cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Knot cobordisms, bridge index, and torsion in Floer homology
Creators: name: Juhász, András
name: Miller, Maggie
name: Zemke, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R58, 57M27, 57R70, 57R40

description: Given a connected cobordism between two knots in the 3-sphere, our main result is an inequality involving torsion orders of the knot Floer homology of the knots, and the number of local maxima and the genus of the cobordism. This has several topological applications: The torsion order gives lower bounds on the bridge index and the band-unlinking number of a knot, the fusion number of a ribbon knot, and the number of minima appearing in a slice disk of a knot. It also gives a lower bound on the number of bands appearing in a ribbon concordance between two knots. Our bounds on the bridge index and fusion number are sharp for $T_{p,q}$ and $T_{p,q}\# \overline{T}_{p,q}$, respectively. We also show that the bridge index of $T_{p,q}$ is minimal within its concordance class. The torsion order bounds a refinement of the cobordism distance on knots, which is a metric. As a special case, we can bound the number of band moves required to get from one knot to the other. We show knot Floer homology also gives a lower bound on Sarkar's ribbon distance, and exhibit examples of ribbon knots with arbitrarily large ribbon distance from the unknot.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Journal of Topology
Essays on Agricultural and Labor Markets in India
Creators: Shamdasani, Yogita
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Economics
Labor market
Agriculture--Economic aspects

description: This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on agricultural and labor markets in rural India.
      Chapter 1 estimates the role of improvements in transport infrastructure on households' production decisions in agriculture. The Central Government of India launched a large-scale rural road-building program in 2000, targeting villages that lacked any single all-weather connectivity. Strict guidelines governed eligibility and timing of program road provision. I exploit the precise timing of road construction as a source of exogenous variation in connectivity using a household-level panel in a difference-in-differences framework. I find that households who gain access to improved rural road infrastructure diversify their crop portfolio, increase take up of complementary productive inputs and intensify labor hiring. Households subsequently enter into the sales of farm output, indicating a transition from subsistence to market-oriented farming. Evidence from a field survey suggests that these effects operate through an increase in mobility of agricultural workers across connected village labor markets. These findings emphasize the substantial barrier to productive investments in agriculture generated by poor rural road connectivity that hampers the integration of labor markets across space.
      Chapter 2 (with Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur) investigates whether worker utility is affected by co-worker wages, which has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to baseline productivity rank). We find that for a given absolute wage, pay inequality reduces output and attendance by 0.24 standard deviations and 12%, respectively. These effects strengthen in later weeks. Pay disparity also lowers co-workers' ability to cooperate in their self-interest. However, when workers can clearly observe productivity differences, pay inequality has no discernible effect on output, attendance, or group cohesion.
      Chapter 3 uses experimental evidence to understand the impacts of providing workers with meaningful short-term employment during the lean season in agriculture. I randomize job offers among Indian agricultural workers who express interest in a month-long employment opportunity in low-skill manufacturing, and I follow these workers several weeks after the employment opportunity concludes. I find reductions in labor supply and gains in consumption among workers who received job offers. These effects are concentrated among landless workers, suggesting that employment provision during the lean months alleviated a binding constraint for this subgroup.
Optimizing Biophotovoltaic Systems: Evaluating Freshwater Green Algae and Marine Diatoms for Enhanced Electricity Generation
Creators: name: Nur, Muhamad Maulana Azimatun
name: Puspitaningrum, Dwi Aulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This material has been presented on 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology 2024 October 23 - 24, 2024.
title: Numerical Study of the Brisbane River Plume in Moreton Bay, Australia
Creators: name: Yu, Yingying
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Buoyant river plume
subject: Brisbane River plume
subject: Brisbane River discharge

description: Coastal rivers that discharge freshwater, with sediment and nutrients, into the ocean often generate a buoyant river plume in the vicinity of the river mouth. The river plume, driven by river floods, has become a significant environmental issue, which may be increasing in occurrence and severity as a consequence of climate change. The excess runoff created by floods has the capacity to carry a large amount of sediment and contaminants from land-based human activities into the coastal and shelf waters. The purpose of this research was to examine the dynamic and transport characteristics of the Brisbane River plume using a numerical model. It also sought to answer the following questions: 1) What is the seasonal behaviour of the Brisbane River plume, particularly during flood seasons, and 2) What are the impacts of external forces acting on the Brisbane River plume? It is anticipated that the knowledge gained from this research will promote a better understanding of the Brisbane River plume behaviour in Moreton Bay.
Siphonodictyon xamaycaense Pulitzer-Finali 1986
Creators: name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Fernandez, Julio C. C.
name: Gómez, Patricia
name: Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele
name: Simões, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Phloeodictyidae
Siphonodictyon
Siphonodictyon xamaycaense

description: Siphonodictyon xamaycaense Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Tables 6, 7; Figs. 40A–E, 45F–G
 Synonymy and references: Siphonodictyon xamaycaense Pulitzer-Finali (1986: 164), Rützler et al. (2014: 89), and Pérez et al. (2017: 10); Aka aff. xamaycaensis Hofman & Kielman (1992: 206); Aka xamaycaensis Alcolado & Busutil (2012: 71).
 Type locality. Jamaica.
 Material examined. CNPGG-2432, CNPGG-2441, Cabezo reef (19.05861°N, 95.8238°W), 9.7 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 30 August 2018.
 Description. Habit erect wih hollow cylinders (Fig. 45F – G), with thin and fragile walls, burrowing coral rubble—mucus present. The tube’s length ranges from 1–4 cm, and diameter of 0.5–0.7 cm. The surface is smooth. Oscular opening at the end of the cylinder 2–6 mm. White color in vivo and when preserved in ethanol. The consistency is friable.
 Skeleton. The wall’s ectosomal skeleton consists of a well-developed network of primary fibers and secondary fibers: 700–1000/300–700 µm wide. Primary tracts are packed with spicules, 75–300 µm thick. The secondary fibers are two to five spicules thick (Figs. 40 A–C).
 Spicules. Megascleres: oxeas slightly curved and with uniform size (Figs. 40D–E): 100– 126.2 (7.2)–140/7.2– 8.3 (0.7)–9.5 µm.
 Distribution. Mexico (current records), Jamaica (Pulitzer-Finali 1986), other countries in the Caribbean Sea (Rützler et al. 2014).
 Remarks. Siphonodictyon xamaycaense has been recorded only from the Caribbean Sea; thus, our material represents the northernmost record of the species and the GoM’s first record. The specimens examined showed spicule sizes larger than the holotype described by Pulitzer-Finali (1986), 110–125/ 4.5–6 µm. However, other specimens recorded in Colombia (Hofman & Kielman 1992) have oxeas with similar sizes (120–150/ 6–8 µm). Also, the range in length of cylinders between the Colombian and GoM specimens is similar (1–7 cm) compared with those recorded by Pulitzer-Finali (1986), 8–11 cm length.
 Order Poecilosclerida Topsent, 1928
description: Published as part of Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
title: Taraxacum ceratophorum
title: Gehörntes Pfaffenröhrlein (Taraxacum ceratophorum)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 5 Bilder des Gehörnten Pfaffenröhrleins.
ON CONFLICT OF INTERESTS IN A COMPARATIVE VEIN: THE ISSUE HISTORY AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS / О конфликте интересов - в компаративном ключе: история вопроса и практические моменты // Исторические, философские, политические и юридические науки, культурология и искусствоведение. Вопросы теории и практики. 2016. № 3-2. С. 142-145
Creators: name: Simashenkov, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: 160204 Criminological Theories
subject: 160504 Crime Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220107 Professional Ethics (incl. police and research ethics)
subject: 220305 Ethical Theory
subject: 220105 Legal Ethics
subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the normative and law-enforcement aspects of the prevention of conflict of interests in government and municipal service. Revealing gaps in the legislation and the competition of the norms the author of the paper suggests shifting the accents of the qualification of conflict of interests and paying more attention to objective criteria characterized as a potentially compromising situation instead of subjective ones
title: Taraxacum cucullatum agg.
title: Kapuzen-Löwenzahn (Taraxacum cucullatum agg.)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 7 Bilder des Kapuzen-Löwenzahns.
KAM Theorem and Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Bricmont, J.
name: Gawedzki, K.
name: Kupiainen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a new proof of the KAM theorem for analytic Hamiltonians. The proof is inspired by a quantum field theory formulation of the problem and is based on a renormalization group argument treating the small denominators inductively scale by scale. The crucial cancellations of resonances are shown to follow from the Ward identities expressing the translation invariance of the corresponding field theory.
description: 32 pages
MetaChem: An Algebraic Framework for Artificial Chemistries
Creators: name: Rainford, Penelope Faulkner
name: Sebald, Angelika
name: Stepney, Susan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce MetaChem, a language for representing and implementing Artificial Chemistries. We motivate the need for modularisation and standardisation in representation of artificial chemistries. We describe a mathematical formalism for Static Graph MetaChem, a static graph based system. MetaChem supports different levels of description, and has a formal description; we illustrate these using StringCatChem, a toy artificial chemistry. We describe two existing Artificial Chemistries -- Jordan Algebra AChem and Swarm Chemistries -- in MetaChem, and demonstrate how they can be combined in several different configurations by using a MetaChem environmental link. MetaChem provides a route to standardisation, reuse, and composition of Artificial Chemistries and their tools.
description: 39 pages, 19 figures; minor typos corrected
Essays on Applying Bayesian Data Analysis to Improve Evidence-based Decision-making in Education
Creators: Pan, Yilin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education--Decision making
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Education--Econometric models
Education and state
School management and organization
Economics

description: This three-article dissertation aims to apply Bayesian data analysis to improve the methodologies that process effectiveness findings, cost information and subjective judgments with the purpose of providing clear, localized guidance for decision makers in educational resource allocation. The first article shows how to use a Bayesian hierarchical model to capture the uncertainty of the effectiveness-cost ratio. The uncertainty information produced by the model may inform the decision makers of the best- and worst-case scenarios of the program efficiency if it is replicated. The second article introduces Bayesian decision theory to address a subset of methodological barriers that hamper the influence of research on educational decision-making, including how to generalize or extrapolate effectiveness and cost information from the evaluation site(s) to a specific context, how to incorporate information from multiple sources, and how to aggregate multiple consequences of an intervention into one framework. The purpose of this article is to generate evidence of program comparison that applies to a specific school facing a decision problem by incorporating the decision-makers' subjective judgements and modeling their specific preference on multiple consequences. The third article proposes a randomized control trial to detect whether principals and practitioners update their beliefs on the effectiveness and cost of educational programs in the light of uncertainty information and localized evidence. Supplemented by a pilot qualitative study that guides decision makers to work on self-defined decision problems, the pilot testing of the experiment provides some evidence on the plausibility of using an experiment to identify the causal impact of research evidence on decision-making.
Intermittency and Anomalous Scaling of Passive Scalars in Any Space Dimension
Creators: name: Eyink, Gregory L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish exact inequalities for the structure-function scaling exponents of a passively advected scalar in both the inertial-convective and viscous-convective ranges. These inequalities involve the scaling exponents of the velocity structure functions and, in a refined form, an intermittency exponent of the convective-range scalar flux. They are valid for 3D Navier-Stokes turbulence and satisfied within errors by present experimental data. The inequalities also hold for any ``synthetic'' turbulent velocity statistics with a finite correlation in time. We show that for time-correlation exponents of the velocity smaller than the ``local turnover'' exponent, the scalar spectral exponent is strictly less than that in Kraichnan's soluble ``rapid-change'' model with velocity delta-correlated in time. Our results include as a special case an exponent-inequality derived previously by Constantin \& Procaccia [Nonlinearity {\bf 7} 1045 (1994)], but with a more direct proof. The inequalities in their simplest form follow from a Kolmogorov-type relation for the turbulent passive scalar valid in each space dimension $d.$ Our improved inequalities are based upon a rigorous version of the refined similarity hypothesis for passive scalars. These are compared with the relations implied by ``fusion rules'' hypothesized for scalar gradients.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
title: Homogyne alpina
title: Gewöhnlicher Alpenlattich (Homogyne alpina)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Alpen-Brandlattich
subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 9 Bilder des Gewöhnlichen Alpenlattichs.
title: Willemetia stipitata
title: Gestielter Kronenlattich (Willemetia stipitata)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild des Gestielten Kronenlattichs.
Hamilton-Jacobi approach to Berezinian singular systems
Creators: name: Pimentel, B. M.
name: Teixeira, R. G.
name: Tomazelli, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a formal generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, recently developed for singular systems, to include the case of Lagrangians containing variables which are elements of Berezin algebra. We derive the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for such systems, analizing the singular case in order to obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations and study the integrability conditions for such equations. An example is solved using both Hamilton-Jacobi and Dirac's Hamiltonian formalisms and the results are compared.
description: LaTex, 30 pages, no figures
Clathria (Thalysias) virgultosa
Creators: name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Fernandez, Julio C. C.
name: Gómez, Patricia
name: Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele
name: Simões, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Microcionidae
Clathria
Clathria virgultosa

description: Clathria (Thalysias) virgultosa (Esper, 1806)
Tables 6, 7; Figs. 44A–H, 45K
 Synonymy and references: Spongia virgultosa Esper, 1806; Lamarck (1814); Clathria copiosa, Clathria jugosa, Rhaphidophlus juniperinus, Spongia virgultosa, Tenacia clathrata, Thalysias juniperina, Thalysias juniperina, see references compiled in Hooper (1996: 411), and Gómez (2014: 74); Clathria (Thalysias) virgultosa: Hooper (1996: 411), Gómez (2014: 74), and Rützler et al. (2014: 62).
 Type locality. Greater Antilles.
 Material examined. CNPGG-2357, Banco Obispo Sur reef (20.42345°N, 92.22743°W), 9 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 14 September 2017.
 Distribution. Mexico (Topsent 1889 as Clathria copiosa; Hartman 1955 as Microciona juniperina; Gómez 2014; current records), Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea (Zea et al. 2014).
 Remarks. Clathria (T.) virgultosa has been reported for the southern (Gómez 2014) and northern GoM (Rützler et al. 2009). This species has different morphotypes from bush shaped to encrusting, always rugose surface and reddish color. It is also distinguished by unusual acanthostyles with a smooth shaft at the mid-region and spined on both endings (Gómez 2014). Our material has an encrusting habit, rugose surface, and reddish color. We observe neither microtoxa, nor oxhorn toxa, nor a larger category of palmate isochelae, but we observe the unusual acanthostyles with a smooth shaft at the mid-region, and spined on both endings; see spiculation of C. (T.) virgultosa described by Gómez (2014) and Zea et al. 2014.
description: Published as part of Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
Uniform trace formulae for SU(2) and SO(3) symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Brack, M.
name: Meier, P.
name: Tanaka, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop uniform approximations for the trace formula for non-integrable systems in which SU(2) symmetry is broken by a non-linear term of the Hamiltonian. As specific examples, we investigate Hénon-Heiles type potentials. Our formalism can also be applied to the breaking of SO(3) symmetry in a three-dimensional cavity with axially-symmetric quadrupole deformation.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures, REVTex 3.0
Preparation and evaluation of a nanoemulsion containing cordycepin and its protective effect on skin
Creators: name: Zhang, Hucheng
name: Deng, Lina
name: Yang, Jun
name: Yang, Guowei
name: Fan, Haitao
name: Yin, Yiqi
name: Luo, Shuai
name: Li, Shuangshi
name: Liu, Linying
name: Yang, Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The purpose of this work was to analyze and evaluate the functional properties of a new nanoemulsion that contained cordycepin. Droplet size and distribution were measured, and the stability of the nanoemulsion in different storage conditions was evaluated. We also tested skin irritation caused by the nanoemulsion, cordycepin stability in the nanoemulsion, anti-aging effect, and microbial challenge. The nanoemulsion was homogeneous with proper dispersion stability, and cordycepin was stable for eight months within the cosmetic nanoemulsion. The nanoemulsion did not irritate human hand and face skin, and the cosmetic nanoemulsion was effective in preventing microbial contamination of the product during use and storage. The new nanoemulsion containing cordycepin satisfied provisions of the 2015 Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics of the Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of China.
Comparative Analysis of Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions for Edge Computing: Performance and Resource Efficiency
Creators: name: Yakubov, Diyaz
name: Hästbacka, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Edge computing environments increasingly rely on lightweight container orchestration platforms to manage resource-constrained devices. This paper provides an empirical analysis of five lightweight kubernetes distributions (KD)(k0s, k3s, KubeEdge, OpenYurt, and Kubernetes (k8s)) focusing on their performance and resource efficiency in edge computing scenarios. We evaluated key metrics such as CPU, memory, disk usage, throughput, and latency under varying workloads, utilizing a testbed of Intel NUCs and Raspberry Pi devices. Our results demonstrate significant differences in performance: k3s exhibited the lowest resource consumption, while k0s and k8s excelled in data plane throughput and latency. Under heavy stress scenarios, k3s and k0s accomplished the same workloads faster than the other distributions. OpenYurt offered balanced performance, suitable for hybrid cloud-edge use cases, but was less efficient in terms of resource usage and scalability compared to k0s, k3s and k8s. KubeEdge, although feature-rich for edge environments, exhibited higher resource consumption and lower scalability. These findings offer valuable insights for developers and operators selecting appropriate KD based on specific performance and resource efficiency requirements for edge computing environments.
description: Project's repository: https://github.com/DiyazY/iot-edge
Preparation and evaluation of a nanoemulsion containing cordycepin and its protective effect on skin
Creators: name: Zhang, Hucheng
name: Deng, Lina
name: Yang, Jun
name: Yang, Guowei
name: Fan, Haitao
name: Yin, Yiqi
name: Luo, Shuai
name: Li, Shuangshi
name: Liu, Linying
name: Yang, Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The purpose of this work was to analyze and evaluate the functional properties of a new nanoemulsion that contained cordycepin. Droplet size and distribution were measured, and the stability of the nanoemulsion in different storage conditions was evaluated. We also tested skin irritation caused by the nanoemulsion, cordycepin stability in the nanoemulsion, anti-aging effect, and microbial challenge. The nanoemulsion was homogeneous with proper dispersion stability, and cordycepin was stable for eight months within the cosmetic nanoemulsion. The nanoemulsion did not irritate human hand and face skin, and the cosmetic nanoemulsion was effective in preventing microbial contamination of the product during use and storage. The new nanoemulsion containing cordycepin satisfied provisions of the 2015 Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics of the Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of China.
Dirac branes for Dirichlet branes: Supergravity actions
Creators: name: Frey, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nontrivial Bianchi identities with local magnetic sources are solved by recognizing that gauge potentials are sections rather than globally defined functions, but properly accounting for the source degrees of freedom requires a modification of the field strength. Following work by Teitelboim and by Cariglia and Lechner, we extend Dirac's string formalism for monopoles to D-branes in type IIA and IIB string theory. We give novel derivations of brane-induced Chern-Simons terms in the supergravity actions, including a prescription for integrating over potentials in the presence of magnetic sources. We give a noncovariant formulation of the IIB theory, keeping only the independent degrees of freedom of the self-dual 4-form potential. Finally, it is well-known that D8-branes source the mass parameter of IIA supergravity; we show that the additional couplings of the massive IIA supergravity, including on other D-brane worldvolumes, are a consequence of the corresponding Dirac branes.
description: 16pp + appendices + references (two column); dedicated to the memory of J. Polchinski; v2. revision to noncovariant IIB action, other minor additions inc. references; v3. minor edits, column formatting; v4. as published in PRD modulo typography and inclusion of dedication
OBSERVED GAS HYDRATE MORPHOLOGIES IN MARINE SEDIMENTS
Creators: name: Holland, Melanie
name: Schultheiss, Peter
name: Roberts, John
name: Druce, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Small-scale morphology of gas hydrate is important for understanding the formation of gas hydrate deposits, for estimating the concentrations of gas hydrate from geophysical data, and for predicting their response to climate change or commercial production. The recent use of borehole pressure coring tools has allowed marine gas-hydrate-bearing sediments to be recovered with centimeter to sub-millimeter gas hydrate structures preserved in their in situ condition. Once these sediment samples are recovered at in situ temperature and pressure, nondestructive analyses, including gamma density, P-wave velocity, and X-ray imaging, are used to examine the character of the gas hydrate relative to the structure of the surrounding sediment. Gas hydrate morphology from pressure core data is summarized from the recent national gas hydrate expeditions of India, China, and Korea, as well as from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 204, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 311, and the Gulf of Mexico Chevron-Texaco Joint Industry Project. The most striking result is the variability of gas hydrate morphology in clay, ranging from complex vein structures to an invisible pore-filling matrix. Both of these morphologies have been observed in clay sediments at gas hydrate saturations equivalent to 30-40% of pore volume. A clear knowledge of detailed gas hydrate morphology will provide important data to help determine the mechanisms of gas hydrate deposit formation and also provide crucial data for modeling the kinetics of deposit dissociation, from both natural and artificial causes. The morphology also has large effects on sedimentary physical properties, from seismic velocities on a large scale to borehole electrical resistivities on a smaller scale, and gas hydrate morphology will therefore impact estimation of gas hydrate saturation from geophysical data. The detailed morphology of gas hydrate is an essential component for a full understanding of the past, present, and future of any gas hydrate environment.
Witnessing the Hierarchical Assembly of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Cluster at z=1.26
Creators: name: Yamada, T.
name: Koyama, Y.
name: Nakata, F.
name: Kajisawa, M.
name: Tanaka, I.
name: Kodama, T.
name: Okamura, S.
name: De Propris, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained a new high-resolution K'-band image of the central region of the rich X-ray cluster RX J0848.9+4452 at z=1.26. We found that the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the cluster is clearly separated into two distinct objects. Whereas the optical to near-infrared colors of the objects are consistent with the predictions of passive evolution models for galaxies formed at high redshift, the luminosities of the two galaxies are both considerably fainter than predicted by passive evolution of BCG's in low and intermediate redshift clusters. We argue that this is evidence of an on-going merger of normal cluster ellipticals to form the dominant galaxy in the core of RX J0848.9+4452. The two galaxies appear to point towards the nearby cluster ClG J0848+4453 and are aligned with the outer X-ray contour of their parent cluster, supporting a model of BCG formation by collimated infall along the surrounding large-scale structure.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, to be appeared in ApJ Letters
DICHOTOMY OF “ TRANSPARENCY” AND SACRALITY OF RUSSIAN POWER IN HISTORIOSOPHICAL CONTEXT / Дихотомия "прозрачности" и сакральности российской власти в историософском контексте // Исторические, философские, политические и юридические науки, культурология и искусствоведение. Вопросы теории и практики. 2016. № 6-2 (68). С. 154-158
Creators: name: Simashenkov, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200304 Central and Eastern European Languages (incl. Russian)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: 220319 Social Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160806 Social Theory
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 220208 History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
subject: History
subject: 220209 History of Ideas
subject: 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
subject: 220315 Philosophy of Religion

description: The article explores the phenomena of power transparency and sacrality. On the basis of the comparative historical analysis the author concludes about the negative effects of the cultivation of the transparency of power concerning Russian statehood. It is shown that the idea of “transparency” in Russia is most of ten seen and used as a means of discrediting state institutions. The author sees the solution of the dilemma “transparency or sacrality” in the traditional Russian understanding of power as historical responsibility and civil service – as service to the Fatherland
Crambeidae Levi 1963
Creators: name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Fernandez, Julio C. C.
name: Gómez, Patricia
name: Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele
name: Simões, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Crambeidae

description: Family Crambeidae Lévi, 1963    Genus Monanchora Carter, 1883
description: Published as part of Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
Measuring light with light dependent resistors: an easy approach for optics experiments
Creators: name: Marinho, F.
name: Carvalho, C. M.
name: Apolinário, F. R.
name: Paulucci, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We entertain the use of light dependent resistors as a viable option as measuring sensors in optics laboratory experiments or classroom demonstrations. The main advantages of theses devices are essentially very low cost, easy handling and commercial availability which can make them interesting for instructors with limited resources. Simple calibration procedures were developed indicating a precision of $\sim 5\% $ for illuminance measurements. Optical experiments were carried out as proof of feasibility for measurements of reflected and transmitted light and its quality results are presented. In particular, the sensor measurements allowed to verify the angular distribution of a Lambertian reflective material, to observe transmitted and reflected specular light on a glass slab as function of the incoming angle of a light beam, and to estimate glass refractive index with values averaging $1.51\pm0.06$ in satisfactory agreement with the expected 1.52 value.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Engineering Effective Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Haas, Holger
name: Puzzuoli, Daniel
name: Zhang, Feihao
name: Cory, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the field of quantum control, effective Hamiltonian engineering is a powerful tool that utilises perturbation theory to mitigate or enhance the effect that a variation in the Hamiltonian has on the evolution of the system. Here, we provide a general framework for computing arbitrary time-dependent perturbation theory terms, as well as their gradients with respect to control variations, enabling the use of gradient methods for optimizing these terms. In particular, we show that effective Hamiltonian engineering is an instance of a bilinear control problem - the same general problem class as that of standard unitary design - and hence the same optimization algorithms apply. We demonstrate this method in various examples, including decoupling, recoupling, and robustness to control errors and stochastic errors. We also present a control engineering example that was used in experiment, demonstrating the practical feasibility of this approach.
description: 54 pages, 8 figures; minor revisions: further explanations, typos corrected, references added, some figures merged, DOI link added
Additional file 2: of Spatial clusters of HIV-1 genotypes in a recently infected population in Yunnan, China
Creators: name: Chen, Min
name: Ma, Yanling
name: Chen, Huichao
name: Dai, Jie
name: Luo, Hongbing
name: Yang, Chaojun
name: Dong, Lijuan
name: Jin, Xiaomei
name: Yang, Min
name: Yang, Li
name: Song, Lijun
name: Song, Zhizhong
name: Jia, Manhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S1. Neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree of the partial gag gene. The scale bar indicates 5% nucleotide sequence divergence. Values on the branches represent the percentage of 1000 bootstrap replicates. (PDF 680 kb)
Desmapsamma anchorata
Creators: name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Fernandez, Julio C. C.
name: Gómez, Patricia
name: Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele
name: Simões, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Desmacididae
Desmapsamma
Desmapsamma anchorata

description: Desmapsamma anchorata (Carter, 1882)
Tables 6, 7; Figs. 49A–C, 58D
 Synonymy and references: Fibularia anchorata Carter (1882: 283); Desmacidon carterianum Arndt (1927: 147); Desmapsamma anchorata: Gómez (2002: 77), Hajdu et al. (2011: 151), Muricy et al. (2011: 162), and Pérez et al. (2017: 11); Desmacidon reptans, Echinoclathria (Holopsamma) helwigi and Holopsamma helwigi, see references compiled in Muricy et al. (2011: 162).
 Type locality. Antigua.
 Material examined. CNPGG-2443, Cabezo reef (19.05086°N, 95.82388°W), 10.4 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 30 August 2018; CNPGG-1754 Alacranes reef (22.3529”N, 89.6723”W) 12 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 7 March 2012; CNPGG-1756 Alacranes reef (22.3830N, 89.6796”W), coll. Patricia Gómez, 6 August 2009; CNPGG-1757 Alacranes reef (22.3670”N, 89.6751”W), coll. Patricia Gómez, 3 August 2009.
 Distribution. Mexico (Green et al. 1986; Gómez 2002, 2007; current records), Cuba, other countries in the Caribbean Sea (Zea 1987); Brazil (Hajdu et al. 2011).
 Remarks. Desmapsamma anchorata is a common species in the SGoM, Veracruz’s reefs (Green et al. 1986; Gómez 2002, 2007), and northeastern Yucatan Peninsula. Our specimens match in all characteristics the original description of Carter (1882).
description: Published as part of Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
Additional file 1 of Qualitative drivers of postoperative prophylactic antibiotics use and resistance in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Steeman, Samantha
name: Nofal, Maia R.
name: Heyredin, Ibrahim
name: Asmamaw, Hailemichael
name: Tesfaye, Assefa
name: Zhuang, Alex
name: Gebeyehu, Natnael
name: Merrell, Sylvia Bereknyei
name: Weiser, Thomas G.
name: Mammo, Tihitena Negussie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
The YY Isochrones for alpha-element Enhanced Mixtures
Creators: name: Kim, Yong -Cheol
name: Demarque, Pierre
name: Yi, Sukyoung K.
name: Alexander, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new set of isochrones in which the effect of the alpha-element enhancement is fully incorporated. These isochrones are an extension of the already published set of YY Isochrones (Yi et al. 2001: Paper 1), constructed for the scaled-solar mixture. As in Paper 1, helium diffusion and convective core overshoot have been taken into account.The range of chemical compositions covered is 0.00001 < Z < 0.08. The models were evolved from the pre-main-sequence stellar birthline to the onset of helium burning in the core. The age range of the full isochrone set is 0.1 -- 20 Gyr, while younger isochrones of age 1 -- 80 Myr are also presented up to the main-sequence turn-off. Combining this set with that of Paper 1 for scaled-solar mixture isochrones, we provide a consistent set of isochrones which can be used to investigate populations of any value of alpha-enhancement. We confirm the earlier results of Paper 1 that inclusion of alpha-enhancement effects further reduces the age estimates of globular clusters by approximately 8 percent if [alpha/Fe]=+0.3. It is important to note the metallicity dependence of the change in age estimates (larger age reductions in lower metallicities). This reduces the age gap between the oldest metal-rich and metal-poor Galactic stellar populations and between the halo and the disk populations. The isochrone tables, together with interpolation routines have been made available via internet; http://www.astro.yale.edu/demarque/yyiso.html http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~yi/yyiso.html http://csaweb.yonsei.ac.kr/~kim/yyiso.html
description: LaTeX, 11 Figures, 3 Tables. The Astrophysical Journal Suppl, 2002, accepted
Data from: High anti-Müllerian hormone levels are associated with adverse pregnancy outcome in polycystic ovary syndrome patients. Figshare. Posted date: 09.06.2019
Creators: name: Kai-Lun, Hu
name: Fen-Ting Liu
name: Huiyu Xu
name: Li, Rong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111402 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental table 1. The following. content of delivery.
Supplemental table 2. AMH Breakdown in fresh ET patients resulted in term delivery and preterm delivery (n=1915)
Supplemental table 3. AMH Breakdown in FET patients resulted in term delivery and preterm delivery (n=1830)
title: Prenanthes purpurea
title: Gewöhnlicher Hasenlattich (Prenanthes purpurea)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 7 Bilder des Gewöhnlichen Hasenlattichs.
Nonlocal statistical field theory of dipolar particles in electrolyte solutions
Creators: name: Budkov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonlocal statistical field theory of a dilute electrolyte solution with small additive of dipolar particles. We postulate that every dipolar particle is associated with an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) of distance between its charge centers. Using the standard Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, we represent the configuration integral of the system in the functional integral form. We show that in the limit of a small permanent dipole moment, the functional in integrand exponent takes the well known form of the Poisson-Boltzmann-Langevin (PBL) functional. In the mean-field approximation we obtain a non-linear integro-differential equation with respect to the mean-field electrostatic potential, generalizing the PBL equation for the point-like dipoles obtained first by Abrashkin et al. We apply the obtained equation in its linearized form to derivation of the expressions for the mean-field electrostatic potential of the point-like test ion and its solvation free energy in salt-free solution, as well as in solution with salt ions. For the 'Yukawa'-type PDF we obtain analytic relations for both the electrostatic potential and the solvation free energy of the point-like test ion. We obtain a general expression for the bulk electrostatic free energy of the solution within the random phase approximation (RPA). For the salt-free solution of the dipolar particles for the Yukawa-type PDF we obtain an analytic relation for the electrostatic free energy.
description: Published in Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Essays on Asset Pricing
Creators: Tomunen, Tuomas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Finance
Capital assets pricing model
Assets (Accounting)--Prices
Bonds
Bond market
Macroeconomics

description: How are the prices of financial assets determined? In this dissertation, I test various theories empirically, focusing on several classes of bonds. In the first chapter, I test whether asset prices reflect the risk-exposures of financial intermediaries in a setting that is well suited to tackling concerns about omitted risk factors. I analyze catastrophe bonds whose cash flows are linked to the occurrence of natural disasters and find that 71% of the variation in their expected returns can be explained by a theoretically-motivated measure of financial intermediaries’ marginal rate of substitution. Assuming that natural disasters are independent of aggregate wealth, this pricing result is inconsistent with any explanation based on macroeconomic risk factors. However, the result is consistent with intermediary asset pricing models that suggest that financial intermediaries are marginal investors in capital markets. I also show that the premium on natural disaster risk has decreased significantly in recent years and has become less responsive to the occurrence of disasters, suggesting that intermediaries’ access to outside capital has improved over time. In the second chapter, which is coauthored with Robert J. Hodrick, we examine the statistical term structure model of Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) and its affine counterpart, developed in Cochrane and Piazzesi (2008), in several out-of-sample analyzes. The model’s one-factor forecasting structure across bonds with two, three, four, and five years to maturity characterizes the term structures of additional major currencies in samples ending in 2003. In post-2003 data such one-factor structures again characterize each currency’s term structure, but we reject equality of the coefficients across the two samples. We derive currency return forecasting implications from the Cochrane and Piazzesi (2008) affine model showing that the term structure forecasting variables in each currency should predict cross-currency investments, but we find no support for these predictions in either pre-2004 or post-2003 data, whereas the interest differentials do predict currency returns. Here too, though, we find strong evidence of parameter instability as the parameter estimates on the interest differentials change sign. In recursive out-of-sample forecasts of excess rates of return on bonds in each currency, the Cochrane and Piazzesi (2008) term structure forecasting models fail to beat forecasts from the historical average excess rates of return. Graphical analysis indicates that the instability in the forecasting models’ parameters begins in the global financial crisis.