cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Audio Tagging by Cross Filtering Noisy Labels
Creators: name: Zhu, Boqing
name: Xu, Kele
name: Kong, Qiuqiang
name: Wang, Huaimin
name: Peng, Yuxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High quality labeled datasets have allowed deep learning to achieve impressive results on many sound analysis tasks. Yet, it is labor-intensive to accurately annotate large amount of audio data, and the dataset may contain noisy labels in the practical settings. Meanwhile, the deep neural networks are susceptive to those incorrect labeled data because of their outstanding memorization ability. In this paper, we present a novel framework, named CrossFilter, to combat the noisy labels problem for audio tagging. Multiple representations (such as, Logmel and MFCC) are used as the input of our framework for providing more complementary information of the audio. Then, though the cooperation and interaction of two neural networks, we divide the dataset into curated and noisy subsets by incrementally pick out the possibly correctly labeled data from the noisy data. Moreover, our approach leverages the multi-task learning on curated and noisy subsets with different loss function to fully utilize the entire dataset. The noisy-robust loss function is employed to alleviate the adverse effects of incorrect labels. On both the audio tagging datasets FSDKaggle2018 and FSDKaggle2019, empirical results demonstrate the performance improvement compared with other competing approaches. On FSDKaggle2018 dataset, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance and even surpasses the ensemble models.
description: Accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Uncorrelated Measurements of the Cosmic Expansion History and Dark Energy from Supernovae
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
name: Tegmark, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for measuring the cosmic expansion history H(z) in uncorrelated redshift bins, and apply it to current and simulated type Ia supernova data assuming spatial flatness. If the matter density parameter Omega_m can be accurately measured from other data, then the dark energy density history X(z)=rho_X(z)/rho_X(0) can trivially be derived from this expansion history H(z). In contrast to customary ``black box'' parameter fitting, our method is transparent and easy to interpret: the measurement of H(z)^{-1} in a redshift bin is simply a linear combination of the measured comoving distances for supernovae in that bin, making it obvious how systematic errors propagate from input to output. We find the Riess et al. (2004) ``gold'' sample to be consistent with the ``vanilla'' concordance model where the dark energy is a cosmological constant. We compare two mission concepts for the NASA/DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), the Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI), and the Supernova Accelaration Probe (SNAP), using simulated data including the effect of weak lensing (based on numerical simulations) and a systematic bias from K-corrections. Estimating H(z) in seven uncorrelated redshift bins, we find that both provide dramatic improvements over current data: JEDI can measure H(z) to about 10% accuracy and SNAP to 30-40% accuracy.
description: 7 pages, 4 color figures. Expanded and revised version; PRD in press
An Iterative Graph Spectral Subtraction Method for Speech Enhancement
Creators: name: Yan, Xue
name: Yang, Zhen
name: Wang, Tingting
name: Guo, Haiyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we investigate the application of graph signal processing (GSP) theory in speech enhancement. We first propose a set of shift operators to construct graph speech signals, and then analyze their spectrum in the graph Fourier domain. By leveraging the differences between the spectrum of graph speech and graph noise signals, we further propose the graph spectral subtraction (GSS) method to suppress the noise interference in noisy speech. Moreover, based on GSS, we propose the iterative graph spectral subtraction (IGSS) method to further improve the speech enhancement performance. Our experimental results show that the proposed operators are suitable for graph speech signals, and the proposed methods outperform the traditional basic spectral subtraction (BSS) method and iterative basic spectral subtraction (IBSS) method in terms of both signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and mean Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ).
Rhynchobatus Muller & Henle 1837
Creators: name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
name: Starnes, James E.
name: Phillips, George E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Rhinopristiformes
Rhinidae
Rhynchobatus

description: Genus Rhynchobatus Müller & Henle, 1837
Type species
Rhinobatus laevis Bloch & Schneider, 1801, Extant.
description: Published as part of Cicimurri, David J., Ebersole, Jun A., Stringer, Gary L., Starnes, James E. & Phillips, George E., 2025, Late Oligocene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi, USA, pp. 1-131 in European Journal of Taxonomy 984 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.984.2851, http://zenodo.org/record/15126034
Driven tracer dynamics in a one dimensional quiescent bath
Creators: name: Miron, Asaf
name: Mukamel, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a driven tracer in a quiescent bath subject to geometric confinement effectively models a broad range of phenomena. We explore this dynamics in a 1D lattice model where geometric confinement is tuned by varying particle overtaking rates. Previous studies of the model's stationary properties on a ring of $L$ sites have revealed a phase in which the bath density profile extends over an $\sim \mathcal{O}(L)$ distance from the tracer and the tracer's velocity vanishes as $\sim 1/L$. Here, we study the model's dynamics in this phase as $L\rightarrow \infty$ and for long times. We show that the bath density profile evolves on a $\sim \sqrt{t}$ time-scale and, correspondingly, that the tracer's velocity decays as $\sim 1/\sqrt{t}$. Unlike the well-studied non-driven tracer, whose dynamics becomes diffusive whenever overtaking is allowed, we here find that driving the tracer preserves its hallmark sub-diffusive single-file dynamics, even in the presence of overtaking.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Spin-isospin stability of nuclear matter
Creators: name: Kaiser, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the density-dependent spin-isospin asymmetry energy $J(k_f)$ of nuclear matter in the three-loop approximation of chiral perturbation theory. The interaction contributions to $J(k_f)$ originate from one-pion exchange, iterated one-pion exchange, and irreducible two-pion exchange with no, single, and double virtual $Δ$-isobar excitation. We find that the approximation to $1π$-exchange and iterated $1π$-exchange terms (which leads already to a good nuclear matter equation of state by adjusting an emerging contact-term) is spin-isospin stable, since $J(k_{f0})\simeq 24 {\rm MeV}>0$. The inclusion of the chiral $πNΔ$-dynamics, necessary in order to guarantee the spin-stability of nuclear matter, keeps this property intact. The corresponding spin-isospin asymmetry energy $J(k_f)$ stays positive even for extreme values of an undetermined short-distance parameter $J_5$ (whose possible range we estimate from realistic NN-potentials). The largest positive contribution to $J(k_f)$ (a term linear in density) comes from a two-body contact-term with its strength fitted to the empirical nuclear matter saturation point.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, published in: Phys. Rev. C72, 014007 (2005)
Solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on massively parallel architectures
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Achilles, Sebastian
name: Winkelmann, Jan
name: Haas, Roland
name: Schleife, André
name: Di Napoli, Edoardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The last ten years have witnessed fast spreading of massively parallel computing clusters, from leading supercomputing facilities down to the average university computing center. Many companies in the private sector have undergone a similar evolution. In this scenario, the seamless integration of software and middleware libraries is a key ingredient to ensure portability of scientific codes and guarantees them an extended lifetime. In this work, we describe the integration of the ChASE library, a modern parallel eigensolver, into an existing legacy code for the first-principles computation of optical properties of materials via solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the optical polarization function. Our numerical tests show that, as a result of integrating ChASE and parallelizing the reading routine, the code experiences a remarkable speedup and greatly improved scaling behavior on both multi- and many-core architectures. We demonstrate that such a modernized BSE code will, by fully exploiting parallel computing architectures and file systems, enable domain scientists to accurately study complex material systems that were not accessible before.
description: 17 Pages plus 7 pages of supplemental information, 6 figures and 3 tables. To be submitted to Computer Physics Communications
COVID-19 Spread Faster with Air-Conditioning-Systems
Creators: name: Al-Baghdadi, Maher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Droplets and aerosolized viral particles expelling from the body through coughing or sneezing and it is spreading to nearby surroundings. CFD model has been developed to simulate the air flow and the transport and dispersion of the aerosolized viral particles and fine droplets suspended in the air particles through the office. The study presents two cases involving the spreading limits and pathways of the aerosolized viral particles and fine droplets suspended in the air in a place; without and with air conditioning unit. The results showed that the use of air conditioning systems can increase the chances of spreading COVID-19 virus infection. The air-conditioning unit recirculates the same air inside a room, and this has the potential to create a virus-laden environment. Air circulation indoors such as using air conditioning units should be avoided in closed places. Existing ventilation systems should be expanded to include extraction and air filtration systems and/or germicidal, ultraviolet light. Also, opening a window can help bring in fresh air from the outside and disperse stale air inside, and that could help reduce the possibility of the spread of the virus particles in the closed place. Lastly, crowds of people in closed public places should be avoided.
Meyer, Heinrich, Bekenntnisbindung und Bekenntnisbildung in jungen Kirchen
Creators: name: Gäbler, Paul
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 2 Nr. 3 (1953): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 2, Heft 3
Time-Varying Convex Optimization: Time-Structured Algorithms and Applications
Creators: name: Simonetto, Andrea
name: Dall'Anese, Emiliano
name: Paternain, Santiago
name: Leus, Geert
name: Giannakis, Georgios B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Optimization underpins many of the challenges that science and technology face on a daily basis. Recent years have witnessed a major shift from traditional optimization paradigms grounded on batch algorithms for medium-scale problems to challenging dynamic, time-varying, and even huge-size settings. This is driven by technological transformations that converted infrastructural and social platforms into complex and dynamic networked systems with even pervasive sensing and computing capabilities. The present paper reviews a broad class of state-of-the-art algorithms for time-varying optimization, with an eye to both algorithmic development and performance analysis. It offers a comprehensive overview of available tools and methods, and unveils open challenges in application domains of broad interest. The real-world examples presented include smart power systems, robotics, machine learning, and data analytics, highlighting domain-specific issues and solutions. The ultimate goal is to exempify wide engineering relevance of analytical tools and pertinent theoretical foundations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE
Effect of oil blending and use of natural antioxidants on the chemical composition and thermal stability of oils rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids
Creators: name: Du, Wenqun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The procedure of blending ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) oils with a medium chain, saturated butter oil was initiated for the purpose of minimizing the loss of ω-3 fatty acids to oxidation reaction. The two sources of ω-3 PUFA used were flaxseed oil (rich in ω-3 linolenic acid) and fish oil (rich in very long chain ω-3, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). A common consequence of the dilution of PUFAs by saturated fatty acids present in butter oil was a reduced peroxide value (PV), lower conjugated diene hydroperoxides (CDH) and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) following accelerated oxidation induced by thermal treatment at both 150°C and 180°C, for periods of 8, 16, and 24 h, respectively. The P/S (polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acid) and ω3/ω6 (ω3 to ω6 fatty acid) ratios were both shown to represent predictive indicators of PUFA depletion when fitted to a quadratic model describing the influence of the blend proportions derived from fish oil and butter oil. No optimum could be reached for a blending composition to maximize these indicator ratios of PUFA retention. Moreover, it was determined that both EPA (C20:5ω3) and DHA (C22:6ω3) in fish oil were in fact, more susceptible to thermal oxidation after blending with butter oil. Blending of flaxseed oil with butter oil improved resistance to thermal oxidation as indexed by PV, CDH, and TBARS throughout 8, 16 and 24 h heating periods. A regression, quadratic model effectively optimized the blend of butter oil with flaxseed oil (i.e. 76% flaxseed oil; 24% butter oil) in respect to maximizing the ω3/ω6 ratio. The procedure of cholesterol resulted in a greater stability of the flaxseed oil, as evidenced by significant reductions in TBARS and greater retention of ω-3 and ω-6 PUFAs (P<0.01). Cholesterol oxidation products (COPs) were identified and shown to vary in production as a result of absolute temperature of heating, time of heating and source of oil used in the heating experiment. The combination of adding natural antioxidants, such as rosemary, sage extracts and citric acid was also investigated as a different blending strategy to prevent lipid oxidation in these ω-3 rich oil sources. A quadratic model described the optimization of different proportions of the three antioxidants resulting in a combination of 0.067% rosemary extract, 0.067% sage extract and 0.05% citric acid for a maximal stability of the oil (as evidenced by the lowest formation of CDH). The addition of an optimal mixture of 0.1% rosemary extract, 0.1% rosemary extract with 0.05% citric acid was found to also facilitate a greater retention of linoleic acid and a-linolenic acid in flaxseed oil.
Gravitino dark matter from gluino late decay in split supersymmetry
Creators: name: Wang, Fei
name: Wang, Wenyu
name: Yang, Jin Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In split-supersymmetry (split-SUSY), gluino is a metastable particle and thus can freeze out in the early universe. The late decay of such a long-life gluino into the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) may provide much of the cosmic dark matter content. In this work, assuming the LSP is gravitino produced from the late decay of the metastable gluino, we examine the WMAP dark matter constraints on the gluino mass. We find that to provide the full abundance of dark matter, the gluino must be heavier than about 14 TeV and thus not accessible at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
description: discussions added (version in PRD)
The Transgenderism In The Yellammā Cult
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: While we relate the loss of ‘sumāṁgalya’ by Reṇukā and the rest of Deccan women, to the possible long term effects thereof, we need to distinguish between the two incidents of widowhood. The first is the killing of her husband Jamadagni by Kārtavīrya Arjun; with this Reṇukā became a widow. The second is the massacre of kṣatrīya men by Parśurām; as a result a large number of kṣatrīya women were rendered widows, as described in Māhabhārat : “... at that time when the earth was bereft of Kshatriyas, the Kshatriya ladies, desirous of offspring, used to come, O monarch, to the Brahmanas and Brahmanas of rigid vows had connection with them ... .” [Māhabhārat, Book 1 : Adi Parva : Adivansavatarana Parva : Section LXIV] Which of these incidents of widowhood does ‘rānḍē huṇimē’ memorialize ? Overtly it memorializes the widowhood of Reṇukā on account of the killing of Jamadagni by Kārtavīrya Arjun. But is this the trauma of widowhood that the women of Deccan are carrying in their collective memory ?
110. Variation of the gravitational constant
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: According to our present understanding of the laws of Nature, the gravitational constant (G) does not vary, neither across space, nor time. Measuring any variation over cosmological time would be important in confirming or challenging our present understanding. Measuring such changes is possible, and I explain how Gaia may contribute.
Stellar Bar Evolution in Cuspy and Flat-Cored Triaxial CDM Halos
Creators: name: Berentzen, Ingo
name: Shlosman, Isaac
name: Jogee, Shardha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the evolution of stellar bars in galactic disks in mildly triaxial flat-core and cuspy CDM halos. We use tailored simulations of rigid and live halos which include the feedback from disk/bar onto the halo in order to test the work by El-Zant & Shlosman (2002). The latter used the Liapunov exponents to analyze the fate of bars in analytical asymmetric halos. We find: (1) The bar growth is similar in all rigid axisymmetric and triaxial halos. (2) Bars in live models vertically buckle and form a pseudobulge with a boxy/peanut shape. (3) In live axisymmetric halos, the bar strength varies little during the secular evolution. The bar pattern speed anticorrelates with the halo core size. The bar strength is larger for smaller disk-to-halo mass ratios within disk radii, the bar size correlates with the halo core sizes, and the bar pattern speeds -- with the halo central mass concentration. Bars embedded in live triaxial halos have a starkly different fate: they dissolve on ~1.5-5 Gyr due to the onset of chaos over continuous zones, leaving behind a weak oval distortion. The onset of chaos is related to the halo triaxiality, the fast rotating bar and the halo cuspiness. Before the bar dissolves, the region outside it develops strong spiral structures, especially in the live triaxial halos. (4) More angular momentum is absorbed by the triaxial halos as compared to the axisymmetric models and its exchange is mediated by resonances. (5) Cuspy halos are more susceptible than flat-core halos to having their prolateness washed out by the bar. We analyze these results in terms of the stability of trajectories and development of chaos. We set constraints on the triaxiality of DM halos by comparing our predictions to recent observations of bars out to z~1.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, Astrophysical Journal, in press, Vol. 637. Updated version (text, references)
Gaseous Radiochemical Method for Registration of Ionizing Radiation and Its Possible Applications in Science and Industry
Creators: name: Lebedev, S. G.
name: Yants, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work presents a new possibility of registration of ionizing radiation by the flowing gaseous radiochemical method (FGRM). The specified method uses the property of some solid crystalline lattice materials for a free emission of radioactive isotopes of inert gas atoms formed as a result of nuclear reactions. Generated in an ampoule of the detector, the radioactive inert gases are transported by a gas-carrier into the proportional gas counter of the flowing type, where the decay rate of the radioactive gas species is measured. This quantity is unequivocally related to the flux of particles (neutrons, protons, light and heavy ions) at the location of the ampoule. The method was used to monitor the neutron flux of the pulsed neutron target "RADEX" driven by the linear proton accelerator of INR RAS. Further progress of the FGRM may give rise to possible applications in nuclear physics, astrophysics and medicine, in the nondestructive control of fissionable materials, diagnostics of thermonuclear plasma, monitoring of fluxes and measurement of spectra of bombarding particles.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Mapping Beaufort Sea Topography and Geophysical Settings Using High-Resolution Geospatial Data and GMT
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 90901 Cartography
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The papers presents an integrated processing of the high-resolution thematic data covering the area of the Beaufort Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, northern Canada and Alaska. Five thematic maps of the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean are presented. The cartographic techniques were performed by Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) scripting toolset. The methodology presents the integration of the multi-source high-resolution thematic datasets: bathymetric GEBCO, IBCAO, topographic GLOBE, sediment thickness GlobSed, EGM2008 geoid model, GMT vector layers and geophysical gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1. There is an agreement with the data by their inspection and analysis of grids correlation. The bathymetric map demonstrated variations in depths with rapidly decreasing values in the Mackenzie River coasts, depicting the basin of the Beaufort Sea, large shelf in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and western part bordering the Chukchi Sea. The GDAL inspection shows that the GEBCO-based topography ranges between -3,973 m to 2,578 m. Gravity data shows that coastal areas in northern Canada and Alaska have values >20 mGal while the basin of the Beaufort Sea is dominated by the lower values at -65 to -45 mGal; the data range is from -155.097 to 366.939 mGal. The marine free-air gravity fields and geoid data demonstrate correlation with topographic isolines of the region. The data range for the sediment thickness is from 0.00 to 18064.53 m having maximal data at the Mackenzie River discharge area. A comprehensive compilation of the data on the Beaufort Sea visualized using GMT presents more insights into its bathymetric structure and geophysical fields distribution in context of the variability of the geological settings.
Lyman-alpha radiative transfer: Modeling spectrum and surface brightness profile of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies at z=3-6
Creators: name: Song, Hyunmi
name: Seon, Kwang-Il
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform Lyman-alpha radiative transfer calculations for reproducing Lyman-alpha properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts. We model a galaxy as a halo in which the density distributions of Lyman-alpha sources and H I plus dust medium are described with exponential functions. We also consider an outflow of the medium that represents a momentum-driven wind in a gravitational potential well. We successfully reproduce both the spectra and the surface brightness profiles of eight star-forming galaxies at z =3-6 observed with MUSE using this outflowing halo model with Lyman-alpha scattering. The best-fit model parameters (i.e., the outflowing velocity and optical depth) for these galaxies are consistent with other studies. We examine the impacts of individual model parameters and input spectrum on emerging spectrum and surface brightness profile. Further investigations on correlations among observables (i.e., the spatial extent of Lyman-alpha halos and Lyman-alpha spectral features) and model parameters, and spatially resolved spectra are presented as well. We demonstrate that the combination of spectrum and surface brightness profile provides strong constraints on model parameters and thus spatial/kinematic distributions of medium.
description: Submitted to ApJ, 37 pages, 37 figures, 3 tables
Charged Current Neutrino Nucleus Interactions at Intermediate Energies
Creators: name: Leitner, T.
name: Alvarez-Ruso, L.
name: Mosel, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a model to describe the interactions of neutrinos with nucleons and nuclei, focusing on the region of the quasielastic and Delta(1232) peaks. We describe neutrino nucleon collisions with a fully relativistic formalism which incorporates state-of-the-art parametrizations of the form factors for both the nucleon and the N-Delta transition. The model has then been extended to finite nuclei, taking into account nuclear effects such as Fermi motion, Pauli blocking (both within the local density approximation), nuclear binding and final state interactions. The in-medium modification of the Delta resonance due to Pauli blocking and collisional broadening have also been included. Final state interactions are implemented by means of the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) coupled-channel transport model. Results for charged current inclusive cross sections and exclusive channels as pion production and nucleon knockout are presented and discussed.
description: 26 pages, 24 figures; v2: 2 figures and discussion added, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking in six dimensions
Creators: name: Falkowski, Adam
name: Lee, Hyun Min
name: Ludeling, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking in four-dimensional effective theories derived from six-dimensional brane-world supergravity. Using the Noether method we construct a locally supersymmetric action for a bulk-brane system consisting of the minimal six-dimensional supergravity coupled to vector and chiral multiplets located at four-dimensional branes. Couplings of the bulk moduli to the brane are uniquely fixed, in particular, they are flavour universal. We compactify this system on T_2/Z_2 and derive the four-dimensional effective supergravity. The tree-level effective Kahler potential is not of the sequestered form, therefore gravity mediation may occur at tree-level. We identify one scenario of moduli stabilization in which the soft scalar masses squared are postive.
description: 21 pages, no figures; v2: several parts of texts rewritten, references and numerous comments added, version published in JHEP
COMPUTER USE AND MARKETING CONCEPTS IN THE PRODUCE BROKER INDUSTRY
Creators: name: DiAntonio, Angelo E.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
name: DiAntonio, Angelo E.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Determine the motivation for making changes in the mechanics of processing data and assess the interest of the produce broker industry in such items as uniform communication standard and electronic market.
Null models for multi-optimized large-scale network structures
Creators: name: Morel-Balbi, Sebastian
name: Peixoto, Tiago P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the emerging large-scale structures in networks subject to selective pressures that simultaneously drive towards higher modularity and robustness against random failures. We construct maximum-entropy null models that isolate the effects of the joint optimization on the network structure from any kind of evolutionary dynamics. Our analysis reveals a rich phase diagram of optimized structures, composed of many combinations of modular, core-periphery and bipartite patterns. Furthermore, we observe parameter regions where the simultaneous optimization can be either synergistic or antagonistic, with the improvement of one criterion directly aiding or hindering the other, respectively. Our results show how interactions between different selective pressures can be pivotal in determining the emerging network structure, and that these interactions can be captured by simple network models.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Patentability of Biotechnology, Is Morality a Stumbling-Block or a Stepping-Stone?
Creators: name: Suchithra Withanage
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180115 Intellectual Property Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Biotechnology

description: The aim of this research paper is to explore the conflict of morality and the patent system with regard to biotechnological inventions, and provide a thorough analysis of how these elements have interacted and reconciled across various important patent jurisdictions.The analysis elaborates on the roles of patent authorities, judiciaries, moral activists and academics across the field in contributing to the harmonisation efforts of science and morals, and reflects on the philosophical aspect of the conjunction of these controversial subject areas. The traditional interpretivist and teleological legal methods are used for the assembly of information for the larger part of the thesis, whilst employing a qualitative approach to research on an a priori basis rather than a posteriori.
IMPACTS OF THE 1983 TRUCK STRIKE ON THE FLORIDA PRODUCE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Creators: name: Beilock, Richard P.
name: Comer, Dorothy A.
name: Beilock, Richard P.
name: Comer, Dorothy A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital

description: The Florida produce industry demonstrated a surprising ability to make adjustments and thus the strike by truck drivers did not seriously disrupt produce shipments. Although, there may be long-term changes in the modes of transportation utilized by the industry in the future.
SATISFACTION EVALUATION OF FOOD-AWAY-FROM-HOME CHOICES BY CONSUMERS
Creators: name: Bhuyan, Sanjib
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Bhuyan, Sanjib
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This study analyzes consumers' selection of outlets and brands and their menu choices, including nutritional issues, when they eat out. This study is expected to help understand future demand for various segments of the food-away-from-home (FAFH) market in terms of menus, nutrition, and consumers' economic and socio-ethnic characteristics, among others.
Achieving highly strengthened Al-Cu-Mg alloy by grain refinement and grain boundary segregation
Creators: name: Masuda, Takahiro
name: Sauvage, Xavier
name: Hirosawa, Shoichi
name: Horita, Zenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An age-hardenable Al-Cu-Mg alloy (A2024) was processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) for producing an ultrafine-grained structure. The alloy was further aged for extra strengthening. The tensile strength then reached a value as high as ~1 GPa. The microstructures were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. The mechanism for the high strength was clarified in terms of solid-solution hardening, cluster hardening, work hardening, dispersion hardening and grain boundary hardening. It is shown that the segregation of solute atoms at grain boundaries including subgrain boundaries plays a significant role for the enhancement of the tensile strength.
Surface charges and dynamical Killing tensors for higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces
Creators: name: Barnich, G.
name: Bouatta, N.
name: Grigoriev, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of massless higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces, we compute the surface charges which generalize the electric charge for spin one, the color charges in Yang-Mills theories and the energy-momentum and angular momentum for asymptotically flat gravitational fields. We show that there is a one-to-one map from surface charges onto divergence free Killing tensors. These Killing tensors are computed by relating them to a cohomology group of the first quantized BRST model underlying the Fronsdal action.
description: 21 pages Latex file, references and comment added
Benz, Ernst / Zander, Leo A. (Hrsg.), Evangelisches und orthodoxes Christentum in Begegnung und Auseinandersetzung
Creators: name: Friz, Karl
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 2 Nr. 3 (1953): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 2, Heft 3
Additional file 2 of Methods for selecting the best evidence to inform a NICE technology appraisal on selective internal radiation therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Wade, Ros
name: Sharif-Hurst, Sahar
name: Harden, Melissa
name: Walton, Matthew
name: Claxton, Lindsay
name: Hodgson, Robert
name: Eastwood, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Risk of bias assessment results for the 20 studies prioritised for data extraction. (DOCX) Additional file 2 is a table presenting the risk of bias assessment results for the 20 studies prioritised for data extraction.
Enhanced optical nonlinearities under strong light-matter coupling
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Raphael F.
name: Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Jorge A.
name: Giebink, Noel C.
name: Xiong, Wei
name: Yuen-Zhou, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical microcavities and metallic nanostructures have been shown to significantly modulate the dynamics and spectroscopic response of molecular systems. We present a study of the nonlinear optics of a model consisting of $N$ anharmonic multilevel systems (e.g., Morse oscillators) undergoing collective strong coupling with a resonant infrared microcavity. We find that, under experimentally accessible conditions, molecular systems in microcavities may have nonlinear phenomena significantly intensified due to the high quality of polariton resonances and the enhanced microcavity electromagnetic energy density relative to free space. Particularly large enhancement of multiphoton absorption happens when multipolariton states are resonant with bare molecule multiphoton transitions. In particular, our model predicts two-photon absorption cross section enhancements by several orders of magnitude relative to free space when the Rabi splitting $Ω_R$ is approximately equal to the molecular anharmonic shift $2Δ$. Our results provide rough upper bounds to resonant nonlinear response enhancement factors as relaxation to dark states is treated phenomenologically. Notably, ensembles of two-level systems undergoing strong coupling with a cavity (described by the Tavis-Cummings model) show no such optical nonlinearity enhancements, highlighting the rich phenomenology afforded by multilevel anharmonic systems. Similar conclusions are expected to hold for excitonic systems that share features with our model (e.g., molecular dyes with accessible S_0 -> S_1 -> S_2 transitions) and strongly interact with a UV-visible cavity.
An algorithm to detect blends with eclipsing binaries in planet transit searches
Creators: name: Hoekstra, Henk
name: Wu, Yanqin
name: Udalski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an algorithm that can detect blends of bright stars with fainter, un-associated eclipsing binaries. Such systems contaminate searches for transiting planets, in particular in crowded fields where blends are common. Spectroscopic follow-up observations on large aperture telescopes have been used to reject these blends, but the results are not always conclusive. Our approach exploits the fact that a blend with a eclipsing binary changes its shape during eclipse. We analyze original imaging data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), which were used to discover planet transit candidates. Adopting a technique developed in weak gravitational lensing to carefully correct for the point spread function which varies both with time and across the field, we demonstrate that ellipticities can be measured with great accuracy using an ensemble of images. Applied to OGLE-TR-3 and OGLE-TR-56, two of the planetary transit candidates, we show that both systems are blended with fainter stars, as are most other stars in the OGLE fields. Moreover, while we do not detect shape change when TR-56 undergoes transits, TR-3 exhibits a significant shape change during eclipses. We therefore conclude that TR-3 is indeed a blend with an eclipsing binary, as has been suggested from other lines of evidence. The probability that its shape change is caused by residual systematics is found to be less than 0.6%. Our technique incurs no follow-up cost and requires little human interaction. As such it could become part of the data pipeline for any planetary transit search to minimize contamination by blends. We briefly discuss its relevance for the Kepler mission and for binary star detection.
description: Submitted to ApJ, 10 pages, 10 figures
INTEGRATED QUALITY-CONTROL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN BANANA PRODUCTION, PACKAGING, AND MARKETING
Creators: name: Fonsah, Esendugue Greg
name: Fonsah, Esendugue Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Globally, banana and plantain is the fourth most important crop in terms of food value. In some Central American and Asian countries banana production has become a major source of export earnings. Some countries, especially the Francophone West Africa, have acknowledge its commercial importance and capitalized on the special relationship accorded them by the Lome Convention to produce and export bananas to France and other EU markets concomitantly. The endemic banana quality problems reported by customers in the EEC and other markets around the world are scarring, bruising, knife injuries, crown rots, sooty mould, finger rots, speckling, under-peel discoloration, etc. These defects are complete turn-offs to the end users and have a significant negative impact on consumer satisfaction and sales volume. The objective of this research is to study the origin of these defects, from the plantation through the packaging station to the market place, and to implement strategies aimed at alleviating them. The reject conveyor sampling analysis (RCSA) and Eight Quality Control Check Points (8QCCPs) models were utilized.
Additional file 1 of Methods for selecting the best evidence to inform a NICE technology appraisal on selective internal radiation therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Wade, Ros
name: Sharif-Hurst, Sahar
name: Harden, Melissa
name: Walton, Matthew
name: Claxton, Lindsay
name: Hodgson, Robert
name: Eastwood, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Study characteristics and results of the 20 studies prioritised for data extraction. (DOCX) Additional file 1 is a table presenting study characteristics and results of the 20 studies prioritised for data extraction.
Identifying Sto:lo basketry : exploring different ways of knowing material culture
Creators: name: Fortney, Sharon M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Coast Salish coiled basketry has been a much-neglected area of research. Previous investigations into this topic have been primarily concerned with geo-cultural distributions, and discussions pertaining to stylistic attributes. In recent years several scholars have turned their attention to the topic of Salish weavings, but they have focused their efforts quite narrowly on textiles made from wool and other similar fibres to the exclusion of weaving techniques such as basketry which utilise local roots and barks. This thesis will focus exclusively on one type of Salish basketry - coiled basketry. In this thesis I explore different ways of identifying, or "knowing", Coast Salish coiled cedar root basketry. I specifically focus on Sto:lo basketry and identify three ways in which Sto:lo basket makers "know" these objects. First I discuss the Halkomelem terminology and what insights it provides to indigenous classification systems. Secondly, I situate coiled basketry in a broader Coast Salish weaving complex in order to discuss how basketry is influenced by other textile arts. This also enables me to explore how Sto:lo weavers identify a well-made object. In the final section I discuss ownership of designs by individuals and their families. This research draws primarily from interviews conducted with Sto:lo basket makers between May and September 2000 in their communities and at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. It is supplemented by interviews with basket makers from other Salish communities and by the ethnographic literature on this topic.
WHO ARE THE CONSUMERS OF VIDALIA ONIONS?
Creators: name: Costa, Ecio De Farias
name: Wolfe, Kent
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: McKissick, John C.
name: Costa, Ecio De Farias
name: Wolfe, Kent
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: McKissick, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This study presents results of a telephone survey that was administered to primary food shoppers who had consumed Vidalia onions in the past. The survey samples were distributed according to the amount of Vidalia onions shipped to five different regions in the United States and weighed by the U.S. Census. Results indicate that Vidalia onions are the preferred sweet onion among consumers interviewed, that at-home consumption is highest, and that the quality of Vidalia onions remains high among the sample interviewed. Very little advertising was recalled, but in-store advertising was mentioned as the most effective.
Bulk and surface transitions in asymmetric simple exclusion process: Impact on boundary layers
Creators: name: Mukherji, Sutapa
name: Mishra, Vivek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study boundary-induced phase transitions in a particle non-conserving asymmetric simple exclusion process with open boundaries. Using boundary layer analysis, we show that the key signatures of various bulk phase transitions are present in the boundary layers of the density profiles. In addition, we also find possibilities of surface transitions in the low- and high- density phases. The surface transition in the low-density phase provides a more complete description of the non-equilibrium critical point found in this system.
description: 9 pages including figures
Pairing of Massive Black Holes in Merger Galaxies Driven by Dynamical Friction
Creators: name: Li, Kunyang
name: Bogdanovic, Tamara
name: Ballantyne, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by observational searches for massive black hole (MBH) pairs at kiloparsec separations we develop a semi-analytic model to describe their orbital evolution under the influence of stellar and gaseous dynamical friction (DF). The goal of this study is to determine how the properties of the merger remnant galaxy and the MBHs affect the likelihood and timescale for formation of a close MBH pair with separation of < 1 pc. We compute approximately 40,000 configurations that cover a wide range of host galaxy properties and investigate their impact on the orbital evolution of unequal mass MBH pairs. We find that the percentage for MBH pairing within a Hubble time is larger than 80% in remnant galaxies with a gas fraction < 20% and in galaxies hosting MBH pairs with total mass > 10^6 solar mass and mass ratios > 1/4. Among these, the remnant galaxies characterized by the fastest formation of close, gravitationally bound MBHs have one or more of the following properties: (1) large stellar bulge, (2) comparable mass MBHs and (3) a galactic gas disk rotating close to the circular speed. In such galaxies, the MBHs with the shortest inspiral times, which are likely progenitors of coalescing MBHs, are either on circular prograde orbits or on very eccentric retrograde orbits. Our model also indicates that remnant galaxies with opposite properties, that host slowly evolving MBH pairs, are the most likely hosts of dual AGNs at kiloparsec separations.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 16 pages, 11 figures