cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A study of the Speech Act of Refusals by native speakers of Japanese and learners of Japanese as a second language
Creators: name: Noguchi, Mayumi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: As the role of pragmatic competence (the ability to use socially appropriate rules of speaking in a given context) within communicative competence has become a crucial issue in second language (L2) learning, interlanguage (IL) pragmatics, a subdiscipline of L2 research concerned with how nonnative speakers comprehend and produce speech acts, and how they acquire L2 speech act knowledge, has been receiving increased attention in L2 research. However, most of the IL pragmatics studies thus far have been conducted in ESL settings, and relatively few have been done in Japanese as a second language (JSL) settings. In order to communicate effectively and appropriately with the Japanese, JSL learners need to have knowledge of the social rules of speaking that include understanding different degrees of politeness with regards to the situation and the interlocutor, and the Japanese communicative style including such concepts as dependency, empathy, reserve, and in-/out-group relationships and distinctions. In the present study, the speech act of refusals to interiocutors of three different status (higher, equal, and lower) by native speakers of Japanese (NSJ) and JSL learners were compared and analyzed. The purpose of this study was to examine whether pragmatic transfer occurred in the JSL interlanguage, and whether NSJ and JSL made sociopragmatically appropriate choices in politeness and linguistic forms according to social status variables. Speech act data were collected by means of a 9-item discourse completion test (DCT), and the DCT data were analyzed in terms of the selection and order of semantic formulas (e.g., excuse, apology, offer of alternative, etc.), and communicative style (i.e., the use of the qualifier chotto, unfinished sentences, and honorifics). Qualitative data from retrospective interviews were used in order to investigate what made them say what they say: i.e., the transfer of English rules of speaking to Japanese, use of pragmatic knowledge about Japanese rules of speaking, and taking into account the status differences between themselves and their interlocutors. Differences were found between NSJ and JSL in terms of the selection of semantic formulas considered appropriate. Such differences seemed not only attributed to the JSL's transfer of English rules of speaking but also to other factors, such as teaching-induced errors (transfer of training), and stereotypes they have of Japanese rules of speaking. NSJ and JSL refusals also differed in their use of politeness strategies. NSJ made a distinction in their choice of linguistic forms according to the status of the interlocutors, but JSL's choice of linguistic forms was not made solely according to the status of the interlocutors. The results suggest that the current instruction in the JSL classroom should be re-examined, and implications for teaching are suggested accordingly.
Electron-phonon coupling in APd3O4: A = Ca, Sr, and Sr0.85Li0.15
Creators: name: Poojitha, Bommareddy
name: Reddy, B. H.
name: Joshi, Aprajita
name: Kumar, Ankit
name: Ali, Asif
name: Singh, R. S.
name: Saha, Surajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we have investigated the role of electron-phonon coupling on the Raman spectrum of narrow bandgap semiconductors APd3O4 (A = Ca, Sr) and hole-doped system Sr0.85Li0.15Pd3O4. Four Raman active phonons are observed at room temperature for all three compounds as predicted by factor group analysis. The lowest energy phonon (~190/202 cm-1) associated with Pd vibrations is observed to exhibit an asymmetric Fano-like lineshape in all the three compounds, indicating the presence of an interaction between the phonon and the electronic continuum. The origin of the electronic continuum states and electron-phonon coupling are discussed based on our laser power- and temperature-dependent Raman results. We have observed an enhanced strength of electron-phonon coupling in Sr0.85Li0.15Pd3O4 at low temperatures which can be attributed to the metallicity in this doped compound.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables
CBS News Poll: March 2018
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Approval of President Donald Trump handling national issues (7); impact of Trump Administration policies (1); economic impacts of trade wars (1); attitudes towards political parties (9); teachers' salaries (1); effects of new tax law (3); approval of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border (1); steps to combat illegal immigration (2); effect of allowing teachers to carry guns on gun violence in schools (2); discussion with kids about safety and gun violence after Parkland shooting (1); importance of women in politics (2); interference of Russia in 2018 elections (2); feelings about conflict with North Korea (1).
Additional file 2 of Aberrant regulation of retinoic acid signaling genes in cerebral arterio venous malformation nidus and neighboring astrocytes
Creators: name: Thomas, Jaya Mary
name: Dhakshmi Sasankan
name: Surendran, Sumi
name: Abraham, Mathew
name: Rajavelu, Arumugam
name: Chandrasekharan C. Kartha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. List of primers used for qRT-PCR analysis in this study.
El Roque de Los Muchachos site characteristics, I.Temperature analysis
Creators: name: Lombardi, G.
name: Zitelli, V.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Pedani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present an analysis of temperature taken at two telescopes located at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos in the Canary Islands. More than 20 years of measurements at CAMC are included. The analysis of the data from TNG and CAMC are compared in order to check local variations and long term trends. Furthermore, the temperatures at different heights are correlated to the quality of astronomical seeing. We considered the correlation of NAO Index and annual downtime with mean annual temperatures. The final aim of this work is to better understand the influence of wide scale parameters on local meteorological data. The analysis is done using a statistical approach. From each long series of data we compute the hourly averages and than the monthly averages in order to reduce the short time fluctuations due to the day/night cycle. A particular care is used to minimize any effect due to biases in case of lacking of data. Finally, we compute the annual average from the monthly ones. The two telescopes show similar trends. There is an increase of temperatures of about 1.0 deg/10yrs from the annual means and a more rapid increase of the annual minimums then the maximums. We found that positive NAO Index reduces the increase of temperatures, and accelerates the decrease. Moreover, there is no evidence that positive NAO Index corresponds to a lower number of non-observable nights. Finally, seeing deteriorates when the gradient of temperatures between 2 and 10 m above the ground is greater than -0.6 deg.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted by PASP
Additional file 1 of Poor self-rated oral health associated with poorer general health among Indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Ju, Xiangqun
name: Hedges, Joanne
name: Garvey, Gail
name: Smith, Megan
name: Canfell, Karen
name: Jamieson, Lisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Socio-demographic characteristics, health-related behaviours including tobacco, alcohol and drug use (percent, 95% CI) and compared against population estimates in 2016.
Topology-preserving Scan-based Immersed Isogeometric Analysis
Creators: name: Divi, S. C.
name: Verhoosel, C. V.
name: Auricchio, F.
name: Reali, A.
name: van Brummelen, E. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To exploit the advantageous properties of isogeometric analysis (IGA) in a scan-based setting, it is important to extract a smooth geometric domain from the scan data (e.g., voxel data). IGA-suitable domains can be constructed by convoluting the grayscale data using B-splines. A negative side-effect of this convolution technique is, however, that it can induce topological changes in the process of smoothing when features with a size similar to that of the voxels are encountered. This manuscript presents an enhanced B-spline-based segmentation procedure using a refinement strategy based on truncated hierarchical (TH)B-splines. A Fourier analysis is presented to explain the effectiveness of local grayscale function refinement in repairing topological anomalies. A moving-window-based topological anomaly detection algorithm is proposed to identify regions in which the grayscale function refinements must be performed. The criterion to identify topological anomalies is based on the Euler characteristic, giving it the capability to distinguish between topological and shape changes. The proposed topology-preserving THB-spline image segmentation strategy is studied using a range of test cases. These tests pertain to both the segmentation procedure itself, and its application in an immersed IGA setting.
description: Submitted to CMAME
Many-body wave scattering by small bodies
Creators: name: Ramm, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35J10, 35P25, 74J20, 78A40, 78A45

description: Scattering problem by several bodies, small in comparison with the wavelength, is reduced to linear algebraic systems of equations, in contrast to the usual reduction to some integral equations.
Additional file 2 of Formative research for the development of baby water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions for young children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (REDUCE program)
Creators: name: Kuhl, Jennifer
name: Bisimwa, Lucien
name: Thomas, Elizabeth D.
name: Williams, Camille
name: Ntakirutimana, Joseph
name: Coglianese, Nicole
name: Bauler, Sarah
name: Ruthly François
name: Presence Sanvura
name: Bisimwa, Jean Claude
name: Mirindi, Patrick
name: George, Christine Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Handwashing with Soap and Water Treatment Module Appendix.
Additional file 1 of Formative research for the development of baby water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions for young children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (REDUCE program)
Creators: name: Kuhl, Jennifer
name: Bisimwa, Lucien
name: Thomas, Elizabeth D.
name: Williams, Camille
name: Ntakirutimana, Joseph
name: Coglianese, Nicole
name: Bauler, Sarah
name: Ruthly François
name: Presence Sanvura
name: Bisimwa, Jean Claude
name: Mirindi, Patrick
name: George, Christine Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Exit Interview Guide.
Synwalk -- Community Detection via Random Walk Modelling
Creators: name: Toth, Christian
name: Helic, Denis
name: Geiger, Bernhard C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex systems, abstractly represented as networks, are ubiquitous in everyday life. Analyzing and understanding these systems requires, among others, tools for community detection. As no single best community detection algorithm can exist, robustness across a wide variety of problem settings is desirable. In this work, we present Synwalk, a random walk-based community detection method. Synwalk builds upon a solid theoretical basis and detects communities by synthesizing the random walk induced by the given network from a class of candidate random walks. We thoroughly validate the effectiveness of our approach on synthetic and empirical networks, respectively, and compare Synwalk's performance with the performance of Infomap and Walktrap. Our results indicate that Synwalk performs robustly on networks with varying mixing parameters and degree distributions. We outperform Infomap on networks with high mixing parameter, and Infomap and Walktrap on networks with many small communities and low average degree. Our work has a potential to inspire further development of community detection via synthesis of random walks and we provide concrete ideas for future research.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures
Decoherence of Dynamically Manipulated Qubits
Creators: name: Privman, Vladimir
name: Solenov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize our results on decoherence for short- to intermediate-time dynamics of an externally controlled two-state quantum system - a qubit - interacting with thermal bosonic environment. The developed approximation schemes are illustrated for an adiabatic model with time-dependent gate control, and for a model with rotating-wave gate function.
description: 4 pages in PDF, typos corrected
VLBA Observations of G5.89-0.39: OH masers and magnetic field structure
Creators: name: Stark, D. P.
name: Goss, W. M.
name: Churchwell, E.
name: Fish, V. L.
name: Hoffman, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present VLBA observations of 1667 MHz OH maser emission from the massive star formation region G5.89-0.39. The observations were phase referenced allowing the absolute positions of the masers to be obtained. The 1667 MHz masers have radial velocities that span ~50 km/s but show little evidence of tracing the bipolar molecular outflow, as has been claimed in previous studies. We identify 23 Zeeman pairs through comparison of masers in left and right circular polarization. Magnetic field strengths range from -2 mG to +2 mG, and an ordered reversal in magnetic field direction is observed toward the southern region of the UC HII region. We suggest that the velocity and magnetic field structure of the 1667 MHz masers can be explained in the context of a model in which the masers arise in a neutral shell just outside a rapidly exanding ionized shell.
description: 32 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Space laser interferometers can determine the thermal history of the early Universe
Creators: name: Nakayama, Kazunori
name: Saito, Shun
name: Suwa, Yudai
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that space-based gravitational wave detectors such as DECIGO and/or Big Bang Observer (BBO) will provide us with invaluable information on the cosmic thermal history after inflation and they will be able to determine the reheat temperature $T_R$ provided that it lies in the range preferred by the cosmological gravitino problem, $T_R\sim 10^{5-9}$ GeV. Therefore it is strongly desired that they will be put into practice as soon as possible.
description: 5 pages
Invasive advance of an advantageous mutation: nucleation theory
Creators: name: O'Malley, Lauren
name: Basham, James
name: Yasi, Joseph A.
name: Korniss, G.
name: Allstadt, Andrew
name: Caraco, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For most organisms with viscous population structure, spatially localized growth drives the invasive advance of a favorable mutation. We model a two-allele competition where recurrent mutation introduces a genotype with a rate of local propagation exceeding the resident's rate. We capture ecologically important properties of the rare invader's stochastic dynamics by assuming discrete individuals and neighborhood interactions. To understand how individual-level processes may govern population patterns, we invoke the physical theory for nucleation of spatial systems. Nucleation theory discriminates between single-cluster and multi-cluster dynamics. A sufficiently low mutation rate, or a sufficiently small environment, generates single-cluster dynamics, an inherently stochastic process; a favorable mutation advances only if the invader cluster reaches a critical radius. For this mode of invasion we identify the probability distribution of waiting times until the favored allele advances to competitive dominance, and we ask how the critical cluster size varies as propagation or mortality rates vary. Increasing the mutation rate or system size generates multi-cluster invasion, where spatial averaging produces nearly deterministic global dynamics. For this process, an analytical approximation from nucleation theory, called Avrami's Law, describes the time-dependent behavior of the genotype densities with remarkable accuracy.
Numerical Methods to Compute Stresses and Displacements from Cellular Forces: Application to the Contraction of Tissue
Creators: name: Peng, Qiyao
name: Vermolen, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a mathematical model for wound contraction, which is based on solving a momentum balance under the assumptions of isotropy, homogeneity, Hooke's Law, infinitesimal strain theory and point forces exerted by cells. However, point forces, described by Dirac Delta distributions lead to a singular solution, which in many cases may cause trouble to finite element methods due to a low degree of regularity. Hence, we consider several alternatives to address point forces, that is, whether to treat the region covered by the cells that exert forces as part of the computational domain or as 'holes' in the computational domain. The formalisms develop into the immersed boundary approach and the 'hole approach', respectively. Consistency between these approaches is verified in a theoretical setting, but also confirmed computationally. However, the 'hole approach' is much more expensive and complicated for its need of mesh adaptation in the case of migrating cells while it increases the numerical accuracy, which makes it hard to adapt to the multi-cell model. Therefore, for multiple cells, we consider the polygon that is used to approximate the boundary of cells that exert contractile forces. It is found that a low degree of polygons, in particular triangular or square shaped cell boundaries, already give acceptable results in engineering precision, so that it is suitable for the situation with a large amount of cells in the computational domain.
Additional file 3 of Formative research for the development of baby water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions for young children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (REDUCE program)
Creators: name: Kuhl, Jennifer
name: Bisimwa, Lucien
name: Thomas, Elizabeth D.
name: Williams, Camille
name: Ntakirutimana, Joseph
name: Coglianese, Nicole
name: Bauler, Sarah
name: Ruthly François
name: Presence Sanvura
name: Bisimwa, Jean Claude
name: Mirindi, Patrick
name: George, Christine Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3a. Supporting Quotes for the Design of the Protecting Children from Dangers in the Dirt Care Group Module and Enabling Technology, and IBM-WASH Factors. Supplementary Table 3b. Supporting Quotes for the Design of the Safe Disposal of Child Feces Care Group Module and Enabling Technology, and IBM-WASH Factors. Supplementary Table 3c. Supporting Quotes for the Design of the Living with Small Animals Care Group Module and Enabling Technology, and IBM-WASH Factors. Supplementary Table 3d. Supporting Quotes for the Design of the Composting Care Group Module and Enabling Technology, and IBM-WASH Factors. Supplementary Table 3e. Supporting Quotes for Cross Cutting Themes of Limited Resources and Competing Priorities, and IBM-WASH Factors.
Ginzburg-Landau Theory for Unconventional Superconductors: Noncompact U(1) Lattice Gauge Model Coupled with Link Higgs Field
Creators: name: Ono, Tomoyoshi
name: Ichinose, Ikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for the extended-$s$ and d-wave superconductors (SC) in granular systems that is defined on a lattice. In contrast to the ordinary Abelian Higgs model (AHM) that is a GL theory for the s-wave SC, Cooper-pair field (Higgs field) is put on links of the lattice in the present model. By means of Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations, we study phase structure, gauge-boson mass (the inverse magnetic penetration depth) and density of instantons. In the ordinary {\em noncomapct} U(1) AHM, there exists a second-order phase transition from the normal to SC states and the gauge-boson mass develops continuously from the phase transition point. In the present gauge system with link Higgs field, on the other hand, phase transition to the SC state is of first order at moderate coupling constants. The gauge-boson mass changes from vanishing to finite values discontinuously at the phase transition points.
description: 4 papges, 14 figures
Fluctuation induced first-order phase transitions in a dipolar Ising ferromagnet slab
Creators: name: Fernandes, Rafael M.
name: Westfahl, Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the competition between the dipolar and the exchange interaction in a ferromagnetic slab with finite thickness and finite width. From an analytical approximate expression for the Ginzburg-Landau effective Hamiltonian, it is shown that, within a self-consistent Hartree approach, a stable modulated configuration arises. We study the transition between the disordered phase and two kinds of modulated configurations, namely, striped and bubble phases. Such transitions are of the first-order kind and the striped phase is shown to have lower energy and a higher spinodal limit than the bubble one. It is also observed that striped configurations corresponding to different modulation directions have different energies. The most stable are the ones in which the modulation vanishes along the unlimited direction, which is a prime effect of the slab's geometry together with the competition between the two distinct types of interaction. An application of this model to the domain structure of MnAs thin films grown over GaAs substrates is discussed and general qualitative properties are outlined and predicted, like the number of domains and the mean value of the modulation as functions of temperature.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
A cross-cultural study of communication during social visits : Japanese ESL students as ethnographers in interlanguage pragmatics research
Creators: name: Carney, Laura Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present study examines how native speakers of English, Japanese ESL students, and native speakers of Japanese communicate during social visits. It contributes to research in the field of interlanguage pragmatics by: (a) examining speech acts which have not been investigated extensively, (b) involving students as ethnographers in the data collection and analysis procedures, and (c) improving upon research methods used thus far. Speech acts such as giving and receiving gifts, making compliments, offering and accepting food and beverages, making an excuse to leave, and expressing gratitude are examined cross-culturally in their full discourse context. The data include five interactions of Japanese ESL students visiting Americans, five of Americans visiting fellow Americans, and six of Japanese visiting fellow Japanese. These interactions were videotaped in the actual apartments or dorm rooms of the participants. A descriptive, exploratory analysis of the transcribed data reveals particular areas in which Japanese ESL students should receive further training and practice. Some of these areas include: using more compliments in the opening segment of the interaction, responding politely to the offer of beverages in the hospitality segment, asking questions to develop or initiate conversation topics in the small talk segment, and taking the initiative to express gratitude in the closing segment. One unique feature of the study is the involving of 31 ESL students in the data collection and analysis procedures in order to test out pedagogical implications. The results show that Japanese ESL students at an intermediate level of proficiency are able to learn something about the cross-cultural pragmatics of a social visit by being their own ethnographers, but not without considerable guidance and assistance. Methodology is central to the discussion. Clear advantages are seen in videotaping semistructured interactions in a natural setting and conducting retrospective interviews. A number of changes in the methodology are suggested for future studies, and additional questions for further research are presented. The study provides many insights for those involved in second language learning, teaching, or research.
Telegraph from Eyre & Cutbill to [James] Goldie, October 11, [1910]
Creators: name: Eyre & Cutbill
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Telegraph from Eyre & Cutbill to James Goldie at Rainbow Ranche, dated October 11, 1910, informing Goldie that they " don't require potatoes.
Une expérience de sémantique inférentielle
Creators: name: Nouioua, Farid
name: Kayser, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop a system which must be able to perform the same inferences that a human reader of an accident report can do and more particularly to determine the apparent causes of the accident. We describe the general framework in which we are situated, linguistic and semantic levels of the analysis and the inference rules used by the system.
Proton Decay, Yukawa Couplings and Underlying Gauge Symmetry in String Theory
Creators: name: Tatar, Radu
name: Watari, Taizan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In string theory, massless particles often originate from a symmetry breaking of a large gauge symmetry G to its subgroup H. The absence of dimension-4 proton decay in supersymmetric theories suggests that (\bar{D},L) are different from \bar{H}(\bar{\bf 5}) in their origins. In this article, we consider a possibility that they come from different irreducible components in $\mathfrak{g}/\mathfrak{h}$. Requiring that all the Yukawa coupling constants of quarks and leptons be generated from the super Yang--Mills interactions of G, we found in the context of Georgi--Glashow H=SU(5) unification that the minimal choice of G is E_7 and E_8 is the only alternative. This idea is systematically implemented in Heterotic String, M theory and F theory, confirming the absence of dimension 4 proton decay operators. Not only H=SU(5) but also G constrain operators of effective field theories, providing non-trivial information.
description: 73 pages
Cryogen-free one hundred microKelvin refrigerator
Creators: name: Yan, Jiaojie
name: Yao, Jianing
name: Shvarts, Vladimir
name: Du, Rui-Rui
name: Lin, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature below 100 microKelvin is achieved in a customized cryogen-free dilution refrigerator with a copper-nuclear demagnetization stage. The lowest temperature of conduction electrons of the demagnetization stage is below 100 microKelvin as measured by a pulsed platinum NMR thermometer and the temperature can remain below 100 microKelvin for over 10 hours. An up to 9 T demagnetization magnetic field and an up to 12 T research magnetic field can be controlled independently, provided by a coaxial room-temperature-bore cryogen-free magnet.
description: 7 color figures, 15 pages
Unidentified Communion Group Photo
Creators: name: Springs Historical Society/Library
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1915
Subjects: Springs
East Hampton
Communion
Children
Girls
Boys
Churches

description: This image shows a unidentified group of young children seated and dressed in church Communion attire. Standing behind them are two women dressed in hats and a tall man dressed in black. Due to the attire and era of photograph it is estimated that this photo was taken sometime between 1915 and 1930.
description: This material was lent to the Long Island Collection by the Springs Historical Society Library for digitization purposes.
Additional file 1 of Can preoperative parameters predict successful sperm retrieval and live birth in couples undergoing testicular sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection for azoospermia?
Creators: name: Lacey, L.
name: I. Henderson
name: S. Hassan
name: H. Hunter
name: Y. Sajjad
name: M. A. Akhtar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary materials. TESE technique and biopsy processing in the laboratory, and ART technique used
A micropolar isotropic plasticity formulation for non-associated flow rule and softening featuring multiple classical yield criteria Part I -- Theory
Creators: name: Panteghini, Andrea
name: Lagioia, Rocco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Cosserat continuum is used in this paper to regularize the ill-posed governing equations of the Cauchy/Maxwell continuum. Most available constitutive models adopt yield and plastic potential surfaces with a circular deviatoric section. This is a too crude an approximation which hinders the application of the Cosserat continuum into practice, particularly in the geotechnical domain. An elasto-plastic constitutive model for the linear formulation of the Cosserat continuum is here presented, which features non-associated flow and hardening/softening behaviour, whilst linear hyper-elasticity is adopted to reproduce the recoverable response. For the formulation of the yield and plastic potential functions, a definition of the \textit{equivalent von Mises stress} is used which is based on Hencky's interpretation of the von Mises criterion and also on the theory of representations. The dependency on the Lode's angle of both the yield and plastic potential functions is introduced through the adoption of a recently proposed \textit{Generalized classical} criterion, which rigorously defines most of the classical yield and failure criteria.
description: Submitted to the International Journal of Plasticity
Phase Transitions in Separated $D_{p-1}$ and anti-$D_{p-1}$ Branes at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Calò, Vincenzo
name: Thomas, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a pair of parallel ${\rm D}_{p-1}$ and anti-${\rm D}_{p-1}$ branes in flat space, with a finite separation $d$ along some perpendicular spatial direction and at finite temperature. If this spatial direction is compactified on a circle then by T-duality, the system is equivalent to a ${\rm D}_{p}$-anti ${\rm D}_{p} $ pair wrapped around the dual circle with a constant Wilson line $A \approx d $ on one of the branes. We focus in particular on the $p=9$ case and compute the free energy of this system and study the occurrence of second order phase transitions as both the temperature and Wilson line (brane-antibrane separation) are varied. In the limit of vanishing Wilson line we recover the previous results obtained in the literature, whereby the open string vacuum at the origin of the tachyon field T=0 is stabilized at sufficiently high temperature at which a second order phase transition occurs. For sufficiently large Wilson line, we find new second order phase transitions corresponding to the existence of two minima in the tachyon effective potential at finite temperature and tachyon field value. Entropic arguments suggest that as the system cools, the tachyon is likely to find itself in the minimum that approaches infinity as the temperature vanishes (i.e. the one corresponding to the closed string vacuum), rather than the minimum at T=0 (corresponding to the open string vacuum).
description: 25 pages, 4 figures; Clarifications added to Section 3 concerning winding modes; updated plots of the effective potential in section 4; typos corrected. Version to be published in JHEP
Additional file 2 of Can preoperative parameters predict successful sperm retrieval and live birth in couples undergoing testicular sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection for azoospermia?
Creators: name: Lacey, L.
name: I. Henderson
name: S. Hassan
name: H. Hunter
name: Y. Sajjad
name: M. A. Akhtar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. HRA decision tool
Finite dipolar hexagonal columns on piled layers of triangular lattice
Creators: name: Matsushita, Katsuyoshi
name: Sugano, Ryoko
name: Kuroda, Akiyoshi
name: Tomita, Yusuke
name: Takayama, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated, by the Monte Carlo simulation, spin systems which represent moments of arrayed magnetic nanoparticles interacting with each other only by the dipole-dipole interaction. In the present paper we aim the understanding of finite size effects on the magnetic nanoparticles arrayed in hexagonal columns cut out from the close-packing structures or from those with uniaxial compression. In columns with the genuine close-packing structures, we observe a single vortex state which is also observed previously in finite 2-dimensional systems. On the other hand in the system with the inter-layer distance set $1/\sqrt{2}$ times of the close-packing one, we found ground states which depend on the number of layers. The dependence is induced by a finite size effect and is related to a orientation transition in the corresponding bulk system.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Magnetism 2006 (ICM2006) conference. To appear in a special volume of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Manual for the PSGC (Power System Graph Converter) code
Creators: name: Poroseva, Svetlana V.
name: Hoover, Lana A.
name: Ahmed, Kazi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Heterogenous networks
Power systems
Network drawing
Network analysis
Network desintegration

description: PSGC stands for Power System Graph Converter. PSGC is a graph software designed to facilitate conversion of a network drawing into an adjacency matrix or an adjacency list. Such conversion is useful for many network analyses. However, one will find this software of particular help when analyzing large-scale networks with sources and sinks such as power systems, communication, and control systems as well as other critical infrastructures. Because initial application of this software has been power systems, thus, the software name. Terminology used in this document is also relevant to this particular application: sources are generators and sinks are loads.
Origin and localization of topological band gaps in gyroscopic metamaterials
Creators: name: Mitchell, Noah P.
name: Turner, Ari M.
name: Irvine, William T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Networks of interacting gyroscopes have proven to be versatile structures for understanding and harnessing finite-frequency topological excitations. Spinning components give rise to band gaps and topologically protected wave transport along the system's boundaries, whether the gyroscopes are arranged in a lattice or in an amorphous configuration. Here, we examine the irrelevance of periodic order for generating topological gaps. Starting from the symplectic dynamics of our model metamaterial, we present a general method for predicting whether a gap exists and for approximating the Chern number using only local features of a network, bypassing the costly diagonalization of the system's dynamical matrix. We then study how strong disorder interacts with band topology in gyroscopic metamaterials and find that amorphous gyroscopic Chern insulators exhibit similar critical behavior to periodic lattices. Our experiments and simulations additionally reveal a topological Anderson insulation transition, wherein disorder drives a trivial phase into a topological one.
Additional file 1 of Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire
Creators: name: Fernández-García, Víctor
name: Marcos, Elena
name: Huerta, Sara
name: Calvo, Leonor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Optical Detection of Two Intermediate Mass Binary Pulsar Companions
Creators: name: Jacoby, B. A.
name: Chakrabarty, D.
name: van Kerkwijk, M. H.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of probable optical counterparts for two Intermediate Mass Binary Pulsar (IMBP) systems, PSR J1528-3146 and PSR J1757-5322. Recent radio pulsar surveys have uncovered a handful of these systems with putative massive white dwarf companions, thought to have an evolutionary history different from that of the more numerous class of Low Mass Binary Pulsars (LMBPs) with He white dwarf companions. The study of IMBP companions via optical observations offers us several new diagnostics: the evolution of main sequence stars near the white-dwarf-neutron star boundary, the physics of white dwarfs close to the Chandrasekhar limit, and insights into the recycling process by which old pulsars are spun up to high rotation frequencies. We were unsuccessful in our attempt to detect optical counterparts of PSR J1141-6545, PSR J1157-5112, PSR J1435-6100, and PSR J1454-5846.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Shot noise and scatter in the star formation efficiency as a source of 21-cm fluctuations
Creators: name: Reis, Itamar
name: Barkana, Rennan
name: Fialkov, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 21-cm signal from cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization (EoR) probes the characteristics of the high redshift galaxy population. Many of the astrophysical properties of galaxies at high redshifts are currently unconstrained due to the lack of observations. This creates a vast space of possible astrophysical scenarios where the 21-cm signal needs to be modeled in order to plan for, and eventually fit, future observations. This is done with fast numerical methods which make simplifying approximations for the underlying physical processes. In this work we quantify the effect of Poisson fluctuations and scatter in the star formation efficiency; while Poisson fluctuations are included in some works and not in others, scatter in the star formation efficiency is usually neglected, and all galaxies of a given mass are assumed to have the same properties. We show that both features can have a significant effect on the 21-cm power spectrum, most importantly in scenarios where the signal is dominated by massive galaxies. Scatter in the star formation efficiency does not simply enhance the effect of Poisson fluctuations; for example we show that the power spectrum shape at cosmic dawn has a feature corresponding to the width of the galaxy brightness distribution. We also discuss some of the consequences for 21-cm imaging, and the signature of reduced correlation between the density and radiation fields.
description: Submitted to MNRAS on June 7th
$Δ$-admixed neutron stars: spinodal instabilities and dUrca processes
Creators: name: Raduta, Adriana R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the covariant density functional theory of nuclear matter we build equations of state of $Δ$-admixed compact stars. Uncertainties in the interaction of $Δ(1232)$ resonance states with nuclear matter, due to lack of experimental data, are accounted for by varying the coupling constants to scalar and vector mesonic fields. We find that, over a wide range of the parameter space allowed by nuclear physics experiments and astrophysical observations, cold catalyzed star matter exhibits a first order phase transition which persists also at finite temperature and out of $β$-equilibrium in the neutrino-transparent matter. Compact stars featuring such a phase transition in the outer core have small radii and, implicitly, tidal deformabilities. The parameter space is identified where simultaneously $Δ$-admixed compact stars obey the astrophysical constraint on maximum mass and allow for dUrca processes, which is otherwise forbidden.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Dolichogenidea acrobasidis
Creators: name: Fernandez-Triana, Jose
name: Sakagami, Kota
name: Shimizu, So
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Dolichogenidea
Dolichogenidea acrobasidis

description: D. acrobasidis (Muesebeck, 1921): Tegula and humeral complex yellow; propodeum with areola completely defined by carinae, including strong transverse carinae forking around spiracles; T1 with strong longitudinal sulcus which has strong transverse striae; T2 strongly sculptured, especially on posterior margin.
description: Published as part of Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Sakagami, Kota & Shimizu, So, 2018, Dolichogenidea maetoi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Japan, the first parasitoid wasp recorded from Hyblaea fortissima (Lepidoptera), pp. 167-175 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0014, http://zenodo.org/record/3699178
The quenching of compressible edge states around antidots
Creators: name: Ihnatsenka, S.
name: Zozoulenko, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a systematic quantitative description of the edge state structure around a quantum antidot in the integer quantum Hall regime. The calculations for spinless electrons within the Hartree approximation reveal that the widely used Chklovskii et al. electrostatic description greatly overestimates the widths of the compressible strips; the difference between these approaches diminishes as the size of the antidot increases. By including spin effects within density functional theory in the local spin-density approximation, we demonstrate that the exchange interaction can suppress the formation of compressible strips and lead to a spatial separation between the spin-up and spin-down states. As the magnetic field increases, the outermost compressible strip, related to spin-down states starts to form. However, in striking contrast to quantum wires, the innermost compressible strip (due to spin-up states) never develops for antidots.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of Mining of two novel aldehyde dehydrogenases (DHY-SC-VUT5 and DHY-G-VUT7) from metagenome of hydrocarbon contaminated soils
Creators: name: Baburam, Cindy
name: Feto, Naser Aliye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
Glaube, Ökumene und Mission in säkularer Gesellschaft
Creators: name: Hermann, Markus-Liborius
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 65 Nr. 4 (2016): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 65, Heft 4