cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of the Application Status of Transcutaneous/Percutaneous vagus Nerve Stimulation for Musculoskeletal Pain: A Scoping Review for Utilization in Korean Medicine and Subsequent Research
Creators: name: GUN HEE BAE
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This study aimed to understand the general research trends, applicated disease, and methodology of transcutaneous/percutaneous vagus nerve stimulation, contemplating its clinical use in traditional Korean medicine and future research directions.
 A scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O'Malley Framework Stage and adhering to the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews: Checklist and Explanation. Papers published until October 30, 2023, were investigated across 10 databases (PubMed, EMbase, Scopus, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System, Korean Studies Information Service System, KMBASE, Science ON, Research Information Sharing Service. The search terms used were 'Transcutaneous/Percutaneous vagus nerve stimulation'.
Non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas theory and the conifold
Creators: name: Szendroi, Balazs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a quiver algebra A with relations defined by a superpotential, this paper defines a set of invariants of A counting framed cyclic A-modules, analogous to rank-1 Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds. For the special case when A is the non-commutative crepant resolution of the threefold ordinary double point, it is proved using torus localization that the invariants count certain pyramid-shaped partition-like configurations, or equivalently infinite dimer configurations in the square dimer model with a fixed boundary condition. The resulting partition function admits an infinite product expansion, which factorizes into the rank-1 Donaldson-Thomas partition functions of the commutative crepant resolution of the singularity and its flop. The different partition functions are speculatively interpreted as counting stable objects in the derived category of A-modules under different stability conditions; their relationship should then be an instance of wall crossing in the space of stability conditions on this triangulated category.
description: Infinite product form, conjectured in v1, now a theorem of Ben Young. Additional discussion of small-volume expansion related to Eisenstein-like series
Effects of organic carbon source and light-dark period on growth and lipid accumulation of Scenedesmus sp. AARL G022
Creators: name: Yuwadee Peerapornpisal
name: Doungpen Dittamart
name: Chayakorn Pumas
name: Jeeraporn Pekkoh
Publisher: name: Maejo University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Scenedesmus sp. AARL G022,algal bio-oil,mixotrophic cultivation

description: 2, 8, Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology
title: Fantastikaracters and Folkbiology: A Cognitive Approach to Imaginary Creatures in Fiction Film
Creators: name: Wible, Zoe Ninon
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2024

description: Fantastikaracters are fictional characters that belong to a species that does not exist in our (extratextual) world, for example aliens, chimeras, yetis, and various hybrids. As such, these characters mobilize, question, and potentially challenge the cultural narratives at work in the categories of nature, humans, and animals. The ways these fantastikaracters appear in fiction film echo broader discourses around the non-human that contribute to cultural ontologies, material practices and the socio-cultural production of meaning. This thesis explores the various processes at play in the creation of Fantastikaracter on screen, on the one hand, and engagement with such characters, on the other, arguing that folkbiology is a productive heuristic. The term “folkbiology” (or “naïve biology”) refers to the common-sense beliefs, attitudes and skills related to cohabitation with non-human living beings. By extension, folkbiology also refers to the academic field that combines the methods of ethnobiology, anthropology, and cognitive psychology to examine the ways in which various populations and cultures conceptualize, model, and, more generally speaking, relate to, the natural world. Taking inspiration from the natural sciences (including zoology and ethology) is a well-known and common practice for filmmakers and creature designers. Furthermore, folkbiological concepts related to naïve biology (such as species essentialism or life teleology) provide structure for the representation of Fantastikaracters as part of broader ecosystems. Finally, the representation of Fantastikaracters can reflect – or challenge – cultural ontologies, and so also reflect or challenge the spectator’s beliefs and attitudes towards the non-human. Part I considers the implication of fantastikaracters for existing theories of characters and narrative, drawing from the works of cognitive film theorists Murray Smith and Noël Carroll, and expanding them by bringing in narratologist David Herman. Part II focuses more specifically on folkbiology, using Scott Atran’s concepts to explore interpretive and creative processes. Part III is focused on mood-cueing and moral emotions, using the work of Greg M. Smith and Margrethe Bruun Vaage to analyse how film strategies can combine with folkbiological thinking to elicit strong affective experiences that manipulate the spectator’s engagement with fantastikaracters. Finally, Part IV brings in the topic of species hybrids, including chimeras and anthropotheriomorphic creatures (creatures combining human and animal traits) arguing that such stories can reflect anxieties around techno-sciences.
Exciton-Plasmon Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Bondarev, I. V.
name: Tatur, K.
name: Woods, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the interactions of excitonic states with surface electromagnetic modes of small-diameter (~1 nm) semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. We show that these interactions can result in strong exciton-surface-plasmon coupling. The exciton absorption lineshapes exhibit the line (Rabi) splitting $~0.1-0.3$ eV as the exciton energy is tuned to the nearest interband surface plasmon resonance of the nanotube. We expect this effect to open a path to new optoelectronic device applications of semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
description: 4 pages, 2 figure
A non-distillability criterion for secret correlations
Creators: name: Masanes, Lluis
name: Winter, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Within entanglement theory there are criteria which certify that some quantum states cannot be distilled into pure entanglement. An example is the positive partial transposition criterion. Here we present, for the first time, the analogous thing for secret correlations. We introduce a computable criterion which certifies that a probability distribution between two honest parties and an eavesdropper cannot be (asymptotically) distilled into a secret key. The existence of non-distillable correlations with positive secrecy cost, also known as bound information, is an open question. This criterion may be the key for finding bound information. However, if it turns out that this criterion does not detect bound information, then, a very interesting consequence follows: any distribution with positive secrecy cost can increase the secrecy content of another distribution. In other words, all correlations with positive secrecy cost constitute a useful resource.
description: 5 pages
Solitary Wave Solutions for Zoomeron Equation
Creators: name: Amna IRSHAD, Syed Tauseef MOHYUD-DIN
Publisher: name: Walailak University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tanh-Coth method, Zoomeron equation, nonlinear equations, solitary wave solutions

description: 2, 10, Walailak Journal of Science and Technology
Lessons for Designing an Entrepreneurship Curriculum: The Case of Two Schools in Laguna, Philippines
Creators: name: Espiritu, Dianne I.
name: Depositario, Dinah Pura T.
name: Manipol, Nohreen Ethel P.
name: Tan, Reynaldo L.
name: Baticados, Glenn N.
name: Elizondo, Early John C.
name: Espiritu, Dianne I.
name: Depositario, Dinah Pura T.
name: Manipol, Nohreen Ethel P.
name: Tan, Reynaldo L.
name: Baticados, Glenn N.
name: Elizondo, Early John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: personal entrepreneurial competencies (PECs)
subject: entrepreneurship
subject: entrepreneurial skills
subject: entrepreneurship education
subject: entrepreneurship curriculum

description: The study compares the personal entrepreneurial competency (PEC) levels of BS in Agribusiness Management (BS ABM) students of UP Los Baños (UPLB) with the PEC levels of the BS in Entrepreneurship (BSE) students of De La Salle University-Science and Technology Complex (DLSU-STC). A comparison of the PECs of the two groups can generate insights which can serve as a source of valuable lessons for the design of the curricular revisions of UPLB’s BS ABM program. Demographic information and responses to 55 PEC-related statements were gathered from students of different year levels in the two schools. The data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney U test and ordinal logistic analysis and marginal effect analysis. Results reveal that that, except for persistence and goal setting, the BSE students have significantly higher mean scores in all the PECs compared with the BS ABM students. The differences in PEC mean scores are more highly significant between the sophomores of the two schools. The study recommends that the design and sequence of entrepreneurship courses at the Department of Agribusiness Management and Entrepreneurship (DAME) - College of Economics and Management (CEM), UPLB should enable students to experience the whole entrepreneurial process. It should also promote the holding of informal activities which can capture the authenticity of real entrepreneurial situations like business plan competitions and mentoring relationships.
Identification of invariant acoustic cues in stop consonants using the Wigner distribution
Creators: name: Garudadri, Harinath
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: It is a common belief that there are invariant acoustic patterns in speech signals, which can be related to their phonetic description. These patterns are expected to remain invariant, independent of the language, speaker, phonetic context, etc. Although many investigations based on short-time spectral analysis have established the feasibility of extracting invariant cues in certain contexts, they could not provide a set of invariant cues in any given phonetic context. In this thesis, the Wigner distribution (WD) was used to analyze speech signals for the first time, to investigate acoustic invariance. The WD, like the spectrogram, provides a time-frequency description of the signal. Unlike the spectrogram, it provides correct marginals in the time and frequency domains, but it is not a positive distribution. It is demonstrated here that the partially smoothed WD, in which both the properties of positivity and correct marginals are sacrificed to some extent, provides a better time-frequency resolution than short-time spectral analyses methods. An implementation and an interpretation of the partially smoothed WD are presented. The choice of smoothing parameters and the nature of cross-term suppression in a partially smoothed WD are discussed in detail. It is shown that the cross-terms in a partially smoothed WD do not mask the underlying nature of a signal in the time-frequency plane. A partially smoothed WD was used to investigate acoustic invariance in voiceless, unaspirated stop consonants spoken by native speakers of English, Telugu and French. Contrary to reports in the literature, it was shown that the features "diffuse-rising" and "compact" spectral shapes were not unique to alveolar and velar places of articulation, respectively, but depended on the vowel context. The resulting ambiguities when specifying the place of articulation were resolved using Formant Onset Duration (time taken for the steady state formants to occur in the vocal tract after the consonantal release) and F₂ of the following vowel. The place of articulation was specified correctly for 86% of the tokens. Unlike in other investigations, the errors in specifying the place of articulation were uniformly distributed over all vowel contexts.
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE: NIGERIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Chinedu, A. Okafor
name: Nkechi, M. Nwosu
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Access to Justice, Rule of law, Justice, Constitution, Court

description: This paper examines access to justice under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended in comparison with the access to justice provisions in other jurisdictions’ constitutions. Nigeria constitution is the organic law or ground norm on the legal framework on access to justice. It presupposes to provide Rule of Law and effective access to justice and redress in terms of Good Governance, Equality, Fairness, Equal protection of law without delay, less cost and Certainty of outcomes as the case may be. However, the constitution is shrouded with vagueness, cumbrous rules and procedures which made it difficult for court’s interpretation thereby denying or adversely affecting citizen’s effective access to justice. There are problems inherent in the Nigeria’s constitution different from other countries’ constitutional provisions that encourages and promotes easy access to justice. This paper discuses some of the constitution’s provisions on access to justice in Nigeria by comparative analysis with other jurisdictions like Republic of India, South Africa and Kenya. Doctrinal and comparative analysis methods are used in discussing this research. It is recommended that the Nigeria constitution be overhauled by borrowing from the other jurisdictions those provisions that encourages and promotes easy and effective access to justice to bring it to international standard and global best practices.
MEMS Technology for Optical Switching
Creators: name: Kornkamol THAKULSUKANANT
Publisher: name: Walailak University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), 2 dimensional MEMS (2D MEMS), 3 dimensional MEMS (3D MEMS), optical crossconnect (OXC), scalability, 3D MEMS, Optical crossconnect (OXC), scalability

description: 1, 10, Walailak Journal of Science and Technology
Automatically Selecting Striking Images for Social Cards
Creators: name: Jones, Shawn M.
name: Weigle, Michele C.
name: Klein, Martin
name: Nelson, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To allow previewing a web page, social media platforms have developed social cards: visualizations consisting of vital information about the underlying resource. At a minimum, social cards often include features such as the web resource's title, text summary, striking image, and domain name. News and scholarly articles on the web are frequently subject to social card creation when being shared on social media. However, we noticed that not all web resources offer sufficient metadata elements to enable appealing social cards. For example, the COVID-19 emergency has made it clear that scholarly articles, in particular, are at an aesthetic disadvantage in social media platforms when compared to their often more flashy disinformation rivals. Also, social cards are often not generated correctly for archived web resources, including pages that lack or predate standards for specifying striking images. With these observations, we are motivated to quantify the levels of inclusion of required metadata in web resources, its evolution over time for archived resources, and create and evaluate an algorithm to automatically select a striking image for social cards. We find that more than 40% of archived news articles sampled from the NEWSROOM dataset and 22% of scholarly articles sampled from the PubMed Central dataset fail to supply striking images. We demonstrate that we can automatically predict the striking image with a Precision@1 of 0.83 for news articles from NEWSROOM and 0.78 for scholarly articles from the open access journal PLOS ONE.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 10 tables
Price Cointegration and Leadership in Regional Tilapia and Roundscad Markets in the Philippines, 1990-2007
Creators: name: Garcia, Yolanda T.
name: Garcia, Maria Esperanza T.
name: Lantican, Flordeliza A.
name: Garcia, Yolanda T.
name: Garcia, Maria Esperanza T.
name: Lantican, Flordeliza A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: price cointegration
subject: price leadership
subject: market infrastructure
subject: tilapia
subject: roundscad
subject: Philippines

description: This study aims to investigate the price dynamics between the wholesale and retail prices of roundscad and tilapia in the regional markets of the Philippines. It also seeks to analyze how the observed dynamics in these prices could be linked to the development in market-related infrastructures that can promote trade, e.g., telecommunication and transportation facilities. Results of the study reveal that there is a general decrease in the number of regions that show cointegrated wholesale and retail prices over time in both fish species. Moreover, price leadership under the “Granger-causality” sense (of either wholesale or retail price) seems to diminish in the recent years for both markets. These results suggest that the development in telecommunication and transportation facilities that generally facilitate the movements of fish from one supply point to another could increase price competition in these markets leading to more uniform prices, thus reducing the influence of a dominant price
Finding my Voice as a Public Scholar: A Discourse Self-Analysis of My Own Opinion Writing about Education
Creators: name: Caneva, Gina
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation is a discourse analysis that includes a self-examination of the entirety of my 72 op-eds about my experiences as a Chicago Public School educator, a suburban public school educator, a mother, and a graduate student to discover how my writing has changed over time in terms of influences, discourses, and diction with the ultimate goal of using this analysis to improve upon my writing as I continue to write in the public sphere. I charted and memoed the 72 articles in terms of influences, discourses that they spoke to in terms of equity, social justice and/or failure/achievement, and asset-based and deficit-based language I used to frame people, communities, and systems. Then, I divided the collection up evenly into three separate corpi to designate a beginning, middle, and end. From there, I selected six focal articles, two from each corpi to demonstrate my change as a writer over time.

After close analysis and reflection, I identified three findings from the data. First, over time, my discourses shifted from having an equity focus to becoming a blend of equity and social justice and finally to having solely a social justice focus. As I continued to write op-eds and began UIC’s doctoral program, I saw the social justice discourse appear and combine with the equity discourse in my second corpus. In my most recent writings, the social justice discourse dominated all others. Secondly, as I reflected narratively and closely coded and analyzed my diction, over time, my language used to frame students and communities became more asset-based, while my language used to frame politicians, education leaders, and long-standing educational institutions became more pointed and deficit-based. Lastly, I developed as a public intellectual to write about a wide array of topics instead of just a select few as seen in my first corpus. I attribute this both to professional and academic influences that came with time and experience as a public school educator and doctoral student.

This research has implications for the research community itself as although there have been many studies on teacher writing and even self-studies on teacher writing all of the studies have been focused on how the writing relates to the practice of teaching. This research focuses on the writing itself for the sole purpose of becoming a more well-rounded public intellectual. In addition, this research has implications for teacher education programs as it can show teacher candidates, especially in urban settings, the multiple ways that forces outside the classroom can impact the novice teacher, and it can also showcase the power of teacher voice in agency for educational change. Finally, this dissertation contributes to the field of education as it challenges institutions to provide support for teachers and students at all levels of academia to become public intellectuals.
Rapid and homologous immunoassay for the detection of herbicide propisochlor in water
Creators: name: Liu, Yao
name: Wang, Lan-Teng
name: Zhou, Kai
name: Eremin, Sergei A.
name: Huang, Xin-An
name: Sun, Yuan-Ming
name: Xu, Zhen-Lin
name: Lei, Hong-Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The herbicide propisochlor can be introduced into the water cycle via agricultural activities, thus possibly leading to harmful ecological effects. It is significant for the development of a rapid method for propisochlor analysis in water. In this work, a rapid homogeneous immunoassay based on fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) was firstly developed for the determination of propisochlor in pond water. The developed FPIA assay can be completed within only 14 min; the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50) was 125.1 ng/mL and the limit of detection was 8.4 ng/mL. The recoveries of propisochlor in pond water ranged from 80.0% to 86.6%. A high performance liquid chromatography confirmation showed a good correlation with the developed FPIA (R2 = 0.9748). The developed FPIA exhibited satisfactory rapidity, high sensitivity and excellent specificity, meeting the standards of the screening assay of propisochlor in pond water on site. The molecular modeling showed that the alkoxyalkyl of chloroacetamide herbicides exerted important effects on the herbicide–antibody binding.
Equivalence principle and electromagnetic field: no birefringence, no dilaton, and no axion
Creators: name: Hehl, Friedrich W.
name: Obukhov, Yu. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling of the electromagnetic field to gravity is discussed. In the premetric axiomatic approach based on the experimentally well established conservation laws of electric charge and magnetic flux, the Maxwell equations are the same irrespective of the presence or absence of gravity. In this sense, one can say that the charge "substratum" and the flux "substratum" are not influenced by the gravitational field directly. However, the interrelation between these fundamental substrata, formalized as the {\it spacetime relation} H=H(F) between the 2-forms of the electromagnetic excitation H and the electromagnetic field strength F, is affected by gravity. Thus the validity of the equivalence principle for electromagnetism depends on the form of the spacetime relation. We discuss the nonlocal and local linear constitutive relations and demonstrate that the spacetime metric can be accompanied also by skewon, dilaton, and axion fields. All these premetric companions of the metric may eventually lead to a violation of the equivalence principle.
description: 13 pages latex
Rapid and homologous immunoassay for the detection of herbicide propisochlor in water
Creators: name: Liu, Yao
name: Wang, Lan-Teng
name: Zhou, Kai
name: A. Eremin, Sergei
name: Huang, Xin-An
name: Sun, Yuan-Ming
name: Xu, Zhen-Lin
name: Lei, Hong-Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The herbicide propisochlor can be introduced into the water cycle via agricultural activities, thus possibly leading to harmful ecological effects. It is significant for the development of a rapid method for propisochlor analysis in water. In this work, a rapid homogeneous immunoassay based on fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) was firstly developed for the determination of propisochlor in pond water. The developed FPIA assay can be completed within only 14 min; the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50) was 125.1 ng/mL and the limit of detection was 8.4 ng/mL. The recoveries of propisochlor in pond water ranged from 80.0% to 86.6%. A high performance liquid chromatography confirmation showed a good correlation with the developed FPIA (R2 = 0.9748). The developed FPIA exhibited satisfactory rapidity, high sensitivity and excellent specificity, meeting the standards of the screening assay of propisochlor in pond water on site. The molecular modeling showed that the alkoxyalkyl of chloroacetamide herbicides exerted important effects on the herbicide–antibody binding.
Socio-Economic and Environmental Assessment of a Microcontroller-Based Coffee Roasting Machine: Implications for Market Potential and Technology Commercialization
Creators: name: Mojica, Ruel M.
name: Elauria, Marilyn M.
name: Mojica, Ruel M.
name: Elauria, Marilyn M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: coffee roasting machine
subject: microcontroller-based
subject: socio-economic
subject: environmental assessment

description: The study assesses the socio-economic and environmental performance leading to the commercialization of the micro-controller-based coffee roasting machine for smallscale roasting operations. Key informant interview and coffee farmers’ survey were conducted to assess the farmer- respondents’ perceptions of coffee roasting machines and availability of resources. Results show that the designed coffee roaster almost fits the farmers’ criteria in selecting coffee roasting machine. Coffee farmers perceived the machine to be a very good technology as evidenced by its highly acceptable rating. Investment analysis reveals that using the roaster for custom work would be a profitable business with an IRR of 76% and benefit-cost ratio of 1.44. Moreover, even with the additional costs due to roasting, an average coffee farmer with one-hectare farm will get an additional income of PhP 28,240.00 from coffee roasting or an equivalent of PhP 70.6 per kilo of dried berries roasted instead of selling green berries.
NICER uncovers the transient nature of the type-B quasi-periodic oscillation in the black hole candidate MAXI J1348-630
Creators: name: Zhang, L.
name: Altamirano, D.
name: Uttley, P.
name: Garcia, F.
name: Mendez, M.
name: Homan, J.
name: Steiner, J. F.
name: Alabarta, K.
name: Buisson, D. J. K.
name: Remillard, R. A.
name: Gendreau, K. C.
name: Arzoumanian, Z.
name: Markwardt, C.
name: Strohmayer, T. E.
name: Neilsen, J.
name: Basak, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic spectral-timing analysis of a fast appearance/disappearance of a type-B quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO), observed in four NICER observations of MAXI J1348-630. By comparing the spectra of the period with and without the type-B QPO, we found that the main difference appears at energy bands above ~2 keV, suggesting that the QPO emission is dominated by the hard Comptonised component. During the transition, a change in the relative contribution of the disk and Comptonised emission was observed. The disk flux decreased while the Comptonised flux increased from non-QPO to type-B QPO. However, the total flux did not change too much in the NICER band. Our results reveal that the type-B QPO is associated with a redistribution of accretion power between the disk and Comptonised emission. When the type-B QPO appears, more accretion power is dissipated into the Comptonised region than in the disk. Our spectral fits give a hint that the increased Comptonised emission may come from an additional component that is related to the base of the jet.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Structure and Resilience in Multilayer Networks of Public Safety Services
Creators: name: Li, Jun
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation explores the intricacies of public safety service networks within local governments through the lens of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Addressing significant gaps in existing literature, it utilizes a multilayer network framework to examine how formal intergovernmental agreements create interconnected public service systems. The study investigates the interdependence among five key public safety networks—criminal investigation, emergency response, fire protection, jails and corrections, and policing—using three conceptual lenses: multiplex, network of networks (NoNs), and multi-slice.

The research reveals that interdependencies among these networks are limited and not stable over time. Shared membership influences network dynamics, particularly in criminal investigation and jails and corrections, highlighting the selective nature of collaboration among local agencies. Temporal analysis uncovers emergent but unstable communities within these networks, pointing to a fluctuating structure in public safety collaborations.

The dataset, derived from Iowa's 28E agreements from 1993 to 2018, offers a robust empirical foundation for this analysis. By advancing our understanding of the systemic and dynamic nature of public safety service networks, this work contributes to the broader discourse on collaborative public management and the resilience of intergovernmental service systems.
Cell-type specialization is encoded by specific chromatin topologies.
Creators: name: Winick-Ng, Warren
name: Kukalev, Alexander
name: Harabula, Izabela
name: Zea-Redondo, Luna
name: Szabó, Dominik
name: Meijer, Mandy
name: Serebreni, Leonid
name: Zhang, Yingnan
name: Bianco, Simona
name: Chiariello, Andrea M
name: Irastorza-Azcarate, Ibai
name: Thieme, Christoph J
name: Sparks, Thomas M
name: Carvalho, Sílvia
name: Fiorillo, Luca
name: Musella, Francesco
name: Irani, Ehsan
name: Triglia, Elena Torlai
name: Kolodziejczyk, Aleksandra A
name: Abentung, Andreas
name: Apostolova, Galina
name: Paul, Eleanor J
name: Franke, Vedran
name: Kempfer, Rieke
name: Akalin, Altuna
name: Teichmann, Sarah
name: Dechant, Georg
name: Ungless, Mark A
name: Nicodemi, Mario
name: Welch, Lonnie
name: Castelo-Branco, Gonçalo
name: Pombo, Ana
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
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/631/208/200
/631/337/386
/631/378/2583
/631/553/2711
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/14/63
/38/23
/38/77
/38/91
/13/100
/45
/45/22
/64/60
/119
/13/31
/14/19
/14/56
article

description: The three-dimensional (3D) structure of chromatin is intrinsically associated with gene regulation and cell function1-3. Methods based on chromatin conformation capture have mapped chromatin structures in neuronal systems such as in vitro differentiated neurons, neurons isolated through fluorescence-activated cell sorting from cortical tissues pooled from different animals and from dissociated whole hippocampi4-6. However, changes in chromatin organization captured by imaging, such as the relocation of Bdnf away from the nuclear periphery after activation7, are invisible with such approaches8. Here we developed immunoGAM, an extension of genome architecture mapping (GAM)2,9, to map 3D chromatin topology genome-wide in specific brain cell types, without tissue disruption, from single animals. GAM is a ligation-free technology that maps genome topology by sequencing the DNA content from thin (about 220 nm) nuclear cryosections. Chromatin interactions are identified from the increased probability of co-segregation of contacting loci across a collection of nuclear slices. ImmunoGAM expands the scope of GAM to enable the selection of specific cell types using low cell numbers (approximately 1,000 cells) within a complex tissue and avoids tissue dissociation2,10. We report cell-type specialized 3D chromatin structures at multiple genomic scales that relate to patterns of gene expression. We discover extensive 'melting' of long genes when they are highly expressed and/or have high chromatin accessibility. The contacts most specific of neuron subtypes contain genes associated with specialized processes, such as addiction and synaptic plasticity, which harbour putative binding sites for neuronal transcription factors within accessible chromatin regions. Moreover, sensory receptor genes are preferentially found in heterochromatic compartments in brain cells, which establish strong contacts across tens of megabases. Our results demonstrate that highly specific chromatin conformations in brain cells are tightly related to gene regulation mechanisms and specialized functions.
Raman spectra and infrared intensities of graphene-like clusters in compared to epitaxial graphene on Si
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Seyed Sajad
name: Simchi, Hamidreza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are several growing methods for graphene. In this study, the growth of graphene-like clusters on the SiC wafers is done by annealing the wafers in a vacuum evaporation system equipped with a heating source accessory. For evaluating the quality of the growth method, the Raman spectra and infrared intensities of graphene-like clusters are studied theoretically and experimentally. For doing the theoretical study, three types of graphene clusters are considered and their Raman spectrum and infrared intensities are found using the Hartree-Fock method. The results show that the geometry of the cluster, and in consequence the geometry-dependent high (low) non-uniformity of charge distribution on the cluster surfaces causes the high (low) infrared intensities. The experimental spectrums are measured and compared with the theoretical ones. An agreement was seen between the experimental and theoretical Raman spectrum when the wave number is less than 1700 Cm-1. It is shown that more accurate temperature control and higher vacuum level of the chamber are essential for using the physical evaporation method for growing the single-layer graphene on the SiC substrate.
Fields and Filaments in the Core of the Centaurus Cluster
Creators: name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Gentile, G.
name: Allen, S. W.
name: Crawford, C.
name: Sanders, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high resolution images of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) structure of the radio galaxy PKS 1246-410, at the center of the Centaurus cluster. Comparison with Halpha-line and soft X-ray emission reveals a correspondence between the line-emitting gas, the soft X-ray emitting gas, regions with an excess in the RM images, and signs of depolarization. Magnetic field strengths of 25 microG, organized on scales of ~1 kpc, and intermixed with gas at a temperature of 5 x 10^6 K with a density of ~0.1 cm^-3 can reproduce the observed RM excess, the depolarization, and the observed X-ray surface brightness. This hot gas may be in pressure equilibrium with the optical line-emitting gas, but the magnetic field strength of 25 microG associated with the hot gas provides only 10% of the thermal pressure and is therefore insufficient to account for the stability of the line-emitting filaments.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Termovision Testing of the Solar Power Plant Lifetime in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Jandová, K.
name: Vanek, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operation, Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaics
Operation of PV Systems

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1924-1926
description: In this article we are comparing the results of analyses of photovoltaic power systems by using of
thermal imager. Fifty different-sized photovoltaic power plants comprising more than twenty thousand photovoltaic
modules were analyzed. The analysis was carried out over a period of one year and under various conditions and it
was performed by three service companies. The results of the analysis are delivered with the recommendations, under
what best conditions the measurements are to be performed.
A Mathematical Theory of Stochastic Microlensing II. Random Images, Shear, and the Kac-Rice Formula
Creators: name: Petters, Arlie O.
name: Rider, Brian
name: Teguia, Alberto M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuing our development of a mathematical theory of stochastic microlensing, we study the random shear and expected number of random lensed images of different types. In particular, we characterize the first three leading terms in the asymptotic expression of the joint probability density function (p.d.f.) of the random shear tensor at a general point in the lens plane due to point masses in the limit of an infinite number of stars. Up to this order, the p.d.f. depends on the magnitude of the shear tensor, the optical depth, and the mean number of stars through a combination of radial position and the stars' masses. As a consequence, the p.d.f.s of the shear components are seen to converge, in the limit of an infinite number of stars, to shifted Cauchy distributions, which shows that the shear components have heavy tails in that limit. The asymptotic p.d.f. of the shear magnitude in the limit of an infinite number of stars is also presented. Extending to general random distributions of the lenses, we employ the Kac-Rice formula and Morse theory to deduce general formulas for the expected total number of images and the expected number of saddle images. We further generalize these results by considering random sources defined on a countable compact covering of the light source plane. This is done to introduce the notion of {\it global} expected number of positive parity images due to a general lensing map. Applying the result to microlensing, we calculate the asymptotic global expected number of minimum images in the limit of an infinite number of stars, where the stars are uniformly distributed. This global expectation is bounded, while the global expected number of images and the global expected number of saddle images diverge as the order of the number of stars.
description: To appear in JMP
Structural and Chemical Characterizations of Thin Films on Surfaces
Creators: name: Wang, Kai
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: The characterization of thin films hinges critically upon the exploration of nanostructures and chemistry at interfaces governed by intricate interactions and chemical environments due to their reduced dimensions. This work presents a practice utilizing various techniques to conduct structural and chemical characterization of thin films. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) offers atomic-scale imaging to study the topography of localized structures, such as heterogeneity of the substrate, defects, and adsorption of molecules. While STM is a potent tool in its own right, chemical information that cannot be directly obtained from STM can be accessed through complementary techniques such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) or Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). On the other hand, Raman spectroscopy delves into the highly sensitive vibrational fingerprints of a broad range of materials, including two-dimensional (2D) materials synthesized via top-down approaches. In the first project, the self-assembly of an antiaromatic molecule on metal surfaces is investigated. STM and density functional theory (DFT) calculations prove different structures and self-assembled islands of N,N-diphenylquinodimethyl thioamide (Ph2QDM) formed on different substrates based on distinct molecule-substrate interactions. Importantly, desulfurization is observed on Ag(100) surfaces after depositing Ph2QDM, indicating silver-assisted carbon-sulfur double bond activation. The second project entails the design of an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) STM system, facilitating a comprehensive investigation of the nanostructure topography and chemical environment through the integration of multiple techniques. Finally, the third project involves the design of a micro-Raman system. Several experiments have been conducted with this system, showing the capabilities to investigate the chemical information of various samples. The cooperative application of various techniques allows for a comprehensive understanding of the structural and chemical information of thin films on surfaces can be obtained.
Smart-FLeX Solution Way Forward for Cost Competitive BIPV Production?
Creators: name: Ulbikas, J.
name: Galdikas, A.
name: Stonkus, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV in Buildings and the Environment

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2790-2791
description: Implementing Nearly Zero Energy Building concepts BIPV solutions can play significant role only if they are competitive in terms of costs, performance and visual appearance comparing with other RES technologies. SMART-FLeX project is targeting these issues proposing integrated solution for glass façade buildings design, flexible manufacturing production and cost effective installation of tailored BIPV products according architect’s vision. Project results are demonstrating competitiveness of BIPV products in terms of flexibility of building design and production as well as cost effective integration into the building. Further steps leading to competitive prices for products developed using SMART-FLeX solution comparing to other construction products will be discussed to ensure EU wide multiplication of the proposed approach in other than glass façade buildings and wide market deployment of SMART-FLeX based BIPV products.
Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for an Alternative Irrigation Policy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Farming in the Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation System
Creators: name: Decena, Fezoil Luz C.
name: Pabuayon, Isabelita M.
name: Decena, Fezoil Luz C.
name: Pabuayon, Isabelita M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: irrigation policy
subject: choice experiment
subject: willingness to pay

description: The practice of continuous flooding of rice fields in the national irrigation systems has attendant issues, including the inefficient use of water, unequal distribution of water along the irrigation canals, and greenhouse gas emissions. An ex-ante analysis was conducted to evaluate alternative policy options in the Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation Systems, using both market and non-market approaches. The market approach estimated the greenhouse gas avoided and water savings due to the shift in policy. The non-market approach used choice experiment to estimate willingness to pay of farmers to shift the current to an alternative policy. The study concludes that there is room for a policy change that addresses greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation. This is indicated by the farmers’ willingness to pay for this policy change. The important consideration, however, is that the policies should address factors including water availability, greenhouse gas reduction potential of the technology or water system being promoted by the policy, and the irrigation water price which should be lower than the current irrigation service fee to serve as incentive to policy adoption.
The characteristic polynomial of the next-nearest-neighbour qubit chain for single excitations
Creators: name: Mewton, C. J.
name: Ficek, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characteristic polynomial for a chain of dipole-dipole coupled two-level atoms with nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour interactions is developed for the study of eigenvalues and eigenvectors for single-photon excitations. We find the exact form of the polynomial in terms of the Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind that is valid for an arbitrary number of atoms and coupling strengths. We then propose a technique for expressing the roots of the polynomial as a power series in the coupling constants. The general properties of the solutions are also explored, to shed some light on the general properties that the exact, analytic form of the energy eigenvalues should have. A method for deriving the eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian is also outlined.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures; minor corrections
Ac-cotunneling through an interacting quantum dot under a magnetic field
Creators: name: Dong, Bing
name: Lei, X. L.
name: Horing, Norman J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze inelastic cotunneling through an interacting quantum dot subject to an ambient magnetic field in the weak tunneling regime under a non-adiabatic time-dependent bias-voltage. Our results clearly exhibit photon-assisted satellites and an overall suppression of differential conductance with increasing driving amplitude, which is consistent with experiments. We also predict a zero-anomaly in differential conductance under an appropriate driving frequency.
description: Phys. Lett. A (in press)