cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electron-phonon coupling, critical temperatures and gaps in $\rm{NbSe_2}$/$\rm{MoS_2}$ Ising Superconductors
Creators: name: Patel, Shubham
name: Jena, Soumyasree
name: Taraphder, A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing Migdal-Eliashberg theory of superconductivity within the first-principles calculations, we work out the role of electron-phonon coupling (EPC) and anisotropic superconducting properties of a recently discovered [Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 183101 (2022)] 2D van der Waals heterostructure comprising a single layer of MoS$_2$ and few layers of NbSe$_2$. We find strong EPC and a softening of phonon modes in the lowest acoustic branch. While the single MoS$_2$ layer does not actively contribute to the EPC, it significantly elevates the superconducting critical temperature ($T_c$) compared to monolayer NbSe$_2$. This is attributed to the degradation of the charge-density wave (CDW) by the MoS$_2$ layer. Notably, we observe a two-gap superconductivity in $\rm{NbSe_2}$/$\rm{MoS_2}$ and extend our study to three layers of NbSe$_2$. A reduction in $T_c$ with increasing thickness of NbSe$_2$ is observed. We confirm that this trend is consistent with recent experiments, if one goes beyond three layers of NbSe$_2$. We incorporated spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and suggest a possible mechanism for Ising superconductivity. We find that SOC reduces EPC while $T_c$ is suppressed concomitantly by about 5K, leading to a closer estimate of the experimental $T_c$.
description: 6 figures, Supplementary file attached
MAGNETI TRASCENDENTALI. RIFLESSIONI PER UNA SEMIO-PRAGMATICA DELLE CALAMITE DA FRIGO
Creators: name: SURACE, BRUNO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Refrigerator Magnets, Fridge Magnets, Transcendence, Transcendental Text, Semiotics of Magnets.

description: Purpose of this paper is investigating fridge magnets, significant souvenirs but also relevant existential devices, in an attempt to capture not so much their representational as their evocative appeal, which is held to lie at the base of the success of the objects in question. The essay consults the tools of visual semiotics, highlighting its limits and opening itself up to other possibilities. Fridge magnets become instances of transcendental texts, able to evoke something which oversteps their textuality and therefore requires different philosophical formulae.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VII, numeri 1-2, 2019
THE PERSPECTIVE OF “FESTIVENESS” AS MODEL OF A NEW AESTHETICS
Creators: name: TRONCON, RENATO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: New Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Environments, Festiveness, Celebration, Planning, Cultural Policy

description: International research in the aesthetic sector has been undergoing very crucial transformations for more than two decades, in an attempt to outline an aesthetics of environments rather than an aesthetics of "works". However, the problem that has not yet been resolved in the construction of this aesthetic seems to be the production of its models, which must inevitably be models of processes and actions. In this sense, the suggestion in this article is to look at the foundational potential of the different aesthetics of celebrations and festivals, anniversaries and feasts, as well as of parties and events, joyous family celebrations, whether they be Venetian beach parties or (even) Love Fests in Berlin.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VII, numeri 1-2, 2019
The Conservation of the Cultural Heritage Sites of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) in Moscow: Mosaics, Paintings, Sculptures
Creators: name: Loginova, Yulia
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
IL BENE FRA ETICA E METAFISICA. LA QUAESTIO DE BONO DI GOFFREDO DI POITIERS (CA. 1210-1230)
Creators: name: SACCENTI, RICCARDO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VII, numeri 1-2, 2019
Polarisation of radio-frequency magnetic fields in magnetic induction measurements with an atomic magnetometer
Creators: name: Rushton, L. M.
name: Ellis, L. M.
name: Zipfel, J. D.
name: Bevington, P.
name: Chalupczak, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore properties of the radio-frequency atomic magnetometer, specifically its sensitivity to the polarisation of an oscillating magnetic field. This aspect can be particularly relevant to configurations where the sensor monitors fields created by more than one source. The discussion, illustrated by theoretical and experimental studies, is done in the context of the signals produced by electrically conductive and magnetically permeable plates in magnetic induction tomography measurements. We show that different components of the secondary magnetic fields create the object response depending on the properties of the material, with the polarisation of the rf field varying across the object's surface. We argue that the ability of the sensor to simultaneously detect different field components enables the optimisation of measurement strategies for different object compositions.
description: Main paper and supplementary material included, as well as a GIF in the attached files
PECULIARITIES OF THE STATE POLICY ON RAISING THE SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL OF YOUTH
Creators: name: Khonimov, Sharofiddin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180102 Access to Justice
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 180103 Administrative Law
subject: 220301 Aesthetics
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This article focuses on the concept of social relations, its theoretical foundations aimed at activating the spiritual and ideological potential of young people, in particular, and further increasing the effectiveness of the socio-spiritual environment between them.
Age and education-matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of ECAS
Creators: name: Loose, Markus
name: Burkhardt, Christian
name: Aho-Özhan, Helena
name: Keller, Jürgen
name: Abdulla, Susanne
name: Böhm, Sarah
name: Kollewe, Katja
name: Uttner, Ingo
name: Abrahams, Sharon
name: Petri, Susanne
name: Weber, Markus
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Lulé, Dorothée
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) has been developed to assess cognition and behaviour in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cognitive impairments of ALS-specific and ALS-non-specific functions can be determined using cut-off scores based on performance of healthy subjects. However, detailed analyses show that older healthy subjects perform worse than younger ones, whereas highly-educated individuals perform better than those with lower education levels. As a consequence, this study presents new age and education matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of the ECAS based on the performance of 86 healthy subjects.
The Synthesis of Mosaics, Decorative Arts and Architecture in Buzludzha Monument – Aspects of Significance
Creators: name: Malamatenova, Mariela
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Conservation and Management Plan: Significance Assessment and Conservation Strategies for the Buzludzha Monument
Creators: name: Nevrokopska, Anna
name: Tsvetkov, Dobrin
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Timeline of the Ongoing Journey to Preserve and Revitalize the Buzludzha Monument. An Updated Summary Report by the Buzludzha Project Foundation
Creators: name: Momcheva, Lyubomira
name: Ivanova, Dora
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
SPECULATIVE SPACES OF DEMOCRACY. DESIGN AT A TURNING POINT
Creators: name: BIELING, TOM
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Activism, Democracy, Design Research, Discursive Design, Speculative Design.

description: Design, often unreflectively, transmits role models and values, hence it is unavoidably political. Thus, design is an effective force in shaping not only material culture, but also societal values and human behavior. Design as a “critical practice” appears for instance in the context of social engagement, political activism, or civil disobedience. This paper is concerned with speculative as well as activist dimensions of design both as social action and political agency. The central question is what role speculative design activism can play in and for an open, inclusive and therefore socially sustainable society. I will discuss how to envisage designerly strategies and practices in politics and political strategies in design. This shall help us to derive arguments for the (not least socially and politically) transformative potential of design.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VII, numeri 1-2, 2019
Goodwill Message: ICOMOS International Scientific Committees
Creators: name: Echter, Claus-Peter
name: Pyburn, Jack
name: Maclaren, Fergus T.
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Goodwill Message: Europa Nostra, Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović
Creators: name: Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, Sneška
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2024

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 78 (2021): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Comparison of hospital length of stay and hospitalization costs among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation treated with apixaban or warfarin: an early view
Creators: name: Xie, Lin
name: Vo, Lien
name: Keshishian, Allison
name: Kwanza Price
name: Prianka Singh
name: Mardekian, Jack
name: Bruno, Amanda
name: Baser, Onur
name: Jully Kim
name: Tan, Wilson
name: Trocio, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: To quantify and compare hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs between hospitalized non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients treated with either apixaban or warfarin via a large claims database. Methods: Adult patients hospitalized with AF were selected from the Premier Perspective Claims Database (01JAN2013-31MARCH2014). Patients with evidence of valvular heart disease, valve replacement procedures, or pregnancy during the index hospitalization were excluded. Patients treated with apixaban or warfarin during hospitalization were identified. Propensity score matching (PSM) was performed to control for baseline imbalances between patients treated with apixaban or warfarin. Primary outcomes were hospital LOS (days), post medication administration LOS, and index hospitalization costs and were compared using paired t-tests in the matched sample. Results: Before PSM, 2,894 apixaban and 124,174 warfarin patients were identified. Patients treated with warfarin were older and sicker compared to those treated with apixaban. After applying PSM, a total of 2,886 patients were included in each cohort, and baseline characteristics were balanced. The mean (standard deviation [SD] and median) hospital LOS was significantly (p = 0.002) shorter for patients treated with apixaban 5.1 days (5.7 and 3) compared to warfarin 5.5 days (4.8 and 4). The trend appeared consistent in the hospital LOS from point of apixaban or warfarin administration to discharge (4.5 vs. 4.7 days, p = 0.051). Patients administered apixaban incurred significantly lower hospitalization costs compared to those administered warfarin ($11,262 vs. $12,883; p Conclusions: Among NVAF patients, apixaban treatment was associated with significantly shorter hospital LOS and lower costs when compared to warfarin treatment.
Ionic liquid crystals based on viologen dimers: tuning the mesomorphism by varying the conformational freedom of the ionic layer
Creators: name: Casella, Girolamo
name: Causin, Valerio
name: Rastrelli, Federico
name: Saielli, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We investigated the liquid crystal behaviour of newly synthesised bistriflimide salts of symmetric viologen dimers. A smectic A phase was observed for intermediate spacer lengths and for relatively long lateral alkyl chains. The systems were characterised by thermal analysis, polarised optical microscopy, X-ray scattering and solid-state NMR. An intermediate ordered smectic phase was also exhibited by the compounds (except for systems with very short lateral chains) consisting of molten layers of alkyl chains and partially ordered ionic layers. These results, relating to the mesomorphic behaviour of viologen salts, are qualitatively compared to those of the more common imidazolium salts, highlighting the importance of the conformational degrees of freedom of the anions and of the cationic core. It appears that fine tuning of the conformational degrees of freedom of the ionic layer is an important component of mesophase stabilisation.
THE INTERPRETATION OF A TAX NORM IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN ENTERPRISES SOCIAL FUNCTION
Creators: name: Macei, Demetrius Nichele
name: Machado, Graziela C. Da Silva B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The Brazilian tax system is considered one of the most complex in the world, this attribute is given to him because of the numerous taxes and the amount of standards published every day. We have in our Constitution the Union, states and municipalities can create taxes, under the terms in which our legal system allows, following the principles and limitations. Considering all these entities is logical to think that an awful lot of rules is created. Before the brief above, we can see that the problem of tax complexity is not only the amount of published standards, but how these rules are interpreted and applied contributors of the day -to-day.
Revisiting thermal comfort models in Iranian classrooms during the warm season
Creators: name: Shamila Haddad
name: Osmond, Paul
name: King, Steve
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The validity of existing thermal comfort models is examined for upper primary school children in classroom settings. This is of importance to enhance productivity in the learning environment and to improve the control of artificial heating and cooling, including the potential for energy savings. To examine the thermal perceptions of children aged 10–12 years in non-air-conditioned classrooms, three sets of field experiments were conducted in boys’ and girls’ primary schools in Shiraz, Iran. These were undertaken during regular class sessions covering cool and warm conditions of the school year, polling responses from 1605 students. This paper illustrates the overall methods and reports the results of the warm season field survey (N = 811). This investigation suggests that predicted mean vote-predicted percentage of dissatisfied (PMV/PPD) underestimates children's actual thermal sensation and percentage dissatisfied in the investigated classrooms. The analysis shows that sampled children may be slightly less sensitive to indoor temperature change than adults. The upper acceptable temperature derived from children's responses corresponding to mean thermal sensations of +0.85 is 26.5°C, which is about 1°C lower than the ASHRAE upper 80% acceptability limit. This implies that sampled children feel comfortable at lower temperatures than predicted by the ASHRAE Adaptive model during the warm season.
Coupled vertical double quantum dots at single-hole occupancy
Creators: name: Ivlev, Alexander
name: Tidjani, Hanifa
name: Oosterhout, Stefan
name: Sammak, Amir
name: Scappucci, Giordano
name: Veldhorst, Menno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gate-defined quantum dots define an attractive platform for quantum computation and have been used to confine individual charges in a planar array. Here, we demonstrate control over vertical double quantum dots confined in a double quantum well, silicon-germanium heterostructure. We sense individual charge transitions with a single-hole transistor. The vertical separation between the quantum wells provides a sufficient difference in capacitive coupling to distinguish quantum dots located in the top and bottom quantum well. Tuning the vertical double quantum dot to the (1,1) charge state confines a single hole in each quantum well beneath a single plunger gate. By simultaneously accumulating holes under two neighbouring plunger gates, we are able to tune to the (1,1,1,1) charge state. These results motivate quantum dot systems that exploit the third dimension, opening new opportunities for quantum simulation and quantum computing.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
AT2021lwx: Another Neutrino-Coincident Tidal Disruption Event with a Strong Dust Echo?
Creators: name: Yuan, Chengchao
name: Winter, Walter
name: Lunardini, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possible association of an astrophysical neutrino (IC220405B) with the recently reported, extremely energetic tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT2021lwx (ZTF20abrbeie, aka ``Scary Barbie'') at redshift $z=0.995$. Although the TDE is about $2.6^\circ$ off the direction of the reconstructed neutrino event (outside the 90% confidence level localization region), the TDE candidate shares some important characteristics with so far reported neutrino-TDE associations: a strong infrared dust echo, high bolometric luminosity, a neutrino time delay with respect to the peak mass accretion rate of the order of hundred days, and a high observed X-ray luminosity. We interpret this new association using an isotropic emission model, where neutrinos are produced by the collision of accelerated protons with infrared photons. After accounting for the high redshift of AT2021lwx (by interpreting the data in the SMBH frame), we find that the expected neutrino fluences and neutrino time delays are qualitatively comparable to the other TDEs. Since data are only available up to 300 days post-peak in the SMBH frame, significant uncertainties exist in the dust echo interpretation, and therefore in the predicted number of neutrinos detected, $\mathcal N_ν\simeq3.0\times10^{-3}-0.012$. We recommend further follow-up on this object for an extended period and suggest refining the reconstruction of the neutrino arrival direction in this particular case.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Efficacy of flurbiprofen 8.75 mg spray in patients with sore throat due to an upper respiratory tract infection: A randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Looze, Ferdinandus De
name: Russo, Marc
name: Bloch, Mark
name: Montgomery, Barney
name: Shephard, Adrian
name: Smith, Gary
name: Aspley, Sue
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Background: Viral infections cause most cases of pharyngitis (sore throat); consequently, antibiotics are generally not warranted. However, a treatment targeting pain and inflammation, e.g. a topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory spray, may be helpful for patients. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of flurbiprofen 8.75 mg spray. Methods: This randomised, double-blind, parallel group study was conducted at six community-based clinical research centres in Australia and two in New Zealand. Adults with sore throat due to upper respiratory tract infection (onset ≤ four days) took one dose of flurbiprofen (n = 249) or placebo spray (n = 256); after six hours, they could re-dose every three–six hours as required, for three days (max. five doses/day). The primary endpoint was the area under the change from baseline curve in throat soreness from zero–two hours (AUC0–2h). The change from baseline in other sore throat symptoms also assessed efficacy. Results: The mean AUC0–2h for throat soreness was significantly greater with flurbiprofen spray (−1.82; 95% CI: −1.98 to 1.65) compared with placebo (−1.13; 95% CI: −1.27 to 0.99) (P P Conclusion: Flurbiprofen spray provides rapid and long-lasting relief from sore throat symptoms, and is well-tolerated over three days.
Excess molar volumes, excess thermal expansion coefficients and isentropic compressibility deviations for binary mixtures of benzyl alcohol + (1-butanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol and tert-butanol) at T = (298.15-328.15) K and ambient pressure
Creators: name: M. M. Alavianmehr
name: N. Hemmati
name: H. Ghodrati
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: In the present paper, we report the density (ρ) and ultrasonic speed (u) of four binary mixtures of benzyl alcohol with 1-butanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol and tert-butanol over the temperature range 298.15–328.15 K and ambient pressure, covering the entire composition range, expressed by the mole fraction (x1) of benzyl alcohol. The experimental data on density and ultrasonic speed were used to calculate the excess molar volumes, , deviations in isentropic compressibility, , excess thermal expansion coefficients, , excess partial molar volumes, , and excess partial molar volumes at infinite dilution, . The results obtained were used to investigate the nature and strength of intermolecular interactions in these mixtures. The calculated quantities , and are well correlated with the Redlich–Kister equation.
THE POWER OF POLICING AND COMPLIANCE IN A LEGAL STATE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW (LAW N. 12.846 OF THE 1º OF AUGUST, 2013).
Creators: name: Knoerr, Fernando Gustavo
name: Martins, José Alberto Monteiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This scientific paper deals with the intensity and extent of police powers exercised by the State on issues relating to anti-corruption practices that should be adopted by companies and their managers, especially in light of Law. 12,846 August 1, 2013, formal introducer in Brazil of compliance practices. The compliance is evidence of self-regulation given by the State to undertakings for the police power is exercised internally in companies, for themselves, through compliance programs containing the 50 code of conduct and ethics and internal policies in order to spread the good conduct business ethics and preventing acts of corruption.
Thresholds for the distributed surface code in the presence of memory decoherence
Creators: name: de Bone, Sébastian
name: Möller, Paul
name: Bradley, Conor E.
name: Taminiau, Tim H.
name: Elkouss, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the search for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing, distributed quantum computers are promising candidates. These systems can be realized in large-scale quantum networks or condensed onto a single chip with closely situated nodes. We present a framework for numerical simulations of a memory channel using the distributed toric surface code, where each data qubit of the code is part of a separate node, and the error-detection performance depends on the quality of four-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states generated between the nodes. We quantitatively investigate the effect of memory decoherence and evaluate the advantage of GHZ creation protocols tailored to the level of decoherence. We do this by applying our framework for the particular case of color centers in diamond, employing models developed from experimental characterization of nitrogen-vacancy centers. For diamond color centers, coherence times during entanglement generation are orders of magnitude lower than coherence times of idling qubits. These coherence times represent a limiting factor for applications, but previous surface code simulations did not treat them as such. Introducing limiting coherence times as a prominent noise factor makes it imperative to integrate realistic operation times into simulations and incorporate strategies for operation scheduling. Our model predicts error probability thresholds for gate and measurement reduced by at least a factor of three compared to prior work with more idealized noise models. We also find a threshold of $4\cdot10^2$ in the ratio between the entanglement generation and the decoherence rates, setting a benchmark for experimental progress.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
Constraining the mass of fermionic dark matter from its feeble interaction with hadronic matter via dark mediators in neutron stars
Creators: name: Guha, Atanu
name: Sen, Debashree
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering ten well-known relativistic mean field models, we invoke feeble interaction between hadronic matter and fermionic dark matter (DM) $χ$ via new physics scalar ($ϕ$) and vector ($ξ$) mediators in neutron star core, thereby forming DM admixed neutron stars (DMANSs). The chosen masses of the DM fermion ($m_χ$) and the mediators ($m_ϕ$ and $m_ξ$) are consistent with the self-interaction constraint from Bullet cluster while their respective couplings ($y_ϕ$ and $y_ξ$) are also constrained by the present day relic abundance. Assuming that both $ϕ$ and $ξ$ contribute equally to the relic abundance, we compute the equation of state of the DMANSs and consequently their structural properties. We found that for a particular (constant) DM density, the presence of lighter DM results in more massive DMANSs with larger radius. In the light of the various recent constraints like those from the massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620, the gravitational wave (GW170817) data and the results of NICER experiments for PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620, we provide a bound on $m_χ$ within the framework of the present work as $m_χ\approx$ (0.1 $-$ 30) GeV for a wide range of fixed DM Fermi momenta $k_F^χ$=(0.01 $-$ 0.07) GeV. In the case of the hadronic models that yield larger radii corresponding to the low mass neutron stars in the no-DM scenario, interaction with comparatively heavier DM fermion is necessary in order to ensure that the DMANSs obtained with such models satisfy the radius constraints from both GW170817 and NICER data for PSR J0030+0451.
description: $k_F^{\chi}$ = 0.06 GeV has been corrected to $k_F^{\chi}$ = 0.07 GeV in all of the occurrences. TABLE III and Figure 10 have also been corrected in version 2
Lagrangian irreversibility and energy exchanges in rotating-stratified turbulent flows
Creators: name: Gallon, Sebastian
name: Sozza, Alessandro
name: Feraco, Fabio
name: Marino, Raffaele
name: Pumir, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence in stratified and rotating turbulent flows is characterized by an interplay between waves and eddies, resulting in continuous exchanges between potential and kinetic energy. Here, we study how these processes affect the turbulent energy cascade from large to small scales, which manifests itself by an irreversible evolution of the relative kinetic energy between two tracer particles. We find that when $r_0$, the separation between particles, is below a characteristic length $\ell_t$, potential energy is on average transferred to kinetic energy, reducing time irreversibility, and conversely when $r_0 > \ell_t$. Our study reveals that the scale $\ell_t$ coincides with the buoyancy length scale $L_B$ over a broad range of configurations until a transitional wave-dominated regime is reached.
Effects of cigarette smoke, cessation and switching to a candidate modified risk tobacco product on the liver in Apoe−/− mice – a systems toxicology analysis
Creators: name: Sasso, Giuseppe Lo
name: Bjoern Titz
name: Nury, Catherine
name: Boué, Stéphanie
name: Phillips, Blaine
name: Belcastro, Vincenzo
name: Schneider, Thomas
name: Dijon, Sophie
name: Baumer, Karine
name: Daruisz Peric
name: Dulize, Remi
name: Elamin, Ashraf
name: Guedj, Emmanuel
name: Buettner, Ansgar
name: Leroy, Patrice
name: Kleinhans, Samuel
name: Vuillaume, Gregory
name: Veljkovic, Emilija
name: Ivanov, Nikolai V.
name: Martin, Florian
name: Vanscheeuwijck, Patrick
name: Peitsch, Manuel C.
name: Hoeng, Julia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The liver is one of the most important organs involved in elimination of xenobiotic and potentially toxic substances. Cigarette smoke (CS) contains more than 7000 chemicals, including those that exert biological effects and cause smoking-related diseases. Though CS is not directly hepatotoxic, a growing body of evidence suggests that it may exacerbate pre-existing chronic liver disease. In this study, we integrated toxicological endpoints with molecular measurements and computational analyses to investigate effects of exposures on the livers of Apoe−/− mice. Mice were exposed to 3R4F reference CS, to an aerosol from the Tobacco Heating System (THS) 2.2, a candidate modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) or to filtered air (Sham) for up to 8 months. THS2.2 takes advantage of a “heat-not-burn” technology that, by heating tobacco, avoids pyrogenesis and pyrosynthesis. After CS exposure for 2 months, some groups were either switched to the MRTP or filtered air. While no group showed clear signs of hepatotoxicity, integrative analysis of proteomics and transcriptomics data showed a CS-dependent impairment of specific biological networks. These networks included lipid and xenobiotic metabolism and iron homeostasis that likely contributed synergistically to exacerbating oxidative stress. In contrast, most proteomic and transcriptomic changes were lower in mice exposed to THS2.2 and in the cessation and switching groups compared to the CS group. Our findings elucidate the complex biological responses of the liver to CS exposure. Furthermore, they provide evidence that THS2.2 aerosol has reduced biological effects, as compared with CS, on the livers of Apoe−/− mice.
Multitask methods for predicting molecular properties from heterogeneous data
Creators: name: Fisher, Katharine
name: Herbst, Michael
name: Marzouk, Youssef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data generation remains a bottleneck in training surrogate models to predict molecular properties. We demonstrate that multitask Gaussian process regression overcomes this limitation by leveraging both expensive and cheap data sources. In particular, we consider training sets constructed from coupled-cluster (CC) and density functional theory (DFT) data. We report that multitask surrogates can predict at CC-level accuracy with a reduction to data generation cost by over an order of magnitude. Of note, our approach allows the training set to include DFT data generated by a heterogeneous mix of exchange-correlation functionals without imposing any artificial hierarchy on functional accuracy. More generally, the multitask framework can accommodate a wider range of training set structures -- including full disparity between the different levels of fidelity -- than existing kernel approaches based on $Δ$-learning, though we show that the accuracy of the two approaches can be similar. Consequently, multitask regression can be a tool for reducing data generation costs even further by opportunistically exploiting existing data sources.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Objective and subjective evaluation of speech enhancement methods in the UDASE task of the 7th CHiME challenge
Creators: name: Leglaive, Simon
name: Fraticelli, Matthieu
name: ElGhazaly, Hend
name: Borne, Léonie
name: Sadeghi, Mostafa
name: Wisdom, Scott
name: Pariente, Manuel
name: Hershey, John R.
name: Pressnitzer, Daniel
name: Barker, Jon P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Supervised models for speech enhancement are trained using artificially generated mixtures of clean speech and noise signals. However, the synthetic training conditions may not accurately reflect real-world conditions encountered during testing. This discrepancy can result in poor performance when the test domain significantly differs from the synthetic training domain. To tackle this issue, the UDASE task of the 7th CHiME challenge aimed to leverage real-world noisy speech recordings from the test domain for unsupervised domain adaptation of speech enhancement models. Specifically, this test domain corresponds to the CHiME-5 dataset, characterized by real multi-speaker and conversational speech recordings made in noisy and reverberant domestic environments, for which ground-truth clean speech signals are not available. In this paper, we present the objective and subjective evaluations of the systems that were submitted to the CHiME-7 UDASE task, and we provide an analysis of the results. This analysis reveals a limited correlation between subjective ratings and several supervised nonintrusive performance metrics recently proposed for speech enhancement. Conversely, the results suggest that more traditional intrusive objective metrics can be used for in-domain performance evaluation using the reverberant LibriCHiME-5 dataset developed for the challenge. The subjective evaluation indicates that all systems successfully reduced the background noise, but always at the expense of increased distortion. Out of the four speech enhancement methods evaluated subjectively, only one demonstrated an improvement in overall quality compared to the unprocessed noisy speech, highlighting the difficulty of the task. The tools and audio material created for the CHiME-7 UDASE task are shared with the community.
Preferential cesium ion trapping by 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC) obtained from a metabolic intermediate of lignin, a woody biomass resource
Creators: name: Shikinaka, Kazuhiro
name: Otsuka, Yuichiro
name: Iguchi, Yuri
name: Nakamura, Masaya
name: Itoh, Yuko
name: Masai, Eiji
name: Katayama, Yoshihiro
name: Shigehara, Kiyotaka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: 2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), a chemically stable metabolic intermediate of lignin, showed preferential Cs+ sedimentation even from the aqueous solutions containing other alkali metal ions, such as Na+. From the crystal structure of the Cs+/PDC complex, Cs+ was revealed to be coordinated by 10 oxygen atoms of PDC and such multiple coordination was the reason of the preferential complex formation of Cs+ with PDC.
Exit and Entry Screening Practices for Infectious Diseases among Travelers at Points of Entry: Looking for Evidence on Public Health Impact
Creators: name: Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
name: Christoforidou, Eleni P.
name: An Der Heiden, Maria
name: Menel Lemos, Cinthia
name: Fanos, Margherita
name: Rexroth, Ute
name: Grote, Ulrike
name: Belfroid, Evelien
name: Swaan, Corien
name: Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: border
subject: screening
subject: points of entry
subject: port
subject: airport
subject: ground crossing
subject: health measure
subject: PHEIC
subject: IHR
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: A scoping search and a systematic literature review were conducted to give an insight on entry and exit screening referring to travelers at points of entry, by analyzing published evidence on practices, guidelines, and experiences in the past 15 years worldwide. Grey literature, PubMed. and Scopus were searched using specific terms. Most of the available data identified through the systematic literature review concerned entry screening measures at airports. Little evidence is available about entry and exit screening measure implementation and effectiveness at ports and ground crossings. Exit screening was part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) temporary recommendations for implementation in certain points of entry, for specific time periods. Exit screening measures for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the three most affected West African countries did not identify any cases and showed zero sensitivity and very low specificity. The percentages of confirmed cases identified out of the total numbers of travelers that passed through entry screening measures in various countries worldwide for Influenza Pandemic (H1N1) and EVD in West Africa were zero or extremely low. Entry screening measures for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) did not detect any confirmed SARS cases in Australia, Canada, and Singapore. Despite the ineffectiveness of entry and exit screening measures, authors reported several important concomitant positive effects that their impact is difficult to assess, including discouraging travel of ill persons, raising awareness, and educating the traveling public and maintaining operation of flights from/to the affected areas. Exit screening measures in affected areas are important and should be applied jointly with other measures including information strategies, epidemiological investigation, contact tracing, vaccination, and quarantine to achieve a comprehensive outbreak management response. Based on review results, an algorithm about decision-making for entry/exit screening was developed.
Performance optimization of continuous variable quantum teleportation with generalized photon-varying non-Gaussian operations
Creators: name: He, Mingjian
name: Liu, Shouyin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous variable quantum teleportation provides a path to the long-distance transmission of quantum states. Photon-varying non-Gaussian operations have been shown to improve the fidelity of quantum teleportation when integrated into the protocol. However, given a fixed non-Gaussian operation, the achievable fidelity varies with different input states. An operation that increases the fidelity for teleporting one class of states might do the contrary for other classes of states. A performance metric suitable for different input states is missing. For a given type of non-Gaussian operation, the achievable fidelity also varies with parameters associated with the operation. Previous work only focuses on particular settings of the parameters. Optimization over the parameters is also missing. In this work, we build a framework for photon-varying non-Gaussian operations for multi-mode states, upon which we propose a performance metric suitable for arbitrary teleportation input states. We then apply the new metric to evaluate different types of non-Gaussian operations. Starting from simple multi-photon photon subtraction and photon addition, we find that increasing the number of ancillary photons involved in the operation does not guarantee performance improvement. We then investigate combinations of the operations mentioned above, finding that operations that approximate a particular form provide the best improvement. The results provided here will be valuable for real-world implementations of quantum teleportation networks and applications that harness the non-Gaussianity of quantum states.
Decentralized Control and Adaptation in Distributed Applications via Web and Semantic Web Technologies
Creators: name: Keppmann, Felix Leif
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2020
Subjects: verteilte Anwendungen
Serviceintegration
Datenintegration
dezentrale Kontrolle
Semantic Web
distributed applications
service integration
data integration
decentralized control

description: The presented work provides an approach and an implementation for enabling decentralized control in distributed applications composed of heterogeneous components by benefiting from the interoperability provided by the Web stack and relying on semantic technologies for enabling data integration. In particular, the concept of Smart Components enables adaptability at runtime through an adaptation layer and is complemented by a reference architecture as well as a prototypical implementation.
A comparative lattice analysis of $SU(2)$ dark gluebal
Creators: name: Chu, Min-Huan
name: Lai, Jun-Hui
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhang, Jialu
name: Zhu, Qianteng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mass and scattering cross section of $SU(2)$ glueballs as dark matter candidates using lattice simulations. We employ both naive and improved $SU(2)$ gauge actions in $3+1$ dimensions with several $β$ values, and adopt both the traditional Monte Carlo method and the flow-based model based on machine learning techniques to generate lattice configurations. The mass of dark scalar glueball with $J^{PC}=0^{++}$ and the NBS wave function are calculated. Using a coupling constant of $β=2.2$ as an illustration, we compare the dark glueball mass calculated from the configurations generated from the two methods. While consistent results can be achieved, the two methods demonstrate distinct advantages. Using the Runge-Kutta method, we extract the glueball interaction potential and two-body scattering cross section. From the observational constraints, we obtain the lower bound of the mass of scalar glueball as candidates of dark matter.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures; v2: 15 pages, 12 figures; Comments are welcome
Generalization of the Landauer-Büttiker theory onto the case of dissipative contacts
Creators: name: Kolovsky, Andrey R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of two-terminal transport of non-interacting Fermi particles in a mesoscopic device. First, we generalize the problem by including into consideration relaxation processes in contacts (which are characterized by the contact self-thermalization rate $γ$) and then solve it by using the master equation approach. In the limit $γ\rightarrow0$ the obtained results are shown to reproduce those of the Landauer-Büttiker theory. Thus, the presented analysis proves analytical correspondence between the Landauer-Büttiker and master-equation approaches to quantum transport, -- the problem which resisted solution for decades.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2311.05995
Analyses and tabulation of heat rates, unit commitment generator constraint parameter values and emissions estimates of the electricity generators of power plants in Texas
Creators: name: Vaid, Paras
name: 0000-0002-5475-2609
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Electricity generators
Power plants
Heat rate
Emission estimates
Unit commitment
ERCOT
eGRID
Dataset

description: This work analyzes and tabulates heat rates, unit commitment generator constraint parameters, and emission estimates for electricity generators within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. The heat rate is the amount of fuel required to generate one unit of electricity. It is a measure of the efficiency of a generator. The thesis describes the method(s) for determining heat rate values, using the heat input to the generator and the net generation of power and, in some cases, heat. The heat rate results developed in this work are compared to earlier datasets. This work also develops and quality assures emission rate estimates for oxides of nitrogen (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that have been derived from sources such as the Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)