cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Bulk-mediated surface diffusion on a cylinder in the fast exchange limit
Creators: name: Chechkin, Aleksei V.
name: Zaid, Irwin M.
name: Lomholt, Michael A.
name: Sokolov, Igor M.
name: Metzler, Ralf
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik

description: In various biological systems and small scale technological applications particles transiently bind to a cylindrical surface. Upon unbinding the particles diffuse in the vicinal bulk before rebinding to the surface. Such bulk-mediated excursions give rise to an effective surface translation, for which we here derive and discuss the dynamic equations, including additional surface diffusion. We discuss the time evolution of the number of surface-bound particles, the effective surface mean squared displacement, and the surface propagator. In particular, we observe sub- and superdiffusive regimes. A plateau of the surface mean-squared displacement reflects a stalling of the surface diffusion at longer times. Finally, the corresponding first passage problem for the cylindrical geometry is analysed.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 593
Understanding the Roles of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 Alpha in Early Host Responses Against Pneumococcal Pneumonia
Creators: name: Kang, Hellen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pneumonia
subject: HIF-1a
subject: Neutrophil recruitment
subject: Lung-on-a-chip
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Pneumococcal pneumonia, caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP), is the leading infectious cause of death in young children worldwide. Current 2D human and small animal models used to study SP infections do not account for complex organ microenvironments or species-specific immune pathways, respectively. To address this, we created a human vascularized lung on a chip (LoC) containing a ventilated epithelial lined air-liquid interface surrounded by human lung fibroblasts and a functional microvascular network. Single cell RNA sequencing of LoC treated with SP for 6 hours demonstrated early hypoxia inducible factor 1- alpha (HIF-1α) target gene activation. Therefore, we hypothesized that HIF-1α-dependent immune responses play an important role in pneumococcal pneumonia. LoC showed increased CD15+ neutrophil recruitment from perfused whole blood in microvessels to tissue and airway during SP infection, partially mediated by HIF-1α. CXCL family chemokines and IL-17C gene expression, and protein release of the latter, increased 6 hours post-infection in LoC; however, we did not observe vascular or airway dysfunction and microvascular damage until 24 hours post-infection. SP-induced HIF-1α activation may be driven by rapidly activated upstream signaling pathways and may require metabolically active bacteria. Altogether, we have characterized a number of functional roles of HIF-1α during early stages of SP infection and showed the utility of LoC as a pre-clinical human model that can identify key inflammatory and cell-cell interactions during pneumococcal pneumonia.
title: Morphological priming in child German
Creators: name: Clahsen, Harald
name: Fleischhauer, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 400 Sprache

description: Regular and irregular inflection in children's production has been examined in many previous studies. Yet, little is known about the processes involved in children's recognition of inflected words. To gain insight into how children process inflected words, the current study examines regular -t and irregular -n participles of German using the cross-modal priming technique testing 108 monolingual German-speaking children in two age groups (group I, mean age: 8;4, group II, mean age: 9;9) and a control group of.. adults. Although both age groups of children had the same full priming effect as adults for -t forms, only children of age group II showed an adult-like (partial) priming effect for -n participles. We argue that children (within the age range tested) employ the same mechanisms for regular inflection as adults but that the lexical retrieval processes required for irregular forms become more efficient when children get older.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 529
Germalus Stal 1862
Creators: name: Tang, Jin
name: Zhang, Gongaote
name: Guo, Junqi
name: Luo, Lingxuan
name: Jiang, Jiamei
name: Pan, Hongbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Geocoridae
Germalus

description: Genus Germalus Stål, 1862
 Type species: Henestaris kinbergi Stål, 1860: 248 (subsequent designation by Stål, 1865).
description: Published as part of Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, Big-Eyed Bugs Of The Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), pp. 247-264 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.247.2023http://zoobank.org/D76B85CE-96F8-40D4-BB4F-DC2856887319, http://zenodo.org/record/10272316
WIMP abundance and lepton (flavour) asymmetry
Creators: name: Stuke, Maik
name: Schwarz, Dominik J
name: Starkman, Glenn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how large lepton asymmetries affect the evolution of the early universe at times before big bang nucleosynthesis and in particular how they influence the relic density of WIMP dark matter. In comparison to the standard calculation of the relic WIMP abundance we find a decrease, depending on the lepton flavour asymmetry. We find an effect of up to 20 per cent for lepton flavour asymmetries $l_f= {\cal O}(0.1)$.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures; v2:minor changes to some wordings
A review of BCLC’s voluntary self-exclusion program: Client behaviours, experiences, and perceptions
Creators: name: McCormick, Amanda V.
name: Cohen, Irwin M.
name: Davies, Garth
Publisher: name: British Columbia Lottery Corporation
Year: 2022

description: Executive Summary: The objectives of this study were to assess the experiences and perceptions of VSE program participants and to measure the effects of the program on their gambling. In addition, BCLC was interested in learning about the various informal and formal supports used by VSE clients during their exclusion and the effects of the VSE program on client’s quality of life. Another objective was to understand more about the factors that contribute to program violation attempts. In addition, there was interest in understanding at what point during the exclusion period do VSE clients experience reductions in problem gambling symptoms, if at all. Given these objectives, the current study offered VSE clients participation in several telephone interviews along with a weekly online survey. As with the prior studies conducted by these authors on BCLC’s VSE program, participants were introduced to the study during their enrollment into the land-based VSE program. Those who consented to participate in the study were contacted by members of the research team to schedule a telephone interview. Study participants were recruited between May 2019 and March 2020 at which point recruitment for the study concluded because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of formal gaming venues across British Columbia. During the recruitment period, 3,911 people enrolled or re-enrolled into the VSE program. In total, 6.6% of these clients (n = 262) consented to have their name forwarded to the research team, and 3.3% (n = 128) participated in the first interview.
MOESM1 of Lessening Organ dysfunction with VITamin C (LOVIT): protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Masse, Marie-Hélène
name: Ménard, Julie
name: Sprague, Sheila
name: Battista, Marie-Claude
name: Cook, Deborah
name: Guyatt, Gordon
name: Heyland, Daren
name: Kanji, Salmaan
name: Pinto, Ruxandra
name: Day, Andrew
name: Cohen, Dian
name: Annane, Djillali
name: McGuinness, Shay
name: Parke, Rachael
name: Carr, Anitra
name: Arabi, Yaseen
name: Vijayaraghavan, Bharath
name: D’Aragon, Frédérick
name: Carbonneau, Élaine
name: Maslove, David
name: Hunt, Miranda
name: Rochwerg, Bram
name: Millen, Tina
name: Chassé, Michaël
name: Lebrasseur, Martine
name: Archambault, Patrick
name: Deblois, Estel
name: Drouin, Christine
name: Lellouche, François
name: Lizotte, Patricia
name: Watpool, Irene
name: Porteous, Rebecca
name: Clarke, France
name: Marinoff, Nicole
name: Belley-Côté, Émilie
name: Bolduc, Brigitte
name: Walker, Scott
name: Iazzetta, John
name: Adhikari, Neill
name: Lamontagne, François
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. LOVIT contributors.
Finite element methods for surface diffusion
Creators: name: Bänsch, Eberhard
name: Morin, Pedro
name: Nochetto, Ricardo H.
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Surface diffusion
subject: fourth-order parabolic problem
subject: finite elements
subject: a priori error estimates
subject: Schur complement
subject: smooth ing effect
subject: pinch-off
subject: 35K55
subject: 65M12
subject: 65M15
subject: 65M60
subject: 65Z05

description: Surface diffusion is a (4th order highly nonlinear) geometric driven motion of a surface with normal velocity proportional to the surface Laplacian of mean curvature. We present a novel variational formulation for the parametric case, develop a finite element method, and propose a Schur complement approach to solve the resulting linear systems. We also introduce a new graph formulation and state an optimal a priori error estimate. We conclude with several significant simulations, some with pinch-off in finite time.
EEG-assisted retrospective motion correction for fMRI: E-REMCOR
Creators: name: Zotev, Vadim
name: Yuan, Han
name: Phillips, Raquel
name: Bodurka, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for retrospective motion correction of fMRI data in simultaneous EEG-fMRI that employs the EEG array as a sensitive motion detector. EEG motion artifacts are used to generate motion regressors describing rotational head movements with millisecond temporal resolution. These regressors are utilized for slice-specific motion correction of unprocessed fMRI data. Performance of the method is demonstrated by correction of fMRI data from five patients with major depressive disorder, who exhibited head movements by 1-3 mm during a resting EEG-fMRI run. The fMRI datasets, corrected using eight to ten EEG-based motion regressors, show significant improvements in temporal SNR (TSNR) of fMRI time series, particularly in the frontal brain regions and near the surface of the brain. The TSNR improvements are as high as 50% for large brain areas in single-subject analysis and as high as 25% when the results are averaged across the subjects. Simultaneous application of the EEG-based motion correction and physiological noise correction by means of RETROICOR leads to average TSNR enhancements as high as 35% for large brain regions. These TSNR improvements are largely preserved after the subsequent fMRI volume registration and regression of fMRI motion parameters. The proposed EEG-assisted method of retrospective fMRI motion correction (referred to as E-REMCOR) can be used to improve quality of fMRI data with severe motion artifacts and to reduce spurious correlations between the EEG and fMRI data caused by head movements. It does not require any specialized equipment beyond the standard EEG-fMRI instrumentation and can be applied retrospectively to any existing EEG-fMRI data set.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, to appear in NeuroImage
Extremely Low Frequency Detection for Biometric Sensing
Creators: name: White, Oliver
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: extremely low frequency (ELF)
subject: magnetometer design
subject: human detection
subject: recurrent neural networks (RNNs)
subject: Education--Sciences

description: Human detection is an important aspect of security and surveillance and is a highly researched area, typically using cameras, infrared sensors, or radar. Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves, ranging from 0.03 Hz to 300 Hz, offer unique advantages for human detection due to their ability to penetrate various materials, including walls and obstacles. The human body generates a weak magnetic field due to various physiological processes and is measurable within the ELF range. The goal of this thesis is to detect ELF signals emitted by human subjects using an ELF magnetometer and to rapidly distinguish the presence of a human from background noise. A large air-core magnetic induction coil is designed and constructed in conjunction with a low-noise, high-impedance amplification circuit to independently measure the ELF signals from background noise and two human subjects in a semi-remote, non-shielded location. A sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz was used, and the power spectrum density (PSD) was computed for each 3-second data segment. Using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) structure, several binary classification models were trained with supervised learning on the PSD sequences between 0.3 and 30 Hz to distinguish background data from human data. The candidate RNN models achieved an average accuracy of above 80% using K-Fold cross-validation on the limited dataset. Overall, the performance of the RNNs was high for one subject, and low for the other subject. It was found that a significant factor in distinguishing a human from background noise was the change in diurnal ELF background power levels between measurements. The results indicate the use of ELF data from humans has the potential for rapid human detection, however, requires a larger dataset for further consideration as a biometric device.
Aharon-Vaidman quantum game with a Young-type photonic qutrit
Creators: name: Kolenderski, Piotr
name: Sinha, Urbasi
name: Youning, Li
name: Zhao, Tong
name: Volpini, Matthew
name: Cabello, Adan
name: Laflamme, Raymond
name: Jennewein, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aharon-Vaidman (AV) game exemplifies the advantage of using simple quantum systems to outperform classical strategies. We present an experimental test of this advantage by using a three-state quantum system (qutrit) encoded in a spatial mode of a single photon passing through three slits. The preparation of a particular state is controlled as the photon propagates through the slits by varying the number of open slits and their respective phases. The measurements are achieved by placing detectors in the specific positions in the near and far fields after the slits. This set of tools allowed us to perform tomographic reconstructions of generalized qutrit states, and to implement the quantum version of the AV game with compelling evidence of the quantum advantage.
description: Text and figures updated
Simulation of Classical Axion Electrodynamics using COMSOL Multiphysics
Creators: name: Jeong, Junu
name: Kim, Younggeun
name: Bae, Sungjae
name: Youn, Sungwoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The axion is a hypothetical particle motivated to address the strong CP problem, and is one of the appealing dark matter candidates. Numerous experimental searches for dark matter axions have been proposed relying on their coupling with photons. The classical equations of motion for the axion-photon coupling are well known but need to be fully computed for complex experimental setups. The partial differential equations of axion electrodynamics can be numerically solved using finite element methods. In this work, we simulate axion electrodynamics using COMSOL Multiphyics, a commercially available simulation software, for various experimental schemes, including the dish antenna haloscope, cavity haloscope, dielectric haloscope, and axion-photon regeneration. We show that the numerical results are in good agreement with the analytical solutions.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Edaphus incisionicollis Puthz 2014, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Edaphus
Edaphus incisionicollis

description: Edaphus incisionicollis nov.sp. T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype (): VIETNAM: Hatinh Prov., Raô An, 13 km W Huang Son, rt. 8 7 km S Nuòc Sôt village, 18 o 21’N, 105 o 15’E, 300m, flight interception trap, 9.-22.V.1998, Lee Herman; Paratypes: 1: ibidem, 220m, litter as base of boulders in forest, 6.V.1998, L. Herman; 1 Hatinh Prov., Ke Co Reservoir, 18 o 09’N, 105 o 55’E, 12.IV.1998, L. Herman: HT and 1 pt in the AMNH, 1 pt in cP. D e s c r i p t i o n: Large, macropterous, chestnut brown, shiny, impunctate, pubescence dense, semierect. Length: 2.0- 2.6mm (fore body: 1.1-1.3mm). PM of the ht: HW: 49; DE: 38; LE: 12: LT: -; LG: 3; PW: 59; PL: 54; dlbc: 43; EW: 83; EL: 75: SL: 61. M a l e: Unknown. Head distinctly narrower than elytra, eyes large, finely facetted, no distinct temples, ptfF and (short) alfF distinct, ampF nearly twice as broad as each of the alpF, flat, not distinctly separated from clp, alpF nodiform, each with one minute punctures, few minute punctures near alfF anteromedially. Antennae long, when reflexed extending to the posterior margin of the pronotum, club 2-segmented, segment 10 distinctly, but not much, longer than broad. Pronotum broader than long, sides convex anteriorly, strongly constricted behind, lbc distinct, mbc extending to base proper, 6 large bf present; along the middle of the pronotum there can be seen a strong, narrow incision/furrow, which is separated from the anterior margin of the pronotum by the length of antennal segment 3. Elytra very large, broader than long, sides moderately convex, shoulders simple. Tergite 3 and 4 with long mbc, mbct5 longer than half of the tergite. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: In my key (1979b) this remarkable new species should be inserted at column 83; from E furcaticollis PUTHZ it may be easily distinguished by the median carinae of tergites 3-5 and the size. E t y m o l o g y: Because of the narrow longitudinal furrows of the pronotum I name this species " incisionicollis " (Lat.= with an incision on pronotum).
description: Published as part of Puthz, V., 2014, Some new Oriental Edaphus MOTSCHULSKY, mainly from Vietnam (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 119 th Contribution to the Knowledge of Euaesthetinae, pp. 877-887 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 884, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5306883
On correlation functions as higher-spin invariants
Creators: name: Scalea, Adrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Chern--Simons) vector models exhibit an infinite-dimensional symmetry, the slightly-broken higher-spin symmetry with the unbroken higher-spin symmetry being the first approximation. In this note, we compute the $n$-point correlation functions of the higher-spin currents as higher-spin invariants directly on the CFT side, which complements earlier results that have a holographic perspective.
description: 16 pages, typos fixed, replaced with the published version
On the Dynamics and Tidal Dissipation Rate of the White Dwarf in 4U 1820-30
Creators: name: Prodan, Snezana
name: Murray, Norman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that the 170 day period in the light curve of the low mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30 arises from the presence of a third body with a large inclination to the binary orbit. We show that this long period motion arises if the system is librating around the stable fixed point in a Kozai resonance. We demonstrate that mass transfer drives the system toward this fixed point, and calculate, both analytically and via numerical integrations, that the period of libration is of order 170 days when the mutual inclination is near the Kozai critical value. The non-zero eccentricity of the binary, combined with tidal dissipation, implies that the rate of change of the binary period would be slower than, or even of opposite sign to, that implied by standard mass transfer models. If the 170 day period results from libration, then, contrary to appearances, the orbital period of the inner binary is increasing with time; in that case, (e/0.009)^2Q/k_2 > 2.5 x 10^9, where k_2 = 0.01 is the tidal Love number and e = 0.009 is the fiducial eccentricity of the inner binary. It appears unlikely that the observed negative period derivative results from the smaller than expected (but positive) value of \dot P combined with the previously suggested acceleration of the system in the gravitational field of the host globular cluster NGC 6624. The discrepancy between the observed and expected period derivative requires further investigation.
Inhomogeneity and nonlinear screening in gapped bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Abergel, D. S. L.
name: Rossi, E.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that for gapped bilayer graphene, the nonlinear nature of the screening of an external disorder potential and the resulting inhomogeneity of the electron liquid are crucial for describing the electronic compressibility. In particular, traditional diagrammatic methods of many-body theory do not include this inhomogeneity and therefore fail to reproduce experimental data accurately, particularly at low carrier densities. In contrast, a direct calculation of the charge landscape via a numerical Thomas-Fermi energy functional method along with the appropriate bulk averaging procedure captures all the essential physics, including the interplay between the band gap and the inhomogeneity.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Please note, the visual quality of Fig. 3 has been reduced to accommodate arXiv's total size requirement for submissions. Full quality figures are available in the published version
A Story of Resilience and Survival: Canadian Soldier Harold Luther’s Letters Home During the Second World War
Creators: name: Luther, Marvin James
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social history
subject: History of family
subject: Second World War
subject: History
subject: History--Canadian

description: This author’s thesis is based on a private collection of twenty two letters written home during the Second World War by his father, Harold Luther. The letters, written between 1942 and 1945, cover basic training in Canada, further training in England, and service in the European theatre, including France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Context for the soldier’s letters is developed by other primary sources, including photographs taken by Luther at the front with metadata of his handwriting on the back of the photographs. Luther’s military service record also provides context, and fills in the gaps of time between various sub groups of the letters. The letters reveal the social and cultural history of a young soldier who has survived the Great Depression in isolated rural western Canada, and how he reacted to and survived the profound social and cultural changes he experienced in wartime regarding personal and family disconnect, culture shock, and war trauma. The letters, combined with the photographs and metadata, and the military service documents, reveal various themes, including family dysfunction. They also reveal the myths of patriotism and masculinity, as reflected in a young citizen soldier volunteer’s ambivalence to being part of overseas military service, when he could have received a farm exemption. The analysis of the letters is augmented with archival research about Canada’s Second World War effort, including official Government of Canada sites. In addition, the author uses oral history evidence through oral interviews with family members and friends who had conversations with Luther and his girlfriend regarding the war years, as further context for Luther’s letters. The oral history evidence is also comprised of this author’s personal memories from conversations with Luther and his girlfriend regarding stories that provide context for events set out in the letters. Luther’s letters are also compared to edited collections of letters, diaries and interviews of other Second World War soldiers from various backgrounds. Historical monographs and journal articles provide further historical context and commentary. Luther’s letters, photographs and military service records provide a unique Canadian Prairie West perspective of a young soldier’s experience.
Preventing Violence Against Women: Emerging Practices of Canadian Activism through Social Media
Creators: name: Felt, J. Mylynn W.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Media
subject: Civic Activism
subject: Social Movement
subject: Gender-based Violence
subject: Cycle of Contention
subject: Indigenous Activism
subject: Women's Movement
subject: Comparative Case Study
subject: Mass Communications
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Women's Studies
subject: Native American Studies

description: The Canadian women’s movement has seen a recent surge in attention and participation. In a rising cycle of contention, broad collective action campaigns can appear as a single social movement. This research uses a comparative case study to examine three cases of varying scale through the causal mechanisms of signaling, innovation, and campaigns/coalitions to examine how social media contribute to the emerging repertoire of contention. The three cases under investigation are a localized case: Safe Stampede, a national case: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and a transnational case: Women’s March on Washington. Results show that social media are not only integral to collective action but also influence the nature of many emerging practices. Organizers utilize personalized participation and localization, favoring tactics that improve visual imagery for social media posts. In outreach efforts, they rely on the scale of social media to connect with influencers, traditional media, and conscience constituents through affordances such as hashtags and addressivity markers. The affordances of social media encourage tactics designed to generate viral content and to leverage shame as a motivator for change. A sense of duty spurs organizers and participants to greater action beyond what might be termed clicktivism. Whether a campaign targets only the local community or a global one, organizers seek to localize their message for regional supporters. In all cases, ideological differences must be resolved in order to maintain solidarity and prevent damaging divides. As social movements progress, they tend to follow predictable patterns toward institutionalization, especially as a cycle of contention begins to recede.
Towards brane-antibrane inflation in type $II_A$: The holographic MQCD model
Creators: name: Nastase, Horatiu
name: Sonnenschein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe type $II_A$ cosmological brane inflation scenarios based on the holographic MQCD model of Aharony et al \cite{Aharony:2010mi}. The scenarios can be related via T-duality to the type $II_B$ KKLMMT model \cite{Kachru:2003sx}. They describe a probe brane configuration of $p$ D4 branes stretching between an $NS5$ and $NS5'$ branes in the holographic background of large $N$ D4 branes. The resulting cosmological models have a Wick-rotated D4-brane metric, with transverse dimensions compactified, and a spiralling brane with flux $p$. In one model, the background has a small nonextremality, and the inflaton is provided by the position of a "sliding" D4-brane, and in the other, the background is supersymmetric, but with a sliding anti-D4-brane. We obtain good and generic inflationary models, though several unknowns remain, in particular about subleading corrections. The usual caveat of volume stabilization generically spoiling slow-roll still applies.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, latex; reference added; a few clarifications added, typos corrected
Compositions by arvin fekri
Creators: name: Fekri, Arvin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The thesis for the Master of Music degree in Composition consists of live performances of original works composed during graduate study. The student is expected to have written and have performed approximately an hour of music for various media. My compositions were performed on January 21st, 2011; April 1st, 2011; February 27, 2012; March 19th, 2012; and April 10th, 2012. The total duration is approximately 46 minutes. The Compositions are: Rap and back String Quartet no. 2 Two Short Movements for Woodwind Quartet A River of Time (Electroacoustic composition without a score) Jupiter (Electroacoustic composition without a score) The Hidden and Revealed: for Solo Violin Zigzag Ontology: for Solo Cello and Loop-track
SiO maser emission from red supergiants across the Galaxy: I. Targets in massive star clusters
Creators: name: Verheyen, L.
name: Messineo, M.
name: Menten, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. Red supergiants (RSGs) are among the most luminous of all stars, easily detectable in external galaxies, and may ideally serve as kinematic tracers of Galactic structure. Some RSGs are surrounded by circumstellar envelopes detectable by their dust and molecular and, in particular, maser emission. This study consists of a search for maser emission from silicon monoxide (SiO) toward a significant number of RSGs that are members of massive stellar clusters, many of which have only recently been discovered. Further, we aim to relate the occurrence of maser action to properties of the host stars. Methods. Using the IRAM 30 meter telescope, we searched for maser emission in the J = 2 - 1 rotational transition within the first vibrationally excited state of SiO toward a sample of 88 RSGs. Results. With an average rms noise level of 0.25 Jy, we detected maser emission in 15% of the sample, toward most of the sources for the first time in this transition. The peak of the emission provides accurate radial velocities for the RSGs. The dependence of the detection rate on infrared colors supports a radiative pumping mechanism for the SiO masers.
description: 14 pages, 3 figues, Astronomy & Astrophysics (in press). Updated version (April 3, 2012)
The Investigation of Micro-Interactions in Sustain Gender Inequality in STEM Occupations
Creators: name: Solis, Lorena A.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gender
subject: STEM
subject: Teamwork
subject: Microinequities
subject: Microaffirmations
subject: Psychology--Industrial

description: Gender inequality persists despite many efforts to increase gender representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations. To understand why gender inequality persists in STEM occupations, I investigate micro-interactions that provide insight into how team social exchanges impact individuals' behaviours and experiences. The two micro-interactions that I consider in this dissertation are microinequities and microaffirmations. Microinequities are small events that one may disregard due to their diminutive size; however, they happen frequently, have long-lasting effects, are typically unintentional, are challenging to prove and occur wherever people are perceived to be different (Rowe, 1990; 2008). Microaffirmations are also small acts; however, these acts can foster inclusion, create and provide opportunities for advancement, and affirm one's work (Rowe, 2008). Using an experience sampling methodology, I collected data from 102 participants with 589 valid data points from all participants. All participants worked within the context of STEM. I examine the influence of microinequities and microaffirmations on the participation of women in team processes, such as decision participation. Findings from this dissertation study show that microinequities are detrimental to team decision participation, role behaviour, and individuals' well-being. These results also showed that microaffirmations could mitigate the adverse effects that microinequities can have on individuals' well-being. However, gender identity was not a significant predictor of microinequities and microaffirmations. I discuss this research study's implications, limitations, and future directions.
Hypogeocoris Montandon 1913
Creators: name: Tang, Jin
name: Zhang, Gongaote
name: Guo, Junqi
name: Luo, Lingxuan
name: Jiang, Jiamei
name: Pan, Hongbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Geocoridae
Hypogeocoris

description: Genus Hypogeocoris Montandon, 1913
 Type species: Germalus violaceus Signoret, 1881: 1 (by original designation).
description: Published as part of Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, Big-Eyed Bugs Of The Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), pp. 247-264 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3) on page 259, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.247.2023http://zoobank.org/D76B85CE-96F8-40D4-BB4F-DC2856887319, http://zenodo.org/record/10272316
Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies -- an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES) -- I: Introduction to the Survey
Creators: name: Irwin, Judith
name: Beck, Rainer
name: Benjamin, R. A.
name: Dettmar, Ralf-Juergen
name: English, Jayanne
name: Heald, George
name: Henriksen, Richard N.
name: Johnson, Megan
name: Krause, Marita
name: Li, Jiang-Tao
name: Miskolczi, Arpad
name: Mora, Silvia Carolina
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Oosterloo, Tom
name: Porter, Troy A.
name: Rand, Richard J.
name: Saikia, D. J.
name: Schmidt, Philip
name: Strong, A. W.
name: Walterbos, Rene
name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Wiegert, Theresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new survey to map the radio continuum halos of a sample of 35 edge-on spiral galaxies at 1.5 GHz and 6 GHz in all polarization products. The survey is exploiting the new wide bandwidth capabilities of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (i.e. the Expanded Very Large Array, or EVLA) in a variety of array configurations (B, C, and D) in order to compile the most comprehensive data set yet obtained for the study of radio halo properties. This is the first survey of radio halos to include all polarization products. In this first paper, we outline the scientific motivation of the survey, the specific science goals, and the expected improvements in noise levels and spatial coverage from the survey. Our goals include investigating the physical conditions and origin of halos, characterizing cosmic ray transport and wind speed, measuring Faraday rotation and mapping the magnetic field, probing the in-disk and extraplanar far-infrared - radio continuum relation, and reconciling non-thermal radio emission with high-energy gamma-ray models. The sample size allows us to search for correlations between radio halos and other properties, including environment, star formation rate, and the presence of AGNs. In a companion paper (Paper II) we outline the data reduction steps and present the first results of the survey for the galaxy, NGC 4631.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure, accepted to the Astronomical Journal, Version 2 changes: added acknowledgement to NRAO
Code Reviewer Recommendation for Architecture Violations: An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Li, Ruiyin
name: Liang, Peng
name: Avgeriou, Paris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for automatically recommending appropriate reviewers have been proposed to match such code changes to pertinent reviewers. However, such approaches are generic, i.e., they do not focus on specific types of issues during code reviews. In this paper, we propose an approach that focuses on architecture violations, one of the most critical type of issues identified during code review. Specifically, we aim at automating the recommendation of code reviewers, who are potentially qualified to review architecture violations, based on reviews of code changes. To this end, we selected three common similarity detection methods to measure the file path similarity of code commits and the semantic similarity of review comments. We conducted a series of experiments on finding the appropriate reviewers through evaluating and comparing these similarity detection methods in separate and combined ways with the baseline reviewer recommendation approach, RevFinder. The results show that the common similarity detection methods can produce acceptable performance scores and achieve a better performance than RevFinder. The sampling techniques used in recommending code reviewers can impact the performance of reviewer recommendation approaches. We also discuss the potential implications of our findings for both researchers and practitioners.
description: The 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)
Multiorbital effects on the transport and the superconducting fluctuations in LiFeAs
Creators: name: Rullier-Albenque, F.
name: Colson, D.
name: Forget, A.
name: Alloul, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resistivity, Hall effect and transverse magnetoresistance (MR) have been measured in low residual resistivity single crystals of LiFeAs. A comparison with angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy and quantum oscillation data implies that four carrier bands unevenly contribute to the transport. However the scattering rates of the carriers all display the T^2 behavior expected for a Fermi liquid. Near Tc low field deviations of the MR with respect to a H^2 variation permit us to extract the superconducting fluctuation contribution to the conductivity. Though below Tc the anisotropy of superconductivity is rather small, the superconducting fluctuations display a quasi ideal two-dimensional behavior which persists up to 1.4 Tc. These results call for a refined theoretical understanding of the multiband behavior of superconductivity in this pnictide.
description: 8pages with supplementary material, 6 figures
askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk (The Seasons: Whiskey-Jack’s Song): A Music Composition for Wind Symphony and Cree Drummers, Chanters and Soloist
Creators: name: Young, Jason Alexander
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Indigenous, Composition
subject: Music

description: askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk (The Seasons: Whiskey-Jack’s Song) is a cultural-based hybridized composition that is inspired by the musical practices of my complex Cree-Settler heritage. My Indigenous family’s ancestral ties are to the Eeyou community of Quebec. My grandmother attended residential school in Moose Factory. Therefore, askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk is largely inspired by her Mushkegowuk (Moose Cree) upbringing, teachings, and her community members in Moosonee and Moose Factory. It incorporates Cree drummers and solo and group chanters with the contemporary Western wind symphony. I composed this piece entirely while residing in Calgary, Alberta and chose to represent the Nêhiýaw (Plains Cree) people through the language of the text to show my respect and appreciation as a guest among these people that inhabit the neighbouring areas of central and northern Alberta. I feel the result is a composition that incorporates these disparate Indigenous cultures in a way that maintains their integrity and protections in a good way. It is an expression of my view as a person of mixed-Cree-settler heritage and my story.
MOESM2 of Lessening Organ dysfunction with VITamin C (LOVIT): protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Masse, Marie-Hélène
name: Ménard, Julie
name: Sprague, Sheila
name: Battista, Marie-Claude
name: Cook, Deborah
name: Guyatt, Gordon
name: Heyland, Daren
name: Kanji, Salmaan
name: Pinto, Ruxandra
name: Day, Andrew
name: Cohen, Dian
name: Annane, Djillali
name: McGuinness, Shay
name: Parke, Rachael
name: Carr, Anitra
name: Arabi, Yaseen
name: Vijayaraghavan, Bharath
name: D’Aragon, Frédérick
name: Carbonneau, Élaine
name: Maslove, David
name: Hunt, Miranda
name: Rochwerg, Bram
name: Millen, Tina
name: Chassé, Michaël
name: Lebrasseur, Martine
name: Archambault, Patrick
name: Deblois, Estel
name: Drouin, Christine
name: Lellouche, François
name: Lizotte, Patricia
name: Watpool, Irene
name: Porteous, Rebecca
name: Clarke, France
name: Marinoff, Nicole
name: Belley-Côté, Émilie
name: Bolduc, Brigitte
name: Walker, Scott
name: Iazzetta, John
name: Adhikari, Neill
name: Lamontagne, François
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. SPIRIT checklist.
Description of juvenile specimens of Prosaurolophus maximus (Hadrosauridae: Saurolophinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of southern Alberta, Canada, reveals ontogenetic changes in crest morphology
Creators: name: Drysdale, Eamon T.
name: Therrien, Francois
name: Zelenitsky, Darla K.
name: Weishampel, David B.
name: Evans, David C.
Publisher: name: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Taylor and Francis)
Year: 2019
Subjects: dinosaur
hadrosaur
ontogeny
Bearpaw Formation
Prosaurolophus

description: Three juvenile specimens of Prosaurolophus maximus, represented by articulated to disarticulated skeletons, are the smallest known individuals for the taxon. Cranial anatomy of the juvenile specimens indicates that diagnostic characters of P. maximus are ontogenetically variable. In the smallest individual, the crest and deeply excavated fossa at the caudal margin of the circumnarial depression are poorly developed or absent. The crest approaches adult-like morphology in large juveniles, whereas crest robusticity and the deep excavation of the circumnarial depression occur only in subadult and adult individuals. The shape of the caudal margin of the circumnarial depression is consistent between juvenile and adult individuals, potentially making this feature a reliable character for taxonomic identification at younger ontogenetic stages. The crest of P. maximus grows isometrically during ontogeny, unlike the positive allometric growth of lambeosaurine hadrosaur crests, suggesting that this taxon may have had soft tissue structures associated with the narial-crest region, rather than the bony crest itself, selected for sexual display. Recovered from sediments of the Bearpaw Formation deposited during the Baculites compressus ammonite zone and magnetochrons 33n.3n to 33n.2n, the juvenile specimens are stratigraphically younger than P. maximus specimens from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Alberta) and contemporaneous with most specimens from the Two Medicine Formation (Montana), extending the temporal range of the taxon to 75.7–74 Ma. The occurrence of P. maximus in well-drained terrestrial deposits of the Dinosaur Park and Two Medicine formations and marine sediments of the Bearpaw Formation indicates that this taxon inhabited various paleoenvironments in western North America.
Towards "Anytime, Anywhere" Community Learning and Engagement around the Design of Public Sector AI
Creators: name: Deng, Wesley Hanwen
name: Eslami, Motahhare
name: Holstein, Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data-driven algorithmic and AI systems are increasingly being deployed to automate or augment decision processes across a wide range of public service settings. Yet community members are often unaware of the presence, operation, and impacts of these systems on their lives. With the shift towards algorithmic decision-making in public services, technology developers increasingly assume the role of de-facto policymakers, and opportunities for democratic participation are foreclosed. In this position paper, we articulate an early vision around the design of ubiquitous infrastructure for public learning and engagement around civic AI technologies. Building on this vision, we provide a list of questions that we hope can prompt stimulating conversations among the HCI community.
Electronic supplementary material from Eggshell colour differences in a classic example of coevolved eggshell mimicry
Creators: name: Villa, Juliana
name: Wisocki, Phillip
name: Dela Cruz, Jacob E.
name: Hanley, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310499
subject: Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Description of the phenotypic space and additional analysis
A $(k + 3)/2$-approximation algorithm for monotone submodular maximization over a $k$-exchange system
Creators: name: Ward, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in a $k$-exchange system. These systems, introduced by Feldman et al., generalize the matroid k-parity problem in a wide class of matroids and capture many other combinatorial optimization problems. Feldman et al. show that a simple non-oblivious local search algorithm attains a $(k + 1)/2$ approximation ratio for the problem of linear maximization in a $k$-exchange system. Here, we extend this approach to the case of monotone submodular objective functions. We give a deterministic, non-oblivious local search algorithm that attains an approximation ratio of $(k + 3)/2$ for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in a $k$-exchange system.
Skriptorium und Chorgesang: Das Zisterzienser-Antiphonar aus St. Urban (ZHB Luzern P. 15. fol.)
Creators: name: Brandazza, Marco (Autor/in)
name: Kamber, Peter (Autor/in)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Zisterzienzischer Choral
St. Urban
Antiphonale
Liturgie
Stundengebet
Mittelalter

description: Kein Abstract vorhanden.
description: + ID der Publikation: hslu_50831 + Art des Beitrages: Wissenschaftliche Medien + Jahrgang: 25 + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2019-02-12 17:14:17