cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transgender sexual health in China: a cross-sectional online survey in China
Creators: name: Wei, Chongyi
name: Tso, Lai Sze
name: Zhang, Ye
name: Best, John
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Yang, Bin
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Zheng, Heping
name: Liu, Fengying
name: Huang, Shujie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Transgender individuals are at increased risk for HIV infection around the world, yet few studies have focused on transgender individuals in China. We conducted an online cross-sectional survey of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender individuals to examine sociodemographics, intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual behaviours in China.
Ophiopogon humilis Rodriguez 1934
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon humilis

description: Ophiopogon humilis Rodriguez (1934a: 95)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Cambodge Compong Son (Pierre 561).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Cambodia. Ad montem Compong Som, April 1870, L. Pierre 561 (P, barcode P00509919!; iso-: P, barcode P00509922!).
 Other original material examined:―[Illustration]: An unpublished sheet of drawings made by E. Delpy in June 1904 of an inflorescence and floral parts from the lectotype, attached to the lectotype.
 Current name:― Ophiopogon longifolius Decaisne (1867 –1868: 182), see Tanaka (1998).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Tracing the Snowball bifurcation of aquaplanets through time reveals a fundamental shift in critical-state dynamics
Creators: name: Feulner, Georg
name: Bukenberger, Mona
name: Petri, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The instability with respect to global glaciation is a fundamental property of the climate system caused by the positive ice-albedo feedback. The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at which this Snowball bifurcation occurs changes through Earth's history because of the slowly increasing solar luminosity. Quantifying this critical CO$_2$ level is not only interesting from a climate dynamics perspective, but also a prerequisite for understanding past Snowball Earth events as well as the conditions for habitability on Earth and other planets. Earlier studies are limited to investigations with simple climate models for Earth's entire history, or studies of individual time slices carried out with a variety of more complex models and for different boundary conditions, making comparisons and the identification of secular changes difficult. Here we use a coupled climate model of intermediate complexity to trace the Snowball bifurcation of an aquaplanet through Earth's history in one consistent model framework. We find that the critical CO$_2$ concentration decreases more or less logarithmically with increasing solar luminosity until about 1 billion years ago, but drops faster in more recent times. Furthermore, there is a fundamental shift in the dynamics of critical states about 1.2 billion years ago, driven by the interplay of wind-driven sea-ice dynamics and the surface energy balance: For critical states at low solar luminosities, the ice line lies in the Ferrel cell, stabilised by the poleward winds despite moderate meridional temperature gradients under strong greenhouse warming. For critical states at high solar luminosities on the other hand, the ice line rests at the Hadley-cell boundary, stabilised against the equatorward winds by steep meridional temperature gradients resulting from the increased solar energy input at lower latitudes and stronger Ekman transport in the ocean.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures. Published in Earth Syst. Dynam. (open access); accepted version before copy-editing
Aged Human Stored Red Blood Cell Supernatant Inhibits Macrophage Phagocytosis in an HMGB1 Dependent Manner After Trauma in a Murine Model:
Creators: name: Billiar, Timothy R.
name: Dyer, Mitchell
name: Gutierrez, Andres
name: Neal, Matthew D.
name: Raval, Jay S.
name: Wu, Xubo
name: Klune, John R.
name: Zettel, Kent R.
name: Triulzi, Darrell J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Red blood cell transfusions in the setting of trauma is a double edged sword, as it is a necessary component for life-sustaining treatment in massive hemorrhagic shock, but also associated with increased risk for nosocomial infections and immune suppression. The mechanisms surrounding this immune suppression are unclear. Using supernatant from human packed red blood cell (RBC), we demonstrate that clearance of E. coli by macrophages is inhibited both in vitro and in vivo using a murine model of trauma and hemorrhagic shock. We further explore the mechanism of this inhibition by demonstrating that human stored RBCs contain soluble high mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1) which increases throughout storage. HMGB1 derived from the supernatant of human stored RBCs was shown to inhibit bacterial clearance, as neutralizing antibodies to HMGB1 restored the ability of macrophages to clear bacteria. These findings demonstrate that extracellular HMGB1 within stored RBCs could be one factor leading to immune suppression following transfusion in the trauma setting.
Ophiopogon latifolius Rodriguez 1928
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon latifolius

description: Ophiopogon latifolius Rodriguez (1928: 998)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Tonkin: Vallée de Lankok, Mont Bavi (Balansa 2156 et 4152).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Vietnam. Tonkin: Vallée de Lankok, Mont Bavi, dans les forêts, October 1887, B. Balansa 2156 (P, barcode P 00509920!).
 Other original material examined:― Vietnam. Tonkin: Vallée de Lankok, Mont Bavi, July 1887, B. Balansa 4152 (P, barcode P 00753535*).
 Note:― Rodriguez (1928) published Ophiopogon latifolius based on two syntypes, Balansa 2156 and 4152 from the same locality. However, these represent two different species. In 2156, the pedicels are much longer than the basal stalky part of the perigone (i.e. the articulation or joint between the two parts is in the distal part of the whole stalky part), and the leaves are up to ca. 1.5 cm wide (Tanaka 2000b). In contrast, in 4152, the pedicels are shorter than the basal stalky part of the perigone (i.e. the articulation or joint between the two parts is in the lower half of the entire stalky part), and the leaves are up to ca. 2.3 cm wide. In addition, 2156 is in flower in October, while 4152 is in bud in July, thus differing in flowering season. The protologue of O. latifolius appears based largely on 2156, since it described leaf width as being up to 1.5 cm and many floral characters, including pistils and stamens that are enclosed by the perigone in 4152. Accordingly, 2156 is chosen here as the lectotype for O. latifolius. On the other hand, 4152 agrees in many respects, including the flowering season, with O. vietnamensis described from Tamdao, northern Vietnam (Tanaka 2000d). Ophiopogon vietnamensis has so far been known only from the type locality, hence the habitat (Mt. Bavi) of 4152 is recorded here as the second locality of this species.
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Factorizations of weighted EP Banach space operators and Banach algebra elements
Creators: name: Boasso, Enrico
name: Djordjevic, Dragan S.
name: Mosic, Dijana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46H05, Secondary 47A68

description: Weighted EP Banach space operators and Banach algebra elements are characterized using different kinds of factorizations. The results presented extend well-known characterizations of (weighted) EP matrices, (weighted) EP Hilbert space operators and (weighted) EP $C^*$-algebra elements.
description: 14 pages, original research article. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1401.0469, arXiv:1306.4093
Representation in environmental governance: inclusion, authorisation and accountability in freshwater governance in Canterbury, New Zealand
Creators: name: Nissen, Sylvia Esther
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis sits at the intersection of two streams of literature that have thus far remained relatively isolated from one another. The first is the 'green' literature, which has been built around growing awareness of the need for new institutional arrangements to address the theoretical and practical challenges of governing the environment. The second relates to the recent 'renaissance' of the concept of representation as a result of its enriched and broadened redefinition. Although representation is deeply engrained within the process and outcomes of environmental governance, critical analysis of representation in an environmental context has lagged behind. In light of this oversight, this thesis seeks to bridge the two literatures by offering an empirical examination of the operation of the concept of representation in the case study of water governance in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. Using document analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant observation, the analysis in this thesis explores the ways in which representation contributes to the development of legitimacy in modes of environmental governance and investigates how the concept of representation is enacted and given meaning by policy actors in practice. The findings emphasise that representation is a highly rewarding avenue of inquiry for scholarship on environmental governance and that the distinct priorities and understandings of an environmental context offer new meanings and interpretations for the concept of representation.
Sapicolella submersa C. D. K. Cook & Rutish.
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Sapicolella
Sapicolella submersa

description: Sapicolella submersa (J.B.Hall) C.D.K.Cook & Rutish. (Cook & Rutishauser 2001: 1165) = Pohliella submersa (J.B.Hall) Cheek
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 427, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
description: {"references": ["Cook, C. D. K. & Rutishauser, R. (2001). Name chances in Podostemaceae. Tapon 50: 1162 - 1167. https: // doi. orc / 10.2207 / 1223726"]}
A moral nihilist ethic
Creators: name: Majoinen, Christina Helen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Moral nihilism is the view that objective moral values do not exist. It is often presumed that if moral nihilism were to catch on we would lose any rationale for shared norms, people would stop behaving cooperatively and society would collapse. It is also often presumed that moral nihilism and moral realism are ontologically opposed. In response to the first presumption this thesis argues that, on the contrary, a society of moral nihilists would be motivated to behave cooperatively. Even without moral motivation, the personal benefits of living in a cooperative society (access to shared food, labour and specialised skills, etc.) together with our altruistic desire to see others do well are sufficient to motivate us to endorse shared norms. In response to the second presumption, I will argue that moral nihilism is in fact ontologically compatible with several forms of (moral realist) moral naturalism. Thus, moral nihilism can adapt moral naturalist theories in order to provide a consistent rationale for social norms in a moral nihilist society. To show exactly what the ontological commitments of moral nihilism are, I will draw on the work of J.L. Mackie, Ian Hinckfuss and Richard Joyce. I will then draw on two different moral naturalist accounts- Rosalind Hursthouse's naturalist virtue ethics and Peter Railton's consequentialism- showing that they are ontologically compatible with moral nihilism and, where necessary,adapting them to suit moral nihilist needs.
Drug Delivery From Polymer-Based Nanopharmaceuticals—An Experimental Study Complemented by Simulations of Selected Diffusion Processes
Creators: name: Macha, Innocent J.
name: Ben-Nissan, Besim
name: Vilchevskaya, Elena N.
name: Morozova, Anna S.
name: Abali, Bilen Emek
name: Müller, Wolfgang H.
name: Rickert, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: gentamicin
subject: biphosphonate
subject: polylacetic acid
subject: diffusion coefficient
subject: modeling

description: The success of medical therapy depends on the correct amount and the appropriate delivery of the required drugs for treatment. By using biodegradable polymers a drug delivery over a time span of weeks or even months is made possible. This opens up a variety of strategies for better medication. The drug is embedded in a biodegradable polymer (the “carrier”) and injected in a particular position of the human body. As a consequence of the interplay between the diffusion process and the degrading polymer the drug is released in a controlled manner. In this work we study the controlled release of medication experimentally by measuring the delivered amount of drug within a cylindrical shell over a long time interval into the body fluid. Moreover, a simple continuum model of the Fickean type is initially proposed and solved in closed-form. It is used for simulating some of the observed release processes for this type of carrier and takes the geometry of the drug container explicitly into account. By comparing the measurement data and the model predictions diffusion coefficients are obtained. It turns out that within this simple model the coefficients change over time. This contradicts the idea that diffusion coefficients are constants independent of the considered geometry. The model is therefore extended by taking an additional absorption term into account leading to a concentration dependent diffusion coefficient. This could now be used for further predictions of drug release in carriers of different shape. For a better understanding of the complex diffusion and degradation phenomena the underlying physics is discussed in detail and even more sophisticated models involving different degradation and mass transport phenomena are proposed for future work and study.
The curious case of Suite française
Creators: name: Kenworthy, Victoria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis will analyse the publication of the English edition of Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française by dissecting the elements of its composition. The key question at the heart of this thesis is to understand how Suite française, as a (21st century) publishing product, manages to combine elements of both fiction and history into a unified reading experience. Némirovsky’s text was written during the Second World War, but was published sixty years later to a post-Holocaust audience, who inevitably view the text in light of what happened to its Jewish author. The published form of the text actively ties the work to its historical predicament, by combining the author’s unfinished fictional manuscript and biographical information side by side. The seamless transition between these sections – which are similar in time and location – provides a multi-layered experience for the reader which blurs the traditional diegetic lines of narrative between fact and fiction.
Liouville-type results for time-dependent stratified water flows over variable bottom in the $β$-plane approximation
Creators: name: Martin, Calin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35A01, 35Q35, 35R35, 76B15, 76B70

description: We consider here time-dependent three-dimensional stratified geophysical water flows of finite depth over a variable bottom with a free surface and an interface (separating two layers of constant and different densities). Under the assumption that the vorticity vectors in the two layers are constant, we prove that bounded solutions to the three-dimensional water waves equations in the $β$-plane approximation exist if and only if one of the horizontal components of the velocity, as well as its vertical component, are zero; the other horizontal component being constant. Moreover, the interface is flat, the free surface has a traveling character in the horizontal direction of the nonvanishing velocity component, being of general type in the other horizontal direction, and the pressure is hydrostatic in both layers. Unlike previous studies of three-dimensional flows with constant vorticity in each layer, we consider a non-flat bottom boundary and different constant vorticity vectors for the upper and lower layer.
Synchronization of Heterogeneous Oscillators Under Network Modifications: Perturbation and Optimization of the Synchrony Alignment Function
Creators: name: Sun, Jie
name: Skardal, Per Sebastian
name: Taylor, Dane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Synchronization is central to many complex systems in engineering physics (e.g., the power-grid, Josephson junction circuits, and electro-chemical oscillators) and biology (e.g., neuronal, circadian, and cardiac rhythms). Despite these widespread applications—for which proper functionality depends sensitively on the extent of synchronization—there remains a lack of understanding for how systems can best evolve and adapt to enhance or inhibit synchronization. We study how network modifications affect the synchronization properties of network-coupled dynamical systems that have heterogeneous node dynamics (e.g., phase oscillators with non-identical frequencies), which is often the case for real-world systems. Our approach relies on a synchrony alignment function (SAF) that quantifies the interplay between heterogeneity of the network and of the oscillators and provides an objective measure for a system’s ability to synchronize. We conduct a spectral perturbation analysis of the SAF for structural network modifications including the addition and removal of edges, which subsequently ranks the edges according to their importance to synchronization. Based on this analysis, we develop gradient-descent algorithms to efficiently solve optimization problems that aim to maximize phase synchronization via network modifications. We support these and other results with numerical experiments.
Spin-triplet superconductivity in a weak-coupling Hubbard model for the quasi-one-dimensional compound Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$
Creators: name: Cho, Weejee
name: Platt, Christian
name: McKenzie, Ross H.
name: Raghu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purple bronze Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$ is of interest due to its quasi-one-dimensional electronic structure and the possible Luttinger liquid behavior resulting from it. For sufficiently low temperatures, it is a superconductor with a pairing symmetry that is still to be determined. To shed light on this issue, we analyze a minimal Hubbard model for this material involving four molybdenum orbitals per unit cell near quarter filling, using asymptotically exact perturbative renormalization group methods. We find that spin triplet odd-parity superconductivity is the dominant instability. Approximate nesting properties of the two quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surfaces enhance certain second-order processes, which play crucial roles in determining the structure of the pairing gap. Notably, we find that the gap has accidental nodes, i.e. it has more sign changes than required by the point-group symmetry.
description: Updated
Cosmic-ray energy reconstruction using machine learning techniques
Creators: name: Alvarado, A.
name: Capistrán, T.
name: Torres, I.
name: SacahuÍ, J. R.
name: Alfaro, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HAWC is a ground-based observatory consisting of 300 water Cherenkov detectors, which observes the extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays from some TeV to a few PeV and, in particular, gamma rays from 300 GeV to more than 100 TeV. One of the crucial features required for a detector of extensive air showers is the estimation of the primary energy of the events to study the spectra of cosmic and gamma rays. For HAWC there are currently two gamma-ray energy estimators: one relies on a ground density parameter, while the other utilizes an artificial neural network. For the cosmic ray energy estimation, there is only one estimator based on maximum likelihood procedures and measurements of the lateral charge distribution of the events. It is worthwhile to update the cosmic-ray energy estimator due to recent improvements of the extensive air shower offline-reconstruction techniques in HAWC. Therefore, we implemented an artificial neural network to reconstruct the primary energy of hadronic events trained with several observables that characterize the air showers. We trained several models and evaluated their performance against the existing cosmic ray energy estimator. In this work, we present the features and performance of these models.
description: Presented at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023), Nagoya, Japan
Ophiopogon marmoratus L. Pierre ex Rodriguez 1928
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon marmoratus

description: Ophiopogon marmoratus L.Pierre ex Rodriguez (1928: 997)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Cambodge. Mont Srall (Pierre no. 7046).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Cambodia. Ad montem Schval Cambodiarum, secus rivulos, April 1870, L. Pierre 7046 (P, barcode P00509881!; iso-: P, barcode P00753539 *!).
 Other original material examined:―[Illustration]: A sheet of drawings (habit, inflorescence, flowers, flower diagram) made by E. Delpy in October 1905 of the plant (Pierre 7046) under the name of Ophiopogon marmoratus Pierre, attached to the lectotype. Some of them are reproduced in Rodriguez (1934b: 658, fig. 64-1–7). [Manuscript with illustration]: an unpublished manuscript by Pierre titled “ Ophiopogon marmoratus Pierre ” with a drawing of an ovule, attached to the lectotype.
 Note:―Both the lectotype and isolectotype designated here are labeled “ Ophiopogon? marmoratus Pierre ” by Pierre. Rodriguez (1934b) cited “ Laos: Pak-lay (Thorel)” under O. marmoratus without making reference to the collection number. This material is probably “ Thorel 3356 p.p.” that is represented by three specimens: P 00509924!, P 00753579*!, P 00753580*! (for their identity see also the note under O. peliosanthifolius below).
 Current name:― Ophiopogon regnieri Bois (1906: 370), see Tanaka (1999c).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on pages 162-163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Spectrum Structure of Fermion on Bloch Branes with Two Scalar-fermion Couplings
Creators: name: Xie, Qun-Ying
name: Guo, Heng
name: Zhao, Zhen-Hua
name: Du, Yun-Zhi
name: Zhang, Yu-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that the Bloch brane is generated by an odd scalar field $ϕ$ and an even one $χ$. In order to localize a bulk fermion on the Bloch brane, the coupling between the fermion and scalars should be introduced. { There are two localization mechanisms in the literature, the Yukawa coupling $-η\barΨ F_1(ϕ,χ) Ψ$ and non-Yukawa coupling $λ\bar ΨΓ^M \partial_M F_2(ϕ,χ) γ^5 Ψ$. The Yukawa coupling has been considered.} In this paper, we consider { both couplings between the fermion and the scalars with $F_1=χ^mϕ^{2p+1}$ and $F_2=χ^nϕ^{2q}$}, and investigate the localization and spectrum structure of the fermion on the Bloch brane. { It is found that the} left-handed fermion zero mode can be localized on the Bloch brane under some conditions, and the effective potentials have { rich} structure and may be volcano-like, finite square well-like, and infinite potentials. As a result, the spectrum { consists of} a series of resonant Kaluza-Klein fermions, finite or infinite numbers of bound Kaluza-Klein fermions. { Especially, we find a new feature of the introduction of both couplings: the spectrum for the case of finite square well-like potentials contains discrete quasi-localized and localized massive KK modes simultaneously.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Voices from the floor: women in factory work in Singapore, 1960 to 1974.
Creators: name: Mason, Margaret Peck Hon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Nine women, who worked in factories in the 1960s and early 1970s, were interviewed for this research project. The relevant historical background covered in Chapter One, will 'set the scene' for documenting the participants' stories. The context of this research, with broader research into female factory workers in countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim which have similar industrial processes, is outlined in Chapter Two. The findings of this research will be compared with broader historiography of the 1960s and early 1970s. The oral history methodology and how it relates to the conduct of this research is discussed in Chapter Three, which also contain the mini biographies of all the participants. Stories from the participants about their family and home lives will be documented in Chapter Four. The factory work environment, the demands of work and the strategies adopted by the female factory workers to manage those demands, will be described in Chapter Five. The conclusion draws together the issues in the lives of these women and how they coped with the rapidly changing environment in Singapore as a result of the government's objective in modernising Singapore.
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ekuo o izk.kh ;kaP;krhy la?k"kZ] oU;izk.;kaps fuokl] vkfFkZd dk;Z-

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Delayed authentication and delayed measurement application in one-way synchronization
Creators: name: Teichel, Kristof
name: Sibold, Dieter
name: Hildemeier, Gregor
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: time synchronization
Network Time Security (NTS)
Time Security
security
authentication
integrity
Network Time Protocol (NTP)

description: We have performed an analysis of an attack vector regarding one-way time synchronization protocols protected by TESLA-like mechanisms. In this paper, we present our testbed implementation that allows simulation of such protocols to take place, and we give an overview of the results regarding vulnerability of existing protocols, potential countermeasures, and relevance to specifications currently in development. We omit much of the cryptography-related details of our security analysis in favor of specifics regarding the effects and pitfalls related to the delayed authentication used by all TESLA-like protection mechanisms. We place particular emphasis on implications concerning the security and time performance of immediate versus delayed measurement application where this occured in our evaluation.
Experimental evaluation of attacks on TESLA-secured time synchronization protocols
Creators: name: Teichel, Kristof
name: Hildemeier, Gregor
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: time synchronization protocols
TESLA
Authentication
Experimental attack analysis
ASTS
TinySeRSync

description: There is an increasingly relevant class of protocols that employ TESLA stream authentication to provide authenticity for one-way time synchronization. For such protocols, an interdependency between synchronization and security has been fount to theoretically enable attackers to render the security measures useless. We evaluate to what extent this attack works in practice. To this end, we use a tailor-made configurable testbed implementation to simulate behaviors of TESLA-protected one-way synchronization protocols in hostile networks. In particular, this lets us confirm vulnerabilities to the attac for two published protocols. TinySeRSync and ASTS. Our analysis also yields a set of countermeasures, with which in-development and future specifications can potentially use TESLA to successfully secure one-way time synchronization.
Sapicolella macrothyrsa A. Chev.
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Sapicolella
Sapicolella macrothyrsa

description: Sapicolella macrothyrsa A.Chev. (Chevalier 1928: 292) nom illegit.
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 427, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
description: {"references": ["Chevalier, A. (1928). Flore vivante de l'Afrique occidentale francaise (inclus Togo, C ameroun Nord, Oubangui- C hari-Tchad, Sahara francais): Gymnospermes et premieres familles d'angiospermes (C asuarinees aup Bupacees), Les polygalees / par Auguste C hevalier; en collaboration avec MH Jacques-Felip. Tome premier. Museum national d \u02c8 histoire naturelle, Paris."]}
Active Mean Fields for Probabilistic Image Segmentation: Connections with Chan--Vese and Rudin--Osher--Fatemi Models
Creators: name: Wells, William M.
name: Niethammer, Marc
name: Pohl, Kilian M.
name: Janoos, Firdaus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Segmentation is a fundamental task for extracting semantically meaningful regions from an image. The goal of segmentation algorithms is to accurately assign object labels to each image location. However, image-noise, shortcomings of algorithms, and image ambiguities cause uncertainty in label assignment. Estimating the uncertainty in label assignment is important in multiple application domains, such as segmenting tumors from medical images for radiation treatment planning. One way to estimate these uncertainties is through the computation of posteriors of Bayesian models, which is computationally prohibitive for many practical applications. On the other hand, most computationally efficient methods fail to estimate label uncertainty. We therefore propose in this paper the Active Mean Fields (AMF) approach, a technique based on Bayesian modeling that uses a mean-field approximation to efficiently compute a segmentation and its corresponding uncertainty. Based on a variational formulation, the resulting convex model combines any label-likelihood measure with a prior on the length of the segmentation boundary. A specific implementation of that model is the Chan-Vese segmentation model (CV), in which the binary segmentation task is defined by a Gaussian likelihood and a prior regularizing the length of the segmentation boundary. Furthermore, the Euler-Lagrange equations derived from the AMF model are equivalent to those of the popular Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model for image denoising. Solutions to the AMF model can thus be implemented by directly utilizing highly-efficient ROF solvers on log-likelihood ratio fields. We qualitatively assess the approach on synthetic data as well as on real natural and medical images. For a quantitative evaluation, we apply our approach to the icgbench dataset.
Experts and excerpts: the application of Giovanni Bottesini's complete method for the Contre-Basse to the preparation of orchestral excerpts taken from the works of Giuseppe Verdi
Creators: name: Giller, Alexandra Patricia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190407 Music Performance

description: The hypothesis of this paper is that if excerpts are prepared using a contemporaneous method book, then new and interesting results may be realised. Limited to excerpts for the double bass taken from works by Giuseppe Verdi, this paper suggests using Giovanni Bottesini’s treatise Complete Method for the Contre-Basse to address the technical and musical issues encountered in each excerpt. This idea is based in the knowledge that Bottesini was considered the foremost double bass player of his time, including by Verdi, and that the two composers were contemporaries, making Bottesini’s treatise historically appropriate to the excerpts in question. The method laid out here is in two parts: identifying the separate technical and musical considerations in each excerpt, then finding sections of the treatise that may be used to work on each specific issue, or in which Bottesini explains his approach relating to that issue. This approach is not necessarily intended to lead to a performance that is any more or less likely to win an audition than any other. Rather, the point is to create a more informed interpretation, and to find whether anything new regarding interpretation of the excerpts may be learned.
Minimum reflection channel in amplifying random media
Creators: name: Liew, Seng Fatt
name: Cao, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study on the minimum reflection channel in a disordered waveguide and its modification by coherent amplification of light. The minimum reflection channel is formed by destructive interference of quasi-normal modes at the front surface of the random medium. While the lowest reflection eigenvalue increases with gain in most random realizations, the minimum reflection channel can adjust its modal composition to enhance the destructive interference and slow down the growth of reflectance with gain. Some of the random realizations display a further reduction of the minimum reflectance by adding optical gain. The differential amplification of the modes can make their destructive interference so effective that it dominates over the amplitude growth of the modes, causing the reflectance to drop with gain. Therefore, the interplay between interference and amplification makes it possible to further minimize light reflection from a strong scattering medium by introducing optical gain.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, in submission
End-to-end Evaluation of Practical Video Analytics Systems for Face Detection and Recognition
Creators: name: Singh, Praneet
name: Delp, Edward J.
name: Reibman, Amy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Practical video analytics systems that are deployed in bandwidth constrained environments like autonomous vehicles perform computer vision tasks such as face detection and recognition. In an end-to-end face analytics system, inputs are first compressed using popular video codecs like HEVC and then passed onto modules that perform face detection, alignment, and recognition sequentially. Typically, the modules of these systems are evaluated independently using task-specific imbalanced datasets that can misconstrue performance estimates. In this paper, we perform a thorough end-to-end evaluation of a face analytics system using a driving-specific dataset, which enables meaningful interpretations. We demonstrate how independent task evaluations, dataset imbalances, and inconsistent annotations can lead to incorrect system performance estimates. We propose strategies to create balanced evaluation subsets of our dataset and to make its annotations consistent across multiple analytics tasks and scenarios. We then evaluate the end-to-end system performance sequentially to account for task interdependencies. Our experiments show that our approach provides consistent, accurate, and interpretable estimates of the system's performance which is critical for real-world applications.
description: Accepted to Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2023 Conference, IS&T Electronic Imaging (EI) Symposium
Ophiopogon peliosanthifolius Rodriguez 1934
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon peliosanthifolius

description: Ophiopogon peliosanthifolius Rodriguez (1934a: 95)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Laos: Pak loi (Thorel 3356 pro parte), ‘Pak lai’.
 Type:― Laos. Pak lai, Expédition du Me-kong, April 1866 –1868, C. Thorel 3356 (holotype P, barcode P 00753578!).
 Note:―At P, there are four sheets of C. Thorel 3356, which comprise two different species. In the protologue, Rodriguez (1934a) cited “ Thorel 3356 pro parte” under this species. One sheet of Thorel 3356 (P 00753578) designated here as the holotype has a label inscribed by Rodriguez with “ Ophiopogon peliosanthifolius ”, and agrees more or less with the original description; e.g., leaf blades are up to ca. 4 cm wide, and the style is thick and conic. In the other three sheets of Thorel 3356 (P 00509924, P 00753579*, P 00753580*), leaf blades are mostly under 10 or 11 cm long, thus disagreeing with the blade length described for O. peliosanthifolius (over 10 cm). These three specimens are likely to have been identified by Rodriguez (1934b) as O. marmoratus, since he also cited “ Laos: Pak-lay (Thorel)” under it.
 Current name:― Peliosanthes gracilipes (Craib 1912: 411) Tanaka (1999b: 148).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Optimized geometries for future generation optical lattice clocks
Creators: name: Krämer, Sebastian
name: Ostermann, Laurin
name: Ritsch, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atoms deeply trapped in magic wavelength optical lattices provide a Doppler- and collision-free dense ensemble of quantum emitters ideal for high precision spectroscopy. Thus, they are the basis of some of the best optical clock setups to date. However, despite their minute optical dipole moments the inherent long range dipole-dipole interactions in such lattices generate line shifts, dephasing and modified decay. We show that in a perfectly filled lattice these effects are resonantly enhanced depending on lattice constant, lattice geometry and excitation scheme inducing clock shifts of many atomic linewidths and reducing measurement precision via superradiance. However, under optimal conditions collective effects can be exploited to yield zero effective shifts and prolong dipole lifetimes beyond the single atom decay. In particular we identify 2D hexagonal or square lattices with lattice constants below the optical wavelength as most promising configurations for an accuracy and precision well below the independent ensemble limit. This geometry should also be an ideal basis for related applications such as superradiant lasers, precision magnetometry or long lived quantum memories.
description: 9 pages (5 + 4 supplement), 10 figures (5+5)
Gross--Pitaevskii Vortex Motion with Critically Scaled Inhomogeneities
Creators: name: Kurzke, Matthias
name: Marzuola, Jeremy L.
name: Spirn, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: We study the dynamics of vortices in an inhomogeneous Gross--Pitaevskii equation iδtu = Δu + 1/ε²(ρ² ε(ᵡ) - |u|²). For a unique scaling regime |ρε(ᵡ) - 1 = O(logε¯¹), it is shown that vortices can interact both with the background perturbation and with each other. Results for associated parabolic and elliptic problems are discussed.
The single-particle density matrix of a quantum bright soliton from the coordinate Bethe ansatz
Creators: name: Ayet, A.
name: Brand, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel approach for computing reduced density matrices for superpositions of eigenstates of a Bethe-ansatz solvable model by direct integration of the wave function in coordinate representation. A diagrammatic approach is developed to keep track of relevant terms and identify symmetries, which helps to reduce the number of terms that have to be evaluated numerically. As a first application we compute with modest numerical resources the single-particle density matrix and its eigenvalues including the condensate fraction for a quantum bright soliton with up to $N=10$ bosons. The latter are constructed as superpositions of string-type Bethe-ansatz eigenstates of nonrelativistic bosons in one spatial dimension with attractive contact interaction. Upon delocalising the superposition in momentum space we find that the condensate fraction reaches maximum values larger than 97\% in the range of particles studied. The presented approach is suitable for studying time-dependent problems and generalises to higher-order correlation functions.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2017
Composite-fermion pairing at half and quarter filled lowest Landau level
Creators: name: Sharma, Anirban
name: Balram, Ajit C.
name: Jain, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Halperin-Lee-Read Fermi sea of composite fermions (CFs) at half-filled lowest Landau level is the realization of a fascinating non-Fermi liquid metallic phase. Remarkably, experiments have found that as the width of the quantum well is increased, this state makes a transition into a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state, the origin of which has remained an important puzzle since its discovery more than three decades ago. We perform detailed and accurate quantitative calculations using a systematic variational framework for the pairing of CFs that closely mimics the BCS theory of superconductivity. We find: (i) as the quantum-well width is increased, the single-component CF Fermi sea occupying the lowest symmetric subband of the quantum well undergoes an instability into a single-component p-wave paired state of CFs; (ii) the theoretical phase diagram in the quantum-well width - electron density plane is in excellent agreement with experiments; (iii) a sufficient amount of asymmetry in the charge distribution of the quantum well destroys the FQH effect, as observed experimentally; and (iv) the two-component 331 state is energetically less favorable than the single component paired state. Evidence for FQH effect has been seen in wide quantum wells also at quarter-filled lowest Landau level; here our calculations indicate an f-wave paired state of CFs. We further investigate bosons in the lowest Landau level at filling factor equal to one and show that a p-wave pairing instability of CFs, which are bosons carrying a single flux quantum, in agreement with exact diagonalization studies. The general consistency of the composite-fermion BCS approach with experiments lends support to the notion of CF pairing as the mechanism of FQH effects at even-denominator filling factors. Various experimental implications are mentioned.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
Short Report: Study variability in recent human challenge experiments with Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites (PfSPZ Challenge)
Creators: name: Lover, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been renewed interest in the use of sporozoite-based approaches for malaria vaccination and controlled human infections, and several sets of human challenge studies have recently completed. A study undertaken in Tanzania and published in 2014 found dose-dependence between 10,000 and 25,000 sporozoite doses, as well as divergent times-to-parasitemia relative to earlier studies in European volunteers. However, this analysis shows that these conclusions are based upon suboptimal analytical methods; with more optimal analysis, there is no evidence for dose-dependence within this dose range; and more importantly, no evidence for differences in event times between Dutch and Tanzanian study sites. While these finding do not impact the reported safety and tolerability of PfSPZ, they highlight critical issues that should be comprehensively considered in future challenge studies.
description: 8 pages with 1 figure, 3 tables, 2 appendices; submitted manuscript