
subject: financial risk
subject: financial risk aversion
subject: financial risk behavior
subject: gender
subject: gender associations

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between gender associations and financial risk behavior.
King_RSOS_table_and_figure_captions.docx from Reproductive success of jack and full-size males in a wild coho salmon population
Creators: name: King, Erika M.
name: Tallmon, David A.
name: Vulstek, Scott C.
name: Russell, Joshua R.
name: McPhee, Megan V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Despite the wealth of research on Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. life histories there is limited understanding of the lifetime reproductive success of males that spend less time at sea and mature at a smaller size (jacks) than full-size males. Over half of returning male spawners can be jacks in some populations, so it is crucial to understand their contribution to population productivity. We quantified adult-to-adult reproductive success (RS) of jacks and their relative reproductive success (RRS) compared to full-size males in a wild population of Coho Salmon in the Auke Creek watershed, Juneau, AK. We used genetic data from nearly all individuals (approx. 8,000) returning to spawn over a decade (2009–2019) to conduct parentage analysis and calculate individual RS. The average adult-to-adult RS of jacks (mean = 0.7 & s.e. = 0.1) was less than that of full-size males (mean = 1.1 & s.e. = 0.1). Jack RRS was consistently below 1.0 but ranged widely (0.23 to 0.96). Despite their lower average success, jacks contributed substantially to the population by siring 23% of the total returning adult offspring (1.033 of 4.456) produced between 2009 and 2015. Our results imply that jacks can affect evolutionary and population dynamics, and are relevant to the conservation and management of Pacific salmon.
High Priority Research Needs for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Creators: name: Bennett, Wendy L.
name: Robinson, Karen A.
name: Nicholson, Wanda K.
name: Wilson, Lisa M.
name: Saldanha, Ian J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Identification of unanswered research questions about the management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is necessary to focus future research endeavors. We developed a process for elucidating the highest priority research questions on GDM.
Monitoring the edges of a graph using distances
Creators: name: Foucaud, Florent
name: Kao, Shih-Shun
name: Klasing, Ralf
name: Miller, Mirka
name: Ryan, Joe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a new graph-theoretic concept in the area of network monitoring. A set $M$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a \emph{distance-edge-monitoring set} if for every edge $e$ of $G$, there is a vertex $x$ of $M$ and a vertex $y$ of $G$ such that $e$ belongs to all shortest paths between $x$ and $y$. We denote by $dem(G)$ the smallest size of such a set in $G$. The vertices of $M$ represent distance probes in a network modeled by $G$; when the edge $e$ fails, the distance from $x$ to $y$ increases, and thus we are able to detect the failure. It turns out that not only we can detect it, but we can even correctly locate the failing edge. In this paper, we initiate the study of this new concept. We show that for a nontrivial connected graph $G$ of order $n$, $1\leq dem(G)\leq n-1$ with $dem(G)=1$ if and only if $G$ is a tree, and $dem(G)=n-1$ if and only if it is a complete graph. We compute the exact value of $dem$ for grids, hypercubes, and complete bipartite graphs. Then, we relate $dem$ to other standard graph parameters. We show that $demG)$ is lower-bounded by the arboricity of the graph, and upper-bounded by its vertex cover number. It is also upper-bounded by twice its feedback edge set number. Moreover, we characterize connected graphs $G$ with $dem(G)=2$. Then, we show that determining $dem(G)$ for an input graph $G$ is an NP-complete problem, even for apex graphs. There exists a polynomial-time logarithmic-factor approximation algorithm, however it is NP-hard to compute an asymptotically better approximation, even for bipartite graphs of small diameter and for bipartite subcubic graphs. For such instances, the problem is also unlikey to be fixed parameter tractable when parameterized by the solution size.
description: 19 pages; 5 figures. A preliminary version appeared in the proceedings of CALDAM 2020
Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Risk of Hyperglycemia
Creators: name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Deierlein, Andrea L.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To determine the association between moderate and vigorous physical activities (MVPA) during midpregnancy and the risk of hyperglycemia.
Diversity Statement Norms _Article Manipulation
Creators: name: Wedell, Emma
name: Chaney, Kimberly
name: Izilda Pereira-Jorge
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: New study: 3(company: no statement, statement, statement+diversity) x 2 (Norm: yes, no)
Racial Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes Among Women with Gestational Diabetes
Creators: name: Boggess, Kim A.
name: Funk, Michele Jonsson
name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: Berggren, Erica K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: We sought to evaluate perinatal outcomes by race/ethnicity among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
Clarifying causal mediation analysis: Effect identification via three assumptions and five potential outcomes
Creators: name: Nguyen, Trang Quynh
name: Schmid, Ian
name: Ogburn, Elizabeth L.
name: Stuart, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Causal mediation analysis is complicated with multiple effect definitions that require different sets of assumptions for identification. This paper provides a systematic explanation of such assumptions. We define five potential outcome types whose means are involved in various effect definitions. We tackle their mean/distribution's identification, starting with the one that requires the weakest assumptions and gradually building up to the one that requires the strongest assumptions. This presentation shows clearly why an assumption is required for one estimand and not another, and provides a succinct table from which an applied researcher could pick out the assumptions required for identifying the causal effects they target. Using a running example, the paper illustrates the assembling and consideration of identifying assumptions for a range of causal contrasts. For several that are commonly encountered in the literature, this exercise clarifies that identification requires weaker assumptions than those often stated in the literature. This attention to the details also draws attention to the differences in the positivity assumption for different estimands, with practical implications. Clarity on the identifying assumptions of these various estimands will help researchers conduct appropriate mediation analyses and interpret the results with appropriate caution given the plausibility of the assumptions.
Additional file 1 of Host-plant adaptation as a driver of incipient speciation in the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)
Creators: name: Fiteni, Estelle
name: Durand, Karine
name: Gimenez, Sylvie
name: Meagher, Robert L.
name: Legeai, Fabrice
name: Kergoat, Gael J.
name: Nègre, Nicolas
name: d’Alençon, Emmanuelle
name: Nam, Kiwoong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary statistics of genome assemblies showing contiguity and correctness of the assemblies (BUSCO) generated in this study and other published assemblies. Table S2. The information of each sample used in this study. Table S3. Position of targets of selective sweeps specific to the corn or grass group. Table S5. Summary statistics of genome assemblies showing contiguity and correctness of the assemblies generated using SALSA2 and 3D-DNA. Table S6. The list of samples used in this study. Figure S1. Identification of strains. Figure S2. The result of the principal component analysis from whole nuclear genome sequences with the information of sampling locations. Figure S3. Ancestry coefficient analysis using the samples from Florida. Figure S4. The composite likelihood of being targeted by selection on chromosome 12 and Z chromosomes. Figure S5. Forward simulation to test increased DXY and FST at divergently selected loci causing reproductive isolation.
Diffraction by dielectric wedges: high frequency and time domain solutions
Creators: name: Frongillo, Marcello
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ING-INF/02 CAMPI ELETTROMAGNETICI
subject: Diffrazione
subject: Ottica

description: 2013 - 2014
description: The knowledge of the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic fields is fundamental in the analysis and planning of modern radio communication systems. When the dimensions of the systems are large in terms of the electromagnetic wavelength, diffraction contributions due to material discontinuities can’t be negligible and must be accurately calculated. In this work are presented the explicit closed form solutions for the high-frequency evaluation of the electromagnetic field produced inside and outside an arbitrary-angled lossless penetrable wedge. Primarily, the full problem of the diffraction of plane waves by an acute-angled dielectric wedge is analyzed and solved. Then, its solutions are generalized to the cases of right- and obtuse-angled wedges. Both cases of E- and H-polarized incident plane waves are addressed in the study. The problems is tackled and solved in the framework of the uniform theory of diffraction, so that the total field at the observation point is determined by adding the geometrical optics contributions and the diffraction one. This last is obtained by performing a uniform asymptotic evaluation of the radiation integrals arising from a physical optics approximation for the equivalent electric and magnetic surface currents lying on the wedge boundaries. The solutions for the diffracted field are able to compensate the discontinuities of the geometrical optics field at the shadow boundaries and their accuracy is assessed by comparisons with data produced by numerical tools. The big advantage of this approach consists in the possibility of evaluating the corresponding diffraction coefficients in the time domain for the same geometries. The inverse Laplace transform is applied to the frequency domain solutions for the diffraction coefficients and the transient diffracted field is evaluated via a convolution integral. Simulations have verified the goodness of the time domain solutions, too. To the author’s knowledge, no other closed form solutions for time domain scattering problems involving penetrable wedges are available in literature. [edited by Author]
Indohya haroldi Harvey & Volschenk 2007
Creators: name: Harvey, Mark S.
name: Burger, Mieke A. A.
name: Abrams, Kym M.
name: Finston, Terrie L.
name: Huey, Joel A.
name: Perina, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Pseudoscorpiones
Hyidae
Indohya
Indohya haroldi

description: Indohya haroldi Harvey & Volschenk, 2007 (Fig. 6A) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: DD4B8223-B238-405D-862D-31F88F0DE4F5 Indohya haroldi Harvey and Volschenk 2007: 394–395, figs. 5–9, 15, 38–42. Material examined. Holotype male. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Theda Pass, 14°47′S, 126°38′E, 14 June 1992, under rocks, M.S. Harvey, J.M. Waldock (WAM T63501). Paratype. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 1 ♀, Theda Pass, 14°47′S, 126°38′E, 14 June 1992, under rocks, M. S. Harvey, J. M. Waldock (WAM T63502). Diagnosis. Indohya haroldi is the only species of the genus with 18 carapaceal setae. Description (adult). See Harvey and Volschenk (2007). Distribution and remarks. Indohya haroldi has been recorded from a single location in the Northern Kimberley bioregion (Fig. 6A). The specimens were collected from the underside of rocks. Conservation assessment. Indohya haroldi has only been collected at a single location, but there is no reason to believe that it is not more widely distributed in the local area. The species does not meet the status of threatened using the criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (2012).
description: Published as part of Harvey, Mark S., Burger, Mieke A. A., Abrams, Kym M., Finston, Terrie L., Huey, Joel A. & Perina, Giulia, 2023, The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 5342 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5342.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8323879
description: {"references": ["Harvey, M. S. & Volschenk, E. S. (2007) The systematics of the Gondwanan pseudoscorpion family Hyidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisioidea): new data and a revised phylogenetic hypothesis. Invertebrate Systematics, 21, 365 - 406. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 05030"]}
Hacking on decoy-state quantum key distribution system with partial phase randomization
Creators: name: Sun, Shi-Hai
name: Jiang, Mu-Sheng
name: Ma, Xiang-Chun
name: Li, Chun-Yan
name: Liang, Lin-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides means for unconditional secure key transmission between two distant parties. However, in practical implementations, it suffers from quantum hacking due to device imperfections. Here we propose a hybrid measurement attack, with only linear optics, homodyne detection, and single photon detection, to the widely used vacuum+weak decoy state QKD system when the phase of source is partially randomized. Our analysis shows that, in some parameter regimes, the proposed attack would result in an entanglement breaking channel but still be able to trick the legitimate users to believe they have transmitted secure keys. That is, the eavesdropper is able to steal all the key information without discovered by the users. Thus, our proposal reveals that partial phase randomization is not sufficient to guarantee the security of phase-encoding QKD systems with weak coherent states.
description: 12 pages,4 figures
Self-Report Versus Ultrasound Measurement of Uterine Fibroid Status
Creators: name: Nylander-French, Leena A.
name: Hartmann, Katherine E.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Baird, Donna Day
name: Myers, Sharon L.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Schroeder, Jane C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Much of the epidemiologic research on risk factors for fibroids, the leading indication for hysterectomy, relies on self-reported outcome. Self-report is subject to misclassification because many women with fibroids are undiagnosed. The purpose of this analysis was to quantify the extent of misclassification and identify associated factors.
Expectation Values from the Single-Layer Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Ising Problems
Creators: name: Ozaeta, Asier
name: van Dam, Wim
name: McMahon, Peter L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the energy-expectation-value landscapes produced by the single-layer ($p=1$) Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) when being used to solve Ising problems. The landscapes are obtained using an analytical formula that we derive. The formula allows us to predict the landscape for any given Ising problem instance and consequently predict the optimal QAOA parameters for heuristically solving that instance using the single-layer QAOA. We have validated our analytical formula by showing that it accurately reproduces the landscapes published in recent experimental reports. We then applied our methods to address the question: how well is the single-layer QAOA able to solve large benchmark problem instances? We used our analytical formula to calculate the optimal energy-expectation values for benchmark MAX-CUT problems containing up to $7\,000$ vertices and $41\,459$ edges. We also calculated the optimal energy expectations for general Ising problems with up to $100\,000$ vertices and $150\,000$ edges. Our results provide an estimate for how well the single-layer QAOA may work when run on a quantum computer with thousands of qubits. In addition to providing performance estimates when optimal angles are used, we are able to use our analytical results to investigate the difficulties one may encounter when running the QAOA in practice for different classes of Ising instances. We find that depending on the parameters of the Ising Hamiltonian, the expectation-value landscapes can be rather complex, with sharp features that necessitate highly accurate rotation gates in order for the QAOA to be run optimally on quantum hardware. We also present analytical results that explain some of the qualitative landscape features that are observed numerically.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures
Multivariate copula quantile mapping for bias correction of reanalysis air temperature data
Creators: name: Alidoost, Fakhereh
name: Stein, Alfred
name: Su, Zhongbo
name: Sharifi, Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Reanalysis data retrieved from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) are commonly used for hydrological studies. Their use requires bias correction, defined as the difference between reanalysis values and measurements. We propose three multivariate copula quantile mappings (MCQMs) to predict bias-corrected values at unvisited locations. We apply the methods to the Qazvin Plain, Iran, for daily air temperature retrieved from weather stations and the ECMWF archive. Results showed that MCQMs reduced bias by 46% as compared with classical quantile mapping. The study concludes that MCQMs are well able to represent the spatial and temporal variation of air temperature.
Finite energy solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations with sub-natural growth terms
Creators: name: Dat, Cao Tien
name: Verbitsky, Igor E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study finite energy solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations of the type $$ -Δ_pu=σ\, u^q \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^n,$$ where $Δ_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian, $p>1$, and $σ$ is a nonnegative function (or measure) on $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the case $0
description: 19 pages, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations (2014)
A National Action Plan for Promoting Preconception Health and Health Care in the United States (2012–2014)
Creators: name: Owens, Jasmine R.
name: Verbiest, Sarah
name: Boyle, Coleen
name: Johnson, Kay A.
name: Moore, Cynthia A.
name: Floyd, R. Louise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Preconception health and health care (PCHHC) has gained increasing popularity as a key prevention strategy for improving outcomes for women and infants, both domestically and internationally. The Action Plan for the National Initiative on Preconception Health and Health Care: A Report of the PCHHC Steering Committee (2012–2014) provides a model that states, communities, public, and private organizations can use to help guide strategic planning for promoting preconception care projects. Since 2005, a national public–private PCHHC initiative has worked to create and implement recommendations on this topic. Leadership and funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention combined with the commitment of maternal and child health leaders across the country brought together key partners from the public and private sector to provide expertise and technical assistance to develop an updated national action plan for the PCHHC Initiative. Key activities for this process included the identification of goals, objectives, strategies, actions, and anticipated timelines for the five work-groups that were established as part of the original PCHHC Initiative. These are further described in the action plan. To assist other groups doing similar work, this article discusses the approach members of the PCHHC Initiative took to convene local, state, and national leaders to enhance the implementation of preconception care nationally through accomplishments, lessons learned, and projections for future directions.
title: Pristine™ fungicide does not pose a hazard to bumble bees in lowbush blueberry production
Creators: name: Cutler, G. Christopher
name: Sproule, Jason M.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 462 (Hazards of pesticides to bees : 13th International Symposium of the ICP-PR Bee Protection Group ; 18. - 20. October 2017, València (Spain) - Proceedings -)
Association Between Adiponectin and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Levels at Eight to Fourteen Weeks Gestation and Maternal Glucose Tolerance: The Parity, Inflammation, and Diabetes Study
Creators: name: Nicholson, Wanda
name: Powe, Neil R.
name: Wang, Nae Yuh
name: Chang, Yi-Ting
name: Baptiste-Roberts, Kesha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Inflammation may influence gestational hyperglycemia, but to date, the data from observational studies is largely limited to results from the third trimester of pregnancy. Our objective was to evaluate first trimester adipocytokine levels. We sought to determine whether first trimester adiponectin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF)-alpha concentrations were independently associated and predictive of maternal glucose tolerance, as measured by the 1-hour glucose challenge test (GCT), after adjustment for maternal lifestyle behaviors and body mass index (BMI).
The Man Who Wondered About The Kingship of Tennō
Creators: name: Forster, Kurt W.
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fosco Maraini
Japanese enthronement
Agape celeste

description: This contribution delves into Italian ethnographer Fosco Maraini's unique explorations of various cultures, with an emphasis on his profound understanding of Japanese society. His experiences culminated in the careful documentation of Japan's regal power transition in Àgape celeste. I riti di consacrazione del sovrano giapponese, capturing the intriguing interplay of tradition and modernity. His intricate descriptions of the Daijosai ceremony, its symbolic references, and the Daijōgū's significance provide an enriching panorama of Japanese kingship, showcasing a deep cultural insight and connection with the divine.
Association Between Maternal Mood and Oxytocin Response to Breastfeeding
Creators: name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: Meltzer-Brody, Samantha
name: Grewen, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Postpartum depression is associated with reduced breastfeeding duration. We previously hypothesized that shared neuroendocrine mechanisms underlie this association. We sought to measure the association between maternal mood and neuroendocrine response to breastfeeding.
The interplanetary mass ejections behaviour in the heliosphere
Creators: name: Dumitrache, Cristiana
name: Popescu, Nedelia A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here an overview of an important solar phenomenon with major implication for space weather and planetary life. The coronal mass ejections (CMEs) come from the Sun and expand in the heliosphere, becoming interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). They represent huge clouds of plasma and magnetic fields that travel with velocities reaching even 2000 km/s and perturbing the planetary and interplanetary field. The magnetic clouds (MC) are a special class of ICMEs. We summarize some aspects as the ICMEs identification, propagation and track back to the Sun, where the solar source could be found. We notice here few known catalogs of the ICMEs and magnetic clouds.
description: http://www.nipne.ro/rjp/2013_58_3-4/0383_0394.pdf
TILT: A GDPR-Aligned Transparency Information Language and Toolkit for Practical Privacy Engineering
Creators: name: Grünewald, Elias
name: Pallas, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3; K.5; K.4; H.5; D.2; E.2

description: In this paper, we present TILT, a transparency information language and toolkit explicitly designed to represent and process transparency information in line with the requirements of the GDPR and allowing for a more automated and adaptive use of such information than established, legalese data protection policies do. We provide a detailed analysis of transparency obligations from the GDPR to identify the expressiveness required for a formal transparency language intended to meet respective legal requirements. In addition, we identify a set of further, non-functional requirements that need to be met to foster practical adoption in real-world (web) information systems engineering. On this basis, we specify our formal language and present a respective, fully implemented toolkit around it. We then evaluate the practical applicability of our language and toolkit and demonstrate the additional prospects it unlocks through two different use cases: a) the inter-organizational analysis of personal data-related practices allowing, for instance, to uncover data sharing networks based on explicitly announced transparency information and b) the presentation of formally represented transparency information to users through novel, more comprehensible, and potentially adaptive user interfaces, heightening data subjects' actual informedness about data-related practices and, thus, their sovereignty. Altogether, our transparency information language and toolkit allow - differently from previous work - to express transparency information in line with actual legal requirements and practices of modern (web) information systems engineering and thereby pave the way for a multitude of novel possibilities to heighten transparency and user sovereignty in practice.
description: Accepted for publication at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2021 (ACM FAccT'21). This is a preprint manuscript (authors' own version before final copy-editing)
Topological Superconductivity in Multifold Fermion Metals
Creators: name: Gao, Jason Z. S.
name: Gao, Xue-Jian
name: He, Wen-Yu
name: Xu, Xiao Yan
name: Ng, T. K.
name: Law, K. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, multifold fermions characterized by band crossings with multifold degeneracy and Fermi surfaces with nontrivial Chern numbers have been discovered experimentally in AlPt[arXiv:1812.03310] and XSi(X=Rh,Co)[arXiv:1812.04466][arXiv:1901.03358][arXiv:1809.01312]. In this work, we largely expand the family of multifold fermion materials by pointing out that several well-studied noncentrosymmetric superconductors are indeed multifold fermion metals. Importantly, their normal state topological properties, which have been ignored in previous studies, play an important role in the superconducting properties. Taking Li$_2$Pd$_3$B and Li$_2$Pt$_3$B as examples, we found a large number of unconventional degenerate points, such as double spin-1, spin-3/2, Weyl and double Weyl topological band crossing points near the Fermi energy, which result in finite Chern numbers on Fermi surfaces. Long Fermi arc states in Li$_2$Pd$_3$B, originating from the nontrivial band topology were found. Importantly, it has been shown experimentally that Li$_2$Pd$_3$B and Li$_2$Pt$_3$B are fully gapped and gapless superconductors, respectively. By analyzing the possible pairing symmetries, we suggest that Li$_2$Pd$_3$B can be a DIII class topological superconductor with Majorana surface states, even though the spin-orbit coupling in Li$_2$Pd$_3$B is negligible. Interestingly, Li$_2$Pt$_3$B, being gapless, is likely to be a nodal topological superconductor with dispersionless surface Majorana modes. We further identified that several noncentrosymmetric superconductors, such as Mo$_3$Al$_2$C, PdBiSe, Y$_2$C$_3$ and La$_2$C$_3$, are multifold fermion superconductors whose normal state topological properties have been ignored in previous experimental and theoretical studies.
Enhancing Circular Logistics of Unit Loads by Leveraging Physical Internet Modularization and Consolidation Principles
Creators: name: Garcia Zamalloa, Jorge
name: Barenji, Ali
name: Montreuil, Benoit
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physical internet
Reverse logistics
Consolidation
Modularization
Repair
Recycling
Modular workstations
Simulation
Sustainability
Pallets

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: Returnable Transportation Items (RTI) such as pallets are crucial for any supply chain, however this remains an understudied area in comparison to other subjects in logistics. As part of a case study, this Paper intends to demonstrate the operational benefits that can be achieved by introducing PI concepts of modularization and cargo consolidation into the core process of reparation at an RTI service provider. Different maturity levels of a process were developed based on PI concepts and compared with a baseline to highlight their adaptability to unexpected changes in demand. The results indicate that the implementation of PI concepts could result in significant cost savings and increased supply chain efficiencies.
Gender Differences in Mortality and CD4 Count Response Among Virally Suppressed HIV-Positive Patients
Creators: name: MacPhail, A. Patrick
name: Brennan, Alana T.
name: Fox, Matthew P.
name: Westreich, Daniel
name: Maskew, Mhairi
name: McNamara, Lynne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Treatment outcomes for antiretroviral therapy (ART) patients may vary by gender, but estimates from current evidence may be confounded by disease stage and adherence. We investigated the gender differences in treatment response among HIV-positive patients virally suppressed within 6 months of treatment initiation.
Evaluating the transferability of monthly water balance models under changing climate conditions
Creators: name: Topalović, Ž.
name: Todorović, A.
name: Plavšić, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Monthly water balance models (MWBMs) are often used for making flow projections under climate change. As such, these models should provide accurate flow simulations; however, they are seldom evaluated in this regard. This paper presents a comprehensive framework intended for the evaluation of the applicability of MWBMs under changing climatic conditions. The framework consists of analyses of consistency in model performance, parameter estimates and simulated water balance components, and a subjective assessment of model transferability. Four MWBMs – abcd, Budyko, GR2M and WASMOD – are used to simulate runoff in the Wimmera catchment affected by the Millennium drought. Although abcd and Budyko slightly outperformed GR2M and WASMOD, none of the models performed well in transfer to the driest period. The greatest variability is detected in simulated groundwater storage and baseflow; thus, these model components should be improved and/or enhanced calibration strategies should be employed to advance the transferability of MWBMs under changing climate.