cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Silicon nitride membrane resonators at millikelvin temperatures with quality factors exceeding $10^8$
Creators: name: Yuan, Mingyun
name: Cohen, Martijn A.
name: Steele, Gary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study mechanical dissipation of the fundamental mode of millimeter-sized, high quality-factor ($Q$) metalized silicon nitride membranes at temperatures down to 14 mK using a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity. Below 200 mK, high-$Q$ modes of the membranes show a diverging increase of $Q$ with decreasing temperature, reaching $Q=1.27\times10^8$ at 14 mK, an order of magnitude higher than reported before. The ultra-low dissipation makes the membranes highly attractive for the study of optomechanics in the quantum regime, as well as for other applications of optomechanics such as microwave to optical photon conversion.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
title: Инвестиционное проектирование
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2019

description: Данный практикум содержит задания по дисциплине «Инвестиционное проектирование». Разработан для проведения практических (семинарских) занятий и обеспечения самостоятельной работы студентов. Практикум адресован магистрантам направления «Экономика» (магистерские программы «Экономика фирмы», «Бухгалтерский учет и анализ в коммерческих организациях») и бакалаврам направления «Менеджмент» (профиль «Управление человеческими ресурсами»).
Generalized Space and Frequency Index Modulation
Creators: name: Datta, T.
name: Eshwaraiah, H. S.
name: Chockalingam, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlike in conventional modulation where information bits are conveyed only through symbols from modulation alphabets defined in the complex plane (e.g., quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), phase shift keying (PSK)), in index modulation (IM), additional information bits are conveyed through indices of certain transmit entities that get involved in the transmission. Transmit antennas in multi-antenna systems and subcarriers in multi-carrier systems are examples of such transmit entities that can be used to convey additional information bits through indexing. In this paper, we introduce {\em generalized space and frequency index modulation}, where the indices of active transmit antennas and subcarriers convey information bits. We first introduce index modulation in the spatial domain, referred to as generalized spatial index modulation (GSIM). For GSIM, where bits are indexed only in the spatial domain, we derive the expression for achievable rate as well as easy-to-compute upper and lower bounds on this rate. We show that the achievable rate in GSIM can be more than that in spatial multiplexing, and analytically establish the condition under which this can happen. It is noted that GSIM achieves this higher rate using fewer transmit radio frequency (RF) chains compared to spatial multiplexing. We also propose a Gibbs sampling based detection algorithm for GSIM and show that GSIM can achieve better bit error rate (BER) performance than spatial multiplexing. For generalized space-frequency index modulation (GSFIM), where bits are encoded through indexing in both active antennas as well as subcarriers, we derive the achievable rate expression. Numerical results show that GSFIM can achieve higher rates compared to conventional MIMO-OFDM. Also, BER results show the potential for GSFIM performing better than MIMO-OFDM.
description: IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, accepted
title: Diffusion and perfusion patterns of CNS lymphomas.
Creators: name: Neska-Matuszewska, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Central nervous system lymphomas (CNSLs) are an inhomogenous group of rare brain tumors consisting of two main subtypes: primary and secondary CNSLs. Primary CNSL is a disease that accounts for approximately 7 % of newly diagnosed CNS tumors...
title: Технология овладения навыками плавания
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2019

description: Настоящее учебно-методическое пособие соответствует учебной программе дисциплины «Элективные дисциплины по физической культуре и спорту» по направлению «Плавание». В издании описаны подводящие упражнения, выполнение которых необходимо для приобретения навыков плавания, техника стартов и поворотов, а также техника основных стилей плавания. Пособие предназначено для студентов всех направлений и профилей подготовки.
A Longitudinal Qualitative Exploration of Hope
Creators: name: Kanis, Babet
name: Stroebe, Katherine
name: Stevenson, Clifford
name: Postmes, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The aim of this study is to explore the long-term experience of hope for people facing the results of a chronic disaster.
Violation of Bell quantum probability inequalities with classical fields
Creators: name: Ares, Laura
name: Luis, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Violations of Bell inequalities in classical optics have been demonstrated in terms of field mean intensities and correlations, however, the quantum meaning of violations point to statistics and probabilities. We present a violation of Bell inequalities for classical fields in terms of probabilities, where we convert classical-field intensities into probabilities via the standard photon-counting equation. We find violation for both, entangled and separable field states. We conclude that any obtained quantum effect might be fully ascribed to the quantum nature of the detector rather than the field itself. Finally, we develop a new Bell-like criterion which is satisfied by factorized states and it is not by the entangled state.
title: CT presentations of anatomic variants in superior vena cava system
Creators: name: Janeski, Nenad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Thorax
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this paper was to overview various CT presentations of different venous anatomic variants in the system of superior vena cava (SVC) in association with anatomic variants of azygos...
Metagenomic Signatures of Bacterial Adaptation to Life in the Phyllosphere of a Salt-Secreting Desert Tree
Creators: name: Finkel, Omri M.
name: Belkin, Shimshon
name: Post, Anton F.
name: Delmont, Tom O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: ABSTRACT The leaves of Tamarix aphylla , a globally distributed, salt-secreting desert tree, are dotted with alkaline droplets of high salinity. To successfully inhabit these organic carbon-rich droplets, bacteria need to be adapted to multiple stress factors, including high salinity, high alkalinity, high UV radiation, and periodic desiccation. To identify genes that are important for survival in this harsh habitat, microbial community DNA was extracted from the leaf surfaces of 10 Tamarix aphylla trees along a 350-km longitudinal gradient. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing, contig assembly, and binning yielded 17 genome bins, six of which were >80% complete. These genomic bins, representing three phyla ( Proteobacteria , Bacteroidetes , and Firmicutes ), were closely related to halophilic and alkaliphilic taxa isolated from aquatic and soil environments. Comparison of these genomic bins to the genomes of their closest relatives revealed functional traits characteristic of bacterial populations inhabiting the Tamarix phyllosphere, independent of their taxonomic affiliation. These functions, most notably light-sensing genes, are postulated to represent important adaptations toward colonization of this habitat. IMPORTANCE Plant leaves are an extensive and diverse microbial habitat, forming the main interface between solar energy and the terrestrial biosphere. There are hundreds of thousands of plant species in the world, exhibiting a wide range of morphologies, leaf surface chemistries, and ecological ranges. In order to understand the core adaptations of microorganisms to this habitat, it is important to diversify the type of leaves that are studied. This study provides an analysis of the genomic content of the most abundant bacterial inhabitants of the globally distributed, salt-secreting desert tree Tamarix aphylla . Draft genomes of these bacteria were assembled, using the culture-independent technique of assembly and binning of metagenomic data. Analysis of the genomes reveals traits that are important for survival in this habitat, most notably, light-sensing and light utilization genes.
Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
Creators: name: Goldschmidt, Susan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2022

description: This research investigates connections between the Aramaic incantation bowls, contemporary ceramic art practice, and critical theory. Scholarly attention surrounding the Aramaic Bowls remains largely confined within the philological disciplines of translation, linguistics and grammar. In contrast, through critical and creative approaches, this research takes an interdisciplinary approach, establishing connections between the fields of ceramics, archaeology, ancient history, Jewish studies and critical theory, to enlarge ways of viewing and understanding the bowls, advocating a more prominent position for them within ceramic historical traditions. Aramaic incantation bowls from 5th-7th century CE Iraq are clay bowls inscribed with magical texts. Made from clay and found buried upside down in the floors and courtyards of Babylonian homes, they are fundamentally concerned with protecting inhabitants, invoking a plethora of supernatural beings from across cultures to assist in this endeavour. Research focuses on a material investigation of these artefacts through the realisation of a large-scale art installation In the House of Ephra and Bahmanduch. Comprising a triptych of immersive room-scapes, each space registers the physical and psychological disturbance evidenced by the bowl texts and re-imagines the decorative fabric of the Babylonian domestic interiors in which bowls were typically unearthed. The application of contemporary literary, critical and theoretical approaches to the bowl texts, and the compilation of an Aramaic bowl chart to facilitate their close analysis, have enabled their reconsideration. This creates a synthesis that has not previously been undertaken, uncovering affinities between emergent ideas within the late antique texts and the critical approaches of Mieke Bal, Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Karen Barad, Gaston Bachelard and others to reveal new insights. In addition the research broadens out heritages of meaning carried by clay as an art medium, unearthing wider narrational landscapes implicit in the bowl texts and praxis, introducing new types of narratives and art works to contemporary ceramics.
Novel Rhizosphere Soil Alleles for the Enzyme 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase Queried for Function with an In Vivo Competition Assay
Creators: name: Fowler, Douglas M.
name: Di Rienzi, Sara C.
name: Werner, Jeff J.
name: Leya, Ruth E.
name: Janzon, Anders
name: Dangl, Jeffrey L.
name: Angenent, Largus T.
name: Jin, Zhao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: ABSTRACT Metagenomes derived from environmental microbiota encode a vast diversity of protein homologs. How this diversity impacts protein function can be explored through selection assays aimed to optimize function. While artificially generated gene sequence pools are typically used in selection assays, their usage may be limited because of technical or ethical reasons. Here, we investigate an alternative strategy, the use of soil microbial DNA as a starting point. We demonstrate this approach by optimizing the function of a widely occurring soil bacterial enzyme, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase. We identified a specific ACC deaminase domain region (ACCD-DR) that, when PCR amplified from the soil, produced a variant pool that we could swap into functional plasmids carrying ACC deaminase-encoding genes. Functional clones of ACC deaminase were selected for in a competition assay based on their capacity to provide nitrogen to Escherichia coli in vitro . The most successful ACCD-DR variants were identified after multiple rounds of selection by sequence analysis. We observed that previously identified essential active-site residues were fixed in the original unselected library and that additional residues went to fixation after selection. We identified a divergent essential residue whose presence hints at the possible use of alternative substrates and a cluster of neutral residues that did not influence ACCD performance. Using an artificial ACCD-DR variant library generated by DNA oligomer synthesis, we validated the same fixation patterns. Our study demonstrates that soil metagenomes are useful starting pools of protein-coding-gene diversity that can be utilized for protein optimization and functional characterization when synthetic libraries are not appropriate.
Harnessing non-Markovian quantum memory by environmental coupling
Creators: name: Man, Zhong-Xiao
name: Xia, Yun-Jie
name: Franco, Rosario Lo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can simultaneously interact with composite environments, this condition remains little understood, particularly regarding the effect of the coupling between environmental parts. We analyze the non-Markovian behavior of a qubit interacting at the same time with two coupled single-mode cavities which in turn dissipate into memoryless or memory-keeping reservoirs. We show that increasing the control parameter, that is the two-mode coupling, allows for triggering and enhancing a non-Markovian dynamics for the qubit starting from a Markovian one in absence of coupling. Surprisingly, if the qubit dynamics is non-Markovian for zero control parameter, increasing the latter enables multiple transitions from non-Markovian to Markovian regimes. These results hold independently on the nature of the reservoirs. This work highlights that suitably engineering the coupling between parts of a compound environment can efficiently harness the quantum memory, stored in a qubit, based on non-Markovianity.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. A
title: The many faces of Hepatocellular carcinoma: An analysis of 139 cases of hepatic mass lesions.
Creators: name: Banerjee, Avik
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To analyze the typical and atypical imaging appearances of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) 2. To correlate and tabulate the various imaging manifestations of HCC and correlate the same with serum alpha fetoprotein levels and histopathological...
title: Examining Support by Residents for Community Scale Wildfire Mitigation Strategies in the Wasatch Front
Creators: name: Smith, Conner R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Current development trends along the Wasatch Front are causing a greater threat of wildfires to the Utahns who reside there. Research indicates that although studies meant to examine wildfire mitigation strategy preferences do exist, their findings are not applicable to the Wasatch Front. This thesis addresses the lack of applicable data and the resultant lack of understanding of the Wasatch Front residents' preferences. In my project specifically, I will be looking at what wildfire mitigation strategies, at the community scale, residents of the Wasatch Front prefer. Additionally, I will be comparing the preferences of residents living in areas with above average threat and no threat and how they perceive risk. I argue that by understanding the preferences of residents living in these areas, the threat posed by wildfires will be minimized. In conclusion, by closely examining wildfire mitigation strategy preferences, this project creates unique data that better reveals what residents of the Wasatch Front want to see implemented in their communities to better protect them against the threat posed by wildfire.
title: Информационные технологии
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2019

description: Настоящий практикум посвящен особенностям применения искусственных нейронных сетей для различных задач. В нем представлены лабораторные работы, содержащие краткие теоретические положения о нейронных сетях и примеры практической реализации обучения известных искусственных нейронных сетей на языках Matlab и Python: персептрона, многослойной нейронной сети, радиальных базисных сетей, сетей Кохонена, Хэмминга и Хопфилда, а также описания заданий и расчетно-графических работ для выполнения в течение учебного года. Практикум адресован студентам очной формы обучения по направлениям 09.03.02 «Информационные системы и технологии» и 02.03.02 «Фундаментальная информатика и информационные технологии».
Nonextensive Nambu Jona-Lasinio model of QCD matter revisited
Creators: name: Rozynek, Jacek
name: Wilk, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a revisited version of the nonextensive QCD-based Nambu - Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model describing the behavior of strongly interacting matter proposed by us some time ago. As before, it is based on the nonextensive generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics used in the NJL model to its nonextensive version based on Tsallis statistics, but this time it fulfils the basic requirements of thermodynamical consistency. Different ways in which this can be done, connected with different possible choices of the form of the corresponding nonextensive entropies, are presented and discussed in detail. The corresponding results are compared, discussed and confronted with previous findings.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures minor revision, to be published in EPJA
On uniform Hilbert Schmidt stability of groups
Creators: name: Akhtiamov, Danil
name: Dogon, Alon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A group $Γ$ is said to be uniformly HS stable if any map $φ: Γ\to U(n)$ that is almost a unitary representation (w.r.t. the Hilbert Schmidt norm) is close to a genuine unitary representation of the same dimension. We present a complete classification of uniformly HS stable groups among finitely generated residually finite ones. Necessity of the residual finiteness assumption is discussed. A similar result is shown to hold assuming only amenability.
description: 10 pages. Revised introduction and references. To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
title: Voiding urosonography with second generation contrast agent: diagnosis and monitoring of pediatric uropathies
Creators: name: Tercero Azorín, Maria Isabel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose is to evaluate the usefulness of second generation contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography (VU) in the diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and urethral...
Differences in Abundances of Total Vibrio spp., V. vulnificus, and V. parahaemolyticus in Clams and Oysters in North Carolina
Creators: name: Phippen,
name: Fowler,
name: Froelich,
name: Noble,
name: Oliver,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: ABSTRACT Filter feeding shellfish can concentrate pathogenic bacteria, including Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus , as much as 100-fold from the overlying water. These shellfish, especially clams and oysters, are often consumed raw, providing a route of entry for concentrated doses of pathogenic bacteria into the human body. The numbers of foodborne infections with these microbes are increasing, and a better understanding of the conditions that might trigger elevated concentrations of these bacteria in seafood is needed. In addition, if bacterial concentrations in water are correlated with those in shellfish, then sampling regimens could be simplified, as water samples can be more rapidly and easily obtained. After sampling of oysters and clams, either simultaneously or separately, for over 2 years, it was concluded that while Vibrio concentrations in oysters and water were related, this was not the case for levels in clams and water. When clams and oysters were collected simultaneously from the same site, the clams were found to have lower Vibrio levels than the oysters. Furthermore, the environmental parameters that were correlated with levels of Vibrio spp. in oysters and water were found to be quite different from those that were correlated with levels of Vibrio spp. in clams. IMPORTANCE This study shows that clams are a potential source of infection in North Carolina, especially for V. parahaemolyticus . These findings also highlight the need for clam-specific environmental research to develop accurate Vibrio abundance models and to broaden the ecological understanding of clam- Vibrio interactions. This is especially relevant as foodborne Vibrio infections from clams are being reported.
Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Object-Interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment
Creators: name: Carvalho, Wilka
name: Liang, Anthony
name: Lee, Kimin
name: Sohn, Sungryull
name: Lee, Honglak
name: Lewis, Richard L.
name: Singh, Satinder
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: First-person object-interaction tasks in high-fidelity, 3D, simulated environments such as the AI2Thor virtual home-environment pose significant sample-efficiency challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) agents learning from sparse task rewards. To alleviate these challenges, prior work has provided extensive supervision via a combination of reward-shaping, ground-truth object-information, and expert demonstrations. In this work, we show that one can learn object-interaction tasks from scratch without supervision by learning an attentive object-model as an auxiliary task during task learning with an object-centric relational RL agent. Our key insight is that learning an object-model that incorporates object-attention into forward prediction provides a dense learning signal for unsupervised representation learning of both objects and their relationships. This, in turn, enables faster policy learning for an object-centric relational RL agent. We demonstrate our agent by introducing a set of challenging object-interaction tasks in the AI2Thor environment where learning with our attentive object-model is key to strong performance. Specifically, we compare our agent and relational RL agents with alternative auxiliary tasks to a relational RL agent equipped with ground-truth object-information, and show that learning with our object-model best closes the performance gap in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. Additionally, we find that incorporating object-attention into an object-model's forward predictions is key to learning representations which capture object-category and object-state.
description: Accepted to IJCAI 2021
title: To evaluate use of metallic stents after intraluminal brachytherapy in treatment of non-resected biliary cancer.
Creators: name: Ferrante, Zairo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate results and complications derived from the placement of metallic stents in palliative treatment of non-resected cancer of the bile ducts, after intraluminal brachytherapy with iridium 192...
Dirac cones beyond the honeycomb lattice: a symmetry based approach
Creators: name: van Miert, G.
name: Smith, C. Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, several new materials exhibiting massless Dirac fermions have been proposed. However, many of these do not have the typical graphene honeycomb lattice, which is often associated with Dirac cones. Here, we present a classification of these different two-dimensional Dirac systems based on the space groups, and discuss our findings within the context of a minimal two-band model. In particular, we show that the emergence of massless Dirac fermions can be attributed to the mirror symmetries of the materials. Moreover, we uncover several novel Dirac systems that have up to twelve inequivalent Dirac cones, and show that these can be realized in (twisted) bilayers. Hereby, we obtain systems with an emergent SU(2N) valley symmetry with N=1,2,4,6,8,12. Our results pave the way to engineer different Dirac systems, besides providing a simple and unified description of materials ranging from square- and $β$-graphynes, to Pmmn-Boron, TiB$_2$, phosphorene, and anisotropic graphene.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, and 1 table
Pirated Siderophores Promote Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis
Creators: name: Caro, Lews
name: Grandchamp, Gabrielle M.
name: Shank, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: ABSTRACT In microbial communities, bacteria chemically and physically interact with one another. Some of these interactions are mediated by secreted specialized metabolites that act as either intraspecies or interspecies signals to alter gene expression and to change cell physiology. Bacillus subtilis is a well-characterized soil microbe that can differentiate into multiple cell types, including metabolically dormant endospores. We were interested in identifying microbial interactions that affected sporulation in B. subtilis . Using a fluorescent transcriptional reporter, we observed that coculturing B. subtilis with Escherichia coli promoted sporulation gene expression via a secreted metabolite. To identify the active compound, we screened the E. coli Keio Collection and identified the sporulation-accelerating cue as the siderophore enterobactin. B. subtilis has multiple iron acquisition systems that are used to take up the B. subtilis- produced siderophore bacillibactin, as well as to pirate exogenous siderophores such as enterobactin. While B. subtilis uses a single substrate binding protein (FeuA) to take up both bacillibactin and enterobactin, we discovered that it requires two distinct genes to sporulate in response to these siderophores (the esterase gene besA for bacillibactin and a putative esterase gene, ybbA , for enterobactin). In addition, we found that siderophores from a variety of other microbial species also promote sporulation in B. subtilis . Our results thus demonstrate that siderophores can act not only as bacterial iron acquisition systems but also as interspecies cues that alter cellular development and accelerate sporulation in B. subtilis . IMPORTANCE While much is known about the genetic regulation of Bacillus subtilis sporulation, little is understood about how other bacteria influence this process. This work describes an interaction between Escherichia coli and B. subtilis that accelerates sporulation in B. subtilis . The interaction is mediated by the E. coli siderophore enterobactin; we show that other species' siderophores also promote sporulation gene expression in B. subtilis . These results suggest that siderophores not only may supply bacteria with the mineral nutrient iron but also may play a role in bacterial interspecies signaling, providing a cue for sporulation. Siderophores are produced by many bacterial species and thus potentially play important roles in altering bacterial cell physiology in diverse environments.
Thinking styles, COVID-19 misperceptions, and responsible behaviors
Creators: name: Jones, Angela
name: Chan, Ginny
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a combination of three studies that were originally part of the OSF replication project. We are now following up with additional analyses beyond the focal hypothesis of the replication project. These three studies evaluate the effects of various thinking styles (e.g., cognitive reflection) and personality traits on COVID-19 related misperceptions, knowledge, and responsible behaviors.
On the Interactive-Beating-Modes Model: Generation of Asymmetric Multiplet Structures and Explanation of the Blazhko Effect
Creators: name: Bryant, Paul H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper considers a nonlinear coupling between a radial and a nonradial mode of nearly the same frequency. The results may be of general interest, but in particular have application to the "beating-modes model" of the Blazhko effect which was recently shown to accurately reproduce the light curve of RR Lyr. For weak coupling, the two modes do not phase-lock and they retain separate frequencies, but the coupling nevertheless has important consequences. Upon increasing the coupling strength from zero, an additional side-peak emerges in the spectrum forming an asymmetric triplet centered on the fundamental. As the coupling is further increased, the amplitude of this side-peak increases and the three peaks are also pulled towards each other, decreasing the Blazhko frequency. Beyond a critical coupling strength, phase-locking occurs between the modes. With appropriate choice of coupling strength, this "interactive beating-modes model" can match the side-peak amplitude ratio of any star. The effects of nonlinear damping are also explored and found to generate additional side-peaks of odd order. Consistent with this, the odd side-peaks are found to be favored in V808 Cyg. It is also shown that the Blazhko effect generates a fluctuating "environment" that can have a modulatory effect on other excited modes of the star. An example is found in V808 Cyg where the modulation is at double the Blazhko frequency. An explanation is found for this mysterious doubling, providing additional evidence in favor of the model.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. This version has freq table for V808 Cyg, several improved figures and misc improvements to the text and some added refs
title: “Show and Tell: Displaying Music Historiography at the International Exhibition of Music and Drama, Vienna 1892”
Creators: name: Strumbl, Melanie
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 780 Music

description: My dissertation focuses on the visualization and display of music historiography at the International
Exhibition of Music and Drama, Vienna 1892 against the backdrop of nineteenth-century
exhibition and visual culture. First, I examine the “visual narratives” that were created to display
music history. As part of this analysis, I scrutinize the collections and artifacts that were used to
create these narratives as well as the key themes and topics that structured the musico-historical
section. Second, I compare these “visual narratives” with written works of music history and
general historiographical conventions and models in the nineteenth century. The founder of
musicology––Guido Adler¬¬––had a pivotal curating function and was ordained to design specific
sections of the exhibition. Thus, I look in particular at Adler’s exhibitionary concept in relation to
his historiographical model(s) that he later outlined in his seminal works on music history. In
addition, my thesis also investigates the role that the Viennese exhibition played in facilitating the
institutionalization of musicology later in 1898. The chapters of my dissertation are structured and
organized according to theoretical concepts from different fields and disciplines, e.g. spatiality,
visuality, and narrativity. In doing so, I established a way of embedding the exhibition in its larger
historical and cultural context. The Austrian National library in Vienna holds most of the source
materials such as guides, catalogues, and newspaper articles that not only disclose how the
exhibition was organized, but also reveal how the visitors were instructed and led through the
exhibition. The central aspects under investigation are perception, aesthetic experience, and
practices of looking. In particular, I look at the descriptions of aura and atmosphere and the role
these notions play in the spatial perception of exhibiting music history.
title: Automated Fibrosis Quantification Software – Lung Segmentation Issues in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Creators: name: Heussel, Claus Peter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF) is a rare disease with amedian survival-time of 3-4 years. Disease progression can be slowed down with medication [1].Though follow-up-evaluations of IPF can be challenging, as changes may be distinct and vastely...
Multicloud API binding generation from documentation
Creators: name: Gajda, Michał J.
name: Barrozzi, Vitor Vitali
name: Araujo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present industry experience from implementing retargetable cloud API binding generator. The analysis is implemented in Haskell, using type classes, types a la carte, and code generation monad. It also targets Haskell, and allows us to bind cloud APIs on short notice, and unprecedented scale.
description: Presented on XP 2020: Agility in Microservices workshop
Prethermalization in a quenched one-dimensional quantum fluid of light: Intrinsic limits to the coherent propagation of a light beam in a nonlinear optical fiber
Creators: name: Larré, P. -É.
name: Carusotto, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the coherence properties of a laser beam after propagation along a one-dimensional lossless nonlinear optical waveguide. Within the paraxial, slowly-varying-envelope, and single-transverse-mode approximations, the quantum propagation of the light field in the nonlinear medium is mapped onto a quantum Gross-Pitaevskii-type evolution of a closed one-dimensional system of many interacting photons. Upon crossing the entrance and the back faces of the waveguide, the photon-photon interaction parameter undergoes two sudden jumps, resulting in a pair of quantum quenches of the system's Hamiltonian. In the weak-interaction regime, we use the modulus-phase Bogoliubov theory of dilute Bose gases to describe the quantum fluctuations of the fluid of light and predict that correlations typical of a prethermalized state emerge locally in their final form and propagate in a light-cone way at the Bogoliubov speed of sound in the photon fluid. This peculiar relaxation dynamics, visible in the light exiting the waveguide, results in a loss of long-lived coherence in the beam of light.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
Patient Portals: Who uses them? What features do they use? And do they reduce hospital readmissions?
Creators: name: Thornhill, Jonathan
name: Skinner, Asheley
name: Griffin, Ashley
name: Weinberger, Morris
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Patient portals have demonstrated numerous benefits including improved patientprovider communication, patient satisfaction with care, and patient engagement. Recent literature has begun to illustrate how patients use selected portal features and an association between portal usage and improved clinical outcomes.
Curious properties of latency distributions
Creators: name: Gajda, Michał J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network latency distributions, their algebra, and use examples. This paper considers modeling of capacity-insensitive processes and distributed systems. It provides algebraic properties of the latency distribution algebra and Haskell code to implement the model.
Usability Testing of Two Ambulatory EHR Navigators
Creators: name: Melton, Genevieve B.
name: Rizvi, Rubina
name: Fickau, Keri
name: Ramer, Tim
name: Mink, Pamela
name: Arsoniadis, Elliot
name: Khairat, Saif
name: Hultman, Gretchen
name: Marquard, Jenna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Despite widespread electronic health record (EHR) adoption, poor EHR system usability continues to be a significant barrier to effective system use for end users. One key to addressing usability problems is to employ user testing and user-centered design.
title: CT Fluoroscopy-Guided vs Multislice CT Biopsy Mode-Guided Lung Biopies:a preliminary experience
Creators: name: Casarin, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Biopsy
subject: CT
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Percutaneous lung biopsies are often performed using CTF to assure accurate needle placement and maximize diagnostic yield. However, CTF exposes both the operator(s) and the patient to ionizing radiation [1]. The first reported case of the use of...
Grateful parents raising grateful children: Niche selection and the socialization of child gratitude
Creators: name: Costanzo, Philip R.
name: Hussong, Andrea M.
name: Coffman, Jennifer L.
name: Egerton, Gregory A.
name: Halberstadt, Amy G.
name: Rothenberg, William A.
name: Langley, Hillary A.
name: Mokrova, Irina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Given that children’s exposure to gratitude-related activities may be one way that parents can socialize gratitude in their children, we examined whether parents’ niche selection (i.e., tendency to choose perceived gratitude-inducing activities for their children) mediates the association between parents’ reports of their own and their children's gratitude. Parent-child dyads (N =101; children aged 6-9; 52% girls; 80% Caucasian; 85% mothers) participated in a laboratory visit and parents also completed a seven-day online diary regarding children’s gratitude. Decomposing specific indirect effects within a structural equation model, we found that parents high in gratitude were more likely to set goals to use niche selection as a gratitude socialization strategy, and thereby more likely to place their children in gratitude-related activities. Placement in these activities, in turn, was associated with more frequent expression of gratitude in children. We describe future directions for research on parents’ role in socializing gratitude in their children.
Generalized Quantum Assisted Simulator
Creators: name: Haug, Tobias
name: Bharti, Kishor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a noisy intermediate-scale quantum framework for simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems, generalized time evolution, non-linear differential equations and Gibbs state preparation. Our algorithm does not require any classical-quantum feedback loop, bypass the barren plateau problem and does not necessitate any complicated measurements such as the Hadamard test. We introduce the notion of the hybrid density matrix, which allows us to disentangle the different steps of our algorithm and delegate classically demanding tasks to the quantum computer. Our algorithm proceeds in three disjoint steps. First, we select the ansatz, followed by measuring overlap matrices on a quantum computer. The final step involves classical post-processing data from the second step. Our algorithm has potential applications in solving the Navier-Stokes equation, plasma hydrodynamics, quantum Boltzmann training, quantum signal processing and linear systems. Our entire framework is compatible with current experiments and can be implemented immediately.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Study of the effect of semi-infinite crystalline electrodes on transmission of gold atomic wires using DFT
Creators: name: Sattar, Abdul
name: Amjad, Raja Junaid
name: Yasmeen, Sumaira
name: Javed, Hafsa
name: Latif, Hamid
name: Mahmood, Hasan
name: Iqbal, Azmat
name: Usman, Arslan
name: Akhtar, Majid Niaz
name: Khan, Salman Naeem
name: Dousti, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First principle calculations of the conductance of gold wires containing 3-8 atoms each with 2.39 Å bond length were performed using density functional theory. Three different configuration of wire/electrodes were used. For zigzag wire with semi-infinite crystalline electrodes, even-odd oscillation is observed which is consistent with the previously reported results. A lower conductance was observed for the chain in semi-infinite crystalline electrodes compared to the chains suspended in wire-like electrode. The calculated transmission spectrum for the straight and zig-zag wires suspended between semi-infinite crystalline electrodes showed suppression of transmission channels due to electron scattering occurring at the electrode-wire interface.
description: 9 pages 8 figures
title: Самостоятельная физическая подготовка
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2020

description: В данном учебно-методическом пособии дается информация о том, как самостоятельно заниматься физической культурой для поддержания здоровья. Предлагаются рекомендации по эффективному совмещению учебы и трудовой деятельности с занятиями физической культурой. Издание предназначено для студентов всех направлений и профилей обучения.
The volume-preserving Willmore flow
Creators: name: Rupp, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53E40 (Primary), 35B40, 35K41 (Secondary)

description: We consider a closed surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ evolving by the volume-preserving Willmore flow and prove a lower bound for the existence time of smooth solutions. For spherical initial surfaces with Willmore energy below $8π$ we show long time existence and convergence to a round sphere by performing a suitable blow-up and by proving a constrained Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality.
description: 38 pages. Shortened and restructured final version. To appear in Nonlinear Analysis
Intonational meaning in Spanish: PRESEEA Madrid corpus examples
Creators: name: Fliessbach, Jan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Spanish Linguistics
subject: Discourse
subject: Intonation
subject: Madrid
subject: Particles
subject: Phonetics
subject: Phonology
subject: Prosody
subject: Semantics
subject: Spanish

description: These are examples from --- PRESEEA (2014-2020): Corpus del Proyecto para el estudio sociolingüístico del español de España y de América. Universidad de Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. URL: http://preseea.linguas.net, visited on 2020-12-16. --- as cited in --- Fliessbach, Jan (under review): Intonational meaning in Spanish. A dynamic semantics perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse particles. Doctoral Thesis. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.
title: Neurointerventional management of carotid webs associated with recurrent and acute cerebral ischemic syndromes
Creators: name: Elmokadem, Ali
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CNS
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Carotid web is an underestimated cause of recurrent ischemic stroke and has been described by multiple case reports [1–6]. It was first described as a stigma of fibromuscular hyperplasia in 1965[1] followed by similar reports in 1967 and 1968...