cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simultaneous measurement of full-field vibration modes using Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI)
Creators: name: Georgas, Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The natural frequencies and vibration mode shapes of flat plates are measured using ESPI, even when multiple modes are simultaneously present. The method involves measuring the surface shape of a vibrating plate at high frame rate using a Michelson interferometer and high-speed camera. The vibration is either excited by white (random) noise or by impact. Fourier analysis of the acquired data gives the natural frequencies and associated mode shapes. The analytical procedure used has the advantage that it simultaneously identifies all vibration modes with frequencies up to half the sampling frequency. In comparison, the ESPI Time-Averaged method and the traditional Chladni method both require that the plate be sinusoidally excited at each natural frequency to allow separate measurements of the associated mode shapes. Example measurements are presented to illustrate the use and capabilities of the proposed plate natural frequency and mode shape measurement method.
Quantum and private capacities of low-noise channels
Creators: name: Leditzky, Felix
name: Leung, Debbie
name: Smith, Graeme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine both the quantum and the private capacities of low-noise quantum channels to leading orders in the channel's distance to the perfect channel. It has been an open problem for more than 20 years to determine the capacities of some of these low-noise channels such as the depolarizing channel. We also show that both capacities are equal to the single-letter coherent information of the channel, again to leading orders. We thus find that, in the low noise regime, super-additivity and degenerate codes have negligible benefit for the quantum capacity, and shielding does not improve the private capacity beyond the quantum capacity, in stark contrast to the situation when noisier channels are considered.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome! v2: improved bounds on degradability parameters and capacities of depolarizing channel and XZ channel (see also ancillary files 'depol-deg-bound.nb' and 'XZ-deg-bound.nb'), extension of results to generalized low-noise channels. v3: strengthened version of Lemma 1
Mean-square stability analysis of approximations of stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensions
Creators: name: Lang, Annika
name: Petersson, Andreas
name: Thalhammer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 65M12, 60H35, 65C30, 65M60

description: The (asymptotic) behaviour of the second moment of solutions to stochastic differential equations is treated in mean-square stability analysis. This property is discussed for approximations of infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations and necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring mean-square stability are given. They are applied to typical discretization schemes such as combinations of spectral Galerkin, finite element, Euler-Maruyama, Milstein, Crank-Nicolson, and forward and backward Euler methods. Furthermore, results on the relation to stability properties of corresponding analytical solutions are provided. Simulations of the stochastic heat equation illustrate the theory.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures; deleted a section; shortened the presentation of results; corrected typos
Angular Distribution of $γ$-rays from Neutron-Induced Compound States of $^{140}$La
Creators: name: Okudaira, T.
name: Takada, S.
name: Hirota, K.
name: Kimura, A.
name: Kitaguchi, M.
name: Koga, J.
name: Nagamoto, K.
name: Nakao, T.
name: Okada, A.
name: Sakai, K.
name: Shimizu, H. M.
name: Yamamoto, T.
name: Yoshioka, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angular distribution of individual $γ$-rays, emitted from a neutron-induced compound nuclear state via radiative capture reaction of ${}^{139}$La(n,$γ$) has been studied as a function of incident neutron energy in the epithermal region by using germanium detectors. An asymmetry $A_{\mathrm{LH}}$ was defined as $(N_{\mathrm L}-N_{\mathrm H})/(N_{\mathrm L}+N_{\mathrm H})$, where $N_{\mathrm L}$ and $N_{\mathrm H}$ are integrals of low and high energy region of a neutron resonance respectively, and we found that $A_{\mathrm{LH}}$ has the angular dependence of $(A\cosθ_γ+B)$, where $θ_γ$ is emitted angle of $γ$-rays, with $A= -0.3881\pm0.0236$ and $B=-0.0747\pm0.0105$ in 0.74 eV p-wave resonance. This angular distribution was analyzed within the framework of interference between s- and p-wave amplitudes in the entrance channel to the compound nuclear state, and it is interpreted as the value of the partial p-wave neutron width corresponding to the total angular momentum of the incident neutron combined with the weak matrix element, in the context of the mechanism of enhanced parity-violating effects. Additionally we used the result to quantify the possible enhancement of the breaking of the time-reversal invariance in the vicinity of the p-wave resonance.
description: 14pages, 25 figures
Identification and potential mechanism of different components from the aerial part of Bupleurum chinense DC. for epileptic treatment
Creators: name: Li, Xiaomao
name: Liu, Yan
name: Wang, Siyi
name: Guan, Wei
name: Pan, Juan
name: Kuang, Haixue
name: Yang, Bingyou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: The present study aimed to assess the effects of epileptic treatment of the aerial part of Bupleurum chinense DC. in kainic acid (KA)-induced epilepsy rats and LPS-induced BV2 cells, as well as to identify the active chemical constituents. The in vivo and vitro results showed that 20% ethanol elution fractions of the aerial part of B. chinense DC. (BCE-20) and 70% ethanol elution fractions of the aerial part of B. chinense DC. (BCE-70) could improve the epileptic state of the rats and status epilepticus (SE%). Moreover, ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)-Orbitrap- mass spectrometry (MS) analysis identified BCE-20 and 70 as flavonoids and phenylpropanoids, respectively. The mechanistic analysis also showed that BCE-20 and 70 could regulate neurotransmitter abnormalities and suppresses the expression and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Notably, BCE-20 and 70 could regulate the Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2)/nuclear factor-k-gene binding (NF-κB)/inhibitor of NF-κB α (IκBα) pathway to inhibit the neuroinflammation. Our findings support the ethnopharmacological use of the constituent polyphenols and flavonoids from the aerial part of B. chinense DC., as the strong anti-epileptic agents.
title: Lung Proteomics of Mice Infected with Influenza
Creators: name: Subha, Maneesha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Influenza
subject: Proteomics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Influenza A virus (IAV) infection causes an inflammatory reaction and activation of coagulation, which is often the basis for destruction of lung tissue. This study examines the changes to the of lungs from IAV-infected mice and assesses the effectiveness of Argatroban, a thrombin inhibitor, when given early in the infection. Pro-inflammatory and cell adhesion proteins were significantly upregulated in lung tissue on the first day after infection. As disease progressed, proteins related to coagulation, immunological signaling, and oxidative stress were more highly expressed in infected lungs. Argatroban treatment notably shifted the proteomic response on Day 1 and Day 5 post- infection, pointing to the ability of argatroban to control oxidative and inflammatory reactions during IAV infection, which may have consequences for maintaining lung function and reducing tissue damage brought on by the virus.
title: Continuum Mechanical Modelling of Coupled Ferroelectricity and Elastoplasticity
Creators: name: Shahsavari Najafabadi, Leila
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ferroelectricity
subject: elastoplasticity
subject: hysteresis
subject: polarisation
subject: electric field
subject: piezoelectricity
subject: finite deformation
subject: finite difference method
subject: finite element method
subject: Engineering--Mechanical

description: The study of nonlinear electromechanical coupling has gained significant interest in recent years, driven by advancements in materials capable of large deformations in response to electric fields. These materials, often referred to smart materials, have a wide range of applications such as data storage, sensing, energy harvesting, and adaptive optics (Dorfmann and Ogden, 2014). Ferroelectrics are a subset of smart materials, distinguished by unique properties that make them highly useful in diverse applications. They are known for their irreversible polarisation and ability to switch polarisation states under an external electric field, exhibiting intricate nonlinear responses (Singh et al., 2022). By applying a large enough electric field to this material (higher than the coercive field), they attain an irreversible polarisation which can be removed by applying electric field in the opposite direction. Another specific property of these materials is their piezoelectric behaviour: they generate electrical charges when subjected to mechanical stress and undergo mechanical deformation in response to an external electric field. This thesis presents a comprehensive nonlinear frameworks for ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity behaviours by considering separate admissible domains for the electrical and the mechanical responses. First we introduce a framework for the ferroelectricity of a rigid body, i.e. without any deformation. Then we extend this framework to model the piezoelectric behaviour of a deformable ferroelectric body under finite deformations. To evaluate the capability of the proposed ferroelectricity model, two numerical methods are employed: the Finite Difference Method (FDM) and the Finite Element Method (FEM). For the piezoelectric model, FEM implementations are outlined as a foundation for the future simulation work.
Searching for Majorana Fermions in 2D Spin-orbit Coupled Fermi Superfluids at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Gong, Ming
name: Chen, Gang
name: Jia, Suotang
name: Zhang, Chuanwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental breakthrough in realizing spin-orbit (SO) coupling for cold atoms has spurred considerable interest in the physics of 2D SO coupled Fermi superfluids, especially topological Majorana fermions (MFs) which were predicted to exist at zero temperature. However, it is well known that long-range superfluid order is destroyed in 2D by the phase fluctuation at finite temperature and the relevant physics is the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. In this Letter, we examine finite temperature effects on SO coupled Fermi gases and show that finite temperature is indeed necessary for the observation of MFs. MFs are topologically protected by a quasiparticle energy gap which is found to be much larger than the temperature. The restrictions to the parameter region for the observation of MFs have been obtained.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Chuave Phonological Hierarchy
Creators: name: Swick, Joyce (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1966

description: CHUAVE PHONOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. 33 0. Introduction 33 1. Phonemes 33 1.1. Contrast 33 1.2. Variants 34 1.3. Distribution 36 2. Syllables 37 2.1. Contrast 37 2.2. Variants 37 2.3. Distribution 37 3. Phonological Words 38 3.1. Contrast 38 3.2. Variants 38 3.3. Distribution 39 4. Pause Groups 39 4.1. Contrast 39 4.2. Variants 41 4.3. Distribution 42 5. Morphophonemics 44 5.1. Nouns 44 5.2. Verbs 44Notes 46Bibliography 48
cis-regulatory architecture of a short-range EGFR organizing center in the Drosophila melanogaster leg
Creators: name: Newcomb, Susan Elizabeth
name: Voutev, Roumen
name: Jory, Aurelie E.
name: Delker, Rebecca
name: Slattery, Matthew
name: Mann, Richard S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Drosophila melanogaster--Genetics
Growth factors--Receptors
Cloning
Biology
Gene expression

description: We characterized the establishment of an Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) organizing center (EOC) during leg development in Drosophila melanogaster. Initial EGFR activation occurs in the center of leg discs by expression of the EGFR ligand Vn and the EGFR ligand-processing protease Rho, each through single enhancers, vnE and rhoE, that integrate inputs from Wg, Dpp, Dll and Sp1. Deletion of vnE and rhoE eliminates vn and rho expression in the center of the leg imaginal discs, respectively. Animals with deletions of both vnE and rhoE (but not individually) show distal but not medial leg truncations, suggesting that the distal source of EGFR ligands acts at short-range to only specify distal-most fates, and that multiple additional ‘ring’ enhancers are responsible for medial fates. Further, based on the cis-regulatory logic of vnE and rhoE we identified many additional leg enhancers, suggesting that this logic is broadly used by many genes during Drosophila limb development.
Sharp pointwise gradient estimates for Riesz potentials with a bounded density
Creators: name: Tkachev, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B15, 31C05, 44A12, 35J62

description: We establish sharp pointwise inequalities for the Riesz potential and its gradient in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and indicate their usefulness for potential analysis, moment theory and other applications.
description: 14 pages
title: That Awful Knowledge: A Poetry Collection Responding to the Romanticization of Violence Against Women
Creators: name: Navickas, Erica Nicole
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: violence against women
subject: feminist literary criticism
subject: poetry
subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Literature--Comparative
subject: Gender Studies
subject: Women's Studies

description: My research-creation master’s thesis – a poetry manuscript titled That Awful Knowledge – is informed by the writing, spoken word poetry, and lyrics composed by women, including queer and BIPOC women, whose literary responses to institutional sexism and cultural misogyny have cultivated historical threads in the archive of canonical and often forgotten works. My poetry attempts to address the “patriarchal socialization” that reduces women’s voices to extreme stereotypes, drastically reducing their “subjectivity, autonomy, and creativity” (Gilbert and Gubar 48). The women inspiring my collection, both real and imagined, are invoked to reimagine their transgressive voices in contemporary dialogues of intersectional feminist praxis. That Awful Knowledge begins with my rage: inconvenient, undeniable, unwanted rage. I began drawing a vision in my mind that my rage could be productive, that I could not only produce trauma-informed work within the institutional archive, but that my performative activism – contained in what Diana Taylor calls “unreproducible knowledge” or, rather, “the repertoire” – holds validity and causes disruption in academic spaces. Women’s performative rage has been historically stifled, ignored, and silenced by patriarchal societies, and my collection searches for such historical seeds of resistance, often located in feminized representations of the uncanny, the spectacular, and the monstrous. That Awful Knowledge engages with this uncanny, “unusual archive” (Cvetkovich) of trauma through the portrayal of men’s sexual violence against young women and girls. The collection attempts to address the long-established consumption and perpetration of rape culture that disproportionately affects our world’s youngest, most vulnerable human beings.
Radion-Higgs mixing effects on bounds from LHC Higgs Searches
Creators: name: de Sandes, H.
name: Rosenfeld, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radion, a scalar particle associated with the radius of a compact warped extra dimension, may be the lightest new particle in this class of models. Its couplings to SM particles are proportional to the their masses, similar to the usual Higgs boson, but suppressed by a scale $Λ_r$, the radion vacuum expectation value. The main differences are the coupling to massless gauge bosons that receives contribution from the trace anomaly of the energy-momentum tensor due to the the nonvanishing $β$ functions and the mixing with the Higgs boson arising from a nonminimal coupling to gravity parametrized by a dimensionless coefficient $ξ$. In particular, these differences can result in significant modifications of the radion phenomenology.We use current LHC data on Higgs searches to find exclusion regions on the parameters of a radion model, $Λ_r$, $ξ$ and the radion mass $m_r$. We find that, even for low values of $Λ_r$, the radion can still have a mass in the region where the Standard Model Higgs has been excluded, for a narrow range of values for the mixing parameter. Some signals at the LHC for this scenario are discussed.We also find that it is possible to hide the Higgs boson in the current searches in this model, due to a suppression of its couplings.
description: v2: constrains updated using ATLAS/CMS combined data(HCP2011); new plots; discussion on LHC signals added; references added. v3: constrains updated using CMS 5fb^-1 data. v4: PRD version
On the universal scattering time of neutrons
Creators: name: Nimtz, Guenter
name: Bruney, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tunneling and barrier interaction times of neutrons have been previously measured. Here we show that the neutron interaction time with barriers corresponds to the universal tunneling time of wave mechanics, which was formerly observed with elastic, electromagnetic, and electron waves. The universal tunneling time seems to also hold for neutrons. Such an adequate general wave mechanical behavior was conjectured by Brillouin. Remarkably, wave mechanical effects and even virtual particles hold from the microcosmos up to the macrocosmos.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Jerarca: Efficient Analysis of Complex Networks Using Hierarchical Clustering
Creators: name: Aldecoa, Rodrigo
name: Marín, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: How to extract useful information from complex biological networks is a major goal in many fields, especially in genomics and proteomics. We have shown in several works that iterative hierarchical clustering, as implemented in the UVCluster program, is a powerful tool to analyze many of those networks. However, the amount of computation time required to perform UVCluster analyses imposed significant limitations to its use. Methodology/Principal Findings: We describe the suite Jerarca, designed to efficiently convert networks of interacting units into dendrograms by means of iterative hierarchical clustering. Jerarca is divided into three main sections. First, weighted distances among units are computed using up to three different approaches: a more efficient version of UVCluster and two new, related algorithms called RCluster and SCluster. Second, Jerarca builds dendrograms based on those distances, using well-known phylogenetic algorithms, such as UPGMA or Neighbor-Joining. Finally, Jerarca provides optimal partitions of the trees using statistical criteria based on the distribution of intra- and intercluster connections. Outputs compatible with the phylogenetic software MEGA and the Cytoscape package are generated, allowing the results to be easily visualized. Conclusions/Significance: The four main advantages of Jerarca in respect to UVCluster are: 1) Improved speed of a novel UVCluster algorithm; 2) Additional, alternative strategies to perform iterative hierarchical clustering; 3) Automatic evaluation of the hierarchical trees to obtain optimal partitions; and, 4) Outputs compatible with popular software such as MEGA and Cytoscape.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Diversity and antimicrobial activities of culturable actinomycetes from Odontotermes formosanus (Blattaria: Termitidae)
Creators: name: Long, Yanhua
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Huang, Fang
name: Liu, Song
name: Gao, Tian
name: Zhang, Yinglao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Medium formula used in the experiment.
Tunable Optical Radiation Formed in Crystalline Undulator
Creators: name: Gevorgyan, Hayk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of optical radiation produced by a bunch of relativistic positrons channeled to a crystalline undulator (CU) is considered. Taking into account the polarization of the crystal medium, an energy threshold takes place to form the radiation. If the energy of the bunch is above the threshold, the radiation is created in a limited frequency range. Both soft and hard boundary photons exist and are emitted at zero angle due to the polarization of the medium. In the case where the ratio between bunch's and threshold energies is much greater than unity, the energy of the boundary soft photons depends only on the characteristic parameters (spatial period, amplitude) of the crystalline sinusoidal undulator and can be tuned to the optical range. It is shown that it is possible to obtain a directed optical beam in the "water window" range. Such photon beams have important applications in medicine and biological research.
Photometry of Variable Stars from Dome A, Antarctica
Creators: name: Wang, Lingzhi
name: Macri, Lucas M.
name: Krisciunas, Kevin
name: Wang, Lifan
name: Ashley, Michael C. B.
name: Cui, Xiangqun
name: Feng, Long-Long
name: Gong, Xuefei
name: Lawrence, Jon S.
name: Liu, Qiang
name: Luong-Van, Daniel
name: Pennypacker, Carl R.
name: Shang, Zhaohui
name: Storey, John W. V.
name: Yang, Huigen
name: Yang, Ji
name: Yuan, Xiangyan
name: York, Donald G.
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Zhu, Zhenxi
name: Zhu, Zonghong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dome A on the Antarctic plateau is likely one of the best observing sites on Earth thanks to the excellent atmospheric conditions present at the site during the long polar winter night. We present high-cadence time-series aperture photometry of 10,000 stars with i<14.5 mag located in a 23 square-degree region centered on the south celestial pole. The photometry was obtained with one of the CSTAR telescopes during 128 days of the 2008 Antarctic winter. We used this photometric data set to derive site statistics for Dome A and to search for variable stars. Thanks to the nearly-uninterrupted synoptic coverage, we find 6 times as many variables as previous surveys with similar magnitude limits. We detected 157 variable stars, of which 55% are unclassified, 27% are likely binaries and 17% are likely pulsating stars. The latter category includes delta Scuti, gamma Doradus and RR Lyrae variables. One variable may be a transiting exoplanet.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. PDF version with high-resolution figures available at http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/lmacri/papers/wang11.pdf
More on traversable wormholes sustained by an extra spatial dimension
Creators: name: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper extends an earlier study by the author [Phys. Rev. D, vol. 98, 064041 (2018), arXiv:1809.01993] in several significant ways. To begin with, the extra spatial dimension is assumed to be time dependent, while the redshift and shape functions, as well as the extra dimension, are functions of both $r$ and $l$, the respective radial and extra coordinates. The main goal is to determine the conditions that allow the throat of the wormhole to be threaded with ordinary matter (by respecting the null energy condition) and that the same conditions lead to a violation of the null energy condition in the fifth dimension, which can therefore be credited with helping to sustain the wormhole. The dependence of the metric coefficients on $l$ and time $t$ may either help or hinder the ability to use ordinary matter, while an unrestricted dependence on the fifth dimension could lead to a curvature singularity at the throat. Finally, the extra dimension may be extremely small or even curled up.
description: 14 pages, no figures. Published under the title: Exploration of traversable wormholes sustained by an extra spatial dimension
Investigating the divergence of reproductive ecotypes in Kokanee salmon
Creators: name: Frazer, Karen Kiyomi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Investigating the role of natural selection in driving adaptive diversification has become a central theme in evolutionary ecology as advancements in genome typing technologies provide new approaches for identifying the genetic basis of phenotypic diversity in non-model organisms. I used population-based genome scans to investigate the recent divergence of shore- and stream-spawning ecotypes in Kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). These ecotypes co-exist in many post-glacial lakes throughout their range, and exhibit distinct reproductive behaviors, spawning habitat preference, and life history traits. Several algorithms were used to test for statistical outliers across five replicate ecotype pairs of Kokanee salmon. Among 50 expressed sequence tag (EST)-linked and anonymous microsatellite loci, signatures of directional selection were observed at 15 loci, including four loci that exhibited outlier behaviour across two or more lakes. The inconsistency of parallel patterns suggests that either several different genes or genetic pathways underlie ecotype divergence or outlier-detection methods are prone to Type II error when selection is weak. Nonetheless, population structure and differentiation at outlier loci is distinct from that of neutral loci, which infers that outliers may be under selection. Annotations of EST-linked outliers suggest that energy metabolism and pathogen resistance may be involved in initiating and maintaining barriers to gene flow between these two reproductive ecotypes. Within a Kokanee fisheries management context, markers associated with adaptive genetic variation would be very useful since neutral microsatellite markers cannot distinguish these recently diverged ecotypes (<10,000 years). Currently, the absolute abundance of shore-spawning Kokanee cannot be determined using conventional methods and ecotypes cannot be determined for angled fish to estimate ecotype-specific harvest rates. Here, I assess the accuracy and power of outlier loci in distinguishing shore- and stream-spawning Kokanee using mixed stock analyses and individual assignment tests. In general, outlier loci outperform neutral loci and simulations suggest that management-relevant levels of accuracy (>90%) may be achieved with sufficient baseline sampling and ecotype differentiation. Thus, genome scans can be useful in identifying informative markers for recently diverged stocks.
Cognition among individuals along a spectrum of increased risk for Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Chahine, Lana M.
name: Urbe, Liz
name: Caspell-Garcia, Chelsea
name: Aarsland, Dag
name: Alcalay, Roy Nissim
name: Barone, Paolo
name: Burn, David
name: Espay, Alberto J.
name: Hamilton, Jamie L.
name: Hawkins, Keith A.
name: Lasch, Shirley
name: Leverenz, James B.
name: Litvan, Irene
name: Richard, Irene
name: Siderowf, Andrew
name: Coffey, Christopher S.
name: Simuni, Tanya
name: Weintraub, Daniel
name: Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cognition
Parkinson's disease--Patients
Diseases--Risk factors
Cognitive neuroscience
Neurology

description: Introduction
Several characteristics associated with increased risk for Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been identified, including specific genotypes and various non-motor symptoms. Characterizing non-motor features, such as cognitive abilities, among individuals considered at-risk for PD is essential to improving prediction of future neurodegeneration.

Methods
Participants belonging to the following cohorts of the Parkinson Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) study were included: de novo PD with dopamine transporter binding deficit (n = 423), idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD, n = 39), hyposmia (n = 26) and non-PD mutation carrier (NMC; Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) G2019S (n = 88) and glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene (n = 38) mutations)). Inclusion criteria enriched the RBD and hyposmia cohorts, but not the NMC cohort, with individuals with dopamine transporter binding deficit. Baseline neuropsychological performance was compared, and analyses were adjusted for age, sex, education, and depression.

Results
The RBD cohort performed significantly worse than the hyposmia and NMC cohorts on Symbol Digit Modality Test (mean (SD) 32.4 (9.16) vs. 41.8 (9.98), p = 0.002 and vs. 45.2 (10.9), p<0.001) and Judgment of Line Orientation (11.3 (2.36) vs.12.9 (1.87), p = 0.004 and vs. 12.9 (1.87), p<0.001). The RBD cohort also performed worse than the hyposmia cohort on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (25.5 (4.13) vs. 27.3 (1.71), p = 0.02). Hyposmics did not differ from PD or NMC cohorts on any cognitive test score.

Conclusion
Among individuals across a spectrum of risk for PD, cognitive function is worse among those with the characteristic most strongly associated with future risk of PD or dementia with Lewy bodies, namely RBD.
Formalism of collective electron excitations in fullerenes
Creators: name: Verkhovtsev, Alexey V.
name: Korol, Andrei V.
name: Solov'yov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed formalism for the description of collective electron excitations in fullerenes in the process of the electron inelastic scattering. Considering the system as a spherical shell of a finite width, we show that the differential cross section is defined by three plasmon excitations, namely two coupled modes of the surface plasmon and the volume plasmon. The interplay of the three plasmons appears due to the electron diffraction of the fullerene shell. Plasmon modes of different angular momenta provide dominating contributions to the differential cross section depending on the transferred momentum.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; submitted to the special issue "Atomic Cluster Collisions: Structure and Dynamics from the Nuclear to the Biological Scale" of Eur. Phys. J. D
Supplementary document for Parametric analysis and predictive model for color difference during laser-induced coloration on titanium - 5988106.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, He
name: Xia, Tong
name: Cheng, Zhaochen
name: Zhang, Qian
name: Shi, Yuhang
name: Hou, Yubin
name: Wang, Pu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Machining

description: Supplement
title: A (2 + 1)-Party One-Instruction Set Processor for Private Function Evaluation
Creators: name: Jiang, Christopher
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography
subject: Secure Multiparty Computation
subject: Private Function Evaluation
subject: Garbled Processor
subject: Computer Science

description: Secure multiparty computation (MPC) is a powerful cryptographic technique which allows mutually distrusting parties to compute a function on their shared inputs. MPC can be viewed as encompassing two main categories, secure function evaluation (SFE) where the function being computed is known to all parties, but the input data is private, and private function evaluation (PFE) where one party has a private function while the other party has private data as input to the function. A major reason MPC has not seen more widespread adoption is due to the fact that to create an efficient MPC protocol for a specific function, traditionally expert cryptographers have had to hand build a custom protocol. One attempt to remedy this issue is the creation of MPC compilers which take as input code in a high-level language and output an optimized MPC protocol. Another attempt has been garbled processors which are hand optimized MPC protocols which emulate specific computer architectures. This thesis presents MPC SUBLEQ, a garbled processor designed for the PFE setting. In particular, it emulates the subtract-and-branch-if-less-than-or-equal-to-zero (SUBLEQ) one-instruction set computer (OISC). Because SUBLEQ only has a single instruction, there is no overhead cost to hide what instruction is currently being executed as there is only one instruction to execute. The data which the instruction is executing on must remain private, but the instruction itself is always known. We also test and compare MPC SUBLEQ against GC-Lite, a similar garbled processor designed for PFE using the SUBBLE OISC, a weaker version of SUBLEQ. We show that MPC SUBLEQ dramatically outperforms GC-Lite due to the significantly lower local computation and online communication costs.
Supplementary document for Plasmonic enhanced piezoelectric photoresponse with flexible PVDF@Ag-ZnO/Au composite nanofiber membranes - 5997441.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Fengrui
name: Shan, Baojie
name: Zhao, Xiaofei
name: Ji, Chang
name: Li, Zhen
name: Yu, Jing
name: Xu, shicai
name: Jiao, Yang
name: Zhang, C
name: man, yuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document 1
Gender, Generation and Agricultural Intensification: A Case of Two Cereals in the Sudanian Savanna of Mali
Creators: name: Smale, Melinda
name: Kergna, Alpha
name: Thériault, Véronique
name: Amidou Assima
name: Naman Keïta
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Gender, Generation and Agricultural Intensification: A Case of Two Cereals in the Sudanian Savanna of Mali
Ihara's lemma for Shimura curves over totally real fields via patching
Creators: name: Manning, Jeff
name: Shotton, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove Ihara's lemma for the mod $l$ cohomology of Shimura curves, localised at a maximal ideal of the Hecke algebra, under a large image hypothesis on the associated Galois representation. This was proved by Diamond and Taylor, for Shimura curves over $\mathbb{Q}$, under various assumptions on $l$. Our method is totally different and can avoid these assumptions, at the cost of imposing the large image hypothesis. It uses the Taylor--Wiles method, as improved by Diamond and Kisin, and the geometry of integral models of Shimura curves at an auxiliary prime.
description: 40 pages. To appear in Math. Annalen
Accretion of New Variable Modified Chaplygin Gas and Generalized Cosmic Chaplygin Gas onto Schwarzschild and Kerr-Newman Black holes
Creators: name: Bhadra, Jhumpa
name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we have studied accretion of the dark energies NVMCG and GCCG onto the Schwarzschild and Kerr-Newman Black holes. We find the expression of the critical four velocity component which gradually decreases for the fluid flow towards the Schwarzschild as well as Kerr-Newman Black hole. We also find the expression for change of masses of the black hole in both cases. For the Kerr-Newman black hole which is rotating and charged we calculate the specific angular momentum and total angular momentum. We showed that in both cases due to accretion of the dark energy mass of the black hole increases and angular momentum increases in case of Kerr-Newman black hole.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C
Additional file 1 of Rasmussen’s encephalitis is characterized by relatively lower production of IFN-β and activated cytotoxic T cell upon herpes viruses infection
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Song
name: Liu, Dong
name: Wang, Xin
name: Luo, Qiao-Li
name: Ding, Ling
name: Fan, Dong-Ying
name: Cai, Qi-Liang
name: Tang, Chong-Yang
name: Yang, Wei
name: Guan, Yu-Guang
name: Li, Tian-Fu
name: Wang, Pei-Gang
name: Luan, Guo-Ming
name: An, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The coinfection of HHVs in RE and TLE. (a) Coinfection by more than one HHVs in RE, TLE and TBI cases. (b)The cumulative viral scores, which were the cumulative scores of coinfected HHVs in a single case, were expressed as mean ± STD and analyzed with a two-tailed Student t test(**: p < 0.01). Fig. S2. DNA dot hybridization for detecting genomes of HHVs in brain tissue. DNA from 15 RE and 10 TLE cases were transferred to a nylon membrane. Viral genomes were measured with DIG labeled probes targeting to various HHVs and visualized with DIG antibody. KSHV was used as a negative control Fig. 3. (a) Coimmunostaining with antibody against neuron marker microtubule-associated protein(MAP) 2 and antibodies for various HHVs. Cell nuclei were visualized with DAPI. Bar: 10 μm. (b) Standard curve of Granzyme and sFasL in AimPlex Human Multiplex Immunoassay. Fig. S4. The colocation of microglia with antigens of HHVs in RE and TLE brain tissues. Coimmunostaining with antibody against Iba1 and antibodies against various HHVs. Cell nuclei were visualized with DAPI. Bar: 50 μm. Fig. S5. Apoptosis from representative RE, TLE and TBI brain samples was analyzed using an In Situ Cell Death Detection Kit, and visualized by fluorescence method. Bar: 50 μm. Fig. S6. The cytokine levels in RE and TLE cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). CSF from RE and TLE patients were analyzed using Aimplex Human Multiplex Immunoassays kits according to the manufacturer’s instruction. The cytokine levels were expressed as mean ± std and analyzed with a two-tailed Student ttest (n = 9 for RE and n = 8for TLE). *: p < 0.05. Table S1. List of antibodies.
Sprayers and spraying techniques--a manual
Creators: name: R. K. Malik
name: Pundir, Ajay Kumar
name: Shahnawaz R. Dar
name: Singh, Sudhir K.
name: Gopal, Ravi
name: Poornima R. Shankar
name: Singh, Nikhil
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Sprayers and spraying techniques--a manual
title: Understanding Video Interview Experiences and ADHD
Creators: name: Wilkins, Jessica Kelly
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Asynchronous Video Interview
subject: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
subject: Accessibility
subject: User Experience
subject: Design
subject: Psychology--Industrial
subject: Psychology--Experimental

description: Asynchronous video interviews (AVI) are a one-sided interview alternative to the traditional face-to-face format. The decisions made about how an AVI is designed can influence the candidate’s perception of their opportunity to perform to the best of their abilities in the interview. Of interest in this research is how neurodivergence influences a host of reaction measures to the AVI experience. Particularly, we focus on the experience of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We know that adults with ADHD experience challenges in the workplace, but no research has been done on their perceptions of the recruitment process, specifically AVIs. Study One (N = 108) surveys both adults with and without a diagnosis of ADHD on their perceptions of five design features of AVIs and how these facilitate one’s opportunity to perform. Results indicate that altering features in combination leads to an optimally designed AVI. Study Two (N = 137) examines the impact of AVI design (optimal compared to standard) on performance outcomes and perceptions of system usability, global fairness ratings, interview anxiety levels, and ease of use. Using a between-group design (optimal versus standard design), we found that optimal design proves superior to standard design on system usability and ease of use perceptions. Regardless of design, adults with ADHD report higher levels of interview anxiety and lower levels of both global fairness and ease of use. This was unexpected, as the goal of the optimal design was partially to reduce discrepancies between ADHD and non-ADHD participants. However, in both AVI designs, there were no significant performance differences between ADHD and non-ADHD participants, which was encouraging. Recommendations are made to contribute to AVI design best practices. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, especially surrounding the importance of inclusive and fair design and recruitment processes.
Responses of Soybean to Water Stress and Supplemental Irrigation in Upper Indo-Gangetic Plain: Field Experiment and Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Jha, Prakash Kumar
name: Kumar, Soora Naresh
name: Ines, Amor Valeriano M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Soybean
Supplemental irrigation
Crops and climate
Arid regions agriculture
Water in agriculture
Climatic changes

description: Understanding better the impacts of extreme dry spell regimes is essential for optimizing water management under a changing and variable climate. Using field experiments and modeling studies, we examined the impacts of dry spells in soybean and identified better management of water resources under varying water-scarce conditions. Field experimental data from soybean (PUSA-2614) experiments (July-Oct 2014; IARI, New Delhi, India) were used to calibrate and validate InfoCrop-Soybean model. This model was used to simulate optimal timing of irrigation under different dry spell scenarios. Results showed that plants subjected to water stress during flowering and vegetative growth stages had significantly lower yields and total dry matter (TDM). Supplemental irrigation significantly increased TDM and yields. InfoCrop-Soybean could simulate plant responses to water stress, at various stages of crop growth, and to supplemental irrigation, with acceptable accuracy. The crop model was further used to simulate impacts of dry spells at different intensities and durations on soybean growth and yields by creating drought scenarios for the New Delhi region using 36 years of weather data (1978–2014). Simulations showed that a 20% reduction in rainfall during any fortnight (every 15th day) of the cropping season does not affect crop yield significantly. However, dry spells (50% reduction in rainfall or more) in August and early September led to reduced yields, while supplemental irrigation during those dry spells could reduce yield losses. We envisage that the results of this study can help better manage water in soybean cultivation under dryland condition.
VLBA images of the precessing jet of LSI+61303
Creators: name: Massi, M.
name: Ros, E.
name: Zimmermann, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: In 2004, changes in the radio morphology of the Be/X-ray binary system LSI+61303 suggested that it is a precessing microquasar. In 2006, a set of VLBA observations performed throughout the entire orbit of the system were not used to study its precession because the changes in radio morphology could tentatively be explained by the alternative pulsar model. However, a recent radio spectral index data analysis has confirmed the predictions of the two-peak microquasar model, which therefore does apply in LSI+61303. Aims: We revisit the set of VLBA observations performed throughout the orbit to determine the precession period and improve our understanding of the physical mechanism behind the precession. Methods: By reanalyzing the VLBA data set, we improve the dynamic range of images by a factor of four, using self-calibration. Different fitting techniques are used and compared to determine the peak positions in phase-referenced maps. Results: The improved dynamic range shows that in addition to the images with a one-sided structure, there are several images with a double-sided structure. The astrometry indicates that the peak in consecutive images for the whole set of observations describes a well-defined ellipse, 6-7 times larger than the orbit, with a period of about 28 d. Conclusions: A double-sided structure is not expected to be formed from the expanding shocked wind predicted in the pulsar scenario. In contrast, a precessing microquasar model can explain the double- and one-sided structures in terms of variable Doppler boosting. The ellipse defined by the astrometry could be the cross-section of the precession cone, at the distance of the 8.4 GHz-core of the steady jet, and 28d the precession period.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, added references for sect. 1
Drift-preserving numerical integrators for stochastic Hamiltonian systems
Creators: name: Chen, Chuchu
name: Cohen, David
name: D'Ambrosio, Raffaele
name: Lang, Annika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C20. 65C30. 60H10. 60H35

description: The paper deals with numerical discretizations of separable nonlinear Hamiltonian systems with additive noise. For such problems, the expected value of the total energy, along the exact solution, drifts linearly with time. We present and analyze a time integrator having the same property for all times. Furthermore, strong and weak convergence of the numerical scheme along with efficient multilevel Monte Carlo estimators are studied. Finally, extensive numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed numerical scheme.