cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perfect state transfer and efficient quantum routing: a discrete-time quantum walk approach
Creators: name: Zhan, Xiang
name: Qin, Hao
name: Bian, Zhi-hao
name: Li, Jian
name: Xue, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a perfect state transfer of an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state can be achieved via a discrete-time quantum walk with various settings of coin flippings, and extend this method to distribution of an arbitrary unknown multi-qubit entangled state between every pair of sites in the multi-dimensional network. Furthermore, we study the routing of quantum information on this network in a quantum walk architecture, which can be used as quantum information processors to communicate between separated qubits.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Human brain distinctiveness based on EEG spectral coherence connectivity
Creators: name: La Rocca, Daria
name: Campisi, Patrizio
name: Vegso, Balazs
name: Cserti, Peter
name: Kozmann, Gyorgy
name: Babiloni, Fabio
name: Fallani, Fabrizio De Vico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The use of EEG biometrics, for the purpose of automatic people recognition, has received increasing attention in the recent years. Most of current analysis rely on the extraction of features characterizing the activity of single brain regions, like power-spectrum estimates, thus neglecting possible temporal dependencies between the generated EEG signals. However, important physiological information can be extracted from the way different brain regions are functionally coupled. In this study, we propose a novel approach that fuses spectral coherencebased connectivity between different brain regions as a possibly viable biometric feature. The proposed approach is tested on a large dataset of subjects (N=108) during eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) resting state conditions. The obtained recognition performances show that using brain connectivity leads to higher distinctiveness with respect to power-spectrum measurements, in both the experimental conditions. Notably, a 100% recognition accuracy is obtained in EC and EO when integrating functional connectivity between regions in the frontal lobe, while a lower 97.41% is obtained in EC (96.26% in EO) when fusing power spectrum information from centro-parietal regions. Taken together, these results suggest that functional connectivity patterns represent effective features for improving EEG-based biometric systems.
description: Key words: EEG, Resting state, Biometrics, Spectral coherence, Match score fusion
Chiral anomalies and effective vector meson lagrangian beyond the tree level
Creators: name: Dominguez, C. A.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 530

description: The decays ${\pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma\gamma, \rho \rightarrow \pi\rho, \omega \rightarrow \pi\gamma, \omega \rightarrow 3\pi }$ and ${\upsilon \rightarrow 3\pi}$ are studied in the framework of the chiral invariant effective Vector Meson Lagrangian beyond the tree level. The standard Lagrangian is enlarged by including an infinite number of radial excitations which are summed according to the dual model. As a result tree level diagrams are modified by a universal form factor at each vertex containing off-mass-shell mesons, but still respecting chiral anomaly low energy theorems. These vertex corrections bring the tree level predictions into better agreement with experiment. The presence of the ω → 3π contact term is confirmed but its strength is considerably smaller than at tree level.
Zu Besuch bei Freunden der Agrobiodiversität quer durch Europa
Creators: name: Gutzen Kaja
name: Mariateresa Lazzaro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biozüchtung
Tierzucht
Pflanzenzucht
Saatgut
Europa

description: Die Publikation nimmt die Leser*innen mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise zu 15 Initiativen für biologische Pflanzen- und Tierzucht in Europa. Jede Initiative wird von einer an der Initiative beteiligten Person vorgestellt. Für jede Initiative werden die Ziele und Herausforderungen beschrieben. Die ausgewählten Beispiele geben einen guten Einblick in die große Vielfalt der Initiativen zur Erhaltung und Förderung der Biodiversität bei biologischen Kulturpflanzen und Tierarten.
The Gelao languages: Preliminary classification and state of the art
Creators: name: Hsiu, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Abstract

The Gelao languages constitute the most diverse group of the Kra branch, in the Kra-Dai (or Tai-Kadai) language family (Edmondson n.d.). No more than 6,000 Gelao speakers are scattered across the southwestern Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan, as well as Hà Giang province, northern Vietnam, despite there being approximately half a million ethnic Gelao living mostly in Guizhou. New data of various Gelao varieties from the past several years has now made it possible to classify the Gelao languages much more precisely, owing mostly to recent fieldwork carried out by Li Jinfang 李锦芳 and his graduate students. Lexical evidence from my comparative database of about 100 vocabulary items of 15 Gelao varieties suggests that there are three main branches of Gelao, namely (1) Red Gelao (including A’ou, Mulao, and Vandu), (2) White Gelao (Telue), and (3) Central Gelao (Hakei and Qau).

Red Gelao has the most internal diversity, while White Gelao displays the least internal variation. Central Gelao consists of the two closely related varieties Hakei (Green Gelao) and Qau (Sinicized Gelao), as suggested by Yumay Shen (2003). Historical and linguistic evidence strongly indicate a Gelao homeland in western Guizhou, where ethnic Gelao lived alongside speakers of the divergent Austroasiatic languages Bolyu and Bugan, as well as the little-known Caijia and Longjia languages.

However, further fieldwork remains highly urgent for all Gelao languages, especially Red Gelao, for which some varieties are now at the very brink of extinction. In August 2012, I discovered only one living speaker of Houzitian 猴子田 Red Gelao, namely Guo Yunxiu 郭云秀 (88) of Langdai Township 郎岱镇, Liuzhi Special District, Guizhou. Houzitian, of which I had seen data of only several words prior to my field trip, is distinct enough to be mutually unintelligible with all other Gelao varieties, and is most closely related to Hongfeng Red Gelao and Mulao. I was also only able to locate one speaker of Red Gelao each in the townships of Shajing 沙井乡, Qianxi County 黔西县, Guizhou, and Tiechang 铁厂乡, Malipo County, Yunnan.
Prediction of flu epidemic activity with dynamical model based on weather forecast
Creators: name: Postnikov, Eugene B.
name: Tatarenkov, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92D30

description: The seasonality of respiratory diseases (common cold, influenza, etc.) is a well-known phenomenon studied from ancient times. The development of predictive models is still not only an actual unsolved problem of mathematical epidemiology but also is very important for the safety of public health. Here we show that SIRS (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Susceptible) model accurately enough reproduces real curves of flu activity. It contains variable reaction rate, which is a function of mean daily temperature. The proposed alternation of variables represents SIRS equations as the second-order ODE with an outer excitation. It reveals an origin of such predictive efficiency and explains analytically the 1:1 dynamical resonance, which is known as a crucial property of epidemic behavior. Our work opens the perspectives for the development of instant short-time prediction of a normal level of flu activity based on the weather forecast, and allow to estimate a current epidemic level more precisely. The latter fact is based on the explicit difference between the expected weather-based activity and instant anomalies.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of two family-based intervention programs for children affected by rare disease and their families – research network (CARE-FAM-NET): study protocol for a rater-blinded, randomized, controlled, multicenter trial in a 2x2 factorial design
Creators: name: Boettcher, Johannes
name: Filter, Bonnie
name: Denecke, Jonas
name: Hot, Amra
name: Daubmann, Anne
name: Zapf, Antonia
name: Wegscheider, Karl
name: Zeidler, Jan
name: J.-Matthias Graf Von Der Schulenburg
name: Bullinger, Monika
name: Rassenhofer, Miriam
name: Schulte-Markwort, Michael
name: Wiegand-Grefe, Silke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.
Quality of Experience Evaluation for Addis Ababa UMTS Enterprise Data Customers
Creators: name: Abera Reesom Bisrat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Penetration of high-speed mobile data services including social media and video services has been significantly increased across the globe due to fast development of mobile network and smartphone technologies. A similar trend has also been seen in Ethiopia mainly due to large mobile network expansion projects of the sole incumbent operator ethio telecom, particularly for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network. To achieve a successful business, mobile operators need to continuously monitor satisfaction of their customers and the quality of their networks to take timely marketing, network optimization and other relevant decisions. While traditionally the focus has been towards network Quality of Service (QoS), operators recently also provide attention to the aggregate user quality perception – Quality of Experience (QoE). Yet, a combined quality analysis for mobile networks in Ethiopia, particularly for the popular UMTS data service, has not been performed.
Ultramassive Black Hole Coalescence
Creators: name: Khan, Fazeel
name: Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
name: Berczik, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlate well with their host galaxies, there is an emerging view that outliers exist. Henize 2-10, NGC 4889, and NGC1277 are examples of SMBHs at least an order of magnitude more massive than their host galaxy suggests. The dynamical effects of such ultramassive central black holes is unclear. Here, we perform direct N-body simulations of mergers of galactic nuclei where one black hole is ultramassive to study the evolution of the remnant and the black hole dynamics in this extreme regime. We find that the merger remnant is axisymmetric near the center, while near the large SMBH influence radius, the galaxy is triaxial. The SMBH separation shrinks rapidly due to dynamical friction, and quickly forms a binary black hole; if we scale our model to the most massive estimate for the NGC1277 black hole, for example, the timescale for the SMBH separation to shrink from nearly a kiloparsec to less than a parsec is roughly 10 Myr. By the time the SMBHs form a hard binary, gravitational wave emission dominates, and the black holes coalesce in a mere few Myr. Curiously, these extremely massive binaries appear to nearly bypass the 3-body scattering evolutionary phase. Our study suggests that in this extreme case, SMBH coalescence is governed by dynamical friction followed nearly directly by gravitational wave emission, resulting in an rapid and efficient SMBH coalescence timescale. We discuss the implications for gravitational wave event rates and hypervelocity star production.
description: 6 pages, 3 color figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters. Comments welcome and may be incorporated in final version
Roles of SETD4 in radiation sensitivity and tumorigenesis
Creators: name: FENG, XING
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The SET domain protein methyltransferases play a critical role in histone modifications and global epigenetic regulations. Recent evidence suggests that some SET domain proteins may have the ability to modify non-histone proteins. The SET domain containing protein 4 (SETD4) was believed to be a non-histone methyltransferase, but no physiological substrate or biological functions of SETD4 has been identified. In this study, we constructed an inducible Setd4 knockout model and investigated the role of Setd4 in radiation sensitivity and tumorigenesis. We found that Setd4 deficient mice were significantly more resistant to radiation-induced hematopoietic syndrome than littermate wild type mice. Using several long-term bone marrow transplantation assays, we found that Setd4 deficient hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and progenitor cells (HPCs) have a slight in vivo growth advantage than the wild type cells, but are more sensitive to radiation. We also found that the Setd4 deficient recipient mice have an enhanced ability to engraft transplanted HSCs, suggesting an improved bone marrow niche for the Setd4 deficient animals. Using a radiation-induced thymic lymphoma model, we also found that Setd4 deletion delayed radiation-induced tumorigenesis. Collectively, our study suggests that Setd4 defect can enhance the recovery of radiation-induced bone marrow damage and suppress radiation-induced thymic lymphoma, and that Setd4 is a new gene involved in regulating bone marrow and hematopoietic functions in mice.
A review of the advanced treatment techniques for enriching the recycled concrete aggregates for recycled-based concrete: economic, environmental and technical analysis
Creators: name: Nikmehr, Bahareh
name: Kafle, Bidur
name: Al-Ameri, Riyadh
Publisher: name: Deakin University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering

description: Purpose – This study aimed to review various existing methods for improving the quality of recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) as a possible substitution for natural aggregates (NAs) in concrete. It is vital as the old paste attached to the RCA weakens its structure. It is due to the porous structure of the RCA with cracks, weakening the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between the RCA and binding material, negatively impacting the concrete’s properties. To this end, various methods for reinforcement of the RCA, cleaning the RCA’s old paste and enhancing the quality of the RCA-based concrete without RCA modification are studied in terms of environmental effects, cost and technical matters. Furthermore, this research sought to identify gaps in knowledge and future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The review of the relevant journal papers revealed that various methods exist for improving the properties of RCAs and RCA-based concrete. A decision matrix was developed and implemented for ranking these techniques based on environmental, economic and technical criteria. Findings – The identified methods for reinforcement of the RCA include accelerated carbonation, bio deposition, soaking in polymer emulsions, soaking in waterproofing admixture, soaking in sodium silicate, soaking in nanoparticles and coating with geopolymer slurry. Moreover, cleaning the RCA’s old paste is possible using acid, water, heating, thermal and mechanical treatment, thermo-mechanical and electro-dynamic treatment. Added to these treatment techniques, using RCA in saturated surface dry (SSD) mixing approaches and adding fibres or pozzolana enhance the quality of the RCA-based concrete without RCA modification. The study ranked these techniques based on environmental, economic and technical criteria. Ultimately, adding fibres, pozzolana and coating RCA with geopolymer slurry were introduced as the best techniques based on the nominated criteria. Practical implications – The study supported the need for better knowledge regarding the existing treatment techniques for RCA improvement. The outcomes of this research offer an understanding of each RCA enrichment technique’s importance in environmental, economic and technical criteria. Originality/value – The practicality of the RCA treatment techniques is based on economic, environmental and technical specifications for rating the existing treatment techniques.
Applying Quantum Principles to Psychology
Creators: name: Busemeyer, Jerome R
name: Wang, Zheng
name: Khrennikov, Andrei
name: Basieva, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article starts out with a detailed example illustrating the utility of applying quantum probability to psychology. Then it describes several alternative mathematical methods for mapping fundamental quantum concepts (such as state preparation, measurement, state evolution) to fundamental psychological concepts (such as stimulus, response, information processing). For state preparation, we consider both pure states and densities with mixtures. For measurement, we consider projective measurements and positive operator valued measurements. The advantages and disadvantages of each method with respect to applications in psychology are discussed.
description: one of the aims of this review paper is to attract attention of experts in quantum information and probability (as well as in quantum foundations) to a new rapidly growing field of applications of quantum theory. The paper establishes the correspondence between concepts of quantum theory and concepts of cognitive science and psychology. Submitted to Physica Scripta
Additional file 1 of Sleep characteristics and problems of 2-year-olds with Williams syndrome: relations with language and behavior
Creators: name: Magalhães, Caroline Greiner De
name: O’Brien, Louise M.
name: Mervis, Carolyn B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. Descriptive statistics for CDI expressive vocabulary standard scores and Mullen Scales of Early Learning T-scores as a function of positive/negative screen on the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire SRBD scale and Sleepiness subscale.
Tour d'Europe des amis de l'agrobiodiversité
Creators: name: Gutzen, Kaja
name: Lazzaro, Mariateresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: biodiversité
agriculture biologique
sélection
Europe
initiatives

description: La publication emmène les lecteurs à la découverte de 15 initiatives de sélection végétale et animale biologique en Europe. Chaque initiative est présentée par une personne impliquée dans l'initiative. Pour chaque initiative, les objectifs et les défis sont décrits. Les exemples choisis donnent un bon aperçu de la grande diversité des initiatives visant à maintenir et à promouvoir la biodiversité dans les cultures et les espèces animales biologiques.
Direct Evidence for the 'All-in/All-out' Magnetic Structure in the Pyrochlore Iridates from $μ$SR
Creators: name: Disseler, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the pyrochlore iridates, \textit{R}$_{2}$Ir$_{2}$O$_{7}$ (\textit{R} = Lanthanide, Y), determination of the magnetic structure of the iridium moments remains an outstanding problem despite the role this is expected to play in the formation of novel band structures and topologies in these materials. In this work, a new analysis of the experimentally measured spontaneous muon spin precession frequency is presented which incorporates both probabilistic and \textit{ab-initio} modeling techniques to determine the ground state magnetic structure. It is shown that the experimentally observed results are consistent only with a magnetically ordered Ir$^{4+}$ sublattice with the so-called 'all-in/all-out' magnetic structure, and that the electronic state of the Ir$^{4+}$ is best described by the $J_{eff} = \frac{1}{2}$ model in several member compounds. Through this approach it is also demonstrated that such a simple structure is not likely to be present on the rare-earth sublattice which contain much larger localized moments.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Setting Target Prices: An Analysis of Three Alternatives
Creators: name: , Agriculture
name: , Agriculture
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Partial Contents: Rationale (Price Stability, Income Transfers); Background; Avoiding Excess Capacity and Stock Accumulation; Target Price Analysis Scenarios; Impacts (General results); Specific Criteria Impacts (Budget, Farm income, Competitiveness; Asset Values; Food Prices; Environment; Cropping Patterns)
Anisotropic superconductivity in the noncentrosymmetric BiPd
Creators: name: Jiao, L.
name: Zhang, J. L.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Weng, Z. F.
name: Shao, Y. M.
name: Feng, J. Y.
name: Lu, X.
name: Joshi, B.
name: Thamizhavel, A.
name: Ramakrishnan, S.
name: Yuan, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of London penetration depth $λ(T)$ for the noncentrosymmetric superconductor BiPd by using a tunnel diode oscillator. Pronounced anisotropic behavior is observed in the low-temperature penetration depth; the in-plane penetration depth $λ_{ac}(T)$ follows an exponential decrease, but the interplane penetration depth $λ_b(T)$ shows power-law-type behavior. The superfluid density $ρ_s(T)$, converted from the penetration depth $λ(T)$, is best fitted by an anisotropic two-band BCS model. We argue that such a complex order parameter is attributed to the admixture of spin-singlet and spin-triplet pairing states as a result of antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling in BiPd.
description: 5 pages, 4 figure, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication)
A straight waveguide with a wire inducing resonances
Creators: name: Kondej, Sylwia
name: Leoński, Wiesław
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15A18, 81Q05

description: We study a straight infinite planer waveguide with, so called, leaky wire attached to the walls of the waveguide. The wire is modelled by an attractive delta interaction supported by a finite segment. If the wire is placed perpendicularly then the system preserves mirror symmetry which leads the embedded eigenvalues phenomena. We show that if we break the symmetry the corresponding resolvent poles turn to resonances.
description: 18 pages
Introductory Theory for Sample Surveys
Creators: name: Huddleston, Harold F.
name: Huddleston, Harold F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the Preface: The extensive sampling theory paper was written after the USDA granted the author a sabbatical scholarship at Texas A&M University in 1965 to work under Professor H.O. Hartley in multiple frame theory and J.N.K. Rao in sampling theory. The purpose of this account of theory is to supplement lectures in developing the building blocks of sampling, as are likely to be needed in applied theory. Several contrasting approaches are used in showing how the theory may be developed. The logic of these alternative derivations of the basic theory and formulas is to provide the student with greater exposure to different derivations in estimating parameters is frequently helpful in complex designs since sometime there is an easier approach. The elements of the theory covered herein might be found in either a beginning or advanced sampling theory course, but the goal is to present the topics at an introductory level assuming only some previous exposure to sampling methods for motivational purposes. In addition, some limited background in mathematical expectation and basic probability is helpful.
Supplementary document for Axial Profiling of Interferometric Scattering Enables an Accurate Determination of Nanoparticle Size - 6261128.pdf
Creators: name: zambochova, katerina
name: lee, il-buem
name: Park, Jin-Sung
name: Hong, Seok-Cheol
name: Cho, Minhaeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Theory, Experimental Schematics, Supporting Data
Supplementary document for Axial Profiling of Interferometric Scattering Enables an Accurate Determination of Nanoparticle Size - 6284320.pdf
Creators: name: zambochova, katerina
name: lee, il-buem
name: Park, Jin-Sung
name: Hong, Seok-Cheol
name: Cho, Minhaeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: experimental setup diagram, theory, analysis scheme, supporting data for Fig.3,4,5
Gauge/gravity duality and RG flows in 5d gauge theories
Creators: name: Pini, Alessandro
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss RG flows in 5d gauge theories triggered either by VEV's of mesonic or baryonic operators. As a warm-up, we explicitly discuss the counterpart of these flows in 4d gauge theories with $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry by focusing on the $A_1$ theory. As opposed to the $\mathcal{N}=1$ case, in cases with 8 supercharges we need to solve a more involved PDE. In the 5d case the boundary conditions for such equation play a crucial role in order to reproduce the expected spectrum.
description: 23 pages
Supplementary document for Axial Profiling of Interferometric Scattering Enables an Accurate Determination of Nanoparticle Size - 6288691.pdf
Creators: name: zambochova, katerina
name: lee, il-buem
name: Park, Jin-Sung
name: Hong, Seok-Cheol
name: Cho, Minhaeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: experimental setup diagram, theory, analysis scheme, supporting data for Fig.3,4,5
Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?
Creators: name: Enqvist, Kari
name: Karciauskas, Mindaugas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
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 consider the modifications of monomial chaotic inflation models due to radiative corrections induced by inflaton couplings to bosons and/or fermions necessary for reheating. To the lowest order, ignoring gravitational corrections and treating the inflaton as a classical background field, they are of the Coleman-Weinberg type and parametrized by the renormalization scale $μ$. In cosmology, there are not enough measurements to fix $μ$ so that we end up with a family of models, each having a slightly different slope of the potential. We demonstrate by explicit calculation that within the family of chaotic $ϕ^2$ models, some may be ruled out by Planck whereas some remain perfectly viable. In contrast, radiative corrections do not seem to help chaotic $ϕ^{4}$ models to meet the Planck constraints.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures and 1 table
The Effects of Attentional Focus and Dual-Tasking on Conventional Deadlift Performance in Experienced Lifters
Creators: name: Chan, Alan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Attentional Focus
subject: Strength Training
subject: Athletic Performance
subject: Powerlifting
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Cognitive Strategies
subject: Dual-Task

description: Previous attentional focus literature suggests that adopting an external focus (EF) results in greater force production through a variety of mechanisms. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of attentional focus and dual-tasking when performing heavily loaded barbell movements that are specific to strength-based sports. Fifteen resistance-trained males (age = 23.3 ± 3.4 years) reported to the laboratory for three visits. The first visit consisted of a five-repetition maximum (5RM) test on the conventional deadlift. During the subsequent sessions, the participants performed a total of twelve single conventional deadlift repetitions while adopting an internal focus (IF), an external focus (EF), or while performing the cognitive task (COG). The IF and EF consisted of focusing on activating the quadriceps and maintain a straight bar path, respectively. The COG consisted of counting the total occurrence of two single-digits in a sequence of three-digit numbers, separately. Three-dimensional motion capture and force platforms were used to collect kinematic and kinetic data. No significant differences were found between the IF, the EF and the COG for lift duration, peak barbell velocity, peak vertical ground reaction force, area of 95% confidence ellipse, peak hip moments and peak hip powers. Adopting an EF significantly reduced variability of the barbell trajectory and centre of pressure (COP) in the anterior-posterior direction. Mean velocity of COP was also significantly lower for the EF. Our findings suggest that adopting an EF may lead to greater postural stability when performing heavily loaded barbell movements.
Bounds on the Number of Edges in Hypertrees
Creators: name: Katona, Gyula Y.
name: Szabó, Péter G. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C65

description: Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a $k$-uniform hypergraph. A chain in $\mathcal{H}$ is a sequence of its vertices such that every $k$ consecutive vertices form an edge. In 1999 Katona and Kierstead suggested to use chains in hypergraphs as the generalisation of paths. Although a number of results have been published on hamiltonian chains in recent years, the generalization of trees with chains has still remained an open area. We generalize the concept of trees for uniform hypergraphs. We say that a $k$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{F}$ is a hypertree if every two vertices of $\mathcal{F}$ are connected by a chain, and an appropriate kind of cycle-free property holds. An edge-minimal hypertree is a hypertree whose edge set is minimal with respect to inclusion. After considering these definitions, we show that a $k$-uniform hypertree on $n$ vertices has at least $n-(k-1)$ edges up to a finite number of exceptions, and it has at most $\binom{n}{k-1}$ edges. The latter bound is asymptotically sharp in 3-uniform case.
Additional file 1 of Paraoxonase single nucleotide variants show associations with polycystic ovary syndrome: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Anthicha Kunjantarachot
name: Pabalan, Noel
name: Jarjanazi, Hamdi
name: Christofolini, Denise Maria
name: Montagna, Erik
name: Barbosa, Caio Parente
name: Bianco, Bianca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Quantitative features of the included PON-PCOS studies. Table S2. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist. Table S3. Comparisons between meta-analyses that examined the PON variants associations with PCOS.
The theory of pulsar wind nebulae
Creators: name: Amato, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review the current status of our theoretical understanding of Pulsar Winds and associated nebulae (PWNe). In recent years, axisymmetric models of pulsar winds with a latitude dependent energy flux have proved very successful at explaining the morphology of PWNe as seen in the X-rays. This success has prompted developments aimed at using multi-wavelength observations of these nebulae as a diagnostics of the hidden physics of the pulsar wind and of the mechanism(s) through which particles are accelerated in these sources. I will discuss these most recent developments in terms of the information that we infer from detailed comparison of simulated non-thermal emission with current observations.
description: 10 pages, Invited Review Talk at the HEPRO IV Confernce, Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in International Journal of Modern Physics
Supplementary document for Semi-analytical technique for the design of disordered coatings with tailored optical properties - 6289010.pdf
Creators: name: Mishra, Bhrigu Rishi
name: Varghese, Nithin
name: Sasihithlu, Karthik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary information
Association Between Prenatal Exposure to 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccination and Infection During Pregnancy and Development of Immune-Related Child Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Walsh, Laura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Vaccination
Influenza
Pregnancy

description: Background: Little is known about long-term pediatric health outcomes following influenza vaccination during pregnancy. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the associations between prenatal exposure to maternal pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza vaccination and pH1N1 illness, with long-term immune-related pediatric health outcomes. Methods: This retrospective cohort study used a province-wide birth registry from Ontario, individually linked with health administrative databases to ascertain study outcomes over five years of follow-up. Results: We found a weak, but statistically significant, increased association between prenatal pH1N1 influenza vaccination and pediatric asthma, and an inverse association with gastrointestinal infections; otherwise, no other significant associations were observed. Conversely, significant increased associations were observed between pH1N1 influenza illness during pregnancy and all study outcomes. Conclusions: The findings of this study support the safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy; however more research in this area is required, particularly for seasonal influenza vaccine.
PlasticDB: a database of microorganisms and proteins linked to plastic biodegradation
Creators: name: Marques de Oliveira Gambarini, Victor
name: Pantos, Olga
name: M. Kingsbury, Joanne
name: Weaver, Louise
name: Handley, Kim M.
name: Lear, Gavin
Publisher: name: Institute of Environmental Science and Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental management
Environmental rehabilitation and restoration

description: The number of publications reporting putative plastic-degrading microbes and proteins is continuously increasing, necessitating the compilation of these data and the development of tools to facilitate their analysis. We developed the PlasticDB web application to address this need, which comprises a database of microorganisms and proteins reported to biodegrade plastics. Associated metadata, such as the techniques utilized to assess biodegradation, the environmental source of microbial isolate and presumed thermophilic traits are also reported. Proteins in the database are categorized according to the plastic type they are reported to degrade. Each protein structure has been predicted in silico and can be visualized or downloaded for further investigation. In addition to standard database functionalities, such as searching, filtering and retrieving database records, we implemented several analytical tools that accept inputs, including gene, genome, metagenome, transcriptomes, metatranscriptomes and taxa table data. Users can now analyze their datasets for the presence of putative plastic-degrading species and potential plastic-degrading proteins and pathways from those species.
Screening properties of four mesoscale smoothed charge models, with application to dissipative particle dynamics
Creators: name: Warren, Patrick B.
name: Vlasov, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our previous study [J. Chem. Phys. 138, 204907 (2013)] to quantify the screening properties of four mesoscale smoothed charge models used in dissipative particle dynamics. Using a combination of the hypernetted chain integral equation closure and the random phase approximation, we identify regions where the models exhibit a real-valued screening length, and the extent to which this agrees with the Debye length in the physical system. We find that the second moment of the smoothed charge distribution is a good predictor of this behaviour. We are thus able to recommend a consistent set of parameters for the models.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, RevTeX4-1
Biomarker Discovery and Extracellular Vesicle Proteomic Signatures in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Creators: name: Deeke, Shelley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biomarkers
Proteomics
Inflammatory bowel disease
ulcerative colitis

description: Background: Reliable biomarkers are needed to evade the risk of injury, invasiveness and discomfort of endoscopies, which are required for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnosis and extent of disease assessment in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. The need for biomarkers is accentuated in children, wherein the most frequently used IBD biomarker yields low specificity. Proteomics of clinical samples or their enriched components is a means to evaluate and identify alterations in proteins reflective of disease, with the potential for use as biomarkers and for providing insight on disease pathogenesis. Methods: Proteins were isolated from the intestinal mucosal-luminal interface (MLI), collected from the ascending and descending colon of pediatric treatment-naive patients. The intestinal MLI proteomes of 42 IBD and 18 control patients were analyzed by high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). Multivariate analysis and receiver operating characteristics curves were performed to develop protein biomarker panels to discriminate IBD from control, and for UC extent of disease. ELISAs were used to assess a subset of biomarker candidates in stool samples from an independent pediatric cohort (n=24). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) were isolated by ultracentrifugation from the intestinal MLI of 11 IBD and seven control patients, and analyzed by electron microscopy, nanoparticle tracking analysis and HRMS. Results: A biomarker panel of four proteins classified patients as either controls or active IBD with 97.5% accuracy. A second biomarker panel correctly classified 100% of UC patients as presenting with pancolitis or non-pancolitis. The differential protein expression of two biomarker candidates (catalase and leukotriene A-4 hydrolase) identified from the intestinal MLI was comparable in stool samples. Comparison of EV proteomes isolated from IBD patients and controls identified differential expression of processes related to host defense and immunity. Conclusions: Proteomic analysis of clinical samples identified differentially expressed proteins that can classify IBD patients from non-IBD controls and distinguish UC patients with pancolitis from those without pancolitis; proteins identified in intestinal aspirates displayed consistent differential expression in stool. Furthermore enrichment of EVs from the intestinal MLI indicates that these may contribute to the dysregulated host response against the intestinal microbiota which is observed in IBD.
Stability of the Griffiths phase in the 2D Potts model with correlated disorder
Creators: name: Chatelain, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Griffiths phase has recently been observed by Monte Carlo simulations in the 2D $q$-state Potts model with strongly correlated quenched random couplings. In particular, the magnetic susceptibility was shown to diverge algebraically with the lattice size in a broad range of temperatures. However, only relatively small lattice sizes could be considered so one can wonder whether this Griffiths phase will not shrink and collapse into a single point, the critical point, as the lattice size is increased to much larger values. In this paper, the 2D eight-state Potts model is numerically studied for four different disorder correlations. It is shown that the Griffiths phase cannot be explained as a simple spreading of local transition temperatures caused by disorder fluctuations. As a consequence, the vanishing of the latter in the thermodynamic limit does not necessarily imply the collapse of the Griffiths phase into a single point. In contrast, the width of the Griffiths phase is controlled by the disorder strength. However, for disorder correlations decaying slower than $1/r$, no cross-over to a more usual critical behavior could be observed as this strength is tuned to weaker values.
description: 10 pages, 16 figures
Identifying Common Competencies for Advanced Healthcare Practice Programs: An Umbrella Review Protocol
Creators: name: DeBoer, Sarah
name: Sadi, Jackie
name: El-Khoury, Rosy
name: Kenyon, Emily
name: Saville, Brendan
name: Miller, Erin
name: Gillis, Heather
name: Alcock, Greg
name: La, Denise
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Common Competency
subject: Healthcare
subject: Advanced Healthcare Practice
subject: Common Competencies
subject: Advanced Clinical Practice

description: The objective of this review is to identify common core competencies across advanced healthcare practice to facilitate the operationalization of advanced practice and inform educational curricula and policy. To this end, the proposed review will seek to answer the following questions: 1.For which professions have core competencies for AHCP been determined? 2.What are the common core competencies of degree-granting advanced healthcare practice training programs? 3.Do the identified competencies align with Health Education England’s four pillars of advanced clinical practice (i.e., clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research)?
La Thuile 2014: Theoretical premises to neutrino round table
Creators: name: Vissani, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk, dedicated to the memory of G. Giacomelli, introduced the round table on neutrinos held in February 2014. The topics selected for the discussion are: 1) the neutrinoless double beta decay rate (interpretation in terms of light neutrinos, nuclear uncertainties); 2) the physics in the gigantic water Cherenkov detectors (proton decay, atmospheric neutrinos); 3) the study of neutrino oscillations (mass hierarchy and CP violation; other neutrino states); 4) the neutrino astronomy at low and high energies (solar, supernova, cosmic neutrinos). The importance of an active interplay between theory and experiment is highlighted.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. Minor revision of the text
Turbulence measurements in open-channel flow with transverse bed slope
Creators: name: Lee, Ka Leung, 1963-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Turbulence measurement
subject: Hydraulics
subject: Flumes
subject: Channels
subject: Hydraulic engineering
subject: Hydrodynamics
subject: Open-channel flow
subject: Transverse bed slope
subject: Meandering river flow
subject: Turbulence--Measurement
subject: Hydraulics
subject: Flumes
subject: Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
subject: Hydrodynamics

description: In a meandering river, both the bends and the transverse bed slopes influence the turbulence in the flow. As part of a research project to study the turbulence characteristics in a meandering laboratory river channel, turbulence measurements were made in a straight flume with a transversely sloping plane bed to evaluate the effect of the transverse bed slope. The flume was 30 in. wide and had a 10% transverse bed slope. The bottom of the flume was formed by sand of 2 mm nominal size coated with paint. The depths were 0.4 in. on the shallow side and 3.5 in. on the deep side. The average velocity was 1.3 ft/s. Constant temperature hot film anemometry was used and all measurements were made with single sensor probes. Some problems encountered in the application of hot film anemometry are discussed. A detailed account of the development of the techniques for data acquisition, processing and analysis is also given. The parameters used to characterize the turbulence include the mean velocity, turbulent intensity, autocorrelation coefficient, cross-correlation coefficient, spectrum, macroscale, Taylor microscale, energy dissipation rate, Kolmogorov microscale, and skewness and kurtosis of the probability distribution of the velocity fluctuations. Some of the variations of these parameters can be attributed to the depth variation and velocity variation across the flume. The mean velocities on a vertical normalized with respect to the depth-averaged velocity were found to vary in a similar way with the relative depth for different verticals. The same observation is obtained for the relative turbulent intensity, the energy dissipation rate and the Kolmogorov micro-length scale. For the other parameters, interesting patterns of variation can be identified. These findings will be compared with those of similar measurements in the meandering laboratory river channel so that the effect of transverse bed slope on the turbulence in natural river flow can be evaluated
Роль человеческого фактора в решении проблемы обеспечения надежности работы АЭС в Украине
Creators: name: Владимирович, Кузьмин Виктор
name: Владимировна, Шевченко Валентина
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: АЭС
безопасность АЭС
человеческий фактор
продление сроков эксплуатации
МАГАТЭ

description: Опубликовано: [Кузьмин В.В., Шевченко В.В. Роль человеческого фактора в решении проблемы обеспечения надежности работы АЭС в Украине // Материалы Международного симпозиума "Проблемы усовершенствования электрических машин и аппаратов. Теория и практика" (SIEMA’2011), 26-28.10.2011. - Украина, Харьков: НТУ "ХПИ", 2011. - С. 19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2533290]

Безопасность атомной энергетики снова активно обсуждалась во всем мире после аварии на АЭС "Фукусима-1" в Японии в марте 2011 года. Для надежной работы АЭС необходимо принимать меры по обеспечению надежности каждого технологического объекта станции, устранению возможных причин отказов, сопутствующих им факторов, и, в том числе, человеческого фактора.

Ключевые слова:  АЭС, безопасность, человеческий фактор, продление сроков эксплуатации, МАГАТЭ.

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Additional file 1 of Dynamics on the field: a focused study on the culture and context of pediatric pain management at four Ghanaian hospitals
Creators: name: Amponsah, Abigail Kusi
name: Evans Oduro
name: Bam, Victoria
name: Kyei-Dompim, Joana
name: Collins Kwadwo Ahoto
name: Axelin, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix I. Interview guide for healthcare providers. Appendix II. Interview guide for children who can verbalize. Appendix III. Interview guide for family caregivers