cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NJ Environmental Federation News, June 2004
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Environmental Federation, the New Jersey Chapter of Clean Water Action
Year: 2004

description: The goal of the NJEF is to ensure safe drinking water for all NJ residents, reduce the use of pesticides, promote recycling and lobby for sound and sustainable environmental practices on a local, state, and national level. This issue of the newsletter features the NJ Highlands Campaign, a school pesticide manual, safe school siting and construction, and NJEF canvass news.
Quantum Dimension and Quantum Projective Spaces
Creators: name: Matassa, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the family of spectral triples for quantum projective spaces introduced by D'Andrea and Dabrowski, which have spectral dimension equal to zero, can be reconsidered as modular spectral triples by taking into account the action of the element $K_{2ρ}$ or its inverse. The spectral dimension computed in this sense coincides with the dimension of the classical projective spaces. The connection with the well known notion of quantum dimension of quantum group theory is pointed out.
A more powerful test for three-arm non-inferiority via risk difference: Frequentist and Bayesian approaches
Creators: name: Paul, Erina
name: Tiwari, Ram C.
name: Chowdhury, Shrabanti
name: Ghosh, Samiran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Necessity for finding improved intervention in many legacy therapeutic areas are of high priority. This has the potential to decrease the expense of medical care and poor outcomes for many patients. Typically, clinical efficacy is the primary evaluating criteria to measure any beneficial effect of a treatment. Albeit, there could be situations when several other factors (e.g. side-effects, cost-burden, less debilitating, less intensive, etc.) which can permit some slightly less efficacious treatment options favorable to a subgroup of patients. This often leads to non-inferiority (NI) testing. NI trials may or may not include a placebo arm due to ethical reasons. However, when included, the resulting three-arm trial is more prudent since it requires less stringent assumptions compared to a two-arm placebo-free trial. In this article, we consider both Frequentist and Bayesian procedures for testing NI in the three-arm trial with binary outcomes when the functional of interest is risk difference. An improved Frequentist approach is proposed first, which is then followed by a Bayesian counterpart. Bayesian methods have a natural advantage in many active-control trials, including NI trial, as it can seamlessly integrate substantial prior information. In addition, we discuss sample size calculation and draw an interesting connection between the two paradigms.
Neoascia podagrica
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Neoascia
Neoascia podagrica

description: Neoascia podagrica (Fabricius, 1775) Široce rozšÍřený palearktický druh, který je častý v okolÍ různých mokřadů, ale i antropogennÍch stanovišť s rozklÁdajÍcÍm se mokrým organickým materiÁlem, ve kterém se vyvÍjejÍ jeho saprofÁgnÍ larvy. Bílý Potok [1a]: 3.-19.V.2005, 1 ♂ (MT); 19.V.-3.VI.2005, 1 ♀ (YPT); 3.-16.VI.2005, 1 ♂ (MT), 1 ♂ (YPT); 19.VI.2007, 1 ♀; [1b]: 22.V.2003, 1 ♂ (SW). Černá hora PR [5]: 6.V.-2.VI.2004, 1 ♂ (YPT). Frýdlant [7]: 22.V.2006, 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (SW). Horní Polubný [13]: 19.VI.2006, 1 ♂ (SW). Jizerka [15b]: 29.VIII.2004, 1 ♂ (SW). Kořenov [16a]: 12.VI.2005, 1 ♀; 17.VI.2005, 1 ♀ (SW). Křížový vrch PR [18]: 3.VIII.2004, 1 ♀ (SW). Kunratice [19]: 22.VI.2006, 1 ♂ (SW). Liberec-Vesec [20]: 16.VIII.2004, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (SW). Malá Strana PR [21]: 26.VI.2003, 1 ♀ (SW). Meandry Smědé PR [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (YPT). Rašeliniště Jizerky NPR [33a]: 5.-28.VII.2005, 1 ♀ (YPT). Rejdice [35]: 25.V.2005, 2 ♂♂ (SW); 19.-30.V.2005, 1 ♀ (ET); 3.-16.VI.2005, 1 ♀ (YPT); 28.VII.-16. VIII.2005, 1 ♂ (YPT). Tichá říčka PP [44]: 25.VI.-14.VII.2004, 1 ♂ (YPT); 29.VIII.-16.IX.2004, 1 ♀ (YPT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
2000 New Jersey Commercial Strawberry Pest Control Recommendations I
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Rutgers Cooperative Extension, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 2000

description: This fact sheet contains descriptions of various diseases and pests of strawberries, cultural practices to reduce pest incidence (ICM strategies), and chemical control tactics should they be warranted. Additional pest note and weed control information are available on FS194: 2000 Commercial Strawberry Pest Control Recommendations II, and E171: 1999 Commercial Strawberry Pest Control Recommendations II--Weed Control.
Semiclassical treatment of pair creation in de Sitter space
Creators: name: Guts, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a massive scalar field theory in de Sitter space. Using worldline instanton approach, we calculate probability of pair production in weak-field limit. In addition to exponential factor we derive pre-exponential factor. Within this approach the vanishing probability for odd-dimensional de Sitter space gets a clear geometrical interpretation. We find leading contribution to imaginary part of two point correlator in $ϕ^3$-theory.
City of Jersey City, New Jersey, Environmental Resource Inventory: Part II - Biological Systems
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Stevens Institute of Technology
Year: 1993

description: This inventory discusses the biological resources of Jersey City from an ecosystem point of view.  Each of the major types of ecosystems is described in turn.  These types of ecosystems are: estuarine, salt marsh, terrestrial, and freshwater habitats.
Nonlinear interaction of two trapped-mode resonances in a bilayer fish-scale metamaterial
Creators: name: Tuz, Vladimir R.
name: Novitsky, Denis V.
name: Mladyonov, Pavel L.
name: Prosvirnin, Sergey L.
name: Novitsky, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a bistable light transmission through a bilayer "fish-scale" (meander-line) metamaterial. It is demonstrated that an all-optical switching may be achieved nearly the frequency of the high-quality-factor Fano-shaped trapped-mode resonance excitation. The nonlinear interaction of two closely spaced trapped-mode resonances in the bilayer structure composed with a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric slab is analyzed in both frequency and time domains. It is demonstrated that these two resonances react differently on the applied intense light which leads to destination of a multistable transmission.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
To the Best of My Abilities and Understanding: Do Legal Credentials Affect Sentencing Decisions in South Carolina?
Creators: name: Casey, Sean
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Crime
subject: Criminal Justice
subject: Judicial Reform
subject: Law and Economics
subject: Legal Credentialing
subject: Magistrate Court
subject: Occupational Licensing
subject: Race
subject: South Carolina

description: This thesis considers the impact of legal credentialing on judicial sentencing behavior. In particular, the paper examines whether the lawyers appointed as judges to South Carolina’s Magistrate Court make different criminal sentencing decisions than the non-lawyers who serve as judges on the same court. To answer this question, the study uses a novel data set containing all publicly available criminal sentences handed down by the Magistrate Court in 2021 and cross-referenced the sentences with a roster of magistrate judges created through formal public information requests to the South Carolina Judicial System. The analysis also controls for other explanatory variables, including race and sex of the defendant, race and sex of the judge, and the crime committed. This paper finds that lawyer and non-lawyer magistrate judges impose similar sentences in nearly all respects. However, they differ along two important dimensions: racial bias (lawyer magistrate judges give Black defendants 22% greater fines than they give White defendants, while non-lawyer magistrate judges treat the groups similarly), and observance of a “plea premium” norm (lawyer magistrate judges give defendants who plead guilty 16% lower fines, while non-lawyer magistrate judges do not).
Neoascia tenur
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Neoascia
Neoascia tenur

description: Neoascia tenur (Harris, 1780) Eurosibiřský druh hojný na mokřadnÍch loukÁch a okrajÍch stojatých i tekoucÍch vod. SaprofÁgnÍ larvy žijÍ semiakvaticky v hnijÍcÍ organické hmotě pod bylinnou vegetacÍ. V Jizerských horÁch hojný druh (172 ♂♂, 122 ♀♀), imaga od V. do VIII. Bílý Potok [1a]: 1 ex.; [1b]: 10 ex. Bukovec PR [3a]: 1 ex.; [3c]: 1 ex.; [3d]: 65 ex. Černousy [6a]: 1 ex. Horní Polubný [13]: 1 ex. Jizerka [15a]: 1 ex. Krásná Studánka [17]: 1 ex. Kunratice [19]: 4 ex. Malá Strana PR [21]: 65 ex. Meandry Smědé PR [22a]: 1 ex.; [22b]: 13 ex. Oldřichov v Hájích [28b]: 1 ex. Rašeliniště Jizerky NPR [33a]: 41 ex.; [33b]: 21 ex.; [33b]: 15 ex. Rašeliniště Jizery NPR [34]: 26 ex. Rybí loučky PR [37]: 23 ex. Tichá říčka PP [44]: 2 ex.
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Toward Time-Resolved Analysis of RNA Metabolism in Archaea Using 4-Thiouracil
Creators: name: Ferreira-Cerca, Sébastien
name: Knüppel, Robert
name: Kuttenberger, Corinna
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: GENE-EXPRESSION DATA; HALOFERAX-VOLCANII; SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE; PAR-CLIP; IN-VIVO; PROTEINS; NETWORKS; BIOSYNTHESIS; IDENTIFICATION; 4-THIOURIDINE; archaea; RNA; 4-thiouracil; 4-thiouridine; 4TU; RNA-tagging; biotin
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Archaea are widespread organisms colonizing almost every habitat on Earth. However, the molecular biology of archaea still remains relatively uncharacterized. RNA metabolism is a central cellular process, which has been extensively analyzed in both bacteria and eukarya. In contrast, analysis of RNA metabolism dynamic in archaea has been limited to date. To facilitate analysis of the RNA metabolism dynamic at a system-wide scale in archaea, we have established non-radioactive pulse labeling of RNA, using the nucleotide analog 4-thiouracil (4TU) in two commonly used model archaea: the halophile Euryarchaeota Haloferax volcanii, and the thermo-acidophile Crenarchaeota Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. In this work, we show that 4TU pulse labeling can be efficiently performed in these two organisms in a dose-and time-dependent manner. In addition, our results suggest that uracil prototrophy had no critical impact on the overall 4TU incorporation in RNA molecules. Accordingly, our work suggests that 4TU incorporation can be widely performed in archaea, thereby expanding the molecular toolkit to analyze archaeal gene expression network dynamic in unprecedented detail.
Dark Energy Scaling from Dark Matter to Acceleration
Creators: name: Bielefeld, Jannis
name: Caldwell, Robert R.
name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark sector of the Universe need not be completely separable into distinct dark matter and dark energy components. We consider a model of early dark energy in which the dark energy mimics a dark matter component in both evolution and perturbations at early times. Barotropic aether dark energy scales as a fixed fraction, possibly greater than one, of the dark matter density and has vanishing sound speed at early times before undergoing a transition. This gives signatures not only in cosmic expansion but in sound speed and inhomogeneities, and in number of effective neutrino species. Model parameters describe the timing, sharpness of the transition, and the relative abundance at early times. Upon comparison with current data, we find viable regimes in which the dark energy behaves like dark matter at early times: for transitions well before recombination the dark energy to dark matter fraction can equal or exceed unity, while for transitions near recombination the ratio can only be a few percent. After the transition, dark energy goes its separate way, ultimately driving cosmic acceleration and approaching a cosmological constant in this scenario.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
A new family of Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks towards automated model discovery
Creators: name: Linka, Kevin
name: Kuhl, Ellen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.6; J.2
subject: 65, 74

description: For more than 100 years, chemical, physical, and material scientists have proposed competing constitutive models to best characterize the behavior of natural and man-made materials in response to mechanical loading. Now, computer science offers a universal solution: Neural Networks. Neural Networks are powerful function approximators that can learn constitutive relations from large data without any knowledge of the underlying physics. However, classical Neural Networks ignore a century of research in constitutive modeling, violate thermodynamic considerations, and fail to predict the behavior outside the training regime. Here we design a new family of Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks that inherently satisfy common kinematic, thermodynamic, and physic constraints and, at the same time, constrain the design space of admissible functions to create robust approximators, even in the presence of sparse data. We revisit the non-linear field theories of mechanics and reverse-engineer the network input to account for material objectivity, symmetry, and incompressibility; the network output to enforce thermodynamic consistency; the activation functions to implement physically reasonable restrictions; and the network architecture to ensure polyconvexity. We demonstrate that this new class of models is a generalization of the classical neo Hooke, Blatz Ko, Mooney Rivlin, Yeoh, and Demiray models and that the network weights have a clear physical interpretation. When trained with classical benchmark data for rubber, our network autonomously selects the best constitutive model and learns its parameters. Our findings suggests that Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks have the potential to induce a paradigm shift in constitutive modeling, from user-defined model selection to automated model discovery. Our source code, data, and examples are available at https://github.com/LivingMatterLab/CANN.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures
EZ Inspect: How to have a successful New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Compliance Inspection
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Bureau of Enforcement and Compliance Services
Year: 2006

description: This guide explains NJDEP's Compliance and Enforcement inspection process, and is designed to help New Jersey businesses comply with state environmental laws and regulations. The guide lists the state's main environmental rules and regulations. It then explains why inspections are carried out, what happens during and after an inspection, and how the state deals with violations. Organizational charts with contact information are provided for Compliance and Enforcement, Office of Legal Affairs, Office of Dispute Resolution, and programs within Environmental Regulation that conduct compliance inspection activities.
Sphegina clavata
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Sphegina
Sphegina clavata

description: Sphegina clavata (Scopoli, 1763) Velmi vzÁcný druh znÁmý z mokřadů mÍrné Evropy. Vyžaduje staré, listnatými dřevinami zarůstajÍcÍ mokřady s dostatkem odumřelé dřevnÍ hmoty, na které se zřejmě vyvÍjejÍ jeho larvy. Meandry Smědé PR [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 1 ♀ (MT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Shannon entropy: an econophysical approach to cryptocurrency portfolios
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Noe
name: Miramontes, Octavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Cryptocurrency markets have attracted many interest for global investors because of their novelty, wide online availability, increasing capitalization and potential profits. In the econophysics tradition we show that many of the most available cryptocurrencies have return statistics that do not follow Gaussian distributions but heavy--tailed distributions instead. Entropy measures are also applied showing that portfolio diversification is a reasonable practice for decreasing return uncertainty.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Entropy
MPEC 2023-P33 : 2023 PC
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 PC

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
CIR-Net: Cross-modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
Creators: name: Cong, Runmin
name: Lin, Qinwei
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Li, Chongyi
name: Cao, Xiaochun
name: Huang, Qingming
name: Zhao, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Focusing on the issue of how to effectively capture and utilize cross-modality information in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) task, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named CIR-Net, based on the novel cross-modality interaction and refinement. For the cross-modality interaction, 1) a progressive attention guided integration unit is proposed to sufficiently integrate RGB-D feature representations in the encoder stage, and 2) a convergence aggregation structure is proposed, which flows the RGB and depth decoding features into the corresponding RGB-D decoding streams via an importance gated fusion unit in the decoder stage. For the cross-modality refinement, we insert a refinement middleware structure between the encoder and the decoder, in which the RGB, depth, and RGB-D encoder features are further refined by successively using a self-modality attention refinement unit and a cross-modality weighting refinement unit. At last, with the gradually refined features, we predict the saliency map in the decoder stage. Extensive experiments on six popular RGB-D SOD benchmarks demonstrate that our network outperforms the state-of-the-art saliency detectors both qualitatively and quantitatively.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2022, 16 pages, 11 figures
Sphegina clunipes
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Sphegina
Sphegina clunipes

description: Sphegina clunipes (Fallén, 1816) Transpalearktický druh, hojný zejména na stinnějšÍch mokřadnÍch stanovištÍch, jako jsou prameniště ve vlhkých listnatých i jehličnatých lesÍch. Larvy jsou semiakvatické, vÁzané na hnijÍcÍ mokré dřevo. V Jizerských horÁch hojný druh (48 ♂♂, 32 ♀♀), imaga od IV. do IX. Bukovec PR [3a]: 15 ex.; [3d]: 3 ex. Frýdlant [7]: 2 ex. Harta [8]: 1 ex. Jedlový důl PR [14]: 7 ex. Kořenov [16a]: 9 ex.; [16b]: 1 ex. Křížový vrch PR [18]: 3 ex. Kunratice [19]: 1 ex. Liberec-Vesec [20]: 8 ex. Malá Strana PR [21]: 2 ex. Oldřichovské sedlo [27]: 2 ex. Ořešník [29]: 4 ex. Plavy [30]: 3 ex. Raspenava [32b]: 1 ex. Rejdice [35]: 5 ex. Rudolfov [36]: 1 ex. Smrk [39d]: 2 ex. Stržový vrch [40]: 3 ex. Špičák [41]: 3 ex. U Kyselky [46]: 4 ex.
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Torus and polar dust dependence on AGN properties
Creators: name: García-Bernete, I.
name: González-Martín, O.
name: Almeida, C. Ramos
name: Alonso-Herrero, A.
name: Martínez-Paredes, M.
name: Ward, M. J.
name: Roche, P. F.
name: Acosta-Pulido, J. A.
name: López-Rodríguez, E.
name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Esparza-Arredondo, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical analysis of the properties of the obscuring material around active galactic nuclei (AGN). This study represents the first of its kind for an ultra-hard X-ray (14-195keV; Swift/BAT) volume-limited (DL<40 Mpc) sample of 24 Seyfert (Sy) galaxies (BCS40 sample) using high angular resolution infrared data and various torus models: smooth, clumpy and two-phase torus models and clumpy disc+wind models. We find that the smooth, clumpy and two-phase torus models (i.e. without including the polar dusty wind component) and disc+wind models provide best fits for a comparable number of galaxies, 8/24 (33.3%) and 9/24 (37.5%), respectively. We find that the best-fitted models depend on the hydrogen column density (NH), which is related to the X-ray (unobscured/obscured) and/or optical (Sy1/Sy2) classification. In particular, smooth, clumpy and two-phase torus models best reproduce the infrared (IR) emission of AGN with relatively high hydrogen column density (median value of log (NH)=23.5+-0.8; i.e. Sy2). However, clumpy disc+wind models provide the best fits to the nuclear IR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Sy1/1.8/1.9 (median value of log (NH)=21.0+-1.0), specifically in the near-IR (NIR) range. The success of the disc+wind models in fitting the NIR emission of Sy1 galaxies is due to the combination of adding large graphite grains to the dust composition and self-obscuration effects caused by the wind at intermediate inclinations. In general, we find that the Seyfert galaxies having unfavourable (favourable) conditions, i.e. nuclear hydrogen column density and Eddington ratio, for launching IR dusty polar outflows are best-fitted with smooth, clumpy and two-phase torus (disk+wind) models confirming the predictions from simulations. Therefore, our results indicate that the nature of the inner dusty structure in AGN depend on the intrinsic AGN properties.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 43 pages, 43 figures, 16 tables
Fast transport of Bose-Einstein condensates in anharmonic traps
Creators: name: Li, Jing
name: Chen, Xi
name: Ruschhaupt, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to transport Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in anharmonic traps and in the presence of atom-atom interactions in short times without residual excitation. Using a combination of a variational approach and inverse engineering methods, we derive a set of Ermakov-like equations that take into account the coupling between the center of mass motion and the breathing mode. By an appropriate inverse engineering strategy of those equations, we then design the trap trajectory to achieve the desired boundary conditions. Numerical examples for cubic or quartic anharmonicities are provided for fast and high-fidelity transport of BECs. Potential applications are atom interferometry and quantum information processing.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Spiral antiferromagnets beyond the spin-wave approximation: frustrated $XY$ and Heisenberg models in the honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Di Ciolo, Andrea
name: Carrasquilla, Juan
name: Becca, Federico
name: Rigol, Marcos
name: Galitski, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the stability of classical states with a generic incommensurate spiral order against quantum fluctuations. Specifically, we focus on the frustrated spin-1/2 $XY$ and Heisenberg models on the honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor $J_1$ and next-nearest-neighbor $J_2$ antiferromagnetic couplings. Our variational approach is based on the Jastrow wave functions, which include quantum correlations on top of classical spin waves. We perform a systematic optimization of wave vectors and Jastrow pseudo-potentials within this class of variational states and find that quantum fluctuations favor collinear states over generic coplanar spirals. The Néel state with ${\bf Q}=(0,0)$ extends its stability well beyond the classical value $J_2/J_1=1/6$. Most importantly, the collinear states with ${\bf Q}=(0,2π/\sqrt{3})$ (and the two symmetry-related states) are found to be stable in a large regime with intermediate frustration, while at the classical level they are limited to the point $J_2/J_1=0.5$. For large frustration, the $120^\circ$ state is stabilized for finite values of $J_2/J_1$ in both models.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
$U(1)$ Gauge Field Localization on Bloch Brane with Chumbes-Holf da Silva-Hott Mechanism
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhen-Hua
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Zhong, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We follow the Chumbes-Holf da Silva-Hott (CHH) mechanism to study the (qusi-)localization of $U(1)$ gauge field on the Bloch brane. The localization of $U(1)$ gauge field is discussed for four kinds of Bloch brane solutions: the original Bloch brane solution, the generalized Bloch brane solution, and the degenerate Bloch brane solutions I and II. With the CHH mechanism, we find that the mass spectrum of the gauge field Kaluza-Klein modes is continuous and only the zero mode of the gauge field is localized on the brane. For the massive modes, there exist resonant modes only on the degenerate Bloch branes.
description: some figures removed and some comments added, accepted by PRD
Observation of polarization singularities and topological textures in sound waves
Creators: name: Muelas-Hurtado, R. D.
name: Volke-Sepulveda, K.
name: Ealo, J. L.
name: Nori, F.
name: Alonso, M. A.
name: Bliokh, K. Y.
name: Brasselet, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarization singularities and topological polarization structures are generic features of inhomogeneous vector wave fields of any nature. However, their experimental studies mostly remain restricted to optical waves. Here we report observation of polarization singularities, topological Mobius-strip structures and skyrmionic textures in 3D polarization fields of inhomogeneous sound waves. Our experiments are made in the ultrasonic domain using nonparaxial propagating fields generated by space-variant 2D acoustic sources. We also retrieve distributions of the 3D spin density in these fields. Our results open the avenue to investigations and applications of topological features and nontrivial 3D vector properties of structured sound waves.
GIS Update #39 (Fall 1999)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Geographic Information and Analysis
Year: 1999

description: A newsletter about the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP), Bureau of Geographic Information and Analysis (BGIA). The newsletter covers GIS-related news items, projects, initiatives, conference reports, data reports, GIS events and BGIA staff news. The audience includes NJDEP staff and the New Jersey GIS community, and the public. This is Issue #39 Fall 1999 - contains articles on GIS day, ARC Explorer, NJ Metalite, and more.
Complex Scalar fields in Scalar-Tensor and Scalar-Torsion theories
Creators: name: Paliathanasis, Andronikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmological dynamics in a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^ıtre--Robertson--Walker geometry in scalar-tensor and scalar-torsion theories where the nonminimally coupled scalar field is a complex field. We derive the cosmological field equations and we make use of dimensionless variables in order to determine the stationary points and determine their stability properties. The physical properties of the stationary points are discussed while we find that the two-different theories, scalar-tensor and scalar-torsion theories, share many common features in terms of the evolution of the physical variables in the background space.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Baxter-Wu model in a transverse magnetic field
Creators: name: Capponi, Sylvain
name: Jahromi, Saeed S.
name: Alet, Fabien
name: Schmidt, Kai Phillip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the low-energy properties as well as quantum and thermal phase transitions of the Baxter-Wu model in a transverse magnetic field. Our study relies on stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo and on series expansions about the low- and high-field limits at zero temperature using the quantum finite-lattice method on the triangular lattice. The phase boundary consists of a second-order critical line in the 4-state Potts model universality class starting from the pure Baxter-Wu limit meeting a first-order line connected to the zero-temperature transition point ($h\approx2.4$, $T=0$). Both lines merge at a tricritical point approximatively located at ($h\approx 2.3J$, $T\approx J$).
description: 13 pages, 17 figures
What are the key conditions necessary to attract Foreign Direct Investment? Developing an empirical model for the Latin American reality
Creators: name: Bambach Vial, Juan Paulo
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Foreign Direct Investment
subject: Latin America
subject: Period 1990-2010
subject: Multiple variables
subject: Structural Reforms
subject: Liberal Reforms
subject: Multi Linear Regression

description: In this paper, we try to understand what the key drivers for FDI in Latin America are and resolve long standing debates. Doing an analysis on nineteen Latin American countries during the period 1990-2009, we compare the effect of liberal economy reforms made during these years in the region with other important variables like demography, democracy, legal certainty, and human development. The liberal reforms effects are evaluated through the Structural Reform Index (STR), a variable created by Eduardo Lora to measure how reformist in liberal policies each country was during the period 1985-2009. The results show that STR has importance in the short term, but not in the mid and long term. Financial Market Development, Rule of Law, and Human Development are the most relevant variables for investors to take investment decisions in the long term.
Sphegina elegans Shummel 1843
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Sphegina
Sphegina elegans

description: Sphegina elegans Shummel, 1843 Široce rozšÍřený druh Evropy, častý na stinnějšÍch stanovištÍch blÍzko stojaté i tekoucÍ vody. SaprofÁgnÍ larvy jsou vÁzané na mokré rozklÁdajÍcÍ se dřevo. Kořenov [16a]: 13.VI.2005, 1 ♀. Křížový vrch PR [18]: 3.VIII.2004, 1 ♂ (SW). Oldřichovské sedlo [27]: 3.-15. VII.2003, 1 ♀ (YPT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Bioaccumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Delaware River Estuary
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
Year: 2004

description: The overall goal of this study is to quantify the concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in white perch and channel catfish and their prey items from the four zones of the Delaware River from Liston Point, DE to the Trenton, NJ area during two seasons (fall and spring). Specifically, this study: 1) Produced an extensive data set summarizing PCB concentrations in white perch, channel catfish, their major prey items, and surficial sediment during two seasons (fall and spring), 2) quantified the transfer of PCBs between predators (white perch and channel catfish) and some of their most abundant prey items (small prey fish and amphipods), 3) quantified the variability in accumulated PCBs in collected perch and catfish individual fillets within and among zones, and 4) assessed the similarities and differences in accumulated PCB congeners among zones and species within the estuary.
Effect of Specific Chemical Reactions on the Transformation and the Transport of Chromium in the Soil-Water System : Part II
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware
Year: 1995

description: This document contains the second part of a report (Chapter 4 - Results and Discussion) from the third year of a study of chromium leaching behavior from chromium contaminated soil (Cr-soil) in Hudson County, New Jersey. Chromium is the most commonly found toxic heavy metal contaminant in New Jersey soils, and poses a considerable environmental hazard. Remediation of contaminated sites is necessary to reduce the public health hazard, and therefore it is essential to understand the chemical and physical interaction of chromium with soils. The major goal of this research is to evaluate the kinetic parameters of chromium redox reactions in soils with respect to various environmental conditions experienced at the contaminated site. pH levels, temperature, and the presence of manganese are all found to be important variables.
Sublethal doses of imidacloprid disrupt sexual communication and host finding in a parasitoid wasp
Creators: name: Tappert, Lars
name: Pokorny, Tamara
name: Hofferberth, John
name: Ruther, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: ASIAN CORN-BORER; NASONIA-VITRIPENNIS; TRICHOGRAMMA-BRASSICAE; HONEY-BEES; PHEROMONAL COMMUNICATION; INSECTICIDE CHLORPYRIFOS; SYSTEMIC INSECTICIDES; OSTRINIA-FURNACALIS; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; NEONICOTINOIDS;
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Neonicotinoids are widely used insecticides, but their use is subject of debate because of their detrimental effects on pollinators. Little is known about the effect of neonicotinoids on other beneficial insects such as parasitoid wasps, which serve as natural enemies and are crucial for ecosystem functioning. Here we show that sublethal doses of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid impair sexual communication and host finding in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Depending on the dose, treated females were less responsive to the male sex pheromone or unable to use it as a cue at all. Courtship behaviour of treated couples was also impeded resulting in a reduction of mating rates by up to 80%. Moreover, treated females were no longer able to locate hosts by using olfactory cues. Olfaction is crucial for the reproductive success of parasitoid wasps. Hence, sublethal doses of neonicotinoids might compromise the function of parasitoid wasps as natural enemies with potentially dire consequences for ecosystem services.
Doing Our Share: Greenhouse Gas Reductions Manual For Schools
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2005

description: This manual aims to educate students about global warming and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions through a variety of class activities designed to help teachers explain issues related to GHG emissions. The manual contains resources to involve students in the Doing Our Share Campaign, which helps schools do three things: (1) Calculate the school's greenhouse gas emissions and determine target emissions for the year 2005 that will be 3.5% below their 1990 levels; (2) Identify resources that will help the school achieve these reduced emissions; and (3) Identify resources that can be used to teach about global warming, the greenhouse effect, and energy efficiency.
Transverse single-spin asymmetries of pion production in semi-inclusive DIS at subleading twist
Creators: name: Mao, Wenjuan
name: Lu, Zhun
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the single-spin asymmetries with the $\sinϕ_S$ and $\sin(2ϕ_h -ϕ_S)$ angular dependences for charged and neutral pions produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on the transversely polarized proton target. The theoretical interpretations of the two asymmetries are presented in terms of the convolution of the twist-3 quark transverse momentum dependent distributions and twist-2 fragmentation functions. Specifically, we investigate the role of the distributions $f_T$, $h_T$ and $h_T^\perp$ in the $\sinϕ_S$ asymmetry, as well as the role of the distributions $f_T^\perp$, $h_T$ and $h_T^\perp$ in the $\sin(2ϕ_h -ϕ_S)$ asymmetry. We calculate these distributions in a spectator-diquark model and predict the corresponding asymmetries for the first time, considering the kinematics at HERMES, JLab and COMPASS. The numerical estimates show that the asymmetries are sizable, and the dominant contribution to the $\sinϕ_S$ asymmetry comes from the T-odd distribution $f_T$, while $f_T^\perp$ gives the main contribution to the $\sin(2ϕ_h -ϕ_S)$ asymmetry. The future measurements on these asymmetries can shed light on the information of twist-3 transverse momentum dependent distributions.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, version published in PRD
The Seduction Script: Psychological and Cultural Norms of Interpersonal Approaches As Markers for Sexual Aggression and Abuse
Creators: name: Landgraf, Steffen
name: Treskow, Isabella von
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS; RAPE MYTH ACCEPTANCE; STRATEGIES THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; DATING SCRIPTS; SHORT-TERM; MEN; PERSPECTIVE; GENDER; WOMEN; script; seduction; interpersonal approach behavior; psychology; cultural science; sexual aggression; sexual abuse; nature-nurture debate
subject: 340 Recht
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hardly any subjects enjoy greater - public or private - interest than the art of flirtation and seduction. However, interpersonal approach behavior not only paves the way for sexual interaction and reproduction, but it simultaneously integrates non-sexual psychobiological and cultural standards regarding consensus and social norms. In the present paper, we use script theory, a concept that extends across psychological and cultural science, to assess behavioral options during interpersonal approaches. Specifically, we argue that approaches follow scripted event sequences that entail ambivalence as an essential communicative element. On the one hand, ambivalence may facilitate interpersonal approaches by maintaining and provoking situational uncertainty, so that the outcome of an action - even after several approaches and dates - remains ambiguous. On the other hand, ambivalence may increase the risk for sexual aggression or abuse, depending on the individuals abilities, the circumstances, and the intentions of the interacting partners. Recognizing latent sequences of sexually aggressive behavior, in terms of their rigid structure and behavioral options, may thus enable individuals to use resources efficiently, avoid danger, and extricate themselves from assault situations. We conclude that interdisciplinary script knowledge about ambivalence as a core component of the seduction script may be helpful for counteracting subtly aggressive intentions and preventing sexual abuse. We discuss this with regard to the nature-nurture debate as well as phylogenetic and ontogenetic aspects of interpersonal approach behavior and its medial implementation.
Raritan Basin Watershed Management Project Public Opinion Survey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence
Year: 2001

description: This presentation summarizes a public opinion survey that was commissioned in order to help the Raritan Basin Watershed Management Project assess public knowledge, attitudes, needs, and concerns regarding water-related issues in Central New Jersey. More specifically, the study sought to determine the following: knowledge of issues related to water resources and watersheds; satisfaction with the current management of water resources and watersheds; the level and intensity of interest in water resource issues; and public opinion on water quality and water resources issues, as well as watershed management.
Efficient Analysis Routines for Single and Double Peaked Type 2 AGN Spectra
Creators: name: Selwood, Matthew
name: Calderone, Giorgio
name: Fotopoulou, Sotiria
name: Bremer, Malcolm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Driven by the imminent need to rapidly process and classify millions of AGN spectra drawn from next generation astronomical facilities, we present a spectral fitting routine for Type 2 AGN spectra optimised for high volume processing, using the Quasar Spectral Fitting library (QSFit). We analyse an optically selected sample of 813 luminous Type 2 AGN spectra at $z < 0.83$ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to qualify its performance. We report a median narrow line H$α$/H$β$ Balmer decrement of 4.5$\pm$0.8, alluding to the presence of dust in the narrow line region (NLR). We publish a specialised QSFit fitting routine for high signal to noise ratio spectra and general fitting routine for double peaked Type 2 AGN spectra applied on a sub-sample of 45 spectra from our parent sample. We report a median red and blue peak velocity separation of 390$\pm$60kms$^{-1}$. No trend is found for red or blue peaks to exhibit systematically different luminosity or ionization properties. Emission line diagnostics show that the double peaks in all sources are illuminated by an AGN-powered ionizing continuum. Finally, we examine the morphology of host galaxies of our double peaked sample. We find double peaked Type 2 AGN reside in merging systems at a comparable frequency to single peaked AGN. This suggests that the double peaked AGN phenomenon is likely to have a bi-conical outflow origin in the majority of cases. We publicly release the code used for spectral analysis and produced catalogues used in this work.
description: 19 pages, 19 figures, 2 appendices. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Assessing Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on New Jersey Forests 2002-2003, Final Report Year 1.
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Division of Science, Research and Technology, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2003

description: The project scope of this report was conceptualized at an inter-programmatic meeting within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) including representation by the Divisions of Science Research and Technology, Forestry, Air, Watershed Management and Endangered Species. A consensus was reached that a suite of bioindicators would prove critical in satisfying state management goals to enhance air and water quality; to restore ecosystems, sustain land and natural resource communities; as well as to preserve biodiversity in the state. The immediate goal was to establish unique baseline terrestrial communities of known structure in the Pinelands Ecoregion of New Jersey, then to evaluate the influence of potential environment stressors. Of particular interest were air deposited nitrogen and its measurable biological effects on forest ecosystems for long term trends-assessment. Changes in macro-fungal species composition and abundance have been used in other parts of the world as biological indicators for terrestrial wooded ecosystems. The objective of Year 1 of this study was to determine if ectomycorrhizal fungal species of trees in the New Jersey pine barrens could serve as a biological indicator for nitrogen pollution.
Holographic Heat Engines
Creators: name: Johnson, Clifford V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in theories of gravity where the cosmological constant is considered a thermodynamic variable, it is natural to use black holes as heat engines. Two examples are presented in detail using AdS charged black holes as the working substance. We notice that for static black holes, the maximally efficient traditional Carnot engine is also a Stirling engine. The case of negative cosmological constant supplies a natural realization of these engines in terms of the field theory description of the fluids to which they are holographically dual. We first propose a precise picture of how the traditional thermodynamic dictionary of holography is extended when the cosmological constant is dynamical and then conjecture that the engine cycles can be performed by using renormalization group flow. We speculate about the existence of a natural dual field theory counterpart to the gravitational thermodynamic volume.
description: 15 pages, four figures, two tables, one trumpet. v2: Improvements to refs. Some clarifying remarks added. There is further exploration of the efficiency of one of the engine examples. Some improvements to discussion of relation to holography in final section. Version to appear in CQG