cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impacts of tree improvement programs on yields of white spruce and hybrid spruce in the Canadian boreal forest
Creators: name: Ahmed, Suborna Shekhor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Local and regional timber shortages may be ameliorated via planting improved stocks with higher yields. In this dissertation, I addressed an important knowledge gap on the impacts of tree improvement programs on yields of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and hybrid spruce (Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelmann x Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) plantations across the boreal and hemiboreal forests of Canada using meta-modelling approaches. In particular, I used meta-data for white and hybrid spruce provenance trials extracted from the literature to: (i) forecast provenance yields over time for broad spatial and temporal extents; (ii) model yields of provenances relative to standard stocks (termed “gain”) over time; and (iii) test alternatives for forecasting each provenance at a location using available repeated-measures data. In the first study, provenance height over time trajectories were modelled by incorporating the effects of climatic variables, provenances and site characteristics into mixed-effects nonlinear models via a random coefficients modelling approach. Height trajectories were strongly affected by planting site and provenance climates, along with planting site characteristics. The height trajectory meta-model was incorporated into an existing growth and yield model, which can be used to predict provenance yields for long temporal and large spatial extents. In the second study, the impacts of the particular gain definition (i.e., selection age, proportion of top performers) were examined using the model from the first study, and one definition was selected. A meta-model of gain as a function of plantation age, planting density, and planting site climate was developed. Planting site climate strongly affected these gain trajectories. The gain definition and trajectory model can be used to evaluate potential gains of using improved white and hybrid spruce stocks. Forecasts are needed to evaluate provenance (or progeny) performance at harvest, often 80 or more years from planting. In the third study, three alternative procedures (population-averaged, subject-specific, and autocorrelation) to forecast repeated measures for a particular progeny at a location were compared and evaluated by virtually removing some repeated measures. The subject-specific forecasts were best with accuracies similar to the measurement precision using standard height measurement devices given five or more prior measurements.
Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges. William Boelhower
Creators: name: Grossi, Angelo Maria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Atlantic Studies; William Boelhower; review

description: Recensione di Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges. William Boelhower
description: Iperstoria, No 16 (2020): Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali
Fluctuations and stability in front propagation
Creators: name: Khain, E.
name: Lin, Y. T.
name: Sander, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagating fronts arising from bistable reaction-diffusion equations are a purely deterministic effect. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes also show front propagation which coincides with the deterministic effect in the limit of small fluctuations (usually, large populations). However, for larger fluctuations propagation can be affected. We give an example, based on the classic spruce-budworm model, where the direction of wave propagation, i.e., the relative stability of two phases, can be reversed by fluctuations.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 5 of Electronic data collection, management and analysis tools used for outbreak response in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and stakeholder survey
Creators: name: Keating, Patrick
name: Murray, Jillian
name: Schenkel, Karl
name: Merson, Laura
name: Seale, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 5. Number and percentage of respondents to the stakeholder survey per responding organisation. Table shows the number and percentages of respondents per organisation that responded to the stakeholder survey.
IT-Umweltmanagement nach EMAS – Ein Leitfaden für den Aufbau einer Green-IT der bayerischen Hochschulen
Creators: name: Mayr, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Green-IT

description: "Green-IT" und Umweltmanagement gewinnen in der heutigen Zeit immer mehr an Bedeutung. Ein nachhaltiger Ansatz im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik an den bayerischen Hochschulen könnte hier Unterstützung bieten. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen detaillierten Leitfaden für den Aufbau eines IT-Umweltmanagements nach EMAS für die "Green-IT" der bayerischen Hochschulen zu entwickeln. Anhand eines Vergleichs wurde herausgefunden, welches Umweltmanagementsystem für den Einsatz an den bayerischen Hochschulen am besten geeignet ist. Anschließend wurde das System näher untersucht und seine Privilegien, Verantwortlichkeiten und Vorgehensweisen dargelegt. Anhand von Kennzahlen wurden messbare Werte für die Bewertung einer umweltfreundlichen "Green-IT" und eines Umweltmanagementsystems bereitgestellt. Dazu wurden Kennzahlen von EMAS, Rechenzentren und Politik herangezogen. Darüber hinaus wurde eine Umfrage durchgeführt, um den aktuellen Stand von "Green-IT" und Umweltmanagementsystemen an bayerischen Hochschulen zu ermitteln. Die Befragung bezog sich auf Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte, Umweltmanagementsysteme und Kennzahlen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die bayerischen Hochschulen eine Ausgangsbasis im Bereich der Nachhaltigkeit gebildet haben, aber noch einige Aspekte verbessert und für ein Umweltmanagementsystem berücksichtigt werden müssen. Basierend darauf wird empfohlen, möglichst bald ein Umweltmanagementsystem aufzubauen, um die Vorteile produktiv nutzen zu können.
Measurement of the anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry with 9 fb^-1 of p pbar collisions
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated measurement of the anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry Aslb for semi-leptonic $b$-hadron decays in 9.0 fb^-1 of p pbar collisions recorded with the D0 detector at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We obtain Aslb = (-0.787 +- 0.172(stat) +- 0.093 (syst))%. This result differs by 3.9 standard deviations from the prediction of the standard model and provides evidence for anomalously large CP violation in semi-leptonic neutral B decay. The dependence of the asymmetry on the muon impact parameter is consistent with the hypothesis that it originates from semi-leptonic b-hadron decays.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
CHARM 2010: Experiment Summary and Future Charm Facilities
Creators: name: Appel, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CHARM 2010 meeting had over 30 presentations of experimental results, plus additional future facilities talks just before this summary talk. Since there is not enough time even to summarize all that has been shown from experiments and to recognize all the memorable plots and results, this summary will give a few personal observations, an overview at a fairly high level of abstraction.
description: 5 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of CHARM 2010, October 21-24, 2010, IHEP, Beijing, China. One spelling error corrected for V2
Introduzione alla sezione monografica “Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali”
Creators: name: De Biasio, Anna
name: Gennero, Valeria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: transmedia studies, intermediality, transmediality, narratology

description: Introduzione alla sezione monografica “Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali”
description: Iperstoria, No 16 (2020): Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali
Kinetic exchange models for social opinion formation
Creators: name: Lallouache, Mehdi
name: Chakraborti, Anirban
name: Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a minimal model for the collective dynamics of opinion formation in the society, by modifying kinetic exchange dynamics studied in the context of income, money or wealth distributions in a society. This model has an intriguing spontaneous symmetry breaking transition.
description: 4 pages REVTeX format, 2 figures. Revised version. To appear in "Econophysics", a special issue in Science and Culture (Kolkata, India) to celebrate 15 years of Econophysics
Early UV Ingress in WASP-12b: Measuring Planetary Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Vidotto, A. A.
name: Jardine, M.
name: Helling, Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Fossati et al. observed that the UV transit of WASP-12b showed an early ingress compared to the optical transit. We suggest that the resulting early ingress is caused by a bow shock ahead of the planetary orbital motion. In this Letter we investigate the conditions that might lead to the formation of such a bow shock. We consider two scenarios: (1) the stellar magnetic field is strong enough to confine the hot coronal plasma out to the planetary orbit and (2) the stellar magnetic field is unable to confine the plasma, which escapes in a wind. In both cases, a shock capable of compressing plasma to the observed densities will form around the planet for plasma temperatures T < (4 - 5) x 10^6 K. In the confined case, the shock always forms directly ahead of the planet, but in the wind case the shock orientation depends on the wind speed and hence on the plasma temperature. For higher wind temperatures, the shock forms closer to the line of centers between the planet and the star. We conclude that shock formation leading to an observable early UV ingress is likely to be a common feature of transiting systems and may prove to be a useful tool in setting limits on planetary magnetic field strengths Bp. In the case of WASP-12b, we derive an upper limit of about Bp=24 G.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Uses emulateapj.cls
Multiple trap optical tweezers for cell force measurements
Creators: name: Schwingel, Melanie
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: optical tweezers
adhesion forces
vinculin
retrograde actin flow

description: Adherent cells establish transient adhesion sites that serve as stable anchors of the cell cytoskeleton to the substrate and concomitantly allow for force transduction and cell motility. We established a multiple trap optical tweezers system for non-invasive cell force measurements at individual adhesion sites. A force study was conducted to analyze the impact of bead functionalization, adhesion site area, location, spacing, and orientation as well as the role of vinculin on adhesion formation.
One-loop omega-potential of quantum fields with ellipsoid constant-energy surface dispersion law
Creators: name: Kazinski, P. O.
name: Shipulya, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapidly convergent expansions of a one-loop contribution to the partition function of quantum fields with ellipsoid constant-energy surface dispersion law are derived. The omega-potential is naturally decomposed into three parts: the quasiclassical contribution, the contribution from the branch cut of the dispersion law, and the oscillating part. The low- and high-temperature expansions of the quasiclassical part are obtained. An explicit expression and a relation of the contribution from the cut with the Casimir term and vacuum energy are established. The oscillating part is represented in the form of the Chowla-Selberg expansion for the Epstein zeta function. Various resummations of this expansion are considered. The developed general procedure is applied to two models: massless particles in a box both at zero and non-zero chemical potential; electrons in a thin metal film. The rapidly convergent expansions of the partition function and average particle number are obtained for these models. In particular, the oscillations of the chemical potential of conduction electrons in graphene and a thin metal film due to a variation of sizes of the crystal are described.
description: 49 pp, 5 figs; minor textual changes
Biology and biotechnology of dissimilatory metal reduction in Shewanella oneidensis
Creators: name: Bücking, Clemens
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Shewanella oneidenis
dissimilatory metal reduction
outer membrane cytochromes
microbial fuel cell
microbial biosensor

description: Dissimilatory metal reduction is a form of anaerobic respiration that uses solid metal oxide minerals as terminal electron acceptors. One important model organism for this form of respiration is the gamma-proteobacterium Shewanella oneidensis. Electrons that are derived from oxidative processes at the cytoplasmic membrane are transferred via c-type cytochromes through the periplasm and further to the outer membrane. The terminal electron acceptor is reduced outside of the cell.
Testing of information condensation in a model reverberating spiking neural network
Creators: name: Vidybida, Alexander K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information about external world is delivered to the brain in the form of structured in time spike trains. During further processing in higher areas, information is subjected to a certain condensation process, which results in formation of abstract conceptual images of external world, apparently, represented as certain uniform spiking activity partially independent on the input spike trains details. Possible physical mechanism of condensation at the level of individual neuron was discussed recently. In a reverberating spiking neural network, due to this mechanism the dynamics should settle down to the same uniform/periodic activity in response to a set of various inputs. Since the same periodic activity may correspond to different input spike trains, we interpret this as possible candidate for information condensation mechanism in a network. Our purpose is to test this possibility in a network model consisting of five fully connected neurons, particularly, the influence of geometric size of the network, on its ability to condense information. Dynamics of 20 spiking neural networks of different geometric sizes are modelled by means of computer simulation. Each network was propelled into reverberating dynamics by applying various initial input spike trains. We run the dynamics until it becomes periodic. The Shannon's formula is used to calculate the amount of information in any input spike train and in any periodic state found. As a result, we obtain explicit estimate of the degree of information condensation in the networks, and conclude that it depends strongly on the net's geometric size.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, 40 references. Content of this work was partially published in an abstract form in the abstract book of the 2nd International Biophysics Congress and Biotechnology at GAP & 21th National Biophysics Congress, (5-9 Oct. 2009) Diyarbakir, Turkey, http://www.ibc2009.org/. In v2 the ancillary file movie.pdf is added, which offers examples of neuronal network dynamics
Additional file 9 of Electronic data collection, management and analysis tools used for outbreak response in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and stakeholder survey
Creators: name: Keating, Patrick
name: Murray, Jillian
name: Schenkel, Karl
name: Merson, Laura
name: Seale, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 9. PRISMA checklist. PRISMA checklist describes how PRISMA criteria were applied to the conduct of the systematic review.
Quantum coherent control of laser-kicked molecular rotors
Creators: name: Bitter, Martin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this dissertation is the experimental study and control of laser-kicked molecular rotors. Nonresonant rotational Raman excitation of linear molecules by periodic sequences of ultra-short laser pulses allows for the realization of a paradigm system - the periodically kicked rotor. This apparently simple physical system has drawn much interest within the last decades, especially due to its role in the field of quantum chaos. This thesis presents an experimental apparatus capable of producing long sequences of high-energy femtosecond pulses. Rotation of diatomic molecules, the most basic version of quantum rotors, is investigated under multi-pulse excitation. In the case of periodic kicking, the wave function of the quantum rotor dynamically localizes in the angular momentum space, similarly to Anderson localization of the electronic wave function in disordered solids. We present the first direct observation of dynamical localization in a system of true rotors. The suppressed growth of rotational energy is demonstrated, as well as the noise-induced recovery of diffusion, indicative of classical dynamics. We examine other distinct features of the quantum kicked rotor and report on quantum resonances, the phenomena of rotational Bloch oscillations and Rabi oscillations. In addition, multi-pulse excitation is investigated in the context of creating broad rotational wave packets. Another goal of the reported study is the coherent control of quantum chaos. We demonstrate that the relative phases in a superposition of rotational states can be used to control the process of dynamical localization. We specify the sensitivity to external parameters and illustrate the loss of control in the classical limit of laser-molecule interaction. Our work advances the general understanding of the dynamics of laser kicked molecules and complements previous studies of the quantum kicked rotor in a system of cold atoms. The results encourage further studies, e.g. of quantum phenomena which are unique to true rotors. The possibility of control in classically chaotic systems has far reaching implications for the ultimate prospect of using coherence to control chemical reactions.
Sampling protocol for aquatic fungi from marine, river and lake water and sediment
Creators: name: Kristel, Panksep
name: Leho, Tedersoo
name: Helen, Tammert
name: Alo, Laas
name: Veljo, Kisand
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: aquatic fungi, sampling protocol, Sterivex

description: Sampling protocol for Global DNA-based inventory of aquatic fungi for documenting global fungal biodiversity in water and sediments. Fungi are the key players in decomposition, plant nutrition, and plant damage in terrestrial ecosystems. Recent molecular research indicates that fungi with yeast-like, flagellate, and also filamentous cell forms are sometimes the dominant groups of heterotrophic eukaryotes in aquatic habitats, with important roles as pathogens of all organisms (Chytridiomycota, Rozellomycota including Microsporidea) and decomposers of organic material (Chytridiomycota, Ascomycota). In sediments, micro-aerophilic yeasts and specialized anaerobic groups of early diverging fungal lineages are common as degraders. Although fungal diversity has been documented in specific aquatic ecosystems in several places across the world, differences in sampling methods and molecular identification tools do not allow drawing any conclusions about the dominant fungal groups, overall fungal diversity, and mechanisms driving fungal composition. The FunAqua project intends to overcome these limitations, with a central objective of documenting the drivers of global aquatic fungal diversity and determining the breadth of the niche of aquatic fungi locally and globally and in relation to soil and leaves. Fungal diversity will be determined based on the extracted DNA and third-generation sequencing of the ribosomal RNA gene small subunit and ITS spacers. The core team of this project involves hydrobiologists, microbiologists, and fungal ecologists from the Estonian University of Life Sciences (PI, Kristel Panksep; Alo Laas; Helen Tammert) and University of Tartu (co-PI, Leho Tedersoo; Veljo Kisand) with a global collaborative research network.
Homology and K-theory of the Bianchi groups
Creators: name: Rahm, Alexander D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We reveal a correspondence between the homological torsion of the Bianchi groups and new geometric invariants, which are effectively computable thanks to their action on hyperbolic space. We use it to explicitly compute their integral group homology and equivariant $K$-homology. By the Baum/Connes conjecture, which holds for the Bianchi groups, we obtain the $K$-theory of their reduced $C^*$-algebras in terms of isomorphic images of the computed $K$-homology. We further find an application to Chen/Ruan orbifold cohomology. % {\it To cite this article: Alexander D. Rahm, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I +++ (2011).}
Additional file 1 of Large-scale data analysis for robotic yeast one-hybrid platforms and multi-disciplinary studies using GateMultiplex
Creators: name: Tsai, Ni-Chiao
name: Hsu, Tzu-Shu
name: Kuo, Shang-Che
name: Kao, Chung-Ting
name: Hung, Tzu-Huan
name: Lin, Da-Gin
name: Yeh, Chung-Shu
name: Chu, Chia-Chen
name: Lin, Jeng-Shane
name: Lin, Hsin-Hung
name: Ko, Chia-Ying
name: Chang, Tien-Hsien
name: Su, Jung-Chen
name: Lin, Ying-Chung Jimmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figure S1-S26.
Possible Role of the WZ-Top-Quark Bags in Baryogenesis
Creators: name: Flambaum, Victor V.
name: Shuryak, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heaviest members of the SM -- the gauge bosons $W,Z$ and the top quarks and antiquarks -- may form collective bag-like excitations of the Higgs vacuum provided their number is large enough, both at zero and finite temperatures. Since Higgs vacuum expectation value (VEV) is significantly modified inside them, they are called "bags". In this work we argue that creation of such objects can explain certain numerical studies of cosmological baryogenesis. Using as an example a hybrid model, combining inflationary preheating with cold electroweak transition, we identify "spots of unbroken phase" found in numerical studies of this scenario with such $W-Z$ bags. We argue that the baryon number violation should happen predominantly inside these objects, and show that the rates calculated in numerical simulations can be analytically explained using finite-size pure gauge sphaleron solutions, developed previously in the QCD context by Carter, Ostrovsky and Shuryak (COS). Furthermore, we point out significant presence of the top quarks/antiquarks in these bag (which were not included in those numerical studies). Although the basic sphaleron exponent remains unchanged by the top's presence, we find that tops help to stabilize them for a longer time. Another enhancement of the transition rate comes from the "recycling" of the tops in the topological transition. Inclusion of the fermions (tops) enhances the sphaleron rate by up to 2 orders of magnitude. We finally discuss the magnitude of the CP violation needed to explain the observed baryonic asymmetry of the Universe, and give arguments that the difference in the top-antitop population in the bag of the right magnitude can arise both from CP asymmetries in the top decays and in top propagation into the bags, due to Farrar-Shaposhnikov effect.
description: Version 2 has small corrections of some formulae and added one reference
Multipe-Input Multiple-Output Synthetic Aperture Radar for Multimodal Operation
Creators: name: Kim, Jung-Hyo
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2011
Subjects: synthetic
aperture
radar
(SAR)

description: This work introduces a novel Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) SAR and a new orthogonal waveform scheme based on the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique. Demodulation combined with digital beamforming makes it possible that the OFDM waveform is used for a traditional spaceborne SAR scenario. This work deals with the MIMO SAR system operation principles and verifies the OFDM waveform by laboratory measurements.
MPEC 2023-H228 : 2023 HK6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HK6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
An Examination of the Parent-teacher Relationship as Universal Protection against Preschool Expulsion
Creators: name: Zulauf, Courtney
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Across the United States, rates of preschool expulsion exceed those in K-12 and relatively little is known of how to prevent such disciplinary decisions. Adding to the concerning rate in which children are being expelled, is that preschool expulsion disproportionately affects children of color, especially boys. The present study explores a potential protective strategy existent in all early childhood centers, the relationship formed between parents and teachers. Surveys and interviews with early childhood teachers and parents outline the association between the parent-teacher relationship and a child’s risk for expulsion. Quantitative findings indicate that high-quality parent-teacher relationships are related to a lower risk for expulsion for children who have not been expelled, with the strongest association found for Black children. Interviews with teachers and parents of children who have been expelled provide rich detail about protective practices and styles of interactions between parents and teachers that can be used in future training programs and interventions.
Edge-based compartmental modeling for epidemic spread Part II: Model Selection and Hierarchies
Creators: name: Miller, Joel C.
name: Volz, Erik M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the edge-based compartmental models for epidemic spread developed in Part I. We show conditions under which simpler models may be substituted for more detailed models, and in so doing we define a hierarchy of epidemic models. In particular we provide conditions under which it is appropriate to use the standard mass action SIR model, and we show what happens when these conditions fail. Using our hierarchy, we provide a procedure leading to the choice of the appropriate model for a given population. Our result about the convergence of models to the Mass Action model gives clear, rigorous conditions under which the Mass Action model is accurate.
Additional file 2 of Large-scale data analysis for robotic yeast one-hybrid platforms and multi-disciplinary studies using GateMultiplex
Creators: name: Tsai, Ni-Chiao
name: Hsu, Tzu-Shu
name: Kuo, Shang-Che
name: Kao, Chung-Ting
name: Hung, Tzu-Huan
name: Lin, Da-Gin
name: Yeh, Chung-Shu
name: Chu, Chia-Chen
name: Lin, Jeng-Shane
name: Lin, Hsin-Hung
name: Ko, Chia-Ying
name: Chang, Tien-Hsien
name: Su, Jung-Chen
name: Lin, Ying-Chung Jimmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 2. Detailed concept illustrations during the operating steps of GateMultiplex.
Conductance and Thermopower of Ballistic Andreev Cavities
Creators: name: Engl, Thomas
name: Kuipers, Jack
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When coupling a superconductor to a normal conducting region the physical properties of the system are highly affected by the superconductor. We will investigate the effect of one or two superconductors on the conductance of a ballistic chaotic quantum dot to leading order in the total channel number using trajectory based semiclassics. The results show that the effect of one superconductor on the conductance is of the order of the number of channels and that the sign of the correction from the Drude conductance depends on the particular ratios of the numbers of channels of the superconducting and normal conducting leads. In the case of two superconductors with the same chemical potential we will also see how the conductance and the sign of quantum corrections are affected by their phase difference. As far as random matrix theory results exist these are reproduced by our calculations. Furthermore in the case that the chemical potential of the superconductors is the same as that of one of the two normal leads the conductance shows, under certain conditions, similar effects as a normal metal-superconductor junction. The semiclassical framework is also able to treat the thermopower of chaotic Andreev billiards consisting of one chaotic dot, two normal leads and two superconducting islands and shows it to be antisymmetric in the phase difference of the superconductors.
description: 23 pages
Additional file 3 of Large-scale data analysis for robotic yeast one-hybrid platforms and multi-disciplinary studies using GateMultiplex
Creators: name: Tsai, Ni-Chiao
name: Hsu, Tzu-Shu
name: Kuo, Shang-Che
name: Kao, Chung-Ting
name: Hung, Tzu-Huan
name: Lin, Da-Gin
name: Yeh, Chung-Shu
name: Chu, Chia-Chen
name: Lin, Jeng-Shane
name: Lin, Hsin-Hung
name: Ko, Chia-Ying
name: Chang, Tien-Hsien
name: Su, Jung-Chen
name: Lin, Ying-Chung Jimmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 3. Manual-Y1H. A step-by-step manual for operating GateMultiplex on Y1H analysis.
Curvature in spinfoams
Creators: name: Magliaro, Elena
name: Perini, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider spinfoam quantum gravity. We show in a simple case that the amplitude projects over a nontrivial (curved) classical geometry. This suggests that, at least for spinfoams without bubbles and for large values of the boundary spins, the amplitude takes the form of a path integral over Regge metrics, thus enforcing discrete Einstein equations in the classical limit. The result relies crucially on a new interpretation of the semiclassical limit for the amplitudes truncated to a fixed 2-complex.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
The Degenerate Parametric Oscillator and Ince's Equation
Creators: name: Cordero-Soto, Ricardo
name: Suslov, Sergei K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 81Q05, 35C05. Secondary 42A38

description: We construct Green's function for the quantum degenerate parametric oscillator in terms of standard solutions of Ince's equation in a framework of a general approach to harmonic oscillators. Exact time-dependent wave functions and their connections with dynamical invariants and SU(1,1) group are also discussed.
description: 10 pages, no figures
MPEC 2023-H229 : 2023 HL6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HL6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Haq wil la hlo is sim : walk slowly on the breath of your ancestors : an examination of gift giving within post-secondary education.
Creators: name: Hobenshield, Sharon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the values and traditions embedded in the Indigenous practice of gift giving to understand how this tradition can inform the work of Indigenization in post-secondary education. Seven Gitxsan Chiefs and seven Elders from Vancouver Island University were contributors to this study, sharing their perspectives in relation to how this practice connects to Indigenous epistemology and ontology. The Gitxsan feast system and crest pole framed the theoretical inquiry and methodology for this study. In addition, I drew on Kirkness and Barnhardt’s (1991) 4 R’s of respect, relevance, reciprocity and responsibility as an ethical framework for quality Indigenous education and provided a reinterpretation of the 4 R’s, identifying the 4 A’s of accommodation, acquiescence, affiliation and acceptance, as part of my personal analysis informing this study. I also utilized Kuokkanen’s (2007) concept of gift logic. Numerous findings were identified in this study. Primary among them was the understanding that Indigenous research, grounded in protocol and traditional practices, can be a catalyst for cultural reaffirmation leading to a deeper understanding of Indigenous philosophy. Second, the articulation of a Gitxsan Gift Giving Model identifying the values and principles consistent with Gitxsan philosophy. Third, an Indigenous research paradigm that is uniquely Gitxsan and indicative of a decolonizing approach to doing research. Fourth, the development of a Discursive Tool rooted in Indigenous philosophy as a method of inquiry to explore the distinctions and tensions related to the Indigenization process. Fifth, Goodness Theory: An Ethical Approach to Indigenization that centers Indigenous knowledge and emphasizes balancing a good heart and mind. The approach identifies specific Indigenous characteristics and principles that surround a way of knowing that can be a portal for dialogue in post-secondary education, a site of engagement for speaking our truths informed by our values.
Additional file 4 of Large-scale data analysis for robotic yeast one-hybrid platforms and multi-disciplinary studies using GateMultiplex
Creators: name: Tsai, Ni-Chiao
name: Hsu, Tzu-Shu
name: Kuo, Shang-Che
name: Kao, Chung-Ting
name: Hung, Tzu-Huan
name: Lin, Da-Gin
name: Yeh, Chung-Shu
name: Chu, Chia-Chen
name: Lin, Jeng-Shane
name: Lin, Hsin-Hung
name: Ko, Chia-Ying
name: Chang, Tien-Hsien
name: Su, Jung-Chen
name: Lin, Ying-Chung Jimmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 4. Manual-Agriculture/Drug discovery/Geographical tracking. A step-by-step manual for operating GateMultiplex on Agriculture/Drug discovery/Geographical tracking analysis.
Edge-Based Compartmental Modeling for Infectious Disease Spread Part I: An Overview
Creators: name: Miller, Joel C.
name: Slim, Anja C.
name: Volz, Erik M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary tool for predicting infectious disease spread and intervention effectiveness is the mass action Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model of Kermack and McKendrick. Its usefulness derives largely from its conceptual and mathematical simplicity; however, it incorrectly assumes all individuals have the same contact rate and contacts are fleeting. This paper is the first of three investigating edge-based compartmental modeling, a technique eliminating these assumptions. In this paper, we derive simple ordinary differential equation models capturing social heterogeneity (heterogeneous contact rates) while explicitly considering the impact of contact duration. We introduce a graphical interpretation allowing for easy derivation and communication of the model. This paper focuses on the technique and how to apply it in different contexts. The companion papers investigate choosing the appropriate level of complexity for a model and how to apply edge-based compartmental modeling to populations with various sub-structures.
Monopoles, strings and dark matter
Creators: name: Sanchez, Catalina Gomez
name: Holdom, Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a scenario whereby monopoles in a hidden sector yield a decaying dark matter candidate of interest for the PAMELA and FERMI $e^\pm$ excesses. The monopoles are not completely hidden due to a very small kinetic mixing and a hidden photon mass. The latter also causes the monopoles and anti-monopoles to be connected by strings. The resulting long-lived objects eventually decay to hidden photons which tend to escape galactic cores before decaying. The mass scales are those of the hidden photon ($\approx 500$ MeV), the monopole ($\approx 3$ TeV) and the mixing scale (close to the Planck scale). A gauge coupling in the hidden sector is the only other parameter. This coupling must be strong and this results in light point-like monopoles and light thin strings.
description: 21 pages, various improvements and additional references
Connectivity and the Nef Cone of the Hilbert Scheme of Hypersurfaces in the Grassmannian
Creators: name: See-Hak Seong
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, we show that when $d \geq 3$, the Hilbert scheme $Hilb_{dT+1-\binom{d-1}{2}}(G(k,n))$ has 2 connected components, even though elements in both components have the same cohomology class. We used the tangent space of the Hilbert scheme and the Hartshorne's connectivity theorem and proved the correspondence between moduli space of plane curves and the Hilbert scheme. Applying Schubert calculus on this correspondence, we derived the number of components on the Hilbert scheme of the Grassmannian. Moreover, we show that the Hilbert scheme associated to the Hilbert polynomial $\binom{T+m}{m}-\binom{T+m-d}{m}$ in Grassmannian has at most 2 connected components, by generalizing plane curves as hypersurfaces. At last, we show the generators of the Nef cone of these Hilbert schemes, by observing curves in the Hilbert scheme which are dual to generators of N\'{e}ron-Severi group of the Hilbert scheme.
Additional file 1 of Cervical cancer screening programs and their context-dependent effect on inequalities in screening uptake: a dynamic interplay between public health policy and welfare state redistribution
Creators: name: De Prez, Vincent
name: Jolidon, Vladimir
name: Willems, Barbara
name: Cullati, Stéphane
name: Burton-Jeangros, Claudine
name: Bracke, Piet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Human blood serum proteome changes after 6 hours of sleep deprivation at night
Creators: name: Bjørkum, Alvhild Alette
name: Carrasco Duran, Ana
name: Frode, Berven
name: Sinha Roy, Dola
name: Rosendahl, Karen
name: Birkeland, Even
name: Stuhr, Linda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Rules for the subjects one week before and during the experimental period.
Visualizing nanoscale electronic band alignment at the La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/Nb:SrTiO$_{3}$ interface
Creators: name: Chien, TeYu
name: Liu, Jian
name: Chakhalian, Jacques
name: Guisinger, Nathan P.
name: Freeland, John W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cross-sectional scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy (XSTM/S) were used to map out the band alignment across the complex oxide interface of La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/Nb-doped SrTiO$_{3}$. By a controlled cross-sectional fracturing procedure, unit-cell high steps persist near the interface between the thin film and the substrate in the non-cleavable perovskite materials. The abrupt changes of the mechanical and electronic properties were visualized directly by XSTM/S. Using changes in the DOS as probe by STM, the electronic band alignment across the heterointerface was mapped out providing a new approach to directly measure the electronic properties at complex oxide interfaces.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Fast CRCs (Extended Version)
Creators: name: Nguyen, Gam D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: CRCs have desirable properties for effective error detection. But their software implementation, which relies on many steps of the polynomial division, is typically slower than other codes such as weaker checksums. A relevant question is whether there are some particular CRCs that have fast implementation. In this paper, we introduce such fast CRCs as well as an effective technique to implement them. For these fast CRCs, even without using table lookup, it is possible either to eliminate or to greatly reduce many steps of the polynomial division during their computation.
description: 64 pages, 43 figures, an extended version of a published journal paper
Quantum discord in quantum computation
Creators: name: Brodutch, Aharon
name: Gilchrist, Alexei
name: Terno, Daniel R.
name: Wood, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum discord is a measure of the quantumness of correlations. After reviewing its different versions and properties, we apply it to the questions of quantum information processing. First we show that changes in discord in the processed unentangled states indicate the need for entanglement in the distributed implementation of quantum gates. On the other hand, it was shown that zero system-environment discord is a necessary and sufficient condition for applicability of the standard completely positive description of the system's evolution. We demonstrate that this result does not translate into useful quantum process tomography. Depending on the details of the preparation procedure only absence of any initial correlations may guarantees consistency of the process tomography.
description: Prepared for publication in the Proceedings of DICE2010. Section 4 contains previously unpublished results on process tomography. Comments welcome
ECDH-Based Communication Protocol for Implantable Cardioverter Deﬁbrillators: Feasibility Analysis
Creators: name: Rezzonico, Filippo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Technological advancements in the healthcare domain made Implantable Cardioverter Deﬁbrillators (ICDs) able to communicate wirelessly with external devices. This improvement lead to the possibility of exchange health data and perform therapy modiﬁcations without the need to perform any surgery on the patient. Most recent ICD models are now able to interact with external devices using a long-range communication (2-3 meters). Despite this, the introduction of this enhanced communication capability made ICDs vulnerable on a security perspective, opening them to a whole new set of attacks from the outside world. Balancing security with the need to provide access during emergency conditions while also taking into account the technological constraints of such devices is not trivial. In this work we describe in depth the functioning of an ICD, while presenting also some of its most important structural characteristics. Consequently, taking into account this data and the context in which ICDs operate, we propose an Elliptic Curve Diﬃe-Hellman (ECDH) based communication protocol that, if combined with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), will increase the security of such devices without hindering their main functionalities or decreasing the quality of life of the patient. Since ICDs are resource constrained devices, we realized a proof-of-concept of our idea which simulates such limitations to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. Public-key cryptography, on which our approach is based, has received little to no attention in this topic since it has been considered too resource demanding for ICDs. In this work we have also carried out a feasibility analysis based on three main metrics to demonstrate that our proposal is duable on ICDs and to show to the research community that this unexplored path could lead to interesting results.
Additional file 1 of Multi-mechanical waves against Alzheimer’s disease pathology: a systematic review
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Sotiropoulos, Ioannis
name: Carvalho, Óscar
name: Sousa, Nuno
name: Silva, Filipe S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Quality assessment data for clinical trials, using the EPHPP Quality Assessment Tool. Table S2. Quality assessment data for animal studies, using the STAIR preclinical recommendations.
MPEC 2023-H230 : 2023 HM6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HM6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.