cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CHERRY: a Computational metHod for accuratE pRediction of virus-pRokarYotic interactions using a graph encoder-decoder model
Creators: name: Shang, Jiayu
name: Sun, Yanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prokaryotic viruses, which infect bacteria and archaea, are key players in microbial communities. Predicting the hosts of prokaryotic viruses helps decipher the dynamic relationship between microbes. Experimental methods for host prediction cannot keep pace with the fast accumulation of sequenced phages. Thus, there is a need for computational host prediction. Despite some promising results, computational host prediction remains a challenge because of the limited known interactions and the sheer amount of sequenced phages by high-throughput sequencing technologies. The state-of-the-art methods can only achieve 43\% accuracy at the species level. In this work, we formulate host prediction as link prediction in a knowledge graph that integrates multiple protein and DNA-based sequence features. Our implementation named CHERRY can be applied to predict hosts for newly discovered viruses and to identify viruses infecting targeted bacteria. We demonstrated the utility of CHERRY for both applications and compared its performance with 11 popular host prediction methods. To our best knowledge, CHERRY has the highest accuracy in identifying virus-prokaryote interactions. It outperforms all the existing methods at the species level with an accuracy increase of 37\%. In addition, CHERRY's performance on short contigs is more stable than other tools.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures
title: L'utilité de l'éducation nutritionnelle au cycle 1
title: L'utilité de l'éducation nutritionnelle au cycle 1
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Monod, Laureline
name: Ogheard, Florine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: éducation
subject: sensorialité
subject: santé
subject: alimentation
subject: enfants

description: Dans cette étude, nous cherchons à comprendre la raison pour laquelle l’éducation nutritionnelle est si peu enseignée et à identifier l’impact qu’elle pourrait avoir sur le comportement alimentaire des élèves. Notre étude va se baser sur des élèves du cycle 1, notamment des classes de 3-4P. Les principaux acteurs de notre étude seront les élèves, les enseignants de l’établissement ainsi que les parents des élèves. Nous avons choisi de réaliser une étude quantitative composée de questionnaires qui seront remplis par les élèves, les enseignants et les parents. Afin d’analyser l’impact de cette thématique, nous allons observer l’évolution du comportement des élèves vis-à-vis de l’alimentation. Nous nous appuierons sur nos séquences enseignées en classe et sur les questionnaires que les élèves auront remplis avant et après les leçons. L’objectif de cette étude est de réfléchir et d’approfondir un sujet qui est aujourd’hui très présent dans notre société.
Perfect models for finite Coxeter groups
Creators: name: Marberg, Eric
name: Zhang, Yifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A model for a finite group is a set of linear characters of subgroups that can be induced to obtain every irreducible character exactly once. A perfect model for a finite Coxeter group is a model in which the relevant subgroups are the quasiparabolic centralizers of perfect involutions. In prior work, we showed that perfect models give rise to interesting examples of $W$-graphs. Here, we classify which finite Coxeter groups have perfect models. Specifically, we prove that the irreducible finite Coxeter groups with perfect models are those of types $\mathsf{A}_{n}$, $\mathsf{B}_n$, $\mathsf{D}_{2n+1}$, $\mathsf{H}_3$, or $\mathsf{I}_2(n)$. We also show that up to a natural form of equivalence, outside types $\mathsf{A}_3$, $\mathsf{B}_n$, and $\mathsf{H}_3$, each irreducible finite Coxeter group has at most one perfect model. Along the way, we also prove a technical result about representations of finite Coxeter groups, namely, that induction from standard parabolic subgroups of corank at least two is never multiplicity-free.
description: 32 pages
Diurnal oscillations of epigenetic modifications are associated with variation in rhythmic expression of homoeologous genes in Brassica napus
Creators: name: Xue, Zhifei
name: Gao, Baibai
name: Chen, Guoting
name: Liu, Jie
name: Ouyang, Weizhi
name: Foda, Mohamed Frahat
name: Zhang, Qing
name: Zhang, Xiwen
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Guo, Mingyue
name: Li, Xingwang
name: Yi, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics
classificationCode: 310504
subject: Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics)

description: We generated a dataset of diurnal oscillation before the floral transition of Brassica napus by RNA-Seq, ChIP-seq (H3K4me3, H3K9ac, RNAPII) with sampling every four hours in two days.
Quantifying Supernovae-Driven Multiphase Galactic Outflows
Creators: name: Li, Miao
name: Bryan, Greg L.
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic outflows are ubiquitously observed in star-forming disk galaxies and are critical for galaxy formation. Supernovae (SNe) play the key role in driving the outflows, but there is no consensus as to how much energy, mass and metal they can launch out of the disk. We perform 3D, high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations to study SNe-driven outflows from stratified media. Assuming SN rate scales with gas surface density $Σ_{\rm{gas}}$ as in the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation, we find the mass loading factor, $η_m$, defined as the mass outflow flux divided by the star formation surface density, decreases with increasing $Σ_{\rm{gas}}$ as $η_m \propto Σ^{-0.61}_{\rm{gas}}$. Approximately $Σ_{\rm{gas}}$ $\lesssim$ 50 $M_\odot/\rm{pc}^2$ marks when $η_m \gtrsim$1. About 10-50\% of the energy and 40-80\% of the metals produced by SNe end up in the outflows. The tenuous hot phase ($T>3\times 10^5$ K), which fills 60-80\% of the volume at mid-plane, carries the majority of the energy and metals in outflows. We discuss how various physical processes, including vertical distribution of SNe, photoelectric heating, external gravitational field and SN rate, affect the loading efficiencies. The relative scale height of gas and SNe is a very important factor in determining the loading efficiencies.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, 1 table. ApJ accepted
(202291) Fanny Maria Galliers
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.
Relative clauses, age and social class
Creators: name: Dines, Elizabeth Rosemary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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An MISOCP-Based Decomposition Approach for the Unit Commitment Problem with AC Power Flows
Creators: name: Tuncer, Deniz
name: Kocuk, Burak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Unit Commitment (UC) and Optimal Power Flow (OPF) are two fundamental problems in short-term electric power systems planning that are traditionally solved sequentially. The state-of-the-art mostly uses a direct current flow approximation of the power flow equations in the UC-level and the generator commitments obtained are sent as input to the OPF-level. However, such an approach can yield infeasible or suboptimal generator schedules. In this paper, we aim to simultaneously solve the UC Problem with alternating current (AC) power flow equations, which combines the challenging nature of both UC and OPF problems. Due to the highly nonconvex nature of the AC flow equations, we utilize the mixed-integer second-order cone programming (MISOCP) relaxation of the UC Problem as the basis of our solution approach. For smaller instances, we develop two different algorithms that exploit the recent advances in the OPF literature and obtain high-quality feasible solutions with provably small optimality gaps. For larger instances, we propose a novel Lagrangian decomposition based approach that yields promising results.
On the possible triple central star system of PN SuWt 2: No ménage à trois at the heart of the Wedding Ring
Creators: name: Jones, David
name: Boffin, Henri M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SuWt 2 is a planetary nebula consisting of a bright ring-like waist from which protrude faint extended lobes - a morphology believed to be typical of progenitors which have experienced a close-binary evolution. Previous observations of NSV 19992, the star at the projected centre of SuWt 2, have found it to comprise two A-type stars in a 4.9 day eclipsing orbit, neither of which could be the nebular progenitor. Radial velocity studies provided a hint that the systemic velocity of this double A-type binary might be varying over time, suggesting the presence of a third component hypothesised to be the nebular progenitor. Here, we present an extensive radial velocity monitoring study of NSV 19992, performed with the high-resolution echelle spectrograph UVES mounted on ESO's VLT, in order to constrain the possible variation in the systemic velocity of the A-type binary and its relation to the progenitor of SuWt 2. The observations, acquired over a period of approximately one year, show no evidence of variability in the systemic velocity of NSV 19992. Combining these new observations with previous high-resolution spectroscopy demonstrates that the systemic velocity is also stable over much longer periods and, moreover, is distinct from that of SuWt 2, strongly indicating that the two are not associated. We conclude that NSV 19992 is merely a field star system, by chance lying in the same line of sight as the nebular centre, and that it bares no relation to SuWt 2 or its, as yet unidentified, central star(s).
description: Accepted to MNRAS. 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
The EKR-module property of pseudo-Paley graphs of square order
Creators: name: Asgarli, Shamil
name: Goryainov, Sergey
name: Lin, Huiqiu
name: Yip, Chi Hoi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a family of pseudo-Paley graphs of square order obtained from unions of cyclotomic classes satisfies the Erdős-Ko-Rado (EKR) module property, in a sense that the characteristic vector of each maximum clique is a linear combination of characteristic vectors of canonical cliques. This extends the EKR-module property of Paley graphs of square order and solves a problem proposed by Godsil and Meagher. Different from previous works, which heavily rely on tools from number theory, our approach is purely combinatorial in nature. The main strategy is to view these graphs as block graphs of orthogonal arrays, which is of independent interest.
description: 15 pages; this paper subsumes an earlier preprint by a subset of the authors (arXiv:2104.08839)
(202292) Phyllis Doreen Rycroft
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.
Computing time-periodic steady-state currents via the time evolution of tensor network states
Creators: name: Strand, Nils E.
name: Vroylandt, Hadrien
name: Gingrich, Todd R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an approach based upon binary tree tensor network (BTTN) states for computing steady-state current statistics for a many-particle 1D ratchet subject to volume exclusion interactions. The ratcheted particles, which move on a lattice with periodic boundary conditions subject to a time-periodic drive, can be stochastically evolved in time to sample representative trajectories via a Gillespie method. In lieu of generating realizations of trajectories, a BTTN state can variationally approximate a distribution over the vast number of many-body configurations. We apply the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm to initialize BTTN states, which are then propagated in time via the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP) algorithm to yield the steady-state behavior, including the effects of both typical and rare trajectories. The application of the methods to ratchet currents is highlighted in a companion letter, but the approach extends naturally to other interacting lattice models with time-dependent driving. Though trajectory sampling is conceptually and computationally simpler, we discuss situations for which the BTTN TDVP strategy could be more favorable.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
On the Weakness of Short-Range Interactions in Fermi Gases
Creators: name: Griesemer, Marcel
name: Hofacker, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V70, 81Q10

description: Ultracold quantum gases of equal spin fermions with short range interactions are often considered free even in the presence of strongly binding spin-up-spin-down pairs. We describe a large class of many-particle Schrödinger operators with short-range pair interactions, where this approximation can be justified rigorously.
description: 16 pages, revised version, published in LMP
Bio-inspired hierarchical dissipative metamaterials
Creators: name: Miniaci, Marco
name: Krushynska, Anastasiia
name: Bosia, Federico
name: Pugno, Nicola M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hierarchical structures with constituents over multiple length scales are found in various natural materials like bones, shells, spider silk and others, all of which display enhanced quasi-static mechanical properties, such as high specific strength, stiffness and toughness. At the same time, the role of hierarchy on the dynamic behaviour of metamaterials remains largely unexplored. This study assesses the effect of bio-inspired hierarchical organization as well as of viscoelasticity on the wave attenuation properties of continuous mechanical metamaterials. We consider single-phase metamaterials formed by self-similar unit cells with different hierarchical levels and types of hierarchy. Results highlight a number of advantages through the introduction of structural hierarchy. Band gaps relative to the corresponding non-hierarchical structures are mostly preserved, while additional "hierarchically-induced" band gaps appear. Additionally, the hierarchical configuration allows the tuning of the band gap frequencies of regular metamaterial to lower frequencies, with a simultaneous significant reduction of the global structural weight. We show that even small viscoelastic effects, not treated in the current literature, are essential in determining this behaviour. The approach we propose allows the addition of hierarchical elements to existing metamaterial configurations, with the corresponding improvement of the wave damping properties, thus providing indications for the design of structures for practical applications.
(202284) John Marwood Paine
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.
Observation of Stable Jones-Roberts Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Meyer, Nadine
name: Proud, Harry
name: Perea-Ortiz, Marisa
name: O'Neale, Charlotte
name: Baumert, M.
name: Holynski, M.
name: Kronjäger, Jochen
name: Barontini, Giovanni
name: Bongs, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally generate two-dimensional Jones-Roberts solitons in a three-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensate by imprinting a triangular phase pattern. By monitoring their dynamics we observe that this kind of solitary waves are resistant to both dynamic (snaking) and thermodynamic instabilities, that usually are known to strongly limit the lifetime of dark plane solitons in dimensions higher than one. We additionally find signatures of a possible dipole-like interaction between them. Our results confirm that Jones-Roberts solitons are stable solutions of the non-linear Schrödinger equation in higher dimensions and promote these excitations for applications beyond matter wave physics, like energy and information transport in noisy and inhomogeneous environments.
New methods for the sensitivity analysis of black-box functions with an application to sheet metal forming
Creators: name: Fruth, Jana
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer experiments
subject: Sensitivity analysis
subject: 310

description: The general field of the thesis is the sensitivity analysis of black-box functions. Sensitivity analysis studies how the variation of the output can be apportioned to the variation of input sources. It is an important tool in the construction, analysis, and optimization of computer experiments. The total interaction index is presented, which can be used for the screening of interactions. Several variance-based estimation methods are suggested. Their properties are analyzed theoretically as well as on simulations. A further chapter concerns the sensitivity analysis for models that can take functions as input variables and return a scalar value as output. A very economical sequential approach is presented, which not only discovers the sensitivity of those functional variables as a whole but identifies relevant regions in the functional domain. As a third concept, support index functions, functions of sensitivity indices over the input distribution support, are suggested. Finally, all three methods are successfully applied in the sensitivity analysis of sheet metal forming models.
Taylor-Lagrange Neural Ordinary Differential Equations: Toward Fast Training and Evaluation of Neural ODEs
Creators: name: Djeumou, Franck
name: Neary, Cyrus
name: Goubault, Eric
name: Putot, Sylvie
name: Topcu, Ufuk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) -- parametrizations of differential equations using neural networks -- have shown tremendous promise in learning models of unknown continuous-time dynamical systems from data. However, every forward evaluation of a NODE requires numerical integration of the neural network used to capture the system dynamics, making their training prohibitively expensive. Existing works rely on off-the-shelf adaptive step-size numerical integration schemes, which often require an excessive number of evaluations of the underlying dynamics network to obtain sufficient accuracy for training. By contrast, we accelerate the evaluation and the training of NODEs by proposing a data-driven approach to their numerical integration. The proposed Taylor-Lagrange NODEs (TL-NODEs) use a fixed-order Taylor expansion for numerical integration, while also learning to estimate the expansion's approximation error. As a result, the proposed approach achieves the same accuracy as adaptive step-size schemes while employing only low-order Taylor expansions, thus greatly reducing the computational cost necessary to integrate the NODE. A suite of numerical experiments, including modeling dynamical systems, image classification, and density estimation, demonstrate that TL-NODEs can be trained more than an order of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art approaches, without any loss in performance.
description: Final submission IJCAI 2022
The effect of leverage on Ethiopian Private Commercial Banks' profitability
Creators: name: Seyoum, Tesfaye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of leverage on Ethiopian private commercial banks' profitability. For this purpose, from private commercial Banks engaged in commercial banking activates ten private commercial banks was studied. The study covered nine years' period (2008/09-2016/17). The dependent variable was the return on equity (ROE) used to measure the profitability. And the independent variables were the degree of operating leverage and degree of financial leverage to measure the leverage of the institutions. To ensure the accuracy of the result of the regression model used two control variables these were operational efficiency and bank size. In order to address the main objectives of this study balanced panel data was used. The panel data were obtained from the audited financial statements of ten private commercial banks' and National Bank of Ethiopia. The data were analyzed by using panel data analysis techniques by using Eviews 8. The descriptive statistics and diagnostic tests were discussed, followed by, regression analysis. Then, regression result indicates that, the degree of operating leverage had positive and statistically insignificant impact, the degree of financial leverage had negative and statistically significant impact on profitability of private commercial banks. Moreover, operational efficiency also had negative and statistically strongly significant relationship with profitability. Finally, bank size had statistically significant impact on profitability. Therefore, private commercial banks could be increased income to improve profitability since they are operating above breakeven point. They should also give due consideration to manage their debt properly, increase loan and raise equity financing optimize profitability.
A Spectral Characterization of Absolutely Norming Operators on S.N. Ideals
Creators: name: Pandey, Satish K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The class of absolutely norming operators on complex Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimensions was introduced in [6] and a spectral characterization theorem for these operators was established in [11]. In this paper we extend the concept of absolutely norming operators to various symmetric norms. We establish a few spectral characterization theorems for operators on complex Hilbert spaces that are absolutely norming with respect to various symmetric norms. It is also shown that for many symmetric norms the absolutely norming operators have the same spectral characterization as proven earlier for the class of operators that are absolutely norming with respect to the usual operator norm. Finally, we prove the existence of a symmetric norm on the algebra $\mathcal B (\mathcal H)$ with respect to which even the identity operator does not attain its norm.
description: 43 pages; Version II Comments: A few minor typos corrected, Definition 12.4 added, proofs for Proposition 7.3, Theorem 7.8, and Theorem 10.8 added, and font minimized; Version III Comments: A few typos corrected. To appear in Operators and Matrices
Some problems of networks in contemporary Japanese communication
Creators: name: Hinata, Shigeo.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Bernardo Monsegú CP, La Iglesia que Cristo quiso, Misterio sacramental de communión jerárquica
Creators: name: Schumacher, J.
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 4 Nr. 4 (1988): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 4, Heft 4
(202286) Philip Austin Mules
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.
Physical properties of Polyakov loop geometrical clusters in SU(2) gluodynamics
Creators: name: Ivanytskyi, A. I.
name: Bugaev, K. A.
name: Nikonov, E. G.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Oliinychenko, D. R.
name: Sagun, V. V.
name: Mishustin, I. N.
name: Petrov, V. K.
name: Zinovjev, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the liquid droplet model to describe the clustering phenomenon in SU(2) gluodynamics, especially, in the vicinity of the deconfinement phase transition. In particular, we analyze the size distributions of clusters formed by the Polyakov loops of the same sign. Within such an approach this phase transition can be considered as the transition between two types of liquids where one of the liquids (the largest droplet of a certain Polyakov loop sign) experiences a condensation, while the other one (the next to largest droplet of opposite Polyakov loop sign) evaporates. The clusters of smaller sizes form two accompanying gases, and their size distributions are described by the liquid droplet parameterization. By fitting the lattice data we have extracted the value of Fisher exponent $τ=$ 1.806 $\pm$ 0.008. Also we found that the temperature dependences of the surface tension of both gaseous clusters are entirely different below and above the phase transition and, hence, they can serve as an order parameter. The critical exponents of the surface tension coefficient in the vicinity of the phase transition are found. Our analysis shows that the temperature dependence of the surface tension coefficient above the critical temperature has a $T^2$ behavior in one gas of clusters and $T^4$ in the other one.
description: Published online in Nucl. Phys. A
Algebraic Generating Functions for Gegenbauer Polynomials
Creators: name: Maier, Robert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45, 33C05, 33C20

description: It is shown that several of Brafman's generating functions for the Gegenbauer polynomials are algebraic functions of their arguments, if the Gegenbauer parameter differs from an integer by one-fourth or one-sixth. Two examples are given, which come from recently derived expressions for associated Legendre functions with octahedral or tetrahedral monodromy. It is also shown that if the Gegenbauer parameter is restricted as stated, the Poisson kernel for the Gegenbauer polynomials can be expressed in terms of complete elliptic integrals. An example is given.
description: 20 pages, final version, typos corrected, to appear in the volume `Frontiers of Orthogonal Polynomials and q-Series' (World Scientific)
PH-sensitive, polymer modified, plasma stable niosomes: promising carriers for anti-cancer drugs
Creators: name: Tila, Dena
name: Yazdani-Arazi, Seyede Narjes
name: Ghanbarzadeh, Saeed
name: Arami, Sanam
name: Pourmoazzen, Zhaleh
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: pH-sensitive plasma stable niosome
subject: cytotoxic effect
subject: Mitoxantrone
subject: 610

description: The aim of this study was the design and evaluation of a novel plasma stable, pH-sensitive niosomal formulation of Mitoxantrone by a modified ethanol injection method. Cholesterol hemisuccinate was added instead of cholesterol in order to produce pH-sensitivity property and using PEG-Poly (monomethyl itaconate)-CholC6 (PEG-PMMI-CholC6) copolymer introduced simultaneously pH-sensitivity and plasma stability properties in prepared niosomes. The pH-sensitivity and cytotoxicity of Mitoxantrone niosomes were evaluated in vitro in phosphate buffer with different pHs as well as using human ovarian cancer cell line (OVCAR-3), human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Results showed that both cholesterol derivatives bearing formulations had pH-sensitive property and were found to release their contents under mild acidic conditions rapidly. In addition, the PEG-PMMI-CholC6-based niosomes could reserve the pH-sensitivity after incubation in plasma. Both Mitoxantrone-loaded pH-sensitive niosomes showed higher cytotoxicity than the conventional niosomes on OVCAR-3 and MCF-7 cell lines. However, both pH-sensitive niosomes exhibited lower cytotoxic effect on HUVEC cell line. Plasma stable, pH-sensitive niosomes could improve the cytotoxic effect and reduce the side effects of anti-tumor drugs.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Dispersion relations for stationary light in one-dimensional atomic ensembles
Creators: name: Iakoupov, Ivan
name: Ott, Johan R.
name: Chang, Darrick E.
name: Sørensen, Anders S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dispersion relations for light coupled to one-dimensional ensembles of atoms with different level schemes. The unifying feature of all the considered setups is that the forward and backward propagating quantum fields are coupled by the applied classical drives such that the group velocity can vanish in an effect known as "stationary light". We derive the dispersion relations for all the considered schemes, highlighting the important differences between them. Furthermore, we show that additional control of stationary light can be obtained by treating atoms as discrete scatterers and placing them at well defined positions. For the latter purpose, a multi-mode transfer matrix theory for light is developed.
The Hadwiger theorem on convex functions, IV: The Klain approach
Creators: name: Colesanti, Andrea
name: Ludwig, Monika
name: Mussnig, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B45 (Primary) 26B25, 49Q20, 52A41, 52A39 (Secondary)

description: New proofs of the Hadwiger theorem for smooth and for continuous valuations on convex functions are obtained, and the Klain-Schneider theorem on convex functions is established. In addition, an extension theorem for valuations defined on functions with lower dimensional domains is proved, and its connection to the Abel transform is explained.
Uniform rectifiability from Carleson measure estimates and $\varepsilon$-approximability of bounded harmonic functions
Creators: name: Garnett, John
name: Mourgoglou, Mihalis
name: Tolsa, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31A15, 28A75, 28A78

description: Let $Ω\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}$, $n\geq1$, be a corkscrew domain with Ahlfors-David regular boundary. In this paper we prove that $\partialΩ$ is uniformly $n$-rectifiable if every bounded harmonic function on $Ω$ is $\varepsilon$-approximable or if every bounded harmonic function on $Ω$ satisfies a suitable square-function Carleson measure estimate. In particular, this applies to the case when $Ω=\mathbb R^{n+1}\setminus E$ and $E$ is Ahlfors-David regular. Our results solve a conjecture posed by Hofmann, Martell, and Mayboroda in a recent work where they proved the converse statements. Here we also obtain two additional criteria for uniform rectifiability. One is given in terms of the so-called "$S
description: Correction of a few typos and general reorganization of the arguments. Additional references
(202287) Grace Oliver Mules
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.
Strong dispersion property for the quantum walk on the hypercube
Creators: name: Kokainis, Martins
name: Prūsis, Krišjānis
name: Vihrovs, Jevgēnijs
name: Kashcheyevs, Vyacheslavs
name: Ambainis, Andris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the discrete time quantum walk on the Boolean hypercube of dimension $n$ has a strong dispersion property: if the walk is started in one vertex, then the probability of the walker being at any particular vertex after $O(n)$ steps is of an order $O(1.4818^{-n})$. This improves over the known mixing results for this quantum walk which show that the probability distribution after $O(n)$ steps is close to uniform but do not show that the probability is small for every vertex. A rigorous proof of this result involves an intricate argument about analytic properties of Bessel functions.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures
Evaluation of offspring sex ratio, sex hormones and antioxidant enzymes following exposure to methyl tertiary butyl ether in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats
Creators: name: Khalili, Leila
name: Gholami, Soghra
name: Ansari-Lari, Maryam
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
subject: sex ratio
subject: sex hormones
subject: antioxidant enzymes
subject: 610

description: Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) is an oxygenated fuel additive which has been used widely in many parts of the world. This experiment was performed to determine the effect of MTBE on offspring sex ratio, sex hormones and antioxidant enzymes. A total of 20 adult Sprague-Dawley male rats were divided into four groups and received 0, 400, 800 and 1600 mg/kg/day MTBE by gavages for 30 consecutive days. At the end of the experiment, blood samples were taken for determination of sex hormones and antioxidant enzymes. Then, male rats were mated with healthy unexposed female rats and sex of offspring was determined after birth. Sex ratio was 0.48, 0.50, 0.43 and 0.50 in 0, 400, 800 and 1600 mg/kg/day MTBE groups, respectively (P = 0.91). There was significant decreasing trend for luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone in experimental groups (rs = -0.50, P = 0.030 and rs = -0.67, P = 0.002, respectively). No changes were observed for superoxide dismutase. However, decrease in glutathione peroxidase (GPX) was observed in all treatment groups compared with control which was significant in 400 mg/kg/day MTBE group (P = 0.016). The present study showed that paternal exposure to oral MTBE has no effect on offspring sex ratio; while, MTBE exposure could exert dose-dependent changes in serum testosterone and LH in treatment groups. The results of the present study, need to be clarified in the future studies.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Problems of consonantal assimilation in French : an auditory test
Creators: name: Humbley, J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Detection and assessment of microdamage accumulation on the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Creators: name: PUTERA, KEVIN HUTOMO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400311
subject: Tissue engineering
classificationCode: 401801
subject: Micro- and nanosystems
classificationCode: 401810
subject: Nanoscale characterisation
classificationCode: 420604
subject: Injury prevention

description: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury is so common that it has become a household name in the Australian Sports community notably in the Australian Football League (AFL). ACL injury due to overuse (ACL fatigue failure) may explain many of the injuries in the absence of knee contact. However, not much is known about the accumulation of damage prior to an ACL overuse injury. This thesis aims to better understand how damage from overuse builds up and is removed in the ACL, in the hope that we can prevent and reduce the number of ACL injuries on the pitch.
Implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards in Ethiopia: Processes, Challenges, and the Way Forward
Creators: name: Meyad, Diriba
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This study examines the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Ethiopia by focusing on processes, practical challenges and the way forward. The study adopts a qualitative research approach. Specifically, the study uses in-depth interviews with key informants from the Accounting and Auditing Board of Ethiopia (AABE), IFRS conversion consultants, external auditors, IFRS implementation team leaders, and financial statement preparers. In addition, the study employs data obtained through document reviews. The result of the study reveals that implementation of IFRS in Ethiopia benefits the country by enhancing the quality and comparability of financial reporting, reducing the inconsistent and fragmented financial reporting, attracting foreign direct investments, and helping in the establishment of the stock market in the country. The results also indicate that the process of IFRS implementation in Ethiopia started in a rush without considering the minimum requirements and the readiness of the country for the project. As a result, reporting entities in Ethiopia have encountered a number of practical implementation challenges including lack of competent human resources with IFRS knowledge, lack of top management's support, lack of strong regulatory and enforcement institution, lack of strong accounting practices in the country. The results of the study also show that the implementation of IFRS in public enterprises is more difficult than that of financial institutions due to such additional challenges as the problem of backlog clearances, poor records keeping mechanisms, lack of updated book of accounts and lack of corporate memory. This study suggests that to support the sustainable implementation of IFRS and to strengthen the regulatory body and enforcement institution, adequate resources must be put in place.
A queueing system with on-demand servers: local stability of fluid limits
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lam M.
name: Stolyar, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a system, where a random flow of customers is served by servers (called agents) invited on-demand. Each invited agent arrives into the system after a random time; after each service completion, an agent returns to the system or leaves it with some fixed probabilities. Customers and/or agents may be impatient, that is, while waiting in queue, they leave the system at a certain rate (which may be zero). We consider the queue-length-based feedback scheme, which controls the number of pending agent invitations, depending on the customer and agent queue lengths and their changes. The basic objective is to minimize both customer and agent waiting times. We establish the system process fluid limits in the asymptotic regime where the customer arrival rate goes to infinity. We use the machinery of switched linear systems and common quadratic Lyapunov functions to approach the stability of fluid limits at the desired equilibrium point, and derive a variety of sufficient local stability conditions. For our model, we conjecture that local stability is in fact sufficient for global stability of fluid limits; the validity of this conjecture is supported by numerical and simulation experiments. When local stability conditions do hold, simulations show good overall performance of the scheme.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1603.03413
Superconductivity in the Uniform Electron Gas: Irrelevance of Kohn-Luttinger Mechanism
Creators: name: Cai, Xiansheng
name: Wang, Tao
name: Prokof'ev, Nikolay V.
name: Svistunov, Boris V.
name: Chen, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Cooper instability in jellium model in the controlled regime of small to intermediate values of the Coulomb parameter $r_s \leq 2$. We confirm that superconductivity naturally emerges from purely repulsive interactions described by the Kukkonen-Overhauser vertex function. By employing the implicit renormalization approach we reveal that even in the small-$r_s$ limit, the dominant mechanism behind Cooper instability is based on dynamic screening of the Coulomb interaction--accurately captured by the random phase approximation, whereas the Kohn-Luttinger contribution is negligibly small and, thus, not relevant.
دور وكالات السياحة والأسفار في التسويق للسياحة بالجزائر - ولاية ميلة
Creators: name: خلوفي, سفيان
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Impacts of tourism
Tourism forecasting
Tourism management
Tourist behaviour and visitor experience
Tourism marketing
Tourism resource appraisal
Tourism not elsewhere classified

description: رغم ان التسويق ارتبط منذ ظهوره بالسلع، إلا أن انعكاساته الإيجابية على مردودية المؤسسة جعلته يقتحم مجالات كانت تبدوا بعيدة عن الفكر التسويقي ليشل بذلك الخدمات كمجال متخصص، أصبح موضوع "تسويق الخدمات" جدير بالبحث. وفي ظل التغيرات السريعة التي يشهدها العالم في مجال التطورات التكنولوجية والانفتاح الاقتصادي والعولمة، زادالاهتمام بالتسويق السياحي الذي يعتبر محور نشاط الوكالات السياحية والسفرية وأداتها الرئيسية للتقدم وتحقيق النمو المتوازن لخدماتها. كما يتوقف نجاح عمل وكالات السياحة والسفر أو عدم نجاحه على علاقتها مع عملائها حيث أن هذه الأخيرة ليس لها أي دور بدون العميل الذي يشكل مجموعة السوق السياحية، وتعالج هذه المذكرة إشكالية "الدور الذي تلعبه وكالات السياحة والسفر في التسويق للسياحة بالجزائر" من خلال تحليل عناصر المزيج التسويقي السياحي أو الخدمي التقليدية في الخدمة السياحية، التسعير، الترويج، التوزيع، المنتج، بالإضافة إلى العناصر المستحدثة وهي المكونات المادية، الأفراد، العمليات، التي جعلت للتسويق السياحي أهمية كبيرة في الوكالات السياحية السفرية الجزائرية. الكلمات الدالة: السيلاحة، التسويق، تسويق السياحي، السياسات التسويقية السياحية. Although marketing has been associated with commodities since its appearance, its positive repercussions on the profitability of the organization led him to enter areas that seemed far from marketing thought to paralyze services as a specialized field. The topic of "marketing services" became worth researching. In light of the rapid changes taking place in the world in the field of technological developments, economic openness and globalization, increased interest in tourism marketing, which is the focus of the activity of travel and tourism agencies and their main tool for progress and achieving balanced growth of their services. The success or lack of success of the work of travel and tourism agencies depends on their relationship with their clients as the latter has no role without the customer who constitutes the tourist market group, and this memorandum addresses the problem of "the role played by tourism and travel agencies in marketing for tourism in Algeria" by analyzing elements The marketing mix of tourism or traditional services in the tourist service, pricing, promotion, distribution, product, in addition to the new elements, which are the physical components, individuals, and operations, that have made tourism marketing a great importance in the Algerian travel tourism agencies. Key words: tourism, marketing, tourism marketing, tourism marketing policies.