cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Molecular dynamics simulation of strongly coupled QCD plasmas
Creators: name: Hartmann, P.
name: Donko, Z.
name: Levai, P.
name: Kalman, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of a strongly interacting quark plasma are investigated by molecular dynamics method including non-abelian quark-quark potential. Our main goal is to study the thermalization process in this system. We find an interesting resonance-like behaviour: at a characteristic time close to the inverse plasma frequency the quark plasma is heated up substantially via energy transfer from quark potential energy into one particle kinetic energy. Color rotation mechanism enhances the effectivity of this heating process, leading to a very fast thermalization with high temperature.
description: To appear in the proceedings of 18th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2005 (QM 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 4-9 Aug 2005
Prioritizing Invasive Species Threats Under Uncertainty
Creators: name: Moffitt, L. Joe
name: Osteen, Craig D.
name: Moffitt, L. Joe
name: Osteen, Craig D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: invasive species
subject: decision criteria
subject: uncertainty

description: Prioritizing exotic or invasive pest threats in terms of agricultural, environmental, or human health damages is an important resource allocation issue for programs charged with preventing or responding to the entry of such organisms. Under extreme uncertainty, program managers may decide to research the severity of threats, develop prevention or control actions, and estimate cost-effectiveness in order to provide better information and more options when making decisions to choose strategies for specific pests. We examine decision rules based on the minimax and relative cost criteria in order to express a cautious approach for decisions regarding severe, irreversible consequences, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these rules, examine the roles of simple rules and sophisticated analyses in decision making, and apply a simple rule to develop a list of priority plant pests.
Additional file 3 of The interoperability between the Spanish version of the International Classification of Diseases and ORPHAcodes: towards better identification of rare diseases
Creators: name: Rico, Juan
name: Garibay, Luis Javier Echevarría-González De
name: García-López, María
name: Guardiola-Vilarroig, Sandra
name: Maceda-Roldán, Luis Alberto
name: Zurriaga, Óscar
name: Cavero-Carbonell, Clara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S1. Distribution of ORPHAcodes per ICD-10-ES code of the G00-G99 chapter of the ICD-10-ES
MPEC 2024-A100 : 2024 AH2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AH2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Controlling the Biological Invasion of a Commercial Fishery by a Space Competitor: A Bioeconomic Model with Reference to the Bay of St-Brieuc Scallop Fishery
Creators: name: Fresard, Marjolaine
name: Boncoeur, Jean
name: Fresard, Marjolaine
name: Boncoeur, Jean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: aquatic invasive species
subject: biological invasion control
subject: common scallop
subject: ecosystemic fisheries management
subject: plurispecies bioeconomic modeling
subject: slipper-limpet

description: This paper presents a bioeconomic model of a commercial fishery facing biological invasion by an alien species acting as a space competitor for the native species. The model is illustrated in a case study of the common scallop fishery of the Bay of St-Brieuc (France), where biological invasion by a slipper-limpet (Crepidula fornicata) is now addressed by a control program. First we present the model, which combines the dynamics of the two competing stocks. We then use the model to analyze the equilibrium of the fishery under various assumptions concerning invasive species control, and to assess the social cost of the invasion. Finally we propose a set of dynamic simulations concerning the ongoing program, emphasizing the influence of its starting date on its overall economic results.
Primordial gravitational waves in a minimal model of particle physics and cosmology
Creators: name: Ringwald, Andreas
name: Saikawa, Ken'ichi
name: Tamarit, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves (GWs) predicted in the Standard Model*Axion*Seesaw*Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model, which was proposed as a minimal extension of the Standard Model that addresses five fundamental problems of particle physics and cosmology (inflation, baryon asymmetry, neutrino masses, strong CP problem, and dark matter) in one stroke. The SMASH model has a unique prediction for the critical temperature of the second order Peccei-Quinn (PQ) phase transition $T_c \sim 10^8\,\mathrm{GeV}$ up to the uncertainty in the calculation of the axion dark matter abundance, implying that there is a drastic change in the equation of state of the universe at that temperature. Such an event is imprinted on the spectrum of GWs originating from the primordial tensor fluctuations during inflation and entering the horizon at $T \sim T_c$, which corresponds to $f \sim 1\,\mathrm{Hz}$, pointing to a best frequency range covered by future space-borne GW interferometers. We give a precise estimation of the effective relativistic degrees of freedom across the PQ phase transition and use it to evaluate the spectrum of GWs observed today. It is shown that the future high sensitivity GW experiment -- ultimate DECIGO -- can probe the nontrivial feature resulting from the PQ phase transition in this model.
description: 35 pages, 11 figures; revised version of the manuscript, accepted for publication in JCAP
NGC 146: A young open cluster with a Herbig Be star and intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars
Creators: name: Subramaniam, A.
name: Sahu, D. K.
name: Sagar, R.
name: Vijitha, P.
name: ;
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present UBV CCD photometry and low-resolution spectra of stars in the field of the young open cluster NGC 146. UBV photometry of 434 stars were used to estimate the E(B$-$V) reddening of 0.55 $\pm$ 0.04 mag and BV photometry of 976 stars were used to estimate a distance modulus of (m$-$M)$_0$ = 12.7 $\pm$0.2 mag, corresponding to a distance of 3470$^{+335}_{-305}$ pc. We estimated 10 -- 16 Myr as the turn-off age for the upper main sequence of the cluster using isochrones and synthetic colour magnitude diagrams. We identified two B type stars with H$_α$ in emission and located on the MS using slit-less spectra. A higher resolution spectrum of the brighter Be star indicated the presence of a number of emission lines, with some lines showing the signature of gas infall. This star was found to be located in the region of Herbig Ae/Be stars in the (J$-$H) vs (H$-$K) colour-colour diagram. Thus, we identify this star as a Herbig Be star. On the other hand, 54 stars were found to show near infrared excess, of which 17 were found to be located in the region of Herbig Ae/Be stars and 18 stars were found to be located in the region of Be stars in the NIR colour-colour diagram. Thus NGC 146 is a young cluster with a large number of intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars. The turn-on age of the cluster is found to be $\sim$ 3 Myr. Though NGC 146 shows an older turn off, the bulk of stars in this cluster seems to belong to the younger population of 3 Myr.
description: 13 pages, 20 figures, To appear in A & A
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of SDEs with discontinuous drift and finite activity jumps
Creators: name: Przybyłowicz, Paweł
name: Szölgyenyi, Michaela
name: Xu, Fanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H10

description: In this letter we prove existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to multi-dimensional SDEs with discontinuous drift and finite activity jumps.
Additional file 4 of The interoperability between the Spanish version of the International Classification of Diseases and ORPHAcodes: towards better identification of rare diseases
Creators: name: Rico, Juan
name: Garibay, Luis Javier Echevarría-González De
name: García-López, María
name: Guardiola-Vilarroig, Sandra
name: Maceda-Roldán, Luis Alberto
name: Zurriaga, Óscar
name: Cavero-Carbonell, Clara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S2. Distribution of ORPHAcodes per ICD-10-ES code of the Q00-Q99 chapter of the ICD-10-ES
Henriette Baron, Quasi liber et pictura. Die Tierknochenfunde aus dem Gräberfeld an der Wiener Csokorgasse – eine anthrozoologische Studie zu den awarischen Bestattungssitten
Creators: name: Bartosiewicz, László
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Henriette Baron, Quasi liber et pictura. Die Tierknochenfunde aus dem Gräberfeld an der Wiener Csokorgasse – eine anthrozoologische Studie zu den awarischen Bestattungssitten. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Band 143. Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-7954-3434-2. 662 pages, 198 drawings, 356 diagrams, 30 colour plates, 173 illustrations, and 44 tables
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
On the nonperturbative charm effects in inclusive B -> X_c lνdecays
Creators: name: Bigi, I. I.
name: Uraltsev, N.
name: Zwicky, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the nonperturbative effects associated with soft charm quarks in inclusive B decays. Such corrections are allowed by the OPE, but have largely escaped attention so far. The related four-quark `double heavy' expectation values of the form  are computed in the 1/m_c expansion by integrating out the charm field to one and two loops. A significant enhancement of the two-loop coefficients has been noted. A method is suggested for evaluating the expectation values of the higher-order b-quark operators required to calculate charm expectation values, free from the overly large ambiguities of dimensional analyses. The soft-charm effects were found generally at the level of 0.5% in Γ_{sl}(b->c); however, as a result of cancellations the net impact should be smaller. We propose a direct way to search for such effects in the data. Finally, we discuss the relation of the soft charm corrections in inclusive decays with the `Intrinsic Charm' ansatz.
description: 32 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures. Revised: A number of inconsistencies and typos corrected including the $1/m_c^2$ matrix elements. The effect on \Gamma_sl is estimated about 0.003, not changing the conclusions. A new reference [9] has been added
Winfried Weber, Die Ausgrabungen in der Kurie von der Leyen und der Liebfrauenstraße (Südwest-Bereich). Teil 2. Die Befunde
Creators: name: Glaser, Franz
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Winfried Weber, Die Ausgrabungen in der Kurie von der Leyen und der Liebfrauenstraße (Südwest-Bereich). Teil 2. Die Befunde. Die Trierer Domgrabung. Band 2. Kataloge und Schriften des Bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Trier 7,2,2. Bischöfliches Dom- u. Diözesanmuseum Trier, Trier 2018. ISBN 978-3-945277-02-7; ISSN 0937-2237. 3 Bde.: Band 1 mit 462 Seiten und 240 Abbildungen im Text; Band 2 mit 35 Beilagen und Band 3 mit 23 Tafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Risk Assessments, Blacklists, and White Lists for Introduced Species: Are Predictions Good Enough to Be Useful?
Creators: name: Simberloff, Daniel
name: Simberloff, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: blacklist
subject: risk assessment
subject: suminoe oyster
subject: white list

description: The United States regulates deliberate species introduction by blacklists: any species not blacklisted may be imported. Half of invasive introduced species were deliberately introduced, yet most were not blacklisted, so this system is not working. White lists are also needed: no species can be deliberately introduced unless experts place it on a white list. The United States has not closed pathways for inadvertent introductions, which are regulated by international treaties. Risk assessments for introduced species have mostly targeted species as potential vectors for pathogens rather than as potentially invasive themselves. Although multilateral treaties mandate quantitative risk assessments for exclusions of species or goods that may carry them, biologists and economists can predict probabilities of invasiveness, and associated costs, only with enormous confidence limits. However, assessing risk can lead to insights on the likelihood of impact. The crucial decision will be to what extent the precautionary principle will be implemented. An added problem is that species established in parts of the United States (either native or introduced) have become invasive when introduced elsewhere in the United States. There is scant legal basis for preventing such introductions. To stem the flood of invasive species into and within the United States would require blacklists, a white listing procedure, and tighter regulation of pathways.
Sabine Schrenk / Konrad Vössing (eds), Spätantike und frühes Christentum
Creators: name: Steures, D.C.
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Sabine Schrenk / Konrad Vössing (eds), Spätantike und frühes Christentum. LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn – Blick in die Sammlung. Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media, Bonn 2018. ISBN 978-3-961760-46-6. 248 pages with 150 illustrations
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Matthias D. Schön, Grabfunde und Gräberfelder der jüngeren Römischen Kaiserzeit und der Völkerwanderungszeit aus dem Landkreis Cuxhaven
Creators: name: Quast, Dieter
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Matthias D. Schön, Grabfunde und Gräberfelder der jüngeren Römischen Kaiserzeit und der Völkerwanderungszeit aus dem Landkreis Cuxhaven. Studien zur Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte im südlichen Nordseegebiet Band 9. Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, Rahden / Westf. 2017. ISBN 978-3-86757-339-9. 359 Seiten mit 14 Abbildungen und 207 Tafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Characterization of SABRE crystal NaI-33 with direct underground counting
Creators: name: Antonello, M.
name: Arnquist, I. J.
name: Barberio, E.
name: Baroncelli, T.
name: Benziger, J.
name: Bignell, L. J.
name: Bolognino, I.
name: Calaprice, F.
name: Copello, S.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: D'Angelo, D.
name: D'Imperio, G.
name: D'Incecco, M.
name: Di Carlo, G.
name: Diemoz, M.
name: Di Giacinto, A.
name: Di Ludovico, A.
name: Dix, W.
name: Duffy, A. R.
name: Hoppe, E.
name: Ianni, A.
name: Iannone, M.
name: Ioannucci, L.
name: Krishnan, S.
name: Lane, G. J.
name: Mahmood, I.
name: Mariani, A.
name: Milana, S.
name: Mould, J.
name: Nuti, F.
name: Orlandi, D.
name: Pettinacci, V.
name: Pietrofaccia, L.
name: Rahatlou, S.
name: Scutti, F.
name: Souza, M.
name: Stuchbery, A. E.
name: Suerfu, B.
name: Tomei, C.
name: Urquijo, P.
name: Vignoli, C.
name: Wallner, A.
name: Wada, M.
name: Williams, A. G.
name: Zani, A.
name: Zurowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-pure NaI(Tl) crystals are the key element for a model-independent verification of the long standing DAMA result and a powerful means to search for the annual modulation signature of dark matter interactions. The SABRE collaboration has been developing cutting-edge techniques for the reduction of intrinsic backgrounds over several years. In this paper we report the first characterization of a 3.4 kg crystal, named NaI-33, performed in an underground passive shielding setup at LNGS. NaI-33 has a record low $^{39}$K contamination of 4.3$\pm$0.2 ppb as determined by mass spectrometry. We measured a light yield of 11.1$\pm$0.2 photoelectrons/keV and an energy resolution of 13.2% (FWHM/E) at 59.5 keV. We evaluated the activities of $^{226}$Ra and $^{228}$Th inside the crystal to be $5.9\pm0.6 μ$Bq/kg and $1.6\pm0.3 μ$Bq/kg, respectively, which would indicate a contamination from $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th at part-per-trillion level. We measured an activity of 0.51$\pm$0.02 mBq/kg due to $^{210}$Pb out of equilibrium and a $α$ quenching factor of 0.63$\pm$0.01 at 5304 keV. We illustrate the analyses techniques developed to reject electronic noise in the lower part of the energy spectrum. A cut-based strategy and a multivariate approach indicated a rate, attributed to the intrinsic radioactivity of the crystal, of $\sim$1 count/day/kg/keV in the [5-20] keV region.
GenEvA (II): A phase space generator from a reweighted parton shower
Creators: name: Bauer, Christian W.
name: Tackmann, Frank J.
name: Thaler, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new efficient algorithm for phase space generation. A parton shower is used to distribute events across all of multiplicity, flavor, and phase space, and these events can then be reweighted to any desired analytic distribution. To verify this method, we reproduce the e+e- -> n jets tree-level result of traditional matrix element tools. We also show how to improve tree-level matrix elements automatically with leading-logarithmic resummation. This algorithm is particularly useful in the context of a new framework for event generation called GenEvA. In a companion paper [arXiv:0801.4026], we show how the GenEvA framework can address contemporary issues in event generation.
description: 54 pages, 20 figures, v2: corrected typos, added references
Single-Visit Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Initiation Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19
Creators: name: Allison B.A.
name: Arora K.S.
name: Stuart G.S.
name: Tadikonda A.
name: Yates L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: Single-visit long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is cost-effective and convenient. Our objective was to compare incidence of single-visit LARC placement and associated factors during the year before the COVID-19 pandemic (March 15, 2020) and the first year of the pandemic. Methods: This retrospective cohort study analyzed electronic health records from a large healthcare system. Eligible adolescents were aged 10–19 years and received outpatient LARC from March 15, 2019 to March 14, 2021. Logistic regression models determined the relationship of patient and provider characteristics on single-visit LARC before and during COVID-19. Results: One thousand six adolescents initiated LARC during the study period. Fewer adolescents received single-visit LARC during COVID-19 (289/506, 57.1%) compared to before (315/500, 63.0%), although changes in odds of single-visit LARC were not statistically significant. Concordance between county of patient residence and the location of the LARC placement facility was associated with single-visit LARC before (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 2.75) and during (aOR = 1.74) the pandemic (both p < .05). During the pandemic, a few factors were associated with reduced odds of single-visit LARC: (1) public insurance (aOR = 0.49, p < .01), (2) nonobstetricians/nongynecologists providers (pediatrics [aOR = 0.35, p < .01], family medicine [aOR = 0.53, p < .01], or internal medicine [aOR = 0.14, p < .05]), and (3) advanced practice practitioners (aOR = 0.49, p < .01). Discussion: Incidence of single-visit LARC was similar before and during the pandemic. Certain factors were associated with lower odds of single-visit LARC insertion, suggesting differential access during the pandemic for subgroups of adolescents. Our findings may guide policy and programmatic interventions to improve access to single-visit LARC for all adolescent populations. © 2023 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
Highly enhanced contributions of heavy Higgs bosons and new leptons to muon $g-2$ and prospects at future colliders
Creators: name: Dermisek, Radovan
name: Hermanek, Keith
name: McGinnis, Navin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in a two Higgs doublet model type-II extended by vectorlike leptons the contributions from heavy neutral and charged Higgs bosons to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon simultaneously feature chiral enhancement from masses of new leptons and $\tan^2 β$ enhancement from couplings of Higgs bosons. Assuming moderate values of new Yukawa couplings, not exceeding one, that can remain perturbative to very high energy scales, the measured value of muon $g-2$ can be explained within one standard deviation even with 6.5 TeV leptons or 20 TeV Higgs bosons. Allowing new couplings near the perturbativity limit, these mass ranges extend to 45 TeV for leptons and 190 TeV for Higgs bosons. In spite of the high scale of new physics this scenario can be completely probed at planned future colliders.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. v2: Updated value of muon g-2, title slightly changed, and discussion added to match published version
Invasive Species Management: Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the U.S. Beef Industry
Creators: name: Zhao, Zishun
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
name: Marsh, Thomas L.
name: Zhao, Zishun
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
name: Marsh, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: livestock
subject: invasive species
subject: foot-and-mouth disease
subject: beef cattle production

description: A conceptual bioeconomic framework that integrates dynamic epidemiological-economic processes was designed to analyze the effects of invasive species introduction on decision making in a livestock sector (e.g., production and feeding). The framework integrates an epidemiological model, a dynamic livestock production model, domestic consumption, and international trade. The integrated approach captures producer and consumer responses and welfare outcomes of livestock disease outbreaks, as well as alternative invasive species management policies. Scenarios of foot-and-mouth disease are simulated to demonstrate the usefulness of the framework in facilitating invasive species policy design.
The Economic Impacts of Aquatic Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Lovell, Sabrina J.
name: Stone, Susan F.
name: Fernandez, Linda
name: Lovell, Sabrina J.
name: Stone, Susan F.
name: Fernandez, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: aquatic invasive species
subject: costs
subject: literature review

description: Invasive species are a growing threat in the United States, causing losses in biodiversity, changes in ecosystems, and impacts on economic enterprises such as agriculture, fisheries, and international trade. The costs of preventing and controlling invasive species are not well understood or documented, but estimates indicate that the costs are quite high. The costs of aquatic invasive species are even less well understood than those for terrestrial species. A systematic approach is needed to develop a consistent method to estimate the national costs of aquatic invasives. This review of the economic literature on aquatic invasive species is the first stage in the development of that estimate. We reviewed over sixty sources and include both empirical papers that present cost estimates as well as theoretical papers on preventing and mitigating the impacts of aquatic invasive species. Species-specific estimates are included for both animals and plants.
QCD Multipole Expansion and Hadronic Transitions in Heavy Quarkonium Systems
Creators: name: Kuang, Yu-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the developments of QCD multipole expansion and its applications to hadronic transitions and some radiative decays of heavy quarkonia. Theoretical predictions are compsred with updated experimental results.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures. Some typos corrected, and 3 references added
Stress Histories of Bridge Members from Scratch Gage Records
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report describes the use of scratch gages for obtaining strain histories of bridge members. Basic components of the gage are designated and its operation is described in general terms. Stress histories, deduced from strain records, for various members of three bridges obtained through use of the gages are presented. A procedure for use in replicating sections of deteriorated members is described.
Spin moiré engineering of topological magnetism and emergent electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Shimizu, Kotaro
name: Okumura, Shun
name: Kato, Yasuyuki
name: Motome, Yukitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A superposition of spin helices can yield topological spin textures, such as skyrmion and hedgehog lattices. Based on the analogy with the moiré in optics, we study the magnetic and topological properties of such superpositions in a comprehensive way by modulating the interference pattern continuously. We find that the control of the angles between the superposed helices and the net magnetization yields successive topological transitions associated with pair annihilation of hedgehogs and antihedgehogs. Accordingly, emergent electromagnetic fields, magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles, and Dirac strings arising from the noncoplanar spin textures show systematic evolution. In addition, we also show how the system undergoes the magnetic transitions with dimensional reduction from the three-dimensional hedgehog lattice to a two-dimensional skyrmion lattice or a one-dimensional conical state. The results indicate that the concept of "spin moiré" provides an efficient way of engineering the emergent electromagnetism and topological nature in magnets.
The impact of occupational exposures on chronic rhinosinusitis: a scoping review
Creators: name: Worden, Cameron P.
name: Senior, Brent A.
name: Thorp, Brian D.
name: Monk, Aurelia S.
name: Kimple, Adam J.
name: Ebert, Charles S.
name: Benaim, Ezer H.
name: Klatt-Cromwell, Cristine
Publisher: name: Open Exploration Publishing
Year: 2024

description: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a prevalent and burdensome condition worldwide, characterized by inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. Ideally, instead of treating CRS, we would identify ways to prevent the development of this chronic condition. Occupational exposures may be an excellent target for prevention. Occupational exposures have been shown to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of multiple lower airway diseases, such as asthma, silicosis, asbestosis, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. However, evidence for the association between occupational exposures and the development of upper airway disease, like CRS, is less well-defined. This manuscript examines the association between occupational exposures and CRS. A scoping review of the literature following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines identified 19 relevant studies. The populations examined and the methods and criteria used for defining CRS diagnosis and occupational variables significantly varied between the studies. Diagnosis of CRS was most often determined by self-reported symptoms or medical record review. Occupational variables ranged from employment status to occupation type to specific exogenous compounds encountered. Overall, substantial evidence demonstrates a general association between occupational exposures and CRS diagnosis; however, limitations in study methodologies, including variations in CRS diagnostic criteria, occupational exposures, assessment methods, and populations, hinder drawing more specific conclusions. Moving forward, rigorous research methodologies and standardized criteria are essential to draw conclusions supported by multiple studies. Critical components of future studies should include large, diverse populations, use of consensus CRS diagnostic criteria, and inclusion of many specific and quantitatively defined exposures. Ultimately, such efforts can help inform preventative measures and interventions for CRS, thus mitigating the burden of CRS on individuals and populations worldwide.
Scattering invariant modes of light in complex media
Creators: name: Pai, Pritam
name: Bosch, Jeroen
name: Kühmayer, Matthias
name: Rotter, Stefan
name: Mosk, Allard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random scattering of light in disordered media is an intriguing phenomenon of fundamental relevance to various applications. While techniques such as wavefront shaping and transmission matrix measurements have enabled remarkable progress for advanced imaging concepts, the most successful strategy to obtain clear images through a disordered medium remains the filtering of ballistic light. Ballistic photons with a scattering-free propagation are, however, exponentially rare and no method so far can increase their proportion. To address these limitations, we introduce and experimentally implement here a new set of optical states that we term Scattering Invariant Modes (SIMs), whose transmitted field pattern is the same, irrespective of whether they scatter through a disordered sample or propagate ballistically through a homogeneous medium. We observe SIMs that are only weakly attenuated in dense scattering media, and show in simulations that their correlations with the ballistic light can be used to improve imaging inside scattering materials.
Prevention or Control: Optimal Government Policies for Invasive Species Management
Creators: name: Kim, C.S.
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Lewandrowski, Jan
name: Eiswerth, Mark E.
name: Kim, C.S.
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Lewandrowski, Jan
name: Eiswerth, Mark E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: invasive species
subject: exclusion
subject: control
subject: eradication
subject: public expenditures

description: We present a conceptual, but empirically applicable, model for determining the optimal allocation of resources between exclusion and control activities for managing an invasive species with an uncertain discovery time. This model is used to investigate how to allocate limited resources between activities before and after the first discovery of an invasive species and the effects of the characteristics of an invasive species on limited resource allocation. The optimality conditions show that it is economically efficient to spend a larger share of outlays for exclusion activities before, rather than after, a species is first discovered, up to a threshold point. We also find that, after discovery, more exclusionary measures and fewer control measures are optimal, when the pest population is less than a threshold. As the pest population increases beyond this threshold, the exclusionary measures are no longer optimal. Finally, a comparative dynamic analysis indicates that the efficient level of total expenditures on preventive and control measures decreases with the level of the invasive species stock and increases with the intrinsic population growth rate, the rate of additional discoveries avoided, and the maximum possible pest population.
Effect of low-lying fermion modes in the $ε$-regime of QCD
Creators: name: Ogawa, Kenji
name: Hashimoto, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of low-lying fermion eigenmodes on the QCD partition function in the $ε$-regime. The fermion determinant is approximated by a truncated product of low-lying eigenvalues of the overlap-Dirac operator. With two flavors of dynamical quarks, we observe that the lattice results for the lowest eigenvalue distribution, eigenvalue sum rules and partition function reproduce the analytic predictions made by Leutwyler and Smilga, which strongly depend on the topological charge of the background gauge configuration. The value of chiral condensate extracted from these measurements are consistent with each other. For one dynamical quark flavor, on the other hand, we find an apparent disagreement among different determinations of the chiral condensate, which may suggest the failure of the $ε$-expansion in the absence of massless Nambu-Goldstone boson.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures
Observation of the charge density wave collective mode in the infrared optical response of VSe$_2$
Creators: name: Feng, Xuanbo
name: Henke, Jans
name: Morice, Corentin
name: Sayers, Charles J.
name: Da Como, Enrico
name: van Wezel, Jasper
name: van Heumen, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the bulk electronic structure of high quality VSe$_{2}$ single crystals using optical spectroscopy. Upon entering the charge density wave phase below the critical temperature of 112 K, the optical conductivity of VSe$_2$ undergoes a significant rearrangement. A Drude response present above the critical temperature is suppressed while a new interband transition appears around 0.07\,eV. From our analysis, we estimate that part of the spectral weight of the Drude response is transferred to a collective mode of the CDW phase. The remaining normal state charge dynamics appears to become strongly damped by interactions with the lattice as evidenced by a mass enhancement factor m$^{*}$/m$\approx$3. In addition to the changes taking place in the electronic structure, we observe the emergence of infrared active phonons below the critical temperature associated with the 4a x 4a lattice reconstruction.
title: Proposed Remedies:
title: Unstable Embankment at Mile Post 188 and Channel Erosion at Mile Post 190-191; I 64, Boyd County
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Houchin, David R.
name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Department became aware of fill slippage on I 64 some 300 feet east of mile post 188 during the summer of 1967. In September of that year Mr. L. E. Richardson, Division of Maintenance, and Mr. Gordon D. Scott, Division of Research, made an inspection of the area. Mr. Scott reported cracking of shoulder, movement of the guard rail, and a failure in the berm along the toe. However, subsequent inspections showed the slip to be stabilizing by itself until late in 1970 when some additional movement was observed. In January of 1971, the most conspicuous pavement failure was located almost directly above the berm failure. It appeared that the berm failure may have affected the roadway failure; one crack was observed in the embankment surface about midway between the top of the eastern roadway shoulder and the top of the berm. The embankment slip appeared to have been triggered by deep erosion along the western margin of the fill and toe of the berm and extending from station 282+00 to station 285+50. The deeply eroded ditch was approximately 3 to 5 feet in depth and carried water from a median drain, station 282+00, and a 24-inch cross-drain at station 282+50.
Scale setting the Möbius Domain Wall Fermion on gradient-flowed HISQ action using the omega baryon mass and the gradient-flow scales $t_0$ and $w_0$
Creators: name: Miller, Nolan
name: Carpenter, Logan C
name: Berkowitz, Evan
name: Chang, Chia Cheng
name: Hörz, Ben
name: Howarth, Dean
name: Monge-Camacho, Henry
name: Rinaldi, Enrico
name: Brantley, David A.
name: Körber, Christopher
name: Bouchard, Chris
name: Clark, M. A.
name: Gambhir, Arjun Singh
name: Monahan, Christopher J.
name: Nicholson, Amy
name: Vranas, Pavlos
name: Walker-Loud, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a sub-percent scale determination using the omega baryon mass and gradient-flow methods. The calculations are performed on 22 ensembles of $N_f=2+1+1$ highly improved, rooted staggered sea-quark configurations generated by the MILC and CalLat Collaborations. The valence quark action used is Möbius Domain-Wall fermions solved on these configurations after a gradient-flow smearing is applied with a flowtime of $t_{\rm gf}=1$ in lattice units. The ensembles span four lattice spacings in the range $0.06 \lesssim a \lesssim 0.15$ fm, six pion masses in the range $130 \lesssim m_π\lesssim 400$ MeV and multiple lattice volumes. On each ensemble, the gradient-flow scales $t_0/a^2$ and $w_0/a$ and the omega baryon mass $a m_Ω$ are computed. The dimensionless product of these quantities is then extrapolated to the continuum and infinite volume limits and interpolated to the physical light, strange and charm quark mass point in the isospin limit, resulting in the determination of $\sqrt{t_0}=0.1422(14)$ fm and $w_0 = 0.1709(11)$ fm with all sources of statistical and systematic uncertainty accounted for. The dominant uncertainty in this result is the stochastic uncertainty, providing a clear path for a few-per-mille uncertainty, as recently obtained by the Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal Collaboration.
description: v3: Published version; v2: Added determination of t_0 as well as w_0; v1: 13 pages plus appendices. The correlation function data, mass results and analysis code accompanying this publication can be found at this github repository: https://github.com/callat-qcd/project_scale_setting_mdwf_hisq
Helen Clarke / Kristina Lamm, Helgö Revisited. A New Look at the Excavated Evidence for Helgö, Central Sweden
Creators: name: Messal, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Helen Clarke / Kristina Lamm, Helgö Revisited. A New Look at the Excavated Evidence for Helgö, Central Sweden. Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie in der Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig 2017. ISBN 978-3-947386-01-7. 134 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Additional file 1 of Association between body mass index and severe infection in older adults with microscopic polyangiitis: a retrospective cohort in Japan
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Hirokazu
name: Yamaguchi, Makoto
name: Katsuno, Takayuki
name: Iwagaitsu, Shiho
name: Nobata, Hironobu
name: Kinashi, Hiroshi
name: Banno, Shogo
name: Ando, Masahiko
name: Kubo, Yoko
name: Ishimoto, Takuji
name: Ito, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Predictors of first severe infection in MPA.
Prevention, Eradication, and Containment of Invasive Species: Illustrations from Hawaii
Creators: name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Pitafi, Basharat A.K.
name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Pitafi, Basharat A.K.
name: Roumasset, James A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: invasive species
subject: bioeconomics
subject: optimal control
subject: Miconia calvescens
subject: Boiga

description: Invasive species change ecosystems and the economic services such ecosystems provide. Optimal policy will minimize the expected damages and costs of prevention and control. We seek to explain policy outcomes as a function of biological and economic factors, using the case of Hawaii to illustrate. First, we consider an existing invader, Miconia calvescens, a plant with the potential to reduce biodiversity, soil cover, and water availability. We then examine an imminent threat, the potential arrival of the Brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis). The arrival of the snake in Guam has led to native bird extirpations, power outages, and health costs.
Hans-Peter Kuhnen (ed.), Amphitheater Trier I. Ausgrabungen und Forschungen 1816–1996 mit Auszügen aus Skizzenbüchern und Grabungsakten der Jahre 1816–1996
Creators: name: Bell, Sinclair W.
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Hans-Peter Kuhnen (ed.), Amphitheater Trier I. Ausgrabungen und Forschungen 1816–1996 mit Auszügen aus Skizzenbüchern und Grabungsakten der Jahre 1816–1996. By Sibylle Bauer, Evamarie Bange-Goddard, Bruno Kremer, Hans-Peter Kuhnen, Stefan F. Pfahl, and Marcus Thiel with a contribution by Frieder Enzmann and an English summary. Archäologie aus Rheinland-Pfalz Band 2. Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, Rahden / Westf. 2017. ISBN 978-3-86757-652-9. XV + 336 pages, 154 illustrations (many in colour), 166 plates (most in colour), and 12 inserts
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Beyond the protest paradigm: Four types of news coverage and America's most prominent social movement organizations
Creators: name: Yuan, Weijun
name: Amenta, Edwin
name: Caren, Neal
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: What determines the quality of coverage received by social movement organizations when they appear extensively in the news? Research on the news coverage of social movement organizations is dominated by case studies supporting the “protest paradigm,” which argues that journalists portray movement activists trivially and negatively when covering protest. However, movement organizations often make long‐running news for many different reasons, mainly not protest. We argue that some of this extensive news will lead to worse coverage—in terms of substance and sentiment—notably when the main action covered involves violence. Extensive coverage centered on other actions, however, notably politically assertive action, will tend to produce “good news” in these dimensions. We analyze the news of the twentieth century's 100 most‐covered U.S. movement organizations in their biggest news year in four national newspapers. Topic models indicate that these organizations were mainly covered for actions other than nonviolent protest, including politically assertive action, strikes, civic action, investigations, trials, and violence. Natural language processing analyses and hand‐coding show that their news also varied widely in sentiment and substance. Employing qualitative comparative analyses, we find that the main action behind news strongly influences its quality, and there may be several news paradigms for movement organizations.
Disentangling mass spectra of multiple fields in cosmological collider
Creators: name: Aoki, Shuntaro
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effects of multiple scalar fields (scalar isocurvatons) with the Hubble scale masses on the inflationary bispectrum in the squeezed limit, particular paying attention to the question how to disentangle mass spectra of such fields. We consider two isocurvatons with almost degenerate masses and the coupling of an inflaton to both isocurvatons as an example. We find that the characteristic feature associated with nearly degenerate masses appears in the oscillating part of the bispectrum, which is dominated by a waveform with a specific wavelength roughly given by an inverse of the mass difference. Such a waveform with a relatively longer wavelength can be easily identified and useful for disentangling almost degenerate mass spectra. This situation is in sharp contrast with the case of collider experiments on earth, where the very precise energy resolution corresponding to the mass difference is required to disentangle almost degenerate mass spectra. Therefore, if future observations could detect this kind of a characteristic feature in bispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbations, it can prove the existence of degenerate multiple particles around the Hubble scale and resolve their mass degeneracies.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures; v2: appendix D and references add, published version
Construction, Protection and Maintenance of Concrete Bridge Decks
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report presents an historical account of deterioration in reinforced concrete bridge decks. Preventative maintenance treatments to both new and in-service decks are discussed. Repair methods are included. The major forms of deterioration are listed and causative mechanisms are discussed. Potential design and construction remedies are presented for consideration.