cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extreme weather events, household and maternal characteristics, and children's nutrition in the Philippines : policy and program implications
Creators: name: Clark, Erlidia
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Evidence suggests that extreme weather events (EWEs) are occurring more frequently and will continue to increase in frequency and intensity with global environmental change, compromising food security and leading to malnutrition. The Philippines is particularly vulnerable because seasonal occurrence of tropical cyclones and flooding are part of the country's way of life, and food insecurity and malnutrition remains endemic. In 2009 an EWE, Tropical Storm (TS) Ketsana and Typhoon (TY) Parma, caused a flooding disaster in Luzon, which affected around 9 million people and cost nearly US[dollar] 4.5 billion. The heavy losses to crops and livelihood threatened household food and nutrition security, and the health of a large number of Filipinos. In this thesis, TS Ketsana/TY Parma is used as a case study through which I aim to understand the complexity of undernutrition as an outcome of an EWE which may reflect the changing climate. Using multidisciplinary conceptual frameworks and combined use of quantitative and qualitative methods, the thesis presents the empirical results that tested an adapted UNICEF conceptual framework, to investigate the prevalence and significant immediate and underlying determinants of child nutritional status (CNS) after an EWE, and the role of women and the community in nutrition preservation in disasters. The predictors of underweight were child's age, number of siblings and water source, while the determinants of stunting were child health status, maternal education, water source and flood level. Household food security remains the most important predictor of CNS. In low-resourced settings frequented by EWEs and flooding, the disaster experience brought short-term protection from immediate food insecurity and poor weight gain through relief assistance and maternal care. Mothers and their households used several coping strategies to protect themselves and their children. However, when resources and coping were stretched, the occurrence of child stunting post-flood is to be expected. At the community level, there is a need for more thoughtful evidenced-based policies and programs to preserve child nutrition. Pre-disaster conditions and investment in public health initiatives-incorporating food and nutrition security, livelihood support and gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction measures-need to be strengthened to prepare for the future challenges of a changing climate. Keywords extreme weather events, floods, women, malnutrition, Philippines
Impact of laser polarization on q-exponential photon tails in non-linear Compton scattering
Creators: name: Kampfer, B.
name: Titov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-linear Compton scattering of ultra-relativistic electrons traversing high-intensity laser pulses generates also hard photons. These photon high-energy tails are considered for parameters in reach at the forthcoming experiments LUXE and E-320. We consider the invariant differential cross sections $d σ/ du$ between the IR and UV regions and analyze the impact of the laser polarization and find q-deformed exponential shapes. (The variable $u$ is the light-cone momentum-transfer from initial electron to final photon.) Optical laser pulses of various durations are compared with the monochromatic laser beam model which uncovers the laser intensity parameter in the range $ξ= 1 \cdots 10$. Some supplementary information is provided for the azimuthal final-electron/photon distributions and the photon energy-differential cross sections.
Additional file 10 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Evolution of cardiovascular of SOFA score in both groups
Aspects of Carbonyl Cluster Chemistry
Creators: name: Randles, Michael David
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: QD305.A6 R36 2010
subject: Carbonyl compounds
subject: Metal carbonyls

description: Research in cluster chemistry has been driven not only by the intrinsic interest in these closed polyhedral molecules, but also by their relevance to catalysis, surface science, chemical physics, optics, magnetism and electrochemistry. High-nuclearity clusters are of particular interest, because a transition from molecular to bulk metallic behaviour may be observed on increasing the cluster nuclearity size. However, general synthetic routes into such species are not widely known. Chapter 1 focuses on the synthesis of high-nuclearity ruthenium clusters and the reactivity of such species. The physical properties of these clusters are examined using a range of measurements, including cyclic voltammetry, IR and UV-vis-NIR spectroelectrochemistry, EPR and magnetic susceptibility studies. The chemistry of the high-nuclearity ruthenium cluster [RU{u2081}{u2080}({u03BC}-H)({u03BC}{u2086}-C)(CO){u2082}{u2084}]{u207B} is investigated in Chapter 2. The reactivity of this cluster towards a range of two electron donors is examined and the reaction kinetics of this reaction is investigated. Detailed spectroelectrochemical studies of the related clusters [RU{u2081}{u2080}({u03BC}-H)({u03BC}{u2086}-C)(CO){u2082}{u2084}]{u207B}, [RU{u2081}{u2080}({u03BC}{u2086}-C)(CO){u2082}{u2084}]{u00B2}{u207B} and [RU10({u03BC}-H)({u03BC}{u2086}-C)(CO){u2082}{u2083}(PPh{u2083})]{u207B} are also conducted. The final chapter (Chapter 3) covers the synthesis of a number of pentanuclear, hexanuclear and octanuclear mixed-metal clusters. The electrochemical behaviour is examined by cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemistry and the linear and nonlinear optical properties of these clusters are assessed.
Nucleosynthesis of elements between Sr and Ag in neutron- and proton-rich neutrino-driven winds
Creators: name: Bliss, J.
name: Arcones, A.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
The Mass Assembly Histories of Galaxies of Various Morphologies in the GOODS Fields
Creators: name: Bundy, K.
name: Ellis, R. S.
name: Conselice, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the growth of stellar mass with cosmic time partitioned according to galaxy morphology. Using a well-defined catalog of 2150 galaxies based, in part, on archival data in the GOODS fields, we assign morphological types in three broad classes (Ellipticals, Spirals, Peculiar/Irregulars) to a limit of z_AB=22.5 and make the resulting catalog publicly available. We combine redshift information, optical photometry from the GOODS catalog and deep K-band imaging to assign stellar masses. We find little evolution in the form of the galaxy stellar mass function from z~1 to z=0, especially at the high mass end where our results are most robust. Although the population of massive galaxies is relatively well established at z~1, its morphological mix continues to change, with an increasing proportion of early-type galaxies at later times. By constructing type-dependent stellar mass functions, we show that in each of three redshift intervals, E/S0's dominate the higher mass population, while spirals are favored at lower masses. This transition occurs at a stellar mass of 2--3 times 10^{10} Msun at z~0.3 (similar to local studies) but there is evidence that the relevant mass scale moves to higher mass at earlier epochs. Such evolution may represent the morphological extension of the ``downsizing'' phenomenon, in which the most massive galaxies stop forming stars first, with lower mass galaxies becoming quiescent later. We infer that more massive galaxies evolve into spheroidal systems at earlier times, and that this morphological transformation may only be completed 1--2 Gyr after the galaxies emerge from their active star forming phase. We discuss several lines of evidence suggesting that merging may play a key role in generating this pattern of evolution.
description: 24 pages, 1 table, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Sexual selection and the evolution of morality
Creators: name: Fraser, Benjamin James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: BJ1311.f73 2010
subject: Sexual ethics
subject: Ethics, Evolutionary
subject: Moral development
subject: Psychology and philosophy

description: In this thesis I discuss the Sexual Selection for Morality (SSM) hypothesis, which seeks to explain the evolution of morality in terms of sexual selection and costly signalling. The first part of the thesis puts SSM on the table for critical dissection. My starting point is the work on sexual selection, costly signalling, and morality by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller. I clarify and elaborate upon Miller's views by drawing on recent work in signalling theory. The result is a clearer and more nuanced version of SSM. In the second part of the thesis, I evaluate the empirical evidence for this revised version of SSM. I first clarify the predictions of the hypothesis, then survey relevant literature from biology, psychology, anthropology, and economics. Findings from these fields combine to support the claim that moral behaviour plays a signalling role. However, it appears likely that such signals are aimed at many receivers in addition to potential mates, including potential social allies as well as sexual and social rivals. SSM should thus be seen as part of a more general signalling-based account of morality. The third and final part of the thesis considers the metaethical implications of the truth of SSM. A relatively recent arrival on the metaethical scene is the Darwinian debunker, who claims that an evolutionary explanation of morality is, broadly speaking, undermining of morality. A prominent line of reply has been to claim that the fact (if it be one) that human morality is an adaptation shaped by selection over many millennia provides reason to think that our faculty for making moral judgements is likely to mostly produce true judgements. I call this the reliabilist reply. If SSM is true, I argue, then not all the conditions required for the success of the reliabilist reply are met. In particular, what I call the tracking condition fails to be met. The truth of SSM thus counts against the plausibility of the reliabilist reply and lends support to Darwinian debunkings of morality.
Rastro-DM: data mining with a trail
Creators: name: de Castro, Marcus Vinicius Borela
name: Balaniuk, Remis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a methodology for documenting data mining (DM) projects, Rastro-DM (Trail Data Mining), with a focus not on the model that is generated, but on the processes behind its construction, in order to leave a trail (Rastro in Portuguese) of planned actions, training completed, results obtained, and lessons learned. The proposed practices are complementary to structuring methodologies of DM, such as CRISP-DM, which establish a methodological and paradigmatic framework for the DM process. The application of best practices and their benefits is illustrated in a project called 'Cladop' that was created for the classification of PDF documents associated with the investigative process of damages to the Brazilian Federal Public Treasury. Building the Rastro-DM kit in the context of a project is a small step that can lead to an institutional leap to be achieved by sharing and using the trail across the enterprise.
description: It was published in the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts Journal n. 145 on 2021 (https://revista.tcu.gov.br/ojs/index.php/RTCU/article/view/1733)
Controlling Photoluminescence Spectra of hBN Color Centers by Selective Phonon-Assisted Excitation: A Theoretical Proposal
Creators: name: Groll, Daniel
name: Hahn, Thilo
name: Machnikowski, Paweł
name: Wigger, Daniel
name: Kuhn, Tilmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) show stable single photon emission even at room temperature, making these systems a promising candidate for quantum information applications. Besides this remarkable property, also their interaction with longitudinal optical (LO) phonons is quite unique because they lead to dominant phonon sidebands (PSBs), well separated from the zero phonon line (ZPL). In this work we utilize this clear spectral separation to theoretically investigate the influence of phonon decay dynamics on time-dependent photoluminescence (PL) signals. Our simulations show, that by using tailored optical excitation schemes it is possible to create a superposition between the two LO modes, leading to a phonon quantum beat that manifests in the time-dependent PL signal.
Additional file 1 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Randomization window and blood sampling
Using reinforcement learning to improve drone-based inference of greenhouse gas fluxes
Creators: name: van Hove, Alouette
name: Aalstad, Kristoffer
name: Pirk, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate mapping of greenhouse gas fluxes at the Earth's surface is essential for the validation and calibration of climate models. In this study, we present a framework for surface flux estimation with drones. Our approach uses data assimilation (DA) to infer fluxes from drone-based observations, and reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize the drone's sampling strategy. Herein, we demonstrate that a RL-trained drone can quantify a CO2 hotspot more accurately than a drone sampling along a predefined flight path that traverses the emission plume. We find that information-based reward functions can match the performance of an error-based reward function that quantifies the difference between the estimated surface flux and the true value. Reward functions based on information gain and information entropy can motivate actions that increase the drone's confidence in its updated belief, without requiring knowledge of the true surface flux. These findings provide valuable insights for further development of the framework for the mapping of more complex surface flux fields.
String theory, quantum mechanics and noncommutative geometry: a new perspective on the gravitational dynamics of D0-branes
Creators: name: Singh, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We do not know the symmetries underlying string theory. Furthermore, there must exist an inherently quantum, and spacetime independent, formulation of this theory. Independent of string theory, there should exist a description of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a classical spacetime manifold. We propose such a formulation of quantum mechanics, based on noncommutative geometry. This description reduces to standard quantum mechanics, whenever an external classical spacetime is available. However, near the Planck energy scale, self-gravity effects modify the Schrodinger equation to the non-linear Doebner-Goldin equation. Remarkably, this non-linear equation also arises in the quantum dynamics of D0-branes. This suggests that the noncommutative quantum dynamics introduced here is actually the quantum gravitational dynamics of D0-branes, and that automorphism invariance is a symmetry of string theory.
description: 6 pages. This essay received an honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2006
Gogny-HFB convergence analysis and Beyond-Mean-Field correlations
Creators: name: Arzhanov, A.
name: Rodriguez, T. R.
name: Martinez Pinedo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Propagating Wigner-Negative States Generated from the Steady-State Emission of a Superconducting Qubit
Creators: name: Lu, Yong
name: Strandberg, Ingrid
name: Quijandría, Fernando
name: Johansson, Göran
name: Gasparinetti, Simone
name: Delsing, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate the steady-state generation of propagating Wigner-negative states from a continuously driven superconducting qubit. We reconstruct the Wigner function of the radiation emitted into propagating modes defined by their temporal envelopes, using digital filtering. For an optimized temporal filter, we observe a large Wigner logarithmic negativity, in excess of 0.08, in agreement with theory. The fidelity between the theoretical predictions and the states generated experimentally is up to 99%, reaching state-of-the-art realizations in the microwave frequency domain. Our results provide a new way to generate and control nonclassical states, and may enable promising applications such as quantum networks and quantum computation based on waveguide quantum electrodynamics.
description: 15
Report on Website Structure of the Easy Reading project
Creators: name: Heumader, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Project report

description: This document gives an overview on the website structure of the EasyReading project, which can be accessed using this URL: www.easyreading.eu. The website was made with WordPress and is hosted on a webserver located in Linz, Austria operated by the JKU.
 The design of the webpage is responsive, scaling on multiple devices. To guarantee the accessibility of the EasyReading website the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) of the W3C have been followed to the level of AA.
Modeling of austenite decomposition in an AISI 4140 steel
Creators: name: Chipalkatti, Jayprakash
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The final mechanical properties and also the distribution of residual stresses in a heat treated product, depend upon the various microstructural constituents. In heat treatment operations, in order to predict the final properties, it has become increasingly important to be able to predict the final microstructure distribution for a given thermal history. Mathematical models of microstructure prediction are a useful tool for this purpose as they eliminate the need for experimentation. The characterization of the kinetics of austenite decomposition to equilibrium and/or non equilibrium phases in a low alloy steel, such as AISI 4140, by performing isothermal transformation experiments is time consuming and hence not cost effective. Further, to generate meaningful and accurate data with respect to the various stages of the progress of the austenite decomposition, many experiments are required. Kirkaldy's model, involving the transformation kinetics of the various possible reaction products, provides a very useful tool in this regard as this model is based on only the chemical composition and the austenite grain size of the steel. By observing certain limitations of this model, especially for low alloy steels, Li and co-workers have proposed modifications to this model. The Kirkaldy model along with the model proposed by Li and co-workers is assessed in the present work. The purpose of this study was to characterize the austenite decomposition kinetics under continuous cooling conditions in a AISI 4140 steel by applying Kirkaldy's model and Li's model and to test the results of these models by perforating GLEEBLE controlled continuous cooling experiments on this steel. The validity of the Kirkaldy model and the Li model was tested in two different ways. First, the calculated response was compared with the published TTT diagram for a given chemistry and y grain size for an AISI 4140 steel. The calculated response was subsequently tested using the experimentally measured CCT data for a different AISI 4140 steel. As the characterization of continuous cooling kinetics requires knowledge of the phase diagram, a mathematical model based on thermodynamic equations is used to derive the phase diagram for this steel. The model is based on the equality of chemical potentials for each of the alloying elements in the phases that are in equilibrium. The results of this model are then used in modeling the isothermal and continuous cooling transformation kinetics. It was observed that Kirkaldy's and Li's models both yield a reasonably good prediction of the TTT curve for this steel, when compared to a published TTT diagram for this steel. Under continuous cooling conditions, the microstructures predicted by the Li model are closer to the experimentally observed microstructures than are the Kirkaldy model predictions.
Recovering the 3D UUV Position using UAV Imagery in Shallow-Water Environments
Creators: name: Đuraš, Antun
name: Sukno, Matija
name: Palunko, Ivana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose a novel approach aimed at recovering the 3D position of an UUV from UAV imagery in shallow-water environments. Through combination of UAV and UUV measurements, we show that our method can be utilized as an accurate and cost-effective alternative when compared to acoustic sensing methods, typically required to obtain ground truth information in underwater localization problems. Furthermore, our approach allows for a seamless conversion to geo-referenced coordinates which can be utilized for navigation purposes. To validate our method, we present the results with data collected through a simulation environment and field experiments, demonstrating the ability to successfully recover the UUV position with sub-meter accuracy.
Fission barriers of r-process nuclei using the BCPM energy density functional
Creators: name: Giuliani, S. A.
name: Martinez Pinedo, G.
name: Robledo, L. M.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Phase transitions of bosonic fractional quantum Hall effect in topological flat bands
Creators: name: Zeng, Tian-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase transitions of bosonic $ν=1/2$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in different topological lattice models under the interplay of onsite periodic potential and Hubbard repulsion. Through exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods, we demonstrate that the many-body ground state undergoes a continuous phase transition between bosonic FQH liquid and a trivial (Mott) insulator induced by the periodic potential, characterized by the smooth crossover of energy and entanglement entropy. When the Hubbard repulsion decreases, we claim that this bosonic FQH liquid would turn into a superfluid state with direct energy level crossing and a discontinuous leap of off-diagonal long-range order.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; revised version
Multi-scale attention-based instance segmentation for measuring crystals with large size variation
Creators: name: Neubauer, Theresa
name: Berg, Astrid
name: Wimmer, Maria
name: Lenis, Dimitrios
name: Major, David
name: Winter, Philip Matthias
name: De Paolis, Gaia Romana
name: Novotny, Johannes
name: Lüftner, Daniel
name: Reinharter, Katja
name: Bühler, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.10; I.4.6

description: Quantitative measurement of crystals in high-resolution images allows for important insights into underlying material characteristics. Deep learning has shown great progress in vision-based automatic crystal size measurement, but current instance segmentation methods reach their limits with images that have large variation in crystal size or hard to detect crystal boundaries. Even small image segmentation errors, such as incorrectly fused or separated segments, can significantly lower the accuracy of the measured results. Instead of improving the existing pixel-wise boundary segmentation methods, we propose to use an instance-based segmentation method, which gives more robust segmentation results to improve measurement accuracy. Our novel method enhances flow maps with a size-aware multi-scale attention module. The attention module adaptively fuses information from multiple scales and focuses on the most relevant scale for each segmented image area. We demonstrate that our proposed attention fusion strategy outperforms state-of-the-art instance and boundary segmentation methods, as well as simple average fusion of multi-scale predictions. We evaluate our method on a refractory raw material dataset of high-resolution images with large variation in crystal size and show that our model can be used to calculate the crystal size more accurately than existing methods.
description: has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Spin Conductance in one-dimensional Spin-Phonon systems
Creators: name: Louis, Kim
name: Zotos, Xenophon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the spin conductance of the one dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg and XY model coupled to phonons. We apply an approach based on the Stochastic Series Expansion (Quantum Monte Carlo) method to evaluate the conductance for a variety of phonon dispersions and values of spin-phonon coupling. From our numerical simulations and analytical arguments, we derive several scaling laws for the conductance.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Action quantum speed limits
Creators: name: O'Connor, Eoin
name: Guarnieri, Giacomo
name: Campbell, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce action quantum speed limits (QSLs) as a family of bounds on the minimal time to connect two states that, unlike the usual geometric approach, crucially depend on how the path is traversed, i.e. on the instantaneous speed. The two approaches provide consistent bounds when the instantaneous speed is optimized along a fixed path and we demonstrate this explicitly for the case of a thermalizing qubit employing techniques from optimal control theory. In addition, we critically analyze the interpretation of QSLs based on different choices of metric establishing that, in general, these open system QSL times provide an indication of optimality with respect to the geodesic path, rather than necessarily being indicative of an achievable minimal time.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Close to published version
Additional file 2 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Baseline characteristics of patients assessed for eligibility
Thermalization of Hadrons via Hagedorn States
Creators: name: Beitel, M.
name: Gallmeister, K.
name: Greiner, Carsten
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
New Measurement of BR(D+ ->Rho0 Mu+ Nu) / BR(D+ ->K*0 Mu+ Nu) Branching Ratio
Creators: name: The FOCUS Collaboration
name: Link, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data collected by the FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we present a new measurement of the charm semileptonic branching ratio BR(D+ -> rho0 mu+ nu)/BR(D+ -> K*0 mu+ nu). From a sample of 320+-44 and 11372+-161 D+ -> rho0 mu+ nu and D+ -> K*0 mu+ nu events respectively, we find BR(D+ -> rho0 mu+ nu)/BR(D+ -> K*0 mu+ nu)=0.041+-0.006(stat)+-0.004(syst).
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; References added; Accepted Version
Oxidation kinetics of lead sulfide
Creators: name: Constantineau, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This project is a theoretical and experimental study of the oxidation kinetics of lead sulfide. Experimental intrinsic kinetic data applicable to the pre-ignition oxidation of lead sulfide particles has been undertaken to enable a better understanding of flash smelting processes through modelling. A thorough literature review has shown that the knowledge needed for modelling the oxidation of lead sulfide is limited even though numerous studies have already been done on the subject. The main objectives of this project were to obtain the activation energy of the oxidation of lead sulfide in the presence of sulfur dioxide as well as the reaction order with respect to the oxygen and sulfur dioxide concentrations. Experiments were performed to verify the effect of temperature, oxygen and sulfur dioxide concentrations on the reaction rates of lead sulfide oxidation. Between 250 and 450°C, under an atmosphere of 20.4% O2 and 2.7% SO2, the observed activation energy is 36.8 +/- 5.6 kJ/mol. The reaction order with respect to the oxygen concentration is fractional. Sulfur dioxide does not seem to have an effect on the initial oxidation rates. In all cases, lead sulfate was the oxidation product. The observations can be explained by a reaction mechanism that includes adsorption and ionic diffusion through the sulfate layer. A new type of diagram describing gas-solid reactions has been created. These diagrams unite thermodynamics and kinetics into a new tool that should be useful for many metallurgical and chemical systems. These diagrams are created from predominance diagrams by applying a mathematical transformation derived from kinetic equations. The diagrams, called modified predominance diagrams, predict the reaction product for given kinetics conditions and atmospheric compositions. The approach presented to modify the predominance diagrams can also be used for hydrometallurgical systems to modify Eh-pH diagrams. Their applicability for this purpose, has, however, not been verified. [Scientific formulae used in this abstract could not be reproduced.]
Finite temperature spectrum at the symmetry-breaking linear-zigzag transition
Creators: name: Kiethe, Jan
name: Timm, Lars
name: Landa, Haggai
name: Kalincev, Dimitri
name: Morigi, Giovanna
name: Mehlstäubler, Tanja E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the normal mode spectrum of a trapped ion chain at the symmetry-breaking linear to zigzag transition and at finite temperatures. For this purpose we modulate the amplitude of the Doppler cooling laser in order to excite and measure mode oscillations. The expected mode softening at the critical point, a signature of the second-order transition, is not observed. Numerical simulations show that this is mainly due to the finite temperature of the chain. Inspection of the trajectories suggest that the thermal shifts of the normal-mode spectrum can be understood by the ions collectively jumping between the two ground state configurations of the symmetry broken phase. We develop an effective analytical model, which allows us to reproduce the low-frequency spectrum as a function of the temperature and close to the transition point. In this model the frequency shift of the soft mode is due to the anharmonic coupling with the high frequency modes of the spectrum, acting as an averaged effective thermal environment. Our study could prove important for implementing ground-state laser cooling close to the critical point.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 4 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Time-course of serum IL6 levels
Website and Online Communities
Creators: name: Heumader, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Project report

description: The document gives information about the website and the online communities of the Easy Reading project and where to find them.
 Website: URL: www.easyreading.eu Online Communities: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EasyReading_EU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EasyReadingEU/
Simple Analytic Models of Gravitational Collapse
Creators: name: Adler, R. J.
name: Bjorken, J. D.
name: Chen, P.
name: Liu, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most general relativity textbooks devote considerable space to the simplest example of a black hole containing a singularity, the Schwarzschild geometry. However only a few discuss the dynamical process of gravitational collapse, by which black holes and singularities form. We present here two types of analytic models for this process, which we believe are the simplest available; the first involves collapsing spherical shells of light, analyzed mainly in Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates; the second involves collapsing spheres filled with a perfect fluid, analyzed mainly in Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates. Our main goal is pedagogical simplicity and algebraic completeness, but we also present some results that we believe are new, such as the collapse of a light shell in Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates.
description: Submitted to American Journal of Physics
Additional file 3 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Proportion of febrile patients
Nano-assembled open quantum dot nanotube devices
Creators: name: Althuon, Tim
name: Cubaynes, Tino
name: Auer, Aljoscha
name: Sürgers, Christoph
name: Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pristine suspended carbon nanotube is a near ideal environment to host long-lived quantum states. For this reason, they have been used as the core element of qubits and to explore numerous condensed matter physics phenomena. One of the most advanced technique to realize complex carbon nanotube based quantum circuits relies on a mechanical integration of the nanotube into the circuit. Despite the high-quality and complexity of the fabricated circuits, the range of possible experiments was limited to the closed quantum dot regime. Here, by engineering a transparent metal-nanotube interface, we developed a technique that overcomes this limitation. We reliably reach the open quantum dot regime as demonstrated by measurements of Fabry-Perot interferences and Kondo physics in multiple devices. A circuit-nanotube alignment precision of +/-200nm is demonstrated. Our technique allows to envision experiments requiring the combination of complex circuits and strongly coupled carbon nanotubes such as the realization of carbon nanotube superconducting qubits or flux-mediated optomechanics experiments.
Laguerre reconstruction of the correlation function on Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scales
Creators: name: Nikakhtar, Farnik
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
name: Zehavi, Idit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The baryon acoustic oscillation feature can be used as a standard cosmological ruler. In practice, for sub-percent level accuracy on the distance scale, it must be standardized. The physical reason why is understood, so we use this to develop an algorithm which improves the estimated scale. The algorithm exploits the fact that, over the range of scales where the initial correlation function is well-fit by a polynomial, the leading order effects which distort the length of the ruler can be accounted for analytically. Tests of the method in numerical simulations show that it provides simple and fast reconstruction of the full shape of the BAO feature, as well as sub-percent determination of the linear point in the correlation function of biased tracers with minimal assumptions about the underlying cosmological model or the nature of the observed tracers. Our results also suggest that, for least squares estimators of the correlation function, half-integer generalized Laguerre functions are a particularly useful choice.
description: Accepted for publication in PRD, 16 pages, 17 figures
Weed Density and Distribution Estimation for Precision Agriculture using Semi-Supervised Learning
Creators: name: Shorewala, Shantam
name: Ashfaque, Armaan
name: R, Sidharth
name: Verma, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Uncontrolled growth of weeds can severely affect the crop yield and quality. Unrestricted use of herbicide for weed removal alters biodiversity and cause environmental pollution. Instead, identifying weed-infested regions can aid selective chemical treatment of these regions. Advances in analyzing farm images have resulted in solutions to identify weed plants. However, a majority of these approaches are based on supervised learning methods which requires huge amount of manually annotated images. As a result, these supervised approaches are economically infeasible for the individual farmer because of the wide variety of plant species being cultivated. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based semi-supervised approach for robust estimation of weed density and distribution across farmlands using only limited color images acquired from autonomous robots. This weed density and distribution can be useful in a site-specific weed management system for selective treatment of infected areas using autonomous robots. In this work, the foreground vegetation pixels containing crops and weeds are first identified using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based unsupervised segmentation. Subsequently, the weed infected regions are identified using a fine-tuned CNN, eliminating the need for designing hand-crafted features. The approach is validated on two datasets of different crop/weed species (1) Crop Weed Field Image Dataset (CWFID), which consists of carrot plant images and the (2) Sugar Beets dataset. The proposed method is able to localize weed-infested regions a maximum recall of 0.99 and estimate weed density with a maximum accuracy of 82.13%. Hence, the proposed approach is shown to generalize to different plant species without the need for extensive labeled data.
description: Included few details about the dataset. This paper has been accepted in IEEE Access. Citation: S. Shorewala, A. Ashfaque, S. R and U. Verma, "Weed Density and Distribution Estimation for Precision Agriculture using Semi-Supervised Learning," in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3057912
Additional file 5 of Impact of rewarming rate on interleukin-6 levels in patients with shockable cardiac arrest receiving targeted temperature management at 33 °C: the ISOCRATE pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Lascarrou, Jean-Baptiste
name: Guichard, Elie
name: Reignier, Jean
name: Le Gouge, Amélie
name: Pouplet, Caroline
name: Martin, Stéphanie
name: Lacherade, Jean-Claude
name: Colin, Gwenhael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Time-course of the other biomarkers
MetaEuk – sensitive, high-throughput gene discovery and annotation for large-scale eukaryotic metagenomics
Creators: name: Karin, Eli Levy
name: Mirdita, Milot
name: Soeding, Johannes
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Metagenomics is revolutionizing the study of microbes by allowing us to investigate the 99% of uncultivatable organisms through direct sequencing. Unicellular eukaryotes play essential roles in microbial communities as chief predators, decomposers, phototrophs, bacterial hosts, symbionts and parasites. Investigating their roles is therefore of great interest to ecology, biotechnology, medicine, and evolution. However, the generally lower sequencing coverage, their complex gene architectures, and a lack of eukaryote-specific experimental and computational procedures have kept them on the sidelines of metagenomics. MetaEuk is a toolkit for high-throughput, reference-based discovery and annotation of protein-coding genes in eukaryotic metagenomic contigs. It performs fast searches with 6-frame-translated fragments covering all possible exons and optimally combines matches into multi-exon proteins. We used a benchmark of seven annotated genomes to show that MetaEuk is highly sensitive even under conditions of low sequence similarity to the reference database. To demonstrate MetaEuk’s power to discover novel eukaryotic proteins in large-scale metagenomics data, we assembled contigs from 912 samples of the Tara Oceans project. MetaEuk predicted millions of protein-coding genes in <64 hours on twenty 16-core servers. Most of which are diverged from known proteins and originate from sparsely sampled eukaryotic supergroups. The MetaEuk source code is released as open-source (GPLv3) software: https://github.com/soedinglab/metaeuk.
An Alternative Interpretation for the Moduli Fields of the Cosmology Associated to Type IIB Supergravity with Fluxes
Creators: name: Matos, Tonatiuh
name: Luevano, Jose-Ruben
name: Garcia-Compean, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We start with a particular cosmological model derived from type IIB supergravity theory with fluxes, where usually the dilaton is interpreted as a Quintessence field. Instead of that, in this letter we interpret the dilaton as the dark matter of the universe. With this alternative interpretation we find that in this supergravity model gives a similar evolution and structure formation of the universe compared with the $Λ$CDM model in the linear regime of fluctuations of the structure formation. Some free parameters of the theory are fixed using the present cosmological observations. In the non-linear regimen there are some differences between the type IIB supergravity theory with the traditional CDM paradigm. The supergravity theory predicts the formation of galaxies earlier than the CDM and there is no density cusp in the center of galaxies. These differences can distinguish both models and can give a distinctive feature to the phenomenology of the cosmology coming from superstring theory with fluxes.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, references added, minor modifications, typos corrected. Version accepted for publication in IJMPA