cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An investigation into : displaying sustainability
Creators: name: Shabehpour, Nazafarin
name: Wang, Hsuan Yu (Allen)
name: Yen, Alan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This report presents the design of the display boards that will be installed in the new SUB. The design is separated into three different parts. The LED energy data display system is a simple system that shows the energy usage of the new SUB; this system will compare and express the data in a way so that it has maximum impact on the SUB users’ awareness of sustainability. The choice of televisions compares three different types television: LCD, LED, and plasma; the comparison judges different aspects of a television including contrast, colour, motion, viewing angle, and pricing. The content of the televisions suggests the programs that are going to be played on the televisions in the new SUB: a virtual tour, sustainability tip of the week, and tips for special events or holidays. Each section of this report is evaluated using the triple-­‐bottom – line assessment, which includes the evaluation of social, environmental,and economical aspects. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Apenesia simplex Correa & Azevedo 2006
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia simplex

description: Apenesia simplex Corrêa & Azevedo, 2006: 447
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2055654)
 Holotype: ♂ (# MZSP 55654), BRASIL, E[spírito] S[anto], SantaTeresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica], S[an]ta Lúcia, 642 m, 19°58’25.5”S 40°31’44.6”W, 08.iv.2001, Varredura, pt. 31, C.O. Azevedo e equipe col.
 Paratype: 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00743), same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on page 330, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in the Haldane-Gap Antiferromagnet Ni(C_2_H_8_N_2_)_2_NO_2_(ClO_4_)
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Shoji
name: Hori, Hiromitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new theory is proposed to interpret nuclear spin-lattice relaxation-time (T_1_) measurements on the spin-1 quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet Ni(C_2_H_8_N_2_)_2_NO_2_(ClO_4_) (NENP). While Sagi and Affleck pioneeringly discussed this subject in terms of field-theoretical languages, there is no theoretical attempt yet to explicitly simulate the novel observations of 1/T_1_ reported by Fujiwara et al.. By means of modified spin waves, we solve the minimum of 1/T_1_ as a function of an applied field, pending for the past decade.
description: to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73, No. 4 (2004)
Adrien-Nicolas de Burges
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
T$_{d}$ to 1T$^{\prime}$ structural phase transition in WTe$_{2}$ Weyl semimetal
Creators: name: Tao, Yu
name: Schneeloch, John A.
name: Aczel, Adam A.
name: Louca, Despina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic neutron scattering on a single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction measurements were carried out to investigate how the crystal structure evolves as a function of temperature in the Weyl semimetal WTe$_{2}$. A sharp transition from the low-temperature orthorhombic phase (T$_{d}$) to the high-temperature monoclinic phase (1T$^{\prime}$) was observed at ambient pressure in the single crystal near $\sim$565 K. Unlike in MoTe$_{2}$, the solid-solid transition from T$_{d}$ to 1T$^{\prime}$ occurs without the cell doubling of the intermediate T$_{d}^{*}$ phase with AABB (or ABBA) layer stacking. In powders however, the thermal transition from the T$_{d}$ to the 1T$^{\prime}$ phase is broadened and a two phase coexistence was observed until 700K, well above the structural transition.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Physics of Gravitational Interaction: Geometry of Space or Quantum Field in Space?
Creators: name: Baryshev, Yurij
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravity theory is the basis of modern cosmological models. Thirring-Feynman's tensor field approach to gravitation is an alternative to General Relativity (GR). Though Field Gravity (FG) approach is still developing subject, it opens new understanding of gravitational interaction, stimulates novel experiments on the nature of gravity and gives possibility to construct new cosmological models in Minkowski space. According to FG, the universal gravity force is caused by exchange of gravitons - the quanta of gravity field. Energy of this field is well-defined and excludes the singularity. All classical relativistic effects are the same as in GR, though there are new effects, such as free fall of rotating bodies, scalar gravitational radiation, surface of relativistic compact bodies, which may be tested experimentally. The intrinsic scalar (spin 0) part of gravity field corresponds to "antigravity" and only together with the pure tensor (spin 2) part gives the usual Newtonian force. Laboratory and astrophysical experiments for testing new predictions of FG, will be performed in near future. In particular observations with bar and interferometric detectors, like Explorer, Nautilus, LIGO and VIRGO, will check the predicted scalar gravitational waves from supernova explosions.
description: 9 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the 1st Crisis in Cosmology Conference, AIP proceedings series
Additional file 3 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Summary of changes in life span and statistical analysis in adult flies ubiquitously expressing wild type or mutant PARIS.
Testing Radiatively-Inefficient Accretion Flow Theory: an XMM-Newton Observation of NGC 3998
Creators: name: Ptak, A.
name: Terashima, Y.
name: Ho, L. C.
name: Quataert, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a 10 ks XMM-Newton observation of NGC 3998, a ``type-I'' LINER galaxy. Our goal is to test the extent to which radiatively-inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) models and/or scaled-down AGN models are consistent with the observed properties of NGC 3998. The upper-limit for narrow Fe-K emission derived from a combined fit of the XMM-Newton and BeppoSAX spectra is 25 eV, which is one of the strictest limits to date for any AGN. This significantly rules out Fe-K emission as is expected to be observed in typical Seyfert 1 galaxies. The lack of any reflection features suggests that any optically-thick, geometrically-thin accretion disk must be truncated, probably at a radius of order 100-300 R_s. RIAF models fit the UV to X-ray spectral energy distribution of NGC 3998 reasonably well. In these models the mid-IR flux also constrains the emission from any outer thin disk component that might be present. The UV to X-ray SED is also consistent with a Comptonized thin disk with a very low accretion rate, in which case the lack of Fe-K emission may be due to an ionized accretion disk. Accretion models in general do not account for the observed radio flux of NGC 3998, and the radio flux may be due to a jet. Recent jet models may also be consistent with the nuclear fluxes of NGC 3998 in general, including the X-ray, optical/UV and mid-IR bands. We also derive nuclear fluxes using archival HST WFPC2 data to constrain the SED of NGC 3998. We discuss a possible OM U band and USNO-B detection of the NGC 3998 ULX.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 13 pages and 5 figures formatted with emulateapj. Version with black-and-white only plots available at http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~ptak/papers
title: Osoby z niepełnosprawnościami i starsze w przestrzeni miejskiej
Creators: name: Gałkowski, Jacek
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 1, 91-96
Dissomphalus osseus Alencar & Azevedo 2008
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Dissomphalus
Dissomphalus osseus

description: Dissomphalus osseus Alencar & Azevedo, 2008: 12
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2001600)
 Holotype: ♂ (# MZSP 01600), BRASIL, AL [agoas] Quebrangulo, Res [erva] Biol [ógica da] Pedra Talhada, 11-14.ix.2002, Malaise, Penteado-Dias & eq[uipe] col.
 Paratype: 1 ♂ (# MZSP 01601) same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on page 335, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Spin-orbit terms in multi-subband electron systems: A bridge between bulk and two-dimensional Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Kavokin, K. V.
name: Portnoi, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the spin-orbit terms in multi-subband quasi-two-dimensional electron systems, and how they descend from the bulk Hamiltonian of the conduction band. Measurements of spin-orbit terms in one subband alone are shown to give incomplete information on the spin-orbit Hamiltonian of the system. They should be complemented by measurements of inter-subband spin-orbit matrix elements. Tuning electron energy levels with a quantizing magnetic field is proposed as an experimental approach to this problem.
description: Typos noticed in the published version have been corrected and several references added. Published in the special issue of Semiconductors in memory of V.I. Perel
On the existence of cocycle-invariant Borel probability measures
Creators: name: Miller, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E15, 28A05 (Primary)

description: We show that a natural generalization of compressibility is the sole obstruction to the existence of a cocycle-invariant Borel probability measure.
description: To appear in Ergodic Theory in Dynamical Systems
A note concering the relationship between the Adelson's Argyle Illusion and Cornsweet edges
Creators: name: Flynn, Oliver J.
name: Shapiro, Arthur
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Adelson’s Argyle illusion and the Craik-O’Brien-Cornsweet illusion are two noteworthy brightness illusions. In the Argyle illusion two identical gray areas are perceived to have radically different brightness levels when they are surrounded by a pattern similar to an argyle clothing design. The Craik-O’Brien-Cornsweet (C-O-C) illusion shows two identical gray areas appear different brightness when they are separated by a “Cornsweet edge.” The C-O-C illusion is remarkable for the large distances over which the effect holds even though the Cornsweet edge is relatively narrow. Here we draw a connection between these two illusions by extending the columns of the Argyle illusion to produce what we refer to as long range Argyles (LoRAs). We show that LoRAs have many similar properties to Cornsweet edges and they are capable of producing brightness effects over a large spatial range. It therefore seems that part of the strength of the Argyle illusion arises from a combination of standard simultaneous brightness effects and edge effects like those produced by the C-O-C illusion. Lastly, we discuss a curious difference between the effects of LoRAs and Cornsweet edges.
The study of SU(3) super Yang-Mills quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Trzetrzelewski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the hamiltonian study of super Yang-Mills quantum mechanics (SYMQM). The recently introduced method based on Fock space representation allows to analyze SYMQM numerically. The detailed analysis for SYMQM in two dimensions for SU(3) group is given.
description: Based on talks delivered at XLV'th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland June 3-12, 2005, and XXIII'rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 25-30 July, 2005; 9 pages, 4 figures, some typos corrected. I thank M. B. Halpern for bringing to my attention Ref. 8
A note concering the relationship between the Adelson's Argyle Illusion and Cornsweet edges
Creators: name: Flynn, Oliver J.
name: Shapiro, Arthur
Publisher: name: Serbian Psychological Association
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Adelson’s Argyle illusion and the Craik-O’Brien-Cornsweet illusion are two noteworthy brightness illusions. In the Argyle illusion two identical gray areas are perceived to have radically different brightness levels when they are surrounded by a pattern similar to an argyle clothing design. The Craik-O’Brien-Cornsweet (C-O-C) illusion shows two identical gray areas appear different brightness when they are separated by a “Cornsweet edge.” The C-O-C illusion is remarkable for the large distances over which the effect holds even though the Cornsweet edge is relatively narrow. Here we draw a connection between these two illusions by extending the columns of the Argyle illusion to produce what we refer to as long range Argyles (LoRAs). We show that LoRAs have many similar properties to Cornsweet edges and they are capable of producing brightness effects over a large spatial range. It therefore seems that part of the strength of the Argyle illusion arises from a combination of standard simultaneous brightness effects and edge effects like those produced by the C-O-C illusion. Lastly, we discuss a curious difference between the effects of LoRAs and Cornsweet edges.
The Statistical Properties of Galaxies Containing ULXs
Creators: name: Ptak, A.
name: Colbert, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical analysis of the properties of galaxies containing ultraluminous X-ray objects (ULXs). Our primary goal is to establish the fraction of galaxies containing a ULX as a function of ULX luminosity. Our sample is based on ROSAT HRI observations of galaxies. We find that ~ 12% of galaxies contain at least one ULX with L_X > 10^39 erg/s and ~ 1% of galaxies contain at least one ULX with L_X > 10^40 erg/s. These ULX frequencies are lower limits since ROSAT HRI observation would miss absorbed ULXs (i.e., with N_H >~ 10^21 cm^-2) and those within ~ 10" of the nucleus (due to the positional error circle of the ROSAT HRI). The Hubble type distribution of galaxies with a ULX differs significantly from the distribution of types for nearby RC3 galaxies, but does not differ significantly from the galaxy type distribution of galaxies observed by the HRI in general. We find no increase in the mean FIR luminosity or FIR / K band luminosity ratio for galaxies with a ULX relative to galaxies observed by the HRI in general, however this result is also most likely biased by the soft bandpass of the HRI and the relatively low number of high SFR galaxies observed by the HRI with enough sensitivity to detect a ULX.
description: Accepted by Apj. 5 pages with 4 figures formatted using emulateapj. Version with just b/w figures available at http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~ptak/papers
Metharpinia Schellenberg 1931
Creators: name: ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phoxocephalidae
Metharpinia

description: Metharpinia Schellenberg
 Metharpinia Schellenberg, 1931: 65; Barnard, 1980: 115–117; Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 622.
description: Published as part of ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M., 2003, A new species of Phoxocephalidae and some other records of sand-burrowing Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, pp. 1029-1057 in Journal of Natural History 37 (9) on page 1030, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110102467, http://zenodo.org/record/4675151
Additional file 2 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. List of primers used in this study.
Kitaoka's Tomato : two simple explanations based on information in the stimulus
Creators: name: Shapiro, Arthur
name: Hedjar, Laysa
name: Dixon, Erica L.
name: Kitaoka, Akiyoshi
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Kitaoka’s Tomato is a color illusion in which a semitransparent blue-green field is placed on top of a red object (a tomato). The tomato appears red even though the pixels would appear green if viewed in isolation. We show that this phenomenon can be explained by a high-pass filter and by histogram equalization. The results suggest that this illusion does not require complex inferences about color constancy; rather, the tomato’s red is available in the physical stimulus at the appropriate spatial scale and dynamic range.
Really Cool Stars and the Star Formation History at the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Blum, R. D.
name: Ramirez, Solange V.
name: Sellgren, K.
name: Olsen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present R=550 to 1200 near infrared H and K spectra for a magnitude limited sample of 79 asymptotic giant branch and cool supergiant stars in the central ~ 5 pc (diameter) of the Galaxy. We use a set of similar spectra obtained for solar neighborhood stars with known Teff and Mbol that is in the same range as the Galactic center (GC) sample to derive Teff and Mbol for the GC sample. We then construct the Hertzsprung--Russell (HRD) diagram for the GC sample. Using an automated maximum likelihood routine, we derive a coarse star formation history of the GC. We find (1) roughly 75% of the stars formed in the central few pc are older than 5 Gyr; (2) the star formation rate (SFR) is variable over time, with a roughly 4 times higher star formation rate in the last 100 Myr compared to the average SFR; (3) our model can only match dynamical limits on the total mass of stars formed by limiting the IMF to masses above 0.7 M$_\odot$. This could be a signature of mass segregation or of the bias toward massive star formation from the unique star formation conditions in the GC; (4) blue supergiants account for 12 % of the total sample observed, and the ratio of red to blue supergiants is roughly 1.5; (5) models with isochrones with [Fe/H] = 0.0 over all ages fit the stars in our HRD better than models with lower [Fe/H] in the oldest age bins, consistent with the finding of Ramirez et al. (2000) that stars with ages between 10 Myr and 1 Gyr have solar [Fe/H].
description: ApJ, accepted. Latex, 65 pages including 19 figures
Additional file 1 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of Drosophila melanogaster lines used in this study.
p-adic properties of division polynomials and elliptic divisibility sequences
Creators: name: Silverman, Joseph H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G07 (Primary); 11D61, 14G20, 14H52 (Secondary)

description: For a given point P in the group of K-rational points E(K) of an elliptic curve, we consider the sequence of values (F_1(P),F_2(P),F_3(P),...) of the division polynomials of E at P. If K is a finite field, we prove that the sequence is periodic. If K/Q_p is a local field, we prove (under certain hypotheses) that there is a power q=p^e so that for all m > 0, the limit as k goes to infinity of F_{mq^{k}}(P) exists in K and is algebraic over Q(E). We apply this result to prove an analogous p-adic limit and algebraicity result for elliptic divisibility sequences.
description: 30 pages
A Fourier (k-) space design approach for controllable photonic band and localization states in aperiodic lattices
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Subhasish
name: Parker, Michael C.
name: Mears, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a systematic study of photonic bandgap engineering using aperiodic lattices (ALs). Up to now ALs have tended to be defined by specific formulae (e.g. Fibonacci, Cantor), and theories have neglected other useful ALs along with the vast majority of non-useful (random) ALs. Here, we present a practical and efficient Fourier space-based general theory to identify all those ALs having useful band properties, which are characterized by well-defined Fourier (i.e. lattice momentum) components. Direct control of field localization comes via control of the Parseval strength competition between the different Fourier components characterizing a lattice. Real-space optimization of ALs tends to be computationally demanding. However, via our Fourier space-based simulated annealing inverse optimization algorithm, we efficiently tailor the relative strength of the AL Fourier components for precise control of photonic band and localization properties.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Microphoxus Barnard 1960
Creators: name: ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phoxocephalidae
Microphoxus

description: Microphoxus Barnard
 Microphoxus Barnard, 1960: 291; Barnard, 1980: 105; Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 622.
description: Published as part of ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M., 2003, A new species of Phoxocephalidae and some other records of sand-burrowing Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, pp. 1029-1057 in Journal of Natural History 37 (9) on page 1045, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110102467, http://zenodo.org/record/4675151
Excitation Induced Dephasing in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Schneider, H. C.
name: Chow, W. W.
name: Koch, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum kinetic theory is used to compute excitation induced dephasing in semiconductor quantum dots due to the Coulomb interaction with a continuum of states, such as a quantum well or a wetting layer. It is shown that a frequency dependent broadening together with nonlinear resonance shifts are needed for a microscopic explanation of the excitation induced dephasing in such a system, and that excitation induced dephasing for a quantum-dot excitonic resonance is different from quantum-well and bulk excitons.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Extensively revised text, two figures changed
Additional file 8 of Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis- development and evaluation of the QUIPA tool
Creators: name: Pek Ling Teo
name: Hinman, Rana S.
name: Thorlene Egerton
name: Krysia S. Dziedzic
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Bennell, Kim L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Pass rates for individual quality indicators reported by patients at Week 1.
Serological diagnostics of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs based on capsid protein (ORF2 genotype 3) expressed in planta – sensitivity and specificity
Creators: name: Takova, Katerina
name: Tsvetoslav Koynarski
name: Toneva, Valentina
name: Zahmanova, Gergana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a lesser-known hepatitis virus, but its worldwide spread is doubtless and has increased recent years. Zoonotic spread of HEV, mainly due to genotype (gt) 3, has emerged in developed countries in the past decade. The current study has shown for the first time that domestic pigs in Bulgaria are widely infected with HEV. There is a need for a method for the cost-effective detection of the HEV infection and production of HEV immunogenic proteins that can be used as diagnostic antigens for the serological tests. Also, in this study we have compared the results from a commercial ELISA and an in-house ELISA test based on HEV open reading frame (ORF) 2 protein produced in planta, the sensitivity and the specify of the tests were evaluated. The development of a HEV diagnostic kit based on plant-derived ORF2 capsid protein is our goal and this will help to reduce the cost of such a kit and to enable diagnoses of HEV in developing countries.
Additional file 9 of Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis- development and evaluation of the QUIPA tool
Creators: name: Pek Ling Teo
name: Hinman, Rana S.
name: Thorlene Egerton
name: Krysia S. Dziedzic
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Bennell, Kim L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Quality indicator example for statistical prevalence.
Fuegiphoxus Barnard and Barnard
Creators: name: ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phoxocephalidae
Fuegiphoxus

description: Fuegiphoxus Barnard and Barnard
 Fuegiphoxus Barnard and Barnard, 1980: 849–853; Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 610.
description: Published as part of ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M., 2003, A new species of Phoxocephalidae and some other records of sand-burrowing Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, pp. 1029-1057 in Journal of Natural History 37 (9) on page 1052, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110102467, http://zenodo.org/record/4675151
Visualising the structure of architectural open spaces based on shape analysis
Creators: name: Rana, Sanjay
name: Batty, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.5;I.4.8;I.5.2

description: This paper proposes the application of some well known two-dimensional geometrical shape descriptors for the visualisation of the structure of architectural open spaces. The paper demonstrates the use of visibility measures such as distance to obstacles and amount of visible space to calculate shape descriptors such as convexity and skeleton of the open space. The aim of the paper is to indicate a simple, objective and quantifiable approach to understand the structure of open spaces otherwise impossible due to the complex construction of built structures.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Kitaoka's Tomato : two simple explanations based on information in the stimulus
Creators: name: Shapiro, Arthur
name: Hedjar, Laysa
name: Dixon, Erica L.
name: Kitaoka, Akiyoshi
Publisher: name: i-Perception
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Kitaoka’s Tomato is a color illusion in which a semitransparent blue-green field is placed on top of a red object (a tomato). The tomato appears red even though the pixels would appear green if viewed in isolation. We show that this phenomenon can be explained by a high-pass filter and by histogram equalization. The results suggest that this illusion does not require complex inferences about color constancy; rather, the tomato’s red is available in the physical stimulus at the appropriate spatial scale and dynamic range.
Identification of perturbative ambiguity canceled against bion
Creators: name: Morikawa, Okuto
name: Takaura, Hiromasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was conjectured that bions, semi-classical objects found in a compactified spacetime, are responsible for the cancellation of the so-called renormalon ambiguities. Contrary to the conjecture, we argue that the ambiguity due to the bion corresponds to the proliferation of Feynman diagrams. We point out that the amplitudes of almost all Feynman diagrams are enhanced due to modifications of the infrared structure of perturbation theory upon an $S^1$ compactification and twisted boundary conditions. Our findings clarify the role of the semi-classical object in resurgence structure, which has been a controversial issue in recent years.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physics Letters B
Perturbative Determination of Mass Dependent $O(a)$ Improvement Coefficients for the Vector and Axial Vector Currents with a Relativistic Heavy Quark Action
Creators: name: Aoki, Sinya
name: Kayaba, Yasuhisa
name: Kuramashi, Yoshinobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a perturbative determination of mass dependent renormalization factors and $O(a)$ improvement coefficients for the vector and axial vector currents with a relativistic heavy quark action, which we have designed to control $m_Qa$ errors by extending the on-shell $O(a)$ improvement program to the case of $m_Q \gg Λ_{\rm QCD}$ with $m_Q$ the heavy quark mass. We discuss what kind of improvement operators are required for the heavy-heavy and the heavy-light cases under the condition that the Euclidean rotational symmetry is not retained anymore because of the $m_Qa$ corrections. Our calculation is performed employing the ordinary perturbation theory with the fictitious gluon mass as an infrared regulator. We show that all the improvement coefficients are determined free from infrared divergences. Results of the renormalization factors and the improvement coefficients are presented as a function of $m_Q a$ for various improved gauge actions as well as the plaquette action.
description: 39 pages, 12 figures as eps-file
First report of Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid in symptomatic peach orchards in Southern Bulgaria
Creators: name: Hadjieva, Nikol
name: Antonova, Antoaneta
name: Apostolova, Elena
name: Nacheva, Lilyana
name: Milusheva, Snezhana
name: Gozmanova, Mariyana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Viroids are plant infectious agents whose genome is represented by a small (246 to 401 bp), single-stranded, circular, non-coding RNA capable of autonomous replication in susceptible hosts. Peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) causes a wide variety of peach symptoms, some of which are barely noticeable, while others such as mosaic or chlorotic spots on leaves or fruit tissue, even more severe like albino phenotype (calico peach) are well distinguishable. Changes in the appearance of the fruit and the reduction in the lifespan of peach trees cause serious economic losses. In the present work, we study the occurence of PLMVd in peach orchards, located in Plovdiv region. In two successive vegetations (2019-2020) leaf samples from 4-10-years-old peach trees of cvs. ‘Royal Gem’ and ‘Gergana’, manifesting chlorosis or mosaic on leaves and/or pale areas on the skin of ripe fruits, symptoms potentially caused by PLMVd, were selected for RT-PCR analysis. PLMVd specific amplification product of approximately 348 bp was obtained from cv. Royal Gem. The amplicon was directly sequenced and presence of PLMVd was proved. Buds of PLMVd infected peach were grafted on the indicator GF 305, peach cultivar “Summerset” (Prunus persica) and myrobalan (Prunus cerasifera). Prior to grafting, the experimental plants were serologically tested by ELISA for the presence of ACLSV, PPV, PNRSV and PDV. Four weeks post inoculation, the grafted plants developed a PLMVd-specific phenotype. The presence of PLMVd in the inoculated plants was confirmed. To our knowledge, this is the first report of PLMVd on peach in Bulgaria.
Impacts of Adaptation to Climate Change on farmers’ income in the Savana Region of Togo
Creators: name: Mikémina, Pilo
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Wünscher, Tobias
name: Mikémina, Pilo
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Wünscher, Tobias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: adaptation
subject: bio-economic model
subject: Savana region of Togo

description: West African farmers are among those most likely to suffer from climate change, partly due to the agro-climatic characteristics of the regional system and to their limited scope for coping with shocks. Climate change adaptation has thus been touted as a necessary path for rural poverty reduction and development in the region. Yet, do farm households who implemented climate change adaptation earn higher income compare to those who did not? We attempt to answer this question in the context of crop and livestock income in the Savana region of Togo. To that end, we build a bio-economic model based on farm household model theory. Using survey data collected from a representative sample of 450 savanna farm households of the agricultural year 2014/2015, we identify farm-household types through cluster analysis and apply them in the simulation model. From the simulation results, we conclude that at their current costs, soil and water conservation techniques and irrigation practives can on average provide higher income even under climate change, since they are able to mitigate at least 63 % of the impacts of climate change on crop and livestock income. By contrast, reducing the quantity of applied fertilizer, mentioned as an adaptation option by farmers, increases the farm households’ vulnerability to climate change. The policy message we draw from this study is to encourage Soil and Water Conservation techniques and sustainable irrigation as sound strategies for higher income under climate change in the region. These are “no regret options” with a positive impact on livelihoods while preserving the resource base.
$D_s$ Asymmetry in Photoproduction
Creators: name: Hao, Gang
name: Li, Lin
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By adopting two models of strange and antistrange quark distributions inside nucleon, the light-cone meson-baryon fluctuation model and the effective chiral quark model, we calculate the $D_s^+ - D_s^-$ asymmetry in photoproduction in the framework of heavy-quark recombination mechanism. We find that the effect of asymmetry of strange sea to the $D_s$ asymmetry is considerable and depending on the different models. Therefore, we expect that with the further study in electroproduction, e.g. at HERA and CEBAF, the experimental measurements on the $D_s^+ - D_s^-$ asymmetry may impose a strong restriction on the strange-antistrange distribution asymmetry models.
description: 4 pages, talk presented by I. Caprini at the International Conference on QCD and Hadronic Physics, June 16-20 2005, Beijing
Ipanema Barnard and Thomas
Creators: name: ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Ipanemidae
Ipanema

description: Ipanema Barnard and Thomas
 Ipanema Barnard and Thomas, 1988: 617.
description: Published as part of ALONSO DE PINA, GLORIA M., 2003, A new species of Phoxocephalidae and some other records of sand-burrowing Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, pp. 1029-1057 in Journal of Natural History 37 (9) on page 1054, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110102467, http://zenodo.org/record/4675151
From agricultural to economic growth: Targeting investments across Africa
Creators: name: Getahun, Tigabu
name: Baumüller, Heike
name: Nigussie, Yalemzewd
name: Getahun, Tigabu
name: Baumüller, Heike
name: Nigussie, Yalemzewd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Granger causality
subject: Agricultural growth
subject: Economic growth
subject: Investment return
subject: Africa

description: This paper examines whether investment in the agriculture and food sectors in Africa significantly increases overall economic growth and, hence, reduces food and nutrition insecurity. To this end, the study examines the causal link between agricultural growth, food production, quality of governance, and overall economic growth using panel data compiled from 44 African countries for a 53-year period from 1961 to 2014. The estimation result from the fully modified least squares, the panel cointegration, and Granger causality tests suggest that agricultural growth, government commitment, and quality of governance Granger causes overall economic growth. The study also identifies the 10 African countries where investment in the agriculture and food sectors is expected to yield the highest returns and the 10 African countries having the lowest returns in terms of reducing food insecurity and poverty. The result indicates that Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, and Sierra Leone are the top 10 African countries where such an investment is expected to yield the highest returns. Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Libya, Mauritania, and Somalia are the bottom 10 countries where such investment is expected to yield the lowest return.
Supply-Power-Constrained Cable Capacity Maximization Using Multi-Layer Neural Networks
Creators: name: Cho, Junho
name: Chandrasekhar, Sethumadhavan
name: Sula, Erixhen
name: Olsson, Samuel
name: Burrows, Ellsworth
name: Raybon, Greg
name: Ryf, Roland
name: Fontaine, Nicolas
name: Antona, Jean-Christophe
name: Grubb, Steve
name: Winzer, Peter
name: Chraplyvy, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We experimentally solve the problem of maximizing capacity under a total supply power constraint in a massively parallel submarine cable context, i.e., for a spatially uncoupled system in which fiber Kerr nonlinearity is not a dominant limitation. By using multi-layer neural networks trained with extensive measurement data acquired from a 12-span 744-km optical fiber link as an accurate digital twin of the true optical system, we experimentally maximize fiber capacity with respect to the transmit signal's spectral power distribution based on a gradient-descent algorithm. By observing convergence to approximately the same maximum capacity and power distribution for almost arbitrary initial conditions, we conjecture that the capacity surface is a concave function of the transmit signal power distribution. We then demonstrate that eliminating gain flattening filters (GFFs) from the optical amplifiers results in substantial capacity gains per Watt of electrical supply power compared to a conventional system that contains GFFs.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.02050
title: Multi-Agent Learning for Security and Sustainability
Creators: name: Klima, R
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: This thesis studies the application of multi-agent learning in complex domains where safety and sustainability are crucial. We target some of the main obstacles in the deployment of multi-agent learning techniques in such domains. These obstacles consist of modelling complex environments with multi-agent interaction, designing robust learning processes and modelling adversarial agents. The main goal of using modern multi-agent learning methods is to improve the effectiveness of behaviour in such domains, and hence increase sustainability and security. This thesis investigates three complex real-world domains: space debris removal, critical domains with risky states and spatial security domains such as illegal rhino poaching. We first tackle the challenge of modelling a complex multi-agent environment. The focus is on the space debris removal problem, which poses a major threat to the sustainability of earth orbit. We develop a high-fidelity space debris simulator that allows us to simulate the future evolution of the space debris environment. Using the data from the simulator we propose a surrogate model, which enables fast evaluation of different strategies chosen by the space actors. We then analyse the dynamics of strategic decision making among multiple space actors, comparing different models of agent interaction: static vs. dynamic and centralised vs. decentralised. The outcome of our work can help future decision makers to design debris removal strategies, and consequently mitigate the threat of space debris. Next, we study how we can design a robust learning process in critical domains with risky states, where destabilisation of local components can lead to severe impact on the whole network. We propose a novel robust operator κ which can be combined with reinforcement learning methods, leading to learning safe policies, mitigating the threat of external attack, or failure in the system. Finally, we investigate the challenge of learning an effective behaviour while facing adversarial attackers in spatial security domains such as illegal rhino poaching. We assume that such attackers can be occasionally observed. Our approach consists of combining Bayesian inference with temporal difference learning, in order to build a model of the attacker behaviour. Our method can effectively use the partial observability of the attacker’s location and approximate the performance of a full observability case. This thesis therefore presents novel methods and tackles several important obstacles in deploying multi-agent learning algorithms in the real-world, which further narrows the reality gap between theoretical models and real-world applications.
Sleep, Health Outcomes and Body Weight (SHOW) study: a measurement burst design study on sleep and risk factors for obesity in black emerging adults in North Carolina, USA
Creators: name: Exford, TJ
name: Edwards, Kathleen E
name: Wideman, Laurie
name: Adams, William M
name: Propper, Cathi B
name: Pickett, Stephanie
name: Clark, Krista G
name: McNeil, Jessica
name: McCoy, Thomas P
name: Hemphill, Michael A
Publisher: name: BMJ
Year: 2024

description:
INTRODUCTION: Black emerging adults (18-28 years) have the highest risk of short sleep duration and obesity. This increased risk may be partly explained by greater stress levels, which may result from race-related stress (racial discrimination and heightened race-related vigilance) or living in more disadvantaged home and neighbourhood environments. Insufficient sleep may also impact obesity risk via several weight-related mechanisms including energy balance, appetite and food reward, cortisol profiles and hydration status. This paper describes the rationale, design and methods for the Sleep, Health Outcomes and Body Weight (SHOW) study. This study aims to prospectively assess the effects of sleep, race-related stress and home/neighbourhood environments on weight-related mechanisms and obesity markers (body weight, waist circumference and fat mass) in 150 black emerging adults. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The SHOW study follows a measurement burst design that includes 3, 7-day data collection bursts (baseline, 6-month and 12-month follow-ups). Sleep is measured with three methods: sleep diary, actigraphy and polysomnography. Energy balance over 7 days is based on resting and postprandial energy expenditure measured via indirect calorimetry, physical activity via accelerometry and self-reported and ad libitum energy intake methods. Self-reported methods and blood biomarkers assess fasting and postprandial appetite profiles and a behavioural-choice task measures food reward. Cortisol awakening response and diurnal cortisol profiles over 3 days are assessed via saliva samples and chronic cortisol exposure via a hair sample. Hydration markers are assessed with 24-hour urine collection over 3 days and fasting blood biomarkers. Race-related stress is self-reported over 7 days. Home and neighbourhood environments (via the Windshield Survey) is observer assessed. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval was granted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Institutional Review Board. Study findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, presentations at scientific meetings and reports, briefs/infographics for lay and community audiences.