cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum magnetism in molecular spin ladders probed with muon-spin spectroscopy
Creators: name: Lancaster, T.
name: Xiao, F.
name: Huddart, B. M.
name: Williams, R. C.
name: Pratt, F. L.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Clark, S. J.
name: Scheuermann, R.
name: Goko, T.
name: Ward, S.
name: Manson, J. L.
name: Rüegg, Ch.
name: Krämer, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of muon-spin spectroscopy ($μ^{+}$SR) measurements on the molecular spin ladder system (Hpip)$_{2}$CuBr$_{4(1-x)}$Cl$_{4x}$, [Hpip=(C$_{5}$H$_{12}$N)]. Using transverse field $μ^{+}$SR we are able to identify characteristic behaviour in each of the regions of the phase diagram of the $x=0$ strong-rung spin ladder system (Hpip)$_{2}$CuBr$_4$. Comparison of our results to those of the dimer-based molecular magnet Cu(pyz)(gly)(ClO$_{4}$) shows several common features. We locate the crossovers in partially disordered (Hpip)$_{2}$CuBr$_{4(1-x)}$Cl$_{4x}$ ($x=0.05$), where a region of behaviour intermediate between quantum disordered and Luttinger liquid-like is identified. Our interpretation of the results incorporates an analysis of the probable muon stopping states in (Hpip)$_{2}$CuBr$_4$ based on density functional calculations and suggests how the muon plus its local distortion can lead to a local probe unit with good sensitivity to the magnetic state. Using longitudinal field $μ^{+}$SR we compare the dynamic response of the $x=1$ strong-rung material (Hpip)$_{2}$CuCl$_{4}$ to that of the strong-leg material (C$_{7}$H$_{10}$N)$_{2}$CuBr$_{4}$ (known as DIMPY) and demonstrate that our results are in agreement with predictions based on interacting fermionic quasiparticle excitations in these materials.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Oral history interview with Ed Gomperts, 1990
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Hemophilia--History.--United States
Hemophilia--Social aspects
Hemophilia--Political aspects
AIDS (Disease)--History.--United States
Hemophilia in children
Therapeutics
Physicians

description: Medical training in Johannesburg, south Africa; specialization in hematopathology and coagulation; work in coagulation unit and hemophilia center at Transvaal Memorial Hospital; first use of Factor VIII concentrate in South Africa; establishment of home-care system for black hemophiliacs; experiences at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; roles and functions of members of the hemophilia treatment team; denial among children and teens with hemophilia; risk-taking behaviors in this group; denial regarding HIV; isolation among people with hemophilia; differences in attitudes towards hemophilia among different ethnic communities; adoptions of children with hemophilia; early response to advent of HIV in hemophilia community; establishment of donor infusion program in response to this; first use of heat-treated Factor VIII; transmission of hepatitis B via blood products; problems screening for hepatitis B; involvement with pharmaceutical companies and issues of research and development; relationship of pharmaceutical companies to National Hemophilia Foundation and the hemophilia community; educating school nurses regarding hemophilia and HIV; "need/hate" relationship between hemophilia patient and hemophilia treatment center; California Hemophilia Council; future treatment with genetically engineered products
Soil microbial interactions affecting enteric pathogen survival in sewage sludge-amended agricultural soil
Creators: name: Perez Viana, Felipe
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: The natural inactivation of enteric pathogens in soil is a critical component of the multi-barrier approach to prevent infectious disease in humans by enteric microorganisms when biosolids are used as a fertiliser and soil conditioner on agricultural land. The addition of biosolids to agricultural soil modifies the soil microbial community and ecological interactions. Ecological processes, especially the activities of predatory protozoa, may have a critical role in reducing the survival of enteric pathogenic bacteria when biosolids are applied to agricultural soil. To test this hypothesis a series of field experiments were established on two soils of contrasting organic matter content and fertility status, amended with different sludge types, to examine the interactions between the soil microbial biomass, total protozoa numbers, environmental and soil factors and their effects on the decay of the enteric indicator bacteria, Escherichia coli, in biosolids-amended soil. Soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC) concentrations were influenced by soil physico-chemical properties and, in particular, larger background biomass concentrations were measured in unamended control soil containing the largest amount of organic matter. The microbiological content and substrate availability of the supplied materials also influenced the extent of the increases in SMBC. Soil protozoa numbers consistently increased in both experimental field soils from background values of 3-3.5 log10 g-1 ds to 4-4.5 log10 g-1 ds after sludge application. The extent of the increase was consistent with the effect of the organic amendments on SMBC. Laboratory investigations indicated the direct involvement of bacteriophagous protozoa activity in the soil ecological processes responsible for E. coli inactivation in biosolidsamended agricultural soil. This was linked to the addition of an active protozoa population to the soil in sludge, as well as to the stimulation of protozoa indigenous to the soil due to inputs of substrates and microbial biomass in sludge. Consequently, the survival of enteric organisms is a self-limiting process, due to the stimulation of microbial predatory activity in amended soil. Overall, the results provide assurance that assumptions relating to soil decay during waiting periods stipulated for agricultural use of sludge are highly conservative. They also confirm that the cropping/harvesting restrictions prescribed in legislation and guidance controlling the application of biosolids on farmland allow the natural attenuation of pathogens to protect human health with a significant margin of safety.
Interactions between piperonyl butoxide analogues and metabolic enzymes conferring insecticide resistance
Creators: name: Philippou, Despina
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: The insecticide synergist, piperonyl butoxide (PBO), has been used to reduce resistance factors and to characterise metabolic resistance resulting from mixed function oxidases (MFOs). Studies have also shown that PBO can interact with resistance-associated esterases. It is well-documented that the mechanism by which PBO inhibits P450s is the interaction of the methylenedioxyphenyl (MDP) moiety of PBO molecule with the haem moiety of the enzyme. To investigate the interactions between PBO and esterases, a structure activity relationship (SAR) study was carried out using analogues of PBO and E4, a resistanceassociated esterase from the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae. Results indicate that the polyether and the alkyl chain were fundamentally important in this interaction. Removing one oxygen atom from the MDP moiety of PBO did not affect the binding affinity, but increased affinities resulted from the replacement of the polyether with an alkynyl ether chain or by increasing the length of the alkyl chain. An analogue, EN 16/5-1, that retains the ability to interact with esterases but loses the ability to act on P450s, due to a modification to the MDP moiety, was used in conjunction with PBO to facilitate characterisation of metabolic resistance in M. persicae and pollen beetle Meligethes aeneus. Selected analogues of PBO containing the alkynyl ether side chain exhibited high synergistic effects in vivo and were found to be potent inhibitors of O-deethylation of 7-ethoxycoumarin when tested against pyrethroid resistant M. aeneus. The capability of some of the analogues to act as insecticide synergists was investigated in vivo against two M. persicae clones possessing different metabolic resistance profiles. Finally, the potential of PBO analogues to provide potent and/or specific synergism to overcome insecticide resistance and reduce insecticide titre applied to crops is considered.
Pseudoleptus hamedaniensis Khanjani, Khanjani, Saboori & Seeman 2012
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Tenuipalpidae
Pseudoleptus
Pseudoleptus hamedaniensis

description: Pseudoleptus hamedaniensis Khanjani, Khanjani, Saboori & Seeman, 2012: 43
— Holotype female (QM), from Bromus tectorum L. (Poaceae) beneath gum bushes, Astragalus gossypinus Fisch. (Fabaceae), Hamedan Province, Hamedan Iran (34º45'N, 48º 31'E).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
title: HIV/AIDS and Condom Usage Factors That Contribute to African American Women's Vulnerability to HIV Infection
Creators: name: Washington, Monica P.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2005

description: HIV/AIDS poses an enormous health threat to African Americans, specifically African American women. According to the Center for Disease Control "1 in 160 African American women are believed to be infected with HIV (Center for Disease Control 1999:1). In 2000, although African American women only represented 12% of the female population, they accounted for 64% of HIV cases reported among women (The White House 2000; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 2004).

This study examined HIV/AIDS and African American women and attempted to answer the question: Why are African American women not consistently using condoms to protect themselves against infection from HIV? The suspicion was that African American women did not have an accurate perception of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS which translated into inconsistent condom use. By examining worry level, chance of having HIV in the next five years, education, employment, and knowledge of HIV, this study sought to see what effect these items might have on condom usage.

This study found that despite their worry level and the belief of the chance of them having HIV in the next five years, African American women were not consistently using condoms. In addition, by looking at social aspects such as education, HIV knowledge, and employment status, only employment status affected condom use. Based on these findings, it's recommended that more economic opportunities be developed and presented to African American women. Without the opportunity to develop economically, African American women will not demand sexual behavior such as condom usage which protects them from potential exposure to HIV.
Phase I/II Archaeology, Site W - US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Prince Georges County, Maryland
Creators: name: Gunn, Joel D.
name: Wilson, Kathy J.
name: Holland, Jeffrey
name: Quinn, Anna Dyer
Publisher: name: Garrow & Associates, Inc.
Year: 1995
Subjects: Adelphi, MD
Prince George's (County)
Maryland (State / Territory)
18th Century
19th Century
Prehistoric
16th Century
18PR465
18PR466
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Fauna
Glass
Building Materials
Macrobotanical
Metal
Collections Management
Data Recovery / Excavation
Heritage Management

description: Garrow & Associates, Inc., conducted Phase II archaeological fieldwork at Site W on the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Prince Georges County, Maryland. The project was conducted for the Baltimore District, US Army Corps of Engineers in August 1995 for the Army Adelphi Laboratories, which has acquired a portion of the naval facility. The project tested two archaeological sites (18PR465 and 18PR466) within a parcel to be used for a wastewater containment pond, an administrative building, and a parking lot. The studies were done to assist the Army in their compliance with 36 CFR 800 and 36 CFR 66 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. This document also provides the results of a previously unreported Phase I survey of Site W. After background research and pre-fieldwork setup, a crew of four to five people were in the field for eight days. 25 one meter square test units were excavated, 10 in the prehistoric site 18PR465 and 15 in historic site 18PR466. Artifacts totaling 1,974 were gathered from the test units. An additional 206 artifacts were analyzed from shovel tests excavated during the previous Phase 1 survey by the Corps of Engineers staff. Artifacts were from both the historic period and the prehistoric period.
Additional file 2 of Identification and development of a novel invasion-related gene signature for prognosis prediction in colon adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Liu, Jiahua
name: Jiang, Chunhui
name: Xu, Chunjie
name: Wang, Dongyang
name: Shen, Yuguang
name: Liu, Ye
name: Gu, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Eight genes associated with the prognosis of colon carcinoma
Oral history interview with Ed Hamlett, 2000
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--United States

description: In this interview with Sheila Michaels, Ed Hamlett discusses his education, participation with civil rights organizations, and his professional career. Hamlett discusses his experience with race relations in his hometown of Fulton, Kentucky; his family's history; and his mother's belief that he would enter the ministry. Hamlett recounts the law enforcement career of his paternal grandfather "Big Stick" Hamlett, his father's work on the railroad and how it required the family to move from Fulton, to Jackson, and then to Memphis, Tennessee. He recounts his mother's work as a nurse. He discusses his reasons for becoming involved in activism, and his work with several organizations including: the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), National Student Association (NSA), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the White Southern Student Project (WSP), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), Council of Federated Organization (COFO), Community of the Performing Arts (COPA), and the White Folks Project (WFP). Hamlett provides his perspective on the difference between SNCC and SSOC's efforts to secure Southern Illinois University students to protest in Jackson, Tennessee. Hamlett discusses his college career at Union University, the University of Tennessee, and Georgetown; his work with campus based chaplains to desegregate off-campus eating establishments while at the University of Tennessee; and the pickets organized and executed between spring 1962 and January 1963. Hamlett names people associated with the White Folks Project, and explains his father's commitment to voting and its impact on his understanding of Black citizen's loss of their homes, in Fayette and Haywood County. He also discusses the impact of his activism at the University of Tennessee and his agreement to not initiate protest activity at Union University
A Boundary Thickening-based Direct Forcing Immersed Boundary Method for Fully Resolved Simulation of Particle-laden Flows
Creators: name: Jiang, Maoqiang
name: Liu, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A boundary thickening-based direct forcing (BTDF) immersed boundary (IB) method is proposed for fully resolved simulation of incompressible viscous flows laden with finite size particles. By slightly thickening the boundary thickness, the local communication between the Lagrangian points on the solid boundary and their neighboring fluid Eulerian grids is improved, based on an implicit direct forcing (IDF) approach and a partition-of-unity condition for the regularized delta function. This strategy yields a simple, yet much better imposition of the no-slip and no-penetration boundary conditions than the conventional direct forcing (DF) technique. In particular, the present BTDF method can achieve a numerical accuracy comparable with other representative improved methods, such as multi-direct forcing (MDF), implicit velocity correction (IVC) and the reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM), while its computation cost remains much lower and nearly equivalent to the conventional DF scheme. The dependence of the optimum thickness value of boundary thickening on the form of the regularized delta functions is also revealed. By coupling the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with BTDF-IB, the robustness of the present BTDF IB method is demonstrated using numerical simulations of creeping flow (Re=0.1), steady vortex separating flow (Re=40) and unsteady vortex shedding flow (Re=200) around a circular cylinder.
description: 29 pages, 16 figures
Oral history interview with Eddie, 1980
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drug addicts--United States
Drug dealers--United States
Drug traffic--History--20th century.--United States
Drug abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Heroin abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States
Drugs--Prescribing
Mafia

description: In this interview, Eddie discusses his life in New York City with special attention towards his drug use. He discusses in detail his father's heroin addiction, and how he developed connections with many Italian drug dealers living in Harlem while procuring heroin for his father. He compares the price of heroin between the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s. He discusses the Italian mafia's control of the drug trade in New York City in the mid twentieth century. He describes how he became addicted to heroin through repeated, accidental exposure, while he was cutting or mixing kilograms of the drug. He describes his various jobs such as driving a delivery truck for a grocery store, and driving a cab. He describes how heroin began to increase in price and decrease in quality in the 1940s. He discusses how the Italian mafia lost control of the drug trade in the 1960s, and the heroin became scarce, which cost him his connections and forced him to get a prescription for Dilaudid. He describes his experience of withdrawal symptoms like aches, nervousness, and perspiration
The Marshall-Olkin Weibull Truncated Negative Binomial Distribution and its Applications
Creators: name: Krishnan, Bindu
name: George, Dais
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Autoregressive model; Hazard rate; Marshall-Olkin distribution; Minification process; Renyi entropy; Shannon entropy; Weibull distribution

description: The Weibull distribution is one of the widely known lifetime distribution that has been extensively used for modelling data in reliability and survival analysis. A generalization of both the Marshall-OlkinWeibull distribution and the Weibull truncated negative binomial distribution is introduced and studied in this article. Various distributional properties of the new distribution are derived. Estimation of model parameters using the method of maximum likelihood is discussed. Applications to a real data set is provided to show the flexibility and potentiality of the new distribution over other Weibull models. The first order autoregressive minification process with the new distribution as marginal is also developed. We hope that the new model will serve as a good alternative to other models available in the literature for modeling positive real data in several areas.
description: Statistica, Vol 79, No 3 (2019)
SEVered: Subverting AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption
Creators: name: Morbitzer, Mathias
name: Huber, Manuel
name: Horsch, Julian
name: Wessel, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: AMD SEV is a hardware feature designed for the secure encryption of virtual machines. SEV aims to protect virtual machine memory not only from other malicious guests and physical attackers, but also from a possibly malicious hypervisor. This relieves cloud and virtual server customers from fully trusting their server providers and the hypervisors they are using. We present the design and implementation of SEVered, an attack from a malicious hypervisor capable of extracting the full contents of main memory in plaintext from SEV-encrypted virtual machines. SEVered neither requires physical access nor colluding virtual machines, but only relies on a remote communication service, such as a web server, running in the targeted virtual machine. We verify the effectiveness of SEVered on a recent AMD SEV-enabled server platform running different services, such as web or SSH servers, in encrypted virtual machines. With these examples, we demonstrate that SEVered reliably and efficiently extracts all memory contents even in scenarios where the targeted virtual machine is under high load.
description: Published in Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec'18)
A New Generalization of the Fréchet Distribution: Properties and Application
Creators: name: Pillai, Jayakumar Kuttan
name: Moolath, Girish Babu
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fréchet distribution; Hazard rate function; Maximum likelihood estimation; Moments; T-X family of distributions

description: A new generalization of the Fréchet distribution is introduced and studied. Its structural properties including the quantile function, random number generation, moments, moment generating function and order statistics are investigated. The unknown parameters of the model are estimated using maximum likelihood estimation method and a simulation study is carried out to check the performance of the method. The new model is applied to a real data set to prove empirically its flexibility.
description: Statistica, Vol 79, No 3 (2019)
Letters from the Adelphi Laboratory Center to Interested Parties, Dated 23 January 1991
Creators: name: Roudebush, Ray
Publisher: name: Adelphi Laboratory Center
Year: 1991
Subjects: Charles County (County)
Nanjemoy Creek
Potomac River
Maryland (State / Territory)
Port Tobacco River
Blossom Point, MD
Cedar Neck Point
18CH216
Ballast House
Domestic Structures
House
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Collections Management
Heritage Management

description: Multiple letters from the Adelphi Laboratory Center providing requested materials to interested parties surrounding the Ballast House dated 23 January 1991.
The Inverted Exponentiated Gamma Distribution: A Heavy-Tailed Model with Upside Down Bathtub Shaped Hazard Rate
Creators: name: Yadav, Abhimanyu Singh
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Inverted exponentiated gamma distribution; Stochastic ordering; Order statistics; Different method of classical estimation; Bayes estimation

description: In this article, we proposed and studied the inverted exponentiated gamma distribution (IEGD). IEGD is obtained by considering the inverse transformation of exponentiated gamma variate. This distribution has been motivated by the extensive use of the exponentiated gamma model in many applied areas and also due to the fact that this new generalization provides more flexibility to analyze real data with upside down bathtub (UBT) hazard rate. The shape of the distribution has been traced mathematically and found that the proposed model is compatible with UBT hazard rate models. The tail area property is also presented based on the idea of Marshall and Olkin (2007) and it is concluded that the new model belongs to the family of heavy-tailed distributions. Some other characteristics such as reliability, hazard, the quantile function, skewness and kurtosis, stochastic ordering, stress-strength reliability and order statistics have been explicitly derived. The classical and Bayesian estimation procedures have been discussed to estimate the unknown parameter of IEGD. The performances of classical and Bayes estimators are studied in terms of average mean square error (MSE) by conducting Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, a real data set with UBT type hazard rate is analyzed for the illustrative purpose of the study.
description: Statistica, Vol 79, No 3 (2019)
Oral history interview with Edgar Kausel 1997
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Seismology--Research

description: Childhood: born Santiago, Chile, son of mining engineer; University of Chile: mining engineering, 1953-1959; reminiscences of International Geophysical Year, Antarctic exploration, 1957; scholarship to Columbia University: Ph.D., seismology, 1960-1964; acclimatization to American culture; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]: seismological research, presentation of papers at colloquia, social activities, role of South American government officials in science; move to University of Chile: expansion of geophysical, meteorological, seismological departments, collaboration with American scientists, 1964-1971; return to United States: completion of Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, LDEO, 1971-1973; move to University of Chile, 1973: development of science during government upheaval, funding for seismological instruments; reminiscences of colleagues.
Electron Spin Noise under the Conditions of Nuclei Induced Frequency Focusing
Creators: name: Jäschke, Natalie
name: Anders, Frithjof B.
name: Glazov, Mikhail M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the electron spin noise in quantum dots under non-equilibrium conditions caused by the pumping by a train of circularly polarized optical pulses. In such a situation, the nuclear spins are known to adjust in such a way, that the electron spin precession frequencies become multiples of the pump pulse repetition frequency. This so called phase synchronization effect was uncovered in [Science {\bf 317}, 1896 (2007)] and termed nuclei-induced frequency focusing of electron spin coherence. Using the classical approach to the central spin model we evaluate the nuclear spin distribution function and the electron spin noise spectrum. We show that the electron spin noise spectrum consists of sharp peaks corresponding to the phase synchronization conditions and directly reveal the distribution of the nuclear spins. We discuss the effects of nuclear spin relaxation after the pumping is over and analyze the corresponding evolution of nuclear spin distributions and electron spin noise spectra.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Final state interaction in near-threshold meson production
Creators: name: Sibirtsev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the question what information, other than the Final State Interaction parameters, one can extract from data on near-threshold meson production.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX, including 2 ps-figures. To be pub. Acta Physica Polonica B
Quasi Random Resampling Designs for Multiple Frame Surveys
Creators: name: Aidara, Cherif Ahmat Tidiane
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Multiple frame surveys; Bootstrap variance method; Shuffled Sobol sequence

description: In this paper, we present two new algorithms that use the shuffled Sobol sequence to generate the bootstrap resampling designs in multiple frame surveys. We investigate the performance of the proposed algorithms in a simulation study using a three-overlapping frame setup design. The samples were selected independently from the frames using a stratified simple random sampling design. The performance of the proposed methods is comparable with the already established ones such as the Lohr-Rao bootstrap methods for multiple frame surveys in terms of relative percentage bias, coefficient of variation, and empirical coverage probabilities of 95 percent confidence interval.
description: Statistica, Vol 79, No 3 (2019)
$α$ Centauri A as a potential stellar model calibrator: establishing the nature of its core
Creators: name: Nsamba, B.
name: Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.
name: Campante, T. L.
name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Sousa, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the physical process responsible for the transport of energy in the core of $α$ Centauri A is of the utmost importance if this star is to be used in the calibration of stellar model physics. Adoption of different parallax measurements available in the literature results in differences in the interferometric radius constraints used in stellar modelling. Further, this is at the origin of the different dynamical mass measurements reported for this star. With the goal of reproducing the revised dynamical mass derived by Pourbaix & Boffin, we modelled the star using two stellar grids varying in the adopted nuclear reaction rates. Asteroseismic and spectroscopic observables were complemented with different interferometric radius constraints during the optimisation procedure. Our findings show that best-fit models reproducing the revised dynamical mass favour the existence of a convective core ($\gtrsim$ 70% of best-fit models), a result that is robust against changes to the model physics. If this mass is accurate, then $α$ Centauri A may be used to calibrate stellar model parameters in the presence of a convective core.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
Gauge Theory on Noncommutative Spaces
Creators: name: Madore, John
name: Schraml, Stefan
name: Schupp, Peter
name: Wess, Julius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a formulation of gauge theory on noncommutative spaces based on the concept of covariant coordinates. Some important examples are discussed in detail. A Seiberg-Witten map is established in all cases.
description: 16 pages
Progetto CARG - Linee guida per la geologia di sottosuolo
Creators: name: Servizio Geologico D'Italia
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: CARG, sottosuolo, modelli geologici 3D, subsurface, 3D geological model

description: Le linee guida sintetizzano i criteri e le principali fasi necessarie per giungere alla realizzazione di una cartografia di sottosuolo nonché le principali fasi di lavoro, i requisiti minimi per l’acquisizione, interpretazione e integrazione dei dati e per la realizzazione di modelli geologici tridimensionali nell’ambito del Progetto CARG.
Additional file 7: of Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a new soluble biomarker for malignant pleural mesothelioma involved in angiogenesis
Creators: name: Smeele, Patrick
name: Sènan D’Almeida
name: Meiller, Clément
name: Anne-Laure Chéné
name: Liddell, Charly
name: Cellerin, Laurent
name: Montagne, François
name: Deshayes, Sophie
name: Benziane, Sarah
name: Marie-Christine Copin
name: Hofman, Paul
name: Pimpec-Barthes, Françoise Le
name: Porte, Henri
name: Scherpereel, Arnaud
name: Grégoire, Marc
name: Jean, Didier
name: Blanquart, Christophe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Tables S4.1 and S4.2. Diagnostic value of BDNF in pleural effusions. (DOCX 14 kb)
Slides: Pol-InISAR Approach for 3D Imaging of Non-Cooperative Targets
Creators: Ajeet Kumar
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

SPS Webinar, 8 May 2024, Dr. Ajeet Kumar

This webinar presentation will describe a Polarimetric Interferometry Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-InISAR)-based novel 3D imaging approach for detecting complex non-cooperative military targets in their true 3D form. 3D imaging overcomes the limitations of 2D imaging methods related to the unknown IPP (image projection plane) and the requirement of cross-range scaling. 3D imaging of non-cooperative targets becomes possible by combining additional information of interferometric phase along with conventional 2D ISAR imaging. In the previously reported single-polarimetry InISAR-based 3D imaging, only a single-channel interferometric phase is available, which can be exploited to reconstruct the 3D ISAR image. This limits the ability to obtain the full target's scattering response and, therefore, limits the estimation of an accurate interferometric phase. To overcome this constraint, full-polarimetry ISAR information is exploited, allowing the selection of the optimal polarimetric combination that provides the highest coherence. Higher coherence leads to a reduction, optimally a minimization, of the phase estimation error. Consequently, with optimal phase estimation, accurate 3D imaging of the target is possible. To validate this proposed Pol-InISAR-based 3D imaging approach, both simulated and real datasets are taken into consideration.
Slides: Image-to-Image Translation: Methods and Applications
Creators: Zhibo Chen
Jianxin Lin
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

SPS Webinar, 25 April 2024, Dr. Zhibo Chen, Dr. Jianxin Lin

In recent years, we have witnessed the impressive progress of cross-modality and cross-domain content generation based on generative learning approaches. In this webniar, we will introduce Image-to-image translation (I2I) technologies, which aims to transfer images from a source domain to a target domain while preserving the content representations. I2I has gained significant traction and achieved remarkable advancements in recent years due to its extensive applicability in various computer vision and image processing tasks. These tasks include but are not limited to image synthesis, segmentation, style transfer, restoration, and pose estimation. Firstly, we will begin with the introduction of well-established generative models, including the VAE model, GAN model, AR model, and Diffusion model. Next, we will provide a detailed summary of Image-to-image translation technologies. We will categorize the cross-domain image generation problem into two main sets of tasks, i.e., supervised cross-domain image generation tasks and unsupervised/self-supervised cross-domain image generation tasks. We will provide a detailed taxonomy of the cross-domain image generation based on the different ways of designing model architecture, model optimization and sources of information, such as few-shot image generation or multi-modal image generation. In closing, we will provide a concise overview of recent progress and upcoming research directions.
Pseudoleptus iranensis Khanjani, Khanjani & Seeman 2012
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Tenuipalpidae
Pseudoleptus
Pseudoleptus iranensis

description: Pseudoleptus iranensis Khanjani, Khanjani & Seeman, 2012: 46
— Holotype female (BASU) from Bromus danthoniae Elymus (Poaceae), under spiny hawthorn trees, Crataegus aronia (L.) (Rosaceae), Hamedan province, Hamedan, uphill of Alvand mountain, Iran (34°39.8'27''N, 48°23'0.35''E).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Saturn Equation of anomaly at minimum distance, Toledan tables by Pedersen (Fritz S.) (2002) | Type-B (ID n° 291)
Creators: name: Pedersen, Fritz S.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/291
description: Source: The Toledan Tables, Pedersen (Fritz S.), 2002
Additional file 3 of The impact of Zn-doped synthetic polymer materials on bone regeneration: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wang, Siyi
name: Li, Rong
name: Xia, Dandan
name: Zhao, Xiao
name: Zhu, Yuan
name: Gu, Ranli
name: Yoon, Jungmin
name: Liu, Yunsong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3 : Table S3. Search strategies in Cochrane Library database and related results.
The $ωNN$ couplings derived from QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light cone QCD sum rules are derived for $ωNN$ vector and tensor couplings simultaneously. The vacuum gluon field contribution is taken into account. Our results are $g_ω=(18\pm 8), κ_ω=(0.8\pm 0.4)$.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. C (Brief Report)
Slides: Deep Learning-based Non-Intrusive Multi-Objective Speech Assessment Model with Cross-Domain Features
Creators: Ryandhimas E. Zezario
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

SPS Webinar, 7 May 2024, Dr. Ryandhimas E. Zezario
Speech assessment metrics are indicators that quantitatively measure specific attributes of speech signals, and they are vital for developing speech-related application systems. The emergence of deep learning models and the need for non-intrusive methods that can accurately evaluate speech quality or intelligibility without requiring ground-truth labels have led to the development of many deep learning-based speech assessment models. In this webinar, we will first discuss the general ideas of speech assessment metrics, including introducing conventional signal processing-based approaches. Next, we will introduce the general concept of deploying deep learning-based speech assessment models, including current existing strategies, important aspects, and challenges of model deployment. We will then introduce our approach, MOSA-Net, a deep learning-based non-intrusive Multi-Objective Speech Assessment model with cross-domain features. This model can simultaneously estimate speech quality, intelligibility, and distortion assessment scores of an input speech signal. Lastly, we will introduce the direct integration of the speech assessment model for robust speech enhancement (SE) performance, where we adopt the latent representations of MOSA-Net to guide the SE process and derive a quality-intelligibility (QI)-aware SE (QIA-SE) approach.
Green-Schwarz String in AdS_5 x S^5: Semiclassical Partition Function
Creators: name: Drukker, Nadav
name: Gross, David J.
name: Tseytlin, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic approach to the study of semiclassical fluctuations of strings in AdS_5 x S^5 based on the Green-Schwarz formalism is developed. We show that the string partition function is well defined and finite. Issues related to different gauge choices are clarified. We consider explicitly several cases of classical string solutions with the world surface ending on a line, on a circle or on two lines on the boundary of AdS. The first example is a BPS object and the partition function is one. In the third example the determinants we derive should give the first corrections to the Wilson loop expectation value in the strong coupling expansion of the n=4 SYM theory at large N.
description: 61 pages, harvmac, minor changes
Slides: SPS Short Course: New trends in Computational MRI - Day 3 of 3
Creators: Philippe Ciuciu
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

SPS Short Course, 22 March 2024, Dr. Philippe Ciuciu
Course Overview
This course aims to summarize recent model-based and data driven approaches in accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), concerning both data acquisition and image reconstruction strategies. Hence, it will embody a review of variational methods based on optimization algorithms to implement both model-based data acquisition and image reconstruction methods and then deep learning techniques to leverage big data sets for image reconstruction and finally the design of new acquisition techniques. Prior to that, to make this course self-contained and clearly identify the novelty of the material that will be taught, the required background of MR physics for data collection in the standard setting will be introduced for multiple anatomical imaging contrasts (T1, T2, T2*, etc.). Additionally, the state of the art in classical acceleration techniques, called parallel imaging, will be reviewed as well. All these aspects are rarely covered in IEEE lectures.  This course is specifically tailored to graduate students, researchers and industry professionals working in the medical imaging field who want to know more about the radical shift machine learning has introduced for MRI during the last few years. As MRI is the most widely used medical imaging technique for non-invasively probing soft tissues in the human body (brain, heart, breast, liver, etc.), training PhD students, postdocs and researchers in electrical and biomedical engineering is strategic for crossfertilizing the fields and for understanding the ML-related needs and expectations from the MRI side.

Day Three: Lectures 6 and 7.
Architectures for Detecting Interleaved Multi-stage Network Attacks Using Hidden Markov Models
Creators: name: Shawly, Tawfeeq
name: Elghariani, Ali
name: Kobes, Jason
name: Ghafoor, Arif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the growing amount of cyber threats, the need for development of high-assurance cyber systems is becoming increasingly important. The objective of this paper is to address the challenges of modeling and detecting sophisticated network attacks, such as multiple interleaved attacks. We present the interleaving concept and investigate how interleaving multiple attacks can deceive intrusion detection systems. Using one of the important statistical machine learning (ML) techniques, Hidden Markov Models (HMM), we develop two architectures that take into account the stealth nature of the interleaving attacks, and that can detect and track the progress of these attacks. These architectures deploy a database of HMM templates of known attacks and exhibit varying performance and complexity. For performance evaluation, in the presence of multiple multi-stage attack scenarios, various metrics are proposed which include (1) attack risk probability, (2) detection error rate, and (3) the number of correctly detected stages. Extensive simulation experiments are used to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed architectures.
Comparisons of Methods of Estimation for a New Pareto-type Distribution
Creators: name: Saadati Nik, Ali
name: Asgharzadeh, Akbar
name: Nadarajah, Saralees
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bayesian estimates; Least squares estimates; Maximum likelihood estimates; Method of moment estimates; Monte Carlo simulation; Percentiles estimates; Weighted least squares estimates

description: Bourguignon et al. (2016) introduced a new Pareto-type distribution to model income and reliability data. The aim of this paper is to estimate the parameters of this distribution from both frequentist and Bayesian view points. The maximum likelihood estimates, method of moment estimates, percentile estimates, least square and weighted least square estimates and maximum product of spacing estimates are considered as frequentist estimates. We have also considered the Bayes estimates of the unknown parameters and the associated credible intervals. The Bayes estimates are computed using an importance sampling method. To evaluate the performance of the different estimates, a Monte Carlo simulation study is carried out. Some real life data sets have been analyzed for illustrative purposes.
description: Statistica, Vol 79, No 3 (2019)
Oral history interview with Edith D., 1980
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nightclubs--New York (State)
Drug addicts--United States
Opium abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Heroin abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Methadone maintenance--History--20th century.--United States

description: Edith D. discusses the arc of her life, jobs, relationships, and addictions. She discusses her time working in dress shops and checkrooms, and her involvement in organizing unions in nightclubs, which included communicating with crime boss Louis Lepke Buchalter. She describes the class-based scenes of opium smokers. She is dying of throat cancer at the time of the interview, and approximately half-way through the interview, she gets too tired to speak, so her husband Abe D. begins speaking too. She and Abe discuss the social perceptions of an opium user versus a heroin junkie. They also discuss the changing prices of opium, various "cures," the mechanics of an opium pipe, and the transition to using heroin. The interview mentions a number of famous people the couple encountered through drug circles: Rudy Vallee, Irving Berlin, Billy Rose, and Billie Holiday
Letters from the Maryland Office of Planning to the Harry Diamond Laboratories, Review and Recommendation
Creators: name: Abrams, Mary J.
name: Scotto, Susan
Publisher: name: Maryland Office of Planning
Year: 1992
Subjects: Charles County (County)
Nanjemoy Creek
Potomac River
Maryland (State / Territory)
Port Tobacco River
Blossom Point, MD
Cedar Neck Point
18CH216
Ballast House
Domestic Structures
House
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Collections Management
Heritage Management

description: A letter from the Maryland Office of Planning in regards to endorsement contingent upon certain conditions for the Blossom Point Farmhouse salvaging application. Another letter is enclosed from the State of Maryland Department of the Environment detailing how to dispose of any lead paint or asbestos found within the farmhouse, and who to contact on proper disposal of any other toxic substances.