cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spectral triples of holonomy loops
Creators: name: Aastrup, Johannes
name: Grimstrup, Jesper M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The machinery of noncommutative geometry is applied to a space of connections. A noncommutative function algebra of loops closely related to holonomy loops is investigated. The space of connections is identified as a projective limit of Lie-groups composed of copies of the gauge group. A spectral triple over the space of connections is obtained by factoring out the diffeomorphism group. The triple consist of equivalence classes of loops acting on a separable hilbert space of sections in an infinite dimensional Clifford bundle. We find that the Dirac operator acting on this hilbert space does not fully comply with the axioms of a spectral triple.
description: 36 pages, material added, references added, version accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Structural investigations into the binding mode of a novel noscapine analogue, 9-(4-vinylphenyl) noscapine, with tubulin by biochemical analyses and molecular dynamic simulations
Creators: name: Mahaddalkar, Tejashree
name: Kumar Naik, Pradeep
name: Choudhary, Sinjan
name: Manchukonda, Naresh
name: Kantevari, Srinivas
name: Lopus, Manu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Structural investigations into the binding mode of a novel noscapine analogue, 9-(4-vinylphenyl) noscapine, with tubulin by biochemical analyses and molecular dynamic simulations
Graphical Object Detection in Document Images
Creators: name: Saha, Ranajit
name: Mondal, Ajoy
name: Jawahar, C. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graphical elements: particularly tables and figures contain a visual summary of the most valuable information contained in a document. Therefore, localization of such graphical objects in the document images is the initial step to understand the content of such graphical objects or document images. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end trainable deep learning based framework to localize graphical objects in the document images called as Graphical Object Detection (GOD). Our framework is data-driven and does not require any heuristics or meta-data to locate graphical objects in the document images. The GOD explores the concept of transfer learning and domain adaptation to handle scarcity of labeled training images for graphical object detection task in the document images. Performance analysis carried out on the various public benchmark data sets: ICDAR-2013, ICDAR-POD2017,and UNLV shows that our model yields promising results as compared to state-of-the-art techniques.
description: 8
Bistability and Hysteresis in the Sliding Friction of a Dimer
Creators: name: Goncalves, S.
name: Fusco, C.
name: Bishop, A.
name: Kenkre, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sliding friction of a dimer moving over a periodic substrate and subjected to an external force is studied in the steady state for arbitrary temperatures within a one-dimensional model. Nonlinear phenomena that emerge include dynamic bistability and hysteresis, and can be related to earlier observations for extended systems such as the Frenkel-Kontorova model. Several observed features can be satisfactorily explained in terms of the resonance of a driven-damped nonlinear oscillator. Increasing temperature tends to lower the resonant peak and wash out the hysteresis.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
On-diagonal singularities of the Green functions for Schroedinger operators
Creators: name: Bruening, Jochen
name: Geyler, Vladimir
name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of the Green functions of Schroedinger operators near the diagonal. The only non-trivial cases, where the on-diagonal singularities are non-zero and do not depend on the spectral parameter, are two and three dimensions. In the case of two dimensions, we show that the singularity is independent of both the scalar and the gauge potentials. In dimension three, we obtain conditions for preserving the singularity under perturbations by non-regular potentials. Some examples illustrating dependence of the singularity on general scalar and gauge potentials are presented.
description: 17 pages
Hadronic decays of charmonia from BESII
Creators: name: Yuan, Chang-Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on charmonia decays at BESII/BEPC are reported, including the observation of psi'-->K_S K_L, psi'--> Vector + Tensor and psi'--> Vector + Pseudoscalar for the measurement of the relative phase between the strong and electromagnetic decays of psi' and a test of the pQCD ``12% rule'' between psi' and J/psi decays; the test of the color-octet mechanism via chi_cJ --> p \bar{p} and chi_cJ-->Λ\barΛ; the first observation of chi_c0--> f_0(980)f_0(980); and a study of the psi' and chi_cJ decays with K_S K_S in the final states.
description: Invited talk in MESON 2004
Efficient fuzzing and software updating via dynamic binary rewriting
Creators: name: Andronidis, Anastasios
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The mounting reliance on software in an array of applications, from smartphones to spacecrafts, demands a development and deployment process that ensures reliability, security, and efficiency. However, the multifaceted nature of software development, the escalating emphasis on security, and the prevalence of software bugs have led to grave consequences. This thesis explores how we can improve testing and deployment, two key but often overlooked stages in the software development life cycle (SDLC). This thesis introduces a set of three methodologies–—SaBRe, SnapFuzz, and Mvedsua—–that each address distinct challenges. Our work aims to enhance the SDLC, requiring minimal specialised knowledge and reducing the laborious nature of the process. As a result, developers will be better equipped to create dependable, efficient, and secure software applications that can meet the rigorous demands of contemporary technology. First, SaBRe is a load-time dynamic binary rewriting platform that optimizes the process of binary rewriting by performing modifications after the program is loaded into memory but before execution, leading to safe and efficient rewriting with minimal overhead below 3%. SaBRe is the platform primitive leveraged by the rest methodologies to implement efficient and robust fuzzing and software updating. Second, SnapFuzz is a fuzzing system that addresses the difficulties in testing stateful network applications by transforming slow asynchronous network communication into a more efficient synchronous form, leveraging snapshot-taking mechanisms and accelerating file operations. Compared to traditional methods, SnapFuzz simplifies the fuzzing harness, has an impressive performance speedup (8.4x-62.8x) and discovered additional 12 crashes in real applications. Third, Mvedsua integrates Dynamic Software Updating (DSU) with Multi-Version Execution (MVE) to ensure constant availability and seamless user experience during software updates. This innovative approach significantly reduces the update-time delay by hiding the update process, quickly detects and rectifies errors introduced during the update process, and imposes minimal steady-state overhead.
Additional file 1 of Electronic data collection for multi-country, hospital-based, clinical observation of maternal and newborn care: EN-BIRTH study experiences
Creators: name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Gordeev, Vladimir Sergeevich
name: Hossain, Tanvir
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Kizito Shirima
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Rana, Nisha
name: Nahya Salim
name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Gore-Langton, Georgia R.
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Boggs, Dorothy
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. EN-BIRTH timeline and data collection dates by site, EN-BIRTH study.
Additional file 1 of Attitude, practice and its associated factors towards Diabetes complications among type 2 diabetic patients at Addis Zemen District hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Belsti, Yitayeh
name: Yonas Akalu
name: Yaregal Animut
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Farm Production and Profitability: Dynamic Simulation Approach
Creators: name: Cai, Ruohong
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Mullen, Jeffrey D.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Cai, Ruohong
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Mullen, Jeffrey D.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Dynamic simulation model
subject: Acreage response
subject: Crop rotation
subject: Expected price
subject: Realized price

description: In this paper, a dynamic optimization model was developed to simulate how farm-level realized price and profitability respond to yield change which was induced by climate change. Producers' acreage response was included in the dynamic model considering crop rotation effect. In the crop rotation model, a modified Bellman equation was used to dynamically optimize the net present value of farm profit for a five-year interval. This simulation process was repeated through the year 2050. Then yield, price, and acreage response were compiled to generate realized profit. Results generally indicated that reduction in crop yields due to climate change results in reduced farm profitability for most of the states studied. Predicted climate change is more likely to pose a problem for agricultural production and profitability in the southern U.S. states as compared to the northern U.S. states. Our results also suggest that acreage response alone is not sufficient to ameliorate the potential negative effects of global climate change on agricultural production and profitability. The results of this research are expected to provide a foundation for future related research to aid producers' crop rotation decisions in an unstable price environment.
Non-Boltzmann classical correction to the velocity auto-correlation function for isotropic scattering in two dimensions
Creators: name: Dmitriev, Alexander
name: Dyakonov, Michel
name: Jullien, Remi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical correction to the velocity auto-correlation function of non-interacting particles due to memory effects, which are beyond the Boltzmann equation, is calculated both analytically and numerically for the case of isotropic scattering in two dimensions.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Boundary conditions for magnetization in magnetic nano-elements
Creators: name: Guslienko, K. Yu.
name: Slavin, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the dynamic magnetization at the edges of a thin magnetic element with finite lateral size can be described by new effective boundary conditions that take into account inhomogeneous demagnetizing fields near the element edges. These fields play a dominant role in the effective pinning of the dynamic magnetization at the boundaries of mesoscopic and nano-sized magnetic elements. The derived effective boundary conditions generalize well-known Rado-Weertman boundary conditions and are reduced to them in the limiting case of a very thin magnetic element.
CnGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Cross-network user preference generation for non-overlapped users
Creators: name: Perera, Dilruk
name: Zimmermann, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A major drawback of cross-network recommender solutions is that they can only be applied to users that are overlapped across networks. Thus, the non-overlapped users, which form the majority of users are ignored. As a solution, we propose CnGAN, a novel multi-task learning based, encoder-GAN-recommender architecture. The proposed model synthetically generates source network user preferences for non-overlapped users by learning the mapping from target to source network preference manifolds. The resultant user preferences are used in a Siamese network based neural recommender architecture. Furthermore, we propose a novel user based pairwise loss function for recommendations using implicit interactions to better guide the generation process in the multi-task learning environment.We illustrate our solution by generating user preferences on the Twitter source network for recommendations on the YouTube target network. Extensive experiments show that the generated preferences can be used to improve recommendations for non-overlapped users. The resultant recommendations achieve superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art cross-network recommender solutions in terms of accuracy, novelty and diversity.
Longitude Floer homology and the Whitehead double
Creators: name: Eftekhary, Eaman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R58, 57M25, 57M27

description: We define the longitude Floer homology of a knot K in S^3 and show that it is a topological invariant of K. Some basic properties of these homology groups are derived. In particular, we show that they distinguish the genus of K. We also make explicit computations for the (2,2n+1) torus knots. Finally a correspondence between the longitude Floer homology of K and the Ozsvath-Szabo Floer homology of its Whitehead double K_L is obtained.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-54.abs.html
Assessment of Practical Smart Gateway Diversity Based on Multi-Site Measurements in Q/V band
Creators: name: Ventouras, Spiros
name: Arapoglou, Pantelis-Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Next generations of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems operating a Q/V band network of gateways (GWs) for the feeder link, need to apply some form of Smart Gateway Diversity (SGD) to ensure they meet the demanding availability targets. However, most of the published research on SGD usually resorts to ideal assumptions that are not realistic for an operational system. To evaluate in more depth the performance of practical SGD, this paper exploits for the first time multi-site propagation measurements for a network of six measurement sites (GWs) at 40 GHz. Based on this, it studies the performance of SGD in terms of feeder availability and number of switches between GWs taking into account the climatic region, the switching processing delay, the clustering of GWs, and the impact of downlink versus uplink frequency in Q/V band. Along the course, the interplay between propagation aspects and SGD operational aspects is highlighted.
description: 7 tables, 7 figures, 9 pages
Additional file 2 of Electronic data collection for multi-country, hospital-based, clinical observation of maternal and newborn care: EN-BIRTH study experiences
Creators: name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Gordeev, Vladimir Sergeevich
name: Hossain, Tanvir
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Kizito Shirima
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Rana, Nisha
name: Nahya Salim
name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Gore-Langton, Georgia R.
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Boggs, Dorothy
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Focus group discussion guide on EN BIRTH data collection.
Map of the gold regions in British Columbia compiled from sketches and information by His Excellency James Douglas, C.B., Governor of British Columbia and Vancouver Island and from data obtained from the most intelligent and reliable miners
Creators: name: Epner, Gustavus
Publisher: name: San Francisco : Epner
Year: 2015

description: [1:1,393,920] ; (W 124 degrees - W 117 degrees / N 54 degrees 45 minutes - N 47 degrees 30 minutes).

Relief shown by hachuring.

Inset: Routes of communication with the Cariboo Mines. -- Tables showing mileages along Douglas & Ft. Yale Routes, & along the Fraser River, Brigade & Thompson River Trails.

"Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Gustavus Epner in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the North Dist. of California."
Additional file 1 of Assessing the wood sourcing practices of the U.S. industrial wood pellet industry supplying European energy demand
Creators: name: Kittler, Brian
name: Stupak, Inge
name: C. Tattersall Smith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary materials: Structured interview questionnaire.
Magnetoelastic interaction in the two-dimensional magnetic material MnPS$_3$ studied by first principles calculations and Raman experiments
Creators: name: Vaclavkova, Diana
name: Delhomme, Alex
name: Faugeras, Clément
name: Potemski, Marek
name: Bogucki, Aleksander
name: Suffczyński, Jan
name: Kossacki, Piotr
name: Wildes, Andrew
name: Gremaud, Benoit
name: Saúl, Andrés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report experimental and theoretical studies on the magnetoelastic interactions in MnPS$_3$. Raman scattering response measured as a function of temperature shows a blue shift of the Raman active modes at 120.2 and 155.1 cm$^{-1}$, when the temperature is raised across the antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been performed to estimate the effective exchange interactions and calculate the Raman active phonon modes. The calculations lead to the conclusion that the peculiar behavior with temperature of the two low energy phonon modes can be explained by the symmetry of their corresponding normal coordinates which involve the virtual modification of the super-exchange angles associated with the leading antiferromagnetic (AFM) interactions.
description: Main: 9 pages, 7 figures. Supplementary : 5 pages, 4 figures
Creating ultra-compact binaries through stable mass transfer
Creators: name: van der Sluys, M. V.
name: Verbunt, F.
name: Pols, O. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A binary in which a slightly evolved star starts mass transfer to a neutron star can evolve towards ultra-short orbital periods under the influence of magnetic braking. This is called magnetic capture. We investigate in detail for which initial orbital periods and initial donor masses binaries evolve to periods less than 30-40 minutes within the Hubble time. We show that only small ranges of initial periods and masses lead to ultra-short periods, and that for those only a small time interval is spent at ultra-short periods. Consequently, only a very small fraction of any population of X-ray binaries is expected to be observed at ultra-short period at any time. If 2 to 6 of the 13 bright X-ray sources in globular clusters have an ultra-short period, as suggested by recent observations, their formation cannot be explained by the magnetic capture model.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of the conference Interacting Binaries in Cefalu, 2004. See http://www.astro.uu.nl/~sluys/PhD/
In silico analysis and expression studies of kisspeptin gene in C. catla
Creators: name: Ashraf Rather, Mohd
name: Bhat, Irfan Ahmad
name: Rathor, Pravesh Kumar
name: Gireesh-Babu, P
name: Chaudhari, Aparna
name: Kumar, Sundaray Jeetendra
name: Sharma, Rupam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: We report the characterization of kisspeptin gene which is considered to be essential for successful animal reproduction. The full-length cDNA sequence of kiss2 was 583 bp, consisted of 11 bp 5′-UTR (untranslated region) and 194 bp 3′-UTR, respectively. Open reading frame of 378 bp encoding a putative protein of 125 amino acids. The Catla catla kiss2 protein was having a molecular weight of 14.51 kDa and isoelectric point (pI) of 8.46. There were four serine (Ser), four threonine (Thr) and two tyrosine (Tyr) phosphorylation sites and no N-glycosylation sites on the predicted protein. The amino acids on positions 8, 11, 24, 80 and 114 were detected to be ligand binding sites. The signal peptide analysis predicted that C. catla kiss2 is a secretory protein. Kiss2 protein is localized in nuclear region (49.7%) and the extracellular region (38.3%) of the cell. Analysis of tissue distribution revealed that, kiss2 transcripts were predominantly expressed in the brain and gonads, with expression levels in female higher than those of male. Ontogenetic analysis of kiss2 demonstrated that expression level was low during early phase of development stages and more expression was observed during mature stage. Overall present results lay a strong basis for understanding the role of kisspeptin in the neuroendocrine system in teleosts.
Measurement of Yield distribution: A Time-Varying Distribution Model
Creators: name: Yang, Tsung Yu
name: Yang, Tsung Yu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Time-Varying Distribution
subject: Mixture Distribution
subject: Crop Insurance

description: Regarding the nature of yield data, there are two basic characteristics that need to be accommodated while we are about to model a yield distribution. The first one is the nonstationary nature of the yield distribution, which causes the heteroscedasticity related problems. The second one is the left skewness of the yield distribution. A common approach to this problem is based on a two-stage method in which the yields are detrended first and the detrended yields are taken as observed data modeled by various parametric and nonparametric methods. Based on a two-stage estimation structure, a mixed normal distribution seems to better capture the secondary distribution from catastrophic years than a Beta distribution. The implication to the risk management is the yield risk may be underestimated under the common selection -- Beta distribution. A mixed normal distribution under a time-varying structure, under which the parameters are allowed to vary over time, tends to collapse to a single normal distribution. The time-varying mixed normal model fits the realized yield data in one step that avoids the possible bias caused by sampling variability. Also, the time-varying parameters imply that the premium rates can be adjusted to represent the most recent information and that lifts the efficiency of the insurance market.
Guru Naak alight brighter than a thousand suns : the Sikh tradition and narratives of conversion in South Asia
Creators: name: Grewal, Harjeet Singh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is a preliminary excursion analyzing narrative modes in janamsakhi literature of the Sikh tradition as a putative site of proselytization. Using a semiological methodology in combination with the writings of theorists on communication and reception of texts, I argue that reception of the sakhi "The Massacre of Saidpur" as found in "Janamsakhi Sri Guru Nanak Dev" (a critical edition of the B40 manuscript by Piar Singh) was meant to lead to emulatory orders of action. This sakhi depicts a meeting between the first Mughal ruler, Babar, and the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak. The story ends with Babar becoming a follower of Guru Nanak. By contextualizing this sakhi during the period of its production in the eighteenth century, I argue that traditionally held distinctions between Khalsa and nonKhalsa Sikhs are overdetermined. Indeed, the existence of these categories may have enabled a process of conversion. Furthermore, I will examine the B40's colophon for the cultural modes and meanings that it reveals in regards to the Sikh panth's historical-cultural situation during the eighteenth century. Finally, I argue that the sakhi "The Massacre of Saidpur" has embedded within its narrative structure an implicit structure for the process of conversion that was placed there in order to signal to the audience the need for mimesis of Babar's actions. In this manner the text functions as a site of rhetoric for conversion. It is my assertion that applying theories of reception and reading elaborates the historical and cultural situation of the Sikh panth during the eighteenth century. Such an endeavor enables the 'writing-in' of cultural meanings into the metanarrative of this time in Sikh history.
Farmers’ Willingness to Grow Sweet Sorghum as a Cellulosic Bioenergy Crop: A Stated Choice Approach
Creators: name: Bergtold, Jason S.
name: Fewell, Jason E.
name: Williams, Jeffery R.
name: Bergtold, Jason S.
name: Fewell, Jason E.
name: Williams, Jeffery R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: bioenergy
subject: cellulosic
subject: farm data
subject: stated choice
subject: sweet sorghum

description: Biofuel production must increase to 36 billion gallons by the year 2022, according to government mandates. The majority of this fuel must be produced from “advanced” or second-generation biofuel feedstocks after 2015. Advanced biofuel feedstocks include annual crops such as sweet sorghum. Kansas farmers are poised to be major producers of sweet sorghum for biofuels. A stated choice survey was administered to Kansas farmers to assess their willingness to grow sweet sorghum for biofuels under various contracting scenarios. Results show that farmers are willing to grow biomass for bioenergy under contract and that insurance availability plays an important role in their decision.
Additional file 3 of Electronic data collection for multi-country, hospital-based, clinical observation of maternal and newborn care: EN-BIRTH study experiences
Creators: name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Gordeev, Vladimir Sergeevich
name: Hossain, Tanvir
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Kizito Shirima
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Rana, Nisha
name: Nahya Salim
name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Gore-Langton, Georgia R.
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Boggs, Dorothy
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist.
Additional file 1 of Inhibition of transforming growth factor beta signaling pathway promotes differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived brain microvascular endothelial-like cells
Creators: name: Yamashita, Misaki
name: Aoki, Hiromasa
name: Hashita, Tadahiro
name: Iwao, Takahiro
name: Matsunaga, Tamihide
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Endothelial characteristics of BMECs derived from multiple iPSC lines. Fig. S2. Protein expression levels of N-cadherin. Fig. S3. Phosphorylation levels of SMAD2. Fig. S4. Effect of TGF-β inhibitor on human immortalized BMEC (hCMEC/D3) and umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Fig. S5. Effect of TGF-β inhibitor addition on TEER values before and after the end of differentiation. Fig. S6. Relative gene expression of MMP9 in A-83-01-treated cells. Fig. S7. Expression levels of caspase-3. Fig. S8. The effect of TGF-β inhibitor on freezing–thawing of BMECs derived from another iPSC line. Fig. S9. Effect of TGF-β inhibitor on the cryopreservation of iBMELCs. Table S1. PCR primer sequences. Table S2. Antibodies for immunofluorescence analysis. Table S3. Setting for the Opperetta High-Content Imaging System and minimum intensity of positive cells. Table S4. Antibodies for Western blotting analysis. Additional Experimental Procedures.
Computational Profiling of Pore Properties of Outer Membrane Proteins
Creators: name: Manoharan, Prabu
name: Saravanan, Konda Mani
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Computational Profiling of Pore Properties of Outer Membrane Proteins
Additional file 1 of The provision of epidural analgesia during labor according to maternal birthplace: a Norwegian register study
Creators: name: Waldum, Åsa Henning
name: Jacobsen, Anne Flem
name: Lukasse, Mirjam
name: Staff, Anne Cathrine
name: Falk, Ragnhild Sørum
name: Vangen, Siri
name: Ingvil Krarup Sørbye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
When OT meets MoM: Robust estimation of Wasserstein Distance
Creators: name: Staerman, Guillaume
name: Laforgue, Pierre
name: Mozharovskyi, Pavlo
name: d'Alché-Buc, Florence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Issued from Optimal Transport, the Wasserstein distance has gained importance in Machine Learning due to its appealing geometrical properties and the increasing availability of efficient approximations. In this work, we consider the problem of estimating the Wasserstein distance between two probability distributions when observations are polluted by outliers. To that end, we investigate how to leverage Medians of Means (MoM) estimators to robustify the estimation of Wasserstein distance. Exploiting the dual Kantorovitch formulation of Wasserstein distance, we introduce and discuss novel MoM-based robust estimators whose consistency is studied under a data contamination model and for which convergence rates are provided. These MoM estimators enable to make Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) robust to outliers, as witnessed by an empirical study on two benchmarks CIFAR10 and Fashion MNIST. Eventually, we discuss how to combine MoM with the entropy-regularized approximation of the Wasserstein distance and propose a simple MoM-based re-weighting scheme that could be used in conjunction with the Sinkhorn algorithm.
Deformation-Quantization of Complex Involutive Submanifolds
Creators: name: D'Agnolo, Andrea
name: Polesello, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A27, 32C38, 14A20

description: The sheaf of rings of WKB operators provides a deformation-quantization of the cotangent bundle to a complex manifold. On a complex symplectic manifold $X$ there may not exist a sheaf of rings locally isomorphic to a ring of WKB operators. The idea is then to consider the whole family of locally defined sheaves of WKB operators as the deformation-quantization of $X$. To state it precisely, one needs the notion of algebroid stack, introduced by Kontsevich. In particular, the stack of WKB modules over $X$ defined in Polesello-Schapira (see also Kashiwara for the contact case) is better understood as the stack of modules over the algebroid stack of deformation-quantization of $X$. Let $V$ be an involutive submanifold of $X$, and assume for simplicity that the quotient of $V$ by its bicharacteristic leaves is isomorphic to a complex symplectic manifold $Z$. The algebra of endomorphisms of a simple WKB module along $V$ is locally (anti-)isomorphic to the pull-back of WKB operators on $Z$. Hence we may say that a simple module provides a deformation-quantization of $V$. Again, since in general there do not exist globally defined simple WKB modules, the idea is to consider the algebroid stack of locally defined simple WKB modules as the deformation-quantization of $V$. In this paper we start by defining what an algebroid stack is, and how it is locally described. We then discuss the algebroid stack of WKB operators on a complex symplectic manifold $X$, and define the deformation-quantization of an involutive submanifold $V$ by means of simple WKB modules along $V$. Finally, we relate this deformation-quantization to that given by WKB operators on the quotient of $V$ by its bicharacteristic leaves.
description: 11 pages
Additional file 4 of Electronic data collection for multi-country, hospital-based, clinical observation of maternal and newborn care: EN-BIRTH study experiences
Creators: name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Gordeev, Vladimir Sergeevich
name: Hossain, Tanvir
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Kizito Shirima
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Rana, Nisha
name: Nahya Salim
name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Gore-Langton, Georgia R.
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Boggs, Dorothy
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 4. Ethical approval by local institutional review boards, EN-BIRTH study.
A EXPANSÃO DA CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR E O IMPACTO SOBRE A ARRECADAÇÃO FISCAL DOS MUNICÍPIOS PAULISTAS
Creators: name: Palomino, Josiane Mayara Gil
name: Toneto Junior, Rudinei
name: Campos, Celso Vilela Chaves
name: Stocco, Leandro
name: Palomino, Josiane Mayara Gil
name: Toneto Junior, Rudinei
name: Campos, Celso Vilela Chaves
name: Stocco, Leandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Setor sucroalcooleiro. Arrecadação fiscal. Cana-de-açúcar. Dados em painel. Sugarcane sector. Fiscal collection. Sugarcane. Panel data.

description: Observa-se no período recente um forte crescimento da produção de etanol e açúcar, fato que vem se refletindo no uso crescente da terra pela cana-de-açúcar. Este processo vem ocorrendo com maior intensidade no estado de São Paulo, fazendo com que vários municípios se tornem cada vez mais dependentes dessa cultura. Com base nisso, a questão que se coloca é como os municípios podem se beneficiar dessa expansão, sendo necessária, então, a análise de pontos como o impacto na arrecadação fiscal, objetivo deste trabalho. Para tanto, foram estimados vários modelos em painel de efeitos fixos, corrigidos para heteroscedasticidade e autocorrelação, que tem como variáveis dependentes a arrecadação per capita do ISSQN, ICMS, IPVA e IPTU. Os dados, extraídos da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística e de informações extraídas na União da Indústria de Cana-de-açúcar e da União dos Produtores de Bioenergia confirmaram, principalmente no caso do ISSQN, as expectativas de uma relação positiva entre arrecadação per capita e participação de cana-de-açúcar na lavoura municipal, evidenciando o impacto quando da presença de usinas. ------------------A strong growth in sugar and ethanol production had been developed recently, which reflected clearly the land use by sugarcane. This process is more intense in the state of São Paulo and, due to it, several cities are becoming really dependent of this fieldwork. Based on that, the point here is how cities can take advantage of this expansion requiring, though, the analysis of issues such as its impact on fiscal collection, aim of this work. To perform it, a fixed effect panel data model was estimated considering the presence of heteroskedasticity and serial autocorrelation in the resids having as dependent variables per capita ISSQN, ICMS, IPVA and IPTU collection. The data, obtained in Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, União da Indústria de Cana-de-açúcar and União dos Produtores de Bioenergia, has confirmed, especially in the ISSQN case, the expectations of a positive relation between per capita fiscal collection and the amount of sugarcane planted in municipal fieldwork, emphasizing its impact in the presence of ethanol and sugar factories.
Optimal mean first-passage time for a Brownian searcher subjected to resetting: experimental and theoretical results
Creators: name: Besga, Benjamin
name: Bovon, Alfred
name: Petrosyan, Artyom
name: Majumdar, Satya N.
name: Ciliberto, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study experimentally and theoretically the optimal mean time needed by a free diffusing Brownian particle to reach a target at a distance L from an initial position in the presence of resetting. Both the initial position and the resetting position are Gaussian distributed with width $σ$. We derived and tested two resetting protocols, one with a periodic and one with random (Poissonian) resetting times. We computed and measured the full first-passage probability distribution that displays spectacular spikes immediately after each resetting time for close targets. We study the optimal mean first-passage time as a function of the resetting period/rate for different values of the ratio b = L/$σ$ and find an interesting phase transtion at a critical value b = bc. For bc < b < $\infty$, there is a metastable optimum time which disappears for b < bc. The intrinsic diffculties in implementing these protocols in experiments are also discussed.
Os Canais de Distribuição da Cadeia Avícola Alternativa do Distrito Federal
Creators: name: Greenhalgh, Andre Augusto
name: Botelho Filho, Flavio Borges
name: Greenhalgh, Andre Augusto
name: Botelho Filho, Flavio Borges
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Teoria de Custo de Transação
subject: Canais de Distribuição
subject: Frango Alternativo
subject: Comercialização
subject: Transaction Costs Teory
subject: Marketing Channel
subject: Alternative Poultry
subject: Commercialization

description: No Distrito Federal, a atividade avícola alternativa é formada por arranjos produtivos e comerciais os quais utilizam, ou não, intermediários nas transações entre fornecedores e consumidores. O propósito do artigo é analisar os custos de transação na distribuição e compara as estruturas de governança dos canais de distribuição. O referencial teórico baseia-se na Teoria dos Custos de Transação. Os resultados indicam a existência de de várias estruturas de governança de mercado e incipiente integração vertical.---------------------------The alternative poultry production, in the Federal District, is composed arrangements which use, or not, intermediaries on the transactions among seller and consumers in the market channel, meanwhile depicts and analyze why the mediator is so necessary on the transactions. As a way to attain this objective, this study is base on the Transaction Cost Theory. The results show the diferents kinds of arrangements under marketing spot and incipient vertical integration governance structures.
Measurement of the leptonic decay widths of the phi-meson with the KLOE detector
Creators: name: Ambrosino, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phi-meson leptonic widths, Gee and Gmm, are obtained, respectively, from the e+e- forward-backward asymmetry and the muon cross section around the phi-mass energy. We find Gee=1.32⊕0.05⊕0.03 kev and sqrt(GeeGmm)= 1.320⊕0.018⊕0.017 kev. These results, compatible with Gee=Gmm, provide a precise test of lepton universality. Combining the two results gives G_lept=1.320⊕0.023 kev.
description: 10 pages and 8 figures to be submitted to Phys.Lett.B
Sznajd model and its applications
Creators: name: Sznajd-Weron, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2000 we proposed a sociophysics model of opinion formation, which was based on trade union maxim "United we Stand, Divided we Fall" (USDF) and latter due to Dietrich Stauffer became known as the Sznajd model (SM). The main difference between SM compared to voter or Ising-type models is that information flows outward. In this paper we review the modifications and applications of SM that have been proposed in the literature.
description: Paper presented at First Polish Symposium on Econo- and Sociophysics
Doppler effect of gamma-ray bursts in the fireball framework
Creators: name: Qin, Yi-Ping
name: Zhang, Fu-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the Doppler effect in the fireball framework on the spectrum of gamma-ray bursts is investigated. The study shows that the shape of the expected spectrum of an expanding fireball remains almost the same as that of the corresponding rest frame spectrum for constant radiations of the bremsstrahlung, Comptonized, and synchrotron mechanisms as well as for that of the GRB model. The peak flux spectrum and the peak frequency are obviously correlated. When the value of the Lorentz factor becomes 10 times larger, the flux of fireballs would be several orders of magnitude larger. The expansion speed of fireballs is a fundamental factor of the enhancement of the flux of gamma-ray bursts.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 1 of Improving the Conductivity of Solid Polymer Electrolyte by Grain Reforming
Creators: name: Zhaohuan Wei
name: Yaqi Ren
name: Minkang Wang
name: Jijun He
name: Weirong Huo
name: Tang, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig.S1. SEM images of PEO grain in SPE before (a) and after (b) press rolling. Fig.S2. electrochemical window test of (a) PAL-R and (b) PAL-C electrolyte. Fig.S3. EIS plots of SS/SPE/SS cell with PAL-C (a) and PAL-R (b) electrolyte under different temperatures. Fig.S4. EIS plots of Li/SPE/Li symmetric cells with different SPEs after DC polarization.
Observation and absolute frequency measurements of the 1S0 - 3P0 optical clock transition in ytterbium
Creators: name: Hoyt, C. W.
name: Barber, Z. W.
name: Oates, C. W.
name: Fortier, T. M.
name: Diddams, S. A.
name: Hollberg, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the direct excitation of the highly forbidden (6s^2) 1S0 - (6s6p) 3P0 optical transition in two odd isotopes of ytterbium. As the excitation laser frequency is scanned, absorption is detected by monitoring the depletion from an atomic cloud at ~70 uK in a magneto-optical trap. The measured frequency in 171Yb (F=1/2) is 518,295,836,593.2 +/- 4.4 kHz. The measured frequency in 173Yb (F=5/2) is 518,294,576,850.0 +/- 4.4 kHz. Measurements are made with a femtosecond-laser frequency comb calibrated by the NIST cesium fountain clock and represent nearly a million-fold reduction in uncertainty. The natural linewidth of these J=0 to J=0 transitions is calculated to be ~10 mHz, making them well-suited to support a new generation of optical atomic clocks based on confinement in an optical lattice.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures