cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An imperial beast of different species or international justice? : universal jurisdiction and the African Union’s opposition
Creators: name: Ifeonu, Eberechi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation is a deconstruction of the African Union’s (AU) current opposition to the increasing expansion in universal jurisdiction’s scope and attempts by some Western states to prosecute some government officials of AU member states in exercise of this principle. In seeking to understand the AU’s opposition, the dissertation examines both the doctrinal basis for this “new” universal jurisdiction claim, as well as the politics and the political implications of this development, particularly on conflicts resolution in Africa. On the first question, it finds that the legal basis for the doctrine’s expansion is, at best, indeterminate and, at worst, nonexistence.On the second, it contends that: (1) the current AU’s opposition is a reflection of the broader climate of suspicion that has often clouded the relationship between the African region and the West, on one hand, and between the African region and international law, on the other hand – suspicion created by colonialism and exacerbate by the complicity of international law in the colonial project; (2) a critical examination of the praxis of universal jurisdiction reveals both the politics of exclusion of Third World states and a striking similarity between the principle and the doctrinal technologies employed by the positivist international law in the nineteenth and part of the twentieth centuries to legitimize colonialism; and (3) the inability of states exercising universal jurisdiction to consider the political consequences of their actions could undermine such indigenous approaches that can successfully facilitate conflicts resolution in Africa, such as peace deals and post-conflict truth commissions. In conclusion, therefore, the dissertation argues that one of the lessons to be learnt from this confrontation is that for any international human rights enforcement approach or mechanism to be effective, it must be accepted by states, particularly those who are most likely to be directly impacted by it – in this case the Third World. For this reason, the AU’s apprehension concerning the ongoing expansion of universal jurisdiction must not be dismissed. This, it is hoped, would ensure the stability of the international system and reduce the current North/South divide on the important issue of criminal enforcement.
Energy-efficient resource allocation and cooperation in wireless heterogeneous networks
Creators: name: Ramamonjison, Rindranirina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The deluge of mobile data demands a drastic increase of wireless network capacity. A heterogeneous network design, in which small cells are densely deployed, is required to satisfy this demand. However, it is critical that this dense deployment does not lead to a surge in energy cost. The aim of this thesis is to design energy-efficient resource allocation methods and explore the value of cooperation in terms of energy cost. In particular, three different cooperation schemes are studied. First, a multi-cell coordination scheme is proposed for maximizing the energy efficiency of heterogeneous networks. Although this problem is not convex, convergent algorithms are devised to find an efficient power allocation. We found that this simple coordination can offer a significant energy efficiency gain even in dense networks. Second, a joint energy allocation and energy cooperation is proposed for heterogeneous networks with hybrid power sources and energy storage systems. For this study, an offline optimization problem is considered, in which the cells allocate their energy over time based on average rate contraints, the changing channel conditions and the fluctuating energy arrivals. It is found that an optimal use of the harvested energy significantly improves the energy efficiency. A much larger gain is obtained when energy cooperation is also leveraged, i.e. when the cells can exchange their harvested energy through a smart-grid infrastructure. Third, the trade-off between energy cost and performance is addressed for cooperative clustered small-cell networks. In this cooperative model, the small-cell base stations form a cluster of distributed antennas to collectively serve their mobile users. Hence, a joint optimization of cell clustering and cooperative beamforming is proposed to minimize the total energy cost while satisfying the users’ quality of service. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer convex program and solved with a decomposition method. For a given clustering, a distributed beamforming algorithm is also designed to achieve near-optimal performance at a small cost of signaling overhead. Through simulations, it is shown that these algorithms converge fast and enable the cooperative small cells to save valuable energy.
The influence of stakeholders’ motivations and barriers on construction material use effectiveness
Creators: name: HosseiniTeshnizi, ZahraSadat
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Despite all the ecological, economic and social benefits of improving Construction Material Effectiveness (CME: using less construction materials in buildings, while maintaining the quality of materials for future recoverability), the market development for CME strategies (reducing material use, intensifying use (shared or multipurpose use), extending use, reusing, and recycling) is still slow. A considerable amount of research has investigated the barriers to stakeholders’ engagement with these measures. These studies mostly speculate barriers that may possibly exist rather than identifying the barriers that stakeholders have actually found detrimental. Studies which have conducted interviews/surveys usually investigate a limited number of CME strategies (usually recycling), among a limited number of stakeholder groups (mostly contractor), in few phases of a building lifetime (usually construction). This thesis juxtaposes different CME strategies among various stakeholder groups and building lifecycle phases. A questionnaire was sent to architects, LEED consultants, structural engineers, general contractors, owner/developers, and building operators of recent LEED NC Gold or Platinum certified projects in Metro Vancouver, BC. The goal was to investigate the influence of respondents’ motivations and barrier on the practice rate of the strategies. This study showed that: • Stakeholders’ attitude about the environmental significance of CME strategies does not necessarily result in the higher practice rate of the strategies. • The amount of effort that is put into implementing CME strategies is related more to motivations (or lack thereof) than to being hindered by barriers. • The CME strategies are generally less considered in the planning and design phase compared to other studied phases. However, the practice rate of the strategies in this phase had a stronger correlation with environmental motivations. • The stakeholders’ limited area and time of control and responsibility is a major reason for their lack of interest in implementing many of CME strategies. The following measures are suggested to motivate stakeholders to consider CME: • Encouraging multi-stakeholder decision making processes which engages stakeholders from up-stream and down-stream phases; • Educating stakeholders about personal benefits and lifecycle environmental benefits of CME; • Sharing the benefits and responsibilities of CME among all the influential stakeholders involved during the life cycle of materials.
Transport properties of nonhomogeneous segregated composites
Creators: name: Nigro, B.
name: Ambrosetti, G.
name: Grimaldi, C.
name: Maeder, T.
name: Ryser, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport problem in this kind of composites treats each conducting particle as electrically connected to all others via tunneling conductances to form a global tunneling network. Here, we extend this approach to nonhomogeneous composites with a segregated distribution of the conducting phase. We consider a model of segregation in which large random insulating spherical inclusions forbid small conducting particles to occupy homogeneously the volume of the composite, and allow tunneling between all pairs of the conducting objects. By solving numerically the corresponding tunneling resistor network, we show that the composite conductivity is enhanced by segregation and that it may remain relatively large also for very small values of the conducting filler concentration. We interpret this behavior by a segregation-induced reduction of the interparticle distances, which is confirmed by a critical path approximation applied to the segregated network. Furthermore, we identify an approximate but accurate scaling relation permitting to express the conductivity of a segregated systems in terms of the interparticle distances of a corresponding homogeneous system, and which provides an explicit formula for the conductivity which we apply to experimental data on segregated RuO2-cermet composites.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Observations on presumptive lumpy skin disease in native cattle and Asian water buffaloes around the tiger reserves of the central Indian highlands
Creators: name: Pandey, N
name: Hopker, A
name: Prajapati, G
name: Rahangdale, N
name: Gore, K
name: Sargison, N
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Between August and October 2020, following the monsoon, signs of Lumpy skin disease (LSD) were recorded and described in 154 oxen, 34 cows, 13 calves (Bos indicus ) and two Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) cows belonging to smallholder farmers in 32 villages located around the Kanha and Bandhavgarh tiger reserves in the state of Madhya Pradesh central India. Affected animals were subjected to a full clinical examination and detailed findings were recorded in a clinical register. A semi-structured questionnaire was attached to the existing clinical register format to gather information on the clinical disease history and animal husbandry practices relevant to the spread of LSD virus. The affected animals were between 4 months and 14 years of age (mean 6.4 (SD 2.5) years). Persistent high temperature, depression, anorexia, and characteristic round nodules (lumps) on the skin were reported. The nodules were 2–5 cm in diameter and spread over the face, ears, neck, back, perineum, scrotum, legs, tail, udder, and nasal and oral mucosa. Secondary complications of myiasis (n=39), mastitis (n=16) and ulcerative lesions on legs were noticed. Death was reported for one animal (0.5%). The affected animals' recovery times were variable (mean 18.4 (SD 2.7) days). There was a significant positive correlation between delay in initiating treatment and the duration of sickness. Reduction in milk yield of 30–55% was reported in Bos indicus cows. Clinical findings and treatment responses consistent with lumpy skin disease and its sequelae. The presumptive LSD outbreak caused serious economic loss to the animal keepers. LSD is a new disease for India and in the absence of active immunisation, efficient vector control, animal movement control and stall-feeding practice, it will inevitably become endemic in the country. The severe impacts resulting from the introduction of a new disease to a previously unaffected country, highlights the need for iterative improvements in global transboundary disease surveillance. The value of clinical examination and recording of findings is demonstrated in the context of smallholder farming systems with limited access to laboratory diagnosis, which are common around the world. The description of an LSD outbreak in naïve populations of cattle and buffalo illustrates the need for increased awareness of the associated clinical signs and maintenance of high levels of biosecurity in hitherto disease-free countries.
STATUS AND STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF ENTERPRISES OF OIL AND FAT BRANCH OF THE REGION
Creators: name: Kubai, O.G.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: oil and fat industry
economic mechanism
levers of influence
SWOT-analysis
region.

description: Many scientists and experts attribute the revival of the Ukrainian agricultural sector of the economy and the solution of social problems of the Ukrainian countryside to the development of the country’s oil and fat complex, as the existing potential of this budget-forming industry is extremely large. The article examines the processes of development of the oil and fat industry, as well as the main tools and levers of the economic mechanism of its operation. The state of development of the oil and fat industry of the region is analyzed. The strategic prospects for the development of oil and fat enterprises on the basis of SWOT-analysis are substantiated.
Work and the work of art : Agnes Martin, 1959–1964
Creators: name: Lo, Siwin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Agnes Martin's grids confound easy classification. Each is a six-foot square consisting only of horizontal and vertical lines arranged in stable, rhythmic patterns that emphasize no one portion of the canvas over another. In 1960, the grid emerges from the wall, from the canvas, and from Martin’s own hair and clothing. The artist herself retreats, sheathing herself in the very same graphic strategy that she commits to in the decades of painting to come. Yet, there is ample visual evidence that she was already exploring aspects of this final form in two 1959 works, both Untitled, that demonstrate Martin’s exploration of detail’s relationship to viewing distance and an awareness of the grapheme’s ability to testify to the labour of artwork. An examination of this rigorous disciplinary process offers a means of considering artistic labour as a form of resistance to the elision of human labour time inherent in capitalist modes of production. By addressing abstract labour under capital through an analysis of the painterly abstraction of Martin’s artistic practice, this study aims to demonstrate the critical potential of formal analysis by means of two major interventions into recent Marxist theory. The first addresses a lacuna within Marx’s own definition of the work of art. The second involves a repurposing of Italian feminist theory on housework to address the slippages of meaning within artwork that can act as potential moments of resistance to the logic of industrial capitalist production.
Additional file 4 of Response and oil degradation activities of a northeast Atlantic bacterial community to biogenic and synthetic surfactants
Creators: name: Nikolova, Christina N.
name: Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan
name: Magill, Clayton
name: Kleindienst, Sara
name: Joye, Samantha B.
name: Gutierrez, Tony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure S1. Local contribution to beta diversity (LCBD) for Bray-Curits, Unweighted and Weighted UniFrac distance matrices. Colours represent incubation time: red – in situ FSC at time of sampling, olive green – day 0, green – day 3, blue – day 7, pink – day 14 and brown – day 28. FSC is the in-situ baseline microbial community, WAF - seawater and oil only, BEWAF – seawater, crude oil and biosurfactant, CEWAF – seawater, crude oil and synthetic dispersant, SW - seawater only, SWBS - seawater and biosurfactant, and SWD – seawater and synthetic dispersant. Statistically different treatments (pair-wise ANOVA) are annotated with bracket and the level of significance is shown above the bracket with a star sign: * is p < 0.05, ** is p < 0.01, and *** is p < 0.001.
THE DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF BIM TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Creators: name: Mohammed, Jaleel Ali
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020

description: In this article, the Revit program was used to design a multi-storey building for general use Where I aimed to do a study of the features of BIM design and work on its development with a 3D model The entry of modern technologies to the world of engineering helped to solve most of the problems that existed in the past and to obtain a new and distinct level of designs and with the inclusion of BIM technology this helps to reduce con-struction costs and manage risks.
Optical Excitation and Decay Dynamics of Ytterbium Atoms Embedded in a Solid Neon Matrix
Creators: name: Xu, C. -Y.
name: Hu, S. -M.
name: Singh, J.
name: Bailey, K.
name: Lu, Z. -T.
name: Mueller, P.
name: O'Connor, T. P.
name: Welp, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutral ytterbium atoms embedded in solid neon qualitatively retain the structure of free atoms. Despite the atom-solid interaction, the 6s6p $^3$P$_0$ level is found to remain metastable with its lifetimes determined to be in the range of ten to hundreds of seconds. The atomic population can be almost completely transferred between the ground level and the metastable level via optical excitation and spontaneous decay. The dynamics of this process is examined, and is used to explicitly demonstrate that the transition broadening mechanism is homogeneous.
title: Tristan et Isolde de Wagner : Résonances d'une volupté suprême
Publisher: name: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Year: 2023

description: Que ce soit par sa propre vertu ou le prosélytisme de ses premiers adeptes, l'opéra Tristan et Isolde de Wagner s'est imposé comme un jalon dans le long cours historique de l'opéra au XIXe siècle, un marqueur majeur infléchissant les perspectives esthétiques, les codes et les recettes d'un spectacle bourgeois. Il n'est pas faux d'affirmer qu'il y a un avant et un après Tristan.
THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS ON THE TOURISM MARKET
Creators: name: Mirzayeva Ayan
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: tourism
crisis
impact
global economy
tourism market.

description: In many countries of the world, tourism is developing as a system that provides all the opportunities to get acquainted with the history, culture, customs, spiritual and religious values of a given country and its people, and gives income to the treasury. Not to mention the fact that this system “feeds” a lot of individuals and legal entities, one way or another connected with the provision of tourist services. In addition to a significant in-come item, tourism is also one of the powerful factors in enhancing the country's prestige and its importance in the eyes of the world community. Currently, the tourism industry is one of the fastest growing forms of interna-tional trade in services, despite the crisis, which has covered almost all areas of the global economy. Like the great depression of the beginning of the twentieth century, the global economic crisis that began in 2008 caused a planetary panic that swept not only the United States, but also stable Western Europe.
THE MAIN APPROACHES FOR FORMATION OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS
Creators: name: Lukatska Ya.S.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: social competence
foreign student
competence approach
system approach
cultural approach
axiological approach
participatory approach
environmental approach.

description: The article is devoted to the analysis of pedagogical approaches for formation of social competence of foreign students. The author investigates the scientific researches of Ukrainian and foreign scientists who have devoted their works to the formation of social competence and studied the peculiarities of teaching foreign students; on the basis of it competence approach, system approach, cultural approach, axiological approach, participatory approach, environmental approach were determined as those that effectively form social compe-tence of foreign students during the educational process, improve adaptation, intercultural communication, which in turn has a positive effect on the quality of mastering professional knowledge, skills and abilities and makes possible to graduate a competitive specialist.
Exact Dynamical and Partial Symmetries
Creators: name: Leviatan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a hierarchy of broken symmetries with special emphasis on partial dynamical symmetries (PDS). The latter correspond to a situation in which a non-invariant Hamiltonian accommodates a subset of solvable eigenstates with good symmetry, while other eigenstates are mixed. We present an algorithm for constructing Hamiltonians with this property and demonstrate the relevance of the PDS notion to nuclear spectroscopy, to quantum phase transitions and to mixed systems with coexisting regularity and chaos.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, Proc. GROUP28: The XXVIII Int. Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics, July 26-30, 2010, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Modeling habitat suitability for the Rocky Mountain ridged mussel (Gonidea angulata), in Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Snook, Roxanne May
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A habitat suitability model was constructed to increase knowledge of the Rocky Mountain ridged mussel (RMRM, Gonidea angulata Lea), a rare and endemic species, using Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS 10.1) and the classification package Random Forest. Identifying possible relocation sites, sites of high importance, and the overall potential distribution of RMRM were accomplished using existing Foreshore Inventory and Mapping (FIM) substrate data and G. angulata presence data (Ministry of Environment). In addition, diverse aspects of mussel habitat quality were documented, including: clay presence, dissolved oxygen concentration, shoreline morphometry, species of fish and other mussels present, geomorphometric description, and effective fetch. Important variables, potentially limiting the distribution of RMRM, as identified in these analyses, include effective fetch > 10 km, medium-high (%) embeddedness of substrates, high (%) sand, and low (%) boulder occurrence. Effective fetch (i.e., site exposure), used as a proxy for potential energy (from wind) can explain the distribution of RMRM in Okanagan Lake. This model was successful in predicting previously unknown locations of RMRM. This model was developed as a tool for Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (Province of BC) to improve management of this species in the Okanagan Valley.
Magnetic structure and orbital ordering in KCrF3 perovskite
Creators: name: Xiao, Y.
name: Su, Y.
name: Li, H. -F.
name: Kumar, C. M. N.
name: Mittal, R.
name: Persson, J.
name: Senyshyn, A.
name: Gross, K.
name: Brueckel, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: KCrF3 represents another prototypical orbital-ordered perovskite, where Cr2+ possesses the same electronic configuration of 3d4 as that of strongly Jahn-Teller distorted Mn3+ in many CMR manganites. The crystal and magnetic structures of KCrF3 compound are investigated by using polarized and unpolarized neutron powder diffraction methods. The results show that the KCrF3 compound crystallizes in tetragonal structure at room temperature and undergoes a monoclinic distortion with the decrease in temperature. The distortion of the crystal structure indicates the presence of cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion which is driven by orbital ordering. With decreasing temperature, four magnetic phase transitions are observed at 79.5, 45.8, 9.5, and 3.2 K, which suggests a rich magnetic phase diagram. Below T_N = 79.5 K, the Cr2+ moment orders in an incommensurate antiferromagnetic arrangement, which can be defined by the magnetic propagation vector (1/2$\pm\,$$δ\,$, 1/2$\pm\,$$δ\,$, 0). The incommensurate-commensurate magnetic transition occurs at 45.8 K and the magnetic propagation vector locks into (1/2, 1/2, 0) with the Cr moment of 3.34(5) $μ_B \,$ aligned ferromagnetically in (220) plane, but antiferromagnetically along [110] direction. Below 9.5 K, the canted antiferromagnetic ordering and weak ferromagnetism arise from the collinear antiferromagnetic structure, while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and tilted character of the single-ion anisotropy might give rise to the complex magnetic behaviors below 9.5 K.
Two-dimensional simulations of internal gravity waves in a 5 $M_{\odot}$ Zero-Age-Main-Sequence model
Creators: name: Saux, A. Le
name: Baraffe, I.
name: Guillet, T.
name: Vlaykov, D. G.
name: Morison, A.
name: Pratt, J.
name: Constantino, T.
name: Goffrey, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Main-sequence intermediate-mass stars present a radiative envelope that supports internal gravity waves (IGWs). Excited at the boundary with the convective core, IGWs propagate towards the stellar surface and are suspected to impact physical processes such as rotation and chemical mixing. Using the fully compressible time-implicit code MUSIC, we study IGWs in two-dimensional simulations of a zero-age-main-sequence 5 solar mass star model up to 91\% of the stellar radius with different luminosity and radiative diffusivity enhancements. Our results show that low frequency waves excited by core convection are strongly impacted by radiative effects as they propagate. This impact depends on the radial profile of radiative diffusivity which increases by almost 5 orders of magnitude between the centre of the star and the top of the simulation domain. In the upper layers of the simulation domain, we observe an increase of the temperature. Our study suggests that this is due to heat added in these layers by IGWs damped by radiative diffusion. We show that non-linear effects linked to large amplitude IGWs may be relevant just above the convective core. Both these effects are intensified by the artificial enhancement of the luminosity and radiative diffusivity, with enhancement factors up to $10^4$ times the realistic values. Our results also highlight that direct comparison between numerical simulations with enhanced luminosity and observations must be made with caution. Finally, our work suggests that thermal effects linked to the damping of IGWs could have a non-negligible impact on stellar structure.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Design techniques for low-power low-noise CMOS capacitive-sensor readout circuits
Creators: name: Shiah, Jack Chih-Chieh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In recent years, the demand for low-cost, high performance, and miniature sized MEMS capacitive inertial sensors (accelerometer/gyroscope) has been steadily increasing. Use MEMS capacitive accelerometer as an example, for high precision applications, the resolution needs to be in the μg range at the frequency of interest. These high performance sensors are now been used in numerous applications that require more demanding specifications. For instance, they found their use in active suspension, adaptive brakes, alarm systems, tilt control, vibration, shock measurements, platform stabilization, inertial measurement units, inertial navigation/guidance, machine control, microgravity measurements, seismology, geophysical sensing, oil-field applications, earthquake detection, tactical missiles, robotics and minimally invasive surgery. The precision in a micro-sensory system is limited by the CMOS electronic interfaces, due to the often higher electrical noise associated with the circuits. Additionally, with the growing popularity for portable devices such as cellular phones and tablets, power consumption also becomes an important factor. Therefore, the dissertation discusses and presents several circuit design techniques that improve important system parameters such as noise and power. Moreover, a design flow is provided at the end of the thesis to demonstrate a systematic approach to design the sensor interface circuits. Three major readout circuit blocks have been designed, built, and tested. The first interface uses a circuit technique such that the overall system is insensitive to parasitic capacitances from the sensing nodes. Moreover, a calibration scheme is used to remove DC offset caused by sensor capacitance mismatch. The second interface uses two circuit design techniques called correlated level shifting (CLS) and chopper stabilization (CS) to reduce the noise and the finite gain error from the operational amplifier (op amp), thereby improving both the noise and power performance of the system. The final interface utilizes a modified CLS technique such that it also serves as a noise and power improving mechanism. The first two readout circuits have been tested and measured experimentally, while the third readout circuit is verified via post-layout simulation.
Additional file 4 of Association between healthy eating index-2015 and various cognitive domains in US adults aged 60 years or older: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2014
Creators: name: Fan, Yameng
name: Zhang, Yinyin
name: Li, Jiaqiao
name: Liu, Yamei
name: Chang, Huan
name: Jiang, Yude
name: Tuo, Xingxia
name: Zhou, Long
name: Yu, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. Regression coefficients and 95% confidence intervals of HEI-2015 components (dichotomous) for DSST and AFT (n = 2450)1.
Additional file 5 of Response and oil degradation activities of a northeast Atlantic bacterial community to biogenic and synthetic surfactants
Creators: name: Nikolova, Christina N.
name: Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan
name: Magill, Clayton
name: Kleindienst, Sara
name: Joye, Samantha B.
name: Gutierrez, Tony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Figure S2. Summary of significant predictive parameters (i.e., treatments and incubation days) determined by regression analysis based on unsupervised machine learning for two alpha diversity measures (Richness and Shannon index), NTI, NRI, and Local contribution to beta diversity (LCBD). The parameters shown here are from the optimal model for each metric, where blue represent negatively and red – positively influencing variables, respectively. FSC is the in-situ baseline microbial community, WAF - seawater and oil only, BEWAF – seawater, crude oil and biosurfactant, CEWAF – seawater, crude oil and synthetic dispersant, SW - seawater only, SWBS - seawater and biosurfactant, and SWD – seawater and synthetic dispersant.
Accelerated high-cycle phase field fatigue predictions
Creators: name: Kristensen, P. K.
name: Golahmar, A.
name: Martínez-Pañeda, E.
name: Niordson, C. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase field fracture models have seen widespread application in the last decade. Among these applications, its use to model the evolution of fatigue cracks has attracted particular interest, as fatigue damage behaviour can be predicted for arbitrary loading histories, dimensions and complexity of the cracking phenomena at play. However, while cycle-by-cycle calculations are remarkably flexible, they are also computationally expensive, hindering the applicability of phase field fatigue models for technologically-relevant problems. In this work, a computational framework for accelerating phase field fatigue calculations is presented. Two novel acceleration strategies are proposed, which can be used in tandem and together with other existing acceleration schemes from the literature. The computational performance of the proposed methods is documented through a series of 2D and 3D boundary value problems, highlighting the robustness and efficiency of the framework even in complex fatigue problems. The observed reduction in computation time using both of the proposed methods in tandem is shown to reach a speed-up factor of 32, with a scaling trend enabling even greater reductions in problems with more load cycles.
Irreversibility in Bacterial Regulatory Networks
Creators: name: Zhao, Yi
name: Wytock, Thomas P.
name: Reynolds, Kimberly A.
name: Motter, Adilson E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Irreversibility, in which a transient perturbation leaves a system in a new state, is an emergent property in systems of interacting entities. This property has well-established implications in statistical physics but remains underexplored in biological networks, especially for bacteria and other prokaryotes whose regulation of gene expression occurs predominantly at the transcriptional level. Focusing on the reconstructed regulatory network of \emph{Escherichia coli}, we examine network responses to transient single-gene perturbations. We predict irreversibility in numerous cases and find that the incidence of irreversibility increases with the proximity of the perturbed gene to positive circuits in the network. Comparison with experimental data suggests a connection between the predicted irreversibility to transient perturbations and the evolutionary response to permanent perturbations.
description: 57 pages, 15 figures
Constitutive behaviour of aluminium alloy B206 : in the as-cast and artificially aged states
Creators: name: Mohseni, Seyyed Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The constitutive behaviour of the aluminum foundry alloy B206 has been investigated in both the as-cast and artificially aged states by combining compression, tension, hardness and calorimetry testing. Aluminum alloy B206 is a recently-developed high-strength foundry alloy that has strong potential for use in automotive, aerospace and energy applications. The results of the compression tests, performed on as-cast material and conducted on a Gleeble 3500 thermo-mechanical simulator over a broad range of temperature (50-530⁰C) and strain rates (10-³ ₋ 1s-¹), were used to develop an inclusive constitutive plastic flow behaviour model. A new unified constitutive model was introduced that combines a Ludwik model for flow stress description at low temperatures (50-300⁰C) with a Zener-Hollomon model at high temperatures (300-530⁰C) while accounting for the strain rate dependency of the transition between these two models. The results of the tensile tests, performed on the artificially aged material (ageing performed over a temperature range of 150-250⁰C and a heating duration range of 1-24h), were combined with the calorimetry experiments to develop a model that predicts yield strength. To fit the experimental data into a linear-fit type model that states the yield strength as a linear summation of the effective parameters, temperature and time dependency were introduced through a microstructural variable, precipitation fraction. The precipitation kinetics of B206 were described by an Avrami model that utilized the experimental data acquired from non-isothermal calorimetry followed by an analysis based on the Kissinger method. The remaining material constants in the linear-fit model were found by fitting the model against the tensile test results explaining the yield strength evolution up to the peak-aged state. The model predictions were then qualitatively compared to the results of the hardness measurements, restating the fast precipitation kinetics of B206 at the temperature range used during artificial aging and predicted by the Avrami model. Together, the developed models of B206 in the as-cast and artificially aged states can be used as part of a Through-Process model to optimize the performance of castings made from this alloy.
АКСИОЛОГИЯ ТРАДИЦИЙ И ОБРЯДОВ В ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ РУССКОГО И АДЫГЕЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ)
Creators: name: Аутлева Д.Б.
name: Хейшхо Ф.И.
name: Шхалахова С.Г.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: языковая картина мира
фразеологическая картина мира
устойчивое сочетание
язык
традиция
обряд
культура
лингвокультурология
аксиология
ценность.

description: В статье рассматриваются фразеологические сочетания, отражающие традиции и обряды рус-ского и адыгейского народов. Исследование строится на основе сопоставления семантических характе-ристик данных единиц , выявления их ценности в языковой картине мира. В процессе анализа установле-но, что устойчивые единицы выполняют, наряду с другими, и функцию отражения национальных тради-ций и обрядов народов-носителей сопоставляемых языков.
Polaritonic properties of the Jaynes-Cummings lattice model in two dimensions
Creators: name: Knap, Michael
name: Arrigoni, Enrico
name: von der Linden, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-matter systems allow to realize a strongly correlated phase where photons are present. In these systems strong correlations are achieved by optical nonlinearities, which appear due to the coupling of photons to atomic-like structures. This leads to intriguing effects, such as the quantum phase transition from the Mott to the superfluid phase. Here, we address the two-dimensional Jaynes-Cummings lattice model. We evaluate the boundary of the quantum phase transition and study polaritonic properties. In order to be able to characterize polaritons, we investigate the spectral properties of both photons as well as two-level excitations. Based on this information we introduce polariton quasiparticles as appropriate wavevector, band index, and filling dependent superpositions of photons and two-level excitations. Finally, we analyze the contributions of the individual constituents to the polariton quasiparticles.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Physics CCP, June 2010, Trondheim, Norway
Quantitative constraints on modified gravity paradigms
Creators: name: Pinto, S. R.
name: Cabral, A. M.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use low-redshift background cosmology data to place quantitative constraints on three separate modified gravity models, each of which aims to explain the low-redshift acceleration through a different physical mechanism. The Lifshitz cosmology is effectively a parametric extension of the canonical $Λ$CDM model, where a time-dependent cosmological constant originates from vacuum energy. The Infinite Statistics model is also a parametric extension of $Λ$CDM, where the dark energy is dynamic and originates from the curvature of a dual space-time. We show that the data restricts the additional parameters in these models to be consistent with their $Λ$CDM values, and in particular that it implies that the theoretically predicted value for a dimensionless coupling parameter in the Lifshitz model is ruled out at more than six standard deviations. In the Regge-Teitelboim model, gravity is described by embedding the usual space-time manifold in a fixed higher-dimensional background, and there is no parametric $Λ$CDM limit. We study several separate realizations of the model, respectively introduced by Davidson, by Fabi \textit{et al.}, and by Stern \& Xu, and show that the first two are ruled out by the low-redshift data we use, while the latter is consistent with this data but requires a non-standard value of the matter density. Overall, our analysis highlights the tight constraints imposed by current data on the allowed low-redshift deviations from the standard $Λ$CDM background evolution.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, Phys. Rev. D (in press)
АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ В «ПОСТПАНДЕМИЙНЫЙ» ПЕРИОД
Creators: name: Дикая Д.И.
name: Буден Д.А.
name: Воробьева Д.И.
name: Буден Е.Е.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: образование
система образования
проблемы образования
образовательная модель
пандемия
дистан-ционное обучение.

description: В статье определены проблемы современного образования в РФ и перспективы его развития в настоящее время.
АНАЛИЗ ПРОЦЕССА ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИ РЕШЕНИИ ЗАДАЧ ЭНЕРГООБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ БИОКЛИМАТИЧЕСКИХ ВЫСОТНЫХ ЗДАНИЙ
Creators: name: Кривенко О.В.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: возобновляемые источники энергии
биоклиматические высотные здания
природные аналоги
климати-ческие условия.

description: В статье анализируются способы эффективной интеграции в высотные биоклиматические здания возобновляемых природных энергоресурсов. Автором предложена иерархическая модель использования природных аналогов и опыта традиционной национальной архитектуры для эффективной интеграции возобновляемых источников энергии в энергообеспечение высотных биоклиматических зданий.
Zero Textures of the Neutrino Mass Matrix from Cyclic Family Symmetry
Creators: name: Dev, S.
name: Gupta, Shivani
name: Gautam, Radha Raman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the symmetry realization of the phenomenologically viable Frampton-Glashow-Marfatia (FGM) two zero texture neutrino mass matrices in the flavor basis within the framework of the type (I+II) seesaw mechanism natural to SO(10) grand unification. A small Abelian cyclic symmetry group $Z_3$ is used to realize these textures except for class C for which the symmetry is enlarged to $Z_4$. The scalar sector is restricted to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs doublet to suppress the flavor changing neutral currents. Other scalar fields used for symmetry realization are at the most two scalar triplets and, in some cases, a complex scalar singlet. Symmetry realization of one zero textures has, also, been presented.
description: Phys. Lett. B (to appear)
ЕСТЕТИЧНІ ЦІННОСТІ СВІТОГЛЯДУ УКРАЇНЦІВ ЯК ЧИННИК ГАРМОНІЗАЦІЇ ЕТНОКУЛЬТУРНОГО БУТТЯ
Creators: name: Хрящевська Л.М.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: естетичні цінності
духовна культура
світогляд
орнамент
посуд
одяг
християнство.

description: Проаналізовано естетичні цінності, характерні для української традиційної культури, з’ясовано їх роль та місце у гармонізації стосунків в етнокультурному бутті українців. Висвітлено естетичні кате-горії в розумінні естетичної картини світу українського етносу.
EXPLORING THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSHUMANISM
Creators: name: Nasrulaeva, Mohigul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article critically examines the ethical dimensions surrounding the transhumanist movement, which advocates for the use of advanced technologies to enhance human capabilities. The piece underscores the importance of establishing clear ethical frameworks, including considerations of informed consent, privacy protection, and equitable distribution of benefits. The comprehensive discussion encourages a responsible approach to the development and implementation of transhumanist technologies, emphasizing the need for a balanced and inclusive ethical framework that respects individual autonomy and promotes societal well-being.
ЖИЗНЕННЫЙ ПУТЬ И ТВОРЧЕСКОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ ДВУЯЗЫЧНОГО ПОЭТА (XVII И НАЧАЛА XVIII ВЕКОВ)
Creators: name: Шоалиева Наргиза
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: Суфи Аллаяр
творчество
«Маслак ул-муттакин»
тюркский язык
персидский язык
шариат.

description: В произведениях великих поэтов и мыслителей узбекского народа прожившие в XI-XII веках как Юс-уф Хос Хаджиб, Ахмад Югнакий и Ахмад Яссавий можно наблюдать подражанию тематикам и поэти-ческим образам персидско-таджикской поэзию. Это хорошая традиция в литературных связях между двумя народами продолжался и следующих веках. Поэтому выдающий русский литературовед И.С. Бра-гинский отмечает, что связи и взаимовлияния между узбекскими и таджикскими письменными литера-турами берет свое начало с V век, и достигает своему пику развития в X-XV веках. В этом статье ана-лизируется жизнь и творчество известного теолога своего времини Суффи Аллаяра и его сочинения «Маслак ул-муттакин» («Путь благочестивых») который был написан на персидском языке.
A MUSE view of the multiple interacting system HCG 31
Creators: name: Gómez-Espinoza, Diego A.
name: Torres-Flores, Sergio
name: Firpo, Verónica
name: Amram, Philippe
name: Epinat, Benoit
name: Contini, Thierry
name: de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present, for the first time, spatially resolved spectroscopy for the entire Hickson Compact Group 31 obtained with the MUSE instrument at the VLT,and an in-depth analysis of this compact group. To obtain a complete understanding of the system, we derived radial velocity and dispersion velocity maps, maps of the ionization mechanism of the system, chemical abundances and their distribution over the whole system, star formation rates and ages of the different star-forming regions, and the spatial distribution of the Wolf-Rayet stellar population. We also reconstructed the star formation history of the galaxies HCG 31 A, C, B and F, measured the emission-line fluxes, and performed a stellar population synthesis. Our main findings are: (i) that there is clearly disturbed kinematics due to the merger event that the system is experiencing; (ii) that the ionization is produced exclusively via star formation except for the nucleus of the galaxy HCG 31 A, where there is a small contribution of shocks; (iii) that there is low oxygen abundance distributed homogeneously through the system; (iv) that there is a prominent population of carbon Wolf-Rayet stars in the central zone of the group; and (v) that there are clear evidences of the tidal origin of the galaxies HCG 31 E, HCG 31 H, and HCG 31 F because they show quite high oxygen abundances for their stellar mass. All these findings are clear evidence that HCG 31 is currently in an early merging phase and manifesting a starburst in its central region.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS