cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Empirical Study of Object Protocols in the Wild
Creators: name: Beckman, Nels E.
name: Kim, Duri
name: Aldrich, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An active area of research in computer science is the prevention of violations of object protocols, i.e., restrictions on temporal orderings of method calls on an object. However, little is understood about object protocols in practice. This paper describes an empirical study of object protocols in some popular open-source Java programs. In our study, we have attempted to determine how often object protocols are defined, and how often they are used, while also developing a taxonomy of similar protocols. In the open-source projects in our study, comprising almost two million lines of code, approximately 7.2% of all types defined protocols, while 13% of classes were clients of types defining protocols. (For comparison, 2.5% of the types in the Java library define type parameters using Java Generics.) This suggests that protocol checking tools are widely applicable.
Young supertableaux and the large $\mathcal{N} = 4$ superconformal algebra
Creators: name: Fearn, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider unitary highest weight irreducible representations of the `Large' $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal algebra $A_γ$ in the Ramond sector as infinite-dimensional graded modules of its zero mode subalgebra, $\mathfrak{su}(2|2)$. We describe how representations of $\mathfrak{su}(2|2)$ may be classified using Young supertableaux, and use the decomposition of $A_γ$ as an $\mathfrak{su}(2|2)$ module to discuss the states which contribute to the supersymmetric index $I_1$, previously proposed in the literature by Gukov, Martinec, Moore and Strominger.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures
Laser-to-proton energy transfer efficiency in laser-plasma interactions
Creators: name: Fourkal, E.
name: Velchev, I.
name: Ma, C-M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the energy of protons accelerated in laser-matter interaction experiments may be significantly increased through the process of splitting the incoming laser pulse into multiple interaction stages of equal intensity. From a thermodynamic point of view, the splitting procedure can be viewed as an effective way of increasing the efficiency of energy transfer from the laser light to protons, which peaks for processes having the least amount of entropy gain. It is predicted that it should be possible to achieve $\apprge 100%$ increase in the energy efficiency in a six-stage laser proton accelerator compared to a single laser-target interaction scheme.
Selective etching of PDMS: etching as a negative tone resist
Creators: name: Szilasi, S. Z.
name: Juhasz, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work authors present for the first time how to apply the additive-free, cured PDMS as a negative tone resist material, demonstrate the creation of PDMS microstructures and test the solvent resistivity of the created microstructures. The PDMS layers were 45 um and 100 um thick, the irradiations were done with a focused proton microbeam with various fluences. After irradiation, the samples were etched with sulfuric acid that removed the unirradiated PDMS completely but left those structures intact that received high enough fluences. The etching rate of the unirradiated PDMS was also determined. Those structures that received at least 7.5*10^15 ion*cm-2 fluence did not show any signs of degradation even after 19 hours of etching. As a demonstration, 45 um and 100 um tall, high aspect ratio, good quality, undistorted microstructures were created with smooth and vertical sidewalls. The created microstructures were immersed into numerous solvents and some acids to test their compatibility. It was found that the unirradiated PDMS cannot, while the irradiated PDMS microstructures can resist to chloroform, n-hexane, toluene and sulfuric acid. Hydrogen fluoride etches both the unirradiated and the irradiated PDMS.
description: full paper
Additional file 1: of The use of geosocial networking smartphone applications and the risk of sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Haidong
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Zhou, Ying
name: Wang, Keke
name: Zhang, Xiaoya
name: Wu, Jianhui
name: Wang, Guoli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Table S1. Characteristics of studies included in the meta-analysis. (DOCX 26 kb)
An Empirical Comparison of Field Defect Modeling Methods
Creators: name: Li, Paul Luo
name: Shaw, Mary
name: Herbsleb, James
name: P.  Santhanam
name: Ray, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we report empirical results from forecasting field defect rates and predicting the number of field defects for a large commercial software system. We find that we are not able to accurately forecast field defect rates using a combined time-based and metrics-based approach, as judged by the Theil forecasting statistic. We suggest possible conditions that may have contributed to the poor results. Next, we use metrics-based approaches to predict the number of field defects within the six months after deployment. We find that the simple ratios method produce more accurate predictions than more complex metrics-based methods. Our results are steps toward quantitatively managing the risks associated with software field defects.
Magneto-electric effect in doped magnetic ferroelectrics
Creators: name: Udalov, O. G.
name: Beloborodov, I. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model of magneto-electric effect in doped magnetic ferroelectrics. This magneto-electric effect does not involve the spin-orbit coupling and is based purely on the Coulomb interaction. We calculate magnetic phase diagram of doped magnetic ferroelectrics. We show that magneto-electric coupling is pronounced only for ferroelectrics with low dielectric constant. We find that magneto-electric coupling leads to modification of magnetization temperature dependence in the vicinity of ferroelectric phase transition. A peak of magnetization appears. We find that magnetization of doped magnetic ferroelectrics strongly depends on applied electric field.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Sampling of min-entropy relative to quantum knowledge
Creators: name: Koenig, Robert
name: Renner, Renato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let X_1, ..., X_n be a sequence of n classical random variables and consider a sample of r positions selected at random. Then, except with (exponentially in r) small probability, the min-entropy of the sample is not smaller than, roughly, a fraction r/n of the total min-entropy of all positions X_1, ..., X_n, which is optimal. Here, we show that this statement, originally proven by Vadhan [LNCS, vol. 2729, Springer, 2003] for the purely classical case, is still true if the min-entropy is measured relative to a quantum system. Because min-entropy quantifies the amount of randomness that can be extracted from a given random variable, our result can be used to prove the soundness of locally computable extractors in a context where side information might be quantum-mechanical. In particular, it implies that key agreement in the bounded-storage model (using a standard sample-and-hash protocol) is fully secure against quantum adversaries, thus solving a long-standing open problem.
description: 48 pages, latex
An Efficient Proximal-Gradient Method for Single and Multi-task Regression with Structured Sparsity
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Qihang  Lin
name: Seyoung  Kim
name: Peña, Javier
name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
name: Xing, Eric P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the optimization problem of learning regression models with a mixed-norm penalty that is defined over overlapping groups to achieve structured sparsity. It has been previously shown that such penalty can encode prior knowledge on the input or output structure to learn an structuredsparsity pattern in the regression parameters. However, because of the non-separability of the parameters of the overlapping groups, developing an efficient optimization method has remained a challenge. An existing method casts this problem as a second-order cone programming (SOCP) and solves it by interior-point methods. However, this approach is computationally expensive even for problems of moderate size. In this paper, we propose an efficient proximal-gradientmethod that achieves a faster convergence rate and is much more efficient and scalable than solving the SOCP formulation. Our method exploits the structure of the non-smooth structured-sparsity-inducing norm, introduces its smooth approximation, and solves this approximation function instead of optimizing the original objective function directly. We demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of our method on simulated datasets and show that our method can be successfully applied to a very large-scale dataset in genetic association analysis.
Hardware Support for QoS-based Function Allocation in Reconfigurable Systems
Creators: name: Ullmann, Michael
name: Jin, Wansheng
name: Becker, Jurgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This contribution presents a new approach for allocating suitable function-implementation variants depending on given quality-of-service function-requirements for run-time reconfigurable multi-device systems. Our approach adapts methodologies from the domain of knowledge-based systems which can be used for doing run-time hardware/software resource usage optimizations.
description: Submitted on behalf of EDAA (http://www.edaa.com/)
Solving topological defects via fusion
Creators: name: Bajnok, Z.
name: Simon, Zs.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrable defects in two-dimensional integrable models are purely transmitting thus topological. By fusing them to integrable boundaries new integrable boundary conditions can be generated, and, from the comparison of the two solved boundary theories, explicit solutions of defect models can be extracted. This idea is used to determine the transmission factors and defect energies of topological defects in sinh-Gordon and Lee-Yang models. The transmission factors are checked in Lagrangian perturbation theory in the sinh-Gordon case, while the defect energies are checked against defect thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations derived to describe the ground-state energy of diagonal defect systems on a cylinder. Defect bootstrap equations are also analyzed and are closed by determining the spectrum of defect bound-states in the Lee-Yang model.
description: LaTeX, 24 pages, 34 eps figures
A structure theorem for $RO(C_2)$-graded Bredon cohomology
Creators: name: May, Clover
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $C_2$ be the cyclic group of order two. We present a structure theorem for the $RO(C_2)$-graded Bredon cohomology of $C_2$-spaces using coefficients in the constant Mackey functor $\underline{\mathbb{F}_2}.$ We show that, as a module over the cohomology of the point, the $RO(C_2)$-graded cohomology of a finite $C_2$-CW complex decomposes as a direct sum of two basic pieces: shifted copies of the cohomology of a point and shifted copies of the cohomologies of spheres with the antipodal action. The shifts are by elements of $RO(C_2)$ corresponding to actual (i.e. non-virtual) $C_2$-representations. This decomposition lifts to a splitting of genuine $C_2$-spectra.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures. v2: strengthened result to spectrum level splitting and incorporated suggestions from referee
Common Reusable Verification Environment for BCA and RTL Models
Creators: name: Falconeri, Giuseppe
name: Naifer, Walid
name: Romdhane, Nizar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper deals with a common verification methodology and environment for SystemC BCA and RTL models. The aim is to save effort by avoiding the same work done twice by different people and to reuse the same environment for the two design views. Applying this methodology the verification task starts as soon as the functional specification is signed off and it runs in parallel to the models and design development. The verification environment is modeled with the aid of dedicated verification languages and it is applied to both the models. The test suite is exactly the same and thus it's possible to verify the alignment between the two models. In fact the final step is to check the cycle-by-cycle match of the interface behavior. A regression tool and a bus analyzer have been developed to help the verification and the alignment process. The former is used to automate the testbench generation and to run the two test suites. The latter is used to verify the alignment between the two models comparing the waveforms obtained in each run. The quality metrics used to validate the flow are full functional coverage and full alignment at each IP port.
description: Submitted on behalf of EDAA (http://www.edaa.com/)
Topological Aspect of Graphene Patchwork with Regular Arrays of Nano Holes
Creators: name: Kariyado, Toshikaze
name: Jiang, Yongcheng
name: Yang, Hongxin
name: Hu, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Triangular and honeycomb lattices are dual to each other -- if we puncture holes into a featureless plane in a regular triangular alignment, the remaining body looks like a honeycomb lattice, and vice versa, if the holes are in a regular honeycomb alignment, the remaining body has a feature of triangular lattice. In this work, we reveal that the electronic states in graphene sheets with nano-sized holes in triangular and honeycomb alignments are also dual to each other in a topological sense. Namely, a regular hole array perforated in graphene can open a band gap in the energy-momentum dispersion of relativistic electrons in the pristine graphene, and the insulating states induced by triangular and honeycomb hole arrays are distinct in topology. In a graphene patchwork with regions of these two hole arrays put side by side counterpropagating topological currents emerge at the domain wall. This observation indicates that the cerebrated atomically thin sheet is where topological physics and nanotechnology meet.
An Assembler Driven Verification Methodology (ADVM)
Creators: name: Macbeth, John S.
name: Heinz, Dietmar
name: Gray, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an overview of an assembler driven verification methodology (ADVM) that was created and implemented for a chip card project at Infineon Technologies AG. The primary advantage of this methodology is that it enables rapid porting of directed tests to new targets and derivatives, with only a minimum amount of code refactoring. As a consequence, considerable verification development time and effort was saved.
description: Submitted on behalf of EDAA (http://www.edaa.com/)
An Efficient Interlingua Translation System for Multi-lingual Document Production
Creators: name: Mitamura, Teruko
name: Nyberg, Eric
name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge-based interlingual machine translation systems produce semantically accurate translations, but typically require massive knowledge acquisition. This paper describes KANT, a system that reduces this requirement to produce practical, scalable, and accurate KBMT applications. First, the set of requirements is discussed, then the full KANT architecture is illustrated, and finally results from a fully implemented prototype are presented.
Elucidation of Mixed Lineage Kinase 3 (MLK3) Signaling Pathway in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Creators: name: Ke, Rong
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a lethal disease, with limited therapeutic options. Mixed Lineage Kinase 3 (MLK3) is a key regulator of liver diseases, although its role in HCC remains unclear. In part I, TCGA databases suggest elevated MAP3K11 (MLK3 gene) expression, and TMA studies show MLK3 activation in human HCCs. We demonstrate that MLK3 activity is upregulated in carcinogen-induced HCC, and MLK3 deficiency (MLK3-/-) alleviates HCC progression. MLK3-/- reduces proliferation in vivo and MLK3 inhibition reduces proliferation and colony formation in vitro. In part II, RNA-sequencing analysis shows that MLK3-/- modulates various gene signatures, including EMT, and reduces TGFB1&2 expressions. HCC cells overexpressing MLK3 promote EMT via autocrine TGFβ signaling. Moreover, MLK3-/- attenuates activated hepatic stellate cell (HSC) signature, which is increased in wild-type. Interestingly, MLK3 promotes pSmad2 induction and HSC activation via paracrine TGFβ signaling. In part III, we report that MLK3 overexpression in HCC promotes interleukin-11 (IL-11) expression, and secretion dependent on JNK1, which promotes the abundance of AP-1 proteins, c-Jun, and JunB on the IL11 promoters. Furthermore, MLK3 and IL-11 induce MMP10 expression and might cooperate with each other in promoting migration/invasion. Interestingly, IL11 is also expressed in the DEN/PB induced HCC tumors. Finally, MLK3 promotes M2 macrophage infiltration in HCC in vivo and IL11 promotes M2 macrophage polarization in vitro, suggesting a potential collaboration between the two. These findings reveal that MLK3 regulates multiple steps of HCC, implying MLK3 to be an ideal drug target for HCC clinical management.
Unexpected Phenomenology in Particle-Based Ice Absent in Magnetic Spin Ice
Creators: name: Nisoli, Cristiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While particle-based ices are often considered essentially equivalent to magnet-based spin ices, the two differ essentially in frustration and energetics. We show that at equilibrium particle-based ices correspond exactly to spin ices coupled to a background field. In trivial geometries, such a field has no effect, and the two systems are indeed thermodynamically equivalent. In other cases, however, the field controls a richer phenomenology, absent in magnetic ices, and still largely unexplored: ice rule fragility, topological charge transfer, radial polarization, decimation induced disorder, and glassiness.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
An Efficient BDD-Based A* Algorithm
Creators: name: Jensen, Rune M.
name: Bryant, Randal
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we combine the goal directed search of A* with the ability of BDDs to traverse an exponential number of states in polynomial time. We introduce a new algorithm, SetA*, that generalizes A* to expand sets of states in each iteration. SetA* has substantial advantages over BDDA*, the only previous BDD-based A* implementation we are aware of. Our experimental evaluation proves SetA* to be a powerful search paradigm. For some of the studied problems it outperforms BDDA*, A*, and BDD-based breadth-first search by several orders of magnitude. We believe exploring sets of states to be essential when the heuristic function is weak. For problems with strong heuristics, SetA* efficiently specializes to single-state search and consequently challenges single-state heuristic search in general.
La Paz, als Großstadt in Beckenlage in 3200-4000 m Höhe
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: La Paz, city El Alto, highest million-cities, airborne pollutants, vulnerable to climate change, strong glacier melt

description: Der auf 3.650 m Höhe gelegene bolivianische Regierungssitz La Paz und die noch 400 m höher gelegene Schwesterstadt El Alto sind mit Abstand die höchstgelegenen Millionenstädte der Welt. Die Kessellage von La Paz hat zur Folge, dass sich Luftschadstoffe in der Stadt anreichern. Besonders während der Trockenzeit erreicht die Luftbelastung kritische Werte. Durch ihre Höhenlage sind La Paz und El Alto sehr anfällig für die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels: starke Gletscherschmelze, hohe Temperaturen, häufige Extremereignisse (Starkregen und Trockenheit). Die Anpassungsbemühungen der Stadtverwaltung von La Paz sind auf die Sicherstellung der Wasserversorgung und den Katastrophenschutz ausgerichtet und laufen relativ erfolgreich. Die Arbeiten in den ländlichen Gebieten zum Natur- und Wasserschutzgebiet laufen jedoch sehr langsam. La Paz as »Million-City« in a deep basin at an altitud of 3200-4000 m: The Bolivian seat of government La Paz, located at an altitude of 3,650 m, and the sister city El Alto, which is still 400 m higher, are by far the highest million-cities in the world. The geographical position of La Paz in a deep basin causes airborne pollutants to accumulate in the city. Especially during the dry season, air pollution reaches critical values. Due to their altitude, La Paz and El Alto are very vulnerable to the effects of climate change: strong glacier melt, high temperatures, frequent extreme events (heavy rain and drought). The adaptation efforts of the Municipality of La Paz are aimed at ensuring water supply and civil protection and are running relatively successfully. However, work in rural areas on a nature and water sanctuary is proceeding very slowly
An Assessment of Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Efforts
Creators: name: Notkin, David
name: Gorlick, Michael
name: Shaw, Mary
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In May 1999 the ACM Council adopted a resolution both reaffirming ACM’s commitment to solving the software quality problem and also stating its opposition to licensing software engineers, on the grounds that licensing is premature and would be ineffective in addressing the software quality problem. ACM Council also affirmed its interest in developing a core body of knowledge for software engineering, which is often viewed as an appealing step toward improving software quality. Our committee was formed to study the existing software engineering body of knowledge efforts — including SWEBOK, with which ACM is involved through the joint IEEE CS/ACM Software Engineering Coordinating Committee (SWECC). Our charge was to determine the status, progress, and likely outcome of these fforts. This report documents our findings, our reasoning, and our conclusions. Our study and analysis has led us to the conclusion that the current software engineering body of knowledge efforts, including SWEBOK, are at best unlikely to achieve a goal of critical importance to ACM: the ability to provide appropriate assurances of software quality for software systems of public interest. Although the body of knowledge efforts may possibly make progress towards other stated and unstated objectives, we believe that ACM’s continued participation in the SWEBOK effort will not further — and indeed, may distract from — efforts to improve software quality, especially for systems of public interest. It would be consistent with our analysis for the ACM Council to choose to withdraw ACM from further involvement with SWEBOK, largely because of the danger of pursuing a path that might well provide false assurances to the public. Furthermore, we are uncertain whether, at present, there exists any process to articulate a core body of knowledge in software engineering that will directly contribute to the solution of the software quality problem. At a minimum, a conceptually clear and generally accepted organizing principle is a necessary pre-condition to the effective articulation of such a software engineering body of knowledge. No compelling organizing principle exists at present, and we see no clear course of action that would be likely to lead to one in the next few years.
title: ADCO, Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491) (11 H 1179), f. 00517
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: comptes

description: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179), f. 00517, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Mushroom production under Conifer and Broadleaves Species
Creators: name: Rigueiro-Rodríguez A
name: Romero-Franco R
name: Fernández-Lorenzo JL
name: Rodríguez-Rigueiro FJ
name: Santiago-Freijanes JJ
name: Mosquera-Losada MR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: inoculated
mycorrhization

description: Among the coniferous forests, pine forests are good producers of ectomycorrhizal fungi, such as Lactarius deliciosus, Lactarius semisanguineus, Lactarius sanguineus, Boletus edulis, Boletus pinophilus, Hydnum repandum, Cantharellus cibarius, Craterellus tubaeformis, Craterellus lutescens, or Russula cyanoxantha. In hardwood forests, such as chestnut, oak, oak, cork or holm oak we can also collect mushrooms with commercial importance of species such as Boletus edulis, Boletus aereus, Hydnum repandum, Amanita caesarea, Cantharellus cibarius or Craterellus cornucopioides. In Galicia, productions in good years between 50 and more than 100 kg of fresh weight per ha are cited, being very variable among years depending on the weather. Good practices to increase production are the mycorrhization of adult trees, pruning, comercial and uncormercial thinings to improve the vigor of the trees, and the clearing of the undergrowth (ideally it is conversion into grasses). In the face of sustainable use it is important to avoid abusive practices in the collection: use of rakes, collection of species without interest, collection of very young or extramature species, use transport bags that prevent spores from falling, such as plastic bags, etc. It is also important, when the forest harvest is carried out in the final cut, to avoid clear cuttings and leave s
Structural Properties of Bichromatic Non-crossing Matchings
Creators: name: Savić, Marko
name: Stojaković, Miloš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a set of $n$ red and $n$ blue points in the plane, we are interested in matching red points with blue points by straight line segments so that the segments do not cross. We develop a range of tools for dealing with the non-crossing matchings of points in convex position. It turns out that the points naturally partition into groups that we refer to as orbits, with a number of properties that prove useful for studying and efficiently processing the non-crossing matchings. Bottleneck matching is such a matching that minimizes the length of the longest segment. Illustrating the use of the developed tools, we solve the problem of finding bottleneck matchings of points in convex position in $O(n^2)$ time. Subsequently, combining our tools with a geometric analysis we design an $O(n)$-time algorithm for the case where the given points lie on a circle. Previously best known results were $O(n^3)$ for points in convex position, and $O(n \log n$) for points on a circle.
Risikolebensraum Kathmandu (Nepal): Klima- und Umweltveränderungen im Urbanisierungsprozess einer Himalaya-Metropolregion
Creators: name: Schickhoff, Udo
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: urbanization process, Himalayan metropolitan region, Kathmandu, uncontrolled urbanization, high population growth, increasing immigration

description: In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das einst beschauliche, ländlich geprägte Kathmandu-Tal einen sich rasch vollziehenden, weitgehend unkontrollierten Urbanisierungsprozess erlebt, der in ursächlichem Zusammenhang mit dem hohen Bevölkerungswachstum und stark zunehmender Zuwanderung aus anderen Regionen Nepals steht. Ausgeprägte infrastrukturelle Defizite, vor allem völlig unzureichende bzw. nicht vorhandene Müllent- sorgung und Abwasseraufbereitung, haben zu gravierenden und gesundheitsgefährdenden Umweltproblemen geführt, die sich im Klimawandel verschärfen. Die Himalaya-Metropole Kathmandu muss deshalb als Risikolebensraum eingestuft werden. Risk habitat Kathmandu (Nepal): Climatic and environmental changes in the wake of the urbanization process of a Himalayan metropolitan region: In recent decades, the once secluded, predominantly rural Kathmandu valley has experienced a rapidly ongoing, largely uncontrolled urbanization process, to be attributed to high population growth and considerably increasing immigration from other regions of Nepal. Apparent infrastructural deficits, in particular completely insufficient waste disposal and wastewater treatment, have resulted in severe environmental degradation which is hazardous to human health and which is aggravated by climate change. The Himalayan metropolis Kathmandu has thus to be classified as risk habitat.
QCD Nuclear Factor and the Moments of the Multiplicity Distributions in High-Order Perturbative Gluodynamics
Creators: name: Vinogradov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of gluodynamics with modified integral kernel is solved up to 2NLO (next-to-next-to-leading order) and 3NLO (next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order) in perturbative QCD. A relationship between the nuclear factor Ns and the ratio of the cumulant and factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution is examined. A comparison of theoretical results and experimental data in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at 200A GeV and 546A GeV is carried out.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Städtische Agglomerationen in Flussdeltagebieten
Creators: name: Scheffran, Jürgen
name: Link, P. Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: urban agglomerations, river deltas, human utilization, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, loss of wetlands, resilience to climate change, coastal management

description: Flussdeltas und dort liegende städtische Agglomerationen sind den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und den Folgen intensiver menschlicher Nutzung ausgesetzt. Ein steigender Meeresspiegel kann in Flussdeltas zu Inundation, Überflutung, Salzwassereinträgen, Verlusten von Feuchtgebieten oder landwirtschaftlichen Nutzflächen führen. All diese Auswirkungen beeinträchtigen die menschliche Nutzung der Deltaregionen und können die lokale Widerstandsfähigkeit gegen den Klimawandel reduzieren. Die Erfahrung zeigt, dass proaktive Maßnahmen einen effektiveren Schutz bieten als reaktive. Mit Hilfe eines integrativen Forschungsansatzes lassen sich die Konsequenzen von Umweltveränderungen in Flussdeltas systematisch erforschen. Beispiele unterschiedlicher Flussdeltas geben einen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten, um ein effektives Küstenmanagement in Deltaregionen in Zeiten des Klimawandels zu etablieren. Urban agglomerations in River Deltas: River deltas and urban agglomerations located there are particularly exposed to the consequences of climate change and the pressure from local human utilization. Impacts of growing sea level rise may include inundation, submergence, saltwater intrusion, loss of wetlands or agricultural land. All these effects can substantially interfere with human uses of the deltaic regions and can have adverse implications on local adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change. Experience shows that proactive approaches to adaptation are generally more effective than reactive approaches. An integrated framework is developed to allow systematic research on the impacts of climate change on river deltas. Examples are provided of different kinds of river deltas to outline the possibilities that exist for effective coastal management in delta regions in times of climate change.
Erratum: Propagation Effects on the Breakdown of a Linear Amplifier Model: Complex-Mass Schrodinger Equation Driven by the Square of a Gaussian Field
Creators: name: Mounaix, Philippe
name: Collet, Pierre
name: Lebowitz, Joel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proof of the inequality $λ_{q}(x,t)\le (qμ_{x,t} -0^+)^{-1}$ [p 750, below Eq. (29)] is based on the statement that ${\cal E}(x,t;s)$ is an entire function of $s\in {\mathbb C}^M$ [see below Eq. (30)]. But according to Equation (9) and Lemma 1, all we know is that ${\cal E}(x,t;s)$ is an entire function of $k(s)\in {\mathbb R}^N$. Nevertheless, the above inequality holds, hence the proposition 1.
description: REVTeX file, 3 pages, Erratum to Commun. Math. Phys. 264, 741-758 (2006) [math-ph/0505060]
Invasion of open space by two competitors: spreading properties of monostable two-species competition--diffusion systems
Creators: name: Girardin, Léo
name: Lam, King-Yeung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is concerned with some spreading properties of monostable Lotka--Volterra two-species competition--diffusion systems when the initial values are null or exponentially decaying in a right half-line. Thanks to a careful construction of super-solutions and sub-solutions, we improve previously known results and settle open questions. In particular, we show that if the weaker competitor is also the faster one, then it is able to evade the stronger and slower competitor by invading first into unoccupied territories. The pair of speeds depends on the initial values. If these are null in a right half-line, then the first speed is the KPP speed of the fastest competitor and the second speed is given by an exact formula describing the possibility of non-local pulling. Furthermore, the unbounded set of pairs of speeds achievable with exponentially decaying initial values is characterized, up to a negligible set.
Principle of Unattainability of Absolute Zero Temperature, the Third Law of Thermodynamics, and Projective Quantum Measurements
Creators: name: Kieu, Tien D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Principle of Unattainability rules out the attainment of absolute zero temperature by any finite physical means, no matter how idealised they could be. Nevertheless, we clarify that the Third Law of Thermodynamics, as defined by Nernst's heat theorem statement, is distinct from the Principle of Unattainability in the sense that the Third Law is mathematically equivalent only to the unattainability of absolute zero temperature by {\em quasi-static adiabatic} processes. This, on the one hand, leaves open the possibility of attainability of absolute zero by non-adiabatic means, without violating the Third Law. On the other hand, we point out some apparent incompatibility between the Postulate of Projective Measurement in quantum mechanics and the Principle of Unattainability in that projective measurements of energy could result in zero temperature.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
An Architecture for Gesture Based Control of Mobile Robots
Creators: name: Soshi  Iba
name: J. Michael Vande Weghe
name: Paredis, Christiaan J.J.
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Institute for Software Research
title: The high-latitude cloud MBM 7 I Hi and CO observations
Creators: name: Minh, YC
name: Park, YS
name: Kim, KT
name: Irvine, William M.
name: Brewer, MK
name: Turner, BE
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: ISM
subject: clouds
subject: individual (MBM 7)
subject: molecules
subject: radio lines
subject: shock waves
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: The published version is located at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996ApJ...467..717M
Big bang nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental "constants"
Creators: name: Dent, Thomas
name: Stern, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is the earliest sensitive probe of the values of many fundamental particle physics parameters. We have found the leading linear dependences of primordial abundances on all relevant parameters of the standard BBN code, including binding energies and nuclear reaction rates. This enables us to set limits on possible variations of fundamental parameters. We find that 7Li is expected to be significantly more sensitive than other species to many fundamental parameters, a result which also holds for variations of coupling strengths in grand unified (GUT) models. Our work also indicates which areas of nuclear theory need further development if the values of ``constants'' are to be more accurately probed.
description: Refereed article to be published in Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics III Proceedings, J. Phys. G. Special Issue. Based on work in collaboration with C. Wetterich (Heidelberg). 6 pages
Merging massive black holes: the right place and the right time
Creators: name: Lamberts, Astrid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LIGO/Virgo detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes of $\simeq$ 30 solar mass suggest progenitor stars of low metallicity (Z/Z$_{\odot} \lesssim 0.3$). In this talk I will provide constrains on where the progenitors of GW150914 and GW170104 may have formed, based on advanced models of galaxy formation and evolution combined with binary population synthesis models. First I will combine estimates of galaxy properties (star-forming gas metallicity, star formation rate and merger rate) across cosmic time to predict the low redshift BBH merger rate as a function of present day host galaxy mass, formation redshift of the progenitor system and different progenitor metallicities. I will show that the signal is dominated by binaries formed at the peak of star formation in massive galaxies with and binaries formed recently in dwarf galaxies. Then, I will present what very high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of different galaxy types can learn us about their black hole populations.
description: Proceeding of IAU Symposium 338 : "Gravitational Waves Astrophysics : Early results from GW searches and EM counterparts"
Letters from William Burnside to Robert Fricke: Automorphic Functions, and the Emergence of the Burnside Problem
Creators: name: Adelmann, Clemens
name: Gerbracht, Eberhard H. -A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 01A60 (Primary); 01A55, 01A70, 20-03, 20F05, 30-03, 30F35, 11F12 (Secondary)

description: Two letters from William Burnside have recently been found in the Nachlass of Robert Fricke that contain instances of Burnside's Problem prior to its first publication. We present these letters as a whole to the public for the first time. We draw a picture of these two mathematicians and describe their activities leading to their correspondence. We thus gain an insight into their respective motivations, reactions, and attitudes, which may sharpen the current understanding of professional and social interactions of the mathematical community at the turn of the 20th century.
description: documentclass amsart, 17 pages
Role of four-fermion interaction and impurity in the states of two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of four-fermion interaction and impurity on the low-energy states of two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials by virtue of the unbiased renormalization group approach. The coupled flow equations that govern the energy-dependent evolutions of all correlated interaction parameters are derived after taking into account one-loop corrections from the interplay between four-fermion interaction and impurity. Whether and how four-fermion interaction and impurity influence the low-energy properties of two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials are discreetly explored and addressed attentively. After carrying out the standard renormalization group analysis, we find that both trivial insulating and nontrivial semimetal states are qualitatively stable against all four kinds of four-fermion interactions. However, while switching on both four-fermion interaction and impurity, certain insulator-semimetal phase transition and the distance of Dirac nodal points can be respectively induced and modified due to their strong interplay and intimate competition. Moreover, several non-Fermi liquid behaviors that deviate from the conventional Fermi liquids are exhibited at the lowest-energy limit.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Extending the scope of microscopic solvability: Combination of the Kruskal-Segur method with Zauderer decomposition
Creators: name: Fischaleck, Thomas
name: Kassner, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Successful applications of the Kruskal-Segur approach to interfacial pattern formation have remained limited due to the necessity of an integral formulation of the problem. This excludes nonlinear bulk equations, rendering convection intractable. Combining the method with Zauderer's asymptotic decomposition scheme, we are able to strongly extend its scope of applicability and solve selection problems based on free boundary formulations in terms of partial differential equations alone. To demonstrate the technique, we give the first analytic solution of the problem of velocity selection for dendritic growth in a forced potential flow.
description: Submitted to Europhys. Letters, No figures, 5 pages
Psychosocial Factors and Development of T2DM in Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Women in the US
Creators: name: Rios, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Research gaps exist in relation to psychosocial/environmental factors that may be influential in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) among Mexican Immigrant (MI) and Mexican American (MA) women living in the US. The aim of this study is to examine associations of psychosocial factors such as depressive symptoms, stress coping strategies, levels of acculturation, levels of perceived social support, and glucose tolerance among a convenience sample of Mexican descent women. Additionally, diet and levels of physical activity were examined as they are known risk factors of T2DM.
Demographics of this group included 112 women, most Mexican-born with a mean age of 39 years, and most having lived in the US for 20 years. Results indicated no significant associations between depressive symptoms, stress coping strategies, diet, and levels of physical activity with glucose tolerance. Significant associations were found between psychosocial factors and known risk factors. Factors found to correlate significantly with diet and levels of physical activity included stress coping strategies and perceived levels of social support. Additionally, significant correlations were found within the psychosocial factors assessed.
This study contributed important details in depressive symptomatology experienced in a sample of women of Mexican descent living in the US. It also provided gaps in knowledge of coping mechanisms and levels of perceived social support used by this group of women. Implications for future research on the significance of psychosocial factors that may influence T2DM development among MA and MI women is needed.
Kinetic damping in the spectra of the spherical impedance probe
Creators: name: Oberrath, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impedance probe is a measurement device to measure plasma parameter like electron density. It consists of one electrode connected to a network analyzer via a coaxial cable and is immersed into a plasma. A bias potential superposed with an alternating potential is applied to the electrode and the response of the plasma is measured. Its dynamical interaction with the plasma in electrostatic, kinetic description can be modeled in an abstract notation based on functional analytic methods. These methods provide the opportunity to derive a general solution, which is given as the response function of the probe-plasma system. It is defined by the matrix elements of the resolvent of an appropriate dynamical operator. Based on the general solution a residual damping for vanishing pressure can be predicted and can only be explained by kinetic effects. Within this manuscript an explicit response function of the spherical impedance probe is derived. Therefore, the resolvent is determined by its algebraic representation based on an expansion in orthogonal basis functions. This allows to compute an approximated response function and its corresponding spectra. These spectra show additional damping due to kinetic effects and are in good agreement with former kinetically determined spectra.