cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the stability of U(1) spin liquids in two dimensions
Creators: name: Hermele, Michael
name: Senthil, T.
name: Fisher, Matthew P. A.
name: Lee, Patrick A.
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish that spin liquids described in terms of gapless fermionic (Dirac) spinons and gapless U(1) gauge fluctuations can be stable in two dimensions, at least when the physical SU(2) spin symmetry is generalized to SU(N). Equivalently, we show that compact QED3 has a deconfined phase for a large number of fermion fields, in the sense that monopole fluctuations can be irrelevant at low energies. A precise characterization is provided by an emergent global topological U(1) symmetry corresponding to the conservation of gauge flux. Beginning with an SU(N) generalization of the S=1/2 square lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet, we consider the pi-flux spin liquid and, via a systematic analysis of all operators, show that there are NO relevant perturbations (in the renormalization group sense) about the large-N spin liquid fixed point, which is thus a stable phase. We provide a further illustration of this conclusion with an approximate renormalization group calculation that treats the gapless fermions and the monopoles on an equal footing. This approach directly points out some of the flaws in the erroneous "screening" argument for the relevance of monopoles in compact QED3.
description: 9 pages. Added Appendix on validity of 1/N expansion for large but finite N. Other minor changes
1910-05-05 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1910
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
Additional file 5 of Cytauxzoon europaeus infections in domestic cats in Switzerland and in European wildcats in France: a tale that started more than two decades ago
Creators: name: Willi, Barbara
name: Meli, Marina L.
name: Cafarelli, Chiara
name: Gilli, Urs O.
name: Kipar, Anja
name: Hubbuch, Alina
name: Riond, Barbara
name: Howard, Judith
name: Schaarschmidt, Daniel
name: Regli, Walter
name: Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. Origin, signalment, health status and retrovirus status of the Cytauxzoon spp.-infected domestic cats in studies B–D.
Empowerment and participation: A contextual analysis of resident management in public housing
Creators: name: Smithey, Philippa Naomi
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Resident Management, the policy that enables public housing tenants to act collectively to solve community problems, gained widespread public support and federal funding in 1987. After nearly ten years, however, and almost in spite $70 million in federal assistance, public housing residents have made only sporadic progress toward empowerment and tenant organizations fail at a relative high rate. This study explores the connections between location in black empowerment cities (where tenants are more likely to form their own organizations and the levels of empowerment that tenants from 55 organizations achieve. The unit of analysis for this study is the individual public housing project to which a tenant association is officially registered. The independent variables, which help to define the contexts believed to increase group consciousness among tenants, were selected to model both micro social and macro social contexts. The micro social contextual level was captured by project and neighborhood level variables. The study also tests the effect of demographics characteristics and municipal political institutions upon the rates of tenant empowerment. Despite the greater number of tenant organizations that form in black empowerment cities, the study finds little support for the hypothesized relationship between political contexts and tenant organization empowerment. Although the variables designating successful groups appear initially to be related to political environments---especially to "black empowerment" cities---no other relationships between location and success can be established to support the hypothesis about contextual effects on tenant group success. Only six of the twenty variables associated with black participation in collective action are significant. The study points to the need to examine other connections between location in a black empowerment city and the apparently greater willingness of public housing tenants in these cities to form grassroots associations for community development.
Chandra X-ray Observations of NGC 4258: Iron Absorption Lines from the Nucleus
Creators: name: Young, A. J.
name: Wilson, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report sub-arcsecond resolution X-ray imaging spectroscopy of the low luminosity active galactic nucleus of NGC 4258 and its immediate surroundings with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. NGC 4258 was observed four times, with the first two observations separated by one month, followed over a year later by two consecutive observations. The spectrum of the nucleus is well described by a heavily absorbed, hard X-ray power law of variable luminosity, plus a constant, thermal soft X-ray component. We do not detect an iron K alpha emission line with the upper limit to the equivalent width of a narrow, neutral iron line ranging between 94 and 887 eV (90% confidence) for the different observations. During the second observation on 2000-04-17, two narrow absorption features are seen with >99.5% confidence at ~6.4 keV and ~6.9 keV, which we identify as resonant absorption lines of Fe XVIII - Fe XIX K alpha and Fe XXVI K alpha, respectively. In addition, the 6.9 keV absorption line is probably variable on a timescale of ~6000 sec. The absorption lines are analyzed through a curve of growth analysis, which allows the relationship between ionic column and kinematic temperature or velocity dispersion to be obtained for the observed equivalent widths. We discuss the properties of the absorbing gas for both photo and collisionally ionized models. Given that the maser disk is viewed at an inclination i = 82 degrees, the gas responsible for the 6.9 keV absorption line may be in an inner disk, a disk-wind boundary layer or be thermal gas entrained at the base of the jet. The gas which gives rise to the photoelectric absorption may be the same as that which causes the 6.4 keV Fe K alpha absorption provided that the gas has a bulk velocity dispersion of a few thousand km/s. (Abstract abridged).
description: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal v601 n1 Jan 20 2004. 24 pages, 6 figures
“GMO” maize and public health – A case of Schumpeterian policy vs. free market in the EU
Creators: name: Tagliabue, Giovanni
name: Tagliabue, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: GMO maize
subject: Fumonisins
subject: EU biotech regulation
subject: Schumpeterian policy
subject: free market

description: EU lawmakers have long refused the cultivation of “Genetically Modified Organisms”. An example of this struggle is the revision of the accepted level of contaminants in maize: rather than admitting that Bt maize is safer than “non-GMO” varieties, and therefore European farmers should be allowed not only to import it, but also to produce it, politicians have raised the threshold of the poisonous fumonisins that may be legally present in food and feed. This decision is an example of a “Schumpeterian” approach to policy, where public choices are not inspired by a science-based mindset, but are substantially dictated by a calculus of consent; economic/commercial protectionism has also been considered as a motivation. While scholars must continue to explain that every policy decision should have a basis in sound science, no way out of the “GMO” imbroglio seems to be foreseeable, as long as politicians stick to the Schumpeterian iron law.
Antarctic petrels ‘on the ice rocks’: wintering strategy of an Antarctic predator
Creators: name: K. Delord
name: A. Kato
name: A. Tarroux
name: F. Orgeret
name: C. Cotté
name: Y. Ropert-Coudert
name: Y. Cherel
name: S. Descamps
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Detailed Methods
A systematic approach to understanding and quantifying the EU’s bioeconomy
Creators: name: Ronzon, Tévécia
name: Piotrowski, Stephan
name: M’Barek, Robert
name: Carus, Michael
name: Ronzon, Tévécia
name: Piotrowski, Stephan
name: M’Barek, Robert
name: Carus, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: bioeconomy
subject: Europe
subject: jobs
subject: turnover
subject: statistics

description: In 2014, approximately 18.6 million people in the European Union (EU) were employed in the bioeconomy, generating annual turnover of around EUR 2.2 trillion. And over the period 2008-2014, almost all sectors of the bioeconomy in the EU experienced labour productivity gains (in terms of turnover per person employed). Agriculture and the manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco accounted for three quarters of the jobs and two thirds of the turnover of the European bioeconomy, while, among different sectors, the highest levels of labour productivity were achieved in the manufacture of bio-based chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and rubber, as well as the production of bioelectricity. This EU bioeconomy overview has been compiled after estimating (using Comext codes) the bio-based content of hundreds of products produced and manufactured in the bioeconomy sectors. Using official statistics, such quantification is easy to replicate and update. It also allows us to highlight similarities and diversities in national bioeconomy patterns within the EU, and to discuss how analysis can support the development of bioeconomy strategies in EU Member States.
Towards a Computer Vision Particle Flow
Creators: name: Di Bello, Francesco Armando
name: Ganguly, Sanmay
name: Gross, Eilam
name: Kado, Marumi
name: Pitt, Michael
name: Santi, Lorenzo
name: Shlomi, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In High Energy Physics experiments Particle Flow (PFlow) algorithms are designed to provide an optimal reconstruction of the nature and kinematic properties of the particles produced within the detector acceptance during collisions. At the heart of PFlow algorithms is the ability to distinguish the calorimeter energy deposits of neutral particles from those of charged particles, using the complementary measurements of charged particle tracking devices, to provide a superior measurement of the particle content and kinematics. In this paper, a computer vision approach to this fundamental aspect of PFlow algorithms, based on calorimeter images, is proposed. A comparative study of the state of the art deep learning techniques is performed. A significantly improved reconstruction of the neutral particle calorimeter energy deposits is obtained in a context of large overlaps with the deposits from charged particles. Calorimeter images with augmented finer granularity are also obtained using super-resolution techniques.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. Note to admin : updating to journal version
Deep Generative Models for Physiological Signals: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Neifar, Nour
name: Mdhaffar, Afef
name: Ben-Hamadou, Achraf
name: Jmaiel, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we present a systematic literature review on deep generative models for physiological signals, particularly electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electromyogram (EMG). Compared to the existing review papers, we present the first review that summarizes the recent state-of-the-art deep generative models. By analyzing the state-of-the-art research related to deep generative models along with their main applications and challenges, this review contributes to the overall understanding of these models applied to physiological signals. Additionally, by highlighting the employed evaluation protocol and the most used physiological databases, this review facilitates the assessment and benchmarking of deep generative models.
description: accepted in Elsevier Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 38 pages
Cost function and positive mathematical programming
Creators: name: Paris, Quirino
name: Paris, Quirino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: positive mathematical programming
subject: solution uniqueness
subject: supply elasticities
subject: calibrating model

description: A line of research in Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) has pursued the goal of estimating a cost function capable of reproducing the base-year results in a sample of farms. Originally, the PMP approach estimated a “myopic” cost function, that is, a cost relation depending only on the output levels observed during a production cycle. No input price entered this type of cost function. In this paper we define and estimate a proper cost function that calibrates the economic results of a sample of farms. In the process, we demonstrate the existence of a unique solution of the PMP problem when observed output quantities and limiting input prices are taken as calibrating benchmarks. Furthermore, the paper shows how to obtain endogenous output supply elasticities that calibrate with available exogenous information in the form of previously estimated elasticities for an entire region or sector. This framework is applied to a sample of Italian farms that admit no production for some of the crop activities. This PMP model can be used to explore farmers’ response to various policy decisions involving output prices, environmental constraints, limiting input supply, and other government interventions.
Agrilus cuprescens
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus cuprescens

description: 15. Agrilus cuprescens (Ménétries, 1832)
 County Records (n = 64): Anoka, Goodhue, Houston, Isanti, and Ramsey.
Collection Dates: 15 May–21 August.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Rosa woodsii Lindl. var. ultramontana (S. Wats.) Jeps. (Rosaceae). Additionally reported in Rubus idaeus L. (Rosaceae) (Westcott et al. 2015). Adults also on Rosa blanda Ait., Rosa carolina L., Rosa multiflora Thunb. ex Murr., and Rosa rugosa Thunb.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Eye, ear, nose, and throat surgery
Creators: name: Mason, Michael L., 1895-1963
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: ENT
subject: Ophthalmology
subject: Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
subject: Otologic Surgical Procedures
subject: Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures
subject: Nasal Surgical Procedures
subject: Surgical Instruments
subject: Pharynx
subject: Pharynx/surgery

description: Procedures for performing eye, ear, nose, and throat surgery.
Fluctuations impact on a pattern-forming model of population dynamics with non-local interactions
Creators: name: Lopez, Cristobal
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A model of interacting random walkers is presented and shown to give rise to patterns consisting in periodic arrangements of fluctuating particle clusters. The model represents biological individuals that die or reproduce at rates depending on the number of neighbors within a given distance. We evaluate the importance of the discrete and fluctuating character of this particle model on the pattern forming process. To this end, a deterministic mean-field description, including a linear stability and a weakly nonlinear analysis, is given and compared with the particle model. The deterministic approach is shown to reproduce some of the features of the discrete description, in particular, the existence of a finite-wavelength instability. Stochasticity in the particle dynamics, however, has strong effects in other important aspects such as the parameter values at which pattern formation occurs, or the nature of the homogeneous phase.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, elsart style; To appear in Physica D
What if meat consumption would decrease more than expected in the high-income countries?
Creators: name: Santini, Fabien
name: Ronzon, Tévécia
name: Perez Dominguez, Ignacio
name: Araujo Enciso, Sergio René
name: Proietti, Ilaria
name: Santini, Fabien
name: Ronzon, Tévécia
name: Perez Dominguez, Ignacio
name: Araujo Enciso, Sergio René
name: Proietti, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: meat consumption
subject: agricultural markets
subject: agro-economic modelling
subject: agricultural commodities

description: Changes in meat consumption patterns could induce significant adjustments in agricultural markets. In this paper alternative scenarios envisaging lower meat consumption over the coming decade in high income countries and some selected emerging economies have been tested, with or without compensation by other sources of proteins. From a European perspective, results show a livestock farming sector having to deal with contradictory market signals. On the one side, the reduction in feedstuffs prices is an incentive to produce more, with lower output prices affecting positively the trade balance with developing countries, where demand keeps increasing. However, on the other side, the lower domestic demand for meat would affect profitability of meat production in the EU. Overall, the European beef meat sector would be the most affected, with some higher demand for dairy products. This possible evolution of European diets is a challenge for European livestock farmers, which will be required to adapt their production mix and rely on the portfolio of policies the CAP offers.
Empowerment and participation: A contextual analysis of resident management in public housing
Creators: name: Smithey, Philippa Naomi
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Resident Management, the policy that enables public housing tenants to act collectively to solve community problems, gained widespread public support and federal funding in 1987. After nearly ten years, however, and almost in spite $70 million in federal assistance, public housing residents have made only sporadic progress toward empowerment and tenant organizations fail at a relative high rate. This study explores the connections between location in black empowerment cities (where tenants are more likely to form their own organizations and the levels of empowerment that tenants from 55 organizations achieve. The unit of analysis for this study is the individual public housing project to which a tenant association is officially registered. The independent variables, which help to define the contexts believed to increase group consciousness among tenants, were selected to model both micro social and macro social contexts. The micro social contextual level was captured by project and neighborhood level variables. The study also tests the effect of demographics characteristics and municipal political institutions upon the rates of tenant empowerment. Despite the greater number of tenant organizations that form in black empowerment cities, the study finds little support for the hypothesized relationship between political contexts and tenant organization empowerment. Although the variables designating successful groups appear initially to be related to political environments---especially to "black empowerment" cities---no other relationships between location and success can be established to support the hypothesis about contextual effects on tenant group success. Only six of the twenty variables associated with black participation in collective action are significant. The study points to the need to examine other connections between location in a black empowerment city and the apparently greater willingness of public housing tenants in these cities to form grassroots associations for community development.
A stakeholder engagement approach for identifying future research directions in the evaluation of current and emerging applications of GMOs
Creators: name: Menozzi, Davide
name: Kostov, Kaloyan
name: Sogari, Giovanni
name: Arpaia, Salvatore
name: Moyankova, Daniela
name: Mora, Cristina
name: Menozzi, Davide
name: Kostov, Kaloyan
name: Sogari, Giovanni
name: Arpaia, Salvatore
name: Moyankova, Daniela
name: Mora, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
subject: socio-economic
subject: human and animal health
subject: environment
subject: workshop

description: The yield of several commodity crops is provided in large part by genetically modified crops in North and South America. However, reservations exist in Europe due to possible negative effects on human health or environment. This paper aims to analyse the current research priorities identified in EU countries and to engage European stakeholders into the formulation of future common research needs regarding the effects of the possible adoption of commercially available and forthcoming genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the areas of socio-economics, human and animal health, and environment. Additionally, it aims to identify the requirements for sharing available research capacities and existing infrastructures. First a mapping exercise of existing research activities in Europe was performed. A questionnaire was developed on a web-based platform and submitted to national focal points to collect information from EU Member States. Information was collected from 320 research projects conducted in the last 10 years in Europe. To refine results of the surveys, twenty invited experts and stakeholders from the public funding agencies of different EU Member States participated in an international workshop. This paper reports the main findings of these activities.
Autonomy as appearance: The impact of government decentralization on community organizing in Puerto Rico
Creators: name: Bonet, Desmonique
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation analyzes the impact of neo-liberalism on states, local governments, and communities. Specifically, it examines the impact of government decentralization on community life in Puerto Rico. Evidence is presented to demonstrate that through decentralization, communities are relinquishing their autonomy in order for states and municipalities to accumulate greater power under the "appearance" of granting autonomy to communities. This research refutes the standard notion that decentralization depletes state power Instead, it is argued that decentralization enables the state to reabsorb the very power it is supposedly "disseminating" to lower levels of government and grassroots groups under the guise of promoting a bottom-up approach to democracy building. As such, this dissertation is grounded in a Gramscian framework whereby civil society is viewed as a sphere of ideological hegemony that serves to support the state apparatus. Additionally, this research demonstrates how state control is established through attaining more precise and statistically accurate knowledge of individuals and groups. The documentation and description of groups, the characterization of collective facts, and the calculation of groups between individuals and their distribution in a given population subject to control reveals how state apparatuses accumulate power and sustain themselves. Yet states must also gain the willful consent of citizens into the process of state building by perpetuating a legitimizing ideology as opposed to using force. This dissertation argues that the ideology used in this case is democracy building through decentralization, under the "appearance" of autonomy. These state-society dynamics are analyzed through examination of government sponsored community empowerment programs in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The government program uses a discourse of promoting popular democracy but is instead in the process of building consensual domination. Although the program was designed to empower communities "from within" based on the ideology of "autogestion" or self-management, the result was increased government direction of activities and diminished autonomy. At the heart of the neo-liberal project in Puerto Rico is the promotion of self-organization initiatives that are state assisted and/or directed in scope. This leads to the conclusion that decentralization can result in less power for the grassroots, groups it ideologically purports to strengthen.
Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularisation in rotating discs: a semi-analytical description
Creators: name: Bonetti, Matteo
name: Bortolas, Elisa
name: Lupi, Alessandro
name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Raimundo, Sandra I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that dynamical friction efficiently circularises the orbit of co-rotating perturbers, while it constantly increases the eccentricity of counter-rotating ones until their angular momenta reverse, then once again promoting circularisation. Such "drag toward circular corotation" could shape the distribution of orientations of kinematically decoupled cores in disc galaxies, naturally leading to the observed larger fraction of co-rotating cores.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Super-solar N/C in the NLS1 Galaxy Markarian 1044
Creators: name: Fields, Dale L.
name: Mathur, Smita
name: Pogge, Richard W.
name: Nicastro, Fabrizio
name: Komossa, Stefanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) are known to have extreme values of a number of properties compared to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as a class. In particular, previous emission-line studies have suggested that NLS1s are unusually metal rich compared to broad-line AGN of comparable luminosity. We present low- and medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of the NLS1 Markarian 1044 with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (STIS). We identify two blueshifted intrinsic absorption systems at -1145 and -295 km/s relative to the systemic velocity of the galaxy. Using a simple photoionization model of the absorbing gas, we find that the strongest and best-measured of the absorption systems has N/C approximately 6.96 times the solar value. We also report on the discovery of three new Ly-alpha forest lines with neutral Hydrogen column density log greater than 12.77 in the log. This number is consistent with the 2.6 expected in the path length to the source redshift of Mrk 1044.
description: Submitted to ApJ. 21 pages including 4 figures & 5 tables
(Anti-)Deuteron production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation mechanism of loosely bound states in high energy hadronic collisions. In this paper the production of (anti-)deuterons is studied as a function of the charged particle multiplicity in inelastic pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV using the ALICE experiment. Thanks to the large number of accumulated minimum bias events, it has been possible to measure (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions up to the same charged particle multiplicity ($\rm{d} N_{ch}/\rm{d}η\sim26$) as measured in p-Pb collisions at similar centre-of-mass energies. Within the uncertainties, the deuteron yield in pp collisions resembles the one in p-Pb interactions, suggesting a common formation mechanism behind the production of light nuclei in hadronic interactions. In this context the measurements are compared with the expectations of coalescence and Statistical Hadronisation Models (SHM).
description: 21 pages, 5 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 16, published, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/6163
Agrilus cyanescens Ratzeburg 1837
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus cyanescens

description: 16. Agrilus cyanescens Ratzeburg, 1837
 County Records (n = 2): Ramsey.
Collection Dates: 3 June.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Lonicera sp. (Caprifoliaceae) and Rhamnus sp. (Rhamnaceae) (Jendek and Poláková 2014; Westcott et al. 2019). Adults also on Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Moench (Caprifoliaceae) and Viburnum sp. (Adoxaceae). Recorded in Europe in association with Alnus (Betulaceae), Betula, Crataegus, Eryngium (Apiaceae), Fagus, Quercus, Rosa, and Rubus sp.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
title: An investigation into the methanolysis of triphenylsilane using perchlorate catalyst precursors
Creators: name: Hodge, Maureen Brenda
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1982

description: The work described in this thesis consists of an investigationv into the use of [Pddppe(MeOH)2] [C104]2, AgC104, (C6H5)3CC104 and (CH3)3Si0C103 as catalyst precursors for the reaction of alcohols, particularly methanol, with triphenylsilane. Although the species (C6H5)3SiC104 could not be obtained in a pure form, evidence suggests it plays an important role in the reaction sequences of these precursors leading to the in situ formation of anhydrous perchloric acid. This acid then acts to catalyse the alcoholysis reaction.
12th General Hospital final report. Hernia
Creators: name: Markham, Blackwell
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Hernia
subject: Hernia, Femoral
subject: Hernia, Inguinal
subject: Hernia

description: This report breaks down the 233 cases of hernias treated by the 12th General Hospital Unit by incidence, type, and location on the body of the particular kind of hernia. It discusses the types of operations performed and the reasons for delaying hernia repair.
Lagrangian and Dirac constraints for the ideal incompressible fluid and magnetohydrodynamics
Creators: name: Morrison, P. J.
name: Andreussi, T.
name: Pegoraro, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The incompressibility constraint for fluid flow was imposed by Lagrange in the so-called Lagrangian variable description using his method of multipliers in the Lagrangian (variational) formulation. An alternative is the imposition of incompressibility in the Eulerian variable description by a generalization of Dirac's constraint method using noncanonical Poisson brackets. Here it is shown how to impose the incompressibility constraint using Dirac's method in terms of both the canonical Poisson brackets in the Lagrangian variable description and the noncanonical Poisson brackets in the Eulerian description, allowing for the advection of density. Both cases give dynamics of infinite-dimensional geodesic flow on the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms and explicit expressions for this dynamics in terms of the constraints and original variables is given. Because Lagrangian and Eulerian conservation laws are not identical, comparison of the various methods is made.
Additional file 1 of Convergent Validity of Ratings of Perceived Exertion During Resistance Exercise in Healthy Participants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Lea, John W. D.
name: O’Driscoll, Jamie M.
name: Hulbert, Sabina
name: Scales, James
name: Wiles, Jonathan D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Table 1: Study Methodological and Reporting Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for RPE Validation Studies. Supplementary Figure 1: Funnel Plot of Standard Error by Fisher’s Z. Clear diamond is the point estimate prior to any attempted corrections. Black diamond is the point estimate following Duval and Tweedie’s random-effects Trim and Fill adjustment. Supplementary Table 2: Univariate and multivariate meta-regression equations.
G-quadruplex ligands targeting telomeres do not inhibit HIV promoter activity and cooperate with latency reversing agents in killing latently infected cells
Creators: name: Piekna-Przybylska, Dorota
name: Bambara, Robert A.
name: Maggirwar, Sanjay B.
name: Dewhurst, Stephen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Altered telomere maintenance mechanism (TMM) is linked to increased DNA damage at telomeres and telomere uncapping. We previously showed that HIV-1 latent cells have altered TMM and are susceptible to ligands that target G-quadruplexes (G4) at telomeres. Susceptibility of latent cells to telomere targeting could potentially be used to support approaches to eradicate HIV reservoirs. However, G4 ligands also target G-quadruplexes in promoters blocking gene transcription. Since HIV promoter sequence can form G-quadruplexes, we investigated whether G4 ligands interfere with HIV-1 promoter activity and virus reactivation from latency, and whether telomere targeting could be combined with latency reversing agents (LRAs) to promote elimination of HIV reservoirs. Our results indicate that Sp1 binding region in HIV-1 promoter can adopt G4 structures in duplex DNA, and that in vitro binding of Sp1 to G-quadruplex is blocked by G4 ligand, suggesting that agents targeting telomeres interfere with virus reactivation. However, our studies show that G4 agents do not affect HIV-1 promoter activity in cell culture, and do not interfere with latency reversal. Importantly, primary memory CD4 + T cells infected with latent HIV-1 are more susceptible to combined treatment with LRAs and G4 ligands, indicating that drugs targeting TMM may enhance killing of HIV reservoirs. Using a cell-based DNA repair assay, we also found that HIV-1 infected cells have reduced efficiency of DNA mismatch repair (MMR), and base excision repair (BER), suggesting that altered TMM in latently infected cells could be associated with accumulation of DNA damage at telomeres and changes in telomeric caps.
title: An investigation into the behaviour and performance of a recirculating system for intensive fish culture
Creators: name: Mantle, G J
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1982

description: The role of fish culture in the provision of fish for food is examined with special reference to Western Europe. The use of recirculating systems for intensive fish culture is considered and the need for establishing their feasibility for commercial culture recognised. The lack of suitable guidelines for the design and operation of such systems is seen as a major limitation. A research programme was initiated, resulting in the development of a simulation model. Firstly a number of recirculating systems were designed,constructed and commissioned and their behaviour and performance monitored. Three areas for further investigation were noted and experiments to consider growth and food conversion, the production and accumulation of wastes and filter performance were conducted. Based on the understanding gained a simulation model was constructed. The model was verified using graph theory, by inspection of standard runs for maximum, minimum, mean and variation and by sensitivity analysis. The model was validated by the comparison of model output with the actual behaviour of the system using a range of stocking densities and ration levels. To improve agreement between predicted and measured diurnal variations in water quality, modifications to the simulation of ammonia production and short-circuiting in the filter were considered. The use of the model is considered; to indicate areas of inadequate knowledge, to improve understanding of the behaviour of the laboratory systems and to develop guidelines for determining carrying capacity and optimum design of filters for recirculating systems. Use of the model for predictive purposes posed a number of difficulties, and it is concluded that the main value of the model is as an educational tool.
The productivity and environment nexus with farm-level data. The Case of Carbon Footprint in Lombardy FADN farms
Creators: name: Baldoni, Edoardo
name: Coderoni, Silvia
name: Esposti, Roberto
name: Baldoni, Edoardo
name: Coderoni, Silvia
name: Esposti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: GHG emissions
subject: FADN
subject: farm-level indicators

description: This paper aims to assess whether and to what extent environmental and productivity affect each other within heterogeneous farms. The analysis concerns the sample of FADN Lombardy farms observed from 2008 to 2013. Using the FADN information on production structures and activities, a productivity index (Total Factor Productivity - TFP) and an environmental indicator (Emission Intensity - EI) are properly reconstructed at the farm level. The nexus between TFP and EI is then investigated by admitting heterogenous behaviour across farm sizes and specializations. Results show that the relationship between TFP and EI is not univocal and suggest that the mitigation of GHG emission can be based on the diffusion of the best practices adopted by high-productivity farms of different size and specialization.
Agrilus defectus LeConte 1860
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus defectus

description: 17. Agrilus defectus LeConte, 1860
 County Records: Clearwater. Literature record only (Hansen et al. 2011).
Collection Dates: 18 June.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Quercus alba and Q. muehlenbergii. Adults also on Aesculus glabra Willd. (Sapindaceae), Carya ovata, Celtis occidentalis, Crataegus sp., Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch (Fabaceae), Quercus macrocarpa, and Q. velutina.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on pages 176-177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Thermal phase transition in $F(R)$-charged $AdS_{4}$-scalar theory
Creators: name: Rahmani, A.
name: Honardoost, M.
name: Sepangi, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate instabilities of $F(R)$-charged $AdS_{4}$ black holes by a massive charged scalar field in a linear perturbation regime. We study tachyonic instabilities as the near horizon scalar condensation in a model of $F(R)$ gravity with planar horizon and investigate properties of possible phase transitions. The results show that such transitions are sensitive to the first derivative of $F(R)$ with respect to $R$ in that the larger its value, the higher the critical temperature, thus resulting in a new generation of high-temperature superconductors. Also, for a certain range of parameters, $F(R)$-charged $AdS_{4}$ black holes suffer from superradiant instability. We consider the effects of the scalar mass and charge on such instabilities and conclude that RN black holes decay into small hairy black holes that have a charged scalar condensate floating near the horizon. It is shown that the existence of phase transition at the critical temperature leading to a hairy black hole solution emerges for $TT_{c}$. The effect of $F(R)$ on the critical temperature is subsequently investigated in the case of superradiant instability, showing that higher critical temperatures would be possible in $F(R)$ gravity. We also check the stability of hairy black holes and show that the resulting hairy solution can be considered as a possible end point of superradiant instability of a small charged black hole.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, to appear in PRD
Autonomy as appearance: The impact of government decentralization on community organizing in Puerto Rico
Creators: name: Bonet, Desmonique
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation analyzes the impact of neo-liberalism on states, local governments, and communities. Specifically, it examines the impact of government decentralization on community life in Puerto Rico. Evidence is presented to demonstrate that through decentralization, communities are relinquishing their autonomy in order for states and municipalities to accumulate greater power under the "appearance" of granting autonomy to communities. This research refutes the standard notion that decentralization depletes state power Instead, it is argued that decentralization enables the state to reabsorb the very power it is supposedly "disseminating" to lower levels of government and grassroots groups under the guise of promoting a bottom-up approach to democracy building. As such, this dissertation is grounded in a Gramscian framework whereby civil society is viewed as a sphere of ideological hegemony that serves to support the state apparatus. Additionally, this research demonstrates how state control is established through attaining more precise and statistically accurate knowledge of individuals and groups. The documentation and description of groups, the characterization of collective facts, and the calculation of groups between individuals and their distribution in a given population subject to control reveals how state apparatuses accumulate power and sustain themselves. Yet states must also gain the willful consent of citizens into the process of state building by perpetuating a legitimizing ideology as opposed to using force. This dissertation argues that the ideology used in this case is democracy building through decentralization, under the "appearance" of autonomy. These state-society dynamics are analyzed through examination of government sponsored community empowerment programs in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The government program uses a discourse of promoting popular democracy but is instead in the process of building consensual domination. Although the program was designed to empower communities "from within" based on the ideology of "autogestion" or self-management, the result was increased government direction of activities and diminished autonomy. At the heart of the neo-liberal project in Puerto Rico is the promotion of self-organization initiatives that are state assisted and/or directed in scope. This leads to the conclusion that decentralization can result in less power for the grassroots, groups it ideologically purports to strengthen.