cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Fisherman’s Pier Incorporated, Fisherman’s Pier Repair, SAJ-2019-01492, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Broward County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; SERO-2019-03622
title: Bedeutung von Gremlin-1 und MIF-Polymorphismen bei Patienten mit koronarer Herzerkrankung und akutem Koronarsyndrom
Creators: name: Hack, Luis Pablo
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Kardiologie
subject: 610
subject: Atherosklerose

description: Jährlich sterben weltweit ca. 17 Millionen Menschen an den Folgen kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen. Hauptursache für die Entstehung dieser Erkrankungen sind neben Führen eines ungesunden Lebensstils und die damit verbundenen Risikofaktoren wie Rauchen, Übergewicht und Diabetes mellitus die Entwicklung von Atherosklerose. Biochemische und physiologische Prozesse, sowie Kommunikation innerhalb des menschlichen Körpers werden von Proteinen gesteuert. Mittlerweile ist bekannt, dass Zytokine und deren Polymorphismen einen Einfluss auf die Entstehung und den Verlauf pathologischer Veränderungen wie Atherosklerose haben. Auf Grundlage dieser vorangegangenen Erkenntnisse bauten wir das vorliegende Studienmodell auf, indem wir jeweils zwei Polymorphismen von Gremlin-1 und MIF untersuchten, die bereits in der Vergangenheit mit dem Fortschreiten kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen in Verbindung gebracht wurden. Dabei wurde gezielt eine Patientengruppe gewählt, die an einer Form der koronaren Herzerkrankung litt und die eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit besaß, einen der definierten Endpunkte früher zu erreichen als gesunde Patienten. Wir erhofften uns dadurch neue Ergebnisse über Zusammenhänge zwischen den untersuchten Polymorphismen und einem früheren Auftreten der untersuchten Endpunkte. Die zentrale Erkenntnis der Studie zeigt, dass das Auftreten eines ischämischen Schlaganfalls bei den Polymorphismen der Proteine MIF rs2070767 und Gremlin-1 rs1129456 tendenziell früher auftritt als bei den anderen untersuchten Polymorphismen. Es besteht somit innerhalb eines Zeitraums von 1080 Tagen nach Auftreten und Behandlung einer koronaren Herzerkrankung ein unterschiedliches Risiko einen ischämischen Schlaganfall zu erleiden bei unterschiedlichen Polymorphismen der jeweils gleichen Proteine. In Bezug auf andere Endpunkte wie Tod, Myokardinfarkt und Blutung ließen sich keine signifikanten Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Proteinen und deren Polymorphismen feststellen. Die Ereignisse bezüglich der Endpunkte Tod, Blutung und Myokardinfarkt zeigen keine signifikanten Unterschiede zum Zeitpunkt des Auftretens im Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Polymorphismen. Diese Studie stellt Ergebnisse zur ersten Beschreibung dieser Polymorphismen bei Patienten mit KHK und ACS bezüglich des Auftretens klinischer Endpunkte dar und liefert in Verbindung zum Auftreten ischämischer Schlaganfälle Aussagen, die eine Tendenz für ein früheres Auftreten dieses Ereignisses zeigen. Eine Bestimmung der Polymorphismen bei Patienten könnte in Zukunft eine Möglichkeit zur individuelleren und besseren Behandlung bedeuten.
BEE : a basis for distributed event environments : reference manual
Creators: name: Bruegge, Bernd
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "BEE is a portable platform for building heterogenous distributed event environments. An important feature is the dynamic connection of client programs to monitoring tools which facilitates flexible monitoring of network programs at runtime. It also supports user defined event classes which can be used by implementors to build complex event systems as well as by application programmers who need to write customized monitors. We first introduce the event processing model used by BEE and present the user's view, describing the instrumentation of network programs and a set of standard event interpreters providing graphical views based on X11.Some performance measurement results are given to demonstrate the cost associated with BEE. The rest of the document describes the functional specification of BEE. BEE has been implemented for a variety of platforms, communication systems and languages. It is currently available on NECTAR, a network of workstations connected by optical fibers with a maximal throughput of 100 Mbit/sec and on UNIX. The UNIX implementation has been ported to several machine architectures (Sun, Vax and Cray-YMP), supporting the instrumentation of C and Ada programs."
Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Monolayer MoS2 Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Li, Shisheng
name: Lin, Yung-Chang
name: Zhao, Wen
name: Wu, Jing
name: Wang, Zhuo
name: Hu, Zehua
name: Shen, Youde
name: Tang, Dai-Ming
name: Wang, Junyong
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Zhu, Hai
name: Chu, Leiqiang
name: Zhao, Weijie
name: Liu, Chang
name: Sun, Zhipei
name: Taniguchi, Takaaki
name: Osada, Minoru
name: Chen, Wei
name: Xu, Qing-Hua
name: Wee, Andrew Thye Shen
name: Ding, Kazu Suenaga Feng
name: Eda, Goki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of two-dimensional (2D) materials such as monolayer MoS2 typically involves the conversion of vapor-phase precursors to a solid product in a process that may be described as a vapor-solid-solid (VSS) mode. Here, we report the first demonstration of vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of monolayer MoS2 yielding highly crystalline ribbon-shaped structures with a width of a few tens of nanometers to a few micrometers. The VLS growth mode is triggered by the reaction between molybdenum oxide and sodium chloride, which results in the formation of molten Na-Mo-O droplets. These droplets mediate the growth of MoS2 ribbons in the "crawling mode" when saturated with sulfur on a crystalline substrate. Our growth yields straight and kinked ribbons with a locally well-defined orientation, reflecting the regular horizontal motion of the liquid droplets during growth. Using atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, we show that the ribbons are homoepitaxially on monolayer MoS2 surface with predominantly 2H- or 3R-type stacking. These findings pave the way to novel devices with structures of mixed dimensionalities.
description: 40 pages, 19 figures
Quantum Bound on the Specific Entropy in Strong-Coupled Scalar Field Theory
Creators: name: Alcalde, M. Aparicio
name: Menezes, G.
name: Svaiter, N. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Euclidean path integral approach with functional methods, we discuss the $(g_{0} ϕ^{p})_{d}$ self-interacting scalar field theory, in the strong-coupling regime. We assume the presence of macroscopic boundaries confining the field in a hypercube of side $L$. We also consider that the system is in thermal equilibrium at temperature $β^{-1}$. For spatially bounded free fields, the Bekenstein bound states that the specific entropy satisfies the inequality $\frac{S}{E} < 2 πR$, where $R$ stands for the radius of the smallest sphere that circumscribes the system. Employing the strong-coupling perturbative expansion, we obtain the renormalized mean energy $E$ and entropy $S$ for the system up to the order $(g_{0})^{-\frac{2}{p}}$, presenting an analytical proof that the specific entropy also satisfies in some situations a quantum bound. Defining $ε_d^{(r)}$ as the renormalized zero-point energy for the free theory per unit length, the dimensionless quantity $ξ=\fracβ{L}$ and $h_1(d)$ and $h_2(d)$ as positive analytic functions of $d$, for the case of high temperature, we get that the specific entropy satisfies $\frac{S}{E} < 2πR \frac{h_1(d)}{h_2(d)} ξ$. When considering the low temperature behavior of the specific entropy, we have $\frac{S}{E} <2πR \frac{h_1(d)}{ε_d^{(r)}}ξ^{1-d}$. Therefore the sign of the renormalized zero-point energy can invalidate this quantum bound. If the renormalized zero point-energy is a positive quantity, at intermediate temperatures and in the low temperature limit, there is a quantum bound.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
title: Determination of the seismic parameters and upper crustal structure of the western Midland Valley, Scotland
Creators: name: Ahmed, Fawzi Shareef
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1991

description: This project was designed to investigate the western part of the Midland Valley of Scotland. A number of seismic profiles had been undertaken to investigate the centre, eastern and southern Midland Valley. The main feature of the western Midland Valley is the wide presence of the Carboniferous Clyde Plateau Lavas and the presence of major NE-SW trending faults. The main profile was chosen to cross such features: the Dusk Water Fault which played a big role in the deposition of Carboniferous rocks and the distribution of the Carboniferous igneous activity, Paisley Ruck, and Gartness Fault. This project consists of 2 seismic refraction lines. Three component seismic data were recorded from quarry blast sources. A short line was intended to study near vertical reflections using three component recording. The line is about 15 km long and was recorded in Ayrshire eastward from Hillhouse quarry. The main line is about 70 km long and extends NNE-SSW in the west of the Midland Valley, crossing major faults which played key roles in the deposition and distribution of Carboniferous rocks. The line crosses mostly Carboniferous sediments and the Clyde Plateau Lavas, crossing the Upper and Lower Old Red Sandstone to the north of the Clyde. It passes through Hillhouse, Loanhead and Sheephill quarries. Frequency and polarization filters were used to improve the data quality. Four layers are recognised in this study for the upper crust from their P-wave velocities. The first layer has a P-wave velocity of 3.5-5.0 km/s and occurs at depths of 0-2 km. This layer is considered as Carboniferous and Upper Old Red Sandstone sediments. The second layer has velocity of 5.0-5.6 km/s and occurs at 1-4 and 0-3 km depth and it shows considerable lateral velocity variation related to the Paisley Ruck. It is interpreted as Lower Old Red Sandstone. This layer is thinned in the area between the Dusk Water Fault and Paisley Ruck and to the east near Troon. The third layer has a P-wave velocity of 5.8 km/s and is restricted to between the Dusk Water Fault and Paisley Ruck. This layer lies at 2.5-3.5 km depth and may represent a Lower ORS volcanic ridge. The fourth layer has a velocity of 5.99-6.08 km/s and its top is at depth 3-4 km. This layer is interpreted as upper crystalline basement. Some faults seen at surface affected the basement: the Dusk Water Fault, Paisley Ruck and Gartness Fault which have a Caledonian NE-SW trend. This suggests that these faults, which controlled Carboniferous basins, may be older fractures in the basement reactivated at that time. The lateral velocity variation of the Lower ORS suggest that the Paisley Ruck represents a strike-slip fault. Previous studies considered that such faults in the Midland Valley sole out with depth above or at top crystalline basement. Deep wide-angle reflections were observed from depths of 8, 12, 15 and 20 km, and are interpreted as being from the boundaries of, and within, a mid-crustal layer.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0076
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0076, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0076, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
title: Seismic interpretation of the Southern Uplands terrane
Creators: name: Kamaliddin, Zayd A.R.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1991

description: The Southern Uplands Network (SUN) project comprised 5 wide-angle seismic profiles recorded in the Southern Uplands of Scotland using quarry blast sources. Four profiles trend N-S across regional strike and the fifth is parallel to it. A sixth profile was recorded, in the north of the Midland Valley, along the axis of the Strathmore Syncline to establish the basin-basement relationships in that area. A large and good quality dataset was acquired which was then processed using the available facilities and computer software to obtain the final models by deploying the appropriate interpretation methods. P-wave velocities of 5.25-5.65 km/s were modelled for Lower Palaeozoic sediments in the Southern Uplands. P-wave velocities of 4.3-4.5 km/s were assigned to minor Upper Old Red Sandstone deposits. Crystalline basement of 6.0-6.1 km/s was detected beneath the NE Southern Uplands, suggesting continuation of Midland Valley basement southwards at a depth of 2.8-3.2 km. However, the SUN suggests that this basement does not extend along strike in the Southern Uplands towards the SW, where an "intra-sedimentary" refractor (5.8 km/s) is detected, perhaps of Ordovician age, at 1.0-2.0 km depth. It may be the missing forearc proposed by some authors. Throw on the Southern Uplands Fault is varied. In the NE it downthrows northward; in the SW downthrow southward is inferred. Three E-W trending faults (the Leadhills Line, Kingledores Fault and Hartfell Line) offset crystalline basement beneath the Southern Uplands. Previously these were interpreted as tract bounding faults, characteristic of an accretionary prism. SUN reveals a more important tectonic role for them, perhaps being locations for amalgamation of terranes forming the Southern Uplands. SUN did not image any accretionary prism tract bounding faults. The observed faults suggest a stepped, rather than dipping, crystalline basement underlying the Southern Uplands. These faults also offset the intra-sedimentary refractor. Previous work established Midland Valley basement as essentially flat, with faults mapped at surface soling out at detachments above this basement, and that it extends south unaffected by the Southern Uplands Fault. SUN shows this basement to be offset by faults in the southern Midland Valley (e.g. Henshaw, Pent-land, Kerse Loch and Southern Uplands Fault). In the northern Midland Valley NW-SE trending faults also offset basement causing a step-like pattern. Top crystalline basement exists at 2.0-4.9 km depth here being shallower in the NE. SUN confirmed velocity ranges already established for the Midland Valley upper crust. It is argued that the SUN provides strong evidence against the Southern Uplands being a complete accretionary prism. The following models may be invoked: [1] Accretionary prism slice thrust over Midland Valley-type crystalline basement. [2] Juxtaposition of a number of terranes along major faults inteipreted by SUN. [3] A thrust stack.
title: 01_1505
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The long-term optical evolution of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152
Creators: name: Corral-Santana, Jesus M.
name: Torres, Manuel A. P.
name: Shahbaz, Tariq
name: Bartlett, Elizabeth S.
name: Russell, David M.
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
name: Casares, Jorge
name: Muñoz-Darias, Teodoro
name: Bauer, Franz E.
name: Homan, Jeroen
name: Jonker, Peter G.
name: Sánchez, Daniel Mata
name: Wevers, Thomas
name: Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo
name: Lewis, Fraser
name: Schreuder, Laurien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 5 years of optical and infrared data of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152 covering its 2010 outburst, decay and quiescence. Combining optical data taken during the outburst decay, we obtain an orbital period of 2.414 $\pm$ 0.005 h, in perfect agreement with the value previously measured from X-ray dips. In addition, we detect a clear H$α$ excess in MAXI J1659-152 with data taken during the outburst decay. We also detect a single hump modulation most likely produced by irradiation. Assuming that the maximum occurs at orbital phase 0.5, we constrain the phase of the X-ray dips to be ~ 0.65. We also detect the quiescent optical counterpart at r' = 24.20 $\pm$ 0.08, I = 23.32 $\pm$ 0.02 and H = 20.7 $\pm$ 0.1. These magnitudes provide colour indices implying an M2-M5 donor star assuming 60% contribution from a disc component in the r'-band.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: ADCO, Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491) (11 H 1179), f. 00125
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Projet CBMA
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179), f. 00125, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Dock and Seawall Construction and Boat Lift Installation, Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; SERO-2020-02197; SERO-2020-02201
title: The seismic structure under the Central Midland Valley from refraction measurements
Creators: name: Sola, Mustafa Amer
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1985

description: The geology of the Midland Valley is outlined with special reference to the Central Coalfield and its sub-Carboniferous foundation within which, previous interpretations propose, lies a dense, magnetic, body near Bathgate. Seismic velocity structures within (LOWNET), across (LISPB) and south of (SUSP) the Midland Valley are shown together with existing data on velocities in local rocks of Carboniferous age. The purpose of the present seismic refraction study is defined and its reliance on commercial quarry operations and their suitability are discussed. The recording playback systems developed in the Department during this survey, their utilisation and accuracy in determining travel times are described. The measured travel time profiles are used first to derive velocity depth profiles and correlated with geological formations (Carboniferous to Lower Palaeozoic) known at outcrop within the region. An unseen crystalline basement is deduced probable at 4 to 5 km depth. This is the a0 LISPB refractor. Its velocity and associated delays are assessed using all available data. Ray traced models have been used both across Bathgate and on parts of the LISPB line where steep structures are shown to contravene TIME-TERM/PLUS-MINUS assumptions. The structure on a0 is described and discussed in terms of two delay o components with different velocities attributed to post-Lower Old Red Sandstone and pre-Upper Old Red Sandstone strata. The seismic delays on a0 are used to 'strip' the Bouguer gravity to a Regional Gravity map from which further conclusions are drawn. The data tables, cross-sections with reduced T-X graphs and the geological maps showing the recording sites, with the reduced record sections are included in the Appendices.
AirSLAM: An Efficient and Illumination-Robust Point-Line Visual SLAM System
Creators: name: Xu, Kuan
name: Hao, Yuefan
name: Yuan, Shenghai
name: Wang, Chen
name: Xie, Lihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present an efficient visual SLAM system designed to tackle both short-term and long-term illumination challenges. Our system adopts a hybrid approach that combines deep learning techniques for feature detection and matching with traditional backend optimization methods. Specifically, we propose a unified convolutional neural network (CNN) that simultaneously extracts keypoints and structural lines. These features are then associated, matched, triangulated, and optimized in a coupled manner. Additionally, we introduce a lightweight relocalization pipeline that reuses the built map, where keypoints, lines, and a structure graph are used to match the query frame with the map. To enhance the applicability of the proposed system to real-world robots, we deploy and accelerate the feature detection and matching networks using C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT. Extensive experiments conducted on various datasets demonstrate that our system outperforms other state-of-the-art visual SLAM systems in illumination-challenging environments. Efficiency evaluations show that our system can run at a rate of 73Hz on a PC and 40Hz on an embedded platform. Our implementation is open-sourced: https://github.com/sair-lab/AirSLAM.
description: 20 pages, 15 figures, 9 tables
Bayesian Vote Manipulation: Optimal Strategies and Impact on Welfare
Creators: name: Lu, Tyler
name: Pingzhong  Tang
name: Procaccia, Ariel D.
name: Boutilier, Craig
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most analyses of manipulation of voting schemes have adopted two assumptions that greatly diminish their practical import. First, it is usually assumed that the manipulators have full knowledge of the votes of the nonmanipulating agents. Second, analysis tends to focus on the probability of manipulation rather than its impact on the social choice objective (e.g., social welfare). We relax both of these assumptions by analyzing optimal Bayesian manipulation strategies when the manipulators have only partial probabilistic information about nonmanipulator votes, and assessing the expected loss in social welfare (in the broad sense of the term). We present a general optimization framework for the derivation of optimal manipulation strategies given arbitrary voting rules and distributions over preferences. We theoretically and empirically analyze the optimal manipulability of some popular voting rules using distributions and real data sets that go well beyond the common, but unrealistic, impartial culture assumption. We also shed light on the stark difference between the loss in social welfare and the probability of manipulation by showing that even when manipulation is likely, impact to social welfare is slight (and often negligible).
Hip preservation surgery and the acetabular fossa
Creators: name: Slullitel, Pablo A.
name: Coutu, Daniel
name: Buttaro, Martin A.
name: Beaule, Paul Edgar
name: Grammatopoulos, George
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Acetabular fossa
Acetabulum
Hip joint
Intra-articular adipose tissue
Ligamentum teres

description: As our understanding of hip function and disease improves, it is evident that the acetabular fossa has received little attention, despite it comprising over half of the acetabulum's surface area and showing the first signs of degeneration. The fossa's function is expected to be more than augmenting static stability with the ligamentum teres and being a templating landmark in arthroplasty. Indeed, the fossa, which is almost mature at 16 weeks of intrauterine development, plays a key role in hip development, enabling its nutrition through vascularization and synovial fluid, as well as the influx of chondrogenic stem/progenitor cells that build articular cartilage. The pulvinar, a fibrofatty tissue in the fossa, has the same developmental origin as the synovium and articular cartilage and is a biologically active area. Its unique anatomy allows for homogeneous distribution of the axial loads into the joint. It is composed of intra-articular adipose tissue (IAAT), which has adipocytes, fibroblasts, leucocytes, and abundant mast cells, which participate in the inflammatory cascade after an insult to the joint. Hence, the fossa and pulvinar should be considered in decision-making and surgical outcomes in hip preservation surgery, not only for their size, shape, and extent, but also for their biological capacity as a source of cytokines, immune cells, and chondrogenic stem cells. Cite this article: Bone Joint Res 2020;9(12):857-869.
Models of the Mass-Ejection Histories of pre Planetary Nebulae. II. The Formation of the Butterfly and its Proboscis in M2-9
Creators: name: Balick, Bruce
name: Frank, Adam
name: Liu, Baowei
name: Corradi, Romano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M2-9, or the "Butterfly Nebula" is one of the most iconic outflow sources from an evolved star. In this paper we present a hydrodynamic model of M2-9 in which the nebula is formed and shaped by a steady, low-density ("light"), mildly collimated "spray" of gas injected at 200 km s^-1 that interacts with a far denser, intrinsically simple pre-existing AGB wind has slowly formed all of the complex features within M2-9's lobes (including the knot pairs N3/S3 and N4/S4 at their respective leading edges, and the radial gradient of Doppler shifts within 20" of the nucleus). We emphasize that the knot pairs are not ejected from the star but formed in situ. In addition, the observed radial speed of the knots is only indirectly related to the speed of the gas injected by the star. The model allows us to probe the early history of the wind geometry and lobe formation. We also formulate a new estimate of the nebular distance D = 1.3 kpc. The physical mechanism that accounts for the linear radial speed gradient in M2-9 applies generally to many other pre planetary nebulae whose hollow lobes exhibit similar gradients along their edges.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJ 11 Jan 2018
BatchFS: Scaling the File System Control Plane with Client-Funded Metadata Servers
Creators: name: Zheng, Qing
name: Ren, Kai
name: Gibson, Garth
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Parallel file systems are often characterized by a layered architecture that decouples metadata management from I/O operations, allowing file systems to facilitate fast concurrent access to file contents. However, metadata intensive workloads are still likely to bottleneck at the file system control plane due to namespace synchronization, which taxes application performance through lock contention on directories, transaction serialization, and RPC overheads. In this paper, we propose a client-driven file system metadata architecture, BatchFS, that is optimized for noninteractive, or batch, workloads. To avoid metadata bottlenecks, BatchFS features a relaxed consistency model marked by lazy namespace synchronization and optimistic metadata verification. Capable of executing namespace operations on client-provisioned resources without contacting any metadata server, BatchFS clients are able to delay namespace synchronization until synchronization is really needed. Our goal in this vision paper is to handle these delayed operations securely and efficiently with metadata verification and bulk insertion. Preliminary experiments demonstrate that our client-funded metadata architecture outperforms a traditional synchronous file system by orders of magnitude.
A new insight into the phase transition in the early Universe with two Higgs doublets
Creators: name: Bernon, Jérémy
name: Bian, Ligong
name: Jiang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electroweak phase transition in the alignment limit of the CP-conserving two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) of Type I and Type II. The effective potential is evaluated at one-loop, where the thermal potential includes Daisy corrections and is reliably approximated by means of a sum of Bessel functions. Both 1-stage and 2-stage electroweak phase transitions are shown to be possible, depending on the pattern of the vacuum development as the Universe cools down. For the 1-stage case focused on in this paper, we analyze the properties of phase transition and discover that the field value of the electroweak symmetry breaking vacuum at the critical temperature at which the first order phase transition occurs is largely correlated with the vacuum depth of the 1-loop potential at zero temperature. We demonstrate that a strong first order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) in the 2HDM is achievable and establish benchmark scenarios leading to different testable signatures at colliders. In addition, we verify that an enhanced triple Higgs coupling (including loop corrections) is a typical feature of the SFOPT driven by the additional doublet. As a result, SFOEWPT might be able to be probed at the LHC and future lepton colliders through Higgs pair production.
description: 43 pages, 18 figures, minor revision and match to the published version
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Consultation National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Evaluation of Seven Hatchery and Genetic Management Plans for Snohomish River basin Salmon under Limit 6 of the Endangered Species Act Section 4(d) Rule
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2020-02561
Mining The Gap: Aboriginal Women and the Mining Industry
Creators: name: Deonandan, Raywat
name: Deonandan, Kalowatie
name: Field, Brennan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: aboriginal
mining
first nations
canada

description: Based upon a synthesis of views and perspectives extracted from published studies on the matter, Canadian Aboriginal women were found to have the following views on the role and effects of extractive industries in their communities: (1) Aboriginal women are sensitive to the social ills presented by the wage labour relationship between Aboriginal workers and extractive industries. Specifically, they are concerned about the extent to which this economic activity can contribute to substance abuse and domestic stress, and how wage labour reduces the time and motivation for community members to engage in cultural practices and shared family experiences. (2) Aboriginal women are concerned about the effects of extractive industry activities on the environment and therefore on traditional practices that rely on maintaining the integrity of the environment. (3) Aboriginal women wish to have a formal role in partnerships between industry, government and communities for the purposes of establishing legally binding protections of their rights.
Entanglement Transition due to particle losses in a monitored fermionic chain
Creators: name: Soares, Rafael D.
name: Gal, Youenn Le
name: Schirò, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there has been interest in the dynamics of monitored quantum systems using linear jump operators related to the creation or annihilation of particles. Here, we study the dynamics of the entanglement entropy under quantum jumps that induce local particle losses in a model of free fermions with hopping and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ pairing. We solve the non-unitary dynamics using the recently developed Faber Polynomial method and explore the different steady-state entanglement regimes by tuning the pairing strength, thus interpolating between monitored free fermions coherently driven by a particle number conserving Hamiltonian to a parity conserving one. In the absence of pairing, all quantum trajectories approach the vacuum at long times, with the entanglement entropy showing non-monotonic behavior over time that we capture with a phenomenological quasiparticle \emph{ansatz}. In this regime, quantum jumps play a key role, and we highlight this by exactly computing their waiting-time distribution. On the other hand, the interplay between losses and pairing gives rise to quantum trajectories with entangled steady-states. We show that by tuning the system parameters, a measurement-induced entanglement transition occurs where the entanglement entropy scaling changes from logarithmic to area-law. We compare this transition with the one derived in the no-click limit and observe qualitative agreement in most of the phase diagram. Furthermore, the statistics of entanglement gain and loss are analyzed to better understand the impact of the linear jump operators.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures; Some updates on the text and figures
title: Seismic studies of local events received at three arrays in Southern Central Scotland
Creators: name: El-Isa, Zuhair Hasan M.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1977

description: This work has been carried out to extend on the interpretation of the Upper Crustal structure under the Eskdalemuir Seismic Array and the surrounding area. A study of the dispersion of short period (about 1 sec.) surface waves from local events at different distances and azimuths was considered, but the lack of events showing such waves turned attention to the study of first P-arrivals from the same sort of events. The thesis is in six chapters. Chapter I was given with an Introduction. In Chapter III the general aspects of the geology of the area were discussed very briefly. Previous seismic work around EKA was summarised with special reference to LOWNET and LISPB models. Seismic array technique, its advantages and methods of array data processing were discussed in Chapter III which also included a brief description of EKA and LOWNET and a detailed description of Broughton Array which was set up temporarily during the course of this work. Chapter IV gives detailed information about the data sources, origin time recording and play-back facilities. Preliminary results of the analysis of some EKA local events showed some systematic velocity and azimuth variations and this revealed the need for detailed information about the shallow structure under the array itself. Six shots were fired in the vicinity of EKA. Chapter V has been devoted for the presentation of the results of these shots, their discussion and interpretation. These demonstrated an anisotropy effect in the area of the array. Chapter VI presents the results of all local events, received at the three arrays, their discussion, comparison and interpretation. A velocity structure around EKA is proposed which involves (1) a rapid increase of velocity (0.8 km/sec./km) to about 1.6 km depth followed by a slow rate (< 0.003 km/sec./km) to an undefined depth (2) a variation in the initial (zero depth) velocity with azimuth ranging from 5.0 to 4.4 km/sec. parallel and normal to the Lower Palaeozoic strike respectively. The Broughton data were consistent with this model if the Lower Palaeozoic structure under the Midland Valley is essentially flat-lying. The extent to which these conclusions are consistent with previous work is discussed. Some of the methods of analysis are described in the Appendices (1 - 7), which also include two computer programs with their output results which form the basis for the interpretation and the above conclusions.
Local peace actors and external funding mechanisms: Towards greater agency for local actors
Creators: name: Tadevosyan, Margarita
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Track Two Diplomacy
Local Peace

description: This Policy Brief seeks to improve understandings of the role and impact that international donors have on shaping local peace approaches in a given context. It also presents recommendations on how to develop constructive synergies between local and international actors in a way that is based on shared understanding and complementarity, and a way that is egalitarian and emancipatory in nature.
Flat Tree-level Inflationary Potentials in Light of CMB and LSS Data
Creators: name: Ballesteros, G.
name: Casas, J. A.
name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: de Austri, R. Ruiz
name: Trotta, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use cosmic microwave background and large scale structure data to test a broad and physically well-motivated class of inflationary models: those with flat tree-level potentials (typical in supersymmetry). The non-trivial features of the potential arise from radiative corrections which give a simple logarithmic dependence on the inflaton field, making the models very predictive. We also consider a modified scenario with new physics beyond a certain high-energy cut-off showing up as non-renormalizable operators (NRO) in the inflaton field. We find that both kinds of models fit remarkably well CMB and LSS data, with very few free parameters. Besides, a large part of these models naturally predict a reasonable number of e-folds. A robust feature of these scenarios is the smallness of tensor perturbations (r < 10^{-3}). The NRO case can give a sizeable running of the spectral index while achieving a sufficient number of e-folds. We use Bayesian model comparison tools to assess the relative performance of the models. We believe that these scenarios can be considered as a standard physical class of inflationary models, on a similar footing with monomial potentials.
description: 42 LaTeX pages, 8 figures
title: Geological interpretations of the gravity field of the Western Midland valley of Scotland
Creators: name: Alomari, Maath Ismail
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1980

description: A review of the deeper geology of the Midland Valley of Scotland and results from previous geophysical studies are discussed and presented. The principal new gravity coveraae was in the area of the Lesmahapow Inlier. A reaional Bouguer anomaly map of the western Midland valley and its environs was compiled, using existing data and carrying out surveys locally to fill gaps. The heterogenous existing data was reduced to give uniform reference to NGRN 73 and the IGF 67 formula. The combined results were analysed by orogressive stripping of the gravity components related to particular formations. Firstly thickness map of the supra-Hurlet sediments was prepared and its gravity effect calculated. Next, the thicknesses of the Clyde Plateau Lavas was calculated from the magnetic anomaly mao of Great Britain (Sheet 11) with due allowance for the effects of intrusions, (particularlyd-Bathaate). The pseudo-gravity effect of this Lava model was then calculated. Reduced Bouguer anomaly maps are obtained by subtracting the Bouguer anomaly components arisinc from the supra-Hurlet sediments and the Lavas (plus associated intrusions) from the total gravity field values. Residuals were then analysed on the assumotion that their major sources were most probably (i) the structure of the major crustal layering and (ii) the variation of (residual) thickness of the Lower Old Red Sandstone. A range of interoretations, as well as a 'most probable' model, was obtained. Estimates of the 'crustal gravity component' were made (1) by fitting a best surface to the reduced gravity values and (2) by combining the Upper crustal gravity component as calculated for LISPS model, with McLean and Qureshi's estimate of the regional component. The gravity anomaly residuals attributable to the Lower Old Red Sandstone component are discussed and geological interpretations made.
Spectral dynamics of topological shift-current in ferroelectric semiconductor SbSI
Creators: name: Sotome, M.
name: Nakamura, M.
name: Fujioka, J.
name: Ogino, M.
name: Kaneko, Y.
name: Morimoto, T.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Kawasaki, M.
name: Nagaosa, N.
name: Tokura, Y.
name: Ogawa, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoexcitation in solids brings about transitions of electrons/holes between different electronic bands. If the solid lacks an inversion symmetry, these electronic transitions support spontaneous photocurrent due to the topological character of the constituting electronic bands; the Berry connection. This photocurrent, termed shift current, is expected to emerge on the time-scale of primary photoexcitation process. We observed ultrafast time evolution of the shift current in a prototypical ferroelectric semiconductor by detecting emitted terahertz electromagnetic waves. By sweeping the excitation photon energy across the band gap, ultrafast electron dynamics as a source of terahertz emission abruptly changes its nature, reflecting a contribution of Berry connection upon interband optical transition. The shift excitation carries a net charge flow, and is followed by a swing-over of the electron cloud on the sub-picosecond time-scale of electron-phonon interaction. Understanding these substantive characters of the shift current will pave the way for its application to ultrafast sensors and solar cells.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
title: Interpretation of a seismic survey of crustal structure in Western Scotland and the Hebrides
Creators: name: Tsoumakos, Petros E.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1986

description: The Western Isles Seismic Experiment (WISE), a seismic refraction profile, was shot perpendicular to the British Caledonides and runs from the Outer Hebrides (Isle of Barra) to the Scottish mainland (Midland Valley). The aim of the experiment was to determine possible upper crustal velocity variations both vertical and lateral. The ray tracing method is used as the main interpretation technique, as the known geology suggests that the time-term / plus-minus assumptions are frequently violated. This interpretation method has also allowed for the incorporation of existing geophysical and geological controls, in order to compensate for limitations due to the quality and availability of the data and to produce internally consistent models for both the shallow structure (mainly derived from closely spaced airgun data), and the deep structure (from distant explosive-shot data). In the Sea of the Hebrides, interpretation has shown a predominance of typical Laxfordian basement velocities (5.9 - 6.1 km/sec) and a lack of distinguishable lateral variations in the basement velocities, the latter being confined to basin / basement transitions. No granulite layer was detected down to 5 - 7 km depth. The Great Glen Fault zone is shown to have produced, and probably coincides with, a near-vertical low velocity zone which can be traced with a fair degree of certainty down to about 5-6 km depth. That is found to be consistent with geological models of the structure of transcurrent large-scale continental faults, but the structure at greater depth is uncertain due to limitations in the refraction method and data availability. The strong Lewisian / Dalradian and intra-Dalradian velocity contrasts are quantified and are shown to persist to 8 - 10 km depth. The former define an interface that can be seen dipping at about 25 to the SE, while the latter are due to the high velocities (> 6,0 km/sec) of the formations interpreted as the core of the Islay Anticline and the Port Ellen phyllites, compared to those of the Jura quartzite (5.5 km/sec) and the rest of the Dalradian basement (5.3 - 5.8 km/sec). Gravity models based on the seismic interpretation along the profile show a reasonable agreement with the observed field. The variability of the upper crustal structure is finally discussed and compared to that in adjacent areas.