cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Russian-Ukraine War: An Albatross to Achieving 2030 SDGs 1 & 2 in Nigeria
Creators: name: Awe, Abayomi Olatunji
name: Adams, Adeola Slyvester
Publisher: name: Lagos State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: International conflict
subject: International conflict
subject: Sustainable development goals
subject: Sustainable Development Goals
subject: Food Security and Nigeria

description: International conflicts between opposing countries cause damage, harm, and impediment to economic, social and political progress. The Russian Ukrainian conflict has significantly impacted Nigeria's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, which aim to end hunger and poverty by 2030. Embracing the qualitative research method, which involves the collection and analysing non-numerical data to understand the problem, this study reveals that the conflict has led to economic disruptions, business spin, food insecurity, worsening foreign exchange, diverted resources, and high energy costs. The war's volatility in the world food system has exacerbated Nigeria's food security, obstructing the achievement of SDGs 1 (No Poverty) and SDG 2 (Zero Hunger). To alleviate the conflict's effects, this paper suggested that Nigeria should focus on diversifying the economy, investing in indigenous farmers, reducing reliance on sectors open to external shocks, and investing in sustainable agriculture methods. Improving food security measures, such as domestic food production and agribusiness, is crucial for a stable and resilient food supply. This paper concludes that the Russian-Ukraine war is a gargantuan albatross to Nigeria's progress towards SDGs 1 and 2.
The Properties of Radio Galaxies and the Effect of Environment in Large Scale Structures at $z\sim1$
Creators: name: Shen, Lu
name: Miller, Neal A.
name: Lemaux, Brian C.
name: Tomczak, Adam R.
name: Lubin, Lori M.
name: Rumbaugh, Nicholas
name: Fassnacht, Christopher D.
name: Becker, Robert H.
name: Gal, Roy R.
name: Wu, Po-Feng.
name: Squires, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we investigate 89 radio galaxies that are spectroscopically-confirmed to be members of five large scale structures in the redshift range of $0.65 \le z \le 0.96$. Based on a two-stage classification scheme, the radio galaxies are classified into three sub-classes: active galactic nucleus (AGN), hybrid, and star-forming galaxy (SFG). We study the properties of the three radio sub-classes and their global and local environmental preferences. We find AGN hosts are the most massive population and exhibit quiescence in their star-formation activity. The SFG population has a comparable stellar mass to those hosting a radio AGN but are unequivocally powered by star formation. Hybrids, though selected as an intermediate population in our classification scheme, were found in almost all analyses to be a unique type of radio galaxies rather than a mixture of AGN and SFGs. They are dominated by a high-excitation radio galaxy (HERG) population. We discuss environmental effects and scenarios for each sub-class. AGN tend to be preferentially located in locally dense environments and in the cores of clusters/groups, with these preferences persisting when comparing to galaxies of similar colour and stellar mass, suggesting that their activity may be ignited in the cluster/group virialized core regions. Conversely, SFGs exhibit a strong preference for intermediate-density global environments, suggesting that dusty starbursting activity in LSSs is largely driven by galaxy-galaxy interactions and merging.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures, accepted to MNRAS
QCD Thermodynamics with Improved Actions
Creators: name: Karsch, F.
name: Beinlich, B.
name: Engels, J.
name: Joswig, R.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Peikert, A.
name: Petersson, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamics of the SU(3) gauge theory has been analyzed with tree level and tadpole improved Symanzik actions. A comparison with the continuum extrapolated results for the standard Wilson action shows that improved actions lead to a drastic reduction of finite cut-off effects already on lattices with temporal extent $N_τ=4$. Results for the pressure, the critical temperature, surface tension and latent heat are presented. First results for the thermodynamics of four-flavour QCD with an improved staggered action are also presented. They indicate similarly large improvement factors for bulk thermodynamics.
description: Talk presented at LATTICE96(finite temperature) 4 pages, LaTeX2e file, 6 eps-files
Polaronic Proton and Diproton Clustering in Neutron-Rich Matter
Creators: name: Tajima, Hiroyuki
name: Moriya, Hajime
name: Horiuchi, Wataru
name: Nakano, Eiji
name: Iida, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that strong spin-triplet neutron-proton interaction causes polaronic protons to occur in neutron matter at subnuclear densities and nonzero temperature. As the neutron density increases, proton spectra exhibit a smooth crossover from a bare impurity to a repulsive polaron branch; this branch coexists with an attractive polaron branch. With the neutron density increased further, the attractive polarons become stable with respect to deuteron formation. For two adjacent protons, we find that the polaron effects and the neutron-mediated attraction are sufficient to induce a bound diproton, which leads possibly to diproton formation in the surface region of neutron-rich nuclei in laboratories as well as in neutron stars.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures (8 pages, 6 figures in the supplement)
Does Gender Influence the Cardiovascular Benefits Observed with Sodium Glucose Co-Transporter-2 (SGLT-2) Inhibitors? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Ahmed N.
name: Elgendy, Islam Y.
name: Saad, Marwan
name: Elgendy, Akram Y.
name: Barakat, Amr F.
name: Amgad Mentias
name: Abuzaid, Ahmed
name: Bavry, Anthony A.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Cardiology

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Hamiltonian Switching Control of Noisy Bipartite Qubit Systems
Creators: name: Yang, Zhibo
name: Kosut, Robert L.
name: Whaley, K. Birgitta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a Hamiltonian switching ansatz for bipartite control that is inspired by the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), to mitigate environmental noise on qubits. We illustrate the approach with application to the protection of quantum gates performed on i) a central spin qubit coupling to bath spins through isotropic Heisenberg interactions, ii) superconducting transmon qubits coupling to environmental two-level-systems (TLS) through dipole-dipole interactions, and iii) qubits coupled to both TLS and a Lindblad bath. The control field is classical and acts only on the system qubits. We use reinforcement learning with policy gradient (PG) to optimize the Hamiltonian switching control protocols, using a fidelity objective defined with respect to specific target quantum gates. We use this approach to demonstrate effective suppression of both coherent and dissipative noise, with numerical studies achieving target gate implementations with fidelities over 0.9999 (four nines) in the majority of our test cases and showing improvement beyond this to values of 0.999999999 (nine nines) upon a subsequent optimization by Gradient Ascent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE). We analyze how the control depth, total evolution time, number of environmental TLS, and choice of optimization method affect the fidelity achieved by the optimal protocols and reveal some critical behaviors of bipartite control of quantum gates.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Appendices: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Floquet engineering of localized propagation of light in waveguide array
Creators: name: Ma, Chao
name: Wang, Yuan-Sheng
name: An, Jun-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light propagating in a waveguide array or photonic lattice has become an ideal platform to control light and to mimic quantum behaviors in a classical system. We here investigate the propagation of light in a coupled waveguide array with one of the waveguides periodically modulated in its geometric structure or refractive index. Within the framework of Floquet theory, it is interesting to find that the light shows the localized propagation in the modulated waveguide as long as bound quasistationary modes are formed in the band-gap area of the Floquet eigenvalue spectrum. This mechanism gives a useful instruction to confine light via engineering the periodic structure to form the bound modes. It also serves as a classical simulation of decoherence control via temporally periodic driving in open quantum systems.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Non-Hermitian Quantum Fermi Accelerator
Creators: name: Fring, Andreas
name: Taira, Takano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exactly solve a quantum Fermi accelerator model consisting of a time-independent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with time-dependent Dirichlet boundary conditions. A Hilbert space for such systems can be defined in two equivalent ways, either by first constructing a time-independent Dyson map and subsequently unitarily mapping to fixed boundary conditions or by first unitarily mapping to fixed boundary conditions followed by the construction of a time-dependent Dyson map. In turn this allows to construct time-dependent metric operators from a time-independent metric and two time-dependent unitary maps that freeze the moving boundaries. From the time-dependent energy spectrum, we find the known possibility of oscillatory behavior in the average energy in the PT-regime, whereas in the spontaneously broken PT-regime we observe the new feature of a one-time depletion of the energy. We show that the PT broken regime is mended with moving boundary, equivalently to mending it with a time-dependent Dyson map.
Quasi-normal modes of a strongly coupled non-conformal plasma and approach to criticality
Creators: name: Betzios, Panagiotis
name: Gürsoy, Umut
name: Järvinen, Matti
name: Policastro, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study fluctuations around equilibrium in a class of strongly interacting non-conformal plasmas using holographic techniques. In particular we calculate the quasi-normal mode spectrum of black hole backgrounds that approach to Chamblin-Reall plasmas in the IR. In a specific limit, related to the exact linear-dilaton background in string theory, we observe that the plasma approaches criticality and we obtain the quasi-normal spectrum analytically. We regulate the critical limit by gluing the IR geometry that corresponds to the non-conformal plasma to a part of AdS space-time in the UV. Near criticality, we find two sets of quasi-normal modes, related to the IR and UV parts of the geometry. In the critical limit, the quasi-normal modes accumulate to form a branch cut in the correlators of the energy-momentum tensor on the real axis of the complex frequency plane.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Mass downsizing and "top-down" assembly of early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Cimatti, A.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Renzini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new analysis of the rest-frame B-band COMBO-17 and DEEP2 luminosity functions (LFs) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) as a function of luminosity and mass. Our aim is to place new stringent constraints on the evolution of ETGs since z~1. We correct the LF($z$) data for the luminosity dimming assuming pure luminosity evolution. However, instead of relying on stellar population synthesis model--dependent assumptions, we adopt the empirical luminosity dimming rate derived from the evolution of the Fundamental Plane of field and cluster massive ETGs.Our results show that the amount of evolution for the ETG population depends critically on the range of luminosity and masses considered. While the number density of luminous (massive) ETGs with M_B(z=0)< -20.5 (Mass > 10^11 M_Sun) is nearly constant since z~0.8, less luminous galaxies display a deficit which grows with redshift and that can be explained with a gradual population of the ETG "red sequence" by the progressive quenching of star formation in galaxies less massive than ~10^11 M_Sun. At each redshift there is a critical mass above which virtually all ETGs appear to be in place, and this fits well in the now popular "downsizing" scenario. However, ``downsizing'' does not appear to be limited to star formation, but the concept may have to be extended to the mass assembly itself as the build-up of the most massive galaxies preceeds that of the less massive ones. This evolutionary trend is not reproduced by the most recent theoretical simulations even when they successfully reproduce "downsizing" in star formation.
description: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letters), in press; 5 pages, 3 figures
Low-Lying Eigenvalues of the Wilson-Dirac Operator
Creators: name: Jansen, K.
name: Liu, C.
name: Simma, H.
name: Smith, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exploratory study of the low-lying eigenvalues of the Wilson-Dirac operator and their corresonding eigenvectors is presented. Results for the eigenvalues from quenched and unquenched simulations are discussed. The eigenvectors are studied with respect to their localization properties in the quenched approximation for the cases of SU(2) and SU(3).
description: Poster presented at LATTICE96(poster). 4 pages, LaTeX, fully coloured versions of Figs. 4 and 5 are included as separate gzipped PostScript files or can be obtained from http://www.desy.de/library/cgi-bin/showprep.pl?desy-rep%2F1996153
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515) (11 H 1162), f. 00314
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162), f. 00314, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Cross or Wait? Predicting Pedestrian Interaction Outcomes at Unsignalized Crossings
Creators: name: Zhang, Chi
name: Kalantari, Amir Hossein
name: Yang, Yue
name: Ni, Zhongjun
name: Markkula, Gustav
name: Merat, Natasha
name: Berger, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.10
subject: 68T40

description: Predicting pedestrian behavior when interacting with vehicles is one of the most critical challenges in the field of automated driving. Pedestrian crossing behavior is influenced by various interaction factors, including time to arrival, pedestrian waiting time, the presence of zebra crossing, and the properties and personality traits of both pedestrians and drivers. However, these factors have not been fully explored for use in predicting interaction outcomes. In this paper, we use machine learning to predict pedestrian crossing behavior including pedestrian crossing decision, crossing initiation time (CIT), and crossing duration (CD) when interacting with vehicles at unsignalized crossings. Distributed simulator data are utilized for predicting and analyzing the interaction factors. Compared with the logistic regression baseline model, our proposed neural network model improves the prediction accuracy and F1 score by 4.46% and 3.23%, respectively. Our model also reduces the root mean squared error (RMSE) for CIT and CD by 21.56% and 30.14% compared with the linear regression model. Additionally, we have analyzed the importance of interaction factors, and present the results of models using fewer factors. This provides information for model selection in different scenarios with limited input features.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables. Accepted in 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV). DOI: 10.1109/IV55152.2023.10186616
Non-thermal Production of Dark Matter from Primordial Black Holes
Creators: name: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
name: Dent, James B.
name: Osinski, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scenario for non-thermal production of dark matter from evaporation of primordial black holes. A period of very early matter domination leads to formation of black holes with a maximum mass of $\simeq 2 \times 10^8$ g, whose subsequent evaporation prior to big bang nucleosynthesis can produce all of the dark matter in the universe. We show that the correct relic abundance can be obtained in this way for thermally underproduced dark matter in the 100 GeV-10 TeV mass range. To achieve this, the scalar power spectrum at small scales relevant for black hole formation should be enhanced by a factor of ${\cal O}(10^5)$ relative to the scales accessible by the cosmic microwave background experiments.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, updated to match the version published in PRD
Matching the Quasi Parton Distribution in a Momentum Subtraction Scheme
Creators: name: Stewart, Iain W.
name: Zhao, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi parton distribution is a spatial correlation of quarks or gluons along the $z$ direction in a moving nucleon which enables direct lattice calculations of parton distribution functions. It can be defined with a nonperturbative renormalization in a regularization independent momentum subtraction scheme (RI/MOM), which can then be perturbatively related to the collinear parton distribution in the $\overline{\text{MS}}$ scheme. Here we carry out a direct matching from the RI/MOM scheme for the quasi-PDF to the $\overline{\text{MS}}$ PDF, determining the non-singlet quark matching coefficient at next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. We find that the RI/MOM matching coefficient is insensitive to the ultraviolet region of convolution integral, exhibits improved perturbative convergence when converting between the quasi-PDF and PDF, and is consistent with a quasi-PDF that vanishes in the unphysical region as the proton momentum $P^z\to \infty$, unlike other schemes. This direct approach therefore has the potential to improve the accuracy for converting quasi-distribution lattice calculations to collinear distributions.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
IMPLEMENTATION OF LAGUAGE GAMES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSROOMS IN A2 LEVEL
Creators: name: Yuldosheva, Dildora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The theme "Implementation of laguage games in english speaking classrooms in a2 level" investigates the design and application of language games as an effective method to teach speaking skills in foreign language learning. The focus is on how well-constructed, interactive games can stimulate students' interest, increase their participation, and provide a playful yet purposeful environment for practicing spoken language. Language games encourage learners to use the language creatively and spontaneously, thereby improving fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, and confidence in real-life communication. This theme emphasizes the importance of aligning the games with specific learning objectives, student needs, and contextual factors, and explores various types of games such as role-plays, debates, and storytelling activities. The goal is to provide students with opportunities to practice language in a non-threatening, supportive atmosphere.
Poverty Alleviation in the Poor Mountainous Areas of Western China by Supporting Industry: A Case Study of Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan Province
Creators: name: ZHANG Bosheng
name: YANG Zisheng
name: ZHANG Bosheng
name: YANG Zisheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Poverty-stricken mountainous area, Targeted poverty alleviation by supporting industry, Relocation, Model, Interest linkage, Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County

description: Poverty alleviation by supporting industry is a key measure to promote the poverty alleviation of relocated households. Taking Xundian County, the first county in Yunnan Province that has been lifted out of poverty, as an research case, this article analyzes and summarizes the industry-supporting poverty alleviation achievements and successful experience of two typical relocation areas (Shanhou Village and Eyang Village) in Xundian County. Practice has shown that the key to industry-supporting poverty alleviation lies in targetedness to strengthen the participation of poor farmers in industrial development. The interests of poverty alleviation entities should be linked by market mechanism to establish a benign interaction between all parties for win-win situation, thereby effectively guaranteeing the long-term and healthy development of poverty alleviation by supporting industry.
title: Évaluation 2 des projets de recherche, dans le cadre du programme ATRI 2017
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation de l'ensemble des projets de recherche proposés dans le cadre du programme ATRI, initié par le LabexMed.
title: Tests of hypotheses for spatial segregation in carnivores
title: Habitat segregation or social avoidance?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Keehner, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Puma -- Effect of hunting on -- Washington (State)

description: Sexual segregation occurs within a species when sexes differ in habitat requirements or when differences in behavior cause individuals to avoid the opposite sex. Studies of sexual segregation in carnivores suggest segregation between reproductive classes is present and driven by habitat and social factors. Habitat segregation is usually benign but social segregation can have negative impacts. In northeastern Washington, heavy hunting of male mountain lions (Puma concolor) resulted in a net immigration of younger males. As resident males were harvested; younger immigrant males occupied their territories. Such changes in the sex and age distribution can increase the likelihood of infanticide and females with offspring may respond by using space differently than males. In central Washington, light hunting of males resulted in a net emigration of younger males and a stable sex and age distribution including older resident males. I calculated utilization distribution overlap indexes (UDOI) and compared male overlap of independent females to male overlap of females with kittens to test whether habitat or social segregation was related to sexually dimorphic spatial use in the two populations. Analysis of variance revealed that avoidance of males by females with kittens increased during summer, when kittens were vulnerable, in both the heavily hunted and lightly hunted areas. Females with kittens in both study areas decreased their overlap with males to about 1/3 of the overlap they had as independent females however avoidance of males was more pronounced in the heavily hunted population. In addition, I compared the use and availability of elevation within each individual's home range to test whether females with offspring used elevation within their home ranges differently than solitary females or males. Analysis of variance between use and availability of elevation revealed that in the heavily hunted area, females with offspring used higher elevations than were available within their home ranges and independent females and males did not. In the lightly hunted area, no differences in use/availability were detected between reproductive classes. These results support the social avoidance hypothesis of sexual segregation. Heavy hunting of males appears to increase sexual segregation in mountain lions and other potentially infanticidal carnivores.
Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through the Cavity Q-factor
Creators: name: Tichauer, Ruth H.
name: Sokolovskii, Ilia
name: Groenhof, Gerrit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport of excitons in organic materials can be enhanced through polariton formation when the interaction strength between these excitons and the confined light modes of an optical resonator exceeds their decay rates. While the polariton lifetime is determined by the Q(uality)-factor of the optical resonator, the polariton group velocity is not. Instead, the latter is solely determined by the polariton dispersion. Yet, experiments suggest that the Q-factor also controls the polariton propagation velocity. To understand this observation, we performed molecular dynamics simulations of Rhodamine chromophores strongly coupled to Fabry-Pérot cavities with various Q-factors. Our results suggest that propagation in the aforementioned experiments is initially dominated by ballistic motion of upper polariton states at their group velocities, which leads to a rapid expansion of the wavepacket. Cavity decay in combination with non-adiabatic population transfer into dark states, rapidly depletes these bright states, causing the wavepacket to contract. However, because population transfer is reversible, propagation continues, but as a diffusion process, at lower velocity. By controlling the lifetime of bright states, the Q-factor determines the duration of the ballistic phase and the diffusion coefficient in the diffusive regime. Thus, polariton propagation in organic microcavities can be effectively tuned through the Q-factor.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.07309
Cardiovascular Abnormalities and in-Hospital All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Spontaneous Sub-Arachnoid Hemorrhage: An Observational Study
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Ahmed N.
name: Elgendy, Akram Y.
name: Hend Mansoor
name: Elgendy, Islam Y.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Cardiology

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Urban green space and gender in Anglophone Modernist fiction
Creators: name: Wiechert, Nora L.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism

description: Drawing upon the concept of Green Cultural Studies, this dissertation examines the way urban green spaces, such as parks and public gardens, function as heterotopic sites within Anglophone Modernist literature. The dissertation offers, like modern fiction itself, glimpses or snapshots of urban green spaces in their various incarnations and applications, hence presenting a collection of various encounters with and representations of urban green space. It focuses on authors who find themselves outside of the traditional white, Anglo, heterosexual male circle of writers and the dissertation investigates how they use green urban spaces within their fiction--to write against hierarchical social structures, to create heterotopic "other" spaces, or to interrogate ideas regarding normalcy and the concept of a "natural" order. These authors (including Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Djuna Barnes, and E.M. Forster) use individual green places--be they parks, public gardens, suburbs, or urban wastelands--to imagine and create new urban spaces. Chapter one examines Virgina Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, locating her portrayal of shell shock in reference to the green space of Regent's Park. In the following chapter, the discussion focuses on public gardens both in Great Britain and the European Continent, and unearths the way women authors utilize these spaces to articulate their (sexual) autonomous identities. Short stories by Djuna Barnes and Katherine Mansfield form the focus for the chapter. Then, chapter three extends the analysis to suburban spaces at the beginning of the twentieth century; specifically, three texts by E.M. Forster provide a panoramic view of how suburban green space provides an entry into the imagined national community for the "Other" woman. Finally, Chapter Four formulates a theory of unplanned/spontaneous urban green space that provides the possibility for heterotopic spaces to occur. It examines Woolf's Between the Acts as well as Jean Rhys's Quartet and Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. By combining cultural and historical readings with literary analysis, I demonstrate how literary representations of urban green space open up a discussion about gender in conjunction with sexuality, nationality, and discourses of psychology and mental health
Cosmological Neutrino Entanglement and Quantum Pressure
Creators: name: Pfenniger, Daniel
name: Muccione, Veruska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: The widespread view that cosmological neutrinos, even if massive, are well described since the decoupling redshift z~10^10 down to the present epoch by an almost perfectly collisionless fluid of classical point particles is re-examined. Aims: In view of the likely sub-eV rest mass of neutrinos, the main effects due to their fermionic nature are studied. Methods: By numerical means we calculate the accurate entropy, fugacity and pressure of cosmological neutrinos in the Universe expansion. By solving the Schroedinger equation we derive how and how fast semi-degenerate identical free fermions become entangled. Results: We find that for sub-eV neutrinos the exchange degeneracy has significantly increased during the relativistic to non-relativistic transition epoch at z~10^4-10^5. At all times neutrinos become entangled in less than 10^-6 s, much faster than any plausible decoherence time. The total pressure is increased by quantum effect from 5% at high redshifts to 68% at low redshifts with respect to a collisionless classical fluid. Conclusions: The quantum overpressure has no dynamical consequences in the homogeneous regime at high redshifts, but must be significant for neutrino clustering during the non-linear structure formation epoch at low redshifts.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted version to Astronomy & Astrophysics (no change, correct wrong TeX rendering)
Modeling collective behaviors from optic flow and retinal cues
Creators: name: Castro, Diego
name: Ruffier, Franck
name: Eloy, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Animal collective behavior is often modeled with self-propelled particles, assuming each individual has ``omniscient'' knowledge of its neighbors. Yet, neighbors may be hidden from view and we do not know the effect of this information loss. To address this question, we propose a visual model of collective behavior where each particle moves according to bio-plausible visual cues, in particular the optic flow. This visual model successfully reproduces three classical collective behaviors: swarming, schooling, and milling. This model offers a potential solution for controlling artificial swarms visually.
description: (Accepted)
Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?
Creators: name: Humphrey, Jacinta
name: Haslem, Angie
name: Bennett, Andrew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences

description: Context: Conservation of biodiversity in cities depends on ecologically sensitive urban planning, informed by an understanding of patterns of species distributions and richness. Because urbanized landscapes are heterogeneous mosaics, and many species move between different land-cover types, it is valuable to compare ‘whole landscapes’ (broad-scale spatially heterogeneous areas) that systematically differ in landscape structure. Objectives: We tested the relative influence of housing cover and canopy tree cover on avian species richness, to identify the components of landscape structure that most strongly influence landscape-scale richness (i.e., the pooled richness of multiple sites within a whole landscape). Methods: We selected 30 residential landscapes (each 1 km2) in Melbourne, Australia, stratified to represent concurrent gradients of housing and canopy tree cover. Five point-count surveys were conducted at each of 10 sites per landscape (for a total of 50 surveys per landscape) and the data pooled to represent the whole landscape mosaic. Results: Up to 82% of variation in avian richness was explained by properties of the whole landscape. Housing cover was most dominant and a strong predictor for multiple response groups including native, terrestrial, forest, and aquatic birds. As housing cover increased, the richness of all groups decreased. Tree cover, primarily comprised of scattered trees in residential areas, had less influence on richness. Nonetheless, for forest birds, the extent of native vegetation surrounding a landscape had an important positive influence, indicating the value of potential source habitat for urban bird populations. Conclusions: Cities can be home to a diverse avifauna. The strong influence of landscape structure on species richness indicates a scope to plan and manage urbanized areas to support a diversity of birds that require natural habitat elements. We conclude that urbanizing environments can best be designed to benefit native birds by protecting patches of native vegetation (particularly large source areas) combined with localized higher housing cover, rather than uniform (lower) housing cover across the entire landscape.
Some new results in O(a) improved lattice QCD
Creators: name: Lüscher, M.
name: Sint, S.
name: Sommer, R.
name: Weisz, P.
name: Wittig, H.
name: Wolff, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown how on-shell O(a) improvement can be implemented non-perturbatively in lattice QCD with Wilson quarks. Improvement conditions are obtained by requiring the PCAC relation to hold exactly in certain matrix elements. These are derived from the QCD Schrödinger functional which enables us to simulate directly at vanishing quark masses. In the quenched approximation and for bare couplings in the range $0\leq g_0\leq 1$, we determine the improved action, the improved axial current, the additive renormalization of the quark mass and the isospin current normalization constants Z_A and Z_V.
description: Talks presented at LATTICE96(improvement), 9 LaTeX pages plus 5 postscript figures, espcrc2.sty (included)
Twin Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
Creators: name: Holst, Ian
name: Hooper, Dan
name: Krnjaic, Gordan
name: Song, Deheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the dark matter of our Universe could be sterile neutrinos which reside within the twin sector of a mirror twin Higgs model. In our scenario, these particles are produced through a version of the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism that takes place entirely within the twin sector, yielding a dark matter candidate that is consistent with X-ray and gamma-ray line constraints. Furthermore, this scenario can naturally avoid the cosmological problems that are typically encountered in mirror twin Higgs models. In particular, if the sterile neutrinos in the Standard Model sector decay out of equilibrium, they can heat the Standard Model bath and reduce the contributions of the twin particles to $N_\mathrm{eff}$. Such decays also reduce the effective temperature of the dark matter, thereby relaxing constraints from large-scale structure. The sterile neutrinos included in this model are compatible with the seesaw mechanism for generating Standard Model neutrino masses.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 appendix. v2: version published in PRD
Processing privacy information and decision-making for smartphone apps among young German smartphone users
Creators: name: Henke, Jakob
name: Joeckel, Sven
name: Dogruel, Leyla
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: While privacy behaviour is generally equated with self-disclosure, other forms of behaviour that potentially infringe an individual’s privacy, such as downloading an app, are being neglected by research. We seek to fill this gap by modelling app decision-making within a dual-process model of the attitude–behaviour relationship and the role of privacy attitudes in two kinds of information processing: (1) spontaneous, heuristic processes that rely on automated attitude activation and (2) elaborate, cognitive processes that rely on behavioural intentions to guide behaviour. We used a quasi-experimental design to investigate app decision-making processes for N = 89 participants in N = 254 decision-making cases. Participants were asked to provide information on their actions after downloading three apps on their smartphones over a 2-week period. We could identify two distinct types of information processing and found support for attitude activation and, to a lesser degree, intentions as requirements for the influence of privacy attitudes on app decision-making.
My Great Grandad and Grandmother's WW2 Stories
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My Great Grandad, William Harrison, fought in the Second World War as part of the West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's own). His number was Private 3450438. He went to many places but was reluctant to talk about a lot of the war. He was eventually posted to Burma where he was injured by being shot in the leg. He spent some time in the hospital in Burma until he was discharged with honours. He received the Burma Star medal for bravery. A song my grandad always remembers him singing was a marching song: "I had a good home and I left, left, left." It was a marching song and they had to stamp the left foot every time they said "left." Whilst my Grandad was away fighting my Grandma was at home and volunteered as a fire truck driver. They both had great stories and I wish I could have met them to learn more.
Effects of phthalates on the reproductive tissues in rodents
Creators: name: Bowman, Jennifer Lee
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Rats

description: Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and other phthalate esters are potent peroxisome proliferator plasticizers, pervasive in the environment. Phthalates readily leach into the environment, leading to multi-factorial exposure, subsequently, linked to adverse hormonal, reproductive, developmental effects in developing and adult animals. We treated gestating rodents with DEHP during the time of primordial germ cell migration, epigenetic reprogramming and urogenital development, but prior to steroidogenesis in the gonads or adrenal gland. Sprague Dawley rats were treated with 1 g/kg/day DEHP on embryonic day 8 (E8)-E15, while CD1 females were treated with 500 mg/kg/day on E7-15. CD1 offspring were mated for four consecutive generations to determine maternal (WT male x F1 female), paternal (F1 male x WT female) or double-cross (F1 male x F1 female) inheritance. In F1 generation, phthalates induced altered developmental, endocrine-related hallmarks in both rats and mice, suggestive of phthalates working by anti-androgenic mechanisms, where the balance of testosterone to estradiol is disturbed. These endocrine-related changes were not observed in F2 or F3 generations, indicating that effects were directly on embryos. In F1 to F4 generations, phthalates caused decreased testis weight, increased abnormal seminiferous tubule morphology, increased germ cell apoptosis and stacking of the late stages of the spermatogenic cycle, and decreased sperm count and forward progressive motility. Systemically, DEHP increased adult body weight, decreased cell population of pancreatic Islets of Langerhans, as well as increased vacuolization of glomulerus and renal tubules. The F1 to F4 effects were observed in offspring produced by the maternal and paternal lines and, was amplified in the double-cross lines. We concluded that embryonic exposure to DEHP, during the treatment time window, not only disrupted normal endocrine functions in the embryo, the consequent of which was observed in the F1 generation, but also negatively impacted gonadal, pancreatic and renal tissue physiology, which may be through a non-endocrine related, transgenerational mechanism. The molecular mechanism of transmission remains undetermined. Phthalates can act as anti-androgen and/or they can bind peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and can inhibit retinoic acid receptor transcription. Notwithstanding, future investigation is required to determine the molecular mode of transgenerational effects.
SPITZER Observations of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies: stellar masses and mid-infrared properties
Creators: name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Huang, J. -S.
name: Papovich, C.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Barmby, P.
name: Shu, C.
name: Bundy, K.
name: Egami, E.
name: Magdis, G.
name: Smith, H.
name: Willner, S. P.
name: Wilson, G.
name: Fazio, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) at z~3 using deep mid-infrared and optical observations of the Extended Groth Strip, obtained with IRAC and MIPS on board Spitzer and from the ground, respectively. We focus on LBGs with detections at all four IRAC bands, in particular the 26 galaxies with IRAC 8 micron band (rest--frame K-band) detections. We use stellar population synthesis models and probe the stellar content of these galaxies. Based on best--fit continuous star-formation models we derive estimates of the stellar mass for these LBGs. As in previous studies, we find that a fraction of LBGs have very red colors and large estimated stellar masses (M_stellar > 5 x 10 ^{10} M_solar): the present Spitzer data allow us, for the first time, to study these massive LBGs in detail. We discuss the link between these LBGs and submm-luminous galaxies.We find that the number density of these massive LBGs at high redshift is higher than predicted by current semi-analytic models of galaxy evolution.
description: accepted for publication by Astrophysical Journal