cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards a median signal detector through the total Bregman divergence and its robustness analysis
Creators: name: Ono, Yusuke
name: Peng, Linyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A novel family of geometric signal detectors are proposed through medians of the total Bregman divergence (TBD), which are shown advantageous over the conventional methods and their mean counterparts. By interpreting the observation data as Hermitian positive-definite matrices, their mean or median play an essential role in signal detection. As is difficult to be solved analytically, we propose numerical solutions through Riemannian gradient descent algorithms or fixed-point algorithms. Beside detection performance, robustness of a detector to outliers is also of vital importance, which can often be analyzed via the influence functions. Introducing an orthogonal basis for Hermitian matrices, we are able to compute the corresponding influence functions analytically and exactly by solving a linear system, which is transformed from the governing matrix equation. Numerical simulations show that the TBD medians are more robust than their mean counterparts.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of a game-based educational strategy e-EDUCAGUIA for implementing antimicrobial clinical practice guidelines in family medicine residents in Spain: a randomized clinical trial by cluster
Creators: name: del Cura-González, Isabel
name: Ariza-Cardiel, Gloria
name: Polentinos-Castro, Elena
name: López-Rodríguez, Juan A.
name: Sanz-Cuesta, Teresa
name: Barrio-Cortes, Jaime
name: Andreu-Ivorra, Blanca
name: Rodríguez-Barrientos, Ricardo
name: Ávila-Tomas, José F.
name: Gallego-Ruiz-de-Elvira, Elisa
name: Lozano-Hernández, Cristina
name: Martín-Fernández, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Comment on "Correlated electron-nuclear dynamics: Exact factorization of the molecular wavefunction" [J. Chem. Phys. 137, 22A530 (2012)]
Creators: name: Alonso, J. L.
name: Clemente-Gallardo, J.
name: Echenique-Robba, P.
name: Jover-Galtier, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spite of the relevance of the proposal introduced in the recent work A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra and E. K. U. Gross, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 22A530, 2012, there is an important ingredient which is missing. Namely, the proof that the norms of the electronic and nuclear wavefunctions which are the solutions to the nonlinear equations of motion are preserved by the evolution. To prove the conservation of these norms is precisely the objective of this Comment.
description: 2 pages, published version
Liouville's Imaginary Shadow
Creators: name: Schomerus, Volker
name: Suchanek, Paulina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: N=1 super Liouville field theory is one of the simplest non-rational conformal field theories. It possesses various important extensions and interesting applications, e.g. to the AGT relation with 4D gauge theory or the construction of the OSP(1|2) WZW model. In both setups, the N=1 Liouville field is accompanied by an additional free fermion. Recently, Belavin et al. suggested a bosonization of the product theory in terms of two bosonic Liouville fields. While one of these Liouville fields is standard, the second turns out to be imaginary (or time-like). We extend the proposal to the R sector and perform extensive checks based on detailed comparison of 3-point functions involving several super-conformal primaries and descendants. On the basis of such strong evidence we sketch a number of interesting potential applications of this intriguing bosonization.
description: 31 pages
Verbal inhibition and stuttering in adults (Treleaven & Coalson, 2021)
Creators: name: Treleaven, Shanley B.
name: Coalson, Geoffrey A.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: Adults who stutter (AWS) often attempt, with varying degrees of success, to suppress their stuttered speech. The ability to effectively suppress motoric behavior after initiation relies on executive functions such as nonselective inhibition. Although previous studies found that AWS were slower to inhibit manual, button-press response than adults who do not stutter (AWNS), research has yet to confirm a consistent relationship between manual and verbal inhibition. No study has examined verbal inhibition ability in AWS. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to compare verbal response inhibition between AWS and AWNS, and compare verbal response inhibition to both the overt stuttering and the lived experience of stuttering.Method: Thirty-four adults (17 AWNS, 17 AWS) completed one manual and three verbal stop-signal tasks. AWS were assessed for stuttering severity (Stuttering Severity Instrument–Fourth Edition: SSI-4) and experience with stuttering (Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience With Stuttering [OASES]).Results: Results indicate no correlation between manual and verbal inhibition for either group. Generalized linear mixed-model analyses suggested no significant group differences in manual or verbal inhibition. Manual and verbal inhibition did not predict SSI-4 in AWS. However, verbal inhibition was uniquely associated with OASES scores.Conclusion: Although underlying manual and verbal inhibition was comparable between AWS and AWNS, verbal inhibition may be linked to the adverse experience of stuttering rather than the overt symptoms of stuttering severity.
Supplemental Material S1. Detailed SSI-4 and OASES data for AWS participants.
Supplemental Material S2. Visual depiction of the stop-signal task created by Verbruggen (2019).
Supplemental Material S3. Properties of stimuli chosen for novel, image-naming verbal stop-signal tasks.
Supplemental Material S4. Description of dependent variables.
Supplemental Material S5. Excluded SSRT values.
Supplemental Material S6. Overall verbal stop-signal task data.
Supplemental Material S7. Average stop-signal task data.
Supplemental Material S8. Regression model results predicting verbal SSRT.
Treleaven, S. B., & Coalson, G. A. (2021). Verbal response inhibition in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00739
Efficient quantum algorithms for testing symmetries of open quantum systems
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Rahul
name: Rubin, Alex H.
name: Radulaski, Marina
name: Wilde, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry is an important and unifying notion in many areas of physics. In quantum mechanics, it is possible to eliminate degrees of freedom from a system by leveraging symmetry to identify the possible physical transitions. This allows us to simplify calculations and characterize potentially complicated dynamics of the system with relative ease. Previous works have focused on devising quantum algorithms to ascertain symmetries by means of fidelity-based symmetry measures. In our present work, we develop alternative symmetry testing quantum algorithms that are efficiently implementable on quantum computers. Our approach estimates asymmetry measures based on the Hilbert--Schmidt distance, which is significantly easier, in a computational sense, than using fidelity as a metric. The method is derived to measure symmetries of states, channels, Lindbladians, and measurements. We apply this method to a number of scenarios involving open quantum systems, including the amplitude damping channel and a spin chain, and we test for symmetries within and outside the finite symmetry group of the Hamiltonian and Lindblad operators.
description: 47 pages, 11 figures, submission to the second journal special issue dedicated to the memory of G\"oran Lindblad
Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, Barbara Crostini et al. (ed.), The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin. A Casebook, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016
Creators: name: Delmulle, Jérémy
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, Barbara Crostini et al. (ed.), The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin. A Casebook, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016, XX–452 p., 10 b/w, 10 col. Ill. (Studies and Texts, 203), ISBN 978-0-88844-203-1, EUR 65,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Additional file 3 of Effectiveness of a game-based educational strategy e-EDUCAGUIA for implementing antimicrobial clinical practice guidelines in family medicine residents in Spain: a randomized clinical trial by cluster
Creators: name: del Cura-González, Isabel
name: Ariza-Cardiel, Gloria
name: Polentinos-Castro, Elena
name: López-Rodríguez, Juan A.
name: Sanz-Cuesta, Teresa
name: Barrio-Cortes, Jaime
name: Andreu-Ivorra, Blanca
name: Rodríguez-Barrientos, Ricardo
name: Ávila-Tomas, José F.
name: Gallego-Ruiz-de-Elvira, Elisa
name: Lozano-Hernández, Cristina
name: Martín-Fernández, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Graham A. Loud, Martial Staub (ed.), The Making of Medieval History, Woodbridge (The Boydell Press) 2017
Creators: name: Fazioli, K. Patrick
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Graham A. Loud, Martial Staub (ed.), The Making of Medieval History, Woodbridge (The Boydell Press) 2017, XVI–240 p., 20 b/w ill., ISBN 978-1-903153-70-3, GBP 25,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Measurement of the proton-air cross-section at $\sqrt{s}=57$ TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Creators: name: Pierre Auger Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of the proton-air cross-section for particle production at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon of 57 TeV. This is derived from the distribution of the depths of shower maxima observed with the Pierre Auger Observatory: systematic uncertainties are studied in detail. Analysing the tail of the distribution of the shower maxima, a proton-air cross-section of $[505\pm22(stat)^{+28}_{-36}(sys)]$ mb is found.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, Accepted at PRL
Symmetry constraints on the orbital transport in solids
Creators: name: Urazhdin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that electron interaction with the crystal lattice imposes stringent symmetry constrains on the orbital moment propagation. We present examples that elucidate the underlying mechanisms and reveal an additional effect of ultrafast orbital moment oscillations not captured by the semiclassical models. The constraints revealed by our analysis warrant re-interpretation of prior observations, and suggest routes for efficient orbitronic device implementation.
description: One of the main findings is that the orbital current generated by orbital Hall effect is not a well-defined physical quantity
Additional file 4 of Effectiveness of a game-based educational strategy e-EDUCAGUIA for implementing antimicrobial clinical practice guidelines in family medicine residents in Spain: a randomized clinical trial by cluster
Creators: name: del Cura-González, Isabel
name: Ariza-Cardiel, Gloria
name: Polentinos-Castro, Elena
name: López-Rodríguez, Juan A.
name: Sanz-Cuesta, Teresa
name: Barrio-Cortes, Jaime
name: Andreu-Ivorra, Blanca
name: Rodríguez-Barrientos, Ricardo
name: Ávila-Tomas, José F.
name: Gallego-Ruiz-de-Elvira, Elisa
name: Lozano-Hernández, Cristina
name: Martín-Fernández, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4.
Jörg Sonntag (ed.), Sermones in Regulam s. Benedicti. Ein zisterziensischer Regelkommentar aus Pontigny, Münster (LIT-Verlag) 2016
Creators: name: Stöber, Karen
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Jörg Sonntag (ed.), Sermones in Regulam s. Benedicti. Ein zisterziensischer Regelkommentar aus Pontigny, Münster (LIT-Verlag) 2016, 846 S. (Vita Regularis. Editionen, 6), ISBN 978-3-643-13428-8, EUR 124,90.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Electronic heat tunneling between two metals beyond the WKB approximation
Creators: name: Viloria, Mauricio Gómez
name: Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
name: Messina, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two metals at different temperatures separated by large gaps exchange heat under the form of electromagnetic radiation. When the separation distance is reduced and they approach contact (nanometer and sub-nanometer gaps), electrons and phonons can tunnel between the bodies, competing and eventually going beyond the flux mediated by thermal photons. In this transition regime the accurate modeling of electronic current and heat flux is of major importance. Here we show that, in order to quantitatively model this transfer, a careful description of the tunneling barrier between two metals is needed and going beyond the traditional WKB approximation is also essential. We employ analytical and numerical approaches to model the electronic potential between two semi-infinite jellium planar substrates separated by a vacuum gap in order to calculate the electronic heat flow and compare it with its radiative counterpart described by near-field radiative heat transfer. We demonstrate that the results for heat flux and electronic current density are extremely sensitive to both the shape and height of the barrier, as well as the calculation scheme for the tunneling probability, with variations up to several orders of magnitude. Using the proximity force approximation, we also provide estimates for tip-plane geometries. The present work provides realistic models to describe the electronic heat flux, in the scanning-thermal-microscopy experiments.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk
Creators: name: Pic, Romain
name: Dombry, Clément
name: Naveau, Philippe
name: Taillardat, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3
subject: 62G30, 62G20

description: The theoretical advances on the properties of scoring rules over the past decades have broadened the use of scoring rules in probabilistic forecasting. In meteorological forecasting, statistical postprocessing techniques are essential to improve the forecasts made by deterministic physical models. Numerous state-of-the-art statistical postprocessing techniques are based on distributional regression evaluated with the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS). However, theoretical properties of such evaluation with the CRPS have solely considered the unconditional framework (i.e. without covariates) and infinite sample sizes. We extend these results and study the rate of convergence in terms of CRPS of distributional regression methods. We find the optimal minimax rate of convergence for a given class of distributions and show that the k-nearest neighbor method and the kernel method reach this optimal minimax rate.
description: Preprint of the article available online in International Journal of Forecasting
Andreas Kappelmayer, Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (1589–1652). Standeswahrung und Fremdheitserfahrung im Schweden Gustavs II. Adolf und Christinas, Münster (Aschendorff) 2017
Creators: name: Gotthard, Axel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Andreas Kappelmayer, Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (1589–1652). Standeswahrung und Fremdheitserfahrung im Schweden Gustavs II. Adolf und Christinas, Münster (Aschendorff) 2017, 704 S., 17 farb. Abb., 9 geneal. Taf., ISBN 978-3-402-13234-0, EUR 59,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
The Brain Does Not Lie: A Case Study of Psychophysiology and Landscape in South Clifton Park
Creators: name: Seiz, Audrey
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Landscape architecture
subject: attention restoration theory
subject: stress reduction theory
subject: urbanism
subject: vacancy
subject: virtual reality

description: Researchers have long explored how humans respond psychologically and physiologically to distinct landscapes and natural features. Walking in nature and viewing photographs of natural landscapes have been shown to reduce stress measured through physiological responses of blood pressure, salivary cortisol concentration, and pulse rate. Exposure to natural landscapes has also been shown to improve feelings of relaxation and positive emotion. The increased popularity of virtual reality (VR) in landscape architecture provides an additional visualization tool to immerse a participant in a landscape at human scale. Little research has focused on the potential impact of visualization through VR, studied the impact of urban nature, or compared the impact of landscape design using the same site. This study explores how employment of psychophysiological measures provides objective assessment of humans' landscape perception in response to the restorativeness of a virtual place. Twenty students were recruited to view an actual site in South Clifton Park, Baltimore City. Utilizing VR, participants observed the site as it exists currently and reimagined using the tenets of Attention Restoration Theory (ART), Stress Reduction Theory (SRT), and community vision. Psychological response was analyzed using the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS-16), a survey designed to evaluate a place’s restorativeness through principles of ART, and physiological response was analyzed using electroencephalogram (EEG), the non-invasive measurements of the electrical brain activity. Findings indicated that perceived restorativeness increased in the designed site for the factors Being Away/Fascination and Compatibility; however, no significant difference was identified for the factor Extent. Regarding EEG data, alpha brain frequencies (broadband alpha, low alpha, and high alpha) were not significantly different when viewing the vacant versus designed site within the frontal or parietal lobes; however, beta brain frequencies (broadband beta, low beta, and high beta) demonstrated a marginally significant effect of sex in the frontal and parietal lobes with male beta brain frequencies decreasing when viewing the designed site and female beta brain frequencies increasing. Finally, frontal alpha asymmetry, a measure of approach-withdrawal motivation, demonstrated a marginally significant decrease when viewing the designed site, indicating increased withdrawal motivation in the designed site. The present research seeks to fill a gap in understanding objective indicators of restorativeness of a place and explore the power of VR as a tool for visualizing place.
Tunable interband and intraband plasmons in twisted double bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Atasi
name: Dutta, Debasis
name: Agarwal, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flat bands in twisted moire superlattices support a variety of topological and strongly correlated phenomena along with easily tunable electrical and optical properties. Here, we demonstrate the existence of tunable, long-lived, and flat intraband and interband terahertz plasmons in twisted double bilayer graphene. We show that the interband plasmons originate from the presence of a Van Hove singularity in the joint density of states and a finite Berry connection between the pair of bands involved. We find that the gapped interband plasmon mode has a universal dispersion, and the plasmon gap is specified by the location of the Van Hove singularity in the joint density of states. Metallic moire systems support an additional intraband plasmon mode which becomes flat in the large momentum limit because of the influence of the interband correlations. We demonstrate that the undamped and flat plasmon modes in moire systems are highly tunable and can be controlled by varying the vertical electric field and electron doping, and they persist over a wide range of twist angles.
description: 4 figures, 9 pages
Unilateral Antidotes to DNS Cache Poisoning
Creators: name: Herzberg, Amir
name: Shulman, Haya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate defenses against DNS cache poisoning focusing on mechanisms that can be readily deployed unilaterally by the resolving organisation, preferably in a single gateway or a proxy. DNS poisoning is (still) a major threat to Internet security; determined spoofing attackers are often able to circumvent currently deployed antidotes such as port randomisation. The adoption of DNSSEC, which would foil DNS poisoning, remains a long-term challenge. We discuss limitations of the prominent resolver-only defenses, mainly port and IP randomisation, 0x20 encoding and birthday protection. We then present two new (unilateral) defenses: the sandwich antidote and the NAT antidote. The defenses are simple, effective and efficient, and can be implemented in a gateway connecting the resolver to the Internet. The sandwich antidote is composed of two phases: poisoning-attack detection and then prevention. The NAT antidote adds entropy to DNS requests by switching the resolver's IP address to a random address (belonging to the same autonomous system). Finally, we show how to implement the birthday protection mechanism in the gateway, thus allowing to restrict the number of DNS requests with the same query to 1 even when the resolver does not support this.
Alistair Malcolm, Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640–1665, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2017
Creators: name: Hugon, Alain
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Alistair Malcolm, Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640–1665, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2017, XIV–305 p., 9 fig., 4 tabl. (Oxford Historical Monographs), ISBN 978-0-19-879190-4, GBP 65,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
John McCallum (ed.), Scotland’s Long Reformation. New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500–c. 1660, Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2016
Creators: name: Maurer, Michael
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: John McCallum (ed.), Scotland’s Long Reformation. New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500–c. 1660, Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2016, XII–230 p., 4 ill. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), ISBN 978-90-04-32393-3, EUR 110,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
title: If We’re Playing by the Rules, it has to be a Good Game
Creators: name: Sirr, Lorcan
Publisher: name: Technological University Dublin
Year: 2016

description: In the 2015 book Rule Breakers, author Niamh Hourigan postulates that Ireland’s success and downfall was due to personal relationships being much more important than rules. She says that a “weak rules and strong relationships” tension permeates Irish life, and not only at the top. This seems to have led to Ireland having a reputation of being friendly and open, and an easy place in which to do business. It has also created a place where corruption has been far too easy and widespread as a result of the power and influence of relationships.
Dibaryon resonances and short-range $NN$ interaction
Creators: name: Kukulin, V. I.
name: Pomerantsev, V. N.
name: Rubtsova, O. A.
name: Platonova, M. N.
name: Obukhovsky, I. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dibaryon concept for the nuclear force is presented, assuming that the main attraction between the nucleons at medium distances is determined by the $s$-channel exchange of an intermediate six-quark (dibaryon) state. To construct the respective $NN$ interaction model, a microscopic six-quark description of the $NN$ system is used, in which symmetry aspects play a special role. It is shown that the $NN$ interaction in all important partial waves can be described properly by a superposition of the long-range $t$-channel one-pion exchange and the $s$-channel exchange by an intermediate dibaryon. The developed model gives a good description of both elastic phase shifts and inelasticities of $NN$ scattering in all $S$, $P$, $D$ and $F$ partial waves at energies from zero to 600 - 800 MeV and even higher.The parameters of the intermediate six-quark states corresponding to the best fit of $NN$ scattering data are found to be consistent with the parameters of the known dibaryon resonances in those $NN$ partial configurations where their existence has been experimentally confirmed. Predictions for new dibaryon states are given as well.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures; version accepted to Chinese Physics C with updated references
Light Dirac right-handed sneutrino dark matter
Creators: name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Seto, Osamu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that mostly right-handed Dirac sneutrino is a viable supersymmetric light dark matter candidate. While the Dirac sneutrino scattering with nuclei is dominantly through the $Z$ boson exchange and is stringently constrained by the invisible decay width of $Z$ boson, it is possible to realize a large enough cross section with nucleon to account for possible signals observed at direct dark matter searches such as CDMS II-Si or CoGeNT. Even if the XENON100 limit is taken into account, a small part of signal region for CDMS II-Si events remains outside the excluded region by XENON100.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, discussion added. the final journal version
Marina Stalljohann-Schemme, Stadt und Stadtbild in der Frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main als kulturelles Zentrum im publizistischen Diskurs, Berlin, Boston, MA (De Gruyter) 2017
Creators: name: Manetsch, Thomas
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Marina Stalljohann-Schemme, Stadt und Stadtbild in der Frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main als kulturelles Zentrum im publizistischen Diskurs, Berlin, Boston, MA (De Gruyter) 2017, X–493 S. (Bibliothek Altes Reich, 21), ISBN 978-3-11-050145-2, EUR 89,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Gerhard Wenzel, Das diakonische Engagement der Hugenotten in Frankreich – von der Reformation bis 1685. Diakonie zwischen Ohnmacht, Macht und Bemächtigung, Göttingen (V&R unipress) 2013
Creators: name: Kamp, Silke
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Gerhard Wenzel, Das diakonische Engagement der Hugenotten in Frankreich – von der Reformation bis 1685. Diakonie zwischen Ohnmacht, Macht und Bemächtigung, Göttingen (V&R unipress) 2013, 358 S., ISBN 978-3-8471-0212-0, EUR 49,99.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Thomas Würtenberger, Symbole der Freiheit. Zu den Wurzeln westlicher politischer Kultur, Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2017
Creators: name: Reichardt, Rolf
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Thomas Würtenberger, Symbole der Freiheit. Zu den Wurzeln westlicher politischer Kultur, Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2017, 576 S., 330 Abb., ISBN 978-3-412-50753-4, EUR 60,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Lisa Sanner, »Als wäre das Ende der Welt da«. Die Explosionskatastrophen in der BASF 1921 und 1948, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Stadt Ludwigshafen Stadtarchiv) 2015
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Florian
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Lisa Sanner, »Als wäre das Ende der Welt da«. Die Explosionskatastrophen in der BASF 1921 und 1948, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Stadt Ludwigshafen Stadtarchiv) 2015, 486 S., 89 Abb. in Abbildungsteilen, 37 im Text (Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 42), ISBN 978-3-924667-47-4, EUR 25,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Harry Carl Schaub, Abwehr-General Erwin Lahousen. Der erste Zeuge beim Nürnberger Prozess. Aus dem Englischen von Martin Moll, Wien, Köln, Weimar (Böhlau) 2015 / Benedikt Salleck, Strafverteidigung in den Nürnberger Prozessen. Prozessabläufe und Verteidigungsstrategien dargestellt am Wirken des Verteidigers Dr. Friedrich Bergold, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2016
Creators: name: Gemählich, Matthias
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2018

description: Harry Carl Schaub, Abwehr-General Erwin Lahousen. Der erste Zeuge beim Nürnberger Prozess. Aus dem Englischen von Martin Moll, Wien, Köln, Weimar (Böhlau) 2015, 312 p., 8 s/w Abb., ISBN 978-3-205-79700-5, EUR 35,00; Benedikt Salleck, Strafverteidigung in den Nürnberger Prozessen. Prozessabläufe und Verteidigungsstrategien dargestellt am Wirken des Verteidigers Dr. Friedrich Bergold, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2016, 383 S. (Beiträge zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht, 25), ISBN 978-3-428-14801-1, EUR 89,90.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2018/1
Scalable and Robust Beam Shaping Using Apodized Fish-bone Grating Couplers
Creators: name: Ropp, Chad
name: Maurya, Dhriti
name: Yulaev, Alexander
name: Westly, Daron
name: Simelgor, Gregory
name: Aksyuk, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficient power coupling between on-chip guided and free-space optical modes requires precision spatial mode matching with apodized grating couplers. Yet, grating apodizations are often limited by the minimum feature size of the fabrication approach. This is especially challenging when small feature sizes are required to fabricate gratings at short wavelengths or to achieve weakly scattered light for large-area gratings. Here, we demonstrate a fish-bone grating coupler for precision beam shaping and the generation of millimeter-scale beams at 461 nm wavelength. Our design decouples the minimum feature size from the minimum achievable optical scattering strength, allowing smooth turn-on and continuous control of the emission. Our approach is compatible with commercial foundry photolithography and has reduced sensitivity to both the resolution and the variability of the fabrication approach compared to subwavelength meta-gratings, which often require electron beam lithography.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
A simple linear model to aid in analyses of the Beta Pictoris moving group
Creators: name: Nascimento, Josina O. do
name: Barbosa, Valmir C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build a four-dimensional linear model of object membership in the Beta Pictoris moving group (BPMG), using two nested applications of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to high-quality data on about 1.5 million objects. These data contain the objects' galactic space velocities and also their Gaia $G$ magnitudes. Through PCA, they ultimately result in a four-dimensional straight line, referred to as PC $1'$, about which both the bona fide members used to obtain the straight line and the candidate members used to test the model congregate at generally small distances. Our bona fide members come from a recent, Gaia DR2-based compilation. Most candidate members are from a compilation from 2017. Using a standard procedure to flag groups of outliers in data sets, we argue that flagging the few possible outliers we identified on account of distances to PC $1'$ is consistent with the nature of the candidate members in use. The spatial and kinematic measurements that backed their inclusion in the 2017 compilation were of course from before the availability of data from the Gaia mission. Moreover, their radial velocities at the time were either unknown or estimated somewhat unreliably. We propose that PC $1'$ be added to the tool set for BPMG analyses and potentially extended to other young stellar moving groups.
description: This version contains extensive revisions
Suspended Culture: Agritecture for a Contemporary Climate
Creators: name: Perla, Vincenza
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This thesis explores how the relationship between wetland restoration and farming on Maryland’s Eastern Shore create resilient coastal infrastructure. Coastal communities were designed for a climate that no longer exists and are ill equipped to face the rapidly changing landscape due to climate change. The Chesapeake Bay is already facing saltwater intrusion, rising sea levels, warmer temperature, and more frequent extreme weather events that threaten the productivity and livelihood of people, plants, and animals of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Farms whose practice is threatened by the new climate can actually utilize wetlands intentionally for protection from flooding, poor water and soil quality, and pollution. Therefore, this thesis is aimed at designing a resilient farm and wetland park in an area whose history is closely woven with that of the land and agriculture. In the interest of longevity, the three design criteria are (1) closeness with and respect for the landscape, (2) adaptability, and (3) carbon neutrality. Overall, the coastal farm and wetland park seeks for design solutions to resilient and sustainable infrastructure in the intersections between the built and natural environment.
The Equivalence of the Lagrangian-Averaged Navier-Stokes-α Model and the Rational LES model in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Nadiga, Balasubramanya T.
name: Bouchet, Freddy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) framework for modeling a turbulent flow, when the large scale velocity field is defined by low-pass filtering the full velocity field, a Taylor series expansion of the full velocity field in terms of the large scale velocity field leads (at the leading order) to the nonlinear gradient model for the subfilter stresses. Motivated by the fact that while the nonlinear gradient model shows excellent a priori agreement in resolved simulations, the use of this model by itself is problematic, we consider two models that are related, but better behaved: The Rational LES model that uses a sub-diagonal Pade approximation instead of a Taylor series expansion and the Lagrangian Averaged Navier-Stokes-α model that uses a regulariza- tion approach to modeling turbulence. In this article, we show that these two latter models are identical in two dimensions.
Groups of two galaxies in SDSS: implications of colours on star formation quenching time-scales
Creators: name: Trinh, Christopher Q.
name: Barton, Elizabeth J.
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Cooper, Michael C.
name: Zentner, Andrew R.
name: Wechsler, Risa H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have devised a method to select galaxies that are isolated in their dark matter halo (N=1 systems) and galaxies that reside in a group of exactly two (N=2 systems). Our N=2 systems are widely-separated (up to $\sim$\,200\,$h^{-1}$\,kpc), where close galaxy-galaxy interactions are not dominant. We apply our selection criteria to two volume-limited samples of galaxies from SDSS DR6 with $M_{r}-5 \log_{10} h \leq$ -19 and -20 to study the effects of the environment of very sparse groups on galaxy colour. For satellite galaxies in a group of two, we find a red excess attributed to star formation quenching of 0.15\,$\pm$\,0.01 and 0.14\,$\pm$\,0.01 for the -19 and -20 samples, respectively, relative to isolated galaxies of the same stellar mass. Assuming N=1 systems are the progenitors of N=2 systems, an immediate-rapid star formation quenching scenario is inconsistent with these observations. A delayed-then-rapid star formation quenching scenario with a delay time of 3.3 and 3.7\,Gyr for the -19 and -20 samples, respectively, yields a red excess prediction in agreement with the observations. The observations also reveal that central galaxies in a group of two have a slight blue excess of 0.06\,$\pm$\,0.02 and 0.02\,$\pm$\,0.01 for the -19 and -20 samples, respectively, relative to N=1 populations of the same stellar mass. Our results demonstrate that even the environment of very sparse groups of luminous galaxies influence galaxy evolution and in-depth studies of these simple systems are an essential step towards understanding galaxy evolution in general.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Why no debt? The capital structure of Cal-Maine Foods Inc.
Creators: name: Trejo-Pech, Carlos J.O.
name: White, Susan
name: Smith, Robert H.
name: Trejo-Pech, Carlos J.O.
name: White, Susan
name: Smith, Robert H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: agribusiness finance
subject: capital structure
subject: corporate finance
subject: cage-free eggs

description: Cal-Maine Foods Inc., the largest shell egg producer in the world, had historically operated with low debt levels relative to debt ratios in other industries and within agribusiness. In its third fiscal quarter report, issued by the end of March 2021, Cal-Maine reported no debt in its balance sheet, making this company one of the few debt-free publicly traded agribusinesses in the U.S. This case analyzes Cal-Maine’s capital structure, which represents a rare case for exploring and challenging the notion of optimal capital structure in theory and practice. Understanding the rationale behind a debt-free firm’s policy is puzzling because financial theory predicts that adding debt up to certain level −the optimal capital structure− creates economic value. According to surveyed chief financial officers, there is also evidence that practitioners use an optimal capital structure framework for financial management decisions. By applying a framework allowing for both qualitative and quantitative analysis, this case reviews the benefits and costs of debt in the capital structure, as applied to Cal-Maine. The case asks students to evaluate potential recapitalization policies in which Cal-Maine adds debt to its capital structure and use debt proceeds plus excess cash to repurchase shares at the prevailing price as of the end of May 2021.
title: Try not to worry & the people pictured here
Creators: name: Wolf, Rachel
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2008

description:
The non-fiction collection, Try Not to Worry, follows the Wolf family through the mental and physical decline of Alex Wolf, the family's third child. As Alex enters adolescence, he struggles increasingly with clinical anxiety, made worse by his perception of himself as inadequate. The third of four children, and the second son, he feels himself to be an appendage to what could be a complete family unit without his presence. Alex's troubles are seen only through others' eyes. His parents surprisingly are not given an essential role in Try Not to Worry. Even as they seek to solve Alex's problems through therapy and intervention, in his point of view they seem to disappear. Rachel, the eldest child, feels increasingly pulled back to the family circle even as she attempts to find her adult identity. Evan, the second child, empathizes with Alex's feelings of anxiety, an emotional investment that prevents Evan from leaving home, and Bridget, the youngest child, is left to quietly rebel against rules that no one has remembered to set for her. Try Not to Worry is the story of a family whose only defense against loss is to hold on to each other as tightly as possible, which is not always a good idea. Try Not to Worry's companion piece, The People Pictured Here, is a fictional imagining of a family much like the Wolfs, but years farther along in their construction of an interdependent family dynamic. The Barlowe siblings are physically adults, yet their reliance on each other for affection, affirmation, and guidance holds them in a suspended state of emotional adolescence. The People Pictured Here revolves around Dominick Barlowe, who is locked in an unsettling intimacy with his sister Trisha, and her best friend Angela. Their triangle is physically manifested when Angela becomes pregnant with Dominick's child, and all three adults must decide what role they will play in the child's life. Macy and Christopher Barlowe, the eldest Barlowe siblings, watch the actions of Dominick and Trisha with both amusement and trepidation, understanding that their siblings' lack of boundaries reflects Macy and Christopher's own unhealthy dependence. Both Try Not to Worry and The People Pictured Here present families that are ensnared in patterns of emotional incest, in which loyalty and concern for each other often means self-neglect. The characters in these two pieces must ultimately decide how, and if, they can break away from their tangled family webs. Separation may be successful or disastrous, yet the siblings in these works are all traveling towards a time when severing their ties to each other will be the only way they can grow up.
Additional file 5 of Effectiveness of a game-based educational strategy e-EDUCAGUIA for implementing antimicrobial clinical practice guidelines in family medicine residents in Spain: a randomized clinical trial by cluster
Creators: name: del Cura-González, Isabel
name: Ariza-Cardiel, Gloria
name: Polentinos-Castro, Elena
name: López-Rodríguez, Juan A.
name: Sanz-Cuesta, Teresa
name: Barrio-Cortes, Jaime
name: Andreu-Ivorra, Blanca
name: Rodríguez-Barrientos, Ricardo
name: Ávila-Tomas, José F.
name: Gallego-Ruiz-de-Elvira, Elisa
name: Lozano-Hernández, Cristina
name: Martín-Fernández, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5.
Machine Learning Assisted Design of MXene Aerogels for Personal Thermal Management
Creators: name: Kesavan, Meera
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Personal thermal management is necessary in maintaining body temperature in humans through the use of building insulation, personal garments, and heating or cooling units. Electrically conductive aerogels can be used as a multifunctional material, where the aerogel structure is intrinsically thermally insulating, and the incorporation of electrically conductive components allows for Joule heating of these materials for wearable heaters. Ti3C2Tx (MXene) has been incorporated in materials for Joule heating due to its excellent electrical conductivity. Cellulose and gelatin based aerogels have been used as bio-based materials with good structural properties in aerogels. Due to the large range of possibilities in parameters for aerogel formation, from percentage of components in each sample to sample concentration and presence or absence of glutaraldehyde, it can be tedious to test a matrix of recipes and determine the effects of each component on the electrical properties. To assist in the design of highly conductive aerogels machine learning was used as it uses a data-driven approach to analyze the effect of inputs, sample composition in this case, to predict a set of inputs that will return a desired output, which is a highly conductive aerogel.Aerogels of various compositions were fabricated and their resistances and sensitivities to applied pressure were measured to screen for highly conductive recipes and for strain insensitive samples. Of these samples, a strain insensitive sample recipe and a strain sensitive sample recipe were selected for Joule heating tests. Low voltages of 2 Volts and below, were applied to the aerogel samples and the temperature increase was measured. The stability of these samples under multiple heating and cooling cycles were tested both with and without applied compression. Through these tests we determined a strain insensitive aerogel recipe for stable temperature control regardless of pressure applied. This aerogel recipe was found to have a thermal conductivity comparable to common insulating materials at a much lower density. A machine learning model was then trained from the aerogel compositions and measured resistance values, and a prediction model with a low mean relative error of 19% was developed to assist in conductive aerogel recipe formulation.
New mass limit of white dwarfs
Creators: name: Das, Upasana
name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Is the Chandrasekhar mass limit for white dwarfs (WDs) set in stone? Not anymore -- recent observations of over-luminous, peculiar type Ia supernovae can be explained if significantly super-Chandrasekhar WDs exist as their progenitors, thus barring them to be used as cosmic distance indicators. However, there is no estimate of a mass limit for these super-Chandrasekhar WD candidates yet. Can they be arbitrarily large? In fact, the answer is no! We arrive at this revelation by exploiting the flux freezing theorem in observed, accreting, magnetized WDs, which brings in Landau quantization of the underlying electron degenerate gas. This essay presents the calculations which pave the way for the ultimate (significantly super-Chandrasekhar) mass limit of WDs, heralding a paradigm shift 80 years after Chandrasekhar's discovery.
description: 6 pages; received Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2013 Awards for Essays on Gravitation; version accepted for publication in IJMPD