cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vascular pharmacology of nitric oxide synthase inhibitors
Creators: name: Wang, Yong-Xiang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examined the effects of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors, NGsubstituted arginine analogues (NSAAs) including NGnitroarginine (NNA) and its methyl ester (NAME), as well as diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), on endothelium-dependent vasodilatation and pressor response in rats. All NSAAs caused complete, prolonged and “noncompetitive” inhibition of acetyicholine (ACh)-, the calcium ionophore A 23187- and/or bradykinin-induced relaxations in vitro and ex vivo, with lower potencies for the D-enantiomers. The Hill coefficient (n)s for the inhibition of NSAAs, were not significantly different from 1. The inhibition of NSAAs was antagonized by either pre- or post-treatment with L-arginine (L-Arg). L-NAME partially inhibited ACh-induced depressor response in vivo. NSAAs caused long-lasting pressor responses in conscious rats. The ns of the dose-pressor response curves of L-NNA, L-NAME and D-NAME were 2 or more. The pressor response to L-NNA or L-NAME was not attenuated by pithing, or treatment with mecamylamine, reserpine, phentolamine, captopril, or indomethacin, while those to NSAAs were attenuated by L-Arg; L-Arg competitively antagonized the pressor response to L-NAME at n=2. DPI caused complete,Iong-Iasting and “noncompetitive” inhibition of ACh- and A 23187-induced vasodilatation in vitro and partial inhibition of ACh-induced vasodilatation in vivo. The inhibition was prevented by pretreatments with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADPH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), but was slightly reversed by post-treatment with NADPH. DPI caused transient pressor response with n of 3 or 4, as well as raised plasma catecholamines in rats. The pressor response to DPI was attenuated by pithing and spinal cord transection, as well as treatment with tetrodotoxin, reserpine, mecamylamine, guanethidine or phentolamine. Therefore, both NSAA5 and DPI inhibit endothelium-dependent relaxations, the inhibiton of NSAAs is reversible whereas that of DPI is irreversible. The L configuration is preferred but not essential for NSAA5 to inhibit endothelium dependent relaxation. The mechanism of NSAAs involves antagonizing the NOS substrate L-Arg, whereas that of DPI involves interfering with the NOS cofactors FAD and NADPH. The pressor responses to NSAAs are competitively antagonized by L-Arg and are not dependent on the integrity of the central and autonomic nervous, angiotensin or prostaglandin system. The pressor response to DPI is due to sympathetic activation.
Comparative Monte Carlo Study of a Monolayer Growth in a Heteroepitaxial System in the Presence of Surface Defects
Creators: name: Gimenez, M. Cecilia
name: Leiva, Ezequiel P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adsorption of a metal monolayer or submonolayer for the systems Ag/Au(100), Au/Ag(100), Ag/Pt(100), Pt/Ag(100), Au/Pt(100), Pt/Au(100), Au/Pd(100) and Pd/Au(100) was studied by means of lattice Monte Carlo simulations, in the presence of surface defects.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Gradient-index nanophotonics
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is demonstrated that a new kind of low-loss surface electromagnetic wave may propagate along a planar surface inside a lossy medium if the medium permittivity changes continuously across such surface. Similar to surface plasmons, the wavelength of this wave may be considerably shorter than the light wavelength in free space, which may enable its applications in super-resolution microscopy and nanolithography techniques. However, unlike plasmonics-based nanophotonic devices, which are typically built using a very limited number of low loss optical materials, the newly found class of surface waves may be supported by a much broader range of lossy media. Such materials as graphite seems to be ideal in UV nanophotonics applications. On the opposite side of the electromagnetic spectrum, similar long-range surface electromagnetic radio waves are capable of propagating underwater along a sandy seabed, which may enable efficient underwater radio communication and imaging.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 3: of Comparative genomic analysis of Bacillus paralicheniformis MDJK30 with its closely related species reveals an evolutionary relationship between B. paralicheniformis and B. licheniformis
Creators: name: Du, Yuhui
name: Ma, Jinjin
name: Yin, Zhiqiu
name: Liu, Kai
name: Yao, Gan
name: Xu, Wenfeng
name: Fan, Lingchao
name: Du, Binghai
name: Ding, Yanqin
name: Wang, Chengqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S2. Comparative analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters for secondary metabolism from MDJK30 and other strains. Different genes are in different colors and genes with the same color are homologous to each other. (PDF 1320 kb)
Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Tensions in Perspective
Creators: name: Freedman, Wendy L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement of the distances to nearby galaxies have improved rapidly in recent decades. The ever-present challenge is to reduce systematic effects, especially as greater distances are probed, and the uncertainties become larger. In this paper, we combine several recent calibrations of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) method. These calibrations are internally self-consistent at the 1% level. New Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) data provide an additional consistency check, at a (lower) 5% level of accuracy, a result of the well-documented Gaia angular covariance bias. The updated TRGB calibration applied to a distant sample of Type Ia supernovae from the Carnegie Supernova Project results in a value of the Hubble constant of Ho = 69.8 $\pm$ 0.6 (stat) $\pm$ 1.6 (sys) km/s/Mpc. No statistically significant difference is found between the value of Ho based on the TRGB and that determined from measurements of the cosmic microwave background. The TRGB results are also consistent to within 2$σ$ with the SHoES and Spitzer plus HST Key Project Cepheid calibrations. The TRGB results alone do not demand additional new physics beyond the standard Lambda-CDM cosmological model. They have the advantage of simplicity of the underlying physics (the core He flash) and small systematic uncertainties (from extinction, metallicity and crowding). Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of both the TRGB and Cepheids are reviewed, and prospects for addressing the current discrepancy with future Gaia, HST and JWST observations are discussed. Resolving this discrepancy is essential for ascertaining if the claimed tension in Ho between the locally-measured and the CMB-inferred value is physically motivated.
description: 48 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
The city as theme park and the theme park as city: amusement space, urban form, and cultural change
Creators: name: Warren, Stacy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Amusement space embodies hegemonic and Utopian dialogue concerning urban conditions. Throughout the twentieth century, two rival urban visions have reigned: the Coney Island model, a chancy, participatory theatre where patrons can confront head-on current conditions; and the Disney model, a carefully planned setting where guests are made to feel comfortable and secure. The current ascendancy of the Disney model, evident in urban and suburban landscapes increasingly shaped in the Disney image, has attracted the attention -- and alarm --of critics who interpret this trend as urban planning with a 'sinister twist.' A case study of Disney's involvement with Seattle Center, originally the site of the 1962 World's Fair and now Seattle's premier urban park, demonstrates, however, that people actively challenge, negotiate, and reform the Disney model to meet their needs by infusing the space with traces of the rival Coney model. The suggestions Disney made for renovation of Seattle Center sparked a city-wide debate that centred on the roles of local participation, cultural sensitivity, and aesthetic design in urban space; Disney was found lacking on all accounts and eventually rejected entirely. Seattle's experience with Disney demonstrates that amusement space offers a rich terrain upon which people can dream about, and implement, urban change.
Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems
Creators: name: Capelle, K.
name: Borgh, M.
name: Karkkainen, K.
name: Reimann, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body effects in confined quantum systems pose a challenging problem due to the simultaneous presence of particle-particle interactions and spatial inhomogeneity. Here we investigate universal properties of strongly confined particles that turn out to be dramatically different from what is observed for electrons in atoms and molecules. We show that for a large class of harmonically confined systems, including small quantum dots and optically trapped atoms, many-body particle addition and removal energies, and energy gaps, can accurately be obtained from single-particle eigenvalues. Transport blockade phenomena are related to the derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation functional. This implies that they occur very generally, with Coulomb blockade being a particular realization of a more general phenomenon. In particular, we predict van-der-Waals blockade in cold atom gases in traps.
Cosmological monopoles and non-abelian black holes
Creators: name: Brihaye, Yves
name: Hartmann, Betti
name: Radu, Eugen
name: Stelea, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss magnetic monopole solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs equations with a positive cosmological constant. These configurations approach asymptotically the de Sitter spacetime background and exist only for a nonzero Higgs potential. We find that the total mass of the solutions within the cosmological horizon is finite. However, their mass evaluated by using the surface counterterm method outside the cosmological horizon at early/late time infinity generically diverges. Magnetic monopole solutions with finite mass and noninteger charge are found however in a truncation of the theory with a vanishing Higgs field. Both solutions with a regular origin and cosmological black holes are studied, special attention being paid to the computation of the global charges.
description: 24 pages + 12 figures; figure changed
The Waring rank of binary binomial forms
Creators: name: Moncusí, Laura Brustenga i
name: Masuti, Shreedevi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F20, 11P05, 14N05

description: We give an explicit formula for the Waring rank of every binary binomial form with complex coefficients. We give several examples to illustrate this, and compare the Waring rank and the real Waring rank for binary binomial forms.
description: 15 pages. Substantial overlap with arXiv:1901.08320
Additional file 1: of Differential effects of diet- and genetically-induced brain insulin resistance on amyloid pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Wakabayashi, Tomoko
name: Yamaguchi, Kazuki
name: Matsui, Kentaro
name: Sano, Toshiharu
name: Kubota, Tetsuya
name: Hashimoto, Tadafumi
name: Mano, Ayako
name: Yamada, Kaoru
name: Matsuo, Yuko
name: Kubota, Naoto
name: Kadowaki, Takashi
name: Iwatsubo, Takeshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S1. Long-term exposure to HFD induces obesity, insulin resistance and hyperglycemia in A7-Tg mice. a Experimental scheme. A7-Tg mice were fed with a chow diet or HFD from 3 months of age. b Blood glucose levels of wild type (WT) and A7-Tg mice during the ITT (left) and the AUC of blood glucose (right) at 3 months of age (WT: n = 12; A7-Tg n = 11). c Monthly body weight changes of female A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 10; HFD: n = 8). d Fasting blood glucose levels of 9-month-old female A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 12; HFD: n = 15). e Blood glucose levels during the ITT and the AUC of blood glucose of 9-month-old female A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 12; HFD: n = 14). f Fasting blood glucose levels of 18-month-old female A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 11; HFD: n = 8). g Blood glucose levels during the ITT and the AUC of blood glucose of 18-month-old female A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 11; HFD: n = 8). h, i 9-month-old male A7-Tg mice were intraperitoneally injected PBS or insulin and brain lysates were immunoprecipitaed with antibodies against IGF-1Rβ (h) and IRS-2 (i) followed by immunoblotting with anti-phospho Tyr (upper). Relative levels of signal intensity are shown (lower, Chow-PBS: n = 6; Chow-insulin: n = 6; HFD-PBS: n = 5; HFD-insulin: n = 6). Data are mean ± SEM. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 (repeated-measures ANOVA with Sidak’s post-hoc test, b, c, e, g; unpaired t test, b, d, e, f, g; two-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test, h, i). (DOCX 156 kb)
Skin Decontamination 2021
Creators: name: Roul, Annick
name: Maibach, Howard HI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110304 Dermatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Exposure to harmfull chemicals, such as Chemical Warfare Agents (CWA), Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICS) may cause serious skin and systemic organ damage, therefore rapid decontamination should reduce contact time and consequent health effects. Knowledge of chemicals and breakdown products is crucial to adapt and manage appropriate decontamination. Initiate First Decontamination rapidly by pragmactic and operational method e.g disrobing to limit percutaneous penetration, cross contamination and reduce health systemic consequences. Secondary Decontamination, targetted towards the contaminant, is based on essential key actions : adsorption, neutralization, degradation. Those specific technologies, should be considered to design it and improve it’s effiiency. Low-level chemical detection may serve as an indicator to control residual contamination. Best pratices could emerge to standardize the highlights of decontamination process, especially for skin decontamination notably by encouraging people to participate and cooperate to promote decontamination outcomes. Contraints, because of skin application, needs to manage the choice of appropriate decontaminants. Wounds and damaged skin will be treated in further studies
Improved Learning of Robot Manipulation Tasks via Tactile Intrinsic Motivation
Creators: name: Vulin, Nikola
name: Christen, Sammy
name: Stevsic, Stefan
name: Hilliges, Otmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we address the challenge of exploration in deep reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation tasks. In sparse goal settings, an agent does not receive any positive feedback until randomly achieving the goal, which becomes infeasible for longer control sequences. Inspired by touch-based exploration observed in children, we formulate an intrinsic reward based on the sum of forces between a robot's force sensors and manipulation objects that encourages physical interaction. Furthermore, we introduce contact-prioritized experience replay, a sampling scheme that prioritizes contact rich episodes and transitions. We show that our solution accelerates the exploration and outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three fundamental robot manipulation benchmarks.
description: 8 pages
Class elicitation session on demonstratives
Creators: name: Massoma, Achille
name: Cook, Toni
name: Sandy, Clare S.
name: Hyman, Larry M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abb

description: Singular and plural demonstratives with 'man', 'chicken', 'bamboo', 'cup', 'child', 'wife', 'elephant', 'body', 'animal', 'rope', 'trap', 'goat', 'crab', 'river', 'plantain', 'heart', and 'chief'.
MOST Detects g-Modes in the Late-Type be Star beta CMi (B8Ve)
Creators: name: Saio, H.
name: Cameron, C.
name: Kuschnig, R.
name: Walker, G. A. H.
name: Matthews, J. M.
name: Rowe, J. F.
name: Lee, U.
name: Huber, D.
name: Weiss, W. W.
name: Guenther, D. B.
name: Moffat, A. F. J.
name: Rucinski, S. M.
name: Sasselov, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Microvariability and Oscillations of stars (MOST) satellite has detected low-amplitude light variations ($Δm\sim$1 mmag) in the Be star $β$ CMi (B8Ve). The observations lasted 41 days and the variations have typical periods $\sim 0.3$ days. We demonstrate that the dominant frequencies are consistent with prograde high-order g-modes of $m=-1$ excited by the Fe-bump of opacity in an intermediate-mass ($\approx 3.5 M_\odot$) star with a nearly critical rotation period of 0.38 days. This is the first detection of nonradial g-mode pulsations in a Be star later than B6 leading to the possibility that pulsations are excited in all classical Be stars.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures; Astrophysical Journal part 1 in press
From model checking to model measuring
Creators: name: Henzinger, Thomas
name: Otop, Jan
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2014
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: We define the model-measuring problem: given a model M and specification φ, what is the maximal distance ρ such that all models M'within distance ρ from M satisfy (or violate)φ. The model measuring problem presupposes a distance function on models. We concentrate on automatic distance functions, which are defined by weighted automata. The model-measuring problem subsumes several generalizations of the classical model-checking problem, in particular, quantitative model-checking problems that measure the degree of satisfaction of a specification, and robustness problems that measure how much a model can be perturbed without violating the specification. We show that for automatic distance functions, and ω-regular linear-time and branching-time specifications, the model-measuring problem can be solved. We use automata-theoretic model-checking methods for model measuring, replacing the emptiness question for standard word and tree automata by the optimal-weight question for the weighted versions of these automata. We consider weighted automata that accumulate weights by maximizing, summing, discounting, and limit averaging. We give several examples of using the model-measuring problem to compute various notions of robustness and quantitative satisfaction for temporal specifications.
Vortex pinning in the superfluid core of relativistic neutron stars
Creators: name: Sourie, Aurélien
name: Chamel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our recent Newtonian treatment of the smooth-averaged mutual-friction force acting on the neutron superfluid and locally induced by the pinning of quantized neutron vortices to proton fluxoids in the outer core of superfluid neutron stars is here adapted to the general-relativistic framework. We show how the local nonrelativistic motion of individual vortices can be matched to the global dynamics of the star using the fully 4D covariant Newtonian formalism of Carter & Chamel (2004). We derive all the necessary dynamical equations for carrying out realistic simulations of superfluid rotating neutron stars in full general relativity, as required for the interpretation of pulsar frequency glitches. The role of vortex pinning on the global dynamics appears to be nontrivial.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
Small group elicitation session on possessive pronouns
Creators: name: Massoma, Achille
name: Borchardt, Nadine
name: Lionnet, Florian
name: Hyman, Larry M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abb

description: Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm with the nouns for 'host' and 'mother'. Body and possessive pronouns, full paradigm singular/plural. Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm with the noun for 'bag'. 'This body; this is my body.' 'Snail' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. 'Name' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. 'Eye' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. 'Water' and possessive pronouns (singular only). Elicitation of the possessive pronoun paradigm with the noun 'leg'. 'Monkey' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. 'Fish' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. 'Soap' and possessive pronouns: full paradigm. Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm with noun 'egg'. Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm with noun 'ear'. Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm for the noun 'pot'. Elicitation of possessive pronoun paradigm for the noun 'animal'.
Detection of finite frequency current moments with a dissipative resonant circuit
Creators: name: Zazunov, Alex
name: Creux, Marjorie
name: Paladino, Elisabetta
name: Crepieux, Adeline
name: Martin, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the measurement of higher current moments with a dissipative resonant circuit, which is coupled inductively to a mesoscopic device in the coherent regime. Information about the higher current moments is coded in the histograms of the charge on the capacitor plates of the resonant circuit. Dissipation is included via the Caldeira-Leggett model, and it is essential to include it in order for the charge fluctuations (or the measured noise) to remain finite. We identify which combination of current correlators enter the measurement of the third moment. The latter remains stable for zero damping. Results are illustrated briefly for a quantum point contact.
Additional file 4: of Differential effects of diet- and genetically-induced brain insulin resistance on amyloid pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Wakabayashi, Tomoko
name: Yamaguchi, Kazuki
name: Matsui, Kentaro
name: Sano, Toshiharu
name: Kubota, Tetsuya
name: Hashimoto, Tadafumi
name: Mano, Ayako
name: Yamada, Kaoru
name: Matsuo, Yuko
name: Kubota, Naoto
name: Kadowaki, Takashi
name: Iwatsubo, Takeshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S4. Caloric restriction improves insulin sensitivity and suppresses Aβ pathology in A7-Tg mice. a Monthly body weight changes of A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 8; CR: n = 9). b Fasting blood glucose levels of 15-month-old A7-Tg mice (Chow: n = 12; CR: n = 11). c Blood glucose levels during the ITT (left) and the AUC of blood glucose (right) at 15 months of age (Chow: n = 12; CR: n = 11). d Levels of phosphorylated IR in A7-Tg mice fed with chow or CR upon insulin treatment. A7-Tg mice were intraperitoneally injected with PBS or insulin and Triton X-100-soluble cortical lysates were immunoprecipitaed with an anti-IR antibody followed by immunoblotting with anti-phospho Tyr and anti-IR antibodies at 15 month of age. Relative levels of signal intensity of phospho:total IR are shown (n = 6 per group). Data are mean ± SEM. *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 (repeated-measures ANOVA with Sidak’s post-hoc test, a, c; two-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test, d; unpaired t test, b, c). (DOCX 94 kb)
Magnetic phase diagram of a frustrated ferrimagnetic ladder: Relation to the one-dimensional boson Hubbard model
Creators: name: Ivanov, N. B.
name: Richter, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic phase diagram of two coupled mixed-spin $(1,{1/2})$ Heisenberg chains as a function of the frustration parameter related to diagonal exchange couplings. The analysis is performed by using spin-wave series and exact numerical diagonalization techniques. The obtained phase diagram--containing the Luttinger liquid phase, the plateau phase with a magnetization per rung $M=1/2$, and the fully polarized phase--is closely related to the generic $(J/U,μ/U)$ phase diagram of the one-dimensional boson Hubbard model.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: Project Promenade – The case of the HEDRON RESEARCH CENTER
title: Project Promenade – Η υπόθεση του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου HEDRON
Creators: name: Χελιδονης Εμμανουηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Η διπλωματική (Project Promenade) πατάει πάνω στα χνάρια που χάραξε η ερευνητική (Project Nyx) και χρησιμοποιεί την μεθοδολογία (semantics categories) και σχεδιαστική γλώσσα (MATRIX) που αναπτύχθηκαν κατα την μελέτη της. Είναι πρακτικά η εφαρμογή της έρευνας. Αφορά ένα Ερευνητικό Κέντρο, το HEDRON Research Center, που θα “ανοίξει τις πόρτες” του και θα παρουσιάσει τους χώρους του μέσα από την ιστορία ενός χαρακτήρα που αποφάσισε να εγγραφεί ως δόκιμος στο ερευνητικό του πρόγραμμα. Η ιστορία θα αναδεικνύει την αμφίπλευρη ή και πολύπλευρη ικανότητα των χώρων (ίδιος χώρος, διαφορετική εμπειρία σε διαφορετική στιγμή) που δημιουργήθηκαν με βάση την μεθοδολογία του Project Nyx (ερευνητική), και θα προσφέρει μία εμπειρία σε μορφή game/βίντεο μέσα από την προσπάθεια του χρήστη να ξεφύγει από μία ολοένα και πιο αγχωτική κατάσταση. Το παιχνίδι παρουσιάζεται όχι ως ένα απλό gameplay, αλλά ως μία μίνι ταινία/βίντεο, περιλαμβάνοντας sound design και cutscenes.
Holographic phase transitions at finite baryon density
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Shinpei
name: Mateos, David
name: Matsuura, Shunji
name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Thomson, Rowan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use holographic techniques to study SU(Nc) super Yang-Mills theory coupled to Nf << Nc flavours of fundamental matter at finite temperature and baryon density. We focus on four dimensions, for which the dual description consists of Nf D7-branes in the background of Nc black D3-branes, but our results apply in other dimensions as well. A non-zero chemical potential mu or baryon number density n is introduced via a nonvanishing worldvolume gauge field on the D7-branes. Ref. [1] identified a first order phase transition at zero density associated with `melting' of the mesons. This extends to a line of phase transitions for small n, which terminates at a critical point at finite n. Investigation of the D7-branes' thermodynamics reveals that (d mu / dn)_T <0 in a small region of the phase diagram, indicating an instability. We comment on a possible new phase which may appear in this region.
description: 33 pages, 22 figures
Online Diskriminanzanalyse für Datensituationen mit Concept Drift
Creators: name: Schnackenberg, Sarah Anna
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Diskriminanzanalyse
subject: Klassifikationsverfahren
subject: Concept drift
subject: 310
subject: Diskriminanzanalyse
subject: Clusterverfahren

description: Vor dem Hintergrund der Existenz von immer mehr Datenströmen anstelle von Batch-Daten gewinnen Online-Algorithmen immer mehr an Bedeutung. Eine wesentliche Eigenschaft von Datenströmen besteht darin, dass sich die den Beobachtungen zugrunde liegende Verteilung im Laufe der Zeit ändern kann. Für solche Situationen hat sich der Begriff concept drift etabliert. Die Dissertation fokussiert auf die Diskriminanzanalyse als ein mögliches Klassifikationsverfahren. Viele bisher publizierte Algorithmen für Online Diskriminanzanalyse haben gemein, dass zwar eine Adaption an einen concept drift ermöglicht wird, eine kontinuierlich fortschreitende Veränderung der Verteilung allerdings nicht beachtet wird, sodass veraltete (und daher verzerrte) Schätzer in die Klassifikationsregel zur Prognose einfließen. In der Dissertation wird eine Methodik zur Erweiterung von Methoden für Online Diskriminanzanalyse zur Verbesserung der Prognosegüte für Datensituationen mit concept drift entwickelt. Für die Erweiterung wird der concept drift geeignet modelliert und prognostiziert. Es wird ein linearer Trend der Erwartungswertvektoren über die Zeit unterstellt, welcher mit lokaler linearer Regression modelliert wird. So können kontinuierlich die Erwartungswertvektoren des kommenden Zeitpunktes für jede Klasse prognostiziert werden. Diese Prognosen ersetzen laufend die bisherigen Schätzer in der jeweiligen Klassifikationsregel der Online Diskriminanzanalyse, um eine bessere Prognose für Beobachtungen des folgenden Zeitpunktes gewährleisten zu können. Durch die Lokalität lokaler linearer Regressionsmodelle können auch nicht-lineare Trends geeignet linear approximiert werden. Für Spezialfälle wird bewiesen, dass die Schätzfunktionen für die Erwartungswertvektoren der Klassen der erweiterten Methoden jeweils erwartungstreu für die Erwartungswertvektoren der Verteilung der Prognose sind. Die theoretischen Ergebnisse werden durch eine umfangreiche Simulationsstudie untermauert und erweitert. Für die Evaluierung werden Datenströme mit unterschiedlichen Arten und Stärken von concept drift als Ausprägungen des unendlichen Raumes aller möglichen Datensituationen mit concept drift simuliert. Die ursprünglichen sowie die erweiterten Methoden werden auf diesen Datensituationen hinsichtlich der Prognosegüte miteinander verglichen. Die Prognosegüte der Klassifikatoren kann durch Erweiterung der Methoden unter verschiedenster Formen von concept drift verbessert werden.
Anyone GAN Sing
Creators: name: Sankaran, Shreeviknesh
name: Nanjundan, Sukavanan
name: Anand, G. Paavai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The problem of audio synthesis has been increasingly solved using deep neural networks. With the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), another efficient and adjective path has opened up to solve this problem. In this paper, we present a method to synthesize the singing voice of a person using a Convolutional Long Short-term Memory (ConvLSTM) based GAN optimized using the Wasserstein loss function. Our work is inspired by WGANSing by Chandna et al. Our model inputs consecutive frame-wise linguistic and frequency features, along with singer identity and outputs vocoder features. We train the model on a dataset of 48 English songs sung and spoken by 12 non-professional singers. For inference, sequential blocks are concatenated using an overlap-add procedure. We test the model using the Mel-Cepstral Distance metric and a subjective listening test with 18 participants.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures
Summary and Evaluation of Projections of Supply of and Demand for Agricultural Products in Mexico to 1965, 1970, and 1975
Creators: name: Urban, Francis S.
name: Urban, Francis S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1968
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Development
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In August 1966, an independent and detailed report, "Projections of Supply of and Demand for Agricultural Products in Mexico to 1965, 1970, and 1975," called the study report, was published. The study report was the result of 3 years of work, between 1962 and 1964, by the Joint Working Group set up by the Bank of Mexico. It was a cooperative venture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, and the Bank of Mexico. Both countries shared in its financing. The contract was administered by the Western Hemisphere Branch, Foreign Regional Analysis Division, Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This summary report gives the study projections for 1965, 1970, and 1975 in tabular form. The text compares projections for 1965-66 with actual production and trade figures for that year and compares the result with the projections for 1975. For many commodities, the demand, production, and exports were far in advance of the projections for 1965. The section, Implications for U.S. Agricultural Trade, is based on analysis of both the study report and production and trade figures that became available after its publication.
A precision on the concept of strict convexity in non-Archimedean analysis
Creators: name: Sánchez, Javier Cabello
name: Garmendia, José Navarro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46S10, 26E30

description: We prove that the only non-Archimedean strictly convex spaces are the zero space and the one-dimensional linear space over $\, \mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z}$, with any of its trivial norms.
description: Published in Nonlinear Analysis, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2021.112304
Pantomime administration of the WISC-III and SB:FE to hearing and otitis prone Native Indian students
Creators: name: Handy, Lynda Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Administration of nonverbal tests of intelligence to deaf or hard of hearing and Native Indian children has been problematic. Communication difficulties between examiner and examinee have resulted in modifications to the administration of the test. A standard method of test administration has not been reported in the literature. The current study investigated the use of pantomime instruction to administer performance scales of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-IlI) and the Stanford Binet: Fourth Edition (SB:FE). Subjects included a group of otitis prone Native Indian children (n=87) and hearing peers (n=80). Subjects in the hearing peer group were randomly assigned to verbal (n=40) or pantomime instruction (n=40) to compare verbal and pantomime administration of the tests. T-test and ANOVAs were used to investigate comparisons between verbal administration method (hearing peer) and between groups receiving pantomime instruction (otitis prone and hearing peer). Multiple regression analyses were used to determine whether nonverbal tests of intelligence were predictors of academic achievement. Results demonstrated pantomime instruction gave subjects information required to complete test and subtest tasks of the WISC-lll and SB:FE. There was not a significant difference between verbal and pantomime instruction for the hearing peer group. When the otitis prone group and the hearing peer group were compared there was no significant differences between groups for the WISC-lll. Item analysis provided additional support to pantomime instruction giving adequate information to understand tasks. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that nonverbal measures of intelligence should not be used to predict math or reading achievement for this population. Language measures administered yielded very low scores across all three groups. Although this was expected for the otitis prone group, low scores were not expected for the hearing peer group. The short term memory subtests for the SB:FE were also very low indicating another area of weakness for all three groups which was not expected. Results of the present study provides evidence to indicate pantomime instruction is a viable method of administration when used with otitis prone and hearing Native children. Further research is necessary to determine if standard pantomime administration can be utilized to administer nonverbal measures of intelligence to other groups of children with delayed language skills or communication difficulties.
Measurement of leptonic and hadronic decays of omega- and phi-mesons at RHIC by PHENIX
Creators: name: Riabov, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PHENIX experiment at RHIC measured production of the ω- and ϕ- mesons in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 63 and 200 GeV. Particle properties were studied using hadronic and di-electron decay channels. Transverse momentum (mass) spectra measured in different decay modes are found to be in agreement with each other within the errors. Nuclear modification factors R_{AA} measured for both mesons are consistent with results previously obtained for other neutral mesons. Position of the meson mass peaks and their widths reconstructed in hadronic decay channels are in agreement with their properties measured in vacuum.
description: QM2006 proceedings 4 pages, 3 plots
Effect of Precursors and Radiation on Soot Formation in Turbulent Diffusion Flame
Creators: name: B, Manedhar Reddy
name: De, Ashoke
name: Yadav, Rakesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soot formation in Delft flame III, a pilot stabilized turbulent diffusion flame burning natural gas/air, is investigated using ANSYS FLUENT by considering two different approaches for soot inception. In the first approach soot inception is based on the formation rate of acetylene, while the second approach considers the formation rate of two and three-ringed aromatics to describe the soot inception [1]. Transport equations are solved for soot mass fraction and radical nuclei concentration to describe inception, coagulation, surface growth, and oxidation processes. The turbulent-chemistry interactions and soot precursors are described by the steady laminar flamelet model (SLFM). Two chemical mechanisms GRI 3.0 [2] and POLIMI [3] are used to represent the effect of species concentration on soot formation. The radiative properties of the medium are included based on the non-gray modeling approach by considering four factious gases; the weighted sum of gray gas (WSGGM) approach is used to model the absorption coefficient. The effect of soot on radiative transfer is modeled in terms of effective absorption coefficient of the medium. A beta probability density function (\b{eta}-PDF) in terms of normalized temperature is used to describe the effect of turbulence on soot formation. The results clearly elucidate the strong effect of radiation and species concentration on soot volume fraction predictions. Due to increase in radiative heat loss with soot, flame temperature decreases slightly. The inclusion of ethylene has less synergic effect than that of both benzene and ethylene. Both cases have less impact on the nucleation of soot. The increase in soot volume fraction with soot-turbulence interaction is in consistence with the DNS predictions.
ENVISION Deliverable 3.2: A social-ecological inventory of the region surrounding Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Creators: name: Johnson, Dana N.
name: Riper, Carena J. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: social-ecological systems
protected areas
resilience
mental models
community engagement
fuzzy cognitive mapping

description: This ENVISION deliverable reports on findings from a participatory study focused on evaluating how residents living around Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park perceived the social and ecological dynamics of protected areas in Interior Alaska, U.S. Using a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach, residents' mental models of Denali as a social-ecological system were used to establish a baseline understanding of the current state of conditions being influenced by drivers of change in the region.
Color-magnitude relations of late-type galaxies
Creators: name: Chang, Ruixiang
name: Shen, Shiyin
name: Hou, Jinliang
name: Shu, Chenggang
name: Shao, Zhengyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a large sample of galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micro All Sky Survey (2MASS) to present Color-Magnitude Relations (CMRs) for late-type galaxies in both optical and optical-infrared bands. A sample from SDSS Data Release 4 (DR4) is selected to investigate the optical properties. Optical-infrared colors are estimated from a position matched sample of DR4 and 2MASS, in which the photometric aperture mismatch between these two surveys is carefully corrected. It is shown that, after correcting the dust attenuation, the optical colors for faint galaxies (i.e. $M_r > -21$) have very weak correlation with the luminosity, while the optical colors for bright galaxies (i.e. $M_r < -21$) are redder for more luminous galaxies. All (optical, optical-infrared and infrared) colors show similar but stronger correlations with stellar mass than with absolute magnitude. The optical colors correlate more strongly with stellar mass surface density than with stellar mass, while optical-infrared and infrared colors show stronger correlations with stellar mass. By comparing the observed colors of our sample galaxies with the colors predicted by stellar population synthesis model, we find that massive late-type galaxies have older and higher metallicity stellar population than less massive galaxies. This suggests that CMRs for late-type galaxies are trends defined by the combination of stellar mean age and metallicity. Moreover, our results suggest that the stellar mean metallicity of late-type galaxy is mainly determined by its stellar mass, while the star formation history is mainly regulated by the stellar mass surface density.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Real-time control of the periodicity of a standing wave: an optical accordion
Creators: name: Li, T. C.
name: Kelkar, H.
name: Medellin, D.
name: Raizen, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experimental method to create optical lattices with real-time control of their periodicity. We demonstrate a continuous change of the lattice periodicity from 0.96 $μ$m to 11.2 $μ$m in one second, while the center fringe only moves less than 2.7 $μ$m during the whole process. This provides a powerful tool for controlling ultracold atoms in optical lattices, where small spacing is essential for quantum tunneling, and large spacing enables single-site manipulation and spatially resolved detection.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Mathematical modeling of the vascular system
Creators: name: Liu, Ju
name: Lan, Ingrid S.
name: Marsden, Alison L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this article, we review the mathematical modeling for the vascular system.
Small group elicitation session on adjectives
Creators: name: Massoma, Achille
name: Fauconnier, Stefanie
name: Hyman, Larry M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abb

description: Adjectives of quality: 'good' and 'bad'. Color adjectives: 'black', 'white', 'blue', 'yellow', 'green', 'red'. Adjectives of size: 'big' and 'small', 'tall' and 'short'. Quality terms, color terms, age terms, size terms.
Damping of Oscillations in Red Giants by Resonant Mode Coupling
Creators: name: Weinberg, Nevin N.
name: Arras, Phil
name: Pramanik, Debaditya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismic studies of red giants generally assume that the oscillation modes can be treated as linear perturbations to the background star. However, observations by the Kepler mission show that the oscillation amplitudes increase dramatically as stars ascend the red giant branch. The importance of nonlinear effects should therefore be assessed. In previous work, we found that mixed modes in red giants are unstable to nonlinear three-wave interactions over a broad range of stellar mass and evolutionary state. Here we solve the amplitude equations that describe the mode dynamics for large networks of nonlinearly coupled modes. The networks consist of stochastically driven parent modes coupled to resonant secondary modes (daughters, granddaughters, etc.). We find that nonlinear interactions can lower the energy of gravity-dominated mixed modes by $\gtrsim 80\%$ compared to linear theory. However, they have only a mild influence on the energy of pressure-dominated mixed modes. Expressed in terms of the dipole mode visibility $V^2$, i.e., the summed amplitudes of dipole modes relative to radial modes, we find that $V^2$ can be suppressed by $50-80\%$ relative to the linear value for highly-evolved red giants whose frequency of maximum power $ν_{\rm max} \lesssim 100\,μ\textrm{Hz}$. However, for less evolved red giants with $150\lesssim ν_{\rm max} \lesssim 200\,μ\textrm{Hz}$, $V^2$ is suppressed by only $10-20\%$. We conclude that resonant mode coupling can have a potentially detectable effect on oscillations at $ν_{\rm max} \lesssim 100\,μ\textrm{Hz}$ but it cannot account for the population of red giants that exhibit dipole modes with unusually small amplitudes at high $ν_{\rm max}$.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 19 pages, 9 figures
Гражданско-правовое регулирование операций с применением платежных карт
Creators: name: Григоренко Данила Александрович
name: Мизин Борис Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Московский экономический журнал
Year: 2019
Subjects: платёжные карты
правовое регулирование
анализ карточных рисков.

description: В работе рассмотрены законодательные аспекты гражданско-правового регулирования операций с применением платежных карт, а также проведен анализ карточных рисков на основе прецедентной практики.