cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solitonic Josephson-based meminductive systems
Creators: name: Guarcello, Claudio
name: Solinas, Paolo
name: Di Ventra, Massimiliano
name: Giazotto, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Memristors, memcapacitors, and meminductors, collectively called memelements, represent an innovative generation of circuit elements whose properties depend on the state and history of the system. The hysteretic behavior of one of their constituent variables, under the effect of an external time-dependent perturbation, is their distinctive fingerprint. In turn, this feature endows them with the ability to both store and process information on the same physical location, a property that is expected to benefit many applications ranging from unconventional computing to adaptive electronics to robotics, to name just a few. For all these types of applications, it is important to find appropriate memelements that combine a wide range of memory states (multi-state memory), long memory retention times, and protection against unavoidable noise. Although several physical systems belong to the general class of memelements, few of them combine all of these important physical features in a single component. Her we demonstrate theoretically a superconducting memory structure based on solitonic long Josephson junctions (LJJs). We show that the Josephson critical current of the junction behaves hysteretically as an external magnetic field is properly swept. According to the hysteretic path displayed by the critical current, a LJJ can be used as a multi-state memory, with a controllable number of available states. In addition, since solitons are at the core of its operation, this system provides an intrinsic topological protection against external perturbations. Solitonic Josephson-based memelements may find applications as memories, and in other emerging areas such as memcomputing, i.e., computing directly in/by the memory.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Gallium Bismuth Halides GaBi-X2 (X= I, Br, Cl) Monolayers with Distorted Hexagonal Framework: Novel Room-Temperature Quantum Spin Hall Insulators
Creators: name: Li, Linyang
name: Leenaerts, Ortwin
name: Kong, Xiangru
name: Chen, Xin
name: Zhao, Mingwen
name: Peeters, François M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators with a large topologically nontrivial bulk gap are crucial for future applications of the QSH effect. Among these, group III-V monolayers and their halides with chair structure (regular hexagonal framework, RHF) were widely studied. Using first-principles calculations, we propose a new structure model for the functionalized group III-V monolayers, which consist of rectangular GaBi-X2 (X=I, Br, Cl) monolayers with a distorted hexagonal framework (DHF). These structures have a much lower energy than the GaBi-X2 monolayers with chair structure. Remarkably, the DHF GaBi-X2 monolayers are all QSH insulators, which exhibit sizeable nontrivial band gaps ranging from 0.17 eV to 0.39 eV. Those band gaps can be widely tuned by applying different spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strengths, resulting in a distorted Dirac cone.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
Bus Stops Location and Bus Route Planning Using Mean Shift Clustering and Ant Colony in West Jakarta
Creators: name: Supangat, Kenny
name: Soelistio, Yustinus Eko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic Jam has been a daily problem for people in Jakarta which is one of the busiest city in Indonesia up until now. Even though the official government has tried to reduce the impact of traffic issues by developing a new public transportation which takes up a lot of resources and time, it failed to diminish the problem. The actual concern to this problem actually lies in how people move between places in Jakarta where they always using their own vehicle like cars, and motorcycles that fill most of the street in Jakarta. Among much other public transportations that roams the street of Jakarta, Buses is believed to be an efficient transportation that can move many people at once. However, the location of the bus stop is now have moved to the middle of the main road, and it is too far for the nearby residence to access to it. This paper proposes an optimal location of optimal bus stops in West Jakarta that is experimentally proven to have a maximal distance of 350 m. The optimal location is estimated by means of mean shift clustering method while the optimal routes are calculated using Ant Colony algorithm. The bus stops locations rate of error is 0.07% with overall route area of 32 km. Based on our experiments, we believe our proposed bus stop plan can be an interesting alternative to reduce traffic congestion in West Jakarta.
description: Original publication in the ICITDA 2016 Conference (14-16 Nov. 2016), icitda.uii.ac.id
title: Managing paradoxes in bi‐modal information technology functions: A multi‐case study
Creators: name: Toutaoui, Jonas
name: Benlian, Alexander
name: Hess, Thomas
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2022

description: Leveraging digital technologies is a major concern for companies and has significant implications for their information technology (IT) functions. In many cases, a bi‐modal IT function is established: a ‘traditional IT’ mode focusing on the stability and exploitation of existing IT resources and an ‘agile IT’ mode focusing on exploring new technologies. Whereas previous research has predominantly taken an organisational‐level view of bi‐modal IT by treating it as a single, aggregated entity, we provide a micro‐foundations perspective on the intricate and paradoxical interrelationships between the two IT modes. Based on a multi‐case study with companies from different industries and of varying sizes, we uncover nine core tensions between traditional IT and agile IT as manifestations of five underlying paradoxes. We also identify corresponding management practices to address these tensions and paradoxes. Our study contributes to Information Systems research by disaggregating bi‐modal IT and capturing the tensions and their underlying paradoxes at the organisational and individual levels that bi‐modal IT entails. By highlighting the intricate interdependencies between the traditional and agile IT modes, we show that bi‐modal IT can be messier and more contested than previously anticipated. For practitioners, our study offers an overview of paradoxes and tensions that may arise in bi‐modal IT settings and provides suggestions on how to manage them.
Estimation for stochastic damping Hamiltonian systems under partial observation. III. Diffusion term
Creators: name: Cattiaux, Patrick
name: León, José R.
name: Prieur, Clémentine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is the third part of our study started with Cattiaux, León and Prieur [Stochastic Process. Appl. 124 (2014) 1236-1260; ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 11 (2014) 359-384]. For some ergodic Hamiltonian systems, we obtained a central limit theorem for a nonparametric estimator of the invariant density [Stochastic Process. Appl. 124 (2014) 1236-1260] and of the drift term [ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 11 (2014) 359-384], under partial observation (only the positions are observed). Here, we obtain similarly a central limit theorem for a nonparametric estimator of the diffusion term.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1126 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Girls of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow: A Case Study on Alternative, Public, Single-Sex Schooling and Identity Formation
Creators: name: Schellenger, Isabelle
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: public single-sex schools
subject: girls
subject: gender
subject: identity

description: Supporters of single-sex schooling maintain that coeducational schools have a “hidden curriculum” which socializes boys and girls into traditional gender roles that hinder achievement, particularly for girls. However, research suggests that single-sex schools have little to no impact on academic achievement at all, and some research contends that single-sex schools promote traditional ideals of femininity, masculinity, and heteronormativity. This leads me to the questions: 1) What is an alternative model of single-sex schooling that empowers students to break free of hegemonic gender norms, and can it be powerful enough to challenge the traditional model of single-sex schooling? And 2) How do public, single-sex schools shape girls’ identities? To explore this topic, I conducted semi-structured interviews with alumni and past faculty from the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School (YWLCS), a public, all-girls charter school in Chicago that operated from 1999-2019. By synthesizing existing research on how schools promote a hidden curriculum of traditional gender norms, I propose that YWLCS is an example of an alternative model of public, single-sex schooling that can disrupt this hidden curriculum and empower girls’ identities. Through using an identity experience framework to understand how identities are performed within schools, I argue that this case study on YWLCS can offer insight into how other public, all-girls schools can support the identities of their students.
Out of bounds - Vol. 10 No. 03
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277

description: Article topics include: Simon Fraser University programme ended (editorial), Bill C-36 (Corrections and Conditional Release Act (revokes the "Penitentiary Services Regulations")), Legislative Proposals on High Risk Violent Offenders and the proposed Detention After Sentence Expiry (Bill C-36, chapter 20), Recovering drug addicts and alcoholics in and out of prison, Censorship and Out of bounds.
description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty.
Out of bounds - Vol. 11 No. 01
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268

description: Article topics include: Mass media reports on crime are biased, sensational, and cursory (editorial), Prisoner's Legal Services (Legal Services of B.C.), Bring back skills training. Violent offenders, criminal justice, and prisons, The relationship between the prohibition of drugs and increased crime, Interview with Mike Hodgkinson, Secret societies: the mafia.
description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty.
Out of bounds - Vol. 11 No. 03-04
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200

description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty.
description: Article topics include: Capital punishment in Canada (editorial), "Addiction a disease, not a crime", Book review: "Crime control as industry: towards gulags western style?" by Nils Christie, Buddhist Garden Shrine at William Head, Doing "Life" part 2: Resocialization.
Hierarchical black hole triples in young star clusters: impact of Kozai-Lidov resonance on mergers
Creators: name: Kimpson, Thomas O.
name: Spera, Mario
name: Mapelli, Michela
name: Ziosi, Brunetto M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mergers of compact object binaries are one of the most powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency range of second-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors (Advanced LIGO and Virgo). Dynamical simulations of young dense star clusters (SCs) indicate that ~27 per cent of all double compact object binaries are members of hierarchical triple systems (HTs). In this paper, we consider 570 HTs composed of three compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) that formed dynamically in N-body simulations of young dense SCs. We simulate them for a Hubble time with a new code based on the Mikkola's algorithmic regularization scheme, including the 2.5 post-Newtonian term. We find that ~88 per cent of the simulated systems develop Kozai-Lidov (KL) oscillations. KL resonance triggers the merger of the inner binary in three systems (corresponding to 0.5 per cent of the simulated HTs), by increasing the eccentricity of the inner binary. Accounting for KL oscillations leads to an increase of the total expected merger rate by ~50 per cent. All binaries that merge because of KL oscillations were formed by dynamical exchanges (i.e. none is a primordial binary) and have chirp mass >20 Msun. This result might be crucial to interpret the formation channel of the first recently detected GW events.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Memoria 2012 de Digital.CSIC
title: Digital.CSIC Annual Report 2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Oficina Técnica De Digital.CSIC
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2013
Subjects: open access
Digital.CSIC
Memoria anual 2012
Annual Report 2012
Repositorio institucional del CSIC
CSIC institutional repository
acceso abierto

description: 41 páginas, con gráficas e imágenes.
description: La memoria anual 2012 de Digital.CSIC da cuenta de los principales logros en la implementación de su estrategia de aumento de contenidos, nuevas funcionalidades y servicios para usuarios, campaña de apoyo a las comunidades científica y bibliotecaria del CSIC, difusión y colaboración institucional, nacional e internacional. Secciones: Estrategias de actuación, agentes, contenidos. Políticas, formación y apoyo al acceso abierto. Difusión e impacto. Comunicación y colaboración. La elaboración de la memoria ha corrido a cargo de Isabel Bernal y Juan Román Molina.
Prevalence of Premetabolic Syndrome among Non-Hispanic Blacks in the US
Creators: name: Amuda, Oluwatomi Olufunke
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
Introduction: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), characterized by high blood pressure, central obesity, high blood glucose, low HDL cholesterol, and high triglycerides, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, which are major health issues for African Americans. Pre-metabolic Syndrome (PreMetS) offers a critical window for intervention to prevent MetS. This study estimated PreMetS prevalence among non-Hispanic Black adults, exploring differences by sex and other factors.


Methods: Data from the NHANES 2017-2020 cycle were used, defining PreMetS as the presence of two of the following risk factors: high blood pressure, central obesity, elevated blood glucose, low HDL cholesterol, and high triglycerides.


Findings: The prevalence of PreMetS was 40.4% among non-Hispanic Black adults, with a higher prevalence in women (58%) compared to men (42%). Additionally, PreMetS was more common in individuals aged 40 and older. Men had higher rates of elevated triglycerides (27.6% vs. 17.5%) and high blood glucose (34.0% vs. 20.4%), while women had higher rates of low HDL cholesterol (20.4% vs. 27.6%) and abdominal obesity (62.5% vs. 27.6%). BMI was significantly associated with PreMetS risk in women, with higher odds for those who were overweight (OR 5.42, 95% CI: 1.57-18.68) or obese (OR 3.83, 95% CI: 1.33-11.02).


Conclusion: In summary, the study found a 40% prevalence of PreMetS among non-Hispanic Black adults, with women showing higher rates than men. Elevated blood pressure was more common in men, while abdominal obesity was significantly more prevalent in women. These findings highlight the need for effective public health strategies to prevent the onset of metabolic syndrome in both genders.
Out of bounds - Vol. 11 No. 02
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178

description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty.
description: Article topics include: Anniversary issue (editorial), William Head, once a quarantine station, is arguably now quarantining prisoners from the rest of society (editorial), Judicial review process, Book review: "The persistent prison? rethinking decarceration and penal reform" by Maeve W. McMahon, Doing "life": first degree murder and the implications of "twenty-five years to life", Personal narrative about prisoners who were abused as children, Secret societies: the PLO
Out of bounds - Vol. 10 No. 01
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277

description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty and Steve Foote.
description: Article topics include: "Out of bounds" back in production after extended hiatus; this issue focuses on "education", especially the mistake that the correctional Service of Canada will be making if it goes ahead and cuts the Simon Fraser University program offered at William Head. HISTORICAL NOTE: From 1973 to 1993 university liberal arts courses were offered to prisoners in several federal correctional institutions in British Columbia, Canada. Delivered first by the University of Victoria (1973-1984) and then by Simon Fraser University (1984-1993), well over a thousand individual prisoners were enrolled in courses taught by university faculty in traditional seminar settings within the prisons. Ranging from maximum to medium security, each of the correctional institutions contained a relatively self-contained "learning centers" or "academic community" behind the prison walls and fences. The university program in British Columbia was based on the premise that education could result in rehabilitative outcomes. This premise stemmed from the conviction that education in the liberal arts, if carried out properly, could trigger processes of individual reclamation, reformation, and in some cases transformation. This conviction was in turn built on a diverse set of theoretical foundations in adult education and psychology, focusing in particular on the role of humanistic study in encouraging cognitive and moral development and the subsequent impact of that development on behaviour. A small research study carried out in 1979 reported very low rates of recidivism for program participants. (Ayers, et al., 1980; Duguid, 1981; Ross, 1980). In 1993 the university program was cancelled by the Correctional Service of Canada as a cost-cutting measure.
Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for top-quark pair production with up to three jets
Creators: name: Höche, Stefan
name: Maierhoefer, Philipp
name: Moretti, Niccolo
name: Pozzorini, Stefano
name: Siegert, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical predictions for the production of top-quark pairs with up to three jets at the next-to leading order in perturbative QCD. The relevant calculations are performed with Sherpa and OpenLoops. To address the issue of scale choices and related uncertainties in the presence of multiple scales, we compare results obtained with the standard scale HT/2 at fixed order and the MINLO procedure. Analyzing various cross sections and distributions for tt+0,1,2,3 jets at the 13 TeV LHC we find a remarkable overall agreement between fixed-order and MINLO results. The differences are typically below the respective factor-two scale variations, suggesting that for all considered jet multiplicities, missing higher-order effects should not exceed the ten percent level.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Combinatorial Inhibition of Cell Surface Receptors using Dual Aptamer-functionalized Nanoconstructs for Cancer Treatment Supplementary Materials
Creators: name: Youngmee Jung
name: Hyojin Lee
name: Kim, Tae Hee
name: Oh, Seung Ja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Figure. S1. The result of cell viability assay. MKN-45 cells were treated with 250 nM single aptamer-AuNS and bi-functional AuNS with different combinations of aptamers. The viability of MKN-45 cells dramatically decreased in AuNS-CN condition as compared with AuNS-NH, AuNS-CH, and single-aptamer-AuNS Figure. S2. The result of ICP-MS analysis. After incubation of MKN-45 cells with 250 nM aptamer-AuNS, the amount of Au internalized was analyzed using ICP-MS. The result for ICP-MS suggest that bi-functional AuNS were effectively delivered into cells as compared with a mixture of anti-nucleolin-AuNS and anti-c-Met-AuNS Figure. S3. Gene ontology analysis for overlapped or unique differentially expressed genes between nucleolin-AuNS and c-Met-nucleolin-AuNS treatment. The top GO term for shared DEGs between nucleolin-AuNS and c-Met-nucleolin-AuNS treatment was apoptosis-related, whereas the unique term with c-Met-nucleolin-AuNS treatment was phosphorylation-associated signaling pathway. X-axis represents −log10(p-value) Figure. S4. Pair wise comparison of gene expression profiles. log2 probe intensities were compared in pair wise manner, and the Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated. Overall transcription profiles were stable upon the treatments Figure. S5. AuNS-apts inhibit in MKN-45 xenograft tumors growth in vivo. A) Excised xenograft tumors treated with PBS (cont), AuNS-C, AuNS-N, AuNS-C+AuNS-N, and AuNs-CN 3 times at 1 week intervals in blab/c nude mice(n = 4) injected with 2 × 106 MKN-45 cells. B) The ratio of tumor volume at the indicated time points to initial tumor volume, in each group. C) Rate of excised tumor volume (4 w) to initial tumor volume in each group. *(P-value < 0.01) or ** (P-value < 0.001) compared with the control group
Twitter-Network Topic Model: A Full Bayesian Treatment for Social Network and Text Modeling
Creators: name: Lim, Kar Wai
name: Chen, Changyou
name: Buntine, Wray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Twitter data is extremely noisy -- each tweet is short, unstructured and with informal language, a challenge for current topic modeling. On the other hand, tweets are accompanied by extra information such as authorship, hashtags and the user-follower network. Exploiting this additional information, we propose the Twitter-Network (TN) topic model to jointly model the text and the social network in a full Bayesian nonparametric way. The TN topic model employs the hierarchical Poisson-Dirichlet processes (PDP) for text modeling and a Gaussian process random function model for social network modeling. We show that the TN topic model significantly outperforms several existing nonparametric models due to its flexibility. Moreover, the TN topic model enables additional informative inference such as authors' interests, hashtag analysis, as well as leading to further applications such as author recommendation, automatic topic labeling and hashtag suggestion. Note our general inference framework can readily be applied to other topic models with embedded PDP nodes.
description: NIPS workshop paper
Out of bounds - Vol. 12 No. 02
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Culhane, Claire
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1984961
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401

description: A non-profit quarterly publication of the thoughts, feelings, and distinct perspectives of prisoners and visitors by the prisoners at William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C. with the aim of providing a different view to the general public. Edited by Patrick W. Rafferty.
description: Article topics include: Prisoners' Justice Day (editorial) -- Just say no the the "war on drugs" -- Tribute to Claire Culhane (prisoners' rights advocate) -- New library planned for William Head -- Prisoners' Justice Day -- The Dutch prison system: any person in the decision making process of a criminal justice systems should first experience confinement -- Aboriginal (Heiltsuk) justice (reflecting back and going forward).
High-Precision Automotive Radar Target Simulation
Creators: name: Diewald, Axel
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: Radarzielsimulation
Autonomes Fahren
Validierung
Automobilradar
Radar target simulation
autonomous driving
validation
automotive radar

description: Radar target simulators (RTSs) deceive a radar under test (RuT) by creating an artificial environment consisting of virtual radar targets. In this work, new techniques are presented that overcome the rasterization deficiency of current RTS systems and enable the generation of virtual targets at arbitrary high-precision positions. This allows for continuous movement of the targets and thus a more credible simulation environment.
On the abelian complexity of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence
Creators: name: Lü, Xiaotao
name: Chen, Jin
name: Wen, Zhixiong
name: Wu, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80, 11B85

description: In this paper, we study the abelian complexity of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence and a related sequence. We show that these two sequences share the same complexity function $ρ(n)$ which satisfies certain recurrence relations. As a consequence, the abelian complexity function is $2$-regular. Further, we prove that the box dimension of the graph of the asymptotic function $λ(x)$ is $3/2$ where $λ(x)=\lim_{k\to\infty}ρ(4^{k}x)/\sqrt{4^{k}x}$ and $ρ(x)=ρ(\lfloor x\rfloor)$ for any $x> 0$.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
A Comparative Study of Ancient Indian and British Treatment of Environment
Creators: name: Sharma, Swati
name: Chawla, Chinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature

description: India, a home of various ecozones and many exclusively indigenous species is known as a ‘megadiverse’ country. India presents a great deal of biodiversity with The Himalayas and the Western Ghats as globally recognised Hotspots. The history of forest in India is closely related to the history of civilization and that is why India is also known as ‘Aaranya Sankriti’ or ‘Forest culture’. The ancient Indian texts like Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads all talked about the environment with highest reverence. The people from the ancient Indian followed the Vedic laws very religiously and abstained from the practices that could harm the environment. The veneration of the environment is one of the fundamental teachings of Ancient Indian philosophy. According to the ‘Vedantic vision’, the cause of existence of humans on earth is a blessing of the nature and humans should be grateful to the environment around them. Being inspired by the ancient scriptures, men adopted the policy of ‘Live and let live’ and only took what was necessary from the nature. But this changed drastically with the advent of Britishers in India. The Industrial revolution in the West transformed the production system to an unparallel dominance. This was further strengthened by the new Renaissance philosophy which altered the God-centric way of thinking to Anthropocentric idea which advocated the superiority of ‘human beings. From the very beginning of colonial rule, the British had an agenda of monetary gains that in turn lead to the dismantling of many regional forests and eco-systems of India. This paper deals with the novels Sea of Poppies and The Glass Palace written by Amitav Ghosh and how the Britisher’s forced cultivation of opium effected the life of people and the environment. This paper will also compare the Ancient Indian and the Anthropocentric idea of environment in the context of the novels and try to study the changed relationship of Human and the Environment during the colonial rule.
Best Practice in Bibliotheken: Ein Sonderprojekt von Open Password Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim.
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Forschungsdaten
eScience
Bibliotheken
Universitätsbibliotheken

description: “Wir bieten mehr!” Forschungsnah
 und praxisorientiert
 ‘Good Practices’
 im Forschungsdatenmanagement
 Eine Fallstudie
 Von Annette Strauch, Forschungsdatenmanagement, Universität Hildesheim
Radio-interferometric monitoring of FRB 131104: A coincident AGN flare, but no evidence for a cosmic fireball
Creators: name: Shannon, R. M.
name: Ravi, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The localization of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been hindered by the poor angular resolution of the detection observations and inconclusive identification of transient or variable counterparts. Recently a $γ$-ray pulse of $380$ s duration has been associated with the fast radio burst FRB 131104. We report on radio-continuum imaging observations of the original localization region of the FRB, beginning three days after the event and comprising 25 epochs over 2.5 yr. Besides probabilistic arguments that suggest that the association between the $γ$-ray transient and the FRB is not compelling, we provide upper limits on a putative radio afterglow of this transient that are at odds with standard models for its progenitor. We further report the discovery of an unusual variable radio source spatially and temporally coincident with FRB 131104, but not spatially coincident with the $γ$-ray event. The radio variable flares by a factor of $3$ above its long term average within $10$ d of the FRB at 7.5 GHz, with a factor-of-$2$ increase at $5.5$ GHz. Within our observations, the variable has persisted with only modest modulation and never approached the flux density observed in the days after the FRB. We identify an optical counterpart to the variable. Optical and infrared photometry, and deep optical spectroscopy, suggest that the object is a narrow-line radio AGN.
description: 8 pages, 3 Figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
The SYZ mirror symmetry and the BKMP remodeling conjecture
Creators: name: Fang, Bohan
name: Liu, Chiu-Chu Melissa
name: Zong, Zhengyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Remodeling Conjecture proposed by Bouchard-Klemm-Mariño-Pasquetti (BKMP) relates the A-model open and closed topological string amplitudes (open and closed Gromov-Witten invariants) of a symplectic toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold to Eynard-Orantin invariants of its mirror curve. The Remodeling Conjecture can be viewed as a version of all genus open-closed mirror symmetry. The SYZ conjecture explains mirror symmetry as $T$-duality. After a brief review on SYZ mirror symmetry and mirrors of symplectic toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds, we give a non-technical exposition of our results on the Remodeling Conjecture for symplectic toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds. In the end, we apply SYZ mirror symmetry to obtain the descendent version of the all genus mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds.
description: 18 pages. Exposition of arXiv:1604.07123
Convex Formulation for Kernel PCA and its Use in Semi-Supervised Learning
Creators: name: Alaíz, Carlos M.
name: Fanuel, Michaël
name: Suykens, Johan A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, Kernel PCA is reinterpreted as the solution to a convex optimization problem. Actually, there is a constrained convex problem for each principal component, so that the constraints guarantee that the principal component is indeed a solution, and not a mere saddle point. Although these insights do not imply any algorithmic improvement, they can be used to further understand the method, formulate possible extensions and properly address them. As an example, a new convex optimization problem for semi-supervised classification is proposed, which seems particularly well-suited whenever the number of known labels is small. Our formulation resembles a Least Squares SVM problem with a regularization parameter multiplied by a negative sign, combined with a variational principle for Kernel PCA. Our primal optimization principle for semi-supervised learning is solved in terms of the Lagrange multipliers. Numerical experiments in several classification tasks illustrate the performance of the proposed model in problems with only a few labeled data.
Electro-hydrodynamic synchronization of piezoelectric flags
Creators: name: Xia, Yifan
name: Doare, Olivier
name: Michelin, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrodynamic coupling of flexible flags in axial flows may profoundly influence their flapping dynamics, in particular driving their synchronization. This work investigates the effect of such coupling on the harvesting efficiency of coupled piezoelectric flags, that convert their periodic deformation into an electrical current. Considering two flags connected to a single output circuit, we investigate using numerical simulations the relative importance of hydrodynamic coupling to electrodynamic coupling of the flags through the output circuit due to the inverse piezoelectric effect. It is shown that electrodynamic coupling is dominant beyond a critical distance, and induces a synchronization of the flags' motion resulting in enhanced energy harvesting performance. We further show that this electrodynamic coupling can be strengthened using resonant harvesting circuits.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, to appear in J. Fluids Struct
Optical Spectroscopy of Four Young Radio Sources
Creators: name: Fan, Xu-Liang
name: Bai, Jin-Ming
name: Hu, Chen
name: Wang, Jian-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the optical spectroscopy of four young radio sources which are observed with the Lijiang 2.4m telescope. The Eddington ratios of these sources are similar with those of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). Their Fe {\sc ii} emission is strong while [O {\sc iii}] strength is weak. These results confirm the NLS1 features of young radio sources, except that the width of broad H$β$ of young radio sources is larger than that of NLS1s. We thus suggest that the young radio sources are the high black hole mass counterparts of steep-spectrum radio-loud NLS1s. In addition, the broad H$β$ component of \astrobj{4C 12.50} is the blue wing of the narrow component, but not from the broad line region.
description: 11 pages, 5 Figures, 2 Tables, accepted by New Astronomy
The Effect of Preparation Conditions on Raman and Photoluminescence of Monolayer WS2
Creators: name: McCreary, Kathleen M.
name: Hanbicki, Aubrey T.
name: Singh, Simranjeet
name: Kawakami, Roland K.
name: Jernigan, Glenn G.
name: Ishigami, Masa
name: Ng, Amy
name: Brintlinger, Todd H.
name: Stroud, Rhonda M.
name: Jonker, Berend T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on preparation dependent properties observed in monolayer WS2 samples synthesized via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on a variety of common substrates (Si/SiO2, sapphire, fused silica) as well as samples that were transferred from the growth substrate onto a new substrate. The as-grown CVD materials (as-WS2) exhibit distinctly different optical properties than transferred WS2 (x-WS2). In the case of CVD growth on Si/SiO2, following transfer to fresh Si/SiO2 there is a ~50 meV shift of the ground state exciton to higher emission energy in both photoluminescence emission and optical reflection. This shift is indicative of a reduction in tensile strain by ~0.25%. Additionally, the excitonic state in x-WS2 is easily modulated between neutral and charged exciton by exposure to moderate laser power, while such optical control is absent in as-WS2 for all growth substrates investigated. Finally, we observe dramatically different laser power-dependent behavior for as-grown and transferred WS2. These results demonstrate a strong sensitivity to sample preparation that is important for both a fundamental understanding of these novel materials as well as reliable reproduction of device properties.
description: final manuscript available at Scientific Reports
Black Hole Quantum Vacuum Polarization in Higher Dimensions
Creators: name: Flachi, Antonino
name: Quinta, Gonçalo M.
name: Lemos, José P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of this paper is to extend to higher dimensionality the methods and computations of vacuum polarization effects in black hole spacetimes. We focus our attention on the case of five dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes, for which we adapt the general method initially developed by Candelas and later refined by Anderson and others. We make use of point splitting regularization and of the WKB approximation to extract the divergences occuring in the coincidence limit of the Green function and, after calculating the counter-terms using the Schwinger - De Witt expansion, we explicitly prove the cancellation of the divergences and the regularity of the vacuum polarization once counter-terms are added up. We finally handle numerically the renormalized expression of the vacuum polarization. As a check on the method we also prove the regularity of the vacuum polarization in the six dimensional case in the large mass limit.
description: 14 pages, 2 Figures
title: Φυτοαποκατάσταση ρυπασμένων εδαφών
title: Phytoremediation of contaminated soils
Creators: name: Τρικουνακη Μαργαριτα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η ρύπανση του εδάφους αποτελεί μοναδική απειλή τόσο για το περιβάλλον όσο και για την ανθρώπινη υγεία λόγω της παρατεταμένης παρουσίας τοξικών ουσιών που εναποτίθενται στο έδαφος.  Σε αντίθεση με άλλους τύπους ρύπανσης, τα απόβλητα παραμένουν στο έδαφος για μεγάλες περιόδους, απαιτώντας εξειδικευμένες τεχνικές επεξεργασίας. Οι διαφορετικές ιδιότητες και οι συνθέσεις αυτών των τοξικών υλικών αποτελούν μια άλλη πρόκληση, με ορισμένα να είναι εξαιρετικά επικίνδυνα, ενώ άλλα μπορούν να ωφελήσουν τις διαδικασίες του εδάφους.  Αυτή η απόκλιση απαιτεί συγκεκριμένα πρωτόκολλα χειρισμού και ορισμένες ουσίες μπορεί να αποδειχθούν πιο δύσκολες στην επεξεργασία από άλλες. Παρά αυτή την πολυπλοκότητα, δεν υπάρχει μια ενιαία λύση για την ασφαλή διαχείριση των αποβλήτων του εδάφους, γεγονός που το καθιστά ένα πιεστικό ζήτημα στον σημερινό κόσμο. Η συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική εργασία μελετά το πλαίσιο της απορρύπανσης εδαφών στα βαρέα μέταλλα με την χρήση φυτών. Στόχος της συγκεκριμένης εργασίας αποτελεί η ανάδειξη της συμβολής της φυτοαπoκατάστασης στην απορρύπανση εδαφών από βαρέα μέταλλα, όπως προϊδεάζει και ο τίτλος της διπλωματικής.
description: Soil contamination poses a unique threat to both the environment and human health due to the prolonged presence of toxic substances present in the soil. Unlike other types of contamination, hazardous elements remain in the soil for long periods, requiring specialized treatment techniques. The different properties and compositions of these toxic substances pose another challenge, with some being extremely hazardous, while others can benefit soil processes. This variance requires specific handling protocols and some substances may prove more difficult to process than others. Despite this complexity, there is no single solution for the safe management of soil waste, making it a pressing issue in today's world. This thesis studies the context of soil decontamination of heavy metals using plants. The aim of this particular work is to highlight the contribution of phytoremediation for the decontamination of soils from heavy metals, as the title of the thesis suggests.
High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy and Magnetic Properties of Yb3+ in Y2SiO5
Creators: name: Welinski, Sacha
name: Ferrier, Alban
name: Afzelius, Mikael
name: Goldner, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare earth doped crystals are promising systems for quantum information processing. In particular paramagnetic rare earths could be used to build coherent interfaces with optical and microwave photons. In addition, isotopes with non zero nuclear spins could provide long lived states for quantum state storage and processing. Yb3+ is particularly interesting in this respect since it is the only paramagnetic rare earth with a spin 1/2 isotope, which corresponds to the simplest possible level structure. In this paper, we report on the optical and magnetic properties of Yb3+ in the two sites of Y2SiO5, a commonly used crystal for quantum applications. We measured optical inhomogeneous linewidths, peak absorption coefficients, oscillator strengths, excited state lifetimes and fuorescence branching ratios. The Zeeman tensors were also determined in the ground and excited states, as well as the ground state hyperfine tensor for the 171Yb3+ (I = 1=2) isotope. These results suggest that Yb3+:Y2SiO5 is a promising material for applications like solid state optical and microwave quantum memories.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 1 supplementary informations pdf