cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
p-wave Holographic Superconductors from Born-Infeld Black Holes
Creators: name: Chaturvedi, Pankaj
name: Sengupta, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain (2+1) dimensional p-wave holographic superconductors from charged Born-Infeld black holes in the presence of massive charged vector fields in a bulk $AdS_4$ Einstein-Born-Infeld theory through the $AdS_4$-$CFT_3$ correspondence. Below a certain critical transition temperature the charged black hole develops vector hair that corresponds to charged vector condensate in the strongly coupled (2+1) dimensional boundary field theory that breaks both the $U(1)$ symmetry as well as the rotational invariance. The holographic free energy is computed for the boundary field theory which shows that the vector order parameter exhibits a rich phase structure involving zeroth order, first order, second order and retrograde phase transitions for different values of the backreaction and the Born-Infeld parameters. We numerically compute the ac conductivity for the p-wave superconducting phase of the strongly coupled (2+1) dimensional boundary field theory which also depends on the relative values of the parameters in the theory.
description: 26 pages, 18 figures
Maximal Correlation Secrecy
Creators: name: Li, Cheuk Ting
name: Gamal, Abbas El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper shows that the Hirschfeld-Gebelein-Rényi maximal correlation between the message and the ciphertext provides good secrecy guarantees for cryptosystems that use short keys. We first establish a bound on the eavesdropper's advantage in guessing functions of the message in terms of maximal correlation and the Rényi entropy of the message. This result implies that maximal correlation is stronger than the notion of entropic security introduced by Russell and Wang. We then show that a small maximal correlation $ρ$ can be achieved via a randomly generated cipher with key length $\approx2\log(1/ρ)$, independent of the message length, and by a stream cipher with key length $2\log(1/ρ)+\log n+2$ for a message of length $n$. We establish a converse showing that these ciphers are close to optimal. This is in contrast to entropic security for which there is a gap between the lower and upper bounds. Finally, we show that a small maximal correlation implies secrecy with respect to several mutual information based criteria but is not necessarily implied by them. Hence, maximal correlation is a stronger and more practically relevant measure of secrecy than mutual information.
description: 15 pages, 2 figure, presented in part at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2015
Ultra-light Glueballs in Quark-Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Kochelev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamics of the scalar and pseudoscalar glueballs in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). By using the instanton model for the QCD vacuum we give the arguments that the nonperturbative gluon-gluon interaction is qualitatively different in the confinement and deconfinement phases. Based on this observation it is shown that above $T_c$ the values of the scalar and pseudoscalar glueball masses might be very small. The estimation of the temperature of scale invariance restoration, at which the scalar glueball becomes massless, is given. We also discuss the Bose-Einstein condensation of the glueballs and the superfluidity of the glueball matter in QGP.
description: 14 pages,6 figures, based on the talk given at APCTP-BLTP JINR Joint Workshop, 29 June-4 July 2014, Jeju Island, South Korea
Methylarsonous Acid Transport by Aquaglyceroporins
Creators: name: Rosen, Barry P.
name: Liu, Zijuan
name: Styblo, Miroslav
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Many mammals methylate trivalent inorganic arsenic in liver to species that are released into the bloodstream and excreted in urine and feces. This study addresses how methylated arsenicals pass through cell membranes. We have previously shown that aquaglyceroporin channels, including Escherichia coli GlpF, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fps1p, AQP7, and AQP9 from rat and human, conduct trivalent inorganic arsenic [As(III)] as arsenic trioxide, the protonated form of arsenite. One of the initial products of As(III) methylation is methylarsonous acid [MAs(III)], which is considerably more toxic than inorganic As(III). In this study, we investigated the ability of GlpF, Fps1p, and AQP9 to facilitate movement of MAs(III) and found that rat aquaglyceroporin conducted MAs(III) at a higher rate than the yeast homologue. In addition, rat AQP9 facilitates MAs(III) at a higher rate than As(III). These results demonstrate that aquaglyceroporins differ both in selectivity for and in transport rates of trivalent arsenicals. In this study, the requirement of AQP9 residues Phe-64 and Arg-219 for MAs(III) movement was examined. A hydrophobic residue at position 64 is not required for MAs(III) transport, whereas an arginine at residue 219 may be required. This is similar to that found for As(III), suggesting that As(III) and MAs(III) use the same translocation pathway in AQP9. Identification of MAs(III) as an AQP9 substrate is an important step in understanding physiologic responses to arsenic in mammals, including humans.
Modernities and Everyday Life in a Silesian Borderland: American-Controlled Giesche and Interwar Families
Creators: name: Keesey, Tiffany Wilson
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation argues that the time between the World Wars was a critical period for changes in the way Silesians understood their own place in the modern world. Pre-existing social structures of support in industrial communities fell away as industrial management pursued an agenda of “economic rationalization,” focusing on business efficiency and trimming expenses including many social provisions. Within this vacuum of support, individuals and families relied on community and collaborative practices as they built and rebuilt their social landscape. Rather than accepting the withdrawal of benefits from the company, Silesians held the company and the municipality to account for long-standing social obligations. The population of Industrial Upper Silesia had their own progressive notions of modernity, eschewing economic rationalization for social services, quality of life, and a strong democratic voice. As the economic crises of the 1930s worsened, demands for social welfare provisions intensified, resulting in a relatively self-confident local government. “Modernities and Everyday Life” considers two important elements of Silesian everyday life: the lived economies of industrial families and their built environments. Within these contexts, this study focuses on three groups of reciprocal actors: municipal government officials, American managers of the Giesche company, and industrial families. Individuals within these groups both acted and were acted upon. Under American management, Silesians found themselves between two ideas of modernity: the progressive promises of quality of life and self-determination, and the calculations of economic rationalization. In light of this, families held officials, both in government and the company, to customary obligations of worker welfare and to new promises of prosperity. This study considers how Silesians sought to gain control over the challenging postwar circumstances in which they found themselves. It explores how they moved toward modernity in the economic, social and political spheres, and how the presence of international capital shaped this transition. Finally, it examines the ways changing behaviors reflected the fluid and conflicting understandings of “modernity” and modern practices in this time period. The hybrid lived economy is highlighted inside four built environments: town infrastructure, family and individual housing, family kitchens and their associated agricultural spaces, and the “little Americans” created by American managers.
Clorivière, P., Caminhos da Oração. Ed. Sociedade das Filhas do Coração de Maria. Vol. de 230 ps. 135x210. Lisboa-Rio de Janeiro 1968
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 4 (1968)
Calabi-Yau Caps, Uniruled Caps and Symplectic Fillings
Creators: name: Li, Tian-Jun
name: Mak, Cheuk Yu
name: Yasui, Kouichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce symplectic Calabi-Yau caps to obtain new obstructions to exact fillings. In particular, it implies that any exact filling of the standard unit cotangent bundle of a hyperbolic surface has vanishing first Chern class and has the same integral homology and intersection form as its disk cotangent bundle. This gives evidence to a conjecture that all of its exact fillings are diffeomorphic to the disk cotangent bundle. As a result, we also obtain the first infinitely family of Stein fillable contact 3-manifolds with uniform bounds on the Betti numbers of its exact fillings but admitting minimal strong fillings of arbitrarily large $b_2$. Moreover, we introduce the notion of symplectic uniruled/adjunction caps and uniruled/adjunction contact structures to present a unified picture to the existing finiteness results on the topological invariants of exact/strong fillings of a contact 3-manifold. As a byproduct, we find new classes of contact 3-manifolds with the finiteness property and extend Wand's obstruction of planar contact 3-manifolds to uniruled/adjunction contact structures with complexity zero. structures with complexity zero.
description: 44 pages. This is an updated version of the papers with title 'Calabi-Yau caps and Uniruled caps' and 'Uniruled caps and Calabi-Yau caps'. To appear in Proceedings of London Mathematical Society
Dimensional crossover and symmetry transformation of the charge density waves in VSe2
Creators: name: Chen, P.
name: Chan, Y. -H.
name: Liu, R. -Y.
name: Zhang, H. T.
name: Gao, Q.
name: Fedorov, A. -V.
name: Chou, M. Y.
name: Chiang, T. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collective phenomena in solids can be sensitive to the dimensionality of the system; a case of special interest is VSe2, which shows a (r7 x r3) charge density wave (CDW) in the single layer with the three-fold symmetry in the normal phase spontaneously broken, in contrast to the (4 x 4) in-plane CDW in the bulk. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) from VSe2 ranging from a single layer to the bulk reveals the evolution of the electronic structure including the Fermi surface contours and the CDW gap. At a thickness of two layers, the ARPES maps are already nearly bulklike, but the transition temperature TC for the (4 x 4) CDW is much higher than the bulk value of 110 K. These results can be understood as a result of dimensional crossover of phonon instability driven by a competition of nesting vectors. Our study provides key insights into the CDW mechanisms and offers a perspective in the search and control of emergent phases in quantum materials.
A Distance-Based Decision in the Credal Level
Creators: name: Essaid, Amira
name: Martin, Arnaud
name: Smits, Grégory
name: Yaghlane, Boutheina Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Belief function theory provides a flexible way to combine information provided by different sources. This combination is usually followed by a decision making which can be handled by a range of decision rules. Some rules help to choose the most likely hypothesis. Others allow that a decision is made on a set of hypotheses. In [6], we proposed a decision rule based on a distance measure. First, in this paper, we aim to demonstrate that our proposed decision rule is a particular case of the rule proposed in [4]. Second, we give experiments showing that our rule is able to decide on a set of hypotheses. Some experiments are handled on a set of mass functions generated randomly, others on real databases.
Hungarohydracarus szalayi Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Hungarohydracaridae
Hungarohydracarus
Hungarohydracarus szalayi

description: Hungarohydracarus szalayi Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Maharashtra—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974); Pešić & Ranga Reddy (2009).
Habitat: Hyporheic interstitial.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Turnplate of quantum state
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhou, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-reversal symmetry breaking can enhance or suppress the probability of success for quantum state transfer (QST), and remarkably it can be used to implement the directional QST. In this paper we study the QST on a ring with time-reversal asymmetry. We show that the system will behave as a quantum state turnplate under some proper parameters, which may serve as time controlled quantum routers in complex quantum networks. We propose to to realize the quantum state turnplate in the coupled resonator optical waveguide by controlling the coupling strength and the phase.
XALQ OG'ZAKI IJODINING BADIIY XUSUSIYATLARINI ANGLASHDA IFODALI O'QISH VA BADIIY HIKOYA QILISH
Creators: name: Nurjanova, Yulduz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada o'rta maxsus taʼlimlardagi adabiy o'qish mashg'ulotiga oid masalalar bo'yicha  so'z yuritiladi. Xususan, xalq og'zaki ijodiga oid badiiy asarlarni o'rganishda ifodali o'qish va badiiy hikoya qilish yuzasidan atroflicha bayon qilingan.
Personalized Exposure Assessment: Promising Approaches for Human Environmental Health Research
Creators: name: Swenberg, James
name: Sumner, Susan
name: Omenn, Gilbert
name: Wilson, Samuel H.
name: Thompson, Claudia
name: Smith, Martyn T.
name: Brown, David
name: Weis, Brenda K.
name: Watkins, Simon
name: Sohn, Lydia
name: Suk, William A.
name: Lioy, Paul
name: Potter, John D.
name: Walt, David R.
name: Barr, John R.
name: Balshaw, David
name: Ellisman, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: New technologies and methods for assessing human exposure to chemicals, dietary and lifestyle factors, infectious agents, and other stressors provide an opportunity to extend the range of human health investigations and advance our understanding of the relationship between environmental exposure and disease. An ad hoc Committee on Environmental Exposure Technology Development was convened to identify new technologies and methods for deriving personalized exposure measurements for application to environmental health studies. The committee identified a “toolbox” of methods for measuring external (environmental) and internal (biologic) exposure and assessing human behaviors that influence the likelihood of exposure to environmental agents. The methods use environmental sensors, geographic information systems, biologic sensors, toxicogenomics, and body burden (biologic) measurements. We discuss each of the methods in relation to current use in human health research; specific gaps in the development, validation, and application of the methods are highlighted. We also present a conceptual framework for moving these technologies into use and acceptance by the scientific community. The framework focuses on understanding complex human diseases using an integrated approach to exposure assessment to define particular exposure–disease relationships and the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in disease occurrence. Improved methods for exposure assessment will result in better means of monitoring and targeting intervention and prevention programs.
Conceptualizing Chicago Cubanidad: Spanish Ideologies and Identity
Creators: name: Betancourt-Ciprian, Angela C
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There is currently a dearth of research about linguistic attitudes towards stigmatized variants of Spanish in the US. Cuban Spanish is ideal for such research because it includes commonly stigmatized phonological features such as lateralization of final /ɾ/ and weakening of coda /s/. This variety of Spanish has been researched in the context of Miami, Florida as it boasts the largest number of Cubans outside of the island. However, this research is contextualized to a geographic setting in which Cubans represent an overwhelming percentage of the population and benefit from high social status. There is need for research that reveals how Cuban attitudes and identity vary when individuals find themselves geographically distant from Miami’s forceful discourses about what it means to be and sound Cuban. The Chicago Cuban community is an ideal setting for this research as Cubans constitute roughly 2.9% of local Latinos. The present study uses a perceptual dialectology ranking task and sociolinguistic interviews in order to reveal 1) how Chicago Cubans index their identity and how these indexicalities are similar to and different from their counterparts in Miami and 2) how the Chicago Cuban-American identity is evidenced in their attitudes towards different varieties of Spanish.
Commutative and Noncommutative Invariant Theory
Creators: name: Drensky, Vesselin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A50 16R10 16R30 16S10 16W22

description: The purpose of this survey paper is to bring to a large mathematical audience (containing also non-algebraists) some topics of invariant theory both in the classical commutative and the recent noncommutative case. We have included only several topics from the classical invariant theory -- the finite generating (the Endlichkeitssatz) and the finite presenting (the Basissatz) of the algebra of invariants, the Molien formula for its Hilbert series and the Shephard-Todd-Chevalley theorem for the invariants of a finite group generated by pseudo-reflections. Then we give analogues of these results for free and relatively free associative and Lie algebras. Finally we deal with the algebra of generic matrices and the invariant theory related with it.
description: This is an extended version of an invited talk presented at the 24-th Spring Conference of the Union of the Bulgarian Mathematicians, Svishtov, April 4-7, 1995
Pollutant Particles Produce Vasoconstriction and Enhance MAPK Signaling via Angiotensin Type I Receptor
Creators: name: Li, Zhuowei
name: Carter, Jacqueline D.
name: Huang, Yuh-Chin T.
name: Dailey, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is associated with acute cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, but the mechanisms are not entirely clear. In this study, we hypothesized that PM may activate the angiotensin type 1 receptor (AT1R), a G protein-coupled receptor that regulates inflammation and vascular function. We investigated the acute effects of St. Louis, Missouri, urban particles (UPs; Standard Reference Material 1648) on the constriction of isolated rat pulmonary artery rings and the activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in human pulmonary artery endothelial cells with or without losartan, an antagonist of AT1R. UPs at 1–100 μg/mL induced acute vaso-constriction in pulmonary artery. UPs also produced a time- and dose-dependent increase in phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK. Losartan pretreatment inhibited both the vasoconstriction and the activation of ERK1/2 and p38. The water-soluble fraction of UPs was sufficient for inducing ERK1/2 and p38 phosphorylation, which was also losartan inhibitable. Copper and vanadium, two soluble transition metals contained in UPs, induced pulmonary vasoconstriction and phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and p38, but only the phosphorylation of p38 was inhibited by losartan. The UP-induced activation of ERK1/2 and p38 was attenuated by captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. These results indicate that activation of the local renin–angiotensin system may play an important role in cardiovascular effects induced by PM.
Bayesian multi-tensor factorization
Creators: name: Khan, Suleiman A.
name: Leppäaho, Eemeli
name: Kaski, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce Bayesian multi-tensor factorization, a model that is the first Bayesian formulation for joint factorization of multiple matrices and tensors. The research problem generalizes the joint matrix-tensor factorization problem to arbitrary sets of tensors of any depth, including matrices, can be interpreted as unsupervised multi-view learning from multiple data tensors, and can be generalized to relax the usual trilinear tensor factorization assumptions. The result is a factorization of the set of tensors into factors shared by any subsets of the tensors, and factors private to individual tensors. We demonstrate the performance against existing baselines in multiple tensor factorization tasks in structural toxicogenomics and functional neuroimaging.
description: R Implementation / source code: http://research.cs.aalto.fi/pml/software/mtf/
Aertnys, L.° - Damen, C. - Visser, I., Theologia Moralis. Vol. I. Ed. Marietti. Vol. de XLVII+414 ps. 170x250. Torino 1967
Creators: name: Santos, Alexandrino Fernandes Dos
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 4 (1968)
Heat Transfer And Pressure Drop Characteristics Of Refrigerant 42 Condensing Inside Horizontal Tubes
Creators: name: Dunn, A.
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 1981

description: An investigation was conducted into the condensation of refrigerant 12 inside a horizontal tube. Following an exhaustive review of the literature a statistical comparison was carried out on previously published heat transfer and pressure drop correlations and recommendations were made as to those most appropriate for the design of commercial refrigeration condensers. An experimental apparatus was designed and fabricated, on which measurements of condensing heat transfer coefficients were made together with observations of flow regimes. Mathematical modelling techniques were used to assist in the design and commissioning of the apparatus, and a computer based data logging system was developed to monitor the apparatus and record the results. A method of correlating a wide range of condensing flow regimes is presented, based on the use of a liquid Froude number. Tested against the measured, and an independent set of data the correlation achieved a high discrimination between flow regime types. A method of correlating condensing heat transfer coefficients was developed, also based on the use of a liquid Froude number. The method although simple in application, correlated the measured data within - 20%. A computer aided condenser design programme was written incorporating the flow regime and heat transfer correlations, and was successfully tested against the measured data. An investigation was made into the use of refrigerant 12/22 mixtures in a conventional refrigeration system which incorporated a flooded type evaporator. It was not found possible to effect any power saving, but by adjusting the concentration of refrigerants it was possible to obtain a substantial variation in the plant capacity.
Profiles of Global Gene Expression in Ionizing-Radiation–Damaged Human Diploid Fibroblasts Reveal Synchronization behind the G1 Checkpoint in a G0-like State of Quiescence
Creators: name: Zhou, Tong
name: Medeiros, Margarida
name: Simpson, Dennis A.
name: Hurban, Patrick
name: Yang, Xuebin
name: Paules, Richard S.
name: Chou, Jeff W.
name: Mullen, Thomas E.
name: Bushel, Pierre R.
name: Kaufmann, William K.
name: Lobenhofer, Edward K.
name: Zhou, Yingchun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Cell cycle arrest and stereotypic transcriptional responses to DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation (IR) were quantified in telomerase-expressing human diploid fibroblasts. Analysis of cytotoxicity demonstrated that 1.5 Gy IR inactivated colony formation by 40–45% in three fibroblast lines; this dose was used in all subsequent analyses. Fibroblasts exhibited > 90% arrest of progression from G2 to M at 2 hr post-IR and a similarly severe arrest of progression from G1 to S at 6 and 12 hr post-IR. Normal rates of DNA synthesis and mitosis 6 and 12 hr post-IR caused the S and M compartments to empty by > 70% at 24 hr. Global gene expression was analyzed in IR-treated cells. A microarray analysis algorithm, EPIG, identified nine IR-responsive patterns of gene expression that were common to the three fibroblast lines, including a dominant p53-dependent G1 checkpoint response. Many p53 target genes, such as CDKN1A, GADD45, BTG2, and PLK3, were significantly up-regulated at 2 hr post-IR. Many genes whose expression is regulated by E2F family transcription factors, including CDK2, CCNE1, CDC6, CDC2, MCM2, were significantly down-regulated at 24 hr post-IR. Numerous genes that participate in DNA metabolism were also markedly repressed in arrested fibroblasts apparently as a result of cell synchronization behind the G1 checkpoint. However, cluster and principal component analyses of gene expression revealed a profile 24 hr post-IR with similarity to that of G0 growth quiescence. The results reveal a highly stereotypic pattern of response to IR in human diploid fibroblasts that reflects primarily synchronization behind the G1 checkpoint but with prominent induction of additional markers of G0 quiescence such as GAS1.
Dynamically Synthesizing Distributed Applications From Architecture Specifications
Creators: name: Cappelletti, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Creating and deploying distributed applications require significant domain-specific knowledge and effort. The overall process is complex: scalability, concurrency, and transparency must be considered. Moreover, testing and monitoring the health of a distributed application can be challenging and makes the development process error-prone, be- cause potentially, we have a lot of processes going on at different times and on different machines. Finally, it is costly. Software engineers with these specific sets of skills demand higher salaries. The actor model was introduced more than 50 years ago specifically to make it easier to design and develop distributed applications by introducing the concept of the actor. Each computing unit is an actor that communicates with other actors by sending messages. This model simplifies the creation process of distributed applications by burying the complexity of writing synchronization mechanisms from scratch. Specific frameworks based on the actor model, like Akka, still require noteworthy expertise to translate the high-level design of the system to the low-level implementation. Many solutions, such as Tosca [1], attempted to find an approach to simplify the underlying complexity of building distributed applications. Still, none of them can address this problem from a single comprehensive perspective. Most of the solutions, in the current state of the art, have a high learning curve and still require remarkable knowledge to be used. Our approach, called Nebula, automates the development effort to produce actor-based applications by burying the complexity of the specifics of the Akka libraries in the underlying framework that exposes high-level declarative constructs for configuration. More in detail, it allows the business analysts to describe the high-level design of the system using a general declarative language such as Yaml or JSON. Specific business logic algorithms can be implemented using low-level code by developers, or they can be deployed as separate packaged services. Nebula translates the system description created by business analysts and automatically generates the application code at run-time based on the Akka framework created using the actor model. Moreover, Nebula integrates an external monitoring mechanism to enable stakeholders to detect performance problems with the deployed code. The generated code is deployed on the fly using the Scala Reflection module based on the distributed actor model implemented in the Akka framework. We created the system, and the results of our experiments showed that it is effective and efficient.
MPEC 2023-R08 : 2023 JH5 = 2010 MP122
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 JH5 = 2010 MP122

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Experiments with biased side electrodes in electron cyclotron resonance ion sources
Creators: name: Drentje, A. G.
name: Kitagawa, A.
name: Uchida, T.
name: Rácz, R.
name: Biri, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The output of highly charged ions from an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS) consists of ionic losses from a highly confined plasma. Therefore, an increase of the output of the ions of interest always is a compromise between an increase in the confinement and an increase of the losses.One route towards a solution consists of attacking the losses in directions (i.e., radial directions) that do not contribute to the required output. This was demonstrated in an experiment (using the Kei ECRIS at NIRS, Japan) where radial losses were electrostatically reduced by positively biasing one set of six side electrodes surrounding the plasma in side-ward directions attached (insulated) to the cylindrical wall of the plasma chamber. Recently new studies were performed in two laboratories using two essentially different ion sources. At the BioNano ECRIS (Toyo University, Japan) various sets of electrodes were used; each of the electrodes could be biased individually. At the Atomki ECRIS (Hungary), one movable, off-axis side electrode was applied in technically two versions. The measurements show indeed a decrease of ionic losses but different effectivities as compared to the biased disk.
Lambruschini, F., Verso una nuova morale nella Chiesa? II. La giustizia nella Teologia Morale e nella vita cristiana. Ed. Queriniana. Vol. de 288 ps. 145x210. Brescia 1968
Creators: name: Marques, José Silva
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 4 (1968)
Fast camera studies at an electron cyclotron resonance table plasma generator
Creators: name: Rácz, R.
name: Biri, S.
name: Hajdu, P.
name: Pálinkás, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple table-size ECR plasma generator operates in the ATOMKI without axial magnetic trap and without any particle extraction tool. Radial plasma confinement is ensured by a NdFeB hexapole. The table-top ECR is a simplified version of the 14 GHz ATOMKI-ECRIS. Plasma diagnostics experiments are planned to be performed at this device before installing the measurement setting at the big ECRIS. Recently, the plasma generator has been operated in pulsed RF mode in order to investigate the time evolution of the ECR plasma in two different ways. (1) The visible light radiation emitted by the plasma was investigated by the frames of a fast camera images with 1 ms temporal resolution. Since the visible light photographs are in strong correlation with the two-dimensional spatial distribution of the cold electron components of the plasma it can be important to understand better the transient processes just after the breakdown and just after the glow. (2) The time-resolved ion current on a specially shaped electrode was measured simultaneously in order to compare it with the visible light photographs. The response of the plasma was detected by changing some external setting parameters (gas pressure and microwave power) and was described in this paper.
Symphony: Expressive Secure Multiparty Computation with Coordination
Creators: name: Sweet, Ian
name: Darais, David
name: Heath, David
name: Harris, William
name: Estes, Ryan
name: Hicks, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) refers to a family of cryptographic techniques where mutually untrusting parties may compute functions of their private inputs while revealing only the function output. Inquiry: It can be hard to program MPCs correctly and efficiently using existing languages and frameworks, especially when they require coordinating disparate computational roles. How can we make this easier? Approach: We present Symphony, a new functional programming language for MPCs among two or more parties. Symphony starts from the single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) semantics of prior MPC languages, in which each party carries out symmetric responsibilities, and generalizes it using constructs that can coordinate many parties. Symphony introduces **first-class shares** and **first-class party sets** to provide unmatched language-level expressive power with high efficiency. Knowledge: Developing a core formal language called $λ$-Symphony, we prove that the intuitive, generalized SIMD view of a program coincides with its actual distributed semantics. Thus the programmer can reason about her programs by reading them from top to bottom, even though in reality the program runs in a coordinated fashion, distributed across many machines. We implemented a prototype interpreter for Symphony leveraging multiple cryptographic backends. With it we wrote a variety of MPC programs, finding that Symphony can express optimized protocols that other languages cannot, and that in general Symphony programs operate efficiently. [ full abstract at https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2023/7/14 ]
Race, Poverty, and Potential Exposure of Middle-School Students to Air Emissions from Confined Swine Feeding Operations
Creators: name: Marshall, Stephen W.
name: Wing, Steve
name: Wilcosky, Timothy C.
name: Mirabelli, Maria C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Previous studies suggest that airborne effluent from swine confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) may affect the health and quality of life of adults and the prevalence of asthma symptoms among children. To investigate the extent to which public school students may be exposed to airborne effluent from swine CAFOs and to evaluate the association between schools’ demographic characteristics and swine CAFO exposures, we assessed the proximity of 226 schools to the nearest swine CAFO and conducted a survey of school employees to identify schools with noticeable livestock odor. We used publicly available information describing the enrollment of each school to assess the association between race and socioeconomic status (SES) and swine CAFO exposure. Odor from livestock was noticeable outside (n = 47, 21%) and inside (n = 19, 8%) school buildings. Schools with < 63% enrollment of white students and ≥47% of students receiving subsidized lunches at school were located closer to swine CAFOs (mean = 4.9 miles) than were the remaining schools (mean = 10.8 miles) and were more likely to be located within 3 miles of an operation than were schools with high-white/high-SES enrollment (prevalence ratio = 2.63; 95% confidence interval, 1.59–4.33). The prevalence of reported livestock odor varied with SES (low SES, 25%; high SES, 17%). These analyses indicate that the potential for in-school exposure to pollution arising from swine CAFOs in North Carolina and the environmental health risks associated with such exposures vary according to the racial and economic characteristics of enrolled students.
Negative Mood, Anger and Alcohol Use in Firefighters: The Moderating Role of Drinking Motives
Creators: name: Miloslavich, Krista M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Firefighters represent an understudied population with higher rates of negative mood, anger and drinking, with rates as high as one third engaging in problematic alcohol use. Negative mood and anger have been linked to different motives for using alcohol (social, enhancement, coping and conformity) and have been shown to predict problematic alcohol use outcomes. Although this is a population more vulnerable to greater AUD, minimal research has been conducted on the predictors or motivators of problematic alcohol use in firefighters. The present study sought to examine the moderating role of drinking motives in the relationship between negative mood, anger and alcohol use severity as well as anger’s unique contribution to alcohol use in firefighters. Firefighters at a large urban fire department (N = 679) completed an online questionnaire about their health and stress behaviors. Linear regression examined the relationship between negative mood, anger, and alcohol use as well as the moderational role of drinking motives between negative mood symptoms and alcohol use. Results showed that both negative mood and anger positive predicted alcohol use severity and these relationships were moderated by social and enhancement drinking motives. Further, anger was identified as a unique contributor to alcohol use severity above and beyond negative mood. These results suggest that anger contributes uniquely to alcohol use severity and may represent a different population of alcohol-drinking firefighters that may benefit from anger intervention in alcohol use disorder treatment.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Subsequent Trauma Exposure: The Role of Peer Deviancy
Creators: name: Tufty, Logan M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Individuals with ADHD symptoms are at an increased risk of lifetime trauma exposure. However, research has yet to examine specific mechanisms that may explain the association between symptoms of ADHD and experiencing traumatic events. One construct that may account for the relationship between ADHD symptoms and trauma is deviant peer association, given the risk symptoms of ADHD pose for comorbid deviant peer affiliation. Additionally, peer deviancy has been independently associated with a heightened risk for experiencing potentially traumatic events. However, no study (to our knowledge) has examined peer deviancy as a potential mechanism for the increased risk between ADHD symptoms and trauma exposure. The present study sought to examine whether peer deviancy mediates the relationship between childhood ADHD symptoms and subsequent trauma exposure across a 20-year longitudinal cohort study. Participants’ (N = 404) teachers completed the TOCA-R, which was used to derive a continuous measure of ADHD symptoms. A dichotomous variable was created to assess whether participants experienced a traumatic event between Wave 17 and Wave 20, as assessed via the DIS-IV. To measure deviant peer association, participants completed the Exposure to Deviant Peers self-report scale at Wave 16. Results indicated that ADHD symptoms in childhood were a significant predictor of deviant peer association in young adulthood and that deviant peer association in young adulthood was a significant predictor of young adult trauma exposure yet there was no direct relationship between ADHD symptoms and trauma exposure. Analyses revealed a significant indirect effect in that deviant peer associations mediated the relationship between childhood ADHD symptoms and trauma exposure in young adulthood. These results suggest that targeting peer deviancy in adolescents and young adults, especially in those with elevated ADHD symptoms, may be one strategy for reducing the risk of trauma exposure.
Two-frequency heating technique at the 18 GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Creators: name: Biri, S.
name: Kitagawa, A.
name: Muramatsu, M.
name: Drentje, A. G.
name: Rácz, R.
name: Yano, K.
name: Kato, Y.
name: Sasaki, N.
name: Takasugi, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-frequency heating technique was studied to increase the beam intensities of highly charged ions provided by the high-voltage extraction configuration (HEC) ion source at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS). The observed dependences on microwave power and frequency suggested that this technique improved plasma stability but it required precise frequency tuning and more microwave power than was available before 2013. Recently, a new, high-power (1200 W) wide bandwidth (17.1-18.5 GHz) travelling-wave-tube amplifier (TWTA) was installed. After some single tests with klystron and TWT amplifiers the simultaneous injection of the two microwaves has been successfully realized. The dependence of highly charged ions (HCI) currents on the superposed microwave power was studied by changing only the output power of one of the two amplifiers, alternatively. While operating the klystron on its fixed 18.0 GHz, the frequency of the TWTA was swept within its full limits (17.1-18.5 GHz), and the effect of this frequency on the HCI-production rate was examined under several operation conditions. As an overall result, new beam records of highly charged argon, krypton, and xenon beams were obtained at the NIRS-HEC ion source by this high-power two-frequency operation mode.
Seeking Support Under the State: Sex Worker's Experiences Navigating Gender-Based Violence Services
Creators: name: Shepp, Veronica Anne
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the United States, the selling of sexual services for tangible goods (e.g. money, housing, shelter, food, substances, etc.), also called sex work, is criminalized. Because of this, people who engage in the selling of sexual services experience criminalization, stigma, and increased surveillance by the state. Additionally, sex workers are at a heightened risk of violence, including physical assault, sexual violence, and state-sanctioned violence due to the precarity they experience that exists because of the stigma and criminalization of their labor (Mac & Smith, 2018; Vance, 2011). Research shows that due to criminalization, sex workers have increased barriers to accessing necessary social services such as housing, health care, gender-based violence services, legal services, substance use services, and more (Mac & Smith, 2018). Many of the services that are available to sex workers exist only through carceral avenues, requiring that sex workers be arrested in order to access programming including so-called “diversion programs” (Shadaimah & Bailey-Kloch, 2014). Additionally, some services may be inaccessible to sex workers because of their collaboration with and reliance on policing, surveillance, and the state (e.g. gender-based violence services), creating unique barriers to sex workers generally, and sex workers of color, trans sex workers, and undocumented workers specifically (Anasti, 2019; Dewey & St. Germain, 2016; Kim, 2020; Musto, 2016). Although sex work stigma, criminalization, and violence is well-documented in the literature, there exists a gap in the literature regarding the experiences of sex workers accessing and navigating social services, specifically gender-based violence (GBV) services, as there is no study to date that has documented these experiences. This study seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining the experiences of sex workers accessing and navigating gender-based violence services with a particular focus on the ways that carceral expansion and the shadow state uniquely impact sex workers. The study also seeks to understand other factors that may impact sex worker’s decision to seek out gender-based violence services including the role of the anti-trafficking movement, the decision to seek out other formal sources of support, and the role of informal support.
Dicke simulators with emergent collective quantum computational abilities
Creators: name: Rotondo, Pietro
name: Lagomarsino, Marco Cosentino
name: Viola, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an approach inspired from Spin Glasses, we show that the multimode disordered Dicke model is equivalent to a quantum Hopfield network. We propose variational ground states for the system at zero temperature, which we conjecture to be exact in the thermodynamic limit. These ground states contain the information on the disordered qubit-photon couplings. These results lead to two intriguing physical implications. First, once the qubit-photon couplings can be engineered, it should be possible to build scalable pattern-storing systems whose dynamics is governed by quantum laws. Second, we argue with an example how such Dicke quantum simulators might be used as a solver of "hard" combinatorial optimization problems.
description: 5+2 pages, 2 figures. revisited in the exposition and supplementary added. Comments are welcome