cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Energy absorption ability of buckyball C720 at low impact speed: a numerical study based on molecular dynamics
Creators: name: Xu, Jun
name: Li, Yibing
name: Xiang, Yong
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nanoscience
subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The dynamic impact response of giant buckyball C720 is investigated by using molecular dynamics simulations. The non-recoverable deformation of C720 makes it an ideal candidate for high-performance energy absorption. Firstly, mechanical behaviors under dynamic impact and low-speed crushing are simulated and modeled, which clarifies the buckling-related energy absorption mechanism. One-dimensional C720 arrays (both vertical and horizontal alignments) are studied at various impact speeds, which show that the energy absorption ability is dominated by the impact energy per buckyball and less sensitive to the number and arrangement direction of buckyballs. Three-dimensional stacking of buckyballs in simple cubic, body-centered cubic, hexagonal, and face-centered cubic forms are investigated. Stacking form with higher occupation density yields higher energy absorption. The present study may shed lights on employing C720 assembly as an advanced energy absorption system against low-speed impacts.
2018-Robert_Phair-Differential_equation_methods_for_simulation_of_GFP_kinetics_in_non–steady_state_experiments
Creators: name: Phair, Robert
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Here, we derive new tracer kinetic analytical methods for non–steady state biological systems by constructing mechanistic nonlinear differential equation models of the underlying cell biological processes.
Colour Transformations between BVRc and g'r'i' Photometric Systems for Giant Stars
Creators: name: Ak, S.
name: Ak, T.
name: Karaali, S.
name: Bilir, S.
name: Guctekin, S. Tuncel
name: Tas, O. Onal
name: Ozturkmen, N. D.
name: Duran, S.
name: Coskunoglu, B.
name: Yontan, T.
name: Gokce, E. Yaz
name: Eker, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transformation equations from $BVR_c$ to $g'r'i'$ magnitudes and vice versa for the giants were established from a sample of 80 stars collected from Soubiran et al. (2010) with confirmed surface gravity ($2\leq \log g$ (cms$^{-2}$)$ \leq3$) at effective temperatures $4000
description: 16 pages, including 10 figures and 7 tables, accepted for publication in PASA
Reusability Report: Comparing gradient descent and monte carlo tree search optimization of quantum annealing schedules
Creators: name: Wauters, Matteo M.
name: van Nieuwenburg, Evert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a reusability report of the method presented by Chen et al. in "Optimizing quantum annealing schedules with Monte Carlo tree search enhanced with neural networks" and add further benchmarks on Max-Cut problems.
description: 5 pages 3 figures. Nat Mach Intell (2022)
The Microbial Rosetta Stone Database: A compilation of global and emerging infectious microorganisms and bioterrorist threat agents
Creators: name: Ecker, David J.
name: Sampath, Rangarajan
name: Willett, Paul
name: Wyatt, Jacqueline R.
name: Samant, Vivek
name: Massire, Christian
name: Hall, Thomas A.
name: Hari, Kumar
name: McNeil, John A.
name: Büchen-Osmond, Cornelia
name: Budowle, Bruce
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Epidemiology
Virology

description: Background: Thousands of different microorganisms affect the health, safety, and economic stability of populations. Many different medical and governmental organizations have created lists of the pathogenic microorganisms relevant to their missions; however, the nomenclature for biological agents on these lists and pathogens described in the literature is inexact. This ambiguity can be a significant block to effective communication among the diverse communities that must deal with epidemics or bioterrorist attacks. Results: We have developed a database known as the Microbial Rosetta Stone. The database relates microorganism names, taxonomic classifications, diseases, specific detection and treatment protocols, and relevant literature. The database structure facilitates linkage to public genomic databases. This paper focuses on the information in the database for pathogens that impact global public health, emerging infectious organisms, and bioterrorist threat agents. Conclusion: The Microbial Rosetta Stone is available at http://www.microbialrosettastone.com/. The database provides public access to up-to-date taxonomic classifications of organisms that cause human diseases, improves the consistency of nomenclature in disease reporting, and provides useful links between different public genomic and public health databases.
The evolution of triples with a Roche-lobe filling outer star
Creators: name: de Vries, Nathan
name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
name: Figueira, Joana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of triples has not attracted much attention in the literature, although their evolution can be dramatically different from binaries and single stars. Triples are quite common, and we find that for about 1% of the triples in the Tokovinin catalogue of multiple stellar systems in the solar neighbourhood, the tertiary star will overflow its Roche lobe at some time in its evolution, before any of the inner stars leave the main sequence. For two of these systems, Xi Tauri and HD97131 we simulate in detail this phase of mass transfer, during which stellar evolution, gravitational dynamics and hydrodynamics all play an important role. We have used the Astrophysical Multi-purpose Software Environment (AMUSE) to solve these physical processes in a self-consistent way. The resulting evolution, mass transfer and the effects on the inner as well as on the outer orbit are profound, although it is not trivial to predict the eventual consequence of the phase of mass transfer and the appearance of the resulting system.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Ein Geystlich Lied von der Junckfraw Maria; [ca. 1540]
title: In dem thon, Es wonet Lieb bei Liebe
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Druckort im VD16 Grundwerk fälschlich: Landshut. - Drucker im VD16 Grundwerk fälschlich: Apian, Georg. - Druckjahr im VD16 Grundwerk fälschlich: 1545
Alternative Media in Indonesia: Exploring the Influence of Religion and Identity
Creators: name: Aini, Fitaha
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Alternative media and religion potentially bring new perspectives to intractable problems, from intolerance to violence. This in-depth research explores the influence of religion and identity on alternative media, which could serve as forces for media sustainability and mobilisation toward change. The research draws upon the works of Downing and Rodriguez on alternative media, Durkheim’s theory of religion and social bonds, Sen’s notion of the exclusivity of a single identity, and the works of both Steele and George on religion and media in Indonesia. The thesis outlines key ideas and concepts to explore religion-based alternative media with specific people (media practitioners), places (the Greater Jakarta, Indonesia), and practices (production process). Case studies offer an effective way to examine the uniqueness of the Buddhist online press, a Catholic magazine, and an Islamic radio in Indonesia. Data for this study was retrospectively collected from interviews, diaries (written form and What’s App form), observations and field notes. A question raised by George served as the motivation to answer why Indonesian alternative media cannot perform a role in tackling intolerance. The current results indicate that Sen’s ‘exclusivity of single identity’ emerges when media practitioners express their intention not to hire a new member with a non-similar religious identity. Moreover, these results differ from Pajnik and Downing’s statement of the outcome of religion in a media project, which tends to accelerate brutal theocracy. As religion-based alternative media do not neatly fit into any existing category, a new category, a sub-section under alternative media, is proposed by this study. These media have religious core values and solid ideological intentions, which could be attributed to the survivability of media operations. From the perspective of key actors and domains in society, this study identifies an agenda of great significance and urgent immediate need. Investigating the actors’ perspectives on alternative media and religion in Indonesia has shown the complexity of reception among them. Collectively, the conclusion summarises how these media operate in one of the world’s most populous democratic countries and proposes research contributions to knowledge, recommendations for future studies, and ways in which the thesis can be put to practical use.
Tuning heat transport in trapped-ion chains across a structural phase transition
Creators: name: Ruiz, Antonia
name: Alonso, Daniel
name: Plenio, Martin B.
name: del Campo, Adolfo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore heat transport across an ion Coulomb crystal beyond the harmonic regime by tuning it across the structural phase transition between the linear and zigzag configurations. This demonstrates that the control of the spatial ion distribution by varying the trapping frequencies renders ion Coulomb crystals an ideal test-bed to study heat transport properties in finite open system of tunable non-linearities.
description: 5+2 pp, 6 figures
Environmental toxins and breast cancer on Long Island. I. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon DNA adducts
Creators: name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Eng, Sybil M.
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Paykin, Andrea
name: Levin, Bruce
name: Terry, Mary Beth
name: Young, Tie Lan
name: Wang, Lian Wen
name: Wang, Qiao
name: Britton, Julie A.
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Hatch, Maureen
name: Kabat, Geoffrey C.
name: Senie, Ruby T.
name: Garbowski, Gail
name: Maffeo, Carla
name: Montalvan, Pat
name: Berkowitz, Gertrud
name: Kemeny, Margaret
name: Citron, Marc
name: Schnabel, Freya
name: Schuss, Allan
name: Hajdu, Steven
name: Vinceguerra, VIncent
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Oncology
Epidemiology

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are potent mammary carcinogens in rodents, but their effect on breast cancer development in women is not clear. To examine whether currently measurable PAH damage to DNA increases breast cancer risk, a population-based case-control study was undertaken on Long Island, NY. Cases were women newly diagnosed with in situ and invasive breast cancer; controls were randomly selected women frequency matched to the age distribution of cases. Blood samples were donated by 1102 (73.0%) and 1141 (73.3%) of case and control respondents, respectively. Samples from 576 cases and 427 controls were assayed for PAH-DNA adducts using an ELISA. The geometric mean (and geometric SD) of the log-transformed levels of PAH-DNA adducts on a natural scale was slightly, but nonsignificantly, higher among cases [7.36 (7.29)] than among controls [6.21 (4.17); p = 0.51]. The age-adjusted odds ratio (OR) for breast cancer in relation to the highest quintile of adduct levels compared with the lowest was 1.51 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.04 –2.20], with little or no evidence of substantial confounding (corresponding multivariate-adjusted OR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.00 –2.21). There was no consistent elevation in risk with increasing adduct levels, nor was there a consistent association between adduct levels and two of the main sources of PAH, active or passive cigarette smoking or consumption of grilled and smoked foods. These data indicate that PAH-DNA adduct formation may influence breast cancer development, although the association does not appear to be dose dependent and may have a threshold effect.
Anisotropic magnetic properties and tunable conductivity in two-dimensional layered NaCrX2 (X=Te,Se,S) single crystals
Creators: name: Huang, Jiale
name: Shi, Bingxian
name: Pan, Feihao
name: Wang, Jinchen
name: Juanjuan
name: Liu
name: Xu, Daye
name: Zhang, Hongxia
name: Xia, Tianlong
name: Cheng, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monolayer NaCrX2 (X=Te,Se,S) were theoretically proposed to be two-dimensional intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors while their physical properties have not been thoroughly investigated in bulk single crystals. We report the single-crystal growth, structural, magnetic and electronic transport properties of NaCr(Te1-xSex)2 (0 6 x 6 1) and NaCrS2. For NaCr(Te1-xSex)2, the strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of NaCrTe2 can be gradually tuned to be a nearly isotropic one by Se-doping. Meanwhile, a systematic change in the conductivity with increasing x is observed, displaying a doping-induced metal-insulator-like transition. Under magnetic field larger than 30 koe, both NaCrTe2 and NaCrSe2 can be polarized to a ferromagnetic state. While for NaCrS2, robust antiferromagnetism is observed up to 70 kOe and two field-induced metamagnetic transitions are identified along H||ab. These intriguing properties together with the potential to be exfoliated down to few-layer thickness make NaCrX2 (X=Te,Se,S) promising for exploring spintronic applications.
JIMWLK evolution for multi-particle production in Langevin form
Creators: name: Iancu, E.
name: Triantafyllopoulos, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the effective theory for the Color Glass Condensate, we study multi-particle production with rapidity correlations in proton-nucleus collisions at high energy. The high-energy evolution responsible for such correlations is governed by a generalization of the JIMWLK equation which describes the simultaneous evolution of the (strong) nuclear color fields in the direct amplitude and the complex conjugate amplitude. This functional equation can be used to derive ordinary evolution equations for the cross-sections for particle production (a generalization of the Balitsky hierarchy). However, the ensuing equations appear to be too complicated to be useful in practice, including in the limit where the number of colors is large. To circumvent this problem, we propose an alternative formulation of the high-energy evolution as a Langevin process, which is better suited for numerical implementations. This process is directly oriented towards the calculation of the cross-sections, so its detailed structure depends upon the nature of the final state. We present the stochastic equations appropriate for two gluon production, and also for three gluon production, with generic rapidity differences.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
Ancient origin of somatic and visceral neurons
Creators: name: Chettouh, Zoubida
name: Stoekle, Henri-Corto
name: Bonnaud, Laure
name: Fortin, Gilles
name: Kandel, Eric
name: Brunet, Jean-Francois
name: Nomaksteinsky, Marc
name: Kassabov, Stefan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: A key to understanding the evolution of the nervous system on a large phylogenetic scale is the identification of homologous neuronal types. Here, we focus this search on the sensory and motor neurons of bilaterians, exploiting their well-defined molecular signatures in vertebrates. Sensorimotor circuits in vertebrates are of two types: somatic (that sense the environment and respond by shaping bodily motions) and visceral (that sense the interior milieu and respond by regulating vital functions). These circuits differ by a small set of largely dedicated transcriptional determinants: Brn3 is expressed in many somatic sensory neurons, first and second order (among which mechanoreceptors are uniquely marked by the Brn3+/Islet1+/Drgx+ signature), somatic motoneurons uniquely co-express Lhx3/4 and Mnx1, while the vast majority of neurons, sensory and motor, involved in respiration, blood circulation or digestion are molecularly defined by their expression and dependence on the pan-visceral determinant Phox2b. Results: We explore the status of the sensorimotor transcriptional code of vertebrates in mollusks, a lophotrochozoa clade that provides a rich repertoire of physiologically identified neurons. In the gastropods Lymnaea stagnalis and Aplysia californica, we show that homologues of Brn3, Drgx, Islet1, Mnx1, Lhx3/4 and Phox2b differentially mark neurons with mechanoreceptive, locomotory and cardiorespiratory functions. Moreover, in the cephalopod Sepia officinalis, we show that Phox2 marks the stellate ganglion (in line with the respiratory — that is, visceral— ancestral role of the mantle, its target organ), while the anterior pedal ganglion, which controls the prehensile and locomotory arms, expresses Mnx. Conclusions: Despite considerable divergence in overall neural architecture, a molecular underpinning for the functional allocation of neurons to interactions with the environment or to homeostasis was inherited from the urbilaterian ancestor by contemporary protostomes and deuterostomes.
Mechanical Stability of Cylindrical Thin-Shell Wormholes
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Azam, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we apply the cut and paste procedure to charged black string for the construction of thin-shell wormhole. We consider the Darmois-Israel formalism to determine the surface stresses of the shell. We take Chaplygin gas to deal with the matter distribution on shell. The radial perturbation approach (preserving the symmetry) is used to investigate the stability of static solutions. We conclude that stable static solutions exist both for uncharged and charged black string thin-shell wormholes for particular values of the parameters.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Reference updated
Wicked problems: a value chain approach from Vietnam’s dairy product
Creators: name: Khoi, Nguyen V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Business
Economics

description: In the past few years, dairy industry has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry of Vietnam. However, the value-added creation among different activities in the value chain of Vietnam dairy sector is distributed unequally. In the production activities, the dairy farmers gain low value-added rate due to high input cost. Whereas the processing activities, which managed by big companies, generates high profitability and Vietnamese consumers seem to have few choices due to the lack of dairy companies in the market. These wicked problems caused an unsustainable development to the dairy value chain of Vietnam. This paper, therefore, will map and analyze the value chain of the dairy industry in Vietnam. It will also assess the value created in each activity in order to imply solutions for a sustainable development of Vietnam’s dairy industry.
Femto-Containers: Lightweight Virtualization and Fault Isolation For Small Software Functions on Low-Power IoT Microcontrollers
Creators: name: Zandberg, Koen
name: Baccelli, Emmanuel
name: Yuan, Shenghao
name: Besson, Frédéric
name: Talpin, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Low-power operating system runtimes used on IoT microcontrollers typically provide rudimentary APIs, basic connectivity and, sometimes, a (secure) firmware update mechanism. In contrast, on less constrained hardware, networked software has entered the age of serverless, microservices and agility. With a view to bridge this gap, in the paper we design Femto-Containers, a new middleware runtime which can be embedded on heterogeneous low-power IoT devices. Femto-Containers enable the secure deployment, execution and isolation of small virtual software functions on low-power IoT devices, over the network. We implement Femto-Containers, and provide integration in RIOT, a popular open source IoT operating system. We then evaluate the performance of our implementation, which was formally verified for fault-isolation, guaranteeing that RIOT is shielded from logic loaded and executed in a Femto-Container. Our experiments on various popular microcontroller architectures (Arm Cortex-M, ESP32 and RISC-V) show that Femto-Containers offer an attractive trade-off in terms of memory footprint overhead, energy consumption, and security
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2106.12553
Wide band Fresnel super-resolution applied to capillary break up of viscoelastic fluids
Creators: name: Fiscina, Jorge E.
name: Fromholz, Pierre
name: Sattler, Rainer
name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a technique based on Fresnel diffraction with white illumination that permits the resolution of capillary surface patterns of less than 100 nanometers. We investigate Rayleigh Plateaux like instability on a viscoelastic capillary bridge and show that we can overcome the resolution limit of optical microscopy. The viscoelastic filaments are approximately 20 microns thick at the end of the thinning process when the instability sets in. The wavy distortions grow exponentially in time and the pattern is resolved by an image treatment that is based on an approximation of the measured rising flank of the first Fresnel peak.
description: accepted for publication in Experiments in Fluids
Supersymmetry Breaking by Higher Dimension Operators
Creators: name: Farakos, Fotis
name: Ferrara, Sergio
name: Kehagias, Alex
name: Porrati, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a supersymmetry breaking mechanism for N = 1 theories triggered by higher dimensional op- erators. We consider such operators for real linear and chiral spinor superfields that break superymmetry and reduce to the Volkov-Akulov action. We also consider supersymmetry breaking induced by a higher dimensional operator of a nonminimal scalar (complex linear) multiplet. The latter differs from the stan- dard chiral multiplet in its auxiliary sector, which contains, in addition to the complex scalar auxiliary of a chiral superfield, a complex vector and two spinors auxiliaries. By adding an appropriate higher di- mension operator, the scalar auxiliary may acquire a nonzero vev triggering spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. We find that the spectrum of the theory in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum consists of a free chiral multiplet and a constraint chiral superfield describing the goldstino. Interestingly, the latter turns out to be one of the auxiliary fermions, which becomes dynamical in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum. In all cases we are considering here, there is no sgoldstino mode and thus the goldstino does not have a superpartner. The sgoldstino is decoupled since the goldstino is one of the auxiliaries, which is propagating only in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum. We also point out how higher dimension operators introduce a potential for the propagating scalar of the theory.
description: 28 pages
Technology Acceptance in the Thai Public Sector: A Manager’s Perspective
Creators: name: Jenjob, Wissawa
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This Ph.D. thesis proposes to develop and theorise a model for the process of technology and innovation acceptance and decision making with the individual manager in public organisations as the unit of analysis. Technology and innovation acceptance has been widely researched in the context of end-user acceptance, which has focused on various factors affecting their behaviour. However, such research has not been undertaken in the context of those occupying a managerial position. Thus, this thesis is centred on how managers accept and adopt a new technology in their organisation. The main focus is managers because they are the key decision-makers in an organisation. The nature of such technology and innovation acceptance has features that are different from that of general users and requires further investigation. In this case, managers have the important role of choosing a new technology and innovation for their organisation, or they can provide recommendations to top management regarding the adoption of technology if they are not in the position to decide. In particular, this qualitative study focuses on the middle management position, and investigates the various factors that come to affect and impact on the acceptance and application of technology by middle managers. The core theoretical contribution of this research is a model for understanding technology acceptance by managers, which is based on findings from this research together with ideas from previous studies. The model combines psychological notions, the concept of attitude towards technology and also various impact of innovation factors on an organisation. It explains the decision making of managers in order to understand the overall knowledge employed in technology acceptance up to the point of adoption and investment in a technology within an organisation., Uniquely, this study also helps to reveal why managers in some instances do not bring technology in to use even though they recognise that it may be used to solve problems or be useful in other ways. The model developed in the study can help increase organisational performance in relation to technology adoption management via understanding managerial thinking and decision-making processes.
Ain Schön New gaystlich Lied zu singen, in des Berners Weyß, oder in des Hörtzog ernsch weyß; [ca. 1550]
Creators: name: Reißner, Adam
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Bibliogr. Nachweis: VD16 R 1046. - Verf. ermittelt. - Druckjahr im VD16 Grundwerk fälschlich: 1544
Optical Polarimetry of the May 2022 Lunar Eclipse
Creators: name: Steele, Iain A
name: Wiersema, Klaas
name: McCall, Callum
name: Newsam, Andrew
name: Shrestha, Manisha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sunlight reflected from the Moon during a total lunar eclipse has been transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere on the way to the Moon. The combination of multiple scattering and inhomogeneous atmospheric characteristics during that transmission can potentially polarize that light. A similar (although much smaller) effect should also be observable from the atmosphere of a transiting exoplanet. We present the results of polarization observations during the first 15 minutes of totality of the lunar eclipse of 2022 May 16. We find degrees of polarization of 2.1 +/- 0.4 per cent in B, 1.2 +/- 0.3 per cent in V, 0.5 +/- 0.2 per cent in R and 0.2 +/- 0.2 per cent in I. Our polarization values lie in the middle of the range of those reported for previous eclipses, providing further evidence that the induced polarization can change from event to event. We found no significant polarization difference (<0.02 per cent) between a region of dark Mare and nearby bright uplands or between the lunar limb and regions closer to the disk centre due to the different angle of incidence. This further strengthens the interpretation of the polarization's origin being due to scattering in the Earth's atmosphere rather than by the lunar regolith.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
"Phase freezeout" in isentropically expanding matter
Creators: name: Iosilevskiy, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Features of isentropic expansion of warm dense matter (WDM) created by intense energy fluxes (strong shock compression or instant isochoric heating by laser or heavy ions) are under discussion in situation when ($i$) -- thermodynamic trajectory of such expansion crosses binodal of liquid-gas phase transition, and ($ii$) -- expansion within the two-phase region is going along equilibrium branch (not metastable one) of the two-phase mixture isentrope. It is known in the plane case that because of break in the expansion isentrope at binodal point (in $P-V$ plane) i.e. jump of sound velocity in this point, there appears extended zone ("boiling layer") of uniformity in expanding material with constant thermodynamic and kinematic parameters. It corresponds just to the state on this binodal of boiling liquid. The point is that because of self-similarity of such expansion (in plane case) this boiling layer contains finite and fixed part of whole expanding material. This property makes it possible (at least formally) to discuss this type of isentropic expansion of WDM as a tool for generation (and diagnostics) of extended uniform state of matter exactly on binodal (and even in critical point) when parameters of this binodal (and/or thermophysical properties on it) are not known. It is natural to use the term "phase freezeout" for this regime of expansion. It is similar to the terms "chemical freezeout" and "kinetic freezeout", which are widely used in interpretation of quark-hardon transformations during expansion of quark-gluon "fireball" in ultra-high energy ionic collisions in supercolliders. General hydrodynamic scheme of adiabatic movements for the case of ensemble of well positioned plates or foils (stack target) under instant isochoric heating (for example, by heavy ion beam) is considered as elaboration of simple idea of phase freeze-out ("reverberation" regime).
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 11 refs. Proceedings of Int. Conference "Physics of Extreme State of Matter" (Elbrus-2011), 1-6 February 2011, Russia
On-Chip Cavity Optomechanical Coupling
Creators: name: Hauer, Bradley D
name: Kim, Paul H
name: Doolin, Callum
name: MacDonald, Allison JR
name: Ramp, Hugh
name: Davis, John P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On-chip cavity optomechanics, in which strong co-localization of light and mechanical motion is engineered, relies on efficient coupling of light both into and out of the on-chip optical resonator. Here we detail our particular style of tapered and dimpled optical fibers, pioneered by the Painter group at Caltech, which are a versatile and reliable solution to efficient on-chip coupling. First, a brief overview of tapered, single mode fibers is presented, in which the single mode cutoff diameter is highlighted. The apparatus used to create a dimpled tapered fiber is then described, followed by a comprehensive account of the procedure by which a dimpled tapered fiber is produced and mounted in our system. The custom-built optical access vacuum chambers in which our on-chip optomechanical measurements are performed are then discussed. Finally, the process by which our optomechanical devices are fabricated and the method by which we explore their optical and mechanical properties is explained. It is our expectation that this manuscript will enable the novice to develop advanced optomechanical experiments.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures
title: Ein schön Geystlich Lied, Es redet Got mit Mose, ich bin der Herre dein; [ca. 1544]
title: Im Thon: Es wonet lieb bei liebe
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Glait, Oswald
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Verf. ermittelt
Group-covariant extreme and quasi-extreme channels
Creators: name: Memarzadeh, Laleh
name: Sanders, Barry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constructing all extreme instances of the set of completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) maps, i.e., quantum channels, is a challenging valuable open problem in quantum information theory. Here we introduce a systematic approach that enables us to construct exactly those extreme channels that are covariant with respect to a finite discrete group or a compact connected Lie group. Innovative labeling of quantum channels by group representations enables us to identify the subset of group-covariant channels whose elements are group-covariant generalized-extreme channels. Furthermore, we exploit essentials of group representation theory to introduce equivalence classes for the labels and also partition the set of group-covariant channels. As a result we show that it is enough to construct one representative of each partition. We construct Kraus operators for group-covariant generalized-extreme channels by solving systems of linear and quadratic equations for all candidates satisfying the necessary condition for being group-covariant generalized-extreme channels. Deciding whether these constructed instances are extreme or quasi-extreme is accomplished by solving system of linear equations. We formalize the problem of constructing and classifying group-covariant generalized extreme channels, thereby yielding an algorithmic approach to solving, which we express as pseudocode. To illustrate the application and value of our method, we solve for explicit examples of group-covariant extreme channels. With unbounded computational resources to execute our algorithm, our method always delivers a description of an extreme channel for any finite-dimensional Hilbert-space and furthermore guarantees a description of a group-covariant extreme channel for any dimension and for any finite-discrete or compact connected Lie group if such an extreme channel exists.
On doubly warped product immersions
Creators: name: Faghfouri, Morteza
name: Majidi, Ayyoub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study fundamental geometric properties of doubly warped product immersion which is an extension of warped product immersion. Moreover, we study geometric inequality for doubly warped products isometrically immersed in arbitrary Riemannian manifolds.
Thermodynamics, entropy, and stability of thin shells in 2+1 flat spacetimes
Creators: name: Lemos, José P. S.
name: Quinta, Gonçalo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic equilibrium states of a static thin ring shell in a (2+1)-dimensional flat spacetime is analyzed. Inside the ring the spacetime is flat, whereas outside it is conical flat. The first law of thermodynamics applied to the thin shell leads to a shell's entropy which is a function of its mass alone. Two simple forms for this mass function are given leading to two different expressions for the entropy. The equations of thermodynamic stability are analyzed resulting in certain allowed regions for the free parameters. Contrary to the usual (3+1)-dimensional case this shell's entropy is purely classic, as the only fundamental constant that enters into the problem is the (2+1)-dimensional gravitational constant $G_3$, which has units of inverse mass.
description: 4 pages
Quasi-Linear Compressed Sensing
Creators: name: Ehler, Martin
name: Fornasier, Massimo
name: Sigl, Juliane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inspired by significant real-life applications, in particular, sparse phase retrieval and sparse pulsation frequency detection in Asteroseismology, we investigate a general framework for compressed sensing, where the measurements are quasi-linear. We formulate natural generalizations of the well-known Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) towards nonlinear measurements, which allow us to prove both unique identifiability of sparse signals as well as the convergence of recovery algorithms to compute them efficiently. We show that for certain randomized quasi-linear measurements, including Lipschitz perturbations of classical RIP matrices and phase retrieval from random projections, the proposed restricted isometry properties hold with high probability. We analyze a generalized Orthogonal Least Squares (OLS) under the assumption that magnitudes of signal entries to be recovered decay fast. Greed is good again, as we show that this algorithm performs efficiently in phase retrieval and asteroseismology. For situations where the decay assumption on the signal does not necessarily hold, we propose two alternative algorithms, which are natural generalizations of the well-known iterative hard and soft-thresholding. While these algorithms are rarely successful for the mentioned applications, we show their strong recovery guarantees for quasi-linear measurements which are Lipschitz perturbations of RIP matrices.
Discovery of a Population of Bulgeless Galaxies with Extremely Red Mid-IR Colors: Obscured AGN Activity in the Low Mass Regime?
Creators: name: Satyapal, Shobita
name: Secrest, Nathan J.
name: McAlpine, William
name: Ellison, Sara L.
name: Fischer, Jacqueline
name: Rosenberg, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to massive, bulge hosting galaxies, very few supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are known in either low mass, or bulgeless galaxies. Such a population could provide clues to the origins of SMBHs and to secular pathways for their growth. Using the all-sky Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey, and bulge-to-disk decompositions from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, we report the discovery of a population of local (z<0.3) bulgeless disk galaxies with extremely red mid-infrared colors highly suggestive of a dominant active galactic nucleus (AGN), despite having no optical AGN signatures in their SDSS spectra. Using various mid-infrared selection criteria from the literature, there are between 30 to over 300 bulgeless galaxies with possible AGNs. Other known scenarios that can heat the dust to high temperatures do not appear to explain the observed colors of this sample. If these galaxies are confirmed to host AGNs, this study will provide a breakthrough in characterizing the properties of SMBHs in the low bulge mass regime and in understanding their relation with their host galaxies. Mid-infrared selection identifies AGNs that dominate their host galaxy's emission and therefore reveal a different AGN population than is uncovered by optical studies. We find that the fraction of all galaxies identified as candidate AGNs by WISE is highest at lower stellar masses and drops dramatically in higher mass galaxies, in striking contrast to the findings from optical studies.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
A Tutorial on Lidar-Assisted Control for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Creators: name: Schlipf, David
name: Guo, Feng
name: Raach, Steffen
name: Lemmer, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation at the American Control Conference 2023, San Diego, CA, USA.
Paper at https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156419 .
System-Level Planning, Coordination, and Communication: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement
Creators: name: Dichter, Jeffrey R.
name: Kanter, Robert K.
name: Dries, David
name: Luyckx, Valerie
name: Lim, Matthew L.
name: Wilgis, John
name: Anderson, Michael R.
name: Sarani, Babak
name: Hupert, Nathaniel
name: Mutter, Ryan
name: Devereaux, Asha V.
name: Christian, Michael D.
name: Kissoon, Niranjan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emergency management--Planning
Disaster medicine--Planning
Hospitals--Emergency services--Planning

description: System-level planning involves uniting hospitals and health systems, local/regional government agencies, emergency medical services, and other health-care entities involved in coordinating and enabling care in a major disaster. We reviewed the literature and sought expert opinions concerning system-level planning and engagement for mass critical care due to disasters or pandemics and offer suggestions for system-planning, coordination, communication, and response. The suggestions in this chapter are important for all of those involved in a pandemic or disaster with multiple critically ill or injured patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, and public health or government officials.
The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) consensus statement development process was followed in developing suggestions. Task Force members met in person to develop nine key questions believed to be most relevant for system-planning, coordination, and communication. A systematic literature review was then performed for relevant articles and documents, reports, and other publications reported since 1993. No studies of sufficient quality were identified upon which to make evidence-based recommendations. Therefore, the panel developed expert opinion-based suggestions using a modified Delphi process.
Suggestions were developed and grouped according to the following thematic elements: (1) national government support of health-care coalitions/regional health authorities (HC/RHAs), (2) teamwork within HC/RHAs, (3) system-level communication, (4) system-level surge capacity and capability, (5) pediatric patients and special populations, (6) HC/RHAs and networks, (7) models of advanced regional care systems, and (8) the use of simulation for preparedness and planning.
System-level planning is essential to provide care for large numbers of critically ill patients because of disaster or pandemic. It also entails a departure from the routine, independent system and involves all levels from health-care institutions to regional health authorities. National government support is critical, as are robust communication systems and advanced planning supported by realistic exercises.
Cooperation in changing environments: Irreversibility in the transition to cooperation in networks
Creators: name: Gracia-Lázaro, C.
name: Floría, L. M.
name: Gómez-Gardeñes, J.
name: Moreno, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the evolutionary dynamics of the Prisoner's Dilemma game on complex networks, we investigate the possibility that the average level of cooperation shows hysteresis under quasi-static variations of a model parameter (the "temptation to defect"). Under the "discrete replicator" strategy updating rule, for both Erdos-Renyi and Barabasi-Albert graphs we observe cooperation hysteresis cycles provided one reaches tipping point values of the parameter; otherwise, perfect reversibility is obtained. The selective fixation of cooperation at certain nodes and its organization in cooperator clusters, that are surrounded by fluctuating strategists, allows the rationalization of the "lagging behind" behavior observed.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
FORMING A CULTURE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE FAMILY:  PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES
Creators: name: Rahmanova, Gulchehra
name: Yangın Ekşi, Gonca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Effective communication is the foundation of strong relationships, including the family unit. Within the family, open and honest communication is essential for fostering understanding, promoting trust, and sustaining meaningful connections. Forming a culture of communication in the family involves establishing healthy communication habits that facilitate effective dialogue and active listening. This article explores the importance of building a communication culture in the family and provides key strategies for creating an environment that encourages open and respectful communication.
A Sub-block Based Image Retrieval Using Modified Integrated Region Matching
Creators: name: Vimina, E. R.
name: Jacob, K. Poulose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system using the local colour and texture features of selected image sub-blocks and global colour and shape features of the image. The image sub-blocks are roughly identified by segmenting the image into partitions of different configuration, finding the edge density in each partition using edge thresholding followed by morphological dilation. The colour and texture features of the identified regions are computed from the histograms of the quantized HSV colour space and Gray Level Co- occurrence Matrix (GLCM) respectively. The colour and texture feature vectors is computed for each region. The shape features are computed from the Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD). A modified Integrated Region Matching (IRM) algorithm is used for finding the minimum distance between the sub-blocks of the query and target image. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides better retrieving result than retrieval using some of the existing methods.
description: 7 pages
Design and Enterprise in Contemporary China: A New Role for Museums and Heritage
Creators: name: Xie, Lingling
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis challenges traditional narratives of museum history by exploring the domains of policy, industrial heritage, urban planning, cultural enterprise, museum exchange and design exhibitions so as to form an understanding of design culture in contemporary China. The thesis argues that these different contextual dimensions, which sit outside the interior concerns of design museums, are important facilitators both for the construction and purpose of these museums and for the wider project of modernising the nation through its embrace of design culture. Beginning with how China’s central and local governments have established a political environment for the development of a new design culture and its design museums, this study traces the ambitious and tireless work of reusing industrial heritage, delivering new cultural infrastructure as well as introducing design museums and exhibitions, which in the era of reform and opening up has been undertaken by enthusiastic and pioneering practitioners (such as policy makers, entrepreneurs, museum professionals, and scholars). This research makes a significant contribution to current global debates concerning China becoming a new creative power in design, following a period of industrial and manufacturing transformation. In particular, it examines the ecosystem of design culture in Shenzhen as an example of the emergence and construction of national design, as the city transformed itself from a so-called ‘cultural desert’ to become UNESCO’s City of Design in 2008.