cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High performance stateful serverless computing
Creators: name: Shillaker, Simon
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: In serverless computing, users upload their code to a provider, who manages all other aspects of running a distributed parallel application: provisioning and scaling resources, ensuring timely execution, and enforcing security guarantees; all the while billing the user only for what they have used. This makes serverless computing an excellent fit for a wide range of applications, all of which can take advantage of simple, on-demand parallelism, avoiding the otherwise complex job of scaling cloud-based infrastructure. Serverless providers are responsible for each application's distribution and parallelism, and perform fine-grained scaling of many tenants' applications over their shared infrastructure. To simplify their job, today's providers require that applications be decomposed into stateless ephemeral functions. Each function is isolated in its own container or virtual machine (VM), can only share data through external storage, has no guaranteed level of parallelism, and cannot communicate directly with others. While this architecture and programming model simplify the provider's job, they introduce three problems for users: (i) using containers and VMs for isolation introduces excessive overheads, and prevents sharing system resources between co-located functions; (ii) sharing data via external storage introduces duplication, inefficiency, and performance overheads; and (iii) functions can neither guarantee a level of parallelism, nor communicate directly. These problems make it too expensive or complex to execute many stateful parallel applications on serverless today. This thesis offers the following contributions to address these problems: 1. Lightweight serverless isolation. To overcome the resource and performance overheads of using containers and VMs for serverless isolation, we propose a new form of lightweight software-based isolation. This new mechanism offers memory safety guarantees via software fault isolation using WebAssembly, and resource isolation using standard operating system (OS) features. We demonstrate the use of snapshot and restore to reduce initialisation times, and replicate thread and process semantics across hosts. 2. Serverless shared memory. To enable shared memory programming and reduce the overheads associated with external storage, we propose a new serverless runtime that supports parallel processing on local in-memory state, and synchronises this state across hosts. We present an object-oriented API that gives transparent access to this distributed state, as well as support for high-level declarative APIs, e.g. OpenMP. 3. Serverless message passing. We demonstrate serverless message passing between long-lived distributed processes, while retaining a provider's ability to control the distribution of those processes. We describe our approach to asynchronous message passing among groups of processes that can be migrated across hosts, while maintaining message passing semantics.
Additional file 1 of Outcomes of patients with secondary central nervous system lymphoma following CAR T-cell therapy: a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Epperla, Narendranath
name: Feng, Lei
name: Shah, Nirav N.
name: Fitzgerald, Lindsey
name: Shah, Harsh
name: Stephens, Deborah M.
name: Lee, Catherine J.
name: Ollila, Thomas
name: Shouse, Geoffrey
name: Danilov, Alexey V.
name: David, Kevin A.
name: Torka, Pallawi
name: Hashmi, Hamza
name: Hess, Brian
name: Barta, Stefan K.
name: Romancik, Jason T.
name: Cohen, Jonathon B.
name: Annunzio, Kaitlin
name: Kittai, Adam S.
name: Reneau, John
name: Zurko, Joanna
name: Nizamuddin, Imran A.
name: Winter, Jane N.
name: Gordon, Leo I.
name: Ma, Shuo
name: Patel, Romil
name: Nastoupil, Loretta
name: Ahmed, Sairah
name: Karmali, Reem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.
Characterising the Primordial Cosmic Perturbations
Creators: name: Bucher, Martin
name: Moodley, Kavilan
name: Turok, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most general homogeneous and isotropic statistical ensemble of linear scalar perturbations which are regular at early times, in a universe with only photons, baryons, neutrinos, and a cold dark matter (CDM) component, is described by a 5x5 symmetric matrix-valued generalization of the power spectrum. This description is complete if the perturbations are Gaussian, and even in the non-Gaussian case describes all observables quadratic in the small perturbations. The matrix valued power spectrum describes the auto- and cross-correlations of the adiabatic, baryon isocurvature, CDM isocurvature, neutrino density isocurvature, and neutrino velocity isocurvature modes. In this paper we examine the prospects for constraining or discovering isocurvature modes using forthcoming MAP and PLANCK measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. We also consider the degradation in estimates of the cosmological parameters resulting from the inclusion of these modes. In the case of MAP measurements of the temperature alone, the degradation is drastic. When isocurvature modes are admitted, uncertainties in the amplitudes of the mode auto-- and cross--correlations, and in the cosmological parameters, become of order one. With the inclusion of polarisation (at an optimistic sensitivity) the situation improves for the cosmological parameters but the isocurvature modes are still only weakly constrained. Measurements with PLANCK's estimated errors are far more constraining, especially so with the inclusion of polarisation. If PLANCK operates as planned the amplitudes of isocurvature modes will be constrained to less than ten per cent of the adiabatic mode and simultaneously key cosmological parameters will be estimated to a few per cent or better.
description: 48 pages, compressed and RevTex file, including three postscript Figures. Note: there are a large number of Tables in this paper, which readers may not want to print out initially
Checking the Compatibility of the Cold Kuiper Belt with a Planetary Instability Migration Model
Creators: name: Gomes, Rodney
name: Nesvorny, David
name: Morbidelli, Alessandro
name: Deienno, Rogerio
name: Nogueira, Erica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the orbital structure of the cold component of the Kuiper belt is still a hot subject of investigation. Several features of the solar system suggest that the giant planets underwent a phase of global dynamical instability, but the actual dynamical evolution of the planets during the instability is still debated. To explain the structure of the cold Kuiper belt, Nesvorny (2015, AJ 150,68) argued for a soft instability, during which Neptune never achieved a very eccentric orbit. Here we investigate the possibility of a more violent instability, from an initially more compact fully resonant configuration of 5 giant planets. We show that the orbital structure of the cold Kuiper belt can be reproduced quite well provided that the cold population formed in situ, with an outer edge between 44 and 45 au and never had a large mass.
Solution strategies for multistage stochastic programming with endogenous uncertainties
Creators: name: Gupta, Vijay
name: Grossmann, Ignacio E.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: In this paper, we present a generic mixed-integer linear multistage stochastic programming (MSSP) model considering endogenous uncertainty in some of the parameters. To address the issue that the number of non-anticipativity (NA) constraints increases exponentially with the number of uncertain parameters and/or its realizations, we present a new theoretical property that significantly reduces the problem size and complements two previous properties. Since one might generate reduced models that are still too large to be solved directly, we also propose three solution strategies: a k-stage constraint strategy where we only include the NA constraints up to a specified number of stages, an iterative NAC relaxation strategy, and a Lagrangean decomposition algorithm that decomposes the problem into scenarios. Numerical results for two process network examples are presented to illustrate that the proposed solution strategies yield significant computational savings.
Neutrino spin oscillations in curved space-time under the influence of external fields
Creators: name: Dvornikov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study neutrino spin oscillations in background matter under the influence of strong electromagnetic and gravitational fields. The neutrino spin evolution is treated quasiclassically. We derive the effective Hamiltonian governing spin oscillations of a neutrino moving in the vicinity of a black hole and interacting with a relativistic magnetized accretion disk around a black hole. Applications for the studies of spin oscillations of astrophysical neutrinos are considered.
description: 6 pages, 2 eps figires, J.Phys.Conf.Ser. LaTeX style; Contribution to the proceedings of DSPIN-2017, September 11-15, 2017, Dubna, Russia
Seeing Galaxies Through Thick and Thin: II. Direct Measures of Extinction in Spiral Disks Through Spectroscopy of Overlapping Galaxies
Creators: name: Domingue, Donovan L.
name: Keel, William C.
name: White, Raymond E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use slit spectroscopy of overlapping pairs of galaxies to directly determine the extinction in disks of foreground spiral galaxies. The Doppler shifts of pair members are determined via cross-correlation and their relative correlation amplitudes are used to separate their contributions to the combined spectra in regions of overlap. This spectroscopic approach is less subject to stringent symmetry constraints than our previous purely photometric analyses. Extinctions of foreground members were obtained for 6 of the candidates in our sample of 18 mostly spiral/spiral pairs, when the signal to noise and velocity difference were suitable. In agreement with our previous imaging results, we find that the extinction in interarm regions is very modest, typically A_B=0.1 mag (corrected to face on), while spiral arms exhibit higher extinctions of 0.3 mag.
description: 14 figures, 3 tables, Accepted to Astrophysical Journal
Dairy design for a semi-arid climate
Creators: name: Armstrong, Dennis V.
name: Wiersma, Frank
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: A semi-arid climate has certain definite advantages for dairy husbandry. In the southwestern United States the climate is very favorable for about eight months of the year. Temperature for portions of the remaining four months are above the thermal comfort zone for high-producing dairy animals. However, with good management practices, production can be kept at acceptable levels. Indeed, production records indicate that this region is consistently among the leading areas in the United States for production per cow per year.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Contact mechanics for randomly rough surfaces
Creators: name: Persson, Bo N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When two solids are squeezed together they will in general not make atomic contact everywhere within the nominal (or apparent) contact area. This fact has huge practical implications and must be considered in many technological applications. In this paper I briefly review basic theories of contact mechanics. I consider in detail a recently developed contact mechanics theory. I derive boundary conditions for the stress probability distribution function for elastic, elastoplastic and adhesive contact between solids and present numerical results illustrating some aspects of the theory. I analyze contact problems for very smooth polymer (PMMA) and Pyrex glass surfaces prepared by cooling liquids of glassy materials from above the glass transition temperature. I show that the surface roughness which results from the frozen capillary waves can have a large influence on the contact between the solids. The analysis suggest a new explanation for puzzling experimental results [L. Bureau, T. Baumberger and C. Caroli, arXiv:cond-mat/0510232] about the dependence of the frictional shear stress on the load for contact between a glassy polymer lens and flat substrates. I discuss the possibility of testing the theory using numerical methods, e.g., finite element calculations.
description: Review paper, 29 pages, 31 pictures
Additional file 4 of DNA methylation atlas and machinery in the developing and regenerating annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Creators: name: Planques, Anabelle
name: Kerner, Pierre
name: Ferry, Laure
name: Grunau, Christoph
name: Gazave, Eve
name: Vervoort, Michel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. P. dumerilii 5mC and NuRD machinery genes and proteins. All identified P. dumerilii genes are listed with the identification of the corresponding gene model in the Pdumbase reference transcriptome [49], excepted for dnmt3, identified in our unpublished regeneration transcriptome. Schematic representations of P. dumerilii (Pdum) and corresponding Human (Hsap) proteins are also shown, highlighting conserved domains found in these proteins and the position of these domains. Sequences of the P. dumerilii and Human proteins can be found in Additional file 5.
Effectiveness of prostaglandin treatment of anestrus in dairy cows
Creators: name: Gaines, Joseph D.
name: Eicker, Steve
name: Larson, Paul
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: The reproductive records of 9 dairies that used prostaglandin (Lutalyse [dinoprost] or Estrumate [cloprostenol]) for anoestrous cows were analysed to determine effectiveness of treatment. Anoestrous cows were treated if a corpus luteum was palpable. With 179 doses [not specified] given, 73% of treated cows were served within 10 days of treatment, and pregnancy rates did not differ from other services in the herds. A decision tree was used to determine cost effectiveness and the results varied with the assumptions. At a treatment cost of $2.50 and cost per open day of $2.00, treatment was cost effective. Treatment was most effective when heat detection efficiency was high.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
A Tissue culture-derived Pasteurella haemolytica vaccine
Creators: name: Loan, R. W.
name: Tigges, M. G.
name: Purdy, C. W.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: A tissue culture-derived P. haemolytica bacterin in oil adjuvant provided up to 100% protection in calves against experimental challenge inoculation of homologous bacteria. In a field study, vaccination reduced morbidity by 70% and reduced treatment days by 80%.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
AdS/CFT and Strong Subadditivity of Entanglement Entropy
Creators: name: Hirata, Tomoyoshi
name: Takayanagi, Tadashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a holographic computation of the entanglement entropy in conformal field theories has been proposed via the AdS/CFT correspondence. One of the most important properties of the entanglement entropy is known as the strong subadditivity. This requires that the entanglement entropy should be a concave function with respect to geometric parameters. It is a non-trivial check on the proposal to see if this property is indeed satisfied by the entropy computed holographically. In this paper we examine several examples which are defined by annuli or cusps, and confirm the strong subadditivity via direct calculations. Furthermore, we conjecture that Wilson loop correlators in strongly coupled gauge theories satisfy the same relation. We also discuss the relation between the holographic entanglement entropy and the Bousso bound.
description: 29 pages, harvmac, 7 figures, references added
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Modern Multi- and Many-Core Processors
Creators: name: Elafrou, Athena
name: Goumas, Georgios
name: Koziris, Nektarios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a low-overhead optimizer for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. Architectural diversity among different processors together with structural diversity among different sparse matrices lead to bottleneck diversity. This justifies an SpMV optimizer that is both matrix- and architecture-adaptive through runtime specialization. To this direction, we present an approach that first identifies the performance bottlenecks of SpMV for a given sparse matrix on the target platform either through profiling or by matrix property inspection, and then selects suitable optimizations to tackle those bottlenecks. Our optimization pool is based on the widely used Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) sparse matrix storage format and has low preprocessing overheads, making our overall approach practical even in cases where fast decision making and optimization setup is required. We evaluate our optimizer on three x86-based computing platforms and demonstrate that it is able to distinguish and appropriately optimize SpMV for the majority of matrices in a representative test suite, leading to significant speedups over the CSR and Inspector-Executor CSR SpMV kernels available in the latest release of the Intel MKL library.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, ICPP 2017
Rhodacarellus kreuzi Karg 1965
Creators: name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Rhodacaridae
Rhodacarellus
Rhodacarellus kreuzi

description: 103. Rhodacarellus kreuzi Karg, 1965
 Rhodacarellus kreuzi Karg, 1965: 296.
 Rhodacarellus kreuzi.— Lee, 1970: 37; Karg, 1971: 326; Shcherbak & Furman, 1975: 50; Bregetova & Shcherbak, 1977b: 280; Shcherbak, 1980: 85; Karg, 1993: 340.
TYPE DEPOSITORY: Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung – Biologische Zentralanstalt der Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften zu Berlin, Kleinmachnow, Germany.
TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Germany, near Delitzsch, Lemsel, Leipzig, 1960, in flooded pasture.
description: Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, 3471, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 3471 on page 41
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0201
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0201, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0201, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Annealing of radiation induced defects in silicon in a simplified phenomenological model
Creators: name: Lazanu, Sorina
name: Lazanu, Ionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concentration of primary radiation induced defects has been previously estimated considering both the explicit mechanisms of the primary interaction between the incoming particle and the nuclei of the semiconductor lattice, and the recoil energy partition between ionisation and displacements, in the frame of the Lindhard theory. The primary displacement defects are vacancies and interstitials, that are essentially unstable in silicon. They interact via migration, recombination, annihilation or produce other defects. In the present work, the time evolution of the concentration of defects induced by pions in medium and high resistivity silicon for detectors is modelled, after irradiation. In some approximations, the differential equations representing the time evolution processes could be decoupled. The theoretical equations so obtained are solved analytically in some particular cases, with one free parameter, for a wide range of particle fluences and/or for a wide energy range of the incident particles, for different temperatures; the corresponding stationary solutions are also presented.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B second version, major revision
Additional file 1 of Nomogram prediction of the 70-gene signature (MammaPrint) binary and quartile categorized risk using medical history, imaging features and clinicopathological data among Chinese breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Pan, Bo
name: Xu, Ying
name: Yao, Ru
name: Cao, Xi
name: Zhou, Xingtong
name: Hao, Zhixin
name: Zhang, Yanna
name: Wang, Changjun
name: Shen, Songjie
name: Luo, Yanwen
name: Zhu, Qingli
name: Ren, Xinyu
name: Kong, Lingyan
name: Zhou, Yidong
name: Sun, Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The Adjuvant! Online (AOL) version 8.0 risk model used in the MINDACT trial as well as in this study.
Interplay between carrier and impurity concentrations in annealed Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_{x}$As intrinsic anomalous Hall Effect
Creators: name: Chun, S. H.
name: Kim, Y. S.
name: Choi, H. K.
name: Jeong, I. T.
name: Lee, W. O.
name: Suh, K. S.
name: OH, Y. S.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Khim, Z. G.
name: Woo, J. C.
name: Park, Y. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigating the scaling behavior of annealed Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_{x}$As anomalous Hall coefficients, we note a universal crossover regime where the scaling behavior changes from quadratic to linear, attributed to the anomalous Hall Effect intrinsic and extrinsic origins, respectively. Furthermore, measured anomalous Hall conductivities when properly scaled by carrier concentration remain constant, equal to theoretically predicated values, spanning nearly a decade in conductivity as well as over 100 K in T$_{C}$. Both the qualitative and quantitative agreement confirms the validity of new equations of motion including the Berry phase contributions as well as tunablility of the intrinsic anomalous Hall Effect.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Gauge Generators, Transformations and Identities on a Noncommutative Space
Creators: name: Banerjee, Rabin
name: Samanta, Saurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By abstracting a connection between gauge symmetry and gauge identity on a noncommutative space, we analyse star (deformed) gauge transformations with usual Leibnitz rule as well as undeformed gauge transformations with a twisted Leibnitz rule. Explicit structures of the gauge generators in either case are computed. It is shown that, in the former case, the relation mapping the generator with the gauge identity is a star deformation of the commutative space result. In the latter case, on the other hand, this result gets twisted to yield the desired map.
description: LaTex, 21 pages, Section 2 has been considerably expanded, 3 new references added, To appear in EPJC
The Effectiveness of Micotil for the treatment of bovine respiratory disease
Creators: name: Merrill, John K.
name: Tonkinson, Lealon V.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: Trials were conducted to compare Micotil (tilmicosin) to other antibiotics available for the treatment of bovine respiratory disease. Tilmicosin (10 mg/kg body weight) was more effective than oxytetracycline (20 mg/kg) at lowering the temperature of affected cattle on the first day of treatment and showed a lower mortality rate. Tilmicosin gave better results than oxytetracycline (4 and 7 mg/lb), ceftiofur (0.5 mg/lb) and trimethoprim (1.2 mg)/sulfadoxine (6 mg/lb) with regard to first treatment success rate, numbers of animals becoming chronic, numbers developing fibrinous pneumonia and average treatment days per animal.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Solution of algebraic systems of disjunctive equations
Creators: name: Grossmann, Ignacio E.
name: Tu╠êrkay, Metin
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Abstract: "This paper considers the solution of systems of equations that are expressed by the two sets of equations: a global rectangular system of equations involving more variables than equations, and a set of conditional equations that are expressed as disjunctions. The set of disjunctions are given by equations and inequalities, where the latter define the domain of validity of the equations. In this way the solution of such a system is defined by variables x satisfying the rectangular equations, and exactly one set of equations for each of the disjunctions. This paper focuses mainly in the solution of systems of linear disjunctive equations. Using a convex hull representation of the disjunctions, the disjunctive system of equations is converted into an MILP problem. A sufficient condition is presented under which the model is shown to be solvable as an LP problem. The extension of the proposed method to nonlinear disjunctive equations is also discussed. The application of the proposed algorithms are illustrated with several examples."
Latest Developments from the S-DALINAC*
Creators: name: Brunken, M.
name: Genz, H.
name: Gopych, M.
name: Graef, H. -D.
name: Khodyachykh, S.
name: Kostial, S.
name: Laier, U.
name: Lenhardt, A.
name: Loos, H.
name: Muehl, J.
name: Platz, M.
name: Richter, A.
name: Richter, S.
name: Schweizer, B.
name: Stascheck, A.
name: Titze, O.
name: Watzlawik, S.
name: Doebert, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The S-DALINAC is a 130 MeV superconducting recirculating electron accelerator serving several nuclear and radiation physics experiments as well as driving an infrared free-electron laser. A system of normal conducting rf resonators for noninvasive beam position and current measurement was established. For the measurement of gamma-radiation inside the accelerator cave a system of Compton diodes has been developed and tested. Detailed investigations of the transverse phasespace were carried out with a tomographical reconstruction method of optical transition radiation spots. The method can be applied also to non-Gaussian phasespace distributions. The results are in good accordance with simulations. To improve the quality factor of the superconducting 3 GHz cavities, an external 2K testcryostat was commissioned. The influence of electro-chemical polishing and magnetic shielding is currently under investigation. A digital rf-feedback-system for the accelerator cavities is being developed in order to improve the energy spread of the beam of the S-DALINAC. * Supported by the BMBF under contract no. 06 DA 820, the DFG under contract no. Ri 242/12-1 and -2 and the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 'Physik und Technik von Beschleunigern'
description: 3 pages, 6 figures, LINAC2000, MOC04
Additional file 5 of DNA methylation atlas and machinery in the developing and regenerating annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Creators: name: Planques, Anabelle
name: Kerner, Pierre
name: Ferry, Laure
name: Grunau, Christoph
name: Gazave, Eve
name: Vervoort, Michel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Sequences used for phylogenetic analyses, multiple alignments, and phylogenetic trees. This file contains all protein sequences and multiple alignments used for phylogenetic analyses in fasta format, as well as the obtained phylogenetic trees in Newick format.
Shiba Bound States across the mobility edge in doped InAs nanowires
Creators: name: Assouline, Alexandre
name: Feuillet-Palma, Cheryl
name: Zimmers, Alexandre
name: Aprili, Marco
name: Harmand, Jean-Christophe
name: Aubin, Hervé
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of Andreev Quantum Dots (QDots) fabricated with small-diameter (30 nm) Si-doped InAs nanowires where the Fermi level can be tuned across a mobility edge separating localized states from delocalized states. The transition to the insulating phase is identified by a drop in the amplitude and width of the excited levels and is found to have remarkable consequences on the spectrum of superconducting SubGap Resonances (SGRs). While at deeply localized levels, only quasiparticles co-tunneling is observed, for slightly delocalized levels, Shiba bound states form and a parity changing quantum phase transition is identified by a crossing of the bound states at zero energy. Finally, in the metallic regime, single Andreev resonances are observed.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures in main text, 3 figures in supplementary
Efficacy and long-lasting activity of spiramycin in young beef cattle with infectious enzootic broncho-pneumonia
Creators: name: Alzieu, J. P.
name: Bichet, H. J.
name: Levrier, B.
name: Van Gool, F.
name: Bayle, R.
name: Libersa, M.
name: Espinasse, J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: Multicentric clinical trials performed in young beef cattle with I.E.B.P. demonstrated the excellent efficacy of spiramycin at an optimum dose of 100?000 IU/kg. The recommended frequency of administration in curative treatment is 2 injections at a 48 hour interval and the clinical recovery rate is 80-90%. A single injection of 100?000 IU/kg confers very high protection in metaphylactic treatment. The activity of spiramycin against Mycoplasma and Pasteurella, the principal agents involved in I.E.B.P., may be explained by the excellent diffusion and concentration of this antibiotic in the lung tissue and bronchial secretions.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Immunosuppressive effects of bovine viral pathogens
Creators: name: Perino, Louis J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: Epidemiologic evidence that viral immunosuppression leads to secondary bacterial pneumonia is established, yet our understanding of the immunosuppressive viral effects that cause this is incomplete. Similar relationships are likely to exist in other disease complexes. This paper reviewed many of the effects of different bovine viral pathogens on the bovine host defenses such as epithelial barriers and ciliary function, macrophages, polymorphonuclear neutrophils, and lymphocytes. For each virus there are voids in our understanding. There are many viruses such as bovine adenovirus, bovine enterovirus, bovine empheral fever virus, bovine papilloma virus, bovine papular stomatitis virus, and bovine parvovirus for which no information is available. The relevance of current in vitro tests to in vivo function is, in many cases, speculative. There are many aspects of the host immune system, such as cell-mediated immunity, for which tests are insufficient or entirely lacking. Continued work is needed to develop means to examine the immunologic interactions of cattle and their viral pathogens. There is currently a great deal of research examining the effects of various immunomodulators in cattle. In order to effectively use these immunomodulators the nature of the immunosuppression that viruses cause must be further characterized.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
The connection between non-exponential relaxation and fragility in supercooled liquids
Creators: name: Halpern, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the outstanding problems in the theory of supercooled liquids are the reasons for the rapid increase in their viscosity and relaxation times as the temperature is lowered towards the glass transition temperature, the non-exponential time dependence of the relaxation, and the possible connection between these two properties. The ferromagnetic Potts model on a square latice is a simple system that is found to exhibit these properties. Our calculations show that in this system the connection between them is associated with the dependence on temperature and time of the average environment of the sites. Some of the consequences of this for understanding the behavior of supercooled liquids are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Bloat in calves-some aspects of differential diagnosis and therapy
Creators: name: Doll, K.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: Recurrent bloat in calves and juvenile cattle is not a single entity but a symptom, disguising a variety of quite different disturbances. The changes most significant in the differential diagnosis are discussed. Prior to the creation of a ruminal fistula (trocar, rumen needle, permanent fistula) it should be checked whether the tympany could be relieved by treatment of the causal disease. Conservative therapy is facilitated by the use of a balloon stomach tube which can be left in situ for up to 5 days and which prevents a bloat in most cases.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Star product and the general Leigh-Strassler deformation
Creators: name: Bundzik, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the definition of the star product introduced by Lunin and Maldacena to study marginal deformations of N=4 SYM. The essential difference from the latter is that instead of considering U(1)xU(1) non-R-symmetry, with charges in a corresponding diagonal matrix, we consider two Z_3-symmetries followed by an SU(3) transformation, with resulting off-diagonal elements. From this procedure we obtain a more general Leigh-Strassler deformation, including cubic terms with the same index, for specific values of the coupling constants. We argue that the conformal property of N=4 SYM is preserved, in both beta- (one-parameter) and gamma_{i}-deformed (three-parameters) theories, since the deformation for each amplitude can be extracted in a prefactor. We also conclude that the obtained amplitudes should follow the iterative structure of MHV amplitudes found by Bern, Dixon and Smirnov.
description: 21 pages, no figures, JHEP3, v2: references added, v3: appendix A added, v4: clarification in section 3.2
Size-resolved CCN distributions and activation kinetics of aged continental and marine aerosol
Creators: name: A.  Bougiatioti
name: A.  Nenes
name: C.  Fountoukis
name: N.  Kalivitis
name: Pandis, Spyros N.
name: N.  Mihalopoulos
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: We present size-segregated measurements of cloud condensation nucleus (CCN) activity of aged aerosol sampled at Finokalia, Crete, during the Finokalia Aerosol Measurement Experiment of summer 2007 (FAME07). From analysis of the data, hygroscopicity and activation kinetics distributions are derived. The CCN are found to be highly hygroscopic, (expressed by a size- and time- averaged hygroscopicity parameter κ ∼ 0.22), with the majority of particles activating at ~0.5–0.6 % supersaturation. Air masses originating from Central-Eastern Europe tend to be associated with higher CCN concentrations and slightly lower hygroscopicity (κ ∼ 0.18) than for other airmass types. The particles were always well mixed, as reflected by the high activation ratios and narrow hygroscopicity distribution widths. Smaller particles (~40 nm) were found to be more hygroscopic (~0.1κ units higher) than the larger ones (~100 nm). The particles with diameters less than 80 nm exhibited a diurnal hygroscopicity cycle (with κ peaking at ~14 h local time), consistent with photochemical aging and volatilization of less hygroscopic material from the aerosol. Use of bulk chemical composition and the aerosol number distribution results in excellent CCN closure when applying Köhler theory in its simplest form. Using asymptotic and threshold droplet growth analysis, the "aged" organics present in the aerosol were found not to suppress or delay the water uptake kinetics of particles in this environment.
Learning and exploiting reward machines for reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Furelos Blanco, Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Reinforcement learning (RL) with non-Markovian rewards requires agents to learn history-dependent policies, which is particularly challenging in long-horizon or sparse reward settings. Reward machines (RMs) are finite-state machines that represent non-Markovian reward functions in terms of high-level events. By compactly encoding high-level event histories, RMs thereby constitute an external memory that makes rewards Markovian and enables the applicability of standard RL algorithms in non-Markovian reward settings. The structure elucidated by RMs facilitates task decomposition, allowing policy learning to become more efficient when rewards are sparse. Nevertheless, the potential of RMs is limited by the complexity of handcrafting them and the lack of reusability within larger RMs. In this thesis, we address these problems. In the first part of the thesis, we devise a method for learning minimal RMs from traces of high-level events observed by an RL agent. The learning is powered by an inductive logic programming system and is launched when the current RM does not correctly recognize a trace. To make RM learning more efficient, we conceive a symmetry breaking mechanism to shrink the search space whilst remaining complete. We empirically demonstrate that exploiting a learned RM leads to performance on par with a handcrafted one. In the second part of the thesis, we build hierarchies of RMs (HRMs) by endowing RMs with the ability to call each other, enabling the reusability of the RMs' structures and policies. In particular, the HRMs are exploited by treating each call as an independently solvable subtask, and learned through a curriculum-based method extending our RM learning approach. Our experiments reveal that (i) exploiting a handcrafted HRM leads to faster convergence than with a flat HRM, and (ii) learning an HRM is feasible in cases where its equivalent flat representation is not.
Observation of supermodulation in LaO0.5F0.5BiSe2 by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy
Creators: name: Demura, Satoshi
name: Ishida, Naoki
name: Fujisawa, Yuita
name: Sakata, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed surface and electronic structure of LaO0.5F0.5BiSe2 single crystal by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) at 4.2 K. Square lattice composed of Bi atoms was observed at a positive sample bias voltage on the surface prepared by cleavage. At a negative sample bias voltage, a stripe structure running along Bi-Bi directions was observed as in the previous report on NdO0.7F0.3BiS2. Furthermore, we observed a supermodulation running along the diagonal directions with the period of about 5 times of the lattice constant. This seems to be indicative of structural instability of this system rather than electronic instability attributed to a nesting picture.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Oesophageal groove dysfunction as a complication of neonatal diarrhea in the calf
Creators: name: Dirksen, G.
name: Dirr, L.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: In a study of 249 calves up to 2 weeks of age, with acute catarrhal enteritis, disturbance of the oesophageal groove contraction was demonstrated in 28 (11.2%) calves, 11 of which died, and was suspected in a further 29 (11.6%), 12 of which died. In 37 calves with oesophageal groove disturbance (30 with neonatal diarrhoea, 7 with other disorders), the acid status of the rumen was examined several times. The following types of fermentation were detected: (1) predominant butyric acid fermentation; (2) predominant lactic acid fermentation; (3) biphasic (type 1 changing to type 2, or vice versa). In milk fed calves with neonatal diarrhoea, oesophageal groove reflex dysfunction can be the cause of a fatal outcome and should be considered during clinical examination.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Treatment of North Dakota beef cows and calves with ivermectin
Creators: name: Wohlgemuth, Kurt
name: Melancon, John J.
name: Hughes, Harlan
name: Biondini, Mario
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: A 2-year field study was carried out in North Dakota, USA to determine if there was an economic benefit from treating cows and/or their calves with ivermectin (Ivomec) at 200 µg/kg sc. Three herds were used; each herd was divided into 4 similar groups: group I - cows and their calves treated with ivermectin (cows in the autumn and calves in late June); group II - only cows treated each autumn; group III - only calves treated in late June; group IV - neither cows nor their calves treated. A total of 953 calves were weaned over the 2-year period. Calves were individually weighed at weaning and the actual market value (based on local market conditions) of each calf was calculated. Calves in groups I and II averaged at least 20 lb more than calves in group IV at weaning; this difference was significant. Calves from cows treated with ivermectin returned a significant economic benefit over controls.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)
Apanthuroides Menzies and Glynn 1968
Creators: name: Kensley, B.
name: Schotte, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Anthuridae
Apanthuroides

description: Genus Apanthuroides Menzies and Glynn, 1968
 Apanthuroides Menzies and Glynn, 1968: 29; Kensley and Schotte, 1989: 26.
 Diagnosis. Eyes present. Dorsal integument pitted. Pleon short, pleonites fused; pleonite 6 not diOEerentiated from pleotelson. Body of mandible somewhat elongate, molar spike-like on one side, reduced or absent on other; palp of three articles. Maxillipedal palp articles 1±2 fused, 3 free, 4±5 fused, endite present. Carpus of pereopods 4±7 roughly pentagonal, with anterior margin shorter than posterior. Pereopod 7 sometimes absent. Pleopod 1, both rami forming operculum.
description: Published as part of Kensley, B. & Schotte, M., 2000, New species and records of anthuridean isopod crustaceans from the Indian Ocean, pp. 2057-2121 in Journal of Natural History 34 on page 2065
Threshold effects in hadron spectrum: a new spectroscopy?
Creators: name: Ortega, Pablo G.
name: Segovia, Jorge
name: Entem, David R.
name: Fernández, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exploration of energies above the open-flavor threshold in the meson spectra has led to the appearance of unexpected states difficult to accommodate in the naive picture of a bound state of a quark and an antiquark. Many of such states are located close to meson-meson thresholds, which suggests that molecular structures may be a relevant component in the total wave function of such resonances. In this work, the state of meson-meson molecules calculations is reviewed, using a non-relativistic constituent quark model that has been applied to a wide range of hadronic observables, and therefore all model parameters are completely constrained. The model has been able to reproduce, among others, the properties of the X(3872), described as a mixture of $c\bar c$ and $D\bar D^\ast$ states, or the spectrum of the P-wave charm-strange mesons, which are well reproduced only if $DK$ and $D^\ast K$ structures are taken into account. We show that such constituent quark model, which is able to describe the ordinary heavy meson spectra, is also capable of providing a good description of many new states recently reported.
description: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2017). 10 pages, 1 figure, 8 tables
Implementation of production medicine programs
Creators: name: Kearley, William P.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 1989

description: Production Medicine is a new and exciting field of veterinary medicine. We are only now starting to define what this field is and how to go about offering it as a service. The challenge is for those interested to get involved with forming this art into a proven, economically sound program for the livestock industry and the veterinary profession.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, No. 24 (1989 November)