cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Diffusive thermal dynamics for the spin-S Ising ferromagnet
Creators: name: Agliari, E.
name: Burioni, R.
name: Cassi, D.
name: Vezzani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an alternative thermal diffusive dynamics for the spin-S Ising ferromagnet realized by means of a random walker. The latter hops across the sites of the lattice and flips the relevant spins according to a probability depending on both the local magnetic arrangement and the temperature. The random walker, intended to model a diffusing excitation, interacts with the lattice so that it is biased towards those sites where it can achieve an energy gain. In order to adapt our algorithm to systems made up of arbitrary spins, some non trivial generalizations are implied. In particular, we will apply the new dynamics to two-dimensional spin-1/2 and spin-1 systems analyzing their relaxation and critical behavior. Some interesting differences with respect to canonical results are found; moreover, by comparing the outcomes from the examined cases, we will point out their main features, possibly extending the results to spin-S systems.
Additional file 1 of Psychometric qualities of the English Coping Scales of the Stress and Coping Inventory in a representative UK sample
Creators: name: O’Rourke, Teresa
name: Budimir, Sanja
name: Pieh, Christoph
name: Probst, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Translated English Version of the SCI coping scales.
title: Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Mayr, Ernst W.
name: Portier, Natacha
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Frontmatter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization

description: Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 25, 31st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2014), pages i-xvi
Structural Study of Adsorbed Helium Films: New Approach with Synchrotron Radiation X-rays
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Akira
name: Tajiri, Hiroo
name: Kumashita, Atsuki
name: Usami, Jun
name: Yamane, Yu
name: Sumiyama, Akihiko
name: Suzuki, Masaru
name: Minoguchi, Tomoki
name: Sakurai, Yoshiharu
name: Fukuyama, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A few atomic layers of helium adsorbed on graphite have been attracting much attention as one of the ideal quantum systems in two dimension. Although previous reports on neutron diffraction have shown fundamental structural information in these systems, there still remain many open questions. Here, we propose surface crystal truncation rod (CTR) scatterings using synchrotron radiation X-rays as a promising method to reveal surface and interface structures of helium films on graphite at temperatures below 2 K, based on the preliminary experimental results on a monolayer of He-4 on a thin graphite. Our estimation on heat generation by X-ray irradiations also suggests that CTR scatterings are applicable to even at system temperatures near 100 mK.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Journal of Low Temperature Physics
The nature of legislated policy : a comparative analysis educational legislation
Creators: name: Wright, Annette E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study, an interprovincial comparative study, examined selected Canadian provincial educational legislation as metapolicy, that is, as policy which guides the educational policymaking process. The conceptual-analytical framework was suggested by concepts proposed by Kerr and by a re-formulation of legislated policy into the tasks and sub-tasks undertaken by provincial systems. The analyses, which dealt with format, content, type and purpose, as well as the relationships among these, led to the following conclusions: (1) although one may infer a Canada-wide concept of what constitutes a provincial educational system, no such inference may be made concerning the operations of, and services offered in individual educational institutions; (2) all provinces tend to use resource policies as the means of educational control; (3) three interlocking policy frameworks emerge— legal, procedural and operational—suggesting permissive, restrictive and invitational metapolicy characteristics; (4) most interprovincial differences occur in the area of services and operations—the area from which most controversial issues of a Canada-wide nature arise; and (5) non-specificity of purposes allows legislation to retain flexibility. Finally, specific modifications to the conceptual framework may enhance its utility as an analytic tool, namely, allowance for policies to qualify as educational on more than one count, consideration of policy flexibility, more precise classification within the resource policy category and a different analytical sequence in the use of the concepts.
Superconductivity in nickel based 112 systems
Creators: name: Gu, Qiangqiang
name: Wen, Hai-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity has been discovered recently in nickel based 112 infinite thin films $R_{1-x}$A$_x$NiO$_2$ ($R$ = La, Nd, Pr and A = Sr, Ca). They are isostructural to the infinite-layer cuprate (Ca,Sr)CuO$_2$ and are supposed to have a formal Ni 3$d^9$ valence, thus providing a new platform to study the unconventional pairing mechanism of high-temperature superconductors. This important discovery immediately triggers a huge amount of innovative scientific curiosity in the field. In this paper, we try to give an overview of the recent research progress on the newly found superconducting nickelate systems, both from experimental and theoretical aspects. We will focus mainly on the electronic structures, magnetic excitations, phase diagrams, superconducting gaps and finally make some open discussions for possible pairing symmetries in Ni based 112 systems.
description: 53 pages,10 figures,submitted to The Innovation
Atomic Pathways of Solute Segregation in the Vicinity of Nanoscale Defects
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Samik
name: Assali, Simone
name: Moutanabbir, Oussama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work unravels the atomic details of the interaction of solute atoms with nanoscale crystalline defects. The complexity of this phenomenon is elucidated through detailed atom probe tomographic investigations on epitaxially-strained, compositionally metastable, semiconductor alloys. Subtle variations are uncovered in the concentration and distribution of solute atoms surrounding dislocations, and their dynamic evolution is highlighted. The results demonstrate that crystal defects, such as dislocations, are instrumental in initiating the process of phase separation in strained metastable layers. Matrix regions, close to the dislocations, show clear signs of compositional degradation only after a relatively short time from disrupting the local equilibrium. The solute concentration as well as the density of non-random atomic clusters increases while approaching a dislocation from the surrounding matrix region. In parallel, far from a dislocation the lattice remains intact preserving the metastable structure and composition uniformity. At advanced stages of phase separation, the matrix outside the dislocation reaches the equilibrium concentration, while dislocations act as vehicles of mass-transport, providing fast diffusive channels for solute atoms to reach the surface. Besides, the number of atomic clusters almost doubles and the number of atoms per cluster increases steadily, moving along a dislocation towards the surface. In addition to understanding the atomic features involved in the phase separation of strained metastable alloys, the work also illustrates the thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of solute atoms in the vicinity of a nanoscale defect and describe quantitatively the key processes, thus providing the empirical input to improve the atomic models and simulations.
Slides - 120 kW High-Power Wireless Charging System Development
Creators: Veda Galigekere
Omer Onar
Jason Pries and Gui-Jia Su
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2019

TEC Webinar Slides
Abstract-  Electric vehicles have the potential to significantly reduce the dependency on imported oil, enhance national energy security, and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. However, there are two major drawbacks against the widespread commercialization. Limited range and long battery charging times remain to be the critical challenges to mass electrification of our transportation sector. While the vehicles with higher energy battery packs can mitigate the range anxiety problem, it would take very long to recharge these vehicles; namely 83, 30, or 15 hours with the conventional 1.2, 3.3, or 6.6 kW chargers, respectively. While DC fast charging can enable charging power levels for less than 100 kW and reduces the charge times to less than an hour, the connectors, plugs, and cables would be difficult to handle, and conductive charging would be cumbersome with all the heavy and bulkier cables. Therefore, inductive wireless charging systems can be a viable option for the high-power and fast charging systems for EVs. Wireless power transfer is a safe, flexible, and a convenient form of EV battery charging without requiring manual connection of charge cables, it has inherent isolation from the grid to the vehicle, it can run in all-weather conditions, and can also automate the charging process of the EVs without user involvement.

This webinar focuses on a 120 kW wireless power transfer system developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This system can charge a 100 kWh battery pack from 20 to 80 percent state-of-charge in 30 minutes, which can bring the EV charging process closer to the fuel pumps at the gas stations. The webinar introduces the state-of-the art literature review on high-power wireless charging systems and details the design and development of the power electronics and electromagnetic coupling coils with their finite element analysis based models. Design details and parameters of the system will be covered along with the experimental performance analysis of the system including the stage-by-stage power flow and efficiency of the system.
Average concurrence and entanglement swapping
Creators: name: Bergou, János A.
name: Fields, Dov
name: Hillery, Mark
name: Santra, Siddhartha
name: Malinovsky, Vladimir S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of average concurrence in entanglement swapping in quantum networks. We begin with qubit pure states, and there is a very simple rule governing the propagation of average concurrence in multiple swaps. We look at examples of mixed qubit states, and find the relation for pure states gives an upper bound on what is possible with mixed states. We then move on to qudits, where we make use of the I-concurrence. Here the situation is not as simple as for qubits, but in some cases relatively straightforward results can be obtained.
description: Comments welcome
Impact of eight quark interactions on chiral phase transitions II: Thermal effects
Creators: name: Hiller, B.
name: Osipov, A. A.
name: Moreira, J.
name: Blin, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk attention is drawn to thermal properties due to the addition of eight quark interactions in the standard $SU(3)\times SU(3)$ chiral Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) with 't Hooft interaction (NJLH). The schematic SU(3) flavor limit with massless current quarks as well as the realistic case $m_u=m_d\ne m_s$ are discussed.
description: 3 pages, prepared for XIII International Conference on Selected Problems of Modern Theoretical Physics (SPMTP08), Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Dubna, Russia, June 23-27, 2008
Energy Propagation in Scattering Convolution Networks Can Be Arbitrarily Slow
Creators: name: Führ, Hartmut
name: Getter, Max
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 42C15, 68T07 (Primary) 42C40, 42B35 (Secondary)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: I.5.1; I.5.4; I.4.6
subject: Deep convolutional neural networks
subject: energy propagation
subject: filter banks
subject: scattering transform
subject: wavelets

description: 39 Seiten (2024). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.05121
Additional file 1: of Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a tailored text-message programme (MiQuit) for smoking cessation in pregnancy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Whitemore, Rachel
name: Leonardi-Bee, Jo
name: Naughton, Felix
name: Sutton, Stephen
name: Cooper, Sue
name: Parrott, Steve
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Clark, Miranda
name: Ussher, Michael
name: Jones, Matthew
name: Torgerson, David
name: Coleman, Tim
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Clinical Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (DOC 120 kb)
Modelling spin-up episodes in accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars
Creators: name: Glampedakis, Kostas
name: Suvorov, Arthur G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars are known to provide a wealth of physical information during their successive states of outburst and quiescence. Based on the observed spin-up and spin-down rates of these objects it is possible, among other things, to infer the stellar magnetic field strength and test models of accretion disc flow. In this paper we consider the three accreting X-ray pulsars (XTE J1751-305, IGR J00291+5934, and SAX J1808.4-3658) with the best available timing data, and model their observed spin-up rates with the help of a collection of standard torque models that describe a magnetically-threaded accretion disc truncated at the magnetospheric radius. Whilst none of these models are able to explain the observational data, we find that the inclusion of the physically motivated phenomenological parameter $ξ$, which controls the uncertainty in the location of the magnetospheric radius, leads to an enhanced disc-integrated accretion torque. These 'new' torque models are compatible with the observed spin-up rates as well as the inferred magnetic fields of these objects provided that $ξ\approx 0.1-0.5$. Our results are supplemented with a discussion of the relevance of additional physics effects that include the presence of a multipolar magnetic field and general-relativistic gravity.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Slides - Automotive Vehicles and Data Analysis for Driver Safety and Security Services
Creators: Dhananjay Singh
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

TEC Webinar Slides
Nowadays connected vehicles and automotive vehicles related projects are evolving rapidly. Therefore, automotive markets are desperately in need of solutions that can improve safety of driving, security of vehicles as well as need to reduce the cost of ownership of an automobile. Several researchers have visualized interconnections of smart embedded sensor devices (SESD) in the vehicles which change the life of vehicles and vehicle owner. SESD is used to provide a notification of any safety critical incident and hazard to the cloud server. However, two vehicles are collided and after collision both vehicles immediately inform their vehicular cloud server about the collision so that another vehicles and their respective organization and person are aware the situation and can take necessary action. SESD communication mechanism update vehicle history and similar other cases such as sudden braking, road maintenance, dangerous situations. In this talk I would like to focuses on the following issues.

What are the most appropriate distributed architectures to support vehicular cloud networks
What are the most suitable ways to the management of both safe and smart driving in personal/public vehicles
What is the most appropriate way to improve establish a distributed networks of connected vehicles services

Finally, I will present the Smart-Eye solutions which can support an automotive markets for smart and safe driving.
Slides - Vehicle Cyber Security: Where the Rubber Meets the Code
Creators: Stacy Prowell
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

TEC Webinar Slides
Modern vehicles include an average of 100 million lines of code and 60 control units. With automotive manufacturers adding an increasing array of safety, entertainment, navigation, and autonomous driving features, the potential threat vectors for vehicle cyber attacks are rapidly expanding. In this talk, Dr. Stacy Prowell, Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Vehicle Security Center, will discuss the current state of security, the issues to be addressed, and some of the work being done to address these issues.
Additional file 1 of Failure to maintain full-term pregnancies in pig carrying klotho monoallelic knockout fetuses
Creators: name: Sanghoon Lee
name: Jung, Min Hee
name: Kilyoung Song
name: Jun-Xue Jin
name: Anukul Taweechaipaisankul
name: Geon A. Kim
name: Oh, Hyun Ju
name: Koo, Ok Jae
name: Park, Se Chang
name: Lee, Byeong Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of potential off-target sites (OTSs) for the sgRNA targeting porcine klotho gene. Table S2. Primer sequences of potential off-target sites (OTSs) for the sgRNA targeting porcine klotho gene.
Circulant $L$-ensembles in the thermodynamic limit
Creators: name: Forrester, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $L$-ensembles are a class of determinantal point processes which can be viewed as a statistical mechanical systems in the grand canonical ensemble. Circulant $L$-ensembles are the subclass which are locally translationally invariant and furthermore subject to periodic boundary conditions. Existing theory can very simply be specialised to this setting, allowing for the derivation of formulas for the system pressure, and the correlation kernel, in the thermodynamic limit. For a one-dimensional domain, this is possible when the circulant matrix is both real symmetric, or complex Hermitian. The special case of the former having a Gaussian functional form for the entries is shown to correspond to free fermions at finite temperature, and be generalisable to higher dimensions. A special case of the latter is shown to be the statistical mechanical model introduced by Gaudin to interpolate between Poisson and unitary symmetry statistics in random matrix theory. It is shown in all cases that the compressibility sum rule for the two-point correlation is obeyed, and the small and large distance asymptotics of the latter are considered. Also, a conjecture relating the asymptotic form of the hole probability to the pressure is verified.
description: 20 pages
Slides - Control Challenges in Automotive Electrical Traction Drives
Creators: Sabin-Constantin Carpiuc
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

TEC Webinar Slides
Vehicle electrification is a key research direction in the automotive business, with many challenging problems and opportunities arising. An important part in automobile electrification is represented by the electric drive with integrated electric machine, power electronics, high voltage battery and real-time control software. However, the implementation in a micro controller based embedded system is a difficult task because these applications are characterized by fast dynamics that are subject to hard physical and control constraints. Therefore, it yields a complex embedded platform that must meet tough requirements and compulsory safety standards. The goal of this presentation is to discuss the operation of automotive electrical traction drives at the system level and to analyze the arising control challenges. The talk will cover aspects from modeling, control, hardware implementation and testing in automotive electrical traction drives. The talk will also include relevant case studies.
Extragalactic Constraints on the Initial Mass Function
Creators: name: Wilkins, Stephen M.
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Trentham, Neil
name: Tojeiro, Rita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local stellar mass density is observed to be significantly lower than the value obtained from integrating the cosmic star formation history (SFH), assuming that all the stars formed with a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF). Even other favoured IMFs, more successful in reconciling the observed $z=0$ stellar mass density with that inferred from the SFH, have difficulties in reproducing the stellar mass density observed at higher redshift. In this study we investigate to what extent this discrepancy can be alleviated for any universal power-law IMF. We find that an IMF with a high-mass slope shallower (2.15) than the Salpeter slope (2.35) reconciles the observed stellar mass density with the cosmic star formation history, but only at low redshifts. At higher redshifts $z>0.5$ we find that observed stellar mass densities are systematically lower than predicted from the cosmic star formation history, for any universal power-law IMF.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Entanglement and the Speed of Evolution in Mixed States
Creators: name: Kupferman, Judy
name: Reznik, Benni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement speeds up evolution of a pure bipartite spin state, in line with the time energy uncertainty. However if the state is mixed this is not necessarily the case. We provide a counter example and point to other factors affecting evolution in mixed states, including classical correlations and entropy.
One-shot Transfer Learning for Population Mapping
Creators: name: Shao, Erzhuo
name: Feng, Jie
name: Wang, Yingheng
name: Xia, Tong
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fine-grained population distribution data is of great importance for many applications, e.g., urban planning, traffic scheduling, epidemic modeling, and risk control. However, due to the limitations of data collection, including infrastructure density, user privacy, and business security, such fine-grained data is hard to collect and usually, only coarse-grained data is available. Thus, obtaining fine-grained population distribution from coarse-grained distribution becomes an important problem. To tackle this problem, existing methods mainly rely on sufficient fine-grained ground truth for training, which is not often available for the majority of cities. That limits the applications of these methods and brings the necessity to transfer knowledge between data-sufficient source cities to data-scarce target cities. In knowledge transfer scenario, we employ single reference fine-grained ground truth in target city, which is easy to obtain via remote sensing or questionnaire, as the ground truth to inform the large-scale urban structure and support the knowledge transfer in target city. By this approach, we transform the fine-grained population mapping problem into a one-shot transfer learning problem. In this paper, we propose a novel one-shot transfer learning framework PSRNet to transfer spatial-temporal knowledge across cities from the view of network structure, the view of data, and the view of optimization. Experiments on real-life datasets of 4 cities demonstrate that PSRNet has significant advantages over 8 state-of-the-art baselines by reducing RMSE and MAE by more than 25%. Our code and datasets are released in Github (https://github.com/erzhuoshao/PSRNet-CIKM).
description: Published in Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '21)
Additional file 1 of Effects of pre-emptive pregabalin and multimodal anesthesia on postoperative opioid requirements in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
Creators: name: K. Sisa
name: S. Huoponen
name: O. Ettala
name: H. Antila
name: T. I. Saari
name: Uusalo, P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Flow diagram of the study.
Slides - Accurate range estimation for an electric vehicle including changing environmental conditions
Creators: Danny Sutanto
Vincent Tannahill
and Kashem Muttaqi
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

TEC Webinar Slides
Range anxiety is an obstacle to the acceptance of electric vehicles (EVs), caused by drivers uncertainty regarding their vehicle's state of charge (SoC) and the energy required to reach their destination. Most estimation methods for these variables use simplified models with many assumptions that can result in significant error, particularly if dynamic and environmental conditions are not considered. For example, the combined efficiency of the inverter drive and electric motor varies throughout the route and is not constant as assumed in most range estimation methods. This study proposes an improved method for SoC and range estimation by taking into account location-dependent environmental conditions and time-varying drive system losses. To validate the method, an EV was driven along a selected route and the measured EV battery SoC at the destination was compared with that predicted by the algorithm. The results demonstrated excellent accuracy in the SoC and range estimation, which should help alleviate range anxiety.
Action spectroscopy of gas-phase carboxylate anions by multiple photon IR electron detachment/attachment
Creators: name: Steill, Jeffrey D.
name: Oomens, Jos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a form of gas-phase anion action spectroscopy based on infrared multiple photon electron detachment and subsequent capture of the free electrons by a neutral electron scavenger in a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometer. This method allows one to obtain background-free spectra of strongly bound anions, for which no dissociation channels are observed. The first gas-phase spectra of acetate and propionate are presented using SF6 as electron scavenger and a free electron laser as source of intense and tunable infrared radiation. To validate the method, we compare infrared spectra obtained through multiple photon electron detachment/attachment and multiple photon dissociation for the benzoate anion. In addition, different electron acceptors are used, comparing both associative and dissociative electron capture. The relative energies of dissociation (by CO2 loss) and electron detachment are investigated for all three anions by DFT and CCSD(T) methods. DFT calculations are also employed to predict vibrational frequencies, which provide a good fit to the infrared spectra observed. The frequencies of the symmetric and antisymmetric carboxylate stretching modes for the aliphatic carboxylates are compared to those previously observed in condensed-phase IR spectra and to those reported for gas-phase benzoate, showing a strong influence of the solution environment and a slight substituent effect on the antisymmetric stretch.
description: Revised version, Submitted to J Phys Chem A
Slides-Security and Privacy in V2G Network
Creators: Neetesh Saxena
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2019

TEC Webinar Slides
Abstract: - Smart vehicle-to-grid (V2G) involves intelligent charge and discharge decisions based on user operational energy requirements, such as desired levels of charging and waiting time. V2G should be supported by information management capabilities enabled by a secure network, such as a reliable privacy-preserving payment system. Since electric vehicles (EVs) need to provide their private information to aggregators/servers when charging/discharging at different charging stations, privacy of the vehicle owners can be compromised if the information is misused, traced, or revealed. In a wide V2G network, where vehicles can move outside of their home network to visiting networks, security and privacy become even more challenging due to untrusted entities in the visiting networks. In this webinar, I will describe the network security and privacy requirements and challenges for the V2G applications. I will discuss new network security architecture to support V2G along with a scheme with the following security and privacy-preserving features: anonymous authentication, fine-grained access control, anonymous signatures, information confidentiality, message integrity, and a payment system.
Slides - Enhancing Vehicle Dynamics and Energy Efficiency in Electric Vehicles with Multiple Motors Via Torque Vectoring
Creators: Basilio Lenzo
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

TEC Webinar Slides
Electric vehicles with multiple motors allow torque vectoring (TV), i.e. the individual control of each drivetrain. TV has been largely studied in the literature since it can provide significant benefits in terms of vehicle safety and drivability. This webinar analyses recent experimental results of the EU FP7 Projects EVECTOORC and iCOMPOSE, in which torque vectoring is exploited for i) enhancing vehicle dynamics ii) maximising energy efficiency.

TV can enhance the handling qualities of a vehicle well beyond the capabilities achievable with conventional stability control systems, as it intervenes seamlessly and continuously without variation of the net traction force. A direct yaw moment can be generated through different torque allocation at the left and right sides of the vehicle, allowing the design of the cornering response of the vehicle. For instance, a Sport driving mode was designed to reduce the understeer gradient, extend the region of linear vehicle operation, and increase the maximum lateral acceleration compared to the passive vehicle.

As regards energy efficiency improvement, a simple and effective torque distribution strategy was developed. Basically, the torque demand on each vehicle side is compared to a switching torque value (function of the vehicle speed) which is defined based on the experimental measurements of the drivetrain power loss characteristic. The developed energy efficient torque distribution algorithm allows energy savings typically between 2 percent and 3 percent along common driving cycles, and up to about 4 percent during cornering conditions with respect to fixed torque distribution strategies.
A critical study of a theory of aesthetic development and its implications for education
Creators: name: Bisong, Joseph Obi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Parsons' cognitive-developmental theory of the aesthetic experience of children envisages aesthetic development toward a particular "end state." This thesis critically examines the end state to which the development purportedly leads. The thesis also considers pedagogical questions involved in a programme of aesthetic education designed to bring about appropriate aesthetic responses. It is argued that Parsons' theory is based on an objectivist aesthetic theory which, though widely accepted, does not do justice to some aspects of our experience of art. In particular, it is argued that because the theory misconstrues the logic of expression it fails to see how works of art can express emotions and thus does not take into account the full measure of our imaginative and emotional experience of art. It is further argued that certain aspects of an Expression Theory of art give a more satisfactory account of how works of art can function to express emotions and of our emotional experience of art. In advancing this point the arguments of Sircello and Elliott are put forward and an attempt is made to show how Leavis's critical practice implicitly recognizes the points Sircello and Elliott make. The dissertation also compares Parsons' theory with the theories of Piaget and Kohl berg and makes use of criticisms directed at the theories of the latter two to criticize Parsons' work. An expressionist critique of Parsons' theory is then made. Finally, the expressionist position argued for is used as a basis for exploring the kinds of educational considerations that seem relevant for a programme of aesthetic education.
Additional file 1 of Robustness of magnetic resonance radiomic features to pixel size resampling and interpolation in patients with cervical cancer
Creators: name: Park, Shin-Hyung
name: Hyejin Lim
name: Bae, Bong Kyung
name: Hahm, Myong Hun
name: Chong, Gun Oh
name: Jeong, Shin Young
name: Jae-Chul Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. List of MR scanners and their manufacturers.
Additional file 3 of Robustness of magnetic resonance radiomic features to pixel size resampling and interpolation in patients with cervical cancer
Creators: name: Park, Shin-Hyung
name: Hyejin Lim
name: Bae, Bong Kyung
name: Hahm, Myong Hun
name: Chong, Gun Oh
name: Jeong, Shin Young
name: Jae-Chul Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. Robustness analysis of 107 radiomic features to pixel size resampling and interpolation from intensity-normalized images after feature standardization. The colors represent the images that have been compared (black: pixel size resampling images; yellow: interpolation images; blue: pixel size resampling and interpolation images). The shapes represent the sequence of magnetic resonance images (circle: T1-weighted images; triangle: T2-weighted images).
Peters on moral education
Creators: name: Bruneau, Sandra Rochelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Many teaching materials and analyses of morality and moral education are available to teachers and moral education researchers. Some of these materials and research strategies are based on analyses of moral judgment and behaviour. It is noteworthy that these teaching materials and discussions of morality and moral education do not acknowledge Richard Peters' recommendations for moral education. His discussions of morality and moral education have not yet resulted in curriculum materials; nor do individual research projects base their work on his point of view. Given Peters' esteemed place among philosophers of education, and given the comprehensiveness of his writing on moral education, this lack of attention is somewhat surprising. Are his views sound? Can they be interpreted for specific teaching practices and research-strategies? In this thesis, I have examined Peters' proposals for moral education. My aims were twofold: (1) to make clear his views on morality and moral education and to critically assess those views for their intelligibility and consistency, and (2) to indicate the sorts of educational practices and proposals for research which are at least consistent with his ideas. To do these tasks, I give an account of Peters' criteria of 'education' and survey his views on 'morality' and 'moral education.' I give particular attention to his "facets of the moral life": worthwhile activities, social rules, roles and duties, principles as motives, character-traits and virtues. In addition I make clear and assess the importance of other concepts which interest Peters: 'form,' 'content,' 'habit,' 'emotion.' Occasionally I compare Peters' conception of morality and moral education with the conceptions of other moral philosophers and educators; these comparisons assist in both explicating and criticizing Peters' work. Finally I further condense Peters' views in order to suggest leads to moral educators and researchers. I do this, first, by noting what constructive proposals come from Peters' account; second, by detailing those areas of his account which require more conceptual and empirical work; and third, by outlining specific projects for curriculum builders, teachers and researchers.
Additional file 2 of Robustness of magnetic resonance radiomic features to pixel size resampling and interpolation in patients with cervical cancer
Creators: name: Park, Shin-Hyung
name: Hyejin Lim
name: Bae, Bong Kyung
name: Hahm, Myong Hun
name: Chong, Gun Oh
name: Jeong, Shin Young
name: Jae-Chul Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Robustness analysis of 107 radiomic features to pixel size resampling and interpolation from original images after feature standardization. The colors represent the images that have been compared (black: pixel size resampling images; yellow: interpolation images; blue: pixel size resampling and interpolation images). The shapes represent the sequence of magnetic resonance images (circle: T1-weighted images; triangle: T2-weighted images).
Smart Online Charging Algorithm for Electric Vehicles via Customized Actor-Critic Learning
Creators: name: Cao, Yongsheng
name: Wang, Hao
name: Li, Demin
name: Zhang, Guanglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With the advances in the Internet of Things technology, electric vehicles (EVs) have become easier to schedule in daily life, which is reshaping the electric load curve. It is important to design efficient charging algorithms to mitigate the negative impact of EV charging on the power grid. This paper investigates an EV charging scheduling problem to reduce the charging cost while shaving the peak charging load, under unknown future information about EVs, such as arrival time, departure time, and charging demand. First, we formulate an EV charging problem to minimize the electricity bill of the EV fleet and study the EV charging problem in an online setting without knowing future information. We develop an actor-critic learning-based smart charging algorithm (SCA) to schedule the EV charging against the uncertainties in EV charging behaviors. The SCA learns an optimal EV charging strategy with continuous charging actions instead of discrete approximation of charging. We further develop a more computationally efficient customized actor-critic learning charging algorithm (CALC) by reducing the state dimension and thus improving the computational efficiency. Finally, simulation results show that our proposed SCA can reduce EVs' expected cost by 24.03%, 21.49%, 13.80%, compared with the Eagerly Charging Algorithm, Online Charging Algorithm, RL-based Adaptive Energy Management Algorithm, respectively. CALC is more computationally efficient, and its performance is close to that of SCA with only a gap of 5.56% in the cost.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
To the Theory of Unstable States
Creators: name: Matinyan, Sergei G.
name: Perel'man, Mark E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deviations of the decay law from exponents are discussing for a long time, however, experimental proofs of such deviations are absent. Here in the general form is shown that the conclusions about non-exponential contributions are due to the disregarding of advanced interactions, i.e. at principally non-relativistic considerations. We consider decay processes in the frame of interactions duration of the quantum field theory. We show that at this basis the usual exponential decay has place.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 1: of Prehabilitation and acute postoperative physical activity in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: a secondary analysis from an RCT
Creators: name: Au, Darren
name: Matthew, Andrew
name: Paty Lopez
name: Hilton, William
name: Rashami Awasthi
name: Bousquet-Dion, Guillaume
name: Ladha, Karim
name: Carli, Franco
name: Mina, Daniel Santa
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. Participant demographics and clinical characteristics between those that were provided with accelerometers and those that were not. (DOCX 18Â kb)
Additional file 1 of Responsibility for chemical exposures: perspectives from small beauty salons and auto shops in southern metropolitan Tucson
Creators: name: Lee, Amanda A.
name: Ingram, Maia
name: Quijada, Carolina
name: Yubeta, Andres
name: Cortez, Imelda
name: Lothrop, Nathan
name: Beamer, Paloma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide. Description: Questions and probes from the semi-structured interview guide developed by the authors for this study and grouped by Worker/Employee Questions and Owner/Manager Questions.
Optical Studies of Ten Hard X-ray Selected Cataclysmic Binaries
Creators: name: Halpern, J. P.
name: Thorstensen, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted time-resolved optical spectroscopy and/or photometry of ten cataclysmic binaries that were discovered in hard X-ray surveys, with the goal of measuring their orbital periods and searching for evidence that they are magnetic. Four of the objects in this study are new optical identifications: IGR J18017$-$3542, PBC J1841.1+0138, IGR J18434$-$0508, and Swift J1909.3+0124. A 311.8 s, coherent optical pulsation is detected from PBC J1841.1+0138, as well as eclipses with a period of 0.221909 days. A 152.49 s coherent period is detected from IGR J18434$-$0508. A probable period of 389 s is seen in IGR J18151$-$1052, in agreement with a known X-ray spin period. We also detect a period of 803.5 s in an archival X-ray observation of Swift J0717.8$-$2156. The latter four objects are thus confirmed magnetic CVs of the intermediate polar class. An optical period of 1554 s in AX J1832.3$-$0840 also confirms the known X-ray spin period, but a stronger signal at 2303 s is present whose interpretation is not obvious. We also studied the candidate intermediate polar Swift J0820.6$-$2805, which has low and high states differing by $\approx4$ mag, and optical periods or QPOs not in agreement with proposed X-ray periods. Of note is an unusually long 2.06 day orbital period for Swift J1909.3+0124, manifest in the radial velocity variation of photospheric absorption lines of an early K-type companion star. The star must be somewhat evolved if it is to fill its Roche lobe.
description: 29 pages, 18 figures, to appear the The Astronomical Journal
Additional file 2 of Title: insoluble proteins catch heterologous soluble proteins into inclusion bodies by intermolecular interaction of aggregating peptides
Creators: name: Carratalá, Jose Vicente
name: Cisneros, Andrés
name: Hellman, Elijah
name: Villaverde, Antonio
name: Ferrer-Miralles, Neus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. PEP-FOLD server-generated models of aggregation prone peptides fused to GFP scaffold protein. a Regular polypeptide helices in a right-handed alpha-helical conformation are shown. All structures are reproduced at the same scale. b Helical conformation of two L6K2-containing peptides (blue) in the presence of PT linker (grey).
Study of estimation and optimization techniques suitable for microprocessor adaptive controllers
Creators: name: Spasov, Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Adaptive controllers are controllers that perform optimally in unknown or changing environments. One class of adaptive controllers are conventional controllers that tune themselves. This is done by estimating the plant system parameters and optimizing the controller based on these estimates. It is desired to have algorithms that are short in both program length and execution time so that implementation in a device such as a microprocessor is possible. Generalized Geometric Programming (GGP) is used to optimize both PID control of a second order system and lead-lag compensation of a servomotor system. These algorithms normally converge in a few iterations. The parameters of a second order plant are estimated by two techniques. One technique involves curve fitting of a step response with cubic splines to find the coefficients of the characteristic equation. The other technique, called Walsh Function Parameter Identification, (WFPI) uses a square wave test input and finds the phase tangents by correlation of the output with Walsh Functions. In general, each of these algorithms is estimated to require no more than 1000 lines of code with execution times of less than 1 second, once the measured data is available.