cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Approaching Confinement Structure for Light Quarks in a Holographic Soft Wall QCD Model
Creators: name: Li, Meng-Wei
name: Yang, Yi
name: Yuan, Pei-Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study confinement-deconfinement phase transition in a holographic soft-wall QCD model. By solving the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system analytically, we obtain the phase structure of the black hole backgrounds. We then impose probe open strings in such background to investigate the confinement-deconfinement phase transition from different open string configurations under various temperatures and chemical potentials. Furthermore, we study the Wilson loop by calculating the minimal surface of the probing open string world-sheet and obtain the Cornell potential in confinement phase analytically.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures
Healthcare use, sickness absence, and disability pension among colorectal cancer survivors and population references in Sweden
Creators: name: Beermann, Luisa Christine
name: Alexanderson, Kristina
name: Chen, Lingjing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) has negative long-term impacts on survivors’ health and work capacity. We aimed to investigate specialized healthcare use and sickness absence and disability pension among CRC survivors and matched references. In this longitudinal register-based cohort study, 6679 patients with a first primary CRC in 2008–2011 (when aged 18–62) and 26,716 CRC-free matched references were followed from 2 years before up to 5 years after diagnosis date. Mean numbers of hospital days and outpatient visits were illustrated for survivors and references for the 7-year period. Crude and adjusted mean numbers of sickness absence/disability pension net days were calculated for post-diagnosis Years 3 and 5. Survivors’ healthcare use was higher compared to their references throughout the 7 years around CRC diagnosis and was mostly due to CRC, secondary neoplasms, and digestive disorders. In Year 5, survivors had 1.94 mean outpatient visits and 2.13 mean inpatient days (compared to 1.00 and 0.82 for references, respectively). Survivors’ adjusted mean sickness absence/disability pension days amounted to 85 d in Year 3 and 77 in Year 5 (compared to 57 and 54 d in the references). Higher mean number of future days was found among women, lower-educated, foreign-born, with previous comorbidities or previous mental disorders. Those with many sickness absence days in 2 years pre-diagnosis had the highest number of future sickness absence/disability pension days. Post-diagnostic healthcare use remained high among CRC survivors, mostly due to cancer (CRC and other neoplasms) and digestive diagnoses. Their sickness absence and disability pension decreased gradually over the period but remained higher than among references. Pre-morbid characteristics may be used in early work-related clinical planning for the survivors.
Quantum Numbers of $Ω_c$ States and Other Charmed Baryons
Creators: name: Cheng, Hai-Yang
name: Chiang, Cheng-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possible spin-parity quantum numbers for excited charmed baryon resonances are discussed in this work. Our main results are: (i) Among the five newly observed $Ω_c$ states, we have identified $Ω_c(3090)$ and $Ω_c(3119)$ with radially excited $\frac12^+(2S)$ and $\frac32^+(2S)$ states, respectively, and $Ω_c(3000)$ with $\frac12^-(1P)$ and $S=\frac32$. The two states $Ω_c(3050)$ and $Ω_c(3066)$ form a $P$-wave $(\frac32^-,\frac52^-)$ doublet. (ii) The widths of $Ω_c(3066)$ and $Ξ'_c(2930)$ are calculable within the framework of heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory. (iii) Since the width of $Ω_{c0}(\frac12^-)$ is of order 410 MeV, not all observed narrow $Ω_c$ baryons can be identified with $1P$ states. (iv) For the antitriplet $Λ_c$ and $Ξ_c$ states, their Regge trajectories for the orbital excitations of $\frac12^-$ and $\frac32^-$ are parallel to each other. Based on this nice property of parallelism, we see that the highest state $Λ_c(2940)$ does not fit if its quantum numbers are $\frac32^-$ as found by LHCb. We suggest that $Λ_c(2940)^+$ is most likely the $\frac12^-(2P)$ state. (v) The charmed baryon $Σ_c(2800)$ cannot be a $\frac12^-$ state; otherwise, its width will be over 400~MeV, too large compared to the measured one. (vi) In the study of Regge trajectories of $Ξ'_c$ states, we find a missing state. It should have quantum numbers $\frac52^-$ with a mass around 2920~MeV.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures. Sec. II.A is substantially revised. Quantum number assignment to Omega_c(3050) and Omega_c(3066) is modified. Two more figures for the Regge trajectories in the (n_r, M^2) plane
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE CHANGES ON FIBER QUALITY DURING STORAGE OF COTTON RAW MATERIALS
Creators: name: Ungarov, Azizbek
name: Yuldasheva, Dilorom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: One of the first steps in cotton ginning factories is drying and cleaning. Modern equipment is of great importance in the storage of cotton raw materials. This article is about the modern technologies used in the cotton ginning plant of JV "Bek cluster" established in the Mirzaabad district of the Sirdarya region, the effect of moisture on the fiber quality during cotton processing.
Mid-infrared extinction and fresh silicate dust towards the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Voshchinnikov, Nikolai V.
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Il'in, Vladimir B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We interpret the interstellar extinction observed towards the Galactic Center (GC) in the wavelength range $λ= 1 - 20\,\mkm$. Its main feature is the flat extinction at $3 - 8\,\mkm$ whose explanation is still a problem for the cosmic dust models. We search for structure and chemical composition of dust grains that could explain the observed extinction. In contrast to earlier works we use laboratory measured optical constants and consider particles of different structure. We show that a mixture of compact grains of aromatic carbon and of some silicate is better suited for reproducing the flat extinction in comparison with essentially porous grains or aliphatic carbon particles. Metallic iron should be located inside the particle, i.e. cannot form layers on silicate grains as the extinction curves become then very peculiar. We find a model including aromatic carbonaceous particles and three-layered particles with an olivine-type silicate core, a thin very porous layer and a thin envelope of magnetite that provides a good (but still not perfect) fit to the observational data. We suggest that such silicate dust should be fresh, i.e. recently formed in the atmospheres of late-type stars in the central region of the Galaxy. We assume that this region has a radius of about 1 kpc and produces about a half of the observed extinction. The remaining part of extinction is caused by a "foreground" material being practically transparent at $λ= 4 - 8\,\mkm$.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Symptom trajectories in breast cancer survivors: growth mixture analysis of patient-reported pain, fatigue, insomnia, breast and arm symptoms
Creators: name: Nielsen, Anders Winther Mølby
name: Lundorff, Marie
name: Nielsen, Hanne Melgaard
name: Alsner, Jan
name: Offersen, Birgitte Vrou
name: Kristensen, Morten Horsholt
name: Zachariae, Robert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Variations in symptom development among breast cancer (BC) survivors are understudied. We examined: (Q1) Symptom trajectories of pain, fatigue, insomnia, breast, and arm symptoms in BC survivors, (Q2) possible patterns or cluster-like associations between trajectory classification of different symptoms, and (Q3) characteristics of survivors assigned to high-burden symptom trajectories. Participants were 968 women (mean age = 59.6 years) treated for early-stage BC and followed across a three-year postoperative period. As part of routine follow-up procedures, patients reported symptom burden and functioning levels at each hospital visit using the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-C30) and the BC-specific module (QLQ-BR-23). Growth mixture modeling (GMM) analysis was used to differentiate potential subgroups of individuals with similar longitudinal symptom patterns, i.e., symptom trajectories (Q1). With this approach, groups experiencing persistent, highly distressing cancer- and treatment-related late effects (LEs) may be identified. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for Q2 and logistic regression analysis for Q3. GMM identified two relatively parallel trajectories across the tested symptoms: The majority of the sample exhibited a low-burden symptom trajectory (74.4–89.2%) and a minority by a high-burden symptom trajectory (10.8–25.6%). LCA revealed that approximately one in five women (18.8%) were likely to be members of the high-burden symptom trajectory across all tested symptoms. In addition to a high probability of being burdened over time across multiple symptoms, these women were also characterized by poorer self-reported physical and social functioning. A substantial minority followed a high-burden symptom trajectory for several years following BC treatment. Associations were found in trajectory classification across symptoms, indicating that cancer-related LEs appear in clusters of multiple concurrent symptoms.
Optimum stabilization of self-mode-locked quantum dash lasers using dual optical feedback with improved tolerance against phase delay mismatch
Creators: name: Asghar, Haroon
name: Sooudi, Ehsan
name: Kumar, Pramod
name: Wei, Wei
name: Mcinerney, John. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate the RF linewidth and timing jitter over a wide range of delay tuning in a self-mode-locked two-section quantum dash lasers emitting at ~ 1.55 micron and operating at ~ 21 GHz repetition rate subject to single and dual optical feedback into gain section. Various feedback conditions are investigated and optimum levels determined for narrowest linewidth and reduced timing jitter for both single and dual loop configurations. We demonstrate that dual loop feedback, with the shorter feedback cavity tuned to be fully resonant, followed by fine tuning of the phase of the longer feedback cavity, gives stable narrow RF spectra across the widest delay range, unlike single loop feedback. In addition, for dual loop configurations, under fully resonant conditions, integrated timing jitter is reduced from 3.9 ps to 295 fs [10 kHz-100 MHz], the RF linewidth narrows from 100 kHz to < 1 kHz, with more than 30 dB fundamental side-mode suppression. We show that dual loop optical feedback with separate fine tuning of both external cavities is far superior to single loop feedback, with increased system tolerance against phase delay mismatch, making it a robust and cost-effective technique for developing practical, reliable and low-noise mode-locked lasers, optoelectronic oscillators and pulsed photonic circuits.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, Submitted in Optics Express 2017
MPEC 2023-P57 : 2023 OH8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 OH8

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Chase-and-run dynamics in cell motility and the molecular rupture of interacting active elastic dimers
Creators: name: Mayett, David
name: Bitten, Nicholas
name: Das, Moumita
name: Schwarz, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cell migration in morphogenesis and cancer metastasis typically involves interplay between different cell types. We construct and study a minimal, one-dimensional model comprised of two different motile cells with each cell represented as an active elastic dimer. The interaction between the two cells via cadherins is modeled as a spring that can rupture beyond a threshold force as it undergoes dynamic loading via the attached motile cells. We obtain a phase diagram consisting of chase-and-run dynamics and clumping dynamics as a function of the stiffness of the interaction spring and the threshold force. We also find that while feedback between cadherins and cell-substrate interaction via integrins accentuates the chase-run behavior, feedback is not necessary for it.
Use of classifiers to optimise the identification and characterisation of metastatic breast cancer in a nationwide administrative registry
Creators: name: Valachis, Antonis
name: Carlqvist, Peter
name: Szilcz, Máté
name: Freilich, Jonatan
name: Vertuani, Simona
name: Holm, Barbro
name: Lindman, Henrik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The prognosis for patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is substantially worse when compared with patients with earlier stage disease. Therefore, understanding the differences in epidemiology between these two patient groups is important. Studies using population–based cancer registries to identify MBC are hampered by the quality of reporting. Patients are registered once (at time of initial diagnosis); hence only data for patients with de novo MBC are identifiable, whereas data for patients with recurrent MBC are not. This makes accurate estimation of the epidemiology and healthcare utilisation of MBC challenging. This study aimed to investigate whether machine–learning could improve identification of MBC in national health registries. Data for patients with confirmed MBC from a regional breast cancer registry were used to train machine–learning algorithms (or ‘classifiers’). The best performing classifier (accuracy 97.3%, positive predictive value 85.1%) was applied to Swedish national registries for 2008 to 2016. Mean yearly MBC incidence was estimated at 14 per 100,000 person–years (with 18% diagnosed de novo and 76% of the total with HR–positive MBC). To our knowledge, this is the first study to use machine learning to identify MBC regardless of stage at diagnosis in health registries covering the entire population of Sweden.
A phase II study on the neo-adjuvant combination of pazopanib and radiotherapy in patients with high-risk, localized soft tissue sarcoma
Creators: name: van Meekeren, Milan
name: Bovee, Judith V. M. G.
name: van Coevorden, Frits
name: van Houdt, Winan
name: Schrage, Yvonne
name: Koenen, Anne Miek
name: Miah, Aisha B.
name: Zaidi, Shane
name: Hayes, Andrew J.
name: Thway, Khin
name: Krol, Stijn
name: Fiocco, Marta
name: Gelderblom, Hans
name: Steeghs, Neeltje
name: Haas, Rick L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A prior phase I study showed that the neo-adjuvant combination of pazopanib and radiotherapy was well tolerated, and induced promising pathological responses in soft-tissue sarcoma patients. Results of the subsequent prospective, multicenter phase II, PASART-2 trial are presented here, further investigating the efficacy and safety of this combination. Patients with high-risk, localized soft-tissue sarcoma received neo-adjuvant radiotherapy, 50 Gy in 25 fractions (PASART-2A) or with a subsequent dose de-escalation to 36 Gy in 18 fractions (PASART-2B). This was combined with 800 mg once daily pazopanib, which started one week before radiotherapy and finished simultaneously. After an interval of 4–8 weeks, surgical resection was performed. The primary endpoint was the rate of pathological complete responses (pCR), defined as ≤5% viable cells. 25 patients were registered in the study, 21 in PASART-2A and 4 in PASART-2B. After central pathology review, the combination treatment led to a pCR in 5 patients (20%). 17 patients (68%) experienced grade 3+ toxicities during neo-adjuvant treatment, of which the most common were alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation, and hypertension, all asymptomatic. Grade 3+ acute post-operative toxicities occurred in 5 patients (20%), of which the most common was wound infection. All patients completed the full radiotherapy regimen and underwent surgery. Pazopanib was discontinued before completion in 9 patients (36%), due to elevated ALT and/or AST, and shortly interrupted in 2 patients (8%), due to hypertension. Apart from asymptomatic hepatotoxicity, the study regimen was well tolerated. Although the pre-specified efficacy endpoint (30% pCR) was not met, a more than doubling of historical pCR rates after neo-adjuvant radiotherapy alone was observed, which warrants further investigation.
Inequalities for the fundamental Robin eigenvalue of the Laplacian for box-shaped domains
Creators: name: Keady, Grant
name: Wiwatanapataphee, Benchawan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J05, 35P15

description: This document consists of two papers, both submitted, and supplementary material. The submitted papers are here given as Parts I and II. Part I establishes results, used in Part II, 'on functions and inverses, both positive, decreasing and convex'. Part II uses results from Part I to extablish 'inequalities for the fundamental Robin eigenvalue for the Laplacian on N-dimensional boxes'
description: 60 pages
Covariant gaussian approximation in Ginzburg - Landau model
Creators: name: Wang, J. F.
name: Li, Dingping
name: Kao, H. C.
name: Rosenstein, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Condensed matter systems undergoing second order transition away from the critical fluctuation region are usually described sufficiently well by the mean field approximation. The critical fluctuation region, determined by the Ginzburg criterion, $\left \vert T/T_{c}-1\right \vert \ll Gi$, is narrow even in high $T_{c}$ superconductors and has universal features well captured by the renormalization group method. However recent experiments on magnetization, conductivity and Nernst effect suggest that fluctuations effects are large in a wider region both above and below $T_{c}$. In particular some "pseudogap" phenomena and strong renormalization of the mean field critical temperature $T_{mf}$ can be interpreted as strong fluctuations effects that are nonperturbative (cannot be accounted for by "gaussian fluctuations"). The physics in a broader region therefore requires more accurate approach. Self consistent methods are generally "non - conserving" in the sense that the Ward identities are not obeyed. This is especially detrimental in the symmetry broken phase where, for example, Goldstone bosons become massive. Covariant gaussian approximation remedies these problems. The Green's functions obey all the Ward identities and describe the fluctuations much better. The results for the order parameter correlator and magnetic penetration depth of the Ginzburg - Landau model of superconductivity are compared with both Monte Carlo simulations and experiments in high $T_{c}$ cuprates.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Specht's criterion for systems of linear mappings
Creators: name: Futorny, Vyacheslav
name: Horn, Roger A.
name: Sergeichuk, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 15A63, 16G20, 47A67

description: W.Specht (1940) proved that two $n\times n$ complex matrices $A$ and $B$ are unitarily similar if and only if $\operatorname{trace} w(A,A^{\ast}) = \operatorname{trace} w(B,B^{\ast})$ for every word $w(x,y)$ in two noncommuting variables. We extend his criterion and its generalizations by N.A.Wiegmann (1961) and N.Jing (2015) to an arbitrary system $\mathcal A$ consisting of complex or real inner product spaces and linear mappings among them. We represent such a system by the directed graph $Q(\mathcal A)$, whose vertices are inner product spaces and arrows are linear mappings. Denote by $\widetilde Q(\mathcal A)$ the directed graph obtained by enlarging to $Q(\mathcal A)$ the adjoint linear mappings. We prove that a system $\mathcal A$ is transformed by isometries of its spaces to a system $\mathcal B$ if and only if the traces of all closed directed walks in $\widetilde Q(\mathcal A)$ and $\widetilde Q(\mathcal B)$ coincide.
description: 21 pages
Revision of: a phase II study on the neo-adjuvant combination of pazopanib and radiotherapy in patients with high-risk, localized soft tissue sarcoma
Creators: name: van Meekeren, Milan
name: Bovee, Judith V. M. G.
name: van Coevorden, Frits
name: van Houdt, Winan
name: Schrage, Yvonne
name: Koenen, Anne Miek
name: Miah, Aisha B.
name: Zaidi, Shane
name: Hayes, Andrew J.
name: Thway, Khin
name: Krol, Stijn
name: Fiocco, Marta
name: Gelderblom, Hans
name: Steeghs, Neeltje
name: Haas, Rick L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A prior phase I study showed that the neo-adjuvant combination of pazopanib and radiotherapy was well tolerated, and induced promising pathological responses in soft-tissue sarcoma patients. Results of the subsequent prospective, multicenter phase II, PASART-2 trial are presented here, further investigating the efficacy and safety of this combination. Patients with high-risk, localized soft-tissue sarcoma received neo-adjuvant radiotherapy, 50 Gy in 25 fractions (PASART-2A) or with a subsequent dose de-escalation to 36 Gy in 18 fractions (PASART-2B). This was combined with 800 mg once daily pazopanib, which started one week before radiotherapy and finished simultaneously. After an interval of 4–8 weeks, surgical resection was performed. The primary endpoint was the rate of pathological complete responses (pCR), defined as ≤5% viable cells. 25 patients were registered in the study, 21 in PASART-2A and 4 in PASART-2B. After central pathology review, the combination treatment led to a pCR in 5 patients (20%). 17 patients (68%) experienced grade 3+ toxicities during neo-adjuvant treatment, of which the most common were alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation, and hypertension, all asymptomatic. Grade 3+ acute post-operative toxicities occurred in 5 patients (20%), of which the most common was wound infection. All patients completed the full radiotherapy regimen and underwent surgery. Pazopanib was discontinued before completion in 9 patients (36%), due to elevated ALT and/or AST, and shortly interrupted in 2 patients (8%), due to hypertension. Apart from asymptomatic hepatotoxicity, the study regimen was well tolerated. Although the pre-specified efficacy endpoint (30% pCR) was not met, a more than doubling of historical pCR rates after neo-adjuvant radiotherapy alone was observed, which warrants further investigation.
Despicable face of the capitulationist Song Jiang in the Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh (《水浒》宋江投降派的卑劣嘴脸)
Creators: name: Ren Mei 任梅
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/28307
subject: Outlaws
subject: Mao's Critique Of Water Margin

description: Sixteen-image cartoon with quotations from Mao and Lu Xun presenting the version of the "Song Jiang" story promoted after Mao's criticism of the novel the novel "Water Margin" [Shuihu zhuan, also translated as "Outlaws of the Marsh" and "All Men are Brothers"] in 1975, reversing Song Jiang's heroic status. Price: 28 fen
Scaling of geometric phase versus band structure in cluster-Ising models
Creators: name: Nie, Wei
name: Mei, Feng
name: Amico, Luigi
name: Kwek, Leong Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram of a class of models in which a generalized cluster interaction can be quenched by Ising exchange interaction and external magnetic field. We characterize the various phases through winding numbers. They may be ordinary phases with local order parameter or exotic ones, known as symmetry protected topologically ordered phases. Quantum phase transitions with dynamical critical exponents z = 1 or z = 2 are found. Quantum phase transitions are analyzed through finite-size scaling of the geometric phase accumulated when the spins of the lattice perform an adiabatic precession. In particular, we quantify the scaling behavior of the geometric phase in relation with the topology and low energy properties of the band structure of the system.
Multiple-coil k-space interpolation enhances resolution in single-shot spatiotemporal MRI
Creators: name: Liberman, Gilad
name: Solomon, Eddy
name: Lustig, Michael
name: Frydman, Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purpose: Spatio-temporal encoding (SPEN) experiments can deliver single-scan MR images without folding complications and with robustness to chemical shift and susceptibility artifacts. It is here shown that further resolution improvements can arise by relying on multiple receivers, to interpolate the sampled data along the low-bandwidth dimension. The ensuing multiple-sensor interpolation is akin to recently introduced SPEN interleaving procedures, albeit without requiring multiple shots. Methods: By casting SPEN's spatial rasterization in k-space, it becomes evident that local k-data interpolations enabled by multiple receivers are akin to real-space interleaving of SPEN images. The practical implementation of such resolution-enhancing procedure becomes similar to those normally used in SMASH or SENSE, yet relaxing these methods' fold-over constraints. Results: Experiments validating the theoretical expectations were carried out on phantoms and human volunteers on a 3T scanner. The experiments showed the expected resolution enhancement, at no cost in the sequence's complexity. With the addition of multibanding and stimulated echo procedures, 48-slices full-brain coverage could be recorded free from distortions at sub-mm resolution, in 3 sec. Conclusion: Super-resolved SPEN with SENSE (SUSPENSE) achieves the goals of multi-shot SPEN interleaving within one single scan, delivering single-shot sub-mm in-plane resolutions in scanners equipped with suitable multiple sensors.
description: 7 figs in main text; 2 in Supplementary Information; 0 tables
Frauenstudium in Rostock
Creators: name: Krüger, Kersten
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 943 General history of Europe Central Europe Germany

description: Im Jahr 2009 jährte sich die Zulassung von Frauen zum Studium an der Universität Rostock zum 100. Mal. Das gab Anlass zu vielfältigen Aktivitäten, von denen einige im vorliegenden Band dokumentiert werden. Eine Einführung in die Rostocker Frauenbewegungen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert und die Anfänge des Frauenstudiums gibt Marianne Beese. Die im Juni und Juli 2009 gezeigte Posterausstellung dokumentiert Bettina Kleinschmidt in ihrem Beitrag. Ein ergänzender Beitrag zu Marie-Louise Henry, der zweiten im deutschsprachigen Raum habilitierten Theologin und ebenfalls zweiten Professorin in ihrem Fach steuerte – unter Federführung von Hermann Michael Niemann – die Theologische Fakultät bei. In einem Seminar – geleitet vom Herausgeber –, in dem Zeitzeuginnen zu Wort kamen, gab der programmatisch gegenwartsbezogene Beitrag von Heike Kahlert den Auftakt, während der durchaus auch programmatische Bericht der früheren Gleichstellungsbeauftragten der Universität Rostock, Rosina Neumann, zum historischen Rückblick überleitete. Sechs Zeitzeuginnen berichteten über ihre Lebens- und Ausbildungswege, ihre akademischen Karrieren. In der Forschung, meistens auch in der Lehre, vertreten sie die Fächer Chemie (Giesela Boeck), Germanistik (Hella Ehlers, Petra Ewald), Geschichte (Angela Hartwig, Hilde Michael) und Medizin (Marianne Wigger).
Permanent coatings: model paint formulations for photocatalysts
Creators: name: Schreiner, Claus
name: Stübing, Dorothea
name: Malinn Kastens
name: Czarnik, Thalea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Antimicrobial Coatings
Photocatalysis
Titandioxid

description: This poster was presented during the second NOVA General Assembly in Smolenice and offers valuable insights into the realm of permanent coatings designed specifically for photocatalysts. This poster provides a comprehensive overview of their innovative approach, detailing the key components and properties of these coatings.
Topically Driven Neural Language Model
Creators: name: Lau, Jey Han
name: Baldwin, Timothy
name: Cohn, Trevor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture, thus providing a succinct representation of the broader document context outside of the current sentence. Experiments over a range of datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms a pure sentence-based model in terms of language model perplexity, and leads to topics that are potentially more coherent than those produced by a standard LDA topic model. Our model also has the ability to generate related sentences for a topic, providing another way to interpret topics.
description: 11 pages, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) (to appear)
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Plastic and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Kaplan, Nicolas
name: Marques, Mitchell
name: Scharf, Isabel
name: Yang, Kevin
name: Alkureishi, Lee
name: Purnell, Chad
name: Patel, Pravin
name: Zhao, Linping
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4003
subject: Biomedical engineering

description: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have evolved since their introduction to medicine in the 1990s. More powerful software, the miniaturization of hardware, and greater accessibility and affordability enabled novel applications of such virtual tools in surgical practice. This scoping review aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the literature by including all articles between 2018 and 2021 pertaining to VR and AR and their use by plastic and craniofacial surgeons in a clinician-as-user, patient-specific manner. From the initial 1637 articles, 10 were eligible for final review. These discussed a variety of clinical applications: perforator flaps reconstruction, mastectomy reconstruction, lymphovenous anastomosis, metopic craniosynostosis, dermal filler injection, auricular reconstruction, facial vascularized composite allotransplantation, and facial artery mapping. More than half (60%) involved VR/AR use intraoperatively with the remainder (40%) examining preoperative use. The hardware used predominantly comprised HoloLens (40%) and smartphones (40%). In total, 9/10 Studies utilized an AR platform. This review found consensus that VR/AR in plastic and craniomaxillofacial surgery has been used to enhance surgeons' knowledge of patient-specific anatomy and potentially facilitated decreased intraoperative time via preoperative planning. However, further outcome-focused research is required to better establish the usability of this technology in everyday practice.
Inclusive Mobility Futures: Re-imagining Mobility-as-a-Service for Seniors Experiencing Digital Exclusion
Creators: name: LEE, JI YOON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330306
subject: Design practice and methods
classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design

description: This practice-based PhD research project explores the intersection of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), digital exclusion and senior mobility. It proposes speculative design interventions to re-conceptualise MaaS for seniors through a combined approach of inclusive and speculative design practices.
$α$-decay properties of $^{296}118$ from double-folding potentials
Creators: name: Mohr, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $α$-decay properties of the yet unknown nucleus $^{296}$118 are predicted using the systematic behavior of parameters of $α$-nucleus double-folding potentials. The results are $Q_α= 11.655 \pm 0.095$ MeV and $T_{1/2} = 0.825$ ms with an uncertainty of about a factor of 4.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Phys. Rev. C, accepted as Rapid Communication
Research Software, Sustainability, and RSEs
Creators: name: Katz, Daniel S.
name: Clifford, Ben
name: Babuji, Yadu
name: Hunter Kesling, Kevin
name: Woodard, Anna
name: Chard, Kyle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Research software projects often are initially funded by a grant that supports development of the software. But when the grant ends, the projects have to shift to another model to support the required software maintenance, if the software is going to continue being used. This talk at the University of Manchester will look at the Parsl project and its effort to become sustainable, across a set of project phases. It will also look at the different kinds of RSE work that have taken place during the project. These activities, phases, and developer types appear to be useful concepts for planning or studying other research software projects, or research software as a whole.
Direct searches of Type III seesaw triplet fermions at high energy $e^+e^-$ collider
Creators: name: Goswami, Deepanjali
name: Poulose, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The signatures of heavy fermionic triplets ($Σ$) arising in scenarios like Type III seesaw model are probed through their direct production and subsequent decay at high energy electron-positron collider. Unlike the case of LHC, the production process has strong dependence on the mixing parameter ($V_{e,μ}$), making the leptonic collider unique to probe such mixing. We have established that with suitably chosen kinematic cuts, a 1 TeV $e^+e^-$ collider could probe the presence of $Σ$ of mass in the range of 500 GeV having $V_e=0.05$ with a few inverse femto barn luminosity through single production. The cross section is found to be not sufficient to probe the case of triplet-muon mixing through single triplet production. On the other hand, the pair production considered at 2 TeV centre of mass energy is capable of probing both the mixing scenarios efficiently. Studying the mass reach, presence of charged fermionic triplets upto a mass of about 980 GeV could be established at $3σ$ level through single production at a 1 TeV $e^+e^-$ collider with moderate luminosity of 100 fb$^{-1}$, assuming $V_e = 0.05$ . The pair production case requires larger luminosity, as the cross section is smaller in this case. With an integrated luminosity of 300 fb$^{-1}$, the mass reach in this case is close to 1 TeV with triplet-muon mixing, while it is slightly lower at about 950 GeV in the case of $V_μ= 0.05$.
description: 26 pages, 5 Figures
Precise tail behaviour of self-similar profiles with infinite mass for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation
Creators: name: Throm, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider self-similar profiles to Smoluchowski's coagulation equation for which we derive the precise asymptotic behaviour at infinity. More precisely, we look at so-called fat-tailed profiles which decay algebraically and as a consequence have infinite total mass. The results only require mild assumptions on the coagulation kernel and thus cover a large class of rate kernels.
Chant de Noël "Pastorets, pastorelles", en catalan
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2022

Abstract
The formation of the Milky Way halo and its dwarf satellites, a NLTE-1D abundance analysis. I. Homogeneous set of atmospheric parameters
Creators: name: Mashonkina, L.
name: Jablonka, P.
name: Pakhomov, Yu.
name: Sitnova, T.
name: North, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a homogeneous set of accurate atmospheric parameters for a complete sample of very and extremely metal-poor stars in the dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) Sculptor, Ursa Minor, Sextans, Fornax, Boötes I, Ursa Major II, and Leo IV. We also deliver a Milky Way (MW) comparison sample of giant stars covering the -4 < [Fe/H] < -1.7 metallicity range. We show that, in the [Fe/H] > -3.5 regime, the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) calculations with non-spectroscopic effective temperature (Teff) and surface gravity (log~g) based on the photometric methods and known distance provide consistent abundances of the Fe I and Fe II lines. This justifies the Fe I/Fe II ionisation equilibrium method to determine log g for the MW halo giants with unknown distance. The atmospheric parameters of the dSphs and MW stars were checked with independent methods. In the [Fe/H] > -3.5 regime, the Ti I/Ti II ionisation equilibrium is fulfilled in the NLTE calculations. In the log~g - Teff plane, all the stars sit on the giant branch of the evolutionary tracks corresponding to [Fe/H] = -2 to -4, in line with their metallicities. For some of the most metal-poor stars of our sample, we hardly achieve consistent NLTE abundances from the two ionisation stages for both iron and titanium. We suggest that this is a consequence of the uncertainty in the Teff-colour relation at those metallicities. The results of these work provide the base for a detailed abundance analysis presented in a companion paper.
description: 25 pages, 7 tables, 7 figures, A&A, accepted
Radial orbit instability in systems of highly eccentric orbits: Antonov problem reviewed
Creators: name: Polyachenko, E. V.
name: Shukhman, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stationary stellar systems with radially elongated orbits are subject to radial orbit instability -- an important phenomenon that structures galaxies. Antonov (1973) presented a formal proof of the instability for spherical systems in the limit of purely radial orbits. However, such spheres have highly inhomogeneous density distributions with singularity $\sim 1/r^2$, resulting in an inconsistency in the proof. The proof can be refined, if one considers an orbital distribution close to purely radial, but not entirely radial, which allows to avoid the central singularity. For this purpose we employ non-singular analogs of generalised polytropes elaborated recently in our work in order to derive and solve new integral equations adopted for calculation of unstable eigenmodes in systems with nearly radial orbits. In addition, we establish a link between our and Antonov's approaches and uncover the meaning of infinite entities in the purely radial case. Maximum growth rates tend to infinity as the system becomes more and more radially anisotropic. The instability takes place both for even and odd spherical harmonics, with all unstable modes developing rapidly, i.e. having eigenfrequencies comparable to or greater than typical orbital frequencies. This invalidates orbital approximation in the case of systems with all orbits very close to purely radial.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures; accepted to MNRAS
Red banners raised aloft as thunder roars – Selection of poems and drawings from Xiaojinzhuang counter-attacking the rightist wind to reverse correct verdicts [hereafter ”rightist wind”] (红旗高举风雷吼 – 小靳 庄反击右倾翻案风诗画选)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022

description: "Rightist wind"; "capitalist-roaders" campaign against Deng Xiaoping. Xiaojinzhuang, a village in Tianjin municipality, enjoyed celebrity in the early 1970s as a model chosen by Mao’s wife Jiang Qing for promotion of the policies and arts (notably the revolutionary operas) of the day. This poster features criticism of Deng Xiaoping (as yet unnamed) for his opposition to those policies and operas, using much of the language of the earlier campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. The major slogans of the period are represented and repeated. No artist information. Price: 0.10 yuan
Control of amplitude chimeras by time delay in dynamical networks
Creators: name: Gjurchinovski, Aleksandar
name: Schöll, Eckehard
name: Zakharova, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of time-delayed coupling in a ring network of non-locally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators upon chimera states, i.e., space-time patterns with coexisting partially coherent and partially incoherent domains. We focus on amplitude chimeras which exhibit incoherent behavior with respect to the amplitude rather than the phase and are transient patterns, and show that their lifetime can be significantly enhanced by coupling delay. To characterize their transition to phase-lag synchronization (coherent traveling waves) and other coherent structures, we generalize the Kuramoto order parameter. Contrasting the results for instantaneous coupling with those for constant coupling delay, for time-varying delay, and for distributed-delay coupling, we demonstrate that the lifetime of amplitude chimera states and related partially incoherent states can be controlled, i.e., deliberately reduced or increased, depending upon the type of coupling delay.
Presentation: Injection of Low Salinity Waterflooding with Rate Injection Sensitivity in Heterogeneous Reservoirs
Creators: name: Suranto
name: Bambang Sugiarto
name: Widyaningsih, Ratna
name: Adzan Topaz Aditya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material has presented on 1st International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology. October 25, 2022
A Cost-based Optimizer for Gradient Descent Optimization
Creators: name: Kaoudi, Zoi
name: Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo
name: Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan
name: Chawla, Sanjay
name: Agrawal, Divy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the use of machine learning (ML) permeates into diverse application domains, there is an urgent need to support a declarative framework for ML. Ideally, a user will specify an ML task in a high-level and easy-to-use language and the framework will invoke the appropriate algorithms and system configurations to execute it. An important observation towards designing such a framework is that many ML tasks can be expressed as mathematical optimization problems, which take a specific form. Furthermore, these optimization problems can be efficiently solved using variations of the gradient descent (GD) algorithm. Thus, to decouple a user specification of an ML task from its execution, a key component is a GD optimizer. We propose a cost-based GD optimizer that selects the best GD plan for a given ML task. To build our optimizer, we introduce a set of abstract operators for expressing GD algorithms and propose a novel approach to estimate the number of iterations a GD algorithm requires to converge. Extensive experiments on real and synthetic datasets show that our optimizer not only chooses the best GD plan but also allows for optimizations that achieve orders of magnitude performance speed-up.
description: Accepted at SIGMOD 2017
The contribution of pseudoscalar mesons to hyperfine structure of muonic hydrogen
Creators: name: Dorokhov, A. E.
name: Kochelev, N. I.
name: Martynenko, A. P.
name: Martynenko, F. A.
name: Faustov, R. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the quasipotential method in quantum electrodynamics we calculate the contribution of pseudoscalar mesons to the interaction operator of a muon and a proton in muonic hydrogen atom. The parametrization of the transition form factor of two photons into $π$, $η$ mesons, based on the experimental data on the transition form factors and QCD asymptotics is used. Numerical estimates of the contributions to the hyperfine structure of the spectrum of the S and P levels are presented.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures