cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A fast recursive coordinate bisection tree for neighbour search and gravity
Creators: name: Gafton, Emanuel
name: Rosswog, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce our new binary tree code for neighbour search and gravitational force calculations in an N-particle system. The tree is built in a "top-down" fashion by "recursive coordinate bisection" where on each tree level we split the longest side of a cell through its centre of mass. This procedure continues until the average number of particles in the lowest tree level has dropped below a prescribed value. To calculate the forces on the particles in each lowest-level cell we split the gravitational interaction into a near- and a far-field. Since our main intended applications are SPH simulations, we calculate the near-field by a direct, kernel-smoothed summation, while the far field is evaluated via a Cartesian Taylor expansion up to quadrupole order. Instead of applying the far-field approach for each particle separately, we use another Taylor expansion around the centre of mass of each lowest-level cell to determine the forces at the particle positions. Due to this "cell-cell interaction" the code performance is close to O(N) where N is the number of used particles. We describe in detail various technicalities that ensure a low memory footprint and an efficient cache use. In a set of benchmark tests we scrutinize our new tree and compare it to the "Press tree" that we have previously made ample use of. At a slightly higher force accuracy than the Press tree, our tree turns out to be substantially faster and increasingly more so for larger particle numbers. For four million particles our tree build is faster by a factor of 25 and the time for neighbour search and gravity is reduced by more than a factor of 6. In single processor tests with up to 10^8 particles we confirm experimentally that the scaling behaviour is close to O(N). The current Fortran 90 code version is OpenMP-parallel and scales excellently with the processor number (=24) of our test machine.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS on July 28, 2011
title: "Satiro combattente", Arte romana, inv. XXXVI (ITA/EN)
title: Scheda catalogo digitale Borghese
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Clementi, Jessica
name: Galleria Borghese
Publisher: name: Galleria Borghese
Year: 2024

description: Pubblicazione delle schede delle opere conservate nel museo ed estratte dal catalogo digitale di Galleria Borghese, nelle due versioni esistenti online, in italiano e inglese.

Collegamento al catalogo digitale:

ITA: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/

EN: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en
The Pattern Speeds of NGC 3031, NGC 2366, and DDO 154 as Functions of Radius
Creators: name: Speights, Jason C.
name: Westpfahl, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pattern speeds of NGC 3031, NGC 2366, and DDO 154 are measured using a solution of the Tremaine-Weinberg equations derived in a previous paper. Four different data sets of NGC 3031 produce consistent results despite differences in angular resolution, spectral resolution, and sensitivities to structures on different scales. The results for NGC 3031 show that the pattern speed is more similar to the material speed than it is to the speed of a rigidly rotating pattern, and that there are no clear indications of unique corotation or Lindblad resonances. Unlike NGC 3031, the results for NGC 2366 and DDO 154 show clear departures from the material speed. The results for NGC 2366 and DDO 154 also show that the solution method can produce meaningful results that are simple to interpret even if there is not a coherent or well-defined pattern in the data. The angular resolution of a data set has the greatest affect on the results, especially for determining the radial behavior of the pattern speed, and whether there is a single, global pattern speed.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Axel Pollex, Glaubensvorstellungen im Wandel
Creators: name: Kempke, Torsten
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Axel Pollex, Glaubensvorstellungen im Wandel. Eine archäologische Analyse der Körpergräber des 10.–13. Jahrhunderts im nordwestslawischen Raum. Berliner Archäologische Forschungen Band 6. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89646-516-0. 682 Seiten mit 33 Abbildungen, 199 Tabellen, 29 Diagrammen, 217 Karten, 3 Tafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 91 2013(2015)
AMPK-Mediated mTORC1 Regulation in Macrophage Metabolism and Polarization
Creators: name: Robert-Gostlin, Victoria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: AMPK
mTORC1
Macrophages
Metabolism
Polarization
Inflammation
Immunometabolism

description: The fundamental interplay between immunity and metabolism (immunometabolism) transcends a staggering number of chronic diseases and underpins current and future therapeutic efforts. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) generally promotes catabolic and anti-inflammatory pathways. In contrast, the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) initiates anabolic and pro-inflammatory pathways. While it is known that AMPK can inhibit mTORC1 activation via two specific targets (Raptor and TSC2), the physiological importance of this signalling axis remains completely unknown. With the help of collaborators, a novel point mutant mouse model where the phosphorylation sites on TSC2 (Ser1387) and Raptor (Ser722/792) have been mutated to alanine (double knock-in mice; DKI) was generated. With these mice, the objective was to map the importance of this signalling axis in macrophage immunometabolism. Using bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) from DKI and wild-type control mice, the lack of phosphorylation of both TSC2 and Raptor was first validated. Moreover, downstream signalling to mTORC1 targets was consistent with a basal increase in mTORC1 activity. Next, macrophages were polarized using validated immune stressors such as bacterial endotoxin and interleukin 4. Changes in metabolic signature and immune responses were assessed by measuring transcript and surface expression markers, expression of metabolic enzymes, and cytokine profiles of these cells. Given that immunometabolism underpins several fundamental macrophage responses, this research seeks to identify how specific metabolic signalling pathways can affect macrophage immune responses in culture to potentially inform how these cells behave under acute and chronic inflammation conditions in vivo.
Highlights of the VERITAS Blazar Observation Program
Creators: name: Benbow, Wystan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The VERITAS array of 12-m atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes in southern Arizona began full-scale operations in 2007, and it is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of astrophysical VHE (E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. Forty-one blazars are known to emit VHE photons, and observations of blazars are one of the VERITAS Collaboration's Key Science Projects (KSPs). More than 400 hours per year are devoted to this program, and ~100 blazars have already been observed with the array, in most cases with the deepest-ever VHE exposure. These observations have resulted in 20 detections, including 10 new VHE blazars. Highlights of the VERITAS blazar observation program, and the collaboration's long-term blazar observation strategy, are presented.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Proceeding of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Beijing 2011)
Titelei
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 91 2013(2015)
title: Filter theory inspired antenna decoupling technologies
Creators: name: Qian, Jianfeng
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2024

description: In modern communication systems, the growing challenge of reconciling diminishing spatial resources with increasing wireless performance demands has become increasingly pronounced. The issue of mutual coupling between antennas has garnered widespread attention to accommodate more antennas with reduced spatial resources. Extensive research has been conducted by researchers to address these problems. Different from conventional antenna decoupling techniques, this dissertation presents an innovative investigation of antenna coupling issues from the perspective of filter theory. 
This thesis first introduces the background, motivation, and contributions of this work. Then, the general mutual coupling problems and corresponding decoupling techniques are reviewed. To address these problems, multiple novel techniques are presented in this thesis. A hybrid feeding network is presented for achieving two isolated filtering antennas. Cascaded resonator decoupling networks are investigated to provide two isolated antenna channels. Co-synthesis method and steps are provided. Then, a novel concept of designing two slot antennas as a bandstop filter, to achieve self-decoupled antenna ports, is presented. Two low-cost decoupling techniques are presented to decouple two closely placed patch antennas. The first technique is inspired by the electric and magnetic coupling theory in filter design whereas the other technique is inspired by the coupled transmission line theory in filter design. 
All contributions have been experimentally validated. These exciting results robustly affirm the practical utility of filter theory in the context of antenna decoupling design, offering valuable insights and directions for antenna design in practice.
Peter Haupt, Landschaftsarchäologie. Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Kelm, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Peter Haupt, Landschaftsarchäologie. Eine Einführung. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2012. ISBN 978-3-534-24863-6. 222 Seiten mit 66 Abbildungen und 5 Tabellen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 92 2014(2015)
New Light-Travel Time Models and Orbital Stability Study of the Proposed Planetary System HU Aquarii
Creators: name: Hinse, Tobias C.
name: Lee, Jae Woo
name: Gozdziewski, Krzysztof
name: Haghighipour, Nader
name: Lee, Chung-Uk
name: Scullion, Eamon M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we propose a new orbital architecture for the two proposed circumbinary planets around the polar eclipsing binary HU Aquarii. We base the new two-planet, light-travel time model on the result of a Monte Carlo simulation driving a least-squares Levenberg-Marquardt minimisation algorithm on the observed eclipse egress times. Our best-fitting model with $χ_{r}^2=1.43$ resulted in high final eccentricities for the two companions leading to an unstable orbital configuration. From a large ensemble of initial guesses we examined the distribution of final eccentricities and semi-major axes for different $χ_{r}^2$ parameter intervals and encountered qualitatively a second population of best-fitting parameters. The main characteristic of this population is described by low-eccentric orbits favouring long-term orbital stability of the system. We present our best-fitting model candidate for the proposed two-planet system and demonstrate orbital stability over one million years using numerical integrations.
description: 9 Figures (B/W) and 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS, this is pre-proof version
Ralf Obst, Die Besiedlungsgeschichte am nordwestlichen Maindreieck vom Neolithikum bis zum Ende des Mittelalters
Creators: name: Schneeweiß, Jens
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Ralf Obst, Die Besiedlungsgeschichte am nordwestlichen Maindreieck vom Neolithikum bis zum Ende des Mittelalters. Würzburger Arbeiten zur Prähistorischen Archäologie Band 4. Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89646-074-5. 424 Seiten mit 71 Textabb., 15 z. T. mehrseitigen Abb. und 18 Karten, 36 Tafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 92 2014(2015)
Testing Born's Rule in Quantum Mechanics for Three Mutually Exclusive Events
Creators: name: Söllner, Immo
name: Gschösser, Benjamin
name: Mai, Patrick
name: Pressl, Benedikt
name: Vörös, Zoltán
name: Weihs, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new experimental approach using a three-path interferometer and find a tighter empirical upper bound on possible violations of Born's Rule. A deviation from Born's rule would result in multi-order interference. Among the potential systematic errors that could lead to an apparent violation we specifically study the nonlinear response of our detectors and present ways to calibrate this error in order to obtain an even better bound.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Found. Phys
Zur Skelettgräbergruppe der Latènezeit im Saalegebiet
Creators: name: Schulz, Walther
Publisher: name: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, Bd. 15 (1927): Jahresschrift für die Vorgeschichte der sächsisch-thüringischen Länder
SECTEURS D'ACTIVITES ET CROISSANCE ECONOMIQUE DANS LA ZONE UEMOA: UNE ANALYSE A PARTIR DES INDICES BOURSIERS
Creators: name: N'GUESSAN née ASSI Awo Marie Florence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Notre étude s’est fixée pour objectif de vérifier l’existence des relations entre la croissance économique et l’expansion de la bourse régionale des valeurs mobilières (BRVM) approximée  par ses indices sectoriels au sein de la zone UEMOA. Pour ce faire, nous avons estimé un modèle vectoriel autorégressif (VAR) suivi d'un test de causalité de Granger entre le taux de croissance du PIB et les cours des indices sectoriels de la BRVM. Nos résultats révèlent l’existence non seulement d’une causalité bidirectionnelle entre les indices industrie et distribution, mais également une causalité unidirectionnelle allant du taux de croissance du PIB vers le marché boursier. Ce qui suggère d’une part, une forte influence de la sphère réelle sur la sphère financière, mais d’autre part une forte capacité du marché boursier sous-régional à s’auto-entretenir et dégager une certaine croissance dans son évolution. Nous recommandons donc, une politique de développement de la BRVM basée sur les entreprises des indices industrie, distribution, finance qui sont les indices moteurs du marché boursier Ouest Africain, des politiques économiques de relance concertées entre pays, de sorte à ce que les effets vertueux de cette croissance issue, de la sphère réelle se répercutent sur la sphère financière engendrant ainsi un développement et une efficience du marché boursier et l’identification les canaux par lesquels le développement du marché boursier, pourrait transiter afin d’influencer positivement la sphère réelle de toute la zone UEMOA.
Observation of lobes near the X-point in resonant magnetic perturbation experiments on MAST
Creators: name: Kirk, A.
name: Harrison, J.
name: Liu, Yueqiang
name: Nardon, E.
name: Chapman, I. T.
name: Denner, P.
name: team, the MAST
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of non-axisymmetric resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) with a toroidal mode number n=6 in the MAST tokamak produces a significant reduction in plasma energy loss associated with type-I Edge Localized Modes (ELMs), the first such observation with n>3. During the ELM mitigated stage clear lobe structures are observed in visible-light imaging of the X-point region. These lobes or manifold structures, that were predicted previously, have been observed for the first time in a range of discharges and their appearance is correlated with the effect of RMPs on the plasma i.e. they only appear above a threshold when a density pump out is observed or when the ELM frequency is increased. They appear to be correlated with the RMPs penetrating the plasma and may be important in explaining why the ELM frequency increases. The number and location of the structures observed can be well described using vacuum modelling. Differences in radial extent and poloidal width from vacuum modelling are likely to be due to a combination of transport effects and plasma screening.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Petrimordella lapidicola Batelka & Rosová & Prokop 2023, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Batelka, Jan
name: Rosová, Kateřina
name: Prokop, Jakub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Mordellidae
Petrimordella
Petrimordella lapidicola

description: Petrimordella lapidicola (Wickham, 1909) comb. nov.
 Mordella lapidicola Wickham, 1909: 130. Holotype: Middle Eocene, Florissant Formation, Colorado, USA.
 Comments on the original description. Uninformative description was provided. It is proposed by the author that this species ‘can be distinguished from any others which may be discovered in these shales by the comparative measurements.’
description: Published as part of Batelka, Jan, Rosová, Kateřina & Prokop, Jakub, 2023, Diversity and morphology of Eocene and Oligocene Mordellidae (Coleoptera), pp. 451-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63 (2) on page 473, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2023.027, http://zenodo.org/record/10621277
CP-nets: A Tool for Representing and Reasoning withConditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements
Creators: name: Boutilier, C.
name: Brafman, R. I.
name: Domshlak, C.
name: Hoos, H. H.
name: Poole, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information about user preferences plays a key role in automated decision making. In many domains it is desirable to assess such preferences in a qualitative rather than quantitative way. In this paper, we propose a qualitative graphical representation of preferences that reflects conditional dependence and independence of preference statements under a ceteris paribus (all else being equal) interpretation. Such a representation is often compact and arguably quite natural in many circumstances. We provide a formal semantics for this model, and describe how the structure of the network can be exploited in several inference tasks, such as determining whether one outcome dominates (is preferred to) another, ordering a set outcomes according to the preference relation, and constructing the best outcome subject to available evidence.
Beate Maria Pomberger: Wiederentdeckte Klänge. Musikinstrumente und Klangobjekte vom Neolithikum bis zur römischen Kaiserzeit im mittleren Donauraum
Creators: name: Kluttig-Altmann, Ralf
name: Schleußner, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Beate Maria Pomberger: Wiederentdeckte Klänge. Musikinstrumente und Klangobjekte vom Neolithikum bis zur römischen Kaiserzeit im mittleren Donauraum. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 280, Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn 2016. 410 Seiten, 139 Abbildungen, 56 Tafeln, 3 Falttafeln, 131 Tabellen und 11 farbige Karten
description: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, Bd. 97 (2019): Jahresschrift für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting. Its Origins and Character
Creators: name: Winkler, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting. Its Origins and Character. Text- und Tafelband. 571 Seiten Text mit 66 Abbildungen, 334 Tafeln mit 496 Abbildungen. Harvard University Press. Cambridge (Mass.) 1953.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 1 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Inhalt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 2 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Step bunching process induced by the flow of steps at the sublimated crystal surface
Creators: name: Zaluska-Kotur, M. A.
name: Krzyzewski, F.
name: Krukowski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stepped GaN(0001) surface is studied by the kinetic Monte Carlo method and compared with the model based on Burton-Carbera-Frank equations. Successive stages of surface pattern evolution during high temperature sublimation process are discussed. At low sublimation rates clear, well defined step bunches form. The process happens in the absence or for very low Schwoebel barriers at the ideal surface. Bunches of several steps are well separated, move slowly and are rather stiff. Character of the process changes for more rapid sublimation process where double step formations become dominant and together with meanders and local bunches assemble into the less ordered surface pattern. Solution of the analytic equations written for one dimensional system confirms that step bunching is induced by the particle advection caused by step-flow anisotropy. This anisotropy becomes important when due to the low Schwoebel barrier both sides of step are symmetric. Simulations show that in the opposite limit of very high Schwoebel barrier steps fracture and rough surface builds up.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Factors Influencing Purchase Decisions on Amazon: Analyzing the Role of  Delivery, Information Quality, Reviews, and Recommendations.
Creators: name: Khushi Sharma
name: Vyas kajla
name: Dr. Mahima Shukla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Amazon Delivery Quality, Information Quality, Reviews and Rating, Personal Recommendation, Purchase Decision

description: E-commerce platforms like Amazon have transformed the way customers make purchase decisions by leveraging various factors that influence consumer behavior. This study explores the impact of Amazon’s delivery quality, information quality, reviews and ratings, and personal recommendations on customer purchasing decisions. Efficient and timely delivery enhances customer trust and satisfaction, reducing hesitation in completing a purchase. Information quality, including accurate product descriptions, images, and specifications, helps customers make informed choices. Reviews and ratings serve as social proof, significantly influencing buyers by providing insights from previous customers. Personal recommendations, driven by Amazon’s algorithms, enhance the shopping experience by suggesting relevant products based on browsing history and preferences. Together, these factors create a seamless and personalized shopping journey, ultimately driving higher purchase conversions. This study attempts to provide important insights into Amazon’s strategy for comprehending and satisfying consumer wants, as well as the ramifications for the business and the larger e-commerce sector, through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Understanding these influences can help businesses optimize their strategies to improve customer satisfaction and sales.
Zuschriften an die Redaktion
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 12 Nr. 7 (1959): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Inspiracje młodopolskich rzeźbiarzy w kontekście wystawy „Polska rzeźba fin de siècle’u”
Creators: name: Stopyra, Maria
Publisher: name: Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary
Year: 2019

description: Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary, Bd. 10 (2015): Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary
Super-Earths: A New Class of Planetary Bodies
Creators: name: Haghighipour, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Super-Earths, a class of planetary bodies with masses ranging from a few Earth-masses to slightly smaller than Uranus, have recently found a special place in the exoplanetary science. Being slightly larger than a typical terrestrial planet, super-Earths may have physical and dynamical characteristics similar to those of Earth whereas unlike terrestrial planets, they are relatively easier to detect. Because of their sizes, super-Earths can maintain moderate atmospheres and possibly dynamic interiors with plate tectonics. They also seem to be more common around low-mass stars where the habitable zone is in closer distances. This article presents a review of the current state of research on super-Earths, and discusses the models of the formation, dynamical evolution, and possible habitability of these objects. Given the recent advances in detection techniques, the detectability of super-Earths is also discussed, and a review of the prospects of their detection in the habitable zones of low-mass stars is presented.
description: A (non-technical) review of the literature on the current state ofresearch on super-Earths. The topics include observation, formation, dynamical evolution, habitability, composition, interior dynamics, magnetic field, atmosphere, and propsect of detection. The article has 44 pages, 27 figures, and 203 references. It has been accepted for publication in the journal Contemporary Physics (2011)
Semiparametric Multivariate Accelerated Failure Time Model with Generalized Estimating Equations
Creators: name: Chiou, Steven
name: Kim, Junghi
name: Yan, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The semiparametric accelerated failure time model is not as widely used as the Cox relative risk model mainly due to computational difficulties. Recent developments in least squares estimation and induced smoothing estimating equations provide promising tools to make the accelerate failure time models more attractive in practice. For semiparametric multivariate accelerated failure time models, we propose a generalized estimating equation approach to account for the multivariate dependence through working correlation structures. The marginal error distributions can be either identical as in sequential event settings or different as in parallel event settings. Some regression coefficients can be shared across margins as needed. The initial estimator is a rank-based estimator with Gehan's weight, but obtained from an induced smoothing approach with computation ease. The resulting estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal, with a variance estimated through a multiplier resampling method. In a simulation study, our estimator was up to three times as efficient as the initial estimator, especially with stronger multivariate dependence and heavier censoring percentage. Two real examples demonstrate the utility of the proposed method.
INCREASING THE INFECTION PREVENTION COVERAGE IN SHOAROBIT PRIMARYHOSPITAL NORTH SHOA, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: ABEBE BIZU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011

description: Introduction Infection prevention and control is a central component of safe and high-quality service

delivery at the facility level. With an inadequate practice of infection prevention, the risk of acquiring

infections through exposure to blood, body fluids or contaminated materials in healthcare facilities is

substantial. Lack of compliance with infection prevention and control measures has a number of

consequences. Adherence to infection prevention and control practices is essential to providing safe and

high quality patient care across all settings where healthcare is delivered.

Objective – The overall objective of the project is to increase infection prevention and patient safety

implementation from 50% to 80% at the end of June2011E.C in Shoarobit Primary Hospital

ANRS,Ethiopia.

Methods –Facility based pre-post interventional study design was applied in Shoarobit Primary Hospital.

To understand the actual processes and problems faced on the ground, an actual state analysis was

performed after measuring base line assessment. This allowed us to analyzed and understand the

bottlenecks and problem areas within the hospital before implementing selected best interventions
Theory of Josephson Photomultipliers: Optimal Working Conditions and Back Action
Creators: name: Govia, Luke C. G.
name: Pritchett, Emily J.
name: Merkel, Seth T.
name: Pineau, Deanna
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the back action of microwave-photon detection via a Josephson photomultiplier (JPM), a superconducting qubit coupled strongly to a high-quality microwave cavity. The back action operator depends qualitatively on the duration of the measurement interval, resembling the regular photon annihilation operator at short interaction times and approaching a variant of the photon subtraction operator at long times. The optimal operating conditions of the JPM differ from those considered optimal for processing and storing of quantum information, in that a short $T_2$ of the JPM suppresses the cavity dephasing incurred during measurement. Understanding this back action opens the possibility to perform multiple JPM measurements on the same state, hence performing efficient state tomography.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures
title: Exploring Assisted EVOLution approaches for improving SEAgrass restoration and for enhancing the resilience of restored populations (AEvol-Sea)
Creators: name: Provera, Isabella
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2025

description: In this research, I explored non-invasive assisted evolution strategies on seagrasses to establish effective protocols for (i) pre-conditioning genotypes to increase their stress-tolerance and (ii) identifying genotypes that are already stress-adapted. The identification of high-performing genotypes is useful to improve seagrass-based ecosystem restoration. In Chapters 2 and 3, I provided evidences that the primed state (i.e stress memory) acquired by seedlings of Posidonia oceanica after a first stress exposure is not permanent, but rather temporary adjustment that helps the plant to respond more quickly to recurrent stress. In the second study, new data related to genes associated with transcriptional memory were provided. In Chapter 4, I observed that the phenotypic screening tests on seeds of P. oceanica are important for identifying seeds that enhance seedling viability in the early months, leading to more successful transplantation (i.e. larger-seeded seedlings showed faster and stronger growth than smaller seed seedlings). However, further research is needed to assess the role of seed reserves in preventing heat stress, as larger-seeded seedlings do not demonstrate increased resistance to heat stress. In Chapter 5, I investigated differences in temperature resilience between Zostera marina populations from areas characterized by different thermal regimes (shallow/warm and deep/cold). The identification of locations with thermal tolerant populations at a small spatial scale is important to identify sources of stress-resistant seagrasses for active restoration, through Assisted Gene Flow, and conservation measures within the same distribution region. scenarios. The analyses for this project are still ongoing; however the preliminary observations offer an initial idea of how the tested populations responded to the experimental conditions.

This thesis offers pioneering insight into the efficacy of non-invasive strategies of assisted evolution technologies in providing genotypes or identifying seagrass genotypes with a critical capacity to adapt at a pace closer to that of current climate change trajectories.
Petrimordella florissantensis Batelka & Rosová & Prokop 2023, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Batelka, Jan
name: Rosová, Kateřina
name: Prokop, Jakub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Mordellidae
Petrimordella
Petrimordella florissantensis

description: Petrimordella florissantensis (Wickham, 1912) comb. nov.
 Mordellistena florissantensis Wickham, 1912: 33. Holotype: Middle Eocene, Florissant Formation, Colorado, USA.
 Comments on the original description. Uninformative description. Compared with Mordella lapidicola Wickham, 1909 but described in Mordellistena, therefore its tribal placement is doubtful. From the line drawing (WICKHAM 1912: Plate II, fig. 16) it is not evident that this beetle belongs to Mordellidae.
description: Published as part of Batelka, Jan, Rosová, Kateřina & Prokop, Jakub, 2023, Diversity and morphology of Eocene and Oligocene Mordellidae (Coleoptera), pp. 451-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63 (2) on page 473, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2023.027, http://zenodo.org/record/10621277
Sixta_Theory__Dimensional_Harmonics_and_the_Foundations_of_Physical_Reality
Creators: name: Sixta, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper introduces Sixta Theory, a framework in which mass, time, and energy arise as emergent properties of dimensional harmonic structures defined by twist, phase, and chirality. The theory reinterprets Planck’s constant, introduces new quantum numbers, and proposes a universal spectral density function filtered by observer-dependent phase space alignment. The mathematical framework is derived from a combination of ontological first principles, geometric recursion, and trigonometric harmonic structures. Implications for quantum field theory, general relativity, and experimental high-energy physics are explored.
Design of financial incentive interventions to improve lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes: A systematic review
Creators: name: Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo
name: Miranda, J. Jaime
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Materials for the manuscript "Design of financial incentive interventions to improve lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes: A systematic review"
Complexity Results and Approximation Strategies for MAP Explanations
Creators: name: Darwiche, A.
name: Park, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: MAP is the problem of finding a most probable instantiation of a set of variables given evidence. MAP has always been perceived to be significantly harder than the related problems of computing the probability of a variable instantiation Pr, or the problem of computing the most probable explanation (MPE). This paper investigates the complexity of MAP in Bayesian networks. Specifically, we show that MAP is complete for NP^PP and provide further negative complexity results for algorithms based on variable elimination. We also show that MAP remains hard even when MPE and Pr become easy. For example, we show that MAP is NP-complete when the networks are restricted to polytrees, and even then can not be effectively approximated. Given the difficulty of computing MAP exactly, and the difficulty of approximating MAP while providing useful guarantees on the resulting approximation, we investigate best effort approximations. We introduce a generic MAP approximation framework. We provide two instantiations of the framework; one for networks which are amenable to exact inference Pr, and one for networks for which even exact inference is too hard. This allows MAP approximation on networks that are too complex to even exactly solve the easier problems, Pr and MPE. Experimental results indicate that using these approximation algorithms provides much better solutions than standard techniques, and provide accurate MAP estimates in many cases.
Supplementary Material for "Designing digital money gifts in intimate friendships"
Creators: name: Probst, Freya
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2023

description: Digital money enables a convenient and efficient gift across distance. Yet, money as a gift can face limitations when exchanged in intimate friendships. This thesis develops a framework to inform how digital money gifts could become regarded more positively in such a relationship context. In the view of new digital developments that connect money to other types of digital applications new promising possibilities emerge for its design. While much literature studied digital money gifts in group or more distanced relationships, there is a lack of understanding regarding problems and possibilities in the design of digital money gifts in intimate relationships. A speculative design approach is applied to support thinking beyond current approaches to understanding and meeting human needs. A challenge is to support the experience in a solely digital context that allows more immediate exchange across geographical distance. A central question of this thesis is: “How can digital money be designed as a gift in intimate friendships with digital creativity?” Study 1 explored the current usage and possible limitations throughout a pilot survey and two speculative scenarios in a focus group study. This revealed experiential requirements, but also concerns about a potential negative impact to their relationships. Moreover, there were restrictions of digital money in meeting the expectations as a gift, especially in more intimate friendships. Study 2 reveals the weighty design factors to consider that show a potential to be relationship-strengthening and to support a greater appropriateness of digital money in a gift exchange situation. The thesis contributes to the lack of literature in studying digital money gifts in more intimate friendships by (1) understanding the possible problems of digital money as a gift in that context, (2a) finding the important and unimportant design factors to support relationship-strengthening gifts, and (2b) appropriateness of the digital money gift in intimate friendships. (3) New concepts are provided into the way money can be designed as a gift, and how its design could affect its perception. (4) The framework that has been developed throughout the research is discussed in its ability to inspire succeeding research and inform the design of digital money as a gift.
Consequences of spontaneous reconnection at a two-dimensional non-force-free current layer
Creators: name: Fuentes-Fernández, Jorge
name: Parnell, Clare E.
name: Hood, Alan W.
name: Priest, Eric R.
name: Longcope, Dana W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic neutral points, where the magnitude of the magnetic field vanishes locally, are potential locations for energy conversion in the solar corona. The fact that the magnetic field is identically zero at these points suggests that for the study of current sheet formation and of any subsequent resistive dissipation phase, a finite beta plasma should be considered, rather than neglecting the plasma pressure as has often been the case in the past. The rapid dissipation of a finite current layer in non-force-free equilibrium is investigated numerically, after the sudden onset of an anomalous resistivity. The aim of this study is to determine how the energy is redistributed during the initial diffusion phase, and what is the nature of the outward transmission of information and energy. The resistivity rapidly diffuses the current at the null point. The presence of a plasma pressure allows the vast majority of the free energy to be transferred into internal energy. Most of the converted energy is used in direct heating of the surrounding plasma, and only about 3% is converted into kinetic energy, causing a perturbation in the magnetic field and the plasma which propagates away from the null at the local fast magnetoacoustic speed. The propagating pulses show a complex structure due to the highly non-uniform initial state. It is shown that this perturbation carries no net current as it propagates away from the null. The fact that, under the assumptions taken in this paper, most of the magnetic energy released in the reconnection converts internal energy of the plasma, may be highly important for the chromospheric and coronal heating problem.
How Will Astronomy Archives Survive The Data Tsunami?
Creators: name: Berriman, G. Bruce
name: Groom, Steven L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field of astronomy is starting to generate more data than can be managed, served and processed by current techniques. This paper has outlined practices for developing next-generation tools and techniques for surviving this data tsunami, including rigorous evaluation of new technologies, partnerships between astronomers and computer scientists, and training of scientists in high-end software engineering engineering skills.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; ACM Queue. Vol 9, Number 10, October 2011 (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2047483)
title: Un robusto ponte verso la formazione professionale
Creators: name: Stalder, Barbara E.
name: Schönbächler, Marie-Theres
Publisher: name: :unas
Year: 2024

description: Il pretirocinio di integrazione (PTI) è un successo. Oltre l’80% dei partecipanti lo ha completato con successo. Successivamente, circa il 70% ha completato un corso di formazione professionale di base di due o tre anni (AFC o CFP). Questo è quanto emerge dall’ultima valutazione del programma da parte dell’Alta scuola pedagogica di Berna. La valutazione include anche risultati qualitativi: per esempio, i formatori percepiscono i partecipanti come persone particolarmente impegnate. Quasi tre quarti di essi raggiungono il livello linguistico desiderato nell’orale e circa il 90% nello scritto. Nei primi cinque anni del programma, più di 4000 persone hanno preso parte a un PTI. A partire dall’estate 2024, il programma federale sarà reso permanente come offerta regolare nei Cantoni partecipanti.
Comprehensive Control of Optical Polarization Anisotropy in Semiconducting Nanowires
Creators: name: Fang, Lei
name: Zhao, Xianwei
name: Chiu, Yi-Hsin
name: Ko, Dongkyun
name: Reddy, Kongara M.
name: Padture, Nitin P.
name: Yang, Fengyuan
name: Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The demonstration of strong photoluminescence polarization anisotropy in semiconducting nanowires embodies both technological promise and scientific challenge. Here we present progress on both fronts through the study of the photoluminescence polarization anisotropy of randomly oriented nanowire ensembles in materials without/with crystalline anisotropy, small/wide bandgap, and both III-V/II-VI chemistry (InP/ZnO nanowires, respectively). Comprehensive control of the polarization anisotropy is realized by dielectric matching with conformally deposited Ta2O5 (dielectric ratios of 9.6:4.41 and 4.0:4.41 for InP and ZnO, respectively). After dielectric matching, the polarization anisotropy of the nanowire ensembles is reduced by 86% for InP:Ta2O5 and 84% for ZnO:Ta2O5.
Design of financial incentive interventions to improve lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes: A systematic review
Creators: name: Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo
name: Miranda, J. Jaime
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Materials for the paper "A systematic review, with a focus on intervention’s design, of financial incentives to improve lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes"
Cluster size entropy in the Axelrod model of social influence: small-world networks and mass media
Creators: name: Gandica, Yérali
name: Charmell, A.
name: Villegas-Febres, J.
name: Bonalde, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the Axelrod's cultural adaptation model using the concept of cluster size entropy, $S_{c}$ that gives information on the variability of the cultural cluster size present in the system. Using networks of different topologies, from regular to random, we find that the critical point of the well-known nonequilibrium monocultural-multicultural (order-disorder) transition of the Axelrod model is unambiguously given by the maximum of the $S_{c}(q)$ distributions. The width of the cluster entropy distributions can be used to qualitatively determine whether the transition is first- or second-order. By scaling the cluster entropy distributions we were able to obtain a relationship between the critical cultural trait $q_c$ and the number $F$ of cultural features in regular networks. We also analyze the effect of the mass media (external field) on social systems within the Axelrod model in a square network. We find a new partially ordered phase whose largest cultural cluster is not aligned with the external field, in contrast with a recent suggestion that this type of phase cannot be formed in regular networks. We draw a new $q-B$ phase diagram for the Axelrod model in regular networks.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures