cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Citizen Perceptions of the Socio-Ecological Value of the Eastern Hills of Bogota: A Place-Based Ecosystem Service Assessment
Creators: name: Robson, Eleanor M.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016

description: Due to widespread deterioration of ecosystems and their subsequent reduced capacity to provide for human wellbeing, decision makers seek to understand how to better manage natural resources to produce a more sustainable future. Integrated assessment of natural and human systems is regarded as a way to facilitate such change, and effective engagement of stakeholders is recognised as a key requirement of such an assessment. Although there are many engagement processes, for special interest groups, there is difficulty in understanding how a broader citizenry may understand and value natural areas.
A STOCHASTIC FORAGING MODEL OF ATTENTIVE EYE GUIDANCE ON DYNAMIC STIMULI
Creators: name: D'AMELIO, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Understanding human behavioural signals is one of the key ingredients of an effective human-human and human-computer interaction (HCI). In such respect, non verbal communication plays a key role and is composed by a variety of modalities acting jointly to convey a common message. In particular, cues like gesture, facial expression, prosody etc. have the same importance as spoken words. Gaze behaviour makes no exception, being one of the most common, yet unobtrusive ways of communicating. To this aim, many computational models of visual attention allocation have been proposed; although such models were primarily conceived in the psychological field, in the last couple of decades, the problem of predicting attention allocation on a visual stimuli has started to catch the interest of the computer vision and pattern recognition community, pushed by the fast growing number of possible applications (e.g. autonomous driving, image/video compression, robotics). In this renaissance of attention modelling, some of the key features characterizing eye movements were at best overlooked; in particular the explicit unrolling in time of eye movements (i.e. their dynamics) has been seldom taken into account. Moreover, the vast majority of the proposed models are only able to deal with static stimuli (images), with few notable exceptions. The main contribution of this work is a novel computational model of attentive eye guidance which derives gaze dynamics in a principled way, by reformulating attention deployment as a stochastic foraging problem. We show how treating a virtual observer attending to a video as a stochastic composite forager searching for valuable patches in a multi-modal landscape, leads to simulated gaze trajectories that are not statistically distinguishable from the ones performed by humans while free-viewing the same scene. Model simulation and experiments are carried out on a publicly available dataset of eye-tracked subjects displaying conversations and social interactions between humans.
Early detection of maternal deaths in Senegal through household-based death notification integrating verbal and social autopsy: a community-level case study
Creators: name: Moshabela, Mosa
name: Sene, Massamba
name: Nanne, Ingrid
name: Tankoano, Yombo
name: Schaefer, Jennifer
name: Niang, Oumulkhairy
name: Sachs, Sonia Ehrlich
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Health surveys
Mothers--Mortality

description: Background: Reliable detection of maternal deaths is an essential prerequisite for successful diagnosis of barriers to care and formulation of relevant targeted interventions. In a community-level case study, the use of household-level surveillance in Senegal unveiled an apparent increase in maternal deaths, which triggered a rapid-cycle collaborative response to implement a multipronged set of quick-win and sustained interventions intended to improve quality care. Methods: Part of a multi-country effort, the Millennium Villages Project is implementing a routine community-level information system in Senegal, able to detect maternal deaths in real-time and uncover clinical and social factors contributing to mortality. Within this geographically demarcated area of approximately 32 000 inhabitants, with a well-structured health system with patient referral services, deaths were registered and notified by community health workers, followed by timely verbal and social autopsies. Using the Pathway to Survival conceptual framework, case analysis and mortality reviews were conducted for evaluation and quality improvement purposes. Results: The estimated maternal mortality rates rose from 67/100000 births in 2009 (1 death), to 202/100000 births in 2010 (3 deaths) and 392/100000 births (5 deaths) in 2011. Although absolute numbers of maternal deaths remained too small for robust statistical analysis, following verbal autopsy analyses in 2011, it became evident that an unexpectedly high proportion of maternal deaths were occurring at the referral hospital, mostly post-Caesarian section. Inadequate case management of post-partum haemorrhage at the referral hospital was the most frequently identified probable cause of death. A joint task team systematically identified several layers of inefficiencies, with a potential negative impact on a larger catchment area than the study community. Conclusions: In this study, routine community-based surveillance identified inefficiencies at a tertiary level of care. Community-level surveillance systems that include pregnancy, birth and death tracking through household visits by community health workers , combined with verbal and social autopsy can identify barriers within the continuum of maternal care. Use of mHealth data collection tools sensitive enough to detect small changes in community-level mortality trends in real-time, can facilitate rapid-cycle quality improvement interventions, particularly when associated with social accountability structures of mortality reviews.
A VLT/VIMOS view of two $Planck$ multiple-cluster systems: structure and galaxy properties
Creators: name: Wicker, R.
name: Aghanim, N.
name: Bonjean, V.
name: Lecoq, E.
name: Douspis, M.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Pointecouteau, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analysed spectroscopic data obtained with VLT-VIMOS for two multiple-cluster systems, PLCKG$214.6+36.9$ and PLCKG$334.8-38.0$, discovered via their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal by $Planck$. Combining the Optical spectroscopy, for the redshift determination, and photometric data from galaxy surveys (SDSS, WISE, DESI), we were able to study the structure of the two multiple-cluster systems, to determine their nature and the properties of their member galaxies. We found that the two systems are populated mainly with passive galaxies and that PLCKG$214.6+36.9$ consists of a pair of clusters at redshift $z = 0.445$ and a background isolated cluster at $z = 0.498$, whereas the system PLCKG$334.8-38.0$ is a chance association of three independent clusters at redshifts $z = 0.367$, $z =0.292$, and $z = 0.33$. We also find evidence for remaining star formation activity in the highest-redshift cluster of PLCKG$214.6+36.9$, at $z = 0.498$.
description: 12 pages, 9 Figures, 5 Tables. Submitted to A&A, comments are welcome
Auf der Suche nach Wahrheit, (Homo)Sexualität und Spiritualität
Creators: name: Heining, Armin C.
Publisher: name: Werkstatt Schwule Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Werkstatt Schwule Theologie, Bd. 11 Nr. 4 (2004): Werkstatt Schwule Theologie, Band 11, Heft 4
Scrambling in the Black Hole Portrait
Creators: name: Dvali, Gia
name: Flassig, Daniel
name: Gomez, Cesar
name: Pritzel, Alexander
name: Wintergerst, Nico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a quantum portrait of black holes was suggested according to which a macroscopic black hole is a Bose-Einstein condensate of soft gravitons stuck at the critical point of a quantum phase transition. We explain why quantum criticality and instability are the key for efficient generation of entanglement and consequently of the scrambling of information. By studying a simple Bose-Einstein prototype, we show that the scrambling time, which is set by the quantum break time of the system, goes as $\log N \,$ for $N$ the number of quantum constituents or equivalently the black hole entropy.
Towards self-driving laboratories: The central role of density functional theory in the AI age
Creators: name: Huang, Bing
name: von Rudorff, Guido Falk
name: von Lilienfeld, O. Anatole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density functional theory (DFT) plays a pivotal role for the chemical and materials science due to its relatively high predictive power, applicability, versatility and computational efficiency. We review recent progress in machine learning model developments which has relied heavily on density functional theory for synthetic data generation and for the design of model architectures. The general relevance of these developments is placed in some broader context for the chemical and materials sciences. Resulting in DFT based machine learning models with high efficiency, accuracy, scalability, and transferability (EAST), recent progress indicates probable ways for the routine use of successful experimental planning software within self-driving laboratories.
mmodel: A workflow framework to accelerate the development of experimental simulations
Creators: name: Sun, Peter
name: Marohn, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulation has become an essential component of designing and developing scientific experiments. The conventional procedural approach to coding simulations of complex experiments is often error-prone, hard to interpret, and inflexible, making it hard to incorporate changes such as algorithm updates, experimental protocol modifications, and looping over experimental parameters. We present mmodel, a framework designed to accelerate the writing of experimental simulation packages. mmodel uses a graph-theory approach to represent the experiment steps and can rewrite its own code to implement modifications, such as adding a loop to vary simulation parameters systematically. The framework aims to avoid duplication of effort, increase code readability and testability, and decrease development time.
Mechanical properties of inclined frictional granular layers
Creators: name: Atman, A. P. F.
name: Claudin, P.
name: Combe, G.
name: Martins, G. H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mechanical properties of inclined frictional granular layers prepared with different protocols by means of DEM numerical simulations. We perform an orthotropic elastic analysis of the stress response to a localized overload at the layer surface for several substrate tilt angles. The distance to the unjamming transition is controlled by the tilt angle $α$ with respect to the critical angle $α_c$. We find that the shear modulus of the system decreases with $α$, but tends to a finite value as $α\to α_c$. We also study the behaviour of various microscopic quantities with $α$, and show in particular the evolution of the contact orientation with respect to the orthotropic axes and that of the distribution of the friction mobilisation at contact.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Granular Matter (2014), Special Issue in honor of Bob Behringer
Cold gas properties of the Herschel Reference Survey. II. Molecular and total gas scaling relations
Creators: name: Boselli, A.
name: Cortese, L.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Boissier, S.
name: Catinella, B.
name: Lagos, C.
name: Saintonge, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of the cold gas component of the interstellar medium of the Herschel Reference Survey, a complete volume-limited (15 10^10 Mo) from the COLD GASS survey down to stellar masses M* ~ 10^9 Mo. As scaling variables we use M*, the stellar surface density mu*, the specific star formation rate SSFR, and the metallicity of the target galaxies. By comparing molecular gas masses determined using a constant or a luminosity dependent conversion factor, we estimate the robustness of these scaling relations on the very uncertain assumptions used to transform CO line intensities into molecular gas masses. The molecular gas distribution of a K-band-selected sample is different from that of a far-infrared-selected sample since it includes a significantly smaller number of objects with M(H2) < 6 10^9 Mo. In spiral galaxies the molecular gas phase is only 25-30% of the atomic gas. The analysis also indicates that the slope of the main scaling relations depends on the adopted conversion factor. Among the sampled relations, all those concerning M(gas)/M* are statistically significant and show little variation with X_CO. We observe a significant correlation between M(H2)/M* and SSFR, M(H2)/M(HI) and mu*, M(H2)/M(HI), and 12+log(O/H) regardless of the adopted X_CO. The total and molecular gas consumption timescales are anticorrelated with the SSFR.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A
HOW-MHD: A High-Order WENO-Based Magnetohydrodynamic Code with a High-Order Constrained Transport Algorithm for Astrophysical Applications
Creators: name: Seo, Jeongbhin
name: Ryu, Dongsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have developed a new simulation code that solves ideal adiabatic or isothermal MHD equations with high-order accuracy. The code is based on the finite-difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme and the strong stability-preserving Runge-Kutta (SSPRK) method. Most of all, the code implements a newly developed, high-order constrained transport (CT) algorithm for the divergence-free constraint of magnetic fields, completing its high-order competence. In this paper, we present the version in Cartesian coordinates, which includes a fifth-order WENO and a fourth-order five-stage SSPRK, along with extensive tests. With the new CT algorithm, fifth-order accuracy is achieved in convergence tests involving the damping of MHD waves in three-dimensional space. And substantially improved results are obtained in magnetic loop advection and magnetic reconnection tests, indicating a reduction in numerical diffusivity. In addition, the reliability and robustness of the code, along with its high accuracy, are demonstrated through several tests involving shocks and complex flows. Furthermore, tests of turbulent flows reveal the advantages of high-order accuracy, and show the adiabatic and isothermal codes have similar accuracy. With its high-order accuracy, our new code would provide a valuable tool for studying a wide range of astrophysical phenomena that involve MHD processes.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
LICENSE_UniProt
Creators: name: Cascarina, Sean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This license applies to all datasets in the Collection containing the phrase "ProteinSequences" in the dataset name. All protein sequences were derived from the UniProt FTP site (ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/) and are subject to the terms of this license.
Chiral perturbative relation for neutrino masses in the type-I seesaw mechanism
Creators: name: Yang, Masaki J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we perform a perturbative analysis by the lightest singular value $m_{D1}$ of the Dirac mass matrix $m_{D}$ in the type-I seesaw mechanism. A mass relation $M_{1} = m_{D1}^{2}/ |(m_ν)_{11}|$ is obtained for the lightest mass $M_{1}$ of the right-handed neutrino $ν_{R1}$ and the mass matrix of the left-handed neutrinos $m_ν$ in the diagonal basis of $m_{D}$. This relation is rather stable under renormalization because it is gauge-invariant in the SM and associates with the approximate chiral symmetry of $ν_{R1}$. If diagonalization of the Yukawa matrices of leptons $Y_{ν, e}$ has only small mixings, the element $(m_ν)_{11}$ is close to the effective mass $m_{ee}$ of the neutrinoless double beta decay. By assuming $m_{D1} \simeq m_{u,e} \simeq 0.5$ MeV, the lightest mass is about $M_{1} \gtrsim O(100)$ TeV in the normal hierarchy and $M_{1} \sim O(10)$ TeV in the inverted hierarchy. Such a $ν_{R1}$ with a tiny Yukawa coupling $y_{ν1} \sim O(10^{-5})$ can indirectly influence various observations. On the other hand, the famous bound of the thermal leptogenesis $M_{1} \gtrsim 10^{9}$ GeV that requires $m_{D1} \gtrsim 30$ MeV seems to be difficult to reconcile with a simple unified theory without a special condition.
description: 6 pages, final version to be published in PLB
Addressing methodological limitations of behavioural fear mapping: a campus-based study
Creators: name: Sloan, Nicola J.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: The effective measurement of fear of crime presents an ongoing problem for researchers. Debate continues regarding the best measurement and methodological approach to investigating fear of crime and its impacts upon day to day lives of individuals and communities. Behavioural fear mapping presents an encouraging methodological approach to measuring fear of crime, by incorporating spatiotemporal dimensions neglected by other approaches. While promising, behavioural fear mapping as a methodology has a number of hitherto unexamined components undermining its effectiveness. Investigation into the effects of base maps upon sketch mapping outputs, the potential difference in spatial avoidance of subgroups within the same population, and the possible benefits of a retrospective qualitative assessment of fear mapping outputs with community members have not been previously explored. These three components form the focus of this thesis. Drawing upon behavioural geography, this thesis investigates base map influence, subgroup avoidance and the benefits of community assessments of fear mapping outputs through the case study of the Australian National University (ANU) campus and its students. From a fear mapping survey, sketch maps were collected and digitised through ArcGIS. Once aggregated, the patterns of collective avoidance were compared qualitatively to assess base map and subgroup influence. These maps were then presented to focus groups of community members in order to perform a retrospective qualitative assessment. The benefits of running this qualitative assessment was also evaluated. The results indicate that base maps had very little impact upon the recording of spatial data, contradicting previous literature. Subgroups displayed very different patterns of collective avoidance and intensity to which hotspots were avoided. The focus groups revealed information unlikely to be obtain through other avenues, assisting management level decision making on future plans for the ANU campus. These insights from participants were integrated with the mapping results to create a complex and detailed picture of fear of crime at the ANU. By addressing the three oversights in previous fear mapping research, the thesis makes contribution strengthening of the behavioural fear mapping methodology and sketch mapping practices. The findings from this thesis directly contribute to the behavioural fear mapping methodology and to the broader fear of crime research field.
Understanding land cover changes, their drivers and their impacts on aboveground biomass carbon storage in the former Soviet States
Creators: name: Soh, Judith
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: The former Soviet Union (FSU) region covers about 20% of the earth’s land surface and plays an important role in regulating global terrestrial carbon balance. This thesis aimed to synthesise and analyse the fragmented literature on land cover change (LCC) and aboveground ground biomass (ABC) change in the FSU region, followed by supplementary data analysis. It addressed the changes in forest, agriculture and urban area, their drivers and their impacts on ABC in several key areas of the FSU from 1993-2012. The literature review confirmed that there has been increasing abandoned agricultural land although they have begun to decrease recently. Forest and urban areas have expanded as well, and ABC has increased due to forest growth on former agriculture land. The key drivers of LCC were changes to political and economic structures such as new agriculture and land policies, the transition into an open market economy, and rural-urban migration. In general, there is insufficient remote-sensing data for the Baltic States and Belarus, as well as urban area changes. The carbon impacts of LCC apart from abandoned agricultural land are also lacking. The data analysis found that coniferous forest, deciduous forest and cropland had small increases of 2%, 0.63% and 0.63% relative to 1993 respectively. This suggests that other land cover types (not analysed here) may have decreased, such as grassland and shrubland. The increase in cropland despite agriculture abandonment suggest that relatively more land was taken into agricultural production or that considerable abandoned land has yet to change substantially to be reclassified. Urban areas increased substantially by 107%, particularly in Ukraine, which has not been extensively analysed in the literature. Further analysis is required to determine whether this trend is temporary, and its carbon impacts. LCC and ABC change was non-uniform across the region. The Baltic States had forest cover decrease and cropland increase, while the other states had forest cover increase and relatively small cropland changes. ABC has increased in all states except Lithuania, which is mainly driven by ABC increase for forests and to some extent, cropland. ABC increase was highest for deciduous forests at 37% relative to 1993 for the overall region. However, ABC changes are not entirely due to LCC and may be driven by natural biomass growth on productive or old growth forests. In conclusion, a deeper understanding of LCC and their carbon impacts in the FSU region was achieved. This is important for climate change mitigation and land management. This thesis is valuable for those seeking a coherent narrative on LCC and ABC in the FSU. Further research on forest type changes and their drivers, as well as carbon trends for different newly converted land cover types was recommended.
Assessing the success of the reintroduction of eastern bettongs (Bettongia gaimardi) in establishing a genetically diverse population in the ACT
Creators: name: Suen, April
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Animal conservation is an essential aspect to preserving biological diversity. Over the past 500 years, human-mediated activities such as pollution and deforestation have accelerated the rate of species decline and population fragmentation for countless species across the world; thus increasing the need for animal conservation project initiatives. It has been well documented that animal reintroductions and translocations have historically been mostly ineffective in creating long-term stable populations. This has been due to a lack of on-going management and population planning, and notably an underuse of genetic methods. A clear understanding of genetics in species rescue is central to promoting long-term population persistence by maximising genetic diversity and minimising detrimental genetic effects such as inbreeding depression, genetic drift and outbreeding depression. One method of promoting long-term genetic health in animal reintroductions and translocations is by collecting the founder animals from multiple geographic sources to capitalise on the existing species genetic diversity. The eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) translocation from Tasmania to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) provides an optimal case study to assess population sustainability and integrate genetic technologies to investigate the effectiveness of using a mixed-source reintroduction model to establish a population. At the time of this research, no significant genetic investigations had been performed to determine whether collecting founders from mixed-geographic sources was successful in creating a genetically stable and persistent bettong population. The outcomes of this research concluded that the Tasmanian source populations were genetically distinct and did generally assort into Tasmanian ancestry regions based on genetic diversity. Additionally the reintroduced ACT bettong populations were randomly mating and there was no significant relationship between genetic similarity and spatial assortment in the reintroduced areas with respect to genetic diversity. It was concluded that the reintroduction of eastern bettongs to the ACT was successful in creating the foundations for a genetically diverse and sustainable population. The outcomes of this study directly lend themselves to informing the management plans of the bettong population in the ACT and for future bettong reintroductions and translocations across Australia. This study also demonstrates the useability and application of next-generation genetic sequencing technologies in the context of animal conservation. More broadly, this study provides a detailed assessment of genetic considerations when performing animal reintroductions and translocations for biodiversity and animal conservation management.
Mechanically Modulated Tunneling Resistance in Monolayer MoS2
Creators: name: Fu, Deyi
name: Zhou, Jian
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Liu, Kai
name: Fan, Wen
name: Liu, Tsu-Jae King
name: Wu, Junqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the modulation of tunneling resistance in MoS2 monolayers by nano-indentation using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The resistance between the conductive AFM tip and the bottom electrode separated by a monolayer MoS2 is reversibly reduced by up to 4 orders of magnitude, which is attributed to enhanced quantum tunneling when the monolayer is compressed by the tip force. Under the WKB approximation, the experimental data is quantitatively explained by using the metal-insulator-metal tunneling diode model. As an ideal tunneling medium, the defect-free, nanometer-thick MoS2 monolayer can serve as the active layer for non-impacting nano-electro-mechanical switches.
ОЛХЎРИ ПАЙВАНДТАГЛАРИНИНГ СОВУҚҚА ЧИДАМЛИЛИГИ
Creators: name: Халмирзаев, Дилмурод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Мақолада олхўри пайвандтаглари новда ва илдизларининг совуққа чидамлилиги бўйича маълумотлар келтириб ўтилган. Тадқиқотларда олхўрининг 9 та нави синовдан ўтказилган бўлиб, уларнинг ер устки ва ер остки қисмларини совуқдан зарарланиш даражаси таҳлил этилган. Ўрганиш натижаларига кўра, олхўрининг ОПА 15-2 ва ОП 23-23 пайвандтаглари бошқа навларга нисбатан совуққа чидамли эканлиги аниқланган. Уларнинг ер устки қисми -35оС ҳароратда 49-50%, илдиз тизими эса -16оС ҳароратда худди шундай кўрсаткичда зарарланиши кузатилган.
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy study of the proximity effect in a disordered two-dimensional metal
Creators: name: Serrier-Garcia, L.
name: Cuevas, J. C.
name: Cren, T.
name: Brun, C.
name: Cherkez, V.
name: Debontridder, F.
name: Fokin, D.
name: Bergeret, F. S.
name: Roditchev, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proximity effect between a superconductor and a highly diffusive two-dimensional metal was revealed in a Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy experiment. The in-situ elaborated samples consisted of superconducting single crystalline Pb islands interconnected by a non-superconducting atomically thin disordered Pb wetting layer. In the vicinity of each superconducting island the wetting layer acquires specific tunneling characteristics which reflect the interplay between the proximity-induced superconductivity and the inherent electron correlations of this ultimate diffusive two-dimensional metal. The observed spatial evolution of the tunneling spectra was accounted for theoretically by combining the Usadel equations with the theory of dynamical Coulomb blockade; the relevant length and energy scales were extracted and found in agreement with available experimental data.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, supporting information available in the journal web site or upon request
SO(10) Yukawa Unification after the First Run of the LHC
Creators: name: Raby, Stuart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we discuss SO(10) Yukawa unification and its ramifications for phenomenology. The initial constraints come from fitting the top, bottom and tau masses, requiring large $\tanβ\sim 50$ and particular values for soft SUSY breaking parameters. We perform a global $χ^2$ analysis, fitting the recently observed `Higgs' with mass of order 125 GeV in addition to fermion masses and mixing angles and several flavor violating observables. We discuss two distinct GUT scale boundary conditions for soft SUSY breaking masses. In both cases we have a universal cubic scalar parameter, $A_0$. In the first case we consider universal gaugino masses, and universal scalar masses, $m_{16}$, for squarks and sleptons; while in the latter case we have non-universal gaugino masses and either universal scalar masses, $m_{16}$, for squarks and sleptons or D-term splitting of scalar masses. We discuss the spectrum of SUSY particle masses and consequences for the LHC.
description: 12 pages, talk presented at the VIIth International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology and CETUP* 2013, Lead, SD
MUSEQuBES: The relation between Ly$α$ emitters and C IV absorbers at $z \approx 3.3$
Creators: name: Banerjee, Eshita
name: Muzahid, Sowgat
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Johnson, Sean D.
name: Cantalupo, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the column density and covering fraction profiles of C IV absorption around 86 redshift $z \approx 3.3$ Ly$α$ emitters (LAEs) detected in 8 Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) fields of $1'\times 1'$ centered on 8 bright background quasars as part of the MUSEQuBES survey. Using Voigt profile fitting of all the C IV absorbers detected along these 8 sightlines, we generated a ``blind'' absorbers' catalog consisting of 489 C IV absorption components. We cross-matched this blind C IV catalog with the MUSE-detected LAE catalog and found a significant enhancement of C IV components within $\approx \pm$400 $\rm km\, s^{-1}$ of the systemic redshifts of the LAEs. Neither the C IV column density ($N$) nor the Doppler parameter ($b$) of individual C IV components shows any significant anti-correlation with impact parameter ($ρ$) of the LAEs in the 68 percentile range of $90\leq ρ\leq 230$ physical kpc (pkpc). We find a covering fraction of $\approx 60\%$ for a threshold $N$(C IV) of $10^{12.5}\, \rm \rm cm^{-2}$, which is roughly twice as high as in random regions. The C IV covering fraction remains constant at $\approx50\%$ for impact parameters in the range 150--250~pkpc ($\approx 3-6 R_{200}$). Using the covering fraction profile, we constrained the LAE--C IV absorber two-point correlation function, and obtained $r_0 = 3.4$ comoving Mpc (cMpc) and $γ= 1.2$ for a threshold $N$(C IV) of $10^{13.0}\, \rm cm^{-2}$. The C IV covering fraction is found to be enhanced for the LAEs that are part of a ``pair/group'' compared to the isolated ones.
description: 19 (+15 in the appendix) pages, 15 (+2 in the appendix) figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Greening the Red Herring - The WTO, Disputes and the Environment
Creators: name: Tang, Aaron
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) are a relatively weak and fragmented governance system. MEAs will likely not be fit for addressing the environmental problems of the coming century. Using powerful non-environmental regimes has been suggested as an alternative way forward. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a powerful international organisation, largely due to its dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). Against an equivocal literature on the actual or potential pro or anti-environment effects of the WTO, this thesis adds a novel methodological contribution and distinct findings by creating and analysing a database of all environmental disputes in the WTO DSM. This thesis undertakes a systematic and thorough empirical review, rather than arguing at a general level or focusing on selected cases. In doing so, this thesis provides a novel and defensible definition of environmental cases under the DSM which are methodically investigated. Analysis of environmental disputes reveals a shoal of red herrings in terms of effective environmental policy. Environmental disputes have a low win rate, but not because they are being disadvantaged for being environmental. Environmental policies are found to be incompatible with WTO law because of specific legal issues separate from the environmental objective of such policies. Environmental cases have focused increasingly on renewable/alternative energy policy. Yet this has not changed how the DSM treats environmental content. The environmental objectives of policies remain separate from DSM rulings. Additionally, rulings against environmental policies only recommend policy amendments from states. The poor performance of environmental policy within the DSM is due to poor construction of policy by state level policymakers. The DSM and WTO are therefore red herrings in terms of effective environmental policy. The WTO and DSM are trade systems that have fulfilled their mandate, which is to highlight WTO-illegal trade policy. They are fit for purpose and would need infeasible fundamental amendments to more effectively address environmental matters. Focus on the DSM and WTO distracts from more pertinent and easily reformed issues like state level environmental policy or international environmental agreements. Further integration of state level policy, international environmental agreements, and the WTO is necessary to ensure effective trade-environment integrated policy. Failure to do so will result in continuously weak and fragmented international environmental policy.
Trace formula for activated escape in noisy maps
Creators: name: Demaeyer, J.
name: Gaspard, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using path-integral methods, a formula is deduced for the noise-induced escape rate from an attracting fixed point across an unstable fixed point in one-dimensional maps. The calculation starts from the trace formula for the eigenvalues of the Frobenius-Perron operator ruling the time evolution of the probability density in noisy maps. The escape rate is determined from the loop formed by two heteroclinic orbits connecting back and forth the two fixed points of the one-dimensional map extended to a two-dimensional symplectic map. The escape rate is obtained with the expression of the prefactor to Arrhenius-van't Hoff exponential factor.
title: Kellers Erzählen
title: Strukturen - Funktionen - Reflexionen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Theisohn, Philipp
name: Kling, Alexander
name: Liebrand, Claudia
name: Leyh, Valérie
name: Pierstorff, Cornelia
name: Trabert, Florian
name: Lubkoll, Christine
name: Breithaupt, Fritz
name: Hörisch, Jochen
name: Krauß, Andrea
name: Spalinger, Roland
name: Rocks, Carolin
name: Baßler, Moritz
name: Gretz, Daniela
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 801 Literaturtheorie
subject: 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
subject: Keller, Gottfried
subject: Literaturwissenschaft
subject: Erzähltheorie

description: Der Sammelband, hervorgegangen aus dem Zürcher Jubiläumskongress 2019, erschließt Kellers Erzählwerk als Laboratorium einer transitorischen Poetik. So interpretiert Keller nicht nur aus der Vormoderne überlieferte literarische Gattungen (wie z.B. die Legende) neu, sondern prägt u.a. mit Bildungsroman und Novelle auch diejenigen Formen, in denen das moderne Subjekt psychologisch vermessen wird. Zugleich gelingt es ihm, etwa in den »Züricher Novellen« sowie natürlich in den »Leuten von Seldwyla«, Hetero-, Dys- und Utopien zu entwerfen und durch Realitätsverdoppelungen mögliche Welten zu schaffen, mit denen die Grenzen von Faktualität und Fiktionalität neu verhandelt werden. Es ist dabei gerade das Wechselspiel zwischen der ›Künstlichkeit‹ des Wirklichen und der ›Wirklichkeit‹ von Kunst, in dem Keller sich als moderner Narratologe erweist. Der Systematisierung dieser Erzählkunst gehen die hier versammelten Beiträge nach - und erkunden Kellers Texte als Zeugnisse einer ›Schwellennarratologie‹, die sich epochalen Zuschreibungen entzieht, wo sie nicht diese vielmehr selbst zur Diskussion stellt.
Theory of temperature dependent phonon-renormalized properties
Creators: name: Monserrat, Bartomeu
name: Conduit, G. J.
name: Needs, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general harmonic theory for the temperature dependence of phonon-renormalized properties of solids. Firstly, we formulate a perturbation theory in phonon-phonon interactions to calculate the phonon renormalization of physical quantities. Secondly, we propose two new schemes for extrapolating phonon zero-point corrections from temperature dependent data that improve the accuracy by an order of magnitude compared to previous approaches. Finally, we consider the low-temperature limit of the class of observables that includes the electronic band gap, obtaining a $T^4$ dependence in three dimensions, $T^2$ in two dimensions, and $T^{3/2}$ in one dimension.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Rare Leptonic Processes Induced by Massless Dark Photon
Creators: name: Deng, Xiaolong
name: Jaffredo, Florentin
name: Tanaka, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a dark photon considering a U(1) gauge extension of the standard model in particle physics. Provided that the extra U(1) symmetry is unbroken, the dark photon is massless and has no coupling to the standard electromagnetic current. Higher-dimensional operators describe interactions of the massless dark photon with particles in the standard model. We investigate the interactions of the massless dark photon with charged leptons via dipole operators, mainly focusing on the lepton family-violating processes. We present an improved constraint in the polarized two-body muon decay and a set of new bounds in tau decays. We also examine possible lepton family-violating signals of the massless dark photon in future lepton colliders.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, discussion on a UV model and 3 references added
The social norms that shape the way groundwater irrigators conceptualise and manage their groundwater sources
Creators: name: Wales, Melissa
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016

description: Throughout history there have been informal user-based systems that have sought to collectively manage natural resources. Many groups have been successful in managing natural resources over time, while other groups have failed, often resulting in the overexploitation and subsequent degradation of the resource. Thus as a natural extension of this, research has sought to understand what are the characteristics of a successfully managed system. One component of this research has considered social norms and the capacity for their powerful influence on the behaviour of individuals and groups. This study sought to identify prevailing social norms affecting groundwater irrigators in the Coleambally community in NSW, with the intent to determine how these social norms are shaping the way groundwater irrigators conceptualise and manage their groundwater resources. This study was completed in the Coleambally district of NSW, in the months of June, July and August in 2016 and used semi-structured interviews to gather social data. The social data was analysed by a manual analysis of the findings as well as the aid of the NVivo software. This study identified five social norms within the community: social norms around community viability, compliance, impeding on neighbours, water trading, and finally contamination. The groundwater irrigators of Coleamabally exhibited several characteristics of successful collective governance of a natural resource, namely, local rules and expectations about the management of the resource, an effective local sanctioning system, and a suitable conflict-resolution strategy. Future directions in social norm research should seek to discover if these norms are present in other irrigation districts across Australia. Further advances should also include discovering other social norms across a range of natural resources to gain further insight into the communities that manage them.
Impacts of mammalian herbivores on the Callitris glaucophylla - Eucalyptus albens woodland of Kosciuszko National Park
Creators: name: Ward-Jones, Jessica
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: Box Gum Grassy woodlands are classified as a threatened ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Decline in original extent of Box Gum Grassy woodlands is mostly due to fragmentation and modification for cropping and livestock grazing. The extensive disturbance, erosion, and degradation of the Callitris glaucophylla – Eucalyptus albens woodland of Kosciuszko National Park has been well documented up until 1991. Ian Pulsford and The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service assembled a detailed history of the area, describing several waves of environmental disturbance over a period of around 150 years. After the arrival of white settlers in 1834, changes in fire regime, rabbit plagues, and ongoing sheep and cattle grazing resulted in intense degradation of the landscape. Unfortunately the woodland has not had an opportunity to recover, as a new wave of disturbance currently appears to be supressing the ecosystem; horses and deer. Using 33 year old exclosures and paired control plots, soil functionality, and vegetation structure and composition was examined. Soil functionality, understorey and midstorey vegetation were found to be significantly improved in the exclosures. The overstorey did not exhibit any significant improvement by exclusion of mammalian herbivores. However, Callitris glaucophylla are slow growing and likely need hundreds of years to change in structure. The native vegetation struggles to cope with the hard hooves and grazing behaviour of pest herbivores in such high population densities. Consequentially, the C. glaucophylla – E. albens woodland of Kosciuszko National Park currently appears to be in a stable degraded state.
Interplay between lattice gauge theory and subsystem codes
Creators: name: Kuno, Yoshihito
name: Ichinose, Ikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is now widely recognized that the toric code is a pure gauge-theory model governed by a projective Hamiltonian with topological orders. In this work, we extend the interplay between quantum information system and gauge-theory model from the view point of subsystem code, which is suitable for \textit{gauge systems including matter fields}. As an example, we show that $Z_2$ lattice gauge-Higgs model in (2+1)-dimensions with specific open boundary conditions is noting but a kind of subsystem code. In the system, Gauss-law constraints are stabilizers, and order parameters identifying Higgs and confinement phases exist and they are nothing but logical operators in subsystem codes residing on the boundaries. Mixed anomaly of them dictates the existence of boundary zero modes, which is a direct consequence of symmetry-protected topological order in Higgs and confinement phases. After identifying phase diagram, subsystem codes are embedded in the Higgs and confinement phases. As our main findings, we give an explicit description of the code (encoded qubit) in the Higgs and confinement phases, which clarifies duality between Higgs and confinement phases. The degenerate structure of subsystem code in the Higgs and confinement phases remains even in very high-energy levels, which is analogous to notion of strong-zero modes observed in some interesting condensed-matter systems. Numerical methods are used to corroborate analytically-obtained results and the obtained spectrum structure supports the analytical description of various subsystem codes in the gauge theory phases.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication from Phys. Rev. B
Bruhns, Annette; Wensierski, Peter: Gottes heimliche Kinder
Creators: name: Sülzle, Thomas
Publisher: name: Werkstatt Schwule Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Werkstatt Schwule Theologie, Bd. 11 Nr. 3 (2004): Werkstatt Schwule Theologie, Band 11, Heft 3