cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Computational neuroanatomy: mapping cell-type densities in the mouse brain, simulations from the Allen Brain Atlas
Creators: name: Grange, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) of the adult mouse consists of digitized expression profiles of thousands of genes in the mouse brain, co-registered to a common three-dimensional template (the Allen Reference Atlas). This brain-wide, genome-wide data set has triggered a renaissance in neuroanatomy. Its voxelized version (with cubic voxels of side 200 microns) can be analyzed on a desktop computer using MATLAB. On the other hand, brain cells exhibit a great phenotypic diversity (in terms of size, shape and electrophysiological activity), which has inspired the names of some well-studied cell types, such as granule cells and medium spiny neurons. However, no exhaustive taxonomy of brain cells is available. A genetic classification of brain cells is under way, and some cell types have been characterized by their transcriptome profiles. However, given a cell type characterized by its transcriptome, it is not clear where else in the brain similar cells can be found. The ABA can been used to solve this region-specificity problem in a data-driven way: rewriting the brain-wide expression profiles of all genes in the atlas as a sum of cell-type-specific transcriptome profiles is equivalent to solving a quadratic optimization problem at each voxel in the brain. However, the estimated brain-wide densities of 64 cell types published recently were based on one series of co-registered coronal in situ hybridization (ISH) images per gene, whereas the online ABA contains several image series per gene, including sagittal ones. In the presented work, we simulate the variability of cell-type densities in a Monte Carlo way by repeatedly drawing a random image series for each gene and solving optimization problems. This yields error bars on the region-specificity of cell types.
description: Prepared for the International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, 5th-8th June 2015, Mykonos Island, Greece
A theoretical model for the associative nature of conference participation
Creators: name: Smiljanić, Jelena
name: Chatterjee, Arnab
name: Kauppinen, Tomi
name: Dankulov, Marija Mitrović
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Participation in conferences is an important part of every scientific career. Conferences provide an opportunity for a fast dissemination of latest results, discussion and exchange of ideas, and broadening of scientists' collaboration network. The decision to participate in a conference depends on several factors like the location, cost, popularity of keynote speakers, and the scientists' association with the community. Here we discuss and formulate the problem of discovering how a scientists' previous participation affects her/his future participations in the same conference series. We develop a stochastic model to examine scientists' participation patterns in conferences and compare our model with data from six conferences across various scientific fields and communities. Our model shows that the probability for a scientist to participate in a given conference series strongly depends on the balance between the number of participations and non-participations during his/her early connections with the community. An active participation in a conference series strengthens the scientists' association with that particular conference community and thus increases the probability of future participations.
description: 9 pages, 3 figs + Supporting information 6 pages, 3 figs
title: Thomas Aquinas and Luis de Molina: a historical-critical synthesis in response to the problem of divine foreknowledge
Creators: name: Norris, Matthew James
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2025

description: Since the Congregatio de Auxiliis, the Thomist and Molinist positions on divine foreknowledge have been portrayed as antithetical. Nowhere has this ostensible incompatibility been more vividly played out than the theories’ applicability as a solution to the problem of theological fatalism, the claim that if God has infallible knowledge of future contingent propositions, then human free will is impossible. The thesis argues that while both theories are satisfactory solutions to the problem, there are deficiencies within each that can be addressed by blending the two views. This novel contribution to the scholarship outlines such a synthesis of the Thomist and Molinist positions to resolve the challenge of fatalism and outline a coherent and plausible theory of divine foreknowledge. Through a rigorous exposition of the key concepts of fatalism and freedom, the challenge to the classical theistic concept of articulated, but it is demonstrated that the fatalist position lacks fangs and that a Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) conception of creaturely freedom can be preserved. A critical exegetical approach is used to assess a range of theories of divine providence, with careful analysis of the merits of Aquinas and Molina’s work in particular. In recognition that Aquinas and Molina’s work relies on a coherent Boethian account of divine timelessness, a firm distinction between God’s eternality and creation’s temporality is defended with an appeal to Special Relativity, Perfect Being theology, and the phenomenological experience of tense. Having demonstrated conclusively the crucial premise of both views, Thomas’ emphasis on the divine vision is integrated with Molina’s recognition of the role of counterfactual middle knowledge to produce a view that overcomes the objections raised against Thomism and Molinism individually. This highly original synthesis based on what I have termed ‘meta-vision’ not merely rebuts serious objections; it opens up major theological debates on prayer, sin, and much more.
Role of pentaquark components in $ϕ$ meson production proton-antiproton annihilation reactions
Creators: name: Srisuphaphon, S.
name: Kaewsnod, A.
name: Limphirat, A.
name: Khosonthongkee, K.
name: Yan, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pentaquark component is included in the proton wave functions to study phi meson production proton-antiproton annihilation reactions. With all possible configurations of the uuds subsystem proposed for describing the strangeness spin and magnetic moment of the proton, we estimate the branching ratios of the annihilation reactions at rest proton-antiproton to phi + X (X=pi, eta, rho, omega) from atomic proton-antiproton S- and P-wave states by using effective quark line diagrams incorporating the 3P0 model. The best agreement of theoretical prediction with the experimental data is found when the pentaquark configuration of the proton wave function takes the flavor-spin symmetry, [4]_FS [22]_F [22]_S.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Large structures within the class of summing operators
Creators: name: Albuquerque, Nacib Gurgel
name: Coleta, Lindinês
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate lineability/spaceability problems within the setting of multilinear summing operators on quasi-Banach sequence spaces. Furthermore, we deal with the contemporary geometric notions of pointwise-lineability and $(α,β)$-lineability. Among other results, we prove that the class of multilinear operators taking values on $\ell_q \, (0
description: 12 pages
The Effects of Induced Hypervigilance in Healthy Subjects
Creators: name: Walters, Sloan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies have both associated hypervigilance with generalized amplified perception and demonstrated that is it possible to induce hypervigilance in healthy participants. However, little research has been done to understand the perceptual changes associated with induced hypervigilance in healthy participants. This study sought to understand if hypervigilance could be induced in healthy participants using writing and counting tasks. Also, the study explored if participants in this hypervigilant state perceived tactile stimulation differently than control subjects. A total of 48 undergraduates from the PSYC 101 Participant Pool at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill participated in the study. Over the course of an hour they completed writing and counting tasks, as well as a series of questionnaires. Then, ratings of tactile stimuli were used to detect any differences in pain perception in the groups. Comparisons of unpleasantness threshold and pain threshold, as well as intensity and unpleasantness ratings, reveal that there was little statistically significant difference between groups. Additionally, questionnaire data revealed that hypervigilance was not induced in experimental subjects. The results did not support the hypotheses that hypervigilance would be induced or that hypervigilance would change perception of the weighted rod.
title: „Sie blickten in die Zukunft.“ Eine Bildanalyse mit Annette Vowinckel
Creators: name: Vowinckel, Annette
name: Ferreira dos Santos, Janaina
name: Sucutardean, Iulia-Maria
Publisher: name: ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: Visual History
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Im ersten Teil unseres multimedialen Interviews mit Annette Vowinckel, veröffentlicht im März 2023 auf Visual History, blickten Janaina Ferreira dos Santos und Iulia Sucutardean auf Urlauber auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff in Richung Kuba, Diplomaten auf einer Tagung des Warschauer Pakts und Models auf einer Leipziger Modemesse. Nun wird eine Fotografie in den Blick genommen, auf der vier Männer zu sehen sind: Überlebende des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald.
MPEC 2023-Q101 : 2023 QU3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QU3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Το παραλήρημα στη μετεγχειρητική περίοδο
Creators: name: Λαζαρίδου, Ευφροσύνη Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Παραλήρημα
Μονάδα Εντατικής Θεραπείας
Μέθοδος Αξιολόγησης Σύγχυσης
Delirium
Intensive Care Unit
Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν η διερεύνηση της εκδήλωσης παραληρήματος, όπως αυτή αποτυπώνεται σε μετεγχειρητικούς ηλικιωμένους ασθενείς της Δ΄Πανεπιστημιακής Χειρουργικής Κλινικής του Γενικού Νοσοκομείου Παπανικολάου. Η διερεύνηση της εκδήλωσης μετεγχειρητικού παραληρήματος προσεγγίστηκε με τη χρήση της κλίμακας CAM-ICU και, μέσω αυτής, την αξιολόγηση των εξής διαγνωστικών χαρακτηριστικών: την οξεία έναρξη μεταβολών στη διανοητική κατάσταση ή κυμαινόμενη πορεία συμπτωμάτων, τη διαταραχή της προσοχής, το διαταραγμένο επίπεδο συνείδησης και την αποδιοργάνωση της σκέψης. Από την έρευνα προέκυψαν χρήσιμα στοιχεία για τα δημογραφικά στοιχεία των συμμετεχόντων, το είδος της αναισθησίας που χορηγήθηκε και την ύπαρξη ή μη επιπλοκών, μετά το χειρουργείο. Επιπλέον, πολύτιμα ήταν τα στοιχεία που αφορούσαν την εκδήλωση των κύριων χαρακτηριστικών που σχετίζονται με το παραλήρημα, καθώς και την εκδήλωση θετικής ή αρνητικής CAM-ICU, σύμφωνα με τη συμπλήρωση των αντίστοιχων έντυπων.
description: The aim of the present survey was to study the incidence of delirium, as reflected to the patients hospitalized in a surgical department of Papanikolaou Hospital. The diagnose of delirium was searched by the use of CAM-ICU scale, a confusion assesment method, and was evaluated by the four characteristics of delirium: acute change of fluctuating course of mental status, inattention, altered level of consciousness and disorganized thinking. From this survey useful were the data the demographic features of the survey participants, the kind of anaesthesia used and the presence or absence of complications after surgery. Furthermore valuable data were the ones that related to the the main characteristics of delirium, the positive or negative CAM-ICU, via the confusion assessment method CAM-ICU papers.
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption
Creators: name: Khaykin, Sergey
name: Podglajen, Aurelien
name: Ploeger, Felix
name: Grooß, Jens-Uwe
name: Tence, Florent
name: Bekki, Slimane
name: Khlopenkov, Konstantin
name: Bedka, Kristopher
name: Rieger, Landon
name: Baron, Alexandre
name: Godin-Beekmann, Sophie
name: Legras, Bernard
name: Sellitto, Pasquale
name: Sakai, Tetsu
name: Barnes, John
name: Uchino, Osamu
name: Morino, Isamu
name: Nagai, Tomohiro
name: Wing, Robin
name: Baumgarten, Gerd
name: Gerding, Michael
name: Duflot, Valentin
name: Payen, Guillaume
name: Jumelet, Julien
name: Querel, Richard
name: Liley, Ben
name: Bourassa, Adam
name: Clouser, Benjamin
name: Feofilov, Artem
name: Hauchecorne, Alain
name: Ravetta, François
Publisher: name: London : Springer Nature
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: aerosol
subject: climate
subject: perturbation
subject: stratosphere
subject: volcanic eruption
subject: water mass
subject: Tonga
subject: 333.7
subject: 550

description: The eruption of the submarine Hunga volcano in January 2022 was associated with a powerful blast that injected volcanic material to altitudes up to 58 km. From a combination of various types of satellite and ground-based observations supported by transport modeling, we show evidence for an unprecedented increase in the global stratospheric water mass by 13% relative to climatological levels, and a 5-fold increase of stratospheric aerosol load, the highest in the last three decades. Owing to the extreme injection altitude, the volcanic plume circumnavigated the Earth in only 1 week and dispersed nearly pole-to-pole in three months. The unique nature and magnitude of the global stratospheric perturbation by the Hunga eruption ranks it among the most remarkable climatic events in the modern observation era, with a range of potential long-lasting repercussions for stratospheric composition and climate.
Examining Asymmetric State-Level Impacts of U.S. Monetary Policy Surprise from 1970-2012
Creators: name: Fite, Caroline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This paper uses a two-part model to measure the asymmetric responses to monetary policy
surprise in U.S. states from 1970-2012. While there is extensive study in the area of
monetary theory, there has been limited theoretical discussion surrounding states as
individual, heterogeneous economies subjected to a monetary system that views them as
equal parts of the aggregate. In addition, studies that have attempted to model these
asymmetries face empirical constraints in modeling the root causes of differing state
effects. We overcome these empirical challenges by using time series methods to produce
an aggregate vector autoregressive model measuring the determinants of monetary policy.
We feed this model into a state-level panel data model as an exogenous shock to state
economies, finding that monetary surprise leads to lower growth in state economic activity.
We find that states have statistically different reactions to monetary shocks, with states in
the Great Lakes region being most sensitive to unexpected changes in monetary policy.
Differences in industry composition, state fiscal policy, and business size do not
substantively or significantly influence a states’ response to policy. Instead, we find that
reactions are mostly determined as a result of their regional geography, providing support
for limited regional monetary autonomy in district banks.
Griffiths phase and long-range correlations in a biologically motivated V1 model
Creators: name: Girardi-Schappo, Mauricio
name: Bortolotto, Germano S.
name: Gonsalves, Jheniffer J.
name: Pinto, Leonel T.
name: Tragtenberg, Marcelo H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Activity in the brain propagates as waves of firing neurons, namely avalanches. These waves' size and duration distributions have been experimentally shown to display a stable power-law profile, long-range correlations and $1/f^{b}$ power spectrum \textit{in vivo} and \textit{in vitro}. We study an avalanching biologically motivated model of mammals visual cortex and find an extended critical-like region -- a Griffiths phase -- characterized by divergent susceptibility and zero order parameter. This phase lies close to the expected experimental value of the \textit{excitatory postsynaptic potential} in the cortex suggesting that critical behavior may be found in the visual system. Avalanches are not perfectly power-law distributed, but it is possible to collapse the distributions and define a cutoff avalanche size that diverges as the network size is increased inside the critical region. The avalanches present long-range correlations and $1/f^{b}$ power spectrum, matching experiments. The phase transition is analytically determined by a mean-field approximation.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, PACS: 05.70.Jk,45.70.Ht,87.19.lt
When sexism is not a problem
Creators: name: Agadullina, Elena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: sexism, intelligence, halo effect, person perception

description: This project is focused on person perception, and especially on a cognitive effect that can occur when positive socially desirable characteristics are attributed to a sexist.
Impacts of acoustic and gravity waves on the ionosphere
Creators: name: Zawdie, Kate
name: Belehaki, Anna
name: Burleigh, Meghan
name: Chou, Min-Yang
name: Dhadly, Manbharat S.
name: Greer, Katelynn
name: Halford, Alexa J.
name: Hickey, Dustin
name: Inchin, Pavel
name: Kaeppler, Stephen R.
name: Klenzing, Jeff
name: Narayanan, Viswanathan Lakshmi
name: Sassi, Fabrizio
name: Sivakandan, Mani
name: Smith, Jonathon M.
name: Zabotin, Nikolay
name: Zettergren, Matthew D.
name: Zhang, Shun-Rong
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ionosphere
subject: plasma irregularities
subject: space physics
subject: thermosphere
subject: waves
subject: 520
subject: 620

description: The impact of regional-scale neutral atmospheric waves has been demonstrated to have profound effects on the ionosphere, but the circumstances under which they generate ionospheric disturbances and seed plasma instabilities are not well understood. Neutral atmospheric waves vary from infrasonic waves of <20 Hz to gravity waves with periods on the order of 10 min, for simplicity, hereafter they are combined under the common term Acoustic and Gravity Waves (AGWs). There are other longer period waves like planetary waves from the lower and middle atmosphere, whose effects are important globally, but they are not considered here. The most ubiquitous and frequently observed impact of AGWs on the ionosphere are Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs), but AGWs also affect the global ionosphere/thermosphere circulation and can trigger ionospheric instabilities (e.g., Perkins, Equatorial Spread F). The purpose of this white paper is to outline additional studies and observations that are required in the coming decade to improve our understanding of the impact of AGWs on the ionosphere.
New intercalation superconductor Lix(C6H16N2)yFe2-zSe2 with a very large interlayer-spacing and Tc = 38 K
Creators: name: Hosono, S.
name: Noji, T.
name: Hatakeda, T.
name: Kawamata, T.
name: Kato, M.
name: Koike, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new iron-based superconductor, Lix(C6H16N2)yFe2-zSe2, with Tc = 38 K has successfully been synthesized via the intercalation of lithium and hexamethylenediamine into FeSe. The superconducting transition has been confirmed not only by magnetic susceptibility measurements but also by electrical resistivity ones. The interlayer spacing, namely, the dicstance between neighboring Fe layers, d, is 16.225(5) $\mathring{\text{A}}$, which is the largest among those of FeSe-based intercalation compounds. It has been found that the dependence of Tc on d in FeSe-based intercalation superconductors appears domic.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Development and Usability of a Feedback Tool, “My Personal Brain Health Dashboard”, to Improve Setting of Self-Management Goals Among People Living with HIV in Canada
Creators: name: Mozafarinia, Maryam
name: Rajabiyazdi, Fateme
name: Brouillette, Marie-Josée
name: Fellows, Lesley
name: Mayo, Nancy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Cognitive interviews
subject: Feedback tool
subject: Goal-setting, Chronic conditions, HIV/AIDS, Health outcome profile,
subject: Personalized feedback

description: This project explains the development of a personalized health outcome profile termed as “My Personal Brain Health Dashboard”. This feedback tool has been designed with the aim of improving self-management in people living with chronic conditions such as HIV. Interpretability and usefulness of the feedback tool for setting specific goals has also been pilot tested.
2D to 1D magnetic interactions evolution in Cu$_2$F$_{5-x}$ through electron doping by fluoride non-stoichiometry
Creators: name: Korotin, Dmitry M.
name: Novoselov, Dmitry Y.
name: Anisimov, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The copper fluoride Cu$_2$F$_5$ is a compound with 2D-magnetic exchange interactions between the Cu ions in the $S=1$ and $S=\frac{1}{2}$ spin-states. Using ab-initio calculations, we predict that the existence of 5% vacancies in the fluoride sublattice of Cu$_2$F$_5$ results in the drastic transformation of the spin-state of all copper ions and the final spin-states are $S=\frac{1}{2}$ and $S=0$. Consequently, the anisotropy of magnetic interactions increases, and the 1D linear chains of the Cu $d^9$, $S=\frac{1}{2}$ ions appear. We also propose a microscopic mechanism of such exchange interaction transformation via CuO$_6$ octahedra elongation.
On the integral kernels of derivatives of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup
Creators: name: Teuwen, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47D07, 44A05

description: This paper presents a closed-form expression for the integral kernels associated with the derivatives of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup $e^{tL}$. Our approach is to expand the Mehler kernel into Hermite polynomials and applying the powers $L^N$ of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator to it, where we exploit the fact that the Hermite polynomials are eigenfunctions for $L$. As an application we give an alternative proof of the kernel estimates by Portal [2014], making all relevant quantities explicit.
description: Published as: J. Teuwen, On the integral kernels of derivatives of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup, Infin. Dimens. Anal. Quantum Probab. Relat. Top. 19 (2016) 1650030, doi: 10.1142/S0219025716500302
Shifting the Burden of Blame: How Human Trafficking and Prostitution Laws Harm Women
Creators: name: O'Malley, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: A number of authors have explored an overlapping relationship between the criminalisation of prostitution and sex trafficking.  Despite this close relationship, federal laws employ completely different assumptions of “consent” within each crime.  In this study, I seek to analyse the treatment of individuals charged with sex trafficking and related crimes, based on a review of arrests for prostitution-related and sex trafficking offenses, as well as interviews with law enforcement leaders and advocates.  I compare theories and approaches laid out in federal law with the very different treatment observed "on the ground" in North Carolina.  Using data from the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts Database, I analyze the entirety of North Carolina arrests from 2012 to 2017 to evaluate factors associated with the harshness of outcome following crimes of prostitution, solicitation, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution, and human trafficking. I find that while prostitution and solicitation are crimes that mainly impact females, patronizing, promoting prostitution and human trafficking are all targeted at males. While all studied crimes have high rates of acquittal, those arrested for female targeted crimes have about four times as many people arrested and about three times the likelihood of conviction. In addition, buyers of commercial sex are rarely ever arrested, while traffickers and promoters of commercial sex have less than a 10% likelihood of conviction.  This data is supplemented by interviews with experts who point to the myth that paints prostitution as a consensual act instead of a crime against vulnerable women.
Designing an upgrade of the Medley setup for light-ion production and fission cross-section measurements
Creators: name: Jansson, Kaj
name: Gustavsson, Cecilia
name: Al-Adili, Ali
name: Hjalmarsson, Anders
name: Andersson-Sundén, Erik
name: Prokofiev, Alexander V.
name: Tarrío, Diego
name: Pomp, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of neutron-induced fission cross sections and light-ion production are planned in the energy range 1-40 MeV at the upcoming Neutrons For Science (NFS) facility. In order to prepare our detector setup for the neutron beam with continuous energy spectrum, a simulation software was written using the Geant4 toolkit for both measurement situations. The neutron energy range around 20 MeV is troublesome when it comes to the cross sections used by Geant4 since data-driven cross sections are only available below 20 MeV but not above, where they are based on semi-empirical models. Several customisations were made to the standard classes in Geant4 in order to produce consistent results over the whole simulated energy range. Expected uncertainties are reported for both types of measurements. The simulations have shown that a simultaneous precision measurement of the three standard cross sections H(n,n), $^{235}$U(n,f) and $^{238}$U(n,f) relative to each other is feasible using a triple layered target. As high resolution timing detectors for fission fragments we plan to use Parallel Plate Avalanche Counters (PPACs). The simulation results have put some restrictions on the design of these detectors as well as on the target design. This study suggests a fissile target no thicker than 2 micrometers (1.7 mg/cm$^2$) and a PPAC foil thickness preferably less than 1 micrometer. We also comment on the usability of Geant4 for simulation studies of neutron reactions in this energy range.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Design and Fabrication of an Optimum Peripheral Region for Low Gain Avalanche Detectors
Creators: name: Fernandez-Martinez, Pablo
name: Flores, David
name: Hidalgo, Salvador
name: Greco, Virginia
name: Merlos, Angel
name: Pellegrini, Giulio
name: Quirion, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD) represent a remarkable advance in high energy particle detection, since they provide a moderate increase (gain ~10) of the collected charge, thus leading to a notable improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio, which largely extends the possible application of Silicon detectors beyond their present working field. The optimum detection performance requires a careful implementation of the multiplication junction, in order to obtain the desired gain on the read out signal, but also a proper design of the edge termination and the peripheral region, which prevents the LGAD detectors from premature breakdown and large leakage current. This work deals with the critical technological aspects when optimising the LGAD structure. The impact of several design strategies for the device periphery is evaluated with the aid of TCAD simulations, and compared with the experimental results obtained from the first LGAD prototypes fabricated at the IMB-CNM clean room. Solutions for the peripheral region improvement are also provided.
description: Keywords: silicon detectors, avalanche multiplication, LGAD, process technology, oxide charge. 20 pages, 18 figures
MPEC 2023-Q102 : 2023 QV3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QV3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
groupeffect.gndr1
Creators: name: Navon, Mayan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: ● Studies that tested the judgment of individual characters while both group-membership and individuating information are available, suggest that individuating information guides deliberate judgment of individuals, but doesn’t influence automatic judgment. Seemingly, automatic judgment is still dominated by group-membership (Cao & Banaji, 2016; Rubinstein, Jussim & Stevens, 2018). ● Since these studies used unfamiliar, fictional characters, Navon and Bar-anan have tested whether long term familiarity with objects of judgment and their attributes diminish this discrepancy, i.e. the differential influence of individuating information on automatic and deliberate judgment. They used questionnaires and IAT procedure, respectively, to measure the deliberate and automatic judgment of well-known, black and white actors. Measures ranged between positive and negative perception, and were not meant to measure the attribution of specific qualities. Whereas most subjects exhibited deliberate preference for the black actors, the IAT scores mostly tended in favor of the white actors. These findings imply that long-term familiarity doesn’t improve the potential of individuating information to change automatic judgment (Navon & Bar-anan, 2018). ● The purpose of the current study is to test whether this finding can be generalized to (a) other salient social groups, and (b) processes of deliberate and automatic attribution of stereotypic traits (as opposed to positive vs. negative judgment). More specifically, it will test whether well-known women, given their familiar individuating information, will be evaluated and/or automatically judged as more emotional than well-known men - i.e. according to gender stereotypes - or as more rational, i.e. in contrast to gender stereotypes.
Appendix 1.; Appendix 2.; Appendix 3.; Appendix 4.; Figure S1.; Figure S2. from Birds differentially prioritize visual and olfactory foraging cues depending on habitat of origin and sex
Creators: name: Rubene, Diana
name: Low, Matthew
name: Brodin, Anders
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary methods. Detailed description of bird housing, experimental setup and preparation of foraging cues.; Summarised data for all bird individuals included in the study. Individual ID, sex, origin, learning cues and performance (Table S1) and STRANGE assessment of individual-related potential sources of bias (Table S2).; Model structures and model code for R and Jags.; Supplementary results. Estimated levels of preference with confidence intervals for the different types of cues from the performed analyses (Tables S3-S6).; Spectral reflectance of the colours (blue, yellow and green) that were used as visual components of multimodal cues.; Proportion of correct choices made by great tits during their first associative learning session and the session when they passed the learning criterion.
Study of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane with ARGO-YBJ
Creators: name: Bartoli, B.
name: Bernardini, P.
name: Bi, X. J.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Budano, A.
name: Camarri, P.
name: Cao, Z.
name: Cardarelli, R.
name: Catalanotti, S.
name: Chen, S. Z.
name: Chen, T. L.
name: Creti, P.
name: Cui, S. W.
name: Dai, B. Z.
name: D'Amone, A.
name: Danzengluobu
name: De Mitri, I.
name: Piazzoli, B. D'Ettorre
name: Di Girolamo, T.
name: Di Sciascio, G.
name: Feng, C. F.
name: Feng, Zhaoyang
name: Feng, Zhenyong
name: Gou, Q. B.
name: Guo, Y. Q.
name: He, H. H.
name: Hu, Haibing
name: Hu, Hongbo
name: Iacovacci, M.
name: Iuppa, R.
name: Jia, H. Y.
name: Labaciren
name: Li, H. J.
name: Liguori, G.
name: Liu, C.
name: Liu, J.
name: Liu, M. Y.
name: Lu, H.
name: Ma, L. L.
name: Ma, X. H.
name: Mancarella, G.
name: Mari, S. M.
name: Marsella, G.
name: Martello, D.
name: Mastroianni, S.
name: Montini, P.
name: Ning, C. C.
name: Panareo, M.
name: Perrone, L.
name: Pistilli, P.
name: Ruggieri, F.
name: Salvini, P.
name: Santonico, R.
name: Shen, P. R.
name: Sheng, X. D.
name: Shi, F.
name: Surdo, A.
name: Tan, Y. H.
name: Vallania, P.
name: Vernetto, S.
name: Vigorito, C.
name: Wang, H.
name: Wu, C. Y.
name: Wu, H. R.
name: Xue, L.
name: Yang, Q. Y.
name: Yang, X. C.
name: Yao, Z. G.
name: Yuan, A. F.
name: Zha, M.
name: Zhang, H. M.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, X. Y.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Zhaxiciren
name: Zhaxisangzhu
name: Zhou, X. X.
name: Zhu, F. R.
name: Zhu, Q. Q.
name: Zizzi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The events recorded by ARGO-YBJ in more than five years of data collection have been analyzed to determine the diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galactic plane at Galactic longitudes 25° < l < 100° and Galactic latitudes . The energy range covered by this analysis, from ~350 GeV to ~2 TeV, allows the connection of the region explored by Fermi with the multi-TeV measurements carried out by Milagro. Our analysis has been focused on two selected regions of the Galactic plane, i.e., 40° < l < 100° and 65° < l < 85° (the Cygnus region), where Milagro observed an excess with respect to the predictions of current models. Great care has been taken in order to mask the most intense gamma-ray sources, including the TeV counterpart of the Cygnus cocoon recently identified by ARGO-YBJ, and to remove residual contributions. The ARGO-YBJ results do not show any excess at sub-TeV energies corresponding to the excess found by Milagro, and are consistent with the predictions of the Fermi model for the diffuse Galactic emission. From the measured energy distribution we derive spectral indices and the differential flux at 1 TeV of the diffuse gamma-ray emission in the sky regions investigated.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, published in APJ
Characterization of N-Linked Glycans of Chikungunya Virus
Creators: name: Mullan, Clancy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Chikungunya virus is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that, in recent years, has presented an
increased threat to human populations as the Aedes aegypti mosquitos which carry it have
experienced resurgence in their population and by genetic adaptation to a new vector: aedes
albopictus. Chikungunya virus contains three glycoproteins (E1, E2, E3). E2 contains two Nlinked
glycosylation sites (N263, N345), and E1 contains a single site (N141). These glycans
may be important for modulating host interferon response and tropism, as has been shown for
other alphaviruses. This thesis seeks to identify the primary oligosaccharide at each
glycosylation site by endoglycosidase digestion and SDS-PAGE. Furthermore, the experiments
described herein aim to determine the effect of the removal of either or both of the N-linked
glycans of E2 on its ability to bind Human Prohibitin-1, a previously identified receptor.
Replication of Gardiner and Java (1990)
Creators: name: Haaf, Julia
name: Rhodes, Stephen
name: Rouder, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Registration of Experiment 4. The registration was finalized in December 2019 but apparently not uploaded to the OSF.
Improved design and experimental demonstration of ultrahigh-Q C${}_\text{6}$-symmetric H1 hexapole photonic crystal nanocavities
Creators: name: Takata, Kenta
name: Kuramochi, Eiichi
name: Shinya, Akihiko
name: Notomi, Masaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An H1 photonic crystal nanocavity is based on a single point defect and has eigenmodes with a variety of symmetric features. Thus, it is a promising building block for photonic tight-binding lattice systems that can be used in studies on condensed matter, non-Hermitian and topological physics. However, improving its radiative quality ($Q$) factor has been considered challenging. Here, we report the design of a hexapole mode of an H1 nanocavity with a $Q$ factor exceeding $10^8$. We achieved such extremely high-$Q$ conditions by designing only four structural modulation parameters thanks to the ${\rm C_{6}}$ symmetry of the mode, despite the need of more complicated optimizations for many other nanocavities. The fabricated silicon photonic crystal nanocavities exhibited a systematic change in their resonant wavelengths depending on the spatial shift of the air holes in units of 1 nm. Out of 26 such samples, we found eight cavities with loaded $Q$ factors over one million ($1.2 \times 10^6$ maximum). We examined the difference between the theoretical and experimental performances by conducting a simulation of systems with input and output waveguides and with randomly distributed radii of air holes. Automated optimization using the same design parameters further increased the theoretical $Q$ factor by up to $4.5 \times 10^8$, which is two orders of magnitude higher than in the previous studies. Our work elevates the performance of the H1 nanocavity to the ultrahigh-$Q$ level and paves the way for its large-scale arrays with unconventional functionalities.
The $S$-wave resonance contributions to the three-body decays $B^0_{(s)}\to η_c f_0(X)\to η_cπ^+π^-$ in perturbative QCD approach
Creators: name: Li, Ya
name: Ma, Ai-Jun
name: Wang, Wen-Fei
name: Xiao, Zhen-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the three-body decays $B^0/B^0_s \to η_c f_0(X)\to η_c π^+π^-$ by employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach. We evaluate the $S$-wave resonance contributions by using the two-pion distribution amplitude $Φ_{ππ}^{\rm S}$. The Breit-Wigner formula for the $f_0(500)$, $f_0(1500)$, and $f_0(1790)$ resonances and the Flatté model for the $f_0(980)$ resonance are adopted to parameterize the time-like scalar form factors $F_{s}(ω^2)$. We also use the D.~V.~Bugg model to parameterize the $f_0(500)$ and compare the relevant theoretical predictions from different models. We found the following results: (a) the PQCD predictions for the branching ratios are ${\cal B}(B^0\to η_c f_0(500)[π^+π^-])= \left ( 1.53 ^{+0.76}_{-0.35} \right ) \times 10^{-6}$ for Breit-Wigner model and ${\cal B}(B^0\to η_c f_0(500)[π^+π^-])= \left ( 2.31 ^{+0.96}_{-0.48} \right ) \times 10^{-6}$ for D.~V.~Bugg model; (b) $ {\cal B}(B_s\to η_c f_0(X)[π^+π^-] ) =\left ( 5.02^{+1.49}_{-1.08} \right )\times 10^{-5}$ when the contributions from $f_0(X)=(f_0(980),f_0(1500),f_0(1790))$ are all taken into account; and (c) The considered decays could be measured at the ongoing LHCb experiment, consequently, the formalism of two-hadron distribution amplitudes could also be tested by such experiments.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Some modifications. Final version to be published in EPJC
The Role of Dopamine in the Dorsal Striatum and Its Contribution to the Reversal of Habit-Like Ethanol Seeking
Creators: name: Dunville, Holton James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Inflexible, habitual drug seeking despite negative consequences is a key component of
alcoholism. Habitual behavior requires the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in rodents, while flexible
behavior requires the dorsomedial striatum (DMS). Lesion of dopamine inputs to the DLS can
prevent habit formation; however, the role of dopamine to reverse an existing alcohol-seeking
habit is unknown. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that blocking dopamine in the DLS may
initiate a reversion from habitual to flexible behavior in which the DMS predominates. Rats were
trained to self-administer sweet solutions (S) or sweetened ethanol solutions (S/E) until they
expressed habit-like seeking. Electrodes were surgically implanted in the DMS to measure
neuronal activity. Behavioral flexibility was then assessed using a contingency degradation
procedure with and without bilateral DLS infusions of the non-specific dopamine receptor
antagonist α-flupenthixol (FLU). Following contingency degradation, both S and S/E rats
showed a reduction in reinforcer seeking after FLU administration but not saline. Preliminary
results showed a decrease in DMS neuronal firing rate over the course of the first degradation
session for both S/E and S rats. Our results suggest that a reduction in DLS dopamine facilitates
reversal of habitual reward seeking, and changes in DMS neuronal activity may precede the
resurgence of flexible behavior.
Analytical coordinate time at first post-Newtonian order
Creators: name: De Falco, Vittorio
name: Battista, Emmanuele
name: Antoniadis, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we exploit the Damour-Deruelle solution to derive the analytical expression of the coordinate time in terms of the polar angle. This formula has advantageous applications in both pulsar timing and gravitational-wave theory.
description: 5 pages; 4 figures; letter accepted on Europhysics Letters (EPL); corrected some minor typos
Resistive superconducting transition and effects of atmospheric exposure in the intercalation superconductor Ax(C2H8N2)yFe2-zSe2 (A = Li, Na)
Creators: name: Hatakeda, T.
name: Noji, T.
name: Hosono, S.
name: Kawamata, T.
name: Kato, M.
name: Koike, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have succeeded in observing zero-resistivity in newly discovered intercalation superconductors Ax(C2H8N2)yFe2-zSe2 (A = Li, Na) with Tc = 45 K, using the sintered pellet samples. The electrical resistivity, \r{ho}, in the normal state is metallic and Tconset defined in the $ρ$ measurements, is as high as ~ 57 K. We have also investigated effects of the atmospheric exposure in Lix(C2H8N2)yFe2-zSe2. It has been found that both the crystal structure and superconductivity are maintained at least up to several days, indicating this material is comparatively resistant to the atmospheric exposure.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Inertial effects on rectification and diffusion of active Brownian particles in an asymmetric channel
Creators: name: Khatri, Narender
name: Kapral, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micro- and nano-swimmers moving in a fluid solvent confined by structures that produce entropic barriers are often described by overdamped active Brownian particle dynamics, where viscous effects are large and inertia plays no role. However, inertial effects should be considered for confined swimmers moving in media where viscous effects are no longer dominant. Here, we study how inertia affects the rectification and diffusion of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel. We show that most of the particles accumulate at the channel walls as the masses of the particles increase. Furthermore, the average particle velocity has a maximum as a function of the mass, indicating that particles with an optimal mass $M^{*}_{\rm op}$ can be sorted from a mixture with particles of other masses. In particular, we find that the effective diffusion coefficient exhibits an enhanced diffusion peak as a function of the mass, which is a signature of the accumulation of most of the particles at the channel walls. The dependence of $M^{*}_{\rm op}$ on the rotational diffusion rate, self-propulsion force, aspect ratio of the channel, and active torque is also determined. The results of this study could stimulate the development of strategies for controlling the diffusion of self-propelled particles in entropic ratchet systems.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Novel thermal effects across first order magnetic transition in Ta doped $HfFe_2$ intermetallic
Creators: name: Bag, Pallab
name: Rawat, R.
name: Chaddah, P.
name: Babu, P. D.
name: Siruguri, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel thermal effects across the first order antiferromagnetic (AFM) - ferromagnetic (FM) transition in an intermetallic alloy are reported. They show instances of warming when heat is extracted from the sample, and cooling when heat is provided to the sample across AFM-FM transition in Ta doped $HfFe_2$, thus providing indisputable evidence of metastable supercooled AFM and superheated FM states, respectively. Such thermal effects in a magnetic solid prepared from commercially available materials has been reported for the first time. The transition proceeds in multiple steps which is interpreted in the framework of quenched disorder broadening of AFM-FM transition and classical nucleation theory. Measurements in the presence of magnetic field conform to above frame work.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures and 1 Table