cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pendulum V: DM "Vitality, Exhaustion and Fleeting Equilibrium"
Creators: Mincek, Milan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Music
Composition (Music)

description: This dissertation is in two parts: Part A is the score for the original composition, PendulumV: DM. Part B is a companion essay to the musical composition. Pendulum V: DM is a 17-minute work for large ensemble and live electronics. It was commissioned jointly by the Wet Ink Ensemble and AMP, with support from the TANK performance space and the National Endowment for the Arts. The piece was premiered on November 10th, 2009 by the Wet Ink Ensemble, under the direction of Carl Bettendorf at the TANK in Manhattan, NY. Pendulum V: DM is the most ambitious presentation of many concepts that have been critical to my recent musical thinking--namely, the use of physical movement and shape as models for musical structure and texture; the relationship of timbre and texture to the cognition of structural complexity; the paradox of difference and repetition; the ambiguity between physical gesture and audible structure; and the use of various characteristics of schizophrenia (considered as a virtual phenomenon rather than an actual clinical condition) as a model for the representation of expansion and interconnectivity. In the companion essay I will discuss the ideas listed above, show how they are related to one another, and demonstrate how in some respects they are all individually analogous to multiple characteristics of an important unifying model for many of my compositions: pendulums. I will alternate between technical and aesthetic descriptions of the work, in order to demonstrate how these ideas have been musically integrated. I will also refer to other recent compositions of mine (String Quartet No. 3: "lift-tilt-filter-split" and Pendulum VI: "Trigger") that are closely related in order to show how these concepts and practices have been used in other instrumental contexts. Referencing these peripheral works will also demonstrate how my ideas relating to musical form have evolved, and how the fundamental musical materials and processes used within these forms have proliferated. Additionally, I will reference other important influences (including Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Beckett, clocks, comic-book characters, gestalt theory) in the hopes of getting closer to the broader social meanings embodied by the work.
Minimizing environmental impacts in rehabilitating small remote abandoned mine sites in Manitoba
Creators: name: Priscu, C.
name: Aldea, C.-M.
name: Wong, W.K.
name: Dunham, D.
name: Lumley, B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: One of the main requirements of rehabilitating an old mine site is to safely secure and cap mine openings to ensure public safety. For remote sites, current options (such as concrete caps) are less effective from an economic perspective, and are generally associated with important environmental impacts mainly related to construction of access roads and development of working areas. This paper presents a relatively novel approach for shaft capping which was implemented in Manitoba at a large number of orphaned and abandoned mine sites, using polyurethane foam as sealant for mine openings and workings, such as shafts, adits, exploration trenches, and steep excavations that pose a threat to public safety. The paper presents criteria used in establishing a safe sealant medium, and presents a summary of the laboratory testing completed to confirm material performance, its physical, structural, and chemical characteristics. The paper also provides a comparison between the use of this technology and the more traditional concrete capping option. For remote sites, the new technology is significantly more efficient. Several case studies from Manitoba are presented where the use of polyurethane foam proved to have minimal negative impact on the surrounding environment, the solution being less invasive and resulting in minimal ecosystem and ground disturbance. Recommendations for future uses and limitations of this technology are also provided.
Polarization of the CMB photons crossing the galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Gibilisco, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, I investigate a local effect of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in clusters of galaxies, due to the Thomson scattering of the anisotropic radiation. A local anisotropy of the CMB is produced by some gravitational and scattering effects, as, for instance, the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, the Doppler shift due to the cluster motion and the gravitational lensing. The resulting anisotropy $ΔI / I$ depends on the physical properties of the clusters, in particular on their emissivity in the X band, their size, their gravitational potential and on the peculiar conditions characterizing the cluster gas. By solving the Boltzmann radiative transfer equation in presence of such anisotropies I calculate the average polarization at the centre of some clusters, namely A2218, A576 and A2163, whose properties are quite well known. I prove the gravitational effects due to the contraction or to the expansion of the cluster have some importance and dominate the SZ effect, particularly for high density stuctures.
description: Plain Tex, 24 pages. Figures on request
Towards scalable bosonic quantum error correction
Creators: name: Terhal, B. M.
name: Conrad, J.
name: Vuillot, C.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: quantum error correction
subject: superconducting qubits
subject: bosonic codes
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: We review some of the recent efforts in devising and engineering bosonic qubits for superconducting devices, with emphasis on the Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) qubit. We present some new results on decoding repeated GKP error correction using finitely-squeezed GKP ancilla qubits, exhibiting differences with previously studied stochastic error models. We discuss circuit-QED ways to realize CZ gates between GKP qubits and we discuss different scenarios for using GKP and regular qubits as building blocks in a scalable superconducting surface code architecture.
Exact solution of a partially asymmetric exclusion model using a deformed oscillator algebra
Creators: name: Blythe, R. A.
name: Evans, M. R.
name: Colaiori, F.
name: Essler, F. H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the partially asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries. We generalise the matrix approach previously used to solve the special case of total asymmetry and derive exact expressions for the partition sum and currents valid for all values of the asymmetry parameter q. Due to the relationship between the matrix algebra and the q-deformed quantum harmonic oscillator algebra we find that q-Hermite polynomials, along with their orthogonality properties and generating functions, are of great utility. We employ two distinct sets of q-Hermite polynomials, one for q<1 and the other for q>1. It turns out that these correspond to two distinct regimes: the previously studied case of forward bias (q<1) and the regime of reverse bias (q>1) where the boundaries support a current opposite in direction to the bulk bias. For the forward bias case we confirm the previously proposed phase diagram whereas the case of reverse bias produces a new phase in which the current decreases exponentially with system size.
description: 27 pages LaTeX2e, 3 figures, includes new references and further comparison with related work. To appear in J. Phys. A
Perceived Career Barriers: The Role of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Self-Efficacy Mediators among Latina/o College Students
Creators: Mejia, Brenda Xiomara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Minorities--Education (Higher)
Minority college students
Minority college students--Social conditions
Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity
Hispanic American college students
Counseling psychology
Vocational education

description: Sociohistorical, sociopolitical and sociostructural barriers in American society create different paths in the college-to-work transition. Some individuals can follow their natural calling for a vocation, while others must contend with limited access to occupational opportunities. The emancipatory communitarian (EC) framework advocates for resisting and changing of structural barriers that hinder the career path of oppressed groups. Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) explains how sociocultural and background contextual factors interact with self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and career goals to shape career behavior. The present study investigated the relation of ethnic identity and acculturation to self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations by testing the validity of SCCT tenets with a sample of 357 Latina/o college students. An EC-SCCT framework was used to explore the relationships among ethnic identity, acculturation level, career decision self-efficacy, coping efficacy, and perceived barriers. The results of a modified path model demonstrated that, for this sample, career decision self-efficacy mediated the influence of ethnic identity and Anglo bicultural orientation on the perception of career barriers. The findings also point to the role of ethnic identity in augmenting Latina/o students' career decision self-efficacy and increasing awareness about career barriers (e.g., ethnic discrimination). The current study contributes to the literature promoting a liberational approach to vocational and counseling psychology theory, research, and practice.  Limitations and implications for theory, research, training, and practice are discussed.
Perceived Parenting and Depression in Adolescents: The Unique Contributions of Attention and Engagement
Creators: Katcher, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Specific parenting behaviors, parental style, and quality of relationship are often confounded when examining predictors of adolescent depression. Using Wave I of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (N = 4,301), the author examined quality of relationship as a potential mediator of parenting behaviors and adolescent depression.  Furthermore, the relationship between teachable parenting behaviors and their contribution to adolescent depression was examined, above and beyond quality of relationship with parent and parental style (discussed as parental warmth in this study). As significant differences have been demonstrated in adolescent depression for girls and boys, as well as age, the data was analyzed by age and gender categories. A series of hierarchical linear regressions were performed to test these relationships and significant differences were found by age and gender. Results indicated that for some age/gender groups, both participating in activities with parents and parental warmth was related to a better quality of relationship, which in turn was related to lower levels of adolescent depression. Additionally, for some age/gender groups, teachable parenting behaviors (activities with parents, family meals, and parental monitoring) were significantly related to adolescent depression, above and beyond the contribution of parental style (parental warmth) and quality of relationship. However, communication with parents and parental presence at key points throughout the day were not related to adolescent depression.
Arisaema mildbraedii Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Arisaema
Arisaema mildbraedii

description: Arisaema mildbraedii Engl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ; 1 300–3 000 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Irangi Forest, Alt. 2 341 m, 15 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 004014 (EA).
References: Fries & Fries (1927b), Mayo (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Proving Differential Privacy with Shadow Execution
Creators: name: Wang, Yuxin
name: Ding, Zeyu
name: Wang, Guanhong
name: Kifer, Daniel
name: Zhang, Danfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4

description: Recent work on formal verification of differential privacy shows a trend toward usability and expressiveness -- generating a correctness proof of sophisticated algorithm while minimizing the annotation burden on programmers. Sometimes, combining those two requires substantial changes to program logics: one recent paper is able to verify Report Noisy Max automatically, but it involves a complex verification system using customized program logics and verifiers. In this paper, we propose a new proof technique, called shadow execution, and embed it into a language called ShadowDP. ShadowDP uses shadow execution to generate proofs of differential privacy with very few programmer annotations and without relying on customized logics and verifiers. In addition to verifying Report Noisy Max, we show that it can verify a new variant of Sparse Vector that reports the gap between some noisy query answers and the noisy threshold. Moreover, ShadowDP reduces the complexity of verification: for all of the algorithms we have evaluated, type checking and verification in total takes at most 3 seconds, while prior work takes minutes on the same algorithms.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures, PLDI'19
Anomaly-free formulation of non-perturbative, four-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity
Creators: name: Thiemann, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Wheeler-Dewitt quantum constraint operator for four-dimensional, non-perturbative Lorentzian vacuum quantum gravity is defined in the continuum. The regulated Wheeler-DeWitt constraint operator is densely defined, does not require any renormalization and the final operator is anomaly-free and at least symmmetric. The technique introduced here can also be used to produce a couple of other completely well-defined regulated operators including but not exhausting a) the Euclidean Wheeler-DeWitt operator, b)the generator of the Wick rotation transform that maps solutions to the Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint to solutions to the Lorentzian Hamiltonian constraint, c) length operators, d) Hamiltonian operators of the matter sector and e) the generators of the asymptotic Poincaré group including the quantum ADM energy.
description: 10 pages, Latex, to appear in Physics Letters B (in press)
By-passing fluctuation theorems
Creators: name: Boes, Paul
name: Gallego, Rodrigo
name: Ng, Nelly H. Y.
name: Eisert, Jens
name: Wilming, Henrik
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: fluctuation theorems
subject: Jarzysnki equality
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Fluctuation theorems impose constraints on possible work extraction probabilities in thermodynamical processes. These constraints are stronger than the usual second law, which is concerned only with average values. Here, we show that such constraints, expressed in the form of the Jarzysnki equality, can be by-passed if one allows for the use of catalysts---additional degrees of freedom that may become correlated with the system from which work is extracted, but whose reduced state remains unchanged so that they can be re-used. This violation can be achieved both for small systems but also for macroscopic many-body systems, and leads to positive work extraction per particle with finite probability from macroscopic states in equilibrium. In addition to studying such violations for a single system, we also discuss the scenario in which many parties use the same catalyst to induce local transitions. We show that there exist catalytic processes that lead to highly correlated work distributions, expected to have implications for stochastic and quantum thermodynamics.
Synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-1,2,3 triazoles hybrids via Ugi-azide/CuAAC
Creators: name: Cesia M. Aguilar-Morales
name: Denisse De Loera
name: Contreras-Celedón, Claudia
name: Cortés-García, Carlos J.
name: Chacón-García, Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new synthetic strategy to obtain new linked 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-1,2,3-triazoles via the Ugi-azide reaction followed by a copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide reaction (CuAAC) was developed. This strategy used solvent-free conditions for the Ugi-azide reaction. This two-step strategy affords the products in moderate to good yields. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report using the CuAAC reaction as a post-condensation process in an Ugi-azide reaction and therefore, the first describing the synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole (1,5-DS-T) linked to the 1,2,3-triazole moiety, which are molecules that may have potential applications in medicinal chemistry.
Additional file 9 of ACT001 attenuates microglia-mediated neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury via inhibiting AKT/NFκB/NLRP3 pathway
Creators: name: Cai, Lin
name: Gong, Qiuyuan
name: Qi, Lin
name: Xu, Tongtong
name: Suo, Qian
name: Li, Xiang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Jing, Yao
name: Yang, Dianxu
name: Xu, Zhiming
name: Yuan, Fang
name: Tang, Yaohui
name: Yang, Guoyuan
name: Ding, Jun
name: Chen, Hao
name: Tian, Hengli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 8: Fig. S5 (A-B) Representative fluorescence images for dual staining of NFkB and Iba1 in mouse (A) and rat (B) primary microglia cells after co-treatment with indicated doses of ACT001 and 100 ng/ml LPS for 24 hours. Cell nuclei were shown in blue (DAPI). Scale bar = 10 μm. Cells without ACT001 and LPS treatment were shown as control.
Phonon drag of electrons at high temperatures
Creators: name: Vdovenkov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature-dependent thermoelectric power (TEP) in semiconductor crystals and crystal structures containing an electron-vibrational centers (EVC) was investigated in this article. The TEP contain narrow pius at Debye temperatures for different phonons. In thin epitaxial layers on substrates such pius exist at Debye temperatures of substrates phonons. These pius existence imposable to explain on basis of known TEP theory but it may be explained by the phonon drag of electrons (PDE) effect. In this connection there is the necessity to change traditional point of view on the PDE effect existence only at low temperatures and expand the PDE theory on case of strong electron-phonon coupling provided by EVC at high temperatures.
description: 14 pages thith 6 figures
Arisaema ruwenzoricum N. E. Br.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Arisaema
Arisaema ruwenzoricum

description: Arisaema ruwenzoricum N.E.Br.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, BZ, UMF; 2 300–3 200 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 2 397 m, 28 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002940 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Nonlocal star as a blackhole mimicker
Creators: name: Buoninfante, Luca
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of ghost-free, infinite derivative gravity, we will provide a quantum mechanical framework in which we can describe astrophysical objects devoid of curvature singularity and event horizon. In order to avoid ghosts and singularity, the gravitational interaction has to be nonlocal, therefore, we call these objects as nonlocal stars. Quantum mechanically a nonlocal star is a self-gravitational bound system of many gravitons interacting nonlocally. Outside the nonlocal star the spacetime is well described by the Schwarzschild metric, while inside we have a non-vacuum spacetime metric which tends to be conformally flat at the origin. Remarkably, in the most compact scenario the radius of a nonlocal star is of the same order of the Buchdahl limit, therefore slightly larger than the Schwarzschild radius, such that there can exist a photosphere. These objects live longer than a Schwarzschild blackhole and they are very good absorbers, due to the fact that the number of available states is larger than that of a blackhole. As a result nonlocal stars, not only can be excellent blackhole mimickers, but can also be considered as dark matter candidates. In particular, nonlocal stars with masses below $10^{14}$g can be made stable compared to the age of the Universe.
description: 12 pages. V2: references added, typos fixed. V3: accepted for publication in PRD
Metrogaleruca Bechyne & Bechyne 1969
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Metrogaleruca

description: Genus Metrogaleruca Bechyné & Bechyné, 1969
Metrogaleruca Bechyné & Bechyné, 1969: 24
(type species Chrysomela obscura DeGeer, 1775, by original designation).
Remarks
This genus currently includes only five species, distributed from Mexico through much of South America, as well as in the Lesser Antilles. However, some species currently placed in Schematiza Chevrolat, 1836, Yingaresca, or Ophraea Jacoby, 1886 might properly belong in Metrogaleruca. See Figs 31 and 221 for illustrations of Metrogaleruca.
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
title: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1899
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Meyer
Year: 1899
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Stadt Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch, vol. 1899
Quantum Spin Dynamics (QSD)
Creators: name: Thiemann, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An anomaly-free operator corresponding to the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint of Lorentzian, four-dimensional, canonical, non-perturbative vacuum gravity is constructed in the continuum. This operator is entirely free of factor ordering singularities and can be defined in symmetric and non-symmetric form. We work in the real connection representation and obtain a well-defined quantum theory. We compute the complete solution to the Quantum Einstein Equations for the non-symmetric version of the operator and a physical inner product thereon. The action of the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint on spin-network states is by annihilating, creating and rerouting the quanta of angular momentum associated with the edges of the underlying graph while the ADM-energy is essentially diagonalized by the spin-network states. We argue that the spin-network representation is the ``non-linear Fock representation" of quantum gravity, thus justifying the term ``Quantum Spin Dynamics (QSD)".
description: 33 pages, Latex, followed by companion paper after this one
Synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-1,2,3 triazoles hybrids via Ugi-azide/CuAAC
Creators: name: Cesia M. Aguilar-Morales
name: Denisse De Loera
name: Contreras-Celedón, Claudia
name: Cortés-García, Carlos J.
name: Chacón-García, Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new synthetic strategy to obtain new linked 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-1,2,3-triazoles via the Ugi-azide reaction followed by a copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide reaction (CuAAC) was developed. This strategy used solvent-free conditions for the Ugi-azide reaction. This two-step strategy affords the products in moderate to good yields. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report using the CuAAC reaction as a post-condensation process in an Ugi-azide reaction and therefore, the first describing the synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole (1,5-DS-T) linked to the 1,2,3-triazole moiety, which are molecules that may have potential applications in medicinal chemistry.
Culcasia falcifolia Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Culcasia
Culcasia falcifolia

description: Culcasia falcifolia Engl.  —
Habit: Climber.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 2 100 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Effects of Compton scattering on the neutron star radius constraints in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars
Creators: name: Salmi, T.
name: Suleimanov, V.
name: Poutanen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to study the possible effects and biases on the radius constraints for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars when using Thomson approximation to describe electron scattering in the atmosphere models, instead of using exact formulation for Compton scattering. We compare the differences between the two models in the energy spectrum and angular distribution of the emitted radiation. We also analyse a self-generated synthetic phase-resolved energy spectrum, based on Compton atmosphere and the most X-ray luminous rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed by the Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER). We derive constraints for the neutron star parameters using both the Compton and Thomson models. The results show that the method works by reproducing the correct parameters with the Compton model. However, biases are found in size and the temperature of the emitting hot spot, when using the Thomson model. The constraints on the radius are still not significantly changed, and therefore the Thomson model seems to be adequate if we are interested only in the radius measurements using NICER.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, published in A&A
title: UniGuide 2012/13 Technische Universität Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Technische Universität Braunschweig
subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Uni-Guide
subject: 379

description: UniGuide - Technische Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2012/13
Staat
Creators: name: Kogge, Werner
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Staat
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung des Begriffs 'Staat' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen
Hirzebruch genera of manifolds with torus action
Creators: name: Panov, Taras E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R20; 57S25 (Primary) 14M25; 58G10 (Secondary)

description: A quasitoric manifold is a smooth 2n-manifold M^{2n} with an action of the compact torus T^n such that the action is locally isomorphic to the standard action of T^n on C^n and the orbit space is diffeomorphic, as manifold with corners, to a simple polytope P^n. The name refers to the fact that topological and combinatorial properties of quasitoric manifolds are similar to that of non-singular algebraic toric varieties (or toric manifolds). Unlike toric varieties, quasitoric manifolds may fail to be complex; however, they always admit a stably (or weakly almost) complex structure, and their cobordism classes generate the complex cobordism ring. As it have been recently shown by Buchstaber and Ray, a stably complex structure on a quasitoric manifold is defined in purely combinatorial terms, namely, by an orientation of the polytope and a function from the set of codimension-one faces of the polytope to primitive vectors of an integer lattice. We calculate the χ_y-genus of a quasitoric manifold with fixed stably complex structure in terms of the corresponding combinatorial data. In particular, this gives explicit formulae for the classical Todd genus and signature. We also relate our results with well-known facts in the theory of toric varieties.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX2e
Lemna minor L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Lemna
Lemna minor

description: Lemna minor L.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 1 900 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Lake Nkunga, Alt. 1 900 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003852 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: Zur Phaseninformation des komplexen Reflexionskoeffizienten bei wellenbelasteten Uferböschungen
Creators: name: Büsching, Fritz
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Phasensprung
subject: komplexer Reflexionskoeffizient
subject: partielle Clapotis
subject: stehende Welle
subject: Wellenbrechen
subject: Deckwerk
subject: Hohldeckwerk
subject: phase jump
subject: complex reflection coefficient
subject: sloping structure
subject: hollow cubes
subject: partial Clapotis
subject: hollow revetment
subject: breaking wave
subject: 620

description: Auf der Grundlage von Modelluntersuchungen werden spezifische Phänomene bei brechenden Wellen an steilen Uferböschungen (mit Neigungen 1 : m = 1:2 und 1:3) auf veränderliche Phasendifferenzen [Delta phi] zwischen einfallenden und partiell reflektierten Wellen zurückgeführt.
In Analogie zu elektromagnetischen Wellen an der Grenzfläche zweier Medien wird der Brechvorgang von Wasserwellen als Kombination von Effekten der Reflexion, der Transmission und der Dissipation betrachtet.
Demzufolge wird der Reflexionskoeffizient als komplexe Größe [Gamma] definiert mit dem Betrag Cr = Hr/Hi und der Phase [Delta phi].
Untersuchungsergebnisse werden nach Betrag und Phase für irreguläre Wellen in der Gaußebene und für monochromatische Wellen als Wertepaare jeweils in Abhängigkeit von Wellenfrequenz und Böschungsneigung dargestellt.
description: Based on model investigations, specific phenomena of waves breaking on rather steep slopes (1:2 and 1:3) are traced back partly to varying phase shifts [Delta phi], occurring between incident and reflected waves.
As an analogue of electromagnetic waves at uniform planar interfaces, the process of wave breaking is looked upon as combined effects resulting from reflection, transmission and dissipation. 
Accordingly a complex reflection coefficient [Gamma] is defined comprising of the magnitude Cr = Hr/Hi and the phase [Delta phi]. 
Results are presented by magnitudes and phases for irregular waves in the Gaussian plane and for monochromatic waves with reference to some frequencies and slope angles.
Hot, rocky and warm, puffy super-Earths orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337)
Creators: name: Dumusque, X.
name: Turner, O.
name: Dorn, C.
name: Eastman, J. D.
name: Allart, R.
name: Adibekyan, V.
name: Sousa, S.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Mordasini, C.
name: Bourrier, V.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Coffinet, A.
name: Davies, M. D.
name: Diaz, R. F.
name: Fausnaugh, M. M.
name: Glidden, A.
name: Guerrero, N.
name: Henze, C. E.
name: Jenkins, J. M.
name: Latham, D. W.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Quintana, E. V.
name: Ricker, G. R.
name: Rowden, P.
name: Segransan, D.
name: Mascareno, A. Suarez
name: Seager, S.
name: Twicken, J . D.
name: Udry, S.
name: Vanderspek, R. K.
name: Winn, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: TESS is revolutionising the search for planets orbiting bright and nearby stars. In sectors 3 and 4, TESS observed TOI-402 (TIC-120896927), a bright V=9.1 K1 dwarf also known as HD 15337, and found two transiting signals with period of 4.76 and 17.18 days and radius of 1.90 and 2.21\,\Rearth. This star was observed as part of the radial-velocity search for planets using the HARPS spectrometer, and 85 precise radial-velocity measurements were obtained over a period of 14 years. In this paper, we analyse the HARPS radial-velocity measurements in hand to confirm the planetary nature of these two signals. By reanalysing TESS photometry and host star parameters using EXOFASTv2, we find that TOI-402.01 and TOI-402.02 have periods of 4.75642$\pm$0.00021 and 17.1784$\pm$0.0016 days and radii of 1.70$\pm$0.06 and 2.52$\pm$0.11\,\Rearth\,(precision 3.6 and 4.2\%), respectively. By analysing the HARPS radial-velocity measurements, we find that those planets are both super-Earths with masses of 7.20$\pm$0.81 and 8.79$\pm$1.67\,\Mearth\,(precision 11.3 and 19.0\%), and small eccentricities compatible with zero at 2$σ$. Although having rather similar masses, the radius of these two planets is really different, putting them on different sides of the radius gap. With stellar irradiation 160 times more important than Earth for TOI-402.01 and only 29 times more for TOI-402.02, it is likely that photo-evaporation is at the origin of this radius difference. Those two planets, being in the same system and therefore being in the same irradiation environment are therefore extremely important to perform comparative exoplanetology across the evaporation valley and thus bring constraints on the mechanisms responsible for the radius gap.
description: 25 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables, accepted in A&A
Perceiver Contributors to Facial Recognition: How Might Racial (Self) Awareness Facilitate or Inhibit Cross-Racial Identification?
Creators: Sant-Barket, Sinead
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social sciences--Research
subject: Face perception
subject: Race relations
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The cross-race identification effect is a phenomenon anecdotally experienced by many people in viewing, perceiving, and recalling human faces when the perceiver and target individual are not of the same race. In popular vernacular, the idea that ‘they all look alike’ when referring to people from other racial groups has been studied extensively with results providing evidence that “people of other races appear more similar to each other than people of [ones] own race” (Maclin & Malpass, 2001, p. 99). While the cross-race identification effect (or the greater ability to accurately recall same-race than other-race faces and the poorer ability to correctly recall other-race compared to same-race faces) has been found across all racial groups with Whites or Caucasians exhibiting the strongest effect, scholars continue to be challenged with understanding what factors contribute to the effect. An aspect of the cross-race effect that has received minimal attention is the notion of race as a construct in and of itself. Utilization of White racial identity (Helms, 1990) as a psychological variable in social science research is posited to provide a more precise evaluation of White individuals’ social attitudes with respect to race and racial group membership, as compared to the racial socio-demographic categories commonly used in research studies. Based on this contention, the current study sought to empirically explore whether White perceiver’s racial identity status attitudes were associated with Black (or other-race) facial recognition. The sample included 269 White adults from across the U.S. Through an online survey platform, participants viewed a series of White and Black facial images. After completing an intermediary task, they were shown the old in addition to new White and Black facial images and were asked to determine which faces they had and had not seen before in the study. Respondents also completed the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (Helms & Carter, 1990) and a demographic questionnaire. Results indicated that the cross-race identification effect was present in the current study, with White participants demonstrating greater overall accuracy, fewer inaccurate identifications, and a more cautious decision strategy (that generally leads for fewer false identifications) when responding to White (same-race) faces as compared to Black faces. Additionally, Black (cross-racial) facial recognition was significantly related to White racial identity with participants who endorsed an absence of racist views and internal conflict in reaction to race-salient information displaying high rates of correct Black identifications. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.
Kemess South Mine reclamation and closure
Creators: name: McConnachie, Jennifer
name: Johns, Carolyn
name: Evans, Jordan
name: Lysay, Georgia J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The general reclamation strategy for the Kemess South Mine site marries long-term erosion control with successional reclamation principles. For disturbed areas, this requires proper preparation of surfaces, application of growth media, and reintroduction of native pioneer species to initiate successional processes of recovery. The focus of reclamation during mine operations has been on the inactive areas of the tailings dam, waste rock dumps, and expended construction borrow areas. The tailings are retained behind an earthfill dam. Reclamation activities were initiated at the dam in 2008 upon completion of the downstream buttresses. A series of diversion ditches to route water around and away from the dam structure were completed in 2009, and the final closure spillway is currently being constructed with completion scheduled for 2011. The two waste rock dumps contain non-acid generating (NAG) waste rock and potentially acid generating (PAG) waste rock. Resloping of the NAG dump commenced in 2009, followed by placement of overburden and ground preparation. The PAG waste dump will be relocated into the open pit by the end of mine life for subaqueous disposal Various techniques were applied to the borrow areas, including resloping, drainage control, surface preparation, bioengineering, pocket planting and introduction of native species.
Mechanism of collective interstitial ordering in Fe–C alloys
Creators: name: Zhang, Xie
name: Wang, Hongcai
name: Hickel, Tilmann
name: Rogal, Jutta
name: Li, Yujiao
name: Neugebauer, Jörg
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomistic models
subject: Metals and alloys
subject: Phase transitions and critical phenomena
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: Collective interstitial ordering is at the core of martensite formation in Fe–C-based alloys, laying the foundation for high-strength steels. Even though this ordering has been studied extensively for more than a century, some fundamental mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we show the unexpected effects of two correlated phenomena on the ordering mechanism: anharmonicity and segregation. The local anharmonicity in the strain fields induced by interstitials substantially reduces the critical concentration for interstitial ordering, up to a factor of three. Further, the competition between interstitial ordering and segregation results in an effective decrease of interstitial segregation into extended defects for high interstitial concentrations. The mechanism and corresponding impact on interstitial ordering identified here enrich the theory of phase transitions in materials and constitute a crucial step in the design of ultra-high-performance alloys.
Origin of Magnetic Fields in the Universe Due to Nonminimal Gravitational-Electromagnetic Coupling
Creators: name: Opher, R.
name: Wichoski, U. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Basically the only existing theories for the creation of a magnetic field B in the Universe are the creation of a seed field of order 10^{-20} G in spiral galaxy which is subsequently supposedly amplified up to the observed 10^{-6} - 10^{-5} G by a dynamo process or a seed intergalactic field of magnitude 10^{-12} - 10^{-10} G which is amplified by collapse and differential rotation. No satisfactory dynamo theory, however, exists today. We show that a 10^{-6} - 10^{-5} G magnetic field in spiral galaxies is directly obtained from a nonminimal gravitational-electromagnetic coupling, without the need of significant dynamo amplification.
description: 5 pages, Latex (Revtex), no figures, To appear in PRL
Matching for FCNC effects in the flavour-symmetric SMEFT
Creators: name: Hurth, Tobias
name: Renner, Sophie
name: Shepherd, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the complete tree and one-loop matching of the dimension 6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with unbroken $U(3)^5$ flavour symmetry to the operators of the Weak Effective Theory (WET) which are responsible for flavour changing neutral current effects among down-type quarks. We also explicitly calculate the effects of SMEFT corrections to input observables on the WET Wilson coefficients, a necessary step on the way to a well-defined, complete prediction. These results will enable high-precision flavour data to be incorporated into global fits of the SMEFT at high energies, where the flavour symmetry assumption is widespread.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, including appendix. v2: added references, matches published version
Uptake of Dialogic Teaching and Learning Using a Genre-Based Pedagogical Approach: Engagement and Identity Negotiation in an English Language Teacher Education Writing Course in Thailand
Creators: name: PINTIPA SEUBSANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Education

description: This thesis examines the uptake of dialogic teaching and learning in the context of an English language teacher education writing course in Thailand through the introduction of a genre-based pedagogical approach. The sociocultural constructs of appropriation and mediation are used as a frame for conceptualising teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ teaching and learning identities as mediated by their experiences, and as related to their actual teaching and learning practices. The findings indicate the necessity of providing a bridge for both teacher educators and pre-service teachers in settings of transmissive teaching to work effectively towards more dialogic teaching approaches.
title: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1900
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Meyer
Year: 1900
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Stadt Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch, vol. 1900
Perceiving the Spirit of Manhattan’s Chinatown: A Study of the Evolution and Preservation of the Signage Designed for Historic Chinese Association Buildings
Creators: Yang, Tianchi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Chinese Americans
Architecture--Chinese influences
Signs and signboards

description: It is a common experience to be caught by the overwhelming signs when walking through the streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown. However, lying among the normal, modern commercial signage are some traditional signs, most of which are for historic family, district and merchant associations. Traditional signage plays an important role in Chinese architecture to identify a building or a place, and communicate the spirit of the place through calligraphy. In the early years of Chinese arrival to the East Coast of the United States, these kinds of association were founded for the purpose of allowing members to support each other, and the signage for them came into being as a tradition from China. If an analogy is drawn between the stores and restaurants of Manhattan’s Chinatown and leaves of a tree, then the associations will be the roots of that tree. Some of the surviving signs date back to the turn of the 20th century, and some are newer replacements in traditional or evolutionary forms. Yet hanging on the facades or the interior halls, they are rarely recognized with respect for their values to the association headquarters and Manhattan’s Chinatown. The intent of this thesis is to uncover and interpret the signage for associations in Manhattan’s Chinatown so as to inspire the appreciation of this signage, which is closely tied up with the spirit of Manhattan’s Chinatown, by both Chinese and people from other cultures. To critically study the histories of evolution and preservation of this signage, including the changing ways of how the signage and buildings are related, this thesis will focus on four case studies: Lin Sing Association, On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Lee’s Family Association. The thesis then further discusses the significance of the signage for associations to Chinatown, the appropriateness and feasibility to preserve the extant historic signage, and other preservation issues of signage in the analysis and conclusion.