cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dissecting the Compton scattering kernel I: Isotropic media
Creators: name: Sarkar, Abir
name: Chluba, Jens
name: Lee, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compton scattering between electrons and photons plays a crucial role in astrophysical plasmas. Many important aspects of this process can be captured by using the so-called Compton scattering kernel. For isotropic media, exact analytic expressions (valid at all electron and photon energies) do exist but are hampered by numerical issues and often are presented in complicated ways. In this paper, we summarize, simplify and improve existing analytic expressions for the Compton scattering kernel, with an eye on clarity and physical understanding. We provide a detailed overview of important properties of the kernel covering a wide range of energies and highlighting aspects that have not been appreciated as much previously. We discuss analytic expressions for the moments of the kernel, comparing various approximations and demonstrating their precision. We also illustrate the properties of the scattering kernel for thermal electrons at various temperatures and photon energies, introducing new analytic approximations valid to high temperatures. The obtained improved formulae for the kernel and its moments should prove useful in many astrophysical computations, one of them being the evolution of spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background in the early Universe. A novel code, CSpack, for efficient computations of the Compton scattering kernel and its properties (in the future also including anisotropies in the initial electron and photon distributions) is being developed in a series of papers and will be available within one month.
description: Significantly edited based on the referee's comments. 18 pages + 3 pages appendix, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Acceptable Inverse Power Law Potential Quintessence with n=18/7
Creators: name: de la Macorra, A.
name: German, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a particle physics quintessence model which agrees well with existing cosmological data, including the position of the acoustic peaks. This model has an inverse power law potential (IPL) with $n=18/7\sim 2.57$ and it gives $\weff=-0.75$, an acoustic scale $l_A=307$ and a density contrast $\s8=0.95$. Models with $n>1$ have been said to be disfavored by the analysis of the acoustic peaks. However, the results are not correct. The main reason is that the tracker approximation has been used in deriving the IPL constrains and for $n<5$ the scalar field has not reached its tracker value by present day. The model can be derived from particle physics, using Affleck-Dine-Seiberg "ADS" superpotential, for a non-abelian gauge group with $N_c=8, N_f=1$. The advantage of having $N_f=1$ is that there is only one degree of freedom below the condensation scale given by the condensate (quintessence) $ϕ^2=$ field. The condensation scale is at $1 GeV$ a very interesting scale since it connects the quintessence "Q" with the standard model "SM" scale. The similarity in energy scales between $Q$ and $SM$ scale gives an "explanation" to the coincidence problem. The fact that only recently the universe is accelerating is a natural consequence of the Q scale and the evolution of $ϕ$.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX, 1 figures, accepted in Phys.Lett.B, minor changes, graph added, typos corrected
Superfluids, vortices and spinning charged operators in 4d CFT
Creators: name: Cuomo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We include vortices in the superfluid EFT for four dimensional CFTs at large global charge. Using the state-operator correspondence, vortices are mapped to charged operators with large spin and we compute their scaling dimensions. Different regimes are identified: phonons, vortex rings, Kelvin waves, and vortex crystals. We also compute correlators with a Noether current insertion in between vortex states. Results for the scaling dimensions of traceless symmetric operators are given in arbitrary spacetime dimensions.
description: 22 pages + appendices, 3 figures; v2 added affiliation and 2 references; v3 added discussion+appendix of additional d.o.f.s in vortex cores, matches journal
The purposes and coherence of universities
Creators: name: Batt, Kevin James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher Aims and objectives
subject: Universities and colleges

description: Every institution in society must serve society. Otherwise it will not last long. But the question is what is the special, peculiar, unique service a university can render? How many different kinds of service can a university render without ceasing to be one, or without becoming incapable of rendering the special, peculiar, unique service it could offer? If a university is expected to meet every need, respond to every demand, and yield to every pressure, how does it avoid becoming totally other directed? What then is its claim to that freedom traditionally called academic? If it may properly respond to some demands and reject others, what is the standard of acceptance or rejection it should apply? Obviously the ordinary test of action, the test of purpose, is meaningless if the university's purpose is to do whatever the society wants. We all have a vague feeling, even yet, that there are some things a university ought not to do and some things it cannot do without ceasing to be a university. R.M. Hutchins, 'Reclothe Us In Our Rightful Mind', Educational Record, Spring 1969.
Triply-heavy baryons in a constituent quark model
Creators: name: Yang, Gang
name: Ping, Jialun
name: Ortega, Pablo G.
name: Segovia, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A constituent quark model, which has recently been successfully applied to the study of heavy quarkonium properties such as its spectrum but also a diverse array of observables related with their electromagnetic, strong and weak decays and reactions, is used herein to compute ground- and excited-state masses of $QQQ$-baryons containing either $c$- or $b$-quarks. Considering the lack of experimental information about the spectra of triply-heavy baryons, we believe that our computation could help on finding new states, since it is expected that phenomenological quark models describe triply-heavy baryons to a similar degree of accuracy as heavy quarkonia. The quark model parameters previously used to describe $c\bar c$ and $b\bar b$ properties have not been modified for this analysis. The non-relativistic three-body bound-state problem is solved by means of the Gaußian expansion method which provides enough accuracy and simplifies the subsequent evaluation of the matrix elements. Several low-lying states with quantum numbers $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^{\pm}$, $\frac{3}{2}^{\pm}$, $\frac{5}{2}^{\pm}$ and $\frac{7}{2}^+$ are reported. We compare our results with those predicted by many other theoretical formalisms. There is a general trend of agreement about the mass of the ground state in each sector of triply-heavy baryons; however, the situation is more puzzling for the excited states and thus appropriate comments on the most relevant features of our comparison are given.
description: 12 pages, 10 tables, 4 figures
Analyzing Atmospheric Temperature Profiles and Spectra of M dwarf Rocky Planets
Creators: name: Malik, Matej
name: Kempton, Eliza M. -R.
name: Koll, Daniel D. B.
name: Mansfield, Megan
name: Bean, Jacob L.
name: Kite, Edwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will open up the possibility of comprehensively measuring the emission spectra of rocky exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs to detect and characterize their atmospheres. In preparation for this opportunity, we present model atmospheres for three M-dwarf planets particularly amenable to secondary eclipse spectroscopy -- TRAPPIST-1b, GJ 1132b, and LHS 3844b. Using three limiting cases of candidate atmospheric compositions (pure H2O, pure CO2 and solar abundances) we calculate temperature-pressure profiles and emission and reflection spectra in radiative-convective equilibrium, including the effects of a solid surface. We find that the atmospheric radiative transfer is significantly influenced by the cool M-star irradiation; H2O and CO2 absorption bands in the near-infrared are strong enough to absorb a sizeable fraction of the incoming stellar light at low pressures, which leads to temperature inversions in the upper atmosphere. The non-gray band structure of gaseous opacities in the infrared is hereby an important factor. Opacity windows are muted at higher atmospheric temperatures, so we expect temperature inversions to be common only for sufficiently cool planets. We also find that pure CO2 atmospheres exhibit lower overall temperatures and stronger reflection spectra compared to models of the other two compositions. We estimate that for GJ 1132b and LHS 3844b we should be able to distinguish between different atmospheric compositions with JWST. The emission lines from the predicted temperature inversions are currently hard to measure, but high resolution spectroscopy with future Extremely Large Telescopes may be able to detect them.
description: published in ApJ. Also see these three companion papers: 1. Mansfield et al. 2019 (ApJ, 886, 2), "Identifying Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets Through Inferred High Albedo", 2. Koll et al. 2019 (ApJ, 886, 2), "Identifying candidate atmospheres on rocky M dwarf planets via eclipse photometry", 3. Koll (submitted) "A Scaling Theory for Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Rocky Exoplanets"
Analysis of the diffuse near-IR emission from 2MASS deep integration data: foregrounds vs the cosmic infrared background
Creators: name: Odenwald, S.
name: Kashlinsky, A.
name: Mather, J. C.
name: Skrutskie, M. F.
name: Cutri, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is one of two papers in which we report the detection of structure in the cosmic infrared background (CIB) between 1.25 - 2.2 micron through the use of data from the Two Micron Sky Survey (2MASS). This paper concentrates on data assembly, analysis and the estimate of the various foreground contributions; the companion paper (Kashlinsky, Odenwald, Mather, Skrutskie, Cutri 2002, hereafter KOMSC) presents the cosmological results for the CIB fluctuations and their implications. By using repeated observations of a specific calibration star field, we were able to achieve integration times in excess of 3900 seconds compared to the 7.8 seconds in the standard 2MASS data product. This yielded a point source detection limit (3 σ) of +18.5^m in K_s band. The resulting co-added images were processed to remove point sources to a limiting surface brightness of +20^m/arcsec$^2 or 40 nW/m^2/sr. The remaining maps contained over 90% of the pixels and were Fourier transformed to study the spatial structure of the diffuse background light. After removing resolved sources and other artifacts, we find that the power spectrum of the final images has a power-law distribution consistent with clustering by distant galaxies. We estimate here the contributions to this signal from Galactic foregrounds, atmospheric OH-glow, zodiacal light and instrument noise, all of which are small and of different slopes. Hence, this supports the KOMSC identification of the signal as coming from the CIB fluctuations produced by distant clustered galaxies.
description: Ap. J., in press
The scientists of the IVIC in the evolution of science and technology policy during the Chávez administration in Venezuela
Creators: name: Damny Laya
name: Hebe Vessuri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Hugo Chávez’s assumption of the presidency in late 1999 brought about major institutional change in Venezuela, and in its science and technology. Some authors speak of a breakage of the scientific community’s “social contract” with the state through the inroads of a new political bias or politicization, and of a replacement of decision-making among the scientific community traditionally responsible for the direction of science and technology policy (STP) – in which the scientific community of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) had been a historically influential, not to say dominant, actor – by other actors of Venezuelan society. This study aims to elucidate the changes occurring in the Chávez administration’s STP and, especially, in the role played by one of its actors – the scientific community of the IVIC – while identifying the political actions of the key actors responsible for that policy and highlighting the power they wielded, gained, or lost over its development.
title: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Well-Being in Stroke Survivors
Creators: name: Maujean, Francoise Annick
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Stroke survivors
subject: Self-efficacy
subject: Self-efficacy in psychosocial functioning
subject: Self-efficacy in daily living

description: Strokes can have devastating effects on the everyday functioning and well-being of afflicted individuals. A key factor that may influence outcome following a stroke is the level of self-efficacy that stroke survivors have in their ability to function in daily life. The present research was designed to address this proposition by exploring the relationship between self-efficacy in psychological, social, and instrumental aspects of daily living and the well-being of stroke survivors. The initial phase of the research (Studies 1 to 3) involved the construction and validation of a measure of self-efficacy in daily living that comprised two subscales, one of self-efficacy in psychosocial functioning and the other of self-efficacy in activities of daily living. Using this measure, Study 4 then explored the association between self-efficacy and the three components of well-being (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) in a group of stroke survivors (n = 80). Results revealed that self-efficacy in psychosocial functioning was related to all components of well-being, even when relevant demographic variables and level of physical functioning were controlled. Further analysis revealed that this relationship persisted when a proxy for actual performance in daily tasks was entered as a possible mediator. In brief, higher levels of self-efficacy in the ability to perform daily tasks in the psychosocial domain predicted higher levels of well-being. In contrast, self-efficacy in activities of daily living was only related to positive affect and was not associated with negative affect nor was it related to life satisfaction once physical functioning and relevant demographic variables were controlled. Interestingly, socio-economic status was unrelated to positive affect but was moderately to highly correlated with life satisfaction (r = .38) and negative affect (r = -.76) suggesting that the detrimental impact of limited financial resources on the life satisfaction and negative affectivity of stroke survivors may have eroded any possible beneficial effects of self-efficacy in performing the instrumental activities of daily living.
Meaningful Mathematics: A Social-Justice-Themed-Introductory Statistics Course
Creators: name: Berg, Jenn
name: Buell, Catherine A.
name: Day, Danette
name: Evans, Rhonda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: As an interdisciplinary team, we set out to create an applied statistics course that would cover the traditional introductory statistics topics in a consistent framework of social justice. The goal was to motivate students to understand and learn math while deepening their understanding of the interplay, at local and global levels, between social and economic issues: for example, crime, victimization, political access, wealth, education, health, gender, and race. This paper describes the process of creating the course, the pedagogical decisions, the intentionality in topic presentation, samples of classwork, and student impressions of the semester-long course.
A Ground-Truth Data Set and a Classification Algorithm for Eye Movements in 360-degree Videos
Creators: name: Agtzidis, Ioannis
name: Startsev, Mikhail
name: Dorr, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The segmentation of a gaze trace into its constituent eye movements has been actively researched since the early days of eye tracking. As we move towards more naturalistic viewing conditions, the segmentation becomes even more challenging and convoluted as more complex patterns emerge. The definitions and the well-established methods that were developed for monitor-based eye tracking experiments are often not directly applicable to unrestrained set-ups such as eye tracking in wearable contexts or with head-mounted displays. The main contributions of this work to the eye movement research for 360-degree content are threefold: First, we collect, partially annotate, and make publicly available a new eye tracking data set, which consists of 13 participants viewing 15 video clips that are recorded in 360-degree. Second, we propose a new two-stage pipeline for ground truth annotation of the traditional fixations, saccades, smooth pursuits, as well as (optokinetic) nystagmus, vestibulo-ocular reflex, and pursuit of moving objects performed exclusively via the movement of the head. A flexible user interface for this pipeline is implemented and made freely accessible for use or modification. Lastly, we develop and test a simple proof-of-concept algorithm for automatic classification of all the eye movement types in our data set based on their operational definitions that were used for manual annotation. The data set and the source code for both the annotation tool and the algorithm are publicly available at https://web.gin.g-node.org/ioannis.agtzidis/360_em_dataset.
Constraints on Omega_B from the nucleosynthesis of 7Li in the standard Big Bang
Creators: name: Coc, Alain
name: Vangioni-Flam, Elisabeth
name: Cass'e, Michel
name: Rabiet, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We update Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (SBBN) calculations on the basis of recent nuclear physics compilations (NACRE in particular), experimental and theoretical works. By a Monte--Carlo technique, we calculate the uncertainties on the light element yields (4He, D, 3He, 7Li) related to nuclear reactions. The results are compared to observations that are thought to be representative of the corresponding primordial abundances. It is found that 7Li could lead to more stringent constraints on the baryonic density of the universe (Omega_B) than deuterium, because of much higher observation statistics and an easier extrapolation to primordial values. The confrontation of SBBN results with 7Li observations is of special interest since other independent approaches have also recently provided Omega_B.h^2 values: i) the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background by the BOOMERANG, CBI, DASI and MAXIMA experiments and ii) the Lyman-alpha forest at high redshift. Comparison between these results obtained by different methods provides a test of their consistency and could provide a better determination of the baryonic density in the universe. However, the agreement between Omega_B.h^2 values deduced from SBBN calculation and 7Li observation on the one hand and CMB observations on the other hand is only marginal.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D; 10 pages, 5 figures
title: Conducting Beethoven's The Creatures of Prometheus Ballet: An Autoethnographic Study in Performance Practice
Creators: name: Lynch, Lucas D
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ballet
subject: Beethoven
subject: conducting

description: In the field of conducting, there is considerable scholarship on many facets of the art form; however, very little attention has been given to the specifics of conducting ballet. Furthermore, very little research has focused on conducting Ludwig van Beethoven's The Creatures of Prometheus ballet, especially from the perspective of a ballet conductor. Given the dearth of literature about this significant ballet, this doctoral research examined which artistic skills and relationships are required to successfully conduct The Creatures of Prometheus by using the research in an autoethnographic case study. This research informed and was informed by the presentation of The Creatures of Prometheus ballet in November 2021 in Brisbane, Australia. This performance was the Australian premiere. The case study approach entailed investigating the practical artistic process of conducting this ballet by examining the critical decisions and real-time actions to develop the researcher's artistic practice. The output is an exegetical thesis and an accompanying portfolio of creative works, including recordings and video presentations. Findings from this study highlight the negative perceptions towards conducting ballet in the literature that have contributed to the deficiency of research in this field. The findings also document the artistic skills required to conduct this work and demonstrate the historical significance of The Creatures of Prometheus ballet as a seminal work in early Romantic ballet.
MOESM1 of Asthma and elevation of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies prior to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Zaccardelli, Alessandra
name: Liu, Xinyi
name: Ford, Julia
name: Cui, Jing
name: Lu, Bing
name: Chu, Su
name: Schur, Peter
name: Speyer, Cameron
name: Costenbader, Karen
name: Robinson, William
name: Sokolove, Jeremy
name: Karlson, Elizabeth
name: Camargo, Carlos
name: Sparks, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Odds ratios for RA by elevated or absent levels of pre-RA ACPA by the secondary/specific ACPA definition using conditional logistic regression in the Nurses’ Health Studies. Table S2. Odds ratios for pre-RA ACPA+ for RA within 5 years of RA diagnosis and their matched controls using conditional logistic regression (n = 36 outcomes from total n = 143) in the Nurses’ Health Studies.
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) aethriobasis
Creators: name: Drew, R. A. I.
name: Romig, M. C.
name: Dorji, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Bactrocera
Bactrocera aethriobasis

description: Bactrocera (Bactrocera) aethriobasis (Hardy)
 Dacus aethriobasis Hardy, 1973: 30. Holotype male in KUB. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) aethriobasis – Norrbom et al., 1998: 87.
 Material examined. – BHUTAN: 2 males (13 May.2000), 1 male (20 May.2000), 3 males (27 May.2000), 3 males (2 Jun.2000), Phuentsholing, coll. S. Thapa; 1 male, Gelephu, Purana Bastey, 26 Feb.2005, coll. Maha Prasad & Karma Namgyel. All specimens attracted to methyl eugenol. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI.
 Diagnosis. – A large species; face fulvous with a pair of medium sized oval black spots; scutum entirely red-brown, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching anterior npl. seta dorsally, broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending behind ia. seta, medial postsutural vitta absent; setae: sc. 2; prsc. 2; ia. 1; p.sa. 1; a.sa. 1; mpl. 1; npl. 2; scp. 4; scutellum yellow with narrow red-brown basal band; legs with all segments entirely fulvous; wings with cells bc and c colourless and entirely devoid of microtrichia, narrow pale fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and extremely narrow and very pale fuscous beyond apex of R 2+3 around costal margin of wing to end just beyond extremity of R 4+5, cubital streak reduced to pale fuscous within cell cup, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V either entirely dark fuscous to black or dark fuscous to black with dark red-brown either side of a medial longitudinal black band from centre of tergum IV to cover anterior 3/4 of tergum V, a pair of oval black shining spots on tergum V.
 Attractant. – Methyl eugenol.
  Distribution. –  Thailand. New record for lower altitudes of Bhutan.
  Hosts. –  No known record.
 Remarks. – A non pest species previously recorded only from Thailand. It is readily distinguished by the following characters – scutum red-brown, broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae, wings with a very narrow costal band and cubital streak absent, abdominal terga III-V black.
description: Published as part of Drew, R. A. I., Romig, M. C. & Dorji, C., 2007, Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan, pp. 1-21 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5331152
Internal migration, population trends, and the regional influence of towns in the Albury-Wodonga and Wagga Wagga area
Creators: name: Livermore, James FitzMaurice
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Migration, Internal Australia Riverina (N.S.W.)
subject: Rural-urban migration Australia Riverina (N.S.W.)
subject: Wagga Wagga (N.S.W.)
subject: Albury (N.S.W.)

description: The Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers together drain one oT the richest and most agriculturally significant areas of Australia. Both rivers rise in the Snowy Mountains and thence flow west to begin their long journey across the south-eastern portion of the continent. Situated on each river, well below the mountains themselves but some miles above where they respectively debouch from the upland country on to the dry riverine plain, are the rival cities of Albury and Wagga Wagga. These two centres are located about 80 miles apart in the state of New South Wales, and have long competed for regional suzerainty over the area known as the Riverina, i.e., the vast alluvial plain lying between the Murray and the Murrumbidgee.
title: Culture, Tradition and the Series of Bruneian Folklore
Creators: name: Mohammad Harunthmarin, Nur Qistin
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Folklore, Brunei
subject: Homi Bhabha’s, The Location of Culture
subject: Culture, Brunei
subject: Postcolonialism, Brunei

description: This project is the first scholarly study on The Series of Bruneian Folklore and its significance as a legacy for the culture of Brunei. It is also the first English translation of selected tales in the Series. The broad trajectory of this thesis examines the survival of Brunei’s powerful oral narrative heritage which existed for 500 years as a vital part of traditional Bruneian society, and which still survives in the form of published children’s literature. Amidst modern culture, however, it is considered an outdated object of the past; this explains its deteriorating presence as a formative cultural force in the Brunei of today. This dissertation transforms this perception of the Series and recognizes it as the embodiment of an important cultural and historical heritage. The main theoretical foundation is Homi Bhabha’s, The Location of Culture (1994) and the main literary framework is the Gothic mode: together they both serve as an overarching framework for analysis in each chapter. International literary perspectives are employed to achieve a cross-cultural examination of the Series, addressing this published expression of Brunei’s complex narrative heritage within the context of recent literary discourse. As a product of hybrid cultural influences and historical practices, published in a contemporary time frame, the Series has been approached with reference to Western literary concepts and modes of critique, including Postcolonialism, Feminism and the Gothic, addressing its importance as the reflection of a unique narrative heritage.
Dynamics of gravitational clustering II. Steepest-descent method for the quasi-linear regime
Creators: name: Valageas, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a non-perturbative method to derive the probability distribution $P(δ_R)$ of the density contrast within spherical cells in the quasi-linear regime. Indeed, since this corresponds to a rare-event limit a steepest-descent approximation can yield asymptotically exact results. We check that this is the case for Gaussian initial density fluctuations, where we recover most of the results obtained by perturbative methods from a hydrodynamical description. Moreover, we correct an error which was introduced in previous works for the high-density tail of the pdf. This feature, which appears for power-spectra with a slope $n<0$, points out the limitations of perturbative approaches which cannot describe the pdf $P(δ_R)$ for $δ_R \ga 3$ even in the limit $σ\to 0$. This break-up does not involve shell-crossing and it is naturally explained within our framework. Thus, our approach provides a rigorous treatment of the quasi-linear regime, which does not rely on the hydrodynamical approximation for the equations of motion. Besides, it is actually simpler and more intuitive than previous methods. Our approach can also be applied to non-Gaussian initial conditions.
description: 18 pages, final version published in A&A
Additional file 1 of Energetic dysfunction in sepsis: a narrative review
Creators: name: Preau, Sebastien
name: Vodovar, Dominique
name: Jung, Boris
name: Lancel, Steve
name: Zafrani, Lara
name: Flatres, Aurelien
name: Oualha, Mehdi
name: Voiriot, Guillaume
name: Jouan, Youenn
name: Joffre, Jeremie
name: Huel, Fabrice
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Silva, Stein
name: Azabou, Eric
name: Radermacher, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Glossary of key terms in energetic metabolism
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) correcta
Creators: name: Drew, R. A. I.
name: Romig, M. C.
name: Dorji, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Bactrocera
Bactrocera correcta

description: Bactrocera (Bactrocera) correcta (Bezzi)
 Chaetodacus correctus Bezzi, 1916: 107. Syntypes in ZSI.
 Strumeta paratuberculatus Philip, 1950: 31.
 Dacus dutti Kapoor, 1971: 480.
 Dacus bangaloriensis Agarwal & Kapoor, 1983: 169.
 Bactrocera (Bactrocera) correcta – Liang et al., 1993: 137; Norrbom et al., 1998: 89.
 Material examined. – BHUTAN: 1 male, Thimphu, Lumitshawa, 18 Oct.2000, coll. C. Dorji, attracted to methyl eugenol. Specimen in NPPC.
 Diagnosis. – Face fulvous with a pair of small transverse oval black spots; scutum with base colour mostly black, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching to anterior npl. seta dorsally, moderately broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae reaching to ia. seta, medial postsutural vitta absent; setae: sc. 2; prsc. 2; ia. 1; p.sa. 1; a.sa. 1; mpl. 1; npl. 2; scp. 2; scutellum yellow except for narrow black basal band; legs with all segments entirely fulvous except tending fuscous apically on hind tibiae; wings with cells bc and c colourless and entirely devoid of microtrichia, narrow costal band confluent with R 2+3 and ending at apex of this vein, a small fuscous spot around apex of R 4+5, cubital streak absent, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V red-brown with a black ‘T’ pattern consisting of a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III and a narrow medial longitudinal black band over all three terga and very narrow dark fuscous lateral margins on terga IV and V, a pair of oval red-brown shining spots on tergum V.
 Attractant. – Methyl eugenol.
  Distribution. –  Widespread (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Southern China). New record for Bhutan.
  Hosts. –  Wide host range in wild and commercial fruits (see Allwood et al., 1999).
 Remarks. – Bactrocera correcta (Bezzi) is a significant pest species in some parts of its geographic distribution. It is similar to Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) in overall appearance but is readily distinguished by having the costal band ending at apex of R 2+3 and with a separate small fuscous spot around apex of R 4+5.
description: Published as part of Drew, R. A. I., Romig, M. C. & Dorji, C., 2007, Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan, pp. 1-21 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5331152
Hydroptilidae Stephens 1836
Creators: name: Malicky, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydroptilidae

description: Hydroptilidae   Hydroptila batang WELLS & HUISMAN 1992 Orthotrichia litoralis ULMER 1951
 Hydroptila dayung WELLS & HUISMAN 1992 Orthotrichia persephone nov.sp.
 Hydroptila obscura WELLS 1979 Orthotrichia polyhymnia nov.sp.
 Hydroptila pintal WELLS & HUISMAN 1992 Orthotrichia styx nov.sp.
 Hydroptila selene nov.sp. Orthotrichia theia nov.sp.
 Hydroptila thisbe nov.sp. Orthotrichia triton nov.sp.
 Hydroptila tharsis nov.sp. Chrysotrichia bintik WELLS & HUISMAN 1993 Hell y ethira bulat WELLS & HUISMAN 1992 Chrysotrichia syrinx nov.sp.
 Hellyethira selaput WELLS & HUISMAN 1992 Scelotrichia buluhalus WELLS & HUISMAN 1993 Oxyethira bogambara SCHMID 1958
description: Published as part of Malicky, H., 2008, Köcherfliegen (Insecta, Trichoptera) aus der Umgebung von Malinau (Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesien), pp. 833-879 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 834, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5429880
The effects of winter stress on Sphagnum species with contrasting macro- and microdistributions
Creators: name: Campbell, Charles
name: Rydin, Håkan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Introduction.Sphagnum L. forms much of the ground cover in northern peatlands. Different species show affinities for bioclimatic regions in Europe (oceanic/continental; northern/southern) and species-specific tolerance of winter conditions can be a factor explaining their distribution. Methods. We focussed on low temperature in a series of experiments and tested (1) the innate ability of a selection of Sphagnum species to tolerate low temperature in relation to their micro-topographic (wetness) and geographical (climate) distribution; (2) the rate of cold tolerance acquisition; and (3) the ability of species to survive a range of low temperature once cold hardened. Key results. Our experiments showed that maximal PSII efficiency (Fv/Fm, chlorophyll fluorescence), growth rates and survival were all negatively affected by sub-zero temperatures. Environmental conditions associated with the onset of winter (colder nights and shorter days) triggered the acquisition of cold tolerance in Sphagnum. Conclusions. The results were not unequivocal, but species associated with colder climates were generally more tolerant of sub-zero conditions. Species associated with the wettest and driest ends of the wetness gradient were more consistent in their responses than those in between, with wetter-dwelling species being less sensitive to sub-zero temperature than species found in drier microhabitats. Overall, our results suggest that adaptation to winter conditions contribute to the current distribution patterns of Sphagnum species.
Direct Detection of Strongly Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter via Electron Recoils
Creators: name: Emken, Timon
name: Essig, Rouven
name: Kouvaris, Chris
name: Sholapurkar, Mukul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider direct-detection searches for sub-GeV dark matter via electron scatterings in the presence of large interactions between dark and ordinary matter. Scatterings both on electrons and nuclei in the Earth's crust, atmosphere, and shielding material attenuate the expected local dark matter flux at a terrestrial detector, so that such experiments lose sensitivity to dark matter above some critical cross section. We study various models, including dark matter interacting with a heavy and ultralight dark photon, through an electric dipole moment, and exclusively with electrons. For a dark-photon mediator and an electric dipole interaction, the dark matter-electron scattering cross-section is directly linked to the dark matter-nucleus cross section, and nuclear interactions typically dominate the attenuation process. We determine the exclusion bands for the different dark-matter models from several experiments - SENSEI, CDMS-HVeV, XENON10, XENON100, and DarkSide-50 - using a combination of Monte Carlo simulations and analytic estimates. We also derive projected sensitivities for a detector located at different depths and for a range of exposures, and calculate the projected sensitivity for SENSEI at SNOLAB and DAMIC-M at Modane. Finally, we discuss the reach to high cross sections and the modulation signature of a small balloon- and satellite-borne detector sensitive to electron recoils, such as a Skipper-CCD. Such a detector could potentially probe unconstrained parameter space at high cross sections for a sub-dominant component of dark matter interacting with a massive, but ultralight, dark photon.
description: 40 pages, 12 figures. Code available at https://github.com/temken/DaMaSCUS-CRUST and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2846401 . v2: matches published version
Gravitational microlensing as a test of stellar model atmospheres
Creators: name: Bryce, H. M.
name: Hendry, M. A.
name: Valls-Gabaud, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations illustrating the potential of gravitational microlensing to discriminate between classical models of stellar surface brightness profiles and the recently computed ``Next Generation'' models of Hauschildt et al. These spherically-symmetric models include a much improved treatment of molecular lines in the outer atmospheres of cool giants -- stars which are very typical sources in Galactic bulge microlensing events. We show that the microlensing signatures of intensively monitored point and fold caustic crossing events are readily able to distinguish between NextGen and the classical models, provided a photometric accuracy of 0.01 magnitudes is reached. This accuracy is now routinely achieved by alert networks, and hence current observations can discriminate between such model atmospheres, providing a unique insight on stellar photospheres.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letters), vol. 388, L1 (2002)
Measurement of the neutron lifetime and inverse quantum Zeno effect
Creators: name: Giacosa, Francesco
name: Pagliara, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanics predicts that the decay rate of unstable systems could be effectively modified by the process of the measurement of the survival probability. Depending on the intrinsic properties of the unstable system and the experimental setup for the observation, one could obtain the so called (direct) quantum Zeno and inverse quantum Zeno effects corresponding to a slowing down or a speeding up of the decay, respectively. We argue that the inverse quantum Zeno effect is in principle detectable at a percent level for the neutron decay in experiments with trapped ultracold neutrons. Conversely, this effect is basically undetectable in experiments in which the neutron lifetime is measured by measuring the decays of beams of neutrons. As a test of our claim, we propose a simple qualitative correlation between the number of neutrons in the trap and the neutron lifetime: the larger the number, the faster the decay. Finally we discuss also the presently available measurements of the neutron lifetime and address the issue of the possible discrepancy that has been reported among the results obtained by the different experimental techniques.
description: 8 pages, 2 figure. To appear in PRD
Introducing Enumerative Sphere Shaping for Optical Communication Systems with Short Blocklengths
Creators: name: Amari, Abdelkerim
name: Goossens, Sebastiaan
name: Gultekin, Yunus Can
name: Vassilieva, Olga
name: Kim, Inwoong
name: Ikeuchi, Tadashi
name: Okonkwo, Chigo
name: Willems, Frans M. J.
name: Alvarado, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Probabilistic shaping based on constant composition distribution matching (CCDM) has received considerable attention as a way to increase the capacity of fiber optical communication systems. CCDM suffers from significant rate loss at short blocklengths and requires long blocklengths to achieve high shaping gain, which makes its implementation very challenging. In this paper, we propose to use enumerative sphere shaping (ESS) and investigate its performance for the nonlinear fiber optical channel. ESS has lower rate loss than CCDM at the same shaping rate, which makes it a suitable candidate to be implemented in real-time high-speed optical systems. In this paper, we first show that finite blocklength ESS and CCDM exhibit higher effective signal-to-noise ratio than their infinite blocklength counterparts. These results show that for the nonlinear fiber optical channel, large blocklengths should be avoided. We then show that for a 400 Gb/s dual-polarization 64-QAM WDM transmission system, ESS with short blocklengths outperforms both uniform signaling and CCDM. Gains in terms of both bit-metric decoding rate and bit-error rate are presented. ESS with a blocklength of 200 is shown to provide an extension reach of about 200 km in comparison with CCDM with the same blocklength. The obtained reach increase of ESS with a blocklength of 200 over uniform signaling is approximately 450 km (approximately 19%)
description: 9 pages, 12 figures
PLANCK: systematic effects induced by periodic fluctuations of arbitrary shape
Creators: name: Mennella, Aniello
name: Bersanelli, Marco
name: Burigana, Carlo
name: Maino, Davide
name: Mandolesi, Nazzareno
name: Morgante, Gianluca
name: Stanghellini, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental requirement in the new generation of high resolution Cosmic Microwave Background imaging experiments is a strict control of systematic errors that must be kept at micro-K level in the final maps. Some of these errors are of celestial origin, while others will be generated by periodic fluctuations of the satellite environment. These environment instabilities will cause fluctuations in the measured signal output thus generating correlated effects in the reconstructed maps. In this paper we present an analytical study of the impact of periodic signal fluctuations on the measured sky maps produced by the Planck survey. In particular we show how it is possible to estimate analytically the damping factor of the peak-to-peak amplitude of the fluctuation at the instrument output after the projection in the final maps.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) gombokensis Drew & Hancock 1994
Creators: name: Drew, R. A. I.
name: Romig, M. C.
name: Dorji, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Bactrocera
Bactrocera gombokensis

description: Bactrocera (Bactrocera) gombokensis Drew & Hancock
 Bactrocera (Bactrocera) gombokensis Drew & Hancock, 1994: 24; Norrbom et al., 1998: 91. Holotype male in BMNH.
 Material examined. – BHUTAN: 1 male, Phuentsholing, 6 May.2000, coll. S. Thapa; 1 male, Tsirang, 19 Jun.2000, coll. T.D. & S.D; 1 male, Tsirang, Darachu, 30 May.2001, coll. B. Fletcher; 4 males, Namling 16 km, 1600 m, 9 Jun.2001, subtropical forest, coll. Brian Fletcher; 1 male, Lingmethang 11 km, 1100 m, 9 Jun.2001, subtropical forest, coll. Brian Fletcher; 2 males, Lingmethang, 700 m, 9 Jun.2001, mango tree, coll. Brian Fletcher; 5 males (15 Nov.2004), 3 males (5 Dec.2004), Samdrup Jongkhar District, coll. Wangdi. All specimens attracted to cue lure. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI.
 Diagnosis. – A medium sized species; face fulvous with a pair of large circular black spots; scutum base colour black, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. seta dorsally, a pair of medium width parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending at ia. seta, medial postsutural vitta absent; setae: sc. 2; prsc. 2; ia. 1; p.sa. 1; a.sa. 1; mpl. 1; npl. 2; scp. 4; scutellum yellow with a narrow black basal band; legs with femora fulvous with large black subapical spots on outer surfaces; wings with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, a narrow fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and remaining narrow around costal margin to end just beyond apex of R 4+5, cubital streak absent but with some pale fuscous in base of cell cup, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V orangebrown with a ‘T’ pattern consisting of a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III and widening to cover outer 1/3 of the lateral margins, a narrow medial longitudinal black band over all three terga, anterolateral corners of terga IV and V dark fuscous to black.
 Attractant. – Cue lure.
  Distribution. –  Peninsular Malaysia. New record for Bhutan.
  Hosts. –  No known record.
 Remarks. – Bactrocera gombokensis Drew & Hancock is a non-pest member of the dorsalis complex. It is readily distinguished by the following characters – large black spots on outer apical surfaces of all femora, costal band narrow without apical expansion and cubital streak absent.
description: Published as part of Drew, R. A. I., Romig, M. C. & Dorji, C., 2007, Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan, pp. 1-21 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5331152