cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shallow coral reef community mapping and update on its ecological units using aerial images at Isla Arena, Colombian Caribbean
Creators: name: Sierra-Escrigas, Silvia L.
name: Duvan R.P. Peluffo
name: García-Urueña, Rocío
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Remote sensing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provides for obtaining large amounts of high-resolution data without direct intervention, which can be managed with geographic information systems (GIS). This allow spatial analysis of a habitat based on georeferenced data which is important to understand the structure and ecological distribution that are fundamental to ecosystems. Isla Arena (10°44ʹ20” N, 75°21ʹ10” W) is an inshore small shoal with a well-developed coral reef formation, despite the sedimentary influence of the Magdalena River in the Colombian Caribbean. Twenty years ago, habitat mapping of ecological units (EUs) of the area was carried out as a baseline study. In this study, we applied an analysis of remotely sensed aerial images, coupled with traditional in situ data to evaluate two different objectives. The first objective was to report the current ecological units in the reef formation with their respective distribution using a high-resolution orthophotomosaic to make a supervised classification based on the spectral reflectance of pixels and a spatial analysis of the reef formation. We evaluated 12 substrate components, of which eight were identified at the species level; then, seven EUs were defined in a thematic map. The second objective was to evaluate variations in the structure of the sessile community with underwater video transects to compare with a baseline study. We found that the coral cover remained similar but that seagrasses and zoanthids decreased in abundance, and macroalgae and sponge abundances increased, which could indicate reef degradation. The implementation of remote sensing by UAVs at Isla Arena was successful and provides a high-resolution alternative for describing the attributes of a shallow reef system. The comparison with the baseline study of the island allowed us to estimate the changes in the community structure and to update its EUs.
President of the Republic of China's neck tie
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: William lived near Donnington Bridge, Oxford. He was a milkman and joined up as a nurse in the RAF and was sent to India (see newspaper clip). He was transferred to China. Letter from United Hospital in China.Tie from Chang Kai-Shek: This was handed down to me through my mother I have a neck tie that formerly belonged to the President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek. This was given to my grandfather during WWII by the President himself in recognition of his good service as a male nursing orderly in the RAF.My grandfather William Percival Evans (1907-80) was working as a milkman at the start of the war and living at 5 Fox Crescent, just off Weirs Lane, Oxford. Just like many other gentlemen of that time, it was not long before he was called up to serve his country and he enlisted in the RAF as a medical nurse.Throughout the entire war he served his country loyally and to the best of his ability and his efforts were well respected and commended. His duties first took him to India and then later to China, and it was while here that he found himself at a chance meeting with Chiang Kai-Shek.I am told that during this meeting the President approached William, who was in his smart RAF uniform, and asked him about his role in the ongoing conflict. William replied and told of his work in the RAF and his efforts in both India and China. The president responded with an apology and confessed that he had no award to offer, but in lieu the president removed his own neck tie and handed this to William as a reward in honour for his dedicated service.
Quasi-flat representations of uniform groups and quantum groups
Creators: name: Banica, Teodor
name: Chirvasitu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G42, 16T20

description: Given a discrete group $Γ=$ and a number $K\in\mathbb N$, a unitary representation $ρ:Γ\to U_K$ is called quasi-flat when the eigenvalues of each $ρ(g_i)\in U_K$ are uniformly distributed among the $K$-th roots of unity. The quasi-flat representations of $Γ$ form altogether a parametric matrix model $π:Γ\to C(X,U_K)$. We compute here the universal model space $X$ for various classes of discrete groups, notably with results in the case where $Γ$ is metabelian. We are particularly interested in the case where $X$ is a union of compact homogeneous spaces, and where the induced representation $\tildeπ:C^*(Γ)\to C(X,U_K)$ is stationary in the sense that it commutes with the Haar functionals. We present several positive and negative results on this subject. We also discuss similar questions for the discrete quantum groups, proving a stationarity result for the discrete dual of the twisted orthogonal group $O_2^{-1}$.
description: 27 pages; minor edits after referee comments
Development of Improved Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter Using Optimized Selective Harmonic Elimination Technique
Creators: name: Kamal, Tariq
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 40401 Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: In this paper the role of Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) is presented for diode clamped twelve-level multilevel inverter (DCMLI) based on dog leg optimization algorithm. Non-linear equations has been solved to eliminate specific low order harmonics, using the developed DOP algorithm, while at the same time the fundamental component is retained efficiently. The non-linear nature of transcendental equation provide multiple or even no solution for a particular modulation index. The proposed optimization method solving the nonlinear transcendental equations providing all possible solutions. The paper also showing the comparison between different modulation techniques including the proposed method. The entire system has been simulated using MATLAB/Simulink. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness with negligible THD.
Evidence for the role of the magnon energy relaxation length in the Spin Seebeck Effect
Creators: name: Prakash, Arati
name: Flebus, Benedetta
name: Brangham, Jack
name: Yang, Fengyuan
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Heremans, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature-dependent spin-Seebeck effect data on Pt|YIG (Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$)|GGG (Gd$_3$Ga$_5$O$_{12}$) are reported for YIG films of various thicknesses. The effect is reported as a spin-Seebeck resistivity (SSR), the inverse spin-Hall field divided by the heat flux, to circumvent uncertainties about temperature gradients inside the films. The SSR is a non-monotonic function of YIG thickness. A diffusive model for magnon transport demonstrates how these data give evidence for the existence of two distinct length scales in thermal spin transport, a spin diffusion length and a magnon energy relaxation length.
Alan Edmund Drury in the AFS and REME
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The contributor brought a lot of photos of their father, Alan Edmund Drury, known as 'Ted'. He was born in 1912 and died in 2000. The photos were all taken in Africa. In 1939, Ted joined the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), based in Ilford, Essex, as a driver. A photo shows him in the driving seat in this role.In 1940, he joined the Army and was posted to Portsmouth, apparently with some sort of connection to 'fire'. He then moved to Holmfirth with his wife Joan and son Chris, pending posting overseas.In 1941, he was posted to North Africa (Egypt, Libya and Tunisia). He was in the 9th Lancers, Eighth Army, R.E.M.E. He wrote a diary on the boat over to North Africa, which went across the North Atlantic and via South Africa to get there in order to avoid U-boats. He was at El Alamein and then sent to Italy. He ended the war as a Sergeant and was called 'Sergente Edmundo' by the Italians. He returned to the UK in 1945 and wrote another diary on the return trip.
Universal quantum uncertainty relations between non-ergodicity and loss of information
Creators: name: Awasthi, Natasha
name: Bhattacharya, Samyadeb
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish uncertainty relations between information loss in general open quantum systems and the amount of non-ergodicity of the corresponding dynamics. The relations hold for arbitrary quantum systems interacting with an arbitrary quantum environment. The elements of the uncertainty relations are quantified via distance measures on the space of quantum density matrices. The relations hold for arbitrary distance measures satisfying a set of intuitively satisfactory axioms. The relations show that as the non-ergodicity of the dynamics increases, the lower bound on information loss decreases, which validates the belief that non-ergodicity plays an important role in preserving information of quantum states undergoing lossy evolution. We also consider a model of a central qubit interacting with a fermionic thermal bath and derive its reduced dynamics, to subsequently investigate the information loss and nonergodicity in such dynamics. We comment on the minimal situations that saturate the uncertainty relations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
FFLO correlation and free fluids in the one-dimensional attractive Hubbard model
Creators: name: Cheng, Song
name: Yu, Yi-Cong
name: Batchelor, Murray T
name: Guan, Xi-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Rapid Communication we show that low energy macroscopic properties of the one-dimensional (1D) attractive Hubbard model exhibit two fluids of bound pairs and of unpaired fermions. Using the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations of the model, we first determine the low temperature phase diagram and analytically calculate the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) pairing correlation function for the partially-polarized phase. We then show that for such a FFLO-like state in the low density regime the effective chemical potentials of bound pairs and unpaired fermions behave like two free fluids. Consequently, the susceptibility, compressibility and specific heat obey simple additivity rules, indicating the `free' particle nature of interacting fermions on a 1D lattice. In contrast to the continuum Fermi gases, the correlation critical exponents and thermodynamics of the attractive Hubbard model essentially depend on two lattice interacting parameters. Finally, we study scaling functions, the Wilson ratio and susceptibility which provide universal macroscopic properties/dimensionless constants of interacting fermions at low energy.
description: In this Letter we analytically study FFLO pairing correlation and the universal nature of the FFLO-like state. More detailed studies of this model will be presented in arXiv:1710.08742 and arXiv:1708.07784
Effect of collisions on neutrino flavor inhomogeneity in a dense neutrino gas
Creators: name: Cirigliano, Vincenzo
name: Paris, Mark W.
name: Shalgar, Shashank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability, with respect to spatial inhomogeneity, of a two-dimensional dense neutrino gas. The system exhibits growth of seed inhomogeneity due to nonlinear coherent neutrino self-interactions. In the absence of incoherent collisional effects, we observe a dependence of this instability growth rate on the neutrino mass spectrum: the normal neutrino mass hierarchy exhibits spatial instability over a larger range of neutrino number density compared to that of the inverted case. We further consider the effect of elastic incoherent collisions of the neutrinos with a static background of heavy, nucleon-like scatterers. At small scales, the growth of flavor instability can be suppressed by collisions. At large length scales we find, perhaps surprisingly, that for inverted neutrino mass hierarchy incoherent collisions fail to suppress flavor instabilities, independent of the coupling strength.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures Version accepted in PLB. Minor changes. Title changed
Adrien Mondet
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Additional file 3 of Microarray expression profile of mRNAs and long noncoding RNAs and the potential role of PFK-1 in infantile hemangioma
Creators: name: Yang, Kaiying
name: Zhang, Xuepeng
name: Chen, Linwen
name: Chen, Siyuan
name: Ji, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Differentially expressed lncRNAs between proliferating and involuting infantile hemangioma.
Tasarımdan Önce Tasarı: Ontolojik Bir Sanat Tasarım Denemesi
Creators: name: Aksaray, Mehmet Emin
Publisher: name: Armoni Yayıncılık
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Art
subject: Art history
subject: Ontology
subject: Graphic design
subject: Visual arts

description: An Ontological Art Design Essay
Universal thermodynamics of the one-dimensional attractive Hubbard model
Creators: name: Cheng, Song
name: Yu, Yi-Song
name: Batchelor, Murray T
name: Guan, Xi-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model, describing electrons on a lattice with an on-site repulsive interaction, provides a paradigm for the physics of quantum many-body phenomena. Here by solving the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations we study the universal thermodynamics, quantum criticality and magnetism of the 1D attractive Hubbard model. We show that the compressibility and the susceptibility of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO)-like state obey simple additivity rules at low temperatures, indicating an existence of two free quantum fluids. The magnetic properties, such as magnetization and susceptibility, reveal three physical regions: quantum fluids at low temperatures, a non-Fermi liquid at high temperatures and the quantum fluid to non-Fermi liquid crossover in between. The lattice interaction is seen to significantly influence the nature of the FFLO-like state in 1D. Furthermore, we show that the dimensionless Wilson ratio provides an ideal parameter to map out the various phase boundaries and to characterize the two free fluids of the FLLO-like state. The quantum scaling functions for the thermal and magnetic properties yield the same dynamic critical exponent $z=2$ and correlation critical exponent $ν=1/2$ in the quantum critical region whenever a phase transition occurs. Our results provide a rigorous understanding of quantum criticality and free fluids of many-body systems on a 1D lattice.
description: revised version, 23 pages, 9 figures, The detailed analysis for the previous short paper. Another long paper on the correlation functions will be presented in Null. Phys. B, see arXiv:1710.08742
Learning to extract buildings from ultra-high-resolution drone images and noisy labels
Creators: name: Nahian Ahmed
name: Riasad Bin Mahbub
name: Rashedur M. Rahman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
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

description: Building maps have a plethora of applications in government, industry and academia. In most cases, large scale maps can be retrieved from OpenStreetMap vector data. However, for certain rapidly changing built and semi-built environments, corresponding maps are not as accurate and contain label noise such as missing, incorrectly present, shifted labels, etc.; mainly because buildings in those regions are constantly being constructed, deconstructed, replaced and altered. One such case is extant in the Rohingya camps of southeastern border region of Bangladesh. Mass refugee influx in late 2017 and following population growth has necessitated the construction of buildings and expansion of camps. Consequently, reliable methods are necessary for detecting and documenting camp buildings. Ultra-high-resolution drone images of Rohingya camps are semantically segmented through fully convolutional U-Net deep learning systems for generating accurate building maps from noisy labels. A wide variety of noises are prevalent in the labels. Deep learning systems provide less noisy predictions compared to the classification tool in the most widely used Geographic Information System (GIS) software, ArcGIS. Data augmentation and regularization allows reliable learning, even in the presence of label noise. During testing, calculation of numeric performance metrics against noisy labels can grossly underestimate true skill and performance of the model. A subset of 22 million pixels of the testing data is relabelled by hand to obtain noise-free labels. Testing our generated maps against noisy and noise-free labels confirms that true performance is higher than otherwise indicated by freely available building maps. Empirical results reveal that utilized pipeline is able to learn from noisy data and produce labels which are more accurate and less noisy. Labels generated by our best performing system provide Intersection-over-Union (IoU) gain of 17.6% and Dice score gain of 13.6% over freely available labels from OpenStreetMap. Finally, spatio-temporal building maps are generated to portray the applicability of this research.
Nurturing self-compassionate performers
Creators: name: Walton, Courtney C.
name: Osborne, Margaret S.
name: Gilbert, Paul
name: Kirby, James
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Performers, such as athletes, actors, dancers, and musicians, function within high pressure competitive and often hostile or critical environments. These individuals can be prone to a range of self-critical cognitions and behaviours which may make them susceptible to mental ill-health and psychological distress. Fostering and nurturing self-compassion is one approach to motivating behaviour and health which may be relevant within training and support settings. Self-compassion has been associated with a range of positive outcomes in the general community, as well as in those functioning in performance spaces, primarily sport. In this commentary, we outline why cultivation of self-compassion may be an increasingly valuable method for psychologists working with individuals from these environments, particularly within the context of a decimated industry during the global pandemic. We provide a brief overview of relevant research, before exploring practical and applied approaches (including transcripts) that can be used within therapeutic settings. KEY POINTS What is already known about this topic:Performers such as athletes, dancers, actors, and musicians are exposed to a range of stressors which can increase susceptibility to mental ill-health.Self-compassion can be cultivated in therapy and is associated with better mental health outcomes.Due to a range of hostile self-critical tendencies that are commonly seen in performers, some individuals may be resistant to concepts of self-compassion. Performers such as athletes, dancers, actors, and musicians are exposed to a range of stressors which can increase susceptibility to mental ill-health. Self-compassion can be cultivated in therapy and is associated with better mental health outcomes. Due to a range of hostile self-critical tendencies that are commonly seen in performers, some individuals may be resistant to concepts of self-compassion. What this topic adds:We outline a rationale for why psychologists working with performers should aim to nurture self-compassionate tendencies and practices.We outline methods and practical approaches to doing this in session, as well as describe potential hurdles and barriers for implementation. We outline a rationale for why psychologists working with performers should aim to nurture self-compassionate tendencies and practices. We outline methods and practical approaches to doing this in session, as well as describe potential hurdles and barriers for implementation.
Low-complexity implementation of convex optimization-based phase retrieval
Creators: name: Arik, Sercan O.
name: Kahn, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Phase retrieval has important applications in optical imaging, communications and sensing. Lifting the dimensionality of the problem allows phase retrieval to be approximated as a convex optimization problem in a higher-dimensional space. Convex optimization-based phase retrieval has been shown to yield high accuracy, yet its low-complexity implementation has not been explored. In this paper, we study three fundamental approaches for its low-complexity implementation: the projected gradient method, the Nesterov accelerated gradient method, and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) method. We derive the corresponding estimation algorithms and evaluate their complexities. We compare their performance in the application area of direct-detection mode-division multiplexing. We demonstrate that they yield negligible estimation penalties (less than 0.2 dB for transmitter processing and less than 0.6 dB for receiver equalization) while yielding low computational cost, as their implementation complexities all scale quadratically in the number of unknown parameters. Among the three methods, ADMM achieves convergence after the smallest number of iterations.
PROTOCOLO DE SÍNTESE RÁPIDA - Estratégias de prevenção e controle da doença de chagas
Creators: name: Fábio Solon Tajra
name: De Sousa, Raimundo Leoberto Torres
name: Guedes, Bruno
name: De Melo, Roberta Crevelário
name: Mendonça, Vagner José
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Parasitic Diseases
subject: Other Public Health
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Este estudo encontrará maneiras efetivas de prevenção e controle da doença de chagas.
Photonic-Crystal Exciton-Polaritons in Monolayer Semiconductors
Creators: name: Zhang, Long
name: Gogna, Rahul
name: Burg, Will
name: Tutuc, Emanuel
name: Deng, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiconductor microcavity polaritons, formed via strong exciton-photon coupling, provide a quantum many-body system on a chip, featuring rich physics phenomena for better photonic technology. However, conventional polariton cavities are bulky, difficult to integrate, and inflexible for mode control, especially for room temperature materials. Here we demonstrate sub-wavelength thick one-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs) as a designable, compact and practical platform for strong coupling with atomically thin van der Waals Crystals (vdWCs). Polariton dispersions and mode anti-crossings are measured up to room temperature. Non-radiative decay to dark excitons was suppressed due to polariton enhancement of the radiative decay. Unusual features, including highly anisotropic dispersions and adjustable Fano resonances in reflectance, may facilitate high temperature polariton condensation in variable dimensions. Combining slab PCs and vdWCs in the strong coupling regime allows unprecedented engineering flexibility for exploring novel polariton phenomena and device concepts.
Coherent states for the supersymmetric partners of the truncated oscillator
Creators: name: Fernández, David J
name: Hussin, Véronique
name: Morales-Salgado, VS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build the coherent states for a family of solvable singular Schrödinger Hamiltonians obtained through supersymmetric quantum mechanics from the truncated oscillator. The main feature of such systems is the fact that their eigenfunctions are not completely connected by their natural ladder operators. We find a definition that behaves appropriately in the complete Hilbert space of the system, through linearised ladder operators. In doing so, we study basic properties of such states like continuity in the complex parameter, resolution of the identity, probability density, time evolution and possibility of entanglement.
Diary of John Faithful Scott-Rumble (nickname Jock)
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Today I brought a desk diary that my father kept between 1943-1944 and then was when he was in the RAF (FLT LT JFS Rumble). He was an RAF dentist. He had qualified just before the war started. I have a copy of the document when he got his commission in the London Gazette in 1941. He spent of the most his time during the war in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). He had a hut out there built by a local native. The dentist drill worked by someone. He kept this diary during that time. One of the stories at that time was that he was pining for a girlfriend back in the UK. She was German. We don't know how a German girl was living freely in London during the war. I think eventually she was seeing some of the American visitors and that relationship fizzled out. A few years later he married another woman, my mother. My mother was called Joyce Florence Rose. He was a great chess player and he played lots of chess out there. He had a friend that was a tea planter and they used to spend time together in the hills. He was in hospital in Sri Lanka during the war. I think was a tropical ailment. Postwar - He moved to Sevenoaks in Kent and, in those days, you had to buy your way into a dental practice. He was there from the late 1940s-1967 when he got a job in Eastbourne. He was a pillar of the community. He died of cancer when I was 19 years around 1971.
Supplementary Material for: Psychosocial Pretreatment Predictors of Weight Control: A Systematic Review Update
Creators: name: Carraça, E.V.
name: Santos, I.
name: Mata, J.
name: Teixeira, P.J.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine

description: Objective: Systematically identifying pretreatment characteristics that predict successful weight management is important to improve intervention efficacy and clinical practice. This study provides a comprehensive update of a 2005 review on pretreatment predictors of successful weight management. Methods: Results of 37 recent original studies from peer-reviewed journals were merged with the results from the 2005 review. A critical appraisal of the 66 studies included was provided, and meta-analyses were performed when feasible. Results: Fewer previous weight loss attempts were the most consistent pretreatment predictor of successful weight management, although with a small effect size. Importantly, several variables were identified as non-significant predictors of weight loss, showing trivial effects (e.g., eating self-efficacy). Many psychosocial factors remain too little studied to allow reliable conclusions regarding their predictive value. Conclusion: Previous dieting attempts were identified as the soundest predictor of successful weight management. Several factors, previously considered barriers to successful weight management and now identified as non-predictors, require more investigation given the limitations identified in this review. Importantly, due to a comparably thin empirical basis for many predictors, further research is essential to move the field forward. Implications of the current state of research and necessary steps to improve intervention efficacy and clinical practice are discussed
MASCARA-1 b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright $m_V=8.3$ A-star in a misaligned orbit
Creators: name: Talens, G. J. J.
name: Albrecht, S.
name: Spronck, J. F. P.
name: Lesage, A. -L.
name: Otten, G. P. P. L.
name: Stuik, R.
name: Van Eylen, V.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: McCormac, J.
name: Grundahl, F.
name: Andersen, M. Fredslund
name: Antoci, V.
name: Snellen, I. A. G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of MASCARA-1 b, the first exoplanet discovered with the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA). It is a hot Jupiter orbiting a bright $m_V=8.3$, rapidly rotating ($v\sin i_\star > 100~\rm{km~s}^{-1}$) A8 star with a period of $2.148780\pm8\times10^{-6} ~\rm{days}$. The planet has a mass and radius of $3.7\pm0.9~\rm{M}_{\rm{Jup}}$ and $1.5\pm0.3~\rm{R}_{\rm{Jup}}$, respectively. As with most hot Jupiters transiting early-type stars we find a misalignment between the planet orbital axis and the stellar spin axis, which may be signature of the formation and migration histories of this family of planets. MASCARA-1 b has a mean density of $1.5\pm0.9~\rm{g~cm^{-3}}$ and an equilibrium temperature of $2570^{+50}_{-30}~\rm{K}$, one of the highest temperatures known for a hot Jupiter to date. The system is reminiscent of WASP-33, but the host star lacks apparent delta-scuti variations, making the planet an ideal target for atmospheric characterization. We expect this to be the first of a series of hot Jupiters transiting bright early-type stars that will be discovered by MASCARA.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Published in A&A. A typo in the value of the spectroscopic impact parameter was corrected
Social Problems Data Harmonization For an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis on the attachment network to multiple
Creators: name: Dagan, Or
name: The Collaboration On Attachment Research Synthesis (CARS)
name: Verhage, Marije
name: Schuengel, Carlo
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: IPD
subject: Social problems
subject: attachment
subject: meta analysis
subject: networks
subject: social competence

description: This document follows up on the pre-registered protocol: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis on the attachment network to multiple caregivers (https://osf.io/a3qs9). We follow up on the section Harmonization of developmental outcome measures (p. 10).
The degenerate band edge laser: a new paradigm for coherent light-matter interaction
Creators: name: Veysi, Mehdi
name: Othman, Mohamed A. K.
name: Figotin, Alexander
name: Capolino, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel class of lasers based on a fourth order exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) referred to as the degenerate band edge (DBE). EPDs have been found in Parity-Time-symmetric photonic structures that require loss and/or gain, here we show that the DBE is a different kind of EPD since it occurs in periodic structures that are lossless and gainless. Because of this property, a small level of gain is sufficient to induce single-frequency lasing based on a synchronous operation of four degenerate Floquet-Bloch eigenwaves. This lasing scheme constitutes a new paradigm in the light-matter interaction mechanism that leads also to the unprecedented scaling law of the laser threshold with the inverse of the fifth power of the laser-cavity length. The DBE laser has the lowest lasing threshold in comparison to a regular band edge laser and to a conventional laser in cavities with the same loaded quality (Q) factor and length. In particular, even without mirror reflectors the DBE laser exhibits a lasing threshold which is an order of magnitude lower than that of a uniform cavity laser of the same length and with very high mirror reflectivity. Importantly, this novel DBE lasing regime enforces mode selectivity and coherent single-frequency operation even for pumping rates well-beyond the lasing threshold, in contrast to the multifrequency nature of conventional uniform cavity lasers.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures
The flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 345 from the high to the low emission state
Creators: name: Berton, M.
name: Liao, N. H.
name: La Mura, G.
name: Järvelä, E.
name: Congiu, E.
name: Foschini, L.
name: Frezzato, M.
name: Ramakrishnan, V.
name: Fan, X. L.
name: Lähteenmäki, A.
name: Pursimo, T.
name: Abate, V.
name: Bai, J. M.
name: Calcidese, P.
name: Ciroi, S.
name: Chen, L.
name: Cracco, V.
name: Li, S. K.
name: Tornikoski, M.
name: Rafanelli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report simultaneous observations at different energy bands in radio, optical, UV, X-rays and $γ$ rays of the flat-spectrum radio-quasar 3C 345. We built the light curve of the source at different frequencies from 2008, the beginning of the \textit{Fermi} all-sky survey, to 2016, using new data and public archives. In particular we obtained several optical spectra, to study the behavior of emission lines and the continuum in different activity states and to derive the black hole mass. 3C 345 showed two flaring episodes in 2009, which occurred simultaneously in $γ$ ray, optical/UV and X-rays, and were later followed in radio. The source shows an inverse Compton dominated spectral energy distribution, which moved from higher to lower frequencies from the high to the low state. The reverberation of emission lines during one outburst event allowed us to constrain the location of production of $γ$ rays very close to the broad-line region, and possibly in the jet-base. We report the observation of an increased accretion after the outburst, possibly induced by the decrease of magnetic field intensity with respect to the low state.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Truth values of quantum phenomena
Creators: name: Bolotin, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the paper, the idea of describing not-yet-verified properties of quantum objects with logical many-valuedness is scrutinized. As it is argued, to promote such an idea, the following two foundational problems of many-valued quantum logic must be decided: the problem of choosing a proper system of many-valued logic and the problem of the emergence of bivalence from logical many-valuedness. Difficulties accompanying solutions of these problems are discussed.
description: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3737-z
Over the shear paradigm
Creators: name: Cayron, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deformation twinning and martensitic transformations are displacive transformations; they are defined by high speed collective displacements of the atoms, the existence of a parent/daughter orientation relationship, and plate or lath morphologies. The current crystallographic models of deformation twinning in metals are based on the 150 year-old concept of simple shear. For martensitic transformations, a generalized version of simple shear called invariant plane strain takes into account the volume change; it is associated with one or two simple shears in the phenomenological theory of martensitic crystallography built more than 60 years ago. As simple shears would involve unrealistic stresses, dislocation/disconnection-mediated versions of the usual crystallographic models of displacive transformations have been developed over the last decades. However, fundamental questions remain unsolved. How do the atoms move? How could dislocations be created and propagate in a coordinated way at the speed of sound? In order to solve these issues an approach that is not based on simple shear nor on dislocation/disconnection has been applied to different displacive transformations over the last years. It assumes that the atoms are hard-spheres, which permits for any specific orientation relationship to determine the atomics trajectories, the lattice distortion and shuffling (if required) as analytical functions of a unique angular parameter. The aim of the present paper is to give a brief historical review of the current models based on the shear concept and of their dislocation-mediated versions, and to introduce the new paradigm of angular distortion. Examples will be taken by using some recent publications. The possibilities offers by this approach in mechanics and thermodynamics are briefly discussed.
description: 100 pages, 36 figures, 168 references
Reduced-form framework under model uncertainty
Creators: name: Biagini, Francesca
name: Zhang, Yinglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper we introduce a sublinear conditional expectation with respect to a family of possibly nondominated probability measures on a progressively enlarged filtration. In this way, we extend the classic reduced-form setting for credit and insurance markets to the case under model uncertainty, when we consider a family of priors possibly mutually singular to each other. Furthermore, we study the superhedging approach in continuous time for payment streams under model uncertainty, and establish several equivalent versions of dynamic robust superhedging duality. These results close the gap between robust framework for financial market, which is recently studied in an intensive way, and the one for credit and insurance markets, which is limited in the present literature only to some very specific cases.
Cash Crops and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopian Smallholder Coffee Producers
Creators: name: Tadesse Kuma
name: Mekdim Dereje
name: Hirvonen, Kalle
name: Minten, Bart
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: One of the central questions in food policy debates has been the role of cash cropping for achieving food security in low-income countries. We revisit this question in the context of smallholder coffee production in Ethiopia. Using data collected by the authors on about 1600 coffee farmers in the country, we find that coffee income is associated with improved food security, even after controlling for total income and other factors. Further analysis suggests that one possible pathway is linked to being better able to smooth consumption across agricultural seasons.
Geometry of free loci and factorization of noncommutative polynomials
Creators: name: Helton, J. William
name: Klep, Igor
name: Volčič, Jurij
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13J30, 15A22, 47A56 (Primary), 14P10, 16U30, 16R30 (Secondary)

description: The free singularity locus of a noncommutative polynomial f is defined to be the sequence $Z_n(f)=\{X\in M_n^g : \det f(X)=0\}$ of hypersurfaces. The main theorem of this article shows that f is irreducible if and only if $Z_n(f)$ is eventually irreducible. A key step in the proof is an irreducibility result for linear pencils. Apart from its consequences to factorization in a free algebra, the paper also discusses its applications to invariant subspaces in perturbation theory and linear matrix inequalities in real algebraic geometry.
description: v2: 32 pages, includes a table of contents
Additional file 2: of Review and critical appraisal of studies mapping from quality of life or clinical measures to EQ-5D: an online database and application of the MAPS statement
Creators: name: Dakin, Helen
name: Abel, Lucy
name: RichĂŠal Burns
name: Yaling Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: MAPS quality assessment. Comprises one table listing the sub-items used to assess titles and abstracts and one table giving the results of the full text assessment of 2016 papers. (DOCX 46 kb)
Additional file 1: of Review and critical appraisal of studies mapping from quality of life or clinical measures to EQ-5D: an online database and application of the MAPS statement
Creators: name: Dakin, Helen
name: Abel, Lucy
name: RichĂŠal Burns
name: Yaling Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Searches conducted as part of the systematic review. Table summarising the search terms and results for each literature search. (DOCX 43 kb)
Evolution of pressures and correlations in the Glasma produced in high energy nuclear collisions
Creators: name: Ruggieri, M.
name: Liu, J. H.
name: Peng, L. Oliva. G. X.
name: Greco, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the SU(2) Glasma with gaussian fluctuations and study its evolution by means of classical Yang-Mills equations solved numerically on a lattice. Neglecting in this first study the longitudinal expansion we follow the evolution of the pressures of the system and compute the effect of the fluctuations in the early stage up to $t\approx 2$ fm/c, that is the time range in which the Glasma is relevant for high energy collisions. We measure the ratio of the longitudinal over the transverse pressure, $P_L/P_T$, and we find that unless the fluctuations carry a substantial amount of the energy density at the initial time, they do not change significantly the evolution of $P_L/P_T$ in the early stage, and that the system remains quite anisotropic. We also measure the longitudinal fields correlators both in the transverse plane and along the longitudinal direction: while at initial time fields appear to be anticorrelated in the transverse plane, this anticorrelation disappears in the very early stage and the correlation length in the transverse plane increases; on the other hand, we find that the longitudinal correlator decreases for a small longitudinal separation while being approximately constant for larger separation, which we interpret as a partial loss of longitudinal correlation induced by the dynamics.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. To appear on Phys. Rev. D. In V2 the discussion about isotropization has been resized, while a broad discussion about the gauge invariant correlators along the longitudinal direction and the breaking of the Glasma color strings has been added. In V3 a mistake about the definition of the parallel transporter has been corrected
Additional file 8: of Exome sequencing of primary breast cancers with paired metastatic lesions reveals metastasis-enriched mutations in the A-kinase anchoring protein family (AKAPs)
Creators: name: Kjällquist, Una
name: Erlandsson, Rikard
name: Tobin, Nicholas
name: Alkodsi, Amjad
name: Ullah, Ikram
name: Stålhammar, Gustav
name: Karlsson, Eva
name: Hatschek, Thomas
name: Hartman, Johan
name: Linnarsson, Sten
name: Bergh, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S5. AKAP gene expression. Boxplots showing summed expression of AKAP 8,7,3,1 and AKAPs 5,11,9,10,12 gene expression within each PAM50 molecular subgroup, a-b; TCGA data, c-d; risk cohort, d-e; cohort 1. P-values are indicative of ANOVA followed by post-hoc Tukey for Basal vs. other subtypes individually. ***; p ≤ 0.001, **; p ≤ 0.01. (PDF 586 kb)
Conduction Channels of an InAs-Al nanowire Josephson weak link
Creators: name: Goffman, M. F.
name: Urbina, C.
name: Pothier, H.
name: Nygård, J.
name: Marcus, C. M.
name: Krogstrup, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative characterization of an electrically tunable Josephson junction defined in an InAs nanowire proximitized by an epitax-ially-grown superconducting Al shell. The gate-dependence of the number of conduction channels and of the set of transmission coefficients are extracted from the highly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics. Although the transmissions evolve non-monotonically, the number of independent channels can be tuned, and configurations with a single quasi-ballistic channel achieved.
description: Added reference in New Journal of Physics, corrected a few typos, and updated references