cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sodium: a charge-transfer insulator at high pressures
Creators: name: Gatti, Matteo
name: Tokatly, Ilya V.
name: Rubio, Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of first-principles methods we analyze the optical response of transparent dense sodium as a function of applied pressure. We discover an unusual kind of charge-transfer exciton that proceeds from the interstitial distribution of valence electrons repelled away from the ionic cores by the Coulomb interaction and the Pauli repulsion. The predicted absorption spectrum shows a strong anisotropy with light polarization that just at pressures above the metal-insulator transition manifests as sodium being optically transparent in one direction but reflective in the other. This result provides a key information about the crystal structure of transparent sodium, a new unconventional inorganic electride.
description: revtex4, 5+8 pages
TracyML - A Modeling Language for Social Impacts of Product Life Cycles
Creators: name: Betz, Stefanie
name: Fritsch, Andreas
name: Oberweis, Andreas
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2017
Subjects: Domain-Specific Modeling Language
Product Life Cycle Modeling
Social Life Cycle Assessment

description: In order to analyse the impacts of production and consumption on social sustainability, Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) has emerged as an extensive and promising, yet still young methodology. S-LCA captures the whole life cycle of a product and aims to include all relevant affected stakeholders. It therefore requires large amounts of data and produces likewise complex results, which makes the presentation of findings challenging. We argue that conceptual models make the complexity of S-LCA study results easier to handle. In particular, Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSML) support users in structuring and communicating a complex problem domain. This paper presents TracyML, a DSML which provides transparency of social impacts associated with a product’s life cycle. Special emphasis has been laid on the graphical notation and understandability of the resulting models. We have evaluated the utility of TracyML by performing interviews with domain experts.
Central Dogma and Genetic Regulation Worksheets For Use With The Biology of Skin Color Resources as a Phenomenon in Cell and Molecular Biology
Creators: Kasey Christopher
Publisher: name: HHMI BioInteractive Educator Resource Library
Year: 2023

This series of four worksheets provides practice on transcription, translation, replication, and DNA repair using content from “The Biology of Skin Color” video and associated resources as an anchoring phenomenon.
The religious curriculum writer's dilemma
Creators: name: Jeffrey, Sonia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: 130211 Religion Curriculum and Pedagogy

description: This research explores vocational self-identity, institutional loyalty and voice using a combination of self-study and narrative inquiry. Meaning is constructed through a thematic analysis of storied journal and narrative data, written to describe the experience during the curriculum making process.
QCD phase diagram and locating critical point using RHIC low energy scan data
Creators: name: Xu, Mingmei
name: Yu, Meiling
name: Liu, Lianshou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the RHIC energy-scan experiments can serve as an effective tool for studying the system evolution along the first order phase transition line passing the critical point, which is a second order phase transition process. During this process the system structure changes while passing the critical point, and correspondingly, the transverse momentum of the final state particles gets an extra component. This phenomenon can provide useful information about the system structure in different phases and can serve as an effective signal for locating the critical point.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Suppression of Phase Decoherence in a Single Atomic Qubit
Creators: name: Chuu, Chih-Sung
name: Zhang, Chuanwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the suppression of noise-induced phase decoherence in a single atomic qubit by employing pulse sequences. The atomic qubit is composed of a single neutral atom in a far-detuned optical dipole trap and the phase decoherence may originate from the laser intensity and beam pointing fluctuations as well as magnetic field fluctuations. We show that suitable pulse sequences may prolongate the qubit coherence time substantially as comparing to the conventional spin echo pulse.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Restating Environmental Law
Creators: name: Hester, Tracy
name: Percival, Robert
name: Russell, Irma
name: Flatt, Victor
name: Mintz, Joel
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: Although environmental law springs from deep roots in centuries of common law, during the last forty years in particular it has grown into a well-established and important legal field in the United States with enormous practical consequences. Maturity, however, has also made it notoriously complex, and environmental law's overlapping statutory schemes and inconsistent federal and state programs have sparked recurring conflict, controversy, and criticism. This fractured and complicated network of environmental laws and programs has become increasingly difficult to modify or update to account for emerging environmental concerns. As a result, numerous experts, scholars, and advocacy groups have offered proposals to reform U.S. environmental laws, but these initiatives have failed to produce significant statutory advances or implementation. In fact, Congress has not enacted major new environmental legislation since its passage of the Clean Air Amendments of 1990, and existing federal environmental statutes have remained essentially unchanged for over twenty years. ... This article explores whether U.S. environmental law needs either a Restatement or other Project that would offer a comprehensive analysis, and it overviews possible reasons why the ALI has not previously undertaken such a Project. Second, we report on an ongoing effort by a workgroup of ALI members to define a potential environmental or natural resource law Project that might offer the best opportunity for clarification or reform. This workgroup of nearly fifty ALI members includes leading environmental practitioners and academics, and it has proposed two carefully defined and limited Projects in the environmental law area. If the ALI undertakes one of the more focused Projects suggested by the workgroup, however, the Institute would not foreclose its ability to develop a broader Principles of Environmental Law or a full Restatement in the future. Third, we assess arguments that any comprehensive analysis of environmental law by the ALI might do more harm than good because it would "freeze" environmental and natural resource law at a point where it still needs further fundamental reform. Finally, we discuss possible future steps to facilitate comprehensive work by the ALI on environmental issues.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2015): Volume 40.1
Preparation, characterization, pH titration, and electrochemical properties of an anthracene-bridged binuclear ruthenium complex containing imidazole
Creators: name: Yin, Hongju
name: Cheng, Feixiang
name: Liu, Zining
name: He, Chixian
name: Yang, Yuting
name: Wang, Kezhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: By using an anthryl-phenyl-imidazo-phen as a pH responsive ligand, a binuclear ruthenium complex has been synthesized as a pH luminescence probe under visible light excitation at 460 nm. The ground- and excited-state acid–base properties of the complex were studied by UV–visible and emission spectrophotometric pH titrations. The excited-state ionization constants of pKa2* = 6.92 is in a physiologically relevant regime and the complex is an “on-off” type fluorescent pH sensor. In addition, electrochemical studies of the binuclear ruthenium complex show one Ru(II)-centered oxidation at 1.29 V and three ligand-centered reductions.
The GALEX-Gaia-Early-Data-Release catalogue of single and binary white dwarfs
Creators: name: Jackim, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates constructed from the GALEX and Gaia EDR3 catalogues. The catalogue contains 332,111 candidate binary white dwarf systems and 111,996 candidate single white dwarfs. Where available, the catalogue is augmented with photometry from Pan-STARRS DR1, SDSS DR12 and classifications from StarHorse. We fit photometric data with modeled white dwarf cooling sequences to derive mass, age and effective temperature of the white dwarf as well as mass estimates for the companion. We test our classifications against StarHorse, the Gentile Fusillo Gaia EDR3 catalogue, and white-dwarf-main-sequence binaries identified in SDSS DR12. This catalogue provides a unique probe of the binarity of white dwarfs as well as the abundance of white-dwarf giant binaries and large mass-ratio stellar binaries which are difficult to probe otherwise.
Additional file 1 of Association of ventilator type with hospital mortality in critically ill patients with SARS-CoV2 infection: a prospective study
Creators: name: Ferré, Alexis
name: Marquion, Fabien
name: Delord, Marc
name: Gros, Antoine
name: Lacave, Guillaume
name: Laurent, Virginie
name: Merceron, Sybille
name: Paul, Marine
name: Simon, Christelle
name: Troché, Gilles
name: Charbonnel, Clément
name: Marque-Juillet, Stéphanie
name: Bruneel, Fabrice
name: Legriel, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Univariate analysis of factors associated with hospital mortality. Table S2. Hospital mortality in ARDS related COVID-19 patients according to ventilator type and matched on a propensity score.
Moving at a Glacial Pace: What Can State Attorneys General Do About SEC Inattention to Nondisclosure of Financially Material Risks Arising from Climate Change?
Creators: name: Hart, Nina
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: In recent years, two certainties have created a mass of uncertainty for public companies. First, companies must disclose material financial information in their annual statements, known as 10-K reports, to the Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Second, climate change poses financial risks to the way many companies operate. Together, these principles have generated significant uncertainty within the regulatory and law enforcement arenas. Specifically, companies and law enforcement officials are uncertain about what risks stemming from climate change must be disclosed in 10-K reports, and how that information should be presented. The actor primarily responsible for clarifying disclosure requirements is the SEC. This Note will argue that the SEC's most recent attempt to address this uncertainty-a 2010 interpretive release-is inadequate, and that the SEC should issue additional guidance. As the SEC has not been active on this issue in the past four years despite promising further action on climate change disclosure, this Note will then argue that state attorneys general, particularly the New York Attorney General, should attempt to address this inaction through use of state securities laws and other advocacy tools.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2015): Volume 40.1
Process-based modelling of stream temperature dynamics in a glacially fed river system
Creators: name: Browning, Billy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Glacially fed streams face increasing threats due to changes in stream temperature and flow from continued glacier recession and climate change. These systems support unique ecological communities, often highly sensitive to thermal changes. However, understanding the governing processes of stream temperature in large glacially fed stream reaches remains limited, with a lack of literature focused on larger rivers with tributaries. The objective of this study was to quantify the drivers of stream temperature dynamics in a 24 km long reach of the glacially fed Lillooet River in the southern Coast Mountains, BC. To support the application of HydroCouple, a reach-scale process-based stream temperature model, a new stream shading model was developed that used a LiDAR digital surface model to simulate shade from riparian vegetation and a conventional DEM to simulate topographic shade. Based on a comparison with shade interpreted from high-resolution PlanetScope imagery, the model simulated shade accurately both at individual points and for reach-scale averages. The model was used to simulate incident shortwave and longwave radiation at the stream surface. Air temperature, vapour pressure and wind speed were monitored at both landbased and above- stream meteorological stations. While the differences between land-based and above-stream observations were broadly similar to those found in previous studies, there were some distinct patterns that were attributed to the timing of daily maximum water temperature, which occurred near midnight rather than early afternoon, as is more typical for non-glacier-fed streams.HydroCouple was applied without calibration under the assumption that bed heat conduction and hyporheic heat exchange were negligible. The model showed good performance (RMSE = 0.30 oC, ME = 0.03 oC) compared to previous literature. Longitudinal advection of the upstream boundary condition had an overwhelming impact on downstream temperatures, leading to low sensitivity to streamflow or energy exchange variations. Tributaries muted main channel stream temperature variations, typically reducing temperatures by 0.5 oC around midnight (daily maxima) and increasing them by 0.2 oC during the afternoon (daily minima). Net radiation at the stream surface increased stream temperatures by 0.3-0.4 oC during peak solar hours and shifted daytime daily minimum stream temperatures on average 40 minutes later.
Reasoning about Cardinal Directions between Extended Objects
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotong
name: Liu, Weiming
name: Li, Sanjiang
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Direction relations between extended spatial objects are important commonsense knowledge. Recently, Goyal and Egenhofer proposed a formal model, known as Cardinal Direction Calculus (CDC), for representing direction relations between connected plane regions. CDC is perhaps the most expressive qualitative calculus for directional information, and has attracted increasing interest from areas such as artificial intelligence, geographical information science, and image retrieval. Given a network of CDC constraints, the consistency problem is deciding if the network is realizable by connected regions in the real plane. This paper provides a cubic algorithm for checking consistency of basic CDC constraint networks, and proves that reasoning with CDC is in general an NP-Complete problem. For a consistent network of basic CDC constraints, our algorithm also returns a 'canonical' solution in cubic time. This cubic algorithm is also adapted to cope with cardinal directions between possibly disconnected regions, in which case currently the best algorithm is of time complexity O(n^5).
Legal & Scientific Integrity in Advancing a “Land Degradation Neutral World”
Creators: name: Welton, Shelley
name: Biasutti, Michela
name: Gerrard, Michael B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: It is no secret that the fight against desertification isn't going well. In the two decades since the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ("UNCCD") came into force, desertification-defined as degradation in the quality of "arid, semi-arid, and dry subhumid" land areas -has worsened considerably. Recent United Nations estimates suggest that fifty-two percent of drylands currently under agricultural cultivation are moderately or severely degraded, and 12 million hectares of productive land become barren each year due to desertification and drought. And while drylands are the focus of the UNCCD, the challenge isn't limited to them: somewhere around twenty percent of land worldwide is moderately or severely degraded and most experts predict this percentage will increase in coming decades. ... This article looks at ways to avoid these risks and to advance global land degradation neutrality into a concept-and, eventually, a program-that has legal and scientific integrity, such that it delivers tangible gains. We do so by turning backwards to move forward, drawing on lessons learned from two ongoing, land-centered policy attempts similarly framed around goals of neutrality: the "no net loss" wetlands policy embraced by the United States' Wetlands Mitigation Banking ("WMB") program, as representative of a broad class of "biodiversity offset" programs emerging around the world; and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ("REDD+"), an international program aimed at preserving, enhancing, and restoring forests as carbon "sinks." These examples provide potential frameworks for progress, but also act as harbingers of some of the challenges that land degradation neutrality may encounter in moving from theory to practical implementation. Three key issues emerge for further consideration on the path to a "land-degradation neutral world" ("LDNW"): (1) how to define and measure the problem-"land degradation"-in scientifically and legally meaningful ways; (2) how to successfully pursue "neutrality" as an organizing principle; and (3) how to balance the local and the global, and the public and the private, in the administration of such a program. Each of these issues exists at the nexus of science and law, and they are interrelated in ways that we parse in our discussion.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2015): Volume 40.1
Applications of partial depth precast concrete deck panels on horizontally curved bridges
Creators: name: Roskos, Colter Eastman
name: 0000-0001-9850-8192
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Curved girders
Partial depth precast concrete panels
Steel I-girders
Steel tub girders

description: Horizontally curved bridges are commonly used for direct connectors at highway intersections as well as other applications. The majority of curved bridges utilize continuous steel curved I-girder or tub girder systems. One of the most critical construction stages from a stability perspective is placement of the wet concrete deck at which point the girders must support the full construction load of the system until the deck stiffens and acts compositely with the girders. Bridges with a curved geometry experience significant torsional forces and require a substantial amount of bracing to control deformation during construction. There are a variety of bracing systems required for bridges during construction. These bracing systems included cross frames and lateral trusses for I-girder systems and top lateral trusses and internal and external cross frames for steel tub girders. While partial depth precast concrete panels (PCPs) are commonly used as stay-in-place formwork for straight bridges, the panels are not currently permitted on horizontally curved girder systems in Texas. TxDOT would like to extend the use of PCPs to bridges with curved girders. This report focuses on the stability of PCPs that rest on polystyrene bedding strips. The project studied the behavior for PCPs with and without a positive connection to steel girders. The experimental portion of this study consists of large-scale PCP shear tests and large-scale combined bending and torsion tests on both a twin steel I-girder system and on a single steel tub girder. The PCP shear tests were used to develop a simple and effective connection between the PCPs and the girder, as well as to empirically determine the in-plane stiffness and strength of the PCP/connection system. The large-scale girder tests were used to investigate the performance of PCPs and their connection to a system that simulates the load experienced in a realistic construction situation. Also, parametric finite element modeling of the PCPs and the curved girder systems were performed and validated with the results from the experimental tests. The finite element models were used to develop an understanding of the fundamental behavior of the steel girder systems in combination with the PCP systems. In addition to focusing on connection methods to the PCPs, guidelines were also developed for cases where the panels can be used on horizontally curved girder systems without a positive connection to the girders
A scoping review exploring the role of the dietitian in the identification and management of eating disorders and disordered eating in adolescents and adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Martin, Ruth
name: Davis, Amanda
name: Pigott, Aisling
name: Cremona, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Eating disorder diagnoses and disordered eating behaviours are more prevalent in people living with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, in particular in adolescents. The role of the dietitian in this setting is not clearly outlined in the literature. Aim: This scoping review aims to outline the available information for the role of the dietitian in identifying and managing eating disorders in adolescents and adults with co-occurring Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in a clinical setting. Methods: The Johanna Briggs Institute was utilised to guide this scoping review and to develop a search strategy for relevant databases. Relevant organisations and societies websites and professional magazines were reviewed as part of the grey literature search. Results: 38 peer reviewed journal articles, 5 professional articles, 5 book chapters and 11 clinical guidelines were included in this scoping review. Roles for the dietitian in identification, prevention and screening for eating disorders in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus were identified and outlined in a visual workflow. The role of the dietitian in the management of eating disorder in both the outpatient/community and inpatient setting and as core member of the multidisciplinary team was detailed in the literature. Conclusion: This scoping review mapped the available information in the current literature on the role of the dietitian in the identification and management of eating disorders and disordered eating in adolescents and adults with a dual diagnosis of T1DM. The reviewed literature suggests there is a strong reliance on expert opinion and practice to inform the role of the dietitian. Further research is required in order to ensure more robust evidence-based practice in this area
Separable Implementation of L2-Orthogonal STC CPM with Fast Decoding
Creators: name: Hesse, Matthias
name: Lebrun, Jerome
name: Lampe, Lutz
name: Deneire, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present an alternative separable implementation of L2-orthogonal space-time codes (STC) for continuous phase modulation (CPM). In this approach, we split the STC CPM transmitter into a single conventional CPM modulator and a correction filter bank. While the CPM modulator is common to all transmit antennas, the correction filter bank applies different correction units to each antenna. Thereby desirable code properties as orthogonality and full diversity are achievable with just a slightly larger bandwidth demand. This new representation has three main advantages. First, it allows to easily generalize the orthogonality condition to any arbitrary number of transmit antennas. Second, for a quite general set of correction functions that we detail, it can be proved that full diversity is achieved. Third, by separating the modulation and correction steps inside the receiver, a simpler receiver can be designed as a bank of data independent inverse correction filters followed by a single CPM demodulator. Therefore, in this implementation, only one correlation filter bank for the detection of all transmitted signals is necessary. The decoding effort grows only linearly with the number of transmit antennas.
Additional file 1 of Effects of personalized diets by prediction of glycemic responses on glycemic control and metabolic health in newly diagnosed T2DM: a randomized dietary intervention pilot trial
Creators: name: Rein, Michal
name: Ben-Yacov, Orly
name: Godneva, Anastasia
name: Shilo, Smadar
name: Zmora, Niv
name: Kolobkov, Dmitry
name: Cohen-Dolev, Noa
name: Wolf, Bat-Chen
name: Kosower, Noa
name: Lotan-Pompan, Maya
name: Weinberger, Adina
name: Halpern, Zamir
name: Zelber-Sagi, Shira
name: Elinav, Eran
name: Segal, Eran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Menus construction and scoring. Fig. S2. PPT diet improves glucose excursions in newly diagnosed T2DM subjects. Fig. S3. Dominant food. Fig. S4. Monitoring Diet Adherence. Table S1. Characteristics of participants who did not proceed to the 6-month intervention. Table S2. Sensitivity analysis for the crossover outcomes. Table S3. Dietary intake during crossover intervention.
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION IN MALAYSIA TOWARDS REINTEGRATION OF EX-OFFENDERS.
Creators: name: Mohd Suhaimi Mohamad
name: Voothayakumar, Divaghar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: ex offender
subject: reintegration
subject: social work
subject: ex prisoner
subject: social organisation

description: Abstract Background: The social services offered after release from prison are very important to ex-offenders. It determines fulfilment of the basic needs of ex-offenders and this demands the role of multiple agencies, especially social organizations that advertise social services to ex-offenders. This study focuses on the role of social organization in Malaysia towards reintegration of ex-offenders. Methods: This study uses a qualitative research design through the semi-structured interview method. Interviews were conducted with ten participants who are service providers for ex-offenders in the Klang Valley. All participants were identified through the snowballing technique. The interviews were taped using audio recorders, and the research was carried out between November 2021 and June 2022.In this study, the researchers first transcribed the recorded sessions into written form, providing verbatim transcripts. Following that, the transcripts were imported into Microsoft Excel software to enable data coding. These codes were then given names based on past research and put together to form major themes, also known as superordinate or main themes. Results: In total a sample of 10 people were selected for this study using snowballing technique. The findings of the study found that there were five main themes emerged to explain the role of social organization in helping the re-interaction process of ex-offenders. The themes are pre-release training, social acceptance, educational and vocational training, support system and advocacy. All the themes found are important elements in ensuring the success of the ex-offender re-integration process in Malaysia. In addition, it requires service providers to identify positive and negative aspects of ex-offenders' lives. Conclusions: The role of the service provider includes all aspects of social functioning of the ex-offender from providing basic needs to being a voice in demanding for human rights for ex-offenders.
TeV neutrinos from accreting X-ray pulsars
Creators: name: Bednarek, Wlodek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsars inside binary systems can accrete matter that arrives up to the pulsar surface provided that its period is long enough. During the accretion process, matter has to be accelerated to the rotational velocity of the pulsar magnetosphere at the distance where the balance between the pressure of matter and the magnetic field is achieved. At this distance, a very turbulent and magnetized region is formed in which hadrons can be accelerated to relativistic energies. These hadrons can interact with the very strong radiation field coming from the hot polar cap on the neutron star surface created by the in-falling matter. We calculate the neutrino event rates produced in an km$^2$ detector that can be expected from accreting millisecond and classical X-ray pulsars at a typical distance within our own Galaxy.
description: 5 pages, accepted to Physical Review D
Smart Sprawl? Green Aspirations and the Lowdown on High-Density Suburbia
Creators: name: Pavone, Paige
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: Reading Woods, an expensive condominium development north of Boston, is a quintessential example of suburban sprawl. Built in 2011, Reading Woods comprises 408 units, with unlimited parking for each. From Reading Woods, residents cannot walk to a public library, a bank, or a grocery store; they often opt to drive to the nearby strip mall instead. If they really wanted to, residents could walk to a chain restaurant, but they would have to risk crossing I-95 first. I-95 is familiar to them-a backyard of sorts-rushing past 100 feet away. Given these facts, it is perplexing that a Smart Growth Overlay District enabled the development of Reading Woods. Many hail high-density development as the smart growth solution to sprawl. While mixed-use high-density and urban residential high-density may be valid solutions, exclusively residential high-density suburban development is anything but smart. Ironically, developers build these High-Density Islands, as I will refer to them, using the legal techniques developed for smart growth programs. However, smart growth tools depend on co-implementation to achieve their purported benefits. When applied individually, smart growth and anti-sprawl programs can yield exclusively residential high-density suburban development. Thus, High-Density Islands merely add density to suburban sprawl and exacerbate the very problems smart growth seeks to correct. Without public infrastructure to accommodate low-carbon-emitting lifestyles for the additional and existing residents, High-Density Islands deepen suburbia's car-dependency. High-Density Islands spur other critical problems that enfeeble efficacious land use planning, such as civic disengagement, high public costs, homogeneity, bromidic buildings, public health hazards, and environmental justice concerns. The construction of High-Density Islands cannot continue without crippling America's physical and cultural environment.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2015): Volume 40.1
Magnetic fingerprints of solar and stellar oscillations
Creators: name: Khomenko, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Waves connect all the layers of the Sun, from its interior to the upper atmosphere. It is becoming clear now the important role of magnetic field on the wave propagation. Magnetic field modifies propagation speed of waves, thus affecting the conclusions of helioseismological studies. It can change the direction of the wave propagation, help channeling them straight up to the corona, extending the dynamic and magnetic couplings between all the layers. Modern instruments provide measurements of complex patterns of oscillations in solar active regions and of tiny effects such as temporal oscillations of the magnetic field. The physics of oscillations in a variety of magnetic structures of the Sun is similar to that of pulsations of stars that posses strong magnetic fields, such as roAp stars. All these arguments point toward a need of systematic self-consistent modeling of waves in magnetic structures that is able to take into account the complexity of the magnetic field configurations. In this paper, we describe simulations of this kind, summarize our recent findings and bring together results from the theory and observations.
description: Proceeding of VIII Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Santander 7-11 July 2008
Bootstrap Confidence Regions for Learned Feature Embeddings
Creators: name: Sankaran, Kris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Algorithmic feature learners provide high-dimensional vector representations for non-matrix structured data, like image or text collections. Low-dimensional projections derived from these representations, called embeddings, are often used to explore variation in these data. However, it is not clear how to assess the embedding uncertainty. We adapt methods developed for bootstrapping principal components analysis to the setting where features are algorithmically derived from nonmatrix data. We empirically compare the derived confidence areas in simulations, varying factors influencing feature learning and the bootstrap, like feature learning algorithm complexity and bootstrap sample size. We illustrate the proposed approaches on a spatial proteomics dataset, where we observe that embedding precision is not uniform across all tissue types. Code, data, and pretrained models are available as an R compendium in the supplementary materials. Supplementary files for this article are available online.
Additional file 3 of Effects of personalized diets by prediction of glycemic responses on glycemic control and metabolic health in newly diagnosed T2DM: a randomized dietary intervention pilot trial
Creators: name: Rein, Michal
name: Ben-Yacov, Orly
name: Godneva, Anastasia
name: Shilo, Smadar
name: Zmora, Niv
name: Kolobkov, Dmitry
name: Cohen-Dolev, Noa
name: Wolf, Bat-Chen
name: Kosower, Noa
name: Lotan-Pompan, Maya
name: Weinberger, Adina
name: Halpern, Zamir
name: Zelber-Sagi, Shira
name: Elinav, Eran
name: Segal, Eran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Data of glucose features in crossover intervention.
title: How ChatGPT Can Be Used as a Defense Mechanism for Cyber Attacks
Creators: name: Ayaim, Michelle
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The powers of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI language model, ChatGPT, startled millions of users when it was released in November. But for many, the tool's ability to further accomplish the goals of evil actors swiftly replaced their initial excitement with significant concerns. ChatGPT gives malicious actors additional ways to possibly compromise sophisticated cybersecurity software. Leaders in a sector that is currently suffering from a 38% global spike in data breaches in 2022 must acknowledge the rising influence of AI and take appropriate action. Cybercriminals are writing more complex and focused business email compromise (BEC) and other phishing emails with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT. This study's conclusions demonstrate how quickly AI-based threats are developing, particularly in terms of their number, speed, and complexity.
Progress on charm semileptonic form factors from 2+1 flavor lattice QCD
Creators: name: Bailey, Jon A.
name: Bazavov, A.
name: Bernard, C.
name: Bouchard, C.
name: DeTar, C.
name: El-Khadra, A. X.
name: Freeland, E. D.
name: Freeman, W.
name: Gamiz, E.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Hetrick, J. E.
name: Kronfeld, A. S.
name: Laiho, J.
name: Levkova, L.
name: Mackenzie, P. B.
name: Oktay, M. B.
name: Di Pierro, M.
name: Simone, J. N.
name: Sugar, R.
name: Toussaint, D.
name: Van de Water, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice calculations of the form factors for the charm semileptonic decays D to K l nu and D to pi l nu provide inputs to direct determinations of the CKM matrix elements |V(cs)| and |V(cd)| and can be designed to validate calculations of the form factors for the bottom semileptonic decays B to pi l nu and B to K l l-bar. We are using Fermilab charm (bottom) quarks and asqtad staggered light quarks on the 2+1 flavor asqtad MILC ensembles to calculate the charm (bottom) form factors. We outline improvements to the previous calculation of the charm form factors and detail our progress. We expect our current round of data production to allow us to reduce the theoretical uncertainties in |V(cs)| and |V(cd)| from 10.5% and 11%, respectively, to about 7%.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, parallel talk at 27th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2009), Beijing, China, 25-31 Jul 2009; typos corrected
Climate Adaptation and Land Use Governance: The Vertical Axis
Creators: name: Kaswan, Alice
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: The existing and expected impacts of climate change are increasingly well-documented. Recent hurricanes, wildfires, and heat waves provide dramatic examples of what climate change portends, even if no single event can be directly attributed to climate change. The scale of anticipated climate change poses profound challenges to existing governance norms. This Article addresses one of those norms: the norm of local control over land use. Through an in-depth assessment of the federalism values that guide jurisdictional choices, it argues that a multilevel governance approach that supplements local control with federal parameters and resources is necessary to adequately prepare for climate change and to meet the wide range of local, state, and federal interests at stake.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 39 No. S (2014): Volume 39.S
Finite-temperature dynamics with the density-matrix renormalization group method
Creators: name: Kokalj, J.
name: Prelovsek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel numerical method for the evaluation of dynamical response functions at finite temperatures in one-dimensional strongly correlated systems. The approach is based on the density-matrix renormalization group method, combined with the finite-temperature Lanczos diagonalization. The feasibility of the method is tested on the example of dynamical spin correlations in the anisotropic Heisenberg chain, in particular it yields nontrivial results for the critical behavior in the isotropic case.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Settler-state ambitions and bureaucratic ritual at the frontiers of the labour market: Indigenous Australians and remote employment services 2011–2017
Creators: name: Fowkes, Lisa
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Indigenous Affairs
welfare reform
New Public Management
employment services
CDEP
activation
welfare conditionality
performance management
workfare
labour market programs
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
unemployment
remote
remote employment
Community Development Program

description: This thesis explores how policy is enacted – in this case, the Australian Government’s labour market program for remote unemployed people, initially known as the Remote Jobs and Communities Program (RJCP) and then the Community Development Programme (CDP). It outlines the development and delivery of the program from 2011, when the then Labor Government identified the need for a specific remote employment program, placing the employment participation of remote Indigenous people (who made up over 80% of the remote unemployed) at centre stage. It examines the changes that occurred to the program following the 2013 election of a Coalition Government, including the introduction of ‘continuous’ Work for the Dole. The focus of the thesis is on how patterns of practice have emerged in these programs, in particular: how providers have responded; how frontline workers navigate their roles; and how ‘Work for the Dole’ actually operates. What emerges is a gulf between bureaucratic and political ambitions for these programs and the ways in which participants and frontline workers view and enact them. This is more than a problem of poor implementation or the subversions of street-level bureaucrats and clients. There is evidence of a more fundamental failure of technologies of settler-state government as they are applied to remote Indigenous peoples. On the remote, intercultural frontiers of the labour market, the limits of centralised attempts at ‘reform’ become clear. Practices intended to tutor Indigenous people in the ways of the labour market are emptied of meaning. The Indigenous people who are the targets of governing efforts fail to conform with desired behaviours of ‘self-governing’ citizens, even in the face of escalating penalties. As a result, government ambitions to transform the behaviours and subjectivities of Indigenous people are reduced to bureaucratic rituals, represented in numbers and graphs on computer screens in Canberra.
The Narcowich-Wigner spectrum of a pure state
Creators: name: Dias, Nuno Costa
name: Prata, Joao Nuno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We completely characterize the Narcowich-Wigner spectrum of Wigner functions associated with pure states.
description: 10 pages, latex file, to appear in Rep. Math. Phys
This is Adaptation: The Elimination of Subsidies Under the National Flood Insurance Program
Creators: name: Fox, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2019

description: The oceans are rising. Amid any remaining debates about climate change and its relation to human activity, this fact appears unassailable. “Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 1 to 2.5 millimeters (0.04 to 0.1 inches) per year since 1900,” and since 1992, new methods of measurement show a “rate of rise of 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) per year.” Changing climatic conditions have led to an increase in the temperature of ocean water and consequent expansion in its volume. That rise in temperature has also led to the melting of polar ice caps, adding water to the ocean. At the same time, the changing climate has resulted in more frequent extreme hurricanes. And higher sea levels increase the risk these storms pose to coastal communities at a time when such communities are growing rapidly in the United States. A series of powerful storms—and the costs they have exacted—have vividly demonstrated the consequences of this dangerous trifecta over the past decade. ... The reality of moving away from subsidies may therefore raise complicated social and legal issues. Reliance-based impacts, and any legal responsibilities that they create with regard to the elimination of subsidies, must be fleshed out and considered. The controversy over recent amendments to the NFIP provides a helpful framework for this consideration. Many purchased homes in the floodplain in reliance on the availability of subsidies, and possible revocation of those subsidies was met with public outcry. But an analysis of potential government obligations based on contract law, regulatory takings doctrine, due process, or environmental justice shows that none of these frameworks obligate a government to continue its provision of subsidized flood insurance. As governments attempt to make up for poor decisions in the past, assessing how much change communities can be expected to take on at a time becomes enormously important. Clarifying that this question is one of policy choice rather than government obligation, however, may provide support to policymakers tasked with implementing needed changes. This struggle to reverse course from a subsidized way of life is just one of the hard first steps that policymakers and their constituents will increasingly confront in the face of a changing climate. This is adaptation.
description: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 39 No. 2 (2014): Volume 39.2
Leptodactylus typhonius B. 1826
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Leptodactylidae
Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus typhonius

description: Leptodactylus typhonius B. c.
(Cystign. gracilis Gü)
Taguara v. F M. [2]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 673, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591