cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
IL-13 determines specific IgE responses and SARS-CoV-2 immunity after mild COVID-19 and novel mRNA vaccination
Creators: name: Meltendorf, Stefan
name: Vogel, Katrin
name: Thurm, Christoph
name: Prätsch, Florian
name: Reinhold, Annegret
name: Färber, Jacqueline
name: Heuft, Hans-Gert
name: Kaasch, Achim J.
name: Hachenberg, Thomas
name: Weinzierl, Stefan
name: Schraven, Burkhart
name: Reinhold, Dirk
name: Brunner-Weinzierl, Monika C.
name: Lingel, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: allergy
subject: COVID-19
subject: cytokines
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: vaccination

description: After recovery, mild and severe COVID-19 diseases are associated with long-term effects on the host immune system, such as prolonged T-cell activation or accumulation of autoantibodies. In this study, we show that mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, but not SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccinations, cause durable atopic risk factors such as a systemic Th2- and Th17-type environment as well as activation of B cells responsive of IgE against aeroallergens from house dust mite and mold. At an average of 100 days post mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, anti-mold responses were associated with low IL-13 levels and increased pro-inflammatory IL-6 titers. Acutely severely ill COVID-19 patients instead showed no evidence of atopic reactions. Considering convalescents of mild COVID-19 courses and mRNA-vaccinated individuals together, IL-13 was the predominant significantly upregulated factor, likely shaping SARS-CoV-2 immunity. Application of multiple regression analysis revealed that the IL-13 levels of both groups were determined by the Th17-type cytokines IL-17A and IL-22. Taken together, these results implicate a critical role for IL-13 in the aftermath of SARS-CoV-2 mild infections and mRNA vaccinations, conferring protection against airway directed, atopic side reactions that occur in mildly experienced COVID-19.
A stiffened raft footing on non engineered fill
Creators: name: Schult, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Thermodynamic study of gap structure and pair-breaking effect by magnetic field in the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCu2Si2
Creators: name: Kittaka, Shunichiro
name: Aoki, Yuya
name: Shimura, Yasuyuki
name: Sakakibara, Toshiro
name: Seiro, Silvia
name: Geibel, Christoph
name: Steglich, Frank
name: Tsutsumi, Yasumasa
name: Ikeda, Hiroaki
name: Machida, Kazushige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the results of specific-heat and magnetization measurements, in particular their field-orientation dependence, on the first discovered heavy-fermion superconductor CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ ($T_{\rm c} \sim 0.6$ K). We discuss the superconducting gap structure and the origin of the anomalous pair-breaking phenomena, leading e.g., to the suppression of the upper critical field $H_{\rm c2}$, found in the high-field region. The data show that the anomalous pair breaking becomes prominent below about 0.15 K in any field direction, but occurs closer to $H_{\rm c2}$ for $H \parallel c$. The presence of this anomaly is confirmed by the fact that the specific-heat and magnetization data satisfy standard thermodynamic relations. Concerning the gap structure, field-angle dependences of the low-temperature specific heat within the $ab$ and $ac$ planes do not show any evidence for gap nodes. From microscopic calculations in the framework of a two-band full-gap model, the power-law-like temperature dependences of $C$ and $1/T_1$, reminiscent of nodal superconductivity, have been reproduced reasonably. These facts further support multiband full-gap superconductivity in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, published in Phys. Rev. B
Exposing neuroAIˣ: highly accelerated SNN simulations made available for computational neuroscientists
Creators: name: Stadtmann, Tim
name: Kauth, Kevin
name: Gemmeke, Tobias
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Neurotechnology

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Comparison of cochlear implant electrode placement in the scala tympani vs scala vestibuli: Simulating auditory nerve fiber response of varying degeneration degree
Creators: name: Wenger, Cornelia
name: Fellner, Andreas
name: Bucek, Fred
name: Werginz, Paul
name: Rattay, Frank
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Neurotechnology

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Linearization of quasiperiodically forced circle flow beyond Brjuno condition
Creators: name: Krikorian, Raphael
name: Wang, Jing
name: You, Jiangong
name: Zhou, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that an analytic quasiperiodically forced circle flow with a not super-Liouvillean base frequency and which is close enough to some constant rotation is $C^{\infty}$ rotations reducible, provided its fibered rotation number is Diophantine with respect to the base frequency. As a corollary, we obtain that among such systems, the linearizable ones and those displaying mode-locking are locally dense for the $C^\infty$-topology.
Design of frequency meter for TIGER RADAR
Creators: name: Natarajan, Vinodh Kumar.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Controlling vibrational cooling with Zero-Width Resonances: An adiabatic Floquet approach
Creators: name: Leclerc, Arnaud
name: Viennot, David
name: Jolicard, Georges
name: Lefebvre, Roland
name: Atabek, Osman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In molecular photodissociation, some specific combinations of laser parameters (wavelength and intensity) lead to unexpected Zero-Width Resonances (ZWR), with in principle infinite lifetimes. Their interest in inducing basic quenching mechanisms have recently been devised in the laser control of vibrational cooling through filtration strategies [O. Atabek et al., Phys. Rev. A87, 031403(R) (2013)]. A full quantum adiabatic control theory based on the adiabatic Floquet Hamiltonian is developed to show how a laser pulse could be envelop-shaped and frequency-chirped so as to protect a given initial vibrational state against dissociation, taking advantage from its continuous transport on the corresponding ZWR, all along the pulse duration. As compared with previous control scenarios actually suffering from non-adiabatic contamination, drastically different and much more efficient filtration goals are achieved. A semiclassical analysis helps in finding and interpreting a complete map of ZWRs in the laser parameter plane. In addition, the choice of a given ZWR path, among the complete series identified by the semiclassical approach, amounts to be crucial for the cooling scheme, targeting a single vibrational state population left at the end of the pulse, while all others have almost completely decayed. The illustrative example, offering the potentiality to be transposed to other diatomics, is Na2 prepared by photoassociation in vibrationally hot but translationally and rotationally cold states.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
Annual Report of the Provinical Industrial School for Boys of the Province of British Columbia, Volume 41
Creators: name: British Columbia. Provincial Industrial School For Boys.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: School management and organization
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107575
subject: Schools
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107958
subject: Reformatories
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1092581
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499

description: Report to the provincial government from the Provincial Industrial School for Boys. Includes information about the students and the school's activities.
P-Wave Contact Tensor -- Universal Properties of Axisymmetry-Broken P-Wave Fermi Gases
Creators: name: Yoshida, Shuhei M.
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate universal properties of a p-wave Fermi gas with a resonant interaction in which the axisymmetry is broken spontaneously or externally. Here, the short-range correlations can be completely characterized by the nine-component p-wave contact tensor, which can be measured by applying a generalized adiabatic sweep theorem. The distinctive features of the p-wave contact tensor emerge in a normal p-wave Fermi gas in an anisotropic trap and in a superfluid phase. An experimental scheme to measure the p-wave contact tensor and test the adiabatic sweep theorem is also discussed.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Design of e-compass : (a museum guide pilot)
Creators: name: Jabbar, Arshad .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Development of 2.4 GHz active radio frequency identification system
Creators: name: Nerlekar, Gauri.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: The Possibility of Happiness in Emily Dickinson's Writings
Creators: name: Lopez Sanchez, Irene
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates how Emily Dickinson's writings challenged major representations of happiness in nineteenth-century America, such as theological, sentimental, and transcendental. Although the pursuit of happiness, or a life worth living, has been a global concern for millennia, with roots in numerous cultural and religious traditions, its definition remains - and may always remain - elusive. Happiness, however, was declared a right to be pursued by all citizens in the Declaration of Independence. In the nineteenth century, the classical concept of eudaimonia had transformed and evolved into a sentimental concept in which happiness was reified either as a reward in the future or as a positive emotion in the present. Likewise, this idea was grounded in the literary tradition of the trial narrative which, simultaneously, was influenced by, or rooted in, theological interpretations of the notion. Despite the fact that these conceptions of happiness have largely shaped interpretations and judgements of Dickinson's work, I argue that the poet's views on a life worth living were more akin to pre-Socratic tragic interpretations of the idea, since the poet's writings valued the contingency of life, the gift of mortality, and the possibility of happiness in this life. By placing the poet's writings in conversation with her nineteenth-century broader context, this study aims to identify some of the strategies that Dickinson used to dismiss nineteenth-century's reified representations of happiness. This study is thus rooted in the belief that Dickinson's ways of writing, thinking, and living may provide a new perspective on the path to a better understanding of what it means to live a life worth living.
Entanglement from Topology in Chern-Simons Theory
Creators: name: Salton, Grant
name: Swingle, Brian
name: Walter, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The way in which geometry encodes entanglement is a topic of much recent interest in quantum many-body physics and the AdS/CFT duality. This relation is particularly pronounced in the case of topological quantum field theories, where topology alone determines the quantum states of the theory. In this work, we study the set of quantum states that can be prepared by the Euclidean path integral in three-dimensional Chern-Simons theory. Specifically, we consider arbitrary 3-manifolds with a fixed number of torus boundaries in both abelian U(1) and non-abelian SO(3) Chern-Simons theory. For the abelian theory, we find that the states that can be prepared coincide precisely with the set of stabilizer states from quantum information theory. This constrains the multipartite entanglement present in this theory, but it also reveals that stabilizer states can be described by topology. In particular, we find an explicit expression for the entanglement entropy of a many-torus subsystem using only a single replica, as well as a concrete formula for the number of GHZ states that can be distilled from a tripartite state prepared through path integration. For the nonabelian theory, we find a notion of "state universality", namely that any state can be prepared to an arbitrarily good approximation. The manifolds we consider can also be viewed as toy models of multi-boundary wormholes in AdS/CFT.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, many donuts. Version 2: updated affiliations and funding sources, other minor changes
Practical quantum computing on encrypted data
Creators: name: Marshall, Kevin
name: Jacobsen, Christian S.
name: Schafermeier, Clemens
name: Gehring, Tobias
name: Weedbrook, Christian
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting a client's privacy, especially in today's era of cloud and distributed computing. In terms of privacy, the best solutions that classical techniques can achieve are unfortunately not unconditionally secure in the sense that they are dependent on a hacker's computational power. Here we theoretically investigate, and experimentally demonstrate with Gaussian displacement and squeezing operations, a quantum solution that achieves the unconditional security of a user's privacy using the practical technology of continuous variables. We demonstrate losses of up to 10 km both ways between the client and the server and show that security can still be achieved. Our approach offers a number of practical benefits, which can ultimately allow for the potential widespread adoption of this quantum technology in future cloud-based computing networks.
description: Main text (6 pages) plus Appendices (14 pages), 13 figures
Annual Report of the Provinical Industrial School for Boys of the Province of British Columbia, Volume 28
Creators: name: British Columbia. Provincial Industrial School For Boys.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: School management and organization
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107575
subject: Reformatories
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1092581
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Schools
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107958

description: Report to the provincial government from the Provincial Industrial School for Boys. Includes information about the students and the school's activities.
Matter and gravitons in the gravitational collapse
Creators: name: Casadio, Roberto
name: Giugno, Andrea
name: Giusti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effects of gravitons in the collapse of baryonic matter that forms a black hole. We first note that the effective number of (soft off-shell) gravitons that account for the (negative) Newtonian potential energy generated by the baryons is conserved and always in agreement with Bekenstein's area law of black holes. Moreover, their (positive) interaction energy reproduces the expected post-Newtonian correction and becomes of the order of the total ADM mass of the system when the size of the collapsing object approaches its gravitational radius. This result supports a scenario in which the gravitational collapse of regular baryonic matter produces a corpuscular black hole without central singularity, in which both gravitons and baryons are marginally bound and form a Bose-Einstein condensate at the critical point. The Hawking emission of baryons and gravitons is then described by the quantum depletion of the condensate and we show the two energy fluxes are comparable, albeit negligibly small on astrophysical scales.
description: 4 pages, no figures. Minor changes and typos fixed
Going Beyond Variation of Sets
Creators: name: Chlebik, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75, 49Q15

description: We study integralgeometric representations of variations of general sets $A$ in the Euclidean n-space without any regularity assumptions. If we assume, for example, that just one partial derivative of its characteristic function $χ^A$ is a signed Borel measure with finite total variation, can we provide a nice integralgeometric representation of this variation? This is a delicate question, as the Gauss-Green type theorems of De Giorgi and Federer are not available in this generality. We will show that a `measure-theoretic boundary' plays its role in such representations similarly as for the sets of finite variation. There is a variety of suitable notions of `measure-theoretic boundary' and one can address the question to find notions of measure-theoretic boundary that are as fine as possible.
Performance analysis of CDMA and SDMA techniques in mobile radio communications
Creators: name: Jaju, Anuradha.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A neural network model of primary motor cortex, cerebellum and associative cortex sheds light on their functional complementarity during motor learning and performance
Creators: name: Duan, Sunny
name: Fiete, Ila R.
name: Logiaco, Laureline
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Motor control, movement and navigation

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Discrete Curvature Methods Detect the Dimension of Neural Correlations
Creators: name: Dempsey Braddell, Roisin
name: Rodrigues, Serafim
name: Avezagoda, Rodrigo
name: Barros De Souza, Danillo
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Nonlinear self-adapting wave patterns
Creators: name: Kessler, David A.
name: Levine, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new type of traveling wave pattern, one that can adapt to the size of physical system in which it is embedded. Such a system arises when the initial state has an instability that extends down to zero wavevector, connecting at that point to two symmetry modes of the underlying dynamical system. The Min system of proteins in E. coli is such as system with the symmetry emerging from the global conservation of two proteins, MinD and MinE. For this and related systems, traveling waves can adiabatically deform as the system is increased in size without the increase in node number that would be expected for an oscillatory version of a Turing instability containing an allowed wavenumber band with a finite minimum.
Poly(ethyleneimine)/Poly(acrylic acid) Multilayer Coatings with Peripherally Bound Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophages Have Antibacterial Properties
Creators: name: Müller, Martin
name: Urban, Birgit
name: Mannala, Gopala Krishna
name: Alt, Volker
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: bacteriophages Staphylococcus aureus polyelectrolyte multilayer antibacterial properties attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy plaque assay
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Herein, polyelectrolyte (PEL)-based coatings including peripherally bound bacteriophages (PHAG) at model substrates are reported to showcase their applicability on surgically relevant implants with respect to surface protection against bacterial proliferation and biofilm formation. The established layer-by-layer concept based on the consecutive adsorption of oppositely charged PEL was applied to generate polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) coatings with either a cationic or anionic excess surface charge. PHAG were bound at the outermost layer of such PEM coatings utilizing electrostatic interaction forces. Branched poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) as cationic and anionic PEL, respectively, and theEscherichia coli T4 bacteriophage (T4 PHAG) and the Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage (S.a. PHAG) were used. At first, PEM of PEI/PAA were consecutively adsorbed from solutions at germanium model substrates with z = 4 and 5 adsorption steps providing PAA-terminated PEM-4 and PEI-terminated PEM-5, which were characterized by surface-sensitive in situ attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Second, both T4 and S.a. PHAG were bound to these PEM showing a higher bound amount at cationic PEM-5 compared to anionic PEM-4. Electrostatic interaction forces between anionic capsid proteins and respective PEM are suggested. Furthermore, scanning force microscopy revealed typical overall size (200–250 nm) and shape (head/tail) features of the bound PHAG and supported qualitatively the preference for cationic PEM-5 by number. Finally, PEM-4 and PEM-5 were deposited at standard agar plates, S.a. PHAG were bound to those PEM, and plaque assay was performed to check antibacterial properties. Thereby, coatings of PHAG/PEM-5 showed a higher antibacterial activity and PHAG/PEM-4 a lower one, which was evidenced by plaque formation testing. Conclusively, PHAG/PEM coatings are promising for the reduction of implant-associated infections at surgical implants and thus may replace or complement established coatings based on low molecular synthetic antibiotics.
Cortex-wide high density ECoG and translaminar local field potential recordings reveal rich broad-band spatio-temporal dynamics
Creators: name: García Cortadella, Ramon
name: Schwesig, Gerrit
name: Shahidi, Arash
name: Umurzakova, Anna
name: Antonio Garrido, Jose
name: Sirota, Anton
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Multicast listener discovery
Creators: name: Kit-Opas, Chainarong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Harnessing Network Communication Models to Infer Brain-wide Causal Interactions in the Human Connectome
Creators: name: Fakhar, Kayson
name: Hadaeghi, Fatemeh
name: Seguin, Caio
name: Dixit, Shrey
name: Messé, Arnaud
name: Misic, Bratislav
name: Hilgetag, Claus
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Evaluación de competencias: Un ejemplo en posgrado
Creators: name: Fuentes Fuentes, Raul
name: Amorós-Poveda, Lucía
Publisher: name: Revista Electrónica de Desarrollo de Competencias (REDEC) - Universidad de Talca
Year: 2012
Subjects: Evaluación
Competencias
planificación y gestión curricular
Planificación y gestión del curriculum

description: Siguiendo los planteamientos Tuning dentro del contexto de América Latina se aplica el modelo de evaluación para entornos de telenseñanza (MEET). Se ofrece un trato de la evaluación, reconociendo el aprendizaje por competencias y describiendo la naturaleza de la evaluación dentro del módulo Evaluación del Aprendizaje. Este módulo forma parte del programa de Magíster en Educación, con Mención en Currículum y Administración. Se imparte en la Universidad Católica del Maule (Talca, Chile) y forma parte de las acciones llevadas a cabo dentro de MECESUP (proyecto MECESUP 0307).
Clustered inhibition enhances correlations across segregated excitatory subnetworks
Creators: name: Getz, Matthew P.
name: Handy, Gregory
name: Negrón, Alex
name: Doiron, Brent
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Return to the Origin as a Probe of Atomic Phase Coherence
Creators: name: Hainaut, Clément
name: Manai, Isam
name: Chicireanu, Radu
name: Clément, Jean-François
name: Zemmouri, Samir
name: Garreau, Jean Claude
name: Szriftgiser, Pascal
name: Lemarié, Gabriel
name: Cherroret, Nicolas
name: Delande, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of the coherent enhancement of the return probability ("enhanced return to the origin" , ERO) in a periodically kicked cold-atom gas. By submitting an atomic wave packet to a pulsed, periodically shifted laser standing wave, we induce an oscillation of ERO in time and explain it in terms of a periodic, reversible dephasing in the weak-localization interference sequences responsible for ERO. Monitoring the temporal decay of ERO, we exploit its quantum coherent nature to quantify the decoherence rate of the atomic system.
On the mechanism of gas adsorption for pristine, defective and functionalized graphene
Creators: name: You, Y.
name: Deng, J.
name: Tan, X.
name: Gorjizadeh, N.
name: Yoshimura, M.
name: Smith, S. C.
name: Sahajwalla, V.
name: Joshi, R. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Defect is no longer deemed an adverse aspect of graphene. Contrarily, it can pave ways of extending applicability of graphene. Here, we discuss the effects of three types of defects on graphene: carbon deficiency, adatom (single Fe) dopant and introduction of functional groups (carboxyl, pyran group) on NO2 gas adsorption via density functional theory method. We have observed that the unsaturated carbon in defected graphene is highly active to attract NO2 molecules. Our study suggests that introducing Fe on graphene can enhance the NO2 adsorption process. Adsorption energy calculations suggest the enhancement in NO2 adsorption is more profound for Fe-doped mono and tetra vacant graphene than Fe doped bi- and tri-vacant graphene. This study could potentially be useful in developing adsorption-based applications of graphene.
Magnetic Moments of Baryons containing all heavy quarks in Quark-Diquark Model
Creators: name: Thakkar, Kaushal
name: Majethiya, Ajay
name: Vinodkumar, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The triply heavy flavour baryons are studied using the Quark-diquark description of the three-body system. The confinement potential for present study of triply heavy flavour baryons is assumed as coulomb plus power potential with power index $ν$. We have solved Schrodinger equation numerically to calculate the masses of triply heavy flavour baryons. The masses and magnetic moments of triply heavy flavour baryons are computed for different power indices, $ν$, starting from 0.4 to 1.0. The predicted masses and magnetic moments are in good agreement with other theoretical predictions.
The role of guide field in magnetic reconnection driven by island coalescence
Creators: name: Stanier, A.
name: Daughton, W.
name: Simakov, Andrei N.
name: Chacon, L.
name: Le, A.
name: Karimabadi, H.
name: Ng, Jonathan
name: Bhattacharjee, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of studies have considered how the rate of magnetic reconnection scales in large and weakly collisional systems by the modelling of long reconnecting current sheets. However, this set-up neglects both the formation of the current sheet and the coupling between the diffusion region and a larger system that supplies the magnetic flux. Recent studies of magnetic island merging, which naturally include these features, have found that ion kinetic physics is crucial to describe the reconnection rate and global evolution of such systems. In this paper, the effect of a guide field on reconnection during island merging is considered. In contrast to the earlier current sheet studies, we identify a limited range of guide fields for which the reconnection rate, outflow velocity, and pile-up magnetic field increase in magnitude as the guide field increases. The Hall-MHD fluid model is found to reproduce kinetic reconnection rates only for a sufficiently strong guide field, for which ion inertia breaks the frozen-in condition and the outflow becomes Alfvenic in the kinetic system. The merging of large islands occurs on a longer timescale in the zero guide field limit, which may in part be due to a mirror-like instability that occurs upstream of the reconnection region.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to PoP
Further ALMA observations and detailed modeling of the Red Rectangle
Creators: name: Bujarrabal, V.
name: Castro-Carrizo, A.
name: Alcolea, J.
name: Santander-Garcia, M.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Contreras, C. Sanchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new high-quality ALMA observations of the Red Rectangle (a well known post-AGB object) in C17O J=6-5 and H13CN J=4-3 line emission and results from a new reduction of already published 13CO J=3-2 data. A detailed model fitting of all the molecular line data, including previous maps and single-dish spectra, was performed using a sophisticated code. These observations and the corresponding modeling allowed us to deepen the analysis of the nebular properties. We also stress the uncertainties in the model fitting. We confirm the presence of a rotating equatorial disk and an outflow, which is mainly formed of gas leaving the disk. The mass of the disk is ~ 0.01 Mo, and that of the CO-rich outflow is ~ 10 times smaller. High temperatures of ~ 100 K are derived for most components. From comparison of the mass values, we roughly estimate the lifetime of the rotating disk, which is found to be of about 10000 yr. Taking data of a few other post-AGB composite nebulae into account, we find that the lifetimes of disks around post-AGB stars typically range between 5000 and more than 20000 yr. The angular momentum of the disk is found to be high, ~ 9 Mo AU km/s, which is comparable to that of the stellar system at present. Our observations of H13CN show a particularly wide velocity dispersion and indicate that this molecule is only abundant in the inner Keplerian disk, at ~ 60 AU from the stellar system. We suggest that HCN is formed in a dense photodissociation region (PDR) due to the UV excess known to be produced by the stellar system, following chemical mechanisms that are well established for interstellar medium PDRs and disks orbiting young stars. We further suggest that this UV excess could lead to the efficient formation and excitation of PAHs and other C-bearing macromolecules, whose emission is very intense in the optical counterpart.
description: Astronomy & Astrohysics, in press; 17 pages, 18 figures, 1 table
Population growth, interest rate, and housing tax in the transitional China
Creators: name: He, Ling-Yun
name: Wen, Xing-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper combines and develops the models in Lastrapes (2002) and Mankiw & Weil (1989), which enables us to analyze the effects of interest rate and population growth shocks on housing price in one integrated framework. Based on this model, we carry out policy simulations to examine whether the housing (stock or flow) tax reduces the housing price fluctuations caused by interest rate or population growth shocks. Simulation results imply that the choice of housing tax tools depends on the kind of shock that housing market faces. In the situation where the housing price volatility is caused by the population growth shock, the flow tax can reduce the volatility of housing price while the stock tax makes no difference to it. If the shock is resulting from the interest rate, the policy maker should not impose any kind of the housing taxes. Furthermore, the effect of one kind of the housing tax can be strengthened by that of the other type of housing tax.
Investigation on the sensitivity of optical receivers
Creators: name: Shen, Guokai.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Schweizerische Geotechnische Kommission, Sekretär Emil Letsch (1864-1949), an Louis Rollier (1859-1931), mit Beilagen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1908

description: Brief aus Zürich.
Beilage: Rechnungsblatt für die Schweizerische Geotechnische Kommission, nicht ausgefüllt
Kopie eines Briefes von Bruno Zschokke an Ulrich Grubenmann, betreffend fehlende Aviskarten von Steinsendungen an die Geotechnische Kommission
Traveling Waves Encode the Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning
Creators: name: Keller, T. A.
name: Muller, Lyle
name: Sejnowski, Terrence
name: Welling, Max
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
Ulysses (1932), vol. 02
Creators: name: Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Stream of consciousness fiction
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1134602
subject: Realism in literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1091237
subject: Ulysses (Joyce, James)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1356277
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455

description: Second of two volumes, includes pages 401-792. The title page of this edition states "The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request, by Stuart Gilbert." It was considered the most accurate offering of the text and subsequently used as the basis for many later editions of the novel.
Non Local Spatial and Angular Matching : Enabling higher spatial resolution diffusion MRI datasets through adaptive denoising
Creators: name: St-Jean, Samuel
name: Coupé, Pierrick
name: Descoteaux, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging datasets suffer from low Signal-to-Noise Ratio, especially at high b-values. Acquiring data at high b-values contains relevant information and is now of great interest for microstructural and connectomics studies. High noise levels bias the measurements due to the non-Gaussian nature of the noise, which in turn can lead to a false and biased estimation of the diffusion parameters. Additionally, the usage of in-plane acceleration techniques during the acquisition leads to a spatially varying noise distribution, which depends on the parallel acceleration method implemented on the scanner. This paper proposes a novel diffusion MRI denoising technique that can be used on all existing data, without adding to the scanning time. We first apply a statistical framework to convert the noise to Gaussian distributed noise, effectively removing the bias. We then introduce a spatially and angular adaptive denoising technique, the Non Local Spatial and Angular Matching (NLSAM) algorithm. Each volume is first decomposed in small 4D overlapping patches to capture the structure of the diffusion data and a dictionary of atoms is learned on those patches. A local sparse decomposition is then found by bounding the reconstruction error with the local noise variance. We compare against three other state-of-the-art denoising methods and show quantitative local and connectivity results on a synthetic phantom and on an in-vivo high resolution dataset. Overall, our method restores perceptual information, removes the noise bias in common diffusion metrics, restores the extracted peaks coherence and improves reproducibility of tractography. Our work paves the way for higher spatial resolution acquisition of diffusion MRI datasets, which could in turn reveal new anatomical details that are not discernible at the spatial resolution currently used by the diffusion MRI community.
description: Code available : https://github.com/samuelstjean/nlsam Datasets available : https://github.com/samuelstjean/nlsam_data, Medical Image Analysis, 2016
The evolution of climate framing in Albertan politics
Creators: Boonstra, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

Studies have found that belief in anthropogenic climate change, and approval of policies to combat it, are lower in Alberta compared to the rest of Canada. This paper expands on previous research by answering the question: How has the framing of climate change by Albertan politicians changed over time, and why? I explore Albertan news and opinion articles from 1997-2005 and 2015-2020 utilizing a deductive media frame analysis. I analyze how provincial politicians in Alberta framed climate change, and compare and contrast the framing in these two periods. This builds on previous research which demonstrated that elite discourse influences public perceptions of climate change, and can help us to better understand the saliency of climate change among Albertans.
Nation Building approach to Self Determination
Creators: name: Ozies, Jaala
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander philosophy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and regional development
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social impact and program evaluation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing
Cultural responsiveness and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and family social and emotional wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sociology
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legislation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research methods
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, histories, culture, country, perspectives and ethics in education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ethics
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander earth sciences
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational methods
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social determinants of health
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human geography and demography
Conservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage

description: This is an essay that I wrote in May 2009, while studying at Curtin University. This essay contains themes that are important to me at this stage.
Ultrafast Emission and Detection of a Single-Electron Gaussian Wave Packet: A Theoretical Study
Creators: name: Ryu, Sungguen
name: Kataoka, M.
name: Sim, H. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generating and detecting a prescribed single-electron state is an important step towards solid-state fermion optics. We propose how to generate an electron in a Gaussian state, using a quantum-dot pump with gigahertz operation and realistic parameters. With the help of a strong magnetic field, the electron occupies a coherent state in the pump, insensitive to the details of nonadiabatic evolution. The state changes during the emission from the pump, governed by competition between the Landauer-Buttiker traversal time and the passage time. When the former is much shorter than the latter, the emitted state is a Gaussian wave packet. The Gaussian packet can be identified by using a dynamical potential barrier, with a resolution reaching the Heisenberg minimal uncertainty $\hbar/2$.
Relationship between restriction rules and urban water supply system performance
Creators: name: Yurisich, Rob.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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A unified approach to quantifying the key greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutant emissions, and water demand in concrete production
Creators: name: Miller, Sabbie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The objective of this study is to develop a cohesive, unified dataset of life cycle inventories needed to quantify the effects of material, energy, waste, and emission flows on the environmental impacts of concrete. In this work, a set of environmental impact assessment models that capture specific materials and technologies used in the production of cement and concrete in California is developed. The models developed will consider greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollutant emissions (namely, NOX, SOX, PM2.5, PM10, VOCs, and CO), and water demands (both water consumption and water withdrawals) for the key components of cement and concrete production in California. The structure of the data will allow for the tailoring of inputs to capture variations in different regions around the world, allowing for the assessment of imported constituents.
description: Data are limited to values found by the authors and are not necessarily representative of consistent or specific spatial or temporal attributes.Funding provided by: National Center for Sustainable Transportation Technology
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100018880
Award Number: 65A0686 TO26
description: Data are based on the academic and grey literature. References and methods for determining inputs are in the attached files.
Relating the orientation of cortical traveling waves and co-occurring spike patterns
Creators: name: Krauße, Sven
name: Gutzen, Robin
name: Stella, Alessandra
name: Brochier, Thomas
name: Riehle, Alexa
name: Grün, Sonja
name: Denker, Michael
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks and dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2023 abstract. https://bernstein-conference.de
An approach to quantifying the key greenhouse gas emissions in California concrete production
Creators: name: Miller, Sabbie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The objective of this study is to develop a cohesive, unified dataset of life cycle inventories - needed to quantify the effects of material, energy, waste, and emission flows on the environmental impacts of concrete. The models developed will consider GHG emissions, namely CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions, for the key components of cement and concrete production in California. The structure of the data will allow for the tailoring of inputs to capture variations in different regions around the world. This allows the user to adapt for production in other regions or for importing material from other regions.
description: Data are limited to values found by the authors and are not necessarily representative of consistent or specific spatial or temporal attributes.Funding provided by: National Center for Sustainable Transportation Technology
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100018880
Award Number: 65A0686 TO27
description: Data are based on the academic and grey literature. References and methods for determining inputs are in the attached files.
Room evacuation through two contiguous exits
Creators: name: Sticco, I. M.
name: Frank, G. A.
name: Dorso, C. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current regulations demand that at least two exits should be available for a safe evacuation during a panic situation. Although the "faster is slower" effect is expected to take place near the exits, the evacuation time will improve because of the additional exits. However, rooms having contiguous doors not always reduce the leaving time as expected. We investigated the relation between the doors separation and the evacuation performance. We found that there exists a separation distance range that does not really improve the evacuation time, or it can even worsen the process performance. To our knowledge, no attention has been given to this issue in the literature. This work reports how the pedestrians dynamics differ when the separation distance between two exit doors changes and how this affects the overall performance.