cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fully device independent quantum key distribution
Creators: name: Vazirani, Umesh
name: Vidick, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The laws of quantum mechanics allow unconditionally secure key distribution protocols. Nevertheless, security proofs of traditional quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols rely on a crucial assumption, the trustworthiness of the quantum devices used in the protocol. In device-independent QKD, even this last assumption is relaxed: the devices used in the protocol may have been adversarially prepared, and there is no a priori guarantee that they perform according to specification. Proving security in this setting had been a central open problem in quantum cryptography. We give the first device-independent proof of security of a protocol for quantum key distribution that guarantees the extraction of a linear amount of key even when the devices are subject to a constant rate of noise. Our only assumptions are that the laboratories in which each party holds his or her own device are spatially isolated, and that both devices, as well as the eavesdropper, are bound by the laws of quantum mechanics. All previous proofs of security relied either on the use of many independent pairs of devices, or on the absence of noise.
description: 25 pages
D. Raith (Hg.), Nina Rubinstein. Die französische Emigration nach 1789. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie der politischen Emigration. MIt Beiträgen von H. Papanek und D. Kettler, 2000
Creators: name: Rance, Karine
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: D. Raith (Hg.), Nina Rubinstein. Die französische Emigration nach 1789. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie der politischen Emigration. MIt Beiträgen von H. Papanek und D. Kettler, 2000 (K. Rance)
description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2003)
Insertion of CdSe quantumdots in ZnSe nanowires : MBE growth and microstructure analysis
Creators: name: Hertog, Martien Den
name: Elouneg-Jamroz, Miryam
name: Bellet-Amalric, Edith
name: Bounouar, Samir
name: Bougerol, Catherine
name: André, Régis
name: Genuist, Yann
name: Poizat, Jean Philippe
name: Kheng, Kuntheak
name: Tatarenko, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ZnSe nanowire growth has been successfully achieved on ZnSe (100) and (111)B buffer layers deposited on GaAs substrates. Cubic [100] oriented ZnSe nanowires or [0001] oriented hexagonal NWs are obtained on (100) substrates while [111] oriented cubic mixed with [0001] oriented hexagonal regions are obtained on (111)B substrates. Most of the NWs are perpendicular to the surface in the last case. CdSe quantum dots were successfully incorporated in the ZnSe NWs as demonstrated by transmission electron microscopy, energy filtered TEM and high angle annular dark field scanning TEM measurements.
L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, publié sous la direction de J. Favier par N. Lemaître, 2002
Creators: name: Müller, Michael
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, publié sous la direction de J. Favier par N. Lemaître, 2002 (M. Müller)
description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2003)
Hair Growth-Promoting Effects of Phyllanthus emblica (Indian gooseberry) Oil in Human Subjects with Alopecia in Cebu City, Philippines
Creators: name: Barcinas, Nikki Nina
name: Cedeño, Charmaine Pearl
name: Dobariya, Ishan
name: Theresa Ira Ilustre, Patricia
name: Madathanapalli, Sree
name: Pertimos, Neil Aldrin
name: Tabañag, Khryssly Zoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

description: ABSTRACT Alopecia is a significant hair problem worldwide. Phyllanthus emblica, commonly known as Indian gooseberry, is one of the most important medicinal plants in Indian traditional systems of medicine. Phyllanthus emblica is a potent 5α-reductase inhibitor and hair growth promoter. The main objective of the study is to determine the efficacy of Phyllanthus emblica oil in promoting hair growth. The study utilizes a true experimental research design on human subjects. Human subjects with alopecia were recruited and randomly divided into 2 groups. Group A was treated with Phyllanthus emblica oil and Group B was treated with castor oil. The mean change in hair length and rate of hair growth in both groups were monitored by measurement of the hair length using a tape measure on a weekly basis. The extracts of Phyllanthus emblica hair oil significantly increased hair growth of (p < 0.05) human subjects with alopecia. The rate of hair growth in Group A (Phyllanthus emblica) is 1.58 cm/month, and 1.1 cm/month for Group B (Castor Oil). Therefore, the rate of hair growth is faster in Group A (Phyllanthus emblica) compared with Group B (Castor oil). This study showed that the extracts of Phyllanthus emblica oil is effective in promoting hair growth in human subjects with alopecia in Cebu City. In addition, Castor oil was also able to exert a hair growing-effect. However, Phyllanthus emblica oil has a faster rate of hair growth compared with Castor oil throughout the course of the experiment.
Crossover from quasi-static to dense flow regime in compressed frictional granular media
Creators: name: Gimbert, Florent
name: Amitrano, David
name: Weiss, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of multi-scale mechanical properties towards the macroscopic mechanical instability in frictional granular media under multiaxial compressive loading. Spatial correlations of shear stress redistribution following nucleating contact sliding events and shear strain localization are investigated. We report growing correlation lengths associated to both shear stress and shear strain fields that diverge simultaneously as approaching the transition to a dense flow regime. This shows that the transition from quasi static to dense flow regime can be interpreted as a critical phase transition. Our results suggest that no shear band with a characteristic thickness has formed at the onset of instability.
Consistent on shell renormalisation of electroweakinos in the complex MSSM: LHC and LC predictions
Creators: name: Bharucha, Aoife
name: Fowler, Alison
name: Moortgat-Pick, Gudrid
name: Weiglein, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the formalism developed in Ref. [20] for the renormalisation of the chargino-neutralino sector to the most general case of the MSSM with complex parameters. We show that products of imaginary parts arising from MSSM parameters and from absorptive parts of loop integrals can already contribute to predictions for physical observables at the one-loop level, and demonstrate that the consistent treatment of such contributions gives rise to non-trivial structure, either in the field renormalisation constants or the corrections associated with the external legs of the considered diagrams. We furthermore point out that the phases of the parameters in the chargino-neutralino sector do not need to be renormalised at the one-loop level, and demonstrate that the appropriate choice for the mass parameters used as input for the on-shell conditions depends both on the process and the region of MSSM parameter space under consideration. As an application, we compute the complete one-loop results in the MSSM with complex parameters for the process h(a) to chi(i)+chi(j)- (Higgs-propagator corrections have been incorporated up to the two-loop level), which may be of interest for SUSY Higgs searches at the LHC, and for chargino pair-production at an e+e- Linear Collider, e+e- to chi(i)+chi(j)-. We investigate the dependence of the theoretical predictions on the phases of the MSSM parameters, analysing in particular the numerical relevance of the absorptive parts of loop integrals.
description: 51 pages, 14 figures. v3: version accepted for publication in JHEP
Agrilus weyersi Kerremans
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus weyersi

description: Agrilus weyersi Kerremans
 weyersi Kerremans, 1900: 4, 21, 23 (Agrilus)
 = haniquei Baudon, 1965: 222–223 (Agrilus) syn. nov.
 Type material.
 Agrilus weyersi Kerremans, 1900. Primary: Lectotype by present designation, 3, (MNHN): “ Sumatra Weyers [h] \ Weyersi Kerrem. Type [h] \ Museum Paris Coll. Ch. Kerremans 1923 [p]”. Secondary: 1 PLT (MCSN); 1 PLT (ZMHB); 2 PLT (MNHN); 13 PLT (BMNH); 2 PLT (DEI). Described from unspecified number of syntypes.
 Agrilus haniquei Baudon, 1965. Primary: Holotype, sex not examined, (MHNB): “Phonthiou iv. [19]63 [h] Laos (Baudon) [p] \ Type [p] [red label] \ Agrilus haniquei mihi Type [h] A. Baudon det. [p] [blue label]”. Secondary: 2 PT (ISNB); 2 PT (MHNB). Described from unspecified number of specimens (HT, PT).
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2012, Studies in the Palaearctic and Oriental Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) IV, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 3300 on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3300.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/280934
QGP viscosity at RHIC and the LHC - a 2012 status report
Creators: name: Song, Huichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we briefly review the recent progress related to extracting the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) specific shear viscosity from the flow data measured at Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of Quark Matter 2012, August 13-18, Washington D.C., USA
Funding application (RCN, 2022): Deciphering bioluminescent communication in marine annelids
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Ragnhild Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This research proposal was submitted to the “Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal” call from The Research Council of Norway in 2022. The application was unsuccessful but received a fundable score (24/28 points). The research proposal and the feedback it received is published here for the benefit of future applicants. This research is ongoing, so if you find it interesting and/or consider pursuing similar projects, please reach out via our lab website (www.marineneurolab.com) and cite this proposal in your work.
The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey II: Data Analysis and the Timing of 10 New Pulsars, Including a Relativistic Binary
Creators: name: Lynch, Ryan S.
name: Boyles, Jason
name: Ransom, Scott M.
name: Stairs, Ingrid H.
name: Lorimer, Duncan R.
name: McLaughlin, Maura A.
name: Hessels, Jason W. T.
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Kondratiev, Vladislav I.
name: Archibald, Anne M.
name: Berndsen, Aaron
name: Cardoso, Rogerio F.
name: Cherry, Angus
name: Epstein, Courtney R.
name: Karako-Argaman, Chen
name: McPhee, Christie A.
name: Pennucci, Tim
name: Roberts, Mallory S. E.
name: Stovall, Kevin
name: van Leeuwen, Joeri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have completed a 350 MHz drift scan survey using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope with the goal of finding new radio pulsars, especially millisecond pulsars that can be timed to high precision. This survey covered ~10300 square degrees and all of the data have now been fully processed. We have discovered a total of 31 new pulsars, seven of which are recycled pulsars. A companion paper by Boyles et al. (2012) describes the survey strategy, sky coverage, and instrumental set-up, and presents timing solutions for the first 13 pulsars. Here we describe the data analysis pipeline, survey sensitivity, and follow-up observations of new pulsars, and present timing solutions for 10 other pulsars. We highlight several sources---two interesting nulling pulsars, an isolated millisecond pulsar with a measurement of proper motion, and a partially recycled pulsar, PSR J0348+0432, which has a white dwarf companion in a relativistic orbit. PSR J0348+0432 will enable unprecedented tests of theories of gravity.
description: Companion paper to "The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey I: Survey Observations and the Discovery of 13 Pulsars". Accepted to ApJ, 29 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
title: Collaborative storytelling in residential social work : revisiting our shared past
Creators: name: Cree, Vivienne E.
name: MacKenzie, Bob
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2023

description: In the hope that it may be of use to others, this short article introduces a journey of reflection and discovery that we are currently engaged in, from two very different perspectives. Both of us have first-hand experience of the Edinburgh voluntary organisation, The Guild of Service for Women (later Family Care and now Birthlink), one of us as a former social worker and the other as someone who grew up in residential care. We first met online almost two years ago and, since that time, we have been working together on our shared past in a process of co-inquiry, learning much about social work and childcare from the 1940s onwards. We have also been learning about ourselves and about some of the other people involved in our stories. Our main ‘take-home’ message is that the history of social work and childcare belongs to all of us. Furthermore, there is much to be gained from stepping outside the boxes (real and imagined) that constrain us and beginning to truly listen to each other’s stories.
OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects
Creators: name: Geissmann, Quentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for biologists. Although this task is often time-consuming and subjective, it is still predominantly performed manually. The aim of the present work is to provide a new tool to enumerate circular objects from digital pictures and video streams. Here, I demonstrate that the created program, OpenCFU, is very robust, accurate and fast. In addition, it provides control over the processing parameters and is implemented in an in- tuitive and modern interface. OpenCFU is a cross-platform and open-source software freely available at http://opencfu.sourceforge.net.
M. Vahsen, Die Politisierung des weiblichen Subjekts. Deutsche Romanautorinnen und die Französische Revolution 1790-1820, 2000
Creators: name: Gilli, Marita
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: M. Vahsen, Die Politisierung des weiblichen Subjekts. Deutsche Romanautorinnen und die Französische Revolution 1790-1820, 2000 (M. Gilli)
description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2003)
Statistical Mechanics of DNA unzipping under periodic force: Scaling behavior of hysteresis loop
Creators: name: Kumar, Sanjay
name: Mishra, Garima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A simple model of DNA based on two interacting polymers has been used to study the unzipping of a double stranded DNA subjected to a periodic force. We propose a dynamical transition, where without changing the physiological condition, it is possible to bring DNA from the zipped/unzipped state to a new dynamic (hysteretic) state by varying the frequency of the applied force. Our studies reveal that the area of the hystersis loop grows with the same exponents as of the isotropic spin systems. These exponents are amenable to verification in the force spectroscopic experiments.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Appearance of Flat Bands and Edge States in Boron-Carbon-Nitride Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Kaneko, Tomoaki
name: Harigaya, Kikuo
name: Imamura, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Presence of flat bands and edge states at the Fermi level in graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges is one of the most interesting and attracting properties of nanocarbon materials but it is believed that they are quite fragile states and disappear when B and N atoms are doped at around the edges. In this paper, we theoretically investigate electronic and magnetic properties of boron-carbon-nitride (BCN) nanoribbons with zigzag edges where the outermost C atoms on the edges are alternately replaced with B and N atoms using the first principles calculations. We show that BCN nanoribbons have the flat bands and edge states at the Fermi level in both H_2 rich and poor environments. The flat bands are similar to those at graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges, but the distributions of charge and spin densities are different between them. A tight binding model and the Hubbard model analysis show that the difference in the distribution of charge and spin densities is caused by the different site energies of B and N atoms compared with C atoms.
description: 5 pages; 3 figures
Agrilus zonatus Kerremans
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus zonatus

description: Agrilus zonatus Kerremans
 zonatus Kerremans, 1898: 180 (Agrilus)
 Type material.
 Agrilus zonatus Kerremans, 1898. Primary: Lectotype by present designation, Ƥ, (BMNH): “TYPE [p] [round label with red border] \ Australie Chevrolat [h] \ zonatus Kerr. Type [h] \ collection Chevrolat [p] \ Kerremans 1903-59 [p] \ A. zonatus Kerrem. Australie [h]”. Described from unspecified number of syntypes.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2012, Studies in the Palaearctic and Oriental Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) IV, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 3300 on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3300.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/280934
Twinlike models for kinks and compactons in flat and warped spacetime
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Lobão, A. S.
name: Menezes, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work deals with the presence of twinlike models in scalar field theories. We show how to build distinct scalar field theories having the same extended solution, with the same energy density and the very same linear stability. Here, however, we start from a given but generalized scalar field theory, and we construct the corresponding twin model, which also engenders generalized dynamics. We investigate how the twinlike models arise in flat and in curved spacetime. In the curved spacetime, we consider a braneword model with the warp factor controlling the spacetime geometry with a single extra dimension of infinite extent. In particular, we study linear stability in the flat and curved spacetime, and in the case of curved spacetime, in both the gravity and the scalar field sectors, for the two braneworld models.
description: Latex, 9 pages; to appear in PRD
The New Particle Search project on the Zooniverse platform
Creators: name: Angelidakis, Stylianos
name: Fassouliotis, Dimitris
name: Kourkoumelis, Christine
name: Vourakis, Stelios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Presentation at the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) 22 meeting of the 17th of November, 2021.
Lifting degeneracies in Higgs couplings using single top production in association with a Higgs boson
Creators: name: Farina, Marco
name: Grojean, Christophe
name: Maltoni, Fabio
name: Salvioni, Ennio
name: Thamm, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current Higgs data show an ambiguity in the value of the Yukawa couplings to quarks and leptons. Not so much because of still large uncertainties in the measurements but as the result of several almost degenerate minima in the coupling profile likelihood function. To break these degeneracies, it is important to identify and measure processes where the Higgs coupling to fermions interferes with other coupling(s). The most prominent example, the decay of $h \to γγ$, is not sufficient to give a definitive answer. In this Letter, we argue that $t$-channel single top production in association with a Higgs boson, with $h\to b\bar b$, can provide the necessary information to lift the remaining degeneracy in the top Yukawa. Within the Standard Model, the total rate is highly reduced due to an almost perfect destructive interference in the hard process, $W b \rightarrow t h$. We first show that for non-standard couplings the cross section can be reliably computed without worrying about corrections from physics beyond the cutoff scale $Λ\gtrsim 10\,\mathrm{TeV}$, and that it can be enhanced by more than one order of magnitude compared to the SM. We then study the signal $ p p \rightarrow t h j (b)$ with 3 and 4 $b$'s in the final state, and its main backgrounds at the LHC. We find the 8 TeV run dataset to be sensitive to the sign of the anomalous top Yukawa coupling, while already a moderate integrated luminosity at 14 TeV should lift the degeneracy completely.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures. v2: inclusive signal cross sections at NLO in QCD added; new comment on sensitivity of the analysis to t tbar h process. Matches version accepted by JHEP
Magnetic Catalysis: A Review
Creators: name: Shovkovy, Igor A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an overview of the magnetic catalysis phenomenon. In the framework of quantum field theory, magnetic catalysis is broadly defined as an enhancement of dynamical symmetry breaking by an external magnetic field. We start from a brief discussion of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the role of a magnetic field in its a dynamics. This is followed by a detailed presentation of the essential features of the phenomenon. In particular, we emphasize that the dimensional reduction plays a profound role in the pairing dynamics in a magnetic field. Using the general nature of underlying physics and its robustness with respect to interaction types and model content, we argue that magnetic catalysis is a universal and model-independent phenomenon. In support of this claim, we show how magnetic catalysis is realized in various models with short-range and long-range interactions. We argue that the general nature of the phenomenon implies a wide range of potential applications: from certain types of solid state systems to models in cosmology, particle and nuclear physics. We finish the review with general remarks about magnetic catalysis and an outlook for future research.
description: 37 pages, to appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly interacting matter in magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K. Landsteiner, A. Schmitt, H.-U. Yee. Version 2: references added
Fundamental Drivers of Early Development and Wellbeing
Creators: name: Fearon, Pasco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: early development
subject: Human well-being
subject: attachment theory
subject: caregiver sensitivity
subject: Home Environment
subject: Living environment
subject: social competence
subject: Developmental psychology

description: This presentation by Pasco Fearon explores the fundamental drivers of early development and well-being, focusing on attachment theory and the interplay between caregiving, environment and genetics. He emphasizes that early attachment security is primarily shaped by environmental factors, particularly the sensitivity of caregivers which includes their awareness, accurate interpretation, and appropriate response to a child's signals. Meta-analytic evidence supports a modest but consistent relationship between the sensitivity of caregivers and attachment security in various studies.

Twin studies show that attachment in infancy is not heritable and is largely shaped by shared and non-shared environmental factors. In adolescence, however, genetic influences on attachment become more apparent, likely due to developmental gene–environment correlations in which a young person’s genetically influenced traits shape the way they experience and interpret relationships. This developmental shift underscores the growing individuality of adolescents and their increasing role in shaping their ideas of attachment.

The presentation also looks at the impact of attachment security on long-term outcomes. Meta-analyzes show that insecure and disorganized attachment is associated with higher risk for externalizing and internalizing problems and lower social competence, although the effect sizes are small and nondeterministic. These relationships are influenced by moderators such as age, gender and risk level.

Caregiver sensitivity is not only related to attachment, but also to language development, school readiness and behavioral outcomes. Studies show that sensitivity in early childhood predicts vocabulary development and fewer emotional and behavioral problems later in life. Overall, the findings underscore the critical role of caregiving in early development and suggest that interventions should focus on promoting caregiver sensitivity, taking into account the individuality of the child and the bidirectional nature of the parent–child relationship.
Why is lead so kinky?
Creators: name: Goddard, P. M.
name: Stevenson, P. D.
name: Rios, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of the kink in the charge radius shift of neutron-rich even lead isotopes. We show that the ability of a Skyrme force to reproduce the isotope shift is determined by the occupation of the neutron 1i11/2 orbital beyond N=126 and the corresponding change it causes to deeply-bound protons orbitals with a principal quantum number of 1. Given the observed position of the single-particle energies, one must either ensure occupation is allowed through correlations, or not demand that the single-particle energies agree with experimental values at the mean-field level.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
W. Paravicini, Invitations au mariage. Pratique sociale, abus de pouvoir et intérêt de l'État à la cour des ducs de Bourgogne au XVe siècle, 1397–1478. Documents introduits, édités et commentés, 2001
Creators: name: Paravicini, Werner
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 1 (2003)
Modeling geometric-optical illusions: A variational approach
Creators: name: Ehm, Werner
name: Wackermann, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 92B99, 49N99

description: Visual distortions of perceived lengths, angles, or forms, are generally known as "geometric-optical illusions" (GOI). In the present paper we focus on a class of GOIs where the distortion of a straight line segment (the "target" stimulus) is induced by an array of non-intersecting curvilinear elements ("context" stimulus). Assuming local target-context interactions in a vector field representation of the context, we propose to model the perceptual distortion of the target as the solution to a minimization problem in the calculus of variations. We discuss properties of the solutions and reproduction of the respective form of the perceptual distortion for several types of contexts. Moreover, we draw a connection between the interactionist model of GOIs and Riemannian geometry: the context stimulus is understood as perturbing the geometry of the visual field from which the illusory distortion naturally arises. The approach is illustrated by data from a psychophysical experiment with nine subjects and six different contexts.
description: Minor corrections, final version
Dynamical and topological tools for (modern) music analysis
Creators: name: BERGOMI, MATTIA GIUSEPPE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Is it possible to represent the horizontal motions of the melodic strands of a contrapuntal composition, or the main ideas of a jazz standard as mathematical entities? In this work, we suggest a collection of novel models for the representation of music that are endowed with two main features. First, they originate from a topological and geometrical inspiration; second, their low dimensionality allows to build simple and informative visualisations. Here, we tackle the problem of music representation following three non-orthogonal directions. We suggest a formalisation of the concept of voice leading (the assignment of an instrument to each voice in a sequence of chords) suggesting a horizontal viewpoint on music, constituted by the simultaneous motions of superposed melodies. This formalisation naturally leads to the interpretation of counterpoint as a multivariate time series of partial permutation matrices, whose observations are characterised by a degree of complexity. After providing both a static and a dynamic representation of counterpoint, voice leadings are reinterpreted as a special class of partial singular braids (paths in the Euclidean space), and their main features are visualised as geometric configurations of collections of 3-dimensional strands. Thereafter, we neglect this time-related information, in order to reduce the problem to the study of vertical musical entities. The model we propose is derived from a topological interpretation of the Tonnetz (a graph commonly used in computational musicology) and the deformation of its vertices induced by a harmonic and a consonance-oriented function, respectively. The 3-dimensional shapes derived from these deformations are classified using the formalism of persistent homology. This powerful topological technique allows to compute a fingerprint of a shape, that reflects its persistent geometrical and topological properties. Furthermore, it is possible to compute a distance between these fingerprints and hence study their hierarchical organisation. This particular feature allows us to tackle the problem of automatic classification of music in an innovative way. Thus, this novel representation of music is evaluated on a collection of heterogenous musical datasets. Finally, a combination of the two aforementioned approaches is proposed. A model at the crossroad between the signal and symbolic analysis of music uses multiple sequences alignment to provide an encompassing, novel viewpoint on the musical inspiration transfer among compositions belonging to different artists, genres and time. To conclude, we shall represent music as a time series of topological fingerprints, whose metric nature allows to compare pairs of time-varying shapes in both topological and in musical terms. In particular the dissimilarity scores computed by aligning such sequences shall be applied both to the analysis and classification of music.
On finite $p$-groups whose central automorphisms are all class preserving
Creators: name: Yadav, Manoj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D45, 20D15

description: We obtain certain results on a finite $p$-group whose central automorphisms are all class preserving. In particular, we prove that if $G$ is a finite $p$-group whose central automorphisms are all class preserving, then $d(G)$ is even, where $d(G)$ denotes the number of elements in any minimal generating set for $G$. As an application of these results, we obtain some results regarding finite $p$-groups whose automorphisms are all class preserving. In particular, we prove that if $G$ is a finite $p$-groups whose automorphisms are all class preserving, then order of $G$ is at least $p^8$ and the order of the automorphism group of $G$ is at least $p^12$.
description: 12 pages, Accepted for publication in Comm. Algebra, A minor modification is done in the proof of Proposition 3.4 to make it work for all primes (including 2)
Discretely-observable continuous time quantum walks on Möbius strips and other exotic structures in 3D integrated photonics
Creators: name: Delanty, Michael
name: Steel, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically analyze the dynamical evolution of photonic quantum walks on Möbius strips and other exotic structures in 3D integrated photonics. Our flexible design allows discrete observations of continuous time quantum walks of photons in a variety of waveguide arrays. Furthermore, our design allows one to inject photons during the evolution, allowing the possibility of interacting with the photons as they are 'walking'. We find that non-trivial array topologies introduce novel time-dependent symmetries of the two-photon correlations. These properties allow a large degree of control for quantum state engineering of multimode entangled states in these devices.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Clear approach : peer-led approaches in Youth Offender Institutions
Creators: name: Brierley, Andrew
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2023

description: This article undertakes an analysis of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ (HMIP) inspection reports of Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England over a 20-year period. The analysis is synthesised with the author’s lived experience of being both an incarcerated child in YOI and a professional working with children in custody. The analysis was instigated by a letter written by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) to the Rt Hon Damian Hinds, Minister of State for Justice, indicating that the current state of affairs in England’s YOIs is ‘positively inhumane.’ The current article argues that YOIs have never been ‘positively humane’, having always fallen short of ‘improving outcomes for children’, through the lens of recidivism. The author argues that YOIs also overlook peer-led programmes to promote children desisting from offending, through illuminating a growing body of evidence which suggests this approach can provide ‘hooks for change’ for children to desist from crime, and that it presents a model of good practice that could be used as a child first approach.
Exposedness of Choi type entanglement witnesses and applications to lengths of separable states
Creators: name: Ha, Kil-Chan
name: Kye, Seung-Hyeok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P15, 15A30, 46L05

description: We present a large class of indecomposable exposed positive linear maps between three dimensional matrix algebras. We also construct two qutrit separable states with lengths ten in the interior of their dual faces. With these examples, we show that the length of a separable state may decrease strictly when we mix it with another separable state.
description: 15 pages, minor revision
Laplacians on discrete and quantum geometries
Creators: name: Calcagni, Gianluca
name: Oriti, Daniele
name: Thürigen, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend discrete calculus for arbitrary ($p$-form) fields on embedded lattices to abstract discrete geometries based on combinatorial complexes. We then provide a general definition of discrete Laplacian using both the primal cellular complex and its combinatorial dual. The precise implementation of geometric volume factors is not unique and, comparing the definition with a circumcentric and a barycentric dual, we argue that the latter is, in general, more appropriate because it induces a Laplacian with more desirable properties. We give the expression of the discrete Laplacian in several different sets of geometric variables, suitable for computations in different quantum gravity formalisms. Furthermore, we investigate the possibility of transforming from position to momentum space for scalar fields, thus setting the stage for the calculation of heat kernel and spectral dimension in discrete quantum geometries.
description: 43 pages, 2 multiple figures. v2: discussion improved, references added, minor typos corrected
title: Successful family reunification : the role of foster families, kinship carers, and children's houses
Creators: name: Stakes, David
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2023

description: The successfully reunification of families with care experienced children (children who are looked after away from home) involves the carer’s support of the family in the context of relationship-based practice and constructing a shared assessment and narrative around the child. Practice is informed by an understanding of the impact of trauma on children and adults. It is based on hearing the informed views of children and young people when successfully planning family reunification. This work requires collaborative work with the family’s social worker.
title: La filiera produttiva tra macchinari, tecnologie e frutticoltori. Il caso della Val di Non e degli assemblaggi della mela
Creators: name: Galli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Tracce urbane. Rivista italiana transdisciplinare di studi urbani
Year: 2023

description: Il paper si pone come research agenda con lo scopo di interpretare la filiera produttiva del territorio della mela della Val di Non (TN), all’interno del quadro della transizione ecologica europea. L’approfondimento di tali meccanismi ha suggerito di rivolgersi alla letteratura della Actor-Network Theory, spostando quindi il focus dell’articolo, verso il tentativo di comprendere quali piste di ricerca si possono seguire dalla nuova postura analitica. Così facendo, attraverso la decostruzione della filiera, emergono tre elementi principali che guideranno la narrazione del caso trentino: la metafora della rete, la simmetria radicale e la svolta materiale. A partire da questi tre elementi, il paper conclude attorno a tre questioni che spingerebbero la pianificazione ad assumere un ruolo attivo di mediazione e non neutro, di interpretare l’assemblaggio come infrastruttura e di re-ingaggiare la dimensione ambientale in un’ottica socio-materiale.
description: Tracce urbane. Rivista italiana transdisciplinare di studi urbani, V. 10 N. 14 (2023): Città e urbanistica oltre la crescita. Transizione verde: verso che cosa? Ecologia, economia e urbanistica tra Green Deal e paradigmi Post-Growth
Orbital and Mass Ratio Evolution of Protobinaries Driven by Magnetic Braking
Creators: name: Zhao, Bo
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The majority of stars reside in multiple systems, especially binaries. The formation and early evolution of binaries is a longstanding problem in star formation that is not fully understood. In particular, how the magnetic field observed in star-forming cores shapes the binary characteristics remains relatively unexplored. We demonstrate numerically, using the ENZO-MHD code, that a magnetic field of the observed strength can drastically change two of the basic quantities of a binary system: the orbital separation and mass ratio of the two components. Our calculations focus on the protostellar mass accretion phase, after a pair of stellar 'seeds' have already formed. We find that, in dense cores magnetized to a realistic level, the angular momentum of the gas accreted by the protobinary is greatly reduced by magnetic braking. Accretion of strongly braked material shrinks the protobinary separation by a large factor compared to the non-magnetic case. The magnetic braking also changes the evolution of the mass ratio of unequal-mass protobinaries by producing gas of low specific angular momentum that accretes preferentially onto the primary rather than the secondary. This is in contrast with the preferential mass accretion onto the secondary previously found for protobinaries accreting from an unmagnetized envelope, which tends to drive the mass ratio towards unity. In addition, the magnetic field greatly modifies the morphology and dynamics of the protobinary accretion flow. It suppresses the circumstellar and circumbinary disks that feed the protobinary in the non-magnetic case; the binary is fed instead by a fast collapsing pseudodisk whose rotation is strongly braked. The magnetic braking-driven inward migration of binaries from their birth locations may be constrained by high-resolution observations of the orbital distribution of deeply embedded protobinaries, especially with ALMA.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures; Accepted by ApJ
title: Privacy and dignity in recordkeeping for out-of-home care : a discussion
Creators: name: Purtell, Jade
name: Hawkes, Martine
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2023

description: This paper provides a preliminary exploration of recordkeeping contexts for young people in residential care experiencing criminalisation and at risk of exploitation. Within the Australian context, the paper explores the potential ramifications of certain recordkeeping processes – notably those of a deficit-based, accusatory or pejorative nature – on a young person's rights to privacy and dignity. An emergent hypothesis questions whether negative sentiments within these records might indirectly precipitate or amplify challenging behaviours that subsequently face criminalisation. While empirical research in this area remains limited, this discussion piece serves as a foundation to instigate conversations and further investigations into the interplay between recordkeeping, identity perception, and behavioural outcomes. As a foray into a relatively uncharted domain, this article aspires to be both a contribution and a call to action for the research community, underscoring the profound significance of records beyond mere administrative utility and their potential role in shaping the lives of children in the care system.
Banks-Casher-type relation for the BCS gap at high density
Creators: name: Kanazawa, Takuya
name: Wettig, Tilo
name: Yamamoto, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a new Banks-Casher-type relation which relates the density of complex Dirac eigenvalues at the origin to the BCS gap of quarks at high density. Our relation is applicable to QCD and QCD-like theories without a sign problem, such as two-color QCD and adjoint QCD with baryon chemical potential, and QCD with isospin chemical potential. It provides us with a method to measure the BCS gap through the Dirac spectrum on the lattice.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, some additions (in particular eq. (4.13)), version to appear in EPJA
title: Human-Exoskeleton Interaction Force Estimation Based on Quasi-Direct Drive Actuators
Creators: name: Seiler, Julian
name: Schäfer, Niklas
name: Zhao, Guoping
name: Latsch, Bastian
name: Grimmer, Martin
name: Beckerle, Philipp
name: Kupnik, Mario
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2025

description: Exoskeletons have emerged as a promising technological
solution to provide functional compensation, training
support, physical enhancement, and rehabilitation for an aging
population. High torque density and control bandwidth are
essential for exoskeleton actuation. In addition, monitoring and
control of human-exoskeleton interaction forces is essential for
the effectiveness, safety, and comfort of exoskeletons. Quasidirect
drives (QDD) have the potential to address the actuation
requirements by enabling proprioceptive actuation with low
mechanical output impedance. We present a test bench system
to identify and validate the system dynamics, including torque
constant, inertia, and friction properties of the QDD Cube-
Mars AK10-9 V1.1. The actuator is employed in a hip exoskeleton
to evaluate open-loop torque tracking and interaction force
estimation in an assisted gait scenario with one participant
walking on a treadmill. The model estimates interaction forces
with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.78±0.58N (6.4% of
rated force output). Model-based open-loop control improves
the torque tracking MAE by 23%. Our analysis indicates that
considering the soft coupling between human and exoskeleton
has the potential to further improve the torque tracking and
interaction force estimation accuracy. Altogether, the findings
demonstrate that QDD actuation enables backdrivability, reliable
force estimation and controllable assistance, thereby
providing an effective solution for exoskeleton actuation.
Public (NT)
Creators: name: Schlaggar, Bradley L.
name: Reiersen, Angela M.
name: Black, Kevin J.
name: Arbuckle, Amanda
name: Soyoung Kim
name: Bihun, Emily C.
name: Hampton, Jackie
name: Acevedo, Haley
name: Greene, Deanna
name: Koller, Jonathan
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2016
Subjects: DESR
Provisional Tic Disorder
Social Responsiveness Scale
Tourette
anxiety disorders
emotional self-regulation
phonic tics
tic disorders

description: Publicly available information on the New Tics project, including publications, protocol, and registered analysis plans.
Archives nationales. Le théâtre professionnel à Paris 1600-1649, Étude par A. Howe, 2000
Creators: name: Kapp, Volker
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: Archives nationales. Le théâtre professionnel à Paris 1600-1649, Étude par A. Howe, 2000 (V. Kapp)
description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2003)
Focusing in Multiwell Potentials: Applications to Ion Channels
Creators: name: Ponzoni, L.
name: Celardo, G. L.
name: Borgonovi, F.
name: Kaplan, L.
name: Kargol, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate out of equilibrium stationary distributions induced by a stochastic dichotomous noise on double and multi-well models for ion channels. Ion-channel dynamics is analyzed both through over-damped Langevin equations and master equations. As a consequence of the external stochastic noise, we prove a non trivial focusing effect, namely the probability distribution is concentrated only on one state of the multi-well model. We also show that this focusing effect, which occurs at physiological conditions, cannot be predicted by a simple master equation approach.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Die französischen Korrespondenzen. Bd. 4: 1646, bearb. von C. Kelch-Rade und A. Tischer unter Benutzung der Vorarbeiten von K. Goronzy und unter Mithilfe von M. Rohrschneider, 1999
Creators: name: Bérenger, Jean
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: Die französischen Korrespondenzen. Bd. 4: 1646, bearb. von C. Kelch-Rade und A. Tischer unter Benutzung der Vorarbeiten von K. Goronzy und unter Mithilfe von M. Rohrschneider, 1999 (J. Bérenger)
description: Francia, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2003)