cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synapsis naxiorum Kral & Rejsek 2000
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Ascr, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Schlegeliaceae
Synapsis
Synapsis naxiorum

description: Synapsis naxiorum Král & Rejsek, 2000 Synapsis naxiorum Král & Rejsek, 2000: 268, Fig. 1. The holotype and seven paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. D. Král): HOLOTYPE (J): ‘ YUNNAN cca. 2000m / 27.15N 100.09E / HUTIAO gorge / Jinsha r. 18-22/7. / David Král leg. 92 [p] // Synapsis / naxiorum sp. n. J / HOLOTYPUS / David Král & Jiří Rejsek det. 1996 [p, red label]’. PARATYPE (♀): ‘ YUNNAN cca. 2000m / 27.15N 100.09E / HUTIAO gorge / Jinsha r. 18-22/7. / David Král leg. 92 [p] // Synapsis / naxiorum sp. n. ♀ / ALLOTYPUS / David Král & Jiří Rejsek det. 1996 [p, red label]’. PARATYPES (2 JJ): ‘ YUNNAN cca. 2000m / 27.15N 100.09E / HUTIAO gorge / Jinsha r. 18-22/7. / David Král leg. 92 [p] // Synapsis / naxiorum sp. n. J / PARATYPUS No. / David Král & Jiří Rejsek det. 1996 [p, red label]’. PARATYPES (3 ♀♀): ‘ YUNNAN cca. 2000m / 27.15N 100.09E / HUTIAO gorge / Jinsha r. 18-22/7. / David Král leg. 92 [p] // Synapsis / naxiorum sp. n. ♀ / PARATYPUS No. / David Král & Jiří Rejsek det. 1996 [p, red label]’. PARATYPE (♀): ‘ China N-YUNNAN / 27º18′N 100º13′E / Jinsha r. vall. 1900 m / DAJU, HUTIAO gorge / lgt. D. Král 16-17/7’ 90 [p] // Synapsis / naxiorum sp. n. ♀ / PARATYPUS No. 10 / David Král & Jiří Rejsek det. 1996 [p, red label]’. Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2012, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 297-334 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on page 315, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5330401
description: {"references": ["KRAL D. & REJSEK J. 2000: Synapsis naxiorum sp. n. from Yunnan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 64: 267 - 270."]}
AUTOMATED BRIDGE INSPECTION IMAGE LOCALIZATION AND RETRIEVAL BASED ON GPS-REFINED SIMILARITY LEARNING
Creators: name: Wogen, Benjamin Eric
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Structural engineering
Infrastructure engineering and asset management
Computer vision

description: The inspection of highway bridge structures in the United States is a task critical to the national transportation system. Inspection images contain abundant visual information that can be exploited to streamline bridge assessment and management tasks. However, historical inspection images often go unused in subsequent assessments as they are disorganized and unlabeled. Further, due to the lack of GPS metadata and visual ambiguity, it is often difficult for other inspectors to identify the location on the bridge where past images were taken. While many approaches are being considered toward fully- or semi-automated methods for bridge inspection, there are research opportunities to develop practical tools for inspectors to make use of those images already in a database. In this study, a deep learning-based image similarity technique is combined with image geolocation data to localize and retrieve historical inspection images based on a current query image. A Siamese convolutional neural network (SCNN) is trained and validated on a gathered dataset of over 1,000 real world bridge deck images collected by the Indiana Department of Transportation. A composite similarity (CS) metric is created for effective image ranking and the overall method is validated on a subset of eight bridge’s images. The results show promise for implementation into existing databases and for other similar structural inspections, showing up to an 11-fold improvement in successful image retrieval when compared to random image selection.
Autonomous Driving Segway Robots
Creators: name: Liu, Jiaming
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Autonomous driving
subject: Robotics
subject: SLAM
subject: Data fusion
subject: Path planning
subject: ROS (Robot Operating System)
subject: Obstacle avoidance
subject: Reinforcement learning
subject: Electrical Engineering
subject: Engineering

description: In this thesis, an autonomous driving robot has been proposed and built based on a two-wheel Segway self-balancing scooter. Sensors including LiDAR, camera, encoder, and IMU were implemented together with digital servos as actuators. The robot was tested simultaneously with the functionality features including obstacle avoidance based on fuzzy logic and 2D grid map, data fusion based on co-calibration, 2D simultaneously localization and mapping (SLAM) and path planning under different scenarios both indoor and outdoor. As a result, the robot initially has the ability of self-exploration with avoiding obstacles and constructing 2D grid map simultaneously. A simulation of the robot with same functionalities except data fusion has also been tested and performed based on robot operating system (ROS) and Gazebo as the simple comparison of the robot in real world.
On the Large Time Behavior of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Associated with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Barles, Guy
name: Mitake, Hiroyoshi
name: Ishii, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we study the large time behavior of solutions of first-order Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, set in a bounded domain with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions, including the case of dynamical boundary conditions. We establish general convergence results for viscosity solutions of these Cauchy-Neumann problems by using two fairly different methods : the first one relies only on partial differential equations methods, which provides results even when the Hamiltonians are not convex, and the second one is an optimal control/dynamical system approach, named the "weak KAM approach" which requires the convexity of Hamiltonians and gives formulas for asymptotic solutions based on Aubry-Mather sets.
Incorporating Model-Based User Requirements in Product Development
Creators: name: Niewiadomski, Luke
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: User requirements
subject: Model-based systems engineering
subject: MBSE
subject: Human-centered design
subject: Agile requirements engineering
subject: Acceptance testing
subject: Validation
subject: ISO 25065
subject: Industrial and Operations Engineering

description: System complexities continue to expand in the unfolding technology revolution, as does the array of user needs, interactions and quality concerns. Human-centered aspects are increasingly missed during product development, leading to poorly designed products and rework. Modern requirement methods are evolving in response to these trends and to improve the user experience of new products. This thesis proposes a method for the early incorporation of User Requirements (URs) into the engineering development process. It attempts to synergistically harness the benefits of human-centered design, requirements engineering, and modeling. The framework leverages work from ISO standards, along with a focus on pragmatic application and best practices in model-based systems engineering. Its ultimate intention is to provide an effective means to capture and meet user needs during the development of an interactive system. Research on the proposed method was performed within a major automotive company. Towards understanding the impressions of URs in practice, a survey was distributed to 59 engineers at the organization on their impressions of the proposed URs approach. In parallel, URs were incorporated into three advanced technology projects at during a mid-cycle design iteration, followed by a study of the subsequent changes made to the system requirements and test plans in response to the inclusion of URs. The survey results revealed the UR proposal was well received, with an overall 96% reporting favorable expectations for a system development project. The case studies supported these results by revealing a direct impact to design functionalities, quality aspects, and validation activities. System requirements increased by 15%, and validation attributes by 38%.
Neutral B-meson mixing from three-flavor lattice QCD: Determination of the SU(3)-breaking ratio ξ
Creators: name: Bazavov, A.
name: Bernard, C.
name: Bouchard, C. M.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Di Pierro, M.
name: El-Khadra, A. X.
name: Evans, R. T.
name: Freeland, E. D.
name: Gamiz, E.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Hetrick, J. E.
name: Jain, R.
name: Kronfeld, A. S.
name: Laiho, J.
name: Levkova, L.
name: Mackenzie, P. B.
name: Neil, E. T.
name: Oktay, M. B.
name: Simone, J. N.
name: Sugar, R.
name: Toussaint, D.
name: Van de Water, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study SU(3)-breaking effects in the neutral B_d-\bar B_d and B_s-\bar B_s systems with unquenched N_f=2+1 lattice QCD. We calculate the relevant matrix elements on the MILC collaboration's gauge configurations with asqtad-improved staggered sea quarks. For the valence light-quarks (u, d, and s) we use the asqtad action, while for b quarks we use the Fermilab action. We obtain ξ=f_{B_s}\sqrt{B_{B_s}}/f_{B_d}\sqrt{B_{B_d}}=1.268+-0.063. We also present results for the ratio of bag parameters B_{B_s}/B_{B_d} and the ratio of CKM matrix elements |V_{td}|/|V_{ts}|. Although we focus on the calculation of ξ, the strategy and techniques described here will be employed in future extended studies of the B mixing parameters ΔM_{d,s} and ΔΓ_{d,s} in the Standard Model and beyond.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures
Spin in Density-Functional Theory
Creators: name: Jacob, Christoph R.
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the sometimes severe limitations of its currently available approximate realizations often preclude its application as a predictive theory. Here, we review the foundations of DFT applied to open-shell systems, both within the nonrelativistic and the relativistic framework. In particular, we provide an in-depth discussion of the exact theory, with a focus on the role of the spin density and possibilities for targeting specific spin states. It turns out that different options exist for setting up Kohn-Sham DFT schemes for open-shell systems, which imply different definitions of the exchange-correlation energy functional and lead to different exact conditions on this functional. Finally, we suggest some possible directions for future developments.
Undoctrination
Creators: name: Azzaro, Nick
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Racism
subject: education
subject: perception
subject: indoctrination
subject: undoctrination
subject: white- wash
subject: privilege
subject: stereotype
subject: Art and Design
subject: Arts

description: In a letter to his father, Nick Azzaro explains the question he's looking to answer, which is: How can artwork and engagement counteract the impacts of racism, privilege, and unequal distribution of resources in the American public education system? Both are white American men who disagree on whether or not race plays a role in experience in the United States of America. Azzaro, who taught in an underserved public school district, argues that Black Americans are held to a perception of being academically low achieving, and oftentimes 'failed forward', which leads to a perpetual cycle of challenges. However, this perception is a manufactured one as sys- temic hurdles for Black Americans, and other non-white Americans, have been in place since the Reconstruction era. His father believes it's almost entirely based on bad choices and poor parenting, which becomes evident through the included dialogue. Throughout the letter he offers ways to counter such systems, such as how other artists are engaging communities and working with the youth to create opportunities where change can happen. He concludes with his thesis work, titled Undoctrination, which is what the letter is ultimately about. Undoctrination is the unlearning of the whitewashed history and manufactured perceptions that allows for the acceptance and perpetuation of oppression in America's underserved public schools.
Building Youth's Agentive Capacities: Using integrative design to shape student's future thinking in history education
Creators: name: Balasubramaniam, Gowri
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Historical Literacy
subject: Futures Literacy
subject: Participatory Design
subject: Youth
subject: Empowerment
subject: Agency
subject: History Education
subject: Curriculum Development
subject: Art and Design
subject: Arts

description: Youth's future visions are colonized by the hegemonic view of the future produced and propagated by governments and popular media. Youth often do not grapple with the concept of futures and struggle to imagine how their actions impact the larger course of events. This thesis project aims to help youth recognize the agentive capacities they hold by leading them through envisioning and analyzing futures. Specifically, building on previous research, the research examines how a design-based futures thinking curricular module might engage students in such thinking within history curricula. The module's objective is not teaching students to envision or predict but recognize the values and virtues of envisioning futures and the influence such thought has over their present. This thesis documents the methodological integration of the fields of Design and Education through the development of an interdisciplinary curricular module. The curricular module was developed in collaboration with the Equitable Futures project, a five-week project-based learning history curriculum developed at the School of Education. It was piloted in two classrooms in Michigan. The curricular module's development and implementation bring to the front the value of futures imagery for vocalizing students' hopes and fears and presents a novel method for engagement with teachers for curriculum development and professional learning.
Infrared space observatory spectroscopy of extreme carbon stars
Creators: name: Xiong, Guan-Zhu
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: QB843 .N12 X52 1999
subject: Molecular spectra
subject: Astronomical spectroscopy
subject: N stars - Spectra

description: Bibliography: p. 102-109
description: UARC
description: Copyright waiver included: y
THE LUNCH CLUB: Empowering students to express their visions for school cafeterias through design
Creators: name: Young, Larrea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Integrative Design
subject: Food Systems
subject: Equity and Access
subject: Wicked Problems
subject: School Cafeterias
subject: Empowerment
subject: Co-Creation
subject: Food Curriculum
subject: Systems Thinking
subject: High School
subject: Project-Based Learning
subject: Art and Design
subject: Arts

description: Cafeteria spaces represent the largest access point to food in U.S. public schools. However, the current design of these spaces continues to exacerbate inequities and perpetuate unsustainable food systems. Improvement work in this area is mainly focused on healthy choices at an individual behavioral level and is targeted at elementary and middle school students. Currently, most changes in the cafeteria are undertaken without incorporating student voices or ideas in the process. This impedes the sustainable and equitable development of these spaces and removes opportunities for students to gain essential skills, attitudes, and knowledge as 21st century citizens. We propose a new design model to elevate and incorporate student voice in school decision-making processes. This model was applied with a cohort of U.S. high school students during a series of workshops and future-casting activities to co-create visions and goals for the future of cafeterias. Data and insights collected during this design research process were used to inform the design of an open, online Project-Based learning platform, allowing students to co-create and share their visions for the future of school cafeterias on an ongoing basis.
Quantization of the interior Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Jalalzadeh, Shahram
name: Vakili, Babak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Hamiltonian quantum formalism of a spherically symmetric space-time which can be identified with the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole. The phase space of this model is spanned by two dynamical variables and their conjugate momenta. It is shown that the classical Lagrangian of the model gives rise the interior metric of a Schwarzschild black hole. We also show that the the mass of such a system is a Dirac observable and then by quantization of the model by Wheeler-DeWitt approach and constructing suitable wave packets we get the mass spectrum of the black hole.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, revised version
The Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Physician Global Assessment (GPPGA) score: online assessment and validation study of a specific measure of GPP disease activity - supplementary materials
Creators: name: Burden, A. David
name: Bachelez, Hervé
name: Choon, Siew Eng
name: Marrakchi, Slaheddine
name: Tsai, Tsen-Fang
name: Turki, Hamida
name: Morita, Akimichi
name: Lebwohl, Mark G.
name: Bissonnette, Robert
name: Zheng, Min
name: Anadkat, Milan J.
name: Navarini, Alexander A.
name: Tang, Ming
name: Thoma, Christian
name: Callis Duffin, Kristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dermatology

description: The above document represents supplementary material to accompany the publication "The Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Physician Global Assessment (GPPGA) score: online assessment and validation study of a specific measure of GPP disease activity", published as a letter in the British Journal of Dermatology.
 For a full list of declarations, including funding and author disclosure statements, please see the full text online (see “References” below).
HDAC6 detector: online application for evaluating compounds as potential histone deacetylase 6 inhibitors
Creators: name: Tinkov, O.V.
name: Grigorev, V.Y.
name: Grigoreva, L.D.
name: Osipov, V.N.
name: Kolotaev, A.V.
name: Khachatryan, D.S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The HDAC6 (histone deacetylase 6) enzyme plays a key role in many biological processes, including cell division, apoptosis, and immune response. To date, HDAC6 inhibitors are being developed as effective drugs for the treatment of various diseases. In this work, adequate QSAR models of HDAC6 inhibitors are proposed. They are integrated into the developed application HDAC6 Detector, which is freely available at https://ovttiras-hdac6-detector-hdac6-detector-app-yzh8y5.streamlit.app/. The web application HDAC6 Detector can be used to perform virtual screening of HDAC6 inhibitors by dividing the compounds into active and inactive ones relative to the reference vorinostat compound (IC50 = 10.4 nM). The web application implements a structural interpretation of the developed QSAR models. In addition, the application can evaluate the compliance of a compound with Lipinski’s rule. The developed models are used for virtual screening of a series of 12 new hydroxamic acids, namely, the derivatives of 3-hydroxyquinazoline-4(3H)-ones and 2-aryl-2,3-dihydroquinazoline-4(1H)-ones. In vitro evaluation of the inhibitory activity of this series of compounds against HDAC6 allowed us to confirm the results of virtual screening and to select promising compounds V-6 and V-11, the IC50 of which is 0.99 and 0.81 nM, respectively.
UMD BBER Economic Value of Cruise Industry.pdf
Creators: name: Grensing, Gina Chiodi
name: Haynes, Monica
name: Brand, Nathan
name: Thorsgard, Haakan
name: Palmquist, Ben
name: Ye, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: Through this study, the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) estimates the direct benefits to the city of Duluth and the surrounding region from the development of a cruise industry using data from similar studies on the cruise industry nationwide as well as from interviews with subject matter experts and online research. The direct economic benefits are also used to model the economic impacts—direct, indirect, and induced—of the cruise industry on other supporting local industries.
Casimir Theory of the Relativistic Composite String Revisited, and a Formally Related Problem in Scalar QFT
Creators: name: Brevik, Iver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main part of this paper is to present an updated review of the Casimir energy at zero and finite temperature for the transverse oscillations of a piecewise uniform closed string. We make use of three different regularizations: the cutoff method, the complex contour integration method, and the zeta-function method. The string model is relativistic, in the sense that the velocity of sound is for each string piece set equal to the velocity of light. In this sense the theory is analogous to the electromagnetic theory in a dielectric medium in which the product of permittivity and permeability is equal to unity (an isorefractive medium). We demonstrate how the formalism works for a two-piece string, and for a 2N-piece string, and show how in the latter case a compact recursion relation serves to facilitate the formalism considerably. The Casimir energy turns out to be negative, and the more so the larger the number of pieces in the string. The two-piece string is quantized in D-dimensional spacetime, in the limit when the ratio between the two tensions is very small. We calculate the free energy and other thermodynamic quantities, demonstrate scaling properties, and comment on the meaning of the Hagedorn critical temperature for the two-piece string. Thereafter, as a novel development we present a scalar field theory for a real field in three-dimensional space in a potential rising linearly with a longitudinal coordinate z in the interval 0
description: 24 latex pages, one figure. Contribution to the honorary issue of J. Phys. A, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Professor Stuart Dowker. The present version, augmented by a section on a related one-dimensional problem in scalar QFT, matches the forthcoming published version
Adapting Visible Light Communication Technology for Inter-Vehicular Use
Creators: name: Andres, Russell C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Visible light communication
subject: Connected vehicles
subject: Intervihicular communication
subject: LiFi
subject: Opitcal data transmission
subject: Communication protocol
subject: Digital communication
subject: Computer Engineering

description: With the advent of connected and autonomous vehicles rapidly approaching, automakers are finding that existing technologies for radio-frequency wireless inter-vehicle communication are not keeping up with demand. A potential solution lies with Visible Light Communication (VLC), sometimes also called LiFi, a technology that can send data wirelessly through visible or near-visible light rather than through radio waves. This thesis proposes a prototype that adapts VLC technology for inter-vehicular use. It will determine the feasibility of obtaining usable bandwidth while maintaining a reasonable range via the use of ambient light filtering and adaptive gain controls in the analog side of the receiver. Research was also done into methods of encoding the data for improved signal-to-noise ratios and reduced error rates, both of which were physically measured on a real system. Promising results were obtained, and a short list of future adaptations are discussed that should further increase the performance of the design. Advantages of the technology will include higher bandwidth and a line-of-sight limit to signal propagation, meaning that multiple network cells can be emplaced in a small area without interference and improving performance in high-traffic situations.
title: Purpurglöckchen; Bastardschaumblüte :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Heuchera

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Walkabout, social and built environments, and quality of life in older adults
Creators: name: Bigloo, Fay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this multilevel exploratory study was to determine the effects of Walkabout, a community-based physical activity program initiated by Dr. Joy Butler of The University of British Columbia, on the quality of life (QOL) of older adult participants. This multifaceted study also explored the impacts of physical, built and created social environments on the amount of older adult participants’ engagements in physical activities. A total of 23 older adults participated in the study and 21 finished it. The study was primarily focused on two Walkabout teams, ten participants in total. The members of one team lived in the Richmond area of Metro Vancouver and the other team members lived in an independent living centre in Vancouver’s Westside. Both teams consisted of physically and cognitively independent individuals who were capable of performing their own Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). The majority of the data were collected from the participants through private interviews and some anecdotal journals. A literature review was conducted. A separate examination of the two neighbourhoods under study was also performed using the Senior Walking Environmental Audit Tool-Revised (SWEAT-R) (Chaudhury, Sarte, Michael, Mahmood, Keast, Dogaru, & Wister, 2011). The findings through a qualitative method demonstrated the benefits of the Walkabout Program for health and life satisfaction, which the older adult participants identified as the most important contributing factors to their QOL. The social environment created through Walkabout was what the majority of the participants enjoyed the most. The older participants considered social networking and social capital as two important factors that contributed to their quality of life. In addition, the study also identified such factors as aesthetics, safety, convenience, distance, and diversity of physical and built environments as environmental attributes that impacted the level of older adult participants’ engagements in physical activity.
Precision jet measurements at HERA and determination of α_s
Creators: name: Kogler, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status is reviewed of recent high precision measurements of inclusive-jet, dijet and trijet production in deep-inelastic scattering and photoproduction by the HERA experiments H1 and ZEUS. The measurements are in good agreement with perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading order and are used for the extraction of the value of the strong coupling at the mass of the Z boson, α_s(M_Z). The methods and results of the QCD analyses are presented and a summary of the values of α_s(M_Z) from recent jet measurements at HERA is given.
description: Two figures added, additional references given
A NETWORK LEVEL FEASIBILITY FRAMEWORK FOR BEAM-POWERED AIRCRAFT
Creators: name: Wright, Ethan Charles
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Beam-powered aircraft are a promising solution to reducing the air transportation system's operating costs and emissions due to their reliance on typically more efficient ground-based electricity sources. However, modeling these aircraft is a non-trivial task due to their multi-disciplinary nature and the required interconnectedness between the aircraft, air transportation network, and power-beaming models.
 This thesis establishes a methodology for holistically modeling beam-powered aircraft as a freight transportation asset in the context of their operating environment. This methodology accounts for elements of aircraft conceptual design, the limits of power-beaming technology, and non-idealities associated with the air transportation network. As a product of this methodology, this thesis also approximates beam-powered aircraft's economic and environmental feasibility based on current and future technological capabilities.
 This work concludes that with an optimistic enough "engine absent" mass fraction and with sufficiently advanced technologies -- particularly with higher power density rectennas -- beam-powered aircraft are both economically and environmentally feasible, having a lower operating cost and emitting less carbon dioxide per ton-mile compared to current-day and near-future freight transportation aircraft.
 More specifically, this work concludes that when using a simplified and more optimistic engine absent mass fraction model, power train specific power only needs to improve by a factor of 1.2-3.7 and rectenna power density only needs to improve by a factor of 20-30 compared to the baseline technologies considered in this work in order for beam-powered aircraft to be a feasible alternative to jet fuel powered aircraft in a freight transportation role. However, with a more pessimistic albeit more realistic engine absent mass fraction model, this work concludes that beam-powered aircraft are not feasible in a freight transportation role with the technology levels considered in this work.
Supplementary material for the SEXTAMT
Creators: name: Matsubara, Patrícia
name: Gadelha, Bruno
name: Steinmacher, Igor
name: Conte, Tayana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This material include additional information about the SEXTAMT, including the data extraction forms and one spreadsheet containing the categories, factors and codes.
Intersecting D-branes and Lifshitz-like space-time
Creators: name: Dey, Parijat
name: Roy, Shibaji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper (Dey and Roy, arXiv:1203.5381) we have shown how Lifshitz-like space-times (space-times having Lifshitz scaling with hyperscaling violation) arise from 1/4 BPS, threshold F-D$p$ bound state solutions of type II string theories in the near horizon limit. In this paper we show that similar structures also arise from the near horizon limit of 1/4 BPS, threshold intersecting D-brane solutions of type II string theories. Some of these solutions are standard (D$p$-D($p+4$) for $p=0, 2$) and some are non-standard (D$p$-D($p+2)$ for $p = 1, 2, 3$) including D2-D2$'$, D3-D3$'$ and D4-D4$'$ solutions. The dilatons of these solutions in general run (except in D2-D4 and D3-D3$'$ cases) and produce RG flows. We discuss the phase structures of these solutions. D2-D4 and D3-D3$'$ in the near horizon limit do not produce Lifshitz-like space-time, but give AdS$_3$ spaces.
description: 14 pages, no figure; v2: Eq(15) corrected, matches the published version
A Study of the Physics Equation Z in a Quantum Field Theory Framework
Creators: name: AbdulMajid, Basel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Field theory and string theory
Particle physics

description: The physics equation Z in a quantum field theory framework is analyzed in this research paper. The equation involves the integration of fields over spacetime and encompasses several terms, including the curvature scalar, field strength tensors, fermionic fields, and the Higgs field. The properties and implications of these terms are explored, and their significance in the context of quantum field theory is discussed.
Searches for solar-influenced radioactive decay anomalies using Spacecraft RTGs
Creators: name: Krause, D. E.
name: Rogers, B. A.
name: Fischbach, E.
name: Buncher, J. B
name: Ging, A.
name: Jenkins, J. H.
name: Longuski, J. M.
name: Strange, N.
name: Sturrock, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments showing a seasonal variation of the nuclear decay rates of a number of different nuclei, and decay anomalies apparently related to solar flares and solar rotation, have suggested that the Sun may somehow be influencing nuclear decay processes. Recently, Cooper searched for such an effect in $^{238}$Pu nuclei contained in the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) on board the Cassini spacecraft. In this paper we modify and extend Cooper's analysis to obtain constraints on anomalous decays of $^{238}$Pu over a wider range of models, but these limits cannot be applied to other nuclei if the anomaly is composition-dependent. We also show that it may require very high sensitivity for terrestrial experiments to discriminate among some models if such a decay anomaly exists, motivating the consideration of future spacecraft experiments which would require less precision.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures (to appear in Astroparticle Physics)
Pteridine reductase (PTR1): initial structure-activity relationships studies of potential leishmanicidal arylindole derivatives compounds
Creators: name: Silva, J.V.
name: Sueyoshi, S.
name: Snape, T.J.
name: Lal, S.
name: Giarolla, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Leishmaniasis is a public health concern, especially in Brazil and India. The drugs available for therapy are old, cause toxicity and have reports of resistance. Therefore, this paper aimed to carry out initial structure-activity relationships (applying molecular docking and dynamic simulations) of arylindole scaffolds against the pteridine reductase (PTR1), which is essential target for the survival of the parasite. Thus, we used a series of 43 arylindole derivatives as a privileged skeleton, which have been evaluated previously for different biological actions. Compound 7 stood out among its analogues presenting the best results of average number of interactions with binding site (2.00) and catalytic triad (1.00). Additionally, the same compound presented the best binding free energy (−32.33 kcal/mol) in dynamic simulations. Furthermore, with computational studies, it was possible to comprehend and discuss the influences of the substituent sizes, positions of substitutions in the aromatic ring and electronic influences. Therefore, this study can be a starting point for the structural improvements needed to obtain a good leishmanicidal drug.
Image quality in double- and triple-intensity ghost imaging with classical partially polarized light
Creators: name: Kellock, Henri
name: Setälä, Tero
name: Shirai, Tomohiro
name: Friberg, Ari T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical ghost imaging is a correlation-imaging technique in which the image of the object is found through intensity correlations of light. We analyze three different quality parameters, namely the visibility, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), to assess the performance of double- and triple-intensity correlation-imaging setups. The source is a random partially polarized beam of light obeying Gaussian statistics and the image quality is evaluated as a function of the degree of polarization (DoP). We show that the visibility improves when the DoP and the order of imaging increase, while the SNR behaves oppositely. The CNR is for the most part independent of DoP and the imaging order. The results are important for the development of new imaging devices using partially polarized light.
description: Added 2 references, corrected a few typos and revised text slightly. Results unchanged
Managing Madness in the 'Deinstitutionalised' Community: Carceral Control under Victoria's Community Treatment Order Scheme
Creators: name: Karanikolas, Panos
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320221
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
classificationCode: 440206
subject: Critical approaches to crime
classificationCode: 441005
subject: Social theory
classificationCode: 440211
subject: Police administration, procedures and practice
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 480703
subject: Domestic human rights law
classificationCode: 480501
subject: Access to justice
classificationCode: 480502
subject: Civil procedure
classificationCode: 480503
subject: Criminal procedure
classificationCode: 480504
subject: Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems)
classificationCode: 480505
subject: Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
classificationCode: 480412
subject: Medical and health law

description: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Additional file 6 of Genetic analysis of sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma discovers recurrent SWI/SNF alterations and a novel PGAP3-SRPK1 fusion gene
Creators: name: Heft Neal, Molly E.
name: Birkeland, Andrew C.
name: Bhangale, Apurva D.
name: Zhai, Jingyi
name: Kulkarni, Aditi
name: Foltin, Susan K.
name: Jewell, Brittany M.
name: Ludwig, Megan L.
name: Pinatti, Lisa
name: Jiang, Hui
name: McHugh, Jonathan B.
name: Marentette, Lawence
name: McKean, Erin L.
name: Brenner, J. Chad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Supplemental Table 3. Sanger Sequencing Primers.
Wheels of Fire IV. Star Formation and the Neutral Interstellar Medium in the Ring Galaxy AM0644-741
Creators: name: Higdon, James L.
name: Higdon, Sarah J. U.
name: Rand, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine data from the ATNF and the SEST to investigate the neutral ISM in AM0644-741, a large and robustly star-forming ring galaxy. The galaxy's ISM is concentrated in the 42-kpc diameter starburst ring, but appears dominated by atomic gas, with a global molecular fraction (f_mol) of only 7.9%. Apart from the starburst peak, the gas ring is stable against the growth of gravitational instabilities (Q_gas=2-7). Including stars lowers Q overall, but not enough to make Q<1 everywhere. The ring's global star formation efficiency (SFE) appears somewhat elevated, but varies around the ring by more than an order of magnitude, peaking where star formation is most intense. AM0644-741's star formation law is peculiar: HI follows a Schmidt law while H2 is uncorrelated with SFR/area. Photodissociation models yield low volume densities in the ring, particularly in the starburst quadrant (n~2 cm^-3), implying a warm neutral medium dominated ISM. At the same time, the ring's pressure and ambient far-ultraviolet radiation field lead to the expectation of a predominantly molecular ISM. We argue that the ring's peculiar star formation law, n, SFE, and f_mol result from the ISM's >100 Myr confinement time in the starburst ring, which enhances the destructive effects of embedded massive stars and supernovae. As a result, the ring's molecular ISM becomes dominated by small clouds where star formation is most intense, causing H2 to be underestimated by 12CO line fluxes: in effect X(CO) >> X(Gal) despite the ring's solar metallicity. The observed large HI component is primarily a low density photodissociation product, i.e., a tracer rather than a precursor of massive star formation. Such an "over-cooked" ISM may be a general characteristic of evolved starburst ring galaxies.
description: 41 pages, 7 tables, 18 eps figures
Enhancing Efficiency and Trustworthiness of Deep Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Garg, Isha
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer vision
Deep learning

description: This dissertation explore two major goals in Deep Learning algorithm design: efficiency and trustworthiness. We motivate these concerns in Chapter 1 and give relevant background in Chapter 2. We then discuss six works to target these two goals. The first of these discusses how to make the model compression methodology more efficient, so it can be done in a single shot. This allows us to create models with reduced size and layers, so we can have faster and more efficient inference, and is covered in Chapter 3. We then extend this to target efficiency in continual learning in Chapter 4, while mitigating the problem of catastrophic forgetting. The method discussed also allows us to circumvent the potential for data leakage by avoiding the need to store any data from the past tasks. Next, we consider brain-inspired computing as an alternative to traditional neural networks to improve compute efficiency of networks. The spiking neural networks discussed however have large inference latency due to the need for accumulating spikes over many timesteps. We tackle this by introducing a new scheme that distributes an image over time by breaking it down into a sum of its ranked sinusoidal bases in Chapter 5. This results in networks that are faster and more efficient to deploy. Chapter 6 targets mitigating both the communication expense and potential for data leakage in federated learning, by distilling the gradients to be communicated in a small number of images that resemble noise. Communicating these images is more efficient, and circumvents the potential for data leakage as they resemble noise. We then explore the applications of studying curvature of loss with respect to input data points in the last two chapters. We first utilize curvature to create performant coresets to reduce the size of datasets, to make training more efficient in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8, we use curvature as a metric for overfitting and use it to expose dataset integrity issues arising from memorization.
Observational Constraints on Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos
Creators: name: Bartos, Imre
name: Finley, Chad
name: Corsi, Alessandra
name: Márka, Szabolcs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It remains an open question to what extent many of the astronomical sources of intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation are also strong emitters of non-photon messengers, in particular gravitational waves (GWs) and high-energy neutrinos (HENs). Such emission would provide unique insights into the physics of the bursts; moreover some suspected classes, e.g. choked gamma-ray bursts, may in fact only be identifiable via these alternative channels. Here we explore the reach of current and planned experiments to address this question. We derive constraints on the rate of GW and HEN bursts per Milky Way equivalent (MWE) galaxy based on independent observations by the initial LIGO and Virgo GW detectors and the partially completed IceCube (40-string) HEN detector. We take into account the blue-luminosity-weighted distribution of nearby galaxies, assuming that source distribution follows the blue-luminosity distribution. We then estimate the reach of joint GW+HEN searches using advanced GW detectors and the completed cubic-km IceCube detector to probe the joint parameter space. We show that searches undertaken by advanced detectors will be capable of detecting, constraining or excluding, several existing models with one year of observation.
On the flow and beaching behaviour of sub-aerially deposited, polymer-flocculated oil sands tailings : a conceptual and energy-based model
Creators: name: Charlebois, Lawrence E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis presents the background, observations, and analyses performed during an investigation of the flocculated mature fine tailings (MFT) technology at the Suncor Energy Oil Sands Tailings Reduction Operation (TRO) in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The sub-aerial flow and deposition of flocculated MFT on a sloping beach can be described in the context of a rheology-energy conceptual model. The conceptual model, or flow map, can provide deposition cell designers and operators with a useful framework for managing beach development in a sub-aerial deposition cell. Observations during field work resulted in the development of the flow map and the establishment of numerical boundaries for the transitions between flow types. Practical applications for this new conceptual model are provided. The database of fully-developed beach surveys presented in this thesis demonstrates the trend of strongly concave profiles. This concavity has significant repercussions for tailings management and cell design, and cannot be ignored when calculating storage volumes. Furthermore, it is shown that the McPhail (1995) stream power model provides a robust tool for estimating ultimate beach profiles developed from the sub-aerial discharge of polymer-flocculated MFT. The model has been validated against field-scale measurements and is consistent with the rheology-energy conceptual model developed to describe the flocculated MFT flow behaviour.
Mesoporous supports for the catalysis of Friedel-Crafts alkylation and cyclialkylation recations with sulfur-containing aromatics
Creators: name: Kirk, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Additonal Copy: QD281 .A5 K57 1997 in the Gallagher library of Geology and Geography
subject: QD281 .A5 K57 1997
subject: Friedel - Crafts reaction
subject: Sulphides

description: Bibliography: p. 226-242
description: UARC