cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A spectral surrogate model for stochastic simulators computed from trajectory samples
Creators: name: Lüthen, Nora
name: Marelli, Stefano
name: Sudret, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Stochastic simulators are non-deterministic computer models which provide a different response each time they are run, even when the input parameters are held at fixed values. They arise when additional sources of uncertainty are affecting the computer model, which are not explicitly modeled as input parameters. The uncertainty analysis of stochastic simulators requires their repeated evaluation for different values of the input variables, as well as for different realizations of the underlying latent stochasticity. The computational cost of such analyses can be considerable, which motivates the construction of surrogate models that can approximate the original model and its stochastic response, but can be evaluated at much lower cost. We propose a surrogate model for stochastic simulators based on spectral expansions. Considering a certain class of stochastic simulators that can be repeatedly evaluated for the same underlying random event, we view the simulator as a random field indexed by the input parameter space. For a fixed realization of the latent stochasticity, the response of the simulator is a deterministic function, called trajectory. Based on samples from several such trajectories, we approximate the latter by sparse polynomial chaos expansion and compute analytically an extended Karhunen-Loève expansion (KLE) to reduce its dimensionality. The uncorrelated but dependent random variables of the KLE are modeled by advanced statistical techniques such as parametric inference, vine copula modeling, and kernel density estimation. The resulting surrogate model approximates the marginals and the covariance function, and allows to obtain new realizations at low computational cost. We observe that in our numerical examples, the first mode of the KLE is by far the most important, and investigate this phenomenon and its implications.
title: Externe Validierung und Decision-Curve-Analyse eines postoperativen Nomogramms zur Vorhersage des krankheitsfreien Überlebens von Patienten mit papillärem Nierenzellkarzinom anhand einer umfassenden multizentrischen internationalen Datenbank (CORONA – Collaborative Research on Renal Neoplasms Association – papRCC Projekt)
Creators: name: Krabbe, Laura-Maria
name: Zastrow, Stefan
name: Wagener, Nina
name: Wolff, Ingmar
name: Borgmann, Hendrik
name: Huck, Nina
name: Shariat, Shahrokh
name: Ecke, Thorsten
name: Klatte, Tobias
name: Huetterer, Georg
name: May, Matthias
name: Brookman-May, Sabine
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Anhand einer umfassenden multizentrischen internationalen Datenbank von Patienten mit papillärem Nierenzellkarzinom (papRCC) erfolgte die erstmalige Validierung eines publizierten postoperativen Nomograms zur Vorhersage des krankheitsfreien Überlebens von papRCC-Patienten. Methode:[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Transcriptional Profiling of Egg Allergy and Relationship to Disease Phenotype
Creators: name: Burks, A. Wesley
name: Wood, Robert A.
name: Dawson, Peter
name: Grishin, Alexander
name: Jones, Stacie M.
name: Davidson, Wendy F.
name: Sampson, Hugh A.
name: Dudley, Joel T.
name: Sicherer, Scott H.
name: Kidd, Brian A.
name: Berin, M. Cecilia
name: Lindblad, Robert W.
name: Agashe, Charuta
name: Kosoy, Roman
name: Leung, Donald Y.
name: Merad, Miriam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Egg allergy is one of the most common food allergies of childhood. There is a lack of information on the immunologic basis of egg allergy beyond the role of IgE.
Lipschitz algebras and Lipschitz-free spaces over unbounded metric spaces
Creators: name: Albiac, Fernando
name: Ansorena, Jose L.
name: Cuth, Marek
name: Doucha, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A16 (Primary) 46A16, 46B20, 46B80, 46B85 (Secondary)

description: We present a way to turn an arbitrary (unbounded) metric space $\mathcal{M}$ into a bounded metric space $\mathcal{B}$ in such a way that the corresponding Lipschitz-free spaces $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{M})$ and $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{B})$ are isomorphic. The construction we provide is functorial in a weak sense and has the advantage of being explicit. Apart from its intrinsic theoretical interest, it has many applications in that it allows to transfer many arguments valid for Lipschitz-free spaces over bounded spaces to Lipschitz-free spaces over unbounded spaces. Furthermore, we show that with a slightly modified point-wise multiplication, the space $\rm{Lip}_0(\mathcal{M})$ of scalar-valued Lipschitz functions vanishing at zero over any (unbounded) pointed metric space is a Banach algebra with its canonical Lipschitz norm.
Periodic delay orbits and the polyfold implicit function theorem
Creators: name: Albers, Peter
name: Seifert, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K13, 37C27, 47J07

description: We consider differential delay equations of the form $\partial_tx(t) = X_{t}(x(t - τ))$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $(X_t)_{t\in S^1}$ is a time-dependent family of smooth vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $τ$ is a delay parameter. If there is a (suitably non-degenerate) periodic solution $x_0$ of this equation for $τ=0$, that is without delay, there are good reasons to expect existence of a family of periodic solutions for all sufficiently small delays, smoothly parametrized by delay. However, it seems difficult to prove this using the classical implicit function theorem, since the equation above is not smooth in the delay parameter. In this paper, we show how to use the M-polyfold implicit function theorem by Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder [HWZ09, HWZ17] to overcome this problem in a natural setup.
description: 24 pages. Improved thanks to suggestions by the referee, the results remain unchanged
Forward modeling of galaxy populations for cosmological redshift distribution inference
Creators: name: Alsing, Justin
name: Peiris, Hiranya
name: Mortlock, Daniel
name: Leja, Joel
name: Leistedt, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a forward modeling framework for estimating galaxy redshift distributions from photometric surveys. Our forward model is composed of: a detailed population model describing the intrinsic distribution of physical characteristics of galaxies, encoding galaxy evolution physics; a stellar population synthesis model connecting the physical properties of galaxies to their photometry; a data-model characterizing the observation and calibration processes for a given survey; and, explicit treatment of selection cuts, both into the main analysis sample and subsequent sorting into tomographic redshift bins. This approach has the appeal that it does not rely on spectroscopic calibration data, provides explicit control over modeling assumptions, and builds a direct bridge between photo-$z$ inference and galaxy evolution physics. In addition to redshift distributions, forward modeling provides a framework for drawing robust inferences about the statistical properties of the galaxy population more generally. We demonstrate the utility of forward modeling by estimating the redshift distributions for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and Vimos VLT Deep (VVDS) surveys, validating against their spectroscopic redshifts. Our baseline model is able to predict tomographic redshift distributions for GAMA and VVDS with a bias of $Δz \lesssim 0.003$ and $Δz \simeq 0.01$ on the mean redshift respectively -- comfortably accurate enough for Stage III cosmological surveys -- without any hyper-parameter tuning (i.e., prior to doing any fitting to those data). We anticipate that with additional hyper-parameter fitting and modeling improvements, forward modeling can provide a path to accurate redshift distribution inference for Stage IV surveys.
description: Accepted to ApJS 18 September 2022
title: Leitlinien-Empfehlungen zur Nierentumorchirurgie – Versorgungsforschung aus dem Blickwinkel der Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Müller, Guido
name: Butea-Bocu, Marius
name: Brock, Oliver
name: Otto, Ullrich
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die operative Therapie des lokal begrenzten Nierenzellkarzinoms hat sich in den letzten 10 Jahren deutlich gewandelt. Die deutsche S3-Leitlinie formuliert hierzu: „Lokal begrenzte Tumoren im klinischen Stadium T1 sollen nierenerhaltend operiert werden.“ Wir haben uns die Frage[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
The wisdom_of_crowds: an efficient, philosophically-validated, social epistemological network profiling toolkit
Creators: name: Klein, Colin
name: Cheong, Marc
name: Ferreira, Marinus
name: Sullivan, Emily
name: Alfano, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The epistemic position of an agent often depends on their position in a larger network of other agents who provide them with information. In general, agents are better off if they have diverse and independent sources. Sullivan et al. [2020] developed a method for quantitatively characterizing the epistemic position of individuals in a network that takes into account both diversity and independence; and presented a proof-of-concept, closed-source implementation on a small graph derived from Twitter data [Sullivan et al. 2020]. This paper reports on an open-source re-implementation of their algorithm in Python, optimized to be usable on much larger networks. In addition to the algorithm and package, we also show the ability to scale up our package to large synthetic social network graph profiling, and finally demonstrate its utility in analyzing real-world empirical evidence of `echo chambers' on online social media, as well as evidence of interdisciplinary diversity in an academic communications network.
description: This is a preprint version of the manuscript. 13 pages, 3 figures. The final version will be published in "Complex Networks & Their Applications XI: Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications: COMPLEX NETWORKS 2022 - Volume 1"
title: Verbesserung der Kontinenz bei höherer Belastung durch Implantation einer Stressmanschette bei Patienten mit einem artifiziellen Sphinkter
Creators: name: Ameli, Ghazal
name: Weibl, Peter
name: Rutkowski, Michael
name: Hübner, Wilhelm Alexander
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: In einigen Fällen besteht nach der Implantation eines artifiziellen Sphinkters(AUS) persistierender Harnverlust bei abdomineller Drucksteigerung. Um die Kontinenz zu verbessern, haben wir zusätzlich zu der Druckmanschette und dem druckregulierenden Ballon, in einer zweiten Sitzung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Additional file 1 of Short-term effects of a park-based group mobility program on increasing outdoor walking in older adults with difficulty walking outdoors: the Getting Older Adults Outdoors (GO-OUT) randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Salbach, Nancy M.
name: Mayo, Nancy E.
name: Webber, Sandra C.
name: Jones, C. Allyson
name: Lix, Lisa M.
name: Ripat, Jacquie
name: Grant, Theresa
name: van Ineveld, Cornelia
name: Chilibeck, Philip D.
name: Romanescu, Razvan G.
name: Scott, Susan
name: Barclay, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Tumor-Derived Factors and Reduced p53 Promote Endothelial Cell Centrosome Over-Duplication
Creators: name: Yu, Zhixian
name: Kushner, Erich J.
name: Bautch, Victoria L.
name: Mouillesseaux, Kevin P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Approximately 30% of tumor endothelial cells have over-duplicated (>2) centrosomes, which may contribute to abnormal vessel function and drug resistance. Elevated levels of vascular endothelial growth factor A induce excess centrosomes in endothelial cells, but how other features of the tumor environment affect centrosome over-duplication is not known. To test this, we treated endothelial cells with tumor-derived factors, hypoxia, or reduced p53, and assessed centrosome numbers. We found that hypoxia and elevated levels of bone morphogenetic protein 2, 6 and 7 induced excess centrosomes in endothelial cells through BMPR1A and likely via SMAD signaling. In contrast, inflammatory mediators IL-8 and lipopolysaccharide did not induce excess centrosomes. Finally, down-regulation in endothelial cells of p53, a critical regulator of DNA damage and proliferation, caused centrosome over-duplication. Our findings suggest that some tumor-derived factors and genetic changes in endothelial cells contribute to excess centrosomes in tumor endothelial cells.
Notes on $H^{\log} $: structural properties, dyadic variants, and bilinear $H^1$-$BMO$ mappings
Creators: name: Bakas, Odysseas
name: Pott, Sandra
name: Rodríguez-López, Salvador
name: Sola, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B35 (primary), 42B25, 42C40 (secondary)

description: This article is devoted to a study of the Hardy space $H^{\log} (\mathbb{R}^d)$ introduced by Bonami, Grellier, and Ky. We present an alternative approach to their result relating the product of a function in the real Hardy space $H^1$ and a function in $BMO$ to distributions that belong to $H^{\log}$ based on dyadic paraproducts. We also point out analogues of classical results of Hardy-Littlewood, Zygmund, and Stein for $H^{\log}$ and related Musielak-Orlicz spaces.
description: This article supersedes and extends a previous article arXiv:1905.13477
title: Ein neuer künstlicher Blasenschließmuskel (VICTO) mit individueller Druckanpassung zur Behandlung von Stressinkontinenz: Vorläufige klinische Ergebnisse
Creators: name: Ameli, Ghazal
name: Weibl, Peter
name: Rutkowski, Michael
name: Hübner, Wilhelm Alexander
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Hauptursachen für Revision eines artifiziellen Sphinkters(AUS) sind sub cuff atrophy und Harnröhrenarrosion.Neben allgemeine Risikofaktoren sind hohe Systemdrücke für postoperative Komplikationen verantwortlich. Diese Arbeit dient der klinischen Evaluierung eines neuen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Constraining gas motions in the Centaurus cluster using X-ray surface brightness fluctuations and metal diffusion
Creators: name: Walker, S. A.
name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare two different methods of constraining the characteristic velocity and spatial scales of gas motions in the X-ray bright, nearby Centaurus cluster, using new deep (760ks) Chandra observations. The power spectrum of excess surface brightness fluctuations in the 0.5-6.0 keV band in a sector to the west is measured and compared to theoretical expectations for Kolmogorov index fluctuations. The observed power spectrum is flatter than these expectations, and the surface brightness fluctuations are around the 8 percent level on length scales of 2 kpc. We convert the 2D power spectrum of fluctuations into a 3D power spectrum using the method of Churazov et al., and then convert this into constraints on the one-component velocity of the gas motions as a function of their length scale. We find one-component velocities in the range 100-150 km/s on spatial scales of 4-10 kpc. An independent constraint on the characteristic velocity and length scales of the gas motions is then found by considering the diffusion coefficient needed to explain the distribution of metals in the Centaurus cluster, combined with the need to balance the rate of gas cooling with the rate of heat dissipated by the gas motions. We find that these two methods of constraining the velocity and length scales of the gas motions are in good agreement.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
X-SHYNE: X-shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs. I. A medium-resolution 0.65-2.5$\mathrm{μm}$ one-shot spectrum of VHS\,1256-1257 b
Creators: name: Petrus, Simon
name: Chauvin, Gaël
name: Bonnefoy, Mickaël
name: Tremblin, Pascal
name: Charnay, Benjamin
name: Delorme, Philippe
name: Marleau, Gabriel-Dominique
name: Bayo, Amelia
name: Manjavacas, Elena
name: Lagrange, Anne-Marie
name: Mollière, Paul
name: Palma-Bifani, Paulina
name: Jenkins, Beth Biller James-S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simultaneous 0.65-2.5 microns medium resolution (3300 < R < 8100) VLT/X-Shooter spectra of the young low-mass (19+/-5MJup) L-T transition object VHS 1256-1257 b, a known spectroscopic analogue of HR8799d. The companion is a prime target for the JWST Early Release Science (ERS) and one of the highest-amplitude variable brown-dwarf known to date. We compare the spectrum to the custom grids of cloudless ATMO models exploring different atmospheric composition with the Bayesian inference tool ForMoSA. We also re-analyze low-resolution HST/WFC3 1.10-1.67 microns spectra at minimum and maximum variability to contextualize the X-Shooter data interpretation. The models reproduce the slope and most molecular absorption from 1.10 to 2.48 microns self-consistently but fail to provide a radius consistent with evolutionary model predictions. They do not reproduce consistently the optical spectrum and the depth of the K I doublets in the J-band. We derive Teff = 1380+/-54 K, log(g) = 3.97+/-0.48 dex, [M/H] = 0.21+/-0.29, and C/O > 0.63. Our inversion of the HST/WFC3 spectra suggests a relative change of 27+6-5 K of the disk-integrated Teff correlated with the near-infrared brightness. Our data anchor the characterization of that object in the near-infrared and could be used jointly to the ERS mid-infrared data to provide the most detailed characterization of an ultracool dwarf to date.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
Quantum operations with indefinite time direction
Creators: name: Chiribella, Giulio
name: Liu, Zixuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental dynamics of quantum particles is neutral with respect to the arrow of time. And yet, our experiments are not: we observe quantum systems evolving from the past to the future, but not the other way round. A fundamental question is whether it is possible to conceive a broader set of operations that probe quantum processes in the backward direction, from the future to the past, or more generally, in a combination of the forward and backward directions. Here we introduce a mathematical framework for these operations, showing that some of them cannot be interpreted as random mixtures of operations that probe processes in a definite direction. As a concrete example, we construct an operation, called the quantum time flip, that probes an unknown dynamics in a quantum superposition of the forward and backward directions. This operation exhibits an information-theoretic advantage over all operations with definite direction. It can be realised probabilistically using quantum teleportation, and can be reproduced experimentally with photonic systems. More generally, we introduce a set of multipartite operations that include indefinite time direction as well as indefinite causal order, providing a framework for potential extensions of quantum theory.
description: 7 + 21 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Key subdomains of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor attenuate myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury by JAK1/STAT1/NF-κB signaling pathway
Creators: name: Dong, Haibin
name: Jia, Wenjuan
name: Wang, Chunxiao
name: Teng, Da
name: Xu, Bowen
name: Ding, Xiaoning
name: Yang, Jun
name: Zhong, Lin
name: Gong, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Unit Nonresponse in a Population-Based Study of Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Oral, Evrim
name: Simonsen, Neal
name: Su, L. Joseph
name: Bensen, Jeannette T.
name: Fontham, Elizabeth T. H.
name: Mohler, James L.
name: Brennan, Christine
name: Berken, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Low unit response rates can increase bias and compromise study validity. Response rates have continued to fall over the past decade despite all efforts to increase participation. Many factors have been linked to reduced response, yet relatively few studies have employed multivariate approaches to identify characteristics that differentiate respondents from nonrespondents since it is hard to collect information on the latter. We aimed to assess factors contributing to enrollment of prostate cancer (PCa) patients. We combined data from the North Carolina-Louisiana (LA) PCa Project’s LA cohort, with additional sources such as US census tract and LA tumor registry data. We included specific analyses focusing on blacks, a group often identified as hard to enroll in health-related research. The ability to study the effect of Hurricane Katrina, which occurred amidst enrollment, as a potential determinant of nonresponse makes our study unique. Older age (≥ 70) for blacks (OR 0.65) and study phase with respect to Hurricane Katrina for both races (OR 0.59 for blacks, OR 0.48 for whites) were significant predictors of participation with lower odds. Neighborhood poverty for whites (OR 1.53) also was a significant predictor of participation, but with higher odds. Among blacks, residence in Orleans parish was associated with lower odds of participation (OR 0.33) before Katrina. The opposite occurred in whites, with lower odds (OR 0.43) after Katrina. Our results overall underscore the importance of tailoring enrollment approaches to specific target population characteristics to confront the challenges posed by nonresponse. Our results also show that recruitment-related factors may change when outside forces bring major alterations to a population's environment and demographics.
Sacred well Sant’Anastasia, Sardinia (Pozzo Sacro Sant’Anastasia, Sardegna)
Creators: name: Juvanec, Borut
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: Archeoastronomy as the science of using the Universe, planets, sun or moon their positions and relations in space, with visual traces on Earth, is important also in architecture. Some of waterwells were constructed by means of a construction system called corbelling, in which horizontal layers – in a dry stone walling system overlap each other. It can be in a longitudinal shape (in staircases) or in circular form (in central rooms, called a false dome). Sant’Anastasia ‘pozzo sacro’ is a circular stone construction in corbelling, with a staircase covered by corbelled elements. Its orientation is north-south Citizens of Sardara use its water by means of an electrical pump but the original level of the water would have been to the first stair, about 75 centimetres. Archaeologists date the well in Sardara to the 12th century BC, to the Nuraghic culture (1700 BC to 238 BC). Twice a year, the sun’s rays pass through the staircase to the water level and are reflected back again through the circular opening in the top of the corbelled false dome. At the same time, the sun enters through the top opening of the chamber into the dome, touching the water surface. The angle of the construction means that it happens twice a year, on April 21 and at the end of August. The sun merging with the water and a sunbeam simultaneously rising out of the ground certainly provide a miracle. There are five pieces of evidence of this: physical phenomena, the naming of the medieval church after the pre-Christian well, the name originates from ‘anastasos’ or ‘ressurection’, miracle occurs twice a year, and it happens every year on the saint’s name day.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 22 No. 1 (2014)
L’approccio archeologico nel restauro diffuso dell’architettura tradizionale in stato di rudere. Recupero delle matrici murarie dell’edilizia storica nel restauro post-sismico. Casi studio nel cratere aquilano
Creators: name: Centauro, Giuseppe Alberto
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: The earthquake of April the 6th 2009, which severely affected L’Aquila and the local towns in the seismic crater, destroyed or critically damaged over than 65 70% of the existing building heritage, reaching, to a certain extent, highpoints of 90%, while also producing billions of ruins either to be disposed of or recycled. After nearly five years, the reconstruction of the ancient villages is still on the move and the first post-seismic Plans of Reconstruction were approved only a few weeks ago. The most significant problems, highlighted by these processes of redevelopment dedicated to the structural rehabilitation of historical buildings, regard aspects of post-seismic restoration. These are specifically related to the traditional wall sets, which need radical treatments in order to be made safe: reparation/stabilization, reinforcement, remaking. Each kind of construction, deriving from a discernable wall matrix, shows typical material characterization in its composition and finishing, which implies the conservation of the architectural manufactures and the safeguard of the environmental and cultural identity of every place. This report aims to highlight these problems as well as, treasuring the observation and experiences derived from case studies, it points out the most innovative methods of analysis and work to be followed in the post-seismic restoration process.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 22 No. 1 (2014)
Supplementary document for 3D structured illumination microscope using a spinning disk - 6585877.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Youchang
name: Asghari, Parisa
name: Scriven, David
name: Moore, Edwin
name: Chou, Keng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Supplemental Document
The Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ and level splitting of 10d conformal symmetry
Creators: name: Aprile, F.
name: Drummond, J. M.
name: Paul, H.
name: Santagata, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The genus zero contribution to the four-point correlator $\langle {\cal O}_{p_1}{\cal O}_{p_2}{\cal O}_{p_3}{\cal O}_{p_4}\rangle$ of half-BPS single-particle operators ${\cal O}_p$ in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills at strong coupling computes the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude of closed superstrings on $AdS_5\times S^5$. Combining Mellin space techniques, the large $p$ limit, and data about the spectrum of two-particle operators at tree level in supergravity, we design a bootstrap algorithm which heavily constrains its $α'$ expansion. We use crossing symmetry, polynomiality in the Mellin variables and the large $p$ limit to stratify the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude away from the ten-dimensional flat space limit. Then we analyse the spectrum of exchanged two-particle operators at fixed order in the $α'$ expansion. We impose that the ten-dimensional spin of the spectrum visible at that order is bounded above in the same way as in the flat space amplitude. This constraint determines the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in $AdS_5\times S^5$ up to a small number of ambiguities at each order and we compute it explicitly for $(α')^{5,6,7,8,9}$. As the order of $α'$ grows, the ten dimensional spin grows, and the set of visible two-particle operators opens up. Operators illuminated for the first time receive a string correction to their anomalous dimensions. This correction is uniquely determined and lifts the residual degeneracy of tree level supergravity due to ten-dimensional conformal symmetry. We encode the lifting of the residual degeneracy in a characteristic polynomial. This object carries information about all orders in $α'$.It is analytic in the quantum numbers, symmetric under an $AdS_5 \leftrightarrow S^5$ exchange, and it enjoys intriguing properties, which we explain and detail in various cases.
description: 46 pages plus Appendices A and B; v2: 48 pages plus Appendices A and B, typos fixed, match with JHEP version; v3: added funding acknowledgement
Analysis of the exoplanet containing system Kepler 91
Creators: name: Budding, Edwin
name: Püsküllü, Çağlar
name: Rhodes, Michael D.
name: Demircan, Osman
name: Erdem, Ahmet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have applied the graphical user interfaced close binary system analysis program WinFitter to an intensive study of Kepler 91 using all the available photometry from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (NEA) at the Caltech website: http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu . Our fitting function for the tidal distortion derives from the relevant Radau equation and includes terms up to the fifth power of the fractional radius. This results in a systematic improvement in the mass ratio estimation over that of Lillo Box et al (2014a) and our derived value for the mass ratio is in close agreement with that inferred from recent high-resolution spectroscopic data. It is clear that the data analysis in terms of simply an eclipsing binary system is compromised by the presence of significant other causes of light variation, in particular non-radial pulsations. We apply a low-frequency filtering procedure to separate out some of this additional light variation. Whilst the derived eccentricity appears then reduced, an eccentric effect remains in the light curve. We consider how this may be maintained in spite of likely frictional effects operating over a long time. There are also indications of the possible effects of Trojan or other period-resonant mass concentrations. Suggestions of a possible secular period variation are briefly discussed.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Vector meson spectral function and dilepton rate in an effective mean field model
Creators: name: Islam, Chowdhury Aminul
name: Majumder, Sarbani
name: Haque, Najmul
name: Mustafa, Munshi G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the vector meson spectral function (VMSF) in a hot and dense medium within an effective QCD model namely the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) and its Polyakov Loop extended version (PNJL) with and without the effect of isoscalar vector interaction (IVI). The effect of the IVI has been taken into account using the ring approximation. We obtained the dilepton production rate (DPR) using the VMSF and observed that at moderate temperature it is enhanced in the PNJL model as compared to the NJL and Born rate due to the suppression of color degrees of freedom.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, conference proceedings of the XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium, IIT Guwahati, December 2014; to appear in 'Springer Proceedings in Physics Series'
Magnetic surface on nonmagnetic bulk of electride Hf2S
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Feng
name: Xu, Duo
name: Qiu, Xiao-Le
name: Zhao, Ning-Ning
name: Lu, Zhong-Yi
name: Liu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiment reported the self-passivated electride Hf2S with excellent stability and continuous electrocatalytic ability [S. H. Kang et al., Sci. Adv. 6, eaba7416 (2020)]. Starting from its 2H-type layered structure, we have studied the electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of the electride Hf2S in the monolayer and multilayer forms by combining first-principles electronic structure calculations and Kubo formula approach. Our calculations indicate that these thin films of Hf2S electride are both dynamically and thermodynamically stable. Astonishingly, the calculations further show that the outmost Hf atoms and the surface electron gas of the Hf2S multilayers are spin polarized, while the inner Hf atoms and the electron gas in the interlayer regions remain nonmagnetic. Due to the magnetic surface, the multilayer Hf2S exhibits many unusual transport properties such as the surface anomalous Hall effect and the electric-field-induced layer Hall effect. Our theoretical predictions on Hf2S call for future experimental verification.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 34 references
La torre della petraia nel fortilizio medievale. Analisi e nuove acquisizioni sulle fasi costruttive
Creators: name: Bastiani, Iacopo
name: Zanetti, Francesca
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: The survey work and research carried out in 2010 on the Villa La Petraia, one of the Medici villas in Castello near Florence, led to formulate new hypoteses on the original structure of the ancient fortress. Great transformations over the centuries have modified it and made the villa as we see it today. Through a historical introduction that traces the main phases of the building evolution, the analysis of the survey and archival documents relating to the villa and its tower will help us to comprehend the original composition and role of the tower in the medieval fortification and to imagine the composition of the whole complex, studied by the scientific community since many years.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014)
Three-loop HTLpt thermodynamics at finite temperature and chemical potential
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Aritra
name: Haque, Najmul
name: Mustafa, Munshi G.
name: Strickland, Michael
name: Su, Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this proceedings we present a state-of-the-art method of calculating thermodynamic potential at finite temperature and finite chemical potential, using Hard Thermal Loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) up to next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO). The resulting thermodynamic potential enables us to evaluate different thermodynamic quantities including pressure and various quark number susceptibilities (QNS). Comparison between our analytic results for those thermodynamic quantities with the available lattice data shows a good agreement.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, conference proceedings of XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium, IIT Guwahati, December 2014; to appear in 'Springer Proceedings in Physics Series'
Current Trends in Deep Learning for Earth Observation: An Open-source Benchmark Arena for Image Classification
Creators: name: Dimitrovski, Ivica
name: Kitanovski, Ivan
name: Kocev, Dragi
name: Simidjievski, Nikola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present AiTLAS: Benchmark Arena -- an open-source benchmark suite for evaluating state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for image classification in Earth Observation (EO). To this end, we present a comprehensive comparative analysis of more than 500 models derived from ten different state-of-the-art architectures and compare them to a variety of multi-class and multi-label classification tasks from 22 datasets with different sizes and properties. In addition to models trained entirely on these datasets, we benchmark models trained in the context of transfer learning, leveraging pre-trained model variants, as it is typically performed in practice. All presented approaches are general and can be easily extended to many other remote sensing image classification tasks not considered in this study. To ensure reproducibility and facilitate better usability and further developments, all of the experimental resources including the trained models, model configurations, and processing details of the datasets (with their corresponding splits used for training and evaluating the models) are publicly available on the repository: https://github.com/biasvariancelabs/aitlas-arena
Vaccination Confidence and Parental Refusal/Delay of Early Childhood Vaccines
Creators: name: Reiter, Paul L.
name: McRee, Annie-Laurie
name: Magnus, Brooke E.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Dempsey, Amanda F.
name: Gilkey, Melissa B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To support efforts to address parental hesitancy towards early childhood vaccination, we sought to validate the Vaccination Confidence Scale using data from a large, population-based sample of U.S. parents.
Extreme Love in the SPA: constraining the tidal deformability of supermassive objects with extreme mass ratio inspirals and semi-analytical, frequency-domain waveforms
Creators: name: Piovano, Gabriel Andres
name: Maselli, Andrea
name: Pani, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the accuracy in the measurement of the tidal Love number of a supermassive compact object through the detection of an extreme mass ratio inspiral~(EMRI) by the future LISA mission. A nonzero Love number would be a smoking gun for departures from the classical black hole prediction of General Relativity. We find that an EMRI detection by LISA could set constraints on the tidal Love number of a spinning central object with dimensionless spin $\hat a=0.9$ ($\hat a=0.99$) which are approximately four (six) orders of magnitude more stringent than what achievable with current ground-based detectors for stellar-mass binaries. Our approach is based on the stationary phase approximation to obtain approximate but accurate semi-analytical EMRI waveforms in the frequency-domain, which greatly speeds up high-precision Fisher-information matrix computations. This approach can be easily extended to several other tests of gravity with EMRIs and to efficiently account for multiple deviations in the waveform at the same time.
description: 8 pages + appendices and references; 2 tables and 1 figure
An unusual identity for odd-powers
Creators: name: Kolosov, Petro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 44A35, 11C08

description: In this manuscript we provide a new polynomial pattern. This pattern allows to find a polynomial expansion of the form \[x^{2m+1} = \sum_{k=1}^{x}\sum_{r=0}^{m} \mathbf{A}_{m,r} k^r (x-k)^r,\] where $x,m\in\mathbb{N}$ and $\mathbf{A}_{m,r}$ is real coefficient.
description: 4 pages
A consistent stochastic large-scale representation of the Navier-Stokes equations
Creators: name: Debussche, Arnaud
name: Hug, Berenger
name: Memin, Etienne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the theoretical properties of a stochastic representation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations defined in the framework of the modeling under location uncertainty (LU). This setup built from a stochastic version of the Reynolds transport theorem incorporates a so-called transport noise and involves several specific additional features such as a large scale diffusion term, akin to classical subgrid models, and a modified advection term arising from the spatial inhomogeneity of the small-scale velocity components. This formalism has been numerically evaluated in a series of studies with a particular interest on geophysical flows approximations and data assimilation. In this work we focus more specifically on its theoretical analysis. We demonstrate, through classical arguments, the existence of martingale solutions for the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in LU form. We show they are pathwise and unique for 2D flows. We then prove that if the noise intensity goes to zero, these solutions converge, up to a subsequence in dimension $3$, to a solution of the deterministic Navier-Stokes equation. similarly to the grid convergence property of well established large-eddies simulation strategies, this result allows us to give some guarantee on the interpretation of the LU Navier-Stokes equations as a consistent large-scale model of the deterministic Navier-Stokes equation.
The Monastery of Bir el-Hamam, Mount Gerizim, Palestine. Site Management and Presentation
Creators: name: Taha, Hamdan
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: The archaeological site of Bir el-Hamam, located on the northern top of Mt Gerizim, Nablus, in Palestine was discovered in 2001 during preparatory work for the construction of the ‘House of Palestine, a rotunda style residence for Mr. Munib al-Masri. In that same year, a salvage excavation was carried out by the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and staff and students from An-Najah National University, directed by H. Taha (2015). The archaeological remains of a small monastery were preserved in situ in lowest floor of the building as a complete self-contained public archaeological site. The archaeological site included a complex of household installation and spaces, such as an open courtyard, a rain-fed cistern, a stable, and a kitchen. It also included a room with a mosaic floor with fragments of religious texts. This room gave access to an exceptional space of a chapel with colourful mosaics and a dedicatory text for three deceased ‘brothers, lovers of Christ’. A nicely decorated chancel screen separated the holy eastern part, the bema, with its altar table, from the main room. This chapel, combined with the chandeliers found, indicates that the compound concerns a small monastery (Kooij 2015:7). The management plan of the site was based on an agreement between the private owner of the land and the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, the public owner of the archaeological remains, in order to keep this heritage site accessible for the public. As a result in 2004 a series of restorations and consolidation works were implemented, and measures were taken to ensure that the site is accessible and visitor friendly. A wooden visitor’s trail was made, hanging in and over the architectural remains, and a museum room with exhibition was added to present the site.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2015)
A note on polydegree $(n,1)$ rational inner functions, slice matrices, and singularities
Creators: name: Sola, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32A40 (primary), 30J10 (secondary)

description: We analyze certain compositions of rational inner functions in the unit polydisk $\mathbb{D}^{d}$ with polydegree $(n,1)$, $n\in \mathbb{N}^{d-1}$, and isolated singularities in $\mathbb{T}^d$. Provided an irreducibility condition is met, such a composition is shown to be a rational inner function with singularities in precisely the same location as those of the initial function, and with quantitatively controlled properties. As an application, we answer a $d$-dimensional version of a question posed in \cite{BPS22} in the affirmative.
description: 10pp
Variant Discovery and Fine Mapping of Genetic Loci Associated with Blood Pressure Traits in Hispanics and African Americans
Creators: name: Rich, Stephen S.
name: Zubair, Niha
name: Schwander, Karen
name: North, Kari E.
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Lu, Yingchang
name: Haessler, Jeff
name: Carlson, Christopher S.
name: Kooperberg, Charles
name: Tao, Ran
name: Hindorff, Lucia A.
name: Fornage, Myriam
name: Buyske, Steven
name: Bottinger, Erwin P.
name: Manichaikul, Ani
name: Sung, Yun Ju
name: Ehret, Georg
name: Rao,
name: Guo, Xiuqing
name: Bien, Stephanie
name: Loos, Ruth J. F.
name: Kaufman, Joel D.
name: Barrett, Paula Q.
name: Bielinski, Suzette J.
name: Carty, Cara L.
name: Chakravarti, Aravinda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Despite the substantial burden of hypertension in US minority populations, few genetic studies of blood pressure have been conducted in Hispanics and African Americans, and it is unclear whether many of the established loci identified in European-descent populations contribute to blood pressure variation in non-European descent populations. Using the Metabochip array, we sought to characterize the genetic architecture of previously identified blood pressure loci, and identify novel cardiometabolic variants related to systolic and diastolic blood pressure in a multi-ethnic US population including Hispanics (n = 19,706) and African Americans (n = 18,744). Several known blood pressure loci replicated in African Americans and Hispanics. Fourteen variants in three loci (KCNK3, FGF5, ATXN2-SH2B3) were significantly associated with blood pressure in Hispanics. The most significant diastolic blood pressure variant identified in our analysis, rs2586886/KCNK3 (P = 5.2 x 10−9), also replicated in independent Hispanic and European-descent samples. African American and trans-ethnic meta-analysis data identified novel variants in the FGF5, ULK4 and HOXA-EVX1 loci, which have not been previously associated with blood pressure traits. Our identification and independent replication of variants in KCNK3, a gene implicated in primary hyperaldosteronism, as well as a variant in HOTTIP (HOXA-EVX1) suggest that further work to clarify the roles of these genes may be warranted. Overall, our findings suggest that loci identified in European descent populations also contribute to blood pressure variation in diverse populations including Hispanics and African Americans—populations that are understudied for hypertension genetic risk factors.