cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Driver behavior analysis on rural 2-lane, 2-way highways using SHRP 2 NDS data
Creators: name: Wu, Jianqing
name: Xu, Hao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Objective: Rural 2-lane, 2-way (RTLTW) highways comprise a large portion of the rural road network in the United States. Crashes on RTLTW roads have been a major concern for traffic safety and may impact traffic significantly. Driver behavior on RTLTW roads has not been analyzed thoroughly. This article analyzed the role of driver behavior fault in crashes/near-crashes on RTLTW roads. Methods: A total of 467 crash/near-crash records and 160 baseline events (normal driving) were extracted from the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) database. The contribution of driver behavior to crash risk compared to roadway geometry and environmental factors was ranked using random forest. The influence of different factors on driver behavior fault in a crash/near-crash was further examined using a probit model. The reliability of the model was evaluated using 3 different parameters. Results: It was found that driver behavior fault was the most important factor in crashes that occurred on RTLTW roads. Driver age, traffic density, alignment, presence of an intersection, and hands on wheel were found to be highly related to driver behavior fault. Conclusions: Young drivers (16–19 years old) were more likely to have driving behavior fault compared to other age groups. The presence of an intersection may also slightly increase the probability of driver behavior fault. The curve on the road can increase the risk of driver behavior fault. Drivers were more likely to have driver behavior fault when no hands were on the wheel. Sites with curves near intersections are locations where drivers are more likely to have behavior fault.
New Baryons in the Delta eta and Delta omega Channels
Creators: name: Capstick, Simon
name: Roberts, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decays of excited nonstrange baryons into the final states Delta eta and Delta omega are examined in a relativized quark pair creation model. The wavefunctions and parameters of the model are fixed by previous calculations of N pi and N pi pi, etc., decays through various quasi-two body channels including N eta and N omega. Our results show that the combination of thresholds just below the region of interest and the isospin selectivity of these channels should allow the discovery of several new baryons in such experiments.
description: 10 pages, RevTeX
Text Generating AI technologies: A case study analysed by the method of Value Analysis
Creators: name: Gordijn, Bert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research Ethics
Research Integrity
Case Study Analysis
Value Analysis

description: This document uses a real case to show how the case study analysis method of Value Analysis (as introduced on the Embassy of Good Science) should be used by research ethics and integrity experts or researchers.
description: This analysis is slightly improved compared to the original project deliverable, available at https://entireconsortium.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/D5.3..pdf
Elevated fat intake increases body weight and the risk of overweight and obesity among chinese adults: 1991–2015 trends
Creators: name: Popkin B.M
name: Wang L
name: Zhang B
name: Wang H
name: Du S
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2020

description: Studies on fat intake and obesity have been inconclusive. This study examined the associations between dietary fat intake and body weight and the risk of overweight and obesity in China. We used data from 23,859 adults aged 20–60 years who participated in the China Health and Nutrition Survey, an ongoing open-cohort study, from 1991 to 2015. We collected detailed dietary data by conducting three 24-h dietary recalls and weighing foods and condiments in household inventories. We examined the associations between fat intake and body weight, body mass index (BMI), and the risk of overweight and obesity with random-effects linear or logistic regression models for panel data. The Chinese population’s fat intake, percentage of energy intake from fat, and prevalence of high-fat diets (energy intake from fat > 30%) increased from 68.5 g per day (g/d), 23.1%, and 22.4%, respectively, in 1991 to 79.3 g/d, 35.6%, and 67.2%, respectively, in 2015. The prevalence of overweight and obesity increased from 12.3% to 37.3% during the same period. Fat intake, percentage of energy intake from fat, and a high-fat diet were positively associated with body weight, BMI, and the risk of overweight and obesity in both sexes (p < 0.001) after adjustment for nonfat energy intake, physical activity, and socioeconomic status. Increased fat intake and high-fat diets were associated with increased body weight, BMI, and risk of overweight and obesity. These findings could have a significant impact on Chinese policies and interventions to control overweight and obesity.
Diffusion Thermopower at Even Denominator Fractions
Creators: name: Khveshchenko, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the electron diffusion thermopower at compressible Quantum Hall states corresponding to even denominator fractions in the framework of the composite fermion approach. It is shown that the deviation from the linear low temperature behavior of the termopower is dominated by the logarithmic temperature corrections to the conductivity and not to the thermoelectric coefficient, although such terms are present in both quantities. The enhanced magnitude of this effect compared to the zero field case may allow its observation with the existing experimental techniques.
description: Latex, 12 pages, Nordita report
Photonic Engineering for CV-QKD over Earth-Satellite Channels
Creators: name: He, Mingjian
name: Malaney, Robert
name: Green, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) via satellite offers up the possibility of unconditionally secure communications on a global scale. Increasing the secret key rate in such systems, via photonic engineering at the source, is a topic of much ongoing research. In this work we investigate the use of photon-added states and photon-subtracted states, derived from two mode squeezed vacuum states, as examples of such photonic engineering. Specifically, we determine which engineered-photonic state provides for better QKD performance when implemented over channels connecting terrestrial receivers with Low-Earth-Orbit satellites. We quantify the impact the number of photons that are added or subtracted has, and highlight the role played by the adopted model for atmospheric turbulence and loss on the predicted key rates. Our results are presented in terms of the complexity of deployment used, with the simplest deployments ignoring any estimate of the channel, and the more sophisticated deployments involving a feedback loop that is used to optimize the key rate for each channel estimation. The optimal quantum state is identified for each deployment scenario investigated.
description: Updated reference list
Synthesis, structure and properties of a 3D coordination polymer based on tetranuclear copper(I) and a tetra(triazole) ligand
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Xiang
name: Tian, Hai-Xin
name: Zha, Miao
name: Li, Min
name: Li, Bao-Long
name: Li, Hai-Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: A Cu(I) coordination polymer, {[Cu4Br(ttpe)3]Br2·(OH)}n (1), was prepared and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, EA, IR, PXRD, luminescence, optical band gaps and VB XPS spectra (ttpe = 1,1,2,2-tetrakis[4-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)phenyl]ethylene). 1 presents a two-fold interpenetrating (4,12)-connected 3D topology containing the [Cu4Br] tetranuclear copper(I) cluster building block with a point symbol of {44.62}3{424.640.82}. Eg, Ev and Ec of 1 were 2.20, 0.74 and −1.46 eV, respectively. 1 can act as a good photocatalyst for degradation of organic dyes. The photocatalytic mechanism was studied.
Ocnerodrilidae
Creators: name: Dudas, Rafaela T.
name: Tavares, Alan A. T.
name: Ercole, Caique
name: De Lara, Brunna L.
name: Carlos, Esthefany Da S.
name: Torres, Julia L. M.
name: Smokanit, Manoela
name: Guaranha, Raquel M.
name: Brown, George G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Ocnerodrilidae

description: Ocnerodrilidae (juveniles)   BRPR1626, 1 individual, in 0 to 20 soil depth in grass lawn in Casa Verde, Curitiba – PR (-25.456633 -49.373330, 926 m. a.s.l.), February 2019, A.A. T. Tavares, B.L. de Lara, C. Ercole, E. da S. Carlos, M.L.C. Bartz, R. T. Dudas colls.
description: Published as part of Dudas, Rafaela T., Tavares, Alan A. T., Ercole, Caique, De Lara, Brunna L., Carlos, Esthefany Da S., Torres, Julia L. M., Smokanit, Manoela, Guaranha, Raquel M. & Brown, George G., 2023, Urban green areas as earthworm species maintainers in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, pp. 336-346 in Zootaxa 5255 (1) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.27, http://zenodo.org/record/7744988
title: Prostaglandin receptor EP4 expression by Th17 cells: a new marker of disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis
Creators: name: Meyer, Anja
name: Klasen, Charlotte
name: Waqué, Iris
name: Wittekind, Paula
name: Nabhani, Schafiq
name: Kofler, David
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Th17 cells are involved in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). However, the mechanism underlying enhanced Th17 cell accumulation in AS remains unknown. The prostaglandin E2 receptor EP2/EP4 signaling pathway plays a critical role in the development of autoimmune Th17 cells.[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Graph calculus and the disconnected-boundary Schwinger-Dyson equations of quartic tensor field theories
Creators: name: Perez-Sanchez, Carlos I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Txx, 20Nxx, 05Exx

description: Tensor field theory (TFT) focuses on quantum field theory aspects of random tensor models, a quantum-gravity-motivated generalisation of random matrix models. The TFT correlation functions have been shown to be classified by graphs that describe the geometry of the boundary states, the so-called boundary graphs. These graphs can be disconnected, although the correlation functions are themselves connected. In a recent work, the Schwinger-Dyson equations for an arbitrary albeit connected boundary were obtained. Here, we introduce the multivariable graph calculus in order to derive the missing equations for all correlation functions with disconnected boundary, thus completing the Schwinger-Dyson pyramid for quartic melonic (`pillow'-vertices) models in arbitrary rank. We first study finite group actions that are parametrised by graphs and build the graph calculus on a suitable quotient of the monoid algebra $A[G]$ corresponding to a certain function space $A$ and to the free monoid $G$ in finitely many graph variables; a derivative of an element of $A[G]$ with respect to a graph yields its corresponding group action on $A$. The present result and the graph calculus have three potential applications: the non-perturbative large-$N$ limit of tensor field theories, the solvability of the theory by using methods that generalise the topological recursion to the TFT setting and the study of `higher dimensional maps' via Tutte-like equations. In fact, we also offer a term-by-term comparison between Tutte equations and the present Schwinger-Dyson equations.
description: 49 pages, some TikZ figures. v4. New section on Tutte equations, higher-dimensional maps and the parallel with the present Schwinger-Dyson equations of TFT
title: GeoMason: Geospatial Support for MASON
Creators: name: Sullivan, Keith
name: Coletti, Mark
name: Luke, Sean
Publisher: name: Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Technical reports
subject: Computer simulation
subject: Geographic Information Systems

description: MASON is a free, open-source Java-based discrete event multi-agent simulation toolkit that has been used to model network intrusions, unmanned aerial vehicles, nomadic migrations, and farmer/herder conflicts, among others. Many multi-agent models use georeferenced data which represent such things as road networks, rivers, vegetation coverage, population, and topology. However, MASON does not directly support georeferenced data. Therefore practitioners using MASON must hand craft such support, which may be difficult and error prone. In this paper we describe newly added geospatial functionality in MASON that addresses this problem. We discuss the design of this functionality, called GeoMASON, and its use and limitations. Finally, we give examples on how to import and manipulate georeferenced data.
New physics in inclusive semileptonic $B$ decays including nonperturbative corrections
Creators: name: Kamali, Saeed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the effects of New Physics (NP) operators on the inclusive $\bar{B} \to X_c τ^- \barν_τ$ decay including power $(\mathcal{O}(1/m_b^2))$ corrections in the NP operators. In analogy with $R(D^{(*)})$ observables, we study the observable $R(X_c)=\frac{\mathcal{B}(\bar{B} \to X_c τ^- \barν_τ)}{\mathcal{B}(\bar{B} \to X_c \ell^- \barν_\ell)}$. We present some numerical results for $R(X_c)$ and compare the results for this observable with and without power corrections in the NP contributions.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures. Matches published version in IJMPA
Reentrant Spin-Peierls Transition in Mg-Doped CuGeO_3
Creators: name: Kiryukhin, V.
name: Wang, Y. J.
name: LaMarra, S. C.
name: Birgeneau, R. J.
name: Masuda, T.
name: Tsukada, I.
name: Uchinokura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a synchrotron x-ray scattering study of the diluted spin-Peierls (SP) material Cu_{1-x}Mg_xGeO_3. In a recent paper we have shown that the SP dimerization attains long-range order only for x < x_c = 0.022(0.001). Here we report that the SP transition is reentrant in the vicinity of the critical concentration x_c. This is manifested by broadening of the SP dimerization superlattice peaks below the reentrance temperature, T_r, which may mean either the complete loss of the long-range SP order or the development of a short-range ordered component within the long-range ordered SP state. Marked hysteresis and very large relaxation times are found in the samples with Mg concentrations in the vicinity of x_c. The reentrant transition is likely related to the competing Neel transition which occurs at a temperature similar to T_r. We argue that impurity-induced competing interchain interactions play an essential role in these phenomena.
description: 5 pages, 4 embedded eps figures
Graph Regularized Sparse $L_{2,1}$ Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Data Reduction
Creators: name: Rhodes, Anthony
name: Jiang, Bin
name: Jiang, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an effective algorithm for multivariate data analysis, including applications to feature selection, pattern recognition, and computer vision. Its variant, Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (SNF), extends the ability of NMF to render parts-based data representations to include mixed-sign data. Graph Regularized SNF builds upon this paradigm by adding a graph regularization term to preserve the local geometrical structure of the data space. Despite their successes, SNF-related algorithms to date still suffer from instability caused by the Frobenius norm due to the effects of outliers and noise. In this paper, we present a new $L_{2,1}$ SNF algorithm that utilizes the noise-insensitive $L_{2,1}$ norm. We provide monotonic convergence analysis of the $L_{2,1}$ SNF algorithm. In addition, we conduct numerical experiments on three benchmark mixed-sign datasets as well as several randomized mixed-sign matrices to demonstrate the performance superiority of $L_{2,1}$ SNF over conventional SNF algorithms under the influence of Gaussian noise at different levels.
Emerging Epigenetic-Based Nanotechnology for Cancer Therapy: Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment
Creators: name: Huang, L
name: Zhang, J
name: Ge, G
name: Hu, K
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2023

description: Dysregulated epigenetic modifications dynamically drive the abnormal transcription process to affect the tumor microenvironment; thus, promoting cancer progression, drug resistance, and metastasis. Nowadays, therapies targeting epigenetic dysregulation of tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment appear to be promising adjuncts to other cancer therapies. However, the clinical results of combination therapies containing epigenetic agents are disappointing due to systemic toxicities and limited curative effects. Here, the role of epigenetic processes, including DNA methylation, post-translational modification of histones, and noncoding RNAs is discussed, followed by detailed descriptions of epigenetic regulation of the tumor microenvironment, as well as the application of epigenetic modulators in antitumor therapy, with an emphasis on the epigenetic-based advanced drug delivery system in targeting the tumor microenvironment.
Emergent variant modeling of the serological repertoire to norovirus in young children
Creators: name: Breuer J
name: O'Reilly K.M
name: Edmunds W.J
name: Williams R
name: Baric R.S
name: Brewer-Jensen P.D
name: Kelly D
name: Lindesmith L.C
name: Conrad H
name: Allen D.J
name: Mallory M.L
Publisher: name: Cell Press
Year: 2023

description: Human norovirus is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis. Young children and the elderly bear the greatest burden of disease, representing more than 200,000 deaths annually. Infection prevalence peaks at younger than 2 years and is driven by novel GII.4 variants that emerge and spread globally. Using a surrogate neutralization assay, we characterize the evolution of the serological neutralizing antibody (nAb) landscape in young children as they transition between sequential GII.4 pandemic variants. Following upsurge of the replacement variant, antigenic cartography illustrates remodeling of the nAb landscape to the new variant accompanied by improved nAb titer. However, nAb relative avidity remains focused on the preceding variant. These data support immune imprinting as a mechanism of immune evasion and GII.4 virus persistence across a population. Understanding the complexities of immunity to rapidly evolving and co-circulating viral variants, like those of norovirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2), and dengue viruses, will fundamentally inform vaccine design for emerging pathogens.
title: Sentiment Analysis and NLP models for Identifying Biases of Online News Stations
Creators: name: Cox, Grace
name: Acharya, Anuska
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Sentiment analysis
subject: Natural language processing
subject: News

description: This work attempts to identify potential reporting bias surrounding recent controversial decisions for articles published from August 2019 to October 2021 within four major news organizations: FOX, CNN, NBC, and NPR. This potential bias is determined by conducting a Sentiment Analysis using NLTK’s (Natural Language Tool Kit) VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) Sentiment Intensity Analyzer. Copious amounts of literature have been published regarding sentiment analysis and bias identification of news articles, though none employ VADER. The team determines the overall sentiment for an article using the Polarity Compound calculated by the Sentiment Intensity Analyzer, which then corresponds to a political tone indicated within the verbiage and context of the article. Upon completion of the analysis, it was found that CNN, NBC, and NPR tend to have the most negative sentiment surrounding this topic, while FOX tends to be more neutral though still on the positive side. This translates to the surprising identification of a slightly democrat tone for articles published by FOX, and a more republican tone for those articles published by NPR, CNN, and NBC.
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 818
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 818, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 818, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
title: SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a Interacts and Stabilizes HMOX1 Expression and Function
Creators: name: Jones, Naomi X
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: ORF3a
subject: HMOX1
subject: Co-Immunoprecipitation

description: This thesis describes the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 Open Reading Frame 3a (ORF3a) and the Heme Oxygenase 1 (HMOX1). SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus and the causative agent of COVID-19, the highly contagious infection behind the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a is a viroporin, a small virally encoded membrane protein that acts as an ion channel. Its expression causes cell apoptosis, necrosis, lysosomal damage, and disrupts host cell autophagy. It is also implicated in the egress of SARS-CoV-2 virions from infected cells. HMOX1 is an enzyme encoded by a human gene capable of modulating immune activity with an active role in suppressing viral infections and inflammatory pathways. In this thesis, we use confocal microscopy and a co-immunoprecipitation protocol to shed light on the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a and HMOX1. Using this approach, we show that SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a and HMOX1 co-localize in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We also found that that ORF3a expression stabilizes HMOX1 protein levels within cells. These results suggest that ORF3a may affect TRC8, an important E3 ligase that help direct protein traffic through the ER and which is known to ubiquitinate HMOX1. These observations lay the foundation for additional studies aimed at studying the HMOX1/ORF3a interaction. They also suggest that SARS-CoV-2 targets TRC8 and potentially other E3 ligases to redirect ER trafficking.
Phase Transitions in liquid Helium 3
Creators: name: Kindermann, Markus
name: Wetterich, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase transitions of liquid Helium 3 are described by truncations of an exact nonperturbative renormalization group equation. The location of the first order transition lines and the jump in the order parameter are computed quantitatively. At the triple point we find indications for partially universal behaviour. We suggest experiments that could help to determine the effective interactions between fermion pairs.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, LaTex
title: Finite momentum condensates in Zeeman fields on a lattice
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: We study superﬂuid states in two-dimensional fermionic attractive Hubbard models with Zeeman coupling to an external ﬁeld. For singlet pairing in the strong coupling regime, we reveal a rich phase diagram of ﬁnite momentum condensates which exhibits both Fulde-Ferrell and Larkin-Ovchinnikov orders at zero and ﬁnite temperatures. The latter are commensurate stripe states that spontaneously break a lattice symmetry. Many stable wavevectors are found as a function of particle density and Zeeman ﬁeld. Stronger coupling signiﬁcantly enhances the stability of the ﬁnite momentum condensates, but our numerical mean-ﬁeld calculations underestimate the eﬀect of ﬂuctuations and indicate a possible localization near half-ﬁlling. We furthermore study the eﬀect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the formation of ﬁnite-momentum condensates in Zeeman ﬁelds. The spin orbit coupling stimulates pairing in the spin-triplet channels and stabilizes condensates with spin current vortices or spin-triplet pair density waves in certain parameter regimes. We show that Zeeman ﬁeld enhances the stability of spin-polarized triplet condensates, and stabilizes additional FFLO condensates of unpolarized Cooper pair triplets. We calculate the phase diagram of condensates by a numerical minimization of mean ﬁeld free energy under variations of the condensate order parameter. The phase diagrams contain numerous ﬁrst-order phase transitions between competing orders, so we combine multiple algorithms and repeated minimizations with random seeds in order to distinguish between the true ground states from metastable states. In addition to conventional data analysis, we explore the ability of machine learning algorithm known as a Support Vector Classiﬁer (SVC) to automatically discover phase boundaries from our data. We sub-sample the output collected during our search for ﬁnite momentum condensates and ﬁnd that using an SVC should preclude performing expensive calculations deep within normal or uniform superﬂuid regions, and result in a more eﬃcient use of compute time. The application of the procedure we describe is straightforward and should be applicable in any computational search of phase boundaries.
title: Improvement of Nested Cartesian Finite Difference Grid Solvers
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been a successful tool for industry applica- tions during the last decades. However, still accurate solutions involving vortex propagation, separated and turbulent flows are associated with high computing costs. LES simulations of complex geometries, such as an automobile, at high Reynolds number require several days to obtain a solution with information statistically relevant on an arbitrary high number of cores. FDFLO is a High Order Cartesian Finite Difference (FD) code, developed for industrial applications at the CFD Center at George Mason University. FDFLO is able to perform LES simulation with the aim of overnight turnarounds. A study of the capabilities of an FD solver to obtain accurate turbulent results in complex geometries and the main implementations an improvements introduced in the code are the subject of this thesis. The two central issues addressed in this thesis are: a) Proper schemes for the transition between grids of different spatial resolution, and b) Development of high order methods for the time discretization with minimal stage count. The first issue was resolved using high order interpolation post-processing interpolation schemes. The second issue was addressed by employing multivalue multistage Runge-Kutta (MMRK) schemes. The methods developed were tested on canonical analytical test cases such as the Lambvortex and the Taylor-Green vortex, as well as experimental results for the Ahmed Body. The results obtained showed the expected spatial and temporal convergence characteristics of the methods, as well as very good agreement (overall drag, location of flow structures, etc.) for the Ahmed body. The gains in computational performance for the MMRK methods used as compared to classical Runge-Kutta or Low-Storage RK schemes reached up to 25% with no loss in accuracy. An interesting empirical result observed for the Taylor-Green vortex was that for fully turbulent flows the accuracy of 8th order schemes on grids of size 2h was equivalent to 2nd order schemes on grids of size h. The resulting overall speedup of the 8th order scheme over the 2nd order scheme was more than a factor of 5:1.
To the Globe (TTG): Towards Language-Driven Guaranteed Travel Planning
Creators: name: JU, Da
name: Jiang, Song
name: Cohen, Andrew
name: Foss, Aaron
name: Mitts, Sasha
name: Zharmagambetov, Arman
name: Amos, Brandon
name: Li, Xian
name: Kao, Justine T
name: Fazel-Zarandi, Maryam
name: Tian, Yuandong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Travel planning is a challenging and time-consuming task that aims to find an itinerary which satisfies multiple, interdependent constraints regarding flights, accommodations, attractions, and other travel arrangements. In this paper, we propose To the Globe (TTG), a real-time demo system that takes natural language requests from users, translates it to symbolic form via a fine-tuned Large Language Model, and produces optimal travel itineraries with Mixed Integer Linear Programming solvers. The overall system takes ~5 seconds to reply to the user request with guaranteed itineraries. To train TTG, we develop a synthetic data pipeline that generates user requests, flight and hotel information in symbolic form without human annotations, based on the statistics of real-world datasets, and fine-tune an LLM to translate NL user requests to their symbolic form, which is sent to the symbolic solver to compute optimal itineraries. Our NL-symbolic translation achieves ~91% exact match in a backtranslation metric (i.e., whether the estimated symbolic form of generated natural language matches the groundtruth), and its returned itineraries have a ratio of 0.979 compared to the optimal cost of the ground truth user request. When evaluated by users, TTG achieves consistently high Net Promoter Scores (NPS) of 35-40% on generated itinerary.
title: Identifizierung und Charakterisierung einer neuen genetischen Ursache einer Typ 1-Interferonopathie
Creators: name: Lucas, Nadja
name: Mirtschink, Peter
name: Wolf, Christine
name: Ping, Xianfeng
name: Liu, Delong
name: Dalgard, Clifton L.
name: Boehm, Manfred
name: Lee-Kirsch, Min Ae
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Wir beschreiben eine konsanguine Familie mit sieben Kindern, von denen fünf in den ersten Lebenswochen an den Folgen einer inflammatorischen Enzephalopathie mit generalisierter Myopathie und konstitutiver Typ 1-Interferon (IFN)-Aktivierung verstarben. Methoden: Die genetische Untersuchung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
A Distributed Control Approach for Heterogeneous Linear Multiagent Systems
Creators: name: Sarsilmaz, Selahattin Burak
name: Yucelen, Tansel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper considers an internal model based distributed control approach to the cooperative output regulation problem of heterogeneous linear time-invariant multiagent systems over fixed directed communication graph topologies. First, a new definition of the linear cooperative output regulation problem is introduced in order to allow a broad class of functions to be tracked and rejected by a network of agents. Second, the solvability of this problem with three distributed control laws, namely dynamic state feedback, dynamic output feedback with local measurement, and dynamic output feedback, is investigated by first considering a global condition and then providing an agent-wise local sufficient condition under standard assumptions. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the selected contributions of this paper.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures, additional discussion in Section 4.1, accepted for publication in International Journal of Control
title: Liver X Receptor activation protects from mechanically induced osteoarthritis in mice
Creators: name: Schmidt, Tobias
name: Behler-Janbeck, Friederike
name: Rüther, Wolfgang
name: Niemeier, Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The Liver X Receptors (LXRα and LXRβ) are nuclear receptors that have central roles in regulation of cholesterol and lipid metabolism and inflammatory signaling. Recent studies have suggested that LXRs are expressed in cartilage tissue and possess roles that offer protection against[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Additional file 1 of The correlation between serum total bile acid and alanine aminotransferase of pregnant women and the disorders of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia-related amino acid metabolism
Creators: name: Fan, Xizhenzi
name: Rong, Huijuan
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Li, Mingwei
name: Song, Wenhui
name: Su, Achou
name: Yu, Tianxiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Employment and wage effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and front-of-package warning label regulations on the food and beverage industry: Evidence from Peru
Creators: name: Sánchez A
name: Diez-Canseco F
name: Díaz J.-J
name: Jaime Miranda J
name: Popkin B.M
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2023

description: Peru increased its sugar-sweetened beverage tax by 8 percentage points (from 17% to 25%) in 2018 and in 2019 imposed front-of-package warning labels on processed and ultra-processed foods and beverages high in sugar, saturated fats, and sodium or containing trans fats. We assess the pre-COVID-19 impacts of these two policies on aggregate formal employment and average wages in the food and beverage industry. In the analysis we use monthly administrative data from the Ministry of Labor in Peru for 127 manufacturing industries from January 2016 through February 2020 and pair an interrupted time series analysis with the synthetic control method. Overall we find that the sugar-sweetened beverage tax increase and the front-of-package label regulations did not result in job or wage losses. These results are consistent with outcomes from previous studies that have separately looked at the effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes (in the United States and Mexico) and front-of-package label regulations (in Chile). Our key contribution is that we assess the effects of both policies for the same country. Consistent with the global literature, our findings suggest that, due to industry substitutions and other actions, employment and wages were not impacted even in industries affected by both policies in a short time. The lack of job and wage losses in the Peruvian experience, the scope of the country's policies, and the form of implementation can advise other countries engaging in similar reforms.
title: When Machines Are The Audience
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Search
subject: Email
subject: Spam
subject: Text mining

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
Coulomb effects in artificial molecules
Creators: name: Ramirez, F.
name: Cota, E.
name: Ulloa, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the capacitance spectra of artificial molecules consisting of two and three coupled quantum dots from an extended Hubbard Hamiltonian model that takes into account quantum confinement, intra- and inter-dot Coulomb interaction and tunneling coupling between all single particle states in nearest neighbor dots. We find that, for weak coupling, the interdot Coulomb interaction dominates the formation of a collective molecular state. We also calculate the effects of correlations on the tunneling probability through the evaluation of the spectral weights, and corroborate the importance of selection rules for understanding experimental conductance spectra.
description: dvi file and 4 postscript figures, all included in uu file. To appear in Superlatt. and Microstr. Also available at http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~ulloa/ulloa.html
The Limit-in/out Approach to the Dirac Delta (with an Alternative Integral Representation)
Creators: name: Posada, Jan Eidissen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10108 Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A review of the integral representation of the Dirac delta distribution regarding the strong requirements imposed on test functions and their possible disadvantages for physical theories, coupled with a new approach to the beast and a newly proposed integral representation that fulfills the sifting property for any continuous function or field.
Strain-engineering of twist-angle in graphene/hBN superlattice devices
Creators: name: De Sanctis, Adolfo
name: Mehew, Jake D.
name: Alkhalifa, Saad
name: Withers, Freddie
name: Craciun, Monica F.
name: Russo, Saverio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of novel physical phenomena such as Hofstadter's butterfly, topological currents and unconventional superconductivity in graphene have been enabled by the replacement of SiO$_2$ with hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as a substrate and by the ability to form superlattices in graphene/hBN heterostructures. These devices are commonly made by etching the graphene into a Hall-bar shape with metal contacts. The deposition of metal electrodes, the design and specific configuration of contacts can have profound effects on the electronic properties of the devices possibly even affecting the alignment of graphene/hBN superlattices. In this work we probe the strain configuration of graphene on hBN contacted with two types of metal contacts, two-dimensional (2D) top-contacts and one-dimensional (1D) edge-contacts. We show that top-contacts induce strain in the graphene layer along two opposing leads, leading to a complex strain pattern across the device channel. Edge-contacts, on the contrary, do not show such strain pattern. A finite-elements modelling simulation is used to confirm that the observed strain pattern is generated by the mechanical action of the metal contacts clamped to the graphene. Thermal annealing is shown to reduce the overall doping whilst increasing the overall strain, indicating and increased interaction between graphene and hBN. Surprisingly, we find that the two contacts configurations lead to different twist-angles in graphene/hBN superlattices, which converge to the same value after thermal annealing. This observation confirms the self-locking mechanism of graphene/hBN superlattices also in the presence of strain gradients. Our experiments may have profound implications in the development of future electronic devices based on heterostructures and provide a new mechanism to induce complex strain patterns in 2D materials.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Possible probe of the QCD odderon singularity through the quasidiffractive eta_c production in gamma-gamma collisions
Creators: name: Motyka, L.
name: Kwiecinski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reactions gamma-gamma to eta_c eta_c and gamma gamma to eta_c + X are discussed within the three gluon exchange model. We give predictions for the differential cross-sections and discuss feasibility of measuring these processes at LEP2 and TESLA. The total cross-sections were estimated to be approximately equal to 40 fb and 120 fb for gamma-gamma to eta_c eta_c and gamma-gamma to eta_c + X respectively assuming exchange of elementary gluons that corresponds to the odderon with intercept equal to unity. These values can be enhanced by a factor equal to 1.9 and 2.1 for LEP2 and TESLA energies if the odderon intercept is equal to 1.07. The estimate of cross-sections sigma(e^+ e^- to e^+ e^- eta_c eta_c) and sigma (e^+ e^- to e^+ e^- eta_c + X) for untagged e^+ and e^- is also given.
description: 11 pages, Latex, epsf, 5 eps figures included
Employer requirements and COVID-19 vaccination and attitudes among healthcare personnel in the U.S.: Findings from National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module, August – September 2021
Creators: name: Singleton J.A
name: Lu P.-J
name: Holmes C
name: Brewer N.T
name: de Perio M.A
name: Lee J.T
name: Wilhelm E
name: Bonner K.E
name: Hu S.S.
name: Nguyen K.H
name: Zhou T
name: Carter R.J
name: Kriss J.L
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Employer vaccination requirements have been used to increase vaccination uptake among healthcare personnel (HCP). In summer 2021, HCP were the group most likely to have employer requirements for COVID-19 vaccinations as healthcare facilities led the implementation of such requirements. This study examined the association between employer requirements and HCP's COVID-19 vaccination status and attitudes about the vaccine. Methods: Participants were a national representative sample of United States (US) adults who completed the National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module (NIS-ACM) during August–September 2021. Respondents were asked about COVID-19 vaccination and intent, requirements for vaccination, place of work, attitudes surrounding vaccinations, and sociodemographic variables. This analysis focused on HCP respondents. We first calculated the weighted proportion reporting COVID-19 vaccination for HCP by sociodemographic variables. Then we computed unadjusted and adjusted prevalence ratios for vaccination coverage and key indicators on vaccine attitudes, comparing HCP based on individual self-report of vaccination requirements. Results: Of 12,875 HCP respondents, 41.5% reported COVID-19 vaccination employer requirements. Among HCP with vaccination requirements, 90.5% had been vaccinated against COVID-19, as compared to 73.3% of HCP without vaccination requirements—a pattern consistent across sociodemographic groups. Notably, the greatest differences in uptake between HCP with and without employee requirements were seen in sociodemographic subgroups with the lowest vaccination uptake, e.g., HCP aged 18–29 years, HCP with high school or less education, HCP living below poverty, and uninsured HCP. In every sociodemographic subgroup examined, vaccine uptake was more equitable among HCP with vaccination requirements than in HCP without. Finally, HCP with vaccination requirements were also more likely to express confidence in the vaccine's safety (68.3% vs. 60.1%) and importance (89.6% vs 79.6%). Conclusion: In a large national US sample, employer requirements were associated with higher and more equitable HCP vaccination uptake across all sociodemographic groups examined. Our findings suggest that employer requirements can contribute to improving COVID-19 vaccination coverage, similar to patterns seen for other vaccines.
Engaging parents around vaccine confidence: proceedings from the National HPV Vaccination Roundtable meetings
Creators: name: Fisher-Borne M
name: Brewer N.T
name: Perkins R.B
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Inc.
Year: 2019

description: HPV vaccine uptake remains below national goals in the US, driven in part by parental uncertainty about the vaccine fueled by negative stories on social media and other information platforms. To identify opportunities for mobilizing parents to increase HPV vaccination uptake, the National HPV Vaccination Roundtable and Vaccinate Adolescents Against Cancers program convened two national meetings in 2016 at the American Cancer Society. Stakeholders recommended a focus on positive message to parents; cultivating parent champions to use the power of personal storytelling and to distribute these messages; and defining the role of national organizations in supporting parent champions. Stakeholders supported three message themes: HPV vaccination is the norm, HPV vaccination is cancer prevention, and HPV vaccination supports families across generations. Parents’ negative stories about vaccination are especially difficult to counteract with scientific evidence, making the cultivation of pro-vaccine parent champions an especially promising intervention on social media and other information platforms.
title: Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of Putin’s Foreign Policy Approach
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: M. E. Sharpe
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Russia
subject: Foreign Policy
subject: International relations
subject: Putin

description: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=PPC
description: Neither feared as a threat nor valued as a friend, Russia often finds itself simply ignored— much to the chagrin of both the Putin administration and the Russian public.