cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ex Vivo Exposures to Inorganic Arsenic and its Methylated Metabolites Alter Gene Transcription in Mouse Sperm Cells
Creators: name: Bingzhen Shang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) has been linked to diabetic phenotypes in both humans and mice. A previous study from our laboratory suggested that preconception iAs exposure may contribute to the development of diabetic phenotype in male offspring mediated through alterations in sperm gene expressions. However, individual contributions of iAs and its methylated metabolites to changes in sperm transcriptome cannot be determined using in vivo exposure. The goal of the present study was to assess transcriptomic changes in mouse sperm in response to trivalent iAs, monomethylated arsenic (MMAs) and dimethylated arsenic (DMAs), using an ex vivo model. We exposed freshly isolated sperm to non-cytotoxic concentrations of the three trivalent arsenicals (0.1 or 1 µM) for 4 hours and used RNA-sequencing to identify differentially expressed genes and the corresponding pathways. We also identified functional protein networks associated with these genes and pathways. We found that exposures to low concentrations of the trivalent arsenicals (0.1 µM) had greater effects on gene expression than exposures to 1 µM, with the most robust effect being associated with exposure to 0.1 µM MMAs. ATP binding was the most significantly enriched pathway in sperm exposed to iAs and MMAs; pathways associated with DNA binding and transcription were most enriched in sperm exposed to DMAs. There was no overlap between gene transcripts altered by ex vivo exposures and those altered in sperm in the published preconception exposure study. However, two pathways that were found to be significantly enriched in the preconception exposure study, namely focal adhesion and ECM receptor interaction pathways, were also among the significantly enriched pathways in the sperm exposed ex vivo to 0.1 µM iAs and MMAs. Seven proteins associated with both ECM functions and focal adhesion were identified in sperm exposed ex vivo to 0.1 µM iAs and MMAs, suggesting a potential interaction between the pathways.
Entropy production in quantum Yang-Mills mechanics in semi-classical approximation
Creators: name: Tsukiji, Hidekazu
name: Iida, Hideaki
name: Kunihiro, Teiji
name: Ohnishi, Akira
name: Takahashi, Toru T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss thermalization of isolated quantum systems by using the Husimi-Wehrl entropy evaluated in the semiclassical treatment. The Husimi-Wehrl entropy is the Wehrl entropy obtained by using the Husimi function for the phase space distribution. The time evolution of the Husimi function is given by smearing the Wigner function, whose time evolution is obtained in the semiclassical approximation. We show the efficiency and usefullness of this semiclassical treatment in describing entropy production of a couple of quantum mechanical systems, whose classical counter systems are known to be chaotic. We propose two methods to evaluate the time evolution of the Husimi-Wehrl entropy, the test-particle method and the two-step Monte-Carlo method. We demonstrate the characteristics of the two methods by numerical calculations, and show that the simultaneous application of the two methods ensures the reliability of the results of the Husimi-Wehrl entropy at a given time.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
(793) Elizabeth [Whitaker, Whitcher]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Low star-formation activity and low gas content of quiescent galaxies at $z=$ 3.5-4.0 constrained with ALMA
Creators: name: Suzuki, Tomoko L.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Schreiber, Corentin
name: Kodama, Tadayuki
name: Kacprzak, Glenn G.
name: Leiton, Roger
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Oesch, Pascal A.
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Spitler, Lee
name: Straatman, Caroline M. S.
name: Tran, Kim-Vy
name: Wang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery in deep near-infrared surveys of a population of massive quiescent galaxies at $z>3$ has given rise to the question of how they came to be quenched so early in the history of the Universe. Measuring their molecular gas properties can distinguish between physical processes where they stop forming stars due to a lack of fuel versus those where star-formation efficiency is reduced and the gas is retained. We conducted Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of four quiescent galaxies at $z=$ 3.5-4.0 found by the Fourstar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) and a serendipitous optically dark galaxy at $z=3.71$. We aim to investigate the presence of dust-obscured star-formation and their gas content by observing the dust continuum emission at Band-7 and the atomic carbon [C I]($^3P_1$-$^3P_0$) line at 492.16 GHz. Among the four quiescent galaxies, only one source is detected in the dust continuum at $λ_{\rm obs} = 870 {\rm μm}$. The sub-mm observations confirm their passive nature, and all of them are located more than four times below the main sequence of star-forming galaxies at $z=3.7$. None of the targets are detected in [C I], constraining their gas mass fractions to be $<$ 20%. These gas mass fractions are more than three times lower than the scaling relation for star-forming galaxies at $z=3.7$. These results support scenarios where massive galaxies at $z=$ 3.5-4.0 quench by consuming/expelling all the gas rather than by reducing the efficiency of the conversion of their gas into stars.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in ApJ
The geodynamic and limnological evolution of Balkan Lake Ohrid, possibly the oldest extant lake in Europe
Creators: name: Wagner, Bernd
name: Tauber, Paul
name: Francke, Alexander
name: Leicher, Niklas
name: Binnie, Steven A.
name: Cvetkoska, Aleksandra
name: Jovanovska, Elena
name: Just, Janna
name: Lacey, Jack H.
name: Levkov, Zlatko
name: Lindhorst, Katja
name: Kouli, Katerina
name: Krastel, Sebastian
name: Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos
name: Ulfers, Arne
name: Zaova, Dušica
name: Donders, Timme H.
name: Grazhdani, Andon
name: Koutsodendris, Andreas
name: Leng, Melanie J.
name: Sadori, Laura
name: Scheinert, Mirko
name: Vogel, Hendrik
name: Wonik, Thomas
name: Zanchetta, Giovanni
name: Wilke, Thomas
Publisher: name: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: clast
subject: displacement
subject: geodynamics
subject: lacustrine deposit
subject: lake evolution
subject: limnology
subject: sedimentation
subject: sedimentology
subject: Balkan
subject: Lake Ohrid
subject: Turkmenistan
subject: 550

description: Studies of the upper 447 m of the DEEP site sediment succession from central Lake Ohrid, Balkan Peninsula, North Macedonia and Albania provided important insights into the regional climate history and evolutionary dynamics since permanent lacustrine conditions established at 1.36 million years ago (Ma). This paper focuses on the entire 584-m-long DEEP sediment succession and a comparison to a 197-m-long sediment succession from the Pestani site ~5 km to the east in the lake, where drilling ended close to the bedrock, to unravel the earliest history of Lake Ohrid and its basin development. 26Al/10Be dating of clasts from the base of the DEEP sediment succession implies that the sedimentation in the modern basin started at c. 2 Ma. Geophysical, sedimentological and micropalaeontological data allow for chronological information to be transposed from the DEEP to the Pestani succession. Fluvial conditions, slack water conditions, peat formation and/or complete desiccation prevailed at the DEEP and Pestani sites until 1.36 and 1.21 Ma, respectively, before a larger lake extended over both sites. Activation of karst aquifers to the east probably by tectonic activity and a potential existence of neighbouring Lake Prespa supported filling of Lake Ohrid. The lake deepened gradually, with a relatively constant vertical displacement rate of ~0.2 mm a−1 between the central and the eastern lateral basin and with greater water depth presumably during interglacial periods. Although the dynamic environment characterized by local processes and the fragmentary chronology of the basal sediment successions from both sites hamper palaeoclimatic significance prior to the existence of a larger lake, the new data provide an unprecedented and detailed picture of the geodynamic evolution of the basin and lake that is Europe’s presumed oldest extant freshwater lake.
Table S1 from Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life-history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus).
Creators: name: Zablocki-Thomas, Pauline Blandine
name: Herrel, Anthony
name: Karanewsky, Caitlin J.
name: Aujard, Fabienne
name: Pouydebat, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Summary of the covariance between morphological and early life traits.
A Search for Radio Technosignatures at the Solar Gravitational Lens Targeting Alpha Centauri
Creators: name: Tusay, Nick
name: Huston, Macy J.
name: Dedrick, Cayla M.
name: Kerby, Stephen
name: Palumbo, Michael L.
name: Croft, Steve
name: Wright, Jason T.
name: Robertson, Paul
name: Sheikh, Sofia
name: Duffy, Laura
name: Foote, Gregory
name: Hyde, Andrew
name: Lafond, Julia
name: Mullikin, Ella
name: Parts, Winter
name: Sandhaus, Phoebe
name: Smith, Hillary H.
name: Sneed, Evan L.
name: Czech, Daniel
name: Gajjar, Vishal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars provide an enormous gain for interstellar communications at their gravitational focus, perhaps as part of an interstellar network. If the Sun is part of such a network, there should be probes at the gravitational foci of nearby stars. If there are probes within the solar system connected to such a network, we might detect them by intercepting transmissions from relays at these foci. Here, we demonstrate a search across a wide bandwidth for interstellar communication relays beyond the Sun's innermost gravitational focus at 550 AU using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Breakthrough Listen (BL) backend. As a first target, we searched for a relay at the focus of the Alpha Centauri AB system while correcting for the parallax due to Earth's orbit around the Sun. We searched for radio signals directed at the inner solar system from such a source in the L and S bands. Our analysis, utilizing the turboSETI software developed by BL, did not detect any signal indicative of a non-human-made artificial origin. Further analysis excluded false negatives and signals from the nearby target HD 13908. Assuming a conservative gain of 10^3 in L-band and roughly 4 times that in S-band, a ~1 meter directed transmitter would be detectable by our search above 7 W at 550 AU or 23 W at 1000 AU in L-band, and above 2 W at 550 AU or 7 W at 1000 AU in S-band. Finally, we discuss the application of this method to other frequencies and targets.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, accepted to AJ
title: Generating personalized/balanced racing games via rolling horizon evolution

title: Δημιουργία εξατομικευμένων/ισορροπημένων αγωνιστικών παιχνιδιών μέσω της εξέλιξης του κυλιόμενου ορίζοντα
Creators: name: Ζησκας Χρηστος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: In recent years, game development has been heavily dedicated to the advancement of Procedural Content Generation (PCG). A much-discussed topic of study for game developers is the autonomous generation of levels for video games. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA)s have seen extensive uses due to the stability in general computational problems and the demand for artificial intelligence techniques. In this dissertation, we test the ability of an innovative algorithm to offer personalized experiences online in the racing video game genre. We use a recent stochastic planning algorithm named Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm (RHEA), which generated content (parts of a race track) based on the difficulty of the level and the player’s in-game performance. The algorithm is tested against Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human players; AI racing players define the bounds of the flow channel within which the human players are assessed. The algorithm then attempts to bring the level of difficulty to match player performance through its fitness function. Results suggest that the algorithm is operational and that the experience of various human players is optimized based on their skill level.
description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια, η ανάπτυξη παιχνιδιών έχει αφιερωθεί σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην πρόοδο της σύνθεσης περιεχομένου. Ένα πολυσυζητημένο θέμα μελέτης για προγραμματιστές παιχνιδιών είναι η αυτόνομη δημιουργία επιπέδων για βιντεοπαιχνίδια. Οι εξελικτικοί αλγόριθμοι έχουν δει εκτεταμένες χρήσεις λόγω της σταθερότητας σε γενικά υπολογιστικά προβλήματα και της ζήτησης τεχνικών τεχνητής νοημοσύνης. Σε αυτή τη διατριβή, δοκιμάζουμε την ικανότητα ενός καινοτόμου αλγορίθμου να προσφέρει εξατομικευμένες εμπειρίες στο είδος των αγωνιστικών παιγνίων. Χρησιμοποιούμε έναν καινούργιο στοχαστικό αλγόριθμο σχεδιασμού ονομαζόμενο RHEA , ο οποίος παράγει περιεχόμενο με βάση τη δυσκολία του επιπέδου και τις επιδόσεις του παίκτη στο παιχνίδι. Ο αλγόριθμος δοκιμάζεται από πράκτορες και ανθρώπινους παίκτες. Πράκτορες καθορίζουν τα όρια του καναλιού ροής μέσα στο οποίο αξιολογούνται οι παίκτες. Στη συνέχεια, ο αλγόριθμος προσπαθεί να φέρει το επίπεδο δυσκολίας ώστε να ταιριάζει με την απόδοση του παίκτη μέσω της συνάρτησης καταλληλότητας. Τα αποτελέσματα υποδηλώνουν ότι ο αλγόριθμος είναι λειτουργικός και ότι η εμπειρία των παικτών βελτιστοποιείται με βάση το επίπεδο δεξιοτήτων τους.
Additions to the Spectrum of Fe IX in the 110-200 Å Region
Creators: name: Ryabtsev, Alexander N.
name: Kononov, Edward Y.
name: Young, Peter R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of eight-times ionized iron, Fe IX, was studied in the 110-200 Å region. A low inductance vacuum spark and a 3-m grazing incidence spectrograph were used for the excitation and recording of the spectrum. Previous analyses of Fe IX have been greatly extended and partly revised. The numbers of known lines in the 3p^53d - 3p^54f and 3p^53d - 3p^43d^2 transition arrays are extended to 25 and 81, respectively. Most of the identifications of the Fe IX lines from the 3p^53d - 3p^43d^2 transition array in the solar spectrum have been confirmed and several new identifications are suggested.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 24 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables
The Effect of Different Music Styles on Attention and Cognitive Control
Creators: name: Griffith, Kira
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Music is a widely explored, yet mysterious auditory stimulus that influences several cognitive processes, including attention (Fernandez et al., 2019; Gupta et al., 2018; Medina and Barraza, 2019). Attention is a complex function that involves interactions among three independent networks: alerting, orienting, and executive control. Only recently have studies begun to investigate the effect of listening to background music on these attentional networks and very few have investigated music outside of the classical genre. To address this gap in the literature, a revised lateralized version of the Attention Network Test, (L-ANT) was utilized to measure participants’ performance while listening to four auditory stimuli in the background: classical music, instrumental reggae music, white noise, and no audio. It was hypothesized that by matching the mode and the tempo of the musical selections, a similar effect on each attentional network would be observed. The findings support this hypothesis and further analyses of behavioral performance showed a significant orienting by audio interaction (F(3, 105) = 6.013, p  = .001, η2 = .147), a significant audio by congruency interaction (F(3, 105) = 5.304, p  = .002, η2 = .132), and a significant three-way interaction of orienting by audio by congruency (F(3, 105) = 5.746, p  = .001, η2 = .141). The audio main effect on alerting was not significant. These findings demonstrate that audio influences components of attention in different ways, thus suggesting that researchers can optimize current music therapy approaches by further exploring the effect of different music styles on attention.  
Keywords: Music, Attention, Lateralized Attention Network Test, Classical, Reggae
(786) Mary Ann [Hockell]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Table S2 from Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life-history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus).
Creators: name: Zablocki-Thomas, Pauline Blandine
name: Herrel, Anthony
name: Karanewsky, Caitlin J.
name: Aujard, Fabienne
name: Pouydebat, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Microsattellite used for paternity assignments.
Principal fiber bundle description of number scaling for scalars and vectors: Application to gauge theory
Creators: name: Benioff, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this paper is to put the description of number scaling and its effects on physics and geometry on a firmer foundation, and to make it more understandable. A main point is that two different concepts, number and number value are combined in the usual representations of number structures. This is valid as long as just one structure of each number type is being considered. It is not valid when different structures of each number type are being considered. Elements of base sets of number structures, considered by themselves, have no meaning. They acquire meaning or value as elements of a number structure. Fiber bundles over a space or space time manifold, M, are described. The fiber consists of a collection of many real or complex number structures and vector space structures. The structures are parameterized by a real or complex scaling factor, s. A vector space at a fiber level, s, has, as scalars, real or complex number structures at the same level. Connections are described that relate scalar and vector space structures at both neighbor M locations and at neighbor scaling levels. Scalar and vector structure valued fields are described and covariant derivatives of these fields are obtained. Two complex vector fields, each with one real and one imaginary field, appear, with one complex field associated with positions in $M$ and the other with position dependent scaling factors. A derivation of the covariant derivative for scalar and vector valued fields gives the same vector fields. The derivation shows that the complex vector field associated with scaling fiber levels is the gradient of a complex scalar field. Use of these results in gauge theory shows that the imaginary part of the vector field associated with M positions acts like the electromagnetic field. The physical relevance of the other three fields, if any, is not known.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Non-equilibrium charmonium regeneration in strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Du, Xiaojian
name: Rapp, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evaluation of quarkonium regeneration in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs) requires the knowledge of the heavy-quark phase space distributions in the expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) fireball. We employ a semi-classical charmonium transport approach where regeneration processes explicitly account for the time-dependent spectra of charm quarks via Langevin simulations of their diffusion. The inelastic charmonium rates and charm-quark transport coefficients are computed from the same charm-medium interaction. The latter is modeled by perturbative rates, augmented with a $K$-factor to represent nonperturbative interaction strength and interference effect. Using central 5.02~TeV Pb-Pb collisions as a test case we find that a good description of the measured $J/ψ$ yield and its transverse-momentum dependence can be achieved if a large $K\gtrsim5$ is employed while smaller values lead to marked discrepancies. This is in line with open-charm phenomenology in URHICs, where nonperturbative interactions of similar strength are required. Our approach establishes a common transport framework for a microscopic description of open and hidden heavy-flavor (HF) observables that incorporates both nonperturbative and non-equilibrium effects, and thus enhances the mutual constraints from experiment on the extraction of transport properties of the QGP.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Statistical forces from close--to--equilibrium media
Creators: name: Basu, Urna
name: Maes, Christian
name: Netočný, Karel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the physical meaning and significance of statistical forces on quasi-static probes in first order around detailed balance for driven media. Exploiting the quasi-static energetics and the structure of (McLennan) steady nonequilibrium ensembles, we find that the statistical force obtains a nonequilibrium correction deriving from the excess work of driving forces on the medium in its relaxation after probe displacement. This reformulates, within a more general context, the recent result by N. Nakagawa (Phys. Rev. E 90, 022108 (2014)) on thermodynamic aspects of weakly nonequilibrium adiabatic pumping. It also proposes a possible operational tool for accessing some excess quantities in steady state thermodynamics. Furthermore, we show that the point attractors of a (macroscopic) probe coupled to a weakly driven medium realize the predictions of the minimum entropy production principle. Finally, we suggest a method to measure the relative dynamical activity through different transition channels, via the measurement of the statistical force induced by a suitable driving.
description: 25 pages
Silane-Mediated Expansion of Domains in Si-Doped κ-Ga2O3 Epitaxy and its Impact on the In-Plane Electronic Conduction
Creators: name: Mazzolini, Piero
name: Fogarassy, Zsolt
name: Parisini, Antonella
name: Mezzadri, Francesco
name: Diercks, David
name: Bosi, Matteo
name: Seravalli, Luca
name: Sacchi, Anna
name: Spaggiari, Giulia
name: Bersani, Danilo
name: Bierwagen, Oliver
name: Janzen, Benjamin Moritz
name: Marggraf, Marcella Naomi
name: Wagner, Markus R.
name: Cora, Ildiko
name: Pécz, Béla
name: Tahraoui, Abbes
name: Bosio, Alessio
name: Borelli, Carmine
name: Leone, Stefano
name: Fornari, Roberto
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: gallium oxides
subject: rotational domains
subject: semiconducting oxides
subject: structural and point defects
subject: thin films epitaxy
subject: transport anisotropy
subject: 620
subject: 540
subject: 530

description: Unintentionally doped (001)-oriented orthorhombic κ-Ga2O3 epitaxial films on c-plane sapphire substrates are characterized by the presence of ≈ 10 nm wide columnar rotational domains that can severely inhibit in-plane electronic conduction. Comparing the in- and out-of-plane resistance on well-defined sample geometries, it is experimentally proved that the in-plane resistivity is at least ten times higher than the out-of-plane one. The introduction of silane during metal-organic vapor phase epitaxial growth not only allows for n-type Si extrinsic doping, but also results in the increase of more than one order of magnitude in the domain size (up to ≈ 300 nm) and mobility (highest µ ≈ 10 cm2V−1s−1, with corresponding lowest ρ ≈ 0.2 Ωcm). To qualitatively compare the mean domain dimension in κ-Ga2O3 epitaxial films, non-destructive experimental procedures are provided based on X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The results of this study pave the way to significantly improved in-plane conduction in κ-Ga2O3 and its possible breakthrough in new generation electronics. The set of cross-linked experimental techniques and corresponding interpretation here proposed can apply to a wide range of material systems that suffer/benefit from domain-related functional properties.
(787) Emma Hockell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor
Creators: name: Marti, X.
name: Fina, I.
name: Frontera, C.
name: Liu, Jian
name: Wadley, P.
name: He, Q.
name: Paull, R. J.
name: Clarkson, J. D.
name: Kudrnovský, J.
name: Turek, I.
name: Kuneš, J.
name: Yi, D.
name: Chu, J. -H.
name: Nelson, C. T.
name: You, L.
name: Arenholz, E.
name: Salahuddin, S.
name: Fontcuberta, J.
name: Jungwirth, T.
name: Ramesh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bistability of ordered spin states in ferromagnets (FMs) provides the magnetic memory functionality. Traditionally, the macroscopic moment of ordered spins in FMs is utilized to write information on magnetic media by a weak external magnetic field, and the FM stray field is used for reading. However, the latest generation of magnetic random access memories demonstrates a new efficient approach in which magnetic fields are replaced by electrical means for reading and writing. This concept may eventually leave the sensitivity of FMs to magnetic fields as a mere weakness for retention and the FM stray fields as a mere obstacle for high-density memory integration. In this paper we report a room-temperature bistable antiferromagnetic (AFM) memory which produces negligible stray fields and is inert in strong magnetic fields. We use a resistor made of an FeRh AFM whose transition to a FM order 100 degrees above room-temperature, allows us to magnetically set different collective directions of Fe moments. Upon cooling to room-temperature, the AFM order sets in with the direction the AFM moments pre-determined by the field and moment direction in the high temperature FM state. For electrical reading, we use an antiferromagnetic analogue of the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR). We report microscopic theory modeling which confirms that this archetypical spintronic effect discovered more than 150 years ago in FMs, can be equally present in AFMs. Our work demonstrates the feasibility to realize room-temperature spintronic memories with AFMs which greatly expands the magnetic materials base for these devices and offers properties which are unparalleled in FMs.
Table S1 from Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life-history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
Creators: name: Zablocki-Thomas, Pauline Blandine
name: Herrel, Anthony
name: Karanewsky, Caitlin J.
name: Aujard, Fabienne
name: Pouydebat, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Summary of the covariance between morphological and early life traits.
The Post-Soviet Fashion Aesthetic: Moving Past Postmodernism
Creators: name: Simpson, Ashley Chandler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The “post-Soviet aesthetic” disrupted the Western fashion industry when it first gained recognition in the early 2010s. It originated as an underground, indie fashion movement that took inspiration and symbols from the new post-Soviet youth culture, but soon was the the visual language of fashion’s most influential brands. The aesthetic's mainstream success in the fashion industry gave the Eastern European voice and experience unprecedented cultural power in the West, where it had once been overlooked, especially in post-Sovietism’s movement into and subsequent major influence on popular European luxury fashion. After the consolidation of its place in the high fashion sphere, its irreverent and referential style and Soviet origins disconcerted and divided fashion critics and consumers due to its apparent aesthetic and strategic opposition to the basic tenets of luxury fashion, an industry it would come to have significant and lasting impact on. In popular fashion discourse, the post-Soviet aesthetic has been classified as streetwear and an extension of postmodern fashion, a broad category that has dominated the last thirty years of high fashion. However, in this investigation, I utilize Raymond Williams’ theory of structures of feeling to delineate why the post-Soviet fashion aesthetic is distinguishable from the label of “postmodern fashion.” I provide a geo-historical and cultural context of the post-Soviet aesthetic and trace the movement's history and characteristics through the background and work of its three most significant founders and practitioners, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Demna Gvasalia and Lotta Volkova, each of whom had spent their childhood living in the Soviet Union, but experienced the collapse of the socialist state as adolescents and teenagers. I discuss the movement’s place in indie, high and, later, luxury fashion through the brands Vetements and Balenciaga. I then discuss the particular semiotic language and deconstructive practices of the aesthetic to identify the dominant, residual and emergent practices that engender its particular structure of feeling, distinguishing it from postmodern fashion.
The Resonant Tidal Evolution of the Earth-Moon Distance
Creators: name: Farhat, Mohammad
name: Auclair-Desrotour, Pierre
name: Boué, Gwenaël
name: Laskar, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to tidal interactions in the Earth-Moon system, the spin of the Earth slows down and the Moon drifts away. This recession of the Moon is now measured with great precision, but it has been realized, more than fifty years ago, that simple tidal models extrapolated back in time lead to an age of the Moon that is by far incompatible with the geochronological and geochemical evidence. In order to evade this problem, more elaborate models have been proposed, taking into account the oceanic tidal dissipation. However, these models did not fit both the estimated lunar age and the present rate of lunar recession simultaneously. Here we present a physical model that reconciles these two constraints and yields a unique solution of the tidal history. This solution fits well the available geological proxies for the history of the Earth-Moon system and consolidates the cyclostratigraphic method. The resulting evolution involves multiple crossings of resonances in the oceanic dissipation that are associated with significant and rapid variations in the lunar orbital distance, the Earth's length of the day, and the Earth's obliquity.
Tables S1, S2, and S3 from Gene drive for population genetic control: non-functional resistance and parental effects.
Creators: name: Beaghton, Andrea K.
name: Hammond, Andrew
name: Nolan, Tony
name: Crisanti, Andrea
name: Burt, Austin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Proportions of different types of germline cells (S1), proportions of gamete types (S2), and model parameters and baseline values (S3).
Table S2 from Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life-history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
Creators: name: Zablocki-Thomas, Pauline Blandine
name: Herrel, Anthony
name: Karanewsky, Caitlin J.
name: Aujard, Fabienne
name: Pouydebat, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Microsattellite used for paternity assignments.
Figure S1 from Gene drive for population genetic control: non-functional resistance and parental effects.
Creators: name: Beaghton, Andrea K.
name: Hammond, Andrew
name: Nolan, Tony
name: Crisanti, Andrea
name: Burt, Austin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Dynamics of load over time vs heterozygote fitness cost or rate of resistance
(785) Abraham Hockell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An analytic regularisation scheme on curved spacetimes with applications to cosmological spacetimes
Creators: name: Géré, Antoine
name: Hack, Thomas-Paul
name: Pinamonti, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T20

description: We develop a renormalisation scheme for time--ordered products in interacting field theories on curved spacetimes which consists of an analytic regularisation of Feynman amplitudes and a minimal subtraction of the resulting pole parts. This scheme is directly applicable to spacetimes with Lorentzian signature, manifestly generally covariant, invariant under any spacetime isometries present and constructed to all orders in perturbation theory. Moreover, the scheme captures correctly the non--geometric state--dependent contribution of Feynman amplitudes and it is well--suited for practical computations. To illustrate this last point, we compute explicit examples on a generic curved spacetime, and demonstrate how momentum space computations in cosmological spacetimes can be performed in our scheme. In this work, we discuss only scalar fields in four spacetime dimensions, but we argue that the renormalisation scheme can be directly generalised to other spacetime dimensions and field theories with higher spin, as well as to theories with local gauge invariance.
description: 40 pages, two figures; v3: minor technical revision of Section 3.2
Figure S2 from Gene drive for population genetic control: non-functional resistance and parental effects.
Creators: name: Beaghton, Andrea K.
name: Hammond, Andrew
name: Nolan, Tony
name: Crisanti, Andrea
name: Burt, Austin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Equilibrium drive allele frequency and load for parental effects on both fitness and gene transmission
Local structure and its implications for the relaxor ferroelectric Cd$_2$Nb$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Hickox-Young, Daniel
name: Laurita, Geneva
name: Meier, Quintin N.
name: Olds, Daniel
name: Spaldin, Nicola A.
name: Norman, Michael R.
name: Rondinelli, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relaxor ferroelectric transition in Cd$_2$Nb$_2$O$_7$ is thought to be described by the unusual condensation of two $Γ$-centered phonon modes, $Γ_4^-$ and $Γ_5^-$. However, their respective roles have proven to be ambiguous, with disagreement between $\textit{ab initio}$ studies, which favor $Γ_4^-$ as the primary mode, and global crystal refinements, which point to $Γ_5^-$ instead. Here, we resolve this issue by demonstrating from x-ray pair distribution function measurements that locally, $Γ_4^-$ dominates, but globally, $Γ_5^-$ dominates. This behavior is consistent with the near degeneracy of the energy surfaces associated with these two distortion modes found in our own $\textit{ab initio}$ simulations. Our first-principles calculations also show that these energy surfaces are almost isotropic, providing an explanation for the numerous structural transitions found in Cd$_2$Nb$_2$O$_7$, as well as its relaxor behavior. Our results point to several candidate descriptions of the local structure, some of which demonstrate two-in/two-out behavior for Nb displacements within a given Nb tetrahedron. Although this suggests the possibility of a charge analog of spin ice in Cd$_2$Nb$_2$O$_7$, our results are more consistent with a Heisenberg-like description for dipolar fluctuations rather than an Ising one. We hope this encourages future experimental investigations of the Nb and Cd dipolar fluctuations, along with their associated mode dynamics.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, published in Physical Review Research
Overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement
Creators: name: Humpenöder, Florian
name: Popp, Alexander
name: Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich
name: Orlov, Anton
name: Windisch, Michael Gregory
name: Menke, Inga
name: Pongratz, Julia
name: Havermann, Felix
name: Thiery, Wim
name: Luo, Fei
name: V. Jeetze, Patrick
name: Dietrich, Jan Philipp
name: Lotze-Campen, Hermann
name: Weindl, Isabelle
name: Lejeune, Quentin
Publisher: name: [London] : Nature Publishing Group UK
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Climate-change mitigation
subject: Climate-change policy
subject: Socioeconomic scenarios
subject: Sustainability
subject: 500
subject: 333.7
subject: 550

description: Transformation pathways for the land sector in line with the Paris Agreement depend on the assumption of globally implemented greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pricing, and in some cases also on inclusive socio-economic development and sustainable land-use practices. In such pathways, the majority of GHG emission reductions in the land system is expected to come from low- and middle-income countries, which currently account for a large share of emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU). However, in low- and middle-income countries the economic, financial and institutional barriers for such transformative changes are high. Here, we show that if sustainable development in the land sector remained highly unequal and limited to high-income countries only, global AFOLU emissions would remain substantial throughout the 21st century. Our model-based projections highlight that overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement. While also a scenario purely based on either global GHG emission pricing or on inclusive socio-economic development would achieve the stringent emissions reductions required, only the latter ensures major co-benefits for other Sustainable Development Goals, especially in low- and middle-income regions.
Lambda Polarization in an Exact Rotating and Expanding fluid dynamical model for peripheral heavy ion reactions
Creators: name: Xie, Yilong
name: Glastad, Robert C.
name: Csernai, Laszlo P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the Lambda polarization in an exact analytical, rotating model based on parameters extracted from a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic hydrodynamics calculation. The polarization is attributed to effects from thermal vorticity and for the first time the effects of the radial and axial acceleration are also studied separately
Independent Evidence for earlier formation epochs of fossil groups of galaxies through the intracluster light: the case for RX J100742.53+380046.6
Creators: name: Dupke, Renato A.
name: Jimenez-teja, Yolanda
name: Su, Yuanyuan
name: Carrasco, Eleazar R.
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Batalha, Rebeca
name: Johnson, Lucas
name: Irwin, Jimmy
name: Miller, Eric
name: Dimauro, Paola
name: De Oliveira, Nicolas
name: Vilchez, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fossil groups (FG) of galaxies still present a puzzle to theories of structure formation. Despite the low number of bright galaxies, they have relatively high velocity dispersions and ICM temperatures often corresponding to cluster-like potential wells. Their measured concentrations are typically high, indicating early formation epochs as expected from the originally proposed scenario for their origin as being older undisturbed systems. This is, however, in contradiction with the typical lack of expected well developed cool cores. Here, we apply a cluster dynamical indicator recently discovered in the intracluster light fraction (ICLf) to a classic FG, RX J1000742.53+380046.6, to assess its dynamical state. We also refine that indicator to use as an independent age estimator. We find negative radial temperature and metal abundance gradients, the abundance achieving supersolar values at the hot core. The X-ray flux concentration is consistent with that of cool core systems. The ICLf analysis provides an independent probe of the system's dynamical state and shows that the system is very relaxed, more than all clusters, where the same analysis has been performed. The specific ICLf is more $\sim$5 times higher than any of the clusters previously analyzed, which is consistent with an older non-interactive galaxy system that had its last merging event within the last $\sim$5Gyr. The specific ICLf is predicted to be an important new tool to identify fossil systems and to constrain the relative age of clusters.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures 6 tables, accepted by ApJ
(788) Frances Hockell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Neutron skin of 48Ca deduced from interaction cross section
Creators: name: Matsuzaki, Masayuki
name: Yahiro, Masanobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron skin thickness of 48Ca was deduced from the interaction cross section by adopting a microscopic optical potential. The optical potential used was constructed by folding a chiral g matrix and the Skyrme mean-field densities renormalized by considering the information of the interaction cross section. The result was R_skin = 0.139 \pm 0.058 fm.
description: Preprint version before acceptance of an article submitted for consideration in [Mod. Phys. Lett. A] [2022] [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/mpla]