cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fertility awareness education improves fertility cycle knowledge and may reduce time-to-pregnancy in subfertile women
Creators: name: Mena, Gabriela P.
name: McLindon, Lucas A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Research suggests that low fertility awareness (FA) may be a contributing factor to infertility. The aim of this study was to determine whether education improves knowledge in FA and to explore the associations between FA knowledge and time to pregnancy (TTP). A 20-point self-administered FA questionnaire (FAQ) was completed by 180 subfertile women on their first visit to a hospital-based fertility assessment and research clinic, followed by an education session on FA. Women completed the same FAQ after receiving the education session. There was an increase in the FAQ score after the women received FA education (post-education FAQ score: mean, M = 15.68, SD = 1.8) compared with the score before the session [(pre-education FAQ score: M = 13.87, SD = 1.9), t(179)=–10.547, p < 0.001]. Pregnancy was achieved in 88 women (49%). Women with a higher post-education FAQ score (≥15 points) had a shorter TTP (M = 6.4 months, SD = 4.1) than women with post-education FAQ scores <15 [M = 8.8 months, SD = 6.0, t(86)=2.231, p = 0.028]. Greater time trying to conceive was negatively predictive of the hazard for achieving a pregnancy (b=–0.021, se = 0.008, p = 0.005), while age had no significant effect. FA knowledge in women attending a fertility clinic significantly improved after education. Higher FA may reduce TTP in subfertile women who are actively trying to conceive naturally.
On The Changes in Optical Interferometry Induced by The Relativistic Motion of An Optical Medium
Creators: name: Rakshit, Supantho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of the relativistic movement of an optical medium on the conditions of constructive and destructive interference, reflection and transmission pattern, and performance of spectroscopes. First, we consider the case of two beams reflected from a relativistically moving thin film and derive the conditions of constructive and destructive interference. Then we broaden the idea to multiple beam interference and formulate a new modified equation of reflection and transmission pattern of light from a relativistically moving plane parallel dielectric film. Finally, we determine the new effective resolving power of a Fabry-Perot spectroscope, which has a moving dielectric medium in its etalon. Here, we consider the case where the optical media move parallel to the plane of incidence of light. Throughout this paper, we use basic Lorentz transformation of space and time co-ordinates and electromagnetic fields to conduct these investigations. This paper can strongly motivate undergraduate physics students to associate the concepts of special relativity and optical interference.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Managing cultural expectations
Creators: name: Trowles, Peter
Publisher: name: International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC)
Year: 2008

description: Professor Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art has remarked that the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art is “the only art school in the world where the building is worthy of the subject” whilst Sir Terence Conran, the designer and retailer, has stated that the School is “an architecturally inspirational place that has played a unique part in the history of design”. Fine words, but as the School enters the 21st century it faces a complex challenge. It certainly aims to maintain the world famous Mackintosh building as a teaching facility, now at the heart of a very busy campus. Nevertheless, it also recognizes the importance of the building as an architectural monument and wishes to preserve the fabric of this unique structure. It also accepts and understands the wider cultural significance of Mackintosh and role of the arts in Glasgow. With this in mind, summer 2007 saw the start of an ambitious £ 8.7 m conservation and access project that will: Conserve and protect the building's fabric, and restore many of its original features and spaces. Improve the care, exhibition and access to the School's internationally important archives and collections including the provision of new stores and a public study centre. Manage and enhance visitor access to a continually working art school but allow for a predicted growth in numbers to approximately 33,000 visitors per year. Expectations are high but The Glasgow School of Art is confident that its cultural past will continue to play a crucial part in shaping its educational future.
Files for "Verification of Read-Copy Update under RC11"
Creators: name: Semenyuk, Mikhail
name: Dongol, Brijesh
name: Batty, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Isabelle HOL files for the paper "Verification of Read-Copy Update under RC11". The submission includes - The Isabelle HOL project for those who already have Isabelle installed. - Guide for replicating our results in Isabelle HOL (including the link to the tool) in README.txt
The voice of infertility: a review of fertility podcasts
Creators: name: Fine, Eliana
name: Peyser, Alexandra
name: Abittan, Baruch
name: Mullin, Christine
name: Goldman, Randi H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Over the past several years, there has been a significant increase in the popularity of podcast use. The purpose of this study was to review the availability, content, and authorship of podcasts on the topic of fertility and to compare those hosted by physicians vs patients. A search for podcasts relating to the term ‘fertility’ was performed using 10 podcast platforms. Information relating to each podcast was recorded. Chi-square was used for comparison of proportions and the Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables. Of the 133 podcasts that met inclusion criteria, the most common subject was patient education (62%), followed by fertility awareness (30%), and Third Party Reproduction (13%). A majority of podcasts were hosted by patients (40%), holistic health professionals (28%), and physicians (16%). When comparing podcasts hosted by physicians vs. patients, there was no difference in overall content (p = 0.07), frequency of episodes (p = 0.77), number of episodes (p = 0.63) and number of listener ratings (p = 0.47). We conclude that many fertility podcasts exist with most hosted by patients describing their fertility experiences. Understanding the landscape of fertility podcasts will allow physicians to identify areas of interest and create content which educates and enhances connection with patients.
Does male fertility-related quality of life differ when undergoing evaluation by reproductive urologist versus reproductive endocrinologist?
Creators: name: Danis, Rachel
name: Sriprasert, Intira
name: Petok, William
name: Stone, Jesse
name: Paulson, Richard
name: Samplaski, Mary
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The female infertility experience is well-described, but the male experience is less explored. We sought to understand if fertility motivations and quality of life differ for males undergoing fertility evaluation by a reproductive urologist (RU) versus a reproductive endocrinologist (RE). A cross-sectional study of 201 males undergoing fertility evaluation at an academic centre, by either a RU or RE, over a 2-year period, was performed. A survey was administered, with demographic, medical, and fertility motivations questions, and the validated Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL) questionnaire. Responses were compared by provider type using descriptive statistics, chi-square, and t-test. Most men (91.1%) pursued evaluation because of a mutual desire for children. RE evaluated males were older, earned higher incomes, and were more likely to pursue IVF versus those RU evaluated (p < 0.05). Men evaluated by RUs had lower FertiQoL scores, (p < 0.05), which correlated with having known male factor infertility (p < 0.05). Nearly all (96.2%) men evaluated by RUs indicated this was helpful for understanding their infertility. Our findings provide new insight into the male fertility evaluation experience. Despite the lower QoL seen by men seeing a RU, nearly all men reported that a RU evaluation was helpful for understanding their infertility experience.
Exploring fertility knowledge amongst healthcare professional and lay population groups in the UK: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Grace, Bola
name: Shawe, Jill
name: Stephenson, Judith
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: As the average age of first-time parents continues to rise, there has been a concerted effort by educators, policy makers and several reproductive health groups to improve fertility awareness. This study explored fertility knowledge of lay men and women and healthcare professionals (HCPs) using the same test instrument, providing a new and unique perspective compared with previous studies. Results were obtained from 1082 survey respondents: 347 HCPs, 319 men and 413 women, 105 of whom were trying to conceive (TTC). A total of 35 interviewees were purposively sampled to include 9 HCPs, 13 men and 13 women from the reproductive age range and of varying ethnic and educational backgrounds. Interview data were transcribed and analysed using the framework method. The proportion of HCPs correctly answering the survey knowledge questions was 47.1 (95% CI = 41.7%, 52.5%) compared to 44.4% for women (95% CI = 38.9%, 50.1%); 49.9% (95% CI = 39.0, 59.9%) for women TTC; and 32.5% (95% CI = 27.1%, 37.9%) for men. HCPs were ranked as the most trusted source for seeking fertility information. Overall HCPs did not demonstrate better fertility knowledge than lay participants, with inconsistencies regarding where responsibility lies for providing the right information to patients. HCPs need to improve their knowledge about fertility to help improve patient’s fertility awareness.
Beyer, Werner und Dreßler, Johannes: Ein Leib sind wir in Christus: Evangelisches Allianzwerk 1886-1986
Creators: name: Laubach, Fritz
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie
Year: 2025

description: 1820335623
description: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, V. 1 (1987): Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, Band 1
The NMSSM lives: with the 750 GeV diphoton excess
Creators: name: Domingo, F.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Kim, J. S.
name: Rolbiecki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an NMSSM scenario that can explain the excess in the diphoton spectrum at 750 GeV recently observed by ATLAS and CMS. We show that in a certain limit with a very light pseudoscalar one can reproduce the experimental results without invoking exotic matter. The 750 GeV excess is produced by two resonant heavy Higgs bosons with masses ~750 GeV, that subsequently decay to two light pseudoscalars. Each of these decays to collimated photon pairs that appear as a single photon in the electromagnetic calorimeter. A mass gap between heavy Higgses mimics a large width of the 750 GeV peak. The production mechanism, containing a strong component via initial b quarks, ameliorates a possible tension with 8 TeV data compared to other production modes. We also discuss other constraints, in particular from low energy experiments. Finally, we discuss possible methods that could distinguish our proposal from other physics models describing the diphoton excess in the Run-II of the LHC.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures; minor text improvements; to appear in EPJC
Padberg, Lutz von: Die Bibel - Grundlage für Glauben, Denken und Erkennen
Creators: name: Stadelmann, Helge
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie
Year: 2025

description: 1820335461
description: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, V. 1 (1987): Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, Band 1
Chinese Grammar Acquisition by Second Language Learners in an Australian Primary School Chinese Immersion Setting: The Potential of the Form Focused Instruction Pedagogical Approach
Creators: name: Zhu, Jia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 200311 Chinese Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: It is assumed that the pedagogy of second language/foreign language immersion programs is primarily focused on content, whereby language acquisition is accelerated through comprehensible second language input and an incidental focus on form. However despite the second language benefits, the incidental nature of the form focus (where grammatical errors are drawn to learners’ attention spontaneously when they occur and without prior planning), typically leaves immersion students with a significant deficit in some features of their grammar skills relative to other areas of second language proficiency. This case-study research (primarily qualitative with some quantitative analysis) examines the potential to enhance language acquisition in an Australian primary-level Chinese immersion program through the pedagogical practice of form-focused instruction (FFI). It explores the practical aspects of implementing FFI in this immersion program, noting its specific contextual characteristics including the structure of the program, students’ language and cultural backgrounds and the classroom teaching pedagogy.
 Drawing on cognitive theory, the research employed the form-focused instruction (FFI) framework (e.g., Lyster, 2004, 2006, 2007; Ellis, 2001, 2006) to study how noticing, awareness-raising and production practice with feedback (Lyster, 2004; 2007) can be operationalised into a content-focused mathematics learning environment to support acquisition of the Chinese ‘measure word 量词’ form. This research involved 17 Year 5 and Year 6 Chinese immersion students and one immersion teacher. Data collection entailed stage-by-stage classroom observation over 10 weeks (primarily during regular immersion mathematics sessions), combined with a series of pre- to post-intervention assessments. Additional data were also obtained from a questionnaire and semi-guided interviews. These multiple data sources served a validation function, assisting in data analysis to inform research findings.
 Findings indicate that structured FFI intervention during content-focused lessons, combined with three Chinese language lessons in the target form, enabled acquisition of the target form ‘measure word 量 词’ by student participants, with the majority progressing from declarative knowledge to procedural knowledge. Furthermore, the findings suggest that in order to improve Chinese grammar acquisition for second language learners, such FFI approaches can be systematically planned and integrated into a meaning-based communicative Chinese immersion curricula and teaching practice.
The voice of infertility: a review of fertility podcasts
Creators: name: Fine, Eliana
name: Peyser, Alexandra
name: Abittan, Baruch
name: Mullin, Christine
name: Goldman, Randi H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Over the past several years, there has been a significant increase in the popularity of podcast use. The purpose of this study was to review the availability, content, and authorship of podcasts on the topic of fertility and to compare those hosted by physicians vs patients. A search for podcasts relating to the term ‘fertility’ was performed using 10 podcast platforms. Information relating to each podcast was recorded. Chi-square was used for comparison of proportions and the Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables. Of the 133 podcasts that met inclusion criteria, the most common subject was patient education (62%), followed by fertility awareness (30%), and Third Party Reproduction (13%). A majority of podcasts were hosted by patients (40%), holistic health professionals (28%), and physicians (16%). When comparing podcasts hosted by physicians vs. patients, there was no difference in overall content (p = 0.07), frequency of episodes (p = 0.77), number of episodes (p = 0.63) and number of listener ratings (p = 0.47). We conclude that many fertility podcasts exist with most hosted by patients describing their fertility experiences. Understanding the landscape of fertility podcasts will allow physicians to identify areas of interest and create content which educates and enhances connection with patients.
Laser noise imposed limitations of ensemble quantum metrology
Creators: name: Plankensteiner, David
name: Schachenmayer, Johannes
name: Ritsch, Helmut
name: Genes, Claudiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser noise is a decisive limiting factor in high precision spectroscopy of narrow lines using atomic ensembles. In an idealized Doppler and differential light shift free magic wavelength lattice configuration, it remains as one distinct principal limitation beyond collective atomic decay. In this work we study the limitations originating from laser phase and amplitude noise in an idealized Ramsey pulse interrogation scheme with uncorrelated atoms. Phase noise leads to a saturation of the frequency sensitivity with increasing atom number while amplitude noise implies a scaling $1/\sqrtτ$ with $τ$ being the interrogation time. We employ a technique using decoherence free subspaces first introduced in New J. Phys. \textbf{14}, 043011 (2012) which can restore the scaling with the square root of the inverse particle number $1/\sqrt{N}$. Similar results and improvements are obtained numerically for a Rabi spectroscopy setup.
Magnetoelectronic and optical properties of nonuniform graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Chung, Hsien-Ching
name: Lin, Yu-Tsung
name: Lin, Shih-Yang
name: Ho, Ching-Hong
name: Chang, Cheng-Peng
name: Lin, Ming-Fa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic and optical properties of nonuniform bilayer graphene nanoribbons are worth investigating as they exhibit rich magnetic quantization. Based on our numerical results, their electronic and optical properties strongly depend on the competition between magnetic quantization, lateral confinement, and stacking configuration. The results of our calculations lead to four categories of magneto-electronic energy spectra, namely monolayer-like, bilayer-like, coexistent, and irregular quasi-Landau-level like. Various types of spectra described in this paper are mainly characterized by unusual spatial distributions of wave functions in the system under study. In our paper, we demonstrate that these unusual quantized modes lead to the appearance of such diverse magneto-optical spectra. Moreover, the investigation of the density of states in our model leads to the appearance of many prominent symmetric and weakly asymmetric peaks. The almost well-behaved quasi-Landau levels exhibit high-intensity peaks with specific selection rules, and the distorted energy subbands present numerous low-intensity peaks without any selection rules.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.01889
Towards a symplectic version of the Chevalley restriction theorem
Creators: name: Bulois, Michael
name: Lehn, Christian
name: Lehn, Manfred
name: Terpereau, Ronan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L30, 53D20, 20G05, 20G20, 13A50

description: If $(G,V)$ is a polar representation with Cartan subspace $\mathfrak c$ and Weyl group $W$, it is shown that there is a natural morphism of Poisson schemes $\mathfrak c \oplus {\mathfrak c}^*/W \to V\oplus V^*/\!\!/\!\!/ G$. This morphism is conjectured to be an isomorphism of the underlying reduced varieties if $(G,V)$ is visible. The conjecture is proved for visible stable locally free polar representations and certain further examples.
description: 18 pages, final version
title: Inácio Vieira
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica Inácio Vieira na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. Inácio Vieira in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Is the use of IVF add-on treatments driven by patients or clinics? Findings from a UK patient survey
Creators: name: Cirkovic, Stevan
name: Wilkinson, Jack
name: Lensen, Sarah
name: Jackson, Emily
name: Harper, Joyce
name: Lindemann, Katy
name: Costa-Font, Joan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: There are conflicting narratives over what drives demand for add-ons. We undertook an online survey of IVF patients to determine whether patients perceive that use of IVF add-ons is driven by patients or practitioners. People who underwent IVF in the UK in the previous five years were recruited via social media Survey questions focussed on the roles of clinician offer and patient request, including who first suggested use of add-ons in IVF consultations, where patients first heard about them, and which information sources they trusted. From a total of 261 responses, 224 met the inclusion criteria. Overall, 67% of respondents had used one or more IVF add-ons, most commonly: time-lapse imaging (27%), EmbryoGlue (27%), and endometrial scratching (26%). Overall, 81% of the add-ons used were offered to participants by clinicians (compared to 19% requested by themselves). Half (54%) reported being offered add-ons during consultations, compared to 24% who initiated discussion about add-ons. Higher proportions of private patients reported being offered (90%), requesting (47%) and using (74%) add-ons than those with NHS funding (74%, 29%, 52%, respectively). The main limitations of this study are the small sample size, recruitment via a convenience sample, and the self-reported data capture which is subject to recall bias.
Sudden jumps and plateaus in the quench dynamics of a Bloch state
Creators: name: Zhang, J. M.
name: Yang, Hua-Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take a one-dimensional tight binding chain with periodic boundary condition and put a particle in an arbitrary Bloch state, then quench it by suddenly changing the potential of an arbitrary site. In the ensuing time evolution, the probability density of the wave function at an arbitrary site \emph{jumps indefinitely between plateaus}. This phenomenon adds to a former one in which the survival probability of the particle in the initial Bloch state shows \emph{cusps} periodically, which was found in the same scenario [Zhang J. M. and Yang H.-T., EPL, \textbf{114} (2016) 60001]. The plateaus support the scattering wave picture of the quench dynamics of the Bloch state. Underlying the cusps and jumps is the exactly solvable, nonanalytic dynamics of a Luttinger-like model, based on which, the locations of the jumps and the heights of the plateaus are accurately predicted.
description: final version
Effects of the local purple sticky rice bran extract on antioxidant activity and calcium oxalate crystal formation and aggregation in vitro
Creators: name: Witoon Khawsuk
Publisher: name: School of Health Science , Mae Fah Luang University
Year: 2022
Subjects: purple sticky rice bran
antioxidant activity
calcium oxalate
crystal aggregation

description: Journal of Health Science and Alternative Medicine, 4, 2, 1-7
Shifting sands and changing landscapes – A case study of the introduction to Collaborative Team Teaching in kindergarten
Creators: name: Boissezon, Priscilla
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This qualitative case study investigated the introduction of a new model of teaching in kindergartens called Collaborative Team Teaching. The investigation highlighted intricacies and nuances evident as Bachelor-qualified educators transition from sole-practitioner teaching to a collaborative model. Data collected from the educators’ perspectives were analysed utilising a Communities of Practice framework. Findings revealed that introduction of a Collaborative Team Teaching model requires a well-mapped transition, during which a focus on the 6 Cs – Connection, Collaboration, Communication, Compromise, Consensus and Collaborative Praxis – is extremely beneficial. In addition, Collaborative Team Teaching as a model can greatly support professional growth and practitioner enhancement.
Revisiting the Exclusion Limits from Direct Chargino-Neutralino Production at the LHC
Creators: name: Choudhury, Arghya
name: Mondal, Subhadeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the existing limits on the gaugino masses in various Supersymmetric (SUSY) scenarios derived from Run-I data of the LHC. These limits obtained from the various final states rely heavily on the simplified assumptions regarding the masses, compositions and decay branching ratios of the gauginos. The most promising exclusion limits on the gaugino masses are obtained from trilepton final states while the second lightest neutralino ($\widetilde χ_2^0$) decaying into the SM-like Higgs and lightest SUSY particle (LSP) results in the weakest bounds. Our aim is to assess the extent of deviation of these exclusion limits in more realistic scenarios. After a brief discussion on the various decay modes of the $\widetilde χ_2^0$ and the lightest chargino ($\widetilde χ^{\pm}_1$), we proceed to validate the ATLAS exclusion limits obtained from trilepton, $lγγ$ and $lb\bar b$ final states associated with missing energy. We then consider different combinations of the relevant branching ratios to study their impact on the existing bounds. The results are presented alongside the existing exclusion limits to showcase the extent of the obtained deviation. We also observe that the three-body decay modes of $\widetilde χ_2^0$ and $\widetilde χ^{\pm}_1$ via off-shell slepton decays resulting in trilepton final states provide bounds that are far more severe in some parts of the available parameter space than that obtained from the usual two-body decay modes of the aforementioned gauginos.
description: 34 pages, 13 figures. Discussions extended and new figures added in Sec. 2. Few references added. Version published in PRD
Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and $Z$ bosons with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct searches for lepton flavour violation in decays of the Higgs and $Z$ bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The following three decays are considered: $H\to eτ$, $H\toμτ$, and $Z\toμτ$. The searches are based on the data sample of proton--proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV. No significant excess is observed, and upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are set at the 95% confidence level: Br$(H\to eτ)
description: 28 pages plus cover page plus author list (46 pages total), 6 figures, 9 tables, published in EPJC, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2015-09
Monitoring Akkuyu Nuclear Reactor Using Antineutrino Flux Measurement
Creators: name: Ozturk, Sertac
name: Adiguzel, Aytul
name: Ozcan, V. Erkcan
name: Unel, Gokhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simulation-based study for monitoring Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant's activity using antineutrino flux originating from the reactor core. A water Cherenkov detector has been designed and optimization studies have been performed using Geant4 simulation toolkit. A first study for the design of a monitoring detector facility for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is discussed in this paper.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Time-Sliced Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure I: General Formalism
Creators: name: Blas, Diego
name: Garny, Mathias
name: Ivanov, Mikhail M.
name: Sibiryakov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
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 new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the cosmological observables at a given moment of time. Expanding the distribution function around the Gaussian weight we formulate a perturbative technique to calculate non-linear corrections to cosmological correlators, similar to the diagrammatic expansion in a three-dimensional Euclidean quantum field theory, with time playing the role of an external parameter. For the physically relevant case of cold dark matter in an Einstein--de Sitter universe, the time evolution of the distribution function can be found exactly and is encapsulated by a time-dependent coupling constant controlling the perturbative expansion. We show that all building blocks of the expansion are free from spurious infrared enhanced contributions that plague the standard cosmological perturbation theory. This paves the way towards the systematic resummation of infrared effects in large scale structure formation. We also argue that the approach proposed here provides a natural framework to account for the influence of short-scale dynamics on larger scales along the lines of effective field theory.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures, discussion on IR safety expanded, appendix C added; version published in JCAP
Uniqueness of the solution of the Gaudin's equations, which describe a one-dimensional system of point bosons with zero boundary conditions
Creators: name: Tomchenko, Maksim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the system of Gaudin's equations for quasimomenta k_{j}, which describes a one-dimensional system of spinless point bosons with zero boundary conditions, has the unique real solution for each set of quantum numbers n_{j}.
description: 8 pages, v2: minor amendments
Report D3.3: Metodi per il riconoscimento e l'annotazione automatica di immagini e mappe
Creators: name: Reggiannini Marco
name: Pascali Maria Antonietta
name: Moroni Davide
name: Tampucci Marco
name: Salvetti Ovidio
name: Carlo, Colombo
name: Fanfani Marco
name: Bellavia Fabio
name: Pazzaglia Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: This report contains a description of the software design and development activity in the framework of the Thesaurus project experimental tests. The marine environment represents a challenging context for IT experts, both for what is concerning the discovery of unknown sites and for the recovery and preservation operations. The hostile environmental conditions, unfit to human intervention, favored the increasing demand for artificial intelligence integration in the AUVs, the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in charge of survey operations. The primary purpose of our work consists in treating optical and acoustic signals in order to extract useful information about the surveyed site. We basically seek for meaningful features in the data in order to perform robust object recognition, also in case of unfavorable environmental conditions (in presence of noise, partial occlusions, etc...). The report is organized as follows: the project experimental conditions are described in section 2; in section 3 the techniques employed for a preliminary signal processing are described, paying specific attention to the difference between optical and acoustic data; the procedures performing automatic recognition and classification are described in the following 4,5 and 6 sections; finally the implemented data fusion model is described in section 7. The report contains also some of the results obtained by processing simulation data as well as the data captured during the project experimental tests.
title: Jerónimo Velho de Azevedo
Creators: name: Conceição, Margarida
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica sobre Jerónimo Velho de Azevedo, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Conceição, Margarida Tavares da. 2002. Jerónimo Velho de Azevedo in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
A "high-hard" outburst of the black hole X-ray binary GS 1354-64
Creators: name: Koljonen, K. I. I.
name: Russell, D. M.
name: Corral-Santana, J. M.
name: Padilla, M. Armas
name: Muñoz-Darias, T.
name: Lewis, F.
name: Coriat, M.
name: Bauer, F. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail the evolution of the 2015 outburst of GS 1354-64 (BW Cir) at optical, UV and X-ray wavelengths using Faulkes Telescope South/LCOGT, SMARTS and Swift. The outburst was found to stay in the hard X-ray state, albeit being anomalously luminous with a peak luminosity of L$_{X} >$ 0.15 L$_{Edd}$, which could be the most luminous hard state observed in a black hole X-ray binary. We found that the optical/UV emission is tightly correlated with the X-ray emission, consistent with accretion disc irradiation and/or a jet producing the optical emission. The X-ray spectra can be fitted well with a Comptonisation model, and show softening towards the end of the outburst. In addition, we detect a QPO in the X-ray lightcurves with increasing centroid frequency during the peak and decay periods of the outburst. The long-term optical lightcurves during quiescence show a statistically significant, slow rise of the source brightness over the 7 years prior to the 2015 outburst. This behaviour as well as the outburst evolution at all wavelengths studied can be explained by the disc instability model with irradiation and disc evaporation/condensation.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Box-Cox symmetric distributions and applications to nutritional data
Creators: name: Ferrari, Silvia L. P.
name: Fumes, Giovana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce the Box-Cox symmetric class of distributions, which is useful for modeling positively skewed, possibly heavy-tailed, data. The new class of distributions includes the Box-Cox t, Box-Cox Cole-Gree, Box-Cox power exponential distributions, and the class of the log-symmetric distributions as special cases. It provides easy parameter interpretation, which makes it convenient for regression modeling purposes. Additionally, it provides enough flexibility to handle outliers. The usefulness of the Box-Cox symmetric models is illustrated in applications to nutritional data.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Ways of seeing: A model for community partnership working
Creators: name: Hart, Gill
Publisher: name: International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC)
Year: 2010
Subjects: Programs for people recovering from mental health problems

description: This project was devised by staff at The Cambridge Resource Centre for individuals recovering from mental health problems and the Fitzwilliam Museum Education department. The aim was to move towards a program that was inclusive and did not involve segregated access for people recovering from mental health problems. Sessions took place at the Resource Centre and were open to mental health service users and the general public. A five-week course gradually moved away from the Resource Centre and into the museum. A quote from a participant: “I walked past a couple of paintings in the museum that we had looked at previously as a group. I felt such a shiver of delight as I looked at a painting I'd otherwise paid little mind to – thinking about what I knew about it now. The joy of recognition; the beginning of knowledge & skills.”’ Some participants signed up for a ten-week course taking place in the Fitzwilliam Museum and at Kettle’s Yard. Members of the public booked places on the course (30% of the places were allocated to those referred by the Resource Centre). Participants visited different departments within the museum and met keepers, technicians and other staff as well as taking part in group discussions and debates. This project was rigorously evaluated using questionnaires, discussion and consultation.
title: João Baptista (3)
Creators: name: Seixas, Raquel
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica sobre a pessoa João Baptista (3), na plataforma eViterbo
description: Seixas, Raquel. 2022. João Baptista (3). In eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Microcosms: an introduction to an interdisciplinary museum project
Creators: name: Robertson, Bruce
Publisher: name: International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC)
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: university collections
subject: microcosms
subject: material collections
subject: 060 Organisationen, Museumswissenschaft

description: This paper summarizes the questions raised by the research of Microcosms, an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research project at the University of California. This project considers the role of material collections in the modern university, within an historical perspective, and comes to several broad conclusions.
Statistically validated network of portfolio overlaps and systemic risk
Creators: name: Gualdi, Stanislao
name: Cimini, Giulio
name: Primicerio, Kevin
name: Di Clemente, Riccardo
name: Challet, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Common asset holding by financial institutions, namely portfolio overlap, is nowadays regarded as an important channel for financial contagion with the potential to trigger fire sales and thus severe losses at the systemic level. In this paper we propose a method to assess the statistical significance of the overlap between pairs of heterogeneously diversified portfolios, which then allows us to build a validated network of financial institutions where links indicate potential contagion channels due to realized portfolio overlaps. The method is implemented on a historical database of institutional holdings ranging from 1999 to the end of 2013, but can be in general applied to any bipartite network where the presence of similar sets of neighbors is of interest. We find that the proportion of validated network links (i.e., of statistically significant overlaps) increased steadily before the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and reached a maximum when the crisis occurred. We argue that the nature of this measure implies that systemic risk from fire sales liquidation was maximal at that time. After a sharp drop in 2008, systemic risk resumed its growth in 2009, with a notable acceleration in 2013, reaching levels not seen since 2007. We finally show that market trends tend to be amplified in the portfolios identified by the algorithm, such that it is possible to have an informative signal about financial institutions that are about to suffer (enjoy) the most significant losses (gains).
Dark Matter and the Higgs in Natural SUSY
Creators: name: Basirnia, Aria
name: Macaluso, Sebastian
name: Shih, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Null results from dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments and the 125 GeV Higgs both pose serious challenges to minimal supersymmetry. In this paper, we propose a simple extension of the MSSM that economically solves both problems: a "dark sector" consisting of a singlet and a pair of $SU(2)$ doublets. Loops of the dark sector fields help lift the Higgs mass to 125 GeV consistent with naturalness, while the lightest fermion in the dark sector can be viable thermal relic DM, provided that it is mostly singlet. The DM relic abundance is controlled by s-wave annihilation to tops and Higgsinos, leading to a tight relation between the relic abundance and the spin-dependent direct detection cross section. As a result, the model will be fully probed by the next generation of direct detection experiments. Finally we discuss the discovery potential at LHC Run II.
description: 37 pages, 15 figures, updated LUX limits
QED radiative corrections and their impact on H -> tau tau searches at the LHC
Creators: name: Krasny, Mieczyslaw Witold
name: Jadach, Stanislaw
name: Placzek, Wieslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that the excess of the tau tau events with respect to the Standard Model background predictions, observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations and interpreted as the evidence of the Higgs-boson decay into a pair of tau-leptons, may be accounted for by properly taking into account QED radiative corrections in the modelling of the Z/gamma* -> tau tau background.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures, final version published in Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76:194
Measurement Protocol for the Entanglement Spectrum of Cold Atoms
Creators: name: Pichler, Hannes
name: Zhu, Guanyu
name: Seif, Alireza
name: Zoller, Peter
name: Hafezi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement, and, in particular the entanglement spectrum, plays a major role in characterizing many-body quantum systems. While there has been a surge of theoretical works on the subject, no experimental measurement has been performed to date because of the lack of an implementable measurement scheme. Here, we propose a measurement protocol to access the entanglement spectrum of many-body states in experiments with cold atoms in optical lattices. Our scheme effectively performs a Ramsey spectroscopy of the entanglement Hamiltonian and is based on the ability to produce several copies of the state under investigation together with the possibility to perform a global swap gate between two copies conditioned on the state of an auxiliary qubit. We show how the required conditional swap gate can be implemented with cold atoms, either by using Rydberg interactions or coupling the atoms to a cavity mode. We illustrate these ideas on a simple (extended) Bose-Hubbard model where such a measurement protocol reveals topological features of the Haldane phase.
Detecting Superlight Dark Matter with Fermi-Degenerate Materials
Creators: name: Hochberg, Yonit
name: Pyle, Matt
name: Zhao, Yue
name: Zurek, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine in greater detail the recent proposal of using superconductors for detecting dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit of O(keV). Detection of such light dark matter is possible if the entire kinetic energy of the dark matter is extracted in the scattering, and if the experiment is sensitive to O(meV) energy depositions. This is the case for Fermi-degenerate materials in which the Fermi velocity exceeds the dark matter velocity dispersion in the Milky Way of ~10^-3. We focus on a concrete experimental proposal using a superconducting target with a transition edge sensor in order to detect the small energy deposits from the dark matter scatterings. Considering a wide variety of constraints, from dark matter self-interactions to the cosmic microwave background, we show that models consistent with cosmological/astrophysical and terrestrial constraints are observable with such detectors. A wider range of viable models with dark matter mass below an MeV is available if dark matter or mediator properties (such as couplings or masses) differ at BBN epoch or in stellar interiors from those in superconductors. We also show that metal targets pay a strong in-medium suppression for kinetically mixed mediators; this suppression is alleviated with insulating targets.
description: 40 pages, 10 figures; v2: updated figures, matches published version
Magnetic moments of the hidden-charm pentaquark states
Creators: name: Wang, Guang-Juan
name: Chen, Rui
name: Ma, Li
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic moment of a baryon state is an equally important dynamical observable as its mass, which encodes crucial information of its underlying structure. According to the different color-flavor structure, we have calculated the magnetic moments of the hidden-charm pentaquark states with $J^P={\frac{1}{2}}^{\pm}$, ${\frac{3}{2}}^{\pm}$, ${\frac{5}{2}}^{\pm}$ and ${\frac{7}{2}}^{+}$ in the molecular model, the diquark-triquark model and the diquark-diquark-antiquark model respectively. Although a good description for the pentaquark mass spectrum and decay patterns has been obtained in all the three models, different color-flavor structures lead to different magnetic moments, which can be used to pin down their inner structures and distinguish various models.
description: 17 pages