cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
D2.1_Report On The Open Market Consultation And The Results
Creators: name: Amsaghrou, Rachida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: tender
cloud computing
procurement
research and development

description: This report highlights the results of the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) Open Market Consultation (OMC), which took place on 17 March 2016 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

The OMC was preceded by a preparatory workshop on 16 March during which procedures for the OMC were defined and agreed amongst the HNSciCloud collaboration board members present. The preparatory morning session consisted of presentations of the procurement, legal and technical characteristics of the tender, while the afternoon session was dedicated to processing these characteristics into requirements, which were in turn grouped into use cases.

Task 2.1 “Open Market Consultation” aims at verifying the market readiness to meet the procurement needs through an open dialogue that broaches the views of the market about the intended scope. The results of this open market consultation have been duly taken into account to define the tender specifications, and filled the gap between state-of-the art industry developments and procurement needs, thus justifying the need to procure R&D services.

CERN, as project coordinator and leader of work package 2, applied through a management and technology consulting company[4], a unique methodology in order to identify the most appropriate use-cases and evaluation criteria to be used for this PCP project, based on an evaluation of risk (on the supply-side) and value (on the demand-side).

This consultancy resulted in the production of the following outputs:

	Main use cases prioritized

	Reference architecture for the prototype refined

	Value-Risk matrix mapped based on prioritized sources of risk

	Evaluation criteria for phases 1, 2 and 3 defined

The Open Market Consultation event brought together over 40 European cloud service providers. The main objective of the Pre-Commercial Procurement Open Market Consultation was to establish the premises of the European science cloud platform. The cloud platform will combine several sub-challenges requiring a combination of services at the IaaS level, integrated into an environment supporting the full life-cycle of science work-flows.
"A time for reconciliation"? : the Bouchard-Taylor Commission and evolving democratic practices in identity politics
Creators: name: Granofsky, Dana Rose
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper aims to explore the Bouchard-Taylor Commission as an example of an attempt to develop elements of deliberation into Canada’s representative democratic system. Exploring this case study will help elucidate the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to democracy as they relate to issues of identity, and some of the practical difficulties and benefits involved in introducing more deliberative elements into a representative system. Though each covers a variety of more particular forms, broad models of democratic practice can be recognized and grouped according to the way they interpret the public will and translates it into government action. I have organized these broad conceptions of democracy into three models, which can be identified as representative democracy, deliberative democracy, and what I am calling expressive democracy. I argue that any practicable solution to identity conflicts will necessarily be a hybrid of these three models; for that reason it is important to fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of each model in relation to the others. Through this practical example, I will attempt to refine our understanding of each of these models so that they can be brought together in a general theory of democracy that will better speak to conflicts in identity politics.
From a dynamical system of the knee to natural jet geometrical objects
Creators: name: Neagu, Mircea
name: Marin, Mihaela Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C43, 53C07, 83C22

description: In this paper we construct some natural geometrical objects on the 1-jet space J^1(R,R^3), like a nonlinear connection, a Cartan linear connection (together with its d-torsions and d-curvatures), a jet "electromagnetic" d-field and its geometric "electromagnetic" Yang-Mills energy, starting from a given dynamical system governing the three-dimensional motion of the knee in the mathematical model introduced by Grood and Suntay. The corresponding Yang-Mills energetic surfaces of constant level (produced by this knee dynamical system) are studied.
description: 15 pages
«Friends Have All Things In Common»: Property, Publishing, And Politics
Creators: name: Pievatolo, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Plato, knowledge, copyright, copyleft, intellectual property, open access

description: At the beginnings of Western philosophy, Plato meditated on understanding media. He was so lucky to live before the "great division" between humanities and natural science and to witness the first media revolution, the transition from orality to literacy. The age of print and of books manufactures made us to forget that communication concerns above all authors. Now, however, the internet makes it possible to publish our writings without giving them away: humanities scholars could emerge from nonage and take back all what they delegated to the publishers and their market concern, from which they usually earn very little. Why should they do it? To answer to such a question, this text introduces an ancient platonic argument from the Phaedrus to propose a modern, and political, suggestion.
description: Paper exported from http://ssrn.com/author=870353
Improved Type III solar radio burst detection using congruent deep learning models
Creators: name: Scully, Jeremiah
name: Flynn, Ronan
name: Gallagher, Peter
name: Carley, Eoin
name: Daly, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Solar flares are energetic events in the solar atmosphere that are often linked with solar radio bursts (SRBs). SRBs are observed at metric to decametric wavelengths and are classified into five spectral classes (Type I--V) based on their signature in dynamic spectra. The automatic detection and classification of SRBs is a challenge due to their heterogeneous form. Near-realtime detection and classification of SRBs has become a necessity in recent years due to large data rates generated by advanced radio telescopes such as the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR). In this study, we implement congruent deep learning models to automatically detect and classify Type III SRBs. We generated simulated Type III SRBs, which were comparable to Type IIIs seen in real observations, using a deep learning method known as Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). This simulated data was combined with observations from LOFAR to produce a training set that was used to train an object detection model known as YOLOv2 (You Only Look Once). Using this congruent deep learning model system, we can accurately detect Type III SRBs at a mean Average Precision (mAP) value of 77.71%.
The Pirate From Koenigsberg: Why Closed Source Software Is Not Worth Of Copyright Protection
Creators: name: Pievatolo, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Kant, intellectual-property, software, open-source, freedom

description: According to Kant, property applies only to touchable things, among which he includes the works of art. For the very principle of private property, a legitimate purchaser has the right to replicate and to share them without restrictions. Kant recognizes copyright only on written texts, by conceiving them as speeches that exclusively authorized spokespersons - the publishers - may convey to the public in the name of their authors. The rights of the authorized publishers, however, are justified only if they help the public to get the texts. In a Kantian environment, open source software would be worth of copyright protection, because it can be conceived as a speech meant to human beings. On the contrary, Kant would treat closed source programs as works of art, without according them copyright protection, because, as none is allowed to read and to understand them, they cannot be conceived as a speeches meant to the public. Closed source programs are like sealed books that no one is allowed to read: why do we keep on taking for granted that they are worth of copyright protection?
description: Paper exported from http://ssrn.com/author=870353
Onset of deformation at $N = 112$ in Bi nuclei
Creators: name: Pai, H.
name: Mukherjee, G.
name: Raut, R.
name: Basu, S. K.
name: Goswami, A.
name: Chanda, S.
name: Bhattacharjee, T.
name: Bhattacharyya, S.
name: Bhattacharya, C.
name: Bhattacharya, S.
name: Banerjee, S. R.
name: Kundu, S.
name: Banerjee, K.
name: Dey, A.
name: Rana, T. K.
name: Meena, J. K.
name: Gupta, D.
name: Mukhopadhyay, S.
name: Bhattacharya, Srijit
name: Bhattacharya, Sudeb
name: Ganguly, S.
name: Kshetri, R.
name: Pradhan, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high spin states in $^{195}$Bi has been studied by $γ$-ray spectroscopic method using the $^{181}$Ta($^{20}$Ne, 6n) fusion evaporation reaction at 130 MeV. The $γγ$ coincidence data were taken using an array of 8 clover HPGe detectors. The spin and parity assignments of the excited states have been made from the measured directional correlation from oriented states (DCO) ratios and integrated polarization asymmetry (IPDCO) ratios. The results show, for the first time, the evidence of a rotational like band based on a 13/2$^+$ band head in this nucleus, indicating the onset of deformation at neutron number $N = 112$ for the Bismuth isotopes. The results obtained were found to be consistent with the prediction of the total Routhian surface calculations using Woods Saxon potential. The same calculations also predict a change in shape from oblate to triaxial in $^{195}$Bi at high rotational frequency.
An empirical study of dust properties at the earliest epochs
Creators: name: Witstok, Joris
name: Jones, Gareth C.
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Smit, Renske
name: Schneider, Raffaella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an empirical analysis of the properties of dust-continuum emission in a sample of 17 galaxies in the early Universe ($4 < z < 8$) with well-sampled far-infrared (FIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) compiled from the literature. We place our results into context by self-consistently comparing to samples of nearby star-forming galaxies, luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), and quasars. With the exception of two sources, we find no significant evolution in the dust emissivity index across cosmic time, measuring a consistent value of $β_\text{IR} = 1.8 \pm 0.3$ at $z > 4$, suggesting the effective dust properties do not change dramatically for most galaxies. Despite having comparable stellar masses, we find the high-redshift galaxies to be similar to, or even more extreme than, LIRGs in the HERUS sample in terms of dust temperature ($T_\text{dust} > 40 \, \mathrm{K}$) and IR luminosity ($L_\text{IR} > 10^{11} \, \mathrm{L_\odot}$). We find the dust temperature evolves mildly towards high redshift, though the LIRGs and quasars exhibit elevated temperatures indicating a more efficient and/or additional heating mechanism. Where available, we compare stellar-mass estimates to our inferred dust masses, whose degeneracy with dust temperature can only be mitigated with a well-constrained SED. In merely half of the cases the dust yield may be explained by supernovae alone, with four sources ($44\%$) significantly exceeding a highly optimistic yield where $M_\text{dust} \approx 0.01 M_*$. We discuss possible explanations for this apparent inconsistency and potential observational biases in the measurements of the dust properties of high-redshift galaxies, including in the current IR-bright sample.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Fermi-Löwdin self-interaction correction for ionization energies of organic molecules
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: physics.chem-ph
cond-mat.other

description: © 2020 Author(s). (Semi)-local density functional approximations (DFAs) suffer from self-interaction error (SIE). When the first ionization energy (IE) is computed as the negative of the highest-occupied orbital (HO) eigenvalue, DFAs notoriously underestimate them compared to quasi-particle calculations. The inaccuracy for the HO is attributed to SIE inherent in DFAs. We assessed the IE based on Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction on 14 small to moderate-sized organic molecules relevant in organic electronics and polymer donor materials. Although self-interaction corrected DFAs were found to significantly improve the IE relative to the uncorrected DFAs, they overestimate. However, when the self-interaction correction is interiorly scaled using a function of the iso-orbital indicator zσ, only the regions where SIE is significant get a correction. We discuss these approaches and show how these methods significantly improve the description of the HO eigenvalue for the organic molecules.
Genotype matrix of a diversity panel of extant barleys and five barley aDNA samples.
Creators: name: Mascher, Martin
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: ancient DNA
barley
variant call format
diversity panel

description: Genotype calls at 1,688,807 bi-allelic SNP positions for 267 wild and domesticated barley genebank accessions, the outgroup species Hordeum pubiflorum and
			five ancient barley samples. The data is provided in VCF format. SNP position are given as coordinates on the Morex whole-genome shotgun assembly (International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium,
			Nature 2012).
The impact of change in neighborhood poverty on BMI trajectory of 37,544 New York City youth: a longitudinal study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neighborhood
Pediatric obesity
Poverty

description: © 2020, The Author(s). Background: Neighborhood poverty may increase childhood obesity risk. However, evidence for the neighborhood poverty-obesity relationship is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine how moving to a higher or lower poverty neighborhood impacts body mass index (BMI) z-score trajectories among youth, with the goal of informing policy change, interventions, and clinical practices to reduce childhood obesity. Methods: Methods entailed secondary analysis of existing longitudinal data. The sample included youth attending New York City public schools in grades kindergarten through twelfth from school years 2006/2007 through 2016/2017. Eligibility criteria included moving to a higher or lower poverty neighborhood during the data midpoint [school years 2010/2011 through 2013/2014] of the 12-year data-period; New York City-specific metrics were used to define both neighborhood (Neighborhood Tabulation Area) and relevant neighborhood poverty levels (< 5, 5 to < 10%, 10 to < 20%, 20 to < 30%, 30 to < 40% and ≥ 40% of individuals below Federal Poverty Level). Two-piece latent growth curve models were used to describe BMI z-score trajectories of youth who moved to higher versus lower poverty neighborhoods, with propensity score weighting to account for preexisting differences between the two groups. Primary analyses were stratified by sex and exploratory subgroup analyses were stratified by sex and developmental stage (early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence) to explore sensitive periods for neighborhood poverty exposure. Results: Of 532,513 youth with home address data, 18,370 youth moved to a higher poverty neighborhood and 19,174 moved to a lower poverty neighborhood (n = 37,544). Females and males who moved to a higher poverty neighborhood experienced less favorable BMI z-score trajectories for obesity risk, though effects were small. Exploratory subgroup analyses demonstrated that negative effects of neighborhood poverty were most pronounced among young and adolescent females and young males, whereas effects were mixed for other subgroups. Conclusions: Youth who moved to higher poverty neighborhoods experienced less favorable BMI z-score trajectories for obesity risk, though effects were small and most consistent for females and younger youth. Additional research is needed to illuminate neighborhood poverty’s impact on obesity, in order to inform policy, intervention, clinical, and research efforts to reduce obesity and improve child well-being.
The ecology and home range movements of Ambystoma Macrodactylum Krausei (Amphibia: Urodela)
Creators: name: Sheppard, Robert Frank
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: QL 668 C2 S54 1977 Microfiche
subject: Salamanders - Alberta - Canmore
subject: Urodela

description: Bibliography: p. 71-73.
An intelligent data uploading selection mechanism for offloading uplink traffic of cellular networks
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: mobile crowd sensing applications
mobility prediction
opportunistic communications
uplink traffic offloading

description: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Wi-Fi uploading is considered an effective method for offloading the traffic of cellular networks generated by the data uploading process of mobile crowd sensing applications. However, previously proposed Wi-Fi uploading schemes mainly focus on optimizing one performance objective: the offloaded cellular traffic or the reduced uploading cost. In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Data Uploading Selection Mechanism (IDUSM) to realize a trade-off between the offloaded traffic of cellular networks and participants’ uploading cost considering the differences among participants’ data plans and direct and indirect opportunistic transmissions. The mechanism first helps the source participant choose an appropriate data uploading manner based on the proposed probability prediction model, and then optimizes its performance objective for the chosen data uploading manner. In IDUSM, our proposed probability prediction model precisely predicts a participant’s mobility from spatial and temporal aspects, and we decrease data redundancy produced in the Wi-Fi offloading process to reduce waste of participants’ limited resources (e.g., storage, battery). Simulation results show that the offloading efficiency of our proposed IDUSM is (56.54 × 10−7), and the value is the highest among the other three Wi-Fi offloading mechanisms. Meanwhile, the offloading ratio and uploading cost of IDUSM are respectively 52.1% and (6.79 × 103). Compared with other three Wi-Fi offloading mechanisms, it realized a trade-off between the offloading ratio and the uploading cost.
Detecting Exoplanets Closer to Stars with Moderate Spectral Resolution Integral-Field Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Agrawal, Shubh
name: Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
name: Konopacky, Quinn M.
name: Macintosh, Bruce
name: Mawet, Dimitri
name: Nielsen, Eric L.
name: Hoch, Kielan K. W.
name: Liu, Michael C.
name: Barman, Travis S.
name: Thompson, William
name: Greenbaum, Alexandra Z.
name: Marois, Christian
name: Patience, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While radial velocity surveys have demonstrated that the population of gas giants peaks around $3~\text{au}$, the most recent high-contrast imaging surveys have only been sensitive to planets beyond $\sim~10~\text{au}$. Sensitivity at small angular separations from stars is currently limited by the variability of the point spread function. We demonstrate how moderate-resolution integral field spectrographs can detect planets at smaller separations ($\lesssim~0.3$ arcseconds) by detecting the distinct spectral signature of planets compared to the host star. Using OSIRIS ($R$ $\approx$ 4000) at the W. M. Keck Observatory, we present the results of a planet search via this methodology around 20 young targets in the Ophiuchus and Taurus star-forming regions. We show that OSIRIS can outperform high-contrast coronagraphic instruments equipped with extreme adaptive optics and non-redundant masking in the $0.05-0.3$ arcsecond regime. As a proof of concept, we present the $34σ$ detection of a high-contrast M dwarf companion at $\approx0.1$" with a flux ratio of $\approx0.92\%$ around the field F2 star HD 148352. We developed an open-source Python package, breads, for the analysis of moderate-resolution integral field spectroscopy data in which the planet and the host star signal are jointly modeled. The diffracted starlight continuum is forward-modeled using a spline model, which removes the need for prior high-pass filtering or continuum normalization. The code allows for analytic marginalization of linear hyperparameters, simplifying posterior sampling of other parameters (e.g., radial velocity, effective temperature). This technique could prove very powerful when applied to integral field spectrographs like NIRSpec on the JWST and other upcoming first-light instruments on the future Extremely Large Telescopes.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal on May 12, 2023
Role of disclinations in determining the morphology of deformable fluid interfaces
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, N.
name: Ipsen, John H.
name: Kumar, P. B. Sunil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the equilibrium shapes of vesicles, with an in-plane nematic order, using a Monte-Carlo scheme and show that highly curved shapes, like tubes and discs, with a striking similarity to the structures engendered by certain curvature sensing peripheral membrane proteins, can be spontaneously generated by anisotropic directional curvature with nematic disclinations playing and important role. We show that the coupling between nematic order and local curvature could lead to like defects moving towards each other and unlike defects moving away, in turn leading to tube formation. Thermally induced defect pair production lead to branched tubular structures. It is also shown that helical arrangement of the membrane tubes, with nematic field spiraling around it, is a dominant soft mode of the system.
description: 6 Figures; Soft Matter, Advance Article 2012
Changes in the frequencies of Plasmodium falciparum dhps and dhfr drug-resistant mutations in children from Western Kenya from 2005 to 2018: the rise of Pfdhps S436H
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Dhfr
Dhps
Drug resistance genes
Plasmodium falciparum
SP resistance
k13 gene

description: © 2020, The Author(s). Background: Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is the only anti-malarial drug formulation approved for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp). However, mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum dhfr (Pfdhfr) and dhps (Pfdhps) genes confer resistance to pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine, respectively. Here, the frequencies of SP resistance-associated mutations from 2005 to 2018 were compared in samples from Kenyan children with malaria residing in a holoendemic transmission region. Methods: Partial sequences of the Pfdhfr and Pfdhps genes were amplified and sequenced from samples collected in 2005 (n = 81), 2010 (n = 95), 2017 (n = 43), and 2018 (n = 55). The frequency of known mutations conferring resistance to pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine were estimated and compared. Since artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is the current first-line treatment for malaria, the presence of mutations in the propeller domain of P. falciparum kelch13 gene (Pfk13) linked to ACT-delayed parasite clearance was studied in the 2017/18 samples. Results: Among other changes, the point mutation of Pfdhps S436H increased in frequency from undetectable in 2005 to 28% in 2017/18. Triple Pfdhfr mutant allele (CIRNI) increased in frequency from 84% in 2005 to 95% in 2017/18, while the frequency of Pfdhfr double mutant alleles declined (allele CICNI from 29% in 2005 to 6% in 2017/18, and CNRNI from 9% in 2005 to undetectable in 2010 and 2017/18). Thus, a multilocus Pfdhfr/Pfdhps genotype with six mutations (HGEAA/CIRNI), including Pfdhps S436H, increased in frequency from 2010 to 2017/18. Although none of the mutations associated with ACT-delayed parasite clearance was observed, the Pfk13 mutation A578S, the most widespread Pfk13 SNP found in Africa, was detected in low frequency (2.04%). Conclusions: There were changes in SP resistance mutant allele frequencies, including an increase in the Pfdhps S436H. Although these patterns seem consistent with directional selection due to drug pressure, there is a lack of information to determine the actual cause of such changes. These results suggest incorporating molecular surveillance of Pfdhfr/Pfdhps mutations in the context of SP efficacy studies for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp).
The effect of environment on the properties of the most massive galaxies at $0.5
Creators: name: Song, Jie
name: Fang, Guanwen
name: Gu, Yizhou
name: Lin, Zesen
name: Kong, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How the environment influences the most massive galaxies is still unclear. To explore the environmental effects on morphology and star formation in the most massive galaxies at high redshift, we select galaxies with stellar mass $\log(M_{\star}/M_{\odot})>11$ at $0.5
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, To be published in ApJ
Genesis of the dusty Universe: modeling submillimetre source counts
Creators: name: Rahmati, Alireza
name: van der Werf, Paul P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the evolution of IR galaxies using a phenomenological approach to match the observed source counts at different IR wavelengths. We introduce a new algorithm for reproducing source counts based on direct integration of probability distributions rather than Monte-Carlo sampling. We construct a simple model for the evolution of the luminosity function and the colour distribution of IR galaxies which utilizes a minimum number of free parameters. Moreover we analyze how each of these parameters is constrained by observational data. The model is based on pure luminosity evolution and adopts the Dale & Helou SED templates. We find that the 850um source counts and their redshift distribution depend strongly on the shape of the luminosity evolution function, but only weakly on the details of the SEDs. We derive the best-fit evolutionary model using the 850um counts and redshift distribution as constraints. Moreover our best-fit shows a flattening of the faint end of the luminosity function towards high redshifts and requires a colour evolution which implies the typical dust temperatures of objects with the same luminosities to decrease with redshift. We compare our best-fit model to observed source counts at shorter and longer wavelengths which indicates our model reproduces the 70um and 1100um source counts remarkably well, but under-produces the counts at intermediate wavelengths. Analysis reveals that the discrepancy arises at low redshifts, indicating that revision of the adopted SED library towards lower dust temperatures (at a fixed infrared luminosity) is required. This modification is equivalent to a population of cold galaxies existing at low redshifts, as also indicated by recent Herschel results, which are underrepresented in IRAS sample. We show that the modified model successfully reproduces the source counts in a wide range of IR and submm wavelengths.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Supplementary information could be found at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/genesis/
The endangered California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) population is exposed to local haemosporidian parasites
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: © 2020, The Author(s). The endangered California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is the largest New World Vulture in North America. Despite recovery program success in saving the species from extinction, condors remain compromised by lead poisoning and limited genetic diversity. The latter makes this species especially vulnerable to infectious diseases. Thus, taking advantage of the program of blood lead testing in Arizona, condor blood samples from 2008 to 2018 were screened for haemosporidian parasites using a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol that targets the parasite mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Plasmodium homopolare (Family Plasmodiidae, Order Haemosporida, Phylum Apicomplexa), was detected in condors captured in 2014 and 2017. This is the first report of a haemosporidian species infecting California Condors, and the first evidence of P. homopolare circulating in the Condor population from Arizona. Although no evidence of pathogenicity of P. homopolare in Condors was found, this study showed that the California Condors from Arizona are exposed to haemosporidian parasites that likely are spilling over from other local bird species. Thus, active surveillance should be an essential part of conservation efforts to mitigate the impact of infectious diseases, an increasingly recognized cause of global wildlife extinctions worldwide, particularly in avian populations considered vulnerable or endangered.
title: Decentralised Integration? Fundamental Rights Protection in the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy
Creators: name: Hillion, Christophe
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: European Union
subject: foreign and security policy
subject: fundamental rights
subject: Court of Justice
subject: national courts
subject: preliminary reference
subject: European integration

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 55-66
description: I. Introduction. - II. Mandatory respect for EU fundamental rights in CFSP. - II.1. CFSP as distinct framework embedded in the EU legal order. - II.2. Horizontal obligation to respect fundamental rights in the EU. - II.3. Mainstreaming fundamental rights in CFSP decision-making. - III. Derogatory enforcement of EU fundamental rights in CFSP. - III.1. Limited ECJ jurisdiction in CFSP: an exception to the rule. - III.2. Broad exercise of limited ECJ jurisdiction. - IV. Complementary national enforcement of EU fundamental rights in CFSP. - IV.1. Member States' courts as EU courts. - IV.2. Practical implications of Member States' courts involvement in reviewing CFSP. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: This paper examines how fundamental rights are protected in the specific context of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, against the backdrop of the European Court of Justice's Opinion 2/13 on the EU accession to the ECHR. As any area of EU law, the CFSP must be implemented in compliance with EU fundamental rights. The jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice plays a critical if limited part in ensuring such compliance, which Member States' judiciaries complement, acting as "guardians of (the) legal order and the judicial system of the (EU)". Such a mixed judicial control over the CFSP derives from the Court's established case law, as well as from the Treaty of Lisbon, and the deeper integration of the CFSP in the EU legal order that it envisages.
Reconstruction of asteroid spin states from Gaia DR3 photometry
Creators: name: Durech, Josef
name: Hanus, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gaia Data Release 3 contains accurate photometric observations of more than 150,000 asteroids covering a time interval of 34 months. With a total of about 3,000,000 measurements, a typical number of observations per asteroid ranges from a few to several tens. We aimed to reconstruct the spin states and shapes of asteroids from this dataset. We computed the viewing and illumination geometry for each individual observation and used the light curve inversion method to find the best-fit asteroid model, which was parameterized by the sidereal rotation period, the spin axis direction, and a low-resolution convex shape. To find the best-fit model, we ran the inversion for tens of thousands of trial periods on interval 2-10,000 h, with tens of initial pole directions. To find the correct rotation period, we also used a triaxial ellipsoid model for the shape approximation. In most cases the number of data points was insufficient to uniquely determine the rotation period. However, for about 8600 asteroids we were able to determine the spin state uniquely together with a low-resolution convex shape model. This large sample of new asteroid models enables us to study the spin distribution in the asteroid population. The distribution of spins confirms previous findings that (i) small asteroids have poles clustered toward ecliptic poles, likely because of the YORP-induced spin evolution, (ii) asteroid migration due to the Yarkovsky effect depends on the spin orientation, and (iii) members of asteroid families have the sense of rotation correlated with their proper semimajor axis: over the age of the family, orbits of prograde rotators evolved, due to the Yarkovsky effect, to larger semimajor axes, while those of retrograde rotators drifted in the opposite direction.
Liver cancer incidence and area‐level geographic disparities in pennsylvania—a geo‐additive approach
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: disparities
geospatial
liver cancer
neighborhood

description: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Many neighborhood socioeconomic index measures (nSES) that capture neighborhood deprivation exist but the impact of measure selection on liver cancer (LC) geographic disparities remains unclear. We introduce a Bayesian geoadditive modeling approach to identify clusters in Pennsylvania (PA) with higher than expected LC incidence rates, adjusted for individual‐level factors (age, sex, race, diagnosis year) and compared them to models with 7 different nSES index measures to elucidate the impact of nSES and measure selection on LC geospatial variation. LC cases diagnosed from 2007–2014 were obtained from the PA Cancer Registry and linked to nSES measures from U.S. census at the Census Tract (CT) level. Relative Risks (RR) were estimated for each CT, adjusted for individual‐level factors (baseline model). Each nSES measure was added to the baseline model and changes in model fit, geographic disparity and state‐wide RR ranges were compared. All 7 nSES measures were strongly associated with high risk clusters. Tract‐level RR ranges and geographic disparity from the baseline model were attenuated after adjustment for nSES measures. Depending on the nSES measure selected, up to 60% of the LC burden could be explained, suggesting methodologic evaluations of multiple nSES measures may be warranted in future studies to inform LC prevention efforts.
Comparaison entre les traits dialectaux d'un épisode du Voyage de Saint Brandan (anglo-normand médiéval) et de deux poèmes en jersiais moderne
Creators: name: Kraus, Amie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study is a linguistic analysis and comparison of the dialectal traits which are found in three selected literary texts in two Norman French dialects. The first text studied in this thesis, an excerpt from Le Voyage de Saint Brandan, dates from the 12th century and is Anglo-Norman, the French dialect spoken in England from the 11th until the 15th century. The other two texts are poems written in Jersey French, the Norman French dialect which is still spoken on the Channel Island of Jersey, and date from the 20th century. This thesis thus examines two dialects which are separated geographically and three texts which date from very different historical periods. The purpose of this linguistic study is three-fold. First, this thesis presents a synchronic analysis of the orthographic, phonetic, morphological, and lexical traits which are found in the chosen excerpt from the medieval Anglo-Norman text, Le Voyage de Saint Brandan, and which were characteristic of Anglo-Norman. Second, a similar analysis of the Jersey French texts is provided which points out the dialectal orthographic, phonetic, morphological, and lexical traits of modern-day Jersey French. Lastly, the dialectal traits found in the Anglo-Norman text are compared to those of the Jersey texts in order to determine whether any of the dialectal traits (orthographic, phonetic, morphological, or lexical) which were present in the medieval Anglo-Norman text are still present in the Jersey French texts of the 20th century.
An adaptive network coding scheme for multipath transmission in cellular-based vehicular networks
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: machine learning
multipath transmission
network coding
vehicular network

description: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. With the emergence of vehicular Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, it is a significant challenge for vehicular IoT systems to obtain higher throughput in vehicle-to-cloud multipath transmission. Network Coding (NC) has been recognized as a promising paradigm for improving vehicular wireless network throughput by reducing packet loss in transmission. However, existing researches on NC do not consider the influence of the rapid quality change of wireless links on NC schemes, which poses a great challenge to dynamically adjust the coding rate according to the variation of link quality in vehicle-to-cloud multipath transmission in order to avoid consuming unnecessary bandwidth resources and to increase network throughput. Therefore, we propose an Adaptive Network Coding (ANC) scheme brought by the novel integration of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) into the NC scheme to efficiently adjust the coding rate according to the estimated packet loss rate (PLR). The ANC scheme conquers the rapid change of wireless link quality to obtain the utmost throughput and reduce the packet loss in transmission. In terms of the throughput performance, the simulations and real experiment results show that the ANC scheme outperforms state-of-the-art NC schemes for vehicular wireless multipath transmission in vehicular IoT systems.
Heterogeneous ozone effects on the DNA methylome of bronchial cells observed in a crossover study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: © 2020, The Author(s). We used a randomized crossover experiment to estimate the effects of ozone (vs. clean air) exposure on genome-wide DNA methylation of target bronchial epithelial cells, using 17 volunteers, each randomly exposed on two separated occasions to clean air or 0.3-ppm ozone for two hours. Twenty-four hours after exposure, participants underwent bronchoscopy to collect epithelial cells whose DNA methylation was measured using the Illumina 450 K platform. We performed global and regional tests examining the ozone versus clean air effect on the DNA methylome and calculated Fisher-exact p-values for a series of univariate tests. We found little evidence of an overall effect of ozone on the DNA methylome but some suggestive changes in PLSCR1, HCAR1, and LINC00336 DNA methylation after ozone exposure relative to clean air. We observed some participant-to-participant heterogeneity in ozone responses.
title: Secessions from EU Member States: The Imperative of Union's Neutrality
Creators: name: Kochenov, Dimitry
name: van den Brink, Martijn
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: secessions
subject: EU integration
subject: EU membership
subject: accession
subject: ethos EU

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 67-92
description: I. Introduction. - II. A word about the artificiality of secessions' exceptionalism. - III. The principle of democracy and its limits. - IV. Secessions and the ethos of European integration. - V. How to approach a seceded territory. - VI. Conclusion.
description: We argue that EU law and the ethos of European integration, premised on inclusiveness and the taming of the State requires the Union to remain neutral in the context of the permutations of statehood at the national level leading to the emergence of the new State entities in Europe. We show that the matter of permutations of statehood is not new or exceptional, unlike what is sometimes claimed, and demonstrate that the EU is not to blame for facilitating the viability of newly-emerging States in Europe, since this is one of the natural bi-products of the very nature of the Union. In this context intervening into national constitutional secession politics and making threats to prevent the newly-emerging States from joining the EU would not only be an ultra vires action for the EU to take. It will also be both counter-productive and deprived of any purpose, which leads us to conclude that EU law should be deployed as inventively as will be necessary to ensure continued membership in the EU of the entities seceding from the current Member States.
so(p,q) Toda Systems
Creators: name: Charalambides, Stelios A.
name: Damianou, Pantelis A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define an integrable hamiltonian system of Toda type associated with the real Lie algebra $\so{p}{q}$. As usual there exists a periodic and a non-periodic version. We construct, using the root space, two Lax pair representations and the associated Poisson tensors. We prove Liouville integrability and examine the multi-hamiltonian structure. The system is a projection of a canonical $A_n$ type Toda lattice via a Flaschka type transformation. It is also obtained via a complex change of variables from the classical Toda lattice.
description: 20 pages
Guaranteed Conditional Performance of Control Charts via Bootstrap Methods
Creators: name: Gandy, Axel
name: Kvaløy, Jan Terje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To use control charts in practice, the in-control state usually has to be estimated. This estimation has a detrimental effect on the performance of control charts, which is often measured for example by the false alarm probability or the average run length. We suggest an adjustment of the monitoring schemes to overcome these problems. It guarantees, with a certain probability, a conditional performance given the estimated in-control state. The suggested method is based on bootstrapping the data used to estimate the in-control state. The method applies to different types of control charts, and also works with charts based on regression models, survival models, etc. If a nonparametric bootstrap is used, the method is robust to model errors. We show large sample properties of the adjustment. The usefulness of our approach is demonstrated through simulation studies.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
Inner Polar Rings and Disks: Observed Properties
Creators: name: Moiseev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A list of galaxies with inner regions revealing polar (or strongly inclined to the main galactic plane) disks and rings is compiled from the literature data. The list contains 47 galaxies of all morphological types, from E to Irr. We consider the statistics of the parameters of polar structures known from observations. The radii of the majority of them do not exceed 1.5 kpc. The polar structures are equally common in barred and unbarred galaxies. At the same time, if a galaxy has a bar (or a triaxial bulge), this leads to the polar disk stabilization - its axis of rotation usually coincides with the major axis of the bar. More than two thirds of all considered galaxies reveal one or another sign of recent interaction or merging. This fact indicates a direct relation between the external environment and the presence of an inner polar structure.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Bulletin. Minor changes and corrections are still possible
Children's urban landscapes in Huntington Hills, Calgary
Creators: name: Payne, Robert John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: GV 424 P38 1977 Microfiche
subject: Playgrounds
subject: Recreation areas

description: Bibliography: p. 431-440.
description: Suburban areas in large North American cities have been castigated as monotonous and sterile by urban critics. With relatively low densities, car ownership is necessary in order to reach shopping and recreational facilities. For those people without cars, moving about in the suburbs is a difficult matter. In spite of these negative criticisms, suburban areas continue to attract families with young children, whose rationale for selecting such locations often includes the opinion that the large proportion of private space and better schools and playgrounds will be of direct benefit to their children. The suburban Calgary community of Huntington Hills, composed mainly of lower middle income families, was selected for study in order to discover how children use the materials and environments of suburban areas. The approach adopted in the study emphasizes understanding children's actions and activities rather than discovering generalizations concerning children's behaviour. Children of all ages definitely use the materials and environments available to them but the suburban environment in Huntington Hills is best suited to children eight to eleven years old. Younger children tend to use primary materials like dirt but often the specific sites provided for them are inaccessible because of distance or parental attitudes. Children over twelve desire centres of social activity where they can exert some degree of control over their environment; such opportunities are nearly non-existent in Huntington Hills. Adventure playgrounds could provide the beginnings of the enrichment of the suburban environment in Huntington Hills but there are also many opportunities for improvement of the existing playgrounds and private backyards.