cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elicitation of verbs in "Creation of Animals"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-171011-08: Elicitation of verbs in the "Creation of Animals" story (file VP-080309-03), focused on items that are not in the Hupa Language Dictionary.
Morphology of active deformable 3D droplets
Creators: name: Ruske, Liam J.
name: Yeomans, Julia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically investigate the morphology and disclination line dynamics of active nematic droplets in three dimensions. Although our model only incorporates the simplest possible form of achiral active stress, active nematic droplets display an unprecedented range of complex morphologies. For extensile activity finger-like protrusions grow at points where disclination lines intersect the droplet surface. For contractile activity, however, the activity field drives cup-shaped droplet invagination, run-and-tumble motion or the formation of surface wrinkles. This diversity of behaviour is explained in terms of an interplay between active anchoring, active flows and the dynamics of the motile dislocation lines. We discuss our findings in the light of biological processes such as morphogenesis, collective cancer invasion and the shape control of biomembranes, suggesting that some biological systems may share the same underlying mechanisms as active nematic droplets.
Establishing Earth's Minimoon Population through Characterization of Asteroid 2020 CD$_3$
Creators: name: Fedorets, Grigori
name: Micheli, Marco
name: Jedicke, Robert
name: Naidu, Shantanu P.
name: Farnocchia, Davide
name: Granvik, Mikael
name: Moskovitz, Nicholas
name: Schwamb, Megan E.
name: Weryk, Robert
name: Wierzchoś, Kacper
name: Christensen, Eric
name: Pruyne, Theodore
name: Bottke, William F.
name: Ye, Quanzhi
name: Wainscoat, Richard
name: Devogèle, Maxime
name: Buchanan, Laura E.
name: Djupvik, Anlaug Amanda
name: Faes, Daniel M.
name: Föhring, Dora
name: Roediger, Joel
name: Seccull, Tom
name: Smith, Adam B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our detailed characterization of Earth's second known temporary natural satellite, or minimoon, asteroid 2020 CD3. An artificial origin can be ruled out based on its area-to-mass ratio and broadband photometry, which suggest that it is a silicate asteroid belonging to the S or V complex in asteroid taxonomy. The discovery of 2020 CD3 allows for the first time a comparison between known minimoons and theoretical models of their expected physical and dynamical properties. The estimated diameter of 1.2+0.4-0.2 m and geocentric capture approximately a decade after the first known minimoon, 2006 RH120, are in agreement with theoretical predictions. The capture duration of 2020 CD3 of at least 2.7 yr is unexpectedly long compared to the simulation average, but it is in agreement with simulated minimoons that have close lunar encounters, providing additional support for the orbital models. 2020 CD3's atypical rotation period, significantly longer than theoretical predictions, suggests that our understanding of meter-scale asteroids needs revision. More discoveries and a detailed characterization of the population can be expected with the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
description: 22 pages, 6 Figures, 5 Tables, to appear in the Astronomical Journal
Sattler, Dorothea, Wenz, Gunther: Das kirchliche Amt in apostolischer Nachfolge
Creators: name: Heller, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 59 Nr. 1 (2010): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 59, Heft 1
Nonlinear Localized Modes in Two-Dimensional Hexagonally-Packed Magnetic Lattices
Creators: name: Chong, C.
name: Wang, Yifan
name: Marechal, Donovan
name: Charalampidis, E. G.
name: Moleron, Miguel
name: Martinez, Alejandro J.
name: Porter, Mason A.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Daraio, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conduct an extensive study of nonlinear localized modes (NLMs), which are temporally periodic and spatially localized structures, in a two-dimensional array of repelling magnets. In our experiments, we arrange a lattice in a hexagonal configuration with a light-mass defect, and we harmonically drive the center of the chain with a tunable excitation frequency, amplitude, and angle. We use a damped, driven variant of a vector Fermi- Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice to model our experimental setup. Despite the idealized nature of the model, we obtain good qualitative agreement between theory and experiments for a variety of dynamical behaviors. We find that the spatial decay is direction-dependent and that drive amplitudes along fundamental displacement axes lead to nonlinear resonant peaks in frequency continuations that are similar to those that occur in one-dimensional damped, driven lattices. However, driving along other directions leads to the creation of asymmetric NLMs that bifurcate from the main solution branch, which consists of symmetric NLMs. When we vary the drive amplitude, we observe such behavior both in our experiments and in our simulations. We also demonstrate that solutions that appear to be time-quasi-periodic bifurcate from the branch of symmetric time-periodic NLMs.
Planning to Repose Long and Heavy Objects Considering a Combination of Regrasp and Constrained Drooping
Creators: name: Raessa, Mohamed
name: Wan, Weiwei
name: Harada, Kensuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a hierarchical motion planner for planning the manipulation motion to repose long and heavy objects considering external support surfaces. The planner includes a task level layer and a motion level layer. We formulate the manipulation planning problem at the task level by considering grasp poses as nodes and object poses for edges. We consider regrasping and constrained in-hand slip (drooping) during building graphs and find mixed regrasping and drooping sequences by searching the graph. The generated sequences autonomously divide the object weight between the arm and the support surface and avoid configuration obstacles. Cartesian planning is used at the robot motion level to generate motions between adjacent critical grasp poses of the sequence found by the task level layer. Various experiments are carried out to examine the performance of the proposed planner. The results show improved capability of robot arms to manipulate long and heavy objects using the proposed planner. Our contribution is we initially develop a graph-based planning system that reasons both in-hand and regrasp manipulation motion considering external supports. On one hand, the planner integrates regrasping and drooping to realize in-hand manipulation with external support. On the other hand, it switches states by releasing and regrasping objects when the object is in stably placed. The search graphs' nodes could be retrieved from remote cloud servers that provide a large amount of pre-annotated data to implement cyber intelligence.
Supplementary Figure 1 from A brief review on Group A Streptococcus pathogenesis and vaccine development
Creators: name: Sowmya Ajay Castro
name: Dorfmueller, Helge C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Roadmap shows four vital preferred product characteristics to build a universal GAS vaccine. The future GAS vaccine should consider to include 1) a wide coverage of GAS strains and serotypes by building a multicomponent vaccines 2) and test the efficacy of the antibody and memory cells protection against invasive and long term immune mediated sequelae 3) and consider testing the reactogenicity profiles against RHD and autoimmune antibodies 4) by using animal infection models and clinical trials.
Two loop stress-energy tensor for inflationary scalar electrodynamics
Creators: name: Prokopec, Tomislav
name: Tsamis, Nicholas C.
name: Woodard, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the expectation value of the coincident product of two field strength tensors at two loop order in scalar electrodynamics on de Sitter background. The result agrees with the stochastic formulation which we have developed in a companion paper [2] for the nonperturbative resummation of leading logarithms of the scale factor. When combined with a previous computation of scalar bilinears [1], our current result also gives the two loop stress-energy tensor for inflationary scalar electrodynamics. This shows a secular decrease in the vacuum energy which derives from the vacuum polarization induced by the inflationary production of charged scalars.
description: 62 pages, 1 eps figure
Globalization and the role of local governments : case study of the Surabaya metropolitan area in Indonesia
Creators: name: Matsumura, Shigehisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The central government of Indonesia has played a central role in planning and implementing economic policies to attract and utilize foreign investment for industrialization. At the same time, the government has been trying to promote decentralization since the early period of independence. However, the two policies of national economic development and decentralization are sometimes in conflict because of institutional contradictions and the balance of power and responsibilities between central and local government. With this background in mind, the research question of this thesis concerns the linkage between decentralization policies and Indonesia's links with the global economy. To find out an answer to this research question a field study was carried out in the Surabaya Metropolitan Area (SMA), which is the second largest metropolitan area in Indonesia. The case study demonstrates the crucial role that foreign investment plays in local economic development. Foreign investment activities, including both foreign direct investment (FDI) and ODA, have propelled metropolitan population growth and rapid urbanization due to the expansion of jobs and the attractiveness of the SMA to rural migrants. Through such foreign based development projects, local governments and local enterprises have their own linkages to the world economy (especially overseas investors). In turn, the autonomy of local governments has begun to increase, although as yet this can be seen only to a limited extent within Indonesia's 'delayed' decentralization framework. The impact of the global economy on Surabaya has not only a positive economic aspect, but also adverse environmental and social aspects, although these last two aspects have been mainly an indirect result of foreign investment. Governments have to make clear frameworks which can address the critical influence of the global economy on local communities. However, decentralization policies in Indonesia have to be considered in relation to national and local circumstances. Hence, while maintaining its centralized government structure to some extent at least, the Indonesian government should clarify the responsibilities of each level of government within the country's two tier structure of local governance and strengthen the necessary functions of each level of government.
The Mesonic Branch of the Deformed Conifold
Creators: name: Krishnan, Chethan
name: Kuperstein, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using coordinates that manifest the S^2-S^3 split of the base, we study D3-branes localized on the three-sphere in the Klebanov-Strassler background. We find a numerical solution for the warp factor and show the emergence of the AdS throat near the stack. In the dual gauge theory, this corresponds to an RG flow along the mesonic branch. We demonstrate how the cubic superpotential of the N=4 SYM theory emerges at the end of the RG flow.
description: 21 pages, 2 eps figures, v2: minor changes and corrections, references added, v3: JHEP version
Bluff body uses deep-reinforcement-learning trained active flow control to achieve hydrodynamic stealth
Creators: name: Ren, Feng
name: Tang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel active-flow-control (AFC) strategy for bluff bodies to hide their hydrodynamic traces from predators. A group of windward-suction-leeward-blowing (WSLB) actuators are adopted to control the wake of a circular cylinder submerged in a uniform flow. An array of velocity sensors are deployed in the near wake to provide feedback signals. Through the data-driven deep reinforcement learning (DRL), effective control strategies are trained for the WSLB actuation to mitigate the cylinder's hydrodynamic signatures, i.e., strong shears and periodically shed vortices. Only a 0.29% deficit in streamwise velocity is detected, which is a 99.5% reduction from the uncontrolled value. The same control strategy is found to be also effective when the cylinder undergoes transverse vortex-induced vibration (VIV). The findings from this study can shed some lights on the design and operation of underwater structures and robotics to achieve hydrodynamic stealth.
Quantum violation of the Suppes-Zanotti inequalities and "contextuality"
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Suppes-Zanotti inequalities involving the joint expectations of just three binary quantum observables are (re-)derived by the hull computation of the respective correlation polytope. A min-max calculation reveals its maximal quantum violations correspond to a generalized Tsirelson bound. Notions of "contextuality" motivated by such violations are critically reviewed.
description: 6 pages
Letter from James Goldie to J.E. McAllister and R.S. Dormer, April 1, 1928
Creators: name: Goldie, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to R.S. Dormer and J.E. McAllister from James Goldie, dated April 1, 1928, regarding the Auditor's Balance sheet for the year ending Febrary 29, 1928.
Frank's constant in the hexatic phase
Creators: name: Keim, P.
name: Maret, G.
name: von Gruenberg, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using video-microscopy data of a two-dimensional colloidal system the bond-order correlation function G6 is calculated and used to determine the temperature-dependence of both the orientational correlation length xi6 in the isotropic liquid phase and the Frank constant F_A in the hexatic phase. F_A takes the value 72/pi at the hexatic to isotropic liquid phase transition and diverges at the hexatic to crystal transition as predicted by the KTHNY-theory. This is a quantitative test of the mechanism of breaking the orientational symmetry by disclination unbinding.
Heat rectification with a minimal model of two harmonic oscillators
Creators: name: Simón, M. A.
name: Alaña, A.
name: Pons, M.
name: Ruiz-García, A.
name: Muga, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study heat rectification in a minimalistic model composed of two masses subjected to on-site and coupling linear forces in contact with effective Langevin baths induced by laser interactions. Analytic expressions of the heat currents in the steady state are spelled out. Asymmetric heat transport is found in this linear system if both the bath temperatures and the temperature dependent bath-system couplings are also exchanged.
Transcription of "Miss Rat and Mister Bat"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-171011-07: Transcription of the story of Miss Rat and Mister Bat (file VP-111106-05), from 8:10 to the end of the story at 10:16. This portion of the story is also transcribed in file VP-221108-05.
Escape driven by $α$-stable white noises
Creators: name: Hänggi, B. Dybiec E. Gudowska-Nowak P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the archetype problem of an escape dynamics occurring in a symmetric double well potential when the Brownian particle is driven by {\it white Lévy noise} in a dynamical regime where inertial effects can safely be neglected. The behavior of escaping trajectories from one well to another is investigated by pointing to the special character that underpins the noise-induced discontinuity which is caused by the generalized Brownian paths that jump beyond the barrier location without actually hitting it. This fact implies that the boundary conditions for the mean first passage time (MFPT) are no longer determined by the well-known local boundary conditions that characterize the case with normal diffusion. By numerically implementing properly the set up boundary conditions, we investigate the survival probability and the average escape time as a function of the corresponding Lévy white noise parameters. Depending on the value of the skewness $β$ of the Lévy noise, the escape can either become enhanced or suppressed: a negative asymmetry $β$ causes typically a decrease for the escape rate while the rate itself depicts a non-monotonic behavior as a function of the stability index $α$ which characterizes the jump length distribution of Lévy noise, with a marked discontinuity occurring at $α=1$. We find that the typical factor of ``two'' that characterizes for normal diffusion the ratio between the MFPT for well-bottom-to-well-bottom and well-bottom-to-barrier-top no longer holds true. For sufficiently high barriers the survival probabilities assume an exponential behavior. Distinct non-exponential deviations occur, however, for low barrier heights.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Local electron and ionic heating effects on the conductance of nanostructures
Creators: name: D'Agosta, Roberto
name: Di Ventra, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heat production and dissipation induced by current flow in nanostructures is of primary importance to understand the stability of these systems. These effects have contributions from both electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. Here, we consider the effect of the local electron and ionic heating on the conductance of nanoscale systems. Specifically we show that the non-linear dependence of the conductance on the external bias may be used to infer information about the local heating of both electrons and ions. We compare our results with available experimental data on transport in $\mathrm{D}_2$ and $\mathrm{H}_2$ molecules. The comparison between experiment and theory is reasonably good close to the lowest phonon mode of the molecule, especially for the $\mathrm{D}_2$ molecule. At higher biases we cannot rule out the presence of other effects like, e.g., current-induced forces that make the scenario more complex.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, RevTex4, bib file included
Diabetic Foot Ulcers Grand Challenge 2022
Creators: name: Moi Hoon Yap
name: Reeves, Neil
name: Boulton, Andrew
name: Satyan Rajbhandari
name: Armstrong, David
name: Maiya, Arun G.
name: Najafi, Bijan
name: Frank, Eibe
name: Wu, Justina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: diabetic foot ulcers
deep learning
segmentation

description: Diabetes is a global epidemic affecting approximately 425 million people. This figure is expected to rise to 629 million people by 2045. Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) are a serious condition that frequently results from the disease. The rapid rise of the condition over the last few decades is a major challenge for healthcare systems around the world. Cases of DFU frequently lead to more serious conditions such as infection and ischaemia that can significantly prolong treatment and often result in limb amputation, with more serious cases leading to death. In an effort to improve patient care and reduce the strain on healthcare systems, recent research has focused on the creation of detection algorithms that could be used as part of a mobile app that patients could use themselves (or a carer/partner) to monitor their condition and to detect the appearance of DFU [2-4]. To this end, the collaborative work between Manchester Metropolitan University, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has created an international repository of up to 11,000 DFU images for the purpose of supporting more advanced methods of DFU research. Analysis of ulcer regions and surrounding skin is an important aspect in DFU management [1]. Manual delineation of ulcers and periwound regions are very time-consuming and challenging for podiatrists. With joint effort from the lead scientists of the UK, US, India and New Zealand, this challenge will solicit original works in automated DFU segmentation and promote interactions
 between researchers and interdisciplinary collaborations. References [1] Goyal, M., Yap, M.H., Reeves, N.D., Rajbhandari, S. and Spragg, J., 2017, October. Fully convolutional networks for diabetic foot ulcer segmentation. In 2017 IEEE international conference on systems, man, and cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 618-623). IEEE.
 [2] Cassidy B. et al., 2020. DFUC2020: Analysis Towards Diabetic Foot Ulcer Detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11853. 2020 Apr 24.
 [3] Yap, M.H. et al., 2020. Deep Learning in Diabetic Foot Ulcers Detection: A Comprehensive Evaluation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03341.
 [4] Yap, M. H., Chatwin, K. E., Ng, C. C., Abbott, C. A., Bowling, F. L., Rajbhandari, S., . . . Reeves, N. D. (2018). A New Mobile Application for Standardizing Diabetic Foot Images. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 12(1), 169-173. doi:10.1177/1932296817713761
 [5] Maier-Hein et al. (2020) BIAS: Transparent reporting of biomedical image analysis challenges. Medical Image Analysis, 101796. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2020.101796
Switchbacks: statistical properties and deviations from alfvénicity
Creators: name: Larosa, A.
name: Krasnoselskikh, V.
name: de Witınst, T. Dudok
name: Agapitov, O.
name: Froment, C.
name: Jagarlamudi, V. K.
name: Velli, M.
name: Bale, S. D.
name: Case, A. W.
name: Goetz, K.
name: Harvey, Keith P.
name: Kasper, J. C.
name: Korreck, K. E.
name: Larson, D. E.
name: MacDowall, R. J.
name: Malaspina, D.
name: Pulupa, M.
name: Revillet, C.
name: Stevens, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: {Parker Solar Probe's first solar encounter has revealed the presence of sudden magnetic field deflections that are called switchbacks and are associated with proton velocity enhancements in the slow alfvénic solar wind.} {We study their statistical properties with a special focus on their boundaries.} {Using data from SWEAP and FIELDS we investigate particle and wavefield properties. The magnetic boundaries are analyzed with the minimum variance technique.} {Switchbacks are found to be alfvénic in 73\% of the cases and compressible in 27\%. The correlations between magnetic field magnitude and density fluctuations reveal the existence of both positive and negative correlations, and the absence of perturbations of the magnetic field magnitude. Switchbacks do not lead to a magnetic shear in the ambient field. Their boundaries can be interpreted in terms of rotational or tangential discontinuities. The former are more frequent.} {Our findings provide constraints on the possible generation mechanisms of switchbacks, which has to be able to account also for structures that are not purely alfvénic. One of the possible candidates, among others, manifesting the described characteristics is the firehose instability.}
Collective Josephson vortex dynamics in a finite number of intrinsic Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Bae, Myung-Ho
name: Choi, Jae-Hyun
name: Lee, Hu-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental confirmation of the collective transverse plasma modes excited by the Josephson vortex lattice in stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ single crystals. The excitation was confirmed by analyzing the temperature ($T$) and magnetic field ($H$) dependencies of the multiple sub-branches in the Josephson-vortex-flow region of the current-voltage characteristics of the system. In the near-static Josephson vortex state for a low tunneling bias current, pronounced magnetoresistance oscillations were observed, which represented a triangular-lattice vortex configuration along the c axis. In the dynamic vortex state in a sufficiently high magnetic field and for a high bias current, splitting of a single Josephson vortex-flow branch into multiple sub-branches was observed. Detailed examination of the sub-branches for varying $H$ field reveals that sub-branches represent the different modes of the Josephson-vortex lattice along the c axis, with varied configuration from a triangular to a rectangular lattices. These multiple sub-branches merge to a single curve at a characteristic temperature, above which no dynamical structural transitions of the Josephson vortex lattice is expected.
Systematic errors in dust mass determinations: Insights from laboratory opacity measurements
Creators: name: Fanciullo, Lapo
name: Kemper, Francisca
name: Scicluna, Peter
name: Dharmawardena, Thavisha E.
name: Srinivasan, Sundar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal emission of dust is one of the most important tracers of the interstellar medium: multi-wavelength photometry in the far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (submm) can be fitted with a model, providing estimates of the dust mass. The fit results depend on the assumed value for FIR/submm opacity, which in most models - due to the scarcity, until recently, of experimental measurements - is extrapolated from shorter wavelengths. Lab measurements of dust analogues, however, show that FIR opacities are usually higher than the values used in models and depend on temperature, which suggests that dust mass estimates may be biased. To test the extent of this bias, we create multi-wavelength synthetic photometry for dusty galaxies at different temperatures and redshifts, using experimental results for FIR/submm dust opacity, then we fit the synthetic data using standard dust models. We find that the dust masses recovered by typical models are overestimated by a factor 2 to 20, depending on how the experimental opacities are treated. If the experimental dust samples are accurate analogues of interstellar dust, therefore, current dust masses are overestimated by up to a factor 20. The implications for our understanding of dust, both Galactic and at high redshift, are discussed.
description: 26 pages, 23 figures, to be published in MNRAS
Limits on Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Minkowski Functionals of the WMAP Temperature Anisotropies
Creators: name: Hikage, Chiaki
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: Coles, Peter
name: Liguori, Michele
name: Hansen, Frode K.
name: Matarrese, Sabino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) describing the WMAP three-year temperature maps to place limits on possible levels of primordial non-Gaussianity. In particular, we apply perturbative formulae for the MFs to give constraints on the usual non-linear coupling constant fNL. The theoretical predictions are found to agree with the MFs of simulated CMB maps including the full effects of radiative transfer. The agreement is also very good even when the simulation maps include various observational artifacts, including the pixel window function, beam smearing, inhomogeneous noise and the survey mask. We find accordingly that these analytical formulae can be applied directly to observational measurements of fNL without relying on non-Gaussian simulations. Considering the bin-to-bin covariance of the MFs in WMAP in a chi-square analysis, we find that the primordial non-Gaussianity parameter is constrained to lie in the range -70
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accpeted for publication in MNRAS
In memoriam Professorin Dr. Fairy v. Lilienfeld (1917-2009)
Creators: name: Heller, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 59 Nr. 1 (2010): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 59, Heft 1
Radio Observations of HD80606 Near Planetary Periastron: II. LOFAR Low Band Antenna Observations at 30-78 MHz
Creators: name: de Gasperin, F.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All the giant planets in the solar system generate radio emission via the electron cyclotron maser instability, most notably giving rise to Jupiter's decametric emissions. An interaction with the solar wind is at least partially responsible for all of these solar system electron cyclotron masers. HD80606b is a giant planet with a highly eccentric orbit, leading to predictions that its radio emission may be enhanced substantially near periastron. This paper reports observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) of HD80606b near its periastron in an effort to detect radio emissions generated by an electron cyclotron maser instability in the planet's magnetosphere. The reported observations are at frequencies between 30 MHz and 78 MHz, and they are distinguished from most previous radio observations of extrasolar planets by two factors: (i) They are at frequencies near 50 MHz, much closer to the frequencies at which Jupiter emits (< 40 MHz) and lower than most previously reported observations of extrasolar planets; and (ii) Sensitivities of approximately a few millijanskys have been achieved, an order of magnitude or more below nearly all previous extrasolar planet observations below 100 MHz. We do not detect any radio emissions from HD80606b and use these observations to place new constraints on its radio luminosity. We also revisit whether the observations were conducted at a time when it was super-Alfvenic relative to the host star's stellar wind, which experience from the solar system illustrates is a state in which an electron cyclotron maser emission can be sustained in a planet's magnetic polar regions.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted A&A
Effect of Pavement Resurfacing on Traffic Safety
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
name: Green, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objectives of this study were to analyze the before and after crash history and speeds on routes which have been resurfaced , inspect resurfacing projects, make recommendations to improve the resurfacing process, and determine improvements which could be made in conjunction with the resurfacing project to improve the overall safety of the roadway.  An analysis of the before and after crash data did not show a reduction in total crashes after resurfacing. There was a reduction in crashes which occurred on a wet pavement. A comparison of speeds before and after resurfacing did not find a major change in travel speeds. Considering all locations, there was an average increase in speeds after resurfacing of less than one mph.  Discussion with state inspectors and contractors found agreement of areas which could be changed to improve the resurfacing process. Most of the comments dealt with preparation of the road prior to paving, methods to place the shoulder, and the paving operation.  Recommendations were made to be taken into consideration when resurfacing roads. They were grouped into the following categories: preparation for resurfacing, shoulder-related issues, paving operation, and general issues. Examples of the recommendations are as follows: 1) consider adding ditching and shouldering as part of preparation for resurfacing especially when the resurfacing extends to the ditch fore slope, 2) place a note on the typical section that the shoulder wedge should be sloped down to the adjacent turf at no more than a 45 degree angle, 3) ensure that an adequate amount of leveling material is included in the contract, 4) encourage use of non-typical additions to the contract to minimize any potential problems after resurfacing (for example, place object markers when there is a potential hazard such as a culvert headwall adjacent to the pavement), and 5) consider development of a more comprehensive policy for resurfacing that focuses both on the paved travel lanes and the adjacent roadside (shoulder, ditch, clear zone).
Optimization and Standardization of Pavement Management Processes
Creators: name: Allen, David L.
name: Wang, Yuhong
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report addresses issues related to optimization and standardization of current pavement management processes in Kentucky. Historical pavement management records were analyzed, which indicates that standardization is necessary in future pavement management decisions. Based on data patterns from Kentucky’s interstate and parkway systems, two distress threshold values and three stages of pavement distress development were defined in this research. Also, staged survival models were developed in this research to predict the duration of a pavement in each stage. These duration models can assist the agency in optimizing design strategies and conducting life-cycle cost analysis.
Definitions by rewriting in the Calculus of Constructions
Creators: name: Blanqui, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents general syntactic conditions ensuring the strong normalization and the logical consistency of the Calculus of Algebraic Constructions, an extension of the Calculus of Constructions with functions and predicates defined by higher-order rewrite rules. On the one hand, the Calculus of Constructions is a powerful type system in which one can formalize the propositions and natural deduction proofs of higher-order logic. On the other hand, rewriting is a simple and powerful computation paradigm. The combination of both allows, among other things, to develop formal proofs with a reduced size and more automation compared with more traditional proof assistants. The main novelty is to consider a general form of rewriting at the predicate-level which generalizes the strong elimination of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions.
description: Journal version of LICS'01
Bresslaua insidiatrix Claff, Dewey & Kidder 1941
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Colpodea
Colpodida
Colpodidae
Bresslaua
Bresslaua insidiatrix

description: Bresslaua insidiatrix Claff, Dewey & Kidder, 1941
Distribution. VENEZUELA: North border of the Henri Pittier National Park, surroundings of the village of Choroni (Foissner 2016), (Ts).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Kerr-Nonlinearity-Induced Mode-Splitting in Optical Microresonators
Creators: name: Ghalanos, George N.
name: Silver, Jonathan M.
name: Del Bino, Leonardo
name: Moroney, Niall
name: Zhang, Shuangyou
name: Woodley, Michael T. M.
name: Svela, Andreas Ø.
name: Del'Haye, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kerr effect in optical microresonators plays an important role for integrated photonic devices and enables third harmonic generation, four-wave mixing, and the generation of microresonator-based frequency combs. Here we experimentally demonstrate that the Kerr nonlinearity can split ultra-high-Q microresonator resonances for two continuous-wave lasers. The resonance splitting is induced by self- and cross-phase modulation and counter-intuitively enables two lasers at different wavelengths to be simultaneously resonant in the same microresonator mode. We develop a pump-probe spectroscopy scheme that allows us to measure power dependent resonance splittings of up to 35 cavity linewidths (corresponding to 52 MHz) at 10 mW of pump power. The required power to split the resonance by one cavity linewidth is only 286$μ$W. In addition, we demonstrate threefold resonance splitting when taking into account four-wave mixing and two counterpropagating probe lasers. These Kerr splittings are of interest for applications that require two resonances at optically controlled offsets, eg. for opto-mechanical coupling to phonon modes, optical memories, and precisely adjustable spectral filters.
Appendix 1. Insights on the controls on floodplain-dominated fluvial successions: a perspective from the early-middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation in Río Chalía (Patagonia, Argentina)
Creators: name: Cuitiño, José I.
name: M. Sol Raigemborn
name: M. Susana Bargo
name: Vizcaíno, Sergio F.
name: Nahuel A. Muñoz
name: Kohn, Matthew J.
name: Kay, Richard F.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Appendix 1. Preliminary list of the taxa recorded in the SCF at Río Chalía, and their presence (x) /absence (-) in the different localities (P2 to P8). Specimens taxonomically identified are indicated in black (x), while those under study are in red (x).
On the origin of the optical and near-infrared extragalactic background light
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Toshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In optical and near-infrared background light, excess brightness and fluctuation over the known backgrounds have been reported. To delineate their origin, a fluctuation analysis of the deepest optical images was performed, leading to the detection of a flat fluctuation down to 0.2 arcsec, which is much larger than that expected for galaxies. The sky brightness obtained from the detected fluctuation is a few times brighter than the integrated light of the galaxies. These findings require some new objects. As a candidate, faint compact objects (FCOs) whose surface number density rapidly increases to the faint end were proposed. FCOs are very compact and show peculiar spectra with infrared excess. If FCOs cause the excess brightness and fluctuation, the surface number density reaches 2.6e3 in 1 square arcsec. Gamma ray observations require the redshift of FCOs to be less than 0.1 with FCOs consisting of missing baryons. A very low M/L indicates that FCOs are powered by gravitational energy associated with black holes.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 96 (2020), in press
Bericht von der Plenartagung der ÖRK-Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung
Creators: name: Schardien, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 59 Nr. 1 (2010): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 59, Heft 1
Letter from Rainbow Ranche to the Manager of the Bank of Montreal in Vernon, April 2, 1928
Creators: name: Rainbow Ranche
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to the manager of the Bank of Montreal in Vernon, B.C. from Rainbow Ranche, dated April 2, 1908, regarding a request to place an enclosed cheque to the credit of R.S. Dormer.
Electron thermalization and photon emission from magnetized compact sources
Creators: name: Vurm, Indrek
name: Poutanen, Juri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present detailed calculations of the electron thermalization by synchrotron self-absorption accounting for cooling by Compton scattering. For the first time, we solve coupled kinetic equations for electrons and photons without any approximations on the relevant cross-sections and compute self-consistently the resulting electron and photon distributions. The results presented in this contribution may be applied to the magnetized coronae around Galactic black hole accretion disks.
description: 4 pages, 8 figures; Proceedings of the workshop 'High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows' (HEPRO), Dublin, Ireland
FAIR DO Cookbook – Recipes for FAIR Digital Objects
Creators: name: Pfeil, Andreas
name: Jejkal, Thomas
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Data Management
FAIR Digital Object

description: Working in the realm of FAIR Digital Objects can be very abstract and sometimes overwhelming. There are so many aspects which have to be addressed in order to create a first FAIR Digital Object. The FAIR DO Cookbook aims to guide researchers and explain all required knowledge, ingredients, and steps to execute. The target audience are people building, controlling or maintaining infrastructure or software that should work with FAIR DOs in come way, as well as people interested in types, profiles, and PIDs work and how they can be created.
Multi-wavelength detectability of isolated black holes in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Scarcella, Francesca
name: Gaggero, Daniele
name: Connors, Riley
name: Manshanden, Julien
name: Ricotti, Massimo
name: Bertone, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isolated black holes in our Galaxy have eluded detection so far. We present here a comprehensive study on the detectability of isolated stellar-mass astrophysical black holes that accrete interstellar gas from molecular clouds in both the local region and the Central Molecular Zone. We adopt a state-of-the-art model for the accretion physics backed up by numerical simulations, and study the number of observable sources in both the radio and X-ray band, as a function of a variety of parameters. We discuss in particular the impact of the astrophysical uncertainties on our prediction for the number of bright X-ray sources in the central region of the Galaxy. We finally consider future developments in the radio domain, and assess the potential of SKA to detect a population of astrophysical black holes accreting gas in our Galaxy.
Approaches to Agrippan scepticism
Creators: name: Sworn, Benjamin Michael
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: BD201.S96 2010
subject: Skepticism
subject: Knowledge, Theory of

description: I begin from the intuitive requirement that a proper explanation of the possibility of empirical knowledge cannot assume any empirical knowledge in order to explain its possibility. But in conjunction with a radical scepticism I call 'the Agrippan problematic' this requirement leads to the ostensibly paradoxical observation that we require empirical knowledge to explain the possibility of empirical knowledge, and yet we cannot assume any empirical knowledge in order explain its possibility. This ostensibly paradoxical observation is at the heart of that problematic. That observation is paradoxical, and not a straight contradiction, in virtue of how the Agrippan sceptic argues. But we should say that it is ostensibly paradoxical because the challenge to the epistemologist is to show why it is not paradoxical. To that end I delineate four applications of the general argumentative methodology of the Agrippan sceptic in regards to four epistemic loci I identify within the traditional notion of a justification or warrant for a belief. The most prominent of those epistemic loci is that of a justification itself, and in application to that locus the argumentative methodology of the Agrippan sceptic is commonly known as 'the epistemic regress argument'. I suggest that a formally sufficient answer to that argument should also enable an answer to the other three applications of the Agrippan sceptic's argumentative methodology. There are various responses in the literature to the epistemic regress argument, however I focus on three. They are: 'foundationalism', 'coherentism', and finally the epistemology of Wilfrid Sellars. Each in a different way questions the premise of the epistemic regress argument. That premise is that all justification must be inferential. I indentify two assumptions which underlie that premise: firstly, that the only way in which a belief can justify another belief is inferentially; and secondly, that a justification for some proposition must always be epistemically distinct from a belief in that proposition. The foundationalist questions that second assumption, essentially claiming that certain beliefs can justify themselves. However, I argue that we simply cannot make intelligible sense of the idea that a belief can justify itself except in certain specific cases. The coherentist questions neither assumption, instead suggesting that the Agrippan sceptic assumes that inferential justification is linear. However, I argue that the coherentist's position is a holistic foundationalism, and suffers from the same defects as that other position. Sellars, however, questions that first assumption, arguing that a belief can justify another belief without being inferentially connected to it. I argue that Sellars's epistemology may be taken to have the resources to illustrate that ostensibly paradoxical observation to be just that - ostensibly paradoxical.
title: Local Elections in Bosnia and Herzgovina – Political Changes in Times of Pandemic
Creators: name:  Repovac Nikšić, Valida
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021

description: Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Local Elections, Coronavirus,
COVID-19 pandemic, Corruption, Mostar, Political Change, War Narrative
description: Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2021, 8(1), 30-39