cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unified Physical Threat Monitoring System Aided by Virtual Building Simulation
Creators: name: Li, Zenjie
name: Norton, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With increasing physical threats in recent years targeted at critical infrastructures, it is crucial to establish a reliable threat monitoring system integrating video surveillance and digital sensors based on cutting-edge technologies. A physical threat monitoring solution unifying the floorplan, cameras, and sensors for smart buildings has been set up in our study. Computer vision and deep learning models are used for video streams analysis. When a threat is detected by a rule engine based on the real-time analysis results combining with feedback from related digital sensors, an alert is sent to the Video Management System so that human operators can take further action. A physical threat monitoring system typically needs to address complex and even destructive incidents, such as fire, which is unrealistic to simulate in real life. Restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic and privacy concerns have added to the challenges. Our study utilises the Unreal Engine to simulate some typical suspicious and intrusion scenes with photorealistic qualities in the context of a virtual building. Add-on programs are implemented to transfer the video stream from virtual PTZ cameras to the Milestone Video Management System and enable users to control those cameras from the graphic client application. Virtual sensors such as fire alarms, temperature sensors and door access controls are implemented similarly, fulfilling the same programmatic VMS interface as real-life sensors. Thanks to this simulation system's extensibility and repeatability, we have consolidated this unified physical threat monitoring system and verified its effectiveness and user-friendliness. Both the simulated Unreal scenes and the software add-ons developed during this study are highly modulated and thereby are ready for reuse in future projects in this area.
An Analytic Benchmark for Neutron Boltzmann Transport with Downscattering—Part I: Flux and Eigenvalue Solutions
Creators: name: Sobes, Vladimir
name: Ducru, Pablo
name: Alhajri, Abdulla
name: Ganapol, Barry
name: Forget, Benoit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Computing in the energy dimension is one of the greatest challenges confronting present-day deterministic neutron transport solvers. Accurately resolving the neutron flux as neutrons downscatter across resonances in the nuclear cross sections currently requires considerable computing power and suffers from approximation errors. Flux uncertainty resulting from the uncertainty of the resonance structure is the single-largest cause of reactivity uncertainty. Any additional reference solution for the critical neutron downscattering problem with resonance phenomena would be a boon to verification and validation of neutronics codes. This paper establishes a benchmark to verify the accuracy of neutron transport criticality solvers along the energy dimension. For the first time, the analytic solution of the flux amplitude is derived in the particular case of an infinite homogeneous medium with isotropic scattering in the center of mass and an arbitrary number of no-threshold, neutral particle reaction resonances (e.g., radiative capture, fission, and resonance scattering). Original analytic expressions are established to quantify the discrepancy between the ψk(E) and ψα(E) flux amplitudes, respective solutions of the multiplication factor k, or the exponential time-evolution frequency α eigenproblems. The physical study of these relations led to analysis of their first-order relative difference near the criticality condition α=0. Finally, numerical solutions are provided to a benchmark problem constituted of the first resonance of 239Pu, the 6.67-eV resonance of 238U, and a scattering isotope with a flat cross section, allowing for the computational verification of the energy resolution of current neutron transport criticality codes. Through these novel results, this analytic benchmark can serve as a reference to verify the energy resolution and sensitivity analysis of neutron transport criticality calculations.
Epistle to the Gold Commissioners
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The gold standard is an idea whose time is past — long past. The classical gold standard is not a superior method of solving our current problems of inflation and unemployment, whatever its merits a century ago. Advocates of a return to the gold standard offer their nostrum as a means of stabilizing prices but offer few details about how this desirable goal would be reached. All that we are usually told is that the gold standard is a "supply-side11 solution, a radical change that will reduce interest rates, stabilize prices and eliminate the summers excess supply of zucchini. None of these claims is true.
Strong improvement of the transport characteristics of YBa$_\textrm{2}$Cu$_\textrm{3}$O$_\textrm{7-x}$ grain boundaries using ionic liquid gating
Creators: name: Fête, A.
name: Senatore, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For more than 30 years, the remarkable superconducting properties of REBa$_\textrm{2}$Cu$_\textrm{3}$O$_\textrm{7-x}$ (RE = rare earth) compounds have triggered research studies across the world. Accordingly, significant progresses have been made both from a basic understanding and a fabrication processes perspective. Yet, today, the major technological bottleneck towards the spread of their practical uses remains the exponential decay of their critical current with grain misorientation in polycrystalline samples. In this work, we used an ionic liquid to apply extremely high transverse electric fields to YBa$_\textrm{2}$Cu$_\textrm{3}$O$_\textrm{7-x}$ thin films containing a single well-defined low-angle grain boundary. Our study shows that this technique is very effective to tune the IV characteristics of these weak-links. In-magnetic field measurements allow us to discuss the type of the vortices present at the grain boundary and to unveil a large variation of the local depairing current density with gating. Comparing our results with the ones obtained on chemically-doped grain boundaries, we discuss routes to evaluate the role of local strain in the loss of transparency at cuprates low-angle grain boundaries. In short, this study offers a new opportunity to discuss scenarios leading to the reduced transport capabilities of grain boundaries in cuprates.
Epidemiology, Causality, and Public Policy- Reply
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B
name: Seskin, Eugene P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Dr. Lipfert illustrates a number of our points, ch ieny the one that
title: NASCA Gravelots in the Uhle Collection from the Ica Valley, Peru
Creators: name: Proulx, Donald A.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Eastern European Studies

description: This monograph is an outgrowth of research begun in 1962 when I was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. At that time I began an analysis of the Nasca grave lots in the Uhle Collection under the able supervision of Dr. John H. Rowe. He and Mr. Lawrence E. Dawson of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology introduced me to seriational techniques and ceramic analysis and taught me much about the Nasca style. Dr. Dorothy Menzel also gave freely of her time. I am very grateful to all three of these individuals for the training and insight with which they provided me. My research at Berkeley centered around a seriation of the Nasca gravelots which eventually allowed me to subdivide Phase 3 of the style and provide time dimension to Phase 4. This has been published (Proulx, 1968) along with an analysis of the local differences in the style between the Ica and Nasca Valleys. As a by-product of this work, I accumulated a great amount of detailed information on the individual vessels in the gravelots which may be of value to scholars working with similar collections. I also felt it unfortunate that the gravelots had never been published and illustrated in their entirety. I had taken color slides of all of the vessels while I was in Berkeley, and the plates accompanying this study are derived from these. The introductory chapter on Uhle's work in the valley and the discovery of the style was researched and written sporadically between the years 1966 and 1970. Although John H. Rowe has provided an excellent summary of Uhle's fieldwork (Rowe, 1954), he did not give a detailed account of Uhle's work in each valley or site that he excavated. I had been exposed to Uhle's facinating letters and field notes while at Berkeley, and I had copies made of them before I left. It was mainly from these sources that I was able to piece together Uhle's day by day activities.
MPEC 2024-N40 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 July 5)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
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.
Giant Planar Hall Effect in the Dirac Semimetal ZrTe5
Creators: name: Li, Peng
name: Zhang, Chenhui
name: Zhang, Junwei
name: Wen, Yan
name: Zhang, Xi-xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, giant planar Hall effect originating from chiral anomaly has been predicted in nonmagnetic Dirac/Weyl semimetals. ZrTe5 is considered to be an intriguing Dirac semimetal at the boundary of weak topological insulators and strong topological insulators, though this claim still remains controversial. Here, we report the observation in ZrTe5 of the giant planar Hall resistivity that shows two different magnetic-field dependences as predicted by theory and a maximum at the Lifshitz transition temperature. We found that the giant planar Hall resistivity fades out with decreasing the thickness of ZrTe5 nanoplates, which may be ascribed to the vanishing of the 3D nature of the samples. In addition, we have observed a nontrivial Berry phase, chiral-anomaly-induced negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, and a giant in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance in these ZrTe5 nanoplates. All the experimental observations demonstrated coherently that ZrTe5 is a Dirac semimetal.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Epidemiology, Causality, and Public Policy
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B
name: Seskin, Eugene P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Choices regarding such difficult and far-reaching societal problems as the control of air pollution must make use of careful statistical studies of populations
Privacy of Fitness Applications and Consent Management in Blockchain
Creators: name: Alhajri, May
name: Shahraki, Ahmad Salehi
name: Rudolph, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid advances in fitness wearable devices are redefining privacy around interactions. Fitness wearables devices record a considerable amount of sensitive and private details about exercise, blood oxygen level, and heart rate. Privacy concerns have emerged about the interactions between an individual's raw fitness data and data analysis by the providers of fitness apps and wearable devices. This paper describes the importance of adopting and applying legal frameworks within the fitness tracker ecosystem. In this review, we describe the studies on the current privacy policies of fitness app providers, heuristically evaluate the methods for consent management by fitness providers, summarize the gaps identified in our review of these studies, and discuss potential solutions for filling the gaps identified. We have identified four main problems related to preserving the privacy of users of fitness apps: lack of system transparency, lack of privacy policy legibility, concerns regarding one-time consent, and issues of noncompliance regarding consent management. After discussing feasible solutions, we conclude by describing how blockchain is suitable for solving these privacy issues.
description: This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of Australasian Computer Science Week 2022 (ACSW 2022), but has not been fully edited Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3511616.3513100, ACSW 2022
Epidemiology of Insulin-Using Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers: Major variability of state licensing requirements in the U.S.
Creators: name: Idamae F Gower
name: Songer, Thomas J.
name: Hylton, Harold
name: Thomas, Neill L
name: Ekoe, Jean-Marie
name: Lave, Lester B
name: LaPorte, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: OBJECTIVE Licensing agencies in many areas, including the U.S., prohibit insulin-using individuals from driving CMVs or large trucks. This study examined the debate over the risks of licensing insulin-using individuals to drive CMVs as an occupation, and the variations in regulations of different states. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS As part of an ongoing review of the regulations governing interstate commerce in the U.S., we surveyed all 50 states and Washington, D.C. to determine the regulations concerning intrastate driving. We received responses from 48 states and D.C., representing 95% of the U.S. population. RESULTS Only 9 states reported preventing insulin users from acquiring a CMV license, whereas 39 states and D.C. permitted licensing within state boundaries. Of the states allowing insulin users to drive, 26 placed special requirements on CMV licensing. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that, despite a standardized U.S. federal law for driving across states, enormous variability exists in the policies for driving within states, ranging from no restrictions to a complete ban on CMV driving for insulin users.
A Study of Double-Mode Variables
Creators: name: A. V. Khruslov
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2018

description: I present a detection of 44 new double-mode variable stars, of which 25 variables are high-amplitude Delta Scuti stars, HADS(B) type, and 19 stars are RR Lyrae variables, RR(B) type. For two of the HADS(B) stars, their detection was the variability discovery. We analyzed all observations available for these stars in the Catalina Surveys and SuperWASP online public archives using the period-search software developed by Dr. V.P. Goranskij for Windows environment. In two cases, we also used data of the ASAS-SN archive. According to these data, one star, GSC 02900-00317, is possibly pulsating in the firstand second-overtone modes; the other stars are pulsating in the fundamental and first-overtone modes.
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the $Z$ boson into a $τ$ lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct searches for lepton flavor violation in decays of the $Z$ boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Decays of the $Z$ boson into an electron or a muon and a hadronically decaying $τ$ lepton are considered. The searches are based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. No significant excess of events above the expected background is observed, and upper limits on the branching ratios of lepton-flavor-violating decays are set at the 95% confidence level: $\mathcal{B} (Z\to eτ) < 5.8 \times 10^{-5}$ and $\mathcal{B} (Z\to μτ) < 2.4 \times 10^{-5}$. This is the first limit on $\mathcal{B} (Z\to eτ)$ with ATLAS data. The upper limit on $\mathcal{B} (Z\to μτ)$ is combined with a previous ATLAS result based on 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV and the combined upper limit at 95% confidence level is $\mathcal{B} (Z\to μτ) < 1.3 \times 10^{-5}$.
description: 43 pages in total, author list starting page 27, 8 figures, 6 tables, published in Phys. Rev. D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2016-36/
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0173
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0173, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0173, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
title: A Brief Survey of English Language Research on Yugoslav Cultural and Social Anthropology and Ethnology
Creators: name: Halpern, Joel M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The focus of this article is an examination of English language sources dealing with Yugoslavia, mainly the works of American anthropologists in the postwar period. Since cultural and social anthropology as known in the United States and Western Europe does not exist as a separate discipline in Yugoslavia, it is necessary to broaden the field of inquiry to include certain aspects of ethnology and sociology insofar as we wish to include the works of Yugoslav scholars investigating aspects of their own country. The intellectual background and work of Yugoslav researchers has been considered in detail in an earlier article (Halpern and Hammel 1969). The present paper can be viewed as a supplement to the author's "Ethnology in Yugoslavia since World War II: A Review of Research and Publications" (forthcoming), which surveys primarily Serbo-Croatian sources.
Environmental Implications of Alternative-Fueled Automobiles: Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Tradeoffs
Creators: name: Maclean, Heather
name: Lave, Lester B
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We analyze alternative fuel-powertrain options for internal combustion engine automobiles. Fuel/engine efficiency, energy use, pollutant discharges, and greenhouse gas emissions are estimated for spark and compression ignited, direct injected (DI), and indirect injected (II) engines fueled by conventional and reformulated gasoline, reformulated diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), and alcohols. Since comparisons of fuels and technologies in dissimilar vehicles are misleading, we hold emissions level, range (160 and 595 km), vehicle size class, and style (a 1998 Ford Taurus sedan) constant. At present, CNG vehicles have the best exhaust emissions performance while DI diesels have the worst. Compared to a conventional gasoline fueled II automobile, greenhouse gases could be reduced by 40% by a DI CNG automobile and by 25% by a DI diesel. Gasoline- and diesel-fueled automobiles are able to attain long ranges with little weight or fuel economy penalty. CNG vehicles have the highest penalty for increasing range, due to their heavy fuel storage systems, but are the most attractive for a 160-km range. DI engines, particularly diesels, may not be able to meet strict emissions standards, at least not without lowering efficiency.
Quantum many-body dynamics of the Einstein-de Haas effect
Creators: name: Mentink, J. H.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Lemeshko, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1915, Einstein and de Haas and Barnett demonstrated that changing the magnetization of a magnetic material results in mechanical rotation, and vice versa. At the microscopic level, this effect governs the transfer between electron spin and orbital angular momentum, and lattice degrees of freedom, understanding which is key for molecular magnets, nano-magneto-mechanics, spintronics, and ultrafast magnetism. Until now, the timescales of electron-to-lattice angular momentum transfer remain unclear, since modeling this process on a microscopic level requires addition of an infinite amount of quantum angular momenta. We show that this problem can be solved by reformulating it in terms of the recently discovered angulon quasiparticles, which results in a rotationally invariant quantum many-body theory. In particular, we demonstrate that non-perturbative effects take place even if the electron--phonon coupling is weak and give rise to angular momentum transfer on femtosecond timescales.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
VIEWS ON IMPROVING THE LEGAL CULTURE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR IN CIVIL SOCIETY
Creators: name: Sofiev, A.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article talks about the need to increase the legal culture of entrepreneurs in the conditions of today's civil society, the essence of concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, entrepreneurial personality, processes of improving their legal regulation mechanisms within the framework of scientific, theoretical and practical research of the problem.
Confronting phantom inflation with Planck data
Creators: name: Iqbal, Asif
name: Malik, Manzoor A.
name: Qureshi, Mussadiq H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest Planck results are in excellent agreement with the theoretical expectations predicted from standard normal inflation based on slow-roll approximation which assumes equation-of-state $ω\geq-1$. In this work, we study the phantom inflation ($ω
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, Accepted in Astrophysics and Space Science
A Different Approach to Agency Theory and Implications For ESG
Creators: name: Bonham, Jonathan
name: Riggs-Cragun, Amoray
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: In conventional agency theory, the agent is modeled as exerting unobservable “effort” that influences the distribution over outcomes the principal cares about. Recent papers instead allow the agent to choose the entire distribution, an assumption that better describes the extensive and flexible control that CEOs have over firm outcomes. Under this assumption, the optimal contract rewards the agent directly for outcomes the principal cares about, rather than for what those outcomes reveal about the agent’s effort. This article briefly summarizes this new agency model and discusses its implications for contracting on ESG activities.
Training Symbol-Based Equalization for Quadrature Duobinary PDM-FTN Systems
Creators: name: Zhang, S.
name: Chang, D.
name: Dobre, O. A.
name: Omomukuyo, O.
name: Lin, X.
name: Venkatesan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A training symbol-based equalization algorithm is proposed for polarization de-multiplexing in quadrature duobinary (QDB) modulated polarization division multiplexedfaster-than-Nyquist (FTN) coherent optical systems. The proposed algorithm is based on the least mean square algorithm, and multiple location candidates of a symbol are considered in order to make use of the training symbols with QDB modulation.Results show that an excellent convergence performance is obtained using the proposed algorithm under different polarization alignment scenarios. The optical signal-to-noise ratio required to attain a bit error rate of 2*10-2 is reduced by 1.7 and 1.8 dB using the proposed algorithm, compared to systems using the constant modulus algorithm with differential coding for 4-ary quadrature amplitude modulation(4-QAM) and 16-QAM systems with symbol-by-symbol detection, respectively.Furthermore, comparisons with the Tomlinson-Harashima precoding-based FTN systems illustrate that QDB is preferable when 4-QAM is utilized.
Enhancing Value by Optimal Segmentation: Application to Determine Newspaper Zones
Creators: name: Anuj  Mehrotra
name: Shantz, Joseph
name: Trick, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We develop a heuristic procedure for partitioning graphs into clusters of nodes such that each cluster of nodes induces a connected subgraph with the objective of minimizing the differences within clusters as measured by the total differences between all pairs of nodes of a cluster. We apply our procedure to determine optimal delivery zones for community sections of a major newspaper while including a number of operational constraints. Our results demonstrate a 18–56% improvement in the total differences within the zones designed over the usual intuitive heuristics. Given the magnitude of the revenue generated by larger local newspapers through zoning, our method demonstrates how better zoning can significantly enhance the value of segmentation.
New Eclipsing Cataclysmic Variable Candidate in the Period Gap
Creators: name: D. Panov
name: D. V. Denisenko
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2018

description: We report the discovery of a blue eclipsing variable Dan V1 in Sagittarius with the orbital period P=0.094277 days (2.2626 hours). The object is also an UV source, indicating the presence of a white dwarf in the binary system. We consider two possibilities: a cataclysmic (nova-like) variable and an eclipsing hot subdwarf of the HW Vir type. Our analysis favors the first (CV) scenario. If confirmed, Dan V1 is a very rare eclipsing cataclysmic variable in the period gap.
GSC 02693-00926 and USNO-B1.0 1587-0201409, Two New Doubly Eclipsing Systems
Creators: name: A. V. Khruslov
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2018

description: I present my detection of two new doubly eclipsing systems, GSC 02693{00926 and USNO-B1.0 1587{0201409 (types EA+EB and EB+ELL). I analyzed all observations available for these stars in the NSVS and ASAS-SN online public archives using the period-search software developed by Dr. V.P. Goranskij for Windows environment. The light elements of both variations and the parameters of light curves are obtained.
A Study of the New Cataclysmic Variable 2MASS 23212116+3807563
Creators: name: A. V. Khruslov
name: A. V. Kusakin
name: I. V. Reva
name: R. I. Kokumbaeva
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2018

description: We present our variability study of the new cataclysmic variable star, 2MASS 23212116+3807563. The variable is a U Geminorum type star. An analysis of available electronic archives data (CSS, 1SWASP and ASAS-SN) does not detect periodicity. The variable has a close companion, photometric data in the electronic archives present combined light of the two stars. We acquired the star's new CCD photometry in Johnson's B, V, and R bands. Our observation confirm variability of 2MASS 23212116+3807563 with a large amplitude of light variations (more than 3m).
Enhancing Environmental Quality through Green Design
Creators: name: Noelette  Conway-Schempf
name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We are all environmentalists: All Americans care about the quality of the environment. The Pittsburgh of 1945 is not an acceptable outcome in a rich, industrialized economy. This concern is expressed in a host of environmental laws, a plethora of regulations, and myriad inspectors and regulators - at the federal, state, and local levels. About $150 billion is silent each year for pollution control, yet this amount is insufficient to give us the quality of air and water, and the absence of toxic waste sites that Americans desire.
Optimality of Gaussian receivers for practical Gaussian distributed sensing
Creators: name: Volkoff, T. J.
name: Sarovar, Mohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of estimating a function of many parameters acquired by sensors that are distributed in space, e.g., the spatial gradient of a field. We restrict ourselves to a setting where the distributed sensors are probed with experimentally practical resources, namely, field modes in separable displaced thermal states, and focus on the optimal design of the optical receiver that measures the phase-shifted returning field modes. Within this setting, we demonstrate that a locally optimal measurement strategy, i.e., one that achieves the standard quantum limit for all phase shift values, is a Gaussian measurement, and moreover, one that is separable. We also demonstrate the utility of adaptive phase measurements for making estimation performance robust in cases where one has little prior information on the unknown parameters. In this setting we identify a regime where it is beneficial to use structured optical receivers that entangle the received modes before measurement.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
title: Concerning Two Czech Publications on the Ethnography of Industrial Regions
Creators: name: Salzmann, Zdenek
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Comparisons drawn between the scope and methods of European ethnography on the one hand and those of American cultural anthropology on the other tend to emphasize the rather obvious differences between the two a t the expense of some interesting parallel influences to which both have been increasingly subject during the last several decades. The boundaries of the "primitive" world have been shrinking at an unprecedented rate as a result of proliferating technology and worldwide sociopolitical transformations, forcing the American cultural anthropologist to begin to shift his attention from tribal societies to peasant communities and to the processes of culture change. In Europe, where field research has been limited for the most part to the study of the traditional folk (peasant) culture of the ethnographer's country, the steady urbanization and modernization of the countryside has brought the subject of ethnographic research under similar reconsideration. Once the deepest wounds from World War II had closed and European ethnographers could fully resume their activities, a thorough reappraisal of the goals and methods of ethnographic research became inevitable. The options discussed ranged from the pursuit of microethnographic treatment of the ever-diminishing folk culture survivals to the sociologization of ethnography, with the implication of its gradual demise.
Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slab Nanocavities on Bulk Single-Crystal Diamond
Creators: name: Wan, Noel H.
name: Mouradian, Sara
name: Englund, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Color centers in diamond are promising spin qubits for quantum computing and quantum networking. In photon-mediated entanglement distribution schemes, the efficiency of the optical interface ultimately determines the scalability of such systems. Nano-scale optical cavities coupled to emitters constitute a robust spin-photon interface that can increase spontaneous emission rates and photon extraction efficiencies. In this work, we introduce the fabrication of 2D photonic crystal slab nanocavities with high quality factors and cubic wavelength mode volumes -- directly in bulk diamond. This planar platform offers scalability and considerably expands the toolkit for classical and quantum nanophotonics in diamond.
Stress-Based Navigation for Microscopic Robots in Viscous Fluids
Creators: name: Hogg, Tad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Objects moving in fluids experience patterns of stress on their surfaces determined by their motion and the geometry of nearby boundaries. Fish and underwater robots can use these patterns for navigation. This paper extends this stress-based navigation to microscopic robots in tiny vessels, where robots can exploit the physics of fluids at low Reynolds number. This applies, for instance, in vessels with sizes and flow speeds comparable to those of capillaries in biological tissues. We describe how a robot can use simple computations to estimate its motion, orientation and distance to nearby vessel walls from fluid-induced stresses on its surface. Numerically evaluating these estimates for a variety of vessel sizes and robot positions shows they are most accurate when robots are close to vessel walls.
Matrix product solutions to the reflection equation from three dimensional integrability
Creators: name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Pasquier, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37, 17B80

description: We formulate a quantized reflection equation in which $q$-boson valued $L$ and $K$ matrices satisfy the reflection equation up to conjugation by a solution to the Isaev-Kulish 3D reflection equation. By forming its $n$-concatenation along the $q$-boson Fock space followed by suitable reductions, we construct families of solutions to the reflection equation in a matrix product form connected to the 3D integrability. They involve the quantum $R$ matrices of the antisymmetric tensor representations of $U_p(A^{(1)}_{n-1})$ and the spin representations of $U_p(B^{(1)}_{n})$, $U_p(D^{(1)}_{n})$ and $U_p(D^{(2)}_{n+1})$.
description: 20 pages, minor corrections in Eq.(96)
Selection criteria for anticoagulants: survey of Japanese cardiologists based on their daily clinical practice: the Selection DOAC study
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Satoru
name: Motozawa, Yoshihiro
name: Mano, Toshiki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been utilized as an alternative to warfarin, which is known to have several limitations. This study aimed to clarify the selection criteria for anticoagulants, considering both individual patient factors and the differences between various drugs. This study conducted a web-based questionnaire from September 20, 2023 to October 3, 2023, among physicians who were members of a cardiology-specific website. In total, 172 respondents were enrolled in this study. Edoxaban was the most frequently selected anticoagulant (39.1%), followed by apixaban (32.7%) and rivaroxaban (16.8%). Logistic regression analysis revealed that increased concern for adherence enhanced the frequency of selecting edoxaban (odds ratio [OR] = 2.42; p = 0.047), with the opposite trend observed for dabigatran (OR = 0.404; p = 0.029). The selection of apixaban is related to whether the patient is able to maintain a regular lifestyle, including adherence to medication schedules (OR = 1.874; p = 0.031). Furthermore, detailing activities from a medical representative, especially regarding a new indication, were found to influence drug selection for rivaroxaban (OR = 2.422; p = 0.047). This study revealed that edoxaban is the most frequently selected anticoagulant. Although prescribing cardiologists select drugs based on background factors, adherence to medication and information from medical representatives were also crucial factors in the selection process.
Engineering Production Functions and Capital-Labor Substitutions in Metal Machining
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: For some time the theory of the firm has been subject to an unfortunate division: in the classroom we talk about production functions involving physical inputs and a physical output; in our empirical work we are content to estimate cost or production functions from value and accounting data.1 The former have come to be called "engineering production functions,"2 while the latter have been termed "index numbers of production" [3], "distribution functions" [4], and "surrogate production functions" [13]. Attempts to refine these empirical production functions to bring them closer to the physical production functions of the classroom have led to a mass of literature. The difficulties involve such questions as: Under what conditions may factors be aggregated [5]? Should capital be measured as a stock or service?3 Should there be corrections for price changes? (If so, should these entail weighting by (1) constant prices, (2) moving averages, or (3) labor time equivalents [1S]?)
Magnetic moments of the spin-$1\over 2$ singly charmed baryons in chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Wang, Guang-Juan
name: Meng, Lu
name: Li, Hao-Song
name: Liu, Zhan-Wei
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically derive the analytical expressions of the magnetic moments of the spin-$1\over 2$ singly charmed baryons to the next-to-next-to-leading order in the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBChPT). We discuss the analytical relations between the magnetic moments. We estimate the-low energy constants (LECs) in two scenarios. In the first scenario, we use the quark model and Lattice QCD simulation results as input. In the second scenario, the heavy quark symmetry is adopted to reduce the number of the independent LECs, which are then fitted using the data from the Lattice QCD simulations. We give the numerical results to the next-to-leading order for the antitriplet charmed baryons and to the next-to-next-to-leading order for the sextet states.
description: Published version in Phys. Rev. D
Asteroid Family Associations of Active Asteroids
Creators: name: Hsieh, Henry H.
name: Novakovic, Bojan
name: Kim, Yoonyoung
name: Brasser, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the results of a systematic search for associated asteroid families for all active asteroids known to date. We find that 10 out of 12 main-belt comets (MBCs) and 5 out of 7 disrupted asteroids are linked with known or candidate families, rates that have ~0.1% and ~6% probabilities, respectively, of occurring by chance, given an overall family association rate of 37% for asteroids in the inner solar system. We find previously unidentified family associations between 238P/Read and the candidate Gorchakov family, 311P/PANSTARRS and the candidate Behrens family, 324P/La Sagra and the Alauda family, 354P/LINEAR and the Baptistina family, P/2013 R3-B (Catalina-PANSTARRS) and the Mandragora family, P/2015 X6 (PANSTARRS) and the Aeolia family, P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS) and the Adeona family, and P/2016 J1-A/B (PANSTARRS) and the Theobalda family. All MBCs with family associations belong to families that contain asteroids with primitive taxonomic classifications and low average reported albedos (pV_avg < 0.10), while disrupted asteroids with family associations belong to families that contain asteroids that span wider ranges of taxonomic types and average reported albedos (0.06 < pV_avg < 0.25). These findings are consistent with MBC activity being closely correlated to composition (i.e., whether an object is likely to contain ice), while disrupted asteroid activity is not as sensitive to composition. Given our results, we describe a sequence of processes by which the formation of young asteroid families could lead to the production of present-day MBCs.
description: 28 pages, 30 figures, accepted by AJ
The X-Ray Source 1RXS J051439.2–021615 is a Flare K Dwarf
Creators: name: V. P. Goranskij
name: E. A. Barsukova
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2018

description: We obtained a spectrum and UBVRI photometry of the star associated with the X-ray source 1RXS J051439.2-021615 that experienced a rapid optical flare on 25 January 2018 (ATel No. 11250). We classified the spectrum as K2V K5V. The Halpha line was filled with emission. We explain this event as a flare in an active region on the surface of a late-type main sequence star.
Endogenously Incomplete Markets: Macroeconomic Implications
Creators: name: Sleet, Christopher
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Endogenously incomplete models derive restrictions on asset trading from primitive constraints on the enforcement and monitoring technologies available to societies. They have been applied to a wide variety of macroeconomic problems. This essay reviews some of these applications and the models that underpin them.
Fluctuation of the entropy production for the Lorentz gas under small external forces
Creators: name: Demers, Mark
name: Rey-Bellet, Luc
name: Zhang, Hong-Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37A60, 37C30, 37D50, 60F10, 82C05

description: In this paper we study the physical and statistical properties of the periodic Lorentz gas with finite horizon driven to a non-equilibrium steady state by the combination of non-conservative external forces and deterministic thermostats. A version of this model was introduced by Chernov, Eyink, Lebowitz, and Sinai and subsequently generalized by Chernov and the third author. Non-equilibrium steady states for these models are SRB measures and they are characterized by the positivity of the steady state entropy production rate. Our main result is to establish that the entropy production, in this context equal to the phase space contraction, satisfies the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation relation. The main tool needed in the proof is the family of anisotropic Banach spaces introduced by the first and third authors to study the ergodic and statistical properties of billiards using transfer operator techniques.
description: 32 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.1261
Reconciling mass-estimates of ultra-diffuse galaxies
Creators: name: Laporte, Chervin F. P.
name: Agnello, Adriano
name: Navarro, Julio F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The virial masses of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have been estimated using the kinematics and abundance of their globular cluster populations, leading to disparate results. Some studies conclude that UDGs reside in massive dark matter halos while others, controversially, argue for the existence of UDGs with no dark matter at all. Here we show that these results arise because the uncertainties of these mass estimates have been substantially underestimated. Indeed, applying the same procedure to the well-studied Fornax dwarf spheroidal would conclude that it has an "overmassive" dark halo or, alternatively, that it lacks dark matter. We corroborate our argument with self-consistent mocks of tracers in cosmological halos, showing that masses from samples with $5 < N < 10$ tracers (assuming no measurement errors) are uncertain by at least an order of magnitude. Finally, we estimate masses of UDGs with HST imaging in Coma and show that their recent mass measurements (with adequate uncertainties) are in agreement with that of other dwarfs, such as Fornax.. We also provide bias and scatter factors for a range of sample sizes and measurement errors, of wider applicability.
description: Accepted in MNRAS with no changes to the results, just a longer discussion, 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table ready to be used for future observational considerations (e.g. use of 11 GCs vs 10)