cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Foreign Fighter Integration and Its Consequences For International Security: An Examination of Foreign Fighters in the Soviet-Afghan and Afghan Civil Wars
Creators: name: Mathieson, Nicola
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: The Soviet-Afghan and Afghan Civil Wars (1979-1992) mark a critical juncture in the global jihadist movement. Some of the most recognisable figures within the jihadist movement had their first experience of conflict in Afghanistan during this period. The resulting constellation of armed groups--referred to as the Afghan Network--has been responsible for the most well-known acts of terrorist and civil war violence since the 1990s and continues today with its members still holding senior positions in armed groups. Yet, most foreign fighters that travelled to the conflict stayed for a short period and had limited exposure to combat. How, then, did these foreign fighter veterans come to represent such a significant threat to international security? This thesis proposes that the answer lies in the specific conditions of how this generation of foreign fighters participated in the Afghan conflicts. I introduce a framework of foreign fighter integration that locates foreign fighters as embedded, partitioned, and isolated vis-a-vis local armed groups. I argue that because foreign fighters were isolated from local Mujahideen fighters, the Afghan conflicts provided them protection from state security apparatus, protection from conflict itself, and acted as a site of mass convergence. This thesis examines how these conditions altered the processes of network formation, expertise development and socialisation that transformed the Afghan Network into a site for knowledge exchange, innovation, and resource sharing. The Afghan Network was able to continually draw on valuable expertise, increasing their effectiveness as conflict actors, while building network resilience. I propose that these outcomes are unique to the experiences of isolated foreign fighters. Embedded and partitioned foreign fighters, due to their exposure to combat, pose different, not lesser, threats to international security.
Agroforestry for the Green Deal Transition
Creators: name: Camilli, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Agroforestry

description: The Sixth European Agroforestry Conference took place in Nuoro Sardinia from 16-20th May 2022. This briefing offers easy access to the conference abstracts. These have been collated into 4 TOPICS and 13 SUBTOPICS. Many of the abstracts are relevant to the European Green Deal, and to a range of agricultural, forestry and environmental policies in the EU and globally.
description: EURAF Policy Briefing #16
Dynamical Galois groups of trinomials and Odoni's conjecture
Creators: name: Looper, Nicole R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove Odoni's conjecture in all prime degrees; namely, we prove that for every positive prime $p$, there exists a degree $p$ polynomial $φ\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ with surjective arboreal Galois representation. We also show that Vojta's conjecture implies the existence of such a polynomial in many degrees $d$ which are not prime.
Web-based volunteer distributed computing for handling time-critical urgent workloads
Creators: name: Brown, Nick
name: Newby, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Urgent computing workloads are time critical, unpredictable, and highly dynamic. Whilst efforts are on-going to run these on traditional HPC machines, another option is to leverage the computing power donated by volunteers. Volunteer computing, where members of the public donate some of their CPU time to large scale projects has been popular for many years because it is a powerful way of delivering compute for specific problems, with the public often eager to contribute to a good cause with societal benefits. However, traditional volunteer computing has required user installation of specialist software which is a barrier to entry, and the development of the software itself by the projects, even on-top of existing frameworks, is non-trivial. As such, the number of users donating CPU time to these volunteer computing projects has decreased in recent years, and this comes at a time when the frequency of disasters, often driven by climate change, are rising fast. We believe that an alternative approach, where visitors to websites donate some of their CPU time whilst they are browsing, has the potential to address these issues. However, web-based distributed computing is an immature field and there are numerous questions that must be answered to fully understand the viability of leveraging the large scale parallelism that website visitors represent. In this paper we describe our web-based distributed computing framework, Panther, and perform in-depth performance experiments for two benchmarks using real world hardware and real world browsing habits for the first time. By exploring the performance characteristics of our approach we demonstrate that this is viable for urgent workloads, but there are numerous caveats, not least the most appropriate visitor patterns to a website, that must be considered.
description: Accepted version of paper presented at 2022 First Combined International Workshop on Interactive Urgent Supercomputing (CIW-IUS)
Various notions of best approximation property in spaces of Bochner integrable functions
Creators: name: Paul, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20, 41A50, 46E40

description: We derive that for a separable proximinal subspace $Y$ of $X$, $Y$ is strongly proximinal (strongly ball proximinal) if and only if for $1\leq p< \infty$, $L_p(I,Y)$ is strongly proximinal (strongly ball proximinal) in $L_p(I,X)$. Case for $p=\infty$ follows from stronger assumption on $Y$ in $X$ (uniform proximinality). It is observed that for a separable proximinal subspace $Y$ in $X$, $Y$ is ball proximinal in $X$ if and only if $L_p(I,Y)$ is ball proximinal in $L_p(I,X)$ for $1\leq p\leq\infty$. Our observations also include the fact that for any (strongly) proximinal subspace $Y$ of $X$, if every separable subspace of $Y$ is ball (strongly) proximinal in $X$ then $L_p(I,Y)$ is ball (strongly) proximinal in $L_p(I,X)$ for $1\leq p
description: 24 pages
An investigation of technology’s role in coping with infidelity
Creators: name: Franzoy, Ava
name: Frampton, Jessica R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Infidelity is a relational transgression in which one or more partners betray sexual and/or emotional boundaries within a romantic relationship. Often, infidelity will result in relationship dissolution and is considered by some to be the worst type of relational transgression due to its lasting psychological effects. Communication technology such as social media can be used as a coping opportunity for individuals experiencing this relational transgression and resulting breakup. The present grounded theory study consisted of 30 semi-structured interviews with adults who have experienced a breakup due to infidelity. Findings suggest that communication technology such as social networking sites and artificial intelligence platforms provide users a comfortable place to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences while also offering unlimited advice, distraction, and validation. Participants suggested the use of technology is beneficial to those who have experienced a traumatic event like infidelity because feelings of embarrassment, blame, and shock may prevent someone from seeking face-to-face support. On the other hand, our study revealed that technology use may be harmful to coping in some cases.
The response of a red supergiant to a common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) impostor event
Creators: name: Ragoler, Nitzan
name: Bear, Ealeal
name: Schreier, Ron
name: Hillel, Shlomi
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a one-dimensional stellar evolution code we simulate the response of a red supergiant (RSG) star to injection of energy and to mass removal. We take the values of the energy that we inject and the mass that we remove according to our previous three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of a neutron star (NS) on a highly eccentric orbit that enters the envelope of an RSG star for half a year and launches jets as it accretes mass via an accretion disk. We find that for injected energies of ~1e47-1e48 erg and removed mass of ~0.03-0.6Mo the RSG envelope expands to a large radius. Therefore, we expect the NS to continue to orbit inside this massive inflated envelope for several more months, up to about twice the initial RSG radius, to continue to accrete mass and launch jets for a prolonged period. Although these late jets are weaker than the jets that the NS launches while inside the original RSG envelope, the late jets might actually be more influential on the light curve, leading to a long, several months to few years, and bright, about >10^8Lo, transient event. The RSG returns to more or less a relaxed structure after about ten years, and so another transient event might occur in the next periastron passage of the NS. Our results add to the already rich variety of jet-driven explosions/outbursts that might account for many puzzling transient events.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Prime Time, No. 03 (April, 1978)
Creators: name: British Columbia Association Of Social Workers
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Middle-aged women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1020409
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671

description: The object of Prime Time was to gather information about issues, needs and concerns of women in their middle years. It was co-sponsored by the B.C. Association of Social Workers and the YMCA.
The Adaptation of Shakespeare into Chinese Traditional Opera
Creators: name: Chen, Qian
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: Shakespeare has been a perennial topic of Chinese intellectual and artistic life since he was introduced to the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. His plays have provided new angles on life and the world. Adaptations of Shakespeare on the Chinese stage are many and various. Among them, adaptations into Chinese traditional opera have proven to be the most novel, as well as the most controversial, drawing increasing attention from the Chinese public and initiating hot debate. While some scholars insist that the adaptations are brilliant ways of combining the essence of two different cultures - introducing Shakespeare to a Chinese audience and at the same time Chinese traditional opera to the world - others have criticized them for either destroying Shakespeare or betraying the opera, being neither fish nor fowl. What changes does Shakespeare undergo in Chinese traditional opera? Can the adaptations still be thought of as Shakespearean, at the same time as being accepted as Chinese traditional opera? To answer these questions, this thesis takes a close look at the adaptations, interviewing adapters, directors, actors, and other participants, and using as case studies several adaptations of Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The thesis focuses on interpretation, confrontation, and reception during the adaptation process, as well as on the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are changed in the course of their adaptation, and it examines the extent to which cultural translation, which is inevitable in adaptation, is responsible for the changes. What makes an adaptation a success is still disputed and disputable, and in the process of being further recognized and theorized. Ultimately the adaptations, each one with its own merits and demerits and all of them displaying Chinese traditional opera's negotiation with an exotic resource, must be treated as independent creative works and cannot be considered simplistically as either succeeding or failing to re-present Shakespeare's original plays.
CHANG-ES XXIX: The Sub-kpc Nuclear Bubble of NGC 4438
Creators: name: Li, Jiang-Tao
name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Wiegert, Theresa
name: Bregman, Joel N.
name: Beck, Rainer
name: Damas-Segovia, Ancor
name: Irwin, Judith A.
name: Ji, Li
name: Stein, Yelena
name: Sun, Wei
name: Yang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AGN bubbles could play an important role in accelerating high-energy CRs and galactic feedback. Only in nearby galaxies could we have high enough angular resolution in multi-wavelengths to study the sub-kpc environment of the AGN, where the bubbles are produced and strongly interact with the surrounding ISM. In this paper, we present the latest Chandra observations of the Virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4438, which hosts multi-scale bubbles detected in various bands. The galaxy also has low current star formation activity, so these bubbles are evidently produced by the AGN rather than a starburst. We present spatially resolved spectral analysis of the Chandra data of the $\sim3^{\prime\prime}\times5^{\prime\prime}$ ($\sim200{\rm~pc}\times350\rm~pc$) nuclear bubble of NGC 4438. The power law tail in the X-ray spectra can be most naturally explained as synchrotron emission from high-energy CR leptons. The hot gas temperature increases, while the overall contribution of the non-thermal X-ray emission decreases with the vertical distance from the galactic plane. We calculate the synchrotron cooling timescale of the CR leptons responsible for the non-thermal hard X-ray emission to be only a few tens to a few hundreds of years. The thermal pressure of the hot gas is about three times the magnetic pressure, but the current data cannot rule out the possibility that they are still in pressure balance. The spatially resolved spectroscopy presented in this paper may have important constraints on how the AGN accelerates CRs and drives outflows. We also discover a transient X-ray source only $\sim5^{\prime\prime}$ from the nucleus of NGC 4438. The source was not detected in 2002 and 2008, but became quite X-ray bright in March 2020, with an average 0.5-7 keV luminosity of $\sim10^{39}\rm~ergs~s^{-1}$.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, MNRAS in press
TRANSRAZ Data Model: Towards a Geosocial Representation of Historical Cities
Creators: name: Bruns, Sasha
name: Tietz, Tabea
name: Göller, Sandra
name: Sack, Harald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Graphs, Digital Humanities, Architecture

description: Preserving historical city architectures and making them (publicly) available has emerged as an important field of the cultural heritage and digital humanities research domain. In this context, the TRANSRAZ project is creating an interactive 3D environment of the historical city of Nuremberg which spans over different periods of time. Next to the exploration of the city's historical architecture, TRANSRAZ is also integrating information about its inhabitants, organizations, and important events, which are extracted from historical documents semi-automatically. Knowledge Graphs have proven useful and valuable to integrate and enrich these heterogeneous data. However, this task also comes with versatile data modeling challenges. The TRANSRAZ data model integrates agents, architectural objects, events, and historical documents into the 3D research environment by means of ontologies. Goal is to explore Nuremberg's multifaceted past in different time layers in the context of its architectural, social, economical, and cultural developments.
Model of Charge Transfer Collisions Between $C_{60}$ and Slow Ions
Creators: name: Smucker, Jonathan
name: Bredice, Mitchell
name: Côté, Robin
name: Montgomery, John A.
name: Rozman, Michael
name: Sadeghpour, Hossein R
name: Vrinceanu, Daniel
name: Kharchenko, Vasili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A semi-classical model describing the charge transfer collisions of $C_{60}$ fullerene with different slow ions has been developed to explain available experimental data. This data reveals multiple Breit-Wigner like peaks in the cross sections, with subsequent peaks of reactive cross sections decreasing in magnitude. Calculations of the charge transfer probabilities and cross sections for quasi-resonant and reactive collisions have been performed using semi-empirical potentials of interaction between fullerenes and ion projectiles. All computations have been carried out with realistic wave functions for $C_{60}$'s valence electrons derived from the simplified jellium model. The quality of these electron wave functions have been successfully verified by comparing theoretical calculations and experimental data on the small angle cross sections of resonant $C_{60}+ C_{60}^+$ collisions. Using the semi-empirical potentials to describe resonant scattering phenomena in $C_{60}$ collisions with ions and Landau-Zener charge transfer theory, we calculated theoretical cross sections for various $C_{60}$ charge transfer and fragmentation reactions which agree with experiments.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Rotation of cold molecular ions inside a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Midya, Bikashkali
name: Tomza, Michał
name: Schmidt, Richard
name: Lemeshko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use recently developed angulon theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203001 (2015)] to study the rotational spectrum of a cyanide molecular anion immersed into Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium and strontium. Based on $\textit {ab initio}$ potential energy surfaces, we provide a detailed study of the rotational Lamb shift and many-body-induced fine structure which arise due to dressing of molecular rotation by a field of phonon excitations. We demonstrate that the magnitude of these effects is large enough in order to be observed in modern experiments on cold molecular ions. Furthermore, we introduce a novel method to construct pseudopotentials starting from the $\textit {ab initio}$ potential energy surfaces, which provides a means to obtain effective coupling constants for low-energy polaron models.
description: Final version
The Open Door (Spring Equinox, 1994)
Creators: name: Northern Lesbian Collective
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Lesbians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Lesbianism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996514
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970

description: Started in 1983, the Open Door was a rural lesbian newsletter based in Burns Lake and Terrace, Northern British Columbia. This unique community was composed of both rural lesbian and wiccan identities and was based on the Radical-Feminist separatists movement that began in the 1970’s. Angry women who were being harassed for their identity moved out of the suburbs in the Lower Mainland and bought land in Northern British Columbia to farm.
Evidence for a systematic offset of $-$0.25 mas in the Gaia DR1 parallaxes
Creators: name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Torres, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the parallaxes reported in the Gaia first data release using the sample of eclipsing binaries with accurate, empirical distances from Stassun \& Torres (2016). We find an average offset of $-$0.25$\pm$0.05 mas in the sense of the Gaia parallaxes being too small (i.e., the distances too long). The offset does not depend strongly on obvious parameters such as color or brightness. However, we find with high confidence that the offset may depend on ecliptic latitude: the mean offset is $-$0.38$\pm$0.06 mas in the ecliptic north and $-$0.05$\pm$0.09 mas in the ecliptic south. The ecliptic latitude dependence may also be represented by the linear relation, $Δπ\approx -0.22(\pm0.05) -0.003(\pm0.001)\timesβ$ mas ($β$ in degrees). Finally, there is a possible dependence of the parallax offset on distance, with the offset becoming negligible for $π\lesssim 1$ mas; we discuss whether this could be caused by a systematic error in the eclipsing binary distance scale, and reject this interpretation as unlikely.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted by ApJ Letters
Towards the chiral phase transition in the Roberge-Weiss plane
Creators: name: Cuteri, F.
name: Goswami, J.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Lahiri, Anirban
name: Neumann, M.
name: Philipsen, O.
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Sciarra, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the interplay between chiral and center sector phase transitions that occur in QCD with an imaginary quark chemical potential $μ=i(2n+1) πT/3$. Based on a finite size scaling analysis in (2+1)-flavor QCD using HISQ fermions with a physical strange quark mass and a range of light quark masses, we show that the endpoint of the line of first-order Roberge-Weiss (RW) transitions between center sectors is second order for light quark masses $m_l\ge m_s/320$, and that it belongs to the $3$-d, $Z(2)$ universality class. The operator for the chiral condensate behaves like an energy-like operator in an effective spin model for the RW phase transition. As a consequence, for any non-zero value of the quark mass, the chiral condensate will have an infinite slope at the RW phase transition temperature, $T_{RW}$. Its fluctuation, the disconnected chiral susceptibility, behaves like the specific heat in $Z(2)$ symmetric models and diverges in the infinite volume limit at the RW phase transition temperature $T_{RW}$ for any non-zero value of the light quark masses. Our analysis suggests the critical temperatures for the RW phase transition and the chiral phase transition coincide in the RW plane. On lattices with temporal extent $N_τ=4$, we find in the chiral limit $T_χ=T_{RW}=195(1)~$MeV.
description: 17 pages
Measurement of glomerular basement membrane in children
Creators: name: Brittingham, Jocelyn.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Expression of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 envelope glycoprotein in transfected cells
Creators: name: Bird, Catherina Hedwig.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Star Formation and Metallicity Gradients in Semi-analytic Models of Disk Galaxy Formation
Creators: name: Fu, Jian
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: Huang, Meiling
name: Yates, Robert M.
name: Moran, Sean
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Davé, Romeel
name: Guo, Qi
name: Henriques, Bruno M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have updated our radially-resolved SAMs of galaxy formation, which track both the atomic and molecular gas phases of the ISM. The models are adapted from those of Guo et al. using similar methodology as in Fu et al. and are run on halo merger trees from the MS and MS II with the following main changes: (1) We adopt a simple star formation law where Σ_SFR \propto Σ_H2 (2) We inject the heavy elements produced by supernovae directly into the halo hot gas, instead of first mixing them with the cold gas in the disk. (3) We include radial gas inflows in disks using a model of the form v_inflow = αr. The models are used to study the radial profiles of star formation rate and gas-phase metallicity in present-day galaxies. The Σ_H2 profiles in L* galaxies place strong constraints on inflow velocities, favouring models where v_inflow~7km/s at a galactocentric radius of 10kpc. Radial gas inflow has little influence on gas-phase and stellar metallicity gradients, which are affected much more strongly by the fraction of metals that are directly injected into the halo gas, rather than mixed with the cold gas. Metals ejected out of the galaxy in early epochs result in late infall of pre-enriched gas and flatter present-day gas-phase metallicity gradients. A prescription in which 80% of the metals are injected into the halo gas results in good fits to the flat observed metallicity gradients in galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10^10 M_sun, as well as the relations between gas-phase metallicity and sSFR in the outer parts of galactic disks. We examine the correlation between gas-phase metallicity gradient and global galaxy properties, finding that it is most strongly correlated with the bulge-to-total ratio of the galaxy. This is because gas is consumed when the bulge forms during galaxy mergers, and the gas-phase metallicity gradient is then set by newly-accreted gas.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Newer version rephrases the descriptions on the physical recipes and model results according to the refree's report
The stellar content of the ROSAT all-sky survey
Creators: name: Freund, S.
name: Czesla, S.
name: Robrade, J.
name: Schneider, P. C.
name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and apply a method to identify the stellar content of the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS). We performed a crossmatch between the RASS sources and stellar candidates selected from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and estimated stellar probabilities for every RASS source from the geometric properties of the match and additional properties, namely the X-ray to G-band flux ratio and the counterpart distances. A comparison with preliminary detections from the first eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS1) show that the positional offsets of the RASS sources are larger than expected from the uncertainties given in the RASS catalog. From the RASS sources with reliable positional uncertainties, we identify 28630 (24.9 %) sources as stellar; this is the largest sample of stellar X-ray sources to date. Directly from the stellar probabilities, we estimate the completeness and reliability of the sample to be about 93 % and confirm this value by comparing it to the identification of randomly shifted RASS sources, preliminary stellar eRASS1 identifications, and results from a previous identification of RASS sources. Our stellar RASS sources contain sources of all spectral types and luminosity classes. According to their position in the color-magnitude diagram, many stellar RASS sources are young stars with ages of a few $10^7$ yr or binaries. When plotting the X-ray to bolometric flux ratio as a function of the color, the onset of convection and the saturation limit are clearly visible. We note that later-type stars reach continuously higher $F_X/F_{bol}$ values, which is probably due to more frequent flaring. The color distribution of the stellar RASS sources clearly differs from the unrelated background sources. We present the three-dimensional distribution of the stellar RASS sources that shows a clear increase in the source density near known stellar clusters.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Testing Lung Cancer Patients’ and Oncologists’ Experience with the Lalaby App for Monitoring the Quality of Life through Mobile Sensors and Integrated Questionnaires
Creators: name: Asensio-Cuesta, Sabina
name: Sánchez-García, Ángel
name: Comes, Teresa Soria
name: Maestu, Inmaculada
name: Ureste, Maria Martín
name: Conejero, J. Alberto
name: García-Gómez, Juan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: As there is now a growing interest in mHealth apps for cancer patients, we here present and test the Lalaby App to monitor lung cancer patients’ Quality of life (QoL) through mobile sensors and integrated questionnaires. The app was used in a 2-week study to register two lung cancer patients’ activity without problems or interruptions. The patients frequently reported activities, symptoms, and questionnaires, indicating their engagement with the app. They registered their experience through the UEQ-S integrated into the app. Patient 1 mainly reported a neutral experience, while Patient 2 found it highly positive. They considered the app leading-edge and helpful and would recommend it to others, while both patients valued it positively (3.72 and 4.64 on a scale of 1–5). The app’s aesthetics and its notifications helped their engagement. We found correlations between sensors’ data and patients’ QoL. We also detected QoL and functional status variations after treatment for both patients. After a “Tasks Test,” two oncologists assessed the app’s dashboard usability as excellent (SUS scores 85 and 87.5 on a 0–100 scale), easy-to-use and helpful. Their experience was positive (UEQ-S overall scale 2.81 (mean), −3 to +3 scale). The app allows monitoring the QoL of lung cancer patients remotely and in real-time while controlling patients’ experience to stop the use if necessary, avoiding overwhelm.
Wave Equations for Classical Two-Component Proca Fields in Curved Spacetimes with Torsionless Affinities
Creators: name: Junior, S. I. Santos
name: Cardoso, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The world formulation of the full theory of classical Proca fields in generally relativistic spacetimes is concisely reviewed and the entire set of pertinent field equations is transcribed in a straightforward way into the framework of one of the Infeld-van der Waerden formalisms. Some well-known calculational techniques are then utilized for deriving the wave equations that control the propagation of the fields allowed for. It appears that no interaction couplings between such fields and electromagnetic curvatures are carried by the wave equations at issue. What results is, in effect, that the only interactions which ultimately occur in the theoretical context under consideration involve strictly Proca fields and wave functions for gravitons.
description: Many improvements on the paper have still been made. In particular, its title has been modified so as to conform further to one of its main aims
Simplified Limits on Resonances at the LHC
Creators: name: Chivukula, R. Sekhar
name: Ittisamai, Pawin
name: Mohan, Kirtimaan
name: Simmons, Elizabeth H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the earliest stages of evaluating new collider data, especially if a small excess may be present, it would be useful to have a method for comparing the data with entire classes of models, to get an immediate sense of which classes could conceivably be relevant. In this paper, we propose a method that applies when the new physics invoked to explain the excess corresponds to the production and decay of a single, relatively narrow, $s$-channel resonance. A simplifed model of the resonance allows us to convert an estimated signal cross section into model-independent bounds on the product of the branching ratios corresponding to production and decay. This quickly reveals whether a given class of models could possibly produce a signal of the required size at the LHC. Our work sets up a general framework, outlines how it operates for resonances with different numbers of production and decay modes, and analyzes cases of current experimental interest, including resonances decaying to dibosons, diphotons, dileptons, or dijets. If the LHC experiments were to report their searches for new resonances beyond the standard model in the simplified limits variable $ζ$ defined in this paper, that would make it far easier to avoid blind alleys and home in on the most likely candidate models to explain any observed excesses.
description: 31 pages, png and pdf figures embedded; title change and other minor changes in response to referee comments
Understanding Coping Intentions of Fitness Tracker Users: An Empirical Investigation Using Fear Appeals
Creators: name: Baskaran, Krutheeka
name: Mathew, Saji K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neuroscience
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: A rapid increase in violations of health information privacy in the context of ubiquitous technology has prompted the paramount importance of academic attention to users’ behavior post data breaches. This research explores the impact of privacy concerns and perceived threats to privacy violations on fitness tracker users’ coping behaviors. A model was synthesized by combining the core dimensions of the Extended Parallel Process Model, Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concern, and Coping Theory. A survey was conducted among 260 fitness tracker users. The Structural Equation Modeling results indicate privacy concern strongly influences an individual’s perceived threat, affecting one’s choice of post-privacy violation coping behavior. Further, results confirm the fear of losing one’s data privacy, resulting in a shift in the attitude towards the technology itself. Manufacturers and policymakers need to re-examine privacy policies and post data breach protocols keeping in mind consumer coping behaviors.
Characterizations of Ordered Self-adjoint Operator Spaces
Creators: name: Russell, Travis B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe how self-adjoint ordered operator spaces, also called non-unital operator systems in the literature, can be understood as $*$-vector spaces equipped with a matrix gauge structure. We explain how this perspective has several advantages over other notions of non-unital operator systems in the literature. In particular, the category of matrix gauge $*$-vector spaces includes injective objects and a Webster-Winkler-type duality theorem, both of which we show generally fail with other notions of non-unital operator systems. As applications, we characterize those subspaces of operator systems which are kernels of completely positive maps and define a new operator space structure on the matrix ordered dual of an operator system generalizing the classical notion of a base norm space.
description: 28 Pages. This is a significant revision of the previous version. The paper has been updated for improved clarity and organization, and new applications have been added
The Open Door (Fall Equinox, 1996)
Creators: name: Northern Lesbian Collective
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Lesbianism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996514
subject: Lesbians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824

description: Started in 1983, the Open Door was a rural lesbian newsletter based in Burns Lake and Terrace, Northern British Columbia. This unique community was composed of both rural lesbian and wiccan identities and was based on the Radical-Feminist separatists movement that began in the 1970’s. Angry women who were being harassed for their identity moved out of the suburbs in the Lower Mainland and bought land in Northern British Columbia to farm.
Teixeira Lopes: a portrait of national misfortune
Creators: name: Gil, Francisco Baptista
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360102
subject: Art history

description: The sculpture “A Viúva”, one of the most famous Portuguese sculptures, is a dramatic representation of a young woman with her child. Teixeira Lopes conveys to us the desperation of the young mother, who clings to the small child desperately seeking her breast.
Breunlich, Maria (Hrsg.) und Mader, Marieluise: Karl Graf von Zinzendorf, Aus den Jugendtagebüchern 1747, 1752-1763
Creators: name: Meyer, Matthias
Publisher: name: Unitas Fratrum
Year: 1970

description: Unitas Fratrum, Bd. 48 (2001): Unitas Fratrum, Band 48
Controlled release of vetrazin from a wax matrix system
Creators: name: Biviano, Ewa Hellena.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
On the non-thermal energy content of cosmic structures
Creators: name: Vazza, Franco
name: Wittor, Denis
name: Brüggen, Marcus
name: Gheller, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 1) Background: the budget of non-thermal energy in galaxy clusters is not well constrained, owing to the observational and theoretical difficulties in studying these diluted plasmas on large scales. 2) Method: we use recent cosmological simulations with complex physics in order to connect the emergence of non-thermal energy to the underlying evolution of gas and dark matter. 3) Results: the impact of non-thermal energy (e.g. cosmic rays, magnetic fields and turbulent motions) is found to increase in the outer region of galaxy clusters. Within numerical and theoretical uncertainties, turbulent motions dominate the budget of non-thermal energy in most of the cosmic volume. 4) Conclusion: assessing the distribution non-thermal energy in galaxy clusters is crucial to perform high-precision cosmology in the future. Constraining the level of non-thermal energy in cluster outskirts will improve our understanding of the acceleration of relativistic particles by cosmic shocks and of the origin of extragalactic magnetic fields.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in "Galaxies", Special Issue for the EWASS2015 Symposium, "Exploring the outskirts of galaxy clusters", Athens 4-5 July 2016. The full article can be accessed here http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/4/4/60
Invariant Theory of finite general linear groups modulo Frobenius powers
Creators: name: Goyal, Pallav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove some cases of a conjecture of Lewis, Reiner and Stanton regarding Hilbert series corresponding to the action of $Gl_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ on a polynomial ring modulo Frobenius powers. We also give a few conjectures about the invariant ring for certain cases that we don't prove completely.
An Algorithmic Approach to Emergence
Creators: name: Bédard, Charles Alexandre
name: Bergeron, Geoffroy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We suggest a quantitative and objective notion of emergence. Our proposal uses algorithmic information theory as a basis for an objective framework in which a bit string encodes observational data. A plurality of drops in the Kolmogorov structure function of such a string is seen as the hallmark of emergence. Our definition offers some theoretical results, in addition to extending the notions of coarse-graining and boundary conditions. Finally, we confront our proposal with applications to dynamical systems and thermodynamics.
description: 46 pages, 11 figures
All-optical spin switching: A new frontier in femtomagnetism -- A short review and a simple theory
Creators: name: Zhang, G. P.
name: Latta, T.
name: Babyak, Z.
name: Bai, Y. H.
name: George, T. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an ultrafast laser pulse to manipulate the spin degree of freedom has broad technological appeal. It allows one to control the spin dynamics on a femtosecond time scale. The discipline, commonly called femtomagnetism, started with the pioneering experiment by Beaurepaire and coworkers in 1996, who showed subpicosecond demagnetization occurs in magnetic Ni thin films. This finding has motivated extensive research worldwide. All-optical helicity-dependent spin switching (AOS) represents a new frontier in femtomagnetism, where a single ultrafast laser pulse can permanently switch spin without any assistance from a magnetic field. This review summarizes some of the crucial aspects of this new discipline: key experimental findings, leading mechanisms, controversial issues, and possible future directions. The emphasis is on our latest investigation. We first develop the all-optical spin switching rule that determines how the switchability depends on the light helicity. This rule allows one to understand microscopically how the spin is reversed and why the circularly polarized light appears more powerful than the linearly polarized light. Then we invoke our latest spin-orbit coupled harmonic oscillator model to simulate single spin reversal. We consider both cw excitation and pulsed laser excitation. The results are in a good agreement with the experimental result. We then extend the code to include the exchange interaction among different spin sites. We show where the "inverse Faraday field" comes from and how the laser affects the spin reversal nonlinearly. Our hope is that this review will motivate new experimental and theoretical investigations and discussions.
description: Invited short review article, 33 pages. Another related paper on AOS can be found arXiv:1609.05855 Add a new reference and also revised a few sentences in the paper
Vogt, Peter (Hrsg.): Authentische Relation von dem Anlass, Fortgang und Schlusse der am 1sten und 2ten Januarii Anno 1741/2 in Germantown gehaltenen Versammlung einiger Arbeiter derer meisten Christlichen Religionen und vieler vor swich selbst Gottdienenden Christen-Menschen in Pennsylvania
Creators: name: Durnbaugh, Donald F.
Publisher: name: Unitas Fratrum
Year: 1970

description: Unitas Fratrum, Bd. 48 (2001): Unitas Fratrum, Band 48
The Open Door (Winter Solstice, 1996)
Creators: name: Northern Lesbian Collective
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Lesbianism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996514
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Lesbians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540

description: Started in 1983, the Open Door was a rural lesbian newsletter based in Burns Lake and Terrace, Northern British Columbia. This unique community was composed of both rural lesbian and wiccan identities and was based on the Radical-Feminist separatists movement that began in the 1970’s. Angry women who were being harassed for their identity moved out of the suburbs in the Lower Mainland and bought land in Northern British Columbia to farm.
Spectroscopic Probe of the van der Waals Interaction between Polar Molecules and a Curved Surface
Creators: name: Bimonte, Giuseppe
name: Emig, Thorsten
name: Jaffe, Robert L.
name: Kardar, Mehran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the shift of rotational levels of a diatomic polar molecule due to its van der Waals (vdW) interaction with a gently curved dielectric surface at temperature $T$, and submicron separations. The molecule is assumed to be in its electronic and vibrational ground state, and the rotational degrees are described by a rigid rotor model. We show that under these conditions retardation effects and surface dispersion can be neglected. The level shifts are found to be independent of $T$, and given by the quantum state averaged classical electrostatic interaction of the dipole with its image on the surface. We use a derivative expansion for the static Green's function to express the shifts in terms of surface curvature. We argue that the curvature induced line splitting is experimentally observable, and not obscured by natural line widths and thermal broadening.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A