cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
General framework for the analysis of imperfections in nonlinear systems
Creators: name: Santandrea, Matteo
name: Stefszky, Michael
name: Silberhorn, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we derive a framework to understand the effect of imperfections on the phasematching spectrum of a wide class of nonlinear systems. We show that this framework is applicable to many physical systems, such as waveguides or fibres. Furthermore, this treatment reveals that the product of the system length and the magnitude of the imperfections completely determines the phasematching properties of these systems, thus offering a general rule for system design. Additionally, our framework provides a simple method to compare the performance of a wide range of nonlinear systems.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Simple Scheme for Efficient Linear Optics Quantum Gates
Creators: name: Ralph, T. C.
name: White, A. G.
name: Munro, W. J.
name: Milburn, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the construction of a conditional quantum control-not (CNOT) gate from linear optical elements following the program of Knill, Laflamme and Milburn [Nature {\bf 409}, 46 (2001)]. We show that the basic operation of this gate can be tested using current technology. We then simplify the scheme significantly.
description: Problems with PDF figures corrected
A research agenda for studying legislative incumbent turnover in new democracies, using Indonesia as a case study
Creators: name: Buehler, Michael
name: Nataatmadja, Ronnie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Legislative incumbent turnover rates are an important indicator for the quality of a democracy. Low turnover rates may indicate the presence of oligarchic structures while high turnover rates may be a sign of political instability. Yet, there is little research on incumbent turnover in new democracies. This article will suggest ways to address this gap in the literature by looking at Indonesia. The country is not only the third largest democracy in the world but also a relatively new democracy that has only conducted four elections since 1998. The lack of studies on incumbent turnover in new democracies is mirrored in the literature on Indonesia. The vast scholarship on democratization in Indonesia that has emerged over the past twenty years has yet to harness the insights to be gained from examining legislative incumbent turnover rates. The goal of this article is twofold. One, to present for the first time a systematic and comprehensive account of incumbent turnover rates in Indonesia across all election cycles since 1998. Two, to sketch an agenda for future research on incumbent turnover in Indonesia and other new democracies and facilitate such research by making publicly available an original dataset on incumbent turnover in Indonesia.
title: Investigating the relation between growth mindset of emotion and experiencing level
Creators: name: Fischer, Ethan Ray
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Experiencing levels
subject: Growth mindset of emotion
subject: Negative affect

description: An individual’s growth mindset of emotion level indicates the degree to which they believe that emotions can be changed, and an individual’s experiencing level indicates their ability to gain new insights by examining their emotions. Individuals with lower levels of growth mindset of emotion might also exhibit lower experiencing levels because they have a greater tendency to avoid their emotions, which limits the opportunity to gain insight from their emotions. However, this relation is yet to be examined. The present study examined the relation between the growth mindset of emotion and experiencing levels. A total of 116 participants were recruited via Prolific, an online psychology study platform; they completed several questionnaires and wrote about their most stressful event in the past 12 months and any associated thoughts or emotions that they experienced during the event, when thinking about it in the past, and when writing about it now. Experiencing levels were measured by applying the Experiencing Scale to code reflections. Growth mindset of emotion was measured with the Implicit Theories of Emotion. In addition, the negative affect experienced during the stressful event was assessed. Inconsistent with the hypothesis, growth mindset of emotion and experiencing levels were not significantly associated. Furthermore, negative affect during the stressful event did not moderate the relation between the growth mindset of emotion and experiencing level. Excluding the participants who did not feel at least “a little bit negative” when the event occurred did not change the results. The study’s findings might have been limited by poor Implicit Theories of Emotion reliability and a restricted range of experiencing levels. Future studies should investigate whether emotional avoidance might mediate a relation between growth mindset of emotion and experiencing levels.
Parepierus brunneus Leschen & Ôhara 2017, new combination
Creators: name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
name: Ôhara, Masahiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Parepierus
Parepierus brunneus

description: Parepierus brunneus (Broun, 1881), new combination
(Fig. 8C)
 Abraeus brunneus Broun 1881: 666.
 Notes. Broun (1881) described this species in the genus Abraeus, comparing it to A. brouni, and noted that it had two to three varieties based on “several specimens, obtained chiefly in the neighbourhood of Whangarei Harbour; and, quite recently, I received another from Mr. P. Stewart, of Wellington.” Upon examination of a single type specimen from the BMNH, it is clearly congeneric with species that Bickhardt (1913) and Mazur (1984) placed into Parepierus (type species: P. amandus Schmidt [Indonesia and southeast Asia]), but this genus requires full revision, and the New Zealand species may eventually be described into a new genus (P. Kovarik, personal communication).
 Type Material Examined. Lectotype (BMNH; Fig. 8C): card-mounted (sex undetermined, teneral), “1164. [olive-colored label] // Parua [in Broun’ s hand] // New Zealand [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922–482. // n. gen. near Acritus [in Broun’ s hand] // Hind tarsi 5-articul. [in Broun’ s hand] // Abraeus brunneus [in Broun’ s hand] // LECTOTYPE Abraeus brunneus Broun, 1881 designated by R. A.B. Leschen, 2016 [red label]” (Fig. 8D).
description: Published as part of Leschen, Richard A. B. & Ôhara, Masahiro, 2017, Phylogenetic Placement of Abraeus vividulus Broun and Notes on New Zealand Histeridae (Coleoptera), pp. 537-551 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on page 549, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.537, http://zenodo.org/record/5377181
Beyond Cookie Monster Amnesia: Real World Persistent Online Tracking
Creators: name: Al-Fannah, Nasser Mohammed
name: Li, Wanpeng
name: Mitchell, Chris J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Browser fingerprinting is a relatively new method of uniquely identifying browsers that can be used to track web users. In some ways it is more privacy-threatening than tracking via cookies, as users have no direct control over it. A number of authors have considered the wide variety of techniques that can be used to fingerprint browsers; however, relatively little information is available on how widespread browser fingerprinting is, and what information is collected to create these fingerprints in the real world. To help address this gap, we crawled the 10,000 most popular websites; this gave insights into the number of websites that are using the technique, which websites are collecting fingerprinting information, and exactly what information is being retrieved. We found that approximately 69\% of websites are, potentially, involved in first-party or third-party browser fingerprinting. We further found that third-party browser fingerprinting, which is potentially more privacy-damaging, appears to be predominant in practice. We also describe \textit{FingerprintAlert}, a freely available browser extension we developed that detects and, optionally, blocks fingerprinting attempts by visited websites.
Infrared Spectra of the Subluminous Type Ia Supernova 1999by
Creators: name: Hoeflich, P.
name: Gerardy, C.
name: Fesen, R.
name: Sakai, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-infrared spectra of the subluminous Type Ia SN1999by are presented which cover the time evolution from about 4 days before to 2 weeks after maximum. Analysis of these data was accomplished through the construction of an extended set of delayed detonation (DD) models. The explosion, light curves and spectra including their evolution with time are calculated consistently leaving the initial WD and the description of the nuclear burning front the free parameters. We cover the entire range of normal to subluminous SNeIa. From this model set, one was selected for SN99by by matching properties of the synthetic & observed optical light curves. We find DD models require a certain amount of burning during the deflagration phase setting a lower limit for the absolute brightness. For SN1999by, a model close to the minimum 56Ni production is required. Without tuning,good agreement has been found between synthetic and observed IR spectra. In contrast to 'normal' SNeIa and prior to maximum, the NIR spectra of SN1999by are dominated by products of explosive carbon burning. Spectra taken after maximum are dominated by products of incomplete Si burning. Pure deflagration scenarios or mergers are unlikely. However,problems for DD models still remain, as the data seem to be at odds with recent predictions from 3-D models which find significant mixing of the inner layers. Possible solutions include the effects of rapid rotation on the propagation of nuclear flames, or extensive burning of carbon just prior to the runaway.
description: 42 pages including 14 figures, ApJ, accepted
A tentative theory of large distance physics
Creators: name: Friedan, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical mechanism is devised to determine the large distance physics of spacetime. It is a two dimensional nonlinear model, the lambda model, set to govern the string worldsurface to remedy the failure of string theory. The lambda model is formulated to cancel the infrared divergent effects of handles at short distance on the worldsurface. The target manifold is the manifold of background spacetimes. The coupling strength is the spacetime coupling constant. The lambda model operates at 2d distance $Λ^{-1}$, very much shorter than the 2d distance $μ^{-1}$ where the worldsurface is seen. A large characteristic spacetime distance $L$ is given by $L^2=\ln(Λ/μ)$. Spacetime fields of wave number up to 1/L are the local coordinates for the manifold of spacetimes. The distribution of fluctuations at 2d distances shorter than $Λ^{-1}$ gives the {\it a priori} measure on the target manifold, the manifold of spacetimes. If this measure concentrates at a macroscopic spacetime, then, nearby, it is a measure on the spacetime fields. The lambda model thereby constructs a spacetime quantum field theory, cutoff at ultraviolet distance $L$, describing physics at distances larger than $L$. The lambda model also constructs an effective string theory with infrared cutoff $L$, describing physics at distances smaller than $L$. The lambda model evolves outward from zero 2d distance, $Λ^{-1} = 0$, building spacetime physics starting from $L=\infty$ and proceeding downward in $L$. $L$ can be taken smaller than any distance practical for experiments, so the lambda model, if right, gives all actually observable physics. The harmonic surfaces in the manifold of spacetimes are expected to have novel nonperturbative effects at large distances.
description: Latex, 107 pages
title: Impact of language ability in assessing psychosis-risk
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, John
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical High Risk
subject: Language
subject: Psychosis
subject: Screening

description: Psychosis-risk screening tools have demonstrated utility for improving psychosis-risk detection, which in turn lays the groundwork for clinician-administered interviews to elucidate how psychotic symptoms are experienced. Effective screening tool use is reliant upon the individual’s ability to relate abstract and sometimes mystifying experiences, whereas clinician-led diagnostic interviews are a more interactive process. Unfortunately, those at-risk for, or experiencing, psychosis often exhibit higher levels of receptive and expressive language deficits than those not at risk, suggesting the possibility that the screening process may be differentially impacted in the very population of interest. This study first tested whether a measure of overall communication could be parsed into measures of receptive and expressive abilities. Subsequently, it was confirmed that the screening tools were related to clinical interviews of psychosis-risk. Following this, the three measures of communication (overall, receptive ability, and expressive ability) were evaluated as moderators of the association between self-administered screening tools and a clinician-led interview for assessing psychosis-risk. Results first indicated that both screening tool types were effective in screening for psychosis-risk, as validated by the clinical interview. It was also found that a measure of expressive (though not receptive) language ability could be extracted from overall communication, though neither expressive language ability nor overall functional communication moderated the screening tool and interview relations. As communication did not appear to moderate the efficacy of either screening tool, follow up analyses examining the efficacy of screening tools between probe types were not conducted.
Cercyon Leach 1817
Creators: name: Suzumura, Alyssa Lee
name: Kobayashi, Norio
name: Ôhara, Masahiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Cercyon

description: Genus Cercyon Leach, 1817
 Diagnosis. Body variously oval, rather flat to strongly convex; pronotum and elytra forming a continuous curve in lateral view. Dorsal surface glabrous, with punctation and sometimes with microsculpture or indistinct pubescence; pronotum without longitudinal grooves or pit-like impressions except often with 2 lateroposterior depressions; color ranging from pale yellow to black. Ventral surface covered in dense, short pubescence except raised surfaces of meso- and metaventrites. Antennae 9-segmented, terminal 3 antennomeres forming compact club; bases visible dorsally, not hidden by lateral margin of head. Clypeus not separated from frons by a distinct suture, often truncate, extending anterior to eyes when viewed dorsally; mentum of variable shape, anterior margin subtruncate or emarginate, often impressed anteromedially. Maxillary palpi shorter than antennae, 2 nd palpomere swollen apically, length of apical segment equal to or slightly longer than penultimate; male maxilla bearing adhesion discs, though may be indistinct in smaller species. Elytra with distinct epipleura, at least in basal half. Middle portion of prosternum elevated to form a tectiform longitudinal keel, not differentiated laterally from antennal excavations. Median portion of mesoventrite elevated to form a median keel or plate; contacting metaventrite at a single point or separated from it by a narrow gap. Outer margin of profemora rounded; tarsal formula 5-5-5 with 1 st tarsomere always longer than 2 nd. Male genitalia of trilobed type, as in Fig. 7. Female genitalia as in Fig. 13.
 Notes on Identification. Along with members of the Staphylinidae, Cercyon is one of the more common beach-dwelling beetle taxa. As it is the only beach-dwelling hydrophilid genus in most regions, excluding Australia and New Zealand, it can be easily differentiated from other beach beetles by its evenly oval habitus, uninterrupted outline between pronotum and elytra, presence of a mesoventral tablet, maxillary adhesion discs, and clubbed antennae.
description: Published as part of Suzumura, Alyssa Lee, Kobayashi, Norio & Ôhara, Masahiro, 2019, Revision of the Beach-Dwelling Species of Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) of the West Coast of North America, pp. 473-493 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (3) on page 475, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.3.473, http://zenodo.org/record/5377336
title: EFFICIENT METHODS FOR HIGHER-ORDER FACTORIZATIONS: ACCURACY, SCALABILITY, AND GENERALIZATION
Creators: name: Gabrielson, Benjamin R
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Coresets
subject: Independent Vector Analysis
subject: Joint Blind Source Separation
subject: Matrix Factorizations
subject: Tensor Factorizations
subject: Tucker Decomposition

description: Matrix and tensor factorizations are methods that decompose datasets into factors: unobserved, estimated variables useful for summarizing a dataset’s latent structure. The simplest datasets are matrices, utilizing methods such as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). When given sets of matrices or higher-order tensors, matrix-based methods generalize to ``higher-order factorizations’’ that better leverage the data’s multidimensional structure. These factorizations include Independent Vector Analysis (IVA), extending ICA to multiple matrix datasets, and tensor methods such as Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD), generalizing SVD to higher-order tensors. Despite the powerful capabilities of higher-order factorizations, challenges are well-summarized by the idiom ``there is no free lunch’’. Factorizations inheriting an advantage in one desired aspect, e.g., estimation quality, necessarily do so at the expense of another aspect, e.g., computational efficiency. Creating a useful factorization method can ultimately be seen as a balancing act, finding a good tradeoff between statistical efficiency (estimation quality), computational efficiency, and the method's generalization capabilities. This dissertation studies the development and theory of efficient higher-order factorizations, notably those methods that perform Joint Blind Source Separation (JBSS) such as IVA, but also tensor factorization methods such as HOSVD. Many improvements we provide are computational, yielding efficient methods for large-scale datasets. However, our methods also provide useful theoretical analysis and improvements to statistical efficiencies. We begin by overviewing JBSS, and introduce methods to better perform JBSS. We introduce efficient analytic solutions and efficient methods via utilizing subsets of the data. We provide theoretical analysis via deriving nonidentifiability conditions: conditions for when our JBSS methods fail (otherwise implying when they succeed). We follow by discussing tensor factorization methods, and introduce an efficient coreset-based factorization that can both approximate the HOSVD and perform a form of tensorial feature selection. For all our methods, we validate their capabilities via various simulated datasets and real-world data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We conclude the dissertation with possible future directions that could extend beyond our proposed methods.
Towards applications of bioentities@ MOFs in biomedicine
Creators: name: M.D., Velásquez-Hernández
name: M., Linares-Moreau
name: E., Astria
name: F., Carraro
name: M.Z., Alyami
name: N.M., Khashab
name: C.J., Sumby
name: C.J., Doonan
name: P., Falcaro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with biomacromolecules, viruses and cells have emerged as novel biocomposites for application to drug delivery, biosensing, biospecimen preservation, and cell and virus manipulation. The integration of biological entities into MOF matrices generates MOF biocomposites with functional characteristics that cannot be observed in the separate components, such as enhanced chemical and thermal stability, resistance to proteases, MOF-conferred selectivity, and controlled release. In this review, we will discuss these functional properties and applications of the biocomposites obtained by the encapsulation of (i) proteins, (ii) carbohydrates, (iii) nucleic acids, and (iv) viruses or cells in a MOF matrix. Finally, we review the post functionalization of MOF-based drug carriers with lipids as a potential route to enhance the dispersion, stability in biological fluids, and blood circulation time of MOF-based drug delivery systems.
The runaway black hole GRO J1655-40
Creators: name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Mignani, R.
name: Rodrigues, I.
name: Combi, J. A.
name: Rodriguez, L. F.
name: Guglielmetti, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the motion in the sky and compute the galactocentric orbit of the black hole X-ray binary GRO J1655-40. The system moves with a runaway space velocity of $112\pm 18$ km s$^{-1}$ in a highly eccentric ($e = 0.34\pm 0.05$) orbit. The black hole was formed in the disk at a distance greater than 3 kpc from the Galactic centre and must have been shot to such an eccentric orbit by the explosion of the progenitor star. The runaway linear momentum and kinetic energy of this black hole binary are comparable to those of solitary neutron stars and millisecond pulsars. GRO J1655-40 is the first black hole for which there is evidence for a runaway motion imparted by a natal kick in a supernova explosion.
description: Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 5 pages, 2 color figures. Color figure and animation can be found at http://www.iafe.uba.ar/astronomia/mirabel/mirabel.html or ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/mirabel
Thoracolumbar spine kinematics and injuries in frontal impacts with reclined occupants
Creators: name: Richardson, Rachel
name: Jayathirtha, Mohan
name: Chastain, Kalle
name: J.-P. Donlon
name: Forman, Jason
name: Bronislaw Gepner
name: Östling, Martin
name: Krystoffer Mroz
name: Shaw, Greg
name: Pipkorn, Bengt
name: Kerrigan, Jason
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Highly automated vehicles may permit alternative seating postures, which could alter occupant kinematics and challenge current restraint designs. One predicted posture is a reclined seated position. While the spine of upright occupants is subjected to flexion during frontal crashes, the orientation of reclined occupants tends to subject the spine to high compressive loads followed by high flexion loads. This study aims to investigate kinematics and mechanisms of loading in the thoracolumbar spine for a reclined seated posture through the use of postmortem human subjects (PMHS). Frontal impact sled tests (50 kph delta-v) were conducted on five adult midsize male PMHS seated with the torso reclined to 50 degrees with respect to the vertical. The PMHS were seated on a semi-rigid seat and restrained by a seat-integrated three-point belt with dual lap-belt pretensioners and a shoulder-belt pretensioner with a 3 kN load-limiter. 3-D kinematic trajectories of five chosen vertebrae, and the pelvis were measured relative to the vehicle buck. Intervertebral pressure transducers were installed at three locations in the lumbar column to detect load timing. Three PMHS suffered fractures at L1. Combined compression and flexion of the thoracolumbar spine occurred in all tests, but the magnitude of peak flexion varied across the PMHS. During the PMHS' forward excursion, the pelvis rotated anteriorly in two tests and posteriorly in two tests (lap-belt submarining occurred in one). In one test, the pelvis mount interacted with the seat, but did not affect kinematics. Anterior rotation of the pelvis caused increased extension of the lumbar spine, which exacerbated lumbar compression in two of the PMHS; the one subject whose pelvis kinematic tracking was lost exhibited similar compression kinematics. Posterior rotation of the pelvis enabled lumbar flexion, which decreased lumbar compression, but lead to lap-belt submarining in one case. Lumbar kinematics for these reclined frontal impacts were sensitive to changes in initial posture of the spine (magnitude of lordosis or kyphosis) and pelvis (pitch angle). To our knowledge, this study is the first to analyze thoracolumbar kinematics and resulting injuries of a reclined seating posture using PMHS.
Measurement incompatibility and steering are necessary and sufficient for operational contextuality
Creators: name: Tavakoli, Armin
name: Uola, Roope
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contextuality is a signature of operational nonclassicality in the outcome statistics of an experiment. This notion of nonclassicality applies to a breadth of physical phenomena. Here, we establish its relation to two fundamental nonclassical entities in quantum theory; measurement incompatibility and steering. We show that each is necessary and sufficient the failure of operational contextuality. We exploit the established connection to contextuality to provide a novel approach to problems in measurement incompatibility and steering.
description: A. T. and R. U. contributed equally to this work
title: EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF TISSUE ARCHITECTURE ON DROSOPHILA CHEMOTAXIS USING ADVANCED IMAGING AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: George, Alexander
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: cell migration
subject: chemotaxis
subject: drosophila
subject: gradient
subject: oogenesis
subject: tissue morphology

description: Graded concentrations of diffusible signals, such as morphogens and chemoattractants, instruct important developmental processes, like cell specification and cell migration. However, signal distribution in complex tissue geometries in vivo has not been well characterized, which has implications in understanding concentration-dependent signaling effects. Using the border cells, which migrate collectively in the Drosophila egg chamber during oogenesis and are guided by chemoattractants, we can study these important issues in vivo. We find that distinct features in the tissue geometry along the migration route, specifically acellular gaps at multicellular intersections, disrupt local concentrations of secreted chemoattractants to affect directed border cell migration. In live-imaged wild-type egg chambers, we observed declines in posterior speed that occur specifically at intersections; trends that disappear in response to elevated levels of chemoattractant, suggesting that migratory cues differ in these regions, normally. We developed a mathematical model, informed by this data, to predict the migration changes in response to both chemical and architectural inputs. Our model indicates that in silico, border cells slow down in intersections due to local changes in the chemoattractant gradient, which matches our in vivo phenotypes. Importantly, we observed that migration delays in response to modified chemoattractant levels could be rescued by manipulating the tissue geometry, which strongly suggests that chemoattractant concentrations can be buffered by tissue architecture. In characterizing these phenotypes, I updated and improved upon published live-imaging methods to culture egg chambers and visualize border cells over the full course of migration. I also came up with novel mounting strategies that allowed for efficient and reproducible characterization of fluorescently-tagged signals in live egg chambers. These strategies allowed us to visualize the tagged chemoattractant, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Related Factor 1 (PVF1) and characterize its distribution in the border cell migratory domain of live egg chambers for the first time in the field. Finally, we demonstrate that the Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan (HSPG) and Extracellular Matrix (ECM) component, Perlecan, plays a role in border cell migration, potentially by modulating PVF1 function. Overall, this body of work shows that in vivo tissue architecture can affect the distribution and function of important signaling molecules, with consequences for essential developmental processes, like cell migration. Funding: NSF-IOS 2303857 & NSF-NIGMS 1953423.
Fabric Evolution of Granular Soils Subjected to Triaxial Loading Using X-Ray Computed Tomography
Creators: name: MD FERDOUS ALAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This thesis explores fabric (arrangement of particles and voids) evolution of sands under triaxial compression using the X-ray Microscopy Facility for Imaging Geo-materials (XMFIG) established at the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University. A number of new essential image-processing algorithms consisting of the Monash Particle Separation Method (MPSM) have been developed. All analyses clearly reveal the localisation and anisotropic behaviour of fabric parameters during shearing. The unreliability of global measurements as critical state parameters is exposed. This thesis shows the high potential of X-ray CT in studying the internal topology of soils and advanced micromechanical phenomena, which were previously speculative.
Slow light propagation in trapped atomic quantum gases
Creators: name: Müstecaplıoğlu, Özgür E.
name: You, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study semi-classical slow light propagation in trapped two level atomic quantum gases. The temperature dependent behaviors of both group velocity and transmissions are compared for low temperature Bose, Fermi, and Boltzman gases within the local density approximation for their spatial density profile.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Prevalence of non-nominal seat positions and postures among front-seat passengers
Creators: name: Reed, Matthew P.
name: Ebert, Sheila M.
name: Jones, Monica L. H.
name: Hallman, Jason J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Recent studies have suggested that a relationship exists between crash injury risk and occupant posture, particularly in postures different from those used with anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) in crash testing. The objective of this study was to increase scientific understanding of typical front-seat passenger postures through a naturalistic study. Video cameras were installed in the passenger cabins of the vehicles of 75 drivers. Reflective targets were attached to the seats and the seat position and seat back angle was moved through their available ranges during instrumentation. The video data, along with vehicle acceleration and location data, were downloaded after the vehicles were operated as usual by their owners for two weeks. Video frames were manually coded to identify characteristics of front-seat passenger posture and position. Seat position and seat back angle were estimated using the calibration data obtained during vehicle instrumentation. Video frames from a total of 2733 trips were coded for 306 unique front-seat passengers. For these trips, a total of 13638 frames were coded; each frame represents about four minutes of travel time. The head was rotated left or right in 33% of frames, and the torso was rotated left or right about 10% of the time and pitched forward in almost 10% of frames. No seat position or seat back angle change was noted in 40 (53%) of vehicles and the distributions of seat position and seat back angle on arrival were essentially unchanged during travel. The seat was positioned full-rear on the seat track about 23% of the time and rearward of the mid-track position in 92% of frames. The mean seat back angle was 25.4 degrees (standard deviation 6.4 degrees); seat back angle was greater than 30 degrees in 15% of frames and greater than 35 degrees in less than 1% of frames. This study is the first to report distributions of postures, seat positions, and seat back angles for front-seat passengers. Seat positions rearward of the middle of the seat adjustment range are common, but highly reclined postures are infrequent. Non-nominal torso and head postures also are nontrivial.
Existence of the Wigner function with correct marginal distributions along tilted lines on a lattice
Creators: name: Horibe, Minoru
name: Takami, Akiyoshi
name: Hashimoto, Takaaki
name: Hayashi, Akihisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to determine the Wigner function uniquely, we introduce a new condition which ensures that the Wigner function has correct marginal distributions along tilted lines. For a system in $N$ dimensional Hilbert space, whose "phase space" is a lattice with $N^2$ sites, we get different results depending on whether $N$ is odd or even. Under the new condition, the Wigner function is determined if $N$ is an odd number, but it does not exist if $N$ is even.
description: 18 pages
Gazella Blainville 1816
Creators: name: Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S.
name: Bernor, Raymond L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella

description: Genus Gazella Blainville, 1816
 TYPE SPECIES. — Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus, 1758).
description: Published as part of Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, pp. 649-708 in Geodiversitas 33 (4) on page 652, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5377377
Additional file 1 of Structural characterization of Platanthera ussuriensis chloroplast genome and comparative analyses with other species of Orchidaceae
Creators: name: Han, Chenyang
name: Ding, Rui
name: Zong, Xiaoyan
name: Zhang, Lijie
name: Chen, Xuhui
name: Qu, Bo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Stroudia fumipennis Gusenleitner & Ockermüller 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Gusenleitner, Josef
name: Ockermüller, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Stroudia
Stroudia fumipennis

description: Stroudia fumipennis nov.sp. ♀
H o l o t y p u s: RSA, W Cape w, Lambert's Bay, 20.11.2002, ♀, leg. M. Snižek, coll. OLML.
P a r a t y p e n: Daten wie Holotypus 12♀♀; RSA Northern Cape, E Kamleskroon, 2.11.1999, 1♀; RSA, W Cape, E oif Lambert's Bay, 7.9.1999, 1♀, leg. M. Halada, coll. OLML et J. Gusenleitner.
 Diese Art (Abb. 7) ist in der Grösse Stroudia herta GUSENLEITNER 2002 ähnlich, doch unterscheidet sie sich in der Färbung und in den Strukturen.
Bei schwarzer Grundfarbe sind rot gefärbt: ein Grossteil der Mandibeln, die Unterseiten der Fühlerschäfte und der Fühlergeissel, eine Binde vorne auf dem Pronotum, Binden am Pronotum entlang des Mesonotums, Flecken auf den oberen Abschnitten der Mesopleuren, Binden auf dem Schildchen und Hinterschildchen, die Tegulae, die Beine ab Schenkelmitte und das 1. Tergit. Weiss gefärbt sind: schmale Endbinden auf dem 1. Tergit (in der Mitte oft unterbrochen), dem 2. Tergit und dem 2. Sternit (oft reduziert auf Seitenflecken). Flügel rauchig getrübt.
Clypeus (Abb. 8) etwa so lang wie breit und stark punktiert mit glänzenden Punktzwischenräumen, über dem schmalen Ausschnitt Punkte der Länge nach zusammenfliessend. Stirn, Scheitel und Schläfen gleichmässig punktiert, die schmalen, glänzenden Punktzwischenräume sehr weitläufig punktuliert. Pronotum, Mesonotum, Schildchen und Hinterschildchen gröber als die Stirn, die Mesopleuren ähnlich der Stirn punktiert. Schultern spitz gestaltet. Propodeum hinter dem Hinterschildchen etwas verlängert und zur Hinterleibseinlenkung gebogen abfallend. Propodeum ebenfalls grob aber weitläufiger punktiert, auch auf den Seitenwänden.
1. Tergit (Abb. 9) am distalen Ende sehr breit und vor diesem Ende mit einer Querfurche. 1. Tergit weitläufig grob punktiert, Zwischenräume glänzend und sehr weitläufig punktuliert. 2. Tergit dicht punktiert mit glänzenden, punktulierten Zwischenräumen. Durchscheinender eingedrückter Endsaum des 2. Tergites an der Basis mit einer Punktreihe. Tergit 3 bis 6 nur chagriniert. 2. Sternit in der Struktur dem entsprechenden Tergit entsprechend. Sternite 3 bis 6 nur chagriniert.
Clypeus, Stirn und Scheitel hell behaart. Länge der Haare etwas mehr als der Durchmesser einer Ocelle entsprechend. Thorax mit etwas kürzeren Haaren, in der sich auch eine silberglänzende Pubeszenz im Bereich der Mesopleuren und des Propodeums mischt. Hinterleib mit mikroskopischer Pubeszenz.
Länge: 10 mm.
Das ♂ ist unbekannt.
description: Published as part of Gusenleitner, Josef & Ockermüller, Esther, 2018, Über bemerkenswerte Faltenwespen aus der äthiopischen Region Teil 13 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 1099-1110 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1100-1101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275159
Intra-familial time allocation : a micro study in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Chakravarty, Manotosh Ranjan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Time management Bangladesh
subject: Production standards Bangladesh
subject: Families Bangladesh
subject: Time management surveys Bangladesh
subject: Bangladesh Social conditions

description: The subject of this study is the allocation of time by individuals to different activities. The objective is to help explain stabilisation and destabilisation in human fertility in terms of inter-generational and sex differentials in allocation of time. The production utility of children is measured by children's work contribution compared to that of adults. Time allocation issues are examined basically within two modes of production - familial and non-familial. It is found that with a transition in the mode of production from familial to non-familial the amount of children's time spent on work decreases. It is also found that education has an impact on reducing children's contributions, especially in the non-familial mode of production. The allocation of time for work among males, both children and adults, of rural landowning and urban traditional business families is similar. In families headed by day labourers male children contribute considerable amounts of time for work although less than in landowning and traditional business families, but the resources of most such families do not provide opportunities for more work. Children contributed least work in service workers' families. Sex segregation in activity is very great for all families except those of service workers. Parental time costs for child care are low for all the families, again excepting service workers' families. The study concludes that a transition in the mode of production initiates a change in the time allocation of household members. Education, as a concomitant of the transition in the mode of production, reduces the production utility of children, increases the parental time cost of child care and m.i n.i m.i ses sex segregation in the household division of labour. The findings suggest directions for further research on intra-familial goods distribution, especially food distribution, as a parallel allocation study. analysis to the intra-familial time.
Identically closed two-form for covariant phase space quantization of Dirac-Nambu-Goto p-branes in a curved spacetime
Creators: name: Cartas-Fuentevilla, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a fully covariant formalism given by Carter for the deformation dynamics of p-branes governed by the Dirac-Nambu-Goto action in a curved background, it is proved that the corresponding Witten's phase space is endowed with a covariant symplectic structure, which can serve as a starting point for a phase space quantization of such objects. Some open questions for further research are outlined.
description: LaTeX, 8 pages, to be published in Phys. Lett. B. (2002)
Demecquenemia Kostopoulos & Bernor 2011, n. gen.
Creators: name: Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S.
name: Bernor, Raymond L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Demecquenemia

description: Genus Demecquenemia n. gen.
 TYPE SPECIES. — Demecquenemia rodleri (Pilgrim & Hopwood, 1928) n. comb.
ETYMOLOGY. — Dedicated to R. de Mecquenem, one of the Maragheh pioneers.
DIAGNOSIS. — As for the single known species.
TAXONOMIC OVERVIEW
 Rodler & Weithofer (1890) described a frontlet from Maragheh (NHMW A4898) as a new species, Gazella capricornis, to which Mecquenem (1925) assigned later several specimens from the same area, now in MNHN.F. Pilgrim & Hopwood (1928) were the first authors to point out that “ Gazella capricornis ” from Maragheh is a different species from Gazella capricornis from Pikermi, and proposed referring the Maragheh bovid to a new species, Gazella rodleri. Pilgrim (1939) suggested affiliations of G. rodleri with Oioceros Gaillard, 1902, an idea rejected by Gentry (1970) but adopted by Solounias (1981). Korotkevich (1976) ascribed to this species a rich sample from Belka (Ukraine) and she assigned it to a new subgenus Procapra (Vetaprocapra) rodleri, the type species of which is Antilope capricornis Wagner, 1848. Bernor (1978) refers to the species as Gazella rodleri but Bouvrain (1996) explicitly excluded it from Gazella. Gentry & Heizman (1996) challenged once again its generic attribution and provisionally allocated it to Hispanodorcas Thomas, Morales & Heintz, 1982.
description: Published as part of Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, pp. 649-708 in Geodiversitas 33 (4) on page 658, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5377377
Laypersons’ perception of common cold and influenza prevention—a qualitative study in Austria, Belgium and Croatia
Creators: name: Petricek, Goranka
name: Hoffmann, Kathryn
name: Vandenbroucke, Anna
name: Divjak, Asja Cosic
name: Mayrhuber, Elisabeth Anne-Sophie
name: Peersman, Wim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Common cold and influenza result in an increased number of primary care consultations, significant work/school absences and cause a socio-economic burden. Laypeople’s perceptions and knowledge regarding common cold and influenza prevention is poorly understood and under-researched. Objectives: Our study explores laypeople’s knowledge of prevention of common cold and influenza across three European countries. Furthermore, it investigates if there is any distinction between prevention activities focussing on reasons impacting the attitude towards influenza vaccination as well as investigating cross-country variation. Methods: In total, 85 semi-structured individual interviews were performed across three European countries (Austria n = 31, Belgium n = 30, Croatia n = 24). Qualitative thematic content analysis was performed. Results: Most participants across all three countries made no distinction between the prevention of the common cold and influenza and referenced the same preventative measures for both conditions. They mainly expressed negative attitudes towards influenza vaccination possibly effective but only intended for high-risk groups (bedridden/older people, chronic patients or health workers). There were very few cross-country differences in results. Conclusion: The perception of health risk of contracting influenza and a primary healthcare physicians’ recommendation played an important role in shaping participants’ decisions towards vaccination. Primary healthcare physicians are invited to assess and if necessary adjust inappropriate prevention behaviour through their everyday patient consultations as well as add to the knowledge about influenza severity and influenza vaccination benefits to their patients.
The U.S.-Japan security relationship, 1975-1985 : a Japanese perspective
Creators: name: Katahara, Eiichi
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: National security Japan
subject: National security United States
subject: Japan Foreign relations United States
subject: United States Foreign relations Japan
subject: Japan Defenses

description: Japan and the United States, two bitter wartime enemies, have become two of the closest and perhaps most important allies in the world today. Given the dissimilarities between the two countries, the U.S.-Japan alliance is, indeed, a remarkable achievement. In spite of the marked differences in culture, tradition, language and ethnicity, the two countries share a basic similarity in that they are now industrial democracies, embracing democratic values and a free economy. Although the post-war U .S .-Japanese relationship can be viewed as a remarkable success, diverging national interests and differing perceptions have troubled the relationship from time to time. These create an ever-present potential for mishandling and misunderstanding, as were the textile dispute in 1969-71 and the "Nixon shocks" of 1971. Although Japan has been the cornerstone of the U.S. strategy of forward deployment in the Asia-Pacific region, recent U .S .-Japanese relations have been strained by chronic economic friction and U.S. demands for an increased Japanese defence effort. This paper deals with the strategic aspects of the current U .S .-Japanese relationship. It focusses on the period from 1975 to the present because since the late 1970s, the U . S .-Japanese security relationship has entered a new phase. Recent trends indicate that Japan seems to be increasingly integrated into the U.S. global alliance system. Some indications of this are joint defence planning, military technology cooperation and joint military exercises. But questions which need to be answered remain. Is Japan really prepared to meet the U.S. demands? What are the implications of the deepening military ties between the U.S. and Japan for the security of Japanese interests, or for the stability of the Asia-Pacific region? How can a more stable U,S.-Japanese security relationship be developed?