cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simple Numerical Solutions to the Einstein Constraints on Various Three-Manifolds
Creators: name: Zhang, Fan
name: Lindblom, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical solutions to the Einstein constraint equations are constructed on a selection of compact orientable three-dimensional manifolds with non-trivial topologies. A simple constant mean curvature solution and a somewhat more complicated non-constant mean curvature solution are computed on example manifolds from three of the eight Thursten geometrization classes. The constant mean curvature solutions found here are also solutions to the Yamabe problem that transforms a geometry into one with constant scalar curvature.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, published version
Developing and assessing surveillance methodologies for Agrilus beetles
Creators: name: Williams, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, surveillance, traps, lures, diagnostics, Agrilus

description: Slide of the Euphresco project 2020-A-337 'Developing and assessing surveillance methodologies for Agrilus beetles'
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
Test Results on the Biological Effectiveness of the Herbicide Kataryus Bereke against Annual and Perennial Weeds in Rice Fields in the Conditions of Tashkent Region
Creators: name: Nodirbek Gofurjonovich Otamirzayev
name: Masudjon Akhtamovich Sattarov
name: Muhammadjon Arabboyevich Ergashev
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Rice, Water, Weed, Turmeric, Herbicide, Biological Effect, Yield, Productivity.

description: Abstract

According to the results of the study conducted in this article, the application of the herbicide Kataryus bereke  at a rate of 0.5 l/ha against annual weeds in rice crops led to the destruction of weeds, the biological efficiency was 94.9% compared to annual cereal weeds. In the experiment, when using the herbicide Kataryus bereke  at a rate of 0.5 l/ha, the yield of rice grain was 11.4 centners higher than the control in the Tashkent region. Taking into account the biological efficiency of the herbicide Kataryus bereke , it is recommended to use 0.5 l/ha against annual cereal weeds in rice crops. It is recommended to carry out tillage work when weeds have developed 3-4 leaves in wet soil.
title: The effect of habitat creation for predatory arthropods on aphid populations in winter wheat
Creators: name: Collins, Katherine Lucy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Data are presented from research conducted to investigate the role of beetle banks in the biological control of cereal aphids.

 A project designed to compare overwintering predator densities in a newly established beetle bank and two conventional hedgebanks over a five year period, indicated that predator densities were similar to or greater than those in the surrounding hedgebanks by the second year of the beetle banks establishment Predators found overwintering on the beetle bank included many species that are considered to be important predators of cereal aphids. A further overwintering experiment conducted over a four year period, investigated five different grass species sown on beetle banks and a natural regeneration treatment, for their suitability in providing overwintering cover for polyphagous predators. Overall, the highest overwintering predator densities were recorded in grass species with tussocky growth forms and the lowest predator densities were recorded in treatments where the vegetation on the beetle bank had been allowed to naturally regenerate.

 During the spring and summer, a predator exclusion experiment was conducted to explore the effect of. polyphagous predators emigrating from a beetle bank on cereal aphid populations in an adjacent crop of winter wheat. The results from this experiment indicated that polyphagous predators significantly reduced aphid populations in the crop, though the impact of polyphagous predation appeared to decrease with increasing distance away from the beetle bank. The results from the exclusion experiment, together with the results from a further experiment investigating the effect of the presence or absence of a beetle bank on the distribution of polyphagous predators in crops, also indicated that beetle banks aid the rapid colonisation of cereal fields by polyphagous predators in the early spring, when the potential for aphid control is optimal.

 Cost-benefit analysis suggested that an aphid population kept below spray threshold levels C by enhanced natural enemy populations emigrating from a beetle bank, could result in a small but potentially useful saving in insecticide costs. The results are discussed in the context of current agricultural policies and in relation to the potential environmental benefits of reducing the .reliance upon chemical methods to control cereal aphids. Further research needs are also identified.
Graded Coherence of Certain Extensions of Graded Algebras
Creators: name: Goetz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S38, 16S70, 16W50

description: Let $\k$ be a field, and let $A$ and $B$ be connected $\N$-graded $\k$-algebras. The algebra $A$ is said to be a graded right-free extension of $B$ provided there is a surjective graded algebra morphism $π: A \to B$ such that $\kerπ$ is free as a right $A$-module. Suppose that $B$ is graded left coherent, and that $A$ is a graded right-free extension of $B$. We characterize when $A$ is also graded left coherent. We apply our criterion to prove graded coherence of certain non-Noetherian graded twisted tensor products.
description: 12 pages; submitted to a journal
B Lambda_b and Charm Results from the Tevatron
Creators: name: Azfar, Farrukh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on $B_d$, $B_u^{\pm}$, $B_s$, $Λ_b$ and Charm hadrons are reported from $\approx$ 75pb$^{-1}$ and $\approx$ 40 pb$^{-1}$ of data accumulated at the upgraded CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar{p}-p$ collider, during Run-II. These include lifetime and mass measurements of $B$ and Charm hadrons, searches for rare decays in charm and $B$ hadrons and CP-violation in Charm decays. Results relevant to CP-violation in B-decays are also reported.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures (+ 1 photo) Physics in Collision 2003 PNC FRAT06
Styloleptoides inflaticollis
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptoides
Styloleptoides inflaticollis

description: 1. Styloleptoides inflaticollis (Chemsak, 1966)
Type locality — British Virgin Islands, Peter Island: Little Bay. (USNM). Distribution — British Virgin Islands (Peter Island), Puerto Rico.
 Leptostylus inflaticollis Chemsak, 1966: 215.
 Styloleptoides inflaticollis; Chalumeau, 1983: 232; Chemsak et al., 1992: 146 (cat.).
 Styloleptus inflaticollis; Lingafelter & Micheli, 2004: 51 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Quantum search for unknown number of target items hybridizing the fixed-point method with the trail-and-error method
Creators: name: Li, Tan
name: Zhang, Shuo
name: Fu, Xiang-Qun
name: Wang, Xiang
name: Wang, Yang
name: Lin, Jie
name: Bao, Wan-Su
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the unsorted database quantum search with the unknown fraction $λ$ of target items, there are mainly two kinds of methods, i.e., fixed-point or trail-and-error. (i) In terms of the fixed-point method, Yoder et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210501 (2014)] claimed that the quadratic speedup over classical algorithms has been achieved. However, in this paper, we point out that this is not the case, because the query complexity of Yoder's algorithm is actually in $O(1/\sqrt{λ_0})$ rather than $O(1/\sqrtλ)$, where $λ_0$ is a known lower bound of $λ$. (ii) In terms of the trail-and-error method, currently the algorithm without randomness has to take more than 1 times queries or iterations than the algorithm with randomly selected parameters. For the above problems, we provide the first hybrid quantum search algorithm based on the fixed-point and trail-and-error methods, where the matched multiphase Grover operations are trialed multiple times and the number of iterations increases exponentially along with the number of trials. The upper bound of expected queries as well as the optimal parameters are derived. Compared with Yoder's algorithm, the query complexity of our algorithm indeed achieves the optimal scaling in $λ$ for quantum search, which reconfirms the practicality of the fixed-point method. In addition, our algorithm also does not contain randomness, and compared with the existing deterministic algorithm, the query complexity can be reduced by about 1/3. Our work provides an new idea for the research on fixed-point and trial-and-error quantum search.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Comments are warmly welcome!
title: Characterisation of Burkholderia cepacia from clinical and environmental origins.
Creators: name: Wigley, Paul
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Burkholderia cepacia isolates were obtained from the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients or isolated from the environment. The isolates were characterised phenotypically by determining antibiotic resistance profiles and their ability to macerate onion tissue, and genetically by PCR ribotyping and macro-restriction analysis (genome fingerprinting). The replicon (chromosomal) organisation was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and the presence of plasmids was also investigated. Plasmid transfer by conjugation was also investigated.
A high degree of genetic and phenotypic variation was found both within and between clinical and environmental populations of B. cepacia. Environmental isolates were generally less resistant to antibiotics but showed greater ability to macerate onion tissue. Genetic characterisation showed little evidence of acquisition of B. cepacia from the environment by CF patients, but revealed strong evidence supporting person-to-person transmission of B. cepacia in the Cardiff CF centre and other European centres.

Two or more chromosomes were found in 93 % of B. cepacia isolates tested, and were also found in other closely related species suggesting such organisation may be common in P-2 proteobacteria. Plasmids, often in excess of 100 kb, were found to be harboured in 52 % of isolates, though were more commonly found in CF isolates (65 % of isolates) than environmental isolates (23 % of isolates). Plasmid transfer by conjugation was demonstrated into, between and from B. cepacia strains. Evidence of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance was also found.
From individual responsibility to the public good : a critical examination of personal educational beliefs and the aims of education
Creators: name: Greenwood, Michael M. B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This paper explores the development of my educational beliefs over a period of ten years. From consideration of differing notions of character education, to implicit assumptions about private and public education, to neoliberal educational and social policies, to social justice and democratic models of education, to Aboriginal conceptions of holism, this critical self-examination revealed the initial disparity between my moral impulse for entering the teaching profession, the aims of education as I understood them, and the means I had ascribed to achieve those aims. The paper concludes with the suggestion that an ideal educational model is holistic in nature, justice-oriented in its approach, contributes to the public good, and has democratic citizenship as the primary aim for all of its students.
Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO
Creators: name: Chen, X.
name: Gehrmann, T.
name: Glover, E. W. N.
name: Mo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the details of the calculation of the full colour NNLO QCD corrections to jet production observables at the LHC with antenna subtraction. All relevant matrix elements for the process $pp \to jj$ at NNLO in full colour are colour-decomposed and given in a $N_c$ and $n_f$ expansion, making identification of leading and subleading colour contributions transparent. The colour-ordered antenna subtraction method has previously successfully been used to construct the NNLO subtraction terms for processes with up to five partons or in the leading colour approximation. However, it is challenged by the more involved subleading colour structure of the squared matrix elements in processes with six or more partons. Here, we describe the methods needed to successfully construct the NNLO subtraction terms for the subleading colour contributions to dijet production within the antenna subtraction formalism.
description: 65 pages, 2 figures
Styloleptoides morazzanii Chalumeau 1983
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptoides
Styloleptoides morazzanii

description: 2. Styloleptoides morazzanii Chalumeau, 1983
Type locality — Guadeloupe, Les Saintes (Terre­de­Haut). (IREC). Distribution — Guadeloupe.
 Styloleptoides morazzanii Chalumeau, 1983: 231, figs. 11, 13; Chemsak et al., 1992: 146 (cat.); Chalumeau & Tourault, 2004b: 193 (hosts).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Correlation Functions, Mean First Passage Times and the Kemeny Constant
Creators: name: Kells, Adam
name: Rosta, Edina
name: Annibale, Alessia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J27, 60J28, 60J10, 60J20, 60J22, 62M05, 62MXX, 65J22

description: Markov processes are widely used models for investigating kinetic networks. Here we collate and present a variety of results pertaining to kinetic network models, in a unified framework. The aim is to lay out explicit links between several important quantities commonly studied in the field, including mean first passage times (MFPTs), correlation functions and the Kemeny constant, and highlight some of the subtleties which are often overlooked in the literature, while providing new insights. Results include (i) a simple physical interpretation of the Kemeny constant, (ii) a recipe to infer equilibrium distributions and rate matrices from measurements of MFPTs, potentially useful in applications, including milestoning in molecular dynamics, and (iii) a protocol to reduce the dimensionality of kinetic networks, based on specific requirements that the MFPTs in the coarse-grained system should satisfy. It is proven that this protocol coincides with the one proposed by Hummer and Szabo in [1] and it leads to a variational principle for the Kemeny constant. We hope that this study will serve as a useful reference for readers interested in theoretical aspects of kinetic networks, some of which underpin useful applications, including milestoning and coarse-graining.
description: 9 pages
Concise synthesis of heliolactone, a non-canonical strigolactone isolated from sunflower
Creators: name: Shunya Yamamoto
name: Atarashi, Taiki
name: Kuse, Masaki
name: Sugimoto, Yukihiro
name: Hirosato Takikawa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical 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: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Heliolactone is one of the earliest identified non-canonical strigolactones. Its concise synthesis was achieved by employing Knoevenagel-type condensation and semi-reduction of a malonate intermediate as the key steps. This synthesis was performed in a non-stereoselective manner, and thus a racemic and diastereomeric mixture of heliolactone was obtained. The developed synthetic route is fairly concise and straightforward. Graphical abstract A racemic and diastereomeric mixture of heliolactone was synthesized.
Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized Iron Beyond the Planetary Roche Lobe
Creators: name: Cubillos, Patricio E.
name: Fossati, Luca
name: Koskinen, Tommi
name: Young, Mitchell E.
name: Salz, Michael
name: France, Kevin
name: Sreejith, A. G.
name: Haswell, Carole A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inflated transiting hot Jupiter HD 209458b is one of the best studied objects since the beginning of exoplanet characterization. Transmission observations of this system between the mid infrared and the far ultraviolet have revealed the signature of atomic, molecular, and possibly aerosol species in the lower atmosphere of the planet, as well as escaping hydrogen and metals in the upper atmosphere. From a re-analysis of near-ultraviolet (NUV) transmission observations of HD 209458b, we detect ionized iron (Fe II) absorption in a 100 A-wide range around 2370 A, lying beyond the planetary Roche lobe. However, we do not detect absorption of equally strong Fe II lines expected to be around 2600 A. Further, we find no evidence for absorption by neutral magnesium (Mg I), ionized magnesium (Mg II), nor neutral iron (Fe I). These results avoid the conflict with theoretical models previously found by Vidal-Madjar et al. (2013), which detected Mg I but did not detect Mg II from this same data set. Our results indicate that hydrodynamic escape is strong enough to carry atoms as heavy as iron beyond the planetary Roche lobe, even for planets less irradiated than the extreme ultra-hot-Jupiters such as WASP-12b and KELT-9b. The detection of iron and non-detection of magnesium in the upper atmosphere of HD 209458b can be explained by a model in which the lower atmosphere forms (hence, sequesters) primarily magnesium-bearing condensates, rather than iron condensates. This is suggested by current microphysical models. The inextricable synergy between upper- and lower-atmosphere properties highlights the value of combining observations that probe both regions.
description: Accepted for publication at AAS Journals
Additional file 3 of Adaptation of the Patient Benefit Assessment Scale for Hospitalised Older Patients: development, reliability and validity of the P-BAS picture version
Creators: name: van der Kluit, Maria Johanna
name: Dijkstra, Geke J.
name: de Rooij, Sophia E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Questionnaires used to test the construct validity.
Thermodynamics and quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Zaanen, J.
name: Hosseinkhani, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We will present elementary scaling arguments focussed on the thermodynamics in the proximity of the quantum critical point in the cuprate superconductors. Extending the analysis centered on the Grüneisen parameter by Rosch, Si and coworkers to the cuprates, we demonstrate that a combination of specific heat- and chemical potential measurements can reveal the nature of the zero temperature singularity. From the known specific heat data it follows that the effective number of time dimensions has to equal the number of space dimensions, while we find a total of six scaling laws governing the temperature and density dependence of the chemical potential, revealing directly the coupling constant scaling dimension.
description: 4 pages no figures
title: A molecular analysis of the tissue polarity gene prickle and associated transcripts in Drosophila melanogaster.
Creators: name: Green, Clare Patricia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The distinct patterns of bristles and hairs on the surface of an adult Drosophila indicate a planar polarity and reflect the polarity of the underlying structures. Many of the planar polarity genes have been analysed molecularly and found to encode a diverse group of proteins. In this thesis, I describe the molecular characterisation of prickle.

 Three classes of mutation are found at the prickle locus; prickle (pkpk), spiny- legs (pksple) and prickle-spiny-legs (pkpk-sple). Three transcripts were identified and sequenced. The 4.2 kb pk transcript has seven exons that span 70 kb. The other two transcripts, sple and pkM, share six exons with pk and have alternatively spliced 5' ends.

 The GAL4-UAS system was used to demonstrate rescue of the prickle and spiny-legs phenotypes with the pk and sple transcripts, respectively. Overexpression of the UAS[pk+] construct also resulted in a phenotype resembling loss-of-function pksple and vice versa.

The transcripts encode novel proteins with three LIM or UM-like motifs in the shared exons. LIM domains are cysteine rich sequences known to be involved in protein- protein interactions. A novel domain, named the PET domain, was also identified in these proteins just upstream of the LLM motifs. Database searches found the PET domain conserved in a small group of proteins. A Drosophila homologue, espinas (esn), was also identified and sequenced.

A cluster of transcripts was found in the region of the 5' exon of the pk transcript. These were sequenced and shown to have homology to serine proteinase inhibitors or serpins. The most distal of the three was shown to rescue the necrotic phenotype.

The possible roles of prickle in planar polarity signalling are discussed and it is suggested that the prickle proteins may be involved in the formation of multiprotein complexes.
Quantum mean centering for block-encoding-based quantum algorithm
Creators: name: Liu, Hai-Ling
name: Yu, Chao-Hua
name: Wan, Lin-Chun
name: Qin, Su-Juan
name: Gao, Fei
name: Wen, Qiao-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mean Centering (MC) is an important data preprocessing technique, which has a wide range of applications in data mining, machine learning, and multivariate statistical analysis. When the data set is large, this process will be time-consuming. In this paper, we propose an efficient quantum MC algorithm based on the block-encoding technique, which enables the existing quantum algorithms can get rid of the assumption that the original data set has been classically mean-centered. Specifically, we first adopt the strategy that MC can be achieved by multiplying by the centering matrix $C$, i.e., removing the row means, column means and row-column means of the original data matrix $X$ can be expressed as $XC$, $CX$ and $CXC$, respectively. This allows many classical problems involving MC, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), to directly solve the matrix algebra problems related to $XC$, $CX$ or $CXC$. Next, we can employ the block-encoding technique to realize MC. To achieve it, we first show how to construct the block-encoding of the centering matrix $C$, and then further obtain the block-encodings of $XC$, $CX$ and $CXC$. Finally, we describe one by one how to apply our MC algorithm to PCA and other algorithms.
Styloleptus atrovittatus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptus
Styloleptus atrovittatus

description: 1. Styloleptus atrovittatus (Fisher, 1926)
Type locality — Cuba, Yara. (USNM). Distribution — Cuba, Dominican Republic.
 Leiopus atrovittatus Fisher, 1926a: 9; Russo, 1930: 144 (distr.).
 Styloleptus atrovittatus; Gilmour, 1963a: 65; Chemsak et al., 1992: 146 (cat.).
 Urgleptes atrovittatus; Zayas, 1975: 258.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
The Sigma-Model Representation for the Duality-Symmetric D=11 Supergravity
Creators: name: Nurmagambetov, Alexei J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper which is based on the results obtained in collaboration with Igor Bandos and Dmitri Sorokin I present the extention of the "doubled fields" formalism by Cremmer, Julia, Lu and Pope to the supersymmetric case and lifting this construction onto the level of the proper duality-symmetric action for D=11 supergravity. Further extension of the doubled field formulation to include dynamical sources is also discussed.
description: 8 pages, contribution to the 5th International Conference On Symmetry In Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, June 23-29, 2003, Kiev, Ukraine
Polysiloxane-based scintillators for shashlik calorimeters
Creators: name: Acerbi, F.
name: Branca, A.
name: Brizzolari, C.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Carturan, S.
name: Catanesi, M. G.
name: Cecchini, S.
name: Cindolo, F.
name: Collazuol, G.
name: Corso, F. Dal
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Delogu, C.
name: Falcone, A.
name: Gola, A.
name: Jollet, C.
name: Kliček, B.
name: Kudenko, Y.
name: Laveder, M.
name: Longhin, A.
name: Ludovici, L.
name: Lutsenko, E.
name: Magaletti, L.
name: Mandrioli, G.
name: Marchi, T.
name: Margotti, A.
name: Mascagna, V.
name: Meregaglia, A.
name: Mezzetto, M.
name: Nessi, M.
name: Pari, M.
name: Parozzi, E.
name: Pasqualini, L.
name: Paternoster, G.
name: Patrizii, L.
name: Piemonte, C.
name: Pozzato, M.
name: Prest, M.
name: Pupilli, F.
name: Radicioni, E.
name: Riccio, C.
name: Ruggeri, A. C.
name: Scian, C.
name: Sirri, G.
name: Stipčevic, M.
name: Tenti, M.
name: Terranova, F.
name: Torti, M.
name: Vallazza, E.
name: Vesco, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first application of polysiloxane-based scintillators as active medium in a shashlik sampling calorimeter. These results were obtained from a testbeam campaign of a $\sim$6$\times$6$\times$45 cm$^3$ (13 $X_0$ depth) prototype. A Wavelength Shifting fiber array of 36 elements runs perpendicularly to the stack of iron (15 mm) and polysiloxane scintillator (15 mm) tiles with a density of about one over cm$^2$. Unlike shashlik calorimeters based on plastic organic scintillators, here fibers are optically matched with the scintillator without any intermediate air gap. The prototype features a compact light readout based on Silicon Photo-Multipliers embedded in the bulk of the detector. The detector was tested with electrons, pions and muons with energies ranging from 1 to 7 GeV at the CERN-PS. This solution offers a highly radiation hard detector to instrument the decay region of a neutrino beam, providing an event-by-event measurement of high-angle decay products associated with neutrino production (ENUBET, Enhanced NeUtrino BEams from kaon Tagging, ERC project). The results in terms of light yield, uniformity and energy resolution, are compared to a similar calorimeter built with ordinary plastic scintillators.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures. To appear in NIM-A
SOME POLICY IMPLICATIONS RELATIVE TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARTIFICIAL BREEDING INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Wysong, John W.
name: Ganguly, Pradeep
name: Wysong, John W.
name: Ganguly, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: policy implications
subject: firm size and efficiency
subject: industry concentration
subject: artificial animal breeding
subject: purchased farm inputs
subject: firm vs. industry growth

description: Major development of the commercial artificial breeding industry in the United States has occurred since its birth in 1939. In 1981, the industry' provided semen to breed approximately 70 percent of the • national dairy herd and 10 of the national beef herd. A. primary concern • within the industry is the impact of continued reduction in. firm numbers and growth of individual firm size' and scale on competitive forces within, the total domestic and foreign artificial breeding market. The interactions • - of adjustments among the farm input sup-02,y sector, the farm production • sector, and the general economy are expected to continue in the future as U.S. dairy farms become larger but fewer in number and more beef cow farms • adopt artificial breeding. Use of artificial insemination for other livestock is expected to continue to increase. Additional realignment and restructuring of the industry can be. expected, as the farmer cooperative • firms and the privately owned firms -continue to merge and. consolidate ope- • . : • rations to gain efficiency in production and advantages of serving larger markets.
Skyrmions coupled with the electromagnetic field via the gauged Wess-Zumino term
Creators: name: Ohtani, Munehisa
name: Ohta, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In soliton models expressed in terms of the non-linear chiral field, the electric current has an anomalous gauge-field contribution as the baryon current does. We study the spin polarized Skyrmions coupled with the electromagnetic field via the gauged Wess-Zumino term and calculate configurations of the Skyrmion and the gauge field with boundary conditions to ensure the physical charge number for baryons. Although the electromagnetic field via the gauged Wess-Zumino term affects physical quantities in small amounts, we find that the magnetic field forms a dipole structure owing to a circular electric current around the spin quantization axis of the soliton. This is understood on an analogy with the Meissner effect in the super conductor.The electric charge distributions turn out to have characteristic structures depending on the total charge, which suggests the intrinsic deformation of baryons due to orbital motions of the constituents.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Disentangling Multiple Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Sources in PTA Datasets
Creators: name: Kaiser, Andrew R.
name: Pol, Nihan S.
name: McLaughlin, Maura A.
name: Chen, Siyuan
name: Hazboun, Jeffrey S.
name: Kelley, Luke Zoltan
name: Simon, Joseph
name: Taylor, Stephen R.
name: Vigeland, Sarah J.
name: Witt, Caitlin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With strong evidence of a common-spectrum stochastic process in the most recent datasets from the NANOGrav Collaboration, the European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), Parkes PTA, and the International PTA, it is crucial to assess the effects of the several astrophysical and cosmological sources that could contribute to the stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB). Using the same dataset creation and injection techniques as in Pol et al. (2021), we assess the separability of multiple GWBs by creating single and multiple GWB source datasets. We search for these injected sources using Bayesian PTA analysis techniques to assess recovery and separability of multiple astrophysical and cosmological backgrounds. For a GWB due to supermassive black hole binaries and an underlying weaker background due to primordial gravitational waves with a GW energy density ratio of $Ω_{\mathrm{PGW}}/Ω_{\mathrm{SMBHB}} = 0.5$, the Bayes' factor for a second process exceeds unity at 17 years, and increases with additional data. At 20 years of data, we are able to constrain the spectral index and amplitude of the weaker GWB at this density ratio to a fractional uncertainty of 64% and 110%, respectively, using current PTA methods and techniques. Using these methods and findings, we outline a basic protocol to search for multiple backgrounds in future PTA datasets.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted in ApJ
Networks in life: Scaling properties and eigenvalue spectra
Creators: name: Farkas, I.
name: Derenyi, I.
name: Jeong, H.
name: Neda, Z.
name: Oltvai, Z. N.
name: Ravasz, E.
name: Schubert, A.
name: Barabasi, A. -L.
name: Vicsek, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyse growing networks ranging from collaboration graphs of scientists to the network of similarities defined among the various transcriptional profiles of living cells. For the explicit demonstration of the scale-free nature and hierarchical organization of these graphs, a deterministic construction is also used. We demonstrate the use of determining the eigenvalue spectra of sparse random graph models for the categorization of small measured networks.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, last figure color
Styloleptus biustus subsp. biustus biustus (LeConte 1852
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptus
Styloleptus biustus
Styloleptus biustus biustus (leconte, 1852)

description: 2. Styloleptus biustus biustus (LeConte, 1852)
Type locality — Southern and middle states. (MCZN). Distribution — United States, Cuba.
 Leptostylus biustus LeConte, 1852: 169; 1873a: 233; Horn, 1880a: 121; Hamilton, in Leng & Hamilton, 1896: 119; Beutenmuller, 1896: 79 (hosts); Weickham, 1897: 208; Smith, 1900: 294; Ulke, 1903: 27 (distr.); Townsend, 1903: 78 (distr.); Fall & Cockerell, 1907: 194 (distr.); Schaeffer, 1908a: 328 (distr.); Smith, 1910: 333 (distr.); Nicolay, 1919: 70 (distr.); Craighead, 1923: 116 (larva); Kirk & Knull, 1926: 43 (distr.); Leonard, 1928: 451 (distr.); Beaulne, 1932: 219 (hosts); Knull, 1937a: 42 (hosts); Brimley, 1938: 217 (distr.); Linsley, 1942: 70; Loding, 1945: 122 (distr.); Duffy, 1960: 252 (hosts); Peck, 1963: 955 (paras.).
 Amniscus biustus; White, 1855: 293.
 Exocentrus biustus; Chevrolat, 1862: 249.
 Styloleptus biustus biustus; Dillon, 1956a: 158; Wray, 1967: 47 (distr.); Turnbow & Hovore, 1979: 224 (biol.); Micheli & Hovore, 2003: 2 (syn.).
 Lethes israeli Zayas, 1975: 257, pl. 32, fig. d; Chemsak et al., 1992: 142 (cat.).
Type locality — Cuba, Oriente: Sierra de Cristal. (Zayas).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVE NATURAL GAS PRICING POLICIES
Creators: name: Reisner, Gary
name: Reisner, Gary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Natural gas pricing
subject: simulation
subject: commodity price impacts

description: Results from simulation runs of the Food and Agricultural Policy Simulator (FAPSIM) suggest that commodity price increases due to higher natural gas and fertilizer costs will be minor. Overall farm commodity prices increase just over three percent in the scenario (accelerated decontrol) with the largest natural gas price increases. Livestock and consumer prices show insignificant changes. Natural gas and fertilizer prices are changed to reflect alternative pricing policies for natural gas. These price changes are reflected by higher fertilizer prices and variable costs of production in FAPSIM. Three alternative scenarios are simulated to 1990.
Time-Dependent Hilbert Spaces, Geometric Phases, and General Covariance in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Mostafazadeh, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate consequences of allowing the Hilbert space of a quantum system to have a time-dependent metric. For a given possibly nonstationary quantum system, we show that the requirement of having a unitary Schreodinger time-evolution identifies the metric with a positive-definite (Ermakov-Lewis) dynamical invariant of the system. Therefore the geometric phases are determined by the metric. We construct a unitary map relating a given time-independent Hilbert space to the time-dependent Hilbert space defined by a positive-definite dynamical invariant. This map defines a transformation that changes the metric of the Hilbert space but leaves the Hamiltonian of the system invariant. We propose to identify this phenomenon with a quantum mechanical analogue of the principle of general covariance of General Relativity. We comment on the implications of this principle for geometrically equivalent quantum systems and investigate the underlying symmetry group.
description: 13 pages, a references updated, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. A
A Morse complex for infinite dimensional manifolds - Part I
Creators: name: Abbondandolo, Alberto
name: Majer, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper and in the forthcoming Part II we introduce a Morse complex for a class of functions f defined on an infinite dimensional Hilbert manifold M, possibly having critical points of infinite Morse index and coindex. The idea is to consider an infinite dimensional subbundle - or more generally an essential subbundle - of the tangent bundle of M, suitably related with the gradient flow of f. This Part I deals with the following questions about the intersection W of the unstable manifold of a critical point x and the stable manifold of another critical point y: finite dimensionality of W, possibility that different components of W have different dimension, orientatability of W and coherence in the choice of an orientation, compactness of the closure of W, classification, up to topological conjugacy, of the gradient flow on the closure of W, in the case dim W=2.
description: LaTeX2e file, 62 pages, to appear in Advances in Mathematics. Revised version, substantial changes in the compactness part
THE EFFECT OF SHOPPING CENTERS ON HOST TOWNS AND OUTLYING AREAS
Creators: name: Stone, Kenneth E.
name: McConnon, James C.
name: Stone, Kenneth E.
name: McConnon, James C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Public Economics

description: The results of several studies were analyzed to determine the impacts of shopping centers on host towns and outlying areas in Iowa. Competing businesses in host towns were hurt, while some non-competing businesses were helped. A broader range of businesses were hurt in outlying areas.
Energy transport during 3D small-scale reconnection driven by anisotropic plasma turbulence
Creators: name: Rueda, Jeffersson A. Agudelo
name: Verscharen, Daniel
name: Wicks, Robert T.
name: Owen, Christopher J.
name: Nicolaou, Georgios
name: Germaschewski, Kai
name: Walsh, Andrew P.
name: Zouganelis, Ioannis
name: Domínguez, Santiago Vargas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy dissipation in collisionless plasmas is a longstanding fundamental physics problem. Although it is well known that magnetic reconnection and turbulence are coupled and transport energy from system-size scales to sub-proton scales, the details of the energy distribution and energy dissipation channels remain poorly understood. Especially, the energy transfer and transport associated with three dimensional (3D) small-scale reconnection that occurs as a consequence of a turbulent cascade is unknown. We use an explicit fully kinetic particle-in-cell code to simulate 3D small scale magnetic reconnection events forming in anisotropic and Alfvénic decaying turbulence. We identify a highly dynamic and asymmetric reconnection event that involves two reconnecting flux ropes. We use a two-fluid approach based on the Boltzmann equation to study the spatial energy transfer associated with the reconnection event and compare the power density terms in the two-fluid energy equations with standard energy-based damping, heating and dissipation proxies. Our findings suggest that the electron bulk flow transports thermal energy density more efficiently than kinetic energy density. Moreover, in our turbulent reconnection event, the energy-density transfer is dominated by plasma compression. This is consistent with turbulent current sheets and turbulent reconnection events, but not with laminar reconnection.
description: Accepted for publication in Apj
title: Regulation and functional aspects of Xenopus Brachyury.
Creators: name: Lerchner, Walter
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Formation of the mesoderm is one of the earliest patterning events in the development of the embryo. Brachyury is restricted to the mesoderm and has become one of the most widely used markers for mesoderm formation. The Xenopus homologue Xbra has been shown to be both necessary and sufficient for formation of mesoderm.

Employing a nuclear transplantation technique to create transgenic Xenopus embryos I studied spatial and temporal regulation of a reporter driven by Xbra genomic sequences. The proximal 5’ flanking region of the Xbra promoter was sufficient to confine expression of a reporter to the mesoderm during gastrulation. Deletion analysis and point mutations in putative transcription factor binding sites identified two repressor modules, which are necessary to restrict expression to the marginal zone during gastrulation. This part of the project suggests that the Xbra gene is not confined to the mesoderm by specific activation, but rather by repression in tissues where its activity is not required.

To learn more about the functional aspects of the Brachyury protein I created a series of constructs encoding Xbra protein with N-terminal and C-terminal deletions. Nuclear localisation of the protein requires two regions not related to known nuclear localisation sequences. Experiments investigating the dimérisation properties of the protein confirmed that the full-length Xbra protein, binds a palindromic consensus sequence as dimer. However, there was no evidence for Xbra dimers forming without binding to DNA. Finally, I investigated the possibility that the MAP kinase pathway regulates Xbra on a post-translational level. The experiments showed that Xbra is phosphoiylated by MAP kinase in vitro in the linker domain, but not in the DNA binding domain. These results will form the basis for a more detailed study investigating the post-translational regulation of Xbra. The possibilities for future experiments will be discussed in this context.
Group Theoretical Structure and Inverse Scattering Method for super-KdV Equation
Creators: name: Kulish, Petr P.
name: Zeitlin, Anton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the group-theoretical approach to the inverse scattering method the supersymmetric Korteweg-de Vries equation is obtained by application of the Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction to osp(1|2) loop superalgebra. The direct and inverse scattering problems are discussed for the corresponding Lax pair.
description: LaTeX2e, 19 pages, Zapiski Nauchnih Seminarov POMI (Steklov Institute), vol. 291, 185-205, 2002 (in russian); Engl. transl. : Journal of Math. Sci., Kluwer, in press
Views and challenges experienced by oral health care providers practicing in a multicultural society : a cultural competence educational needs assessment
Creators: name: Charbonneau, Carole
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: [BACKGROUND]: Canada is increasingly becoming more culturally diverse. Consequently, meeting the health care needs of a changing population has meant an examination of the impact of the current health care system on different cultural groups. Evidence indicates that certain cultural groups, such as new immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal people and people of low-economic status experience health, including oral health, disparities as well as unequal access to care. The health disparities are linked to social, economic, cultural and political inequities which also contribute to the marginalization of such populations. Improving cultural competence within the health care professions has been identified as a strategy to help reduce health disparities. A review of the literature indicates that in addition to a lack of awareness around the importance of cultural competence in health care, cultural competence has not been consistently taught in health care programs. Therefore, this project was undertaken to explore the challenges experienced by oral health care practitioners practicing in a multicultural society. [METHODS]: A one hour recorded focus group interview was conducted with a group of seven oral health practitioners to ask questions about their experiences with caring for clients of cultural backgrounds different than their own as well as what culturally competent care means to them. The conceptual framework chosen for this project was radical/critical theory through the lens of the social determinants of health. [RESULTS]: The results of the interview identified a need to increase cultural competence in oral health care practitioners. The group also identified concern for introducing bias or stereotyping when teaching about the concept of cultural competence. To avoid introducing bias, it is recommended to include cultural competence education in the informal curriculum. Additionally, a critical view of culture and multiculturalism is recommended; advocating for longer dental hygiene programs would be required to enable incorporating a critical view in the curriculum. The concept of cultural competency is quite complex; further research is required to achieve consistency in how this topic is taught and how it can be evaluated.