cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sacratior Orbis Magister, Sive Divus Franciscus Salesius Genevensium Episcopus, ex Tertio Ordine Sancti Francisci de Paula; 1716
Creators: name: Kirmreith, Ignatius
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Pragae, Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, Anno 1716
Chenopodium suecicum Murr.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Chenopodium
Chenopodium suecicum

description: Chenopodium suecicum Murr.
Distribution
Northern Eurasia.
Notes
Ryabinina (1998) reported this segregate of the Chenopodium album L. aggr. as occurring on ruderal places in the whole Orenburg Region. While the species occurrence is possible in this territory, no herbarium specimens were found to confirm this record.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space and in sphere
Creators: name: Wei, Yong
name: Xiong, Changwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, firstly, inspired by Natário's recent work \cite{Na}, we use the isoperimetric inequality to derive some Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for closed convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\H^{n+1}$ and in the sphere $\SS^{n+1}$. We also get the rigidity in the spherical case. Secondly, we use the inverse mean curvature flow in sphere \cite{gerh,Mak-Sch} to prove an optimal Sobolev type inequality for closed convex hypersurfaces in the sphere.
description: 19 pages. All comments are welcome
High-order myopic coronagraphic phase diversity (COFFEE) for wave-front control in high-contrast imaging systems
Creators: name: Paul, B.
name: Mugnier, L. M.
name: Sauvage, J. -F.
name: Dohlen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The estimation and compensation of quasi-static aberrations is mandatory to reach the ultimate performance of high-contrast imaging systems. COFFEE is a focal plane wave-front sensing method that consists in the extension of phase diversity to high-contrast imaging systems. Based on a Bayesian approach, it estimates the quasi-static aberrations from two focal plane images recorded from the scientific camera itself. In this paper, we present COFFEE's extension which allows an estimation of low and high order aberrations with nanometric precision for any coronagraphic device. The performance is evaluated by realistic simulations, performed in the SPHERE instrument framework. We develop a myopic estimation that allows us to take into account an imperfect knowledge on the used diversity phase. Lastly, we evaluate COFFEE's performance in a compensation process, to optimize the contrast on the detector, and show it allows one to reach the 10^-6 contrast required by SPHERE at a few resolution elements from the star. Notably, we present a non-linear energy minimization method which can be used to reach very high contrast levels (better than 10^-7 in a SPHERE-like context)
description: Accepted in Optics Express
A study of the Fife and Kinross District Asylum 1866-1899
Creators: name: Doody, Gillian
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1992
Subjects: lunacy reform
Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857

description: This thesis aims to illuminate the hitherto neglected area of the Scottish Victorian Pauper Asylum. It provides a detailed study of one specific institution, The Fife and Kinross District Asylum between the years 1866 and 1899. A wealth of archival material is available for this period, including admission registers, consecutive casebooks, post mortem and annual reports. This has afforded a unique insight into asylum life, and the information obtained has enabled the thesis to be divided into two main sections. The first aims to provide an account of the establishment of the Fife Asylum within its historical context, with particular reference to its doctors and attendants. The second part examines the patient population and focuses on a casenote study of 337 male patients admitted between 1874 and 1899. Sociodemographic characteristics, psychopathology, Nineteenth Century diagnoses, length of stay and outcome are all examined for this population. An attempt has also been made to re-diagnose the psychopathology identified in terms of the Research Diagnostic Criteria of Spitzer et al (1978). The findings indicate that the Fife Asylum differed from its English counterparts in several important respects. Although inpatient numbers rose as the century progressed there was no evidence of overcrowding with chronic patients, or an excess of 'organic' pathology, as was seen in English Asylums. These and other distinguishing features are examined critically and discussed in relation to the innovative styles of patient management pioneered at the Fife Asylum in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century.
SOV approach for integrable quantum models associated to general representations on spin-1/2 chains of the 8-vertex reflection algebra
Creators: name: Faldella, S.
name: Niccoli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of the transfer matrices associated to the most general representations of the 8-vertex reflection algebra on spin-1/2 chains is here implemented by introducing a quantum separation of variables (SOV) method which generalizes to these integrable quantum models the method first introduced by Sklyanin. More in detail, for the representations reproducing in their homogeneous limits the open XYZ spin-1/2 quantum chains with the most general integrable boundary conditions, we explicitly construct representations of the 8-vertex reflection algebras for which the transfer matrix spectral problem is separated. Then, in these SOV representations we get the complete characterization of the transfer matrix spectrum (eigenvalues and eigenstates) and its non-degeneracy. Moreover, we present the first fundamental step toward the characterization of the dynamics of these models by deriving determinant formulae for the matrix elements of the identity on separated states, which apply in particular to transfer matrix eigenstates. The comparison of our analysis for the 8-vertex reflection algebra with that of [1, 2] for the 6-vertex one leads to the interesting remark that a profound similarity in both the characterization of the spectral problems and of the scalar products exists for these two different realizations of the reflection algebra once they are described by SOV method. As it will be shown in a future publication, this remarkable similarity will be at the basis of the simultaneous determination of form factors of local operators of integrable quantum models associated to general reflection algebra representations of both 8-vertex and 6-vertex type.
description: 37 pages
Generalized Semantic Contrastive Learning via Embedding Side Information for Few-Shot Object Detection
Creators: name: Chen, Ruoyu
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Li, Jingzhi
name: Liu, Li
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Cao, Xiaochun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The objective of few-shot object detection (FSOD) is to detect novel objects with few training samples. The core challenge of this task is how to construct a generalized feature space for novel categories with limited data on the basis of the base category space, which could adapt the learned detection model to unknown scenarios. However, limited by insufficient samples for novel categories, two issues still exist: (1) the features of the novel category are easily implicitly represented by the features of the base category, leading to inseparable classifier boundaries, (2) novel categories with fewer data are not enough to fully represent the distribution, where the model fine-tuning is prone to overfitting. To address these issues, we introduce the side information to alleviate the negative influences derived from the feature space and sample viewpoints and formulate a novel generalized feature representation learning method for FSOD. Specifically, we first utilize embedding side information to construct a knowledge matrix to quantify the semantic relationship between the base and novel categories. Then, to strengthen the discrimination between semantically similar categories, we further develop contextual semantic supervised contrastive learning which embeds side information. Furthermore, to prevent overfitting problems caused by sparse samples, a side-information guided region-aware masked module is introduced to augment the diversity of samples, which finds and abandons biased information that discriminates between similar categories via counterfactual explanation, and refines the discriminative representation space further. Extensive experiments using ResNet and ViT backbones on PASCAL VOC, MS COCO, LVIS V1, FSOD-1K, and FSVOD-500 benchmarks demonstrate that our model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art methods, significantly improving the ability of FSOD in most shots/splits.
description: Accepted by T-PAMI (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)
Coupling spin ensembles via superconducting flux qubits
Creators: name: Qiu, Yueyin
name: Xiong, Wei
name: Tian, Lin
name: You, J. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a hybrid quantum system consisting of spin ensembles and superconducting flux qubits, where each spin ensemble is realized using the nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond crystal and the nearest-neighbor spin ensembles are effectively coupled via a flux qubit.We show that the coupling strengths between flux qubits and spin ensembles can reach the strong and even ultrastrong coupling regimes by either engineering the hybrid structure in advance or tuning the excitation frequencies of spin ensembles via external magnetic fields. When extending the hybrid structure to an array with equal coupling strengths, we find that in the strong-coupling regime, the hybrid array is reduced to a tight-binding model of a one-dimensional bosonic lattice. In the ultrastrong-coupling regime, it exhibits quasiparticle excitations separated from the ground state by an energy gap. Moreover, these quasiparticle excitations and the ground state are stable under a certain condition that is tunable via the external magnetic field. This may provide an experimentally accessible method to probe the instability of the system.
description: 8 pages,3 figures
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1959-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
A metallicity study of 1987A-like supernova host galaxies
Creators: name: Taddia, F.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Razza, A.
name: Gafton, E.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Leloudas, G.
name: Ergon, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the blue supergiant (BSG) progenitor of Supernova (SN) 1987A has long been debated, along with the role that its sub-solar metallicity played. We now have a sample of 1987A-like SNe that arise from the core collapse (CC) of BSGs. The metallicity of the explosion sites of the known BSG SNe is investigated, as well as their association to star-forming regions. Both indirect and direct metallicity measurements of 13 BSG SN host galaxies are presented, and compared to those of other CC SN types. Indirect measurements are based on the known luminosity-metallicity relation and on published metallicity gradients of spiral galaxies. To provide direct estimates based on strong line diagnostics, we obtained spectra of each BSG SN host both at the SN explosion site and at the positions of other HII regions. Continuum-subtracted Ha images allowed us to quantify the association between BSG SNe and star-forming regions. BSG SNe explode either in low-luminosity galaxies or at large distances from the nuclei of luminous hosts. Therefore, their indirectly measured metallicities are typically lower than those of SNe IIP and Ibc. This is confirmed by the direct estimates, which show slightly sub-solar values (12+log(O/H)=8.3-8.4 dex), similar to that of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), where SN 1987A exploded. However, two SNe (1998A and 2004em) were found at near solar metallicity. SNe IIb have a metallicity distribution similar to that of BSG SNe. Finally, the association to star-forming regions is similar among BSG SNe, SNe IIP and IIn. Our results suggest that LMC metal abundances play a role in the formation of some 1987A-like SNe. This would naturally fit in a single star scenario for the progenitors. However, the existence of two events at nearly solar metallicity suggests that also other channels, e.g. binarity, contribute to produce BSG SNe.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures; accepted for publication (Astronomy and Astrophysics); abstract abridged for arXiv submission
Generalized mean field approximation for parallel dynamics of the Ising model
Creators: name: Mahmoudi, Hamed
name: Saad, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of non-equilibrium Ising model with parallel updates is investigated using a generalized mean field approximation that incorporates multiple two-site correlations at any two time steps, which can be obtained recursively. The proposed method shows significant improvement in predicting local system properties compared to other mean field approximation techniques, particularly in systems with symmetric interactions. Results are also evaluated against those obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. The method is also employed to obtain parameter values for the kinetic inverse Ising modeling problem, where couplings and local fields values of a fully connected spin system are inferred from data.
A deformable microswimmer in a swirl: capturing and scattering dynamics
Creators: name: Tarama, Mitsusuke
name: Menzel, Andreas M.
name: Löwen, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the classical Kepler and Rutherford problem, we investigate an analogous set-up in the context of active microswimmers: the behavior of a deformable microswimmer in a swirl flow. First we identify new steady bound states in the swirl flow and analyze their stability. Second we study the dynamics of a self-propelled swimmer heading towards the vortex center, and we observe the subsequent capturing and scattering dynamics. We distinguish between two major types of swimmers, those that tend to elongate perpendicularly to the propulsion direction and those that pursue a parallel elongation. While the first ones can get caught by the swirl, the second ones were always observed to be scattered, which proposes a promising escape strategy. This offers a route to design artificial microswimmers that show the desired behavior in complicated flow fields. It should be straightforward to verify our results in a corresponding quasi-two-dimensional experiment using self-propelled droplets on water surfaces.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
An Enhanced Spectroscopic Census of the Orion Nebula Cluster
Creators: name: Hillenbrand, Lynne A.
name: Hoffer, Aaron S.
name: Herczeg, Gregory J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new spectral types or spectral classification constraints for over 600 stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) based on medium resolution R~ 1500-2000 red optical spectra acquired using the Palomar 200" and Kitt Peak 3.5m telescopes. Spectral types were initially estimated for F, G, and early K stars from atomic line indices while for late K and M stars, constituting the majority of our sample, indices involving TiO and VO bands were used. To ensure proper classification, particularly for reddened, veiled, or nebula-contaminated stars, all spectra were then visually examined for type verification or refinement. We provide an updated spectral type table that supersedes Hillenbrand (1997), increasing the percentage of optically visible ONC stars with spectral type information from 68% to 90%. However, for many objects, repeated observations have failed to yield spectral types primarily due to the challenges of adequate sky subtraction against a bright and spatially variable nebular background. The scatter between our new and our previously determined spectral types is approximately 2 spectral sub-classes. We also compare our grating spectroscopy results with classification based on narrow-band TiO filter photometry from Da Rio et al. (2012, finding similar scatter. While the challenges of working in the ONC may explain much of the spread, we highlight several stars showing significant and unexplained bona fide spectral variations in observations taken several years apart; these and similar cases could be due to a combination of accretion and extinction changes. Finally, nearly 20% of ONC stars exhibit obvious Ca II triplet emission indicative of strong accretion.
description: Accepted to the Astronomical Journal; 37 pages, including 11 Figures and 3 Tables (one long table not reproduced here but available upon request or from the journal)
Sparse and Non-Negative BSS for Noisy Data
Creators: name: Rapin, Jérémy
name: Bobin, Jérôme
name: Larue, Anthony
name: Starck, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.4
subject: 94A12

description: Non-negative blind source separation (BSS) has raised interest in various fields of research, as testified by the wide literature on the topic of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). In this context, it is fundamental that the sources to be estimated present some diversity in order to be efficiently retrieved. Sparsity is known to enhance such contrast between the sources while producing very robust approaches, especially to noise. In this paper we introduce a new algorithm in order to tackle the blind separation of non-negative sparse sources from noisy measurements. We first show that sparsity and non-negativity constraints have to be carefully applied on the sought-after solution. In fact, improperly constrained solutions are unlikely to be stable and are therefore sub-optimal. The proposed algorithm, named nGMCA (non-negative Generalized Morphological Component Analysis), makes use of proximal calculus techniques to provide properly constrained solutions. The performance of nGMCA compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms is demonstrated by numerical experiments encompassing a wide variety of settings, with negligible parameter tuning. In particular, nGMCA is shown to provide robustness to noise and performs well on synthetic mixtures of real NMR spectra.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures, to be published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Economic Fluctuations and Capitalistic Production: A Case Study in Robustness Constraints
Creators: name: Cruz, Gerardo
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2016
Subjects: controls
control theory
business cycle
economics
Control and Dynamical Systems

description: A central pursuit of macroeconomic research is to understand the source of short run variations in aggregate economic variables. To this end, the branch of macroeconomics known as Real Business Cycle (RBC) theory emphasizes the role of disturbances to the real economy while abstracting from nominal variables (e.g. money). According to RBC theory, business cycles are the result of optimal responses to exogenous stochastic disturbances on technology in a structure of capitalistic production. In this report, we contend that the structure of capitalistic production per se constrains the ability of the economy to absorb shocks. That is, even if the feedback behavior in the model is designed to mitigate fluctuation (and is not necessarily optimal relative to some inter-temporal utility), the resulting sensitivity is nevertheless constrained by a lower bound. Moreover, we show that this lower bound is exacerbated with increasing steady state consumption, capital and investment. Concretely, we show that the Ramsey model, linearized about its steady state equilibrium, has a non-minimum phase structure and therefore its sensitivity is constrained by the control theoretic design limits. Moreover, the non-minimum phase zero is given by the inverse of the discount factor. As the discount factor approaches unity, steady state consumption approaches optimal steady state consumption, but the non-minimum phase zero approaches the closed unit circle exacerbating the sensitivity constraints.
Black brane solutions governed by fluxbrane polynomials
Creators: name: Ivashchuk, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A family of composite black brane solutions in the model with scalar fields and fields of forms is presented. The metric of any solution is defined on a manifold which contains a product of several Ricci-flat "internal" spaces. The solutions are governed by moduli functions H_s (s = 1, ..., m) obeying non-linear differential equations with certain boundary conditions imposed. These master equations are equivalent to Toda-like equations and depend upon the non-degenerate (m x m) matrix A. It was conjectured earlier that the functions H_s should be polynomials if A is a Cartan matrix for some semisimple finite-dimensional Lie algebra (of rank m). It is shown that the solutions to master equations may be found by using so-called fluxbrane polynomials which can be calculated (in principle) for any semisimple finite-dimensional Lie algebra. Examples of dilatonic charged black hole (0-brane) solutions related to Lie algebras A_1, A_2, C_2 and G_2 are considered.
description: 16 pages, Latex, no figures, several typos are corrected
Chenopodium vulvaria L.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Chenopodium
Chenopodium vulvaria

description: Chenopodium vulvaria L.
Distribution
Mediterranean, West Asia, Iran, southern Central Asia, Himalayas (Groom 2015, Lomonosova and Uotila 2022).
Notes
This species was reported as a rare plant possibly occurring in the western part of Orenburg Region (Knjazev 2009), although it has been previously believed to occur throughout the whole territory (Ryabinina 1998). Some voucher specimens seen in ORIS belong to the Chenopodium album aggregate and no specimens of C. vulvaria from the entire Volga-Ural region were seen by the first author.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Consistent Probabilities in Perfect Fluid Quantum Universes
Creators: name: Bom, Clécio R.
name: Pinto-Neto, Nelson
name: Santos, Grasiele B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been claimed that the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of gravity is unable to avoid cosmological singularities. However, in order to make this assertion, one must specify the underlying interpretation of quantum mechanics which has been adopted. For instance, several nonsingular models were obtained in Wheeler-DeWitt quantum cosmology in the framework of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory. Conversely, there are specific situations where the singularity cannot be avoided in the framework of the Consistent Histories approach to quantum mechanics. In these specific situations, the matter content is described by a scalar field, and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation looks-like a Klein-Gordon equation. The aim of this work is to study the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of cosmological models where the matter content is described by an hydrodynamical perfect fluid, where the Wheeler-DeWitt equation reduces to a genuine Schrödinger equation. In this case, it is shown that the conclusions of the Consistent Histories and the de Broglie-Bohm approaches coincide in the quantum cosmological models where the curvature of the spatial sections is not positive definite, namely, that the cosmological singularities are eliminated. In the case of positive spatial curvature, the family of histories is no longer consistent, and no conclusion can be given in this framework.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Evaluating Sliding and Sticky Target Policies by Measuring Temporal Drift in Acyclic Walks Through a Web Archive
Creators: name: Ainsworth, Scott G.
name: Nelson, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.7

description: When a user views an archived page using the archive's user interface (UI), the user selects a datetime to view from a list. The archived web page, if available, is then displayed. From this display, the web archive UI attempts to simulate the web browsing experience by smoothly transitioning between archived pages. During this process, the target datetime changes with each link followed; drifting away from the datetime originally selected. When browsing sparsely-archived pages, this nearly-silent drift can be many years in just a few clicks. We conducted 200,000 acyclic walks of archived pages, following up to 50 links per walk, comparing the results of two target datetime policies. The Sliding Target policy allows the target datetime to change as it does in archive UIs such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The Sticky Target policy, represented by the Memento API, keeps the target datetime the same throughout the walk. We found that the Sliding Target policy drift increases with the number of walk steps, number of domains visited, and choice (number of links available). However, the Sticky Target policy controls temporal drift, holding it to less than 30 days on average regardless of walk length or number of domains visited. The Sticky Target policy shows some increase as choice increases, but this may be caused by other factors. We conclude that based on walk length, the Sticky Target policy generally produces at least 30 days less drift than the Sliding Target policy.
description: 10 pages, JCDL 2013
Effect of change in systolic blood pressure between clinic visits on estimated 10-year cardiovascular disease risk
Creators: name: Ye, Siqin
name: Wang, Claire
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Levitan, Emily B.
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Risk factors
Health risk assessment
Statins (Cardiovascular agents)
Systolic blood pressure
Epidemiology
Public health
Medical sciences

description: Background
Systolic blood pressure (SBP) often varies between clinic visits within individuals, which can affect estimation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

Methods and Results
We analyzed data from participants with two clinic visits separated by a median of 17 days in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n = 808). Ten-year CVD risk was calculated with SBP obtained at each visit using the Pooled Cohort Equations. The mean age of participants was 46.1 years, and 47.3% were male. The median SBP difference between the two visits was −1 mm Hg (1st to 99th percentiles: −23 to 32 mm Hg). The median estimated 10-year CVD risk was 2.5% and 2.4% at the first and second visit, respectively (1st to 99th percentiles −5.2% to +7.1%). Meaningful risk reclassification (ie, across the guideline recommended 7.5% threshold for statin initiation) occurred in 12 (11.3%) of 106 participants whose estimated CVD risk was between 5% and 10%, but only in two (0.3%) of 702 participants who had a 10-year estimated CVD risk of <5% or >10%.

Conclusions
SBP variability can affect CVD risk estimation, and can influence statin eligibility for individuals with an estimated 10-year CVD risk between 5% and 10%.
Melting of P wave bottomonium states in the quark-gluon plasma from lattice NRQCD
Creators: name: Aarts, G.
name: Allton, C.
name: Kim, S.
name: Lombardo, M. P.
name: Ryan, S. M.
name: Skullerud, J. -I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fate of P wave bottomonium states in the quark-gluon plasma, using a spectral function analysis of euclidean lattice correlators. The correlators are obtained from lattice QCD simulations with two light quark flavours on highly anisotropic lattices, treating the bottom quark nonrelativistically. We find clear indications of melting immediately after the deconfinement transition.
description: 12 pages, several eps figures
Non-minimal Gravitational Coupling of Phantom and Big Rip Singularity
Creators: name: Bisabr, Yousef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a non-minimal coupling of a perfect fluid matter system with geometry, which the coupling function is taken to be an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar. Due to such a coupling, the matter stress tensor is no longer conserved and there is an energy transfer between the two components. By solving the conservation equation and applying the second law of thermodynamics, we show that direction of the energy transfer depends on the equation of state of the matter fluid. In particular, a phantom fluid should loose energy with expansion of the universe. This energy reduction can avoid the universe to end with a cosmic doomsday.
description: 8 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.0328
Association between 24-hour blood pressure variability and chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional analysis of African Americans participating in the Jackson heart study
Creators: name: Tanner, Rikki M.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Dreisbach, Albert W.
name: Carson, April P.
name: Fox, Ervin R.
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Kidneys--Diseases
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Blood pressure--Measurement
Epidemiology
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Background
Studies suggest 24-h blood pressure (BP) variability has prognostic value for cardiovascular disease. Several factors associated with high 24-h BP variability are also common among individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We hypothesized 24-h BP variability would be higher for individuals with versus without CKD.

Methods
We analyzed 1,022 Jackson Heart Study participants who underwent ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). Twenty-four hour BP variability was defined by two metrics: day-night standard deviation (SDdn) and average real variability (ARV). CKD was defined as ACR ≥30 mg/g or eGFR <60 mL/min/1.73 m2.

Results
The mean SDdn of systolic BP (SBP) was 10.2 ± 0.2 and 9.1 ± 0.1 mmHg and the mean ARV of SBP was 9.2 ± 0.2 and 8.6 ± 0.1 mmHg for those with and without CKD, respectively (each p ≤ 0.001). After adjustment for age and sex, SDdn and ARV were 0.98 mmHg (95 % CI 0.59, 1.38) and 0.52 mmHg (95 % CI 0.18, 0.86), respectively, higher among participants with versus without CKD. These differences were not statistically significant after further multivariable adjustment including 24-h mean SBP. Older age, and higher total cholesterol and 24-h mean SBP were associated with higher SDdn and ARV of SBP among participants with CKD. Mean SDdn and ARV of diastolic BP (DBP) were higher for participants with versus without CKD but these associations were not present after multivariable adjustment.

Conclusion
Data from the current study suggest that CKD is associated with higher 24-h BP variability, but the association is primarily explained by higher mean BP among those with CKD.
Cuon alpinus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Cuon
Cuon alpinus

description: Cuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811). Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:34. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Amurskaya Obi., Udskii-Ostrog. DISTRIBUTION: Java; Sumatra; Malaysia; montane forest areas of the Indian peninsula and N. Pakistan through Tibet; Indochina and China to Korea and Ussuri region (U.S. S.R.), and mountains of S. Siberia and N. Mongolia. COMMENT: Reviewed by Cohen, 1978, Mamm. Species, 100:1- 3. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II and U.S. ESA - Endangered. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001006001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cohen, J. A. 1978. Cuon alpinus. Mammalian Species, 100: 1 - 3."]}
The association of posttraumatic stress disorder and quality of life during the first year after acute coronary syndrome
Creators: name: Wasson, Lauren
name: Shaffer, J.
name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
subject: Quality of life
subject: Myocardial infarction--Psychological aspects
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Medicine

description: Acute coronary syndrome [ACS, including unstable angina (UA) or myocardial infarction (MI)] events can be psychologically traumatic experiences for patients given their unpredictable, sudden onset and life-threatening nature [1]. Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly associated with index events of war or assault, PTSD is also associated with life-threatening illness and in particular ACS with approximately 12% of patients developing PTSD [1] and [2].

PTSD due to ACS has a multitude of consequences, including increased risk of ACS recurrence and mortality [3] and [4] in addition to PTSD itself being a debilitating psychiatric condition. Sufferers of PTSD are burdened by symptoms that include re-experiencing the traumatic event via intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or nightmares; avoiding reminders of the index event; persistent negative alterations in cognition and mood; or physiologic hyperarousal. As such, ACS-induced PTSD is likely associated with substantial detriment in quality of life (QOL). However, few studies have measured this association, and no study has investigated it among a general ACS population or longitudinally. Rather, prior studies were composed of ACS patients only in intensive care units (ICUs) or among armed-services veterans [5], [6] and [7] or are notable for limitations such as cross-sectional designs [5] and [7].
Holographic description of quantum black hole on a computer
Creators: name: Hanada, Masanori
name: Hyakutake, Yoshifumi
name: Ishiki, Goro
name: Nishimura, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of the fact that black holes radiate particles and eventually evaporate led Hawking to pose the well-known information loss paradox. This paradox caused a long and serious debate since it claims that the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics may be violated. A possible cure appeared recently from superstring theory, a consistent theory of quantum gravity: if the holographic description of a quantum black hole based on the gauge/gravity duality is correct, the information is not lost and quantum mechanics remains valid. Here we test this gauge/gravity duality on a computer at the level of quantum gravity for the first time. The black hole mass obtained by Monte Carlo simulation of the dual gauge theory reproduces precisely the quantum gravity effects in an evaporating black hole. This result opens up totally new perspectives towards quantum gravity since one can simulate quantum black holes through dual gauge theories.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1960-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Neuroprotective effects of fermented blueberry and black rice against particulate matter 2.5 μm-induced inflammation in vitro and in vivo
Creators: name: Bayazid, Al Borhan
name: Jeong, Soo Ah
name: Azam, Shofiul
name: Oh, Seung Hyeon
name: Lim, Beong Ou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The increasing prevalence of particulate matter (PM) has raised significant concerns about its adverse effects on human health. This study investigates the potential of fermented blueberry and black rice (FBBR) in mitigating the effects of PM2.5 in SH-SY5Y cells and mice. Various assays, including MTT, NO, western blot, ELISA, and behavioral studies were conducted. Results showed that PM2.5 induced considerable cytotoxicity and elevated NO production at a concentration of 100 μg/mL of PM2.5 in SH-SY5Y cells. FBBR administration attenuated PM2.5-exposed cytotoxicity and suppressed NO production in SH-SY5Y cells. In an intranasally-exposed mice model, 10 mg/kg body weight (BW) of PM2.5 resulted in cognitive impairments. However, FBBR treatment ameliorated these impairments in both the Y-maze and MWM tests in PM2.5-exposed mice. Additionally, FBBR administration increased the expression of BDNF and reduced inflammatory markers in the brains of PM2.5-exposed SH-SY5Y cells. These findings highlight the detrimental effects of PM2.5 on the nervous system and suggest the potential of FBBR as a nutraceutical agent for mitigating these effects. Importantly, the results emphasize the urgency of addressing the harmful impact of PM2.5 on the nervous system and underscore the promising role of FBBR as a protective intervention against the adverse effects associated with PM2.5 exposure. Proposed Mechanism of Neuroprotection of FBBR against PM2.5 Exposure
The effect of hormone therapy on mean blood pressure and visit-to-visit blood pressure variability in postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Wang, Lu
name: Lamonte, Michael J.
name: Allison, Matthew
name: Wellenius, Gregory A.
name: Bavry, Anthony A.
name: Martin, Lisa W.
name: Aragaki, Aaron
name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Swica, Yael
name: Rossouw, Jacques E.
name: Manson, JoAnn E.
name: Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Blood pressure--Measurement
Hypertension in women
Hormone therapy
Medical sciences
Medicine
Epidemiology

description: Objectives: Mean and visit-to-visit variability (VVV) of blood pressure (BP) are associated with an increased cardiovascular disease risk. We examined the effect of hormone therapy on mean and VVV of BP in postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized controlled trials.

Methods: BP was measured at baseline and annually in the two WHI hormone therapy trials, in which 10 739 and 16 608 postmenopausal women were randomized to conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs, 0.625 mg/day) or placebo, and CEEs and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA, 2.5 mg/day) or placebo, respectively.

Results: At the first annual visit (year 1), mean SBP was 1.04 mmHg [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.58, 1.50] and 1.35 mmHg (95% CI 0.99, 1.72) higher in the CEEs and CEEs and MPA arms, respectively, compared with the corresponding placebos. These effects remained stable after year 1. CEEs also increased the VVV of SBP (ratio of VVV in CEEs vs. placebo, 1.03; P
Benford's Law and the Universe
Creators: name: Alexopoulos, T.
name: Leontsinis, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Benford's law predicts the occurrence of the $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ digit of numbers in datasets originating from various sources of the world, ranging from financial data to atomic spectra. It is intriguing that although many features of Benford's law have been proven and analysed, it is still not fully mathematically understood. In this paper we investigate the distances of galaxies and stars by comparing the first, second and third significant digit probabilities with Benford's predictions. It is found that the distances of galaxies follow reasonably well the first digit law and the star distances agree very well with the first, second and third significant digit.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Proton and Antiproton Production in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: Konno, Masahiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: proton
multiplicity
nuclear
modification
radial
flow
jet quenching
aerogel
run04
run05
p+p
cu+cu
au+au

description: One of the remarkable findings at RHIC is particle-type dependences of hadron yields and emission patterns, especially its difference between baryons and mesons, at intermediate pT(2-5GeV/c). The purpose of this thesis is to study hadron production mechanisms at intermediate pT and final-state interactions between the hadrons produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We have performed a systematic study of proton and antiproton spectra in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, p+p collisions at √sNN = 200 and 62.4GeV. We present identified charged hadron pT spectra, particle ratios, nuclear modication factors, chemical/kinetic freeze-out properties and their scaling properties between the different collision systems.
Climacoptera affinis Botsch.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Climacoptera
Climacoptera affinis

description: Climacoptera affinis (C. A. Mey. ex Schrenk) Botsch.
Distribution
Central Asia.
Notes
The species was once collected by Antonov in 1852 “ near Orsk town ” (LE). More recent collections are absent from Orenburg Region. The species is widely distributed in central and eastern Kazakhstan.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541