cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A systematic review and meta-analysis of a 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy for non-underweight eating disorders
Creators: name: Keegan, Ella
name: Waller, Glenn
name: Wade, Tracey D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Treatment guidelines recommend that people with non-underweight eating disorders should receive up to 20 sessions of eating-disorder-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-ED). The present study reviewed ten studies of 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy for non-underweight patients (CBT-T). We conducted a systematic review using four electronic databases and contacted researchers in the field for unpublished data. Random effects meta-analyses were conducted to pool within-group effect sizes. From pre-treatment to post-treatment, medium to very large effect sizes were observed for eating disorder psychopathology, clinical impairment, depression, anxiety, and weekly frequencies of objective bingeing and vomiting. Furthermore, the effect of CBT-T appears to last after treatment with eating disorder psychopathology remaining below the norm for non-clinical females at follow-up. The dropout rate from CBT-T was 39%, and 65% of completers achieved a good outcome. While results should be interpreted as preliminary due to a number of limitations, the present study suggests that CBT-T is a promising treatment for people with non-underweight eating disorders, which can achieve a good outcome in half the time currently recommended in treatment guidelines. The present study, therefore, provides valuable justification for future randomised controlled trials directly comparing short and long forms of CBT-ED as well as examining who does best with which version.
Fast thermometry for trapped ions using dark resonances
Creators: name: Roßnagel, Johannes
name: Tolazzi, Karl Nicolas
name: Schmidt-Kaler, Ferdinand
name: Singer, Kilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate a method to determine the temperature of trapped ions which is suitable for monitoring fast thermalization processes. We show that observing and analyzing the lineshape of dark resonances in the fluorescence spectrum provides a temperature measurement which accurate over a large dynamic range, applied to single ions and small ion crystals. Laser induced fluorescence is detected over a time of only $20\,μ$s allowing for rapid determination of the ion temperature. In the measurement range of $10^{-1}-10^{+2}\,$mK we reach better than $15\,\%$ accuracy. Tuning the cooling laser to selected resonance features allows for controlling the ion temperatures between $0.7\,$mK and more than $10\,$mK. Experimental work is supported by a solution of the 8-level optical Bloch equations when including the ions classical motion. This technique paves the way for many experiments comprising heat transport in ion strings, heat engines, non-equilibrium thermodynamics or thermometry of large ion crystals.
Advances in the Estimation of Fractionally Integrated Models
Creators: name: KANCHANA NADARAJAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Data in the economic and financial spheres often exhibit dynamic patterns characterized by a long lasting response to past shocks. The correct modelling of such long range dependence is of paramount importance, both in the production of accurate forecasts over long term horizons and in the isolation of long run equilibrium relationships. While the convention in the area has been to adopt complete parametric specifications for the dynamics in the time series, semi-parametric approaches have also featured. This thesis contributes to both of these lines of research, exploring the consequences for parametric estimation of mis-specification of the short memory dynamics and developing a bias-corrected semi-parametric estimator of the long memory parameter.
M dwarf metallicities and giant planet occurrence: Ironing out uncertainties and systematics
Creators: name: Gaidos, E.
name: Mann, A.W.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2014

description: Comparisons between the planet populations around solar-type stars and those orbiting M dwarfs shed light on the possible dependence of planet formation and evolution on stellar mass. However, such analyses must control for other factors, i.e., metallicity, a stellar parameter that strongly influences the occurrence of gas giant planets. We obtained infrared spectra of 121 M dwarfs stars monitored by the California Planet Search and determined metallicities with an accuracy of 0.08 dex. The mean and standard deviation of the sample are -0.05 and 0.20 dex, respectively. We parameterized the metallicity dependence of the occurrence of giant planets on orbits with a period less than two years around solar-type stars and applied this to our M dwarf sample to estimate the expected number of giant planets. The number of detected planets (3) is lower than the predicted number (6.4), but the difference is not very significant (12% probability of finding as many or fewer planets). The three M dwarf planet hosts are not especially metal rich and the most likely value of the power-law index relating planet occurrence to metallicity is 1.06 dex per dex for M dwarfs compared to 1.80 for solar-type stars; this difference, however, is comparable to uncertainties. Giant planet occurrence around both types of stars allows, but does not necessarily require, a mass dependence of ∼1 dex per dex. The actual planet-mass-metallicity relation may be complex, and elucidating it will require larger surveys like those to be conducted by ground-based infrared spectrographs and the Gaia space astrometry mission.
"Euthanasie" im NS-Staat: was taten Kirche und Caritas?
Creators: name: Wollasch, Hans-Josef
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 13 Nr. 2 (1984): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 13, Heft 2
Recensione a GISBERT GRESHAKE, Chiesa dove vai? Guardare al futuro in prospettiva real-utopistica (Giornale di Teologia), Queriniana, Brescia 2023
Creators: name: Galati, Antonio
Publisher: name: Istituto Teologico Leoniano di Anagni
Year: 2024

description: Recensione a GISBERT GRESHAKE, Chiesa dove vai? Guardare al futuro in prospettiva real-utopistica (Giornale di Teologia), Queriniana, Brescia 2023
Exocomet orbital distribution around $β$ Pictoris
Creators: name: Heller, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 23 Myr young star $β$ Pictoris is a laboratory for planet formation studies given its observed debris disk, its two directly imaged super-Jovian planets, and the evidence of transiting extrasolar comets. The most recent evidence of exocometary transits around $β$ Pic came from the TESS space mission. Previous analyses of these transits constrained the orbital distribution of the underlying exocomet population to range between about 0.03 and 1.3 AU assuming a fixed transit impact parameter. Here we examine the distribution of the observed transit durations ($Δt$) to infer the orbital surface density distribution ($δ$) of the underlying exocomet sample. We show that a narrow belt of exocomets around $β$ Pic, in which the transit impact parameters are randomized but the orbital semimajor axes are equal, results in a pile-up of long transit durations. This is contrary to observations, which reveal a pile-up of short transit durations ($Δt \approx 0.1$ d) and a tail of only a few transits with $Δt > 0.4$ d. A flat density distribution of exocomets between about 0.03 and 2.5 AU results in a better match between the resulting $Δt$ distribution and the observations but the slope of the predicted $Δt$ histogram is not sufficiently steep. An even better match to the observations can be produced with a $δ\propto a^β$ power law. Our modeling reveals a best fit between the observed and predicted $Δt$ distribution for $β= -0.15_{-0.10}^{+0.05}$. A more reasonable scenario in which the exocometary trajectories are modeled as hyperbolic orbits can also reproduce the observed $Δt$ distribution to some extent. Our results imply that cometary material exists on highly eccentric orbits with a more extended range of semimajor axes than suggested by previous spectroscopic observations.
description: accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 6 pages, 7 Figures (6 col., 1 b/w)
Dr.
Creators: name: Gorai, Biswajit
name: Sahoo, Anil Kumar
name: Srivastava, Anand
name: Narendra M. Dixit
name: Prabal K. Maiti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Concerted interactions between multiple gp41 trimers and the target cell lipidome may be required for HIV-1 entry
description: Splayed conformer of HIV-1 gp41 trimer
RainMamba: Enhanced Locality Learning with State Space Models for Video Deraining
Creators: name: Wu, Hongtao
name: Yang, Yijun
name: Xu, Huihui
name: Wang, Weiming
name: Zhou, Jinni
name: Zhu, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The outdoor vision systems are frequently contaminated by rain streaks and raindrops, which significantly degenerate the performance of visual tasks and multimedia applications. The nature of videos exhibits redundant temporal cues for rain removal with higher stability. Traditional video deraining methods heavily rely on optical flow estimation and kernel-based manners, which have a limited receptive field. Yet, transformer architectures, while enabling long-term dependencies, bring about a significant increase in computational complexity. Recently, the linear-complexity operator of the state space models (SSMs) has contrarily facilitated efficient long-term temporal modeling, which is crucial for rain streaks and raindrops removal in videos. Unexpectedly, its uni-dimensional sequential process on videos destroys the local correlations across the spatio-temporal dimension by distancing adjacent pixels. To address this, we present an improved SSMs-based video deraining network (RainMamba) with a novel Hilbert scanning mechanism to better capture sequence-level local information. We also introduce a difference-guided dynamic contrastive locality learning strategy to enhance the patch-level self-similarity learning ability of the proposed network. Extensive experiments on four synthesized video deraining datasets and real-world rainy videos demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our network in the removal of rain streaks and raindrops. Our code and results are available at https://github.com/TonyHongtaoWu/RainMamba.
description: ACM Multimedia 2024 Oral
Spectroscopic confirmation of young planetary-mass companions on wide orbits
Creators: name: Mann, A.W.
name: Liu, M.C.
name: Bowler, B.P.
name: Kraus, A.L.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2014

description: We present moderate-resolution (R ∼ 4000-5000) near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of the young (1-5 Myr) 6-14 M Jup companions ROXs 42B b and FW Tau b obtained with Keck/OSIRIS and Gemini-North/NIFS. The spectrum of ROXs 42B b exhibits clear signs of low surface gravity common to young L dwarfs, confirming its extreme youth, cool temperature, and low mass. Overall, it closely resembles the free-floating 4-7 M Jup L-type Taurus member 2MASS J04373705+2331080. The companion to FW Tau AB is more enigmatic. Our optical and near-infrared spectra show strong evidence of outflow activity and disk accretion in the form of line emission from [S II], [O I], Hα, Ca II, [Fe II], Paβ, and H2. The molecular hydrogen emission is spatially resolved as a single lobe that stretches ≈0.″1 (15 AU). Although the extended emission is not kinematically resolved in our data, its morphology resembles shock-excited H2 jets primarily seen in young Class 0 and Class I sources. The near-infrared continuum of FW Tau b is mostly flat and lacks the deep absorption features expected for a cool, late-type object. This may be a result of accretion-induced veiling, especially in light of its strong and sustained Hα emission (EW(Hα) ≳ 290 Å). Alternatively, FW Tau b may be a slightly warmer (M5-M8) accreting low-mass star or brown dwarf (0.03-0.15 M ⊙) with an edge-on disk. Regardless, its young evolutionary stage is in stark contrast to its Class III host FW Tau AB, indicating a more rapid disk clearing timescale for the host binary system than for its wide companion. Finally, we present near-infrared spectra of the young (∼2-10 Myr) low-mass (12-15 M Jup) companions GSC 6214-210 B and SR 12 C and find they best resemble low-gravity M9.5 and M9 substellar templates.
Additional file 1: of Iranian EFL teachers and learners’ perceptions of grammar instruction and corrective feedback
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Mohammad
name: Yousefi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Appendix A. Learners’ Questionnaire. Appendix B: Teachers’ Questionnaire (DOCX 14 kb)
Wovon handelt die Theologie der Arbeit?
Creators: name: Juros, Helmut
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 13 Nr. 2 (1984): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 13, Heft 2
A search for moderate-redshift survivors from the population of luminous compact passive galaxies at high redshift
Creators: name: Shih, H.-Y.
name: Mann, A.W.
name: Stockton, A.
name: Larson, K.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2014

description: From a search of a ∼2400 deg2 region covered by both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey databases, we have attempted to identify galaxies at z ∼ 0.5 that are consistent with their being essentially unmodified examples of the luminous passive compact galaxies found at z ∼ 2.5. After isolating good candidates via deeper imaging, we further refine the sample with Keck moderate-resolution spectroscopy and laser guide star adaptive-optics imaging. For four of the five galaxies that so far remain after passing through this sieve, we analyze plausible star-formation histories based on our spectra in order to identify galaxies that may have survived with little modification from the population formed at high redshift. We find two galaxies that are consistent with having formed ≳ 95% of their mass at z > 5. We attempt to estimate masses both from our stellar population determinations and from velocity dispersions. Given the high frequency of small axial ratios, both in our small sample and among samples found at high redshifts, we tentatively suggest that some of the more extreme examples of passive compact galaxies may have prolate morphologies.
THE INSIDER/OUTSIDER PROBLEM IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION (A READING) Part 1: General Introduction
Creators: name: Tohis, Reza Adeputra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Comparative religious studies
Islamic studies

description: This introduction in The Insider/Outsider Problem in The Study of Religion describes several approaches or methods that can be used by researchers in answering or understanding religious issues.
pyhf: Accelerating analyses and preserving likelihoods
Creators: name: Feickert, Matthew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: pyhf
Scikit-HEP
physics

description: The HistFactory p.d.f. template [CERN-OPEN-2012-016] is per-se independent of its implementation in ROOT and it is useful to be able to run statistical analysis outside of the ROOT, RooFit, RooStats framework. pyhf is a pure-Python implementation of that statistical model for multi-bin histogram-based analysis and its interval estimation is based on the asymptotic formulas of "Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics" [arXiv:1007.1727]. pyhf supports modern computational graph libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch in order to make use of features such as autodifferentiation and GPU acceleration, resulting in multiple times speedup of analysis fits. In addition, the JSON Schema developed to support the HistFactory specification has enabled for the open publication of four full likelihoods from ATLAS analyses to HEPData within a year of the first ever published. In a tutorial the core features set of pyhf will be demonstrated in Jupyter notebooks in addition to how an analyst can use both the Python and command line APIs to quickly investigate a model and perform fits in an interactive session. The enabling features of the HistFactory JSON specification will also be explored.
Revised stellar properties of Kepler targets for the quarter 1-16 transit detection run
Creators: name: Smith, M.A.
name: Mann, A.W.
name: Huber, D.
name: Mathur, S.
name: Aguirre, V.S.
name: Bedding, T.R.
name: García, R.A.
name: Gaidos, E.
name: Fleming, S.W.
name: Chaplin, W.J.
name: Bastien, F.A.
name: Mosser, B.
name: Hekker, S.
name: Stello, D.
name: Basu, S.
name: Torres, G.
name: Matthews, J.M.
name: Serenelli, A.M.
name: Guo, Z.
name: Rowe, J.F.
name: Demory, B.-O.
name: Pinsonneault, M.H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We present revised properties for 196,468 stars observed by the NASA Kepler mission and used in the analysis of Quarter 1-16 (Q1-Q16) data to detect and characterize transiting planets. The catalog is based on a compilation of literature values for atmospheric properties (temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity) derived from different observational techniques (photometry, spectroscopy, asteroseismology, and exoplanet transits), which were then homogeneously fitted to a grid of Dartmouth stellar isochrones. We use broadband photometry and asteroseismology to characterize 11,532 Kepler targets which were previously unclassified in the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC). We report the detection of oscillations in 2762 of these targets, classifying them as giant stars and increasing the number of known oscillating giant stars observed by Kepler by 20% to a total of 15,500 stars. Typical uncertainties in derived radii and masses are 40% and 20%, respectively, for stars with photometric constraints only, and 5%-15% and 10% for stars based on spectroscopy and/or asteroseismology, although these uncertainties vary strongly with spectral type and luminosity class. A comparison with the Q1-Q12 catalog shows a systematic decrease in radii of M dwarfs, while radii for K dwarfs decrease or increase depending on the Q1-Q12 provenance (KIC or Yonsei-Yale isochrones). Radii of F-G dwarfs are on average unchanged, with the exception of newly identified giants. The Q1-Q16 star properties catalog is a first step toward an improved characterization of all Kepler targets to support planet-occurrence studies.
Hierarchical models for semi-competing risks data with application to quality of end-of-life care for pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Lee, Kyu Ha
name: Dominici, Francesca
name: Schrag, Deborah
name: Haneuse, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Readmission following discharge from an initial hospitalization is a key marker of quality of health care in the United States. For the most part, readmission has been used to study quality of care for patients with acute health conditions, such as pneumonia and heart failure, with analyses typically based on a logistic-Normal generalized linear mixed model. Applying this model to the study readmission among patients with increasingly prevalent advanced health conditions such as pancreatic cancer is problematic, however, because it ignores death as a competing risk. A more appropriate analysis is to imbed such studies within the semi-competing risks framework. To our knowledge, however, no comprehensive statistical methods have been developed for cluster-correlated semi-competing risks data. In this paper we propose a novel hierarchical modeling framework for the analysis of cluster-correlated semi-competing risks data. The framework permits parametric or non-parametric specifications for a range of model components, including baseline hazard functions and distributions for key random effects, giving analysts substantial flexibility as they consider their own analyses. Estimation and inference is performed within the Bayesian paradigm since it facilitates the straightforward characterization of (posterior) uncertainty for all model parameters including hospital-specific random effects. The proposed framework is used to study the risk of readmission among 5,298 Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at 112 hospitals in the six New England states between 2000-2009, specifically to investigate the role of patient-level risk factors and to characterize variation in risk across hospitals that is not explained by differences in patient case-mix.
MOESM1 of Spatial structures of heavy metals and nitrogen accumulation in moss specimens sampled between 1990 and 2015 throughout Germany
Creators: name: Schrรถder, Winfried
name: Nickel, Stefan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Limits of quantification (LQ) for the elements determined. Table S2. Statistical values for determinations of heavy metals in reference materials during the measurement period. Table S3. Statistical values of the moss reference materials M2 and M3. Table S4a. Geostatistical analysis 2015: Methods and parameters of the model. Table S4b. Geostatistical analysis 2015: Quality parameters of the model. Figure S1. Spatial distribution of sample point-specific measured and geostatistically estimated concentrations of Al and As in moss. Figure S2. Spatial distribution of sample point-specific measured and geostatistically estimated concentrations of Cu and Fe in moss. Figure S3. Spatial distribution of sample point-specific measured and geostatistically estimated concentrations of Ni and Sb in moss. Figure S4. Spatial distribution of sample point-specific measured and geostatistically estimated concentrations of V and Zn in moss. Table S5. Spatial distribution of sample point-specific measured and geostatistically estimated V and Zn concentrations in moss.
Topological Node-Line Semimetal in Three Dimensional Graphene Networks
Creators: name: Weng, Hongming
name: Liang, Yunye
name: Xu, Qiunan
name: Yu, Rui
name: Fang, Zhong
name: Dai, Xi
name: Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene, a two dimensional (2D) carbon sheet, acquires many of its amazing properties from the Dirac point nature of its electronic structures with negligible spin-orbit coupling. Extending to 3D space, graphene networks with negative curvature, called Mackay-Terrones crystals (MTC), have been proposed and experimentally explored, yet their topological properties remain to be discovered. Based on the first-principle calculations, we report an all-carbon MTC with topologically non-trivial electronic states by exhibiting node-lines in bulk. When the node-lines are projected on to surfaces to form circles, "drumhead" like flat surface bands nestled inside of the circles are formed. The bulk node-line can evolve into 3D Dirac point in the absence of inversion symmetry, which has shown its plausible existence in recent experiments.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures. Figure 4 is updated
A stochastic and analytical model of hierarchical fragmentation: The fragmentation of gas structures into young stellar objects in the interstellar medium
Creators: name: Thomasson, Benjamin
name: Joncour, Isabelle
name: Moraux, Estelle
name: Motte, Fédérique
name: Louvet, Fabien
name: González, Marta
name: Nony, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular clouds are the most important incubators of young stars clustered in various stellar structures whose spatial extension can vary from a few AU to several thousand AU. Although the reality of these stellar systems has been established, the physical origin of their multiplicity remains an open question. Our aim was to characterise these stellar groups at the onset of their formation by quantifying both the number of stars they contain and their mass using a hierarchical fragmentation model of the natal molecular cloud. We developed a stochastic and predictive model that reconciles the continuous multi-scale structure of a fragmenting molecular cloud with the discrete nature of the stars that are the products of this fragmentation. This model was implemented within a gravo-turbulent fragmentation framework to analytically follow the fragmentation properties along spatial scales using an isothermal and adiabatic equations of state (EOSs). Using an adiabatic EOS we determined a characteristic spatial scale where further fragmentation is prevented, around a few tens of AU. We show that fragmentation is a self-regulated process as fragments tend to become marginally unstable following a $M \propto R$ Bonnor-Ebert-like mass-size profile. Supersonic turbulent fragmentation structures the cloud down to $R \approx 0.1$ pc, and gradually turns into a less productive Jeans-type fragmentation under subsonic conditions so hierarchical fragmentation is a scale dependant process. Our work suggests that pre-stellar objects resulting from gas fragmentation, have to progressively increase their accretion rate in order to form stars. A hierarchical fragmentation scenario is compatible with both the multiplicity of stellar systems identified in Taurus and the multi-scale structure extracted within NGC 2264 molecular cloud.
Cosmological Constraints From Weak Lensing Peak Statistics With CFHT Stripe 82 Survey
Creators: name: Liu, Xiangkun
name: Pan, Chuzhong
name: Li, Ran
name: Shan, Huanyuan
name: Wang, Qiao
name: Fu, Liping
name: Fan, Zuhui
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: Van Waerbeke, Ludovic
name: Makler, Martin
name: Moraes, Bruno
name: Erben, Thomas
name: Charbonnier, Aldée
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derived constraints on cosmological parameters using weak lensing peak statistics measured on the $\sim130~{\rm deg}^2$ of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey (CS82). This analysis demonstrates the feasibility of using peak statistics in cosmological studies. For our measurements, we considered peaks with signal-to-noise ratio in the range of $ν=[3,6]$. For a flat $Λ$CDM model with only $(Ω_{\rm m}, σ_8)$ as free parameters, we constrained the parameters of the following relation $Σ_8=σ_8(Ω_{\rm m}/0.27)^α$ to be: $Σ_8=0.82 \pm 0.03 $ and $α=0.43\pm 0.02$. The $α$ value found is considerably smaller than the one measured in two-point and three-point cosmic shear correlation analyses, showing a significant complement of peak statistics to standard weak lensing cosmological studies. The derived constraints on $(Ω_{\rm m}, σ_8)$ are fully consistent with the ones from either WMAP9 or Planck. From the weak lensing peak abundances alone, we obtained marginalised mean values of $Ω_{\rm m}=0.38^{+0.27}_{-0.24}$ and $σ_8=0.81\pm 0.26$. Finally, we also explored the potential of using weak lensing peak statistics to constrain the mass-concentration relation of dark matter halos simultaneously with cosmological parameters.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS in press
D5.1 Report on the installation of solutions in the pilot and 3 real demo sites
Creators: name: Mezzasalma, Giulia
name: Pockelé, Luc
name: Sachini, Maria
name: Casati, Anna
name: Ferrarini, Giovanni
name: Tamburini, Sergio
name: Fodor, Loredana
name: Rossi, Leonardo
name: Cadelano, Gianluca
name: Cicolin, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: installation
InnoWEE
H2020
demo site
geopolymeric panels

description: The “Report on the installation of solutions in the pilot and 3 real demo sites” is a confidential document delivered in the context of Task 5.1 “Installation of the different solutions in the 4 demo sites”. This document explains all the phases of the installation of the panels in the 3 demo sites and in
 the Pilot demo sites.
Self-organized alternating chimera states in oscillatory media
Creators: name: Haugland, Sindre W.
name: Schmidt, Lennart
name: Krischer, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oscillatory media can exhibit the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized regions, so-called chimera states, for uniform parameters and symmetrical coupling. In a phase-balanced chimera state, where the totals of synchronized and desynchronized regions, respectively, are of the same size, the symmetry of the system predicts that interchanging both phases still gives a solution to the underlying equations. We observe this kind of interchange as a self-emerging phenomenon in an oscillatory medium with nonlinear global coupling. An interplay between local and global couplings renders the formation of these alternating chimeras possible.
Trumpeting M dwarfs with CONCH-SHELL: A catalogue of nearby cool host-stars for habitable exoplanets and life
Creators: name: Mann, A.W.
name: Buccino, A.
name: Ansdell, M.
name: Gaidos, E.
name: Hilton, E.J.
name: Mauas, P.
name: Lépine, S.
name: Petrucci, R.
name: James, D.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014

description: We present an all-sky catalogue of 2970 nearby (d ≲ 50 pc), bright (J < 9) M- or late Ktype dwarf stars, 86 per cent of which have been confirmed by spectroscopy. This catalogue will be useful for searches for Earth-size and possibly Earth-like planets by future space-based transit missions and ground-based infrared Doppler radial velocity surveys. Starswere selected from the SUPERBLINK proper motion catalogue according to absolute magnitudes, spectra, or a combination of reduced proper motions and photometric colours. From our spectra, we determined gravity-sensitive indices, and identified and removed 0.2 per cent of these as interloping hotter or evolved stars. 13 per cent of the stars exhibit Ha emission, an indication of stellar magnetic activity and possible youth. The mean metallicity is [Fe/H]=-0.07 with a standard deviation of 0.22 dex, similar to nearby solar-type stars. We determined stellar effective temperatures by least-squares fitting of spectra to model predictions calibrated by fits to stars with established bolometric temperatures, and estimated radii, luminosities, and masses using empirical relations. Six per cent of stars with images from integral field spectra are resolved doubles. We inferred the planet population around M dwarfs using Kepler data and applied this to our catalogue to predict detections by future exoplanet surveys.
Static correlation and electron localization in molecular dimers from the self-consistent RPA and GW approximation
Creators: name: Hellgren, Maria
name: Caruso, Fabio
name: Rohr, Daniel R.
name: Ren, Xinguo
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Scheffler, Matthias
name: Rinke, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate static correlation and delocalization errors in the self-consistent GW and random-phase approximation (RPA) by studying molecular dissociation of the H_2 and LiH molecules. Although both approximations contain topologically identical diagrams, the non-locality and frequency dependence of the GW self-energy crucially influence the different energy contributions to the total energy as compared to the use of a static local potential in the RPA. The latter leads to significantly larger correlation energies which allow for a better description of static correlation at intermediate bond distances. The substantial error found in GW is further analyzed by comparing spin-restricted and spin-unrestricted calculations. At large but finite nuclear separation their difference gives an estimate of the so-called fractional spin error normally determined only in the dissociation limit. Furthermore, a calculation of the dipole moment of the LiH molecule at dissociation reveals a large delocalization error in GW making the fractional charge error comparable to the RPA. The analyses are supplemented by explicit formulae for the GW Green's function and total energy of a simplified two-level model providing additional insights into the dissociation limit.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1: of Longitudinal study of leukocyte DNA methylation and biomarkers for cancer risk in older adults
Creators: name: Bartlett, Alexandra
name: Liang, Jane
name: Sandoval-Sierra, Jose
name: Fowke, Jay
name: Simonsick, Eleanor
name: Johnson, Karen
name: Khyobeni Mozhui
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Microarray data quality checks. (A) The density plots for Î˛-values using the full set of 866,836 probes show the expected bimodal distribution. (B) Unsupervised hierarchical clustering using the full set of probes shows that, with the exception of two participants (Per1 and Per9), all samples with longitudinal data pair appropriately with self. This cluster tree identifies Per13 as an outlier at both baseline and visit year 6. (C) Principal component analysis was done using a filtered set of 739,648 autosomal probes. The scatter plot between principal component 1 (PC1) and PC2 identifies Per13 as an outlier. (PDF 1310 kb)
A Methodological and Structural Review of Hand Gesture Recognition Across Diverse Data Modalities
Creators: name: Shin, Jungpil
name: Miah, Abu Saleh Musa
name: Kabir, Md. Humaun
name: Rahim, Md. Abdur
name: Shiam, Abdullah Al
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Researchers have been developing Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) systems to enhance natural, efficient, and authentic human-computer interaction, especially benefiting those who rely solely on hand gestures for communication. Despite significant progress, the automatic and precise identification of hand gestures remains a considerable challenge in computer vision. Recent studies have focused on specific modalities like RGB images, skeleton data, and spatiotemporal interest points. This paper provides a comprehensive review of HGR techniques and data modalities from 2014 to 2024, exploring advancements in sensor technology and computer vision. We highlight accomplishments using various modalities, including RGB, Skeleton, Depth, Audio, EMG, EEG, and Multimodal approaches and identify areas needing further research. We reviewed over 200 articles from prominent databases, focusing on data collection, data settings, and gesture representation. Our review assesses the efficacy of HGR systems through their recognition accuracy and identifies a gap in research on continuous gesture recognition, indicating the need for improved vision-based gesture systems. The field has experienced steady research progress, including advancements in hand-crafted features and deep learning (DL) techniques. Additionally, we report on the promising developments in HGR methods and the area of multimodal approaches. We hope this survey will serve as a potential guideline for diverse data modality-based HGR research.
Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry
Creators: name: Turner, J.D.
name: Mann, A.W.
name: Greenberg, A.
name: Williamson, M.H.
name: Taylor, B.W.
name: Pearson, K.A.
name: Vican, L.
name: Henry, G.W.
name: Eastman, J.
name: Sinukoff, E.
name: Mancini, L.
name: Webber, M.W.
name: Thompson, R.
name: Crossfield, I.J.M.
name: Biddle, L.I.
name: Howard, A.W.
name: Southworth, J.
name: Fulton, B.J.
name: Ciceri, S.
name: Barman, T.
name: Levine, S.E.
name: Dragomir, D.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014

description: It is important to explore the diversity of characteristics of low-mass, low-density planets to understand the nature and evolution of this class of planets. We present a homogeneous analysis of 12 new and 9 previously published broad-band photometric observations of the Uranus-sized extrasolar planet GJ 3470b, which belongs to the growing sample of sub-Jovian bodies orbiting M dwarfs. The consistency of our analysis explains some of the discrepancies between previously published results and provides updated constraints on the planetary parameters. Our data are also consistent with previous transit observations of this system. The physical properties of the transiting system can only be constrained as well as the host star is characterized, so we provide new spectroscopic measurements of GJ 3470 from 0.33 to 2.42 μm to aid our analysis. We find R* = 0.48 ± 0.04 R⊙, M* = 0.51 ± 0.06 M⊙, and Teff = 3652 ± 50K for GJ 3470, along with a rotation period of 20.70 ± 0.15 d and an R-band amplitude of 0.01 mag, which is small enough that current transit measurements should not be strongly affected by stellar variability. However, to report definitively whether stellar activity has a significant effect on the light curves, this requires future multiwavelength, multi-epoch studies of GJ 3470. We also present the most precise orbital ephemeris for this system: To = 2455983.70472 ± 0.00021BJDTDB, P = 3.336 6487+0.000 0043 -0.000 0033 d, and we see no evidence for transit timing variations greater than 1 min. Our reported planet to star radius ratio is 0.076 42 ± 0.000 37. The physical parameters of this planet are Rp = 3.88 ± 0.32 R⊕ and Mp = 13.73 ± 1.61 M⊕. Because of our revised stellar parameters, the planetary radius we present is smaller than previously reported values. We also perform a second analysis of the transmission spectrum of the entire ensemble of transit observations to date, supporting the existence of an H2-dominated atmosphere exhibiting a strong Rayleigh scattering slope.
On the Atiyah problem on hyperbolic configurations of four points
Creators: name: Malkoun, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51M09, 52A15, 52C35, 52A55, 70G10

description: Given a configuration $\mathbf{x}$ of $n$ distinct points in hyperbolic $3$-space $H^3$, Michael Atiyah associated $n$ polynomials $p_1,\ldots,p_n$ of a variable $t \in \mathbb{C}P^1$, of degree $n-1$, and conjectured that they are linearly independent over $\mathbb{C}$, no matter which configuration $\mathbf{x}$ one starts with. We prove this conjecture for $n=4$ in two cases: in case the $4$ points are non-coplanar, and in case one of the points lies in the hyperbolic convex hull of the other three.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Final version with many minor corrections and improvements, to appear in Geometriae Dedicata
Trawling for transits in a sea of noise: A search for exoplanets by analysis of WASP optical light curves and follow-up (SEAWOLF)
Creators: name: West, R.G.
name: Maravelias, G.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Faedi, F.
name: Fukui, A.
name: Narita, N.
name: Ĺepine, S.
name: Mann, A.W.
name: Chang, E.
name: Fulton, B.J.
name: Beyer, J.
name: Anderson, D.R.
name: Coĺon, K.D.
name: Armstrong, J.D.
name: Gaidos, E.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014

description: Studies of transiting Neptune-sized planets orbiting close to nearby bright stars can inform theories of planet formation because mass and radius and therefore mean density can be accurately estimated and compared with interior models. The distribution of such planets with stellar mass and orbital period relative to their Jovian-mass counterparts can test scenarios of orbital migration, and whether 'hot' (period <10 d) Neptunes evolved from 'hot' Jupiters as a result of mass loss. We searched 1763 late K and early M dwarf stars for transiting Neptunes by analysing photometry from the Wide Angle Search for Planets and obtaining high-precision (≤10-3) follow-up photometry of stars with candidate transit signals. One star in our sample (GJ 436) hosts a previously reported hot Neptune. We identified 92 candidate signals among 80 other stars and carried out 148 observations of predicted candidate transits with 1-2m telescopes. Data on 70 WASP signals rules out transits for 39 of them; 28 other signals are ambiguous and/or require more data. Three systems have transit-like events in follow-up photometry and we plan additional follow-up observations. On the basis of no confirmed detections in our survey, we place an upper limit of 10.2 per cent on the occurrence of hot Neptunes around late K and earlyMdwarfs (95 per cent confidence). A single confirmed detection would translate to an occurrence of 5.3 ± 4.4 per cent. The latter figure is similar to that from Doppler surveys, suggesting that GJ 436b may be the only transiting hot Neptune in our sample. Our analysis of Kepler data for similar but more distant late-type dwarfs yields an occurrence of 0.32 ± 0.21 per cent. Depending on which occurrence is applicable, we estimate that the Next Generation Transit Survey will discover either ̃60 or ̃1000 hot Neptunes around late K- and early M-type dwarfs.
Prospecting in ultracool dwarfs: Measuring the metallicities of mid- and late-m dwarfs
Creators: name: Mann, A.W.
name: Brewer, J.M.
name: Magnier, E.A.
name: Deacon, N.R.
name: Gaidos, E.
name: Liu, M.C.
name: Aller, K.M.
name: Ansdell, M.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2014

description: Metallicity is a fundamental parameter that contributes to the physical characteristics of a star. The low temperatures and complex molecules present in M dwarf atmospheres make it difficult to measure their metallicities using techniques that have been commonly used for Sun-like stars. Although there has been significant progress in developing empirical methods to measure M dwarf metallicities over the last few years, these techniques have been developed primarily for early- to mid-M dwarfs. We present a method to measure the metallicity of mid- to late-M dwarfs from moderate resolution (R ∼ 2000) K-band (≃ 2.2 μm) spectra. We calibrate our formula using 44 wide binaries containing an F, G, K, or early-M primary of known metallicity and a mid- to late-M dwarf companion. We show that similar features and techniques used for early-M dwarfs are still effective for late-M dwarfs. Our revised calibration is accurate to ∼0.07 dex for M4.5-M9.5 dwarfs with -0.58 < [Fe/H] < +0.56 and shows no systematic trends with spectral type, metallicity, or the method used to determine the primary star metallicity. We show that our method gives consistent metallicities for the components of M+M wide binaries. We verify that our new formula works for unresolved binaries by combining spectra of single stars. Lastly, we show that our calibration gives consistent metallicities with the Mann et al. study for overlapping (M4-M5) stars, establishing that the two calibrations can be used in combination to determine metallicities across the entire M dwarf sequence.
Evaluation of different composting systems on an industrial scale as a contribution to the circular economy and its impact on human health
Creators: name: López, Julián E.
name: Zapata, Daniela
name: Saldarriaga, Juan F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Due to the production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), large-scale composting can cause air pollution and occupational health issues. Due to this, it is necessary to determine if the amount generated poses a health risk to plant workers, which can be a starting point for those in charge of composting plant facilities. As a result, the goal of this work is to conduct a thorough analysis of both the physicochemical features and the VOC generation of three large-scale systems. For ten weeks, the three different composting plants were monitored weekly, and VOC identification and quantification were performed using GC-MS gas chromatography. It has been observed that the biggest risk related with VOC formation occurs between the fourth and fifth weeks, when microbial activity is at its peak. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that xylenes and toluene are the ones that are produced in the greatest quantity. Finally, after ten weeks of processing, it was discovered that the material obtained complies with the regulations for the sale of an amendment. Implications: The evaluation and monitoring of the composting processes at an industrial scale is very important, due to the implications they bring. VOCs are produced by the operation of composting facilities with substantial amounts of solid waste, such as the companies in this study. These may pose a health risk to those working in the plants; thus, it is critical to understand where the VOCs occur in the process in order to maintain workers’ occupational health measures. This form of evaluation is rare or nonexistent in Colombia, which is why conducting this type of study is critical, as it will provide crucial input into determining when the highest levels of VOC generation occur. These are the ones that may pose a risk at some point, but with proper occupational safety planning, said risk may be avoided. This work has evaluated three composting systems, with different types of waste and mixtures. According to reports, while composting systems continue to produce VOCs and their generation is unavoidable, the potential risk exists only within the plant. These findings can pave the way for the implementation of public policies that will improve the design and operation of composting plants. There is no specific legislation in Colombia for the design and execution of this sort of technology, which allows the use of organic waste