cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Utilization of malted barley flour as replacement of wheat flour to improve technological, rheological, physicochemical, and organoleptic parameters of fortified breads
Creators: name: Aslam, Jawed
name: Hussain, Ashiq
name: Mueen Ud-Din, Ghulam
name: Kausar, Tusneem
name: Siddique, Tahira
name: Kabir, Khurram
name: Gorsi, Faiza Iftikhar
name: Haroon, Haseeb
name: Nisar, Rizwan
name: Noreen, Saima
name: Rocha, João Miguel
name: Ozogul, Fatih
name: Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
name: Korma, Sameh A.
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: alpha amylase
subject: baking characteristics
subject: baking quality
subject: bread
subject: malted barley flour
subject: sensory quality
subject: wheat flour
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin

description: Introduction: Flours from cereal grains have the potential to be used in the production of bakery products, especially breads, and the addition of other non–wheat plant materials in the form of flours, extracts and malts has always been the area of interest for food producers. Methods: In this research work, barley grains were converted into barley malt flour (BMF), by adopting a series of processes, including steeping, germination, kilning, drying and milling. With the aim of compensating the role of commercial bread improvers, wheat flour was replaced at 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10% levels with BMF, to study the effect of BMF on physicochemical and sensory characteristics of bread. Results and discussion: Chemical analysis of flours revealed that ash, fat, moisture, protein and fibers were found greater in BMF and BMF–incorporated composite flours, as compared to wheat flour. Significant increases in water absorption and decrease in dough stability, dough development time and falling number were noticed, as a result of an increase in the replacement level of BMF. Water absorption of control dough was 58.03%, which increased to 58.77% in composite flour having 10% BMF, whereas dough development time, dough stability and α–amylase activity of control, were 6.97 min, 12 min, and 736 s, respectively, which were decreased to 3.83 min, 4.73 min, and 360 s, respectively in composite flour having 10% BMF. The internal and external characteristics of breads obtained the best sensorial score at 5% replacement level of BMF, and deterioration in the quality of breads was noticed, as the level of BMF was further increased to 7.5 and 10%. Hence, breads developed with 5% BMF and 95% wheat flour, were not only nutritionally rich, but were also with optimum physical and sensory features. BMF could prove a useful alternate ingredient of wheat flour, and a cost-effective replacement of commercially available bread improvers, in the breads manufacturing process in replacement of synthetic bread improvers.
Symbolic analysis of slow solar wind data using rank order statistics
Creators: name: Suyal, Vinita
name: Prasad, Awadhesh
name: Singh, Harinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze time series data of the fluctuations of slow solar wind velocity using rank order statistics. We selected a total of 18 datasets measured by the Helios spacecraft at a distance of 0.32 AU from the sun in the inner heliosphere. The datasets correspond to the years 1975-1982 and cover the end of the solar activity cycle 20 to the middle of the activity cycle 21. We first apply rank order statistics to time series from known nonlinear systems and then extend the analysis to the solar wind data. We find that the underlying dynamics governing the solar wind velocity remains almost unchanged during an activity cycle. However, during a solar activity cycle the fluctuations in the slow solar wind time series increase just before the maximum of the activity cycle
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Studies on the hypoglycemic effect of DHH-105 and its mechanisms involved
Creators: name: Kim, Wi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2004

description: Bibliography: p. 123-141
description: Compounds synthesized on the basis of the chemical structure isolated from green tea were screened for their ability to increase glucose transport in isolated rat epididymal adipocytes. DHH-105 was the most effective at increasing glucose transport (392% over control). We examined the hypoglycemic effect ofDHH-105 in diabetic animals, STZ­induced diabetic C57BL/6 mice or obese ob/ob mice. Animals that received daily intraperitoneal injections ofDHH-105 (150mg/kg) for two weeks showed lower blood glucose levels than those of untreated control STZ-diabetic mice (467 ± 6.7 vs. 285 ± 46mg/dl) and ob/ob mice (258 ± 44mg/dl vs. 155±18g/dl) and showed significantly improved glucose tolerance. To study the mechanisms of the hypoglycemic action of DHH-105, we further investigated the effect ofDHH-105 on glucose transport and the signal transduction pathways involved. DHH-105 increased glucose transport in a dose­and time-dependent manner. DHH-105 increased the Vmax of glucose transport and translocation of GLUT 4. Phenylarsine oxide inhibited glucose transport was increased by DHH-105 while protein synthesis inhibitors did not affect DHH-105 induced glucose transport. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors abolished the effect of DHH-105 on glucose transport. DHH-105 bound to the insulin receptor and increased the phosphorylation of the insulin receptor �� subunit and IRS-1, activated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and increased the phosphorylation of Akt. These results indicate that DHH-105 lowers blood glucose levels in diabetic animals through the enhancement of glucose transport mediated by the increase of insulin receptor signaling pathways.
Simulation and Optimization of MQW based optical modulator for on chip optical interconnect
Creators: name: Mishra, Sumita
name: Chaudhary, Naresh K.
name: Singh, Kalyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical interconnects are foreseen as a potential solution to improve the performance of data transmission in high speed integrated circuits since electrical interconnects operating at high bit rates have several limitations which creates a bottleneck at the interconnect level. The objective of the work is to model and then simulate the MQWM based optical interconnect transmitter. The power output of the simulated modulator is then optimized with respect to various parameters namely contrast ratio, insertion loss and bias current. The methodology presented here is suitable for investigation of both analog and digital modulation performance but it primarily deals with digital modulation. We have not included the effect of carrier charge density in multiple quantum well simulation.
description: IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 8, Issue 3, May 2011 ISSN (Online): 1694-0814 http://www.IJCSI.org
Soliton and similarity solutions of N=2,4 supersymmetric equations
Creators: name: Delisle, Laurent
name: Hussin, Véronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We produce soliton and similarity solutions of supersymmetric extensions of Burgers, Korteweg-de Vries and modified KdV equations. We give new representations of the $τ$-functions in Hirota bilinear formalism. Chiral superfields are used to obtain such solutions. We also introduce new solitons called virtual solitons whose nonlinear interactions produce no phase shifts.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures
High redshift cosmography: new results and implication for dark energy
Creators: name: Demianski, Marek
name: Piedipalumbo, Ester
name: Rubano, Claudio
name: Scudellaro, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The explanation of the accelerated expansion of the Universe poses one of the most fundamental questions in physics and cosmology today. If the acceleration is driven by some form of dark energy, one can try to constrain the parameters using a cosmographic approach. Our high-redshift analysis allows us to put constraints on the cosmographic expansion up to the fifth order. It is based on the Union2 Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) data set, the Hubble diagram constructed from some Gamma Ray Bursts luminosity distance indicators, and gaussian priors on the distance from the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), and the Hubble constant h (these priors have been included in order to help break the degeneracies among model parameters). To perform our statistical analysis and to explore the probability distributions of the cosmographic parameters we use the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method (MCMC). We finally investigate implications of our results for the dark energy, in particular, we focus on the parametrization of the dark energy equation of state (EOS). Actually, a possibility to investigate the nature of dark energy lies in measuring the dark energy equation of state, w, and its time (or redshift) dependence at high accuracy. However, since w(z) is not directly accessible to measurement, reconstruction methods are needed to extract it reliably from observations. Here we investigate different models of dark energy, described through several parametrizations of the equation of state, by comparing the cosmographic and the EOS series.
description: Accepted for pubblication in MNRAS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1005.0122, arXiv:1104.3096, arXiv:1205.3421, arXiv:0802.1583 by other authors
From Input Coverage to Code Coverage: Systematically Covering Input Structure with k-Paths
Creators: name: Havrikov, Nikolas
name: Kampmann, Alexander
name: Zeller, Andreas
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Grammar-based testing uses a given grammar to produce syntactically valid inputs. Intuitively, to cover program features, it is necessary to also cover input features. We present a measure of input coverage called k-path coverage, which takes into account the coverage of individual syntactic elements as well as their combinations up to a given depth k. A k-path coverage with k = 1 prescribes that all individual symbols be covered; k-path coverage with k = 2 dictates that all symbols in the context of all their parents be covered; and so on. Using the k-path measure, we make a number of contributions. (1) We provide an \emph{algorithm for grammar-based production} that constructively covers a given k-path measure. In our evaluation, using k-path during production results in a significantly higher code coverage than state-of-the-art approaches that ignore input coverage. (2) We show on a selection of real-world subjects that coverage of input elements, as measured by k-path, correlates with code coverage. As a consequence, k-path coverage can also be used to predict code coverage. (3) We show that one can learn associations between individual k-path features and coverage of specific locations: "Method `distrule` is invoked whenever both `+` and `*` occur in an expression." Developers can interpret these associations to create suitable inputs that focus on selected methods, or have tools generate inputs that immediately target these methods. The above approaches have been implemented in the \tribble and \codeine prototypes, and evaluated on a number of processors for JSON, CSV, URLs, and Markdown. All tools and data are available as open source.
Scenarios as a tool for the improvement of stakeholders' capacity for adapting effectively to multiple changes in the Arctic: The case of the Yamal region
Creators: name: Vilena Valeeva
name: Stephen, Kathrin
name: Gabriel, Johannes
name: Nikitina, Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation about the Case Study 5 "Yamal 2040: Scenarios for the Russian Arctic" prepared for the Arctic Frontiers 2019 conference in Tromso, Norway.
Incompressibility of H-free edge modification problems: Towards a dichotomy
Creators: name: Marx, Dániel
name: Sandeep, R.B.
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Given a graph G and an integer k, the H-free Edge Editing problem is to find whether there exist at most k pairs of vertices in G such that changing the adjacency of the pairs in G results in a graph without any induced copy of H. Nontrivial polynomial kernels are known to exist for some graphs H with at most 4 vertices, but starting from 5 vertices, polynomial kernels are known only if H is either complete or empty. This suggests the conjecture that there is no other H with at least 5 vertices where H-free Edge Editing admits a polynomial kernel. Towards this goal, we obtain a set of nine 5-vertex graphs such that if for every , H-free Edge Editing is incompressible and the complexity assumption holds, then H-free Edge Editing is incompressible for every graph H with at least five vertices that is neither complete nor empty. We obtain similar results also for H-free Edge Deletion/Completion.
Interactive Visualization and Simulation of Astronomical Nebulae
Creators: name: Wenger, Stephan
name: Ament, Marco
name: Steffen, Wolfgang
name: Koning, Nico
name: Weiskopf, Daniel
name: Magnor, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactive visualization and simulation of astrophysical phenomena help astronomers and enable digital planetariums and television documentaries to take their spectators on a journey into deep space to explore the astronomical wonders of our universe in 3D.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 78-87, May-June 2012
Supplementary document for Label-free and dynamic monitoring of cell evolutions using wavelength-multiplexing surface plasmon resonance holographic microscopy - 6346919.pdf
Creators: name: Dai, Siqing
name: Mi, Jingyu
name: Dou, Jiazhen
name: Shi, Wenpu
name: Zhang, Jiwei
name: Zhao, Jianlin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Getting by high school : identity formation and the educational achievements of Punjabi young men in Surrey, B.C.
Creators: name: Frost, Heather Danielle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is concerned with the lives and educational achievements of young Indo-Canadians, specifically the high school aged sons of Punjabi parents who immigrated to Canada beginning in the 1970s, and who were born or who have had the majority of their schooling in Canada’s public school system. I examine how these young people develop and articulate a sense of who they are in the context of their parents’ immigration and the extent to which their identities are determined and conditioned by their everyday lives. I also grapple with the implications of identity formation for the educational achievements of second generation youth by addressing how the identity choices made by young Punjabi Canadian men influence their educational performances. Using data collected by the Ministry of Education of British Columbia, I develop a quantitative profile of the educational achievements of Punjabi students enrolled in public secondary schools in the Greater Vancouver Region. This profile indicates that while most Punjabi students are completing secondary school, many, particularly the young men, are graduating with grade point averages at the lower end of the continuum and are failing to meet provincial expectations in Foundation Skills Assessments. To understand the identities and educational experiences of young Punjabi men, I conducted semi-structured interviews with prominent community members, teachers, school administrators and young Punjabi men and women attending Getting By High School, a public secondary school in Surrey, B.C. I apply the theory of segmented assimilation as formulated by sociologists Portes and Rumbaut (2001a) and work with the concept of masculinities from critical men’s studies to describe the linkages between place, identity and educational achievements by evaluating the effects of school, family and community contexts on the lives and identities of the 15 young men I interviewed. I argue that for this group of young men, life in Surrey’s Indo-Canadian community has provided the conditions for the development of a “brown” identity which while protecting them from the pernicious “Jack” has translated into a lack of scholastic effort and academic mediocrity. I conclude by addressing the implications of my findings for the theory of segmented assimilation.
Live synthesis
Creators: name: Finkbeiner, Bernd
name: Klein, Felix
name: Metzger, Niklas
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Synthesis automatically constructs an implementation that satisfies a given logical specification. In this paper, we study the live synthesis problem, where the synthesized implementation replaces an already running system. In addition to satisfying its own specification, the synthesized implementation must guarantee a sound transition from the previous implementation. This version of the synthesis problem is highly relevant in “always-on” applications, where updates happen while the system is running. To specify the correct handover between the old and new implementation, we introduce an extension of linear-time temporal logic (LTL) called LiveLTL. A LiveLTL specification defines separate requirements on the two implementations and ensures that the new implementation satisfies, in addition to its own requirements, any obligations left unfinished by the old implementation. For specifications in LiveLTL, we show that the live synthesis problem can be solved within the same complexity bound as standard reactive synthesis, i.e., in 2EXPTIME. Our experiments show the necessity of live synthesis for LiveLTL specifications created from benchmarks of SYNTCOMP and robot control.
Chrysis valida Mocsary 1912
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Masaridae
Chrysis
Chrysis valida

description: 15. Chrysis valida Mocsáry, 1912
Chrysis ignita var. valida Mocsáry 1912: 589. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Móczár 1965: 176); Hungary: Budapest (MNSB) (examined) (Chrysis ignita group).
Remarks. The species was reported from two localities in central Latvia (Bērze and Koknese) by Tumšs & Maršakovs (1970: 93), and later based on this record Rosa & Soon (2012) also listed this species from the country. All the Latvian specimens listed in Tumšs’ & Maršakovs’ publication were found from Maršakovs’ collection in LMSZ, Riga, and were found to be erroneously determined. Most of them belonged to the species C. pseudobrevitarsis, but some also represented C. angustula, C. longula and C. solida Humala & Polevoi (2009: 63) reported one specimen of C. valida from Russian Fennoscandia, but it has turned out to represent C. impressa.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Data and Software Sharing: Changing the Culture
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data Sharing
Software Sharing
Persistant Identifiers
Data Management Plan
Linking
PID Graph

description: This talk is part of a workshop held by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Title: Data Science/Sharing Mini-Workshop: Building a Sustainable Community of Practice for Data Science/Sharing Workshop Goal: To enhance collaboration, breakdown silos, and facilitate best practices to maintain a community of practice within SRP to enhance data sharing to leverage research findings and accelerate the pace of research. Objective for the talk: Share a view on the evolving change in culture around research data and software sharing. Supporting references for the talk: Slide 2 and 3: AGU’s Position Statement on Data: https://www.agu.org/Share-and-Advocate/Share/Policymakers/Position-Statements/Position_Data Slide 4: Nature’s interactive tool showing links between papers (yellow is Earth and space science, blue is BioHealth): https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-019-00121-0/index.html Slides 5-7: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25116. Slide 8: NASEM Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. https://www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/projectview.aspx?key=51293 Slide 9: The tool kit. https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/11-05-2020/docs/D2E2EB0824F0791FF1ED6537CA97B72781B7B48695C7 Slide 12-13: NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (NOT-OD-21-013) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html Slide 15-16: State of Open Data 2020. Science, Digital; Hahnel, Mark; McIntosh Borrelli, Leslie; Hyndman, Alan; Baynes, Grace; Crosas, Merce; et al. (2020): The State of Open Data 2020. Digital Science. Report.
 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13227875.v2
Multi-frequency study of the Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant J0529-6653 near Pulsar B0529-66
Creators: name: Bozzetto, L. M.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: Crawford, E. J.
name: Haberl, F.
name: Sasaki, M.
name: Urosević, D.
name: Pietsch, W.
name: Payne, J. L.
name: De Horta, A. Y.
name: Stupar, M.
name: Tothill, N.
name: Dickel, J.
name: Chu, Y. -H.
name: Gruendl, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the ATCA and ROSAT detection of Supernova Remnant (SNR) J0529--6653 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which is positioned in the projected vicinity of the known radio pulsar PSR B0529-66. In the radio-continuum frequencies, this LMC object follows a typical SNR structure of a shell morphology with brightened regions in the south-west. It exhibits an almost circular shape of D=33 x 31 pc (1 pc uncertainty in each direction) and radio spectral index of alpha=-0.68$+-$0.03 - typical for mid-age SNRs. We also report detection of polarised regions with a peak value of 17+-7% at 6 cm. An investigation of ROSAT images produced from merged PSPC data reveals the presence of extended X-ray emission coincident with the radio emission of the SNR. In X-rays, the brightest part is in the north-east. We discuss various scenarios in regards to the SNR-PSR association with emphasis on the large age difference, lack of a pulsar trail and no prominent point-like radio or X-ray source.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Generation of Multipartite Continuous-variable Entanglements via Atomic Spin Wave
Creators: name: Yang, Xihua
name: Zhou, Yuanyuan
name: Xiao, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a proof-of-principle way to generate nondegenerate multipartite continuous-variable entanglements via atomic spin wave induced by the strong coupling and probe fields in the Lambda-type electromagnetically induced transparency configuration in an atomic ensemble. Quantum correlated/anti-correlated and entangled Stokes and anti-Stokes fields, simultaneously produced through scattering the applied laser fields off the atomic spin wave, can be achieved. This method can, in principle, be extended to flexibly and conveniently create multicolor multipartite entangled narrow-band fields to any desired order with long correlation time, which may find promising applications in quantum information processing and quantum networks.
description: 14pages, 3figures
Locally Checkable Problems in Rooted Trees
Creators: name: Balliu, Alkida
name: Brandt, Sebastian
name: Chang, Yi-Jun
name: Olivetti, Dennis
name: Studený, Jan
name: Suomela, Jukka
name: Tereshchenk, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Consider any locally checkable labeling problem Π in rooted regular trees: there is a finite set of labels Σ, and for each label x ∈ Σ we specify what are permitted label combinations of the children for an internal node of label x (the leaf nodes are unconstrained). This formalism is expressive enough to capture many classic problems studied in distributed computing, including vertex coloring, edge coloring, and maximal independent set. We show that the distributed computational complexity of any such problem Π falls in one of the following classes: it is O(1), Θ(log^* n), Θ(log n), or n^{Θ(1)} rounds in trees with n nodes (and all of these classes are nonempty). We show that the complexity of any given problem is the same in all four standard models of distributed graph algorithms: deterministic LOCAL, randomized LOCAL, deterministic CONGEST, and randomized CONGEST model. In particular, we show that randomness does not help in this setting, and the complexity class Θ(log log n) does not exist (while it does exist in the broader setting of general trees). We also show how to systematically determine the complexity class of any such problem Π, i.e., whether Π takes O(1), Θ(log^* n), Θ(log n), or n^{Θ(1)} rounds. While the algorithm may take exponential time in the size of the description of Π, it is nevertheless practical: we provide a freely available implementation of the classifier algorithm, and it is fast enough to classify many problems of interest.
The major late Albian transgressive event recorded in the epeiric platform of the Langshan Formation in central Tibet
Creators: name: Xu, Yiwei
name: Hu, Xiumian
name: BouDagher-Fadel, Marcelle
name: Sun, Gaoyuan
name: Lai, Wen
name: Li, Juan
name: Zhang, Shijie
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2019

description: Plate 1: Benthic and planktonic foraminifers in the Letie Section. Fig. 1. Hedbergella delrioensis (Carsey), sample 17LT02. Fig. 2. Ascoliella quadrata (Michael), 17LT25. Fig. 3. Palorbitolina lenticularis (Blum), 17LT05. Fig. 4. Hedbergella rischi Moullade, 17LT14. Fig. 5. Favusella sp., 17LT22. Fig. 6. Favusella washitensis (Carsey), 17LT23. Fig. 7. Vercorsella arenata Arnaud- Vanneau, 17LT80. Fig. 8. Conicorbitolina cf. conica (d'Archiac), 17LT89. Fig. 9. Cuneolina parva Henson, 17LT75. A transverse section showing apertures as simple slits or series of pores along the base of the final chamber face. Scale bars: Figs 1, 2, 4–7, 9=0.25 mm; Figs 3, 8=1 mm.
Plate 2: Benthic and planktonic foraminifers in the Zulong Section. Fig. 1. Vercorsella arenata Arnaud- Vanneau, 16ZL-01. Fig. 2. Palorbitolina lenticularis (Blumenbach), 16ZL-19. Fig. 3. Palorbitolinoides orbiculata Zhang, 16ZL-127. Fig. 4. Rotalipora cf. appenninica (Renz), a recrystallized test, 16ZL-159. Fig. 5. Mesorbitolina subconcava (Leymerie), 16ZL-135. Fig. 6. Mesorbitolina birmanica (Sahni), 16ZL-127. Scale bars: Figs 1,4=0.5 mm; Figs 2–3, 5–6=1 mm.
The evolution of CMB spectral distortions in the early Universe
Creators: name: Chluba, J.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allows constraining episodes of energy release in the early Universe. In this paper we revisit and refine the computations of the cosmological thermalization problem. For this purpose a new code, called CosmoTherm, was developed that allows solving the coupled photon-electron Boltzmann equation in the expanding, isotropic Universe for small spectral distortion in the CMB. We explicitly compute the shape of the spectral distortions caused by energy release due to (i) annihilating dark matter; (ii) decaying relict particles; (iii) dissipation of acoustic waves; and (iv) quasi-instantaneous heating. We also demonstrate that (v) the continuous interaction of CMB photons with adiabatically cooling non-relativistic electrons and baryons causes a negative mu-type CMB spectral distortion of DI_nu/I_nu ~ 10^{-8} in the GHz spectral band. We solve the thermalization problem including improved approximations for the double Compton and Bremsstrahlung emissivities, as well as the latest treatment of the cosmological recombination process. At redshifts z
description: 22 pages, 19 figures, 1 table, accepted by MNRAS
Meeting management goals in an urban forest : vegetation dynamics and prescriptions in Stanley Park
Creators: name: Buffo, Mike Adrian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: As urban areas grow, urban trees attract more attention from city governments, foresters, arborists and citizens because of the ecological services and amenities they provide and also the hazards they pose. The term ‘urban forest’ has a wide variety of meanings. These meanings are are rarely functional. Urban trees live in habitats where human interventions in ecological processes and environmental conditions range from severe to minimal. One end of this gradient represents an ‘urban treescape’ while at the other end are ‘self-maintaining forests’. These terms are defined within a conceptual framework that better describes the functional range of forests found in urban areas. Management of urban forests requires techniques and concepts from both forestry and arboriculture. Stanley Park is an example of a semi-self-maintaining forest. Aerial photograph analysis shows that the forest composition and structure of the Stanley Park forest has changed substantially since the 1930’s. Windstorms in 1934, 1962 and 2006 have played an important role in this change. To characterize current conditions, data were collected from 208 sample plots to describe the forest vegetation. From these data and historical vegetation data, 15 vegetation types were defined. Data from representative plots were used to model different management scenarios in stands disturbed in 2006 and stands replanted following the windstorm in 1962. In the stands initiated following the 1962 storm, thinning over the next few years would reduce the overstory height to diameter ratios (HDR) but, because of the height of the stand, the windthrow hazard will remain high. Planting densities in the stands disturbed in 2006 were low, but there is considerable natural regeneration. Early thinning treatments will be required to achieve compositional and structural targets outlined in the Stanley Park Forest Management Plan (Vancouver Park Board 2009). Thinning should be done in the next 10 to 15 years in these stands to achieve the management goals most efficiently. The modeling tools used here can be used in other urban forest settings. They can be particularly valuable when managers must plan silvicultural treatments to reach management goals and when presenting treatment options to the public and budgetary authorities.
Charged hanging chain - catenary exposed to force
Creators: name: Morawetz, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new solution of a charged catenary is presented which allows to determine the static stability conditions where charged liquid bridges or charged hanging robes are possible.
description: 3 pages 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1107.0459
Explaining radio emission of magnetars via rotating and oscillating magnetospheres of neutron stars
Creators: name: Morozova, Viktoriya
name: Ahmedov, Bobomurat
name: Zanotti, Olindo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the conditions for radio emission in rotating and oscillating magnetars, by focusing on the main physical processes determining the position of their death-lines in the P-\dot{P} diagram, i.e. of those lines that separate the regions where the neutron star may be radio-loud or radio-quiet. After using the general relativistic expression for the electromagnetic scalar potential in the magnetar magnetosphere, we find that larger compactness parameters of the star as well as larger inclination angles between the rotation axis and the magnetic moment produce death-lines well above the majority of known magnetars. This is consistent with the observational evidence of no regular radio emission from the magnetars in the frequency range typical for the ordinary pulsars. On the contrary, when oscillations of the magnetar are taken into account, the death-lines shift downward and the conditions necessary for the generation of radio emission in the magnetosphere are met. Present observations showing a close connection between the burst activity of magnetars and the generation of the radio emission in the magnetar magnetosphere are naturally accounted for within our interpretation.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, matches version accepted by MNRAS
Omen: discovering sequential patterns with reliable prediction delays
Creators: name: Cueppers, Joscha
name: Kalofolias, Janis
name: Vreeken, Jilles
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Suppose we are given a discrete-valued time series $$X $$ X of observed events and an equally long binary sequence $$Y $$ Y that indicates whether something of interest happened at that particular point in time. We consider the problem of mining serial episodes, sequential patterns allowing for gaps, from $$X $$ X that reliably predict those interesting events. With reliable we mean patterns that not only predict that an interesting event is likely to follow, but in particular that we can also accurately tell how how long until that event will happen. In other words, we are specifically interested in patterns with a highly skewed distribution of delays between pattern occurrences and predicted events. As it is unlikely that a single pattern can explain a complex real-world progress, we are after the smallest, least redundant set of such patterns that together explain the interesting events well. We formally define this problem in terms of the Minimum Description Length principle, by which we identify the best patterns as those that describe the occurrences of interesting events $$Y $$ Y most succinctly given the data over $$X $$ X . As neither discovering the optimal explanation of $$Y $$ Y given a set of patterns, nor the discovery of optimal pattern set are problems that allow for straightforward optimization, we break the problem in two and propose effective heuristics for both. Through extensive empirical evaluation, we show that both our main method, Omen , and its fast approximation fOmen , work well in practice and both quantitatively and qualitatively beat the state of the art.
On a vertex-capturing game
Creators: name: Bensmail, Julien
name: McInerney, Fionn
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: In this paper, we study the recently introduced scoring game played on graphs called the Edge-Balanced Index Game. This game is played on a graph by two players, Alice and Bob, who take turns colouring an uncoloured edge of the graph. Alice plays first and colours edges red, while Bob colours edges blue. The game ends once all the edges have been coloured. A player captures a vertex if more than half of its incident edges are coloured by that player, and the player that captures the most vertices wins. Using classical arguments from the field, we first prove general properties of this game. Namely, we prove that there is no graph in which Bob can win (if Alice plays optimally), while Alice can never capture more than 2 more vertices than Bob (if Bob plays optimally). Through dedicated arguments, we then investigate more specific properties of the game, and focus on its outcome when played in particular graph classes. Specifically, we determine the outcome of the game in paths, cycles, complete bipartite graphs, and Cartesian grids, and give partial results for trees and complete graphs.
Pareto-Optimal Defenses for the Web Infrastructure: Theory and Practice
Creators: name: Di Tizio, Giorgio
name: Speicher, Patrick
name: Simeonovski, Milivoj
name: Backes, Michael
name: Stock, Ben
name: Künnemann, Robert
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The integrity of the content a user is exposed to when browsing the web relies on a plethora of non-web technologies and an infrastructure of interdependent hosts, communication technologies, and trust relations. Incidents like the Chinese Great Cannon or the MyEtherWallet attack make it painfully clear: the security of end users hinges on the security of the surrounding infrastructure: routing, DNS, content delivery, and the PKI. There are many competing, but isolated proposals to increase security, from the network up to the application layer. So far, researchers have focus on analyzing attacks and defenses on specific layers. We still lack an evaluation of how, given the status quo of the web, these proposals can be combined, how effective they are, and at what cost the increase of security comes. In this work, we propose a graph-based analysis based on Stackelberg planning that considers a rich attacker model and a multitude of proposals from IPsec to DNSSEC and SRI. Our threat model considers the security of billions of users against attackers ranging from small hacker groups to nation-state actors. Analyzing the infrastructure of the Top 5k Alexa domains, we discover that the security mechanisms currently deployed are ineffective and that some infrastructure providers have a comparable threat potential to nations. We find a considerable increase of security (up to 13% protected web visits) is possible at relatively modest cost, due to the effectiveness of mitigations at the application and transport layer, which dominate expensive infrastructure enhancements such as DNSSEC and IPsec.
Optimal control design of band-selective excitation pulses that accommodate relaxation and RF inhomogeneity
Creators: name: Skinner, Thomas E.
name: Gershenzon, Naum I.
name: Nimbalkar, Manoj
name: Glaser, Steffen J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Existing optimal control protocols for mitigating the effects of relaxation and/or RF inhomogeneity on broadband pulse performance are extended to the more difficult problem of designing robust, refocused, frequency selective excitation pulses. For the demanding case of T1 and T2 equal to the pulse length, anticipated signal losses can be significantly reduced while achieving nearly ideal frequency selectivity. Improvements in performance are the result of allowing residual unrefocused magnetization after applying relaxation-compensated selective excitation by optimized pulses (RC-SEBOP). We demonstrate simple pulse sequence elements for eliminating this unwanted residual signal.
Pseudo-Newtonian Potentials for Nearly Parabolic Orbits
Creators: name: Wegg, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a pseudo-Newtonian potential which, to within 1% error at all angular momenta, reproduces the precession due to general relativity of particles whose specific orbital energy is small compared to c^2 in the Schwarzschild metric. For bound orbits the constraint of low energy is equivalent to requiring the apoapsis of a particle to be large compared to the Schwarzschild radius. Such low energy orbits are ubiquitous close to supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, but the potential is relevant in any context containing particles on low energy orbits. Like the more complex post-Newtonian expressions, the potential correctly reproduces the precession in the far-field, but also correctly reproduces the position and magnitude of the logarithmic divergence in precession for low angular momentum orbits. An additional advantage lies in its simplicity, both in computation and implementation. We also provide two simpler, but less accurate potentials, for cases where orbits always remain at large angular momenta, or when the extra accuracy is not needed. In all of the presented cases the accuracy in precession in low energy orbits exceeds that of the well known potential of Paczynski & Wiita (1980), which has ~30% error in the precession at all angular momenta.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted by ApJ
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of carotenoid cleavage oxygenase genes in Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)
Creators: name: Yue, Xiao-Qi
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Yang, Cheng-Kun
name: Li, Jian-Guo
name: Rui, Xia
name: Ding, Feng
name: Hu, Fu-Chu
name: Wang, Xiang-He
name: Ma, Wu-Qiang
name: Zhou, Kai-Bing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplement Figure 1. The dynamic of carotenoid content during fruit maturation of litchi. A: ‘Feizixiao’ variety; B: ‘Nuomici’ variety. Different letters indicated statistically differences between days of after anthesis using one-way ANOVA with the SAS test (P <0.05). Supplement Table S1. Primers of selected LcCCO genes in litchi and reference genes. Supplement Table S2. Cis-acting element information in the promoter region of LcCCO genes in Litchi. Supplement Table S3. Two-dimensional structures of LcCCO proteins. Supplement Table S4. GO enrichment analysis of LcCCO genes. Supplement Table S5. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes during pericarp coloring of ‘Feizixiao’ litchi treated by exogenous CPPU. Supplement Table S6. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes of ‘Feizixiao’ litchi on the 0, 1, 3 and 7 days after bags removed (Zhang et al., 2016a). Supplement Table S7. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes in ‘Nuomici’ Litchi during three different development stages of fruit (Lai et al., 2015). Supplement Table S8. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes of the entire inflorescences samples of 'Feizixiao’ litchi on 28 days after the uniconazole treatment (Wei et al., 2017b). Supplement Table S9. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes of fruit samples of ‘Wuye’ litchi after 2, 4 and 7 days treated by girdling plus defoliation(Li et al., 2015a). Supplement Table S10. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes of abscission zone samples of ‘Feizixiao’litchi after 0, 1, 2, 3 days treated by exogenous ethephon (Li et al., 2015b). Supplement Table S11. The TPM value and differential expression analysis of LcCCO genes of the peel samples on 0d and 4d after stored at room temperature and 0h, 24h and 48h stored at room temperature after precooling for 14 days [32].
Specification decomposition for reactive synthesis
Creators: name: Finkbeiner, Bernd
name: Geier, Gideon
name: Passing, Noemi
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Reactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent ad- advances in terms of algorithms and tools, however, re-active synthesis is still not practical when the specified systems reach a certain bound in size and complexity. In this paper, we present a sound and complete modular synthesis algorithm that automatically decomposes the specification into smaller subspecifications. For them, independent synthesis tasks are performed, significantly reducing the complexity of the individual tasks. Our decomposition algorithm guarantees that the subspecifications are independent in the sense that completely separate synthesis tasks can be performed for them. Moreover, the composition of the resulting implementations is guaranteed to satisfy the original specification. Our algorithm is a preprocessing technique that can be applied to a wide range of synthesis tools. We evaluate our approach with state-of-the-art synthesis tools on established benchmarks: the runtime decreases significantly when synthesizing implementations modularly.
Partial-Transfer Absorption Imaging: A versatile technique for optimal imaging of ultracold gases
Creators: name: Ramanathan, Anand
name: Muniz, Sérgio R.
name: Wright, Kevin C.
name: Anderson, Russell P.
name: Phillips, William D.
name: Helmerson, Kristian
name: Campbell, Gretchen K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Partial-transfer absorption imaging is a tool that enables optimal imaging of atomic clouds for a wide range of optical depths. In contrast to standard absorption imaging, the technique can be minimally-destructive and can be used to obtain multiple successive images of the same sample. The technique involves transferring a small fraction of the sample from an initial internal atomic state to an auxiliary state and subsequently imaging that fraction absorptively on a cycling transition. The atoms remaining in the initial state are essentially unaffected. We demonstrate the technique, discuss its applicability, and compare its performance as a minimally-destructive technique to that of phase-contrast imaging.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments
Tamarin: Verification of Large-Scale, Real-World, Cryptographic Protocols
Creators: name: Basin, David
name: Cremers, Cas
name: Sasse, Ralf
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Tamarin is a mature, state-of-the-art tool for cryptographic protocol verification. We survey some of the larger tour de force results achieved and show how Tamarin can formalize protocols, adversary models, and properties, and scale to substantial, real world, verification problems.
Experimental test of airplane boarding methods
Creators: name: Steffen, Jason H.
name: Hotchkiss, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of an experimental comparison of different airplane boarding methods. This test was conducted in a mock 757 fuselage, located on a Southern California soundstage, with 12 rows of six seats and a single aisle. Five methods were tested using 72 passengers of various ages. We found a significant reduction in the boarding times of optimized methods over traditional methods. These improved methods, if properly implemented, could result in a significant savings to airline companies.
description: 8 pages, submitted to the Journal of Air Transport Management