cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Coir Fiber on the Geotechnical Properties of Clayey Soil,  in Wudil, Northwest, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ojefia, Eric Fega
name: Eberemu, A.O
name: Ajiboye, S.T
Publisher: name: International Journal of Earth Sciences Knowledge and Applications ( IJESKA)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Coir Fiber, Bearing Capacity, California Bearing Ratio, Maximum Dry Density, Optimum Moisture Content

description: Various Geotechnical soil test which includes particle size distribution, Atterberg’s limit test, specific gravity test, compaction test, California Bearing Ratio (CBR) test and shear box test were carried out to investigate the effect of coir fiber on the geotechnical properties of clayey soil, with specific emphasis on its bearing capacity in Wudil, Northwest, Nigeria. The particle size distribution test result indicated that the soil sample from Wudil contains 14% clay. Additionally, the Atterberg’s limit test showed that the inclusion of coir fiber significantly impacted the soil's properties. Specifically, the liquid limit, plastic limit, and plasticity index of the clayey soil showed notable improvement with the addition of coir fiber compared to the untreated soil. The specific gravity of the soil saw no increase but fluctuated at different coir fiber treatment as the value before the mix which was 2.48 was more than those of the fiber mixtures. During the CBR test, the application of 3cm average length of coir fiber at different percentage of 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% and 3% to the soil shows a significant improvement as the CBR values are found to be 7.25, 7.79, 11.3, 12.35, 14.89 and 14.68% respectively, which is more than 6.71% of the soil without mix. At different treatment of 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% and 3% coir fiber, shear box test shows an increase in cohesion and the frictional angle of the soil, as well as significant increase in the shear strength. This implies that coir fiber is an effective reinforcement material, which is capable of strengthening the soil structure and enhancing the bearing properties of clayey soil.
Using Frame Analysis to Operationalize Discourse Theory for Critical News Media Research
Creators: name: Sulehry, Rizwan
name: Wallace, D
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: A main tenet of discourse theory, as derived from the original scholarship of Laclau and Mouffe, is that any social order is the contingent outcome of a political project. Such project is itself a conse-quence of material discursive practice, the pervasiveness of which is measurable in part by the extent to which its verbal articulations get disseminated with the help of news media. Thus, investigating news media agents which initiate, further, counter and discontinue the discursive process can be effective in mapping the political constitution of the social. But the question is: how to operationalize discourse theory for in-depth analysis of news media artifacts? Glynos and Howarth’s (2007) logics approach is a major step forward, but their account is too generalized to pass as an instructive account of their method. Others who have attempted to operationalize this approach have also left data analysis under-specified, particularly regarding the method of identifying the self-interpretations of social actors, on which the uncovering of logics initially depends. This article offers a more comprehensive methodolog-ical account. Through a sample analysis of one news report, we demonstrate that discourse theory’s analytical resources can be bolstered by subjecting the textual data to an approach derived from the literature on frame analysis. In the course of this illustration, we additionally hope to contribute to framing theory’s analytical repertoire.
Judicial gender ideologies : Family Court judges and wife assault
Creators: name: Spratt, Peter w. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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My completed and checked ARTICLE ON ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.pdf
Creators: name: Agbede, Ooreoluwa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

description: This writer takes a look at societal and psychological factors of suicide and attempted suicide, philosophy and psychology of suicide and causes of suicide, concluding that some, not all attempts at suicide are calls for help to the society which should be replied with assistance and rehabilitation not punishment and state branding them as criminals.
An Integral Digit Derivative Basis for Carlitz Prime Power Torsion Extensions
Creators: name: Maurischat, Andreas
name: Perkins, Rudolph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R60

description: Let $\mathfrak{p}$ be a monic irreducible polynomial in $A:=\mathbb{F}_q[θ]$, the ring of polynomials in the indeterminate $θ$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, and let $ζ$ be a root of $\mathfrak{p}$ in an algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_q(θ)$. For each positive integer $n$, let $λ_n$ be a generator of the $A$-module of Carlitz $\mathfrak{p}^n$-torsion. We give a basis for the ring of integers $A[ζ,λ_n] \subset K(ζ, λ_n)$ over $A[ζ] \subset K(ζ)$ which consists of monomials in the hyperderivatives of the Anderson-Thakur function $ω$ evaluated at the roots of $\mathfrak{p}$. We also give an explicit field normal basis for these extensions. This builds on (and in some places, simplifies) the work of Anglès-Pellarin.
description: 17 pages. Corrected typo
Manure applications combined with chemical fertilizer improves crop yield and soil functionality
Creators: name: Iqbal, Anas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The current farming system is highly reliant on synthetic fertilizers, which adversely affect soil quality, the environment, and crop production. Improving crop productivity on a sustainable basis is a challenging issue in the current agricultural system. To address this issue, we assumed that the combined use of manure and chemical fertilizers (CF) could improve rice grain yield and soil properties without the expense of the environment. Therefore, a two-year field experiment was conducted to explore optimal fertilizer management strategies using a combination of CF and organic fertilizer in the form of cattle manure (CM) or poultry manure (PM). Manure was added at two levels and soil microbial biomass production, enzyme activities, nutrient content, as well as grain yield of rice were measured. The study consisted of six treatments: no N fertilizer control (Neg-Con); 100% chemical fertilizer (Pos-Con); 60% CM + 40% CF (High-CM); 30% CM + 70% CF (Low-CM); 60% PM + 40% CF (High-PM), and 30% PM + 70% CF (Low-PM). Results showed that the addition of manure significantly increased soil enzymatic activities such as soil invertase, acid phosphatase, urease, catalase, ꞵ-glucosidase, and cellulase as compared to sole chemical fertilizer application. Similarly, the combined fertilizers application led to significant increases in soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), soil pH, soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorous (AP) and rice yield. Average increases in soil MBC, MBN, SOC AN, and AP in the 0–20 cm soil depth were 62.2%, 54.5%, 29.2%, 17.4%, and 19.8%, respectively, across the years in the High-CM treatment compared with the Pos-Con. In addition, the linear regression analysis showed that soil enzymatic activities were highly positively correlated with soil MBC and MBN. The PCA and linear regression analyses showed that the increased soil enzyme activities and microbial biomass production played a key role in the higher grain yield of rice. Overall, the results of this study demonstrate that the combined use of synthetic fertilizer and organic fertilizer in paddy fields could be beneficial for the farmers in southern China by improving soil functionality and yield of rice on a sustainable basis.
description: Funding provided by: National Key Research and Development Program of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100012166
Award Number: 2016YFD030050902
Injectivity of the Cauchy-stress tensor along rank-one connected lines under strict rank-one convexity condition
Creators: name: Neff, Patrizio
name: Mihai, L. Angela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 74B20, 74G65, 26B25

description: In this note, we show that the Cauchy stress tensor $σ$ in nonlinear elasticity is injective along rank-one connected lines provided that the constitutive law is strictly rank-one convex. This means that $σ(F+ξ\otimes η)=σ(F)$ implies $ξ\otimes η=0$ under strict rank-one convexity.
Inscribing China : Australian fictional representations, 1979-1989
Creators: name: Shen, Yuanfang.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Curves of medium genus with many points
Creators: name: Howe, Everett W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G20 (Primary), 14G05, 14G10, 14G15 (Secondary)

description: The defect of a curve over a finite field is the difference between the number of rational points on the curve and the Weil-Serre upper bound for the number of points on the curve. We present algorithms for constructing curves of genus 5, 6, and 7 with small defect. Our aim is to be able to produce, in a reasonable amount of time, curves that can be used to populate the online table of curves with many points found at http://www.manypoints.org.
description: 13 pages; revised to improve exposition
The effects of gun violence on anxiety in a neighborhood
Creators: name: Berretta, Gianna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Many of America’s cities are experiencing a significant rise in gun violence, particularly in low-income communities of color. The daily threat of gun violence can have profound negative effects on friends and family of victims, social workers trying to care for the community, and community members broadly. While there is disagreement about the sources of rising gun violence (Rosenfield et al., 2021), some scholars point to the other traumatic events that have occurred since 2020, such as COVID-19 and strained police-community relations, which may have contributed to the increase in shootings. This may be the case in some communities in Philadelphia already besieged with strain, limited opportunity, and high rates of gun violence connected with open air drug market activity (Roman & Johnson, 2022). To assess the health implications of community trauma and exposure to gun violence, I analyzed data collected as part of a larger project from respondents of a high-crime/high-drug activity community in Eastern Philadelphia. The survey consisted of close-ended questions that had limited answer options or numeric answers that were analyzed statistically. Responses were analyzed for themes and patterns regarding community trauma and generalized anxiety. The results showed that exposure to gun violence is associated with higher generalized anxiety, although other traumas such as perceptions of police brutality were not. Perceptions that police were working with the community were associated with lower anxiety for women but not men. Longer residency in the area was also associated with more anxiety. This study aims to share the ways in which the severe amount of gun violence has negatively impacted the mental health of all of its community members.The results showed significant correlation to fear of crime from gun violence. The heightened fears could be reduced by collective efficacy and protection from the police. Some of the results revealed that older women with children were more likely to be fearful of gun violence than men; people who have lived in the area longer reported to have more anxiety from gun violence; 76% of respondents reported that they have been exposed to gun violence before.
LLaVA-Chef: A Multi-modal Generative Model for Food Recipes
Creators: name: Mohbat, Fnu
name: Zaki, Mohammed J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the rapidly evolving landscape of online recipe sharing within a globalized context, there has been a notable surge in research towards comprehending and generating food recipes. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-2 and LLaVA have paved the way for Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches to delve deeper into various facets of food-related tasks, encompassing ingredient recognition and comprehensive recipe generation. Despite impressive performance and multi-modal adaptability of LLMs, domain-specific training remains paramount for their effective application. This work evaluates existing LLMs for recipe generation and proposes LLaVA-Chef, a novel model trained on a curated dataset of diverse recipe prompts in a multi-stage approach. First, we refine the mapping of visual food image embeddings to the language space. Second, we adapt LLaVA to the food domain by fine-tuning it on relevant recipe data. Third, we utilize diverse prompts to enhance the model's recipe comprehension. Finally, we improve the linguistic quality of generated recipes by penalizing the model with a custom loss function. LLaVA-Chef demonstrates impressive improvements over pretrained LLMs and prior works. A detailed qualitative analysis reveals that LLaVA-Chef generates more detailed recipes with precise ingredient mentions, compared to existing approaches.
Contextuality under weak assumptions
Creators: name: Simmons, Andrew W.
name: Wallman, Joel J.
name: Pashayan, Hakop
name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
name: Rudolph, Terry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of contextuality in quantum theory was first highlighted by Bell, Kochen and Specker, who discovered that for quantum systems of three or more dimensions, measurements cannot be viewed as revealing pre-existing properties of the system. More precisely, no model can assign deterministic outcomes to the projectors of a quantum measurement in a way that depends only on the projector and not the context (the full set of projectors) in which it appeared, despite the fact that the Born rule probabilities associated with projectors are independent of the context. A more general, operational definition of contextuality introduced by Spekkens, which we will term "probabilistic contextuality", drops the assumption of determinism and allows for operations other than measurements to be considered contextual. Probabilistic noncontextuality represents the postulate that elements of an operational theory that cannot be distinguished from each other based on the statistics of arbitrarily many repeated experiments are ontologically identical. In this paper, we introduce a framework that enables us to distinguish between different noncontextuality assumptions in terms of the relationships between the ontological representations of objects in the theory given a certain relation between their operational representations. This framework can be used to motivate and define a "possibilistic" analogue, encapsulating the idea that elements of an operational theory that cannot be unambiguously distinguished operationally can also not be unambiguously distinguished ontologically. We then prove that possibilistic noncontextuality is equivalent to an alternative notion proposed by Hardy. Finally, we demonstrate that these weaker noncontextuality assumptions are sufficient to prove alternative versions of known "no-go" theorems that constrain $ψ$-epistemic models for quantum mechanics.
description: 14 Pages, 2 figures, 1 appendix
Beyond the principle of equal interests
Creators: name: Galatis, Aristos.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On the stability of classical orbits of the hydrogen ground state in Stochastic Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: de la Peña 1980 and Puthoff 1987 show that circular orbits in the hydrogen problem of Stochastic Electrodynamics are stable. Though the Cole-Zou 2003 simulations support the stability, our recent numerics always lead to self-ionisation. Here the de la Peña-Puthoff argument is extended to elliptic orbits. For very eccentric orbits with energy close to zero and angular momentum below some not-small value, there is on the average a net gain in energy for each revolution, which explains the self-ionisation. Next, an $1/r^2$ potential is added, which could stem from a dipolar deformation of the nuclear charge by the electron at its moving position. This shape retains the analytical solvability. When it is enough repulsive, the ground state of this modified hydrogen problem is predicted to be stable. The same conclusions hold for positronium.
description: 18 pages latex, 1 figure
Attempted Suicide: Punishment or Rehabilitation.pdf
Creators: name: Agbede, Ooreoluwa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: Law
subject: 180114 Human Rights Law

description: This writer takes a look at societal and psychological factors of suicide and attempted suicide, philosophy and psychology of suicide and causes of suicide, concluding that some, not all attempts at suicide are calls for help to the society which should be replied with assistance and rehabilitation not punishment and state branding them as criminals.
MPEC 2023-N70 : 2020 NS
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Attempted Suicide: Punishment or Rehabilitation.pdf
Creators: name: Agbede, Ooreoluwa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

description: This writer takes a look at societal and psychological factors of suicide and attempted suicide, philosophy and psychology of suicide and causes of suicide, concluding that some, not all attempts at suicide are calls for help to the society which should be replied with assistance and rehabilitation not punishment and state branding them as criminals.
Münch-Labacher, Gudrun: Naturhaftes und geschichtliches Denken bei Cyrill von Alexandrien
Creators: name: Lochbrunner, Manfred
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 13 Nr. 1 (1997): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 13, Heft 1
Conditional steering under von-Neumann scenario
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Kaushiki
name: Paul, Biswajit
name: Karmakar, Sumana
name: Sarkar, Debasis
name: Mukherjee, Amit
name: Bhattacharya, Some Sankar
name: Roy, Arup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In [\href{http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037596019290711T}{Phys. Lett. A {\bf 166}, 293 (1992)}] Popescu characterized nonlocality of pure $n$-partite entangled systems by studying bipartite violation of local realism when $n-2$ number of parties perform projective measurements on their particles. A pertinent question in this scenario is whether similar characterization is possible for $n$-partite mixed entangled states also. In the present work we have followed an analogous approach so as to explore whether given a tripartite mixed entangled state the conditional bipartite states obtained by performing projective measurement on the third party, demonstrate a weaker form of nonlocality, quantum steering. We also compare this new phenomenon of conditional steering with existing notions of tripartite correlations. Interestingly the tripartite state need not be genuinely entangled to demonstrate conditional steering.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, revtex4, typos and errors corrected, comments welcome
In vitro and in silico inhibition performance of choline against CYP1A2, CYP2D6 and CYP3A4
Creators: name: Mateev, Emilio
name: Balkanska-Mitkova, Antoaneta
name: Peikova, Lily
name: Dimitrova, Maria
name: Kondeva-Burdina, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Choline is an essential nutrient involved in the synthesis of acetylcholine in the cholinergic neurons. The pharmacokinetic properties of choline are well described; however, there is a lack of data about its activity toward the CYP450 superfamily of enzymes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct in silico and in vitro activity assessments of choline against three major CYP450 isoforms—CYP1A2, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4. Preliminary in silico modeling was performed on a specialized DL-CYP Prediction Server to evaluate the affinity of choline toward the enzymes. The in vitro study contained specific cytochrome P450 isoform inhibitors and substrates (for CYP1A2, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4) to determine the inhibition performance of choline at five different concentrations (0.150 − 1 µmol/L). The potential interactions of choline and CYPs were displayed after molecular docking with Glide (Schrödinger). In addition, induced-fit simulations and binding free energy calculations MM/GBSA (Molecular Mechanics-Generalized Born Surface Area) were applied to predict the accessibility in each CYP isoform. The initial in silico simulations revealed that choline lacks inhibition potency against the aforementioned enzymes. The in vitro evaluations confirmed that choline possessed no effect against CYP1A2; however, at 1 µmol/L choline exerted 22% and 27% blocking capacity against CYP2D6 and CYP3A4, respectively. Furthermore, there was good correlation between the in vitro results and the complexes’ free binding energy recalculations. Overall, the assessments indicated that choline is a weak CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 inhibitor. The latter results should be considered as a source of future unwanted drug–drug interactions.
The Rubin Data Products, Abridged (2022)
Creators: name: Graham, Melissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This presentation supplies a brief, informal summary of the planned Rubin Observatory data products and analysis tools, and outlines the boundary between what Rubin Observatory will provide and what will be left to the expertise of the science community. The primary target audience of this presentation is scientists writing or reviewing funding proposals that include preparatory work for science with Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
Pentecostalism on the Mornington Peninsula
Creators: name: Boord, Noreen Mary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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High-harmonic generation enhanced by dynamical electron correlation
Creators: name: Tikhomirov, Iliya
name: Sato, Takeshi
name: Ishikawa, Kenichi L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study multielectron effects in high-harmonic generation (HHG), using all-electron first-principles simulations for a one-dimensional (1D) model atom. In addition to usual plateau and cutoff (from a cation in the present case, since the neutral is immediately ionized), we find a prominent resonance peak far above the plateau and a second plateau extended beyond the first cutoff. These features originate from the dication response enhanced by orders of magnitude due to the action of the Coulomb force from the rescattering electron, and, hence, are a clear manifestation of electron correlation. Although the present simulations are done in 1D, the physical mechanism underlying the dramatic enhancement is expected to hold also for three-dimensional real systems. This will provide new possibilities to explore dynamical electron correlation in intense laser fields using HHG, which is usually considered to be of single-electron nature in most cases.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
The Rubin Data Products, Abridged
Creators: name: Graham, Melissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This presentation supplies a brief, informal summary of the planned Rubin Observatory data products and analysis tools, and outlines the boundary between what Rubin Observatory will provide and what will be left to the expertise of the science community. The primary target audience of this presentation is scientists writing or reviewing funding proposals that include preparatory work for science with Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
Plasmon-Exciton-Polariton Lasing
Creators: name: Ramezani, Mohammad
name: Halpin, Alexei
name: Fernández-Domínguez, Antonio I.
name: Feist, Johannes
name: Rodriguez, Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh
name: Garcia-Vidal, Francisco J.
name: Gómez-Rivas, Jaime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metallic nanostructures provide a toolkit for the generation of coherent light below the diffraction limit. Plasmonic based lasing relies on the population inversion of emitters (such as organic fluorophores) along with feedback provided by plasmonic resonances. In this regime, known as weak light matter coupling, the radiative characteristics of the system can be described by the Purcell effect. Strong light matter coupling between the molecular excitons and electromagnetic field generated by the plasmonic structures leads to the formation of hybrid quasi-particles known as plasmon exciton polaritons (PEPs). Due to the bosonic character of these quasi particles, exciton polariton condensation can lead to laser-like emission at much lower threshold powers than in conventional photon lasers. Here, we observe PEP lasing through a dark plasmonic mode in an array of metallic nanoparticles with a low threshold in an optically pumped organic system. Interestingly, the threshold power of the lasing is reduced by increasing the degree of light matter coupling in spite of the degradation of the quantum efficiency of the active material, highlighting the ultrafast dynamic responsible for the lasing, i.e., stimulated scattering. These results demonstrate a unique roomtemperature platform for exploring the physics of exciton polaritons in an open cavity architecture and pave the road toward the integration of this on-chip lasing device with the current photonics and active metamaterial planar technologies.
Linking Behavior in the PER Coauthorship Network
Creators: name: Anderson, Katharine A
name: Crespi, Matthew
name: Sayre, Eleanor C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is considerable long-term interest in understanding the dynamics of collaboration networks, and how these networks form and evolve over time. Most of the work done on the dynamics of social networks focuses on well-established communities. Work examining emerging social networks is rarer, simply because data is difficult to obtain in real time. In this paper, we use thirty years of data from an emerging scientific community to look at that crucial early stage in the development of a social network. We show that when the field was very young, islands of individual researchers labored in relative isolation, and the coauthorship network was disconnected. Thirty years later, rather than a cluster of individuals, we find a true collaborative community, bound together by a robust collaboration network. However, this change did not take place gradually\textemdash the network remained a loose assortment of isolated individuals until the mid-2000s, when those smaller parts suddenly knit themselves together into a single whole. In the rest of this paper, we consider the role of three factors in these observed structural changes: growth, changes in social norms, and the introduction of institutions such as field-specific conferences and journals. We have data from the very earliest years of the field, a period which includes the introduction of two different institutions: the first field-specific conference, and the first field-specific journals. We also identify two relevant behavioral shifts: a discrete increase in coauthorship coincident with the first conference, and a shift among established authors away from collaborating with outsiders, towards collaborating with each other. The interaction of these factors gives us insight into the formation of collaboration networks more broadly.
description: Submitted to PhysRevPER
A study of solar photospheric temperature gradient variation using limb darkening measurements
Creators: name: Criscuoli, Serena
name: Foukal, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The variation in area of quiet magnetic network measured over the sunspot cycle should modulate the spatially averaged photospheric temperature gradient, since temperature declines with optical depth more gradually in magnetic flux tube atmospheres. Yet, limb darkening measurements show no dependence upon activity level, even at an rms precision of 0.04%. We study the sensitivity of limb darkening to changes in area filling factor using a 3D MHD model of the magnetized photosphere. The limb darkening change expected from the measured 11 yr area variation lies below the level of measured limb darkening variations, for a reasonable range of magnetic flux in quiet network and internetwork regions. So the remarkably constant limb darkening observed over the solar activity cycle is not inconsistent with the measured 11 year change in area of quiet magnetic network. Our findings offer an independent constraint on photospheric temperature gradient changes reported from measurements of the solar spectral irradiance from the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM), and recently, from wavelength differential spectrophotometry using the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the HINODE spacecraft.
description: Accepted in The Astrophysical Journal
ACE-2005-PT: Corpus for Event Extraction in Portuguese
Creators: name: Cunha, Luís Filipe
name: Silvano, Purificação
name: Campos, Ricardo
name: Jorge, Alípio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Event extraction is an NLP task that commonly involves identifying the central word (trigger) for an event and its associated arguments in text. ACE-2005 is widely recognised as the standard corpus in this field. While other corpora, like PropBank, primarily focus on annotating predicate-argument structure, ACE-2005 provides comprehensive information about the overall event structure and semantics. However, its limited language coverage restricts its usability. This paper introduces ACE-2005-PT, a corpus created by translating ACE-2005 into Portuguese, with European and Brazilian variants. To speed up the process of obtaining ACE-2005-PT, we rely on automatic translators. This, however, poses some challenges related to automatically identifying the correct alignments between multi-word annotations in the original text and in the corresponding translated sentence. To achieve this, we developed an alignment pipeline that incorporates several alignment techniques: lemmatization, fuzzy matching, synonym matching, multiple translations and a BERT-based word aligner. To measure the alignment effectiveness, a subset of annotations from the ACE-2005-PT corpus was manually aligned by a linguist expert. This subset was then compared against our pipeline results which achieved exact and relaxed match scores of 70.55\% and 87.55\% respectively. As a result, we successfully generated a Portuguese version of the ACE-2005 corpus, which has been accepted for publication by LDC.
Color center fluorescence and spin manipulation in single crystal, pyramidal diamond tips
Creators: name: Nelz, Richard
name: Fuchs, Philipp
name: Opaluch, Oliver
name: Sonusen, Selda
name: Savenko, Natalia
name: Podgursky, Vitali
name: Neu, Elke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate bright fluorescence of nitrogen (NV)- and silicon-vacancy color centers in pyramidal, single crystal diamond tips which are commercially available as atomic force microscope probes. We coherently manipulate NV electronic spin ensembles with $T_2 = 7.7(3)\,μ$s. Color center lifetimes in different tip heights indicate effective refractive index effects and quenching. Using numerical simulations, we verify enhanced photon rates from emitters close to the pyramid apex; a situation promising for scanning probe sensing.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, for additional information, please see supplementary material uploaded as ancillary file Version 2 to appear (open acces) in Applied Physics Letters
Schmidt, Margot (Hrsg.), Tiefe des Gotteswissens - Schönheit der Sprachgestalt bei Hildegard von Bingen
Creators: name: Scheffczyk, Leo
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 13 Nr. 1 (1997): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 13, Heft 1
In vitro control of plant pathogenic Xanthomonas spp. using Poncirus trifoliata Rafin
Creators: name: Rahman, Atiqur
name: Islam, Rafiquel
name: Al-Reza, Sharif M.
name: Kang, Sun Chul
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Xanthomonas spp.
subject: Poncirus trifoliata Rafin
subject: oriental tomato plants
subject: antibacterial efficacy
subject: secondary metabolites
subject: essential oil
subject: 610

description: The secondary metabolites such as essential oil and pure compounds (limonin and imperatorin) from Poncirus trifoliata Rafin were tested for in vitro control of phytopathogenic bacteria of Xanthomonas spp. In vitro studies showed that the oil had inhibitory effect on Xanthomonas campestris pv. compestris KC94-17-XCC, Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria YK93-4-XCV, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae KX019-XCO and Xanthomonas sp. SK12 with their inhibition zones and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ranging from 13.1~22.1 mm and 62.5~125 μg/ml, respectively. Limonin and imperatorin also had in vitro antibacterial potential (MIC: 15.62~62.5 μg/ml) against all the tested Xanthomonas spp. Furthermore, the SEM studies demonstrated that limonin and imperatorin caused morphological changes of Xanthomonas sp. SK12 at the minimum inhibitory concentration (15.62 μg/ml). These results of this study support the possible use of essential oil and natural compounds from P. Trifoliata in agriculture and agro-industries to control plant pathogenic microorganisms.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
Australian attitudes and policies to the French presence in the South Pacific : from the past to the present
Creators: name: Galante, Anthony S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Low Power Wide Area Networks: An Overview
Creators: name: Raza, Usman
name: Kulkarni, Parag
name: Sooriyabandara, Mahesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks are attracting a lot of attention primarily because of their ability to offer affordable connectivity to the low-power devices distributed over very large geographical areas. In realizing the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), LPWA technologies complement and sometimes supersede the conventional cellular and short range wireless technologies in performance for various emerging smart city and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. This review paper presents the design goals and the techniques, which different LPWA technologies exploit to offer wide-area coverage to low-power devices at the expense of low data rates. We survey several emerging LPWA technologies and the standardization activities carried out by different standards development organizations (e.g., IEEE, IETF, 3GPP, ETSI) as well as the industrial consortia built around individual LPWA technologies (e.g., LORa Alliance,WEIGHTLESS-SIG, and DASH7 Alliance). We further note that LPWA technologies adopt similar approaches, thus sharing similar limitations and challenges. This paper expands on these research challenges and identifies potential directions to address them. While the proprietary LPWA technologies are already hitting the market with large nationwide roll-outs, this paper encourages an active engagement of the research community in solving problems that will shape the connectivity of tens of billions of devices in the next decade.
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Inhibitory activity of carbon quantum dots against Phytophthora infestans and fungal plant pathogens and their effect on dsRNA-induced gene silencing
Creators: name: Kostov, Kaloyan
name: Andonova-Lilova, Boika
name: Smagghe, Guy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have many potential applications due to their cell-penetrating ability, biocompatibility and tunable properties. Among a variety of characteristics, the inhibition of bacteria by CQDs is often reported. However, the effect on other microorganisms, such as plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes, is poorly studied. Here we monitored the growth of the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans in the presence of CQDs, as well as of another three fungal plant pathogens, namely Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria alternata and Fusarium oxysporum. Moreover, the ability of CQDs to improve gene silencing caused by exogenous dsRNA in P. infestans was studied, and the toxicity of CQDs to human keratinocytes was evaluated. Our results indicate significant inhibitory activity of CQDs against P. infestans at relatively low concentrations. In a species-specific manner and to a lesser extent, the growth of the three fungal plant pathogens was also affected. We also found that the treatment of P. infestans with naked dsRNA in vitro did not trigger gene silencing. However, the mixture of CQDs with dsRNA increased RNAi efficiency, by causing a significant reduction of the transcript levels of the target gene in developing sporangia. Finally, no cytotoxicity of the CQDs, in the concentrations active against the plant pathogens, was found.
Combinations of mild chemical and bacterial pretreatment for improving enzymatic saccharification of corn stover
Creators: name: Liu, Guoqing
name: Han, Dongjing
name: Yang, Shaohua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass plays an important role for the enzymatic hydrolysis. In this study, a nitrogen-fixing and lignin-degrading strain of bacteria was isolated from an abandoned termite colony. Then, it was identified and named as R. ornithinolytica RS-1. To improve the degradation and enzymatic saccharification in corn stover, we used pretreatment with strain RS-1 to deplete the lignin, combined with a 2.5% mild NaOH pretreatment to further deplete the hemicellulose. After only seven days, lignin was degraded by the bacteria RS-1 with a 19% decrease, while the relative content of cellulose increased with 21%. Furthermore, the corn stover cellulose conversion was up to 48.58% by a two-stage process with 2.5% NaOH pretreatment. Meanwhile, significant lignin and hemicellulose removal were observed. Manganese peroxidase activity was highest on Day 3 with the value 181.0256 U/L and lignin peroxidase activity was highest on Day 5 with the value 37.473 U/L, respectively. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses showed significant chemical structural changes after the combined pretreatment. Therefore, strain RS-1 provided an efficient strategy to enhance the enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency by pretreatment of corn stover. A nitrogen-fixing and lignin-degrading bacteria R. ornithinolytica RS-1was isolated successfully.Lignin in corn stover was selectively and effectively degraded in merely seven days.A relatively high cellulose conversion yield (48.58%) of corn stover was obtained.Glucose yield of two-stage pretreated corn stover was up to 360.74 µg/mL. A nitrogen-fixing and lignin-degrading bacteria R. ornithinolytica RS-1was isolated successfully. Lignin in corn stover was selectively and effectively degraded in merely seven days. A relatively high cellulose conversion yield (48.58%) of corn stover was obtained. Glucose yield of two-stage pretreated corn stover was up to 360.74 µg/mL.
Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: closing the $m_{H^{\pm}}\sim m_t$ window
Creators: name: Degrande, Celine
name: Frederix, Rikkert
name: Hirschi, Valentin
name: Ubiali, Maria
name: Wiesemann, Marius
name: Zaro, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present predictions for the total cross section for the production of a charged Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range ($m_{H^{\pm}}\sim m_t$) at the LHC, focusing on a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Results are obtained at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in QCD perturbation theory, by studying the full process $pp\to H^\pm W^\mp b \bar b$ in the complex-(top)-mass scheme with massive bottom quarks. Compared to lowest-order predictions, NLO corrections have a sizeable impact: they increase the cross section by roughly 50\% and reduce uncertainties due to scale variations by more than a factor of two. Our computation reliably interpolates between the low- and high-mass regime. Our results provide the first NLO prediction for charged Higgs production in the intermediate-mass range and therefore allow to have NLO accurate predictions in the full $m_{H^{\pm}}$ range. The extension of our results to different realisations of the two-Higgs-doublet model or to the supersymmetric case is also discussed.
description: 10 pages including references, version accepted for publication on Phys. Lett. B
Shakespeare : words in music : a study of the relationship between the poems in the plays of Shakespeare and musical settings over 400 years
Creators: name: Bromage, Lynette.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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