cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD: A qualitative study reporting the patient perspective
Creators: name: Lahham, Aroub
name: McDonald, Christine F
name: Mahal, Ajay
name: Lee, Annemarie L
name: Hill, Catherine J
name: Burge, Angela
name: Cox, Narelle
name: Moore, Rosemary
name: Nicolson, Caroline
name: O'Halloran, Paul
name: Gillies, Rebecca
name: Holland, Anne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3201
subject: Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences

description: This study aimed to document the perspective of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who underwent home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (HBPR) in a clinical trial. In this qualitative study, open-ended questions explored participants’ views regarding HBPR. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Major themes from interviews included the positive impact of HBPR on physical fitness, breathing and mood. Participants valued the flexibility and convenience of the programme. Participants also highlighted the importance of social support received, both from the physiotherapist over the phone and from family and friends who encouraged their participation. Reported challenges were difficulties in initiating exercise, lack of variety in training and physical incapability. While most participants supported the home setting, one participant would have preferred receiving supervised exercise training at the hospital. Participants also reported that HBPR had helped establish an exercise routine and improved their disease management. This study suggests that people with COPD valued the convenience of HBPR, experienced positive impacts on physical fitness and symptoms and felt supported by their community and programme staff. This highly structured HBPR model may be acceptable to some people with COPD as an alternative to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation.
Functional renormalization group for signal detection and stochastic ergodicity breaking
Creators: name: Erbin, Harold
name: Finotello, Riccardo
name: Kpera, Bio Wahabou
name: Lahoche, Vincent
name: Samary, Dine Ousmane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Signal detection is one of the main challenges of data science. As it often happens in data analysis, the signal in the data may be corrupted by noise. There is a wide range of techniques aimed at extracting the relevant degrees of freedom from data. However, some problems remain difficult. It is notably the case of signal detection in almost continuous spectra when the signal-to-noise ratio is small enough. This paper follows a recent bibliographic line which tackles this issue with field-theoretical methods. Previous analysis focused on equilibrium Boltzmann distributions for some effective field representing the degrees of freedom of data. It was possible to establish a relation between signal detection and $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry breaking. In this paper, we consider a stochastic field framework inspiring by the so-called "Model A", and show that the ability to reach or not an equilibrium state is correlated with the shape of the dataset. In particular, studying the renormalization group of the model, we show that the weak ergodicity prescription is always broken for signals small enough, when the data distribution is close to the Marchenko-Pastur (MP) law. This, in particular, enables the definition of a detection threshold in the regime where the signal-to-noise ratio is small enough.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures
Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2010). A processing fluency explanation of bias against migrants. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 21-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.006
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This research investigated whether people are biased against migrants partly because they find migrants more difficult to cognitively process than nonmigrants.
Primordial non-Gaussianity as a saviour for PBH overproduction in SIGWs generated by Pulsar Timing Arrays for Galileon inflation
Creators: name: Choudhury, Sayantan
name: Dey, Kritartha
name: Karde, Ahaskar
name: Panda, Sudhakar
name: Sami, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the explicit role of negative local non-Gaussianity, $f_{\rm NL}$, in suppressing the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the single-field model of Galileon inflation. PBH formation requires significantly enhancing the scalar power spectrum, which greatly affects their abundance. The associated frequencies in the nHz regime are also sensitive to the generation of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) which may explain the current data from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). Our analysis using the threshold statistics on the compaction function demonstrates that Galileon theory not only avoids PBH overproduction using the curvature perturbation enhancements that give $f_{\rm NL} \sim {\cal O}(-6)$, but also generates SIGWs that conform well with the PTA data.
description: 21 pages (9 pages material+7 pages refs.+5 pages Appendices), 5 figures, Comments are welcome, Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Pressor response to angiotensin II is enhanced in aged mice and associated with inflammation, vasoconstriction and oxidative stress
Creators: name: Dinh, Quynh Nhu
name: Drummond, Grant
name: Kemp-Harper, Barbara K
name: Diep, Henry
name: De Silva, Michael
name: Kim, Hyun Ah
name: Vinh, Antony
name: Robertson, Avril AB
name: Cooper, Matthew A
name: Mansell, Ashley
name: Chrissobolis, Sophocles
name: Sobey, Christopher
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Aging is commonly associated with chronic low-grade inflammation and hypertension but it is unknown whether a cause-effect relationship exists between them. We compared the sensitivity of young adult (8-12 w) and aged (23-31 mo) male C57Bl6J mice to develop hypertension in response to a slow-pressor dose of angiotensin II (Ang II; 0.28 mg/kg/d; 28 d). In young mice, the pressor response to Ang II was gradual and increased to 142±8 mmHg over 28 d. However, in aged mice, Ang II promptly increased SBP and reached 155±12 mmHg by 28 d. Aging increased renal but not brain expression of Ang II receptors (At1ar and At2r) and elevated AT1R:AT2R expression ratio in mesenteric artery. Maximal contractile responses of mesenteric arteries to Ang II were enhanced in aged mice and were not affected by L-NAME, indomethacin or tempol. Mesenteric arteries and thoracic aortae from aged mice exhibited higher Nox2-dependent superoxide production. Despite having higher renal expression of Nlrp3, Casp-1 and Il-1β, Ang II-induced hypertension (SBP: 139±7 mmHg) was unaffected by co-infusion of the NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor, MCC950 (10 mg/kg/d; SBP: 145±10 mmHg). Thus, increased vascular AT1R:AT2R expression, rather than NLRP3 inflammasome activation, may contribute to enhanced responses to Ang II in aging.
Rubin, M. (2013). “It wasn’t my idea to come here!”: Ownership of the idea to immigrate as a function of gender, age, and culture. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37, 497-501. doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.02.001
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present study investigated gender, age, and culture differences in immigrants’ ownership of the idea to immigrate to Australia.
A Hyperparameter Study for Quantum Kernel Methods
Creators: name: Egginger, Sebastian
name: Sakhnenko, Alona
name: Lorenz, Jeanette Miriam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum kernel methods are a promising method in quantum machine learning thanks to the guarantees connected to them. Their accessibility for analytic considerations also opens up the possibility of prescreening datasets based on their potential for a quantum advantage. To do so, earlier works developed the geometric difference, which can be understood as a closeness measure between two kernel-based machine learning approaches, most importantly between a quantum kernel and a classical kernel. This metric links the quantum and classical model complexities, and it was developed to bound generalization error. Therefore, it raises the question of how this metric behaves in an empirical setting. In this work, we investigate the effects of hyperparameter choice on the model performance and the generalization gap between classical and quantum kernels. The importance of hyperparameters is well known also for classical machine learning. Of special interest are hyperparameters associated with the quantum Hamiltonian evolution feature map, as well as the number of qubits to trace out before computing a projected quantum kernel. We conduct a thorough investigation of the hyperparameters across 11 datasets and we identify certain aspects that can be exploited. Analyzing the effects of certain hyperparameter settings on the empirical performance, as measured by cross validation accuracy, and generalization ability, as measured by geometric difference described above, brings us one step closer to understanding the potential of quantum kernel methods on classical datasets.
description: Expanded implications of the paper
Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2011). The relationship between the need for closure and deviant bias: An investigation of generality and process. International Journal of Psychology, 46, 206-213. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2010.537660
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The need for closure predicts an evaluative bias against people whose opinions or behaviors deviate from other members of their social groups (Doherty, K. T., 1998; Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M., 1991; Schimel, J., et al., 1999).
The impact of coaches providing healthy snacks at junior sport training
Creators: name: Belski, Regina
name: Staley, Kiera
name: Keenan, Stephen
name: Skiadopoulos, Anne
name: Randle, Erica
name: Donaldson, Alex
name: O'Halloran, Paul
name: Kappelides, Panayiota
name: O'Neil, Stacey
name: Nicholson, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Objective: Sports clubs provide an opportunity to tackle childhood obesity rates through targeted interventions. Our study aimed to investigate if coaches providing healthy snacks to participants before junior netball sessions at five clubs in Melbourne, Australia, increased consumption of healthy foods and influenced coach perceptions of participants’ attention/participation levels. Methods: Coaches provided healthy snacks to participants before each netball session for one school term. Children's food consumption was observed at one session before, during and after the intervention. Parents attending the observed session completed pre- and post-intervention questionnaires. Coaches rated participants’ attention/participation at the observed sessions before and during the intervention, and completed a questionnaire post-intervention. Results: Baseline: Ice cream and cake were the most frequently consumed snacks. During intervention: Fruit, cheese and crackers and vegetables were the most frequently consumed snacks. Coaches ratings of participants’ attention/participation increased significantly (baseline: 6.4 ± 0.17, intervention: 7.5 ± 0.36; p=0.02) where the same coach undertook ratings at both time points. Conclusions: Coaches providing healthy snacks before sessions at sports clubs increased consumption of nutrient-dense foods at the session, and may have positively affected participants’ attention/participation. Implications for public health: This study highlights how a simple intervention could improve the diet of Australian children.
Empirical limit theorems for Wiener chaos
Creators: name: Bai, Shuyang
name: Chen, Jiemiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05, 60H05

description: We consider empirical measures in a triangular array setup with underlying distributions varying as sample size grows. We study asymptotic properties of multiple integrals with respect to normalized empirical measures. Limit theorems involving series of multiple Wiener-Itô integrals are established.
Rubin, M. (2012). Social class differences in social integration among students in higher education: A meta-analysis and recommendations for future research. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 5, 22-38. doi: 10.1037/a0026162
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A meta-analysis of 35 studies found that social class (socioeconomic status) is related to social integration among students in higher education: Working-class students are less integrated than middle-class students.
Variability in Western Arnhem Land shell midden deposits
Creators: name: Mowat, Fiona Mary
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 1995

description: This thesis addresses variability in shell middens deposited during the Mid to Late Holocene in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Throughout this time, the inhabitants of western Arnhem Land exploited a wide variety of marine resources. Evidence of exploitation of marine and estuarine molluscs can be found in the form of shell middens deposited throughout the landscape, on the coastal strip and estuarine plains further south and in rockshelters situated in outliers of the escarpment. I aim to test existing models which classified middens into a few inflexible types, and which identified simple chronological changes. The integrity of these models is examined by a review of the data used to construct them, and by testing against them previously unrecorded midden sites. Some authors have identified chronological changes in the relative abundance of species in middens, notably Cerithidea obtusa. and in the location in which middens were deposited. Models of simple unidirectional change in relative abundance of Cerithidea across a broad geographic area are not supported. Rockshelters were not all abandoned in favour of coastal plains at 3000 BP. Conversely, the coastal plains were not only used after 3000 BP. Midden variability has not been acknowledged by previous researchers. Models regarding middens have typically characterised these sites as being homogeneous. The present study has revealed a wide variety of species abundance, antiquity, environmental context, species richness, size and form of midden sites in western Arnhem Land.
RCAgent: Cloud Root Cause Analysis by Autonomous Agents with Tool-Augmented Large Language Models
Creators: name: Wang, Zefan
name: Liu, Zichuan
name: Zhang, Yingying
name: Zhong, Aoxiao
name: Wang, Jihong
name: Yin, Fengbin
name: Fan, Lunting
name: Wu, Lingfei
name: Wen, Qingsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language model (LLM) applications in cloud root cause analysis (RCA) have been actively explored recently. However, current methods are still reliant on manual workflow settings and do not unleash LLMs' decision-making and environment interaction capabilities. We present RCAgent, a tool-augmented LLM autonomous agent framework for practical and privacy-aware industrial RCA usage. Running on an internally deployed model rather than GPT families, RCAgent is capable of free-form data collection and comprehensive analysis with tools. Our framework combines a variety of enhancements, including a unique Self-Consistency for action trajectories, and a suite of methods for context management, stabilization, and importing domain knowledge. Our experiments show RCAgent's evident and consistent superiority over ReAct across all aspects of RCA -- predicting root causes, solutions, evidence, and responsibilities -- and tasks covered or uncovered by current rules, as validated by both automated metrics and human evaluations. Furthermore, RCAgent has already been integrated into the diagnosis and issue discovery workflow of the Real-time Compute Platform for Apache Flink of Alibaba Cloud.
description: Accepted by the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)
HIV cure research: print and online media reporting in Australia
Creators: name: Power, Jennifer
name: Fileborn, Bianca
name: Dowsett, Gary
name: Lucke, Jayne
name: Brown, Graham
name: Ellard, Jeanne
name: Lewin, Sharon R
name: Tucker, Joseph D
name: Slavin, Sean
name: Sugarman, Jeremy
name: Hill, Sophie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: OBJECTIVES: While still in its early stages, recent scientific research towards a cure for HIV has generated widespread media interest. The aim of this paper was to explore the ways in which this research has been represented in Australian print and online media and discuss implications of this. METHODS: A search of databases from four selected media outlets was conducted to identify published articles that directly discussed HIV cure research. Content analysis was used to explore the discursive framing of HIV cure research and identify the presence or absence of people living with HIV in articles. RESULTS: In total, 95 articles were identified that had been published in print or online between 2007 and 2015. Media reports tended to focus on research breakthroughs or the future potential of HIV cure research, rather than more immediate implications of research findings. While not inaccurate, this focus often implied the field of HIV cure research was more advanced than was generally the case. There was a notable absence of commentary from people living with HIV or community advocates in media reporting. CONCLUSIONS: Media reporting may generate unrealistic expectations of HIV cure research. This raises ethical concerns that media reporting may inadvertently contribute to therapeutic or curative misconceptions among potential participants in HIV cure-related trials. To address this, scientists, HIV advocates and people living with HIV will need to work collaboratively to engage with reporters and media outlets to provide more consistent input and guidance into reporting about research towards a cure for HIV.
Simultaneous perturbed minimization of a convergent sequence of functions
Creators: name: Topalova, Hristina
name: Zlateva, Nadia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46N10, 49J45, 90C26

description: We establish a general method for simultaneously perturbing a convergent sequence of functions in such a way that the sequence of strong minima of the perturbed functions tend to the strong minimum of their limit.
Nonparametric Estimation and Comparison of Distance Distributions from Censored Data
Creators: name: McCabe, Lucas H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transportation distance information is a powerful resource, but location records are often censored due to privacy concerns or regulatory mandates. We outline methods to approximate, sample from, and compare distributions of distances between censored location pairs, a task with applications to public health informatics, logistics, and more. We validate empirically via simulation and demonstrate applicability to practical geospatial data analysis tasks.
The targum (1920:Dec. 7 - 1920:Dec. 21)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1920

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Drops on polymer brushes -- advances in thin-film modelling of adaptive substrates
Creators: name: Hartmann, Simon
name: Diekmann, Jan
name: Greve, Daniel
name: Thiele, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly review recent advances in the hydrodynamic modeling of the dynamics of droplets on adaptive substrates, in particular, solids that are covered by polymer brushes. Thereby, the focus are long-wave and full-curvature variants of mesoscopic hydrodynamic models in gradient dynamics form. After introducing the approach for films/drops of nonvolatile simple liquids on rigid smooth solid substrate, it is first expanded to an arbitrary number of coupled degrees of freedom, before considering the specific case of drops of volatile liquids on brush-covered solids. After presenting the model its usage is illustrated by briefly considering the natural and forced spreading of drops of nonvolatile liquids on a horizontal brush-covered substrate as well as drops sliding down a brush-covered incline. Finally, also volatile liquids are considered.
Rubin, M. (2012). Working-class students need more friends at university: A cautionary note for Australia’s higher education equity initiative. Higher Education Research and Development, 31, 431-433. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2012.689246
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: I argue that working-class students need to be better integrated into social life at university in order for them to have a better opportunity to succeed.
The non-minimally coupled symmetric teleparallel gravity with electromagnetic field
Creators: name: Doyran, Beyda
name: Sert, Özcan
name: Adak, Muzaffer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a symmetric teleparallel gravity model which is non-minimally coupled with electromagnetic field in four dimensions inspired by its Riemannian equivalent. We derive the field equations by taking the variation of this model, which is written here for the first time. Then, we find some classes of spherically symmetric static solutions by the coincident gauge of symmetric teleparallel spacetime.
description: 16 pages
Brief Education Intervention Increases Nutrition Knowledge and Confidence of Coaches of Junior Australian Football Teams
Creators: name: Belski, Regina
name: Donaldson, Alex
name: Staley, Kiera
name: Skiadopoulos, Anne
name: Randle, Erica
name: O'Halloran, Paul
name: Kappelides, Panayiota
name: Teakel, Steve
name: Stanley, Sonya
name: Nicholson, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: This study evaluated the impact of a brief (20-min) nutrition education intervention embedded in an existing mandatory coach education course for coaches of junior (8-12 years old) Australian football teams. A total of 284 coaches (68% of 415 coaching course participants) completed a presession questionnaire, and 110 coaches (27% of coaching course participants) completed an identical postsession questionnaire. The responses to the pre- and postsession surveys were matched for 78 coaches. Coaches' ratings of their own understanding of the nutritional needs of young athletes (6.81, 8.95; p < .001), the importance of young athletes adhering to a healthy diet (9.09, 9.67; p = .001), their confidence in their own nutrition knowledge (7.24, 8.64; p < .001), and their confidence in advising young athletes on nutrition and hydration practices (6.85, 8.62; p < .001), all significantly improved following the education session. Nearly all coaches (>95%) provided a correct response to six of the 15 nutrition and hydration knowledge questions included in the presession questionnaire. Even with this high level of presession knowledge, there was a significant improvement in the coaches' nutrition and hydration knowledge after the education session across five of the 15 items, compared with before the education session. The results of this study suggest that a simple, short nutrition education intervention, embedded in an existing coach education course, can positively influence the nutrition knowledge and self-efficacy of community-level, volunteer coaches of junior sports participants.
Quantum geodesics reflecting the internal structure of stars composed of shells
Creators: name: Cheong, Sojeong
name: Kim, Wontae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In general relativity, an external observer cannot distinguish distinct internal structures between two spherically symmetric stars that have the same total mass $M$. However, when quantum corrections are taken into account, the external metrics of the stars will receive quantum corrections depending on their internal structures. In this paper, we obtain the quantum-corrected metrics at linear order in curvature for two spherically symmetric shells characterized by different internal structures: one with an empty interior and the other with $N$ internal shells. The dependence on the internal structures in the corrected metrics tells us that geodesics on these backgrounds would be deformed according to the internal structures. We conduct numerical computations to find out the angle of geodesic precession and show that the presence of internal structures amplifies the precession angle reflecting the discrepancy between the radial and orbital periods within the geodesic orbit. The amount of the precession angle increases monotonically as the number of internal shells increases and it eventually converges to a certain value for $N \to \infty$.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, one reference added, version published in JCAP
Observation of strong nuclear suppression in exclusive $J/ψ$ photoproduction in Au$+$Au ultra-peripheral collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of exclusive $J/ψ$ photoproduction in Au$+$Au ultra-peripheral collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\mathrm{NN}}}=200$ GeV using the STAR detector. For the first time, i) the rapidity correlation between $J/ψ$ photoproduction and neutron emission from nuclear breakups has been experimentally measured; ii) nuclear suppression factors are measured for both the coherent and incoherent $J/ψ$ production. At photon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 25.0 GeV, the coherent and incoherent $J/ψ$ cross sections of Au nuclei are found to be $71\pm10\%$ and $36\pm7\%$, respectively, of that of free protons. The stronger suppression observed in the incoherent production provides a new experimental handle to study the initial-state parton density in heavy nuclei. Data are compared with theoretical models quantitatively.
description: Final published version
How does spatial structure affect psychological restoration? A method based on Graph Neural Networks and Street View Imagery
Creators: name: Ma, Haoran
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Liu, Pengyuan
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Zhu, Pengyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Attention Restoration Theory (ART) presents a theoretical framework with four essential indicators (being away, extent, fascinating, and compatibility) for comprehending urban and natural restoration quality. However, previous studies relied on non-sequential data and non-spatial dependent methods, which overlooks the impact of spatial structure defined here as the positional relationships between scene entities on restoration quality. The past methods also make it challenging to measure restoration quality on an urban scale. In this work, a spatial-dependent graph neural networks (GNNs) approach is proposed to reveal the relation between spatial structure and restoration quality on an urban scale. Specifically, we constructed two different types of graphs at the street and city levels. The street-level graphs, using sequential street view images (SVIs) of road segments to capture position relationships between entities, were used to represent spatial structure. The city-level graph, modeling the topological relationships of roads as non-Euclidean data structures and embedding urban features (including Perception-features, Spatial-features, and Socioeconomic-features), was used to measure restoration quality. The results demonstrate that: 1) spatial-dependent GNNs model outperforms traditional methods (Acc = 0.735, F1 = 0.732); 2) spatial structure portrayed through sequential SVIs data significantly influences restoration quality; 3) spaces with the same restoration quality exhibited distinct spatial structures patterns. This study clarifies the association between spatial structure and restoration quality, providing a new perspective to improve urban well-being in the future.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures, Under review
Anomalous scalings of fluctuations of the area swept by a Brownian particle trapped in a $|x|$ potential
Creators: name: Smith, Naftali R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fluctuations of the area $A=\int_0^T x(t) dt$ under a one-dimensional Brownian motion $x(t)$ in a trapping potential $\sim |x|$, at long times $T\to\infty$. We find that typical fluctuations of $A$ follow a Gaussian distribution with a variance that grows linearly in time (at large $T$), as do all higher cumulants of the distribution. However, large deviations of $A$ are not described by the ``usual'' scaling (i.e., the large deviations principle), and are instead described by two different anomalous scaling behaviors: Moderately-large deviations of $A$, obey the anomalous scaling $P\left(A;T\right)\sim e^{-T^{1/3}f\left(A/T^{2/3}\right)}$ while very large deviations behave as $P\left(A;T\right)\sim e^{-TΨ\left(A/T^{2}\right)}$. We find the associated rate functions $f$ and $Ψ$ exactly. Each of the two functions contains a singularity, which we interpret as dynamical phase transitions of the first and third order, respectively. We uncover the origin of these striking behaviors by characterizing the most likely scenario(s) for the system to reach a given atypical value of $A$. We extend our analysis by studying the absolute area $B=\int_0^T|x(t)| dt$ and also by generalizing to higher spatial dimension, focusing on the particular case of three dimensions.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
title: Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtssystem: Sieben Thesen zur Positivierung des Rechts und zur Differenzierung von Recht und Rechtswissenschaft
Creators: name: Jansen, Nils
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Würzburger Vorträge zur Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtstheorie und Rechtssoziologie, vol. 56
title: Zum Erkenntnisziel der Rechtstheorie: Philosophische Grundlagen multidisziplinärer Rechtswissenschaft
Creators: name: Auer, Marietta
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Würzburger Vorträge zur Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtstheorie und Rechtssoziologie, vol. 54
Quantum information spreading in generalised dual-unitary circuits
Creators: name: Foligno, Alessandro
name: Kos, Pavel
name: Bertini, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spreading of quantum information in a recently introduced family of brickwork quantum circuits that generalises the dual-unitary class. These circuits are unitary in time, while their spatial dynamics is unitary only in a restricted subspace. First, we show that local operators spread at the speed of light as in dual-unitary circuits, i.e., the butterfly velocity takes the maximal value allowed by the geometry of the circuit. Then, we prove that the entanglement spreading can still be characterised exactly for a family of compatible initial states (in fact, for an extension of the compatible family of dual-unitary circuits) and that the asymptotic entanglement slope is again independent on the Rényi index. Remarkably, however, we find that the entanglement velocity is generically smaller than one. We use these properties to find a closed-form expression for the entanglement membrane in these circuits.
description: 7 pages in the main text, 4 pages in the SM, 2 figures in the main tex
Growth of Caenorhabditis elegans in defined media is dependent on presence of particulate matter
Creators: name: Flavel, Matthew
name: Mechler, Adam
name: Shahmiri, Mahdi
name: Mathews, Elizabeth
name: Franks, Ashley
name: Chen, Weisan
name: Zanker, Damien
name: Xian, Bo
name: Gao, S
name: Luo, J
name: Tegegne, Surafel
name: Doneski, C
name: Jois, Markandeya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Caenorhabditis elegans are typically cultured in a monoxenic medium consisting of live bacteria. However, this introduces a secondary organism to experiments, and restricts the manipulation of the nutritional environment. Due to the intricate link between genes and environment, greater control and understanding of nutritional factors are required to push the C. elegans field into new areas. For decades, attempts to develop a chemically defined, axenic medium as an alternative for culturing C. elegans have been made. However, the mechanism by which the filter feeder C. elegans obtains nutrients from these liquid media is not known. Using a fluorescence-activated cell sorting based approach, we demonstrate growth in all past axenic C. elegans media to be dependent on the presence of previously unknown particles. This particle requirement of C. elegans led to development of liposome-based, nanoparticle culturing that allows full control of nutrients delivered to C. elegans.
Virtual Fusion with Contrastive Learning for Single Sensor-based Activity Recognition
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duc-Anh
name: Pham, Cuong
name: Le-Khac, Nhien-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Various types of sensors can be used for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), and each of them has different strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a single sensor cannot fully observe the user's motions from its perspective, which causes wrong predictions. While sensor fusion provides more information for HAR, it comes with many inherent drawbacks like user privacy and acceptance, costly set-up, operation, and maintenance. To deal with this problem, we propose Virtual Fusion - a new method that takes advantage of unlabeled data from multiple time-synchronized sensors during training, but only needs one sensor for inference. Contrastive learning is adopted to exploit the correlation among sensors. Virtual Fusion gives significantly better accuracy than training with the same single sensor, and in some cases, it even surpasses actual fusion using multiple sensors at test time. We also extend this method to a more general version called Actual Fusion within Virtual Fusion (AFVF), which uses a subset of training sensors during inference. Our method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and F1-score on UCI-HAR and PAMAP2 benchmark datasets. Implementation is available upon request.
title: Widerständige Gerechtigkeit: Der Angriff auf Demokratie, Verfassungsstaat und Menschenrechte und die Gesellschaftstheorie des Rechts
Creators: name: Mahlmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Würzburger Vorträge zur Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtstheorie und Rechtssoziologie, vol. 55
Rubin, M. (2011). Social affiliation cues prime help-seeking intentions. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 43, 138-141. doi: 10.1037/a0022246
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Rubin, M. (2011). Social affiliation cues prime help-seeking intentions. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 43, 138-141. doi: 10.1037/a0022246
lnfluence of grape variety, climate and soil on grape composition and on the composition and quality of table wines
Creators: name: Rankine, B. C.
name: Fornachon, J. C. M.
name: Boehm, E. W.
name: Cellier, K. M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2017

description: The influence of grape variety, soil type, climatic area and year of vintage on grape composition and wine quality was studied over a six-year period with three grape varieties in a eo-operative investigation. The wines were made under carefully controlled conditions to eliminate, as far as possible, any effect of winemaking technique. All viticultural and oenological treatments were replicated so that the data could be analysed statistically. When grapes from different viticultural areas were made into table wines, the quality of the wines was most closely related to grape variety, followed by climatic area and least of all by soil type. Reproducible differences in grape and wine composition were found for the grape varieties studied. For fhe same sugar content Riesling grapes and wine contained more acidity and a higher tartaric acid/malic acid ratio than Clare Riesling grapes and wine. They also contained less nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Shiraz grapes were relatively high in malic acid. The year of vintage strongly influenced the tartaric acid/malic acid ratio, particularly for Riesling and Clare Riesling, and also certain other constituents. Certain years could be designated as either high or low malic acid years for a particular grape variety. The soil type influenced the amounts of certain of the constituents of grapes and wine, but had no significant effects on the wine quality. Wines from the same varieties grown on two widely different soils in the same area could not be differentiated in replicated taste tests. The soil depth, drainage and waterholding capacity appeared to be more important than composition per se. Wines made from irrigated vineyards in the warm River Murray viticultural region, contained similar amounts of tartaric and malic acids, but were higher in pH, than wines made from the same grape varieties in the cooler non-irrigated Barossa Valley. Wines from irrigated grapes were generally of somewhat lower quality than those made from grapes of the same variety grown without irrigation in a cooler area. The time of harvesting irrigated grapes appeared to be critical to achieve the necessary balance between sugar, acid and flavour. Shiraz grapes grown under irrigation contained considerably less colour than grapes of the same variety grown without irrigation. Aroma was correlated with flavour in assessing wine quality, but numerical values ascribed to these parameters did not correlate generally with the wine constituents measured. A positive correlation existed between high tasting scores and high Ball/acid ratio.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 10 No. 1 (1971): Vitis
Drosophila melanogaster Guk-holder interacts with the Scribbled PDZ1 domain and regulates epithelial development with Scribbled and Discs Large
Creators: name: Caria, Sofia
name: Magtoto, Charlene
name: Tinaz Samiei
name: Portela-Esteban, Marta
name: Lim, Krystle
name: How, Jing Yuan
name: Stewart, Bryce
name: Humbert, Patrick
name: Richardson, Helena
name: Kvansakul, Marc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2018 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Epithelial cell polarity is controlled by components of the Scribble polarity module, and its regulation is critical for tissue architecture and cell proliferation and migration. In Drosophila melanogaster, the adaptor protein Guk-holder (Gukh) binds to the Scribbled (Scrib) and Discs Large (Dlg) components of the Scribble polarity module and plays an important role in the formation of neuromuscular junctions. However, Gukh’s role in epithelial tissue formation and the molecular basis for the Scrib–Gukh interaction remain to be defined. We now show using isothermal titration calorimetry that the Scrib PDZ1 domain is the major site for an interaction with Gukh. Furthermore, we defined the structural basis of this interaction by determining the crystal structure of the Scrib PDZ1–Gukh complex. The C-terminal PDZ-binding motif of Gukh is located in the canonical ligand-binding groove of Scrib PDZ1 and utilizes an unusually extensive network of hydrogen bonds and ionic interactions to enable binding to PDZ1 with high affinity. We next examined the role of Gukh along with those of Scrib and Dlg in Drosophila epithelial tissues and found that Gukh is expressed in larval-wing and eye-epithelial tissues and co-localizes with Scrib and Dlg at the apical cell cortex. Importantly, we show that Gukh functions with Scrib and Dlg in the development of Drosophila epithelial tissues, with depletion of Gukh enhancing the eye- and wing-tissue defects caused by Scrib or Dlg depletion. Overall, our findings reveal that Scrib’s PDZ1 domain functions in the interaction with Gukh and that the Scrib–Gukh interaction has a key role in epithelial tissue development in Drosophila.
Rubin, M., & Hewstone, M. (2004). Social identity, system justification, and social dominance: Commentary on Reicher, Jost et al., and Sidanius et al. Political Psychology, 25, 823-844. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00400.x
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Rubin, M., & Hewstone, M. (2004). Social identity, system justification, and social dominance: Commentary on Reicher, Jost et al., and Sidanius et al. Political Psychology, 25, 823-844. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00400.x
Light-Curve Structure and Halpha Line Formation in the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2019azh
Creators: name: Faris, Sara
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Makrygianni, Lydia
name: Hiramatsu, Daichi
name: Terreran, Giacomo
name: Farah, Joseph
name: Howell, D. Andrew
name: McCully, Curtis
name: Newsome, Megan
name: Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
name: Pellegrino, Craig
name: Bostroem, K. Azalee
name: Abojanb, Wiam
name: Lam, Marco C.
name: Tomasella, Lina
name: Brink, Thomas G.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: French, K. Decker
name: Clark, Peter
name: Graur, Or
name: Leloudas, Giorgos
name: Gromadzki, Mariusz
name: Anderson, Joseph P.
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Gutierrez, Claudia P.
name: Kankare, Erkki
name: Inserra, Cosimo
name: Galbany, Luis
name: Reynolds, Thomas
name: Mattila, Seppo
name: Heikkila, Teppo
name: Wang, Yanan
name: Onori, Francesca
name: Wevers, Thomas
name: Charalampopoulos, Panos
name: Johansson, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AT 2019azh is a H+He tidal disruption event (TDE) with one of the most extensive ultraviolet and optical data sets available to date. We present our photometric and spectroscopic observations of this event starting several weeks before and out to approximately two years after the g-band peak brightness and combine them with public photometric data. This extensive data set robustly reveals a change in the light-curve slope and a possible bump in the rising light curve of a TDE for the first time, which may indicate more than one dominant emission mechanism contributing to the pre-peak light curve. Indeed, we find that the MOSFiT-derived parameters of AT 2019azh, which assume reprocessed accretion as the sole source of emission, are not entirely self-consistent. We further confirm the relation seen in previous TDEs whereby the redder emission peaks later than the bluer emission. The post-peak bolometric light curve of AT 2019azh is better described by an exponential decline than by the canonical t^{-5/3} (and in fact any) power-law decline. We find a possible mid-infrared excess around the peak optical luminosity, but cannot determine its origin. In addition, we provide the earliest measurements of the Halpha emission-line evolution and find no significant time delay between the peak of the V-band light curve and that of the Halpha luminosity. These results can be used to constrain future models of TDE line formation and emission mechanisms in general. More pre-peak 1-2 days cadence observations of TDEs are required to determine whether the characteristics observed here are common among TDEs. More importantly, detailed emission models are needed to fully exploit such observations for understanding the emission physics of TDEs.
description: Submitted to ApJ