cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Study of the Process of Mother's Acceptance of Gender and Sexuality with Their Children: In Case Study 5 Mothers of Kathoey in Chiang Mai
Creators: name: Naruranun Intayot
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mother of Kathoey
motherhood
gender
and sexuality

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 42, 2, no. 237-251
RAIL-ROAD INTEGRATION FOR FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION ALONG DJIBOUTI CORRIDOR
Creators: name: Arega Koyehu Kebede
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Modern transport and freight distribution system all over the world are tending towards the

adoption of best practices those are reliable, timely and cost effective. Multimodal transport

between road and rail, also known as combined transport, has received a large interest in recent

years as part of a possible solution for a sustainable and efficient transport system. Hence, this

study focuses on the model development and analyse the model validation of the potentials of

integrated rail-road freight transportation of Ethiopia from Djibouti port to Addis Ababa and

other major cities. Much of the primary data is obtained through the administration of a

questionnaire specifically designed to gather information on the cost involved, distanced

covered, area coverage, amount of tonnage during import and export, problems during loading

and unloading and time taken to deliver cargoes to consignees.
Review of Linpack and Cloudsim on VMM
Creators: name: Singh, Bohar
name: Luthra, Pawan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Virtualization is a framework of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments which offers a lot of benefits including flexibility, security, ease to configuration and reduction of cost but at the same time it also brings a certain degree of performance overhead. Furthermore, Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is the core component of virtual machine (VM) system and its effectiveness greatly impacts the performance of the whole system. This review paper will try to describe the basic knowledge about various virtual machine monitors such as VMware and VirtualBox. It also discussed and explores the benchmark LINPACK and CloudSim available for cloud computing. This benchmark and CloudSim can be used to measure the performance of two different virtual machine monitors in terms of processing speed, time, bandwidth, quality and response of the cloud computing network.
description: 5 Pages
Die Schichtfolge der Tiefbohrungs Allmersbach am Weinberg, Landkreis Backnang, Baden-Württemberg. Hans Holy zum Gedächtnis
Creators: name: Carlé, Walter
Publisher: name: unkn
Year: 2020

description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
description: Bd. 125, 1970
Self‐Ownership and the Duty to Assist
Creators: name: Spafford, Jesse
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5001
subject: Applied ethics

description: Libertarians are attracted to the self-ownership thesis because it seems to satisfy four important theoretical desiderata. First, the thesis treats all persons equally by assigning them the same initial set of rights. Second, the thesis gives people the strongest set of ownership rights possible. Third, it assigns persons a determinate set of rights. And, finally, it grounds the libertarian rejection of a duty to assist, benefit, or rescue others. This article argues that these four desiderata cannot be simultaneously satisfied. Specifically, it contends that the first three desiderata can be jointly satisfied only if the thesis merely gives people the right to include their owned bodies in various actions (as opposed to a stronger version of the thesis that gives people permissions to do things with their bodies). However, such an interpretation of the thesis will not satisfy the final desideratum. Thus, libertarians face a tetralemma when defining the self-ownership thesis.
Polyakov loop and gluon quasiparticles: a self-consistent approach to Yang-Mills thermodynamics
Creators: name: Alba, Paolo
name: Alberico, Wanda
name: Bluhm, Marcus
name: Greco, Vincenzo
name: Ratti, Claudia
name: Ruggieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quasiparticle model for the pure gauge sector of QCD, in which transverse quasigluons propagate in a Polyakov loop background field. By incorporating thermodynamic self-consistency in the approach, we show that our Polyakov loop extended quasiparticle model allows an accurate description of recent lattice results for all the thermodynamic quantities, including the Polyakov loop expectation value, in the deconfined phase. The related quasigluon mass exhibits a distinct temperature dependence, which is connected with the non-perturbative behavior seen in the scaled interaction measure of the pure gauge theory.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
The Status and Guidelines for Courses in Russian Language for Specific Purposes in Thai Higher Education
Creators: name: Parit Aroonoast
name: Danupol Chaloeisuk
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: The status and guidelines for courses
Russian for specific purposes
Thai higher education institutions

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 42, 2, no. 252-275
Rand und Vorland von Bernina-Gletschern und ihre Bedeutung für Oberschwaben (Zur Deutung quartärer Sedimente und Formen III)
Creators: name: German, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: unkn
Year: 2020

description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
description: Bd. 125, 1970
Does Initial Appropriation Create New Obligations?
Creators: name: Spafford, Jesse
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5001
subject: Applied ethics
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies
classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: A popular argument against the unilateral appropriation of unowned resources maintains that such appropriation is impossible because it implies a power to unilaterally impose novel obligations on others—a power which people cannot have given that they are moral equals. However, Bas van der Vossen has recently argued that initial appropriation does not create obligations in this way; rather, it merely alters the empirical facts that, together with obligations, determine people’s practical moral requirements. This paper argues that van der Vossen is mistaken. Specifically, it contends that the creation of obligations is accompanied by a distinctive kind of variation in the obliged party’s practical requirements across possible worlds. Given that initial appropriation entails such variation, the paper argues that such appropriation does, in fact, create obligations.
Luck egalitarianism without moral tyranny
Creators: name: Spafford, Jesse
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: AbstractLuck egalitarians contend that, while each person starts out with a claim to an equal quantity of advantage, she can forfeit this claim by making certain choices. The appeal of luck egalitarianism is that it seems to satisfy what this paper calls the moral tyranny constraint. According to this constraint, any acceptable theory of justice must preclude the possibility of an agent unilaterally, discretionarily, and foreseeably leaving others with less advantage under conditions of full compliance with the theory. This paper argues that claim forfeiture is built into luck egalitarianism specifically to preclude such moral tyranny. However, it contends that the dominant interpretation of luck egalitarianism fails to fully satisfy the moral tyranny constraint. It offers an alternative interpretation that both eliminates the possibility of moral tyranny and rescues the position from two other prominent objections that have been directed against luck egalitarianism.
Probing excitonic states in ultraclean suspended two-dimensional semiconductors by photocurrent spectroscopy
Creators: name: Klots, A. R.
name: Newaz, A. K. M.
name: Wang, Bin
name: Prasai, D.
name: Krzyzanowska, H.
name: Caudel, D.
name: Ghimire, N. J.
name: Yan, J.
name: Ivanov, B. L.
name: Velizhanin, K. A.
name: Burger, A.
name: Mandrus, D. G.
name: Tolk, N. H.
name: Pantelides, S. T.
name: Bolotin, K. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical response of semiconducting monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is dominated by strongly bound excitons that are stable even at room temperature. However, substrate-related effects such as screening and disorder in currently available specimens mask many anticipated physical phenomena and limit device applications of TMDCs. Here, we demonstrate that that these undesirable effects are strongly suppressed in suspended devices. Extremely robust (photogain >1,000) and fast (response time <1ms) photoresponse combined with the high quality of our devices allow us to study, for the first time, the formation, binding energies, and dissociation mechanisms of excitons in TMDCs through photocurrent spectroscopy. By analyzing the spectral positions of peaks in the photocurrent and by comparing them with first-principles calculations, we obtain binding energies, band gaps and spin-orbit splitting in monolayer TMDCs. For monolayer MoS2, in particular, we estimate an extremely large binding energy for band-edge excitons, Ebind > 570meV. Along with band-edge excitons, we observe excitons associated with a van Hove singularity of rather unique nature. The analysis of the source-drain voltage dependence of photocurrent spectra reveals exciton dissociation and photoconversion mechanisms in TMDCs.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Factors Affecting Savings Behavior of the Clients of the Government Saving Bank, Nong Mon Branch, under the COVID-19 Situation
Creators: name: Panit Tiraponengam
name: Thirawit Hanmetheekuna
name: Denpong Kunteekan
name: Nathika Tistasa
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Factor affecting saving
Government Saving Bank
COVID-19 situation

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 42, 2, no. 291-301
A Study of English Listening and Speaking Problems of Tourist Assistants at Phuket International Airport
Creators: name: Pittayaporn Sawetprom
name: Pairote Bennui
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Listening-speaking problems
English communication problems
tourist assistants
Phuket

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 42, 2, no. 302-315
Dynamics of closed ecosystems described by operators
Creators: name: Bagarello, F.
name: Oliveri, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We adopt the so--called \emph{occupation number representation}, originally used in quantum mechanics and recently adopted in the description of several classical systems, in the analysis of the dynamics of some models of closed ecosystems. In particular, we discuss two linear models, for which the solution can be found analytically, and a nonlinear system, for which we produce numerical results. We also discuss how a damping effect could be {\em effectively} implemented in the model.
Eine neue Rasse von Panorpa communis L. aus Piemont, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff und Labram (Insecta - Mecoptera)
Creators: name: Lauterbach, Karl-Ernst
Publisher: name: unkn
Year: 2020

description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
description: Bd. 125, 1970
The Model of Religious and Cultural Tourism Management in the Temples of Phetchabun Province
Creators: name: Suthasinee Wiyaporn
name: Tula Chaiyasirinrot
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tourist management model
temple
religion and culture

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 42, 2, no. 316-324
Reviving quark nuggets as a candidate for dark matter
Creators: name: Atreya, Abhishek
name: Sarkar, Anjishnu
name: Srivastava, Ajit M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a novel mechanism for segregation of baryons and anti-baryons in the quark-gluon plasma phase which can lead to formation of quark and antiquark nuggets in the early universe, irrespective of the order of the quark-hadron phase transition. This happens due to CP violating scattering of quarks and antiquarks from moving $Z(3)$ domain walls. CP violation here is spontaneous in nature and arises from the nontrivial profile of the background gauge field ($A_{0}$ ) between different $Z(3)$ vacua. We study the effect of this spontaneous CP violation on the baryon transport across the collapsing large $Z(3)$ domain walls (which can arise in the context of certain low energy scale inflationary models). Our results show that this CP violation can lead to large concentrations of baryons and anti-baryons in the early universe. The quark and antiquark nuggets, formed by this alternate mechanism, can provide a viable dark matter candidate within standard model without violating any observational constraints.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Quantum Reflection of Antihydrogen in the GBAR Experiment
Creators: name: Dufour, Gabriel
name: Guérout, Romain
name: Lambrecht, Astrid
name: Nesvizhevsky, Valery
name: Reynaud, Serge
name: Voronin, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the GBAR experiment, cold antihydrogen atoms will be left to fall on an annihilation plate with the aim of measuring the gravitational acceleration of antimatter. Here, we study the quantum reflection of these antiatoms due to the Casimir-Polder potential above the plate. We give realistic estimates of the potential and quantum reflection amplitudes, taking into account the specificities of antihydrogen and the optical properties of the plate. We find that quantum reflection is enhanced for weaker potentials, for example above thin slabs, graphene and nanoporous media.
description: Workshop on Antimatter and Gravity Bern 2013 Proceedings
title: Hard questions, concrete solutions: mitigating the ecological impacts of the global infrastructure boom
Creators: name: zu Ermgassen, Sophus Olav Sven Emil
name: Beatty, Balfour
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: By 2060, an estimated >230 billion m2 of additional built floor area will be added to the global building stock, equivalent to the built area of Japan each year. Effective tools are urgently required to mitigate the ecological impacts of this global infrastructure boom. In this thesis I explore the effectiveness of one of the most high-profile tools, biodiversity offsetting. I review the implementation and outcomes of biodiversity offsetting around the world, and identify large evidence gaps around its effectiveness. To address these I then evaluate the outcomes of one of the world's oldest biodiversity offsetting systems (Victoria, Australia), and pre-emptively evaluate one of the world's newest compensation systems ("Biodiversity Net Gain", England). Both evaluations indicate that these compensation systems are unlikely to fully mitigate the ecological impacts of development. In Victoria, we find preliminary evidence of self-selection bias undermining the additionality of offsets, and in England, we identify serious governance gaps that leave the majority of the policy's biodiversity benefits unenforceable. Both of these systems implement regulatory offset markets, so I then explore the economics of offsetting regulatory markets, and identify one barrier to their successful implementation may be contradictions between the way that biodiversity needs to be treated to create effective market-like mechanisms, and effective ecological outcomes. Recognising that there may be systemic barriers to biodiversity offsetting fully mitigating the impacts of development, I finally explore whether it is possible to create economies in which the rate of infrastructure expansion is fundamentally slowed. I use the case study of the housing crisis in England to explore whether the projected rates of infrastructure expansion are compatible with national carbon and biodiversity targets, and identify policies that might dampen the drivers behind rapid infrastructure expansion and its ecological impacts. Slowing the rate of infrastructure expansion without sacrificing human wellbeing appears possible, but it faces a daunting political economy.
Discovery of a ~250 K Brown Dwarf at 2 pc from the Sun
Creators: name: Luhman, K. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through a previous analysis of multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), I identified WISE J085510.83-071442.5 as a new high proper motion object. By combining astrometry from WISE and the Spitzer Space Telescope, I have measured a proper motion of 8.1+/-0.1"/yr and a parallax of 0.454+/-0.045" (2.20+0.24/-0.20 pc) for WISE J085510.83-071442.5, giving it the third highest proper motion and the fourth largest parallax of any known star or brown dwarf. It is also the coldest known brown dwarf based on its absolute magnitude at 4.5um and its color in [3.6]-[4.5]. By comparing M4.5 with the values predicted by theoretical evolutionary models, I estimate an effective temperature of 225-260 K and a mass of 3-10 Mjup for the age range of 1-10 Gyr that encompasses most nearby stars.
On phase noise of self-injection locked semiconductor lasers
Creators: name: Dale, E.
name: Liang, W.
name: Eliyahu, D.
name: Savchenkov, A. A.
name: Ilchenko, V. S.
name: Matsko, A. B.
name: Seidel, D.
name: Maleki, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss our recent progress in iimproving the phase noise of a semiconductor laser using self-injection locking of to a mode of a high-Q whispering gallery mode resonator. Locking efficiency is analyzed for semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) as well as Fabry-Perot (FP) lasers operating at 690nm, 1060nm, 1550nm, and 2000nm. Instantaneous linewidth below 300 Hz is realized with telecom DFB lasers. Tunability of the lasers is demonstrated. Commercially available packaged "plug-and-play" devices are manufactured.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Non-resonant excitation of a two-level atom driven by a superoscillating field
Creators: name: Baranov, D. G.
name: Vinogradov, A. P.
name: Lisyansky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study counterintuitive dynamics of a two-level system (TLS) interacting with electric field superoscillating in time. We show that a TLS may be excited by an external light pulse whose spectral components are below the absorption line of the TLS. We attribute this unique dynamics to the Rabi oscillations of the TLS in a superoscillating driving field.
3D modeling of magnetic atom traps on type-II superconductor chips
Creators: name: Sokolovsky, Vladimir
name: Prigozhin, Leonid
name: Barrett, John W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic traps for cold atoms have become a powerful tool of cold atom physics and condense matter research. The traps on superconducting chips allow one to increase the trapped atom life- and coherence time by decreasing the thermal noise by several orders of magnitude compared to that of the typical normal-metal conductors. A thin superconducting film in the mixed state is, usually, the main element of such a chip. Using a finite element method to analyze thin film magnetization and transport current in type-II superconductivity, we study magnetic traps recently employed in experiments. The proposed approach allows us to predict important characteristics of the magnetic traps (their depth, shape, distance from the chip surface, etc.) necessary when designing magnetic traps in cold atom experiments.
description: Submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology
A super lithium-rich red-clump star in the open cluster Trumpler 5
Creators: name: Monaco, L.
name: Boffin, H. M. J.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Villanova, S.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Caffau, E.
name: Steffen, M.
name: Ahumada, J. A.
name: Beletsky, Y.
name: Beccari, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The existence of lithium-rich low-mass red giant stars still represents a challenge for stellar evolution models. Stellar clusters are privileged environments for this kind of investigation. Aims. To investigate the chemical abundance pattern of the old open cluster Trumpler\,5, we observed a sample of four red-clump stars with high-resolution optical spectrographs. One of them (#3416) reveals extremely strong lithium lines in its spectrum. Methods. One-dimensional, local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis was performed on the spectra of the observed stars. A 3D-NLTE analysis was performed to derive the lithium abundance of star #3416. Results. Star #3416 is super Li-rich with A(Li)=3.75\,dex. The lack of $^6$Li enrichment ($^6$Li/$^7$Li$
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters
Defiining the imaginary edge of hydration on proteins of known structure
Creators: name: Grisham, Daniel Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This work developed an experimentally verified computational protocol (called ZPRED) for modeling the zeta potential of molecules (e.g. proteins or drugs) from their structure with the long-term goal of being used as a design tool for predicting the onset of molecular self-assembly. The zeta potential (ζ) is the effective charge energy of a solvated molecule and is commonly used to assess how well separated molecules remain in solution (e.g. in pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, cosmetics, etc.). The ζ exists at a position away from the molecular surface, where ions and water no longer adhere to the protein, called the slip plane position (XSP). However, the information gap is the XSP is not generally defined and can vary based on solution conditions (ionic strength, pH, and temperature) as well as flow at the protein-solvent interface. Thus, the objective of this work aims to relate the XSP of select, compact globular proteins to their solution conditions and attempts to extend the relation to general fibrillar proteins using a collagen-like triple helix as a model system. Completing this objective tested the central hypothesis: the XSP coincides with the solvation edge defined by the Stokes-Einstein hydrodynamic radius (Rh), and thus the two should hold the same dependence on solution conditions. The rationale is since diffusing globular proteins hold similar translational motion during electrophoresis; hydration should be equivalent when solution conditions are held constant with any deviation representing the difference in flow perturbations at the protein-solvent interface. This work was accomplished through variation in each solution condition ensuring ZPRED to be accurate for any general aqueous electrolyte solution. Experimental light scattering methods indicated coincidence of the XSP and Stokes-Einstein hydrodynamic radius for a number of proteins in a wide range of solution conditions
A cognitive and behavioral intervention for smoking craving
Creators: name: Omar, Yasmine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Stress is a principal factor in promoting smoking lapse and relapse to cigarette smoking in women. Cognitive reappraisal of stress (CR) and heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVb) have both demonstrated positive effects on the stress response and related outcomes, but have never been explored together for their effects on smoking-related outcomes. Sixty-eight adult women, who smoke 10+ cigarettes daily, abstained from nicotine and tobacco for 12 hours prior to a lab visit in which they completed questionnaires and were randomized to practice an intervention of CR and HRVb, or neutral control tasks. All participants then completed three stressful tasks, including a Stroop task to measure cognitive performance. Heart rate variability (HRV) data were collected throughout the study visit, in addition to smoking craving and negative affect assessments at baseline, post-intervention, post-stress, and post-recovery. Results showed a significant difference in craving decrease between experimental conditions, with the Intervention condition showing a significant decrease in smoking craving from baseline after 10 minutes of HRVb. There were no significant differences between conditions in Stroop task performance or negative affect throughout the study. HRV results revealed group differences in heart rate increase during stress, and decrease after stress, with the Intervention group exhibiting greater volatility in heart rate. Overall, findings of this study indicate that practicing HRVb for 10 minutes results in a significant decrease in smoking craving in female daily smokers with 12 hours of abstinence, and multiple practice sessions of CR and HRVb may be needed to protect against the effect of stress on craving, negative affect, cognitive performance, or HRV. Future research will need to replicate these findings in a larger sample and explore the efficacy of practicing HRVb and CR together over multiple practice sessions in smoking cessation treatment.
2018-Guita Hourani- LDI Track-3 Diplomacy-Revue-Diplomatique-Magazine.pdf
Creators: name: Hourani, Guita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: International relations
Peace studies

description: The Lebanon Dialogue Initiative (LDI) is a civil society organization founded and presided over by the Honorable William Zard Abou Jaoude (Honorary Council of Great Britain), which receives support from various academics, individuals, businesses, and civil society organizations in Lebanon and abroad. It employs a Track-3 approach to diplomacy – that is, using individuals and private groups - to advance the designation of Lebanon as a land for dialogue among civilizations and cultures by the United Nations (UN) and to establish, under the auspices of the UN, a universal center for dialogue and conflict resolution in Lebanon.
CDF Run II Silicon Vertex Detector Annealing Study
Creators: name: Stancari, M.
name: Knoepfel, K.
name: Behari, S.
name: Christian, D.
name: Di Ruzza, B.
name: Jindariani, S.
name: Junk, T. R.
name: Mattson, M.
name: Mitra, A.
name: Mondragon, M. N.
name: Sukhanov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in September 2011, the Tevatron collider delivered 12~fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV to the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). During that time, the CDF silicon vertex detector was subject to radiation doses of up to 12 Mrad. After the end of operations, the silicon detector was annealed for 24 days at $18^{\circ}$C. In this paper, we present a measurement of the change in the bias currents for a subset of sensors during the annealing period. We also introduce a novel method for monitoring the depletion voltage throughout the annealing period. The observed bias current evolution can be characterized by a falling exponential term with time constant $τ_I=17.88\pm0.36$(stat.)$\pm0.25$(syst.) days. We observe an average decrease of $(27\pm3)\%$ in the depletion voltage, whose evolution can similarly be described by an exponential time constant of $τ_V=6.21\pm0.21$ days. These results are consistent with the Hamburg model within the measurement uncertainties.
description: Submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth, Sec. A
Networked stakeholders and long-term recovery
Creators: name: Harris Jr, John Lamont
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation addresses post-disaster long-term recovery as a communication and organizing process reliant upon networked stakeholder relationships and collaborative communication. Findings from a multiyear field study are used to propose a relational model of stakeholder theory and a theory of collaborative communication as a web of social and organizational relationships within a community or region solving complex problems of mutual concern. Stakeholder theory is reconceptualized as a framework for understanding community survivability rather than firm or organizational survivability. Advancing Nordic models of stakeholder theory, the dissertation argues that networked stakeholder relationships and collaborative communication are mutually dependent as twin concepts of collective problem-solving and relationship management. Communication practices such as meetings and face-to-face encounters are used by networked stakeholders to connect with one another and build trust, share information, allocate resources, and manage conflict. Networked stakeholder relationships take shape over time and include a mix of existing, emergent, and pre-planned organizations active within a physical community or an organizational field such as disaster recovery. The complex problem of long-term recovery after disaster is used to generate empirical evidence from a geographically bounded region in coastal New Jersey severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012. This 5-year field study covers the period from October 30, 2012, to December 31, 2017, and includes active participant observation as a resident and organizational leader in the impacted region, ethnographic observations, and interviews as well as archival data that combine organizational documents with academic, nonprofit, and government reports. A combination of social constructivist grounded theory, abductive analysis, and social network analysis are used to analyze data. Processes, timelines, and networks of recovery in this coastal region are uncovered from the data and used to construct the models of networked stakeholder relationships and collaborative communication proposed by this study. Finally, policy implications are presented that address specific concepts for improving the processes of long-term recovery after natural disaster.
Characterization of High Proper Motion Objects from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Creators: name: Luhman, K. L.
name: Sheppard, Scott S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of high proper motion objects that we have found in a recent study and in this work with multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Using photometry and proper motions from 2MASS and WISE, we have identified the members of this sample that are likely to be late type, nearby, or metal poor. We have performed optical and near-infrared spectroscopy on 41 objects, from which we measure spectral types that range from M4-T2.5. This sample includes 11 blue L dwarfs and five subdwarfs; the latter were also classified as such in the recent study by Kirkpatrick and coworkers. Based on their spectral types and photometry, several of our spectroscopic targets may have distances of <20 pc with the closest at ~12 pc. The tangential velocities implied by the spectrophotometric distances and proper motions indicate that four of the five subdwarfs are probably members of the Galactic halo while several other objects, including the early-T dwarf WISE J210529.08-623558.7, may belong to the thick disk.
description: Astrophysical Journal, in press
A magnetically shielded room with ultra low residual field and gradient
Creators: name: Altarev, I.
name: Babcock, E.
name: Beck, D.
name: Burghoff, M.
name: Chesnevskaya, S.
name: Chupp, T.
name: Degenkolb, S.
name: Fan, I.
name: Fierlinger, P.
name: Frei, A.
name: Gutsmiedl, E.
name: Knappe-Grüneberg, S.
name: Kuchler, F.
name: Lauer, T.
name: Link, P.
name: Lins, T.
name: Marino, M.
name: McAndrew, J.
name: Niessen, B.
name: Paul, S.
name: Petzoldt, G.
name: Schläpfer, U.
name: Schnabel, A.
name: Sharma, S.
name: Singh, J.
name: Stoepler, R.
name: Stuiber, S.
name: Sturm, M.
name: Taubenheim, B.
name: Trahms, L.
name: Voigt, J.
name: Zechlau, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A versatile and portable magnetically shielded room with a field of (700 \pm 200) pT within a central volume of 1m x 1m x 1m and a field gradient less than 300 pT/m is described. This performance represents more than a hundred-fold improvement of the state of the art for a two-layer magnetic shield and provides an environment suitable for a next generation of precision experiments in fundamental physics at low energies; in particular, searches for electric dipole moments of fundamental systems and tests of Lorentz-invariance based on spin-precession experiments. Studies of the residual fields and their sources enable improved design of future ultra-low gradient environments and experimental apparatus.
A criterion for condensation in kinetically constrained one-dimensional transport models
Creators: name: Miedema, Daniel
name: de Wijn, Astrid
name: Schall, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study condensation in one-dimensional transport models with a kinetic constraint. The kinetic constraint results in clustering of immobile vehicles; these clusters can grow to macroscopic condensates, indicating the onset of dynamic phase separation between free flowing and arrested traffic. We investigate analytically the conditions under which this occurs, and derive a necessary and sufficient criterion for phase separation. This criterion is applied to the well-known Nagel-Schreckenberg model of traffic flow to analytically investigate the existence of dynamic condensates. We find that true condensates occur only when acceleration out of jammed traffic happens in a single time step, in the limit of strong overbraking. Our predictions are further verified with simulation results on the growth of arrested clusters. These results provide analytic understanding of dynamic arrest and dynamic phase separation in one-dimensional traffic and transport models.
A method to retrieve optical and geometrical characteristics of three layer waveguides from m-lines measurements
Creators: name: Schneider, Thomas
name: Leduc, Dominique
name: Lupi, Cyril
name: Cardin, Julien
name: Gundel, Hartmut
name: Boisrobert, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three layer optical waveguides and present a method to measure simultaneously the refractive index and the thickness of each layer with m-lines spectroscopy. We establish the three layer waveguide modal dispersion equations and describe a numerical method to solve these equations. The accuracy of the method is evaluated by numerical simulations with noisy data and experimentally demonstrated using a PZT thin film placed between two ZnO layers.
Viability and performance of indoor mapping using the Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR
Creators: name: Paleja, Rohan R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: There is a growing demand for performing high precision tasks in indoor environments. Using a LiDAR to map the environment alongside a SLAM algorithm called LOAM, developed by Dr. Zhang from CMU, environments can be mapped with low computational complexity. The use of this algorithm and sensor is tested in indoor environments to assess the performance and viability of indoor mapping with the Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR. The experiment is tailored so that it mimics certain behaviors of a mobile robot in the hopes that the conclusion of this experiment can be generalized to mobile robots. Results of this experiment produced highly accurate clouds that were replicas to the real-world environment with an accuracy as high as 99.71%. Large indoor environments were also mapped (above 100 meters in length) with drift less than 1 meter in the best scenario. These results verify that accurate point cloud generation in indoor environments is viable and can be useful for mobile robots.
Inducing mechanical stresses in electroactive hydrogels to influence the fate of mesenchymal stem cells
Creators: name: Gupta, Kriti
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can differentiate into bone, cartilage, muscle, tendon, and other mesenchyme-derived tissue with the right treatment of growth factors or the right mechanical stimuli. Therefore, these cells are widely used in tissue engineering. Though the MSC response to biochemical signals is well understood, their response to biophysical signals is still being described. Exploring the behavior of MSCs in response to a variety of biochemical, biophysical, or bioelectrical signals can lead to better scaffolds for tissue engineering. Scaffolds do not entirely mimic the native environment that cells experience, particularly for excitable tissues. For instance, in their native environment smooth muscle cells experience contraction and relaxation. While electroactive materials can deform, at present, few such materials are suitable as cell scaffolds. Herein, this thesis describes the development of poly(ethyelene glycol) diacrylate – poly(acrylic acid) (PEGDA-PAA) as an electroactive scaffold for MSCs. PEGDA-PAA hydrogels experience a change in volume with the application of an electric field, producing bending, wave-like movements similar to that of smooth muscle. Electroactive hydrogels were capable of deformation and seeded cells proliferated on the surface. Ongoing work is investigating a stimulation profile for the hydrogels that will be nonlethal for cells.
Bringing gender to the forefront
Creators: name: Harden Russell, Aiisha Michele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Scholars have noted the ways race and gender have influenced the campaign strategies of minority and women candidates while growing intersectionality research has examined the campaign strategies of women of color.  This dissertation combines these two scholarly themes by investigating the campaign strategies of black women and men candidates, as both sub-groups are underrepresented in elected office and share the common yolk of deracialization as a campaign strategy.  I argue that the role of gender is valuable and necessary to assess the complexities of the campaign strategies of black candidates.  Utilizing what I call an intersectional campaign framework informed by Weldon’s (2006) intersectionality-plus model, I investigate the influences of race, gender, and the combination of race and gender with other contextual factors on the components of a campaign strategy—campaign style, mobilization tactics, and issue priorities.  I draw on semi-structured interviews with black women and men candidates for Congress and their campaign managers to gain an insider perspective, and a content analysis of black newspaper coverage to gauge the types of coverage received and the types of communication messages conveyed to majority black audiences, many of whom are the base of support for these candidates.  My findings are complex but overall illustrate the influence of race, gender and both race and gender in the campaign approaches of black women and men candidates.  Key findings include that a majority of black women and men candidates believe that race matters in campaign strategy to varying degrees, while black women candidates more than black men candidates believe that gender matters in campaign strategy.  Additionally, black women voters are a key constituency for both black women and men candidates, while black women candidates appear more likely to advocate issues affecting minorities and women of color than their black male counterparts.  Given the recent attention to black women—both as candidates and as voters—this dissertation is timely as it investigates the campaign approaches and perspectives of this group considering multiple dimensions of race, gender and the combination of race and gender.
M31 Satellite Masses Compared to LCDM Subhaloes
Creators: name: Tollerud, Erik J.
name: Boylan-Kolchin, Michael
name: Bullock, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the kinematics of M31's satellite galaxies to the mass profiles of the subhaloes they are expected to inhabit in LCDM. We consider the most massive subhaloes of an approximately M31-sized halo, following the assumption of a monotonic galaxy luminosity-to-subhalo mass mapping. While this abundance matching relation is consistent with the kinematic data for galaxies down to the luminosity of the bright satellites of the Milky Way and M31, it is not consistent with kinematic data for fainter dwarf galaxies (those with L
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS
A new approach to design multicomponent metallic glasses using the mendeleev number
Creators: name: Bajpai, Anurag
name: Bhatt, Jatin
name: Gurao, Nilesh P.
name: Biswas, Krishanu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Designing novel Multicomponent Metallic Glasses (MMGs) based on empirical parameters such as enthalpy of mixing (ΔHmix) and configurational entropy (ΔSmix) is a time-consuming exercise that requires various assumptions, limiting the capability to predict new MMG compositions. The current study involves constructing a modified Mendeleev Number (MNP) element scale based on many important elemental properties that impact the glass forming phenomena. Machine learning (ML) was used to assess the competence of the proposed MNP to predict MMGs. The ML findings demonstrate that proposed MNPcan be utilised as a salient attribute to predict MMGs with 87.8% cross-validation accuracy. Further, the mean square variation in the MNP of the alloy constituents (ΔMNP) provides a delineated zone of glass forming multicomponent alloys. In summary, the research work presents a novel phenomenological coordinate system that can effectively predict new MMGs while avoiding the limitations of empirical parameters based design strategies.
Thermodynamic anomalies in the presence of dissipation: from the free particle to the harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Adamietz, Robert
name: Ingold, Gert-Ludwig
name: Weiss, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A free particle coupled to a heat bath can exhibit a number of thermodynamic anomalies like a negative specific heat or reentrant classicality. These low-temperature phenomena are expected to be modified at very low temperatures where finite-size effects associated with the discreteness of the energy spectrum become relevant. In this paper, we explore in which form the thermodynamic anomalies of the free damped particle appear for a damped harmonic oscillator. Since the discreteness of the oscillator's energy spectrum is fully accounted for, the results are valid for arbitrary temperatures. As expected, they are in agreement with the third law of thermodynamics and indicate how the thermodynamic anomalies of the free damped particle can be reconciled with the third law. Particular attention is paid to the transition from the harmonic oscillator to the free particle when the limit of the oscillator frequency to zero is taken.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Optomechanically induced amplification and perfect transparency in double-cavity optomechanics
Creators: name: Yan, Xiao-Bo
name: Jia, W. Z.
name: Li, Yong
name: Wu, Jin-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the optomechanically induced amplification and perfect transparency in a double-cavity optomechanical system. We find if two control lasers with appropriate amplitudes and detunings are applied to drive the system, the phenomenon of optomechanically induced amplification for a probe laser can occur. In addition, perfect optomechanically induced transparency phenomenon, which is robust to mechanical dissipation, can be realized by the same type of drive. These results are very important for signal amplification, light storage, fast light and slow light in the quantum information processes.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Lessons from LHC elastic and diffractive data
Creators: name: Martin, Alan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a model which gives a `global' description of the wide variety of high-energy elastic and diffractive data that are presently available, particularly from the LHC experiments. The model is based on only one pomeron pole, but includes multi-pomeron interactions. Significantly, the LHC measurements require that the model includes the transverse momentum dependence of the intermediate partons as a function of their rapidity, which results in a rapidity (or energy) dependence of the multi-pomeron vertices.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, To be published in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Particle Physics Phenomenology in memory of Alexei Kaidalov, Moscow, 21-25 July, 2013