cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(820) Sydney Perfect Norris
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Figure S2. Method for creating stimuli from Synchronized mating signals in a communication network: the challenge of avoiding predators while attracting mates
Creators: name: Legett, Henry D.
name: Page, Rachel A.
name: Bernal, Ximena E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Method for creating stimuli, treatments (5 ms, 79 ms, alternating calls) for each trial. Pre-recorded calls were randomly drawn from the library of 10 (either Smilisca sila or Engystomops pustulosus) so that the same call was not repeated within a single trial. Specific call combinations were not repeated for a receiver (bat, midge, or female frog). Note that, as a result of leader-follower preferences, the order in which calls are presented in the 5 ms and 79 ms treatments change the way these stimuli are perceived (e.g. call #8 and call #2 broadcast at 5 ms overlap is different than call #2 and call #8 broadcast at 5 ms overlap). Thus, from the library of 10 calls, there were 90 potential stimuli each for the 5 ms and 79 ms treatments, and 45 combinations for the alternative treatment.
On fast computation of finite-time coherent sets using radial basis functions
Creators: name: Froyland, Gary
name: Junge, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Finite-time coherent sets inhibit mixing over finite times. The most expensive part of the transfer operator approach to detecting coherent sets is the construction of the operator itself. We present a numerical method based on radial basis function collocation and apply it to a recent transfer operator construction that has been designed specifically for purely advective dynamics. The construction is based on a "dynamic" Laplacian operator and minimises the boundary size of the coherent sets relative to their volume. The main advantage of our new approach is a substantial reduction in the number of Lagrangian trajectories that need to be computed, leading to large speedups in the transfer operator analysis when this computation is costly.
MATTER THAT MATTERS: A STUDY OF CHEROKEE BASKETS AND THE MUSEUMS THAT DISPLAY THEM
Creators: name: Murphy, Devon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: ABSTRACT      Devon Elayne Murphy: Matter That Matters: A Study of Cherokee Baskets and the Museums that Display Them      (Under the direction of Carol Magee)      This research considers the classificatory difficulties Cherokee baskets from the twentieth century present in museum spaces. Native art objects have historically been exhibited in one-dimensional displays. Focusing on two baskets, one from a non-Native museum, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, and one from a Native museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, NC, the multiple histories of these objects are uncovered. These multiple narratives speak to the creative autonomy and modern lives of their makers, Sallie Locust and Betty Lossiah, who engaged in multiple markets to sell their works. These baskets’ materials and trajectories reveal complex information structures; this points to a need for institutions to critically reexamine information sources like catalogs and donor information as influences on museum exhibitions. I provide recommendations for museums to recognize different knowledge practices and to emphasize the multidimensionality of Cherokee, and by extension, Native art objects.
(822) John Hare Gisburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Refining the associations of the Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalogs
Creators: name: Massaro, F.
name: D'Abrusco, R.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Paggi, A.
name: Masetti, N.
name: Giroletti, M.
name: Otí-Floranes, H.
name: Chavushyan, V.
name: Jiménez-Bailón, E.
name: Patiño-Álvarez, V.
name: Digel, S. W.
name: Smith, Howard A.
name: Tosti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) was released in February 2010 and the Fermi-LAT 2-Year Source Catalog (2FGL) appeared in April 2012, based on data from 24 months of operation. Since their releases, many follow up observations of unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs) were performed and new procedures to associate gamma-ray sources with potential counterparts at other wavelengths were developed. Here we review and characterize all the associations as published in the 1FGL and 2FGL catalog on the basis of multifrequency archival observations. In particular we located 177 spectra for the low-energy counterparts that were not listed in the previous Fermi catalogs, and in addition we present new spectroscopic observations of 8 gamma-ray blazar candidates. Based on our investigations, we introduce a new counterpart category of "candidate associations" and propose a refined classification for the candidate low-energy counterparts of the Fermi sources. We compare the 1FGL-assigned counterparts with those listed in the 2FGL to determine which unassociated sources became associated in later releases of the Fermi catalogs. We also search for potential counterparts to all the remaining unassociated Fermi sources. Finally, we prepare a refined and merged list of all the associations of the 1FGL plus 2FGL catalogs that includes 2219 unique Fermi objects. This is the most comprehensive and systematic study of all the associations collected for the gamma-ray sources available to date. We conclude that 80% of the Fermi sources have at least one known plausible gamma-ray emitter within their positional uncertainty regions.
description: 26 pages, 24 figures, 7 tables, ApJS accepted for publication (pre-proof version uploaded)
EOSC-Pillar D6.2 - Demonstrators and success stories from the use cases
Creators: name: Rizzo, Alessandro
name: Pierkot, Christelle
name: Vernet, Marine
name: Sudre, Joël
name: von Hartrott, Philipp
name: Berberi, Lisana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
EOSC
FAIR data

description: The document showcases the demonstrators and the success stories from the 9 WP6Usecases(UC).ItdescribesthetechnicaldevelopmentsituationatM30andithasbeenpresented as a handbook and guidelines for target users in specific scientific domainsand beyond. Learn more about the EOSC-Pillar use cases on the website: https://www.eosc-pillar.eu/use-cases
Critical gravitational collapse of a massive complex scalar field
Creators: name: Jimenez-Vazquez, Erik
name: Alcubierre, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the critical collapse of a massive complex scalar field coupled minimally to gravity. Taking as initial data a simple gaussian pulse with a shape similar to the harmonic ansatz for boson stars, we obtain critical collapse of type type I and II when varying the gaussian width $σ$. For $σ\leq 0.5$ we find collapse of type II with a critical exponent $γ=0.38\pm0.01$ and an echoing period $Δ=3.4\pm0.1$. These values are very similar to the known results for a real massless scalar field. On the other hand, for $σ\geq 2.5$ we obtain collapse of type I. In this case we find that the critical solutions turn out to be an unstable boson stars in the ground state: all the data obtained from our simulations can be contrasted with the characteristic values for unstable boson stars and their corresponding Lyapunov exponents.
Figure S3. Phylogeny of Smilisca clade from Synchronized mating signals in a communication network: the challenge of avoiding predators while attracting mates
Creators: name: Legett, Henry D.
name: Page, Rachel A.
name: Bernal, Ximena E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Phylogeny of Smilisca clade. Circles following each species name show call timing strategy, assigned based on literature and from call recordings. Open circles indicate non-synchronous calling while a filled circle indicates use of synchronized calls. While S. sordida, sister species of S. sila, are described has having alternating calls, male S. sordida often call in a rapid sequential “domino” pattern that can result in signal overlap. Recordings of each species from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (catalog number): S. puma (ML194144) S. cyanosticta (ML194131) S. phaeota (ML193677) P. fodiens (ML193959) S. sordida (ML194159) S. sila (ML194145) S. baudinii (ML193667) T. petasatus (ML193835) A. spinosa (NA) T. spatulatus (ML193956)
Grain boundary character distributions in nanocrystalline metals produced by different processing routes
Creators: name: Bober, David B.
name: Khalajhedayati, Amirhossein
name: Kumar, Mukul
name: Rupert, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanocrystalline materials are defined by their fine grain size, but details of the grain boundary character distribution should also be important. Grain boundary character distributions are reported for ball milled, sputter deposited, and electrodeposited Ni and Ni-based alloys, all with average grain sizes of ~20 nm, to study the influence of processing route. The two deposited materials had nearly identical grain boundary character distributions, both marked by a Σ3 length percentage of 23-25%. In contrast, the ball milled material had only 3% Σ3-type grain boundaries and a large fraction of low angle boundaries (16%), with the remainder being predominantly random high angle (73%). These grain boundary character measurements are connected to the physical events that control their respective processing routes. Consequences for material properties are also discussed with a focus on nanocrystalline corrosion. As a whole, the results presented here show that grain boundary character distribution, which has often been overlooked in nanocrystalline metals, can vary significantly and influence material properties in profound ways.
description: 14 figures
Supplementary Methods and Figures from How well do revegetation plantings capture genetic diversity?.
Creators: name: Jordan, Rebecca
name: Breed, Martin F.
name: Prober, Suzanne M.
name: Miller, Adam D.
name: Hoffmann, Ary A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional methods and supporting figures for comparisons of genetic diversity in revegetation plantings to natural stands
Transit least-squares survey IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission
Creators: name: Heller, René
name: Harre, Jan-Vincent
name: Samadi, Réza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In its long-duration observation phase, the PLATO satellite will observe two non-overlapping fields for a total of 4 yr. The exact duration of each pointing will be determined 2 yr before launch. Previous estimates of PLATO's yield of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones (HZs) around solar-type stars ranged between 6 and 280. We use the PLATO Solar-like Light curve Simulator (PSLS) to simulate light curves with transiting planets around bright (m_V > 11) Sun-like stars at a cadence of 25 s, roughly representative of the >15,000 targets in PLATO's high-priority P1 sample (mostly F5-K7 dwarfs and sub-dwarfs). Our study includes light curves generated from synchronous observations of 6, 12, 18, and 24 of PLATO's 12 cm aperture cameras over both 2 yr and 3 yr of continuous observations. Automated detrending is done with the Wotan software and post-detrending transit detection is performed with the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. We scale the true positive rates (TPRs) with the expected number of stars in the P1 sample and with modern estimates of the exoplanet occurrence rates and predict the detection of planets with 0.5 R_E <= R_p <= 1.5 R_E in the HZs around F5-K7 dwarf stars. For the (2 yr + 2 yr) long-duration observation phase strategy we predict 11-34 detections, for the (3 yr + 1 yr) strategy we predict 8-25 discoveries. Our study of the effects of stellar variability on shallow transits of Earth-like planets illustrates that our estimates of PLATO's planet yield, which we derive using a photometrically quiet star like the Sun, must be seen as upper limits. In conclusion, PLATO's detection of about a dozen Earth-sized planets in the HZs around solar-type stars will mean a major contribution to this yet poorly sampled part of the exoplanet parameter space with Earth-like planets.
description: published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (2022), 19 pages, 17 Figures (16 col., 1 b/w), 2 Tables
(817) Alfred Foster
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
MONITORING THE SPREAD OF WOOD PESTS IN CULTURAL MONUMENTS AND RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES IN THE SURKHANDARYA REGION
Creators: name: Abdujalilova, Maftuna
name: Jurayeva, Samiya
name: Iskandarova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this article, the spread of the Turkestan termite in the regions of Surkhandarya region is researched, and the areas where the Turkestan termite is spread, termite damage and measures to fight against termites are discussed.
Constraining the Spatial Curvature of the Universe thanks to its Large-Scale Structure
Creators: name: Karmoudi, Soufiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cosmology

description: In this work, we study the detectability of potential spatial curvature of the universe with the Euclid satellite. We begin by establishing the theoretical framework, presenting the general expression for the correlation function in both flat and curved space, while also accounting for wide-angle effects. Notably, we show that, in the flat regime, the ratio dipole-to-quadrupole simplifies to the expression $\frac{3}{5}\frac{r}{r_1}$ under the assumption that the comoving distance between surveyed objects $r$ is much smaller than their radial comoving distance $r_1$. Therefore, the ratio is used to survey the Euclid mock catalogues as they don’t include curvature. The comparison and the good matching between the empirical ratio and the theoretical one across different values of $r$ allows first to retrieve the flatness of the catalogues, validating the theoretical model, and then to set the superior limit of this model to $r$ approximately equal to 70 $h^{-1}Mpc$. Moreover, by analysing the errors of these measurements, it appears that at least 2 observations are needed to ensure the detectability of the ratio, meaning that the Euclid satellite will need to survey a volume twice larger than the one actually surveyed to properly detect the ratio and eventually look for deviations from its expected evolution in flatness regime to gain insights into potential curvature. Finally, this ratio is exploited to test cosmologies with different values of $\Omega_{m, 0}$. Among the ones tested, the $\Omega_{m, 0}=0.32$ cosmology is the best fit to the theoretical prediction.
Supplementary Methods and Figures from How well do revegetation plantings capture genetic diversity?
Creators: name: Jordan, Rebecca
name: Breed, Martin F.
name: Prober, Suzanne M.
name: Miller, Adam D.
name: Hoffmann, Ary A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional methods and supporting figures for comparisons of genetic diversity in revegetation plantings to natural stands
Transform-Limited-Pulse Representation of Excitation with Natural Incoherent Light
Creators: name: Chenu, Aurélia
name: Brumer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the natural excitation of molecular systems, applicable to, for example, photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, by natural incoherent light. In contrast with the conventional classical models, we show that the light need not have random character to properly represent the resultant linear excitation. Rather, thermal excitation can be interpreted as a collection of individual events resulting from the system's interaction with individual, deterministic pulsed realizations that constitute the field. The derived expressions for the individual field realizations and excitation events allow for a wave function formalism, and therefore constitute a useful calculational tool to study dynamics following thermal-light excitation. Further, they provide a route to the experimental determination of natural incoherent excitation using pulsed laser techniques.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 page supplementary information. Comments welcome
ACES: Automated Academic Essay Scoring Using a Natural Language Processing-Based Regression Mechanism
Creators: name: Pugoy, Reinald Adrian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Academic essays are essential testing instruments that evaluate the students’ ability to organize thoughts and synthesize information. However, grading them is an exhausting and cumbersome process that requires considerable manpower. It may be prone to errors, and there are also serious concerns about fairness, such that an essay graded B+ today may be graded B- tomorrow by the same checker. Therefore, the author proposes ACES, an essay scoring mechanism that employs natural language processing (NLP) to address the issue at hand. NLP is a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with granting computers the ability to understand texts in much the same way humans can. With essay scoring reformulated as a regression problem, ACES takes the essay answer as the input, converts it to a vector representation of numbers in the embedding space, and feeds it to the neural network model (which serves as the approximate regression function) to predict its score as the output. In this paper, the author successfully implements four versions of ACES that employ different embedding sources and neural network models, with the ACES variant that considers context and word frequency information performing the best (i.e., ACES-BERT).
Gobernanza en acción
Creators: name: Pendino, Romina
name: Mercado Lara, Eunice
name: Fariello, María Inés
name: Formoso, Jesica
name: Ación, Laura
name: Míguez, María Paz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Por causas de fuerza mayor, tuvimos la necesidad imperiosa y repentina de ocupar en forma temporal el puesto de Chair del Consejo Asesor.En esta nota te contamos cómo accionó nuestra gobernanza para acompañar con versatilidad y acuerdos impecables esta situación.
Assessing Water Safety: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Sanitary Inspection and Water Quality Analysis
Creators: name: Kelly, Emma Rose
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Sanitary inspection is a low-cost risk assessment tool used in both high- and low-income settings. In Chapter One, a critical literature review reveals that previous studies are divided concerning the relationship between sanitary inspection and water quality. However, we find that the established models assessing sanitary inspection and microbial water quality do not adequately characterize the complex relationship between contamination sources, pathways and barrier breakdowns. In Chapter Two, we explore the relationship between Escherichia coli MPN/100mL and sanitary inspection data from 1,028 boreholes with handpumps in 12 sub-Saharan African countries using a novel statistical model. The proposed model has a comparable model fit to the established methods of assessment, and reveals a significant association between sanitary inspection and water quality. Our results suggest that sanitary inspections are an effective tool in assessing water quality risk and can contribute to improving water safety through various pathways.
Australia Day hasn’t always been on January 26, but it has always been an issue
Creators: name: Jones, Benjamin
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430302
subject: Australian history

description: Article about the history of Australia Day. January 26 is a date that sparks mixed emotions in Australia. For some, it’s a day to celebrate all the good things about living in Australia. For others, it’s a painful reminder of the beginning of British colonisation and the dispossession of First Nations.
Piezoelectric quantum spin Hall insulator VCClBr monolayer with pure out-of-plane piezoelectric response
Creators: name: Guo, San-Dong
name: Mu, Wen-Qi
name: Guo, Hao-Tian
name: Tao, Yu-Ling
name: Liu, Bang-Gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of piezoelectricity with nontrivial topological insulating phase in two-dimensional (2D) systems, namely piezoelectric quantum spin Hall insulator (PQSHI), is intriguing for exploring novel topological states toward the development of high-speed and dissipationless electronic devices. In this work, we predict a PQSHI Janus monolayer VCClBr constructed from $\mathrm{VCCl_2}$, which is dynamically, mechanically and thermally stable. In the absence of spin orbital coupling (SOC), VCClBr is a narrow gap semiconductor with gap value of 57 meV, which is different from Dirac semimetal $\mathrm{VCCl_2}$. The gap of VCClBr is due to built-in electric field caused by asymmetrical upper and lower atomic layers, which is further confirmed by external-electric-field induced gap in $\mathrm{VCCl_2}$. When including SOC, the gap of VCClBr is improved to 76 meV, which is larger than the thermal energy of room temperature (25 meV). The VCClBr is a 2D topological insulator (TI), which is confirmed by $Z_2$ topological invariant and nontrivial one-dimensional edge states. It is proved that the nontrivial topological properties of VCClBr are robust against strain (biaxial and uniaxial cases) and external electric field. Due to broken horizontal mirror symmetry, only out-of-plane piezoelectric response can be observed, when biaxial or uniaxial in-plane strain is applied. The predicted piezoelectric strain coefficients $d_{31}$ and $d_{32}$ are -0.425 pm/V and -0.219 pm/V, which are higher than or compared with ones of many 2D materials. Finally, another two Janus monolayer VCFBr and VCFCl (dynamically unstable) are constructed, and they are still PQSHIs. Moreover, their $d_{31}$ and $d_{32}$ are higher than ones of VCClBr, and the $d_{31}$ (absolute value) of VCFBr is larger than one.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures
The Beliefs of Japanese Science Majors on Learning English and the Influence of Communication in Student Personal Networks
Creators: name: Lutes, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Language learning beliefs
English as a foreign language (EFL)
Japanese university students
non-English majors

description: English is the lingua franca in academia, business and international relations, and as such can act as gatekeeper to opportunities in the increasingly globalized world. The importance of English language competence is difficult to overstate. Consequently, English language education has been an important area of focus in education. In Japan, learning English as a second language has proven to be a difficult challenge for learners in spite of the extensive educational resources made available. Success in language learning has been linked to learner beliefs, a key affective factor, and since learner beliefs influence learner behaviors, they may impact language learning success. Therefore, the language learning beliefs of unsuccessful language learners and successful language learners, as determined by standardized testing, were investigated. Following this, the impact of student personal communication networks on the language learning beliefs of the successful language learners were examined in focused interviews. Participants shared beliefs, but also differed significantly in some beliefs according to their success as language learners in five groupings of beliefs: (1) foreign language aptitude; (2) the difficulty of language learning; (3) the nature of language learning; (4) learning and communication strategy; and (5) motivation. This study found that the unsuccessful learners blamed the lack of success to outside factors that were beyond their control, did not expect to succeed, relied on traditional ways of learning and were passive learners. Successful language learners used non-traditional learning styles, made opportunities to use the language, and took responsibility for their learning and expected to succeed. Two successful learners, Fumiko and Masahiro, had their learner beliefs influenced by their student personal networks through face-to-face communication, SNS software, and Facebook communication. These communications led to increased motivation, self-awareness in language learning, and provided more opportunities to use language. Beliefs can influence behaviors, and behaviors, in turn, can influence outcomes. The socially created knowledge in personal communication networks can lead to beliefs that encourage good learner behaviors, and student personal communication networks play an important role in helping students achieve language learning success. This study identifies a correlation between student beliefs and English language learning successes in Japanese non-English majors in Japan. Furthermore, it shows that for two of the successful language learners, student personal communication networks played an important role in influencing their beliefs.
Appendix B from Old lake versus young taxa: a comparative phylogeographic perspective on the evolution of Caspian Sea gastropods (Neritidae: Theodoxus).
Creators: name: Sands, Arthur F.
name: Neubauer, Thomas A.
name: Saeid Nasibi
name: Harandi, Majid Fasihi
name: Anistratenko, Vitaliy V.
name: Wilke, Thomas
name: Albrecht, Christian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supporting information: Results from db-RDA and associated pre-analyses
(814) Catherine Upton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Social Media for Supporting Emergent Groups in Crisis Management
Creators: name: Reuter, Christian
name: Heger, Oliver
name: Pipek, Volkmar
Publisher: name: IISI – Internationales Institut für Sozio-Informatik
Year: 2023

description: The great importance of Social Media for our today's life causes an increasing use of internet-based platforms in crisis situations. Our work intends to show how so-called Emergent Groups, which arise as a result of crises, consist of private citizens and are not yet institutionalized organizations, can be supported by Social Media. At first, our literature review's objective is to define the term 'Emergent Group' and to outline their usage of Social Media as well as software-based requirements and suitable concepts to support such groups. A following quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis of a tornado crisis in the USA enables a closer look at especially virtual working Emergent Groups. Building on our literature review and empirical analysis, we discuss implications, derive further requirements and present a concept for the design of appropriate Social Software. We finally conclude by giving some potential research issues.
A search for $t\bar{t}$ resonances using lepton-plus-jets events in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for new particles that decay into top quark pairs is reported. The search is performed with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV. The lepton-plus-jets final state is used, where the top pair decays to $W^+bW^-\bar{b}$, with one $W$ boson decaying leptonically and the other hadronically. The invariant mass spectrum of top quark pairs is examined for local excesses or deficits that are inconsistent with the Standard Model predictions. No evidence for a top quark pair resonance is found, and 95% confidence-level limits on the production rate are determined for massive states in benchmark models. The upper limits on the cross-section times branching ratio of a narrow $Z'$ boson decaying to top pairs range from 4.2 pb to 0.03 pb for resonance masses from 0.4 TeV to 3.0 TeV. A narrow leptophobic topcolour $Z'$ boson with mass below 1.8 TeV is excluded. Upper limits are set on the cross-section times branching ratio for a broad colour-octet resonance with $Γ/m =$ 15% decaying to $t\bar{t}$. These range from 2.5 pb to 0.03 pb for masses from 0.4 TeV to 3.0 TeV. A Kaluza-Klein excitation of the gluon in a Randall-Sundrum model is excluded for masses below 2.2 TeV.
description: 37 pages plus author list (53 pages total), 12 figures, 2 tables, published version, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2012-18/
BenchFaaS: Benchmarking Serverless Functions in an Edge Computing Network Testbed
Creators: name: Carpio, Francisco
name: Michalke, Marc
name: Jukan, Admela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and performance variability. In this paper, we introduce BenchFaaS, an open-source edge computing network testbed which automates the deployment and benchmarking of serverless functions. Our edge computing network considers a cluster of virtual machines and Raspberry Pis, and is designed to benchmark serverless functions under different hardware and network conditions. We measure and evaluate: (i) overhead incurred by testbed, (ii) performance of compute intensive tasks, (iii) impact of application payload size, (iv) scalability, and (v) performance of chained serverless functions. We share the lessons learnt in engineering and implementing the testbed. We present the measurement results and analyze the impact of networked infrastructure on serverless performance. The measurements indicate that a properly dimensioned edge computing network can effectively serve as a serverless infrastructure.
On classical and semiclassical properties of the Liouville theory with defects
Creators: name: Poghosyan, Hasmik
name: Sarkissian, Gor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lagrangian of the Liouville theory with topological defects is analyzed in detail and general solution of the corresponding defect equations of motion is found. We study the heavy and light semiclassical limits of the defect two-point function found before via the bootstrap program. We show that the heavy asymptotic limit is given by the exponential of the Liouville action with defects, evaluated on the solutions with two singular points. We demonstrate that the light asymptotic limit is given by the finite dimensional path integral over solutions of the defect equations of motion with a vanishing energy-momentum tensor.
description: 50 pages, typos corrected, references added, comments and explanations added
An Exploration of the Search Behaviors of Children When Using an Online Library Catalog
Creators: name: Demorest, Sharon M
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Library browsing
Qualitative research
Online library catalog use studies
Children's library use studies
Online library catalogs
Library services for children
Searching behavior in children
Public libraries
Children's library software

description: Children between the ages of 9 and 13, sometimes called “tweens,” are increasingly required to be fluent in the use of technology, especially in the classroom.  Often referred to as “digital natives,” these children are developmentally geared toward social interaction and beginning to transfer their earlier reliance on the adults in their world to their wider peer group.  This study explores the elements that influence tweens’ information-seeking behaviors by examining their use of an online library catalog.  Using qualitative research methods – Zoom-recorded think-aloud sessions and retrospective interviews – this study engaged a group of 10 tweens in conversations about use of the library catalog, as well as their search behaviors and search influencers in order to address the following research questions: 1)  What strategies do pre-teens (children between 9 and 13) employ when using the library’s online public access catalog?  2) Is there a relationship between the strategies used and any digital technology training or classwork they may have had in school or in other settings?  3) Is there a relationship between strategies used and other human influences, such as caregivers, teachers, or peers?  Results indicate that these children become information seekers at a young age – many before they can entirely remember the process – but that they do so with little direct instruction.  In exploring the challenges they face – as well as their successes – this study provides insights into potential opportunities for teachers and librarians to assist children in becoming effective and discerning searchers in the library and in the broader world.
(815) William Henry Cobb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Saudi Arabia's Economy
Creators: name: Akila, Hidy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Saudi Arabia is economically evolving as they diversify their economy away from oil because of scarcity concerns. Understanding the impact that entrepreneurship has on their economy is valuable considering Saudi Arabia released Vision 2030, which is a set of entrepreneurial-driven initiatives that aims to diversify their economy. My research supplements existing research surrounding this topic by examining the recent outcomes of entrepreneurship on the economy. I evaluate entrepreneurship’s impact by measuring the relationship between economic indicators and entrepreneurship. My quantitative and qualitative findings show that entrepreneurship increased since 2008 and is a significant driver of GDP and women employment rates. Data analysis also proved that GDP is largely driven by increases in private and public non-oil sector growth. Consequently, my findings reveal that increased entrepreneurship benefits economic advancement and could be used within policy implementations to improve economic indicators.
The Absence of an Environmental Dependence in the Mass-Metallicity Relation at z=2
Creators: name: Kacprzak, Glenn G.
name: Yuan, Tiantian
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Spitler, Lee
name: Taylor, Philip
name: Cowley, Michael
name: Labbé, Ivo
name: Straatman, Caroline
name: Tomczak, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the environmental dependence of the mass-metallicity relation at z=2 with MOSFIRE/Keck as part of the ZFIRE survey. Here, we present the chemical abundance of a Virgo-like progenitor at z=2.095 that has an established red sequence. We identified 43 cluster ($=2.095\pm0.004$) and 74 field galaxies ($=2.195\pm0.083$) for which we can measure metallicities. For the first time, we show that there is no discernible difference between the mass-metallicity relation of field and cluster galaxies to within 0.02dex. Both our field and cluster galaxy mass-metallicity relations are consistent with recent field galaxy studies at z~2. We present hydrodynamical simulations for which we derive mass-metallicity relations for field and cluster galaxies. We find at most a 0.1dex offset towards more metal-rich simulated cluster galaxies. Our results from both simulations and observations are suggestive that environmental effects, if present, are small and are secondary to the ongoing inflow and outflow processes that are governed by galaxy halo mass.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Cosmology with the Redshift-Space Galaxy Bispectrum Monopole at One-Loop Order
Creators: name: Philcox, Oliver H. E.
name: Ivanov, Mikhail M.
name: Cabass, Giovanni
name: Simonović, Marko
name: Zaldarriaga, Matias
name: Nishimichi, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the cosmological information content of the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum monopole at one-loop order in perturbation theory. We incorporate all effects necessary for comparison to data: fourth-order galaxy bias, infrared resummation (accounting for the non-linear evolution of baryon acoustic oscillations), ultraviolet counterterms, non-linear redshift-space distortions, stochastic contributions, projection, and binning effects. The model is implemented using FFTLog, and validated with the PT Challenge suite of $N$-body simulations, whose large volume allows for high-precision tests. Focusing on the mass fluctuation amplitude, $σ_8$, and galaxy bias parameters, we find that including one-loop corrections allow us to significantly extend the range of scales over which the bispectrum can be modeled, and greatly tightens constraints on bias parameters. However, this does not lead to noticeable improvements in the $σ_8$ errorbar due to the necessary marginalization over a large number of nuisance parameters with conservative priors. Analyzing a BOSS-volume likelihood, we find that the addition of the one-loop bispectrum may lead to improvements on primordial non-Gaussianity constraints by $\lesssim 30\%$ and on $σ_8$ by $\approx 10\%$, though we caution that this requires pushing the analysis to short scales where the galaxy bias parameters may not be correctly recovered; this may lead to biases in the recovered parameter values. We conclude that restrictive priors from simulations or higher-order statistics such as the bispectrum multipoles will be needed in order to realize the full information content of the galaxy bispectrum.
description: 51 pages, 6 figures, one-loop redshift-space galaxy bispectrum code is publicly available at https://github.com/oliverphilcox/OneLoopBispectrum
Appendix B from Old lake versus young taxa: a comparative phylogeographic perspective on the evolution of Caspian Sea gastropods (Neritidae: Theodoxus)
Creators: name: Sands, Arthur F.
name: Neubauer, Thomas A.
name: Saeid Nasibi
name: Harandi, Majid Fasihi
name: Anistratenko, Vitaliy V.
name: Wilke, Thomas
name: Albrecht, Christian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supporting information: Results from db-RDA and associated pre-analyses
On .Indicovalipora marathwadaensis gen.et sp. nov. Cestoda– Dilepididae; Railliet et Henry, 1909 from a reptile in M. S. India
Creators: name: Shaikh, Ishrat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Veterinary parasitology

description: This paper contains the description of a gen.etsp. nov. Indicovalipora marathwadaensis. It differs from Ophiovalipora in having scolex large, oval, small suckers, rostellum medium, oval with double crown of hooks, short, thin, testes 120-125 in number, small, round, cirrus pouch oval, elongated
Deep Learning Metric Detectors in General Relativity
Creators: name: Katsube, Ryota
name: Tam, Wai-Hong
name: Hotta, Masahiro
name: Nambu, Yasusada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider conceptual issues of deep learning (DL) for metric detectors using test particle geodesics in curved spacetimes. Advantages of DL metric detectors are emphasized from a view point of general coordinate transformations. Two given metrics (two spacetimes) are defined to be conneted by a DL isometry if their geodesic image data cannot be discriminated by any DL metric detector at any time. The fundamental question of when the DL isometry appears is extensively explored. If the two spacetimes connected by the DL isometry are in superposition of quantum gravity theory, the post-measurement state may be still in the same superposition even after DL metric detectors observe the superposed state. We also demonstrate metric-detection DL's in 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes to estimate the cosmological constants and Brown-Henneaux charges. In the AdS/CFT correspondence dictionary, it may be expected that such metric detectors in the AdS bulk region correspond to quantum measurement devices in the CFT at the AdS boundary.
description: 26 pages, 19 figures
Kriging Interpolating Cosmic Velocity Field
Creators: name: Yu, Yu
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Jing, Yipeng
name: Zhang, Pengjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [abridged] Volume-weighted statistics of large scale peculiar velocity is preferred by peculiar velocity cosmology, since it is free of uncertainties of galaxy density bias entangled in mass-weighted statistics. However, measuring the volume-weighted velocity statistics from galaxy (halo/simulation particle) velocity data is challenging. For the first time, we apply the Kriging interpolation to obtain the volume-weighted velocity field. Kriging is a minimum variance estimator. It predicts the most likely velocity for each place based on the velocity at other places. We test the performance of Kriging quantified by the E-mode velocity power spectrum from simulations. Dependences on the variogram prior used in Kriging, the number $n_k$ of the nearby particles to interpolate and the density $n_P$ of the observed sample are investigated. First, we find that Kriging induces $1\%$ and $3\%$ systematics at $k\sim 0.1h{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ when $n_P\sim 6\times 10^{-2} ({\rm Mpc}/h)^{-3}$ and $n_P\sim 6\times 10^{-3} ({\rm Mpc}/h)^{-3}$, respectively. The deviation increases for decreasing $n_P$ and increasing $k$. When $n_P\lesssim 6\times 10^{-4} ({\rm Mpc}/h)^{-3}$, a smoothing effect dominates small scales, causing significant underestimation of the velocity power spectrum. Second, increasing $n_k$ helps to recover small scale power. However, for $n_P\lesssim 6\times 10^{-4} ({\rm Mpc}/h)^{-3}$ cases, the recovery is limited. Finally, Kriging is more sensitive to the variogram prior for lower sample density. The most straightforward application of Kriging on the cosmic velocity field does not show obvious advantages over the nearest-particle method (Zheng et al. 2013) and could not be directly applied to cosmology so far. However, whether potential improvements may be achieved by more delicate versions of Kriging is worth further investigation.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, published in PRD