cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detector Design for Distributed Multichannel Radar Sensors in Colored Interference Environments
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we present a generic signal model applicable to various distributed radar setups, encompassing both phased array (PA) and MIMO radar configurations. We consider a range of waveform modulation methods, including TDM, BPM, DDM, and fast time CDM. We devise a GLRT based detector for scenarios where the interference  consists of colored noise plus a signal in a low-rank subspace and prove that the designed detector is CFAR.  We demonstrate that when the CPI time is similar for the systems, the PA radar system exhibits better detection performance than MIMO, irrespective of the waveform modulation approach adopted. However, if the CPI time of the PA system is divided to the number of transmit waveforms utilized in the MIMO radar case (to account for the time needed for a PA radar to scan  all angles), then in the presence of non-uniform interference, MIMO techniques, except TDM, surpass the performance of PA. Conversely, in cases of uniform interference, the performance of both MIMO techniques and PA are equivalent.
The long-term effects of new evidence on implicit impressions of others
Creators: name: Cone, Jeremy
name: Flaharty, Kathryn
name: Ferguson, Melissa
name: Halberstadt, Jamin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This full pre-registration includes all of the pre-registration documents, stimulus materials, and data sets for all three studies.
$Γ$-convergence analysis of a generalized $XY$ model: fractional vortices and string defects
Creators: name: Badal, Rufat
name: Cicalese, Marco
name: De Luca, Lucia
name: Ponsiglione, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose and analyze a generalized two dimensional $XY$ model, whose interaction potential has $n$ weighted wells, describing corresponding symmetries of the system. As the lattice spacing vanishes, we derive by $Γ$-convergence the discrete-to-continuum limit of this model. In the energy regime we deal with, the asymptotic ground states exhibit fractional vortices, connected by string defects. The $Γ$-limit takes into account both contributions, through a renormalized energy, depending on the configuration of fractional vortices, and a surface energy, proportional to the length of the strings. Our model describes in a simple way several topological singularities arising in Physics and Materials Science. Among them, disclinations and string defects in liquid crystals, fractional vortices and domain walls in micromagnetics, partial dislocations and stacking faults in crystal plasticity.
Additional material for Marin-Garcia & et al. (2018)-A Triple-A supply chain measurement model: validation and analysis. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. Vol 48. issue 10. DOI:10.1108/IJPDLM-06-2018-0233
Creators: name: Marin-Garcia, Juan A.
name: Alfalla-Luque, R.
name: Machuca, J.A.D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Additional material (https://figshare.com/s/0806a901a9029bb9bf3d) Marin-Garcia, J.A., Alfalla-Luque, R., Machuca, J.A.D. (2018). A Triple-A supply chain measurement model: validation and analysis, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. Vol 48. issue 10. DOI:10.1108/IJPDLM-06-2018-0233
Adaptable robotic grasping
Creators: name: Menzies, Brendan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Automation is being integrated into a wider range of tasks every year as technology increases to allow its development and growth. A machine that is able to capably perform more than one task or be able to adapt to unknown circumstances is more beneficial than a machine that cannot. This project investigates the capabilities of low cost tactile sensors being used to determine different properties of gripped objects to allow for an adaptable grasping system. These properties include shape, material type and contact area. A circuit was developed to excite the sensors and condition the sensor signal so that the information can be ready by an Arduino Uno microcontroller. Alongside the sensor research, a program was made using Matlab to control a five degrees of freedom robotic arm, with a user interface. The program was also used to control the gripper based on the sensor data. The tests performed on the sensors investigated the sensor characteristics, variable force tests, force response test, phase shift tests and object shape identification tests. With the system developed and tested, there was no strong indication that any of the force-sensing resistors or interdigitated capacitive sensors could determine object properties. With some modifications, this system could be used to investigate other types of sensors to determine their capabilities in object determination.
Safety of the Xuesaitong injection in China: results from a large-scale multicentre post-marketing surveillance study in a real-world setting
Creators: name: He, Yan
name: Gao, Xue-Min
name: Li, Lei
name: Liu, Xiao-Guang
name: Liu, Wei
name: Hong, Xue-Jun
name: Huang, Bang-Hua
name: Yang, Hong-Lian
name: Xue, Ming-Hui
name: Wu, Xiao-Jun
name: Liu, Jun-Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The safety profile of traditional Chinese medicine injections has emerged as the greatest challenge to their clinical application. The authors aimed to perform a post-marketing surveillance study in a real-world setting to evaluate the safety of the Xuesaitong (XST) injection in China. This multi-centre, post-marketing, observational study enrolled patients who received XST injections in 42 centres in China between March 2015 and November 2017. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and adverse drug events (ADEs) were collected and evaluated in a post-marketing database. Logistic regression analysis was performed to analyse the risk factors for ADRs. A total of 30,008 consecutive patients with a mean age of 62.29 ± 14.58 years were included in this post-marketing study. The incidences of ADEs and ADRs were 0.5% and 0.33%, respectively. The most common clinical manifestations were damage to skin and appendages (47.66%). There were four new kinds of ADEs found in the present monitoring study. The majority of ADRs were type B (62.62%) and occurred within 24 h after XST injection treatment. No severe ADRs were reported in this analysis. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the hospital level (OR = 0.607; 95% CI = 0.407–0.906; p = .0144), hypertension (OR = 1.979; 95% CI, 1.323–2.959; p = .0009) and solvent type (OR = 2.951; 95% CI, 1.608–5.417; p = .0005) were risk factors for ADR occurrence. XST injection is well tolerated and has a favourable safety profile for patients in a real-world setting. This post-marketing study provided further evidence of the safety of XST injections for clinical applications.
Additional material for Marin-Garcia & et al. (2018)-A Triple-A supply chain measurement model: validation and analysis. IJPDLM
Creators: name: Marin-Garcia, Juan A.
name: Alfalla-Luque, R.
name: Machuca, J.A.D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Additional material (https://figshare.com/s/0806a901a9029bb9bf3d) Marin-Garcia, J.A., Alfalla-Luque, R., Machuca, J.A.D. (2018). A Triple-A supply chain measurement model: validation and analysis, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. Vol 48. issue 10. DOI:10.1108/IJPDLM-06-2018-0233
Constraint Energy Minimizing Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method
Creators: name: Chung, Eric T.
name: Efendiev, Yalchin
name: Leung, Wing Tat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The main goal of this paper is to design multiscale basis functions within GMsFEM framework such that the convergence of method is independent of the contrast and linearly decreases with respect to mesh size if oversampling size is appropriately chosen. We would like to show a mesh-dependent convergence with a minimal number of basis functions. Our construction starts with an auxiliary multiscale space by solving local spectral problems. In auxiliary multiscale space, we select the basis functions that correspond to small (contrast-dependent) eigenvalues. These basis functions represent the channels (high-contrast features that connect the boundaries of the coarse block). Using the auxiliary space, we propose a constraint energy minimization to construct multiscale spaces. The minimization is performed in the oversampling domain, which is larger than the target coarse block. The constraints allow handling non-decaying components of the local minimizers. If the auxiliary space is correctly chosen, we show that the convergence rate is independent of the contrast (because the basis representing the channels are included in the auxiliary space) and is proportional to the coarse-mesh size (because the constrains handle non-decaying components of the local minimizers). The oversampling size weakly depends on the contrast as our analysis shows. The convergence theorem requires that channels are not aligned with the coarse edges, which hold in many applications, where the channels are oblique with respect to the coarse-mesh geometry. The numerical results confirm our theoretical results. In particular, we show that if the oversampling domain size is not sufficiently large, the errors are large. To remove the contrast-dependence of the oversampling size, we propose a modified construction for basis functions and present numerical results and the analysis.
A Submillimeter Perspective on the GOODS Fields (SUPER GOODS) - I. An Ultradeep SCUBA-2 Survey of the GOODS-N
Creators: name: Cowie, Lennox L.
name: Barger, Amy J.
name: Hsu, Li-Yen
name: Chen, Chian-Chou
name: Owen, Frazer N.
name: Wang, Wei-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this first paper in the SUPER GOODS series on powerfully star-forming galaxies in the two GOODS fields, we present a deep SCUBA-2 survey of the GOODS-N at both 850 and 450 micron (central rms noise of 0.28 mJy and 2.6 mJy, respectively). In the central region the 850 micron observations cover the GOODS-N to near the confusion limit of ~1.65 mJy, while over a wider 450 arcmin^2 region---well complemented by Herschel far-infrared imaging---they have a median 4-sigma limit of 3.5 mJy. We present >4-sigma catalogs of 186 850 micron and 31 450 micron selected sources. We use interferometric observations from the SMA and the VLA to obtain precise positions for 114 SCUBA-2 sources (28 from the SMA, all of which are also VLA sources). We present new spectroscopic redshifts and include all existing spectroscopic or photometric redshifts. We also compare redshifts estimated using the 20 cm to 850 micron and the 250 micron to 850 micron flux ratios. We show that the redshift distribution increases with increasing flux, and we parameterize the dependence. We compute the star formation history and the star formation rate (SFR) density distribution functions in various redshift intervals, finding that they reach a peak at z=2-3 before dropping to higher redshifts. We show that the number density per unit volume of SFR>500 solar mass per year galaxies measured from the SCUBA-2 sample does not change much relative to that of lower SFR galaxies from UV selected samples over z=2-5, suggesting that, apart from changes in the normalization, the shape in the number density as a function of SFR is invariant over this redshift interval.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 38 pages, 26 figures
A chiral Maxwell Demon
Creators: name: Rosselló, Guillem
name: López, Rosa
name: Platero, Gloria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of chirality on the performance of a Maxwell demon implemented in a quantum Hall bar with a localized impurity. Within a stochastic thermodynamics description we investigate the ability of such a demon to drive a current against a bias. We show that the ability of the demon to perform is directly related to its ability to extract information from the system. The key features of the proposed Maxwell demon are the topological properties of the quantum Hall system. The asymmetry of the electronic interactions felt at the localized state when the magnetic field is reversed joined to the fact that we consider energy dependent (and asymmetric) tunneling barriers that connect such state with the Hall edge modes allow the demon to properly work.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Artifacts of the Formal Specification and Verification of JDK's Identity Hash Map Implementation
Creators: name: de Boer, Martin
name: de Gow, Stijn
name: Klamroth, Jonas
name: Jung, Christian
name: Ulbrich, Mattias
name: Weigl, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This archive contains the artifacts of the paper Formal Specification and Verification of JDK's Identity Hash Map Implementation*
 by Martin de Boer, Stijn de Gouw, Jonas Klamroth, Christian Jung, Mattias Ulbrich and Alexander Weigl accepted as a regular research paper at the 17th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods 2022. Overview. The archive consists of four folders: 01_KEY_IHM -- contains the main artifact of the paper The JML-specified Java class IdentityHashMap (01_KEY_IHM/src/) The KeY proof files which hold the proof tree The used version of KeY Theorem Prover (binaries) and a script to replay the proofs. 02_JJBMC_IHM -- contains the JJBMC setup which shows the found bug (Section 5.1) 03_JUnit_IHM -- contains the JUnit test cases for the `IdentityHashMap` (Section 5.2) 04_KEY_MAPS -- contains the implementation and verification of the different hash map implementations (Section 6.1, Table 2) Please refer to the README.md files in the respective sub-folders for detailed information.
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00426
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00426, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
The onset of nanoscale dissipation in superfluid He-4 at zero temperature: the role of vortex shedding and cavitation
Creators: name: Ancilotto, Francesco
name: Barranco, Manuel
name: Pi, Marti
name: Eloranta, Jussi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional flow past an infinitely long cylinder of nanoscopic radius in superfluid He-4 at zero temperature is studied by time-dependent density functional theory. The calculations reveal two distinct critical phenomena for the onset of dissipation: 1) vortex-antivortex pair shedding from the periphery of the moving cylinder and 2) appearance of cavitation in the wake, which possesses similar geometry as observed experimentally for fast moving micrometer-scale particles in superfluid He-4. Vortex pairs with the same circulation are occasionally emitted in the form of dimers, which constitute the building blocks for the Benard-von Karman vortex street structure observed in classical turbulent fluids and Bose-Einstein condensates. The cavitation induced dissipation mechanism should be common to all superfluids that are self-bound and have a finite surface tension, which include the recently discovered self-bound droplets in ultracold Bose gases.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Trimodal grain structure enables high-strength CNT/Al-Cu-Mg composites higher ductility by powder assembly & alloying
Creators: name: Fu, Xiaowen
name: Tan, Zhanqiu
name: Min, Xinrui
name: Li, Zan
name: Yue, Zhenming
name: Fan, Genlian
name: Xiong, Ding-Bang
name: Li, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Hematology
Computational Biology

description: A grain structure tailoring strategy was implemented by powder assembly & alloying in carbon nanotube reinforced Al-Cu-Mg composites. Tensile tests revealed that composites with trimodal grain structure had an outstanding combination of strength and ductility, surpassing that of composites with simpler grain structures (e.g. bimodal and unimodal structure). An in-situ tracking of the strain distributions and computational simulations were jointly employed to provide insight into the underlying mechanisms. The results unravel that the trimodal grain structure is more prone to facilitate strain hardening and alleviate strain/stress concentrations, thereby rendering the composites high yield strength and large tensile ductility. IMPACT STATEMENT A novel trimodal grain structure was designed for the first time to achieve an excellent strength-ductility combination in CNT/Al-Cu-Mg composites.
Simplified Chinese version of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Cervical Myelopathy Evaluation Questionnaire: cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity for patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Creators: name: Yao, Min
name: Li, Zhen-jun
name: Zhu, Bin
name: Xu, Bao-ping
name: Zhu, Sen
name: Pan, Yan-fang
name: Wang, Xiao-tao
name: Tian, Zi-rui
name: Deng, Zhen
name: Ye, Jie
name: Wang, Yong-jun
name: Cui, Xue-jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This study aimed to validate the simplified Chinese version of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Cervical Myelopathy Evaluation Questionnaire (JOACMEQ) for Chinese patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM). The construct validity was conducted using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The convergent validity was based on factor loading, composite reliability (CR), and Pearson correlation coefficients (r). Internal consistency reliability was evaluated using Cronbach’s α, test–retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), and the ceiling and floor effects were also examined. A total of 168 native Chinese-speaking patients were enrolled. The CFA indicated that construct validity did not meet the preset criteria to be considered as good. Except for Q 4-1, the factor loading was higher than the standard of 0.5, and the CR values ranged from 0.70 to 0.85. Strong to moderate correlations were found between other scales and the simplified Chinese JOACMEQ. The scale showed good internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s α 0.639–0.821), and test–retest reliability (ICC 0.760–0.916). Moreover, the ceiling effect was displayed from Q1 to Q4. This study indicates that the simplified Chinese JOACMEQ is a reliable and valid measure of the functional status among Chinese patients with CSM.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe JOACMEQ was translated into the simplified Chinese and culturally adapted for Chinese-speaking patients with CSM for the first time.The simplified JOACMEQ demonstrated an excellent level of internal consistency and good test–retest reliability.The simplified Chinese JOACMEQ was reliable and valid for the measurement of the functional status among the patients with CSM. The JOACMEQ was translated into the simplified Chinese and culturally adapted for Chinese-speaking patients with CSM for the first time. The simplified JOACMEQ demonstrated an excellent level of internal consistency and good test–retest reliability. The simplified Chinese JOACMEQ was reliable and valid for the measurement of the functional status among the patients with CSM.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0129r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0129r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0129r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Computer-assisted characterization of the Rh system epitopes: Searching for the missing antigens. (hydrophobic thickness folder)
Creators: name: Estrada Juárez, Higinio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320102
subject: Haematology

description: Possible epitopes of the 3D structures of RhD, RhCE, RhCe, RhcE, Rhce and variant proteins.E=EbC=Cbe=elc=clIf you cannot view the files in the browser, download them and use Pymol (https://www.pymol.org/)
The discursive construction of treatment decisions in the management of HIV disease
Creators: name: Moore, Alison Rotha
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The quality of doctor-patient communication has been shown to influence treatment uptake, adherence and effectiveness in HIV medicine and elsewhere. Increasingly, it is considered essential that doctors and patients jointly participate in decisions concerning treatment. There is a growing body of literature describing joint decisionmaking and suggesting guidelines for its practice. Few of these studies, however, relate their descriptions of medical decision-making as a social process to the ways in which patterns of verbal interaction realize or foreclose on joint decision-making. -- Dominant models of medical decision-making view shared decision-making as a midpoint between enlightened paternalism and informed choice. Based on a corpus of HIV consultations audio-recorded in Sydney in the late 1990s, this thesis argues that it can be better modelled as a particular type of social process, which differs across a number of dimensions from other styles of medical decision-making, specifiable as contextual parameters of meaning. The thesis then identifies ways in which specific discursive practices realize these contextual parameters. -- A major component of the thesis focuses on agency, and a model is presented in the form of a socio-semantic network, drawing on work by van Leeuwen (1996) and others, which relates a range of grammatical features, not only transitivity patterns, to ways of construing social agency. The thesis then considers the way in which doctors and patients mobilise these and other resources for bringing together potentially conflicting points of view in framing and articulating treatment decisions. Here I draw on notions of mutual alignment (e.g., Goffman 1981) but expand the analysis of what is aligned to account for speakers' implicit discourse orientation, as well as more overt markers. -- Findings emphasise the relationship between representing and enacting agentive roles; the importance of doctors and patients mutually projecting each other's voices; and the variable and iterative character of shared decision-making. The research demonstrates how doctors and patients negotiate a complex, interactionally and symbolically mediated agency, and shows that patients often take the lead in developing more collaborative decision-making practice. There are still institutionally and socially determined limits to the degree of control patients may exercise within the consultation, many of which are of course well founded.
A General Theory for Bandgap Estimation in Locally Resonant Metastructures
Creators: name: Sugino, C.
name: Xia, Y.
name: Leadenham, S.
name: Ruzzene, M.
name: Erturk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Locally resonant metamaterials are characterized by bandgaps at wavelengths that are much larger than the lattice size, enabling low-frequency vibration attenuation. Typically, bandgap analyses and predictions rely on the assumption of traveling waves in an infinite medium, and do not take advantage of modal representations typically used for the analysis of the dynamic behavior of finite structures. Recently, we developed a method for understanding the locally resonant bandgap in uniform finite metamaterial beams using modal analysis. Here we extend that framework to general locally resonant metastructures with specified boundary conditions using a general operator formulation. Using this approach, along with the assumption of an infinite number of resonators tuned to the same frequency, the frequency range of the locally resonant bandgap is easily derived in closed form. Furthermore, the bandgap expression is shown to be the same regardless of the type of vibration problem under consideration, depending only on the added mass ratio and target frequency. It is shown that the number of resonators required for the bandgap to appear increases with the target frequency range, i.e. respective modal neighborhood. Furthermore, it is observed that there is an optimal, finite number of resonators which gives a bandgap that is wider than the infinite-absorber bandgap, and that the optimal number of resonators increases with target frequency and added mass ratio. As the number of resonators becomes sufficiently large, the bandgap converges to the derived infinite-absorber bandgap. The derived bandgap edge frequencies are shown to agree with results from dispersion analysis using the plane wave expansion method. Numerical and experimental investigations are performed regarding the effects of mass ratio, non-uniform spacing of resonators, and parameter variations among the resonators.
An investigation of heavy metal adsorption by hexa-dentate ligand-modified magnetic nanocomposites
Creators: name: Jitendra Kumar Sahoo
name: Aniket Kumar
name: Lipeeka Rout
name: Rath, Juhi
name: Priyabrat Dash
name: Harekrushna Sahoo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Advancement of an efficient and cost-effective method for heavy metal removal from contaminated water utilising Fe3O4–APTES–EDTA (FAE) nanocomposite, a productive reusable adsorbent, is explained in this study. The novel FAE nanocomposite was prepared and characterised using different techniques such as FTIR, XRD, TEM, EDS, BET, TGA, EDX and Zeta potential techniques. FAE is found to be a good adsorbent for Pb2+, Cd2+, Ni2+, Co2+ and Cu2+ removal with a higher adsorption capacity. The maximum adsorption capacity of Pb2+, Cd2+, Ni2+, Co2+ and Cu2+ are found to be 11.31, 13.88, 7.64, 4.86 and 78.67 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption and desorption cycle was studied for five cycles with minimal loss of efficiency.
A Submillimeter Perspective on the GOODS Fields (SUPER GOODS) - II. The High Radio Power Population in the GOODS-N
Creators: name: Barger, Amy J.
name: Cowie, Lennox L.
name: Owen, Frazer N.
name: Hsu, Li-Yen
name: Wang, Wei-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use ultradeep 20 cm data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and 850 micron data from SCUBA-2 and the Submillimeter Array of an 124 arcmin^2 region of the Chandra Deep Field-north to analyze the high radio power (P_20cm>10^31 erg s^-1 Hz^-1) population. We find that 20 (42+/-9%) of the spectroscopically identified z>0.8 sources have consistent star formation rates (SFRs) inferred from both submillimeter and radio observations, while the remaining sources have lower (mostly undetected) submillimeter fluxes, suggesting that active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity dominates the radio power in these sources. We develop a classification scheme based on the ratio of submillimeter flux to radio power versus radio power and find that it agrees with AGN and star-forming galaxy classifications from Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Our results provide support for an extremely rapid drop in the number of high SFR galaxies above about a thousand solar masses per year (Kroupa initial mass function) and for the locally determined relation between X-ray luminosity and radio power for star-forming galaxies applying at high redshifts and high radio powers. We measure far-infrared (FIR) luminosities and find that some AGNs lie on the FIR-radio correlation, while others scatter below. The AGNs that lie on the correlation appear to do so based on their emission from the AGN torus. We measure a median radio size of 1.0+/-0.3 arcsecond for the star-forming galaxies. The radio sizes of the star-forming galaxies are generally larger than those of the AGNs.
description: Published in ApJ. 10 pages, 8 figures
On multiplicity of eigenvalues and symmetry of eigenfunctions of the $p$-Laplacian
Creators: name: Audoux, Benjamin
name: Bobkov, Vladimir
name: Parini, Enea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J92, 35P30, 35A15, 35A16, 55M25, 35B06

description: We investigate multiplicity and symmetry properties of higher eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the $p$-Laplacian under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on certain symmetric domains $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. By means of topological arguments, we show how symmetries of $Ω$ help to construct subsets of $W_0^{1,p}(Ω)$ with suitably high Krasnosel'ski\uı genus. In particular, if $Ω$ is a ball $B \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, we obtain the following chain of inequalities: $$ λ_2(p;B) \leq \dots \leq λ_{N+1}(p;B) \leq λ_\ominus(p;B). $$ Here $λ_i(p;B)$ are variational eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian on $B$, and $λ_\ominus(p;B)$ is the eigenvalue which has an associated eigenfunction whose nodal set is an equatorial section of $B$. If $λ_2(p;B)=λ_\ominus(p;B)$, as it holds true for $p=2$, the result implies that the multiplicity of the second eigenvalue is at least $N$. In the case $N=2$, we can deduce that any third eigenfunction of the $p$-Laplacian on a disc is nonradial. The case of other symmetric domains and the limit cases $p=1$, $p=\infty$ are also considered.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Factors Contributing to Changes in Agricultural Commodity Prices and Trade for the United States and the World
Creators: name: Nigatu, Getachew
name: Badau, Flavius
name: Seeley, Ralph
name: Hansen, James
name: Nigatu, Getachew
name: Badau, Flavius
name: Seeley, Ralph
name: Hansen, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural commodity prices
subject: USDA Agricultural Projections
subject: trade
subject: agricultural demand responses
subject: agricultural supply responses

description: Agricultural commodity prices play an important role in the production decisions of farmers and ranchers, including planted/harvested acreage of crops or inventory of livestock and, thus, the supply of agricultural commodities. This report examines changes in global demand and supply factors that contributed to agricultural commodity price declines during 2014-19 and changes that contributed to the rising trend in prices that peaked in 2007/08 and 2011/12. Additionally, the report projects how global commodity prices and trade could change out to 2021/22 given various assumptions on key factors, such as the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and agricultural production across countries. Information on these factors and their market impacts can inform and enhance public and private decision making on issues relating to agricultural markets. Model results suggest that if GDP growth slows in developing and emerging economies by 2.3 percentage points annually (the average annual rate of decline experienced in these countries over 2007-09), commodity prices would decrease on average by 4 percent per year over 2018/19 to 2021/22. However, the volume of global commodity trade would remain relatively stable. Second, if crop production by major producing countries (including the United States) were to decline by 3 percentage points, commodity prices are projected to rise by an average of 12 percent per year over 2018/19 to 2021/22. The volume of global commodity trade is projected to fall by an average of 2 percent per year for this scenario. Third, if U.S. crop production increases by an average of 1 percentage point, average commodity prices decline by 2 percent, and the volume of global commodity trade increases by an average of less than 1 percent over 2018/19 to 2021/22.
The long-term impact of undergraduate interprofessional education on graduate interprofessional practice: A scoping review
Creators: name: McNaughton, Susan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Several recent high-quality systematic reviews have identified the importance of measuring outcomes in evaluating the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) in healthcare, but also the process- and context-dependent nature of these outcomes. This paper presents a scoping review, the objectives of which were to evaluate the evidence for the long-term impact of undergraduate IPE on graduate interprofessional practice (IPP) and to identify areas for further research in the specific context of practice-based IPE. An initial search identified 596 potentially relevant titles published between 2008 and 2016. Screening for inclusion of documented IPE with IPP evaluation reduced this to 130. Abstract reading excluded 99 studies that were not longitudinal. Full reading of the remaining 31 articles identified 23 original studies which were analysed descriptively and tabulated. The main findings were synthesised around three themes: undergraduate evidence for a long-term impact of IPE on IPP; graduate evidence for a long-term impact of IPE on IPP; and barriers to an impact of IPE on graduate IPP. Drawing on these findings, research areas likely to produce further evidence for the impact of practice-based IPE on graduate IPP are discussed, along with some suitable methodologies.
Direct transfer of pump amplitude to parametric down-converted photons
Creators: name: Anwar, Ali
name: Vaity, Pravin
name: Perumangatt, Chithrabhanu
name: Singh, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically and experimentally show that all photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) follow a transverse amplitude similar to that of the pump. This amplitude transfer from pump to SPDC is revealed in the Fourier image plane of the down-converted photons restricted by an aperture. We also observe a considerable shift of the image plane from the actual Fourier plane, when size of the aperture is gradually increased. The shift of the Fourier image of down-converted photons affects the quality of spatial mode-based projection in various quantum correlation experiments with parametric down-converted photon pairs. The results may be useful in applications of down-converted photons for quantum imaging and quantum communication.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
ARCADIA2: Project poster
Creators: name: ITI, Instiuto Tecnológico de Informática
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ARCADIA2
augmented reality
extended reality
gamification
mental health
serious games
2023

description: This document represents a poster for the project, which is part of the project's dissemination activities.

 
description: ARCADIA. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2023 with 234.533,61€. File number: IMDEEA/2023/40
Frequency-encoded photonic qubits for scalable quantum information processing
Creators: name: Lukens, Joseph M.
name: Lougovski, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the objectives toward large-scale quantum computation is the quantum interconnect: a device which uses photons to interface qubits that otherwise could not interact. However, current approaches require photons indistinguishable in frequency---a major challenge for systems experiencing different local environments or of different physical compositions altogether. Here we develop an entirely new platform which actually exploits such frequency mismatch for processing quantum information. Labeled "spectral linear optical quantum computation" (spectral LOQC), our protocol offers favorable linear scaling of optical resources and enjoys an unprecedented degree of parallelism, as an arbitrary $N$-qubit quantum gate may be performed in parallel on multiple $N$-qubit sets in the same linear optical device. Not only does spectral LOQC offer new potential for optical interconnects; it also brings the ubiquitous technology of high-speed fiber optics to bear on photonic quantum information, making wavelength-configurable and robust optical quantum systems within reach.
Smooth epitaxial copper film on sapphire surface suitable for high quality graphene growth
Creators: name: Ma, Tao
name: Ariga, Hiroko
name: Takakusagi, Satoru
name: Asakura, Kiyotaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 91205 Functional Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 91207 Metals and Alloy Materials
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials

description: Graphene, a two-dimensional material, can be grown on a metal substrate using chemical vapor deposition —this growth process is notably influenced by the crystal orientation and the roughness of the substrate surface.We prepared epitaxial Cu(111) films on sapphire substrates using thermal evaporation at various substratetemperatures and studied their crystal orientation and roughness. The well crystallized Cu(111) film with asmooth surface was obtained when the substrate was maintained at 473 K during the deposition. High qualitygraphene with few intrinsic defects was grown on this Cu film.
IN03100 Alutväva Pillar Inscription
Creators: name: Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03100
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Alutväva
Alutwewa

description: IN03100 Alutväva Pillar Inscription - Transcript and Translation Source: Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 37. Alutväva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 229-235.
Johanna Spyri an Emil Perthes
Creators: name: Spyri, Johanna
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1888

description: Textincipit: "Hochverehrter Herr! / Vielen Dank / für die zugesandten Frei- / Exemplare, die sehr begehrt wa- / ren, was mich nur freuen kann. / [...]"
Compatibility of booster seats and vehicles in the U.S. market
Creators: name: Bing, Julie A.
name: Agnew, Amanda M.
name: Bolte, John H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze booster and rear vehicle seat dimensions to identify the most frequent compatibility problems. Methods: Measurements were collected from 40 high-back and backless boosters and 95 left rear and center rear row seating positions in 50 modern vehicles. Dimensions were compared for 3,800 booster/vehicle seat combinations. For validation and estimation of tolerance and correction factors, 72 booster installations were physically completed and compared with measurement-based compatibility predictions. Dimensions were also compared to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) volumetric envelopes of forward-facing child restraints and boosters. Results: Seat belt buckles in outboard positions accommodated the width of boosters better than center positions (success rates of 85.4 and 34.7%, respectively). Adequate head restraint clearance occurred in 71.9 to 77.2% of combinations, depending on the booster's head support setting. Booster recline angles aligned properly with vehicle seat cushion angles in 71.5% of combinations. In cases of poor angle alignment, booster angles were more obtuse than the vehicle seat angles 97.7% of the time. Head restraint interference exacerbated angle alignment issues. Data indicate success rates above 90% for boosters being fully supported by the length of the seat cushion and for adequate height clearance with the vehicle roofline. Comparison to ISO envelopes indicates that most boosters on the U.S. market are taller and angled more obtusely than ISO target envelopes. Conclusions: This study quantifies some of the common interferences between boosters and vehicles that may complicate booster usage. Data are useful for design and to prioritize specific problem areas.
Trends in taxonomic and functional diversity over succession in tropical secondary forests
Creators: name: Arnold, Haley
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biodiversity
subject: Forest ecology
subject: Cacao
subject: Trinidad
subject: Secondary succession
subject: Agroforestry
subject: People and nature
subject: Tropical forest
subject: Bird diversity
subject: Tree diversity
subject: Plant diversity
subject: Biodiversity conservation
subject: Cocoa
subject: QH109.T8A8
subject: Biodiversity--Trinidad and Tobago
subject: Forest ecology--Trinidad and Tobago
subject: Cacao growers--Trinidad and Tobago

description: Biodiverse tropical forests are declining rapidly, due in part to the appropriation of natural land for human use. There is an urgent need to better understand how biodiversity changes in response to this landscape transformation, and to find conservation solutions that support both people and nature. Cacao farming, a valuable source of agricultural revenue in many tropical countries, can lead to a mosaic of both active and abandoned agroforests. These abandoned agroforests undergo secondary succession and have the potential to be important reservoirs of biodiversity. To evaluate this potential, I assessed the biodiversity of active cacao agroforests, abandoned agroforests, and primary forest on the tropical island of Trinidad. I surveyed tree, ground vegetation, epiphyte, and bird assemblages, and computed taxonomic and functional diversity. I further asked whether there are generalisable patterns of biodiversity change over succession across taxa, and how my results fit within the wider narrative of ecological succession theory and research. I found that taxonomic and functional alpha-diversity in all assemblages were mostly either maintained throughout succession, or recovered quickly across taxa. There were, however, substantial changes in taxonomic and functional composition (beta- diversity) over succession, with patterns of biodiversity change largely uncorrelated across taxa. Overall, there was little congruence between expectations based on theory and existing empirical research, and the results of my study. This outcome emphasises the need to deepen our understanding of successional processes across biomes, starting points of succession, and taxa. My research also highlights that, while primary forests contain more specialist species, actively cultivated cacao agroforests and young secondary forests in Trinidad are remarkably biodiverse and jointly contribute to supporting regional gamma diversity. These results place cacao agroforests within a people and nature framework, and demonstrate that human-altered habitats can be important reservoirs of tropical biodiversity.