cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perception and Evaluation of a Pig Fattening Pen Based on Film Material in an Online Survey Experiment with German Citizens
Creators: name: Wernsmann, Anna
name: Wildraut, Christiane
name: Von Meyer-Höfer, Marie
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
name: Wernsmann, Anna
name: Wildraut, Christiane
name: Von Meyer-Höfer, Marie
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: perception
subject: evaluation
subject: videos
subject: pig fattening pen
subject: cluster analysis
subject: public relation
subject: quantitative survey

description: As many parts of today’s society have only few direct connections to farming, an increasing alienation of the population from agriculture is noticed in Germany. Especially pig farming is criticised due to a discrepancy between farmers’ and citizens’ perception of animal welfare in modern livestock farming. With regard to the increasing use of the internet, social media, picture and film materials have become essential in communication about livestock production. In this context, it is important to deal with the effects of pictures and videos on citizens’ perception and evaluation. In general, the perception of videos is affected by the viewers’ characteristics. Apart from that, the perception of videos is affected by picture design and picture elements. The aim of the present study is to analyse people’s perceptions and evaluations of film material showing a pig fattening pen. For this purpose, 464 participants were randomly shown four out of sixteen videos in an online experiment. The videos varied according to housing conditions (e.g. weight of the pigs, stocking density) and recording conditions (e.g. camera angle, lighting conditions). A cluster analysis based on belief in animal mind, interest and knowledge about pig farming and meat consumption was conducted. Subsequently, the identified segments, the different housing conditions and the recording conditions of the videos were used as independent variables to perform an analysis of variance with the evaluations of the videos as dependent variable. The results show that the identified clusters significantly differ in the evaluations of the videos. Furthermore, housing conditions have a higher impact than recording conditions. The results indicate that high stocking densities lead to negative evaluations. It can be assumed that respondents do not recognise minor differences in film material. In general the videos were rated poorly. This implies for PR that improving recording conditions of the videos might not lead to a better evaluation of livestock farming than improving housing conditions. Different information requirements in different clusters should be considered in agricultural PR.
Enhancement of a CNN-Based Denoiser Based on Spatial and Spectral Analysis
Creators: name: Zhao, Rui
name: Lam, Kin-Man
name: Lun, Daniel P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image prior from the spatial domain, and suffer from the problem of spatially variant noise, which limits their performance in real-world image denoising tasks. In this paper, we propose a discrete wavelet denoising CNN (WDnCNN), which restores images corrupted by various noise with a single model. Since most of the content or energy of natural images resides in the low-frequency spectrum, their transformed coefficients in the frequency domain are highly imbalanced. To address this issue, we present a band normalization module (BNM) to normalize the coefficients from different parts of the frequency spectrum. Moreover, we employ a band discriminative training (BDT) criterion to enhance the model regression. We evaluate the proposed WDnCNN, and compare it with other state-of-the-art denoisers. Experimental results show that WDnCNN achieves promising performance in both synthetic and real noise reduction, making it a potential solution to many practical image denoising applications.
description: ICIP 2019
Foundational Oracle Patterns: Connecting Blockchain to the Off-chain World
Creators: name: Mühlberger, Roman
name: Bachhofner, Stefan
name: Ferrer, Eduardo Castelló
name: Di Ciccio, Claudio
name: Weber, Ingo
name: Wöhrer, Maximilian
name: Zdun, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blockchain has evolved into a platform for decentralized applications, with beneficial properties like high integrity, transparency, and resilience against censorship and tampering. However, blockchains are closed-world systems which do not have access to external state. To overcome this limitation, oracles have been introduced in various forms and for different purposes. However so far common oracle best practices have not been dissected, classified, and studied in their fundamental aspects. In this paper, we address this gap by studying foundational blockchain oracle patterns in two foundational dimensions characterising the oracles: (i) the data flow direction, i.e., inbound and outbound data flow, from the viewpoint of the blockchain; and (ii) the initiator of the data flow, i.e., whether it is push or pull-based communication. We provide a structured description of the four patterns in detail, and discuss an implementation of these patterns based on use cases. On this basis we conduct a quantitative analysis, which results in the insight that the four different patterns are characterized by distinct performance and costs profiles.
PROGRAMS D9.4_Data Management Plan v1.1
Creators: name: Surico, Michele
name: István Németh,
name: Ricatto, Raffaele
name: Saenz, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: DMP
Data Management Plan
PROGRAMS

description: The PROGRAMS project participates in H2020 pilot action on open access to research data. This deliverable, the PROGRAMS Data Management Plan, describes the research data that will be collected and generated during the project and explains which part of it will be shared for public re-use.
 PROGRAMS is an industry-driven innovation action that will deliver solutions to improve the maintenance scheduling for production facilities. As most of the project outcomes are susceptible of being protected for exploitation, this preliminary Data Management Plan try to identify as clearly as possible which data will be kept confidential and which will be made openly available.
 The PROGRAMS management plan will be updated as the project progresses. A final version of the Data Management Plan will be available at the end of the project in D9.5.
Two-flavor condensates in chiral dynamics: temperature and isospin density effects
Creators: name: Loewe, M.
name: Villavicencio, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isospin density and thermal corrections for several condensates are discussed, at the one-loop level, in the frame of chiral dynamics with pionic degrees of freedom. The evolution of such objects give an additional insight into the condensed-pion phase transition, that occurs basically when $|\mui|>m_π$, being $|\mui|$ the isospin chemical potential. Calculations are done in both phases, showing a good agreement with lattice results for such condensates.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of USP18 directly regulates Snail1 protein through ubiquitination pathway in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Fakun Huang
name: Chengying Zheng
name: Longkai Huang
name: Changqing Lin
name: Wang, Jiaxing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Sequence of primers for Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR.
Additional file 1 of Multi-trait multi-locus SEM model discriminates SNPs of different effects
Creators: name: Igolkina, Anna A.
name: Meshcheryakov, Georgy
name: Gretsova, Maria V.
name: Nuzhdin, Sergey V.
name: Samsonova, Maria G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional File 1. Absolute values of correlations between phenotypic traits.
Lowest order QED radiative corrections to longitudinally polarized Moller scattering
Creators: name: Ilyichev, A.
name: Zykunov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total lowest-order electromagnetic radiative corrections to the observables in Moller scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons have been calculated. The final expressions obtained by the covariant method for the infrared divergency cancellation are free from any unphysical cut-off parameters. Since the calculation is carried out within the ultrarelativistic approximation our result has a compact form that is convenient for computing. Basing on these expressions the FORTRAN code MERA has been developed. Using this code the detailed numerical analysis performed under SLAC (E-158) and JLab kinematic conditions has shown that the radiative corrections are significant and rather sensitive to the value of the missing mass (inelasticity) cuts.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Cascade Brillouin scattering as a mechanism for photoluminescence from rough surfaces of noble metals
Creators: name: Shishkov, V. Yu.
name: Andrianov, E. S.
name: Pukhov, A. A.
name: Vinogradov, A. P.
name: Orlov, S. N.
name: Polivanov, Yu. N.
name: Fabelinsky, V. I.
name: Kozlov, D. N.
name: Smirnov, V. V.
name: Lisyansky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In surface-enhanced Raman scattering experiments that use plasmonic nanostructures as substrates, the scattering spectrum contains a broad background usually associated with photoluminescence. This background exists above and below the frequency of the incident wave. The low-frequency part of this background is similar to the scattering spectrum of a plasmon nanoparticle, while the high-frequency part follows the Gibbs distribution. We develop a theory that explains experimentally observed features in both the high- and low-frequency parts of the photoluminescence spectrum from a unified point of view. We show that photoluminescence is attributed to the cascade Brillouin scattering of the incident wave by metal phonons under the plasmon resonance conditions. The theory is in good agreement with our measurements over the entire frequency range of the background.
Dynamics of quark-gluon plasma from Field correlators
Creators: name: Di Giacomo, A.
name: Meggiolaro, E.
name: Simonov, Yu. A.
name: Veselov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that strong dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma and bound states of quarks and gluons is mostly due to nonperturbative effects described by field correlators. The emphasis in the paper is made on two explicit calculations of these effects from the first principles: one analytic using gluelump Green's functions and another using independent lattice data on correlators. The resulting hadron spectra are investigated in the range T_c < T < 2T_c. The spectra of charmonia, bottomonia, light s-sbar mesons, glueballs and quark-gluon states calculated numerically are in general agreement with lattice MEM data. The possible role of these bound states in the thermodynamics of quark-gluon plasma is discussed.
description: Revised version with new comments and references and corrected tables VII-IX; 34 pages + 6 figures
The homily by Marutha of Tagrit on the blessing of the waters at epiphany
Creators: name: Brock, Sebastian P.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 66 (1982): Oriens christianus, Band 66
A fractal set from the binary reflected Gray code
Creators: name: Oteo, J. A.
name: Ros, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The permutation associated with the decimal expression of the binary reflected Gray code with $N$ bits is considered. Its cycle structure is studied. Considered as a set of points, its self-similarity is pointed out. As a fractal, it is shown to be the attractor of a IFS. For large values of $N$ the set is examined from the point of view of time series analysis
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Predictive and Generative Neural Networks for Object Functionality
Creators: name: Hu, Ruizhen
name: Yan, Zihao
name: Zhang, Jingwen
name: van Kaick, Oliver
name: Shamir, Ariel
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Huang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humans can predict the functionality of an object even without any surroundings, since their knowledge and experience would allow them to "hallucinate" the interaction or usage scenarios involving the object. We develop predictive and generative deep convolutional neural networks to replicate this feat. Specifically, our work focuses on functionalities of man-made 3D objects characterized by human-object or object-object interactions. Our networks are trained on a database of scene contexts, called interaction contexts, each consisting of a central object and one or more surrounding objects, that represent object functionalities. Given a 3D object in isolation, our functional similarity network (fSIM-NET), a variation of the triplet network, is trained to predict the functionality of the object by inferring functionality-revealing interaction contexts. fSIM-NET is complemented by a generative network (iGEN-NET) and a segmentation network (iSEG-NET). iGEN-NET takes a single voxelized 3D object with a functionality label and synthesizes a voxelized surround, i.e., the interaction context which visually demonstrates the corresponding functionality. iSEG-NET further separates the interacting objects into different groups according to their interaction types.
description: Accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018, project page at https://vcc.tech/research/2018/ICON4
On twist-two operators in N=4 SYM
Creators: name: Henn, J.
name: Jarczak, C.
name: Sokatchev, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a mechanism for calculating anomalous dimensions of higher-spin twist-two operators in N=4 SYM. We consider the ratio of the two-point functions of the operators and of their superconformal descendants or, alternatively, of the three-point functions of the operators and of the descendants with two protected half-BPS operators. These ratios are proportional to the anomalous dimension and can be evaluated at n-1 loop in order to determine the anomalous dimension at n loops. We illustrate the method by reproducing the well-known one-loop result by doing only tree-level calculations. We work out the complete form of the first-generation descendants of the twist-two operators and the scalar sector of the second-generation descendants.
description: references added; typos corrected
title: Forging new alliances: Information Center for Ropeway Studies, Colorado School of Mines
Creators: name: Lerud-Heck, Joanne
name: Guy, Laura
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: ropeways
subject: Wire rope

description: In addition to the Powerpoint slides a written paper of the presentation is available for download.
description: 21 Powerpoint slides.
description: Presentation delivered at the 2006 meeting of OIPEEC.
Attainability and Optimality: The Equalized Odds Fairness Revisited
Creators: name: Tang, Zeyu
name: Zhang, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fairness of machine learning algorithms has been of increasing interest. In order to suppress or eliminate discrimination in prediction, various notions as well as approaches have been proposed to impose fairness. Given a notion of fairness, an essential problem is then whether or not it can always be attained, even if with an unlimited amount of data. This issue is, however, not well addressed yet. In this paper, focusing on the Equalized Odds notion of fairness, we consider the attainability of this criterion and, furthermore, if it is attainable, the optimality of the prediction performance under various settings. In particular, for prediction performed by a deterministic function of input features, we give conditions under which Equalized Odds can hold true; if the stochastic prediction is acceptable, we show that under mild assumptions, fair predictors can always be derived. For classification, we further prove that compared to enforcing fairness by post-processing, one can always benefit from exploiting all available features during training and get potentially better prediction performance while remaining fair. Moreover, while stochastic prediction can attain Equalized Odds with theoretical guarantees, we also discuss its limitation and potential negative social impacts.
Can the initial singularity be detected by cosmological tests?
Creators: name: Szydlowski, Marek
name: Godlowski, Wlodzimierz
name: Krawiec, Adam
name: Golbiak, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we raise the question whether initial cosmological singularity can be proved from the cosmological tests. The classical general relativity predict the existence of singularity in the past if only some energy conditions are satisfied. On the other hand the latest quantum gravity applications to cosmology suggest of possibility of avoiding the singularity and replace it with the bounce. The distant type Ia supernovae data are used to constraints on bouncing evolutional scenario where square of the Hubble function $H^2$ is given by formulae $H^2=H^2_0[Ω_{m,0}(1+z)^{m}-Ω_{n,0}(1+z)^{n}]$, where $Ω_{m,0}, Ω_{n,0}>0$ are density parameters and $n>m>0$. We show that the on the base of the SNIa data standard bouncing models can be ruled out on the $4σ$ confidence level. If we add the cosmological constant to the standard bouncing model then we obtain as the best-fit that the parameter $Ω_{n,0}$ is equal zero which means that the SNIa data do not support the bouncing term in the model. The bounce term is statistically insignificant the present epoch. We also demonstrate that BBN offer the possibility of obtaining stringent constraints of the extra term $Ω_{n,0}$. The other observational test methods like CMB and the age of oldest objects in the Universe are used. We also use the Akaike informative criterion to select a model according to the goodness of fit and we conclude that this term should be ruled out by Occam's razor, which makes that the big bang is favored rather then bouncing scenario.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures improved version
Search for tau -> e gamma decay at Belle
Creators: name: Hayasaka, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched for the lepton-flavor-violating decay tau -> e gamma using a data sample of 86.7/fb collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric e^+ e^- collider. No evidence for a signal is obtained, and we set an upper limit for the branching fraction Br(tau -> e gamma) < 3.9 x 10^-7 at the 90% C.L.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, ReVTeX4, epsf
Die Genealogie des Nestorianismus nach der frühmonophysitischen Theologe
Creators: name: Halleux, André De
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 66 (1982): Oriens christianus, Band 66
Theone Gistel 1857
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Theone

description: Theone Gistel, 1857
 Theone Gistel, 1857b: 585; GISTEL (1857c): 73.
 Type species. Galleruca silphoides Dalman, 1823, by original designation.
 Current status. Valid genus name in Galerucinae (see MONRÓS & BECHYNÉ 1956, SEENO & WILCOX 1982, BEENEN 2010).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2020, Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), pp. 173-188 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 184, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.011, http://zenodo.org/record/3879369
Chiral symmetry breaking in confining theories and asymptotic limits of operator product expansion
Creators: name: Shevchenko, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pattern of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) in confining background fields is analyzed. It is explicitly demonstrated how to get the inverse square root large proper time asymptotic of the operator product expansion which is needed for CSB.
description: LaTeX, 20 pages; minor revisions
Additional file 1 of Deletion of pgi gene in E. coli increases tolerance to furfural and 5-hydroxymethyl furfural in media containing glucose–xylose mixture
Creators: name: Jilani, Syed Bilal
name: Dev, Chandra
name: Danish Eqbal
name: Jawed, Kamran
name: Prasad, Rajendra
name: Yazdani, Syed Shams
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Rate of biomass formation in presence of furfural. Table S2. Rate of biomass formation in presence of 5-HMF. Figure S1. Influence of reduced inhibitor load on fermentation at 12 g/L glucose concentration in media containing glucose–xylose mixture. Figure S2. Fermentation profile of SSK101 at high sugar load (0.3% glucose + 9% xylose) and (A) 1.0 g/L each of both furfural and 5-HMF; (B) 1.5 g/L each of both furfural and 5-HMF.
A FUSE Survey of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen toward High-Latitude AGN
Creators: name: Gillmon, Kristen
name: Shull, J. Michael
name: Tumlinson, Jason
name: Danforth, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results from a FUSE survey of interstellar molecular hydrogen (H2) along 45 sight lines to AGN at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 20 degrees). Most (39 of 45) of the sight lines show detectable Galactic H2 absorption from Lyman and Werner bands between 1000 and 1126 A, with column densities ranging from N(H2) = 10^(14.17-19.82) cm^-2. In the northern Galactic hemisphere, we identify many regions of low column, N(H2) < 10^15 cm^-2, between longitude l = 60-180 degrees and at b > 54 degrees. These `"H2 holes" provide valuable, uncontaminated sight lines for extragalactic UV spectroscopy, and a few may be related to the "Northern Chimney" (low Na I absorption) and "Lockman Hole" with low N(HI). A comparison of high-latitude H2 with 139 OB-star sight lines surveyed in the Galactic disk suggests that high-latitude and disk H2 clouds may have different rates of heating, cooling, and UV excitation. For rotational states J = 0 and 1, the mean excitation temperature at high latitude, = 124 +/- 8 K, is somewhat above that in the Galactic disk, = 86 +/- 20 K. For J = 2-4, the = 498 +/- 28 K, and the column-density ratios, N(3)/N(1), N(4)/N(0), and N(4)/N(2), indicate a comparable degree of UV excitation in the disk and low halo for sight lines with N(H2) > 10^18. The distribution of molecular fractions at high latitude shows a transition at lower total hydrogen column density, log N_H = 20.38 +/- 0.13, than in the Galactic disk, log N_H(disk) = 20.7. If the FUV radiation fields are similar in disk and low halo, this suggests an enhanced (dust-catalyzed) H2 formation rate in higher-density, compressed clouds, which could be detectable as high-latitude, sheetlike infrared cirrus.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures, submitted to ApJ
Additional file 3 of A survey of RNA viruses in mosquitoes from Mozambique reveals novel genetic lineages of flaviviruses and phenuiviruses, as well as frequent flavivirus-like viral DNA forms in Mansonia
Creators: name: Abílio, Ana Paula
name: Silva, Manuel
name: Ayubo Kampango
name: Narciso, Inácio
name: Gudo, Eduardo Samo
name: Neves, Luís Carlos Bernardo Das
name: Sidat, Mohsin
name: Fafetine, José Manuel
name: Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia De
name: Parreira, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 1. PCR primers and thermal profiles used in this work.
THE ROLE OF RISK ASSESSMENT IN MANAGING RISK
Creators: name: Habtemariam, Tsegaye
name: Tameru, B.
name: Ahmad, A.
name: Nganwa, D.
name: Ayanwale, L.
name: Beyene, G.
name: Robnett, V.
name: Habtemariam, Tsegaye
name: Tameru, B.
name: Ahmad, A.
name: Nganwa, D.
name: Ayanwale, L.
name: Beyene, G.
name: Robnett, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Paper and PowerPoint Presentation
A young male with severe myocarditis and skeletal muscle myositis
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Abdalla
name: Meagher, Eoghan
name: Fraser, Alexander
name: Kiernan, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A 34-year-old male presented with retrosternal chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, and a history of a previous episode of myocarditis four years prior. He had elevated troponin T, normal skeletal muscle enzymes, and negative inflammatory markers. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed active myocarditis with extensive myocardial fibrosis and normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). His myocarditis symptoms resolved with steroids and anti-inflammatory treatment, but on closer questioning, he reported a vague history of long-standing calf discomfort associated with episodes of stiffness, fatigue, and flu-like symptoms. MRI of the lower legs consequently demonstrated active myositis in the calf muscles. Immunomodulatory therapy was commenced with good effect. The patient is undergoing regular follow-up in both cardiology and rheumatology outpatient departments. Repeated MRI of the legs showed significant interval improvement in his skeletal muscle myositis, and repeat cardiac MRI demonstrated the resolution of myocarditis along with persistent stable extensive myocardial fibrosis and preserved LVEF. The patient has returned to full-time work.
Design of the electronic structure of poly-MTO
Creators: name: Miller, R.
name: Helbig, Ch.
name: Eickerling, G.
name: Herrmann, R.
name: Scheidt, E. -W.
name: Scherer, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymeric methyltrioxorhenium (poly-MTO) is the first member of a new class of organometallic hybrids which adopts the structural motives and physical properties of classical perowskites in two dimensions. In this study we demonstrate how the electronic structure of poly-MTO can be tailored by intercalation of organic donor molecules such as tetrathiafulvalene (TTF). With increasing donor intercalation the metallic behavior of the parent compound, (CH$_{3}$)$_{0.92}$ReO$_{3} \cdot x%$ TTF ($x = 0$) becomes suppressed leading to an insulator at donor concentrations $x$ larger than 50. Specific heat, electric resistance and magnetic susceptibility studies indicate that an increasing amount of TTF causes the itinerant electrons of the poly-MTO matrix to localize.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures, SCES04
Phase-Matching Quantum Cryptographic Conferencing
Creators: name: Zhao, Shuai
name: Zeng, Pei
name: Cao, Wen-Fei
name: Xu, Xin-Yu
name: Zhen, Yi-Zheng
name: Ma, Xiongfeng
name: Li, Li
name: liu, Nai-Le
name: Chen, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum cryptographic conferencing (QCC) holds promise for distributing information-theoretic secure keys among multiple users over long distance. Limited by the fragility of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, QCC networks based on directly distributing GHZ states at long distance still face big challenge. Another two potential approaches are measurement device independent QCC and conference key agreement with single-photon interference, which was proposed based on the post-selection of GHZ states and the post-selection of W state, respectively. However, implementations of the former protocol are still heavily constrained by the transmission rate $η$ of optical channels and the complexity of the setups for post-selecting GHZ states. Meanwhile, the latter protocol cannot be cast to a measurement device independent prepare-and-measure scheme. Combining the idea of post-selecting GHZ state and recently proposed twin-field quantum key distribution protocols, we report a QCC protocol based on weak coherent state interferences named phase-matching quantum cryptographic conferencing, which is immune to all detector side-channel attacks. The proposed protocol can improve the key generation rate from $\mathrm{O}(η^N)$ to $\mathrm{O}(η^{N-1})$ compared with the measurement device independent QCC protocols. Meanwhile, it can be easily scaled up to multiple parties due to its simple setup.
ULTRACAM photometry of the eclipsing cataclysmic variables GY Cnc, IR Com and HT Cas
Creators: name: Feline, W. J.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Watson, C. A.
name: Littlefair, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-speed, three-colour photometry of the eclipsing cataclysmic variables GY Cnc, IR Com and HT Cas. We find that the sharp eclipses in GY Cnc and IR Com are due to eclipses of the white dwarf. There is some evidence for a bright spot on the edge of the accretion disc in GY Cnc, but not in IR Com. Eclipse mapping of HT Cas is presented which shows changes in the structure of the quiescent accretion disc. Observations in 2002 show the accretion disc to be invisible except for the presence of a bright spot at the disc edge. 2003 observations, however, clearly show a bright inner disc and the bright spot to be much fainter than in 2002. Although no outburst was associated with either set of quiescent observations, the system was ~0.6 mJy brighter in 2003, mainly due to the enhanced emission from the inner disc. We propose that these changes are due to variations in the mass transfer rate from the secondary star and through the disc. The disc colours indicate that it is optically thin in both its inner and outer regions. We estimate the white dwarf temperature of HT Cas to be 15 000 +/- 1000 K in 2002 and 14 000 +/- 1000 K in 2003.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, figures 3-5 in colour. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
RE-ENGINEERING THE WELFARE SYSTEM - A STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES TO THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM: FINAL REPORT
Creators: name: Bell, Loren
name: Pachikara, Susan
name: Williams, Susan Schreiber
name: Gabor, Vivian
name: Bell, Loren
name: Pachikara, Susan
name: Williams, Susan Schreiber
name: Gabor, Vivian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: PRWORA
subject: service delivery
subject: structure
subject: casework
subject: accessibility
subject: client tracking
subject: monitoring
subject: conforming

description: All States in a recent study undertook at least one "re-engineering" activity in their Food Stamp Programs (FSPs) as a result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). In addition, 35 States implemented changes in 3 or more re-engineering categories, while 24 States planned changes for fiscal year (FY) 2000 in 2 or more categories. PRWORA dramatically changed the systems that provide cash assistance and food stamps to low-income Americans. Along with mandatory changes in food stamp eligibility, States were given greater flexibility to administer their programs to meet their unique needs. While States had begun changing the way program services were delivered before passage of welfare reform legislation, PRWORA provided additional opportunities for them to "re-engineer" FSPs. The purpose of the study was to examine State-level administrative changes to FSPs as a result of PRWORA, both those made before FY 2000 and those planned for FY 2000. This report provides the study results. For the State data collection instrument, see Re-engineering the Welfare System-A Study of Administrative Changes to the Food Stamp Program: State Data Collection Instrument at http: //www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan01009.
RURAL AMERICA AT A GLANCE 2006 Edition
Creators: name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: From 2000 to 2005, the nonmetro population in the United States grew by 2.2 percent. International migration supplied nearly a third of the growth in nonmetro areas, and accounted for all nonmetro population growth in the Midwest. Growth was concentrated in nonmetro counties adjacent to metro areas. (Data on nonmetro areas are used in this report to describe rural and small-town America. The definitions of metro and nonmetro areas are discussed in the section on data sources at the end of this report.) The nonmetro population is aging, like the U.S. population as a whole, with implications for health care, housing, and transportation. Between 2000 and 2005, the nonmetro population 40-59 years old grew by 8 percent, while the nonmetro population under 20 years of age declined by 5 percent. Following a short recession between March and November 2001, and a subsequent period of economic growth without employment growth, the United States has undergone a broad-based economic expansion since 2003, with employment growth occurring in sectors representing more than 80 percent of total U.S. employment. As a result, U.S. employment grew between 2004 and 2005, particularly in the West and the metro South, and unemployment rates were the lowest since the 2001 recession. However, 46 percent of nonmetro counties were still below their 2000 employment levels in 2005. After a decline of more than 15 percent between 2000 and 2003 in both metro and nonmetro areas, manufacturing employment in early 2006 remained relatively stable for the third year in a row.
Food Assistance Landscape September 2005
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Oliveira, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: USDA administers 15 domestic food assistance programs that serve an estimated 1 in 5 Americans at some point during the year. Each program targets specific populations with different nutritional needs. These programs work individually and in concert to provide a nutritional safety net for children and low-income adults. The Economic Research Service (ERS) is responsible for conducting studies and evaluations of USDA's food assistance programs, focusing on the benefits of improved diets and food choices, factors that influence diet and nutrition, and program outcomes. This report uses preliminary data from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), the agency responsible for administering the Nation's food assistance programs, to examine trends in the programs at the midpoint of fiscal 2005. It also discusses a recent ERS report that presents findings from an evaluation of projects aimed at testing ways to increase Food Stamp Program participation among eligible elderly individuals.
An N=1 Lagrangian for an N=3 SCFT
Creators: name: Zafrir, Gabi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that a certain $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(2)\times SU(2)$ gauge theory flows in the IR to an $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFT plus a single free chiral field. The specific $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFT has rank $1$ and a dimension three Coulomb branch operator. The flow is generically expected to land at the $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFT deformed by the marginal deformation associated with said Coulomb branch operator. We also present a discussion about the properties expected of various RG invariant quantities from $\mathcal{N}=3$ superconformal symmetry, and use these to test our proposal. Finally, we discuss a generalization to another $\mathcal{N}=1$ model that we propose is related to a certain rank $3$ $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFT through the turning of certain marginal deformations.
description: 59 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of A survey of RNA viruses in mosquitoes from Mozambique reveals novel genetic lineages of flaviviruses and phenuiviruses, as well as frequent flavivirus-like viral DNA forms in Mansonia
Creators: name: Abílio, Ana Paula
name: Silva, Manuel
name: Ayubo Kampango
name: Narciso, Inácio
name: Gudo, Eduardo Samo
name: Neves, Luís Carlos Bernardo Das
name: Sidat, Mohsin
name: Fafetine, José Manuel
name: Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia De
name: Parreira, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Microscopic observation of C6/36 cells mock-infected cells (A; 300×), or after infection (day 3) with viruses present in three independent pools of Ma. uniformis, An. ziemani, and An. pretoriensis mosquitoes collected in Mozambique.
Decomposition of Normal Operators and Its Application to Spectral Theorem
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Katsukuni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A decomposition theorem for self-adjoint operators proved by Riesz and Lorch is extended to normal operators. This extension gives a new proof of the spectral theorem for unbounded normal operators.
Reconstruction of Black Hole Metric Perturbations from Weyl Curvature II: The Regge-Wheeler gauge
Creators: name: Lousto, Carlos O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbation theory of rotating black holes is described in terms of the Weyl scalars $ψ_4$ and $ψ_0$; each satisfying the Teukolsky's complex master wave equation with spin $s=\mp2$, and respectively representing outgoing and ingoing radiation. We explicitly construct the metric perturbations out of these Weyl scalars in the Regge-Wheeler gauge in the nonrotating limit. We propose a generalization of the Regge-Wheeler gauge for Kerr background in the Newman-Penrose language, and discuss the approach for building up the perturbed spacetime of a rotating black hole. We also provide both-way relationships between waveforms defined in the metric and curvature approaches in the time domain, also known as the (inverse-) Chandrasekhar transformations, generalized to include matter.
description: 22 pages, no figures
A general lower bound for mixing of single-site dynamics on graphs
Creators: name: Hayes, Thomas P.
name: Sinclair, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J10 (Primary) 60K35, 68W20, 68W25, 82C20 (Secondary)

description: We prove that any Markov chain that performs local, reversible updates on randomly chosen vertices of a bounded-degree graph necessarily has mixing time at least $Ω(n\log n)$, where $n$ is the number of vertices. Our bound applies to the so-called ``Glauber dynamics'' that has been used extensively in algorithms for the Ising model, independent sets, graph colorings and other structures in computer science and statistical physics, and demonstrates that many of these algorithms are optimal up to constant factors within their class. Previously, no superlinear lower bound was known for this class of algorithms. Though widely conjectured, such a bound had been proved previously only in very restricted circumstances, such as for the empty graph and the path. We also show that the assumption of bounded degree is necessary by giving a family of dynamics on graphs of unbounded degree with mixing time O(n).
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051607000000104 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The Effect of the Transit of Venus on ACRIM's Total Solar Irradiance Measurements: Implications for Transit Studies of Extrasolar Planets
Creators: name: Schneider, G.
name: Pasachoff, J. M.
name: Willson, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used the 8 June 2004 transit of Venus (ToV) as a surrogate to test observing methods, strategies and techniques that are being contemplated for future space missions to detect and characterize extrasolar terrestrial planets (ETPs) as they transit their host stars, notably NASA's Kepler mission planned for 2008. As an analog to "Kepler-like" photometric transit observations, we obtained (spatially unresolved) radiometric observations with the ACRIM 3 instrument on ACRIMSAT to follow the effect of the ToV on the total solar irradiance (TSI). Contemporaneous high-resolution broadband imagery with NASA's TRACE spacecraft provided, directly, measures of the stellar (solar) astrophysical noise that can intrinsically limit such transit observations. During the ~ 5.5 h transit, the planet's angular diameter was approximately 1/32 the solar diameter, thus covering ~ 0.1 of the stellar surface. With our ACRIM 3 data, we measure temporal changes in TSI with a 1 sigma per sample (unbinned) uncertainty of approximately 100 mW m^-2 (0.007%). A diminution in TSI of ~ 1.4 W m^-2 (~ 0.1%, closely corresponding to the geometrically occulted area of the photosphere) was measured at mid-transit compared with a mean pre/post transit TSI of ~ 1365.9 W m^-2. These observations serve as a surrogate to future photometric observations of ETPs such as Kepler will deliver. Detailed analysis of the ToV, a rare event within our own solar system, with time-resolved radiometry augmented with high-resolution imagery provides a useful analogue for investigating the detectability and characterization of ETPs from observations that are anticipated in the near future.
description: Accepted to ApJ 8 Dec 2005; 14 pages of text, 8 figures, 1 table
Effective anisotropic stresses of the relic gravitons
Creators: name: Giovannini, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective anisotropic stresses induced by the scalar modes of the geometry depend on the coordinate system so that the comparison of the competing results is ultimately determined by the evolution of the pivotal variables in each particular gauge. After arguing that the only reasonable physical coordinate systems for this problem are the ones where the gauge freedom is completely fixed (like the longitudinal and the uniform curvature gauges), we propose a novel gauge-invariant strategy for the comparison of gauge-dependent results. Instead of employing the pivotal variables of a given coordinate system, the effective anisotropic stress is solely expressed in terms of the gravitating normal modes of the plasma and in terms of their conformal time derivatives. The new approach is explicitly gauge-invariant and when the wavelengths of the normal modes are either shorter or larger than the sound horizon, the physical limits of the anisotropic stresses are determined without relying on the specific details of the background evolution. The relevance of the proposed strategy is discussed in the general situation where the scalar anisotropic stress and the non-adiabatic pressure fluctuations are simultaneously present. We finally argue that the anisotropic stress can be most efficiently obtained from the second-order effective action of the curvature inhomogeneities.
description: 31 pages
Crossing Heavy-Flavour Thresholds in Fragmentation Functions
Creators: name: Cacciari, Matteo
name: Nason, Paolo
name: Oleari, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In analogy with parton distribution functions, also parton fragmentation functions obey matching conditions when crossing heavy-flavour thresholds. We compute these matching conditions at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant alpha_s in the MSbar scheme. Our results can be used for the dynamical generation of the heavy-flavour component in next-to-leading order fits to light-hadrons fragmentation functions. Furthermore, when computing perturbatively the charm fragmentation function from first principles and evolving it to higher scales, our matching conditions should be used for consistency when crossing the bottom threshold.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures