cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fighting as Colony? 1st Canadian Corps in Italy, 1943-1945
Creators: name: Leppard, Christine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History--Canadian
subject: Canadian
subject: Military
subject: Second World War

description: In the summer of 1943, Canadian Minister of National Defence J.L. Ralston and Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Ken Stuart pressured the reluctant British Chiefs of Staff to send 1st Canadian Corps to the Italian Campaign. This decision was not popular with all of Canada’s top brass. Army Commander General Andrew McNaughton argued that fighting in Italy was not in Canada’s best interest. He urged Ralston to visit Washington and insist on taking part in strategy sessions of the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Then the Canadians could decide their best course of action with an eye on strategy. Ralston replied that he could not do so. Canada was fighting as a junior partner in a coalition war, and had adopted a position of “contribution without representation.” This dissertation assesses the implications of the Canadian government’s disconnection from Allied strategy-making for 1st Canadian Corps in the Italian Campaign. It also examines whether Canada’s national interest— which, second to the defeat of Nazi Germany, was defined as waging a recognisable, independent war effort without imposing conscription—was advanced when fighting within the coalition of nations in Italy from 1943-1945, as manifested in the Anglo-Canadian relationship. It argues that the Canadians made decisions about 1st Canadian Corps and the Italian Campaign without ever having a clear picture of Anglo-American strategic objectives for the theatre, caused by serious problems of Allied communication for which both the British and Canadians were complicit. This led to tension and resentment in the Anglo-Canadian alliance, which had knock-on effects on the operational level. The Canadians eventually realised that their interests could only be protected by considering strategy, but it came too late for the situation to be meaningfully remedied.
Diffeomorphic Learning
Creators: name: Younes, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce in this paper a learning paradigm in which the training data is transformed by a diffeomorphic transformation before prediction. The learning algorithm minimizes a cost function evaluating the prediction error on the training set penalized by the distance between the diffeomorphism and the identity. The approach borrows ideas from shape analysis where diffeomorphisms are estimated for shape and image alignment, and brings them in a previously unexplored setting, estimating, in particular diffeomorphisms in much larger dimensions. After introducing the concept and describing a learning algorithm, we present diverse applications, mostly with synthetic examples, demonstrating the potential of the approach, as well as some insight on how it can be improved.
Parallelization of the multi-level hp-adaptive finite cell method
Creators: name: Jomo, John N.
name: Zander, Nils
name: Elhaddad, Mohamed
name: Özcan, Ali
name: Kollmannsberger, Stefan
name: Mundani, Ralf-Peter
name: Rank, Ernst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: D.1.3; G.1.8

description: The multi-level hp-refinement scheme is a powerful extension of the finite element method that allows local mesh adaptation without the trouble of constraining hanging nodes. This is achieved through hierarchical high-order overlay meshes, a hp-scheme based on spatial refinement by superposition. An efficient parallelization of this method using standard domain decomposition approaches in combination with ghost elements faces the challenge of a large basis function support resulting from the overlay structure and is in many cases not feasible. In this contribution, a parallelization strategy for the multi-level hp-scheme is presented that is adapted to the scheme's simple hierarchical structure. By distributing the computational domain among processes on the granularity of the active leaf elements and utilizing shared mesh data structures, good parallel performance is achieved, as redundant computations on ghost elements are avoided. We show the scheme's parallel scalability for problems with a few hundred elements per process. Furthermore, the scheme is used in conjunction with the finite cell method to perform numerical simulations on domains of complex shape.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures
The Resolved Structure and Dynamics of an Isolated Dwarf Galaxy: A VLT and Keck Spectroscopic Survey of WLM
Creators: name: Leaman, Ryan
name: Venn, Kim A.
name: Brooks, Alyson M.
name: Battaglia, Giuseppina
name: Cole, Andrew A.
name: Ibata, Rodrigo A.
name: Irwin, Mike J.
name: McConnachie, Alan W.
name: Mendel, J. Trevor
name: Tolstoy, Eline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic data for 180 red giant branch stars in the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy WLM. Observations of the Calcium II triplet lines in spectra of RGB stars covering the entire galaxy were obtained with FORS2 at the VLT and DEIMOS on Keck II allowing us to derive velocities, metallicities, and ages for the stars. With accompanying photometric and radio data we have measured the structural parameters of the stellar and gaseous populations over the full galaxy. The stellar populations show an intrinsically thick configuration with $0.39 \leq q_{0} \leq 0.57$. The stellar rotation in WLM is measured to be $17 \pm 1$ km s$^{-1}$, however the ratio of rotation to pressure support for the stars is $V/σ\sim 1$, in contrast to the gas whose ratio is seven times larger. This, along with the structural data and alignment of the kinematic and photometric axes, suggests we are viewing WLM as a highly inclined oblate spheroid. Stellar rotation curves, corrected for asymmetric drift, are used to compute a dynamical mass of $4.3\pm 0.3\times10^{8} $M$_{\odot}$ at the half light radius ($r_{h} = 1656 \pm 49$ pc). The stellar velocity dispersion increases with stellar age in a manner consistent with giant molecular cloud and substructure interactions producing the heating in WLM. Coupled with WLM's isolation, this suggests that the extended vertical structure of its stellar and gaseous components and increase in stellar velocity dispersion with age are due to internal feedback, rather than tidally driven evolution. These represent some of the first observational results from an isolated Local Group dwarf galaxy which can offer important constraints on how strongly internal feedback and secular processes modulate SF and dynamical evolution in low mass isolated objects.
description: 14 Pages, 17 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of Perceptions, beliefs, and needs of Japanese people with knee osteoarthritis during conservative care: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Uritani, Daisuke
name: Ikeda, Akane
name: Shironoki, Toru
name: Matsubata, Kentaro
name: Mutsura, Yuto
name: Fujii, Tadashi
name: Ikeda, Koji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Illustrative quotes by category. Illustrative quotes from interview data.
Early life inflammation and the basolateral amygdala.
Creators: name: Szubra, Alex
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Neuroscience

description: Compelling evidence now suggests that early life immune challenges during key developmental stages can have long lasting effects on brain excitability, neurochemistry, and behaviour. Perinatal and neonatal rat exposure to the inflammatory molecule, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), has demonstrable effects on memory formation and retrieval, anxiety, depression and fear responses. The amygdala complex has been identified as a likely locus for many of these functions and behaviours. I have thus hypothesized that neonatal exposure to LPS in rats will cause long-term alterations in the synaptic and membrane properties of amygdalar neurons. Neonatal (post natal day (P) 14) male and female Sprague Dawley rats were injected with LPS (100 µg/kg, ip) or saline and slices of the amygdalar complex were collected at various time points in adolescence and adulthood (P21-P60). Whole-cell voltage and current clamp recordings were obtained in basolateral amygdala neurons. Comparison of resting membrane potential, input resistance, and action potential characteristics in neonatal LPS- and saline-pretreated animals revealed that cells in LPS-treated rats are less excitable, with elevated firing thresholds. These alterations were not affected by age or sex of animals. I also stimulated afferent pathways to these cells and isolated glutamatergic synaptic currents. Compared to saline pretreated litter mates, LPS pretreated animals had increased glutamatergic paired pulse ratios, suggesting a depression in glutamatergic transmission. However, miniature excitatory post synaptic currents were similar in both groups. In contrast, GABAergic miniature inhibitory post synaptic currents occurred at higher frequencies. Thus neonatal LPS has long lasting effects upon some regenerative membrane properties and on synaptic transmission in the basolateral amygdala.
Traversable wormholes sustained by an extra spatial dimension
Creators: name: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explores the effect of an extra spatial dimension on a Morris-Thorne wormhole. After proposing a suitable model, it is shown that under certain conditions, the throat of the wormhole can be threaded with ordinary matter, while the unavoidable violation of the null energy condition can be attributed to the existence of the extra dimension.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Deep snow slab avalanches
Creators: name: Tracz, David
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Deep slab avalanche
subject: Snow avalanche forecasting

description: Deep slab avalanches are a unique and difficult-to-forecast natural hazard. This thesis analyzed a variety of data sources from southwestern Canada including two large databases and data collected at 27 recent deep slab avalanches. A statistical method based on non-exceedance probability of average slab thickness and weak layer age was developed to regionally define deep slab avalanches. Local weather preceding deep slab events was investigated to discriminate days with deep slab avalanches from those without. Snowpack characteristics and tests were analyzed to find similarities among deep slab avalanche events. Precipitation during days with deep slab avalanches was found to be significantly more than days without deep slab avalanches. The Propagation Saw Test (PST) and Deep Tap Test (DT) were found to be useful snowpack tests for identifying deep slab hazard. The failure layer of deep slab avalanches typically was softer, contained larger snow grains, and was less dense the either of its adjacent layers.
Robust and parallel scalable iterative solutions for large-scale finite cell analyses
Creators: name: Jomo, John N.
name: de Prenter, Frits
name: Elhaddad, Mohamed
name: D'Angella, Davide
name: Verhoosel, Clemens V.
name: Kollmannsberger, Stefan
name: Kirschke, Jan S.
name: Nübel, Vera
name: van Brummelen, Harald
name: Rank, Ernst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.8; G.1.10
subject: 65N85, 65N30

description: The finite cell method is a highly flexible discretization technique for numerical analysis on domains with complex geometries. By using a non-boundary conforming computational domain that can be easily meshed, automatized computations on a wide range of geometrical models can be performed. Application of the finite cell method, and other immersed methods, to large real-life and industrial problems is often limited due to the conditioning problems associated with these methods. These conditioning problems have caused researchers to resort to direct solution methods, which signifi- cantly limit the maximum size of solvable systems. Iterative solvers are better suited for large-scale computations than their direct counterparts due to their lower memory requirements and suitability for parallel computing. These benefits can, however, only be exploited when systems are properly conditioned. In this contribution we present an Additive-Schwarz type preconditioner that enables efficient and parallel scalable iterative solutions of large-scale multi-level hp-refined finite cell analyses.
description: 32 pages, 17 figures
Professió, tensió, empatia: "belarri pres"
Creators: name: Juárez, Fernando
Publisher: name: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació
Year: 2023

description: El 18 de novembre del 2022, organitzada per ALDEE, vam celebrar al Parlament Basc la Jornada “15 anys de la Llei de biblioteques d’Euskadi: pensar el futur”. La jornada va coincidir amb l’inici de l’Euskaraldia, una iniciativa per promoure l’ús del basc en què es convida a participar com a Ahobizi o Belarri prest. Ahobizi (boca activa) és el paper destinat als que dominen la llengua perquè es comprometin a utilitzar-la, Belarri prest (orella atenta) és per a aquells que l’entenen però no la parlen. Tots dos rols tenen més a veure amb la conducta que amb el coneixement: facilitar les condicions perquè es parli basc.
description: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació, 2023: Núm.:75
ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INTRODUCTION OF SPEECH UNITS FOR STUDENTS
Creators: name: Jamoliddinova, Mohinur
name: Axmadalieva, Dildora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The fact that social changes in society in recent years have been interpreted as one of the most important issues affecting the future development of our society, the issue of training mature personnel, which can meet the demand of the times, requires the implementation of significant changes in the educational process.
Network Topology Mapping from Partial Virtual Coordinates and Graph Geodesics
Creators: name: Jayasumana, Anura P.
name: Paffenroth, Randy
name: Mahindre, Gunjan
name: Ramasamy, Sridhar
name: Gajamannage, Kelum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2

description: For many important network types (e.g., sensor networks in complex harsh environments and social networks) physical coordinate systems (e.g., Cartesian), and physical distances (e.g., Euclidean), are either difficult to discern or inapplicable. Accordingly, coordinate systems and characterizations based on hop-distance measurements, such as Topology Preserving Maps (TPMs) and Virtual-Coordinate (VC) systems are attractive alternatives to Cartesian coordinates for many network algorithms. Herein, we present an approach to recover geometric and topological properties of a network with a small set of distance measurements. In particular, our approach is a combination of shortest path (often called geodesic) recovery concepts and low-rank matrix completion, generalized to the case of hop-distances in graphs. Results for sensor networks embedded in 2-D and 3-D spaces, as well as a social networks, indicates that the method can accurately capture the network connectivity with a small set of measurements. TPM generation can now also be based on various context appropriate measurements or VC systems, as long as they characterize different nodes by distances to small sets of random nodes (instead of a set of global anchors). The proposed method is a significant generalization that allows the topology to be extracted from a random set of graph shortest paths, making it applicable in contexts such as social networks where VC generation may not be possible.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1712.10063
High-Precision Measurement of the 19Ne Half-Life and Implications for Right-Handed Weak Currents
Creators: name: Triambak, S.
name: Finlay, P.
name: Sumithrarachchi, C. S.
name: Hackman, G.
name: Ball, G. C.
name: Garrett, P. E.
name: Svensson, C. E.
name: Cross, D. S.
name: Garnsworthy, A. B.
name: Kshetri, R.
name: Orce, J. N.
name: Pearson, M. R.
name: Tardiff, E. R.
name: Al-Falou, H.
name: Austin, R. A. E.
name: Churchman, R.
name: Djongolov, M. K.
name: D'Entremont, R.
name: Kierans, C.
name: Milovanovic, L.
name: O'Hagan, S.
name: Reeve, S.
name: Sjue, S. K. L.
name: Williams, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a precise determination of the 19Ne half-life to be $T_{1/2} = 17.262 \pm 0.007$ s. This result disagrees with the most recent precision measurements and is important for placing bounds on predicted right-handed interactions that are absent in the current Standard Model. We are able to identify and disentangle two competing systematic effects that influence the accuracy of such measurements. Our findings prompt a reassessment of results from previous high-precision lifetime measurements that used similar equipment and methods.
description: 5 pages and 5 figures. Paper accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
An integrated assessment of climate mitigation policy, air quality and traffic safety for passenger cars in the UK
Creators: name: Mazzi, Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Climate change mitigation policies applied to passenger cars can be effective in reducing tailpipe CO₂ rates by changing vehicle mass, fuels, and drive-train technology. However, these same factors can lead to changes in vehicle emissions, vehicle safety, and, consequently, changes in health outcomes from air pollution and traffic collisions. These relationships are examined using the UK as a case study where tax regimes based on tailpipe CO₂ emission rates have been in place since 2001. Policymakers are tasked to design CO₂ policies for passenger cars, but the effectiveness of new policies will depend on how well climate mitigation is balanced with other relevant risks. I examine the rationale and introduce the basic framework for an Integrated Assessment approach to quantitatively assess passenger car CO₂ policies. As industrialized countries transition to more heterogeneous fleets with increasing uptake of alternative fuels and technologies, the importance of decision criteria choices, risk metrics, system boundaries, and inclusion of all relevant risks using an Integrated Assessment framework will be increasingly critical. Since 2001, there has been a strong growth in diesel car registrations in the UK. For 2001-2020, I estimate that switching from gasoline to diesel cars reduces CO₂ emissions by 0.4 mega-tonnes annually. However, current diesel cars emit higher levels of PM10 and the switch from gasoline to diesel cars is estimated to result in 90 additional deaths annually (range 20-300) from 2001-2020. The UK has also had an increase in registrations of lighter vehicles. The relationship between tailpipe CO₂ emission rates, vehicle mass, and traffic safety risks were examined. The two-car “first law” fatality risk ratio for drivers of lighter cars relative to drivers of heavier cars was estimated to be the mass ratio raised to the power 5.3. Independent estimates of driver killed or serious injury risk in two-car collisions were found to be inversely related to vehicle CO₂ emission rates. Scenario analyses show that policies combining incentives for lighter cars with a 1,600 kg upper limit for new cars should simultaneously achieve traffic safety and climate mitigation goals more effectively than policies with no upper limit on mass.
Selected Poems of Sandro Penna
Creators: name: Giovannone, Aaron
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: poetry
subject: Translation
subject: Sandro Penna

description: This dissertation is a selection and translation of the poetry of Sandro Penna (1906 Perugia – 1977 Rome), an important figure in Italian twentieth-century literature who remains largely unknown to English-language readers. Penna’s poems are brief but complete, desirous but self-possessed, traditional but transgressive. In his lifetime, Penna was infamous but intensely private, well-known in Italian literary circles but a non-participant in most aspects of literary and social life. In 1970, Pier Paolo Pasolini named Penna “perhaps the greatest and happiest Italian poet alive,” while the same year Amelia Rosselli described Penna’s behaviour as “a social suicide”. While Penna has for decades been considered a marginal figure in twentieth-century poetry, Italian criticism has recently begun to re-evaluate his place in the expanding modern canon. English translation, however, has not kept up, a trend that this dissertation corrects. One of the major contributions of this translation is its improved rendering of the rhyme, metre and other formal qualities of Penna’s verse, neglected in previous book-length translations, none of which are currently in print. This dissertation also includes a discussion of Penna’s biography, a review of the critical issues in his work, a history of Penna’s translation into English, and a description of the translation process used in this dissertation.
Squeezing-enhanced quantum key distribution over atmospheric channels
Creators: name: Derkach, Ivan
name: Usenko, Vladyslav C.
name: Filip, Radim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the Gaussian continuous-variable quantum key distribution using squeezed states in the composite channels including atmospheric propagation with transmittance fluctuations. We show that adjustments of signal modulation and use of optimal feasible squeezing can be sufficient to significantly overcome the coherent-state protocol and drastically improve the performance of quantum key distribution in atmospheric channels, also in the presence of additional attenuating and noisy channels. Furthermore, we consider examples of atmospheric links of different lengths, and show that optimization of both squeezing and modulation is crucial for reduction of protocol downtime and increase of secure atmospheric channel distance. Our results demonstrate unexpected advantage of fragile squeezed states of light in the free-space quantum key distribution applicable in daylight and stable against atmospheric turbulence.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. IX. The Outer Arm in the First Quadrant
Creators: name: Sanna, A.
name: Reid, M. J.
name: Dame, T. M.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Brunthaler, A.
name: Moscadelli, L.
name: Zheng, X. W.
name: Xu, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a trigonometric parallax measurement with the Very Long Baseline Array for the water maser in the distant high-mass star-forming region G75.30+1.32. This source has a heliocentric distance of 9.25+-0.45 kpc, which places it in the Outer arm in the first Galactic quadrant. It lies 200 pc above the Galactic plane and is associated with a substantial HI enhancement at the border of a large molecular cloud. At a Galactocentric radius of 10.7 kpc, G75.30+1.32 is in a region of the Galaxy where the disk is significantly warped toward the North Galactic Pole. While the star-forming region has an instantaneous Galactic orbit that is nearly circular, it displays a significant motion of 18 km/s toward the Galactic plane. The present results, when combined with two previous maser studies in the Outer arm, yield a pitch angle of about 12 degrees for a large section of the arm extending from the first quadrant to the third.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 3 of Identification of anti-horn fly vaccine antigen candidates using a reverse vaccinology approach
Creators: name: Domingues, Luísa N.
name: Bendele, Kylie G.
name: Halos, Lénaïg
name: Moreno, Yovany
name: Epe, Christian
name: Figueiredo, Monica
name: Liebstein, Martin
name: Guerrero, Felix D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Primers used for RT-PCR and sequencing of adult Haematobia irritans.
Shellability of generalized Dowling posets
Creators: name: Paolini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A generalization of Dowling lattices was recently introduced by Bibby and Gadish, in a work on orbit configuration spaces. The authors left open the question as to whether these posets are shellable. In this paper we prove EL-shellability and use it to determine the homotopy type. Our result generalizes shellability of Dowling lattices and of posets of layers of abelian arrangements defined by root systems. We also show that subposets corresponding to invariant subarrangements are not shellable in general.
Sex Differences in the Use of Whinny Vocalizations in Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).
Creators: name: Dubreuil, Colin James
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anthropology--Physical
subject: Primatology
subject: Vocalization
subject: Communication
subject: sex differences
subject: Contact calls
subject: Fission fusion
subject: Food call
subject: Animal Communication
subject: Spider Monkey

description: Spider monkey social groups are characterized by male philopatry and high fission-fusion dynamics. Individuals form subgroups that temporally vary in size, composition, and spatial cohesion. Both sexes produce whinny vocalizations, which may allow close associates to maintain contact in dispersed subgroups. Females however do not form close bonds, therefore the use of their call remains unresolved. We investigate sex differences in the use of whinny vocalizations by the Yucatan spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve, central Belize. Females called at higher rates than males in most behavioral contexts, particularly while foraging. The likelihood of female calling increased during subgroup fissions and fusions, and was positively correlated with the number of animals joining or leaving a subgroup. Neither behavioral context, nor changes in subgroup composition affected the likelihood of calling by males. These different patterns indicate that the call may function differently for each sex.
Cosmology when living near the Great Attractor
Creators: name: Valkenburg, Wessel
name: Bjaelde, Ole Eggers
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If we live in the vicinity of the hypothesized Great Attractor, the age of the universe as inferred from the local expansion rate can be off by three per cent. We study the effect that living inside or near a massive overdensity has on cosmological parameters induced from observations of supernovae, the Hubble parameter and the Cosmic Microwave Background. We compare the results to those for an observer in a perfectly homogeneous LCDM universe. We find that for instance the inferred value for the global Hubble parameter changes by around three per cent if we happen to live inside a massive overdensity such as the hypothesized Great Attractor. Taking into account the effect of such structures on our perception of the universe makes cosmology perhaps less precise, but more accurate.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 7 of Identification of anti-horn fly vaccine antigen candidates using a reverse vaccinology approach
Creators: name: Domingues, Luísa N.
name: Bendele, Kylie G.
name: Halos, Lénaïg
name: Moreno, Yovany
name: Epe, Christian
name: Figueiredo, Monica
name: Liebstein, Martin
name: Guerrero, Felix D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S1. Nucleotide sequencing verification alignments for the six Haematobia irritans antigens successfully expressed in Pichia pastoris. Primers used for PCR and sequencing are shown for each transcript. Refer to Additional file 3: Table S1 for details about the primers. In the aligned sequences, the sequence of the vaccine candidate antigen is in the top row and underneath are the various sequences resulting from RT-PCR whereby we sought to verify the presence of the antigen's ORF-encoding transcript in various wild horn fly populations: Saint Gabriel (females), Rosepine, and Super Resistant.
Electroweak phase transition via Dilaton in Two-Time Physics
Creators: name: Phong, Vo Quoc
name: Nam, Dam Quang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Two-time model (2T model) has six dimensions with two dimensions of time, has a Dilaton particle that makes the symmetry breaking differently from the Standard Model. Assuming a soft break of $SP(2,R)$ symmetry, the 2T extension can give a suitable picture of the matter-antimatter asymmetry by the Baryogenesis scenario. By reducing the 2T metric to the Minkowski metric (1T metric) and using a new form of Dilaton potential, we consider the electroweak phase transition picture in the 2T model with the Dilaton as a trigger. Our analysis shows that Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) is a first-order phase transition at the $200$ GeV scale, its strength is about $1 - 3.08$ and the mass of Dilaton is in the interval $[345,625]$ GeV. Therefore, the 2T-model indirectly suggests that extra-dimension can also be a source of EWPT.
description: 2 figures
Equilibrium vortex formation in ultrarapidly rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Hsueh, C. -H.
name: Horng, T. -L.
name: Gou, S. -C.
name: Wu, W. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium vortex formation in rotating binary Bose gases with a rotating frequency higher than the harmonic trapping frequency is investigated theoretically. We consider the system being evaporatively cooled to form condensates and a combined numerical scheme is applied to ensure the binary system being in an authentic equilibrium state. To keep the system stable against the large centrifugal force of ultrafast rotation, a quartic trapping potential is added to the existing harmonic part. Using the Thomas-Fermi approximation, a critical rotating frequency Ω_c is derived, which characterizes the structure with or without a central density hole. Vortex structures are studied in detail with rotation frequency both above and below ?Ω_c and with respect to the miscible, symmetrically separated, and asymmetrically separated phases in their nonrotating ground-state counterparts.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Observation of quantum interference as a function of Berry's phase in a complex Hadamard optical network
Creators: name: Laing, Anthony
name: Lawson, Thomas
name: López, Enrique Martín
name: O'Brien, Jeremy L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emerging models of quantum computation driven by multi-photon quantum interference, while not universal, may offer an exponential advantage over classical computers for certain problems. Implementing these circuits via geometric phase gates could mitigate requirements for error correction to achieve fault tolerance while retaining their relative physical simplicity. We report an experiment in which a geometric phase is embedded in an optical network with no closed-loops, enabling quantum interference between two photons as a function of the phase.
description: Comments welcome
Modeling of Matrix-Fracture Interaction for Conventional Fractured Gas Reservoirs
Creators: name: Ranjbar, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Fractured Resrvoirs
subject: Matrix-Fracture Transfer Function
subject: Matrix Block Size Distribution
subject: Fracture Boundary Conditions
subject: Shape Factor

description: Modeling of matrix-fracture transfer function is important in the simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous media using a dual-porosity concept. This transfer function is directly related to the shape factor. One of the main focuses of this study is to find the shape factor for the single-phase flow of compressible fluids in fractured media using the solution of nonlinear gas diffusivity equation. The developed shape factor can be used as an input for modeling flow of compressible fluids in dual-porosity systems. For a compressible fluid, the consequence of a pressure boundary condition on the shape factor has not been investigated in the previous studies. Another major purpose of this study is, therefore, to investigate the effect of the fracture pressure on the shape factor for single-phase flow of a compressible fluid. Most of the developed models for fractured reservoirs assume ideal matrix block size distribution. This assumption may not be valid in reality for naturally fractured reservoirs and possibly lead to errors in prediction of production from the naturally fractured reservoirs especially during early time production from the matrix blocks. The effect of different matrix block size distributions on the single-phase matrix-fracture fluid transfer is studied using a semi-analytical approach. The proposed model is able to simulate fluid exchange between matrix and fracture for continuous or discrete block size distributions. In the last part of this study we present semi-analytical solutions for release of a single-phase liquid or gas from cylindrical (two dimensional flow) and spherical (three dimensional flow) matrix blocks with various block size distributions and different fracture boundary conditions. This solution can be simplified to model flow of slightly compressible fluids like water or oil in dual-porosity media. The approximate semi-analytical model for the matrix fracture transfer function presented in this study for different cases is verified using single-porosity, fine-grid, numerical simulations. This model can recover the shape factor of slightly compressible fluids reported in the literature. In the proposed semi-analytical model for all cases the pressure variability of viscosity and isothermal compressibility is considered by solving the nonlinear partial differential equation of compressible fluid flow in the fractured media.
BANK BIZNESNI RAQAMLASHTIRISH ORQALI VALYUTA OPERATSIYALARINI KENGAYTIRISH STRATEGIYALARI
Creators: name: Jumayeva, Shaxnoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur tezisda bank sektorida raqamli texnologiyalarni joriy etish orqali valyuta operatsiyalarini kengaytirish imkoniyatlari tahlil qilinadi. Raqamlashtirish bank xizmatlarining samaradorligini oshirish, mijozlar ehtiyojlariga tezkor javob qaytarish va xalqaro moliyaviy integratsiyani kuchaytirishda muhim vosita bo‘lib xizmat qilmoqda. Muallif bank biznesining raqamli transformatsiyasi orqali valyuta xizmatlarini avtomatlashtirish, mobil ilovalar va blokcheyn texnologiyalari asosida to‘lov tizimlarini takomillashtirish hamda FinTech hamkorliklar orqali innovatsion strategiyalarni ishlab chiqish yo‘llarini yoritib beradi. Shuningdek, O‘zbekistondagi mavjud amaliyot va istiqbolli yo‘nalishlar asosida aniq tavsiyalar ilgari surilgan.
Identifying Your Accompanist
Creators: name: Lowe, Will
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: A short exploration of the consequences of using digital companions to externalise self-quantification and monitoring.

Paper presented at the 'Artiﬁcial Companions in Society' meeting held at the Oxford Internet Institute,
University of Oxford, October 26th, 2007.
description: A shorter edited version appears as: Lowe, W. (2010) ‘Identifying your accompanist’
in Close Engagements with Artiﬁcial Companions, Y. Wilks (Ed). Benjamins. pp.95–99
Horn conditions for quiver subrepresentations and the moment map
Creators: name: Baldoni, Velleda
name: Vergne, Michèle
name: Walter, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give inductive conditions that characterize the Schubert positions of subrepresentations of a general quiver representation. Our results generalize Belkale's criterion for the intersection of Schubert varieties in Grassmannians and refine Schofield's characterization of the dimension vectors of general subrepresentations. This implies Horn type inequalities for the moment cone associated to the linear representation of the group $G=\prod_x \operatorname{GL}(n_x)$ associated to a quiver and a dimension vector $\mathbf n=(n_x)$.
description: 44 pages, contains detailed proofs of results previously announced in arXiv:1804.00431; v4: dedicated to Victor Guillemin, references added
2018 Update of the Discoveries of Nuclides
Creators: name: Thoennessen, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2018 update of the discovery of nuclide project is presented. 50 new nuclides were observed for the first time in 2018. A large number of isotopes is still only published in conference proceedings or internal reports.
description: Accepted for publication in IJMPE
Time-Dependent and Cracking Analysis of Prestressed Concrete Curved Bridges Constructed in Stages
Creators: name: Ford, Russell
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: curved bridges
subject: serviceability
subject: time-dependent
subject: Concrete
subject: cracking
subject: structural analysis

description: Concrete structures are ubiquitous. Serviceability analysis of structures has become critical. Engineers need simple tools that follow structural codes and facilitate manipulation of design parameters. Literature is available for structural response, including cracking and time-dependent effects, of segmentally constructed straight elements. This thesis takes that work and extends it to include biaxial bending and torsion. Using existing curved element formulation, a model is developed for uniaxial elements with varying cross section, prestressing, and external loading. Verification against existing problems in two and three dimensions is performed. Demonstration of the model’s capability is included, showing problems from the literature and a real world highway bridge in Calgary, Alberta. A parametric study to examine the effects of changing the prestressing to meet design code criteria for fatigue analysis is included. Real design code loading requirements are used, and the designer can see how the structure responds to changing parameters.
Major physical characteristics of Rochelle salt: the role of thermal strains
Creators: name: Moina, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the results for the related to the shear strain ε_4 physical characteristics of Rochelle salt obtained within the recently developed modified two-sublattice Mitsui model that takes into account the strain ε_4 and the diagonal components of the strain tensor ε_1, ε_2, ε_3 with the results of the previous modification of the Mitsui model with the strain ε_4 only. Within the framework of the model with the diagonal (thermal expansion) strains, we also reexamine the effects of the longitudinal electric field E_1 on the dielectric properties of Rochelle salt.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Does Unit-Tested Code Crash? A Case Study of Eclipse
Creators: name: Chioteli, Efstathia
name: Batas, Ioannis
name: Spinellis, Diomidis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.5; D.2.4

description: Context: Software development projects increasingly adopt unit testing as a way to identify and correct program faults early in the construction process. Code that is unit tested should therefore have fewer failures associated with it. Objective: Compare the number of field failures arising in unit tested code against those arising in code that has not been unit tested. Method: We retrieved 2,083,979 crash incident reports associated with the Eclipse integrated development environment project, and processed them to obtain a set of 126,026 unique program failure stack traces associated with a specific popular release. We then run the JaCoCo code test coverage analysis on the same release, obtaining results on the line, instruction, and branch-level coverage of 216,392 methods. We also extracted from the source code the classes that are linked to a corresponding test class so as to limit test code coverage results to 1,267 classes with actual tests. Finally, we correlated unit tests with failures at the level of 9,523 failing tested methods. Results: Unit-tested code does not appear to be associated with fewer failures. Conclusion: Unit testing on its own may not be a sufficient method for preventing program failures.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, 17 references
IMOTHEP_1st TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP_11112020_EXACT-project
Creators: name: Hartmann, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IMOTHEP
IMOTHEPWS#1
green aviation
H2020 Transport
INEA
climate change
HEP

description: Presentation of EXACT project at the IMOTHEP 1st TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP carried out online on Nov, 11th, 2020.
Magnetic hopfions in solids
Creators: name: Rybakov, F. N.
name: Kiselev, N. S.
name: Borisov, A. B.
name: Döring, L.
name: Melcher, C.
name: Blügel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hopfions are an intriguing class of string-like solitons, named according to a classical topological concept classifying three-dimensional direction fields. The search of hopfions in real physical systems is going on for nearly half a century, starting with the seminal work of Faddeev. But so far realizations in solids are missing. Here, we present a theory that identifies magnetic materials featuring hopfions as stable states without the assistance of confinement or external fields. Our results are based on an advanced micromagnetic energy functional derived from a spin-lattice Hamiltonian. Hopfions appear as emergent particles of the classical Heisenberg model. Magnetic hopfions represent three-dimensional particle-like objects of nanometre-size dimensions opening the gate to a new generation of spintronic devices in the framework of a truly three-dimensional architecture. Our approach goes beyond the conventional phenomenological models. We derive material-realistic parameters that serve as concrete guidance in the search of magnetic hopfions bridging computational physics with materials science.
Design of metadata schemas for ion chromatography in applied plasma sciences
Creators: name: Wagner, Robert
name: Chaerony Siffa, Ihda
name: Becker, Markus M.
name: Waltemath, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This work focuses on the design of two standardized metadata schemas for ion chromatography. These schemas built upon the JSON standard. Their design is based on the ASTM E 1151 norm for terms and relationships in ion chromatography and user-feedback resulting from a coupled data stewardship in applied plasma science. Both schemas contain relevant metadata for the description of the instrument setup, data processing method, sample parameters and quality assurance parameters.  The metadata schemas were designed and tested in a laboratory workflow using the research data management tool Adamant [I. Chaerony Siffa et al., https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.110875.2]. The presented use-case demonstrates the paradigms of modern research data management for research in the laboratory. The collected metadata can be sent directly from Adamant to the institute's instance of the electronic lab notebook eLabFTW [CARPi et al., https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00146] to enable a smoother transition from the traditional handwritten laboratory notebooks to a digital solution, which increases both the interoperability and accessibility of the collected metadata. 
The work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – [NFDI46/1] - 501864659.
On the Feasibility of Transfer-learning Code Smells using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Sharma, Tushar
name: Efstathiou, Vasiliki
name: Louridas, Panos
name: Spinellis, Diomidis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: A substantial amount of work has been done to detect smells in source code using metrics-based and heuristics-based methods. Machine learning methods have been recently applied to detect source code smells; however, the current practices are considered far from mature. Objective: First, explore the feasibility of applying deep learning models to detect smells without extensive feature engineering, just by feeding the source code in tokenized form. Second, investigate the possibility of applying transfer-learning in the context of deep learning models for smell detection. Method: We use existing metric-based state-of-the-art methods for detecting three implementation smells and one design smell in C# code. Using these results as the annotated gold standard, we train smell detection models on three different deep learning architectures. These architectures use Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) of one or two dimensions, or Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as their principal hidden layers. For the first objective of our study, we perform training and evaluation on C# samples, whereas for the second objective, we train the models from C# code and evaluate the models over Java code samples. We perform the experiments with various combinations of hyper-parameters for each model. Results: We find it feasible to detect smells using deep learning methods. Our comparative experiments find that there is no clearly superior method between CNN-1D and CNN-2D. We also observe that performance of the deep learning models is smell-specific. Our transfer-learning experiments show that transfer-learning is definitely feasible for implementation smells with performance comparable to that of direct-learning. This work opens up a new paradigm to detect code smells by transfer-learning especially for the programming languages where the comprehensive code smell detection tools are not available.