cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A-priori Validation of Subgrid-scale Models for Astrophysical Turbulence
Creators: name: Hu, Chia-Yu
name: Chiang, Chi-Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a-priori validation tests of subgrid-scale (SGS) models for the turbulent transport of momentum, energy and passive scalars. To this end, we conduct two sets of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations with a Lagrangian code: an isothermal turbulent box with rms Mach number of 0.3, 2 and 8, and the classical wind tunnel where a cold cloud traveling through a hot medium gradually dissolves due to fluid instabilities. Two SGS models are examined: the eddy diffusivity (ED) model wildly adopted in astrophysical simulations and the "gradient model" due to Clark et al. (1979). We find that both models predict the magnitude of the SGS terms equally well (correlation coefficient > 0.8). However, the gradient model provides excellent predictions on the orientation and shape of the SGS terms while the ED model predicts poorly on both, indicating that isotropic diffusion is a poor approximation of the instantaneous turbulent transport. The best-fit coefficient of the gradient model is in the range of [0.16, 0.21] for the momentum transport, and the turbulent Schmidt number and Prandtl number are both close to unity, in the range of [0.92, 1.15].
description: ApJ accepted; analysis code available at https://github.com/huchiayu/Lapriori.jl
Symplectic structure for elastic and chiral conducting cosmic string models
Creators: name: Carter, B.
name: Steer, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article is based on the covariant canonical formalism and corresponding symplectic structure on phase space developed by Witten, Zuckerman and others in the context of field theory. After recalling the basic principles of this procedure, we construct the conserved bilinear symplectic current for generic elastic string models. These models describe current carrying cosmic strings evolving in an arbitrary curved background spacetime. Particular attention is paid to the special case of the chiral string for which the worldsheet current is null. Different formulations of the chiral string action are discussed in detail, and as a result the integrability property of the chiral string is clarified.
description: 18 pages
FACING THE MUSIC: HOW MUSICIANS ENGAGE THEIR FANS
Creators: name: Suarez, Maria Maldonado
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Creating a community of fans are a key part of creating a sustainable career for a musician. When musicians are better able to articulate the fan experience, they are able to create more strategic and personable marketing strategies that will lead to deep fan loyalty. This thesis begins with a explores communication theories through William Brown’s framework. Based on his 2015 framework of audience involvement processes, this thesis aims to uncover how musicians activate their fan communities. After examining William Brown's framework, this research interviews music managers to discover how musicians activate their fan communities. These relationships are likely to evolve as social media continues to encourage and deepen the interactivity possible in the fan-celebrity relationship, making it more important than ever to understand how relationships with celebrities contribute to fans' identities and what effect they have socially and culturally. Drawing from the knowledge of psychology, social sciences, and cultural theory, this research suggests ways musicians can better engage their fan communities.
THE EASTERN COYOTE (CANIS LATRANS) IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: A STUDY OF MOVEMENT, DIET AND VOCALIZATION IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Powers, Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In a later stage of their range expansion across North America over the last 100 years or so, coyotes (Canis latrans) arrived in the Washington, D.C. area relatively recently, with reported sightings in and around Rock Creek Park since 2004. While coyotes have been studied in many other metropolitan areas, there has been little research on the urban population within the District. This study focused on how coyotes might be moving in and out of Rock Creek Park using camera traps placed in tributary areas that could serve as green travel corridors, and near the park’s northern boundary where a green corridor extends into Maryland. Knowledge of coyotes’ travel behaviors could help indicate areas outside the park that they might frequent and include in their home ranges. This study also focused on the diet of coyotes within Rock Creek Park through scat analysis to learn more about their potential impact on the local ecosystem. Lastly, this study involved the conduction of howl surveys and investigation of sound analysis of coyote howls as a potential tool that researchers could use to track individuals within the district. With coyotes as an established presence in the area, a greater understanding of their behaviors within this specific urban context can help inform possible management strategies and education efforts.
Biological optimization for mediastinal lymphoma radiotherapy – a preliminary study
Creators: name: Rechner, Laura Ann
name: Arezoo Modiri
name: Stick, Line Bjerregaard
name: Maraldo, Maja V.
name: Aznar, Marianne C.
name: Rice, Stephanie R.
name: Sawant, Amit
name: Bentzen, Søren M.
name: Vogelius, Ivan Richter
name: Specht, Lena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose: In current radiotherapy (RT) planning and delivery, population-based dose-volume constraints are used to limit the risk of toxicity from incidental irradiation of organs at risks (OARs). However, weighing tradeoffs between target coverage and doses to OARs (or prioritizing different OARs) in a quantitative way for each patient is challenging. We introduce a novel RT planning approach for patients with mediastinal Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) that aims to maximize overall outcome for each patient by optimizing on tumor control and mortality from late effects simultaneously. Material and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 34 HL patients treated with conformal RT (3DCRT). We used published data to model recurrence and radiation-induced mortality from coronary heart disease and secondary lung and breast cancers. Patient-specific doses to the heart, lung, breast, and target were incorporated in the models as well as age, sex, and cardiac risk factors (CRFs). A preliminary plan of candidate beams was created for each patient in a commercial treatment planning system. From these candidate beams, outcome-optimized (O-OPT) plans for each patient were created with an in-house optimization code that minimized the individual risk of recurrence and mortality from late effects. O-OPT plans were compared to VMAT plans and clinical 3DCRT plans. Results: O-OPT plans generally had the lowest risk, followed by the clinical 3DCRT plans, then the VMAT plans with the highest risk with median (maximum) total risk values of 4.9 (11.1), 5.1 (17.7), and 7.6 (20.3)%, respectively (no CRFs). Compared to clinical 3DCRT plans, O-OPT planning reduced the total risk by at least 1% for 9/34 cases assuming no CRFs and 11/34 cases assuming presence of CRFs. Conclusions: We developed an individualized, outcome-optimized planning technique for HL. Some of the resulting plans were substantially different from clinical plans. The results varied depending on how risk models were defined or prioritized.
Data-driven super-parameterization using deep learning: Experimentation with multi-scale Lorenz 96 systems and transfer-learning
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Ashesh
name: Subel, Adam
name: Hassanzadeh, Pedram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To make weather/climate modeling computationally affordable, small-scale processes are usually represented in terms of the large-scale, explicitly-resolved processes using physics-based or semi-empirical parameterization schemes. Another approach, computationally more demanding but often more accurate, is super-parameterization (SP), which involves integrating the equations of small-scale processes on high-resolution grids embedded within the low-resolution grids of large-scale processes. Recently, studies have used machine learning (ML) to develop data-driven parameterization (DD-P) schemes. Here, we propose a new approach, data-driven SP (DD-SP), in which the equations of the small-scale processes are integrated data-drivenly using ML methods such as recurrent neural networks. Employing multi-scale Lorenz 96 systems as testbed, we compare the cost and accuracy (in terms of both short-term prediction and long-term statistics) of parameterized low-resolution (LR), SP, DD-P, and DD-SP models. We show that with the same computational cost, DD-SP substantially outperforms LR, and is better than DD-P, particularly when scale separation is lacking. DD-SP is much cheaper than SP, yet its accuracy is the same in reproducing long-term statistics and often comparable in short-term forecasting. We also investigate generalization, finding that when models trained on data from one system are applied to a system with different forcing (e.g., more chaotic), the models often do not generalize, particularly when the short-term prediction accuracy is examined. But we show that transfer-learning, which involves re-training the data-driven model with a small amount of data from the new system, significantly improves generalization. Potential applications of DD-SP and transfer-learning in climate/weather modeling and the expected challenges are discussed.
Wavelets, ridgelets and curvelets on the sphere
Creators: name: Starck, Jean-Luc
name: Moudden, Yassir
name: Abrial, Pierrick
name: Nguyen, Mai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in this paper new multiscale transforms on the sphere, namely the isotropic undecimated wavelet transform, the pyramidal wavelet transform, the ridgelet transform and the curvelet transform. All of these transforms can be inverted i.e. we can exactly reconstruct the original data from its coefficients in either representation. Several applications are described. We show how these transforms can be used in denoising and especially in a Combined Filtering Method, which uses both the wavelet and the curvelet transforms, thus benefiting from the advantages of both transforms. An application to component separation from multichannel data mapped to the sphere is also described in which we take advantage of moving to a wavelet representation.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. Manuscript with all figures can be downloaded at http://jstarck.free.fr/aa_sphere05.pdf
Path integral formulation of noncommutative superspace in IKKT matrix model
Creators: name: Shibusa, Yuuichirou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a physical interpretation of our novel fermionic solution for the IKKT matrix model which obtained in our previous paper hep-th/0307236. We extend the configuration space of bosonic field to supernumbers space and obtain the noncommutative parameter which is not bi-grassmann but an ordinary number. This establishes the connection between Seiberg's noncommutative superspace and our solution of the IKKT matrix model.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of libxtc: an efficient library for reading XTC-compressed MD trajectory data
Creators: name: Krylov, Nikolay A.
name: Efremov, Roman G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Materials. This file contains data (pseudo-code, tables, figure) referenced in the text.
Optical Generation and Quantitative Characterizations of Electron-hole Entanglement
Creators: name: Shi, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a method of characterizing entanglement in the framework of quantum field theory, we investigate the optical generation and quantitative characterizations of quantum entanglement in an electron-hole system, in presence of spin-orbit coupling, and especially make a theoretical analysis of a recent experimental result. Basically, such entanglement should be considered as between occupation numbers of single particle basis states, and is essentially generated by coupling between different single particle basis states in the second quantized Hamiltonian. Interaction with two resonant light modes of different circular polarizations generically leads to a superposition of ground state and two heavy-hole excitonic states. When and only when the state is a superposition of only the two excitonic eigenstates, the entanglement reduces to that between two distinguishable particles, each with two degrees of freedom, namely, band index, as characterized by angular momentum, and orbit, as characterized by position or momentum. The band-index state, obtained by tracing over the orbital degree of freedom, is found to be a pure state, hence the band-index and orbital degrees of freedom are separated in this state. We propose some basic ideas on spatially separating the electron and the hole, so that the entanglement of band-indices, or angular momenta, is between spatially separated electron and hole.
description: 8 pages. Journal version
On the role of Sc in powders and spray deposits of hypoeutectic Al-Cu
Creators: Henein, H.
Bogno, A.-A.
Yin, S.
Natzke, P.
Gallerneault, M.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Scandium (Sc) is an expensive alloying element which has an important effect on the

properties of aluminum alloys. It is of interest to determine for a variety of solidification

conditions the effect of minor addition, in the hypoeutectic levels, of Sc on Al alloys. This

study builds on past work on rapid and slow solidification of Al-4.5Cu-0.4Sc (wt%) by

comparing previous microstructures to those obtained using spray forming of strip. The

effect of Sc (0.4wt%) on the scale of the microstructure of as-atomized powders and asdeposited strips (SD) is found to be negligible in the investigated alloys. The eutectic

undercooling of the Al-4.5Cu-0.4Sc (wt%) alloy is the same for both powders and SD.

This is attributed to eutectic nucleation and growth following the same path in both

solidification processes, characterized by an extended solubility of Sc in the primary α-Al

matrix, as evidenced by the resulting Sc-rich precipitates and inherent age hardening upon

annealing of the as-solidified samples. This work contributes to building an understanding

of rapidly cooled structures and their subsequent self-aging in advanced manufacturing

processes.
Quantum simulations of materials on near-term quantum computers
Creators: name: Ma, He
name: Govoni, Marco
name: Galli, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers hold promise to enable efficient simulations of the properties of molecules and materials; however, at present they only permit ab initio calculations of a few atoms, due to a limited number of qubits. In order to harness the power of near-term quantum computers for simulations of larger systems, it is desirable to develop hybrid quantum-classical methods where the quantum computation is restricted to a small portion of the system. This is of particular relevance for molecules and solids where an active region requires a higher level of theoretical accuracy than its environment. Here we present a quantum embedding theory for the calculation of strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions, with the rest of the system described within density functional theory. We demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the approach by investigating several defect quantum bits in semiconductors that are of great interest for quantum information technologies. We perform calculations on quantum computers and show that they yield results in agreement with those obtained with exact diagonalization on classical architectures, paving the way to simulations of realistic materials on near-term quantum computers.
THE EASTERN COYOTE (CANIS LATRANS) IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: A STUDY OF MOVEMENT, DIET AND VOCALIZATION IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Powers, Lindsay
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: In a later stage of their range expansion across North America over the last 100 years or so, coyotes (Canis latrans) arrived in the Washington, D.C. area relatively recently, with reported sightings in and around Rock Creek Park since 2004. While coyotes have been studied in many other metropolitan areas, there has been little research on the urban population within the District. This study focused on how coyotes might be moving in and out of Rock Creek Park using camera traps placed in tributary areas that could serve as green travel corridors, and near the park’s northern boundary where a green corridor extends into Maryland. Knowledge of coyotes’ travel behaviors could help indicate areas outside the park that they might frequent and include in their home ranges. This study also focused on the diet of coyotes within Rock Creek Park through scat analysis to learn more about their potential impact on the local ecosystem. Lastly, this study involved the conduction of howl surveys and investigation of sound analysis of coyote howls as a potential tool that researchers could use to track individuals within the district. With coyotes as an established presence in the area, a greater understanding of their behaviors within this specific urban context can help inform possible management strategies and education efforts.
Essays on cost of living and household welfare
Creators: name: Yoo, Jayne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cost of living is a crucial factor affecting the well-being of households and their decision-making. Housing is the largest determinant of living cost in most developed countries while the change in food prices has a significant impact on household welfare in developing countries. A broader definition of price may include time as well since households make choices under time constraints. This dissertation investigates the decision-making process of individuals and their families in response to the change in cost of living. The first chapter investigates the increasing commuting time due to deteriorating home affordability in central city areas and how this affects female workers in terms of labor participation. Results show an increase in commuting time due to lower home affordability occurs simultaneously with lower labor force participation among married women. Next, the second chapter explores the distributional impact of tariff increase on rice imports in Nigeria. The study presents welfare effects of the price increase by estimating the welfare change among consumers and producers, using the AIDS model which estimates own and cross price elasticities and income elasticities. The findings from the elasticity estimation suggests that richer households face greater welfare loss due to higher dependence on imported rice while local farmers experience limited benefits from the price increase. Finally, the third chapter examines how women’s employment and working hours affect the well-being of household members including women themselves under gendered time allocation on housework. Using data from urban Bangladesh, the welfare effects are comprehensively examined based on the information on household expenditure on food, children’s clothing and shoes, children’s educational attainment, and women’s mental health status. The results indicate that working women spend less on children’s shoes and clothing, encounter greater fatigue and less satisfaction during leisure time, and have limited capability to assist children to obtain better educational attainment.
Essays on cost of living and household welfare
Creators: name: Yoo, Jayne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Cost of living is a crucial factor affecting the well-being of households and their decision-making. Housing is the largest determinant of living cost in most developed countries while the change in food prices has a significant impact on household welfare in developing countries. A broader definition of price may include time as well since households make choices under time constraints. This dissertation investigates the decision-making process of individuals and their families in response to the change in cost of living. The first chapter investigates the increasing commuting time due to deteriorating home affordability in central city areas and how this affects female workers in terms of labor participation. Results show an increase in commuting time due to lower home affordability occurs simultaneously with lower labor force participation among married women. Next, the second chapter explores the distributional impact of tariff increase on rice imports in Nigeria. The study presents welfare effects of the price increase by estimating the welfare change among consumers and producers, using the AIDS model which estimates own and cross price elasticities and income elasticities. The findings from the elasticity estimation suggests that richer households face greater welfare loss due to higher dependence on imported rice while local farmers experience limited benefits from the price increase. Finally, the third chapter examines how women’s employment and working hours affect the well-being of household members including women themselves under gendered time allocation on housework. Using data from urban Bangladesh, the welfare effects are comprehensively examined based on the information on household expenditure on food, children’s clothing and shoes, children’s educational attainment, and women’s mental health status. The results indicate that working women spend less on children’s shoes and clothing, encounter greater fatigue and less satisfaction during leisure time, and have limited capability to assist children to obtain better educational attainment.
Cost-effectiveness of ceritinib in previously untreated anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in the United States
Creators: name: Zhou, Zheng-Yi
name: Mutebi, Alex
name: Simeng Han
name: Bensimon, Arielle G.
name: Ricculli, Marie Louise
name: Jipan Xie
name: Dalal, Anand
name: Culver, Ken
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Aims: To assess the cost-effectiveness of first-line ceritinib vs crizotinib and platinum doublet chemotherapy for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from a US third-party payer’s perspective. Materials and methods: A partitioned survival model with three health states (stable disease, progressive disease, death) was developed over a 20-year time horizon. Ceritinib’s efficacy inputs (progression-free and overall survival) were estimated from ASCEND-4; parametric survival models extrapolated data beyond the trial period. The relative efficacy of ceritinib vs chemotherapy was obtained from ASCEND-4, the relative efficacy of ceritinib vs crizotinib was estimated using a matching-adjusted indirect comparison based on ASCEND-4 and PROFILE 1014. Drug acquisition, treatment administration, adverse event management, and medical costs were obtained from publicly available databases and the literature, and inflated to 2016 US dollars. Treatment-specific stable-state utilities were derived from trials and progressive-state utility from the literature. Incremental costs per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) were estimated for ceritinib vs each comparator. Cost-effectiveness was assessed based on US willingness-to-pay thresholds. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed to test model robustness. Results: In the base case, first-line ceritinib was associated with total direct costs of $299,777 and 3.28 QALYs (from 4.61 life years gained [LYG]) over 20 years. First-line crizotinib and chemotherapy were associated with 2.73 and 2.41 QALYs, 3.92 and 3.53 LYG, and $263,172 and $228,184 total direct costs, respectively. The incremental cost per QALY gained was $66,064 for ceritinib vs crizotinib and $81,645 for ceritinib vs chemotherapy. In the first 2 years following treatment initiation, ceritinib dominated crizotinib by conferring greater health benefits at reduced total costs. Results were robust to deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses. Limitations: In the absence of head-to-head trials, an indirect comparison method was used. Conclusions: Ceritinib is cost-effective compared to crizotinib and chemotherapy in the treatment of previously untreated ALK-positive metastatic NCSLC in the US.
Migrimi i "Dështuar" dhe Kthimi Pavullnetshëm në Kosovë: Trajtimi i Sfidave për Riintegrim të Suksesshëm
Involuntary return migration to Kosovo: Tackling challenges for successful reintegration
Creators: name: Möllers, Judith
name: Traikova, Diana
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
name: Bajrami, Egzon
name: Möllers, Judith
name: Traikova, Diana
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
name: Bajrami, Egzon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Kosova aktualisht përballet me sfidën e riintegrimit të mijëra migrantëve të kthyer që u larguan nga vendi në 2014 / 2015. Kjo valë emigrimi u diskutua në IAMO Policy Brief 24 (Përmbledhje). Pas përballjes me politikat e kufizuara të azilit të vendeve të destinacionit në Evropën Perëndimore, më shumë se 20,000 njerëz u kthyen në Kosovë përgjatë viteve 2015 dhe 2016. Bazuar në rezultatet e një studimi empirik me rreth 180 migrantë të kthyer, kjo Përmbledhje diskuton një numër çështjesh të riintegrimit. Përveç niveleve të ulëta të arsimit dhe aftësive teknike, riintegrimi është penguar mbi të gjitha nga gjendja e vështirë e tregut të punës në Kosovë. Kjo gjendje përkeqësohet gjithashtu nga një barrë psikologjike që del nga përvojat (ndonjëherë) traumatike të migrimit dhe kthimit të pavullnetshëm. Migrimi i kosovarëve është në rrezik të bëhet një cikël vicioz; kthimi i pavullnetshëm dhe problemet e riintegrimit i shtyn njerëzit të përpiqen të migrojnë sërisht. Në të vërtetë, rezultatet e studimit tregojnë se shumë të kthyer nuk kanë ndërmend të qëndrojnë në Kosovë.
Error analysis in suppression of unwanted qubit interactions for a parametric gate in a tunable superconducting circuit
Creators: name: Han, X. Y.
name: Cai, T. Q.
name: Li, X. G.
name: Wu, Y. K.
name: Ma, Y. W.
name: Ma, Y. L.
name: Wang, J. H.
name: Zhang, H. Y.
name: Song, Y. P.
name: Duan, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate a parametric iSWAP gate in a superconducting circuit based on a tunable coupler for achieving a continuous tunability to eliminate unwanted qubit interactions. We implement the twoqubit iSWAP gate by applying a fast-flux bias modulation pulse on the coupler to turn on parametric exchange interaction between computational qubits. The controllable interaction can provide an extra degree of freedom to verify the optimal condition for constructing the parametric gate. Aiming to fully investigate error sources of the two-qubit gates, we perform quantum process tomography measurements and numerical simulations as varying static ZZ coupling strength. We quantitatively calculate the dynamic ZZ coupling parasitizing in two-qubit gate operation, and extract the particular gate error from the decoherence, dynamic ZZ coupling and high-order oscillation terms. Our results reveal that the main gate error comes from the decoherence, while the increase in the dynamic ZZ coupling and high-order oscillation error degrades the parametric gate performance. This approach, which has not yet been previously explored, provides a guiding principle to improve gate fidelity of parametric iSWAP gate by suppression of the unwanted qubit interactions. This controllable interaction, together with the parametric modulation technique, is desirable for crosstalk free multiqubit quantum circuits and quantum simulation applications.
title: World views in transition: a study of the contours of world views of Christian communities in Eastern Indonesia with particular reference to the Christian Church of Luwuk-Banggai and the implications of changing and transitional world views for the life and witness of the Christian community.
Creators: name: Joyce, Coralie Field
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1994

description: The focus of this thesis is the Gereja Kristen di Luwuk-Banggai [GKLB or Christian Church of Luwuk-Banggai], a Christian Synod in Eastern Indonesia. This study is the result of ten years of participant observation, living and working in Luwuk-Banggai. Observed data has been compared and contrasted with monographs on culturally similar ethnic groups both in Indonesia and in Malaysia. Life in the Sultanate of Banggai has been reviewed from the twelfth century onwards. The world views of the Christian community of Luwuk-Banggai are seen to be the result of the interaction of four great traditions: local religion, the national Indonesian world view as portrayed in the Pancasila, the formalised doctrines of Christianity, and the forces and philosophy of modernity. Members of the GKLB recognise that they are facing a complex of problems, and have identified the following: a. Ethnocentricism; b. Economic problems; c. Problems concerned with the interaction of local religions with modern society . These problems are all related to the concepts of World View and World Views in Transition and are discussed in Missiological Concerns where present patterns of overt behaviour in the Christian community are described and analysed as indicators of world view themes. Life in community is seen to be a major cultural theme and the concept of worship is analysed within the context of Tuhan Mahaesa [the one True Lord] of the National Philosophy. The challenge of replacing "imported" forms of worship with relevant Indonesian forms of worship is addressed while an investigation of the role of the shaman raises the question of the validity of "shamanized" Christianity. Problems that have resulted from the interaction of a variety of historical factors and have resulted in the GKLB functioning as a bureaucracy and not as a serving faith community are analysed. By way of contrast, successful holistic ministry that accords with national development is appraised. Responses of the GKLB in each of these situations are examined. They are then compared and contrasted with the responses of other Christian communities in the Two Thirds World. Finally, the variety of world views in transition in Luwuk Banggai is recognised. Challenges facing the GKLB in terms of world views in transition are recognised. These include: the challenge of Christian identity in traditional cultures; the challenge of Christian value transformation within the framework of the Pancasila; and finally the challenge of a call to creative maturity.
New seven records of Euphrates River algae in Iraq
Creators: name: Ali, Huda Abdullah
name: Al-Hussieny, Ahmed Aidan
name: Owaid, Mustafa Nadhim
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Anbar
aquatic ecosystem
biodiversity
freshwater
phytoplankton

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 1, 181-187
Three-generation flavor transitions and decays of supernova relic neutrinos
Creators: name: Fogli, G. L.
name: Lisi, E.
name: Mirizzi, A.
name: Montanino, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If neutrinos have mass, they can also decay. Decay lifetimes of cosmological interest can be probed, in principle, through the detection of the redshifted, diffuse neutrino flux produced by all past supernovae--the so-called supernova relic neutrino (SRN) flux. In this work, we solve the SRN kinetic equations in the general case of three-generation flavor transitions followed by invisible (nonradiative) two-body decays. We then use the general solution to calculate observable SRN spectra in some representative decay scenarios. It is shown that, in the presence of decay, the SRN event rate can basically span the whole range below the current experimental upper bound--a range accessible to future experimental projects. Radiative SRN decays are also briefly discussed.
description: 25 pages, including 7 figures
Combination Therapy with TACE and Microwave Ablation to Increase Efficacy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment
Creators: name: Fiaz, Muhammad
name: Ammara Saeed Malik
name: Ramazan, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: To evaluate efficacy of microwave ablation (MWA) combined with conventional transarterial chemoembolization (cTACE) simultaneously or vice versa for the treatment of large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Study was done from March 2017 and February 2019 and a total number of 66 patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma received TACE and ultrasound-guided percutaneous MWA combined with simultaneous TACE. Patients with primary liver cancer aged from 18-80 years, and life expectancy longer than three months were included. Ablation with different techniques were used along with standard doxorubicin TACE. As result, it was concluded that the combined treatment model is superior to single TACE.
FarmAgriPoliS: An agricultural business management game for behavioral experiments, teaching, and gaming
Creators: name: Appel, Franziska
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Dong, Changxing
name: Rommel, Jens
name: Appel, Franziska
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Dong, Changxing
name: Rommel, Jens
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Business management game
subject: agent-based model
subject: behavioral experiments
subject: agriculture
subject: teaching

description: Business management games have been used for decades, primarily for educational purposes, training, and entertainment. More recently, the use of such games has expanded to an experimental platform. Usually business management games are directly designed and developed for one or more of these purposes; however, this paper discusses another possibility: the development of a business management game based on an existing agent-based model. We encourage this use and describe the extension of the agent-based model AgriPoliS, which has been widely used to analyze structural change in agriculture. We document the resulting software FarmAgriPoliS and provide a systematic classification of FarmAgriPoliS into the framework of business management games with agricultural background. Furthermore, we evaluate the suitability of FarmAgriPoliS for teaching, experimental use, and online gaming.
Non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit
Creators: name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit by comparing two generalized master equations with memory. In the case of a thermal bath, we derive the solution of the post-Markovian master equation recently proposed in Ref. [A. Shabani and D.A. Lidar, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 71}, 020101(R) (2005)] and we study the dynamics for an exponentially decaying memory kernel. We compare the solution of the post-Markovian master equation with the solution of the typical memory kernel master equation. Our results lead to a new physical interpretation of the reservoir correlation function and bring to light the limits of usability of master equations with memory for the system under consideration.
description: Replaced with published version (minor changes)
A NEMESIS ON NEGRO MOUNTAIN
Creators: name: Kimbers, Jr., Ricardo
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: A Nemesis on Negro Mountain takes place in 1999 in the panhandle of western Maryland. This work of fiction follows the perspective of Jay, a thirteen-year-old boy who is forcibly moved from his home in Baltimore to the fictional Crossland County, Maryland by his mother Tamika, in attempt to be closer to her daughter attending a local college, provide a new environment for her son, and ultimately protest and petition the name of Negro Mountain. This coming-of-age story manuscript will delve into the themes of America’s original sin, identity/blackness, extremism, the impending doom of Y2K, and generational rage. Jay will struggle with doubt, faith, the competing fictions that the world offers, and the deaths of his father Jamar and cousin Ronnie. When fully realized, this manuscript will include a parallel narrative taking place in 1750 following Nemesis, a black frontiersman and real-life historical/folklore figure – the namesake for Negro Mountain itself.
Dressing preserving the fundamental group
Creators: name: Dorfmeister, J
name: Kilian, M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10

description: In this note we consider the relationship between the dressing action and the holonomy representation in the context of constant mean curvature surfaces. We characterize dressing elements that preserve the topology of a surface and discuss dressing by simple factors as a means of adding bubbles to a class of non finite type cylinders.
description: 36 pages, 1 figure
Supplementary document for Non-Diffracting Polarisation Features around Far-Field Zeros of Electromagnetic Radiation - 6734280.pdf
Creators: name: Vernon, Alex
name: Kille, Andrew
name: Rodríguez-Fortuño, Francisco
name: Afanasev, Andrei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Further mathematical details
A NEMESIS ON NEGRO MOUNTAIN
Creators: name: Kimbers, Jr., Ricardo
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A Nemesis on Negro Mountain takes place in 1999 in the panhandle of western Maryland. This work of fiction follows the perspective of Jay, a thirteen-year-old boy who is forcibly moved from his home in Baltimore to the fictional Crossland County, Maryland by his mother Tamika, in attempt to be closer to her daughter attending a local college, provide a new environment for her son, and ultimately protest and petition the name of Negro Mountain. This coming-of-age story manuscript will delve into the themes of America’s original sin, identity/blackness, extremism, the impending doom of Y2K, and generational rage. Jay will struggle with doubt, faith, the competing fictions that the world offers, and the deaths of his father Jamar and cousin Ronnie. When fully realized, this manuscript will include a parallel narrative taking place in 1750 following Nemesis, a black frontiersman and real-life historical/folklore figure – the namesake for Negro Mountain itself.
Small-mass naked singularities censored by the Higgs field
Creators: name: Oshita, Naritaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a vacuum decay around an over-spinning naked singularity by using the Israel junction condition. We found that if the Higgs field develops the second minimum at higher energy scale, a spinning small-mass naked singularity could cause the vacuum decay around it within the cosmic age. An event horizon may form around the singularity due to the angular momentum transport from the singularity to a vacuum bubble wall. The newly formed event horizon leads to the increase of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, which contributes to the enhancement of the vacuum decay rate. We conclude that small-mass naked singularities may be hidden by the event horizon within the cosmological time.
description: 6pages, 4 figures, to appear in CQG Letters
Additional file 1 of Selection of key indicators for European policy monitoring and surveillance for dietary behaviour, physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Creators: name: Rosas, Lina Garnica
name: Mensink, Gert B. M.
name: Finger, Jonas D.
name: Schienkiewitz, Anja
name: Do, Stefanie
name: Wolters, Maike
name: Stanley, Isobel
name: Omar, Karim Abu
name: Wieczorowska-Tobis, Katarzyna
name: Woods, Catherine B.
name: Celine Murrin
name: Ahrens, Wolfgang
name: Hebestreit, Antje
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: PEN key diet indicators list
Lattice congruences of the weak order
Creators: name: Reading, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F55, 06B10 (Primary) 52C35 (Secondary)

description: We study the congruence lattice of the poset of regions of a hyperplane arrangement, with particular emphasis on the weak order on a finite Coxeter group. Our starting point is a theorem from a previous paper which gives a geometric description of the poset of join-irreducibles of the congruence lattice of the poset of regions in terms of certain polyhedral decompositions of the hyperplanes. For a finite Coxeter system (W,S) and a subset K of S, let η_K:w \mapsto w_K be the projection onto the parabolic subgroup W_K. We show that the fibers of η_K constitute the smallest lattice congruence with 1\equiv s for every s\in(S-K). We give an algorithm for determining the congruence lattice of the weak order for any finite Coxeter group and for a finite Coxeter group of type A or B we define a directed graph on subsets or signed subsets such that the transitive closure of the directed graph is the poset of join-irreducibles of the congruence lattice of the weak order.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures
Limits on Absorption from a 332-MHz survey for Fast Radio Bursts
Creators: name: Rajwade, K. M.
name: Mickaliger, M. B.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Bassa, C. G.
name: Breton, R. P.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Keane, E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright, extragalactic radio pulses whose origins are still unknown. Until recently, most FRBs have been detected at frequencies greater than 1 GHz with a few exceptions at 800 MHz. The recent discoveries of FRBs at 400 MHz from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope has opened up possibilities for new insights about the progenitors while many other low frequency surveys in the past have failed to find any FRBs. Here, we present results from a FRB survey recently conducted at the Jodrell Bank Observatory at 332 MHz with the 76-m Lovell telescope for a total of 58 days. We did not detect any FRBs in the survey and report a 90$\%$ upper limit of 5500 FRBs per day per sky for a Euclidean Universe above a fluence threshold of 46 Jy ms. We discuss the possibility of absorption as the main cause of non-detections in low frequency (< 800 MHz) searches and invoke different absorption models to explain the same. We find that Induced Compton Scattering alone cannot account for absorption of radio emission and that our simulations favour a combination of Induced Compton Scattering and Free-Free Absorption to explain the non-detections. For a free-free absorption scenario, our constraints on the electron density are consistent with those expected in the post-shock region of the ionized ejecta in Super-Luminous SuperNovae (SLSNe).
description: 12 pages, 9 Figures, 2 Tables, Second revision submitted to MNRAS
Fractal Structures in Multidimensional Integer Arrays Generated by Multivariate Homogeneous Linear Recurrence Relations
Creators: name: Laurberg, Richard P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The integer entries of Pascal’s triangle, when color-coded according to whether they are even or odd, produce a discrete version of the Sierpinski triangle fractal. We can think of this an example of a connection between a “local” phenomenon — the well-known recurrence relation for binomial coefficients, the entries of Pascal’s triangle, allows these entries to be described entirely in terms of nearby entries — and a “global” phenomenon, in which the color-coding modulo 2 produces patterns of arbitrarily large scale. The fractal nature of the global phenomenon mean that this pattern is particularly visually compelling, exhibiting a distinctive feature called “self-similarity” in which aspects of the pattern repeat across infinitely many scales.In this document we explain and explore the connection between these locally operating multidimensional recurrence relations and the global fractal patterns that result. Specifically, we show that for a certain class of multivariate homogeneous linear recurrence relations, their arrangement of nonzero residues modulo a prime always generates a fractal pattern. We call these functions “Delannoy-like” after the case of the Delannoy numbers, a two-dimensional array which modulo 3 produces another celebrated fractal, the Sierpinski carpet. Our approach is number-theoretic and combinatoric in nature, first by focusing on how these functions count lattice paths and thus obey a general formula, and then showing how this formula embodies the “Lucas property.” This property, which relates the value of a function modulo any prime p to the base-p expansions of its arguments turns out to be the key to establishing the correspondence between recurrence relations and fractals.We also explore compellingly similar phenomena beyond the strict premises of our main result, illustrating fractal-like behavior in the residues of such functions with respect to non-prime moduli or of functions which are not Delannoy-like.