cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metabolic Pathways of Nitrate in the Eye Microbiota
Creators: name: Kong, Carol
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Nitric oxide (NO) is a small free radical molecule with critical signaling roles. It is an endogenous vasodilator and an important mediator of vascular tone and vascular remodeling. Nitrate and nitrite are known as stable products of NO oxidation and are physiologically recycled in blood and tissues to reform NO by enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways. Bacteria species in the human microbiome have been shown to reduce nitrate and nitrite and to produce NO under acidic conditions. In this study, we investigate the generation of nitrite and NO by bacterial species regularly identified in the eye microbiome of healthy humans, specifically Staphylococcus epidermidis and Bacillus subtilis. We measured nitrite and NO concentrations in cultures grown at oxygen and nitrate levels that approximate the conditions found in the eye. We found that Bacillus subtilis produced very low levels of NO even in the presence of millimolar nitrate concentrations. Instead, nitrite accumulated in the Staphylococcus epidermidis media after growth for 24 hours at low oxygen levels (2-6%) in a manner roughly directly proportional to the nitrate concentrations added in the media. These data indicate that during hypoxic conditions, Staphylococcus epidermidis express enzymes that efficiently reduce nitrate to nitrite and suggests that the related bacterial nitrite reduction to NO could be an important aspect of the overall nitrate/nitrite/NO metabolism. Therefore, the human microbiome can and may be a link between a nitrate rich diet and human health and disease.
The geometry of induced electromagnetic fields in moving media
Creators: name: Lopez-Monsalvo, Cesar S.
name: Garcia-Pelaez, David
name: Rubio-Ponce, Alberto
name: Escarela-Perez, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this manuscript we provide a fully geometric formulation for the induced electromagnetic fields and their corresponding constitutive relations in moving media. To this end, we present the reader with a brief geometric summary to show how vector calculus electromagnetic theory is embedded in the more general language of differential forms. Then, we consider the class of \emph{metric} constitutive relations describing the medium in which electromagnetic fields propagate. We explicitly obtain the components of the induced fields in a moving medium, as seen in the the lab \emph{rest} frame. This allows us to read the expressions for the permitivity, permeability and magnetoelectric matrices for the moving medium which, in turn, can be interpreted as a different physical material from the lab point of view
ANTI-WHITE SUPREMACIST STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN INDIAN ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Creators: name: Sicola, Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: White supremacy has been entrenched into American culture since the western settlers first made contact with American Indians. Over the past four years, the term white supremacy has seen an increase in social and political rhetoric. With this heightened awareness, art museums are beginning to see the role they play in either reinforcing or dismantling this toxic ideology. This thesis examines the historical and contemporary museum exhibition display ideologies, styles, and techniques in American Indian art exhibitions. This thesis also examines the influence of laws and policies on molding exhibition display practices and either supporting or combating white supremacy. Art museums have a significant role to play in fixing the white-centric narrative that has plagued society. However, the first step must be a collective understanding of where, how, and why white supremacy is embedded in museum practices. Only with this knowledge can museums establish successful, safe, and equitable spaces for American Indians and other traditionally silenced communities.
Turnaround radius in scalar-tensor gravity with quasilocal mass
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
name: Giusti, Andrea
name: Côté, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C56, 83F05, 83C40

description: Following an existing procedure in general relativity, the turnaround radius of a spherical structure is studied in scalar-tensor gravity using a new prescription for the analog of the Hawking-Hayward quasilocal mass in this class of theories.
description: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Thick GEM-like hole multipliers: properties and possible applications
Creators: name: Chechik, R.
name: Breskin, A.
name: Shalem, C.
name: Moermann, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of thick GEM-like (TGEM) gaseous electron multipliers, operated at 1-740 Torr are presented. They are made of a G-10 plate, perforated with millimeter-scale diameter holes. In single-multiplier elements, effective gains of about 104, 106, and 105 were reached at respective pressures of 1, 10 Torr isobutane and 740 Torr Ar/5%CH4, with pulse rise-times in the few nanosecond scale. The high effective gain at atmospheric pressure was measured with a TGEM coated with a CsI photocathode. The detector was operated in single and cascaded modes. Potential applications in ion and photon detection are discussed.
description: Contribution to the 2004 Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
Determination of 18 kinds of Amino Acids in Fresh Tea Leaves by HPLC Coupled With Pre-column Derivatization
Creators: name: DONG, Shangwen
name: LIU, Tengfei
name: DONG, Minghui
name: DONG, Shangwen
name: LIU, Tengfei
name: DONG, Minghui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fresh tea leaves, Free amino acids, Pre-column derivatization, High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

description: A rapid and accurate quantitative method of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with fluorescence detector has been developed for the analysis of 18 kinds of amino acids in fresh tea leaves. The samples were minced and mixed, and extracted with ultra pure water at 90℃ for 20 min. The 6-aminoquinolylN-hydroxy-succinimidyl carbamate (AQC) was used as pre-column derivatization reagent. Gradient HPLC separation was performed on a C18 column (Symmetry C18, 3.9 mm × 15 cm, 4 μm). Good linearity between concentrations and peak areas was achieved in the concentration range of 5.0-250 μmol/L for 18 kinds of amino acids. The method was validated by the analysis of five replicates. The 18 kinds of amino acid standards were spiked in fresh tea leaf samples and the average recoveries were 86.25%-109.05% with relative standard deviations (n = 5) ranging from 6.03% to 10.56%. The limit of detection (LOD) for the analytes was 0.05-1.27 μmol/L. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of the 18 kinds of amino acids in fresh tea leaves from east Dongting and west Dongting mountains in Suzhou. The results indicate that the method is simple, rapid, precise and reliable.
A Study on How to Eliminate Spiritual Poverty to Achieve the Accurate Poverty Alleviation in a Real Sense
Creators: name: LU, Hongping
name: CHEN, Nannan
name: LU, Hongping
name: CHEN, Nannan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Accurate poverty alleviation, Spiritual poverty, Support, Poverty self-help

description: Accurate poverty alleviation is a useful practice conducted by the Communist Party of China to lead the poor people out of poverty and achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The remarkable achievements have been made since its launching. However, the impoverished people and some poverty-stricken workers' mentality as well as the scarcity of people's mind patterns have become the obstacle to accurate poverty alleviation work. This will require the strengthening of ideological leadership, the implementation of "getting rid of poverty", the combination of both hard and soft governance and spiritual poverty, the formation of an overall linkage mechanism, and the lifting of material poverty by spiritual poverty alleviation.
Rotating black holes in $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its shadow
Creators: name: Kumar, Rahul
name: Ghosh, Sushant G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently there has been a surge of interest in regularizing, a $ D \to 4 $ limit of, the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, and the resulting regularized $4D$ EGB gravity has nontrivial dynamics. The theory admits spherically symmetric black holes generalizing the Schwarzschild black holes. We consider the rotating black hole in regularized $4D$ EGB gravity and discuss their horizon properties and shadow cast. The effects of the GB coupling parameter on the shape and size of shadows are investigated in the context of recent M87* observations from the EHT. Interestingly, for a given spin parameter, the apparent size of the shadow decreases and gets more distorted due to the GB coupling parameter. We find that within the finite parameter space, e.g. for $a=0.1M$, $α\leq 0.00394M^2$, and within the current observational uncertainties, the rotating black holes of the $4D$ EGB gravity are consistent with the inferred features of M87* black hole shadow.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures and 1 table. Matched with the published version
Remarks on the decays chi_{bJ}^\prime -> omega Upsilon
Creators: name: Voloshin, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently observed by CLEO cascade decays Upsilon(3S) -> gamma chi_{bJ}^\prime -> gamma omega Upsilon are discussed. It is shown that within the nonrelativistic description of bottomonium in the heavy b quark limit, the ratio of the rates of the transitions chi_{bJ}^\prime -> omega Upsilon with J=1 and J=2 should be given by the ratio of the corresponding S wave phase space factors. As a result, the rate of the observed cascade transitions through the chi_{b2}^\prime resonance should be close to that through the chi_{b1}^\prime. It is suggested that the ratio of the discussed cascade rates can also be tested by measuring a simple angular correlation.
description: 4 pages
ANTI-WHITE SUPREMACIST STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN INDIAN ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Creators: name: Sicola, Marie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4302
subject: Heritage, archive and museum studies
classificationCode: 4599
subject: Other Indigenous studies

description: White supremacy has been entrenched into American culture since the western settlers first made contact with American Indians. Over the past four years, the term white supremacy has seen an increase in social and political rhetoric. With this heightened awareness, art museums are beginning to see the role they play in either reinforcing or dismantling this toxic ideology. This thesis examines the historical and contemporary museum exhibition display ideologies, styles, and techniques in American Indian art exhibitions. This thesis also examines the influence of laws and policies on molding exhibition display practices and either supporting or combating white supremacy. Art museums have a significant role to play in fixing the white-centric narrative that has plagued society. However, the first step must be a collective understanding of where, how, and why white supremacy is embedded in museum practices. Only with this knowledge can museums establish successful, safe, and equitable spaces for American Indians and other traditionally silenced communities.
Additional file 1 of Transcriptomic analysis of marine endophytic fungi extract identifies highly enriched anti-fungal fractions targeting cancer pathways in HepG2 cell lines
Creators: name: Blessie, Ethel Juliet
name: Wasco Wruck
name: Benaiah Annertey Abbey
name: Ncube, Audrey
name: Graffmann, Nina
name: Amarh, Vincent
name: Arthur, Patrick Kobina
name: Adjaye, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1:. MEF 134 Sample Analysis by Mass Spectrometry.
Development of Inclusive Private Kindergartens in Rural Areas in the Context of "Precision" Poverty Alleviation Policy
Creators: name: GENG, Chao
name: GENG, Chao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: "Precision" poverty alleviation, Inclusive kindergartens, Rural areas

description: As a national policy of benefiting the country and the people, "precision" poverty alleviation has an important strategic position. The core of "precision" poverty alleviation is education poverty alleviation. Based on the background of "precision" poverty alleviation, this study focuses on the analysis of problems of rural inclusive private kindergartens in the province, such as the shortage of rural pre-school resources, the uneven quality of teachers, and lack of financial investment. And in view of the existing problems, this paper puts forward some solutions to better promote the rural inclusive kindergarten development in the province.
Stochastic Event-based Sensor Schedules for Remote State Estimation in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Huang, Lingying
name: Wang, Jiazheng
name: Kung, Enoch
name: Mo, Yilin
name: Wu, Junfeng
name: Shi, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We consider the problem of communication allocation for remote state estimation in a cognitive radio sensor network~(CRSN). A sensor collects measurements of a physical plant, and transmits the data to a remote estimator as a secondary user (SU) in the shared network. The existence of the primal users (PUs) brings exogenous uncertainties into the transmission scheduling process, and how to design an event-based scheduling scheme considering these uncertainties has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we start from the formulation of a discrete-time remote estimation process in the CRSN, and then analyze the hidden information contained in the absence of data transmission. In order to achieve a better tradeoff between estimation performance and communication consumption, we propose both open-loop and closed-loop schedules using the hidden information under a Bayesian setting. The open-loop schedule does not rely on any feedback signal but only works for stable plants. For unstable plants, a closed-loop schedule is designed based on feedback signals. The parameter design problems in both schedules are efficiently solved by convex programming. Numerical simulations are included to illustrate the theoretical results.
description: This paper was accepted by IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control and was published as an early access on July 7 2020
Strongly Anisotropic s-Wave Gaps in Exotic Superconductors
Creators: name: Brandow, B. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exotic superconductors, defined as those which follow the phenomenological trend of Uemura (Tc approximately proportional to penetration depth^-2), presently constitute the most broad and general class of superconductors which can reasonably be considered "similar to the high-Tc cuprates". It is therefore of much interest to determine the forms of their pairing gap functions. We examine evidence for the gap forms in non-cuprate exotics, and demonstrate some general features. The cubic materials often have highly anisotropic gaps. The planar materials tend to have even stronger gap anisotropy, to the extent that they often have gap nodes, but nevertheless they usually have an s-wave-like gap symmetry. There is good evidence for the latter even in the controversial cases of planar organics and nickel borocarbides. Exceptions to these generalizations are also pointed out and discussed.
description: 55 pages, to appear in Philosophical Magazine
Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship
Creators: name: Katz, Mikhail G.
name: Kuhlemann, Karl
name: Sherry, David
name: Ugaglia, Monica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 01A45, 01A85, 01A90, 26E35

description: We examine some recent scholarship on Leibniz's philosophy of the infinitesimal calculus. We indicate difficulties that arise in articles by Bassler, Knobloch, and Arthur, due to a denial to Leibniz's infinitesimals of the status of mathematical entities violating Euclid V Definition 4.
description: 19 pages, to appear in Antiquitates Mathematicae
Adiabatic processes need not correspond to optimal work
Creators: name: Allahverdyan, A. E.
name: Nieuwenhuizen, Th. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The minimum work principle states that work done on a thermally isolated equilibrium system is minimal for the adiabatically slow (reversible) realization of a given process. This principle, one of the formulations of the second law, is studied here for finite (possibly large) quantum systems interacting with macroscopic sources of work. It is shown to be valid as long as the adiabatic energy levels do not cross. If level crossing does occur, counter examples are discussed, showing that the minimum work principle can be violated and that optimal processes are neither adiabatically slow nor reversible.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, revtex4
A New Cultivation Technique of Cangmai 6005 for High Yield in Cangzhou Dry-alkali Land
Creators: name: YU, Liang
name: WANG, Weiwei
name: NIU, Liya
name: WANG, Wei
name: LU, Li
name: WANG, Fengzhi
name: WANG, Lianpeng
name: WANG, Yan
name: ZANG, Xiujin
name: YU, Liang
name: WANG, Weiwei
name: NIU, Liya
name: WANG, Wei
name: LU, Li
name: WANG, Fengzhi
name: WANG, Lianpeng
name: WANG, Yan
name: ZANG, Xiujin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cangmai 6005, Dry-alkali land, New technique

description: Cangmai 6005 is a national wheat variety approved by Cangzhou Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, which has the characteristics of drought resistance, salt tolerance, high yield and stable yield. According to the characteristics of dry-alkali land in Cangzhou City and the variety characteristics, the new cultivation technique was completed.
Where Schrödinger's Cat Waits
Creators: name: Manshon, Tara
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Where Schrödinger’s Cat Waits is a collection of original short fiction that aims to address what it means to occupy multiple spaces at once. Drawing on my experiences of growing up both in South Africa and the United States, I hope to explore the many ways identity intersects. In “Uninterrupted Salad Days,” Nadine stands on the precipice of adolescence, wanting to join her peers who are growing up faster than her while “The Changeling” deals with fresh-off-the-boat Yasmin’s trouble assimilating to American teen culture. In these strange and sometimes darkly funny stories, the every day little things are translated into serious questions, like who are we when we’re not forced to choose?
A Shift in the Paradigm of Violence: Non-Governmental Terrorism in Latin America since the End of the Cold War
Creators: name: Feldmann, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: While non-state terrorism has grown substantially in many parts of the world since the mid 1990s, in Latin America, the insurgent continent par excellence, where radical non-state actors at both ends of the political spectrum have historically resorted to terror to attain political goals, this scourge has dwindled. Drawing on the seminal work of Timothy Wickham-Crowley, this article posits that this baffling trend can be explained as a result of a shift in the cultural repertoires of Latin American revolutionary and other anti-systemic groups in the 1990s. The traumatic experiences associated with authoritarian backlash and repression; a more pragmatic attitude that values democracy, accommodation, and dialogue as political strategies; and the rejection by vast sectors of the population of wanton violence as a tool to attain political objectives have subtracted terror from the range of activities (stock) of collective action of former and new radical groups. Groups fighting for change have thus internalized that terror ultimately constitutes an ineffectual and de-legitimized strategy. Colombia constitutes the exception to this regional trend. There, it is argued, terror is widely used as and informed by the perverse logic of armed conflict, whereby armed parties deliberately target civilians to advance military and political objectives.
Gravitational spin Hall effect of light
Creators: name: Oancea, Marius A.
name: Joudioux, Jérémie
name: Dodin, I. Y.
name: Ruiz, D. E.
name: Paganini, Claudio F.
name: Andersson, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of electromagnetic waves in vacuum is often described within the geometrical optics approximation, which predicts that wave rays follow null geodesics. However, this model is valid only in the limit of infinitely high frequencies. At large but finite frequencies, diffraction can still be negligible, but the ray dynamics becomes affected by the evolution of the wave polarization. Hence, rays can deviate from null geodesics, which is known as the gravitational spin Hall effect of light. In the literature, this effect has been calculated ad hoc for a number of special cases, but no general description has been proposed. Here, we present a covariant Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin analysis from first principles for the propagation of light in arbitrary curved spacetimes. We obtain polarization-dependent ray equations describing the gravitational spin Hall effect of light. We also present numerical examples of polarization-dependent ray dynamics in the Schwarzschild spacetime, and the magnitude of the effect is briefly discussed. The analysis reported here is analogous to that of the spin Hall effect of light in inhomogeneous media, which has been experimentally verified.
A life cycle assessment of UBC ICICS building
Creators: name: Charif, Malek
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In demonstration of skills learned during the course of the term, students of CIVL 498C were asked to evaluate the environmental and health impacts resulting from the product and construction phases, i.e. to conduct a limited Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), of assigned building. In this case, the object of the assessment is the ICICS building at UBC. The predominant use of the building, which measures about 9711 square meters in floor area, is research in the domains of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and computer animation and other related research fields. Athena’s Impact Estimator (IE) and On-Screen Takeoff programs are the main tools used to complete the LCA study. Inputs in the IE model were re-organized according to a modified CISQ format. Also, models corresponding to level 3, in CISQ format, were created in the IE. Models were then evaluated for their individual and combined effects. Results were then compared to a UBC wide benchmark which represented the average of all studies by the class. ICICS Global Warming impact for the two stages included in the study is about 50 percent more than the average UBC building. Level-3 Element A22 (Upper_Floor_Construction) contributes half the total impact of the building. Its impact is due mainly to the reinforced concrete floor slabs that cover a substantial surface area. It is not clear what would the relative (normalized) environmental performance of ICICS if the LCA were extended to the Use stage. The heavy construction environmental toll could potentially contribute to the longevity of the building. Longer service life will not reduce Use impact but it could defer new construction projects for decades. The would-beimpact of deferred projects could be credited to the present building. However, under the present constraints of the study, ICICS building imposes much higher environmental impacts than the average UBC academic building.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.”
Effects of Different Sowing and Transplanting Time on Quality and Economic Benefit of Tobacco Variety Yunyan 105
Creators: name: PAN, Yihong
name: GU, Yumin
name: WANG, Quanzhen
name: WANG, Yongqi
name: YANG, Sen
name: ZHANG, Xiaolong
name: PAN, Yihong
name: GU, Yumin
name: WANG, Quanzhen
name: WANG, Yongqi
name: YANG, Sen
name: ZHANG, Xiaolong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Yunyan 105, Sowing time, Transplanting time, Quality, Economic benefit

description: In order to provide references for popularization and application of tobacco variety Yunyan 105, a field experiment was conducted to explore the effects of different sowing and transplanting time on agronomic traits, economic benefit and quality of Yunyan 105. Results showed that the agronomic characters, quality traits and economic benefit of the tobacco were relatively fine with sowing time February 4-14 and transplanting time April 1-10. Index scores of the physical properties of tobacco leaves were greater than 80 scores with sowing time February 14 and transplanting time April 10. The comprehensive index of conventional chemical compositions was 0.39-0.73. The harmony of conventional chemical compositions of lower leaves was the best with the comprehensive index of 0.59 when the sowing time and transplanting time were February 4 and April 1 respectively. As for the middle and upper leaves the comprehensive indexes were respectively 0.71 and 0.73 with the sowing time February 14 and transplanting time April 10. The sensory evaluation of smoking quality and economic benefit were February 14 sowing and April 10 transplanting better, its taste of the tobacco leaves was pure and mild, the irritancy and the strength was less, the aftertaste was better, and the output value reached the highest 4 271.17 yuan/667 m2. The various sowing and transplanting time had no significant influence on appearance quality of tobacco leaves. The suitable sowing and transplanting time of Yunyan 105 was February 4-14 and April 1-10 respectively in Xuanwei tobacco-growing area.
Influence of Climatic Conditions on Planting of Hami Melon
Creators: name: WANG, Jiangang
name: JIANG, Min
name: LI, Yuchao
name: LI, Guangjun
name: WANG, Jiangang
name: JIANG, Min
name: LI, Yuchao
name: LI, Guangjun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Climatic conditions, Hami melon, Planting, Impact analysis

description: Climate warming has made the planting area of Hami melon expand northward to Barry Bakai Town, Altay City, near 47° N. Climate events often induce the occurrence of pests and diseases in crops, affecting the steady production of Hami melon. In 2013, pests and diseases occurred seriously, resulting in low yield and poor quality of Hami melon. Based on the production survey data of Hami melon in recent 20 years, the interaction of various meteorological factors in different time and different intervals of various factors was analyzed in this paper to explore the characteristics of the meteorological factors that cause diseases and influence the quality of Hami melon.
Coulomb corrections to bremsstrahlung in electric field of heavy atom at high energies
Creators: name: Lee, R. N.
name: Milstein, A. I.
name: Strakhovenko, V. M.
name: Schwarz, O. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The differential and partially integrated cross sections are considered for bremsstrahlung from high-energy electrons in atomic field with the exact account of this field. The consideration exploits the quasiclassical electron Green's function and wave functions in an external electric field. It is shown that the Coulomb corrections to the differential cross section are very susceptible to screening. Nevertheless, the Coulomb corrections to the cross section summed up over the final-electron states are independent of screening in the leading approximation over a small parameter $1/mr_{scr}$ ($r_{scr}$ is a screening radius, $m$ is the electron mass, $\hbar=c=1$). Bremsstrahlung from an electron beam of the finite size on heavy nucleus is considered as well. Again, the Coulomb corrections to the differential probability are very susceptible to the beam shape, while those to the probability integrated over momentum transfer are independent of it, apart from the trivial factor, which is the electron-beam density at zero impact parameter. For the Coulomb corrections to the bremsstrahlung spectrum, the next-to-leading terms with respect to the parameters $m/ε$ ($ε$ is the electron energy) and $1/mr_{scr}$ are obtained.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Critical collapse in K-essence models
Creators: name: Gannouji, Radouane
name: Baez, Yolbeiker Rodríguez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study gravitational collapse in K-essence model with shift symmetry. For these models, we have the formation of two types of horizons, event and sonic. For the particular case $K(X)=X+βX^2$ we found three different regimes. In the weak field regime the scalar field disperses to infinity, in the very strong regime both horizons form at the same time and finally for the intermediate regime, the sonic horizon could form first or both horizons form at the same time. The threshold of formation of black hole is found in the regime where the sonic horizon forms first. We observe a universal behavior with scaling parameter $γ\simeq 0.51$. Interestingly this universal behavior is already encoded in the sonic horizon much before the black hole forms and therefore the emergence of the event horizon.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures; v2: accepted by JHEP, comments + appendix added, references updated
On Multiple Diagnostic Procedures for the Linear Model
Creators: name: Hillier, Grant H.
name: Hillier, Grant H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Multiple diagnostic procedures entail a partition of the sample space into a set of critical regions. When the procedure is designed in a piecemeal fashion these regions bear no particular relation to one another, and the procedure as a whole can be logically inconsistent. We use a simple example to illustrate these difficulties, and also to suggest criteria that should be satisfied by any diagnostic procedure that is to meet the needs of the practitioner.
Unraveling the Topological Phase of ZrTe$_5$ via Magneto-infrared Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Jiang, Y.
name: Wang, J.
name: Zhao, T.
name: Dun, Z. L.
name: Huang, Q.
name: Wu, X. S.
name: Mourigal, M.
name: Zhou, H. D.
name: Pan, W.
name: Ozerov, M.
name: Smirnov, D.
name: Jiang, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For materials near the phase boundary between weak and strong topological insulators (TIs), their band topology depends on the band alignment, with the inverted (normal) band corresponding to the strong (weak) TI phase. Here, taking the anisotropic transition-metal pentatelluride ZrTe$_5$ as an example, we show that the band inversion manifests itself as a second extremum (band gap) in the layer stacking direction, which can be probed experimentally via magneto-infrared spectroscopy. Specifically, we find that the band anisotropy of ZrTe$_5$ features a slow dispersion in the layer stacking direction, along with an additional set of optical transitions from a band gap away from the Brillouin zone center. Our work identifies ZrTe5 as a strong TI at liquid helium temperature and provides a new perspective in determining band inversion in layered topological materials.
description: with supplemental materials
Nerium oleander L.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Nerium
Nerium oleander

description: 66. Nerium oleander L.,
Sp. Pl.: 209. 1753 [cited in Nat. Hist. II(4): 389. 1775].
Notes. – A specimen in the Java herbarium is in L (L-898.111-57). It represents material of Plumeria rubra L. (see Nat. Hist. II(2): 178. 1774) (Fig. 2). Two leaves and an inflorescence are mounted with a mid-18th century pot, so far only known from this sheet (G. Thijsse, pers. comm. to the first author). Another specimen without provenance is present in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 6128).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 181, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Where Schrödinger's Cat Waits
Creators: name: Manshon, Tara
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Where Schrödinger’s Cat Waits is a collection of original short fiction that aims to address what it means to occupy multiple spaces at once. Drawing on my experiences of growing up both in South Africa and the United States, I hope to explore the many ways identity intersects. In “Uninterrupted Salad Days,” Nadine stands on the precipice of adolescence, wanting to join her peers who are growing up faster than her while “The Changeling” deals with fresh-off-the-boat Yasmin’s trouble assimilating to American teen culture. In these strange and sometimes darkly funny stories, the every day little things are translated into serious questions, like who are we when we’re not forced to choose?
Agriculture, Rural Poverty and Income Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Odusola, Ayodele
name: Odusola, Ayodele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Agriculture
subject: Income inequality
subject: poverty
subject: Africa

description: The developmental role of agriculture has long been recognized in the literature. As a leading sector of most economies in the developing world, agriculture helps facilitate industrial growth and structural economic transformation. Agriculture plays a multidimensional role in the development process, which includes eliciting economic growth, generating employment opportunities, contributing to value chains, reducing poverty, lowering income disparities, ensuring food security, delivering environmental services and providing foreign exchange earnings, among others. Due to the neglect of this sector, development progress has been hindered in a number of countries, which explains why 75 per cent of world poverty is rural and why sectoral income disparities have exploded, as well as why intense food insecurity and environmental degradation have become widespread (World Bank, 2007; Byerlee, de Janvry and Sadoulet, 2009).
Additional file 2 of The design and development of a multicentric protocol to investigate the impact of adjunctive doxycycline on the management of peripheral lymphoedema caused by lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis
Creators: name: Horton, John
name: Klarmann-Schulz, Ute
name: Stephens, Mariana
name: Budge, Philip J.
name: Yaya Coulibaly
name: Debrah, Alex
name: Debrah, Linda Batsa
name: Krishnasastry, Suma
name: Upendo Mwingira
name: Ngenya, Abdallah
name: Wanji, Samuel
name: Mirani Weerasooriya
name: Yahathugoda, Channa
name: Kroidl, Inge
name: Deathe, Drew
name: Majewski, Andrew
name: Sullivan, Sarah
name: Mackenzie, Charles
name: Nutman, Thomas B.
name: Shott, Joseph P.
name: Weil, Gary
name: Ottesen, Eric
name: Hoerauf, Achim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Text S2. TAKeOFF filariasis protocol.
Monotone properties of random geometric graphs have sharp thresholds
Creators: name: Goel, Ashish
name: Rai, Sanatan
name: Krishnamachari, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60D05 (Primary) 5C80, 90B10 (Secondary)

description: Random geometric graphs result from taking $n$ uniformly distributed points in the unit cube, $[0,1]^d$, and connecting two points if their Euclidean distance is at most $r$, for some prescribed $r$. We show that monotone properties for this class of graphs have sharp thresholds by reducing the problem to bounding the bottleneck matching on two sets of $n$ points distributed uniformly in $[0,1]^d$. We present upper bounds on the threshold width, and show that our bound is sharp for $d=1$ and at most a sublogarithmic factor away for $d\ge2$. Interestingly, the threshold width is much sharper for random geometric graphs than for Bernoulli random graphs. Further, a random geometric graph is shown to be a subgraph, with high probability, of another independently drawn random geometric graph with a slightly larger radius; this property is shown to have no analogue for Bernoulli random graphs.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051605000000575 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Signal Processing Firmware for the Low Frequency Aperture Array
Creators: name: Comoretto, Gianni
name: Chiello, Riccardo
name: Roberts, Matt
name: Halsall, Rob
name: Adami, Kristian Zarb
name: Alderighi, Monica
name: Aminaei, Amin
name: Baker, Jeremy
name: Belli, Carolina
name: Chiarucci, Simone
name: D'Angelo, Sergio
name: De Marco, Andrea
name: Mura, Gabriele Dalle
name: Magro, Alessio
name: Mattana, Andrea
name: Monari, Jader
name: Naldi, Giovanni
name: Pastore, Sandro
name: Perini, Federico
name: Poloni, Marco
name: Pupillo, Giuseppe
name: Rusticelli, Simone
name: Schiaffino, Marco
name: Schillirò, Francesco
name: Zaccaro, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The signal processing firmware that has been developed for the Low Frequency Aperture Array component of the Square Kilometre Array is described. The firmware is implemented on a dual FPGA board, that is capable of processing the streams from 16 dual polarization antennas. Data processing includes channelization of the sampled data for each antenna, correction for instrumental response and for geometric delays and formation of one or more beams by combining the aligned streams. The channelizer uses an oversampling polyphase filterbank architecture, allowing a frequency continuous processing of the input signal without discontinuities between spectral channels. Each board processes the streams from 16 antennas, as part of larger beamforming system, linked by standard Ethernet interconnections. There are envisaged to be 8192 of these signal processing platforms in the first phase of the Square Kilometre array so particular attention has been devoted to ensure the design is low cost and low power.
description: 19 pages
Nerium zeylanicum L.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Nerium
Nerium zeylanicum

description: 67. Nerium zeylanicum L.,
Cent. Pl. 2: 12. 1756 [cited in Nat. Hist. II (4): 390. 1775].
= Wrightia antidysenterica (L.) R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 73. 1811.
Notes. – A specimen in the Ceylon herbarium annotated by Thunberg as Nerium zeilanicum is in G-PREL [G00818057]. A Thunberg specimen from Ceylon is in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 6125).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 181, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
The Stone Statute
Creators: name: Thomas, Jefferson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Stone Statute is an original novel set in a world where contracts are physically binding. We join Rue, a member of the disenfranchised lower class, as he is about to attempt the Lititurgical Exam. This society is ostensibly meritocratic, and anyone who does well on this exam has a right to study in the capital and become a lititurge – a crafter of contracts. As Rue comes to realize, however, success on this exam is functionally impossible for him. Structural barriers keep necessary resources out of the hands of him and anyone like him, making the exam little more than a false promise meant to pacify the populace with an illusion of social advancement. With his hopes for the future shattered, Rue makes a pact with a demonic figure called a grimgrin for the knowledge that he needs to pass the exam. In doing so, he breaks the Stone Statute – the central contract that binds everyone in this society together – and becomes a grimgrin himself. After passing the exam, he goes to the capital and tries to hide his deception as well as survive in this environment that absolutely does not want him, or anyone like him, to be there.
Tairiku Nippo
大陸日報
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Vancouver, BC : Tairiku Nippŏsha
Year: 2015

description: 国際問題の重要週間；　平和準備委会議延期か；　ニューヨークの児童餓死しつつあり；　死傷病者二千五百万；　戦時中の功に依りて昇爵；　有利なる輸入品；　徴兵猶予願；　大試合彙聞
The Stone Statute
Creators: name: Thomas, Jefferson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: The Stone Statute is an original novel set in a world where contracts are physically binding. We join Rue, a member of the disenfranchised lower class, as he is about to attempt the Lititurgical Exam. This society is ostensibly meritocratic, and anyone who does well on this exam has a right to study in the capital and become a lititurge – a crafter of contracts. As Rue comes to realize, however, success on this exam is functionally impossible for him. Structural barriers keep necessary resources out of the hands of him and anyone like him, making the exam little more than a false promise meant to pacify the populace with an illusion of social advancement. With his hopes for the future shattered, Rue makes a pact with a demonic figure called a grimgrin for the knowledge that he needs to pass the exam. In doing so, he breaks the Stone Statute – the central contract that binds everyone in this society together – and becomes a grimgrin himself. After passing the exam, he goes to the capital and tries to hide his deception as well as survive in this environment that absolutely does not want him, or anyone like him, to be there.
The ortho-to-para ratio of water in interstellar clouds
Creators: name: Faure, A.
name: Hily-Blant, P.
name: Rist, C.
name: Forêts, G. Pineau des
name: Matthews, A.
name: Flower, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nuclear-spin chemistry of interstellar water is investigated using the University of Grenoble Alpes Astrochemical Network (UGAN). This network includes reactions involving the different nuclear-spin states of the hydrides of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, as well as their deuterated forms. Nuclear-spin selection rules are implemented within the scrambling hypothesis for reactions involving up to seven protons. The abundances and ortho-to-para ratios (OPRs) of gas-phase water and water ions (H$_2$O$^+$ and H$_3$O$^+$) are computed under the steady-state conditions representative of a dark molecular cloud and during the early phase of gravitational collapse of a prestellar core. The model incorporates the freezing of the molecules on to grains, simple grain surface chemistry and cosmic-ray induced and direct desorption of ices. The predicted OPRs are found to deviate significantly from both thermal and statistical values and to be independent of temperature below $\sim $30~K. The OPR of H$_2$O is shown to lie between 1.5 and 2.6, depending on the spin-state of H$_2$, in good agreement with values derived in translucent clouds with relatively high extinction. In the prestellar core collapse calculations, the OPR of H$_2$O is shown to reach the statistical value of 3 in regions with severe depletion ($n_{\rm H}> 10^7$~cm$^{-3}$). We conclude that a low water OPR ($\lesssim 2.5$) is consistent with gas-phase ion-neutral chemistry and reflects a gas with OPR(H$_2)\lesssim 1$. Available OPR measurements in protoplanetary disks and comets are finally discussed.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS on 29 May 2019