cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimized supernova constraints on dark energy evolution
Creators: name: Stephan-Otto, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model-independent method to study the possible evolution of dark energy is presented. Optimal estimates of the dark energy equation of state w are obtained from current supernovae data from Riess et al. (2004) following a principal components approach. We assess the impact of varying the number of piecewise constant estimates of w using a model selection method, the Bayesian information criterion, and compare the most favored models with some parametrizations commonly used in the literature. Although data seem to prefer a cosmological constant, some models are only moderately disfavored by our selection criterion: a constant w, w linear in the scale factor, w linear in redshift and the two-parameter models introduced here. Among these, the models we find by optimization are slightly preferred. However, current data do not allow us to draw a conclusion on the possible evolution of dark energy. Interestingly, the best fits for all varying-w models exhibit a w
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; typos removed and reference added to match published version
Linear quantum state diffusion for non-Markovian open quantum systems
Creators: name: Strunz, Walter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the relevance of complex Gaussian stochastic processes to the stochastic state vector description of non-Markovian open quantum systems. These processes express the general Feynman-Vernon path integral propagator for open quantum systems as the classical ensemble average over stochastic pure state propagators in a natural way. They are the coloured generalization of complex Wiener processes in quantum state diffusion stochastic Schrodinger equations.
description: 9 pages, RevTeX, appears in Physics Letters A
MOESM3 of In-feed bambermycin medication induces anti-inflammatory effects and prevents parietal cell loss without influencing Helicobacter suis colonization in the stomach of mice
Creators: name: Chloë De Witte
name: Taminiau, Bernard
name: Flahou, Bram
name: Hautekiet, Veerle
name: Daube, Georges
name: Ducatelle, Richard
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Immunohistochemical Helicobacter (A), caspase-3 (B) and KI-67 (C) staining of a mouse stomach, showing H. suis colonization, apoptotic cells and replicating cells, respectively. (A) H. suis bacteria (brown) present in the glands of the antrum of a stomach of a H. suis-positive control mouse not treated with bambermycin. Original magnification: ×400. (B) Apoptotic cells (brown) present in a stomach of a H. suis-negative mouse treated with bambermycin. Original magnification: ×400. (C) Replicating cells (brown) present in a stomach of a H. suis-negative mouse treated with bambermycin. Original magnification: ×400.
Asymptotic behaviour of a network of oscillators coupled to thermostats of finite energy
Creators: name: Dymov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the asymptotic behaviour of a finite network of oscillators (harmonic or anharmonic) coupled to a number of deterministic Lagrangian thermostats of finite energy. In particular, we consider a chain of oscillators interacting with two thermostats situated at the boundary of the chain. Under appropriate assumptions we prove that the vector $(p,q)$ of moments and coordinates of the oscillators in the network satisfies $(p,q)(t)\to (0,q_c)$ when $t\to\infty$, where $q_c$ is a critical point of some effective potential, so that the oscillators just stop. Moreover, we argue that the energy transport in the system stops as well without reaching the thermal equilibrium. This result is in contrast to the situation when the energies of the thermostats are infinite, studied for a similar system in [14] and subsequent works, where the convergence to a non-trivial limiting regime was established. The proof is based on a method developed in [22], where it was observed that the thermostats produce some effective dissipation despite the Lagrangian nature of the system.
description: 22 pages. In comparison with the previous version where a chain of oscillators was considered, the result is generalized to the case when the oscillators form arbitrary network
Identifying the etiologic agent of strawberry disease in rainbow trout
Creators: name: Lloyd, Sonja Jane
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Skin Diseases

description: Strawberry disease (SD) is an inflammatory skin disorder of unknown etiology that leads to downgrading or rejection of farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at processing and thus has an economic impact on trout producers. An infectious cause for SD is suggested by studies of limited scope that showed transmission and by the apparent response of SD to antibiotic treatment. I used culture-independent methods (16S rDNA libraries) to identify candidate bacterial pathogens from seven SD lesions and two healthy skin samples from SD-affected fish. A 16S rDNA sequence highly similar to members of the order Rickettsiales was present in three lesion libraries and absent in healthy tissue libraries. I developed and applied a nested-PCR assay to screen 25 SD-affected fish for 16S rDNA from this Rickettsia-like organism (RLO). Sixteen of 25 lesion samples and four of the 25 healthy samples were positive for the RLO sequence indicating a significant positive association between SD lesions and the presence of RLO DNA (P < 0.001). Efforts to culture the RLO organism were unsuccessful. Instead, I developed a quantitative-PCR assay (qPCR) to enumerate RLO in lesions of varying severity under the working hypothesis that if RLO is the etiologic agent of SD, then there should be a positive correlation between lesion severity and RLO copy number. The assay targeted the RLO 16S rDNA sequence and had an analytical detection sensitivity of 100 copies. I then tested 18 lesions from 13 fish representing high or low lesion severity as judged by gross examination. QPCR detected higher numbers of RLO (mean of 11,015 copies) in high severity lesions compared to lower numbers (mean of 3,160 copies) in low severity lesions (P < 0.001). Samples of unaffected skin from SD-affected fish were all negative except two samples (121 and 139 copies). My results demonstrate a positive correlation between copy number and lesion severity. This information combined with the association between SD lesions and the presence of RLO supports the hypothesis that the RLO is the etiologic agent of SD.
Cherry-Picking of Code Commits in Long-Running, Multi-release Software
Creators: name: Bunyakiati, Panuchart
name: Phipathananunth, Chadarat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents Tartarian, a tool that supports maintenance of software with long-running, multi-release branches in distributed version control systems. When new maintenance code, such as bug fixes and code improvement, is committed into a branch, it is likely that such code can be applied or reused with some other branches. To do so, a developer may manually identify a commit and cherry pick it. Tartarian can support this activity by providing commit hashtags, which the developer uses as metadata to specify their intentions when committing the code. With these tags, Tartarian uses dependency graph, that represents the dependency constraints of the branches, and Branch Identifier, which matches the commit hashtags with the dependency graph, to identify the applicable branches for the commits. Using Tartarian, developers may be able to maintain software with multiple releases more efficiently.
description: 5 pages
Strong convergence rate of Runge--Kutta methods and simplified step-$N$ Euler schemes for SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions
Creators: name: Hong, Jialin
name: Huang, Chuying
name: Wang, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper focuses on the strong convergence rate of both Runge--Kutta methods and simplified step-$N$ Euler schemes for stochastic differential equations driven by multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with $H\in(\frac12,1)$. Based on the continuous dependence of both stage values and numerical schemes on driving noises, order conditions of Runge--Kutta methods are proposed for the optimal strong convergence rate $2H-\frac12$. This provides an alternative way to analyze the convergence rate of explicit schemes by adding `stage values' such that the schemes are comparable with Runge--Kutta methods. Taking advantage of this technique, the optimal strong convergence rate of simplified step-N Euler scheme is obtained, which gives an answer to a conjecture in $[3]$ when $H\in(\frac12,1)$. Numerical experiments verify the theoretial convergence rate.
Glueballs on the three-sphere
Creators: name: Heuvel, Bas van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-perturbative effects of the global features of the configuration space for SU(2) gauge theory on the three-sphere. The strategy is to reduce the full problem to an effective theory for the dynamics of the low-energy modes. By explicitly integrating out the high-energy modes, the one-loop correction to the effective hamiltonian is obtained. Imposing the $θ$ dependence through boundary conditions in configuration space incorporates the non-perturbative effects of the non-contractable loops in the full configuration space. After this we obtain the glueball spectrum of the effective theory with a variational method.
description: 48 p LaTeX, 13 Postscript figures appended
Urban growth monitoring, simulation and management from coastal cities management perspective using Cellular Automata, Remote Sensing and GIS: a case study of Alexandria governorate, Egypt
Creators: name: Elmorshdy, Mustafa Ahmed Mustafa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata
subject: Urban growth simulation
subject: Land-use/cover change detection
subject: Land suitability analysis
subject: Strategic environmental assessment
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Coastal Zone Management
subject: 710
subject: Zersiedlung
subject: Simulation
subject: Stadterweiterung
subject: Flächennutzung
subject: Strategische Umweltprüfung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Küstenschutz
subject: Fernerkundung
subject: Zellularer Automat

description: Egyptian coastal cities are astonishing places for people to live. Due to lack of adequate sustainable management and governance, the coastal cities and its resources suffer from multitude of negative environmental impacts, particularly uncontrolled urban growth. By the means of Landsat satellite imagery, remote sensing and GIS, Multi-temporal and spatial analysis for the investigation area has been conducted for the last three decades. Results showed that there are disparities between land-use practices and coastal zone management and spatial planning policies governing the coastal cities. Furthermore, the encroachment of agriculturally productive land and parts of freshwater resources (Lake Mariute) resulting in new urban areas. The author and with help of 23 urban decision-makers have proposed driving factors of urban growth for the study area. Thereafter, urban growth monitoring and prediction were conducted using a standalone CA-based model that was developed by the means of Python programming language. Definition of the transition rules through calculation of the transition potential was conducted. Monte Carlo method was used to calibration the model, in which, the parameters’ calibration process takes place through probability distribution for each used parameter in the calibration process. Figure or Merit and overall agreement as precision indicators resulting accuracy range from 87.6% to 90% goodness-of-fit. Five scenarios to predict urban growth for the year 2032 were developed. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) was implemented through the integration of two techniques; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Weighted Linear Combination (WLC), aiming at defining land suitability criteria and weights for the new urban areas. The results indicated that maximum environmental protection and compact city growth scenarios are the closest to the strategic urban plan for Alexandria 2032 and also have a low influence on the cultivated lands.
Numerical simulations of quiet Sun magnetic fields seeded by Biermann battery
Creators: name: Khomenko, E.
name: Vitas, N.
name: Collados, M.
name: de Vicente, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic fields of the quiet Sun cover at any time more than 90\% of its surface and their magnetic energy budget is crucial to explain the thermal structure of the solar atmosphere. One of the possible origins of these fields is due to the action of local dynamo in the upper convection zone of the Sun. Existing simulations of the local solar dynamo require an initial seed field, and sufficiently high spatial resolution, in order to achieve the amplification of the seed field to the observed values in the quiet Sun. Here we report an alternative model of seeding based on the action of the Bierman battery effect. This effect generates a magnetic field due to the local imbalances in electron pressure in the partially ionized solar plasma. We show that the battery effect self-consistently creates from zero an initial seed field of a strength of the order of micro G, and together with dynamo amplification, allows the generation of quiet Sun magnetic fields of a similar strength to those from solar observations.
description: To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: ADCO, Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0518
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0518, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0518, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
A factor analytic study of the internal structure of the Brigance comprehensive inventory of basic skills-II
Creators: name: Breidenbach, Daniel Hyde
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements -- Evaluation

description: The Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-II is the newest version of a long-standing instrument that is presented as useful for identifying student achievement, identifying and monitoring strengths and weaknesses, obtaining data to support referrals for further diagnostic testing, and reporting progress for individual educational plans. Since the CIBS-II is intended to comply with requirements of the NCLB act, as well as the IDEA, validity studies are required. This study provides evidence to support the use of CIBS-II scores as indicators of students' progress in various academic domains. This study is part of the overall standardization and validation project for the instrument. Nine subtests are included in the standardization and validation study of the CIBS-II. This study seeks confirming or disconfirming evidence as to the proposed composite score structure. The scores from the standardization sample are used to find evidence of essential unidimensionality of subtests through the use of DIMTEST and to investigate the composite score structure through the use of confirmatory factor analysis. DIMTEST results indicate that five subtests cannot be considered unidimensional. Several CFA models were fit to the standardization data, including the proposed composite score model and multiple plausible rival models. The sample was randomly split in half to allow one subgroup to be used to test models while holding the second subgroup in reserve to cross-validate the best-fitting model. The best-fitting model was in accordance with the proposed composite score structure. This model was cross-validated with the second random subgroup to ensure that the final model was not replicating specific features of the sample and to support the conclusion that the selected model fits the entire sample. Results provide support for the proposed composite score structure, but the support is tempered by evidence of multidimensionality in five subtests and by high interfactor correlations and structure coefficients, which are consistent with evidence of multidimensionality. Suggestions are made regarding additional studies to resolve these concerns.
Megatrends Affecting Air Transport — Connecting the Dots
Creators: name: Abeyratne, Ruwantissa
name: Abeyratne, Ruwantissa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: artificial intelligence
subject: aviation
subject: climate change
subject: connectivity
subject: geo-politics
subject: ICAO

description: The air transport world is fast moving toward an evidence- and data-based approach with a view to facing the forces that drive our existential lives. Called megatrends, these forces portend a world that will be riven by the rapid evolution of current trends that leaders of the aviation world will have to contend with over the next 25 to 30 years. These trends are already among us and will evolve in significance. In the context of the aviation industry a reckonable fact is that by 2020 the global middle class will number 3 billion people, and the aviation industry will be able to connect with them all through the smart devices in their pockets. By 2020, 21 billion network devices will be in use – up from 2 billion just a decade ago. Mobile technology, cloud computing, data analytics, biotech and genomics, and artificial intelligence are all advancing rapidly. Consequently, one can expect growth opportunities related to aircraft digitization and new high-performance materials, as well as hybrid engines and 3-D printing. As this article discusses, although information technology is one of the most pervasive megatrends, others such as the shift of global trends, demographic change, climate change, and other trends and drivers are intertwined. This article discusses the megatrends in their various linkages and argues that law and regulation are key elements in managing these trends and ensuring that whatever the buzzwords might be in modern usage and however much they would facilitate the functioning of a rapidly changing world, they must be properly regulated.
Characterization of key transcriptional regulators in jasmonate signaling
Creators: name: Niu, Yajie
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Plant Growth Regulators

description: Jasmonates (JAs) are a group of oxylipin phytohormones that regulate plant defense and developmental processes. A JA-insensitive mutant coronatine insensitive 1 (coi1) has been the focus of intensive research efforts for more than a decade. COI1 encodes an F-box protein, a component of SCFCOI1 E3 ubiquitin ligase and is required for all or most JA responses, suggesting that protein degradation mediated by the SCFCOI1 complex plays a central role in JA responses. These key components, targets of SCFCOI1, were discovered in our transcription profiling experiments on stamens of the JA biosynthetic mutant opr3; they are the JASMONATE ZIM-DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins. Experiments with plants expressing JAZ-GUS fusion proteins demonstrate that these proteins are destabilized by SCFCOI1 in response to JA. Deletion of a C-terminal conserved domain, the Jas domain, stabilized JAZ proteins and conferred a JA-insensitive phenotype. These results indicate that JAZ proteins are repressors targeted by SCFCOI1 and that the Jas domain is critical for their function. Since JAZ proteins do not contain any recognizable DNA binding domain, they are hypothesized to regulate gene expression through interaction with DNA-binding transcription factors. The basic helixloop helix (bHLH) protein, MYC2, is the only transcription factor known to directly interact with JAZ proteins and regulate JA responses. Using a yeast two-hybrid screen with JAZ1 protein as the bait, I identified two bHLH transcription factors, MYC3 and MYC4, which share high sequence similarity with MYC2. Overexpression of these two transcription factors induced expression of JA-responsive genes and caused anthocyanin accumulation, one of the JA responses in Arabidopsis. Furthermore, MYC3 overexpression plants were hypersensitive to JA in terms of root growth inhibition. Taken together, these data suggest that MYC3 and MYC4 are additional JAZ-regulated transcriptional activators in JA signaling. JAZ-interacting protein 1(JIP1) was also identified in the two-hybrid screen. JIP1 possesses repression activity to reporter gene expression in transient expression assays, suggesting that it is a candidate corepressor for facilitating JAZ repression. Characterizing these JAZ-interacting proteins will help to understand the molecular mechanism by which JAZs repress the expression of JA-responsive genes and refine the current model of JA signaling.
Thermoelastic-Plastic Flow Equations in General Coordinates
Creators: name: Blaschke, Daniel N.
name: Preston, Dean L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations governing the thermoelastic-plastic flow of isotropic solids in the Prandtl-Reuss and small anisotropy approximations in Cartesian coordinates are generalized to arbitrary coordinate systems. In applications the choice of coordinates is dictated by the symmetry of the solid flow. The generally invariant equations are evaluated in spherical, cylindrical (including uniaxial), and both prolate and oblate spheroidal coordinates.
description: 19 pages; v2: minor revision, to appear in J. Phys. Chem. Solids
JALOLIDDIN MANGUBERDINING MO'G'ULLARGA QARSHI HARBIY STRATEGIYASI
Creators: name: Xolmurotov Ilyos Otaboy o'g'li Nizomiy nomidagi Toshkent davlat pedagogika universiteti tarix fakulteti 4 bosqich talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu tezisda Sulton Jaloliddin Manguberdining mo’gullarga qarshi kurashda qo’’lagan harbiy taktikasi va urushlarda shijoati harbiy sa’natda uzoqni ko’ra bilish harbiy taktika jihatidan dushmanga qarshi yovqur harakatlari batafsil yoritilgan.

Kalit so’zlar.

         Jaloliddin Manguberdi, Chingizxon, Valiyon, Niso, Shiki Xutuxu, Sind, Tulu.
title: Can you see the beauty?
title: Nonviolent communication as counter narrative in the lives of former prisoners
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dougan, Debbie
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Non-violence

description: Little is known about individuals who studied nonviolence communication and mindfulness through the Freedom Project. This study looks at the lived experiences of three men, as well as members of the Freedom Project "community circle." A series of literary portraits was created using ethnographic data obtained through observations and in depth interviews. These portraits reveal the relationship between personal narrative and public discourse, as well as the ways that power and knowledge are produced and operate in and through both discourse of violence and discourse of nonviolence, and the discursive practices associated with dominant and resistant discourses. This research documents the process by which nonviolent communication and mindfulness became practices of freedom and facilitated a new ethic of self.
Observational Evidence of a Flux Rope within a Sunspot Umbra
Creators: name: Guglielmino, Salvo L.
name: Romano, Paolo
name: Zuccarello, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed an elongated filamentary bright structure inside the umbra of the big sunspot in active region NOAA 12529, which differs from the light bridges usually observed in sunspots for its morphology, magnetic configuration, and velocity field. We used observations taken with the Solar Dynamic Observatory satellite to characterize this feature. Its lifetime is 5 days, during which it reaches a maximum length of about 30". In the maps of the vertical component of the photospheric magnetic field, a portion of the feature has a polarity opposite to that of the hosting sunspot. At the same time, in the entire feature the horizontal component of the magnetic field is about 2000 G, substantially stronger than in the surrounding penumbral filaments. Doppler velocity maps reveal the presence of both upward and downward plasma motions along the structure at the photospheric level. Moreover, looking at the chromospheric level, we noted that it is located in a region corresponding to the edge of a small filament which seems rooted in the sunspot umbra. Therefore, we interpreted the bright structure as the photospheric counterpart of a flux rope touching the sunspot and giving rise to penumbral-like filaments in the umbra.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for ApJL
Recent MILC spectrum results
Creators: name: Bernard, C.
name: Blum, T.
name: DeGrand, T. A.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Gottlieb, Steve
name: Heller, Urs M.
name: Hetrick, J.
name: McNeile, C.
name: Rummukainen, K.
name: Sugar, R. L.
name: Toussaint, Doug
name: Wingate, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on results from three spectrum calculations with staggered quarks: 1) a quenched calculation with the standard action for the gluons and quarks; 2) a quenched calculation with improved actions for both the gluons and quarks; and 3) a calculation with two flavors of dynamical quarks using the standard actions for the gluons and quarks.
description: Poster presented at LATTICE96(spectrum);4 pages of LaTeX, uses espcrc2 and epsf, six postscript figures included
Klein tunneling and electron optics in Dirac-Weyl fermion systems with tilted energy dispersion
Creators: name: Nguyen, Viet Hung
name: Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The outstanding electronic properties of relativistic-like fermions have been extensively studied in solid state systems with isotropic linear dispersions such as graphene. Here, we show that 2D and 3D Dirac-Weyl (DW) materials exhibiting tilted energy dispersions could induce drastically different transport phenomena, compared to the non-tilted case. Indeed, the Klein tunneling of DW fermions of opposite chiralities is predicted to appear along two separated oblique directions. In addition, valley filtering and beam splitting effects are easily tailored by dopant engineering techniques while the refraction of electron waves is dramatically modified by the tilt, thus paving the way for emerging applications in electron optics and valleytronics.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures and Supplemental Material, submitted for publication
Safer Digital Intimacy For Sex Workers And Beyond: A Technical Research Agenda
Creators: name: Hamilton, Vaughn
name: Kaptchuk, Gabriel
name: McDonald, Allison
name: Redmiles, Elissa M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many people engage in digital intimacy: sex workers, their clients, and people who create and share intimate content recreationally. With this intimacy comes significant security and privacy risk, exacerbated by stigma. In this article, we present a commercial digital intimacy threat model and 10 research directions for safer digital intimacy
description: To appear in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451. III. Late-time Jet Energetics and a Deviation from Equipartition
Creators: name: Eftekhari, T.
name: Berger, E.
name: Zauderer, B. A.
name: Margutti, R.
name: Alexander, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present continued radio and X-ray observations of the relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J164449.3+573451 extending to $δt \approx 2000$ d after discovery. The radio data were obtained with the VLA as part of a long-term program to monitor the energy and dynamical evolution of the relativistic jet and to characterize the parsec-scale environment around a previously dormant supermassive black hole. We combine these data with $\textit{Chandra}$ X-ray observations and demonstrate that the X-ray emission following the sharp decline at $δt \approx 500$ d is due to the forward shock. Using the X-ray data, in conjunction with optical/NIR data, we constrain the synchrotron cooling frequency and the microphysical properties of the outflow for the first time. We find that the cooling frequency evolves through the optical/NIR band at $δt \approx 10 - 200$ d, corresponding to a magnetic field energy density fraction of $ε_B \approx 10^{-3}$, well below equipartition; the X-ray data demonstrate that this deviation from equipartition holds to at least $δt \approx 2000$ d. We thus recalculate the physical properties of the jet over the lifetime of the event, no longer assuming equipartition. We find a total kinetic energy of $E_K \approx 4 \times 10^{51}$ erg and a transition to non-relativistic expansion on the timescale of our latest observations ($δt \approx 700$ d). The density profile is approximately $R^{-3/2}$ at $\lesssim 0.3$ pc and $\gtrsim 0.7$ pc, with a plateau at intermediate scales, characteristic of Bondi accretion. Based on its evolution thus far, we predict that Sw 1644+57 will be detectable at centimeter wavelengths for decades to centuries with existing and upcoming radio facilities. Similar off-axis events should be detectable to $z \sim 2$, but with a slow evolution that may inhibit their recognition as transient events.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Additional file 6: of MicroRNA expression profiles of bovine monocyte-derived macrophages infected in vitro with two strains of Streptococcus agalactiae
Creators: name: Lewandowska-Sabat, Anna
name: Hansen, Silje
name: Solberg, Trygve
name: Østerås, Olav
name: Heringstad, Bjørg
name: Boysen, Preben
name: Olsaker, Ingrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S2. Principal component analysis of mapped sequence reads. Control represents sequences from non-infected bovine monocyte-derived macrophage libraries, and a) Streptococcus agalactiae strain ST103 infected; b) Streptococcus agalactiae strain ST12 infected; c) LPS-challenged; and d) Streptococcus agalactiae strain ST103 or strain ST12 infected macrophages isolated from the same animals. (PDF 264 kb)
The convergence of autonomy and heteronomy in teacher professional communities
Creators: name: Watkins, Mildred
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Teachers and community

description: Tensions between the autonomy of individual teachers and the expectations for their practice articulated by district, state and federal mandates are common in an era of accountability. In response some educational leaders call for idealized professional communities that consistently focus on specified values. Obstacles to such reforms arise when teachers view these efforts as imposed by administration and as precluding their creative and imaginative energy. This field study of two high performing elementary schools serving historically underserved populations draws from scholarship that seeks a less utopian framework for school community by employing two constructs: heteronomy and interdependence. Data were collected to describe the ways teachers share decisions, and to describe teachers' experience of autonomy and professional community as contributing to their practice. By researching the perspectives of teachers and examining their experiences in light of situated and recurring activities the study describes the collaborative work of teachers to support shared objectives and to respond to common expectations. The study identifies three teacher practices with reference to autonomy and heteronomy - emergent, congruent, and aligned. Each practice expresses a manifestation of community focus, moving from dichotomous interests toward a convergence of autonomy and heteronomy within the school community.
Iteratively Linearized Reweighted Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for a Class of Nonconvex Problems
Creators: name: Sun, Tao
name: Jiang, Hao
name: Cheng, Lizhi
name: Zhu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems frequently appearing in signal processing and machine learning research. The traditional alternating direction method of multipliers encounters troubles in both mathematics and computations in solving the nonconvex and nonsmooth subproblem. In view of this, we propose a reweighted alternating direction method of multipliers. In this algorithm, all subproblems are convex and easy to solve. We also provide several guarantees for the convergence and prove that the algorithm globally converges to a critical point of an auxiliary function with the help of the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property. Several numerical results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
Identifizierung und Modellierung von räumlichen Abhängigkeiten mit Anwendung auf deterministische und probabilistische Windvorhersagen
Creators: name: Hüsch, Marc
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Räumliche Abhängigkeitsstrukturen
subject: Windvorhersagen
subject: Clusteranalyse
subject: Copulas
subject: Deterministische Vorhersagen
subject: Probabilistische Vorhersagen
subject: 310
subject: Prognoseverfahren
subject: Windenergie
subject: Clusteranalyse
subject: Kopula

description: Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit statistischen Verfahren zur Identifizierung und Modellierung von räumlichen Abhängigkeitsstrukturen. Der Anwendungsfokus liegt dabei auf deterministischen und probabilistischen Windgeschwindigkeits- bzw. Windleistungsvorhersagen. Im ersten Teil der Dissertation wird untersucht, wie sich die räumliche Abhängigkeitsstruktur von deterministischen Windleistungsvorhersagefehlern im europäischen Festland für unterschiedliche Vorhersagehorizonte und verschiedene geographische Gegebenheiten unterscheidet. Aufgrund der hohen räumlichen und zeitlichen Auflösung der zugrundeliegenden Daten müssen die verwendeten statistischen Verfahren dabei sehr effizient sein. Für eine erste Analyse der räumlichen Abhängigkeitsstrukturen wird deshalb ein eigens entwickeltes, korrelationsbasiertes Clusteringverfahren für räumlich-zeitliche Datensätze verwendet. Es stellt sich heraus, dass räumliche Korrelationsstrukturen insbesondere für längere Vorhersagehorizonte ausgeprägt sind und außerdem vor allem in flachen, windreichen Regionen auftreten. Für eine noch detailliertere Analyse der räumlichen Abhängigkeitsstruktur wird zudem ein Ansatz basierend auf Copulas und Generalisierten Additiven Modellen vorgeschlagen. Mit dem Verfahren zeigt sich, dass auch sehr große Vorhersagefehler häufig gemeinsam in einem räumlichen Kontext auftreten. Speziell in diesen Situationen können hohe aggregierte Vorhersagefehler resultieren, die für Energiemarkt-teilnehmer und Übertragungsnetzbetreiber ein erhöhtes Risiko darstellen. Um die Vorhersageunsicherheit bereits im Vorfeld besser abschätzen zu können, wird in der Praxis daher häufig auf probabilistische Vorhersagen bzw. meteorologische Ensemble-Vorhersagen zurückgegriffen. Hier stellt sich die Frage, wie die Qualität von verschiedenen probabilistischen Vorhersagen für mehrere Standorte unter Berücksichtigung von räumlichen Abhängigkeitsstrukturen sinnvoll bewertet werden kann. Unter Verwendung von gängigen multivariaten Bewertungsregeln werden im abschließenden Teil der Dissertation verschiedene Schwierigkeiten aufgezeigt, die bei einem Vergleich der Qualität von multivariaten probabilistischen Vorhersagen auftreten können. Mit Hilfe einer empirischen Analyse und einer Sensitivitätsanalyse wird verdeutlicht, dass fehlspezifizierte räumliche Abhängigkeitsstrukturen von den Bewertungsregeln zum Teil nur aufgrund von unterschiedlichen Vorhersagestrukturen nicht korrekt identifiziert werden.
Ultracool dwarf benchmarks with \emph{Gaia} primaries
Creators: name: Marocco, F.
name: Pinfield, D. J.
name: Cook, N. J.
name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Montes, D.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.
name: Gromadzki, M.
name: Jones, H. R. A.
name: Kurtev, R.
name: Smart, R. L.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Lavers, A. L. Cabrera
name: Álvarez, D. García
name: Qi, Z. X.
name: Rickard, M. J.
name: Dover, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the potential of \emph{Gaia} for the field of benchmark ultracool/brown dwarf companions, and present the results of an initial search for metal-rich/metal-poor systems. A simulated population of resolved ultracool dwarf companions to \emph{Gaia} primary stars is generated and assessed. Of order $\sim$24,000 companions should be identifiable outside of the Galactic plane ($|b| > 10\,$deg) with large-scale ground- and space-based surveys including late M, L, T, and Y types. Our simulated companion parameter space covers $0.02 \le M/M_{\odot} \le 0.1$, $0.1 \le {\rm age/Gyr} \le 14$, and $-2.5 \le {\rm [Fe/H]} \le 0.5$, with systems required to have a false alarm probability $<10^{-4}$, based on projected separation and expected constraints on common-distance, common-proper motion, and/or common-radial velocity. Within this bulk population we identify smaller target subsets of rarer systems whose collective properties still span the full parameter space of the population, as well as systems containing primary stars that are good age calibrators. Our simulation analysis leads to a series of recommendations for candidate selection and observational follow-up that could identify $\sim$500 diverse \emph{Gaia} benchmarks. As a test of the veracity of our methodology and simulations, our initial search uses UKIDSS and SDSS to select secondaries, with the parameters of primaries taken from Tycho-2, RAVE, LAMOST and TGAS. We identify and follow-up 13 new benchmarks. These include M8-L2 companions, with metallicity constraints ranging in quality, but robust in the range $-0.39 \le {\rm [Fe/H]} \le +0.36$, and with projected physical separation in the range $0.6\,
description: 27 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The role of PIM1 in cell survival
Creators: name: Gu, Juan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Protein kinases -- Analysis

description: PIM1, a serine/threonine protein kinase, is a stress-induced kinase regulated by cytokines, growth factors, hormones, ischemia, hypoxia, heat shock and infective agents. It has functions in cell survival, proliferation and differentiation. However, the focus of this study is on its contribution to cell survival. Over-expression of PIM1 inhibits apoptosis and promotes cell survival in a variety of cells, including cytokine dependent hematopoietic cells, prostate cancer cells, cardiomyocytes, basophils and eosinophils. Until now, the only recognized proapoptotic target of PIM1 was BAD. BAD phosphorylation by PIM1 results in inhibition of its proapoptotic activity. Because PIM1 can be induced by stress, it was of interest to examine potential protein targets that are involved in the stress response. One such target found in this study is apoptosis signaling kinase-1, ASK1. This is the first time that PIM1 has been shown to be involved in the mitogen-activated kinase mediated cell survival pathway through phosphorylation and inactivation of ASK1. The significance of this event is that ASK1 inhibition results in the inhibition of the downstream targets JNK and p38 subsequently reducing caspase-3 activation and cell apoptosis. In addition, this study also provides evidence to show that PIM1 plays a larger role in cell survival than originally thought by functionally linking two of its previously identified substrates MDM2 and FOXO3a. PIM1 was found to promote cell survival through MDM2-mediated degradation of FOXO3a in H1299 cells. In conclusion, this research provides a mechanistic explanation for how PIM1 contributes to cell survival and as a result significantly extends the current understanding of this function of PIM1.
Additional file 2: of Experiences of primary care physicians and staff following lean workflow redesign
Creators: name: Hung, Dorothy
name: Harrison, Michael
name: Truong, Quan
name: Du, Xue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Respondent Characteristics When Assessing Changes in Non-physician Staff Experiences After Workflow Redesigns. This file details all the respondent characteristics that were adjusted for in the analysis of non-physician staff work experiences shown in TableÂ 3. (DOCX 562 kb)
Constraints on the velocity profiles of galaxies from strong lensing statistics and semi-analytical modelling of galaxy formation
Creators: name: Chae, Kyu-Hyun
name: Mao, Shude
name: Kang, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semi-analytical models of galaxy formation can be used to predict the evolution of the number density of early-type galaxies as a function of the circular velocity at the virial radius, v_{c,vir}. Gravitational lensing probability and separation distribution on the other hand are sensitive to the velocity dispersion (or circular velocity) at about the effective radius. We adopt the singular isothermal ellipsoid (SIE) lens model to estimate the velocity dispersion at the effective radius. We use radio lenses from the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey and the PMN-NVSS Extragalactic Lens Survey to study how the velocity dispersions, σ_SIE, are related to v_{c,vir}. When we include both the lensing probability and separation distribution as our lensing constraints, we find σ_SIE /(200\kms) = [(1.17_{-0.26}^{+0.40}) v_{c,vir}/ (200\kms)]^{0.22^{+0.05}_{-0.04}} for 200\kms \la σ_SIE \la 260\kms; at σ_SIE = 200\kms, the ratio \sqrt{2} σ_SIE / v_{c,vir} is about 1.65^{+0.57}_{-0.37} (68% CL) but decreases to 0.65_{-0.12}^{+0.15} (68% CL) for σ_SIE = 260\kms. These results are consistent with those of Seljak (2002) obtained from galaxy-galaxy weak lensing for galaxies of around L_*. However, our results clearly suggest that the ratio must vary significantly as σ_SIE is varied and are marginally discrepant with the Seljak results at σ_SIE = 260\kms. The scaling σ_SIE \propto v_{c,vir}^{0.22\pm 0.05} is broadly consistent with those from galaxy occupation statistics studies and the most recent galaxy-galaxy weak lensing study. (Abridged)
description: Matches the MNRAS on-line published version
Reduce, reuse, recycle: the kimono revival in Japan as a strategy of self-orientalization
Creators: name: Firsching-Tovar, Oly Mayela
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kimono revivals
subject: Kimono recycling
subject: Modern kimono
subject: Casual kimono
subject: Nostalgia
subject: Fashion
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Post-colonialism
subject: Invented traditions
subject: Re-orientalizing
subject: Gender
subject: Commoditization
subject: Nihonjinron
subject: Taisho romanticism
subject: Enthnographische fashion research
subject: Globalization
subject: Kimono
subject: Geschlechterrolle
subject: Recyclingprodukt
subject: Postkolonialismus
subject: Mode
subject: Globalisierung

description: The kimono revival in contemporary Japanese society seems to be pertinent and of high actuality given the multiple articles on the topic in the press and even books; however, it is far from being the first one. Therefore, the study starts with the reconstruction and comparison of previous revivals in Japanese history since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868–2010). In addressing political, social and economic aspects as well the author highlights the way in which nationalist tendencies and international conflicts equally provided impulses for the multifaceted phenomenon of kimono revivals at different moments in history. In the core of the study, based on ethnographic fashion research, Oly Mayela Firsching-Tovar sets out for the first time to analyze the multifaceted aspects of the contemporary kimono revival. Thus, in elucidating the connection between the beginning of the most recent trend and recycled kimono, she shows how in this revival kimono has become part of “casual wear,” as a commodity ready to be consumed in multiple ways. But the commoditization of the kimono was not itself enough to bring about the third kimono revival: this also required the commoditization of history by turning it into nostalgia—especially in the context of tourism in Japan, where historic sites and key events were re-created as stages for the performing of the dressed body in kimono, targeting female and male consumers alike.