cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MPEC 2023-H194 : 2015 VN66
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for the hadronic $WH$+jet production
Creators: name: Ji-Juan, Su
name: Wen-Gan, Ma
name: Ren-You, Zhang
name: Lei, Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the next-to-leading order(NLO) QCD corrections to the $WH^0$ production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. We study the impacts of the complete NLO QCD radiative corrections to the integrated cross sections, the scale dependence of the cross sections, and the differential cross sections ($\frac{d σ}{d\cosθ}$, $\frac{d σ}{dp_T}$) of the final $W$-, Higgs-boson and jet. We find that the corrections significantly modify the physical observables, and reduce the scale uncertainty of the LO cross section. Our results show that by applying the inclusive scheme with $p_{T,j}^{cut}=20 GeV$ and taking $m_H=120 GeV$, $μ=μ_0\equiv\frac{1}{2}(m_W+m_H)$, the K-factor is 1.15 for the process $p\bar p \to W^{\pm}H^0j+X$ at the Tevatron, while the K-factors for the processes $pp \to W^-H^0j+X$ and $pp \to W^+H^0j+X$ at the LHC are 1.12 and 1.08 respectively. We conclude that to understand the hadronic associated $WH^0$ production, it is necessary to study the NLO QCD corrections to $WH^0j$ production process which is part of the inclusive $WH^0$ production.
description: 26 pages, 27 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. D
DigiMAT. Smart solution for connecting process with material characteristics to achieve new generation of digital materials for the automotive industry
Creators: name: Suárez, Ramón
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Lecture at International Web-Symposium «SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CAST IRON MODIFYING – 2020 presenting the most interesting results of DigiMAT project with main objective: “The DigiMAT project will launch into an smart module able to develop the intelligent algorithms to connect process with material characteristics to achieve new generation of digital materials with tailored characteristics, demonstrated in developing lighter components".
Revised Orbit and Transit Exclusion for HD 114762b
Creators: name: Kane, Stephen R.
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Dragomir, Diana
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Wang, Xuesong
name: Wright, Jason T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transiting planets around bright stars have allowed the detailed follow-up and characterization of exoplanets, such as the study of exoplanetary atmospheres. The Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS) is refining the orbits of the known exoplanets to confirm or rule out both transit signatures and the presence of additional companions. Here we present results for the companion orbiting HD 114762 in an eccentric 84 day orbit. Radial velocity analysis performed on 19 years of Lick Observatory data constrain the uncertainty in the predicted time of mid-transit to ~5 hours, which is less than the predicted one-half day transit duration. We find no evidence of additional companions in this system. New photometric observations with one of our Automated Photoelectric Telescopes (APTs) at Fairborn Observatory taken during a revised transit time for companion b, along with 23 years of nightly automated observations, allow us to rule out on-time central transits to a limit of ~0.001 mag. Early or late central transits are ruled out to a limit of ~0.002 mag, and transits with half the duration of a central transit are ruled out to a limit of ~0.003 mag.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Fourier Domain Analysis performances of a RESPER probe - Amplitude and Phase inaccuracies due to the Round-Off noise of FFT processors
Creators: name: Settimi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This report proposes to discuss the Fourier domain analysis performances of a RESPER probe. A uniform ADC, which is characterized by a sensible phase inaccuracy depending on frequency, is connected to a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processor, that is especially affected by a round-off amplitude noise linked to both the FFT register length and samples number. If the register length is equal to 32 bits, then the round-off noise is entirely negligible, else, once bits are reduced to 16, a technique of compensation must occur. In fact, oversampling can be employed within a short time window, reaching a compromise between the needs of limiting the phase inaccuracy due to ADC and not raising too much the number of averaged FFT values sufficient to bound the round-off. Finally, the appendix presents an outline of somewhat lengthy demonstrations needed to calculate the amplitude and especially phase inaccuracies due to the round-off noise of FFT processors.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
title: Secrecy and Denial in Matters of Life and Death: A Critical Analysis of Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, 1845-2018
Creators: name: Speed, C
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2019

description: Each year detained patients die in psychiatric detention in England and Wales in contentious circumstances. Despite the fact that deaths in psychiatric detention is not a new phenomenon, minimal critical research exists which analyses this problem. Underpinned by a critical criminological framework focusing on power, marginalisation and resistance, the thesis undertakes a critical analysis of deaths in psychiatric detention in both a historical and contemporary context. This is achieved through combining primary archival research with interviews and questionnaires undertaken with a number of individuals directly involved with this issue. In addition, the thesis utilises and analyses family campaign websites that were set up following the death of their detained relative. In order to understand the response to patients in death, a critical understanding of the response to them during their lives is also developed, both historically and contemporaneously. Further areas of focus include the official response to patients and their families, inquest and investigation procedures, the issue of accountability and the challenging of dominant discourses surrounding psychiatric detention. Based upon the findings of the thesis, a number of radical alternatives are outlined. These alternatives would address the issue of deaths in psychiatric detention and transform the current failing systems for the benefit of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
Constraining Asymmetric Dark Matter through observations of compact stars
Creators: name: Kouvaris, Chris
name: Tinyakov, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put constraints on asymmetric dark matter candidates with spin-dependent interactions based on the simple existence of white dwarfs and neutron stars in globular clusters. For a wide range of the parameters (WIMP mass and WIMP-nucleon cross section), WIMPs can be trapped in progenitors in large numbers and once the original star collapses to a white dwarf or a neutron star, these WIMPs might self-gravitate and eventually collapse forming a mini-black hole that eventually destroys the star. We impose constraints competitive to direct dark matter search experiments, for WIMPs with masses down to the TeV scale.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
Augmented Rotation-Based Transformation for Privacy-Preserving Data Clustering
Creators: name: Hong, Dowon
name: Mohaisen, Abedelaziz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple rotation-based transformation (MRBT) was introduced recently for mitigating the apriori-knowledge independent component analysis (AK-ICA) attack on rotation-based transformation (RBT), which is used for privacy-preserving data clustering. MRBT is shown to mitigate the AK-ICA attack but at the expense of data utility by not enabling conventional clustering. In this paper, we extend the MRBT scheme and introduce an augmented rotation-based transformation (ARBT) scheme that utilizes linearity of transformation and that both mitigates the AK-ICA attack and enables conventional clustering on data subsets transformed using the MRBT. In order to demonstrate the computational feasibility aspect of ARBT along with RBT and MRBT, we develop a toolkit and use it to empirically compare the different schemes of privacy-preserving data clustering based on data transformation in terms of their overhead and privacy.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, and 6 tables
A Power-Driven Stochastic-Deterministic Hierarchical High-Level Synthesis Framework for Module Selection, Scheduling and Binding
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiuyan
name: Shi, Ouwen
name: Xu, Jian
name: Dutt, Shantanu
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021

description: We present a power-driven hierarchical framework for module/functional-unit selection, scheduling, and binding in high level synthesis. A significant aspect of algorithm design for large and complex problems is arriving at tradeoffs between quality of solution and timing complexity.
 Towards this end, we integrate an improved version of the very runtime-efficient list scheduling algorithm called modified list scheduling (MLS) with a power-driven simulated annealing (SA) algorithm for module selection. Our hierarchical framework efficiently explores the problem solution
 space by an extensive exploration of the power-driven module-selection solution space via SA, and for each module selection solution, uses MLS to obtain a scheduling and (integrated) binding (S&B) solution in which the binding is either a regular one (minimizing number of FUs and thus
 FU leakage power) or power-driven with mux/demux power considerations. This framework avoids the very runtime intensive exploration of both module selection and S&B within a conventional SA algorithm, but retains the basic prowess of SA by exploring only the important aspect of power-driven
 module-selection in a stochastic manner. The proposed hierarchical framework provides an average of 9.5% FU leakage power improvement over state of the art (approximate) algorithms that optimize only FU leakage power, and has a smaller runtime by factors of 2.5–3x. Further, compared
 to a sophisticated flat simulated annealing framework and an optimal 0/1-ILP formulation for total (dynamic and leakage) FU and architecture power optimization under latency constraints, PSA-MLS provides an improvement of 5.3–5.8% with a runtime advantage of 2x, and has an average optimality
 gap of only 4.7–4.8% with a significant runtime advantage of a factor of more than 1900, respectively.
Dust Emission from Evolved and Unevolved HII Regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Slater, C. T.
name: Oey, M. S.
name: Li, A.
name: Bernard, J. -Ph.
name: Churchwell, E.
name: Gordon, K. D.
name: Indebetouw, R.
name: Lawton, B.
name: Meixner, M.
name: Paradis, D.
name: Reach, W. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the dust properties of 12 classical and superbubble HII regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We use infrared photometry from Spitzer (8, 24, 70, and 160 \mum bands), obtained as part of the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) program, along with archival spectroscopic classifications of the ionizing stars to examine the role of stellar sources on dust heating and processing. Our infrared observations show surprisingly little correlation between the emission properties of the dust and the effective temperatures or bolometric magnitudes of stars in the HII regions, suggesting that the HII region evolutionary timescale is not on the order of the dust processing timescale. We find that the infrared emission of superbubbles and classical HII regions shows little differentiation between the two classes, despite the significant differences in age and morphology. We do detect a correlation of the 24 \mum emission from hot dust with the ratio of 70 to 160 \mum flux. This correlation can be modeled as a trend in the temperature of a minority hot dust component, while a majority of the dust remains significantly cooler.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to ApJ
(Re)presentations of homosexuality : the frame and knowledge in the making
Creators: name: Isherwood, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis is an inquiry into how one understands sexual difference. It will consider how queer lives are presented to us in the media, and it attends to ways in which these presentations might influence and shape our knowledge of queer subjects. The primary research questions addressed in this thesis include : Do sites of everyday influence continue to promote stereotypes? What does this mean for homosexual individual? And if such sites do promote such stereotypes, can sex education curriculum attempt to undo media bias? To address these questions, the thesis considers popular representations circulating in the media. It considers these representations in light of the author’s own experiences as a gay man. The critical thinking that emerges from this act is made possible by engaging with multiple pieces of content, as well as the work of queer theorists such as Sedgwick and Butler and Halperin. In this sense, a new question emerges : How can one keep knowledge in the making alive and ongoing?
IElectrix project – Demand Response
Creators: name: Pierre-Jacques Le Quellec
name: Aastha Prashar
name: Pampliega, David
name: Dromacque, Christophe
name: Lalima Goel
name: Choné, Tanguy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Demand response
Local Energy Communities
Critical Peak Rebates
Critical Peak Pricing

description: IElectrix is a response to the Horizon 2020 Call of the European Commission: “Integrated local energy systems”.
 Within a cooperation agreement signed by 4 European partners and TATA POWER Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), Shakti demonstration is set up in Delhi to explore innovative solutions allowing the implementation of “Local Energy Communities” using local photovoltaic (PV) and storage for self-consumption approach.
 In 2013, TPDDL launched its first automated Demand Response (DR) pilot program that allowed direct load control across 165 commercial and industrial consumers. The program successfully demonstrated direct load control DR that provided in peak load reduction.
 By 2020, with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), TPDDL is looking to broaden DR program by extending behavioral DR (BDR) program across its residential consumers. BDR hinges on consumer participation as loads will be managed entirely by them in response to critical peak pricing. With smart phones acting as the gateway to home automation solutions, use of smart plugs to control home appliances such as air conditioners and other high-power equipment can be considered to allow functions such as “set it and forget it” mode for consumers. These DR initiatives are aligned with IElectrix objectives, and some of them will be carried out in the framework of such project.
 The paper will provide insights into various DR programs planned, associated challenges that promises a value proposition to all participants and helps establish that consumer engagement is the most critical component for a successful adoption of DR program in this initiative across TPDDL.
Modeling Multi-Wavelength Stellar Astrometry. II. Determining Absolute Inclinations, Gravity Darkening Coefficients, and Spot Parameters of Single Stars with SIM Lite
Creators: name: Coughlin, Jeffrey L.
name: Harrison, Thomas E.
name: Gelino, Dawn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel technique to determine the absolute inclination of single stars using multi-wavelength sub-milliarcsecond astrometry. The technique exploits the effect of gravity darkening, which causes a wavelength-dependent astrometric displacement parallel to a star's projected rotation axis. We find this effect is clearly detectable using SIM Lite for various giant stars and rapid rotators, and present detailed models for multiple systems using the REFLUX code. We also explore the multi-wavelength astrometric reflex motion induced by spots on single stars. We find that it should be possible to determine spot size, relative temperature, and some positional information for both giant and nearby main-sequence stars utilizing multi-wavelength SIM Lite data. This data will be extremely useful in stellar and exoplanet astrophysics, as well as supporting the primary SIM Lite mission through proper multi-wavelength calibration of the giant star astrometric reference frame, and reduction of noise introduced by starspots when searching for extrasolar planets.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
MERLIN H2020 Project: MERLIN.PSTP.3.3.7.D2.5-IntlConferencesContent
Creators: name: MERLIN Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This document, D2.5 — User Experience and International Conference Workshops content – is a deliverable of the MERLIN project, which is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement #780460, and has been prepared by taking into account the template of the "Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020" and the "Fact Sheet: Open Access in Horizon 2020".

Merlin aims to foster and accelerate the transfer of knowledge from the projects funded in FP7 and H2020, be it on the form of license agreement, patent or ideally, spinoff or startup to directly exploit them, by organising practical hands-on workshops; meet ups with potential partners, customers and investors; and by attending scientific conferences to reach a wider public. The programme will equip participants with knowledge, skills and a network to generate market-led business models to unlock potential and accelerate this journey.

The purpose of this deliverable is to provide content for the "User experience" and for the activities organized in International Conferences.
Coupled anharmonic oscillators: the Rayleigh-Ritz approach versus the collocation approach
Creators: name: Kuros, Arkadiusz
name: Okopinska, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a system of coupled anharmonic oscillators we compare the convergence rate of the variational collocation approach presented recently by Amore and Fernandez (2010 Phys.Scr.81 045011) with the one obtained using the optimized Rayleigh-Ritz (RR) method. The monotonic convergence of the RR method allows us to obtain more accurate results at a lower computational cost.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
title: A Technological Skills Gap: What Can We Do About It?
Creators: name: Moore, Will
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: In the last thirty years, education has transformed faster than ever before. As a society we have developed new classroom technologies that allow for better communication and access to more information than ever before. However, at the same time, education seems rockier than ever before. Several major companies, including Tesla, Apple, Google and Netflix, no longer require a college degree for employment, and many companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have begun programs to train their own employees in skills and create their own certification programs to help employees learn necessary skills (Akhtar, O’Donnell). Why do these major corporations not rely on the tried-and-true models of education? What makes the classroom of the 21st century so different than the centuries past? What can colleges do to improve our education system to meet the needs of these employers?
NICMOS Observations of the Transiting Hot Jupiter XO-1b
Creators: name: Burke, Christopher J.
name: McCullough, P. R.
name: Bergeron, E.
name: Long, Douglas
name: Gilliland, Ronald L.
name: Nelan, Edmund P.
name: Johns-Krull, Christopher M.
name: Valenti, Jeff A.
name: Janes, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We refine the physical parameters of the transiting hot Jupiter planet XO-1b and its stellar host XO-1 using HST NICMOS observations. XO-1b has a radius Rp=1.21+/-0.03 RJup, and XO-1 has a radius Rs=0.94+/-0.02 RSun, where the uncertainty in the mass of XO-1 dominates the uncertainty of Rp and Rs. There are no significant differences in the XO-1 system properties between these broad-band NIR observations and previous determinations based upon ground-based optical observations. We measure two transit timings from these observations with 9 s and 15 s precision. As a residual to a linear ephemeris model, there is a 2.0 sigma timing difference between the two HST visits that are separated by 3 transit events (11.8 days). These two transit timings and additional timings from the literature are sufficient to rule out the presence of an Earth mass planet orbiting in 2:1 mean motion resonance coplanar with XO-1b. We identify and correct for poorly understood gain-like variations present in NICMOS time series data. This correction reduces the effective noise in time series photometry by a factor of two, for the case of XO-1.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ
Additional file 1 of Intra-amniotic transplantation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor-modified mesenchymal stem cells treatment for rat fetuses with spina bifida aperta
Creators: name: Ma, Wei
name: Wei, Xiaowei
name: Gu, Hui
name: Liu, Dan
name: Luo, Wenting
name: Cao, Songying
name: Jia, Shanshan
name: He, Yiwen
name: Chen, Lizhu
name: Bai, Yuzuo
name: Yuan, Zhengwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The fold changes and P values for all proteins in protein array.
On Classification of Models of Large Local-Type Non-Gaussianity
Creators: name: Suyama, Teruaki
name: Takahashi, Tomo
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
name: Yokoyama, Shuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify models generating large local-type non-Gaussianity into some categories by using some "consistency relations" among the non-linearity parameters f_{NL}^{local}, τ_{NL}^{local} and g_{NL}^{local}, which characterize the size of bispectrum for the former and trispectrum for the later two. Then we discuss how one can discriminate models of large local-type non-Gaussianity with such relations. We first classify the models by using the ratio of τ_{NL}^{local}/(6f_{NL}^{local}/5)^2, which is unity for "single-source" models and deviates from unity for "multi-source" ones. We can make a further classification of models in each category by utilizing the relation between f_{NL}^{local} and g_{NL}^{local}. Our classification suggests that observations of trispectrum would be very helpful to distinguish models of large non-Gaussianity and may reveal the generation mechanism of primordial fluctuations.
description: 67 pages, 6 figures
Brane-World Motion in Compact Dimensions
Creators: name: Greene, Brian
name: Levin, Janna
name: Parikh, Maulik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topology of extra dimensions can break global Lorentz invariance,singling out a globally preferred frame even in flat spacetime. Through experiments that probe global topology, an observer can determine her state of motion with respect to the preferred frame. This scenario is realized if we live on a brane universe moving through a flat space with compact extra dimensions. We identify three experimental effects due to the motion of our universe that one could potentially detect using gravitational probes. One of these relates to the peculiar properties of the twin paradox in multiply-connected spacetimes. Another relies on the fact that the Kaluza-Klein modes of any bulk field are sensitive to boundary conditions. A third concerns the modification to the Newtonian potential on a moving brane. Remarkably, we find that even small extra dimensions are detectable by brane observers if the brane is moving sufficiently fast.
Sentinel-1 EW mode dataset for Antarctica from 2014–2020 produced by the CASEarth Cloud Service Platform
Creators: name: Liang, Dong
name: Guo, Huadong
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Li, Haipeng
name: Wang, Xuezhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Antarctica plays an important role in research on global change, and its unique geography, ocean, climate, and environment provide an ideal place for humankind to understand Earth’s evolution. Remote sensing provides an effective means to monitor and observe large-scale processes on the continent. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in particular provides the capability for all-weather Earth observation. The Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B SAR satellites have ideal ground coverage and imaging frequency for observing Antarctica. This study developed a dataset of 69,586 Sentinel-1 EW mode satellite images of the Antarctic ice sheet from October 2014 to December 2020. The dataset was processed with the European Space Agency Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and a Python batch scheduling tool on the Big Earth Data Cloud Service Platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Big Earth Data Science Engineering Program (CASEarth). Several data processing operations were implemented to process the raw dataset, including radiometric calibration, invalid edge removal, geocoding, data re-projection to an Antarctic projection, data compression to TIFF format, and construction of image pyramids. The dataset is available at http://www.doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.j00076.00085.
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Signal of the maxBCG SDSS Galaxy Clusters in WMAP
Creators: name: Draper, Patrick
name: Dodelson, Scott
name: Hao, Jiangang
name: Rozo, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Planck Collaboration measured the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement of optically selected clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, finding that it falls significantly below expectations based on existing mass calibration of the maxBCG galaxy clusters. Resolving this tension requires either the data to go up, or the theoretical expectations to come down. Here, we use data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) to perform an independent estimate of the SZ decrement of maxBCG clusters. The recovered signal is consistent with that obtained using Planck, though with larger error bars due to WMAP's larger beam size and smaller frequency range. Nevertheless, this detection serves as an independent confirmation of the magnitude of the effect, and demonstrates that the observed discrepancy must be theoretical in origin.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
X-ray absorption and occultation in LS 5039
Creators: name: Szostek, Anna
name: Dubus, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray binaries are systems containing a massive star and a compact object that have been detected up to TeV energies. The high energy emission could result from particle acceleration in the region where the stellar wind from the massive star interacts with the relativistic wind from a young pulsar. LS 5039 has the most compact orbit amongst gamma-ray binaries and its X-ray lightcurve shows a stable modulation synchronized with the orbital period. Photoelectric absorption of X-rays in the O star wind and occultation of the X-ray emitting region by the massive star can alter the X-ray lightcurve and spectrum along the orbit. Yet, the X-ray spectrum and lightcurve of LS 5039 do not show intrinsic absorption or X-ray eclipses. We study these effects in the framework of the pulsar wind scenario as a function of the binary inclination angle, the stellar wind mass-loss rate and the size of the X-ray emitter. An extended X-ray emission region >~ 3R_star appears necessary to reconcile the pulsar wind scenario with observations.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 8 pages, 5 figures
The detailed methods of data collection and history data of Changxing population from Male density, a signal for population self-regulation in Alligator sinensis
Creators: name: Zhao, Lan
name: Fang, Li-Ming
name: Wan, Qiu-Hong
name: Fang, Sheng-Guo
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019

description: Supplementary methods S1: The methods related with number count, incubation, identification of fertilised eggs, sex, and age, and data selection. Supplementary table S1: The population events and breeding situation in each of the evaluated years. Supplementary table S2: The calculated age structure of the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) sub-population in areas C and C1.
Non-perturbative renormalization of quark mass in Nf=2+1 QCD with the Schroedinger functional scheme
Creators: name: Aoki, S.
name: Ishikawa, K. -I.
name: Ishizuka, N.
name: Izubuchi, T.
name: Kanaya, K.
name: Kuramashi, Y.
name: Murano, K.
name: Namekawa, Y.
name: Okawa, M.
name: Taniguchi, Y.
name: Ukawa, A.
name: Ukita, N.
name: Yoshié, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an evaluation of the quark mass renormalization factor for Nf=2+1 QCD. The Schroedinger functional scheme is employed as the intermediate scheme to carry out non-perturbative running from the low energy region, where renormalization of bare mass is performed on the lattice, to deep in the high energy perturbative region, where the conversion to the renormalization group invariant mass or the MS-bar scheme is safely carried out. For numerical simulations we adopted the Iwasaki gauge action and non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermion action with the clover term. Seven renormalization scales are used to cover from low to high energy regions and three lattice spacings to take the continuum limit at each scale. The regularization independent step scaling function of the quark mass for the Nf=2+1 QCD is obtained in the continuum limit. Renormalization factors for the pseudo scalar density and the axial vector current are also evaluated for the same action and the bare couplings as two recent large scale Nf=2+1 simulations; previous work of the CP-PACS/JLQCD collaboration, which covered the up-down quark mass range heavier than $m_π\sim 500$ MeV and that of PACS-CS collaboration for much lighter quark masses down to $m_π=155$ MeV. The quark mass renormalization factor is used to renormalize bare PCAC masses in these simulations.
description: 26 pages, 17 Postscript figures. Two tables are updated
Optical and Infrared Colors of Transneptunian Objects Observed with HST
Creators: name: Benecchi, S. D.
name: Noll, K. S.
name: Stephens, D. C.
name: Grundy, W. M.
name: Rawlins, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical colors of 72 transneptunian objects (TNOs), and infrared colors of 80 TNOs obtained with the WFPC2 and NICMOS instruments, respectively, on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Both optical and infrared colors are available for 32 objects that overlap between the datasets. This dataset adds an especially uniform, consistent and large contribution to the overall sample of colors, particularly in the infrared. The range of our measured colors is consistent with other colors reported in the literature at both optical and infrared wavelengths. We find generally good agreement for objects measured by both us and others; 88.1% have better than 2 sigma agreement. The median Hv magnitude of our optical sample is 7.2, modestly smaller (~0.5 mag) than for previous samples. The median absolute magnitude, Hv, in our infrared sample is 6.7. We find no new correlations between color and dynamical properties (semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination and perihelion). We do find that colors of Classical objects with i<6° come from a different distribution than either the Resonant or excited populations in the visible at the >99.99% level with a K-S test. The same conclusion is found in the infrared at a slightly lower significance level, 99.72%. Two Haumea collision fragments with strong near infrared ice bands are easily identified with broad HST infrared filters and point to an efficient search strategy for identifying more such objects. We find evidence for variability in (19255) 1999 VK8, 1999 OE4, 2000 CE105, 1998 KG62 and 1998 WX31.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables
A strongly luminescent copper (I) coordination complex with near-unity quantum efficiency
Creators: name: Xu, Chanchan
name: Lu, Lu
name: Lv, Le
name: Li, Yuzhe
name: Lin, Fang
name: Yang, Yunxu
name: Lin, Feng
name: Luo, Chaoyun
name: Luo, Dawei
name: Liu, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Single crystals of a zero-dimensional (0 D) copper (I) complex 0 D-CuBr(3-picoline)3 (1) has prepared at room temperature. Each molecule of 1 contains one copper ion, which coordinates to three organic ligands and one Br anion. The strong metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) along with the halide-to-metal charge transfer (XLCT) makes 1 an extremely strong green emitter with near-unity quantum efficiency, exhibiting potential application as lighting materials. Single crystals of a new zero-dimensional (0D) copper (I) complex 0D-CuBr(3-picoline)3 has prepared at room temperature. It serves as an extremely strong green-yellow emitter with near unity quantum efficiency, exhibiting potential application as lighting materials.
Electrostatic effects on contacts to carbon nanotube transistors
Creators: name: Cummings, Aron W.
name: Léonard, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use numerical simulations to investigate the effect of electrostatics on the source and drain contacts of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. We find that unscreened charge on the nanotube at the contact-channel interface leads to a potential barrier that can significantly hamper transport through the device. This effect is largest for intermediate gate voltages and for contacts near the ohmic-Schottky crossover, but can be mitigated with a reduction in the gate oxide thickness. These results help to elucidate the important role that contact geometry plays in the performance of carbon nanotube electronic devices.
Mapping the Recent Star Formation History of the Disk of M51
Creators: name: Kaleida, Catherine C.
name: Scowen, Paul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data acquired as part of a unique Hubble Heritage imaging program of broadband colors of the interacting spiral system M51/NGC 5195, we have conducted a photometric study of the stellar associations across the entire disk of the galaxy in order to assess trends in size, luminosity, and local environment associated with recent star formation activity in the system. Starting with a sample of over 900 potential associations, we have produced color-magnitude and color-color diagrams for the 120 associations that were deemed to be single-aged. It has been found that main sequence turnoffs are not evident for the vast majority of the stellar associations in our set, potentially due to the overlap of isochronal tracks at the high mass end of the main sequence, and the limited depth of our images at the distance of M51. In order to obtain ages for more of our sample, we produced model spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to fit to the data from the GALEXEV simple stellar population (SSP) models of Bruzual and Charlot (2003). These SEDs can be used to determine age, size, mass, metallicity, and dust content of each association via a simple chi-squared minimization to each association's B, V, and I-band fluxes. The derived association properties are mapped as a function of location, and recent trends in star formation history of the galaxy are explored in light of these results. This work is the first phase in a program that will compare these stellar systems with their environments using ultraviolet data from GALEX and infrared data from Spitzer, and ultimately we plan to apply the same stellar population mapping methodology to other nearby face-on spiral galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted to The Astronomical Journal
Evolutionary Computational Method of Facial Expression Analysis for Content-based Video Retrieval using 2-Dimensional Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Geetha, P.
name: Narayanan, Vasumathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, Deterministic Cellular Automata (DCA) based video shot classification and retrieval is proposed. The deterministic 2D Cellular automata model captures the human facial expressions, both spontaneous and posed. The determinism stems from the fact that the facial muscle actions are standardized by the encodings of Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and Action Units (AUs). Based on these encodings, we generate the set of evolutionary update rules of the DCA for each facial expression. We consider a Person-Independent Facial Expression Space (PIFES) to analyze the facial expressions based on Partitioned 2D-Cellular Automata which capture the dynamics of facial expressions and classify the shots based on it. Target video shot is retrieved by comparing the similar expression is obtained for the query frame's face with respect to the key faces expressions in the database video. Consecutive key face expressions in the database that are highly similar to the query frame's face, then the key faces are used to generate the set of retrieved video shots from the database. A concrete example of its application which realizes an affective interaction between the computer and the user is proposed. In the affective interaction, the computer can recognize the facial expression of any given video shot. This interaction endows the computer with certain ability to adapt to the user's feedback.
description: Submitted to Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, see http://sites.google.com/site/jcseuk/volume-2-issue-2-August-2010
Toward a Methodology for Autobiographical Dramaturgy: The Case of Tolstoy’s The Light Shines in Darkness
Creators: name: Borochovitz, Ryan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tolstoy
The Light Shines in Darkness
Autobiography
Playwriting
Fictionality
Methodology

description: According to Philippe Lejeune’s “autobiographical pact,” a text can only be considered an autobiography when the author, narrator, and character all share the same proper name. Any exceptions are thusly designated as works of fiction, regardless of whatever biographical resemblance may be detected between the author and character. This thesis aims not to challenge this useful generic distinction, but to develop an authoritative system for approaching the oft-neglected side of the equation: works of autobiographical fiction, and autobiographical dramas in particular. I propose to develop a reception-based methodology (the Biographical Grid) for assessing author-character resemblance with as much empiricism as possible. This is done by extracting the author’s biographical material in relation to the chosen fictional character (often the play’s protagonist) via their characterization within the text, and organizing this material within a specially-designed table. Each of these units is then assigned a numerical score based upon its correspondence with the author’s publicly-known biographical data. The result is not only a qualitative value assigned to the degree of resemblance between the character and its author, but moreover indicates precisely which character traits enforce the autobiographical kinship, and which represent conscious deviations from the biographical record as part of the process of fictionalization. This information can then be applied to well-informed analyses of the text’s use of its autobiographically-inspired content. Using Tolstoy’s play, The Light Shines in Darkness, as a case study, I demonstrate the process of building, testing, and applying the grid to assess a work of autobiographical drama. My systematic approach to autobiographical dramas of this kind supports the development of further research into methods of biographical criticism while strengthening analytical readings of individual plays.
Smooth concordance of links topologically concordant to the Hopf link
Creators: name: Cha, Jae Choon
name: Kim, Taehee
name: Ruberman, Daniel
name: Strle, Saso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57N70

description: It was shown by Jim Davis that a 2-component link with Alexander polynomial one is topologically concordant to the Hopf link. In this paper, we show that there is a 2-component link with Alexander polynomial one that has unknotted components and is not smoothly concordant to the Hopf link, answering a question of Jim Davis. We construct infinitely many concordance classes of such links, and show that they have the stronger property of not being smoothly concordant to the Hopf link with knots tied in the components.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of Intra-amniotic transplantation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor-modified mesenchymal stem cells treatment for rat fetuses with spina bifida aperta
Creators: name: Ma, Wei
name: Wei, Xiaowei
name: Gu, Hui
name: Liu, Dan
name: Luo, Wenting
name: Cao, Songying
name: Jia, Shanshan
name: He, Yiwen
name: Chen, Lizhu
name: Bai, Yuzuo
name: Yuan, Zhengwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Effects of intra-amniotic injection of Ad-GFP-BDNF, BMSC, and BDNF-BMSC on apoptosis and synaptogenesis of SBA spinal cords.
Plasma internal inductance dynamics in a tokamak
Creators: name: Romero, J. A.
name: Contributors, JET-EFDA
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A lumped parameter model for tokamak plasma current and inductance time evolution as function of plasma resistance, non-inductive current drive sources and boundary voltage or poloidal field (PF) coil current drive is presented. The model includes a novel formulation leading to exact equations for internal inductance and plasma current dynamics. Having in mind its application in a tokamak inductive control system, the model is expressed in state space form, the preferred choice for the design of control systems using modern control systems theory. The choice of system states allow many interesting physical quantities such as plasma current, inductance, magnetic energy, resistive and inductive fluxes etc be made available as output equations. The model is derived from energy conservation theorem, and flux balance theorems, together with a first order approximation for flux diffusion dynamics. The validity of this approximation has been checked using experimental data from JET showing an excellent agreement.
Experimental magic state distillation for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Creators: name: Souza, Alexandre M.
name: Zhang, Jingfu
name: Ryan, Colm A.
name: Laflamme, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any physical quantum device for quantum information processing is subject to errors in implementation. In order to be reliable and efficient, quantum computers will need error correcting or error avoiding methods. Fault-tolerance achieved through quantum error correction will be an integral part of quantum computers. Of the many methods that have been discovered to implement it, a highly successful approach has been to use transversal gates and specific initial states. A critical element for its implementation is the availability of high-fidelity initial states such as |0> and the Magic State. Here we report an experiment, performed in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum processor, showing sufficient quantum control to improve the fidelity of imperfect initial magic states by distilling five of them into one with higher fidelity.
Supplementary document for CALIOP retrieval of droplet effective radius accounting for cloud vertical homogeneity - 5276540.pdf
Creators: name: Zang, Lin
name: Rosenfeld, Daniel
name: MAO, Feiyue
name: Pan, Zengxin
name: Zhu, Yannian
name: Gong, Wei
name: Wang, Zemin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information