cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling
Creators: name: Bashir, Noman
name: Gohil, Varun
name: Belavadi, Anagha
name: Shahrad, Mohammad
name: Irwin, David
name: Olivetti, Elsa
name: Delimitrou, Christina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid increase in computing demand and its corresponding energy consumption have focused attention on computing's impact on the climate and sustainability. Prior work proposes metrics that quantify computing's carbon footprint across several lifecycle phases, including its supply chain, operation, and end-of-life. Industry uses these metrics to optimize the carbon footprint of manufacturing hardware and running computing applications. Unfortunately, prior work on optimizing datacenters' carbon footprint often succumbs to the \emph{sunk cost fallacy} by considering embodied carbon emissions (a sunk cost) when making operational decisions (i.e., job scheduling and placement), which leads to operational decisions that do not always reduce the total carbon footprint.
 In this paper, we evaluate carbon-aware job scheduling and placement on a given set of servers for a number of carbon accounting metrics. Our analysis reveals state-of-the-art carbon accounting metrics that include embodied carbon emissions when making operational decisions can actually increase the total carbon footprint of executing a set of jobs. We study the factors that affect the added carbon cost of such suboptimal decision-making. We then use a real-world case study from a datacenter to demonstrate how the sunk carbon fallacy manifests itself in practice. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings in better guiding effective carbon-aware scheduling in on-premise and cloud datacenters.
Purpose in the Machine: Do Traffic Simulators Produce Distributionally Equivalent Outcomes for Reinforcement Learning Applications?
Creators: name: Chen, Rex
name: Carley, Kathleen M.
name: Fang, Fei
name: Sadeh, Norman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic simulators are used to generate data for learning in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). A key question is to what extent their modelling assumptions affect the capabilities of ITSs to adapt to various scenarios when deployed in the real world. This work focuses on two simulators commonly used to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents for traffic applications, CityFlow and SUMO. A controlled virtual experiment varying driver behavior and simulation scale finds evidence against distributional equivalence in RL-relevant measures from these simulators, with the root mean squared error and KL divergence being significantly greater than 0 for all assessed measures. While granular real-world validation generally remains infeasible, these findings suggest that traffic simulators are not a deus ex machina for RL training: understanding the impacts of inter-simulator differences is necessary to train and deploy RL-based ITSs.
description: 12 pages; accepted version, published at the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC '23)
Additional file 1: of Multiple stressors produce differential transcriptomic patterns in a stream-dwelling salamander
Creators: name: Clay, Timothy
name: Steffen, Michael
name: Treglia, Michael
name: Torres, Carolyn
name: Trujano-Alvarez, Ana
name: Bonett, Ronald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Primers and probes for quantitative RT-PCR. (DOCX 18 kb)
String Geometry and the Noncommutative Torus
Creators: name: Landi, G.
name: Lizzi, F.
name: Szabo, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a new gauge theory on a pair of d-dimensional noncommutative tori. The latter comes from an intimate relationship between the noncommutative geometry associated with a lattice vertex operator algebra A and the noncommutative torus. We show that the (truncated) tachyon subalgebra of A is naturally isomorphic to a class of twisted modules representing quantum deformations of the algebra of functions on the torus. We construct the corresponding even real spectral triples and determine their Morita equivalence classes using string duality arguments. These constructions yield simple proofs of the O(d,d;Z) Morita equivalences between $d$-dimensional noncommutative tori and give a natural physical interpretation of them in terms of the target space duality group of toroidally compactified string theory. We classify the automorphisms of the twisted modules and construct the most general gauge theory which is invariant under the automorphism group. We compute bosonic and fermionic actions associated with these gauge theories and show that they are explicitly duality-symmetric. The duality-invariant gauge theory is manifestly covariant but contains highly non-local interactions. We show that it also admits a new sort of particle-antiparticle duality which enables the construction of instanton field configurations in any dimension. The duality non-symmetric on-shell projection of the field theory is shown to coincide with the standard non-abelian Yang-Mills gauge theory minimally coupled to massive Dirac fermion fields.
description: 37 pages, LaTeX. Major revisions in section 3. Other minor revisions in the rest of the paper, references added
Walter Christaller’s research on regional and rural development planning during World War II
Creators: name: Preston, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie

description: The goals of this study were to describe and evaluate Christaller's research on regional and rural planning during World War II. His research was analyzed by identifying ideas from his pre-war studies that were basic to his war research, by piecing together theoretical perspectives from sources from 1940-1945, and by identifying links between those studies and his research on central places. It was shown that Christaller's research contributed to plans facilitating German Lebensraum policy and the objectives of Himmler's Reich Commission for the Strengthening of Germandom, that he built the conceptual and theoretical frameworks used in his war research on his earlier theories of central places, administrative regions, and rural settlement change, that he used his theoretical ideas to confront basic problems in planning and human geography, and that he offered innovative solutions including (1) generalization of his original theory by the addition of a mixed hierarchical principle, (2) development of normative systems of urban-centered administrative-planning regions both for the German Empire and in more detail for western Poland, (3) development of a model of metropolitan regions, and (4) development of a settlement system based theory of rural development.
Wangmu chengqing 王母稱慶 Q00677_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
A Survey of the Metrics, Uses, and Subjects of Diversity-Based Techniques in Software Testing
Creators: name: Elgendy, Islam T.
name: Hierons, Robert M.
name: McMinn, Phil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: A.1; D.2.5

description: There has been a significant amount of interest regarding the use of diversity-based testing techniques in software testing over the past two decades. Diversity-based testing (DBT) technique uses similarity metrics to leverage the dissimilarity between software artefacts - such as requirements, abstract models, program structures, or inputs - in order to address a software testing problem. DBT techniques have been used to assist in finding solutions to several different types of problems including generating test cases, prioritising them, and reducing very large test suites. This paper is a systematic survey of DBT techniques that summarises the key aspects and trends of 144 papers that report the use of 70 different similarity metrics with 24 different types of software artefacts, which have been used by researchers to tackle 11 different types of software testing problems. We further present an analysis of the recent trends in DBT techniques and review the different application domains to which the techniques have been applied, giving an overview of the tools developed by researchers to do so. Finally, the paper identifies some DBT challenges that are potential topics for future work.
description: 58 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables, and uses PRIMEarxiv.sty
Additional file 1: of Coverage of cancer services in Australia and providersâ views on service gaps: findings from a national cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Hunter, Jennifer
name: Smith, Caroline
name: Delaney, Geoff
name: Templeman, Kate
name: Grant, Suzanne
name: Ussher, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Questionnaire for cancer services. Outline of questions relevant to the data reported in this paper. (DOCX 15 kb)
Haldane and Dimer phases in a frustrated spin chain: an exact groundstate and associated topological phase transition
Creators: name: Sahoo, Shaon
name: Dey, Dayasindhu
name: Saha, Sudip Kumar
name: Kumar, Manoranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Heisenberg spin-$s$ chain with alternating ferromagnetic ($-J_1^F<0$) and antiferromagnetic ($J_1^A>0$) nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions, exhibits the Dimer and spin-$2s$ Haldane phases in the limits $J_1^F/J_1^A \rightarrow 0$ and $J_1^F/J_1^A \rightarrow \infty$ respectively. These two phases are understood to be topologically equivalent. Induction of the frustration through the next nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interaction ($-J_2^F<0$) produces a very rich quantum phase diagram. With frustration, the whole phase diagram is divided into a ferromagnetic (FM) and a nonmagnetic (NM) phase. For $s=1/2$, the full NM phase is seen to be of Haldane-Dimer type, but for $s>1/2$, a spiral phase comes between the FM and the Haldane-Dimer phases. The study of a suitably defined string-order parameter and spin-gap at the phase boundary indicates that the Haldane-Dimer and spiral phases have different topological characters. We also find that, along the $J_2^F=\frac 12 J_1^F$ line in the NM phase, an NN dimer state is the {\it exact} groundstate, provided $J_1^A>J_C=κJ_1^F$ where $κ\le s + h$ for applied magnetic field $h$. Without magnetic field, the position of $J_C$ is on the FM-NM phase boundary when $s=1/2$, but for $s>1/2$, the location of $J_C$ is on the phase separation line between the Haldane-Dimer and spiral phases.
description: 7+ pages, 5 figures; final version
Baozhu yifeng 爆竹遺風 Q00599_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Additional file 1: of Cancer stigma and cancer screening attendance: a population based survey in England
Creators: name: Vrinten, Charlotte
name: Gallagher, Ailish
name: Waller, Jo
name: Marlow, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios (OR), 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), and significance values for having never been screened (vs. having been screened at least once) by total CASS (cancer stigma) score for cervical (N = 681), breast (N = 326) and colorectal cancer screening (N = 371). (DOCX 14 kb)
Asymptotic singular behavior of Gowdy spacetimes in string theory
Creators: name: Narita, Makoto
name: Torii, Takashi
name: Maeda, Kengo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study $T^{3}$ Gowdy spacetimes in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion system and show by the Fuchsian algorithm that they have in general asymptotically velocity-term dominated singularities. The families of the corresponding solutions depend on the maximum number of arbitrary functions. Although coupling of the dilaton field with the Maxwell and/or the axion fields corresponds to the ``potential'' which appears in the Hamiltonian of vacuum Bianchi IX spacetimes, our result means that the spacetimes do not become Mixmaster necessarily.
description: 13 pages, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav
GDPO: Learning to Directly Align Language Models with Diversity Using GFlowNets
Creators: name: Kwon, Oh Joon
name: Matsunaga, Daiki E.
name: Kim, Kee-Eung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A critical component of the current generation of language models is preference alignment, which aims to precisely control the model's behavior to meet human needs and values. The most notable among such methods is Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and its offline variant Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), both of which seek to maximize a reward model based on human preferences. In particular, DPO derives reward signals directly from the offline preference data, but in doing so overfits the reward signals and generates suboptimal responses that may contain human biases in the dataset. In this work, we propose a practical application of a diversity-seeking RL algorithm called GFlowNet-DPO (GDPO) in an offline preference alignment setting to curtail such challenges. Empirical results show GDPO can generate far more diverse responses than the baseline methods that are still relatively aligned with human values in dialog generation and summarization tasks.
Gauge transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of generally covariant theories
Creators: name: Pons, J. M.
name: Salisbury, D. C.
name: Shepley, L. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spacetime diffeomorphisms in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms of generally covariant systems. We show that the gauge group for such a system is characterized by having generators which are projectable under the Legendre map. The gauge group is found to be much larger than the original group of spacetime diffeomorphisms, since its generators must depend on the lapse function and shift vector of the spacetime metric in a given coordinate patch. Our results are generalizations of earlier results by Salisbury and Sundermeyer. They arise in a natural way from using the requirement of equivalence between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of the system, and they are new in that the symmetries are realized on the full set of phase space variables. The generators are displayed explicitly and are applied to the relativistic string and to general relativity.
description: 12 pages, no figures; REVTeX; uses multicol,fancyheadings,eqsecnum; to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Soft Budget Constraints, European Central Banking and the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Jäger, Jannik
name: Grigoriadis, Theocharis
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: soft budget constraints
subject: bond yield spreads
subject: monetary policy events
subject: Securities Markets Programme
subject: European Central Bank
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: During the European financial crisis, the European Central Bank implemented a series of unconventional monetary policy measures. We argue that these unconventional monetary policy measures created soft budget constraints for the Eurozone countries by lowering their bond yield spreads. This hypothesis is tested using pooled OLS estimations and two different datasets: monetary policy event dummies and the purchase volumes of the Securities Markets Programme (SMP). We find significantly negative effects on bond yield spreads for both datasets, leading us to accept the hypothesis. The results are confirmed by robustness checks that directly estimate the effect of unconventional monetary policy on central government debt.
Doubly Deviant? An Examination of Reentry Services for Crossover Youth Exiting the Justice System in New York City
Creators: Padmanabhan, Kavya
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human rights
Juvenile justice, Administration of
Halfway houses
Deinstitutionalization
Foster home care

description: This thesis provides insight on how reentry organizations understand crossover youth, young people with a history of child welfare involvement and juvenile justice involvement, and how they resultantly cater services for these youth. Research has established that these youth are likely to have a tougher experience during reentry, due to their past histories of trauma. As such, this work engages with six semi-structured interviews conducted with employees of two reentry organizations in New York City —Getting Out and Staying Out and Friends of Island Academy— to evaluate and consider the different approaches that these organizations employ in supporting these individuals, as these youth often fall between the cracks of service provision. This thesis found, however, that both reentry organizations approached crossover youth similarly, by primarily focusing on their offense histories, and thus not according due attention to their histories of trauma. Situating these reentry organizations in the carceral state explains this phenomenon. Thus, crossover youth are exceedingly vulnerable when they exit the justice system. Both the state and reentry organizations are unable to effectively provide services that can grant them basic human dignities; instead, these youth are exposed to the harshness of life after punishment.
Direct Sparse Mapping
Creators: name: Zubizarreta, Jon
name: Aguinaga, Iker
name: Montiel, J. M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Photometric bundle adjustment, PBA, accurately estimates geometry from video. However, current PBA systems have a temporary map that cannot manage scene reobservations. We present, DSM, a full monocular visual SLAM based on PBA. Its persistent map handles reobservations, yielding the most accurate results up to date on EuRoC for a direct method.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Double White Dwarfs as Probes of Single and Binary Star Evolution
Creators: Andrews, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: White dwarf stars
Binary stars
Stars--Evolution
Astronomy
Astrophysics

description: As the endpoints of stars less massive than roughly eight solar masses, the population of Galactic white dwarfs (WD) contain information about complex stellar evolution processes. Associated pairs of WDs add an extra degree of leverage; both WDs must have formed and evolved together. The work presented in this dissertation uses various populations of double WDs (DWD) to constrain evolution of both single and binary stars.
      One example is the set of low-mass WDs with unseen WD companions, which are formed through a dynamically-unstable mass loss process called the common envelope. To work toward a quantitative understanding of the common envelope, we develop and apply a Bayesian statistical technique to identify the masses of the unseen WD companions. We provide results which can be compared to evolutionary models and hence a deeper understanding of how binary stars evolve through a common envelope. The statistical technique we develop can be applied to any population of single-line spectroscopic binaries.
      Binaries widely separated enough that they avoid any significant interaction independently evolve into separate WDs that can be identified in photometric and astrometric surveys. We discuss techniques for finding these objects, known as wide DWDs. We present a catalog of 142 candidate wide DWDs, combining both previously detected systems and systems we identify in our searches in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Having been born at the same time, the masses and cooling ages of the WDs in wide DWDs, obtained with our spectroscopic follow-up campaign can be used to constrain the initial-final mass relation, which relates a main sequence star to the mass of the WD into which it will evolve. We develop a novel Bayesian technique to interpret our data and present our resulting constraints on this relation which are particularly strong for initial masses between two and four solar masses.
      During this process, we identified one wide DWD, HS 2220+2146, that was peculiar since the more massive WD in this system evolved second. We construct an evolutionary formation scenario in which the system began as a hierarchical triple in which the inner binary merged (possibly due to Kozai-Lidov oscillations) forming a post-blue straggler binary. The system then evolved into the DWD we observe today. We further discuss the potential for identifying more wide DWDs, including peculiar systems like HS 2220+2146, in future surveys such as Gaia.
A new approach to N-doped di-molybdenum carbide with enhanced superconductivity via Urea
Creators: name: Li, Longfu
name: Shi, Lei
name: Zeng, Lingyong
name: Li, Kuan
name: Yu, Peifeng
name: Wang, Kangwang
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Chen, Rui
name: Xiang, Zaichen
name: Zhang, Yunwei
name: Luo, Huixia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical doping is a critical factor in the development of new superconductors or optimizing the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of the parent superconducting materials. Herein, a new simple urea approach is developed to synthesize the N-doped alfa-Mo2C. Benefiting from the simple urea method, a broad superconducting dome is found in the Mo2C1-xNx compositions. XRD results show that the structure of alfa-Mo2C remains unchanged and that there is a variation of lattice parameters with nitrogen doping. Resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and heat capacity measurement results confirm that the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) was strongly increased from 2.68 K (x = 0) to 7.05 K (x = 0.49). First-principles calculations and our analysis indicate that increasing nitrogen doping leads to a rise in the density of states at the Fermi level and doping-induced phonon softening, which enhances electron-phonon coupling. This results in an increase in Tc and a sharp rise in the upper critical field. Our findings provide a promising strategy for fabricating transition metal carbonitrides and provide a material platform for further study of the superconductivity of transition metal carbides.
description: 15 pages, 6 Figures, 1 Table
Kapitalkosten, Wertprozesse und Steuern
Creators: name: Kruschwitz, Lutz
name: Löffler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Unternehmensbewertung
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::332 Finanzwirtschaft

description: Die Kritik Wilhelms an unserem Beitrag über Kapitalkosten vor und nach Steuern ist grundsätzlicher Natur. Wir halten sie für schlecht begründet und weisen sie daher zurück.
Stenotaenia fimbriata
Creators: name: Bonato, Lucio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Apiaceae
Stenotaenia
Stenotaenia fimbriata

description: STENOTAENIA FIMBRIATA (VERHOEFF, 1934)
 Geophilus (Onychopodogaster) fimbriatus Verhoeff, 1934a: 11 (original description), figs 18–19. Clinopodes fimbriatus: Attems, 1947: 120 (in key).
 Type locality: ‘bei Jerusalem [...] (Kirjat Anawim)’ = Qiryat Anavim, near Jerusalem (Israel).
 Type material: Two syntypes, of both sexes, 18–19-mm long; one syntype is held in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, ZMB /Myr-13456 (Moritz & Fischer, 1979), and one syntype is held at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, ZSM /Myr- A20030337 (J. Spelda, pers. comm.).
 Diagnosis: A Stenotaenia species of small body size (total length reaching 2 cm); c. 47–49 leg-bearing segments; labrum without tubercles; first maxillae without distinct lappets on the coxosternum, and with small lappets on the telopodites; forcipular intermediate articles distinct; sternal pore areas in the anterior part of the trunk round, and placed on the posterior half of each sternum; each coxopleuron with one anterior pouch with pores, and one posterior couple of pores (see also Table 3).
 Taxonomic history: After the original description by Verhoeff (1934a) no other specimens have been recorded. The species was moved to Clinopodes by Attems (1947), but its identity and status were never discussed further.
 Assignment to Stenotaenia: It is assigned confidently to Stenotaenia (comb. nov.), as the original description documents a combination of characters that are diagnostic of this genus (Table 2). Verhoeff (1934a), in describing G. fimbriatus, assigned it to the subgenus Onychopodogaster and compared it with a juvenile stage of G. linearis, the type species of Stenotaenia.
 Validity: It is recognized here as a distinct species only based on the published original description and illustrations. Potentially discriminating traits are the pattern of the sternal pore areas and the number of the trunk segments (Table 3).
 Distribution: Only known from two close localities in Palestine (Fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Bonato, Lucio & Minelli, Alessandro, 2008, Stenotaenia Koch, 1847: a hitherto unrecognized lineage of western Palaearctic centipedes with unusual diversity in body size and segment number (Chilopoda: Geophilidae), pp. 253-286 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (2) on page 264, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00394.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5446072
Exact dynamics of quantum systems driven by time-varying Hamiltonians: solution for the Bloch-Siegert Hamiltonian and applications to NMR
Creators: name: Giscard, Pierre-Louis
name: Bonhomme, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Comprehending the dynamical behaviour of quantum systems driven by time-varying Hamiltonians is particularly difficult. Systems with as little as two energy levels are not yet fully understood as the usual methods including diagonalisation of the Hamiltonian do not work in this setting. In fact, since the inception of Magnus' expansion in 1954, no fundamentally novel mathematical approach capable of solving the quantum equations of motion with a time-varying Hamiltonian has been devised. We report here of an entirely different non-perturbative approach, termed path-sum, which is always guaranteed to converge, yields the exact analytical solution in a finite number of steps for finite systems and is invariant under scale transformations of the quantum state space. Path-sum can be combined with any state-space reduction technique and can exactly reconstruct the dynamics of a many-body quantum system from the separate, isolated, evolutions of any chosen collection of its sub-systems. As examples of application, we solve analytically for the dynamics of all two-level systems as well as of a many-body Hamiltonian with a particular emphasis on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) applications: Bloch-Siegert effect, coherent destruction of tunneling and $N$-spin systems involving the dipolar Hamiltonian and spin diffusion.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Research
title: Zur Entwicklung der altsteinzeitlichen Phytotherapie im westlichen Eurasien und der indianischen Medizin in Sibirien und Nordamerika
Creators: name: Wolters, Bruno
Publisher: name: Institut für Botanik
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Die ethnobotanische Erfahrung, daß der Mensch einen sehr hohen Prozentsatz seiner Nutzpflanzen (Nutzholz- und Nahrungspflanzen vor allem) als Arzneipflanzen verwendet, ist schon für das Pleistozän belegt; und zwar für die Neandertaler von Shanidar IV in Irak vor 60.000 Jahren wie für die Indianer von Monte Verde II in Chile vor 12.500 Jahren. Der hohe Prozentsatz (50 - 65 %) in der heutigen indianischen wie der mitteleuropäischen Volksmedizin ist ein Relikt aus der Altsteinzeit. Die Nahrungs- und Nutzholzpflanzen des Homo erectus und des Neandertalers waren sogar bis zu 100 % zugleich Arzneipflanzen; sie wurden multifunktionell genutzt und waren der Kern der Phytotherapie im Pleistozän. Die vergleichende Indikationsstatistik für die Medizin der Monte-Verde-Indianer der Späteiszeit und die der heutigen Mapuche in Chile erlaubt einen Einblick in die Phytotherapie und die medizinischen Bedürfnisse im späten Pleistozän (ROSSEN u. DILLEHAY, 1997). Mit dieser Methode werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit die entsprechenden Daten für die Menschen im pleistozänen westlichen Eurasien und für die frühe indigene Medizin Nordamerikas ermittelt. Dabei ergibt sich, daß - durch die Lebensverhältnisse im Eiszeitalter bedingt - die Therapie von Harnwegserkrankungen einen höheren Stellenwert hatte als in der Nacheiszeit und heute. Andererseits hatten die Atemwegserkrankungen früher einen geringeren Stellenwert - bedingt durch die sehr geringe Bevölkerungsdichte-, bis mit der Nutzung der ersten Kulturpflanzen die Besiedlungsdichte und damit die Häufigkeit von Infektionen anstieg; in Nordamerika gilt das Gleiche auch für die Indikation 'Fieber'. Mittel für die Tiermedizin fehlten im Pleistozän mangels Haustieren. Angesichts der Tatsache, daß schon manche Säugetiere einzelne Heil- und Rauschpflanzen nutzen, ist zu vermuten, daß auch die frühen Hominiden in Afrika einzelne Pflanzen in ähnlicher Weise verwendet haben. Erste Anzeichen für einen Gebr
Cellular Networks as Models for Planck-Scale Physics
Creators: name: Requardt, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the working hypothesis that both physics and the corresponding mathematics have to be described by means of discrete concepts on the Planck scale, one of the many problems one has to face in this enterprise is to find the discrete protoforms of the building blocks of our ordinary continuum physics and mathematics. We base our own approach on what we call `cellular networks', consisting of cells (nodes) interacting with each other via bonds (figuring as elementary interactions) according to a certain `local law'. Geometrically our dynamical networks are living on graphs. Hence a substantial amount of the investigation is devoted to the developement of various versions of discrete (functional) analysis and geometry on such (almost random) webs. Another important topic we address is a suitable concept of intrinsic (fractal) dimension on erratic structures of this kind. In the course of the investigation we make comments concerning both different and related approaches to quantum gravity as, say, the spin network framework. It may perhaps be said that certain parts of our programme seem to be a realisation of ideas sketched by Smolin some time ago (see the introduction).
description: 34 pages, Latex, no figures, probably being published in Journ.Phys.A MathGen
Impact of prior vaccination on clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19
Creators: name: Seo, Woo Jung
name: Kang, Jiyeon
name: Kang, Hyung Koo
name: Park, So Hee
name: Koo, Hyeon-Kyoung
name: Park, Hye Kyeong
name: Lee, Sung-Soon
name: Song, Je Eun
name: Kwak, Yee Gyung
name: Kang, Jieun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Fully vaccinated people remain at risk of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We examined association between prior vaccination and clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19. Overall, 387 patients with mild-to-severe COVID-19 were enrolled. Patients were considered fully vaccinated at least 14, 7, and 14 days after receiving the second dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or mRNA-1273, second dose of BNT162b2, or single dose of Ad26.COV2.S, respectively. The primary outcomes (risk of pneumonia, requirement of supplemental oxygen, and progression to respiratory failure) were compared between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with the outcomes. There were 204 and 183 patients in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, respectively. The vaccinated group was significantly older and had more comorbidities than the unvaccinated group. Patients in the unvaccinated group were significantly more likely to develop pneumonia (65.6% vs. 36.8%) or require supplemental oxygen (29.0 vs. 15.7%) than the vaccinated group. The vaccinated group had a significantly shorter time from symptom onset to hospital discharge than the unvaccinated group (10 vs. 11 days; p<0.001). The proportion of patients who progressed to respiratory failure did not differ significantly between groups. In multivariable analyses, vaccination was associated with an approximately 70% and 82% lower likelihood of pneumonia and supplemental oxygen requirement, respectively. Being vaccinated was associated with a significantly lower risk of pneumonia and severe disease when breakthrough infection developed. Our findings support continuous efforts to increase vaccine coverage in populations.
On boundary value problems for Dirac type operators. I. Regularity and self-adjointness
Creators: name: Brüning, Jochen
name: Lesch, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 58G20; Secondary 35F15

description: In a series of papers, we will develop systematically the basic spectral theory of (self-adjoint) boundary value problems for operators of Dirac type. We begin in this paper with the characterization of (self-adjoint) boundary conditions with optimal regularity, for which we will derive the heat asymptotics and index theorems in subsequent publications. Along with a number of new results, we extend and simplify the proofs of many known theorems. Our point of departure is the simple structure which is displayed by Dirac type operators near the boundary. Thus our proofs are given in an abstract functional analytic setting, generalizing considerably the framework of compact manifolds with boundary. The results of this paper have been announced in math.DG/9902100
description: LaTeX2e, 55 pages; June 23, 1999, minor correction
Additional file 2: of The initiation of puberty in Atlantic salmon brings about large changes in testicular gene expression that are modulated by the energy status
Creators: name: Crespo, Diego
name: Bogerd, Jan
name: Sambroni, Elisabeth
name: LeGac, Florence
name: Andersson, Eva
name: Edvardsen, Rolf
name: Bergman, Elisabeth
name: Björnsson, Björn
name: Taranger, Geir
name: Schulz, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Table S1. Influence of the feed ration, or the maturational status, on selected morphometric parameters, pituitary gene expression, and plasma hormone levels. RF, restricted ration; NF, normal ration; GSI, gonadosomatic index; K, condition factor; RU, relative units; nd, not determined. In the two different comparisons (ration effect and maturation effect; highlighted by different background color), asterisks indicate significant differences (N = 5–16; Student’s t-test, * P
Shenwei jingmeng 神威警夢 Q00598_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Siwen yadiao 斯文雅調 Q00597_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Additional file 1: of Long-term functional outcome after laryngeal cancer treatment
Creators: name: Anschuetz, Lukas
name: Shelan, Mohamed
name: DemattĂŠ, Marco
name: Schubert, Adrian
name: Giger, Roland
name: Elicin, Olgun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Table S1. Multivariate model for permanent tracheostomy and feeding tube dependency. (DOCX 13 kb)
Additional file 1: of Exploiting locational and topological overlap model to identify modules in protein interaction networks
Creators: name: Cheng, Lixin
name: Liu, Pengfei
name: Wang, Dong
name: Leung, Kwong-Sak
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Table S1. Performance comparison on known protein complexes using ClusterONE. Table S2. Performance comparison on known protein complexes using MCL. (DOCX 22 kb)
Qinghe chuxi 慶賀除夕 Q00596_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Additional file 1: of The decision tool unipolar depression (DTUD): a new measure to facilitate the early identification of patients with major depressive disorder in need of highly specialized care
Creators: name: FrĂŠdĂŠrique Van Krugten
name: Goorden, Maartje
name: Balkom, Anton Van
name: Oppen, Patricia Van
name: RuhĂŠ, Henricus
name: Schaik, Digna Van
name: Brouwer, Werner
name: Roijen, Leona Hakkaart-Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: English translation of the Decision Tool Unipolar Depression (DTUD). (PDF 177 kb)
Visual-Inertial Mapping with Non-Linear Factor Recovery
Creators: name: Usenko, Vladyslav
name: Demmel, Nikolaus
name: Schubert, David
name: Stückler, Jörg
name: Cremers, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cameras and inertial measurement units are complementary sensors for ego-motion estimation and environment mapping. Their combination makes visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems more accurate and robust. For globally consistent mapping, however, combining visual and inertial information is not straightforward. To estimate the motion and geometry with a set of images large baselines are required. Because of that, most systems operate on keyframes that have large time intervals between each other. Inertial data on the other hand quickly degrades with the duration of the intervals and after several seconds of integration, it typically contains only little useful information. In this paper, we propose to extract relevant information for visual-inertial mapping from visual-inertial odometry using non-linear factor recovery. We reconstruct a set of non-linear factors that make an optimal approximation of the information on the trajectory accumulated by VIO. To obtain a globally consistent map we combine these factors with loop-closing constraints using bundle adjustment. The VIO factors make the roll and pitch angles of the global map observable, and improve the robustness and the accuracy of the mapping. In experiments on a public benchmark, we demonstrate superior performance of our method over the state-of-the-art approaches.
A 15-Kiloparsec X-Ray Disk in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1700
Creators: name: Statler, Thomas S.
name: McNamara, Brian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Chandra observations of the young elliptical galaxy NGC 1700. The X-ray isophotes are highly flattened between semimajor axes of 30 and 80 arcseconds, reaching a maximum ellipticity of approximately 0.65 at 60 arcsec (15 kpc). The surface brightness profile in the spectrally soft, flattened region is shallower than that of the starlight, indicating that the emission comes from hot gas rather than stellar sources. The flattening is so extreme that the gas cannot be in hydrostatic equilibrium in any plausible potential. A likely alternative is that the gas has significant rotational support. A simple model, representing isothermal gas distributed about a particular angular momentum, can reproduce the X-ray morphology while staying consistent with stellar kinematics. The specific angular momentum of the gas matches that of the stars in the most isophotally distorted outer part of the galaxy, and its cooling time matches the time since the last major merger. We infer that the gas was acquired in that merger, which involved a pre-existing elliptical galaxy with a hot ISM. The hot gas carried the angular momentum of the encounter, and has since gradually settled into a rotationally flattened, cooling disk.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, AASTeX 5.0. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 1: of The GC2 haplotype of the vitamin D binding protein is a risk factor for a low plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration in a Han Chinese population
Creators: name: Zhou, Ji-Chang
name: Zhu, Yumei
name: Gong, Chunmei
name: Liang, Xiongshun
name: Zhou, Xiaoying
name: Xu, Yuanfei
name: Lyu, Deliang
name: Mo, Junluan
name: Xu, Jian
name: Song, Jinping
name: Che, Xiaoling
name: Sun, Shiqiang
name: Huang, Changhua
name: Liu, Xiao-Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Plasma concentration of vitamin D binding protein at its different genotypes. Table S2. Metabolic parameters regarding glucose and lipids in male subjects grouped by the genotypes of vitamin D binding protein gene. Table S3. Partial correlation analysis on 25OHD and interested variants. Figure S1. Typical genotyping graph of 6 genotypes in vitamin D binding protein gene analyzed by molecular beacon probe-based qPCR method. (DOCX 108 kb)
Group Averaging and Refined Algebraic Quantization
Creators: name: Giulini, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the framework of Refined Algebraic Quantization and the method of Group Averaging for quantizing systems with first-class constraints. Aspects and results concerning the generality, limitations, and uniqueness of these methods are discussed.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX 2.09 using espcrc2.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the third "Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity", Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)