cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Result of the search for neutrinoless double-$β$ decay in $^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 experiment
Creators: name: Arnold, R.
name: Augier, C.
name: Baker, J. D.
name: Barabash, A. S.
name: Basharina-Freshville, A.
name: Blondel, S.
name: Blot, S.
name: Bongrand, M.
name: Brudanin, V.
name: Busto, J.
name: Caffrey, A. J.
name: Calvez, S.
name: Cerna, C.
name: Cesar, J. P.
name: Chapon, A.
name: Chauveau, E.
name: Duchesneau, D.
name: Durand, D.
name: Egorov, V.
name: Eurin, G.
name: Evans, J. J.
name: Fajt, L.
name: Filosofov, D.
name: Flack, R.
name: Garrido, X.
name: Gómez, H.
name: Guillon, B.
name: Guzowski, P.
name: Hodák, R.
name: Huber, A.
name: Hubert, P.
name: Hugon, C.
name: Jullian, S.
name: Klimenko, A.
name: Kochetov, O.
name: Konovalov, S. I.
name: Kovalenko, V.
name: Lalanne, D.
name: Lang, K.
name: Lemière, Y.
name: Noblet, T. Le
name: Liptak, Z.
name: Loaiza, P.
name: Lutter, G.
name: Mamedov, F.
name: Marquet, C.
name: Mauger, F.
name: Morgan, B.
name: Mott, J.
name: Nemchenok, I.
name: Nomachi, M.
name: Nova, F.
name: Nowacki, F.
name: Ohsumi, H.
name: Pahlka, R. B.
name: Perrot, F.
name: Piquemal, F.
name: Povinec, P.
name: Přidal, P.
name: Ramachers, Y. A.
name: Remoto, A.
name: Reyss, J. L.
name: Richards, B.
name: Riddle, C. L.
name: Rukhadze, E.
name: Saakyan, R.
name: Sarazin, X.
name: Shitov, Yu.
name: Simard, L.
name: Simkovic, F.
name: Smetana, A.
name: Smolek, K.
name: Smolnikov, A.
name: Söldner-Rembold, S.
name: Soulé, B.
name: Štekl, I.
name: Suhonen, J.
name: Sutton, C. S.
name: Szklarz, G.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Timkin, V.
name: Torre, S.
name: Tretyak, Vl. I.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
name: Umatov, V. I.
name: Vanushin, I.
name: Vilela, C.
name: Vorobel, V.
name: Waters, D.
name: Žukauskas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NEMO-3 detector, which had been operating in the Modane Underground Laboratory from 2003 to 2010, was designed to search for neutrinoless double $β$ ($0νββ$) decay. We report final results of a search for $0νββ$ decays with $6.914$ kg of $^{100}$Mo using the entire NEMO-3 data set with a detector live time of $4.96$ yr, which corresponds to an exposure of 34.3 kg$\cdot$yr. We perform a detailed study of the expected background in the $0νββ$ signal region and find no evidence of $0νββ$ decays in the data. The level of observed background in the $0νββ$ signal region $[2.8-3.2]$ MeV is $0.44 \pm 0.13$ counts/yr/kg, and no events are observed in the interval $[3.2-10]$ MeV. We therefore derive a lower limit on the half-life of $0νββ$ decays in $^{100}$Mo of $T_{1/2}(0νββ)> 1.1 \times 10^{24}$ yr at the $90\%$ Confidence Level, under the hypothesis of light Majorana neutrino exchange. Depending on the model used for calculating nuclear matrix elements, the limit for the effective Majorana neutrino mass lies in the range $\langle m_ν \rangle < 0.33$--$0.62$ eV. We also report constraints on other lepton-number violating mechanisms for $0νββ$ decays.
A Biopsychosocial Conceptual Framework of Postpartum Depression Risk in Immigrant and U.S.-born Latina Mothers in the United States
Creators: name: Grewen, Karen
name: Girdler, Susan S.
name: Meltzer-Brody, Samantha
name: Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In this review, we offer a conceptual framework that identifies risk factors of postpartum depression (PPD) in immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas in the U.S. by focusing on psychosocial and neuroendocrine factors. While the evidence of the impact psychosocial stressors have on the development of PPD have been well documented, less is known about the biological etiology of PPD or how these complex stressors jointly increase the risk of PPD in immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas in the U.S.
Tapinarof cream 1% in plaque psoriasis: a profile of its use
Creators: name: Shirley, Matt
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 110304
subject: Dermatology

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and conflict of interest M. Shirley is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
 Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
 Abstract Tapinarof (VTAMA®) cream 1%, a topical, non-steroidal, aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist, presents a valuable addition to the therapy options for topical treatment of plaque psoriasis in adults. In the pivotal 12-week, randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled, phase 3 PSOARING 1 and PSOARING 2 trials, once-daily tapinarof cream 1% was shown to be efficacious in reducing the severity of plaque psoriasis. Furthermore, evidence from an open-label extension study shows that continuous and intermittent use of tapinarof cream 1% for up to 1 year has durable on-treatment efficacy with a substantial remittive effect off treatment. Tapinarof cream 1% was generally well tolerated, with few patients discontinuing treatment in the pivotal trials due to adverse events, and with no new safety signals identified with longer-term treatment. Post-marketing real-world data and/or active-controlled studies to compare tapinarof cream 1% with other topical treatments used for plaque psoriasis would be of interest. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Ferromagnetic exchange field stabilized antiferromagnetic ordering in a cuprate superconductor
Creators: name: Dutta, Biswajit
name: Banerjee, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report experimental evidence of formation of antiferromagnetic clusters in composites made of a cuprate superconductor La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 (LCu) and a ferromagnet La0.6Sr0.4CoO3 (LCo). From linear and non-linear ac-susceptibility measurement on this composite material it is found that the exchange field of LCo suppress the dynamic antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation of LCu and convert it into the short range ordered superparamagnetic type antiferromagnetic (AFM) clusters at the cost of superconducting volume fraction. These shrank superconducting volume fraction shows quantum size effect (QSE) and follows DeGennes-Tinkham theory on finite size effect of superconductor.
description: The main manuscript and the Supplemental Material are one after another
Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes complete plastome and phylogenetic analysis
Creators: name: Acosta, Maria Camila Buitrago
name: Montúfar, Rommel
name: Guyot, Romain
name: Mariac, Cedric
name: Tranbarger, Timothy J.
name: Restrepo, Silvia
name: Couvreur, Thomas L. P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Bactris gasipaes var. gasipaes (Arecaceae, Palmae) is an economically and socially important plant species for populations across tropical South and Central America. It has been domesticated from its wild variety, B. gasipaes var. chichagui, since pre-Columbian times. In this study, we sequenced the plastome of the cultivated variety, B. gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes and compared it with the published plastome of the wild variety. The chloroplast sequence obtained was 156,580 bp. The cultivated chloroplast sequence was conserved compared to the wild type sequence with 99.8% of nucleotide identity. We did, however, identify multiple Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs), insertions, microsatellites and a resolved region of missing nucleotides. A SNV in one of the core barcode markers (matK) was detected between the wild and cultivated accessions. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out across the Arecaceae family and compared to previous reports, resulting in an identical topology. This study is a step forward in understanding the genome evolution of this species.
Area-level Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Use of Mammography Screening: A Multilevel Analysis of the Health of Houston Survey
Creators: name: Linder, Stephen H.
name: Calo, William A.
name: Vernon, Sally W.
name: Lairson, David R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: An emerging literature reports that women who reside in socioeconomically deprived communities are less likely to adhere to mammography screening. This study explored associations between area-level socioeconomic measures and mammography screening among a racially and ethnically diverse sample of women in Texas.
Towards detection of the molecular parity violation in chiral Ru(acac)$_3$ and Os(acac)$_3$
Creators: name: Fiechter, Marit R.
name: Haase, Pi A. B.
name: Saleh, Nidal
name: Soulard, Pascale
name: Tremblay, Benoît
name: Havenith, Remco W. A.
name: Timmermans, Rob G. E.
name: Schwerdtfeger, Peter
name: Crassous, Jeanne
name: Darquié, Benoît
name: Pašteka, Lukáš F.
name: Borschevsky, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory-experiment investigation of the helically chiral compounds Ru(acac)$_3$ and Os(acac)$_3$ as candidates for the next-generation experiments for detection of molecular parity violation (PV) in vibrational spectra. We used state-of-the-art relativistic calculations to identify optimal vibrational modes with expected PV effects exceeding by up to two orders of magnitude the projected instrumental sensitivity of the experiment under construction at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers in Paris. High-resolution measurements of the vibrational spectrum of Ru(acac)$_3$ carried out as the first steps towards the planned experiment are presented.
Genetic Toggle Switch in the Absence of Cooperative Binding: Exact Results
Creators: name: Biancalani, Tommaso
name: Assaf, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytical treatment of a genetic switch model consisting of two mutually inhibiting genes operating without cooperative binding of the corresponding transcription factors. Previous studies have numerically shown that these systems can exhibit bimodal dynamics without possessing two stable fixed points at the deterministic level. We analytically show that bimodality is induced by the noise and find the critical repression strength that controls a transition between the bimodal and non-bimodal regimes. We also identify characteristic polynomial scaling laws of the mean switching time between bimodal states. These results, independent of the model under study, reveal essential differences between these systems and systems with cooperative binding, where there is no critical threshold for bimodality and the mean switching time scales exponentially with the system size.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2015)
Nonunitarity of the lepton mixing matrix at the European Spallation Source
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sabya Sachi
name: Miranda, O. G.
name: Tórtola, M.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If neutrinos get mass through the exchange of lepton mediators, as in seesaw schemes, the neutrino appearance probabilities in oscillation experiments are modified due to effective nonunitarity of the lepton mixing matrix. This also leads to new CP phases and an ambiguity in underpinning the ''conventional'' phase of the three-neutrino paradigm. We study the CP sensitivities of various setups based at the European spallation source neutrino super-beam (ESSnuSB) experiment in the presence of nonunitarity. We also examine its potential in constraining the associated new physics parameters. Moreover, we show how the combination of DUNE and ESSnuSB can help further improve the sensitivities on the nonunitarity parameters.
description: 18 pages, 8 pdf figures, and 5 Tables. New figures and new discussions have been added. Version matches the published version of PRD
On the Limits of Predictability in Real-World Radio Spectrum State Dynamics: From Entropy Theory to 5G Spectrum Sharing
Creators: name: Ding, Guoru
name: Wang, Jinlong
name: Wu, Qihui
name: Yao, Yu-Dong
name: Li, Rongpeng
name: Zhang, Honggang
name: Zou, Yulong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A range of applications in cognitive radio networks, from adaptive spectrum sensing to predictive spectrum mobility and dynamic spectrum access, depend on our ability to foresee the state evolution of radio spectrum, raising a fundamental question: To what degree is radio spectrum state (RSS) predictable? In this paper, we explore the fundamental limits of predictability in RSS dynamics by studying the RSS evolution patterns in spectrum bands of several popular services, including TV bands, ISM bands, and Cellular bands, etc. From an information theory perspective, we introduce a methodology of using statistical entropy measures and Fano inequality to quantify the degree of predictability underlying real-world spectrum measurements. Despite the apparent randomness, we find a remarkable predictability, as large as 90%, in the real-world RSS dynamics over a number of spectrum bands for all popular services. Furthermore, we discuss the potential applications of prediction-based spectrum sharing in 5G wireless communications.
description: To appear, IEEE Communications Magazine (Accepted from open call), 2015
Genome sequencing of four African orphan crops
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: raw sequence reads
Multispecies

description: In order to solve the problem of food security, African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), aims to sequence the genomes of hundreds of underutilized African plants. These neglected or orphan crops have hitherto been little studied by science, but are of major importance in many African countries. The first batch of sequenced species includes: Lablab purpureus, Moringa oleifera, Sclerocarya birrea, Vigna subterranea.
Differences in Hospital Managers’, Unit Managers’, and Health Care Workers’ Perceptions of the Safety Climate for Respiratory Protection
Creators: name: Novak, Debra
name: Payne, Julianne
name: Joe, Lauren
name: Cooney, Jennifer
name: Peterson, Kristina
name: Brosseau, Lisa M.
name: Rogers, Bonnie M. E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This article compares hospital managers’ (HM), unit managers’ (UM), and health care workers’ (HCW) perceptions of respiratory protection safety climate in acute care hospitals. The article is based on survey responses from 215 HMs, 245 UMs, and 1,105 HCWs employed by 98 acute care hospitals in six states. Ten survey questions assessed five of the key dimensions of safety climate commonly identified in the literature: managerial commitment to safety, management feedback on safety procedures, coworkers’ safety norms, worker involvement, and worker safety training. Clinically and statistically significant differences were found across the three respondent types. HCWs had less positive perceptions of management commitment, worker involvement, and safety training aspects of safety climate than HMs and UMs. UMs had more positive perceptions of management’s supervision of HCWs’ respiratory protection practices. Implications for practice improvements indicate the need for frontline HCWs’ inclusion in efforts to reduce safety climate barriers and better support effective respiratory protection programs and daily health protection practices.
Dependence of the Black-body Force on Spacetime Geometry and Topology
Creators: name: Muniz, C. R.
name: Alencar, G.
name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Landim, R. R.
name: Filho, R. N. Costa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we compute the corrections to the black-body force (BBF) potential due to spacetime geometry and topology. This recently discovered attractive force on neutral atoms is caused by the thermal radiation emitted from black bodies and here we investigate it in relativistic gravitational systems with spherical and cylindrical symmetries. For some astrophysical objects we find that the corrected black-body potential is greater than the flat case, showing that this kind of correction can be quite relevant when curved spaces are considered. Then we consider four cases: The Schwarzschild spacetime, the global monopole, the non-relativistic infinity cylinder and the static cosmic string. For the spherically symmetric case of a massive body, we find that two corrections appear: One due to the gravitational modification of the temperature and the other due to the modification of the solid angle subtended by the atom. We apply the found results to a typical neutron star and to the Sun. For the global monopole, the modification in the black-body potential is of topological nature and it is due to the central solid angle deficit that occurs in the spacetime generated by that object. In the cylindrical case, which is locally flat, no gravitational correction to the temperature exists, as in the global monopole case. However, we find the curious fact that the BBF depends on the topology of the spacetime through the modification of the azimuthal angle and therefore of the solid angle. For the static cosmic string we find that the force is null for the zero thickness case.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Revised version
Pairing of electro-magnetic bosons under spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Andreev, Sergueï V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss pairing of light-matter bosons under effective spin-orbit (SO) coupling in two-dimensional semiconductors. The SO coupling is shown to induce dynamical broadening of a two-body bound state. Application of a transverse magnetic field yields the rich Feshbach resonance phenomenology. We predict quantum bosonic halos with a synthetic angular momentum L=2. The d-wave-like dressing of the nominally s-wave bound state is induced by SO coupling to the continuum in the open channel. The fundamental properties of the emergent quantum number remain to be explored.
description: 5 pages
Complete mitochondrial genome of the Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (Suliformes: Phalacrocoracidae)
Creators: name: Honda, Rina
name: Inumaru, Mizue
name: Sato, Yukita
name: Sogabe, Atsushi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The complete sequencing of mitochondrial DNA of the Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus was performed using long PCR and primer walking methods. The assembled genome was 19,105 bp in length. It contained 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and two control regions. The phylogenetic analysis using the obtained sequence showed that P. capillatus is closest to P. carbo.
Understanding binary neutron star collisions with hypermodels
Creators: name: Ashton, Gregory
name: Dietrich, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of supranuclear matter, the fundamental properties of gravity, and the cosmic history of our Universe. However, given the complexity of Einstein's Field Equations, theoretical models that enable source-property inference suffer from systematic uncertainties due to simplifying assumptions. We develop a hypermodel approach to compare and measure the uncertainty gravitational-wave approximants. Using state-of-the-art models, we apply this new technique to the binary neutron star observations GW170817 and GW190425 and the sub-threshold candidate GW200311_103121. Our analysis reveals subtle systematic differences between waveform models, and a frequency-dependence study suggests that this is due to the treatment of the tidal sector. This new technique provides a proving ground for model development, and a means to identify waveform-systematics in future observing runs where detector improvements will increase the number and clarity of binary neutron star collisions we observe.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Published Nature Astronomy
Evaluation of sample extraction and library preparation for short-gun metagenomics
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: raw sequence reads
Multispecies

description: In this study, two DNA extraction methods on different sample status (snap frozen and fresh) were compared, meanwhile two different library preparation methods with different sample inputs are performed, the goal is to evaluate the optimal experimental protocols to get highest data quality for samples in different status.
Closed-loop-controlled atmospheric pressure plasma treatment system
Creators: name: Ren, Junchen
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) are used as cold atmospheric-pressure plasma (CAP) sources in many emerging applications in medicine, surface modification, agriculture and environmental protection. Unlike their low-pressure counterparts, CAPs operate in the open air and are subject to inevitable environmental fluctuations, which affect the device performance. Therefore, the strategy used in traditional low-pressure systems of having a tight control environment is not viable for CAPs. As a result, stability, repeatability and control of the discharge properties are the key limitations of current CAP systems. To mitigate against these undesired fluctuations, an ‘intelligent’ Power Supply Unit (PSU) capable of adjusting the applied electrical field to control the power delivered to the discharge over long periods of time and achieve a stable and repeatable plasma treatment is proposed as part of this thesis. The PSU designed, built and tested is affordable (<£500), and it is shown to improve the stability and control of two different DBD reactors. The PSU can utilise electrical as well as optical signals to adapt the output of the power supply, and a power-controlled and an ozone concentration-controlled operation modes are demonstrated. The PSU is shown to be able to keep the stable performance of DBD reactors for hours at a time, with at least a 4x reduction in fluctuations caused by environmental changes when compared with conventional power supplies.
Simulating strongly interacting Hubbard chains with the Variational Hamiltonian Ansatz on a quantum computer
Creators: name: Martin, Baptiste Anselme
name: Simon, Pascal
name: Rančić, Marko J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been proposed to circumvent noise limitations in quantum computers. Such algorithms delegate only a calculation of the expectation value to the quantum computer. Among them, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) has been implemented to study molecules and condensed matter systems on small size quantum computers. Condensed matter systems described by the Hubbard model exhibit a rich phase diagram alongside exotic states of matter. In this manuscript, we try to answer the question: how much of the underlying physics of a 1D Hubbard chain is described by a problem-inspired Variational Hamiltonian Ansatz (VHA) in a broad range of parameter values ? We start by probing how much does the solution increases fidelity with increasing ansatz complexity. Our findings suggest that even low fidelity solutions capture energy and number of doubly occupied sites well, while spin-spin correlations are not well captured even when the solution is of high fidelity. Our powerful simulation platform allows us to incorporate a realistic noise model and shows a successful implementation of noise-mitigation strategies - post-selection and the Richardson extrapolation. Finally, we compare our results with an experimental realization of the algorithm on IBM Quantum's ibmq_quito device.
New approaches for contemporary architecture
Creators: name: Sposito, Alberto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: On the subject of contemporary architecture, the Author proposes new “approaches”, in consideration of the social and political situation, which, with the continuous migratory fluxes, demands solidarity, hospitality and integration: an “anthropological approach”, given the complex phenomenology of social life as conditioned by the technology of interactivity; a “management approach” to develop in professionals, institutions and their unifying networks, abilities geared towards conservation and enhancement of historical centres, and to set goals that can be achieved in sustainable fashion; a “participatory approach” between local communities and those newly arrived in a city’s old quarters, programming joint activities, from which relationships between different peoples may emerge and in which everybody is a “player” and a driving force for “unity”.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
The Peculiar Behavior of Halo Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Cycle 24
Creators: name: Gopalswamy, N.
name: Xie, H.
name: Akiyama, S.
name: Mäkelä, P.
name: Yashiro, S.
name: Michalek, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a remarkable finding that the halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in cycle 24 are more abundant than in cycle 23, although the sunspot number in cycle 24 has dropped by about 40%. We also find that the distribution of halo-CME source locations is different in cycle 24: the longitude distribution of halos is much flatter with the number of halos originating at central meridian distance >/=60 degrees twice as large as that in cycle 23. On the other hand, the average speed and the associated soft X-ray flare size are the same in the two cycles, suggesting that the ambient medium into which the CMEs are ejected is significantly different. We suggest that both the higher abundance and larger central meridian longitudes of halo CMEs can be explained as a consequence of the diminished total pressure in the heliosphere in cycle 24 (Gopalswamy et al. 2014). The reduced total pressure allows CMEs expand more than usual making them appear as halos.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, April 7, 2015
Witnessing causal nonseparability
Creators: name: Araújo, Mateus
name: Branciard, Cyril
name: Costa, Fabio
name: Feix, Adrien
name: Giarmatzi, Christina
name: Brukner, Časlav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our common understanding of the physical world deeply relies on the notion that events are ordered with respect to some time parameter, with past events serving as causes for future ones. Nonetheless, it was recently found that it is possible to formulate quantum mechanics without any reference to a global time or causal structure. The resulting framework includes new kinds of quantum resources that allow performing tasks - in particular, the violation of causal inequalities - which are impossible for events ordered according to a global causal order. However, no physical implementation of such resources is known. Here we show that a recently demonstrated resource for quantum computation - the quantum switch - is a genuine example of "indefinite causal order". We do this by introducing a new tool - the causal witness - which can detect the causal nonseparability of any quantum resource that is incompatible with a definite causal order. We show however that the quantum switch does not violate any causal nequality.
description: 15 + 12 pages, 5 figures. Published version
Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally
Creators: name: Kuemmerle, Tobias
name: Erb, Karlheinz
name: Meyfroidt, Patrick
name: Müller, Daniel
name: Verburg, Peter H
name: Hostert, Patrick
name: Jepsen, Martin R.
name: Kastner, Thomas
name: Levers, Christian
name: Lindner, Marcus
name: Plutzar, Christoph
name: Verkerk, Pieter Johannes
name: Van Der Zanden, Emma H
name: Reenberg, Anette
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: net primary production
subject: time-series data
subject: multitemporal modis
subject: global patterns
subject: agriculture
subject: cover
subject: map
subject: imagery
subject: areas
subject: deforestation
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften
subject: 333.7 Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: Die Zweitveröffentlichung der Publikation wurde durch Studierende des Projektseminars "Open Access Publizieren an der HU" im Sommersemester 2017 betreut. Nachgenutzt gemäß den CC-Bestimmungen des Lizenzgebers bzw. einer im Dokument selbst enthaltenen CC-Lizenz.
description: Future increases in land-based production will need to focus more on sustainably intensifying existing production systems. Unfortunately, our understanding of the global patterns of land use intensity is weak, partly because land use intensity is a complex, multidimensional term, and partly because we lack appropriate datasets to assess land use intensity across broad geographic extents. Here, we review the state of the art regarding approaches for mapping land use intensity and provide a comprehensive overview of available global-scale datasets on land use intensity. We also outline major challenges and opportunities for mappinglanduseintensityfor cropland, grazing, and forestry systems, and identify key issues for future research.
The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming
Creators: name: Levin, Michael
name: West, Christina
name: Etten, Eddie Van
name: Campbell, Dianne E
name: Burks, Wesley
name: Larcombe, Danica-Lea
name: Horwitz, Pierre
name: Logan, Alan C.
name: Caraballo, Luis
name: Kozyrskyj, Anita
name: Prescott, Susan L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Skin barrier structure and function is essential to human health. Hitherto unrecognized functions of epidermal keratinocytes show that the skin plays an important role in adapting whole-body physiology to changing environments, including the capacity to produce a wide variety of hormones, neurotransmitters and cytokine that can potentially influence whole-body states, and quite possibly, even emotions. Skin microbiota play an integral role in the maturation and homeostatic regulation of keratinocytes and host immune networks with systemic implications. As our primary interface with the external environment, the biodiversity of skin habitats is heavily influenced by the biodiversity of the ecosystems in which we reside. Thus, factors which alter the establishment and health of the skin microbiome have the potential to predispose to not only cutaneous disease, but also other inflammatory non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Indeed, disturbances of the stratum corneum have been noted in allergic diseases (eczema and food allergy), psoriasis, rosacea, acne vulgaris and with the skin aging process. The built environment, global biodiversity losses and declining nature relatedness are contributing to erosion of diversity at a micro-ecological level, including our own microbial habitats. This emphasises the importance of ecological perspectives in overcoming the factors that drive dysbiosis and the risk of inflammatory diseases across the life course.
Threshold Characteristics of Slow-Light Photonic Crystal Lasers
Creators: name: Xue, Weiqi
name: Yu, Yi
name: Ottaviano, Luisa
name: Chen, Yaohui
name: Semenova, Elizaveta
name: Yvind, Kresten
name: Mork, Jesper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The threshold properties of photonic crystal quantum dot lasers operating in the slow-light regime are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Measurements show that, in contrast to conventional lasers, the threshold gain attains a minimum value for a specific cavity length. The experimental results are explained by an analytical theory for the laser threshold that takes into account the effects of slow-light and random disorder due to unavoidable fabrication imperfections. Longer lasers are found to operate deeper into the slow-light region, leading to a trade-off between slow-light induced reduction of the mirror loss and slow-light enhancement of disorder-induced losses.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Research perspectives for restoration
Creators: name: Gurrieri, Francesco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The essay proposes a critical overview on the basic principles of restoration comparing with the evolution of aesthetics ideals. Starting both from the Roberto Pane theory and the fundamental documents of the discipline (Restoration Charts and Venice Chart specially) the essay points out the contemporary crises caused by Post-Modernism and the coming of new aesthetic condition. Thus the paper deepens the concept of “naught” and “nowhere” coming to prospect new opportunities for restoration in the framework of reuse project referring to the latest experience of the New Museum of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Heavy Vector Partners of the Light Composite Higgs
Creators: name: Lane, Kenneth
name: Pritchett, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the Higgs boson $H(125)$ is a composite due to new strong interactions at high energy, it has spin-one partners, $ρ_H$ and $a_H$, analogous to the $ρ$ and $a_1$ mesons of QCD. These bosons are heavy, their mass determined by the strong interaction scale. The strongly interacting particles light enough for $ρ_H$ and $a_H$ to decay to are the longitudinal weak bosons $V_L = W_L,\, Z_L$ and the Higgs boson $H$. These decay signatures are consistent with resonant diboson excesses recently reported near 2 TeV by ATLAS and CMS. We calculate $σ\times BR(ρ_H \to VV) =$ few fb and $σ\times BR(a_H \to VH) =$ 0.5-1 fb at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV, increasing by a factor of 5-7 at 13 TeV. Other tests of the hypothesis of the strong-interaction nature of the diboson resonances are suggested.
description: Improved discussion of Drell-Yan production; 11 pages, 2 tables, no figures; version to appear in Physics Letters B
Innovative strategies for the recovering of historical cities
Creators: name: Caterina, Gabriella
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The recovery of historical cities emphasizes the problem of reconstructing the memory of architecture and the mutual influence relationship between subjects and places clearly arises through the built environment concept. The awareness that recovery of the built environment to preserve memory of the place and activate a new development leads to the need to associate the recovery activities to the reactivation of local communities and to new solutions oriented to the verification of possibilities of creating different qualities and interests in the places to recover or to rebuild. In recent years, interventions in deprived urban places where artistic experiences are a chance to attract the change and regeneration, are becoming more numerous. The exploration of the artistic theories underlying the urban renewal process, supports the claim that, shared with local communities, art contributes to the development of the historic urban landscape, not as a work of embellishment, but as the reacquisition process of creativity, crucial to regenerate social bonds and recover the link with the place.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
SCLAiR : Supervised Contrastive Learning for User and Device Independent Airwriting Recognition
Creators: name: Tripathi, Ayush
name: Mondal, Arnab Kumar
name: Kumar, Lalan
name: P, Prathosh A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Airwriting Recognition is the problem of identifying letters written in free space with finger movement. It is essentially a specialized case of gesture recognition, wherein the vocabulary of gestures corresponds to letters as in a particular language. With the wide adoption of smart wearables in the general population, airwriting recognition using motion sensors from a smart-band can be used as a medium of user input for applications in Human-Computer Interaction. There has been limited work in the recognition of in-air trajectories using motion sensors, and the performance of the techniques in the case when the device used to record signals is changed has not been explored hitherto. Motivated by these, a new paradigm for device and user-independent airwriting recognition based on supervised contrastive learning is proposed. A two stage classification strategy is employed, the first of which involves training an encoder network with supervised contrastive loss. In the subsequent stage, a classification head is trained with the encoder weights kept frozen. The efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated through experiments on a publicly available dataset and also with a dataset recorded in our lab using a different device. Experiments have been performed in both supervised and unsupervised settings and compared against several state-of-the-art domain adaptation techniques. Data and the code for our implementation will be made available at https://github.com/ayushayt/SCLAiR.
). An Evaluation of a Mentoring Program in Emergency Medicine: A Qualitative Assessment in Rashid Trauma Center
Creators: name: Lasfer, chafika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The research in the document evaluates a mentoring program in emergency medicine, focusing on a qualitative assessment at the Rashid Trauma Centre in Dubai. It explores mentor-mentee dynamics, the effectiveness of mentorship, and the factors that influence the success or failure of these relationships. The study highlights the critical role mentors play in professional, academic, and emotional support while identifying barriers such as time constraints, communication challenges, and cultural differences. The goal is to improve mentorship in emergency medicine to support professional growth.
Chaperone-assisted translocation of flexible polymers in three dimensions
Creators: name: Suhonen, P. M.
name: Linna, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Polymer translocation through a nanometer-scale pore assisted by chaperones binding to the polymer is a process encountered in vivo for proteins. Studying the relevant models by computer simulations is computationally demanding. Accordingly, previous studies are either for stiff polymers in three dimensions or flexible polymers in two dimensions. Here, we study chaperone-assisted translocation of flexible polymers in three dimensions using Langevin dynamics. We show that differences in binding mechanisms, more specifically, whether a chaperone can bind to a single or multiple sites on the polymer, lead to substantial differences in translocation dynamics in three dimensions. We show that the single-binding mode leads to dynamics that is very much like that in the constant-force driven translocation and accordingly mainly determined by tension propagation on the cis side. We obtain $β\approx 1.26$ for the exponent for the scaling of the translocation time with polymer length. This fairly low value can be explained by the additional friction due to binding particles. The multiple-site binding leads to translocation whose dynamics is mainly determined by the trans side. For this process we obtain $β\approx 1.36$. This value can be explained by our derivation of $β= 4/3$ for constant-bias translocation, where translocated polymer segments form a globule on the trans side. Our results pave the way for understanding and utilizing chaperone-assisted translocation where variations in microscopic details lead to rich variations in the emerging dynamics.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures
Conversation with Philippe Daverio between Design and Cultural Heritage
Creators: name: Russo, Dario
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Design for the enhancement of the Cultural Heritage is today an issue of great topical interest. Philippe Daverio answers general questions to express his own opinion regarding the effect of new technology in the fruition of museums and art-works, re-design applied to the regeneration of the city, the importance of historical museums as expressions of stratified culture, the civic and ethical value of projects and the revival of interior design works that marked the history of design.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Quantum signatures of black hole mass superpositions
Creators: name: Foo, Joshua
name: Arabaci, Cemile Senem
name: Zych, Magdalena
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new operational framework for studying ``superpositions of spacetimes'', which are of fundamental interest in the development of a theory of quantum gravity. Our approach capitalizes on nonlocal correlations in curved spacetime quantum field theory, allowing us to formulate a metric for spacetime superpositions as well as characterizing the coupling of particle detectors to a quantum field. We apply our approach to analyze the dynamics of a detector (using the Unruh-deWitt model) in a spacetime generated by a BTZ black hole in a superposition of masses. We find that the detector exhibits signatures of quantum-gravitational effects corroborating and extending Bekenstein's seminal conjecture concerning the quantized mass spectrum of black holes in quantum gravity. Crucially, this result follows directly from the approach, without any additional assumptions about the black hole mass properties.
description: Close to published version. Supplemental materials found on publisher's website
Combining distant things
Creators: name: Portoghesi, Paolo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: This article is part of the book Canzoni da Organetto, a limited private edition promoted by Kalos Cesenatico Italia printed at the end of 1992. In it Paolo Portoghesi explains “the ritual of his game”. the drawings of this roman architect, baroque expert and creator of the Strada Novissima represent possible projects, cunning prologues, even pastimes, amusements, remembrances or figurative hypotheses regarding themes dear to the author, such as the street, the square, the façade, the palazzi.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
High-efficiency and broadband electro-optic frequency combs enabled by coupled micro-resonators
Creators: name: Hu, Yaowen
name: Yu, Mengjie
name: Buscaino, Brandon
name: Sinclair, Neil
name: Zhu, Di
name: Cheng, Rebecca
name: Shams-Ansari, Amirhassan
name: Shao, Linbo
name: Zhang, Mian
name: Kahn, Joseph M.
name: Loncar, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact, and broadband comb generators that support a wide range of applications. Current on-chip comb generators, however, are still limited by low optical pump-to-comb conversion efficiencies. Here, we demonstrate an integrated electro-optic frequency comb with a conversion efficiency of 30% and an optical bandwidth of 132 nm, featuring a 100-times higher conversion efficiency and 2.2-times broader optical bandwidth compared with previous state-of-the-art integrated electro-optic combs. We further show that, enabled by the high efficiency, the device acts as an on-chip femtosecond pulse source (336 fs pulse duration), which is important for applications in nonlinear optics, sensing, and computing. As an example, in the ultra-fast and high-power regime, we demonstrate the observation of a combined EO-χ^(3) nonlinear frequency comb. Our device paves the way for practical optical frequency comb generators enabling energy-efficient computing, communication, and metrology, and provides a platform to investigate new regimes of optical physics that simultaneously involve multiple nonlinearities.