cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scattering strings off quantum extremal surfaces
Creators: name: Chandrasekaran, Venkatesa
name: Faulkner, Thomas
name: Levine, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Hayden \& Preskill like setup for both maximally chaotic and sub-maximally chaotic quantum field theories. We act on the vacuum with an operator in a Rindler like wedge $R$ and transfer a small subregion $I$ of $R$ to the other wedge. The chaotic scrambling dynamics of the QFT Rindler time evolution reveals the information in the other wedge. The holographic dual of this process involves a particle excitation falling into the bulk and crossing into the entanglement wedge of the complement to $r=R \backslash I$. With the goal of studying the locality of the emergent holographic theory we compute various quantum information measures on the boundary that tell us when the particle has entered this entanglement wedge. In a maximally chaotic theory, these measures indicate a sharp transition where the particle enters the wedge exactly when the insertion is null separated from the quantum extremal surface for $r$. For sub-maximally chaotic theories, we find a smoothed crossover at a delayed time given in terms of the smaller Lyapunov exponent and dependent on the time-smearing scale of the probe excitation. The information quantities that we consider include the full vacuum modular energy $R \backslash I$ as well as the fidelity between the state with the particle and the state without. Along the way, we find a new explicit formula for the modular Hamiltonian of two intervals in an arbitrary 1+1 dimensional CFT to leading order in the small cross ratio limit. We also give an explicit calculation of the Regge limit of the modular flowed chaos correlator and find examples which do not saturate the modular chaos bound. Finally, we discuss the extent to which our results reveal properties of the target of the probe excitation as a "stringy quantum extremal surface" or simply quantify the probe itself thus giving a new approach to studying the notion of longitudinal string spreading.
description: 63 pages, 7 figures, Added references
Test on LUCIFER calibrator science frames
Creators: name: FUMANA, Marco
name: GARILLI, Bianca Maria Rosa
name: SCODEGGIO, MARCO
Publisher: name: IASF Milano
Year: 2023

description: In order to find the best way to combine together telluric spectra and compute a sensitivity function, we observed different scientific frames of telluric stars. During this exploration we detected strange changes in spectra obtained from consecutive frame, this variability prevents us to compute a suitable sensitivity function, so we need to investigate better these frames.
Eve's True Desire: Interpreting the Female Experience Within Kabbalah
Creators: name: Teichman, Eden
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Despite the study of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah, being a tradition entirely created by male Rabbis, many recent Jewish feminists have become interested in Kabbalah, as the tradition emphasizes divine femininity. However, while Kabbalists focused on the spiritual qualities of the divine feminine, known as the Shekinah, they were never as concerned with the spiritual qualities of human femininity, found within their wives. Unlike how past feminist scholars interpreted Kabbalah as a tradition in which the human female experience is left out of Kabbalah, this thesis uses feminist theory to interpret how the female spiritual experience could potentially exist within Kabbalah. Using various Kabbalistic texts, this paper first argues that according to theosophical-theurgical Kabbalists, women are given spiritual qualities during sexual intercourse. Then, through analyzing Genesis and the Iggeret HaKodesh, a 13th century Spanish text, according to the Nachmanidean school, this paper argues that in Genesis 3:16, in which Eve is punished with the sexual desire for her husband, Eve desires the spiritual qualities she will be given during proper sexual intercourse.
title: Study of bone mineral density and fracture risk in adults with type I diabetes
title: Etude de la densité minérale osseuse et du risque de fracture chez les adultes diabétiques de type I.
Creators: name: Raoudha Tekaya
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2016
Subjects: Diabète type 1; Densité minérale osseuse; Ostéoporose; Fracture

description: Introduction : The impact of type I diabetes on bone mass and fracture risk remains a matter of debate. The aim of this study is to study bone mineral density and fracture risk in adults with type 1 diabetes.
Methods : This is a case control study including 40 type 1 diabetes patients and 40 controls matched by age and sex. Persons who had secondary osteoporosis were excluded. Bone mineral density was measured at the lumbar spine and hip using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry.
Results : Bone mineral density was lower in type 1 diabetes patients in comparison with controls with significant difference (respectively p < 0,001 and p=0,001 in lumbar spine and hip site). The diabetic patients who have a low bone mineral density had lower bone mineral density (p = 0.018) than the diabetic patients who have a normal bone mineral density. Poor glycemic control was associated with lower bone mineral density (p= 0.012). Nontromatic fracture rates were higher in diabetic patients than in controls but with significant differences (p < 0,001). The family history femoral neck fracture, the osteoporosis, smoking and neuropathy were correlated with fractures.
Conclusion : Bone loss and fractures are more frequent in patients with type I diabetes.
description: Introduction : L’impact du diabète de type 1 sur la masse osseuse et le risque de fracture reste un sujet de débat. Le but de ce travail est d’étudier la densité minérale osseuse et le risque de fracture au cours du diabète de type 1.
Méthodes : Étude transversale cas-témoins incluant 40 patients diabétiques de type I et 40 témoins appariés selon l’âge et le sexe. Ont été exclus les sujets présentant une pathologie ou consommant un traitement pouvant être à l’origine d’une ostéoporose. La mesure de la densité minérale osseuse a été réalisée par la méthode DEXA au rachis lombaire et au col fémoral.
Résultats : La densité minérale osseuse était diminuée de façon significative au rachis (p< 0,001) et au fémur (p = 0,001) chez les diabétiques de type 1 par rapport aux non diabétiques. La perte de masse osseuse chez les diabétiques était corrélée à un indice de masse corporelle plus bas (p = 0.018) ainsi qu’au déséquilibre du diabète (p= 0.012). Les fractures non traumatiques étaient plus fréquentes chez les diabétiques par rapport aux témoins (p < 0,001). Les facteurs de risque de fractures étaient les antécédents familiaux de fracture du col du fémur, l’existence d’une ostéoporose à la densitométrie, le tabagisme et l’existence d’une néphropathie.
Conclusion : La perte osseuse ainsi que les fractures non traumatiques sont fréquentes au cours du diabète type I.
Problem with MODS data in the blue channel
Creators: name: FUMANA, Marco
name: GARILLI, Bianca Maria Rosa
name: SCODEGGIO, MARCO
Publisher: name: IASF Milano
Year: 2023

description: During the 2013 June Italian run, a MODS blue proposal (MOS) has been observed (ID 31) and reduced. The PI is interested in measuring absorption features of high redshift objects. These feature are expected to be observed in the bluest region of the spectra.
EVALUATING ABORTION CARE QUALITY IN A CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT HEALTH CENTER
Creators: name: Kathleen Besas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: abortion
colleges
student health centers
reproductive health services
abortion quality metrics
abortion quality indicators

description: Introduction: An unintended pregnancy is a pregnancy that was unwanted at the time of conception. In the United States (U.S.), there are 2.8 billion unintended pregnancies that occur annually and about half (40%) will result in an abortion. Medication abortion (MAB) is the most common type of in-person abortion that is 93-98% effective up to 77 days’ gestation. With the passage of Senate Bill [SB] 24, also known as The College Student Right to Access Act (2023), California (CA) is the first state to ever require college student health centers (SHCs) to provide MAB services on campus. Problem Statement: Since MAB is a brand-new service to college SHCs in CA, there is very limited information that exists to assess the degree by which it improves patient and practice outcomes related to abortion care. Purpose Statement: The purpose of this project was to conduct a program evaluation of the MAB services provided at a college SHC in Los Angeles County, CA. Theoretical Framework: The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model was used as a framework. Methods: The project conducted a retrospective analysis of MAB patients’ electronic health records at the SHC from January through December 2023. Outcome, process, and balancing measures were tracked. A patient satisfaction survey was also administered to assess the quality of MAB services and counseling received. Results: All of the MABs provided at the SHC were successful. There were no hospitalized adverse events or complications reported. Majority of the patients did not want to adopt a form of contraception after their MAB. There were no unnecessary clinic wait times. A good proportion of international students frequented the SHC for MAB services and accounted for unscheduled visits in between MAB appointments. Discussion: The project underscores the importance of evaluating a brand-new legislation and its profound impact on local college campuses in CA. SB 24 has significantly reduced the financial burden of pregnant college women who wanted an abortion. Contraceptive decision making, a comprehensive pain management regimen, and cultural considerations need to be addressed in the MAB patient education. Recommendations: Future recommendations include incorporating evidence-based strategies that support MAB patient education and contraceptive decision-making. Culturally-tailored interventions also need to be incorporated to reach the international student population that interact with the SHC for MAB services. Finally, a comprehensive pain management education is needed to adequately address the physical, emotional and psychological impact of going through an abortion process.
title: Garantierte und tatsächliche Freiheit
title: Verwirklichung sozialer Grundrechtsvoraussetzungen als verfassungstheoretischer Maßstab
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dahlhaus, Dominik
Publisher: name: rescriptum - Akademischer Verein für rechtswissenschaftliche Publikation
Year: 2018

description: Freiheitsrechte bleiben wirkungslos, wenn dem Einzelnen die ökonomisch-sozialen Voraussetzungen zu ihrer Wahrnehmung fehlen. Das Grundgesetz thematisiert diese sog. sozialen Grundrechtsvoraussetzungen unmittelbar in der Sozialstaatsklausel. Das verfassungstheoretische Konzept leistet jedoch mehr, als die hinter dieser positivrechtlichen Thematisierung stehenden Überlegungen sichtbar zu machen: Als Reflexionsrahmen und Beurteilungsmaßstab erlaubt es die Kritik der Anstrengungen zur Intervention in soziale Verhältnisse durch Rechtsrahmen, leistungsstaatliche Institutionen und Infrastrukturen. Um das Potential dieser Art der Verfassungskritik zu skizzieren, ordnet der Beitrag zunächst den Auftrag zur Verwirklichung sozialer Grundrechtsvoraussetzungen verfassungsdogmatisch ein und misst die Formen der Intervention in soziale Verhältnisse – jedenfalls grosso modo – an ihrem Beitrag zur Verwirklichung der effektiven Wahrnehmungsmöglichkeit verfassungsrechtlich garantierter Freiheitsrechte. Der Maßstab zeigt sich dabei als geeignet, effektive von ineffektiven und den Freiheitsgebrauch anregende von passivierenden Interventionsformen zu unterscheiden. Auch erlaubt er die Begründung der Wohlstandsvorsorge als eine weitere wesentliche Ausprägung des Sozialstaatsprinzips und effektive Form der Intervention in soziale Verhältnisse.
Supplementary Material from The mechanism of delayed release in earthquake-induced avalanches.
Creators: name: Puzrin, Alexander M.
name: Faug, Thierry
name: Einav, Itai
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mechanics
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: a. Slope angles of release zones in Italian and Indian (Western Himalaya) cases. b. Avalanche time band shown in Fig. 1B
EVALUATING ABORTION CARE QUALITY IN A CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT HEALTH CENTER
Creators: name: Besas, Kathleen
name: Fraley, Hannah
name: Sarff, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: abortion
colleges
student health centers
reproductive health services
abortion quality metrics
abortion quality indicators

description: Abstract

Introduction: An unintended pregnancy is a pregnancy that was unwanted at the time of conception. In the United States (U.S.), there are 2.8 billion unintended pregnancies that occur annually and about half (40%) will result in an abortion. Medication abortion (MAB) is the most common type of in-person abortion that is 93-98% effective up to 77 days’ gestation. With the passage of Senate Bill [SB] 24, also known as The College Student Right to Access Act (2023), California (CA) is the first state to ever require college student health centers (SHCs) to provide MAB services on campus. Problem Statement: Since MAB is a brand-new service to college SHCs in CA, there is very limited information that exists to assess the degree by which it improves patient and practice outcomes related to abortion care. Purpose Statement: The purpose of this project was to conduct a program evaluation of the MAB services provided at a college SHC in Los Angeles County, CA. Theoretical Framework: The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model was used as a framework. Methods: The project conducted a retrospective analysis of MAB patients’ electronic health records at the SHC from January through December 2023. Outcome, process, and balancing measures were tracked. A patient satisfaction survey was also administered to assess the quality of MAB services and counseling received. Results: All of the MABs provided at the SHC were successful. There were no hospitalized adverse events or complications reported. Majority of the patients did not want to adopt a form of contraception after their MAB. There were no unnecessary clinic wait times. A good proportion of international students frequented the SHC for MAB services and accounted for unscheduled visits in between MAB appointments. Discussion: The project underscores the importance of evaluating a brand-new legislation and its profound impact on local college campuses in CA. SB 24 has significantly reduced the financial burden of pregnant college women who wanted an abortion. Contraceptive decision making, a comprehensive pain management regimen, and cultural considerations need to be addressed in the MAB patient education. Recommendations: Future recommendations include incorporating evidence-based strategies that support MAB patient education and contraceptive decision-making. Culturally-tailored interventions also need to be incorporated to reach the international student population that interact with the SHC for MAB services. Finally, a comprehensive pain management education is needed to adequately address the physical, emotional and psychological impact of going through an abortion process.
Fire protective dry plaster composition for structures in hydrocarbon fire
Creators: name: Gravit, Marina
name: Golub, Elena
name: Antonov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого
Year: 2018
Subjects: oil and gas facilities
steel structures
fire resistance limit
passive fire protection
fire protection means
hydrocarbon fire
сооружения нефтегазового комплекса
стальные конструкции
предел огнестойкости
пассивная огнезащита
средства огнезащиты
углеводородный пожар

description: The result of the combustion of fire hazardous materials at the facilities of the oil and gas complex is extensive fires, characterizing the rapid temperature rise, and as a result the destruction of load-bearing structures occurs. The dynamics of the development of such fire type requires a different approach to test the structures in order to determine the limit of fire resistance. The article presents European and American normative documents that contain methods for testing structures taking into account the requirements for the hydrocarbon temperature regime of a fire. I-steel cross-sections with flame retardant coating "Fendolite MII" are tested, and the fire resistance of these structures is defined. Conclusions on the need to conduct numerous fire tests with different types of fire protection under a hydrocarbon fire regime in Russia were made in order to obtain the necessary experimental database sufficient to create a unified methodology for calculating and introducing it into national standards.
Planetary uav geo-radar study
Creators: name: CICCHETTI, ANDREA
name: NOSCHESE, RAFFAELLA
name: CARTACCI, MARCO
name: OROSEI, Roberto
name: NENNA, CARLO
Publisher: name: IAPS Roma
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this project is to consolidate the Italian scientific competence about the geophysical features and composition of planetary surfaces and sub-surfaces in the solar system bodies and Earth itself, with particular interest in the exploration and characterization of the buried ice deposits, where bacterial primitive live could still exist.
(1097) John Bailey Akeroyd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Stochasticity of infectious outbreaks and consequences for optimal interventions
Creators: name: Morán-Tovar, Roberto
name: Gruell, Henning
name: Klein, Florian
name: Lässig, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global strategies to contain a pandemic, such as social distancing and protective measures, are designed to reduce the overall transmission rate between individuals. Despite such measures, essential institutions, including hospitals, schools, and food producing plants, remain focal points of local outbreaks. Here we develop a model for the stochastic outbreak dynamics in such local communities. We derive analytical expressions for the probability of containment of the outbreak, which is complementary to the probability of seeding a deterministically growing epidemic. This probability depends on the statistics of the intra-community contact network and the initial conditions, in particular, on the contact degree of patient zero. Based on this model, we suggest surveillance protocols by which individuals are tested proportionally to their degree in the contact network. We characterize the efficacy of contact-based protocols as a function of the epidemiological and the contact network parameters, and show numerically that such protocols outperform random testing.
Qualitative Assessment of Desired Features of an mHealth Decision Support Tool to Aid T1D Management Surrounding Exercise
Creators: name: Wang, Jessica Jiadai
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Background: A primary barrier to weight management for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D)  is the challenge of integrating exercise with the day-to-day management of T1D.1 Exercise poses a particular challenge because it raises the risk of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.2 Despite rapid advances in the field of diabetes technology and devices, existing blood glucose management systems are unable to account for and adjust insulin dosing based on the effects of future events, such as exercise sessions. Hedra is an mHealth tool using V-learning algorithms designed to provide individualized decision support to help people with T1D avoid hypo- and hyperglycemia around exercise. 
Methods: The purpose of this study is to help develop Hedra and similar mHealth T1D tools by conducting a qualitative analysis of data generated from two focus groups made up of people with T1D who are familiar with continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pump, and smartphone use, representing Hedra’s target user population.
Results: Three primary themes for Hedra and similar mHealth tools were identified: customization of strategy recommendations, blood glucose trend analysis, and input and integration of health data.
Conclusion: By providing decision support and easy access to historical data, Hedra has the potential to be both educational and empowering while bringing users greater confidence and peace of mind while exercising. To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the development of an mHealth decision support tool that provides real-time, individualized strategy recommendations to help people with T1D exercise safely and effectively. Insights into the desires and concerns of people with T1D are crucial to developing the design and functionality of Hedra and similar mHealth tools for decision-support regarding diet and exercise management in the T1D population.
Homeopathy, Gender and Agency in German Romanticism: The Case of Bettina von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Creators: name: Staresinic, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Homeopathy, one of the most well-known forms of alternative medicine, first rose to popularity during the German Romantic period of the early nineteenth century and was championed by two of the most famous women writers of the time, Bettina von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. This thesis aims to demonstrate how homeopathy not only allowed these writers to negotiate greater agency but also influenced their presentation of the conditions for female agency in their writing. I strive to accomplish this through by first exploring these writers’ letters to understand their relationship with homeopathy then applying their described experiences to analyzing themes of nature, the power of writing, and female agency to von Arnim’s novel Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns and von Droste-Hülshoff’s prose fragment Ledwina.
(1098) William Akeroyd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Un questionario strutturato per gestire le richieste ricevute dall’Ufficio Stampa dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Creators: name: MIGNONE, CLAUDIA
name: ALOISIO, Francesca Maria
name: FERRONI, Eleonora
name: GALLIANI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Direzione Generale
Year: 2023

description: A partire dal 2021, per ottimizzare il flusso di informazioni in entrata relativo alle richieste di comunicati stampa l’Ufficio stampa dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica si è dotato di una nuova procedura: un questionario standard, amministrato mediante la piattaforma Google Formulari. Attraverso questo formulario, ricercatori e ricercatrici possono segnalare all’Ufficio stampa nuovi risultati scientifici, progetti tecnologici, eventi e altre attività di possibile interesse per i media e il grande pubblico: le domande del questionario, simile a quelli in uso presso istituzioni internazionali come ESA ed ESO, sono strutturate per valutare la rilevanza e notiziabilità della richiesta in oggetto – elementi essenziali per decidere se procedere o meno con un comunicato – offrendo all’Ufficio stampa uno strumento di facile e rapido uso per gestire queste richieste in maniera uniforme. Il questionario, in uso a pieno regime dal 2022, è stato utilizzato ad oggi per oltre 50 richieste di comunicati stampa.
Weak lensing induced by second-order vector mode
Creators: name: Saga, Shohei
name: Yamauchi, Daisuke
name: Ichiki, Kiyotomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vector mode of cosmological perturbation theory imprints characteristic signals on the weak lensing signals such as curl- and B-modes which are never imprinted by the scalar mode. However, the vector mode is neglected in the standard first-order cosmological perturbation theory since it only has a decaying mode. This situation changes if the cosmological perturbation theory is expanded up to second order. The second-order vector and tensor modes are inevitably induced by the product of the first-order scalar modes. We study the effect of the second-order vector mode on the weak lensing curl- and B-modes. We find that the curl-mode induced by the second-order vector mode is comparable to that induced by the primordial gravitational waves with the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r = 0.1$ at $\ell \approx 200$. In this case, the curl-mode induced by the second-order vector mode dominates at $\ell > 200$. Furthermore, the B-mode cosmic shear induced by the second-order vector mode dominates on almost all scales. However, we find that the observational signatures of the second-order vector and tensor modes cannot exceed the expected noise of ongoing and upcoming weak lensing measurements. We conclude that the curl- and B-modes induced by the second-order vector and tensor modes are unlikely to be detected in future experiments.
description: 18 pages, 5figures, published version in PRD
Supplementary Material from The mechanism of delayed release in earthquake-induced avalanches
Creators: name: Puzrin, Alexander M.
name: Faug, Thierry
name: Einav, Itai
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mechanics
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: a. Slope angles of release zones in Italian and Indian (Western Himalaya) cases. b. Avalanche time band shown in Fig. 1B
(1099) Emma Lavinia Bailey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Facilitating the High Throughput Measurement of Mucus-Mucus Adhesion Forces
Creators: name: Wollensak, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The study of mucoadhesion has emerged as a critical field for understanding the mechanism behind mucus rheology and the mucociliary interaction, functional lung physiology, and treatment options for patients living with cystic fibrosis. Given the diverse composition of mucus, analyzing forces that mediate its self-adhesive properties is a difficult and demanding process, necessitating improvements in approach to experimental design. This investigation explores magnetic bead pull-off experiments and scaling up mucus-mucus adhesion measurements into a high throughput assay. First, code centered around single-sample data collection was reconfigured to accommodate the scale-up of measurement conditions. Next, establishment of reproducible homogenous slide functionalization was done with PEGylation and lectin-coating trials. This work formed the basis for measuring baseline non-specific adhesion and a positive control for confirmed adhesion. Results for these approaches demonstrated reproducible integrity in the designed protocol for assay scale-up and laid the groundwork for implementing the new assay in mucoadhesion research.
Universal thermodynamics of an SU($N$) Fermi-Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Ibarra-García-Padilla, Eduardo
name: Dasgupta, Sohail
name: Wei, Hao-Tian
name: Taie, Shintaro
name: Takahashi, Yoshiro
name: Scalettar, Richard T.
name: Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SU(2) symmetric Fermi-Hubbard model (FHM) plays an essential role in strongly correlated fermionic many-body systems. In the one particle per site and strongly interacting limit ${U/t \gg 1}$, it is effectively described by the Heisenberg Hamiltonian. In this limit, enlarging the spin and extending the typical SU(2) symmetry to SU($N$) has been predicted to give exotic phases of matter in the ground state, with a complicated dependence on $N$. This raises the question of what -- if any -- are the finite-temperature signatures of these phases, especially in the currently experimentally relevant regime near or above the superexchange energy. We explore this question for thermodynamic observables by numerically calculating the thermodynamics of the SU($N$) FHM in the two-dimensional square lattice near densities of one particle per site, using determinant Quantum Monte Carlo and Numerical Linked Cluster Expansion. Interestingly, we find that for temperatures above the superexchange energy, where the correlation length is short, the energy, number of on-site pairs, and kinetic energy are universal functions of $N$. Although the physics in the regime studied is well beyond what can be captured by low-order high-temperature series, we show that an analytic description of the scaling is possible in terms of only one- and two-site calculations.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures
LRS: Acquisition system (setting and test)
Creators: name: COSENTINO, Rosario
Publisher: name: O.A. Catania
Year: 2023

description: This document is intended to describe the migration between one CCD acquisition system to another. The original system works from the year 2000 and is well integrated in the TNG Instrument control system, the new will be based on the ARC controller and a new acquisition software system. At the beginning of this document, we will compare the different methods used by the two CCD controller to manage the scan and reading. We will describe the existing CCD waveforms, written with the waveform editor (skytech controller), the waveforms programmed with the assembler code (ARC controller) and the theoretical waveforms provided by e2v. Following we will illustrate the electronic tests on the clock sequences and the test on the CCD detector.
Hojman Symmetry in $f(T)$ Theory
Creators: name: Wei, Hao
name: Zhou, Ya-Nan
name: Li, Hong-Yu
name: Zou, Xiao-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Today, $f(T)$ theory has been one of the popular modified gravity theories to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe without invoking dark energy. In this work, we consider the so-called Hojman symmetry in $f(T)$ theory. Unlike Noether conservation theorem, the symmetry vectors and the corresponding conserved quantities in Hojman conservation theorem can be obtained by using directly the equations of motion, rather than Lagrangian or Hamiltonian. We find that Hojman symmetry can exist in $f(T)$ theory, and the corresponding exact cosmological solutions are obtained. We find that the functional form of $f(T)$ is restricted to be the power-law or hypergeometric type, while the universe experiences a power-law or hyperbolic expansion. These results are different from the ones obtained by using Noether symmetry in $f(T)$ theory. Therefore, it is reasonable to find exact cosmological solutions via Hojman symmetry.
description: 10 pages, revtex4; v2: discussions added, Astrophys. Space Sci. in press; v3: published version
DEVELOPMENT OF A RHODIUM CATALYZED COUPLING OF SILYL GLYOXYLATES AND ARYLBORONIC ACIDS
Creators: name: Weber, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Silyl glyoxylates, which can be viewed as a derivative of an -hydroxy acid known as glyoxylic acid, have been explored as linchpin reagents for nucleophile and electrophile coupling in recent years. Based on prior works justifying the use of rhodium-(I) as a catalyst for performing 1,2-additions to carbonyls and imines, a novel rhodium catalyzed coupling reaction was proposed. Using a silyl glyoxylate as a linchpin reagent, new stereocomplex glycolates were synthesized from a variety of arylboronic acids and benzaldehyde. In order to further evaluate the efficacy of the reaction, medicinally relevant amine species were considered. Syntheses of (4-(1-methoxy-1,3-dioxo-3-(piperidin-2-yl) propan-2-yl) phenyl) boronic acid and (4-(2-((tert-butoxycarbonyl) amino) ethyl) phenyl) boronic acid were undertaken with the ultimate goal of utilizing them in the three-component reaction. Finally, a related two component coupling reaction was developed, utilizing a proton as an electrophile source rather than an aldehyde.
(1095) Sophia Oliver
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Non-local interactions in moiré Hubbard systems
Creators: name: Morales-Durán, Nicolás
name: Hu, Nai Chao
name: Potasz, Pawel
name: MacDonald, Allan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moiré materials formed in two-dimensional semiconductor heterobilayers are quantum simulators of Hubbard-like physics with unprecedented electron-density and interaction-strength tunability. Compared to atomic scale Hubbard-like systems, electrons or holes in moiré materials are less strongly attracted to their effective lattice sites because these are defined by finite-depth potential extrema. As a consequence, non-local interaction terms like interaction-assisted hopping and intersite-exchange are more relevant. We theoretically demonstrate the possibility of tuning the strength of these coupling constants to favor unusual states of matter, including spin liquids, insulating ferromagnets, and superconductors.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: Improving Access to Contraception
Creators: name: Gill, Jennifer
name: Taylor, David
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: R Medicine
subject: RA Public aspects of medicine
subject: RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine

description: A policy review on women’s access to contraception with special reference to the provision of LARCs in the English NHS setting. Issues explored include expanding the role of community pharmacy.
Real-Space Renormalization Group for Spectral Properties of Hierarchical Networks
Creators: name: Boettcher, Stefan
name: Li, Shanshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the determinant of the Laplacian for the Hanoi networks and use it to determine their number of spanning trees (or graph complexity) asymptotically. While spanning trees generally proliferate with increasing average degree, the results show that modifications within the basic patterns of design of these hierarchical networks can lead to significant variations in their complexity. To this end, we develop renormalization group methods to obtain recursion equations from which many spectral properties can be obtained. This provides the basis for future applications to explore the physics of several dynamic processes.
description: 14 pages, RevTex, 2 pdf figures. Numerous corrections and improvements. For related work, see http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/boettcher/
Ago Aaloe välipäevik nr 4
Creators: name: Aaloe, Ago
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1957
Subjects: Lower Silurian
West Estonia
Saaremaa and Muhu Islands
drill cores
geological descriptions

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Lower Silurian drill cores in West Estonia, Saaremaa and Muhu Islands.
(1092) Emily Frances Oliver
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Reflective barriers
title: liminal space as a metaphor for the interface between dominant and sub-culture
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ash, Brian Lennard
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 1998

description: Sub-cultures exist where there is a conflict between the needs or beliefs of a sub section of a culture and the dominant ideology. The dominant ideology, that is the ideology of those who hold hegemonic power, is so pervasive that it is eventually not even seen as an ideology, but as natural. Therefore anything contrary to the dominant ideology may be considered unnatural. ...
Ekstrakcja białek przy użyciu odwróconych miceli
Creators: name: Matla, Martyna
name: Smętek, Anna
name: Pyć, Rita
name: Pyć, Rita
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2019

description: Odwrócone micele, czyli mikroemulsje typu woda w oleju są trójskładnikowymi systemami, które składają się z wody, cząsteczek surfaktantu i rozpuszczalnika organicznego. Mogą one być wykorzystywane do ekstrakcji w układzie ciecz-ciecz celem oczyszczania i wydobywania białek i innych cząsteczek. Odwrócone micele są atrakcyjnymi narzędziami w biotechnologii, ponieważ ekstrakcja w tych systemach jest tania, wydajna i łatwo jest w niej powiększać skalę. Wydajność ekstrakcji białek i ich rozpuszczanie w odwróconych micelach zależy od wielu czynników, takich jak pH, siła jonowa czy rodzaj i stężenie surfaktantu. W poniższym artykule przedstawiono proces ekstrakcji białek w odwróconych micelach i ich potencjalne zastosowania. Określono także i omówiono czynniki, które wywierają wpływ na ekstrakcję w układzie ciecz-ciecz.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 75 Nr 1 (2011): Biotechnology and Food Science
Parity measurement of remote qubits using dispersive coupling and photodetection
Creators: name: Govenius, J.
name: Matsuzaki, Y.
name: Savenko, I. G.
name: Möttönen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parity measurement is a key step in many entanglement generation and quantum error correction schemes. We propose a protocol for non-destructive parity measurement of two remote qubits, i.e., macroscopically separated qubits with no direct interaction. The qubits are instead dispersively coupled to separate resonators that radiate to shared photodetectors. The scheme is deterministic in the sense that there is no fundamental bound on the success probability. Compared to previous proposals, our protocol addresses the scenario where number resolving photodetectors are available but the qubit-resonator coupling is time-independent and only dispersive.
Lateral load carrying capacity of timber walls filled hemp concrete: experimental and numerical investigation
Creators: name: Wadi, H.
name: Amziane, S.
name: Toussaint, E.
name: Taazount, M.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: The use of bio-based materials in structures improve the insolation level and sound absorption. In response to this need, the use of bio-aggregate such as hemp shives is increasing in Europe and especially in France. Hemp concrete is now used in construction as a sustainable and carbon neutral infill wall material around timber-framed construction. This study concerns on the effect of wall dimensions on the in-plane racking strength of timber frame walls filled with hemp concrete. Two wooden geometrical configurations were used, the first was diagonal bracing walls , and the second was vertical stud walls. These two types of timber walls are most widely used in construction subjected to lateral loads. In this study, a numerical and an experimental investigation of large-scale timber walls both with and without hemp concrete were carried out to investigate the contribution of this filling material against the lateral loads. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique was used in order to track local displacements and shear strains fields of hemp concrete in the wall. The hemp walls then compared to empty frames. This study focuses also on the numerical investigation of the lateral-load carrying capacity of hemp concrete as infill material in timber frame walls, investigating and highlighting the parameter that significantly affect the lateral resistance of hemp walls. For this purpose, the vertical studs timber frame walls with dimensions (2.5m height and 1.2m length) were used as the bench mark to validate the previous experimental work. Also a numerical study of three timber walls filled with hemp concrete has been studied to verify the effect of wall length of the lateral load carrying capacity of hemp concrete. Three vertical stud timber walls with a standard height 2.5m and different lengths (1.2 m, 1.6 m and 2.4 m) were investigated using Abaqus software. Based on the numerical and experimental tests, this study confirms, firstly, that hemp concrete has a small participation against lateral loads with wall dimensions 2.5 m height and 1.2 length. In fact it cannot be generalized that hemp concrete has always a significant strength in timber wall. The filling material could not work mechanically against lateral load without a complete form of compression diagonal zone which make the material loaded under shear forces. This zone is related to the dimensions of the wall and is present when the ratio between the height and the length of the wall (L/h) ≥1. Within this limit, the material mechanically works, otherwise, the results are totally different.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 37 No 2 (2019): Special Issue - ICBBM 2019
Cross-Modal Graph with Meta Concepts for Video Captioning
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Lin, Guosheng
name: Hoi, Steven C. H.
name: Miao, Chunyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Video captioning targets interpreting the complex visual contents as text descriptions, which requires the model to fully understand video scenes including objects and their interactions. Prevailing methods adopt off-the-shelf object detection networks to give object proposals and use the attention mechanism to model the relations between objects. They often miss some undefined semantic concepts of the pretrained model and fail to identify exact predicate relationships between objects. In this paper, we investigate an open research task of generating text descriptions for the given videos, and propose Cross-Modal Graph (CMG) with meta concepts for video captioning. Specifically, to cover the useful semantic concepts in video captions, we weakly learn the corresponding visual regions for text descriptions, where the associated visual regions and textual words are named cross-modal meta concepts. We further build meta concept graphs dynamically with the learned cross-modal meta concepts. We also construct holistic video-level and local frame-level video graphs with the predicted predicates to model video sequence structures. We validate the efficacy of our proposed techniques with extensive experiments and achieve state-of-the-art results on two public datasets.
description: Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Image Processing