cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Local Planning Techniques that Implement Provisions of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Office of State Planning
Year: 1996

description: This report identifies examples of local planning techniques and controls throughout New Jersey that implement provisions of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, as one means of 'provid[ing] local governments with the technical resources and guidance necessary to assist them in developing land use plans and procedures that are based on sound planninginformation and practice and ... facilitat[ing] the development of local plans which are consistent with State plans and programs...' (N.J.S.A. 5218A-196(F)). These planning techniques were identified through a review of the local Master Plans and ordinances that have been provided to the Office of State Planning by local jurisdictions, and discussions with Area Planning Managers, other staff of the Office of State Planning, County Planning Directors and others.
Verifying the mass-metallicity relation in damped Lyman-alpha selected galaxies at 0.1
Creators: name: Christensen, L.
name: Møller, P.
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Zafar, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scaling relation has recently been suggested to combine the galaxy mass-metallicity (MZ) relation with metallicities of damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) in quasar spectra. Based on this relation the stellar masses of the absorbing galaxies can be predicted. We test this prediction by measuring the stellar masses of 12 galaxies in confirmed DLA absorber - galaxy pairs in the redshift range 0.1
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. Major revision. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
New Tsallis Agegraphic Dark Energy
Creators: name: Pankaj
name: Pandey, Bramha Dutta
name: Kumar, P. Suresh
name: Sharma, Umesh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed model is a study of the nature of dark energy through non-extensive Tsallis entropy. The method is based on the Karolyhazy relation which is a combined idea from quantum physics and general relativity. Dark energy is the energy density of quantum fluctuations in space-time. This is the key idea behind proposing agegraphic dark energy (ADE) models here. The parameter $δ$ is used to measure the quantitative distinction from the standard scenario. To look at the cosmological implications of the hypothesized dark energy model, as well as the expansion of the Universe filled with zero pressure matter and the resulting dark energy alternatives, the role of IR cutoff is played by age of the universe. The dynamic behavior of dark energy density parameter is carried out. The expressions for the equation of state parameter and deceleration parameter are obtained. The analysis is performed by taking into account a no flow as well as a flow of energy among the dark matter and dark energy sectors of the universe.
description: 10 pages, 20 figures
Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level Rise, and Barrier Islands: Case Study of Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Policy Analysis
Year: 1990

description: Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other gases are expected to cause a global warming that could raise sea level a few feet in the next century. This paper examines four options by which barrier-island communities could respond, focussing on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. For the next few decades, the most common response will probably be to raise the islands in place by pumping sand onto beaches and building lots. Eventually, as costs increase, many communities may accept a gradual landward retreat. Nevertheless, federal agencies that encourage risky development, state agencies that discourage it, residents who feel entitled to subsidized coastal protection, and environmentalists insensitive to constitutional property rights will all have to compromise for a rational solution to be possible. Local officials on barrier islands should begin to hold public meetings to develop a public consensus on the appropriate response to sea level rise.
The Uncertain Future of Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered Species Program
Year: 2003

description: This presentation covers the results of four investigations authored by prominent shorebird scientists from around the world. These studies cover five different species that migrate from Arctic breeding areas to South American wintering areas. On their northbound return the birds stopover on the Delaware Bay. This presentation concentrates on the red knot, as it is the most dependent on the Delaware Bay. It shows that there has been a significant decline in the ability of shorebirds to gain weight, a decline in survival rates, and a drastic decline in the wintering population.
ASASSN-14ae: A Tidal Disruption Event at 200 Mpc
Creators: name: Holoien, Thomas W. -S.
name: Prieto, J. L.
name: Bersier, D.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Stanek, K. Z.
name: Shappee, B. J.
name: Grupe, D.
name: Basu, U.
name: Beacom, J. F.
name: Brimacombe, J.
name: Brown, J. S.
name: Davis, A. B.
name: Jencson, J.
name: Pojmanski, G.
name: Szczygiel, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ASASSN-14ae is a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) found at the center of SDSS J110840.11+340552.2 ($d\simeq200$~Mpc) by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We present ground-based and Swift follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations of the source, finding that the transient had a peak luminosity of $L\simeq8\times10^{43}$~erg~s$^{-1}$ and a total integrated energy of $E\simeq1.7\times10^{50}$ ergs radiated over the $\sim5$ months of observations presented. The blackbody temperature of the transient remains roughly constant at $T\sim20,000$~K while the luminosity declines by nearly 1.5 orders of magnitude during this time, a drop that is most consistent with an exponential, $L\propto e^{-t/t_0}$ with $t_0\simeq39$~days. The source has broad Balmer lines in emission at all epochs as well as a broad He II feature emerging in later epochs. We compare the color and spectral evolution to both supernovae and normal AGN to show that {\name} does not resemble either type of object and conclude that a TDE is the most likely explanation for our observations. At $z=0.0436$, ASASSN-14ae is the lowest-redshift TDE candidate discovered at optical/UV wavelengths to date, and we estimate that ASAS-SN may discover $0.1 - 3$ of these events every year in the future.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Updated September 2014 to reflect changes in the final version published in MNRAS and to add significant amounts of additional data. Photometric data presented in this submission are included as ancillary files. For a brief video explaining this paper, see http://youtu.be/ahDuOt_eKgg
Pedestrians-cyclists shared spaces: analysis of interactions and attitudes
Creators: name: Nikiforiadis, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This is a presentation from the YRS2023 - 11th Young Researchers Seminar, held from 15 to 17 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering).
A dynamic mass transport method for Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations
Creators: name: Liu, H.
name: Maimaitiyiming, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q92, 65N08, 65N12

description: A dynamic mass-transport method is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck(PNP) equations. The semi-discrete scheme based on the JKO type variational formulation naturally enforces solution positivity and the energy law as for the continuous PNP system. The fully discrete scheme is further formulated as a constrained minimization problem, shown to be solvable, and satisfy all three solution properties (mass conservation, positivity and energy dissipation) independent of time step size or the spatial mesh size. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate convergence of the computed solutions and verify the structure preserving property of the proposed scheme.
Automated Learning of Interpretable Models with Quantified Uncertainty
Creators: name: Bomarito, G. F.
name: Leser, P. E.
name: Strauss, N. C. M
name: Garbrecht, K. M.
name: Hochhalter, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interpretability and uncertainty quantification in machine learning can provide justification for decisions, promote scientific discovery and lead to a better understanding of model behavior. Symbolic regression provides inherently interpretable machine learning, but relatively little work has focused on the use of symbolic regression on noisy data and the accompanying necessity to quantify uncertainty. A new Bayesian framework for genetic-programming-based symbolic regression (GPSR) is introduced that uses model evidence (i.e., marginal likelihood) to formulate replacement probability during the selection phase of evolution. Model parameter uncertainty is automatically quantified, enabling probabilistic predictions with each equation produced by the GPSR algorithm. Model evidence is also quantified in this process, and its use is shown to increase interpretability, improve robustness to noise, and reduce overfitting when compared to a conventional GPSR implementation on both numerical and physical experiments.
Data models and service interfaces for the SENSEI smart services
Creators: name: Köhlke, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: smart services
energy efficiency

description: This deliverable summarizes the used methodological approach to develop interoperable Smart Energy Services, to improve energy efficiency of European building stock, as well as to draw conclusions for P4P programmes. The discusses the need for standards for the uniform transmission of data and information, and to support trust and security for all market participants. Recommendations are provided for handling the requirements for the development of new technologies in a complex and uncertain energy environment.
Searching for Debris Disks around Seven Radio Pulsars
Creators: name: Wang, Z.
name: Ng, C. -Y.
name: Wang, X.
name: Li, A.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our searches for debris disks around seven relatively nearby radio pulsars, which are isolated sources and were carefully selected as the targets on the basis of our deep $K_s$-band imaging survey. The $K_s$ images obtained with the 6.5\,m Baade Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory are analyzed together with the \textit{Spitzer}/IRAC images at 4.5 and 8.0~$μ$m and the \textit{WISE} images at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22~$μ$m. No infrared (IR) counterparts of these pulsars are found, with flux upper limits of $\sim μ$Jy at near-infrared ($λ<10\ μ$m) and $\sim$10--1000\,$μ$Jy at mid-infrared wavelengths ($λ>10\ μ$m). The results of this search are discussed in terms of the efficiency of converting the pulsar spin-down energy to thermal energy and X-ray heating of debris disks, with comparison made to the two magnetars 4U~0142+61 and 1E~2259+586 which are suggested to harbor a debris disk.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Deviations from Tribimaximal and Golden Ratio mixings under radiative corrections of neutrino masses and mixings
Creators: name: Wilina, Ph.
name: Singh, M. Shubhakanta
name: Singh, N. Nimai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of renormalization group equations(RGEs) on neutrino masses and mixings at high energy scales in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model(MSSM) is studied using two different mixing patterns such as Tri-Bimaximal(TBM) mixing and Golden Ratio(GR) mixing in consistent with cosmological bound of the sum of three neutrino masses, $\sum _{i}|m_{i}|$. Magnifications of neutrino masses and mixing angles at low energy scale, are obtained by giving proper input masses, and mixing angles from TBM mixing matrix and GR mixing matrix at high energy scales. High energy scales, $M_{R}$ such as $10^{13}$GeV,$10^{14}$GeV,$10^{15}$GeV are employed in the analysis. The large solar($θ_{12}$) and atmospheric($θ_{23}$) neutrino mixing angles with zero reactor angle ($θ_{13}$) from both TBM mixing matrix and GR mixing matrix at high scale, can magnify the reactor angle($θ_{13}$) at low energy scale in 3$σ$ confidence level. Both cases of normal hierarchy(NH) and inverted hierarchy(IH) are addressed here. In normal hierarchical case, it is found that $θ_{23}\simeq51.1^{\circ}$ and that in inverted hierarchical case is $θ_{23}\simeq39.1^{\circ}$ in both mixing patterns. Possibility of $θ_{23}>45^{\circ}$ or $θ_{23}<45^{\circ}$ is observed at low scale. The analysis shows the validity of the two mixing patterns at high energy scale.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables
History of the Eastern Oyster
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Inc.
Year: 2002

description: The Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, has held a long history as a commercially and ecologically important species in the Delaware Bay. Today, oyster production is severely inhibited by disease. Although oyster stocks have been significantly affected by disease, habitat loss, and in some cases, over-harvesting, the eastern oyster remains an integral part of the Delaware Estuary. This pamphlet highlights the history of oyster harvesting and the importance of Eastern oysters in the Delaware Estuary.
PanScales parton showers for hadron collisions: formulation and fixed-order studies
Creators: name: van Beekveld, Melissa
name: Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
name: Salam, Gavin P.
name: Soto-Ontoso, Alba
name: Soyez, Gregory
name: Verheyen, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate PanScales parton showers for hadron collisions so as to achieve next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy across a broad set of observables. We do so specifically for colour singlet production. Relative to the existing PanScales final-state showers, the main new question is that of how to redistribute momentum imbalances from initial-state branching across the remainder of the event. We presents tests of the showers at fixed order, including the treatment of full colour for soft-collinear emissions and of spin correlations in both the soft and collinear domains. We also include comparisons to a formulation of a standard dipole shower, the current leading-logarithmic state of the art. A forthcoming companion paper will explore all-order tests of the new showers.
description: 65 pages, 15 figures; v2 includes additional clarifications and comparisons, as accepted for publication in JHEP
A Celestial Matrix Model
Creators: name: Kar, Arjun
name: Lamprou, Lampros
name: Marteau, Charles
name: Rosso, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a Hermitian random matrix model that provides a stable non-perturbative completion of Cangemi-Jackiw (CJ) gravity, a two-dimensional theory of flat spacetimes. The matrix model reproduces, to all orders in the topological expansion, the Euclidean partition function of CJ gravity with an arbitrary number of boundaries. The non-perturbative completion enables the exact computation of observables in flat space quantum gravity which we use to explicitly characterize the Bondi Hamiltonian spectrum. We discuss the implications of our results for the flat space S-matrix and black holes.
description: 5 pages and 3 figures
Fully reconfigurable optomechanical add-drop filters
Creators: name: Lei, Yuechen
name: Hu, Zhi-Gang
name: Wang, Min
name: Gao, Yi-Meng
name: Zuo, Zhanchun
name: Xu, Xiulai
name: Li, Bei-Bei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fully reconfigurable add-drop filters (ADFs) have important applications in optical communication and information processing. Here we demonstrate a broadly tunable add-drop filter based on a double-disk cavity optomechanical system, side-coupled with a pair of tapered fiber waveguides. By varying the coupling rates between the cavity and the two waveguides, we investigate the dependence of the through (drop) efficiency on the coupling rates, which agrees well with the theoretical results. By optimizing the cavity-waveguide coupling rates, a drop efficiency of 89% and a transmission of 1.9% have been achieved. Benefiting from the large optomechanical coupling coefficient of the double-disk microcavity, a tuning range of 8 nm has been realized, which is more than one free spectral range (FSR) of the cavity. This is realized by changing the air gap of the double disk using a fiber tip, which is controlled by a piezoelectrical nanostage, with a required voltage of 7 V. As a result, both the through and drop signals can be resonant with any wavelength within the transparent window of the cavity material, which indicates that the ADF is fully reconfigurable.
Confronting the prediction of leptonic Dirac CP-violating phase with experiments
Creators: name: Ahn, Yang Hwan
name: Kang, Sin Kyu
name: Ramos, Raymundo
name: Tanimoto, Morimitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We update and improve past efforts to predict the leptonic Dirac CP-violating phase with models that predict perturbatively modified tribimaximal or bimaximal mixing. Simple perturbations are applied to both mixing patterns in the form of rotations between two sectors. By translating these perturbed mixing matrices to the standard parameterization for the neutrino mixing matrix we derive relations between the Dirac CP-phase and the oscillation angles. We use these relations together with current experimental results to constrain the allowed range for the CP-phase and determine its probability density. Furthermore, we elaborate on the prospects for future experiments probing on the perturbations considered in this work. We present a model with $A_4$ modular symmetry that is consistent with one of the described perturbed scenarios and successfully predicts current oscillation parameter data.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Technical Manual for NJPDES Discharge to Ground Water Permits
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Water Quality, Bureau of Nonpoint Pollution Control
Year: 2002

description: This manual is intended to provide guidance to permittees, consultants, and other interested parties regarding the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System-Discharge to Ground Water (NJPDES-DGW) permitting program for ongoing discharges. This guidance includes instructions for preparing administratively and technically complete applications. It also outlines what types of permits are available. This Manual includes references to other existing supplemental technical guidance documents that provide additional information regarding the NJPDES-DGW program. The types of discharges covered by this Manual are typically from approved operations and not discharges associated with unintentional 'spills' or 'releases' of contaminants or historical contamination.
Quantum Annealing for Jet Clustering with Thrust
Creators: name: Delgado, Andrea
name: Thaler, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computing holds the promise of substantially speeding up computationally expensive tasks, such as solving optimization problems over a large number of elements. In high-energy collider physics, quantum-assisted algorithms might accelerate the clustering of particles into jets. In this study, we benchmark quantum annealing strategies for jet clustering based on optimizing a quantity called "thrust" in electron-positron collision events. We find that quantum annealing yields similar performance to exact classical approaches and classical heuristics, but only after tuning the annealing parameters. Without tuning, comparable performance can be obtained through a hybrid quantum/classical approach.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Atlantic County Land Development Standards
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Atlantic County Department of Regional Planning and Development
Year: 2002

description: The purpose of this Ordinance is to provide procedures, rules, regulations, and standards for review and approval of land development applications in Atlantic County pursuant to the County Planning Act, N.J.S.A. 40: 27-1 et seq. and the Pinelands Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 13: 18A-1 et seq. and regulations promulgated thereunder; coordinate the review of land development applications with various State, regional, County and municipal regulatory bodies to ensure a comprehensive, coordinated and efficient review process; provide standards to ensure that land development throughout the County proceeds in accordance with the goals and policies of the County Master Plan and other adopted County Plans; and institute standards for assessing an applicant a fair share of the cost of improvements required by the land development.
Theory of current-induced spin polarization in an electron gas
Creators: name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Maleki Sheikhabadi, Amin
name: Shen, Ka
name: Tokatly, Ilya V.
name: Vignale, Giovanni
name: Raimondi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: TO-CHARGE CONVERSION; QUANTUM-WELLS; TRANSPORT-THEORY; HALL; ORIENTATION; INTERFACES; TORQUE; FIELD;
subject: 530 Physik

description: We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk inversion asymmetry (Dresselhaus), and the extrinsic ones arising from the scattering from impurities. The derivation is based on the SU(2) gauge-field formulation of the Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. Our main result is the identification of a spin-generation torque arising from Elliot-Yafet scattering, which opposes a similar term arising from Dyakonov-Perel relaxation. Such a torque, which to the best of our knowledge has gone unnoticed so far, is of basic nature, i.e., should be effective whenever Elliott-Yafet processes are present in a system with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, irrespective of further specific details. The spin-generation torque contributes to the current-induced spin polarization (CISP), also known as inverse spin-galvanic or Edelstein effect. As a result, the behavior of the CISP turns out to be more complex than one would surmise from consideration of the internal Rashba-Dresselhaus fields alone. In particular, the symmetry of the current-induced spin polarization does not necessarily coincide with that of the internal Rashba-Dresselhaus field, and an out-of-plane component of the CISP is generally predicted, as observed in recent experiments. We also discuss the extension to the three-dimensional electron gas, which may be relevant for the interpretation of experiments in thin films.
Dielectric Engineering of Electronic Correlations in a van der Waals Heterostructure
Creators: name: Steinleitner, Philipp
name: Merkl, Philipp
name: Graf, Alexander
name: Nagler, Philipp
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Zipfel, Jonas
name: Schüller, Christian
name: Korn, Tobias
name: Chernikov, Alexey
name: Brem, Samuel
name: Selig, Malte
name: Berghäuser, Gunnar
name: Malic, Ermin
name: Huber, Rupert
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Dichalcogenides, atomically thin 2D crystals, van der Waals heterostructures, dielectric engineering, dark excitons
subject: 530 Physik

description: Heterostructures of van der Waals bonded layered materials offer unique means to tailor dielectric screening with atomic-layer precision, opening a fertile field of fundamental research. The optical analyses used so far have relied on interband spectroscopy. Here we demonstrate how a capping layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) renormalizes the internal structure of excitons in a WSe2 monolayer using intraband transitions. Ultrabroadband terahertz probes sensitively map out the full complex-valued mid-infrared conductivity of the heterostructure after optical injection of 1s A excitons. This approach allows us to trace the energies and line widths of the atom-like 1s–2p transition of optically bright and dark excitons as well as the densities of these quasiparticles. The excitonic resonance red shifts and narrows in the WSe2/hBN heterostructure compared to the bare monolayer. Furthermore, the ultrafast temporal evolution of the mid-infrared response function evidences the formation of optically dark excitons from an initial bright population. Our results provide key insight into the effect of nonlocal screening on electron–hole correlations and open new possibilities of dielectric engineering of van der Waals heterostructures.
Strategic Implications for Commercial Real Estate under Consideration of Energy Efficiency
Creators: name: Surmann, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ. Regensburg, Diss., 2017
Information Security Investments: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study on Decision-Making, Evaluation and Learning
Creators: name: Weishäupl, Eva
name: Yasasin, Emrah
name: Schryen, Guido
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Security Investments, Multiple Case Study, Organizations, Single Loop Learning, Double Loop Learning
subject: 004 Informatik

description: The need to protect resources against attackers is reflected by huge information security investments of firms worldwide. In the presence of budget constraints and a diverse set of assets to protect, organizations have to decide in which IT security measures to invest, how to evaluate those investment decisions, and how to learn from past decisions to optimize future security investment actions. While the academic literature has provided valuable insights into these issues, there is a lack of empirical contributions. To address this lack, we conduct a theory-based exploratory multiple case study. Our case study reveals that (1) firms’ investments in information security are largely driven by external environmental and industry-related factors, (2) firms do not implement standardized decision processes, (3) the security process is perceived to impact the business process in a disturbing way, (4) both the implementation of evaluation processes and the application of metrics are hardly existent and (5) learning activities mainly occur at an ad-hoc basis.
NJ Environmental Federation News, Fall 2001
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Environmental Federation, the New Jersey Chapter of Clean Water Action
Year: 2001

description: The goal of the NJEF is to ensure safe drinking water for all NJ residents, reduce the use of pesticides, promote recycling and lobby for sound and sustainable environmental practices on a local, state, and national level. This issue of the newsletter features NJEF endorsed candidates for the next election.
Probing spin helical surface states in topological HgTe nanowires
Creators: name: Ziegler, Johannes
name: Kozlovsky, Raphael
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Liu, Ming-Hao
name: Weishäupl, Sabine Josefine
name: Maier, Hubert
name: Fischer, Ralf
name: Kozlov, D. A.
name: Kvon, Z. D.
name: Mikhailov, N. N.
name: Dvoretsky, S. A.
name: Richter, Klaus
name: Weiss, Dieter
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Nanowires with helical surface states represent key prerequisites for observing and exploiting phase-coherent topological conductance phenomena, such as spin-momentum locked quantum transport or topological superconductivity. We demonstrate in a joint experimental and theoretical study that gated nanowires fabricated from high-mobility strained HgTe, known as a bulk topological insulator, indeed preserve the topological nature of the surface states, that moreover extend phase-coherently across the entire wire geometry. The phase-coherence lengths are enhanced up to 5μm when tuning the wires into the bulk gap, so as to single out topological transport. The nanowires exhibit distinct conductance oscillations, both as a function of the flux due to an axial magnetic field and of a gate voltage. The observed h/e-periodic Aharonov-Bohm-type modulations indicate surface-mediated quasiballistic transport. Furthermore, an in-depth analysis of the scaling of the observed gate-dependent conductance oscillations reveals the topological nature of these surface states. To this end we combined numerical tight-binding calculations of the quantum magnetoconductance with simulations of the electrostatics, accounting for the gate-induced inhomogeneous charge carrier densities around the wires. We find that helical transport prevails even for strongly inhomogeneous gating and is governed by flux-sensitive high-angular momentum surface states that extend around the entire wire circumference.
AGeNNT: annotation of enzyme families by means of refined neighborhood networks
Creators: name: Kandlinger, Florian
name: Plach, Maximilian G.
name: Merkl, Rainer
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: SEQUENCE SIMILARITY NETWORKS; PROKARYOTIC GENOMES; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; WEB TOOL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DATABASE; CLASSIFICATION; VISUALIZATION; SPECIFICITY; Sequence similarity network; SSN; Genome neighborhood network; GNN; Genome content; Enzyme function; Homology-free annotation
subject: 530 Physik

description: Background: Large enzyme families may contain functionally diverse members that give rise to clusters in a sequence similarity network (SSN). In prokaryotes, the genome neighborhood of a gene-product is indicative of its function and thus, a genome neighborhood network (GNN) deduced for an SSN provides strong clues to the specific function of enzymes constituting the different clusters. The Enzyme Function Initiative (http://enzymefunction.org/) offers services that compute SSNs and GNNs. Results: We have implemented AGeNNT that utilizes these services, albeit with datasets purged with respect to unspecific protein functions and overrepresented species. AGeNNT generates refined GNNs (rGNNs) that consist of cluster-nodes representing the sequences under study and Pfam-nodes representing enzyme functions encoded in the respective neighborhoods. For cluster-nodes, AGeNNT summarizes the phylogenetic relationships of the contributing species and a statistic indicates how unique nodes and GNs are within this rGNN. Pfam-nodes are annotated with additional features like GO terms describing protein function. For edges, the coverage is given, which is the relative number of neighborhoods containing the considered enzyme function (Pfam-node). AGeNNT is available at https://github.com/kandlinf/agennt. Conclusions: An rGNN is easier to interpret than a conventional GNN, which commonly contains proteins without enzymatic function and overly specific neighborhoods due to phylogenetic bias. The implemented filter routines and the statistic allow the user to identify those neighborhoods that are most indicative of a specific metabolic capacity. Thus, AGeNNT facilitates to distinguish and annotate functionally different members of enzyme families.
Genetic diversity of calcareous grassland plant species depends on historical landscape configuration
Creators: name: Reisch, Christoph
name: Schmidkonz, Sonja
name: Meier, Katrin
name: Schöpplein, Quirin
name: Meyer, Carina
name: Hums, Christian
name: Putz, Christina
name: Schmid, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION-SIZE; LAND-USE; REMNANT POPULATIONS; EXTINCTION DEBT; LOW IMPACT; RICHNESS; DYNAMICS; LITTER; FLOW; AFLP; Dry grasslands; Habitat fragmentation; Genetic diversity; Grazing; Land use; Litter; Soil analysis
subject: 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Background: Habitat fragmentation is considered to be a main reason for decreasing genetic diversity of plant species. However, the results of many fragmentation studies are inconsistent. This may be due to the influence of habitat conditions, having an indirect effect on genetic variation via reproduction. Consequently we took a comparative approach to analyse the impact of habitat fragmentation and habitat conditions on the genetic diversity of calcareous grassland species in this study. We selected five typical grassland species (Primula veris, Dianthus carthusianorum, Medicago falcata, Polygala comosa and Salvia pratensis) occurring in 18 fragments of calcareous grasslands in south eastern Germany. We sampled 1286 individuals in 87 populations and analysed genetic diversity using amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Additionally, we collected data concerning habitat fragmentation (historical and present landscape structure) and habitat conditions (vegetation structure, soil conditions) of the selected study sites. The whole data set was analysed using Bayesian multiple regressions. Results: Our investigation indicated a habitat loss of nearly 80% and increasing isolation between grasslands since 1830. Bayesian analysis revealed a significant impact of the historical landscape structure, whereas habitat conditions played no important role for the present-day genetic variation of the studied plant species. Conclusions: Our study indicates that the historical landscape structure may be more important for genetic diversity than present habitat conditions. Populations persisting in abandoned grassland fragments may contribute significantly to the species' variability even under deteriorating habitat conditions. Therefore, these populations should be included in approaches to preserve the genetic variation of calcareous grassland species.
Quantum Error Correction with magnetic molecules
Creators: name: Baldoví, José J.
name: Cardona-Serra, Salvador
name: Clemente-Juan, Juan M.
name: Escalera-Moreno, Luis
name: Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro
name: Espallargas, Guillermo Mínguez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum algorithms often assume independent spin qubits to produce trivial $|\uparrow\rangle=|0\rangle$, $|\downarrow\rangle=|1\rangle$ mappings. This can be unrealistic in many solid-state implementations with sizeable magnetic interactions. Here we show that the lower part of the spectrum of a molecule containing three exchange-coupled metal ions with $S=1/2$ and $I=1/2$ is equivalent to nine electron-nuclear qubits. We derive the relation between spin states and qubit states in reasonable parameter ranges for the rare earth $^{159}$Tb$^{3+}$ and for the transition metal Cu$^{2+}$, and study the possibility to implement Shor's Quantum Error Correction code on such a molecule. We also discuss recently developed molecular systems that could be adequate from an experimental point of view.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
New Jersey Tree Foundation Annual Report, July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Tree Foundation
Year: 2004

description: The New Jersey Tree Foundation is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, enhancement, and development of urban and community forestry activities in New Jersey through education, volunteerism, community outreach, partnerships, and grants. The Tree Foundation is committed to providing exceptional forestry programs, services and opportunities to New Jersey's cities and towns. This annual report discusses the Urban Airshed Reforestation Project, the 10 Cities Initiative to establish community forestry programs in some of NJ's most tree challenged urban communities, Arbor Day activities, and many other events during the year.
Delaware River Basin Commission's 2002 305(b) Water Quality Assessment Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Delaware River Basin Commission
Year: 2002

description: This report provides an assessment of the Delaware River's support of various uses during 2000 and 2001 that are protected by the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC) Water Quality Regulations, or by the federal Clean Water Act of 1972. The uses are: maintenance of aquatic life; providing a raw water source for human consumption; swimming and recreation; fish consumption; and shellfish consumption. The assessment primarily involves comparisons of several key water quality parameters with DRBC water quality standards and stream quality objectives. DRBC Water Quality Regulations also designate agricultural and industrial uses for the Delaware River. However, since these two uses would require less stringent water quality criteria than the other uses discussed, they were not assessed for this report. In accordance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Guidelines for Preparation of the Comprehensive State Water Quality Assessments (305(b) Reports) and Electronic Updates, this report assesses designated use support in the mainstem and tidal portions of tributaries of the Delaware River Basin.
Heterodimerization of Dibenzodiazepinone-Type Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ligands Leads to Increased M2R Affinity and Selectivity
Creators: name: She, Xueke
name: Pegoli, Andrea
name: Mayr, Judith
name: Hübner, Harald
name: Bernhardt, Günther
name: Gmeiner, Peter
name: Keller, Max
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS; ALLOSTERIC BINDING-SITES; BITOPIC LIGANDS; RESIDENCE TIME; HIGHLY POTENT; M-2 RECEPTOR; ANTAGONIST; AGONISTS; MODULATORS; DESIGN;
subject: 615 Pharmazie

description: In search for selective ligands for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MR) subtype M-2, the dimeric ligand approach, that is combining two pharmacophores in one and the same molecule, was pursued. Different types (agonists, antagonists, orthosteric, and allosteric) of monomeric MR ligands were combined by various linkers with a dibenzodia-zepinone-type MR antagonist, affording five types of heterodimeric compounds ("DIBA-xanomeline," "DIBA-TBPB," "DIBA-77-LH-28-1," "DIBA-propantheline," and "DIBA-4-DAMP"), which showed high M2R affinities (pK(i) > 8.3). The heterodimeric ligand UR-SK75 (46) exhibited the highest M2R affinity and selectivity [pK(i) (M1R-M5R): 8.84, 10.14, 7.88, 8.59, and 7.47]. Two tritium-labeled dimeric derivatives ("DIBA-xanomeline"-type: [H-3] UR-SK71 ([H-3]44) and "DIBA-TBPB"-type: [H-3] UR-SK59 ([H-3] 64)) were prepared to investigate their binding modes at hM(2)R. Saturation-binding experiments showed that these compounds address the orthosteric binding site of the M2R. The investigation of the effect of various allosteric MR modulators [gallamine (13), W84 (14), and LY2119620 (15)] on the equilibrium (13-15) or saturation (14) binding of [H-3] 64 suggested a competitive mechanism between [H-3] 64 and the investigated allosteric ligands, and consequently a dualsteric binding mode of 64 at the M2R.
Semiclassical roots of universality in many-body quantum chaos
Creators: name: Richter, Klaus
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Tomsovic, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum chaos of many-body systems has been swiftly developing into a vibrant research area at the interface between various disciplines, ranging from statistical physics to condensed matter to quantum information and to cosmology. In quantum systems with a classical limit, advanced semiclassical methods provide the crucial link between classically chaotic dynamics and corresponding universal features at the quantum level. Recently, single-particle techniques dealing with ergodic wave interference in the usual semiclassical limit $\hbar \rightarrow 0$ have begun to be transformed into the field theoretical domain of N-particle systems in the analogous semiclassical limit $\hbar_{eff} = 1/N \rightarrow 0$, thereby accounting for genuine many-body quantum interference. This semiclassical many-body theory provides a unified framework for understanding random-matrix correlations of both single-particle and many-body quantum chaotic systems. Certain braided bundles of classical orbits, and of mean field modes, govern interference, respectively, and provide the key to the foundation of universality. Case studies presented include a many-body version of Gutzwiller's trace formula for the spectral density and out-of-time-order correlators along with brief remarks on where further progress may be forthcoming.
description: 63 pages, 14 figures, 258 references, published in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. special issue dedicated to Fritz Haake
Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers as a probe of stellar feedback
Creators: name: Bird, Simeon
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Haehnelt, Martin
name: Sijacki, Debora
name: Genel, Shy
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Springel, Volker
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the abundance, clustering and metallicity of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs) in a suite of hydrodynamic cosmological simulations using the moving mesh code AREPO. We incorporate models of supernova and AGN feedback, as well as molecular hydrogen formation. We compare our simulations to the column density distribution function at $z=3$, the total DLA abundance at $z=2-4$, the measured DLA bias at $z=2.3$ and the DLA metallicity distribution at $z=2-4$. Our preferred models produce populations of DLAs in good agreement with most of these observations. The exception is the DLA abundance at $z < 3$, which we show requires stronger feedback in $10^{11-12} \, h^{-1} M_\odot$ mass halos. While the DLA population probes a wide range of halo masses, we find the cross-section is dominated by halos of mass $10^{10} - 10^{11} \, h^{-1} M_\odot$ and virial velocities $50 - 100 \;\mathrm{km/s}$. The simulated DLA population has a linear theory bias of $1.7$, whereas the observations require $2.17 \pm 0.2$. We show that non-linear growth increases the bias in our simulations to $2.3$ at $k=1\; \mathrm{Mpc/}h$, the smallest scale observed. The scale-dependence of the bias is, however, very different in the simulations compared against the observations. We show that, of the observations we consider, the DLA abundance and column density function provide the strongest constraints on the feedback model.
description: Expansion of the section on the DLA bias and clarifications to the discussion. Accepted by MNRAS. 13 pages, 11 figures
Lower Delaware River Eligibility Determination for DRBC Declaration of Special Protection Waters
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Delaware River Basin Commission
Year: 2004

description: Federal Wild and Scenic designation covers most of the 197-mile non-tidal portion of the Delaware River. Wild and Scenic status serves a basic requirement in Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) rules for declaration of the higher of two Special Protection Waters (SPW) protection levels: Outstanding Basin Waters (OBW). "Keeping clean water clean" is a major challenge in areas such as the Lower Delaware where increased growth and development activity are expected. Where standards are not being met for designated uses, regulatory and non-regulatory strategies must be developed to identify pollutant sources and to achieve the standards. This report discusses the Lower Delaware River eligibility determination for the DRBC's declaration of special protection waters.
Nonlocal pair correlations in Lieb-Liniger gases -- a unified non-perturbative approach from weak degeneracy to high temperatures
Creators: name: Geiger, Benjamin
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Hummel, Quirin
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: few-body systems, pair-correlation, semiclassical physics, Lieb-Liniger model, cluster expansion
subject: 530 Physik

description: We present analytical results for the nonlocal pair correlations in one-dimensional bosonic systems with repulsive contact interactions that are uniformly valid from the classical regime of high temperatures down to weak quantum degeneracy entering the regime of ultralow temperatures. By using the information contained in the short-time approximations of the full many-body propagator we derive results that are non-perturbative in the interaction parameter while covering a wide range of temperatures and densities. For the case of three particles we give a simple formula for arbitrary couplings that is exact in the dilute limit while remaining valid up to the regime where the thermal de Broglie wavelength λT is of the order of the characteristic length L of the system. We then show how to use this result to find analytical expressions for the nonlocal correlations for arbitrary but fixed particle numbers N including finite size corrections. Neglecting the latter in the thermodynamic limit provides an expansion in the quantum degeneracy parameter NλT/L. We compare our analytical results with numerical Bethe ansatz calculations finding excellent agreement.
The effect on PDFs and $α_S(M_Z^2)$ due to changes in flavour scheme and higher twist contributions
Creators: name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I consider the effect on MSTW partons distribution functions (PDFs) due to changes in the choices of theoretical procedure used in the fit. I first consider using the 3-flavour fixed flavour number scheme instead of the standard general mass variable flavour number scheme used in the MSTW analysis. This results in the light quarks increasing at all relatively small $x$ values, the gluon distribution becoming smaller at high values of $x$ and larger at small $x$, the preferred value of the coupling constant $α_S(M_Z^2)$ falling, particularly at NNLO, and the fit quality deteriorates. I also consider lowering the kinematic cut on $W^2$ for DIS data and simultaneously introducing higher twist terms which are fit to data. This results in much smaller effects on both PDFs and $α_S(M_Z^2)$ than the scheme change, except for quarks at very high $x$. I show that the structure function one obtains from a fixed input set of PDFs using the fixed flavour scheme and variable flavour scheme differ significantly for $x \sim 0.01$ at high $Q^2$, and that this is due to the fact that in the fixed flavour scheme there is a slow convergence of large logarithmic terms of the form $(α_S\ln(Q^2/m_c^2))^n$ relevant for this regime. I conclude that some of the most significant differences in PDF sets are largely due to the choice of flavour scheme used.
description: 23 pages, 19 figures. Final version. Sioke slightly extended discussion