cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implications of Family Nonuniversal $Z^\prime$ Model on B -->K_0^* pi Decays
Creators: name: Li, Ying
name: Fan, Xiao-Jiao
name: Hua, Juan
name: Wang, En-Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the QCD factorization formalism, we study the possible impacts of the nonuniversal $Z^\prime$ model, which provides a flavor-changing neutral current at the tree level, on rare decays $B \to K_0^*π$. Under two different scenarios (S1 and S2) for identifying the scalar meson $K_0^*(1430)$, the branching ratios, CP asymmetries, and isospin asymmetries are calculated in both the standard model (SM) and the family nonuniversal $Z^\prime$ model. We find that the branching ratios and CP asymmetries are sensitive to weak annihilation. In the SM, with $ρ_A=1$ and $ϕ_A\in[-30^\circ, 30^\circ]$, the branching ratios of S1 (S2) are smaller (larger) than the experimental data. Adding the contribution of the $Z^\prime$ boson in two different cases (Case-I and Case-II), for S1, the branching ratios are still far away from experiment. For S2, in Case-II, the branching ratios become smaller and can accommodate the data; in Case-I, although the center values are enhanced, they can also explain the data with large uncertainties. Similar conclusions are also reached for CP asymmetries. Our results indicate that S2 is more favored than S1, even after considering new physics effects. Moreover, if there exists a nonuniversal $Z^\prime$ boson, Case-II is preferred. All results can be tested in the LHC-b experiment and forthcoming super-B factory.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures and 3 tables
Control in Functional Unification Grammars for Text Generation
Creators: name: Elhadad, Michael
name: Robin, Jacques
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Computer science

description: Standard Functional Unification Grammars (FUGs) provide a structurally guided top-down control regime for text generation that is not appropriate for handling non-structural and dynamic constraints. We introduce two control tools that we have implemented for FUGs to address these limitations: bk-class, a tool to limit search by using a form of dependency-directed backtracking and external, a co-routine mechanism allowing a FUG to cooperate with dynamic constraint sources. We show how these tools complement the top-down regime of FUGs to enhance lexical choice.
Galaxy scale lenses in the RCS2: I. First Catalog of Candidate Strong Lenses
Creators: name: Anguita, T.
name: Barrientos, L. F.
name: Gladders, M. D.
name: Faure, C.
name: Yee, H. K. C
name: Gilbank, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first galaxy scale lens catalog from the second Red-Sequence Cluster Survey. The catalog contains 60 lensing system candidates comprised of Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) lenses at 0.2 < z < 0.5 surrounded by blue arcs or apparent multiple images of background sources. The catalog is a valuable complement to previous galaxy-galaxy lens catalogs as it samples an intermediate lens redshift range and is composed of bright sources and lenses that allow easy follow-up for detailed analysis. Mass and mass-to-light ratio estimates reveal that the lens galaxies are massive (~5.5x10e11 M_sun/h) and rich in dark matter (~14 M_sun/L_sun,B*h). Even though a slight increasing trend in the mass-to-light ratio is observed from z=0.2 to z=0.5, current redshift and light profile measurements do not allow stringent constraints on the mass-to-light ratio evolution of LRGs.
description: ApJ in press. Updated to match print version
An Object Oriented Approach to Content Planning for Text Generation
Creators: name: Wolz, Ursula
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: This paper describes GENIE, an object-oriented architecture that generates text with the intent of extending user expertise in interactive environments. Instead of generating text based solely on either discourse goals, intentions, or the domain, we found a need to combine techniques from each. We have developed an object oriented architecture in which the concepts about which we talk (domain entities), the goals that may be accomplished with them (intentions), and the rhetorical acts through which we express them (discourse goals) are represented as objects with localized knowledge and methods. A three stage process of content selection, content structuring and content filtering is presented. Content selection and structuring allow us to produce text that is within the context of the task at hand for the user. Content filtering allows us to revise and restructure the utterance to achieve clarity and conciseness.
FAIRness assessment and the role of DDI in the Generations and Gender Programme
Creators: name: Caporali, Arianna
name: Grünwald, Olga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a cross-national longitudinal panel survey on life-course and family dynamics launched in the year 2000. It comprises two rounds of data collection: Generations and Gender Survey-I (GGS-I), covering 19 countries, and GGS-II, initiated in 2017 and currently ongoing, with data available so far for 10 countries. The GGP is on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap and aims to become a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).Since its inception, the GGP has been committed to high quality data documentation and has chosen the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard to document its surveys. It has implemented DDI-Codebook, before opting for DDI-Lifecycle with the start of GGS-II. Today users can browse the datasets in the GGP Colectica Portal (https://ggp.colectica.org/). As part of the work to enhance its technical excellence, GGP takes part in a support action promoted by FAIR-Impact (https://fair-impact.eu/) to assess its level of FAIRness. This paper presents the results of this assessment and discusses the contribution of DDI to making GGS datasets FAIR. It ends with consideration of the actions needed for GGP to increase FAIRness and the role that compliance with DDI will play to implement them.
User-Defined Predicates in OPS5: A Needed Language Extension for Financial Expert Systems
Creators: name: Pasik, Alexander J.
name: Miranker, Daniel P.
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
name: Kresnicka, Thomas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: OPS5 is widely used for expert system development in industry as well as for academic research. Its limited expressive power, however, can lead to cumbersome and inefficient code. Often a single domain rule must be encoded as a series of OPS5 rules requiring extensive performance overhead and resulting in an awkward representation of the knowledge. In the financial expert system ALEXSYS, which performs mortgage pool allocation, the lack of user-defined predicates proved to be a major obstacle, prohibiting real time performance. This work describes the addition of user-defined predicates in OPS5, supported by a patch to Carnegie-Mellon University's Common lisp OPS5 implementation. Also, the necessity of this extension is demonstrated in the context of the ALEXSYS mortgage pool allocation expert system, both in terms of increased efficiency and improved knowledge representation.
Observation of Multiple-Gap Structure in Hidden Order State of URu2Si2 from Optical Conductivity
Creators: name: Hall, Jesse S.
name: Williams, Travis
name: Luke, Graeme
name: Nagel, Urmas
name: Uleksin, Taaniel
name: Rõõm, Toomas
name: Timusk, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the far infrared reflectance of the heavy fermion compound URu$_2$Si$_2$ through the phase transition at T$_{HO}$=17.5 K dubbed 'hidden order' with light polarized along both the a- and c-axes of the tetragonal structure. The optical conductivity allows the formation of the hidden order gap to be investigated in detail. We find that both the conductivity and the gap structure are anisotropic, and that the c-axis conductivity shows evidence for a double gap structure, with $Δ_{1,c}=2.7$ meV and $Δ_{2,c}=1.8$ meV respectively at 4 K, while the gap seen in the a-axis conductivity has a value of $Δ_a=3.2$ meV at 4 K. The opening of the gaps does not follow the behaviour expected from mean field theory in the vicinity of the transition.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of Unhealthy lifestyles, environment, well-being and health capability in rural neighbourhoods: a community-based cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Azul, Anabela Marisa
name: Almendra, Ricardo
name: Quatorze, Marta
name: Loureiro, Adriana
name: Reis, Flávio
name: Tavares, Rui
name: Mota-Pinto, Anabela
name: Cunha, António
name: Rama, Luís
name: Malva, João Oliveira
name: Santana, Paula
name: Ramalho-Santos, João
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Characterization of the community environment needs by neighbourhoods’ type and self-assessment of neighbourhood’ satisfaction.
Dimensions of SURE-Farm Farm Typology for Farm Resilience Assessments
Creators: name: Unay-Gailhard, Ilkay
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Appel, Franziska
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The farm typology approach uses to respond to the research questions where statistics on average farm characteristics are not representative for the majority of the farms in the study regions. Taking into account the heterogeneity of agriculture within a region is the primary objective of the constructing farm typologies. The selection of factors that define the farm typology varies from study to study, and is governed by the research purpose. The objective of the SURE-Farm farm typology is to classify EU farms in groups that are homogeneous, characteristic and representative regarding their challenges to cope with requirements of resilience of farms and farming systems.
description: EU; en; contact: unaygailhard@iamo.de
The Dynamics of Multinational Corporation Impacted Comparative Advantage: Relevancy to Ricardo’s View on Cross-border Investment and Samuelson’s Skepticism about Globalization
Creators: name: Ozawa, Terutomo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics
Asians

description: The notion of “pro-trade” vs. “anti-trade” foreign direct investment (FDI) was conceptualized by Professor Kiyoshi Kojima (1921-2010) of Hitotsubashi University and theoretically formalized in an article in The Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics(Kojima and Ozawa, 1984; reproduced in the United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations, Vol. 8). The core idea is that multinational corporations’(MNCs’) overseas investments in emerging markets have two opposing effects on the basis for trade; one is to expand comparative advantage (i.e., a pro-trade effect), and the other is to reduce comparative advantage (i.e., an anti-trade effect). This paper shows how the above theoretical distinction helps clarify both David Ricardo’s pessimism about the welfare effect of cross-border investment on the home country and Paul Samuelson’s skepticism of the long-term benefit of free trade to the United States in an age of globalization.
Centralizers of Finite Subgroups of the Mapping Class Group
Creators: name: Liang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65

description: In this paper, we study the action of finite subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface on the curve complex. We prove that if the diameter of the almost fixed point set of a finite subgroup H is big enough, then the centralizer of H is infinite.
description: 16 pages
Solanum boldoense Dunal & A. DC.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum boldoense

description: Solanum boldoense Dunal & A.DC., in Prodr. 13(1): 679. 1852 Type: Based on Solanum cardiophyllum Dunal, non Lindl.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
The Proper Motion of the Central Compact Object RX J0822-4300 in the Supernova Remnant Puppis A
Creators: name: Becker, Werner
name: Prinz, Tobias
name: Winkler, P. Frank
name: Petre, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the High Resolution Camera (HRC) aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we have re-examined the proper motion of the central compact object RX J0822-4300 in the supernova remnant Puppis A. New data from 2010 August, combined with three archival data sets from as early as 1999 December, provide a baseline of 3886 days (more than 10 1/2 years) to perform the measurement. Correlating the four positions of RX J0822-4300 measured in each data set implies a projected proper motion of mu 71 \pm 12 masy. For a distance of 2 kpc this proper motion is equivalent to a recoil velocity of 672 \pm 115 km/s. The position angle is found to be 244 \pm 11 degrees. Both the magnitude and direction of the proper motion are in agreement with RX J0822-4300 originating near the optical expansion center of the supernova remnant. For a displacement of 371 \pm 31 arcsec between its birth place and today's position we deduce an age of (5.2 \pm 1.0) 10^3 yrs for RX J0822-4300. The age inferred from the neutron star proper motion and filament motions can be considered as two independent measurements of the same quantity. They average to 4450 \pm 750 yrs for the age of the supernova remnant Puppis A.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Model-Based Planning of Sensor Placement and Optical Settings
Creators: name: Tarabanis, Kostantinos
name: Tsai, Roger Y.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: We present a model-based vision system that automatically plans the placement and optical settings of vision sensors in order to meet certain generic task requirements common to most industrial machine vision applications. From the planned viewpoints, features of interest on an object will satisfy particular constraints in the image. In this work, the vision sensor is a CCD camera equipped with a programmable lens (i.e. zoom lens) and the image constraints considered are: visibility, resolution and field of view. The proposed approach uses a geometric model of the object as well as a model of the sensor. in order to reason about the task and the environment The sensor planning system then computes the regions in space as well as the optical settings that satisfy each of the constraints separately. These results are finally combined to generate acceptable viewing locations and optical settings satisfying all constraints simultaneously. Camera planning experiments are described in which a robot-arm positions the camera at a computed location and the planned optical settings are set automatically. The corresponding scenes from the candidate viewpoints are shown demonstrating that the constraints are indeed satisfied. Other constraints, such as depth of focus, as well as other vision sensors can also be considered resulting in a fully integrated sensor planning system.
Dugong-watching tourism and encounter response of the dugong (dugond dugon) in Shark Bay, western Australia
Creators: name: Gerrard, Cedric Aron
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Dugong--Australia--Shark Bay
subject: Tourism--Australia--Shark Bay--Management
subject: Ecotourism--Australia--Shark Bay
subject: Wildlife conservation--Australia--Shark Bay

description: Bibliography: p. 65-70
Combinatorics and formal geometry of the master equation
Creators: name: Chuang, Joseph
name: Lazarev, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 18D50, 17B55, 17B66, 16E45

description: We give a general treatment of the master equation in homotopy algebras and describe the operads and formal differential geometric objects governing the corresponding algebraic structures. We show that the notion of Maurer-Cartan twisting is encoded in certain automorphisms of these universal objects.
Influences on Affiliate HRM Systems in Japanese MNCs in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Beechler, Schon L.
name: Najjar, Michelle
name: Ghosh, B. C.
name: Dirdjosuparto, Sukiswo
name: Mei Ling, Sieh
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Commerce

description: Using data from 160 Asian affiliates of American and Japanese MNCs, this paper explores the determinants of whether MNCs transfer their parent company HRM systems overseas or adopt local practices. We find that demographic predictor variables which have often been found in previous studies to predict similarity are relatively unimportant while perceived HRM competence of the MNC is an important determinant of HRM transfer.
Characterization of Tripartite Quantum States with Vanishing Monogamy Score
Creators: name: Bera, Manabendra N.
name: Prabhu, R.
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum discord, an information-theoretic quantum correlation measure, can satisfy as well as violate monogamy, for three-party quantum states. We quantify the feature using the concept of discord monogamy score. We find a necessary condition of a vanishing discord monogamy score for arbitrary three-party states. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained for pure states. We prove that the class of states having a vanishing discord monogamy score cannot have arbitrarily high genuine multipartite entanglement, as quantified by generalized geometric measure. In the special case of three-qubit pure states, their classification with respect to the discord monogamy score, reveals a rich structure that is different from that which had been obtained by using the monogamy score corresponding to the entanglement measure called concurrence. We investigate properties like genuine multipartite entanglement and violation of the multipartite Bell inequality for these states.
description: v1: 8 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX 4.1; v2: published version
D3.4 Transparency & Compliance Framework V1.0
Creators: name: Dullaert, Wouter
name: Milosevic, Uros
name: Langens, Jonathan
name: S'Jongers, Arnaud
name: Szepes, Nora
name: Goossens, Vincent
name: Rudavsky-Brody, Nathaniel
name: Delabastita, Ward
name: Kiranne, Sabrina
name: Fernandez, Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This release provides more mature components mainly the transparency components from T4.5 but also the improvements resulting from work in T3.3 and T3.4.
Contextual factors influencing dietary practices of Chinese Canadian seniors: elderly Chinese Canadians' perspectives
Creators: name: Meng, Xianmei
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 138-149
description: The dietary behaviours of elderly Chinese immigrants can be multidimensional, varying with cultural beliefs, acculturation, socioeconomic status, and other factors. Informed by the PRECEDE-PROCEED model and Kleinman's explanatory models, the primary purpose of this qualitative study was to explore factors influencing Chinese Canadian seniors' dietary practices. The ultimate goal is to increase the health care professionals' awareness and understanding on how to provide culturally appropriate and effective health care that meet the elderly Chinese immigrants' dietary needs. In-depth interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire were conducted with 10 male and female Chinese Canadian seniors. The results of this study revealed that: (a) cultural beliefs and values played a major role in the Chinese elderly participants' dietary practices; (b) family members, peers, as well as health care professionals and services greatly influenced the elderly participants' dietary practices; and (c) the participants' biological changes, psychological health, accessibility and availability of traditional Chinese foods, and financial issues significantly affected their dietary practices. Strategies were suggested to help provide appropriate and effective health education programs and consultation for the elderly Chinese immigrants.
College admissions with affirmative action
Creators: name: Abdulkadiroglu, Atila
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Education, Higher
Education and state
School management and organization

description: This paper first shows that when colleges' preferences are substitutable there does not exist any stable matching mechanism that makes truthful revelation of preferences a dominant strategy for every student. The paper introduces student types and captures colleges' preferences for affirmative action via type-specific quotas: A college always prefers a set of students that respects its type-specific quotas to another set that violates them. Then it shows that the student-applying deferred acceptance mechanism makes truthful revelation of preferences a dominant strategy for every student if each college's preferences satisfy responsiveness over acceptable sets of students that respect its type-specific quotas. These results have direct policy implications in several entry-level labor markets (Roth 1991). Furthermore, a fairness notion and the related incentive theory developed here is applied to controlled choice in the context of public school choice by Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez (2003).
Modelle der konfessionellen Kooperation an Schulen und Hochschulen in Deutschland. Eine Bestandsaufnahme im Horizont einer gesamttheologisch verantworteten Religionslehrerinnen- und Religionslehrerbildung
Creators: name: Simojoki, Henrik
name: Lindner, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: konfessionelle Kooperation
subject: Religionsunterricht
subject: Lehrerbildung
subject: Professionalisierung
subject: interdenominational cooperation
subject: Religious Education
subject: teacher training
subject: professionalization
subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers (De Gruyter) frei zugänglich.
description: Konfessionelle Kooperation im Religionsunterricht wird in Deutschland immer relevanter. In verschiedenen Bundesländern finden sich gegenwärtig unterschiedliche Umsetzungen dieser Kooperation, die von einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit evangelischer und katholischer Religionslehrkräfte bis zu einem Religionsunterricht in gemischt-konfessionellen Lerngruppen, den eine Lehrkraft allein verantwortet, reichen. Ein fachlich und didaktisch verantworteter konfessionell-kooperativer Religionsunterricht, der den unterschiedlichen Umsetzungsvarianten gerecht wird, bedarf entsprechend professionalisierter Religionslehrerinnen und Religionslehrer. Beide Aspekte – die unterschiedlichen Manifestationen konfessioneller Kooperation und die damit einhergehenden Erfordernisse an die Religionslehrerinnen- und Religionslehrerbildung – werden in vorliegendem Beitrag konturiert. Ein Überblick über existierende Formate einer kooperativ angelegten universitären Religionslehrkräftebildung und ein abschließendes Plädoyer für deren ökumenische Profilierung runden die Ausführungen ab.
description: Interdenominational cooperation continues to become increasingly important in religious education in Germany. At the moment, various implementations of such cooperation are employed in different federal states. These range from an intensive cooperation of protestant and catholic teachers to RE for a denominationally mixed group of pupils which is provided by one teacher. A form of interdenominational and cooperative RE which is pedagogically and materially competent and which aims to do justice to the various ways of implementing the corresponding strategies will require teachers who are professionally equipped for the task. Both aspects – the various manifestations of interdenominational cooperation and the concomitant demands placed on RE teachers – are outlined in the following contribution. An overview of the present configurations of such cooperatively designed training for RE teachers which is offered at the university level as well as a concluding appeal for the ecumenical profiling of such efforts draw the contribution to a close.
Additional file 1 of Acute myocardial infarction associated with abacavir and tenofovir based antiretroviral drug combinations in the United States
Creators: name: Dorjee, Kunchok
name: Desai, Manisha
name: Choden, Tsering
name: Baxi, Sanjiv M.
name: Hubbard, Alan E.
name: Reingold, Arthur L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. ICD-9-CM, and CPT codes for defining various covariates and outcomes. Table S2. Risk of myocardial infarction associated with current exposure to various combinations of antiretroviral agents among people living with HIV in the United States
Solanum cardiophyllum Dunal
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum cardiophyllum

description: Solanum cardiophyllum Dunal in DC., Prodr. 13(1) 89. 1852. Cuba. “in Havana ”, B.M. Boldo s.n. (holotype, MPU).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Superconductivity in La(1.56)Sr(0.44)CuO(4)/La(2)CuO(4) superlattices
Creators: name: Suter, A.
name: Morenzoni, E.
name: Prokscha, T.
name: Wojek, B. M.
name: Luetkens, H.
name: Gozar, A.
name: Logvenov, G.
name: Bozovic, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superlattices of the repeated structure La(1.56)Sr(0.44)CuO(4)/La(2)CuO(4) (LSCO-LCO), where none of the constituents is superconducting, show a superconducting transition of T_c \simeq 25 K. In order to elucidate the nature of the superconducting state we have performed a low-energy muSR study. By applying a magnetic field parallel (Meissner state) and perpendicular (vortex state) to the film planes, we could show that superconductivity is sheet like, resulting in a very anisotropic superconducting state. This result is consistent with a simple charge-transfer model, which takes into account the layered structure and the difference in the chemical potential between LCO and LSCO, as well as Sr interdiffusion. Using a pancake-vortex model we could estimate a strict upper limit of the London penetration depth to 380 nm in these superlattices. The temperature dependence of the muon depolarization rate in field cooling experiments is very similar to what is observed in intercalated BSCCO and suggests that vortex-vortex interaction is dominated by electromagnetic coupling but negligible Josephson interaction.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Mapping Haptic Exploratory Procedures to Multiple Shape Representations
Creators: name: Allen, Peter K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: Research in human haptics has revealed a number of Exploratory Procedures (EP's) that are used in determining attributes of an object, particularly shape. We have used this research as a paradigm for building an intelligent robotic system that can perform shape recognition from touch sensing. In particular, we have found a number of mappings between EP's and shape modeling primitives. In this paper, we discuss the choice of shape primitive for each EP, and present results from experiments with a Utah-MIT dexterous hand system. We also present a vision algorithm to complement active touch sensing for the task of autonomous shape recovery.
Characterization of cerebral vascular abnormalities in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
Creators: name: Biron, Kaan Elbi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients suffer progressive neurodegenerative loss of memory and other intellectual abilities leading to Dementia, the exact cause of this disease is still unknown. A central pathological hallmark of AD is the presence of an aggregated amyloid-beta peptide (abeta). A strong link between brain vascularity dysfunction and AD exits due to evidence of reduced blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity preceding other AD neuropatholgies. Furthermore, BBB dysfunction could influence cerebral blood flow, which could in turn influence blood clotting mechanisms during AD. Current dogma holds that AD BBB leakiness is likely due to vascular deterioration and apoptosis. I propose an alternative hypothesis: angiogenesis and hypervascularization underlie increased vascular permeability in AD. Cerebrovascular integrity was characterized in Tg2576 AD model mice by examining the expression of tight junction (TJ) proteins (occludin and ZO-1) with markers of apoptosis and angiogenesis. In aged AD mice, a significant increase in the incidence of disrupted TJs was directly linked to an increased microvascular density, but not apoptosis, which strongly supports hypervascularity as a basis for BBB dysfunction. My results demonstrate that AD related BBB disruption is due to neoangiogenesis, resulting in the redistribution of TJs that maintain the barrier thus providing a new paradigm for connecting vascular remodelling with AD. Unique atypical nonvascular TJ expression was also noted in the aged Tg2576 mice including “halos” of ZO-1 expression surrounding dense-core abeta plaques and occludin expression on a subset of astrocytes sometimes associated with plaques. The observed brain TJ-related pathologies appeared to be linked to the presence of abeta. This argument was iii strengthened by observations of Tg2576 mice treated with abeta immunotherapy, which showed reduced brain abeta levels. Tg2576 mice actively immunized with abeta had normal BBB TJ morphology, no apparent occlusions, normal angiogenesis and lacked the unique atypical nonvascular TJ expression. An examination of the general status of the clotting abilities of the Tg2576 mouse was examined. Whole blood from aged Tg2576 mice clotted faster than controls. However, the biochemical components of the clotting cascades were normal, suggesting potential platelet involvement. Taken together, the observed BBB abnormalities will provide new entry points for therapeutic intervention.
Non-perturbative gadget for topological quantum codes
Creators: name: Ocko, Samuel A.
name: Yoshida, Beni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body entangled systems, in particular topologically ordered spin systems proposed as resources for quantum information processing tasks, often involve highly non-local interaction terms. While one may approximate such systems through two-body interactions perturbatively, these approaches have a number of drawbacks in practice. Here, we propose a scheme to simulate many-body spin Hamiltonians with two-body Hamiltonians non-perturbatively. Unlike previous approaches, our Hamiltonians are not only exactly solvable with exact ground state degeneracy, but also support completely localized quasi-particle excitations, which are ideal for quantum information processing tasks. Our construction is limited to simulating the toric code and quantum double models, but generalizations to other non-local spin Hamiltonians may be possible.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, PRL Accepted
Chronicler: Lightweight Recording to Reproduce Field Failures
Creators: name: Bell, Jonathan Schaffer
name: Sarda, Nikhil
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer science

description: When programs fail in the field, developers are often left with limited information to diagnose the failure. Automated error reporting tools can assist in bug report generation but without precise steps from the end user it is often difficult for developers to recreate the failure. Advanced remote debugging tools aim to capture sufficient information from field executions to recreate failures in the lab, but have too much overhead to practically deploy. We present CHRONICLER, an approach to remote debugging that captures nondeterministic inputs to applications in a lightweight manner, guaranteeing faithful reproduction of client executions. We evaluated CHRONICLER by creating a Java implementation, CHRONICLERJ, and then by using a set of benchmarks mimicking real world applications and workloads, showing its runtime overhead to be under 10% in most cases (worst case 86%), while an existing tool showed overhead over 100% in the same cases (worst case 2,322%).
FUF: the Universal Unifier User Manual Version 2.0
Creators: name: Elhadad, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: This report is the user manual for FUF version 2.0, a natural language generator program that uses the technique of unification grammars. The program is composed of two main modules: a unifier and a linearizer. The unifier takes as input a semantic description of the text to be generated and a unification grammar, and produces as output a rich syntactic description of the text. The linearizer interprets this syntactic description and produces an English sentence. This manual includes a detailed presentation of the technique of unification grammars and a reference manual for the current implementation (FUF 2.0).
Warriors, empowerment, and social work
Creators: name: Big Plume, Sharon
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 276-296
description: Traditional Aboriginal cultures prepared people to face and overcome adversity due to challenging environmental and social contexts requiring high levels of expertise and responsibility. Warrior societies routinely created extraordinarily strong, clear minded individuals with well developed survival skills. Confinement on reserves caused decaying of survival and social skills, loss of status, and role confusion. Many individuals became dispirited and disempowered, and numerous social problems emerged due to colonization, cultural interference, and subsequent dependent status. Symptoms of disempowerment include addictions, family violence, poor health, suicide, child welfare involvement, and high rates of incarceration. Social workers and social service programs must assist in breaking cycles of dependency and disempowerment; however, these social problems are complex and often resistant to treatment. Effects of colonization and trauma might be ameliorated by applying Warrior philosophies. Because Warriors are the direct opposite of disempowerment, the Warrior identity can serve as an antidote for cycles of hopelessness, escape/avoidance behaviour, and dependency. The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine whether Warriorship philosophy as a model for social work practice can have relevance, meaningful support, or positive benefits for descendants of Warrior societies. Studying Warriors might provide information about survival skills and transformational knowledge useful in solving modem social problems. To build a picture of Warriorship, a literature review explored Warrior concepts followed by a talking circle composed of traditional Aboriginal social workers. Elders and cultural practitioners were consulted throughout the study to ensure proper protocols were followed. Findings revealed similarities, differences, and connections between Warriorship and social work, especially regarding power and authority. Empowerment as a Warrior means developing abilities to handle freedom wisely and responsibly. Warriors are ideals of character, attitude, and behaviour, and Warriorship is still seen as an important and significant role. Social work is another kind of battle for contemporary Warriors. This study has relevance for evolving Indigenous social work practice models. Social work in the past has contributed to disempowerment within Aboriginal communities. New models of social work practice are needed. Warrior philosophies, concepts, and methods can be applied to developing assessment or treatment models, and prevention strategies.
Dust In The Wind: An ALMA search for dust in the outflow of the HH212 class 0 protostellar system
Creators: name: Plunkett, Adele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Perhaps the most visually striking phenomenon during star formation is the ejection of material along the direction of the protostar's rotational axis. These ejections are observed in the form of molecular outflows and/or atomic jets, and carry away mass, energy and angular momentum from the system. Given the known dust content of protoplanetary disks, and the energetics of outflows, it has been suggested that it should be possible to lift dust from disks via winds, but this has yet to be directly confirmed observationally. A detection of dust within protostellar outflows would not only put constraints on the dust content in outflows, but if a sufficient amount of dust can be removed, the mass budget for planet formation could also be affected. We present re-imaging of archival, multi-frequency dust continuum observations taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) towards the HH212 protostellar system. We detect an extension in the dust emission coincident with the molecular outflow, and using multi-frequency data in Bands 7 and 9, we estimate the spectral index of the emitting dust and the dust mass in the wind launching region. We find a small but still significant amount of dust mass coincident with the molecular outflow cavity, and we take this as evidence that the wind is indeed carrying away dust from the HH212 protoplanetary disk. (Plunkett et al. 2023, in review)
Solanum scandens Sesse & Moc., Fl. Mex.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum scandens

description: Solanum scandens Sessé & Moc., Fl. Mex., ed. 2, 53. 1894 Type: Cuba. Sessé & Mociño s.n. (lectotype, MA [MA-604676, F neg. 48318], designated by Knapp, 2008a: 20; isolectotype MA [MA-604675, F neg. 48343, 5381, upper frag. in photo, sheet now divided]). Distribution. Endemic to Cuba, where it is found in forests and forest edges at low to middle elevations. Representative specimen. Cuba, Pinar del Río, Ekman 17544 (S). Solanum boldoense has occasionally been confused with the Mexican and Central American species S. dulcamaroides Dunal, to which it is probably closely related.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
description: {"references": ["Knapp, S. 2008 a. Typification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species described by Sesse and Mocino. Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 65: 7 - 23."]}
Monetary Policy and Transmission of Bubbles
Creators: name: Sakuragawa, Masaya
name: Shinada, Naoki
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics
Asians
Banks and banking
Finance

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate the optimal monetary policy when bubbles boost and burst. The monetary policy in the form of open market operation has real effects, that is, influences the growth in investment and the size of bubbles. The central bank faces a trade-off between stimulating investment and appreciating bubbles. The optimal policy is contingent on the state of bubbles. When bubbles arise, the central bank may maintain or gives up easing, depending on how it puts weight on the state of the bursting of bubbles, while when bubbles burst, the central bank takes an easing policy. The optimal policy is the same irrespective of whether foreign capital inflows are allowed for unless capital markets are severely restricted.
Structured Point Cloud Data Analysis Via Regularized Tensor Regression for Process Modeling and Optimization
Creators: name: Yan, Hao
name: Paynabar, Kamran
name: Pacella, Massimo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Advanced 3D metrology technologies such as coordinate measuring machine and laser 3D scanners have facilitated the collection of massive point cloud data, beneficial for process monitoring, control and optimization. However, due to their high dimensionality and structure complexity, modeling and analysis of point clouds are still a challenge. In this article, we use multilinear algebra techniques and propose a set of tensor regression approaches to model the variational patterns of point clouds and to link them to process variables. The performance of the proposed methods is evaluated through simulations and a real case study of turning process optimization.
The impact of "The Met : Live in HD" on local opera attendance
Creators: name: Van Eeden, Stephan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Live-streamed movie theatre broadcasts are a new phenomenon in opera. In 2006-2007, the Metropolitan Opera in New York began transmitting select live Met performances into cinemas across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The program was entitled The Met: Live in HD and since its inception, has expanded in audience reach, content and mandate. Many local live opera companies speculate that Live in HD is a threat to their business. This study identifies and assesses the impact of The Met: Live in HD on local opera attendance. A survey was conducted in a major North American city with a resident midsize professional opera company and a midsize amateur opera company. We surveyed HD-attendees at Live in HD performances as well as at amateur and professional live opera performances. The study investigates whether Live in HD actually exposes new audiences to opera, how attendees compare HD and live opera, and whether viewers are more likely to see a live local production or simply more likely to view another broadcast. The results show that Live in HD does not at present cannibalize the local live opera audience, but it does establish an audience for itself. Live in HD is not viewed as an inferior product to live opera. There is evidence that the program is so successful that it builds a loyal following –audiences attend because they enjoy the experience, some decide to subscribe, others begin to prefer the format. Live in HD attendees are very likely to reattend HD but not necessarily live opera. There is no evidence that Live in HD generates more live opera attendance or brings new audiences into local opera houses.
Additional file 1 of Burdens, resources, health and wellbeing of nurses working in general and specialised palliative care in Germany – results of a nationwide cross-sectional survey study
Creators: name: Diehl, Elisabeth
name: Rieger, Sandra
name: Letzel, Stephan
name: Schablon, Anja
name: Nienhaus, Albert
name: Escobar Pinzon, Luis Carlos
name: Dietz, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Additional Table 1. Palliative care in Germany.
A Structural Approach to Reversible Computation
Creators: name: Abramsky, Samson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most foundational work on reversible computing to date has focussed on simulations of low-level machine models. By contrast, we develop a more structural approach. We show how high-level functional programs can be mapped compositionally (i.e. in a syntax-directed fashion) into a simple kind of automata which are immediately seen to be reversible. The size of the automaton is linear in the size of the functional term. In mathematical terms, we are building a concrete model of functional computation. This construction stems directly from ideas arising in Geometry of Interaction and Linear Logic---but can be understood without any knowledge of these topics. In fact, it serves as an excellent introduction to them. At the same time, an interesting logical delineation between reversible and irreversible forms of computation emerges from our analysis.
description: 30 pages, appeared in Theoretical Computer Science
Additional file 2 of Burdens, resources, health and wellbeing of nurses working in general and specialised palliative care in Germany – results of a nationwide cross-sectional survey study
Creators: name: Diehl, Elisabeth
name: Rieger, Sandra
name: Letzel, Stephan
name: Schablon, Anja
name: Nienhaus, Albert
name: Escobar Pinzon, Luis Carlos
name: Dietz, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Additional Figure 1. Burden due to organisational framework conditions (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316). Additional Figure 2. Emotional burden due to death (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316). Additional Figure 3. Burden due to care of patients (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316). Additional Figure 4. Burden due to nursing care (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316). Additional Figure 5. Burden due to care of relatives (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316). Additional Figure 6. Good working team (GPC: n = 437, SPC: n = 1316).