cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discovery of a damped Ly$α$ galaxy at z $\sim$ 3 towards the quasar SDSS J011852+040644
Creators: name: Joshi, Ravi
name: Fumagalli, Michele
name: Srianand, Raghunathan
name: Noterdaeme, Pasquier
name: Petitjean, Patrick
name: Rafelski, Marc
name: Mackenzie, Ruari
name: Li, Qiong
name: Cai, Zheng
name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Zou, Siwei
name: Wu, Xue-Bing
name: Jiang, Linhua
name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of the host galaxy of a damped Ly$α$ system (DLA) with log N(HI) $ [\rm cm^{-2}]$ = $21.0 \pm 0.10$ at $z \approx 3.0091$ towards the background quasar SDSS J011852+040644 using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager (PCWI) at the Hale (P200) telescope. We detect Ly$α$ emission in the dark core of the DLA trough at a 3.3$σ$ confidence level, with Ly$α$ luminosity of $L_{\rm Lyα}$ $\rm = (3.8 \pm 0.8) \times 10^{42}\ erg\ s^{-1}$, corresponding to a star formation rate of $\gtrsim 2\ \rm M_{\odot}\ yr^{-1}$ (considering a lower limit on Ly$α$ escape fraction $f_{esc}^{Lyα} \sim 2\%$) as typical for Lyman break galaxies at these redshifts. The Ly$α$ emission is blueshifted with respect to the systemic redshift derived from metal absorption lines by $281 \pm 43$ km/s. The associated galaxy is at very small impact parameter of $\lesssim 12 \rm\ kpc$ from the background quasar, which is in line with the observed anticorrelation between column density and impact parameter in spectroscopic searches tracing the large-scale environments of DLA host galaxies.
description: 9 Pages, 5 Figures, Accepted for the Publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of The impact of moulage on learners’ experience in simulation-based education and training: systematic review
Creators: name: DCosta, Stacia
name: Zadow, Grace
name: Reidlinger, Dianne P.
name: Cox, Gregory R.
name: Hudson, Carly
name: Ingabire, Ale
name: Stokes-Parish, Jessica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Sistema fisico della città e governance energetica: un modello interpretativo
Creators: name: Zucaro, Floriana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: La città è il luogo storico di concentrazione della domanda di energia. Le trasformazioni della città sono, infatti, avvenute anche in ragione dello sviluppo di nuove fonti di energia, che hanno influito su economia e stili di vita, nonché sull'organizzazione fisica e funzionale dei sistemi urbani. Se questa considerazione sembra ovvia, meno scontate risultano essere le implicazioni e conseguenze del fenomeno, specialmente se paragonate alla valenza assunta dalla questione energetica nel raggiungimento degli obiettivi europei ed internazionali di sostenibilità ambientale. La forte attenzione alla tematica energetica, sia in termini di studio che di azione, è rivolta quasi esclusivamente ad aspetti specifici, quali ad esempio l'approvvigionamento energetico, i singoli settori di consumo, o le tecnologie di conversione energetica, tralasciando i luoghi di consumo per eccellenza, ovvero le aree urbane. Queste ultime sono, infatti, il luogo chiave dove agire per il raggiungimento di obiettivi ambientali strategici, quali la riduzione delle emissioni climalteranti ed il risparmio energetico. Le strette e complesse relazioni tra aree urbane, energia e cambiamento climatico che "together are the main interconnected driving forces of human-induced global change" (Pasimeni et al. 2014), non lasciano dubbi sul fatto che se le città sono parte del problema, allora sono inevitabilmente anche parte della soluzione.   La natura multidimensionale della questione energetica, combinata con la complessità che caratterizza i sistemi urbani, i molteplici livelli di azione ai quali intervenire ed il cambiamento del modello di sviluppo economico ed insediativo già da tempo auspicato, dovrebbe far riflettere sull'approccio da utilizzare, al fine di garantire la sostenibilità ambientale ed energetica dei sistemi urbani. Su tale consapevolezza si sviluppa il presente lavoro di ricerca finalizzato ad affrontare la questione dei consumi energetici alla scala di quartiere, con particolare attenzione alle caratteristiche urbanistiche ed ambientali.   L'attività di ricerca mira, in pratica, a contribuire al dibattito scientifico e tecnico-operativo sui temi dell'integrazione tra governo delle trasformazioni territoriali e sostenibilità energetica, nell'ottica di favorire la riduzione dei consumi energetici in ambiente urbano. L'obiettivo principale è la messa a punto di un modello interpretativo basato sull'approccio sistemico in grado di mettere in luce le caratteristiche che influiscono maggiormente sui consumi energetici.
Knowledge Distillation Methods for Efficient Unsupervised Adaptation Across Multiple Domains
Creators: name: Nguyen-Meidine, Le Thanh
name: Belal, Atif
name: Kiran, Madhu
name: Dolz, Jose
name: Blais-Morin, Louis-Antoine
name: Granger, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Beyond the complexity of CNNs that require training on large annotated datasets, the domain shift between design and operational data has limited the adoption of CNNs in many real-world applications. For instance, in person re-identification, videos are captured over a distributed set of cameras with non-overlapping viewpoints. The shift between the source (e.g. lab setting) and target (e.g. cameras) domains may lead to a significant decline in recognition accuracy. Additionally, state-of-the-art CNNs may not be suitable for such real-time applications given their computational requirements. Although several techniques have recently been proposed to address domain shift problems through unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), or to accelerate/compress CNNs through knowledge distillation (KD), we seek to simultaneously adapt and compress CNNs to generalize well across multiple target domains. In this paper, we propose a progressive KD approach for unsupervised single-target DA (STDA) and multi-target DA (MTDA) of CNNs. Our method for KD-STDA adapts a CNN to a single target domain by distilling from a larger teacher CNN, trained on both target and source domain data in order to maintain its consistency with a common representation. Our proposed approach is compared against state-of-the-art methods for compression and STDA of CNNs on the Office31 and ImageClef-DA image classification datasets. It is also compared against state-of-the-art methods for MTDA on Digits, Office31, and OfficeHome. In both settings -- KD-STDA and KD-MTDA -- results indicate that our approach can achieve the highest level of accuracy across target domains, while requiring a comparable or lower CNN complexity.
description: This is the extended journal version of arXiv:2005.07839
Removable Weak Keys for Discrete Logarithm Based Cryptography
Creators: name: Jacobson,, Michael John
name: Kushwaha, Prabhat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a novel type of weak cryptographic private key that can exist in any discrete logarithm based public-key cryptosystem set in a group of prime order $p$ where $p-1$ has small divisors. Unlike the weak private keys based on \textit{numerical size} (such as smaller private keys, or private keys lying in an interval) that will \textit{always} exist in any DLP cryptosystems, our type of weak private keys occurs purely due to parameter choice of $p$, and hence, can be removed with appropriate value of $p$. Using the theory of implicit group representations, we present algorithms that can determine whether a key is weak, and if so, recover the private key from the corresponding public key. We analyze several elliptic curves proposed in the literature and in various standards, giving counts of the number of keys that can be broken with relatively small amounts of computation. Our results show that many of these curves, including some from standards, have a considerable number of such weak private keys. We also use our methods to show that none of the 14 outstanding Certicom Challenge problem instances are weak in our sense, up to a certain weakness bound.
Observable Signatures of the Ejection Speed of Interstellar Objects from their Birth Systems
Creators: name: Siraj, Amir
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: `Oumuamua and Borisov were the first two interstellar objects confirmed in the Solar system. The upcoming commencement of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space of Time (LSST) will enhance greatly the discovery rate of interstellar objects. This raises the question, what can be learned from large-number statistics of interstellar objects? Here, we show that discovery statistics provided by LSST will allow low- and high-ejection-speed populations to be distinguished using the velocity dispersion and angular anisotropy of interstellar objects. These findings can be combined with physical characterizations to yield a better understanding of planetary system origin and nature.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in ApJL
Predicting contrast sensitivity to segmented aperture misalignment modes for the HiCAT testbed
Creators: name: Laginja, Iva
name: Soummer, Remi
name: Mugnier, Laurent M.
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Sauvage, Jean-Francois
name: Leboulleux, Lucie
name: Coyle, Laura
name: Knight, J. Scott
name: Perrin, Marshall D.
name: Will, Scott D.
name: Noss, James
name: Brooks, Keira J.
name: Fowler, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the setup for empirical validations of the Pair-based Analytical model for Segmented Telescope Imaging from Space (PASTIS) tolerancing model for segmented coronagraphy. We show the hardware configuration of the High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) testbed on which these experiments will be conducted at an intermediate contrast regime between $10^{-6}$ and $10^{-8}$. We describe the optical performance of the testbed with a classical Lyot coronagraph and describe the recent hardware upgrade to a segmented mode, using an IrisAO segmented deformable mirror. Implementing experiments on HiCAT is made easy through its top-level control infrastructure that uses the same code base to run on the real testbed, or to invoke the optical simulator. The experiments presented in this paper are run on the HiCAT testbed emulator, which makes them ready to be performed on actual hardware. We show results of three experiments with results from the emulator, with the goal to demonstrate PASTIS on hardware next. We measure the testbed PASTIS matrix, and validate the PASTIS analytical propagation model by comparing its contrast predictions to simulator results. We perform the tolerancing analysis on the optical eigenmodes (PASTIS modes) and on independent segments, then validate these results in respective experiments. This work prepares and enables the experimental validation of the analytical segment-based tolerancing model for segmented aperture coronagraphy with the specific application to the HiCAT testbed.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, published
COREnect Deliverable 1.1. Project Management Plan and Tools
Creators: name: AUSTRALO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: European Core Technologies, Future connectivity systems and components

description: The Project Management Plan (PMP) sets out how an efficient project implementation, as well as high‐ quality project results, are being ensured within COREnect. According to this plan, the work of all work packages is being coordinated and consolidated throughout the project duration. It describes how all necessary steps will be planned and synchronized to achieve the goals of the project during the different phases thus safeguarding project contingency. Where needed, this PMP refers to the relevant legal and underlying documents such as the Grant Agreement (GA) with its annexes including the Description of the Action (DoA) and the Consortium Agreement (CA). The PMP is accompanied by a dynamic PM tool – the Project Management Tables (PMT) – which contain PMP information and is constantly updated throughout the project. COREnect project has set up a number of tools that will be used throughout the project to coordinate and manage the research activities.
Gli usi linguistici delle prammatiche sanzioni del viceregno spagnolo di Napoli
Creators: name: Marra, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: La tesi è uno studio linguistico sulle prammatiche del regno di Napoli. Attraverso un breve excursus sull'organizzazione politico-amministrativa della capitale del viceregno e dei suoi imprescindibili rapporti con la Spagna, si passa in rassegna lo stile, la struttura e le varietà della lingua di questi testi giuridici.
 La seconda parte del lavoro è destinata all'indagine lessicale che, mediante l'approfondimento di alcuni casi particolari e la creazione del glossario di 1196 lemmi, esplora il lessico materiale delle prammatiche composto da tecnicismi, localismi, arcaismi, latinismi ed iberismi: un repertorio variegato cui fa da sfondo la vita sociale e la cultura napoletana in epoca Moderna.
BEC-BCS Crossover in the Epsilon Expansion
Creators: name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Nakano, Eiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The epsilon expansion (expansion around four spacial dimensions) developed by Nishida and Son for a cold fermi gas with infinite scattering length is extended to finite scattering length to study the BEC-BCS crossover. A resummation of higher order logarithms and a suitable extension of fermion coupling in d-dimensions are developed in order to apply the theory in the BCS regime. The ratio between the chemical potential and the Fermi energy, mu/eF, is computed to next-to-leading order in the epsilon expansion as a function of eta=1/(a kF), where a is the scattering length and kF is the Fermi momentum in a non-interacting system. Near the unitarity limit eta->0, we found mu/eF=0.475-0.707 eta-0.5 eta^2. Near the BEC limit eta->infinity, mu/eF=0.062/eta - eta^2, while near the BCS limit eta->-infinity, mu/eF=1+0.707/eta. Overall good agreement with Quantum Monte Carlo results is found.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Multi-agent automated negotiation for management of services in smart cities
Creators: name: Di Nocera, Dario
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this PhD thesis is the study, the design and the prototype implementation of an agent-based automated negotiation mechanism to support the development of smart Service Based Applications having as a reference scenario the smart cities of the future intended as a realistic market of services. this research shows that the use of the multi-agent paradigm and of automated negotiation for Service Based Applications in the context of Smart Cities is a approach that: allows to model a "smart" behaviour for the providers of SBAs; makes it possible the automate the composition of services based on specific user requirements of QoS, taking into account the variability of a market of services; allows the management of conflicting interests among providers and users of services in applications of Smart Mobility.
Additional file 1 of Targeting apoptosis; design, synthesis and biological evaluation of new benzoxazole and thiazole based derivatives
Creators: name: Helmy, Sama W.
name: Shahin, Mai I.
name: Samir, Nermin
name: Lasheen, Deena S.
name: Ella, Dalal A. Abou El
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Mean graph of compound (8g) produced from NCI 60 cell line screening program; color codes are given for each cell line. Table S1. Cell growth inhibition percentage of NCI 60 cancer cell lines exhibited by investigated final compounds. Table S2. Determination of sample cytotoxicity on HCT-116 cells (MTT protocol). Figure S2. Effect of 8g and 12e on HCT-116 cells at different concentrations. Figure S3. Effect of 12e on HCT-116 cells at different concentrations.
Demonstration of the nearly continuous operation of an $^{171}$Yb optical lattice clock for half a year
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Takumi
name: Akamatsu, Daisuke
name: Hosaka, Kazumoto
name: Hisai, Yusuke
name: Wada, Masato
name: Inaba, Hajime
name: Suzuyama, Tomonari
name: Hong, Feng-Lei
name: Yasuda, Masami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical lattice clocks surpass primary Cs microwave clocks in frequency stability and accuracy, and are promising candidates for a redefinition of the second in the International System of Units (SI). However, the robustness of optical lattice clocks has not yet reached a level comparable to that of Cs fountain clocks which contribute to International Atomic Time (TAI) by the nearly continuous operation. In this paper, we report the long-term operation of an $^{171}$Yb optical lattice clock with a coverage of 80.3% for half a year including uptimes of 93.9% for the first 24 days and 92.6% for the last 35 days. This enables a nearly dead-time-free frequency comparison of the optical lattice clock with TAI over months, which provides a link to the SI second with an uncertainty of low $10^{-16}$. By using this link, the absolute frequency of the $^{1}$S$_{0}-^{3}$P$_{0}$ clock transition of $^{171}$Yb is measured as 518 295 836 590 863.54(26) Hz with a fractional uncertainty of $5.0\times10^{-16}$. This value is in agreement with the recommended frequency of $^{171}$Yb as a secondary representation of the second.
Temperature dependent magnetization dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles
Creators: name: Sukhov, Alexander
name: Berakdar, Jamal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental and theoretical studies show that the switching behavior of magnetic nanoparticles can be well controlled by external time-dependent magnetic fields. In this work, we inspect theoretically the influence of the temperature and the magnetic anisotropy on the spin-dynamics and the switching properties of single domain magnetic nanoparticles (Stoner-particles). Our theoretical tools are the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation extended as to deal with finite temperatures within a Langevine framework. Physical quantities of interest are the minimum field amplitudes required for switching and the corresponding reversal times of the nanoparticle's magnetic moment. In particular, we contrast the cases of static and time-dependent external fields and analyze the influence of damping for a uniaxial and a cubic anisotropy.
description: accepted by Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Moiré patterns in graphene -- rhenium disulfide vertical heterostructures
Creators: name: Plumadore, Ryan
name: Ezzi, Mohammed M. Al
name: Adam, Shaffique
name: Luican-Mayer, Adina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vertical stacking of atomically thin materials offers a large platform for realizing novel properties enabled by proximity effects and moiré patterns. Here we focus on mechanically assembled heterostructures of graphene and ReS$_2$, a van der Waals layered semiconductor. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) we image the sharp edge between the two materials as well as areas of overlap. Locally resolved topographic images revealed the presence of a striped superpattern originating in the interlayer interactions between graphene's hexagonal structure and the triclinic, low in-plane symmetry of ReS$_2$. We compare the results with a theoretical model that estimates the shape and angle dependence of the moiré pattern between graphene and ReS$_2$. These results shed light on the complex interface phenomena between van der Waals materials with different lattice symmetries.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Comments on birds and snakes
Creators: name: Emerson, Fred
name: Hartt, Josepha
name: Ortiz, Ethel
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
name: Arrow, Coretha
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 4 WAV files. Emerson and Ortiz heard only on latter half of last digital file (004). Cassettes are copies of original cassettes from Coretha Arrow. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
Additional file 1 of Relative molecule self-attention transformer
Creators: name: Maziarka, Łukasz
name: Majchrowski, Dawid
name: Danel, Tomasz
name: Gaiński, Piotr
name: Tabor, Jacek
name: Podolak, Igor
name: Morkisz, Paweł
name: Jastrzębski, Stanisław
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Additional experiments, supplementary tables and figures.
Sites of star formation in the tidal structures
Creators: name: Zasov, Anatoly
name: Saburova, Anna
name: Egorov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a short review of the current results of studying of star formation sites observed beyond the main discs of galaxies in different interacting systems: Arp 270, Arp 194, Arp 305, NGC 4656 and NGC 90. The observations were carried out at the 6-meter telescope BTA in SAO RAS with the SCOPRPIO-2 spectrograph. The properties of star forming islands, their mass, dynamics, chemical abundances, their possible fate and the mechanisms inspiring star formation, appear to be different in different systems.
description: To be published in "Ground-Based Astronomy in Russia. 21st Century", proceedings of all-Russian conference, September 21-25, 2020 Nizhny Arkhyz, Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS. Eds: I.I. Romanyuk, I.A. Yakunin, A.F. Valeev, D.J. Kudryavtsev. 8 pages, 4 figures
Paneling Complex Surfaces. Razionalizzazione di superfici complesse per l'industrializzazione
Creators: name: Lanzara, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: La natura di una superficie dipende strettamente dalle mutue relazioni esistenti tra le parti che la compongono. Essa rappresenta un supporto attraverso il quale la complessità può manifestarsi ed  è, al tempo stesso, luogo di sperimentazione per rispondere in maniera prestante ed espressiva alle  sfide architettonico-ambientali. L'obiettivo della presente ricerca  è lo studio teorico-applicativo delle tecniche di paneling di superfici architettoniche complesse. Dalla tradizione all'innovazione, da sempre lo scopo è quello di individuare in fase progettuale le geometrie guida necessarie per tradurre le impronte digitali in elementi tangibili e riconoscibili nelle opere costruite. Il  principale contributo risiede nella ricerca e nella dimostrazione del legame esistente tra la curvatura delle superfici e le tecniche di razionalizzazione che mirano ad ottimizzarne la fattibilità. L'ottimizzazione costruttiva, economica ed estetica del processi finalizzati alla realizzazione delle forme complesse genera la creazione di approcci di tipo integrato e multidisciplinare, favorendo lo sviluppo di nuove competenze da  parte delle figure coinvolte nel processo.
Initial Kaluza-Klein fluctuations and inflationary gravitational waves in braneworld cosmology
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tsutomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectrum of gravitational waves generated from inflation in the Randall-Sundrum braneworld. Since the inflationary gravitational waves are of quantum-mechanical origin, the initial configuration of perturbations in the bulk includes Kaluza-Klein quantum fluctuations as well as fluctuations in the zero mode. We show, however, that the initial fluctuations in Kaluza-Klein modes have no significant effect on the late time spectrum, irrespective of the energy scale of inflation and the equation of state parameter in the post-inflationary stage. This is done numerically, using the Wronskian formulation.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Investigation of rock slope deformation at the Wahleach Hydroelectric Project using the Flac computer code
Creators: name: Stewart, Thomas W.G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Progressive deformation of the large natural rock slope at British Columbia Hydro's Wahleach hydroelectric project is an ongoing phenomenon. Slope movements have caused significant operational problems in the original power tunnels located within portions of the deforming slope, and pose a recognized hazard to property and facilities located at the base of the slope. Developing a more comprehensive understanding of the rock slope deformation mechanics has been fundamental in evaluating the potential risk to facilities located at the base of the slope. This has been achieved through an extensive investigation and monitoring program, and supported by detailed numerical modelling studies presented in this report. Numerical modelling with the finite difference FLAC computer code has utilized the extensive slope monitoring history developed between 1989 and 1994 to evaluate the model response. This has allowed the model to be used to evaluate the possible failure modes in the slope and to investigate the effects of future loading conditions such as earthquakes and extreme precipitation events, in addition to the potential long term evolution of the slope movement process. Application of the FLAC code enabled a representative simulation of observed slope conditions to be made. Modelling results yielded excellent comparison with slope instrumentation data, developing confidence in the modelling capabilities to carry out predictive analyses of potential future loading conditions. The modelling indicated the importance of transient groundwater flow to the deformation process in the upper 40 to 70 metres of the rock mass. B.C. Hydro recognized the potentially critical impact of adverse slope movement on the collection of hydroelectric, transportation and communication facilities located at the base of the Wahleach slope. Comprehensive investigative work, undertaken following the rupture of the steel lining of the power conduit, concluded that the nature of the slope movements indicated that a rapid failure mechanism was unlikely to develop. The modelling studies described herein provided further support that rapid slope failure is unlikely. Moreover, the numerical modelling provided important insight into the slope deformation mechanics, enhancing the understanding of this regionally important phenomenon.
title: Investigating the behavioural consequences of evolutionary signal loss in the context of a naturalistic environment
Creators: name: Schneider, Will
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: The evolutionary loss of sexual traits is thought to be common, but empirical examples of it occurring are rare. In this thesis, I investigate social and other behavioural factors that might facilitate signal loss. Specifically, I took an empirical approach to evaluate the ways in which the loss of a long-range acoustic signal, song, alters the mating dynamics and social behaviours of individuals in affected populations. This confronts a methodological challenge in behavioural research – the difficulty of observing and measuring behaviours from within a natural context - a context that includes the physical and social environmental conditions in which they evolved. To overcome this challenge and to study the consequences of sexual signal loss, I developed a novel tracking system to monitor, in a laboratory setting that mimicked field-like conditions, the behaviour of a cricket species in which some males have lost the ability to sing. In populations of the Hawaiian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, silent ‘flatwing’ males carry mutations that remove key wing structures, eliminating acoustic signalling and affording protection against an acoustically-orientating parasitoid fly (Ormia ochracea). This also removes their ability to attract females via song. Despite this, largely silent populations persist in the wild. Using the developed tracking system to monitor groups of individually-tagged crickets, I show how behavioural plasticity of both males and females might accommodate the disappearance of song and mitigate negative effects on reproductive fitness. This appears to be achieved by increased movement activity and changes to key social interaction dynamics. My results highlight the flexible and potentially compensatory nature of animal behaviour in facilitating rapid evolutionary change.
Becoming-Geser, Becoming-Buryat: Oral Epic and the Politics of Navigating Four Identity Crises
Creators: name: Ratcliffe, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis I look closely at the relationship between the Tibetan epic hero Geser and the Buryat Mongols of Southern Siberia over the past century. I concentrate upon on four important periods of Buryat identity crisis in which Geser and his oral epic traditions have been used by academic elites to attempt to remake who the Buryats are in the face of a rapidly changing world. These crises have taken place under very different political and ideological conditions. The first is the development of Buryat nationalism in the Russian Empire in the first decade of the 20th century. The second is the Stalinist Era drive to produce "national cultures" using heroic epic traditions in the 1940s-50s following the forced collectivisation of the Buryats. The third: the post-Soviet rediscovery of ethnic identity that swept the former USSR in the early 1990s. Lastly, I look at how Geser is being utilised today in the era of globalisation and the internet. To understand how Geser was used as a symbol for navigating these four crises, I utilise Michel Foucault's term "dispositif" - an ideological apparatus that develops around the urgent need to deal with social crisis and conditions epistemology, but also permits a multiplicity of responses and subversions to such conditions. Through this lens I will show how Geser and the Buryats have been made and remade, the past has been selectively remembered and forgotten in order to live with cultural loss, and how epic narratives remain a body of symbols to which people can return again and again to ground a "deep time" of ethnic history and identity. In this thesis I emphasise that conceptions of identity remain a historical trail of ever changing and reworked symbols - an ever-unfinished and mutable becoming-Buryat colliding with a becoming-Geser.
Radial distribution of RNA genome packaged inside spherical viruses
Creators: name: Lee, Se Il
name: Nguyen, T. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The problem of RNA genomes packaged inside spherical viruses is studied. The viral capsid is modeled as a hollowed sphere. The attraction between RNA molecules and the inner viral capsid is assumed to be non-specific and occurs at the inner capsid surface only. For small capsid attraction, it is found that monomer concentration of RNA molecules is maximum at the center of the capsid to maximize their configurational entropy. For stronger capsid attraction, RNA concentration peaks at some distance near the capsid. In the latter case, the competition between the branching of RNA secondary struture and its adsorption to the inner capsid results in the formation of a dense layer of RNA near capsid surface. The layer thickness is a slowly varying (logarithmic) function of the capsid inner radius. Consequently, for immediate strength of RNA-capsid interaction, the amount of RNA packaged inside a virus is proportional to the capsid {\em area} (or the number of proteins) instead of its volume. The numerical profiles describe reasonably well the experimentally observed RNA nucleotide concentration profiles of various viruses.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Abstract, introduction rewritten. Comparison to actual virus profiles added. Submitted to PRL
An Imprecise Probability Approach for Abstract Argumentation based on Credal Sets
Creators: name: Morveli-Espinoza, Mariela
name: Nieves, Juan Carlos
name: Tacla, Cesar Augusto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Some abstract argumentation approaches consider that arguments have a degree of uncertainty, which impacts on the degree of uncertainty of the extensions obtained from a abstract argumentation framework (AAF) under a semantics. In these approaches, both the uncertainty of the arguments and of the extensions are modeled by means of precise probability values. However, in many real life situations the exact probabilities values are unknown and sometimes there is a need for aggregating the probability values of different sources. In this paper, we tackle the problem of calculating the degree of uncertainty of the extensions considering that the probability values of the arguments are imprecise. We use credal sets to model the uncertainty values of arguments and from these credal sets, we calculate the lower and upper bounds of the extensions. We study some properties of the suggested approach and illustrate it with an scenario of decision making.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, Accepted in The 15th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2019)
Additional file 1 of A prospective study on tumour response assessment methods after neoadjuvant endocrine therapy in early oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
Creators: name: López-Velazco, Joanna I.
name: Manzano, Sara
name: Otaño, María
name: Elorriaga, Kepa
name: Bultó, Núria
name: Herrero, Julio
name: Lahuerta, Ainhara
name: Segur, Virginia
name: Álvarez-López, Isabel
name: Caffarel, Maria M.
name: Urruticoechea, Ander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. Changes in tumour levels of: Ki67 (A), Oestrogen receptor (B) and Progesterone receptor (C) before and after NET. Figure S2. Association between tumour cellularity size (A), tumour cellularity (B) and pathological tumour size (C) with Ki67 levels at surgery. Spearman correlation coefficients (rho) and p values are shown. Figure S3. Comparison of TCS quartiles (Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4) with Ki67 levels at surgery (A) and ΔKi67 (B). p values were calculated using Mann Whitney test.
Letter from Jack [Goldie] to Jim [James Goldie], October 13, 1908
Creators: name: Goldie, Jack
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to James (Jim) Goldie from his brother, Jack Goldie, dated October 13, 1908. The letter asks about James's wellbeing at the ranch, discusses other family members, and sends love.
Assessing Uncertainties in the Predicted Very-High-Energy Flux of Globular Clusters in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Era
Creators: name: Ndiyavala-Davids, Hambeleleni
name: Venter, Christo
name: Kopp, Andreas
name: Backes, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Terzan 5 is the only Galactic globular cluster that has plausibly been detected in the very-high-energy range. Stacking upper limits by H.E.S.S. on the integral $γ$-ray flux of a population of other globular clusters are very constraining for leptonic cluster emission models. We demonstrate that uncertainty in model parameters leads to a large spread in the predicted flux, and there are indeed regions in parameter space for which the stringent stacking upper limits are satisfied. We conduct two more case studies: we study the uncertainties in differential TeV flux for M15, showing that our model can satisfy the stringent MAGIC upper limits for this cluster, for typical cluster parameters. We also calculate the differential flux at TeV energies for $ω$ Cen, from which five pulsars have recently been detected at radio energies. It is thus important to increase measurement accuracy on key model parameters in order to improve predictions of cluster fluxes so as to better guide the observational strategy of the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
First-Principles Computation of YVO3; Combining Path-Integral Renormalization Group with Density-Functional Approach
Creators: name: Otsuka, Yuichi
name: Imada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic structure of the transition-metal oxide YVO3 by a hybrid first-principles scheme. The density-functional theory with the local-density-approximation by using the local muffin-tin orbital basis is applied to derive the whole band structure. The electron degrees of freedom far from the Fermi level are eliminated by a downfolding procedure leaving only the V 3d t2g Wannier band as the low-energy degrees of freedom, for which a low-energy effective model is constructed. This low-energy effective Hamiltonian is solved exactly by the path-integral renormalization group method. It is shown that the ground state has the G-type spin and the C-type orbital ordering in agreement with experimental indications. The indirect charge gap is estimated to be around 0.7 eV, which prominently improves the previous estimates by other conventional methods.
On the estimation of design wave forces
Creators: name: Ganapathy, Sumathy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The determination of wave-induced loads on ocean structures is a key aspect in the design of such structures. In the present study, five alternative approaches to estimating the load levels associated with a specified return period are described. The alternative approaches are based on different treatments of available wave data, rather than on new force formulations. The approaches include the estimation of a maximum wave height directly from the longterm distribution of significant wave heights (Method A); from the long-term distribution of individual wave heights (Method B); from the joint distribution of heights and periods (Method C); from a first order reliability method applied to estimating the maximum wave height (Method D); and from a first order reliability method applied to estimating the maximum wave force directly (Method E). These approaches to estimating the maximum wave force are carried out for small and large vertical circular cylinders. The analyses are also carried out to indicate the influence of wave period and the type of analytical distribution of significant wave height that is adopted. The results show that the most conventional approach, Method A, predicts relatively low values of the maximum wave force for both the slender and large cylinder. The estimation by Method C is closer to Method A. The force values by other methods are significantly higher for the large cylinder than the slender cylinder. The Type HI distribution for H s gives lower force values than Type I distribution. The force values are higher when T = 4.43 -Jns than T is constant. In general, the results indicate that For both slender and large cylinder, the estimation of wave force by the Methods B, D and E might be on the conservative side, while by the Methods A and C may be less conservative.
Letter from Samuel Brew (Coldstream Valley Fruit Packing) to Frank Hewer, November 10, 1908
Creators: name: Brew, Samuel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to Frank Hewer from Samuel Brew of Coldstream Valley Fruit Packing, dated November 10, 1908, regarding an issue of Account Sales for goods shipped to them on commission.
Non - Fermi Liquid Behavior in Fluctuating Gap Model: From Pole to Zero of the Green's function
Creators: name: Kuchinskii, E. Z.
name: Sadovskii, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze non - Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior of fluctuating gap model (FGM) of pseudogap behavior in both 1D and 2D. We discuss in detail quasiparticle renormalization (Z - factor), demonstrating a kind of "marginal" Fermi liquid or Luttinger liquid behavior and topological stability of the "bare" Fermi surface (Luttinger theorem). In 2D case we discuss effective picture of Fermi surface "destruction" both in "hot spots" model of dielectric (AFM, CDW) pseudogap fluctuations, as well as for qualitatively different case of superconducting d - wave fluctuations, reflecting NFL spectral density behavior and similar to that observed in ARPES experiments on copper oxides.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Impact of PCSK9 inhibitors in glycaemic control and new-onset diabetes
Creators: name: González-Lleó, Ana M.
name: Sánchez-Hernández, Rosa M.
name: Plana, Núria
name: Ibarretxe, Daiana
name: Rehues, Pere
name: Ribalta, Josep
name: Llop, Dídac
name: Wägner, Ana M.
name: Masana, Lluís
name: Boronat, Mauro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Information in foreign exchange markets
Creators: name: Rosov, Sviatoslav
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: HG3851.R67 2011
subject: Foreign exchange market
subject: Financial risk management Simulation methods

description: This thesis investigates the theory that customer order flow conveys information about foreign exchange (FX) prices. This proposition has not been extensively tested due to the difficulties in obtaining sufficiently detailed private trading data. I use a unique data set from a leading Australian commercial bank that has records on every FX trade made in the spot AUD/USD market by the bank between 2005 and 2011. To address the research question, I first search for cointegration between the FX rate and cumulative order flow. This is a testable implication of the Evans and Lyons (2002b) model. I find little evidence in support of a cointegrating relation. Instead I turn to a static analysis on order flows and returns using simple regression. The results find no statistically significant correlation between customer order flow and FX returns. However, consistent with the liquidity provision role of non-financial clients in Evans and Lyons (2002b), I find a statistically significant negative correlation between order flow from the Diversified economic sector and FX returns. Next, I perform a dynamic analysis on order flows and returns using a Vector Autoregression model. The results suggest that order flow has a limited price impact with the exception of the Diversified sector. This sector's price impact tends to be negative, which is consistent with the static analysis. The variance decompositions show evidence of significant information shares, which is consistent with previous findings showing that order flow can be informative about the FX rate without having a permanent price impact. Finally, I focus on individual clients and use Monte Carlo simulation to generate a benchmark for expected cash flows that allows me to isolate potentially informed clients based on trading profitability. The results find few exceptionally profitable clients, consistent with the weak information effects found in the other chapters. These results suggest that the customer order flow of a typical commercial bank, without a significant institutional market share, does not carry information about FX prices. Even if customer order flow is informative about the exchange rate, its practical application requires data on a large proportion of market-wide institutional trading. The benefit of FX microstructure to smaller market participants appears limited.
Additional file 1 of Bioprospecting CAZymes repertoire of Aspergillus fumigatus for eco-friendly value-added transformations of agro-forest biomass
Creators: name: Joshi, Namrata
name: Grewal, Jasneet
name: Drewniak, Lukasz
name: Pranaw, Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1 a A phylogenetic tree for A. fumigatus based on ITS sequence, b A. fumigatus spores grown over PDA plates; magnification captured at 4000× c A. fumigatus growth over PSD, magnification captured at 4000×. Fig. S2 Residual diagnostics of contour surface of the quadratic model by Normal plot of residuals for a CMCase, b xylanase, c β-glucosidase and d FPase production. Fig. S3 FTIR spectra of untreated, alkali-pretreated, and hydrolyzed a Pine sawdust (PSD) and; b Wheat straw (WS). Fig. S4 XRD diffraction of untreated, alkali-pretreated and hydrolyzed a Pine sawdust (PSD) and b Wheat straw (WS). Table S1 Regression analysis for the production of CMCase enzyme by A. fumigatus under SSF for quadratic response surface model fitting ANOVA. Where X1= pH, X2= Temperature and X3= Time. Table S2 Regression analysis for the production of xylanase enzyme by A. fumigatus under SSF for quadratic response surface model fitting ANOVA. Where X1= pH, X2= Temperature and X3= Time. Table S3 Regression analysis for the production of β-glucosidase enzyme by A. fumigatus under SSF for quadratic response surface model fitting ANOVA. Where X1= pH, X2= Temperature and X3= Time. Table S4 Regression analysis for the production of FPase enzyme by A. fumigatus under SSF for quadratic response surface model fitting ANOVA. Where X1= pH, X2= Temperature and X3= Time.