cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exact results for the temperature-field behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau Ising type mean-field model
Creators: name: Dantchev, Daniel M.
name: Vassilev, Vassil M.
name: Djondjorov, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dependence of the order parameter profile, local and total susceptibilities on both the temperature and external magnetic field within the mean-filed Ginzburg-Landau Ising type model. We study the case of a film geometry when the boundaries of the film exhibit strong adsorption to one of the phases (components) of the system. We do that using general scaling arguments and deriving exact analytical results for the corresponding scaling functions of these quantities. In addition, we examine their behavior in the capillary condensation regime. Based on the derived exact analytical expressions we obtained an unexpected result -- the existence of a region in the phase transitions line where the system jumps below its bulk critical temperature from a less dense gas to a more dense gas before switching on continuously into the usual jump from gas to liquid state in the middle of the system. It is also demonstrated that on the capillary condensation line one of the coexisting local susceptibility profiles is with one maximum, whereas the other one is with two local maxima centered, approximately, around the two gas-liquid interfaces in the system.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures
Strong correlation effects in a two-dimensional Bose gas with quartic dispersion
Creators: name: Radic, Juraj
name: Natu, Stefan S.
name: Galitski, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the fundamental question of the fate of interacting bosons in flat bands, we consider a two-dimensional Bose gas at zero temperature with an underlying quartic single-particle dispersion in one spatial direction. This type of band structure can be realized using the NIST scheme of spin-orbit coupling [Y.-J. Lin, K. Jiménez-Garcia, and I. B. Spielman, Nature $\textbf{471}$, 83 (2011)], in the regime where the lower band dispersion has the form $\varepsilon_{\textbf{k}} \sim k_{x}^{4}/4+k_{y}^{2}+\ldots$, or using the shaken lattice scheme of Parker $\textit{et al.}$ [C. V. Parker, L.-C. Ha and C. Chin, Nature Physics $\textbf{9}$, 769 (2013)]. We numerically compare the ground state energies of the mean-field Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and various trial wave-functions, where bosons avoid each other at short distances. We discover that, at low densities, several types of strongly correlated states have an energy per particle ($ε$), which scales with density ($n$) as $ε\sim n^{4/3}$, in contrast to $ε\sim n$ for the weakly interacting Bose gas. These competing states include a Wigner crystal, quasi-condensates described in terms properly symmetrized fermionic states, and variational wave-functions of Jastrow type. We find that one of the latter has the lowest energy among the states we consider. This Jastrow-type state has a strongly reduced, but finite condensate fraction, and true off-diagonal long range order, which suggests that the ground state of interacting bosons with quartic dispersion is a strongly-correlated condensate reminiscent of superfluid Helium-4. Our results show that even for weakly-interacting bosons in higher dimensions, one can explore the crossover from a weakly-coupled BEC to a strongly-correlated condensate by simply tuning the single particle dispersion or density.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
(2129) Elizabeth [Simms]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Revolutionizing Renewable Energy Networks through Blockchain and AI-Driven Demand Forecasting
Creators: name: George, Neethu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: The transition to renewable energy is essential for achieving a sustainable future, but the decentralized and intermittent nature of renewable resources poses significant challenges for energy management. This paper introduces a novel framework that leverages blockchain technology to enable secure and transparent energy trading while employing artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for demand forecasting. By integrating blockchain with a deep learning-based forecasting model, we aim to optimize energy distribution, reduce grid inefficiencies, and ensure a stable power supply. Our simulations on real-world renewable energy datasets demonstrate significant improvements in predictive accuracy and system reliability compared to conventional energy management solutions.
Additional file 1 of Care Outcomes for Chiropractic Outpatient Veterans (COCOV): a single-arm, pragmatic, pilot trial of multimodal chiropractic care for U.S. veterans with chronic low back pain
Creators: name: Long, Cynthia R.
name: Salsbury, Stacie A.
name: Vining, Robert D.
name: Lisi, Anthony J.
name: Corber, Lance
name: Twist, Elissa
name: Abrams, Thad
name: Wallace, Robert B.
name: Goertz, Christine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a pilot or feasibility trial.
(2130) George Fredk Simms
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tightly Correlated X‐Ray/Hα–emitting Filaments in the Superbubble and Large‐Scale Superwind of NGC 3079
Creators: name: Veilleux, Sylvain
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Cecil, Gerald
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Using Chandra and HST, we show that X-ray and Hα filaments that form the 1.3 kpc diameter superbubble of NGC 3079 have strikingly similar patterns at ~08 resolution. This tight optical line/X-ray match seems to arise from cool disk gas that has been driven by the wind, with X-rays being emitted from upstream, standoff bow shocks or by conductive cooling at the cloud/wind interfaces. We find that the soft X-ray plasma has thermal and kinetic energies ETH ~ 2 × 1056η ergs and EKE ~ 5 × 1054η ergs, where ηX is the filling factor of the X-ray gas and may be small; these are comparable to the energies of the optical line-emitting gas if ηX is large. Hydrodynamical simulations reproduce the observations well using a disk-mass loaded superwind. X-rays are also seen from the base of the radio counterbubble which is obscured optically by the galaxy disk and from the nucleus (whose spectrum shows the Fe Kα line at 6 keV as well as gas absorbed by a moderate neutral hydrogen column). The superbubble is surrounded by a fainter conical halo of X-ray emission that fills the area delineated by high-angle, Hα-emitting filaments, supporting our previous assertion that these filaments form the contact discontinuity/shock between galaxy gas and shocked wind. This X-ray emission is not significantly edge brightened, indicating a partially filled volume of warm gas within the shocked wind, not a shell of conductively heated gas. About 40'' (3 kpc) above the galaxy disk, an X-ray arc may partially close above the bubble, but the northeast quadrant remains open at the surface brightness attained by Chandra, consistent with the notion that the superwind reaches into at least the galaxy halo.
STB-VMM: Swin Transformer Based Video Motion Magnification
Creators: name: Lado-Roigé, Ricard
name: Pérez, Marco A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of video motion magnification techniques is to magnify small motions in a video to reveal previously invisible or unseen movement. Its uses extend from bio-medical applications and deepfake detection to structural modal analysis and predictive maintenance. However, discerning small motion from noise is a complex task, especially when attempting to magnify very subtle, often sub-pixel movement. As a result, motion magnification techniques generally suffer from noisy and blurry outputs. This work presents a new state-of-the-art model based on the Swin Transformer, which offers better tolerance to noisy inputs as well as higher-quality outputs that exhibit less noise, blurriness, and artifacts than prior-art. Improvements in output image quality will enable more precise measurements for any application reliant on magnified video sequences, and may enable further development of video motion magnification techniques in new technical fields.
description: Code available at: https://github.com/RLado/STB-VMM
Blue Horizontal‐Branch Stars in Old, Metal‐rich Stellar Systems
Creators: name: Rood, Robert T.
name: Dorman, Ben
name: Peterson, Ruth C.
name: Green, Elizabeth M.
name: Landsman, Wayne
name: Carney, Bruce W.
name: Liebert, James
name: O'Connell, Robert W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Twenty years ago, Burstein et al. (1984)suggested that strong CN and Hbeta absorption meant younger ages among globular clusters in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), unless blue stars above the main-sequence turnoff or on the horizontal branch were uncommonly prominent. Here we test these suggestions by fitting the detailed mid-ultraviolet (2280-3120A) and optical (3850-4750A) spectra of one moderately metal-rich M31 globular cluster, G1. We explore the effects of a wide range of non-solar temperatures and abundance ratios, by combining a small set of theoretical stellar spectra like those of Peterson et al. (2001) that were calculated using extensively updated atomic-line constants. To match the mid-UV fluxes of G1, we find that hot components with Teff >= 8000K must be included. We obtain a very good fit with cool and hot blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars, but less satisfactory fits for blue straggler stars, those hotter than the main-sequence turnoff. The G1 color-magnitude diagram does show cool BHB stars, and the color of its giant branch supports the metallicity of one-sixth the solar value that we deduce. The turnoff temperature of the best-fit model is consistent with that of turnoff stars in galactic globular clusters and the field halo, indicating G1 is comparably old. Because metal-rich cool BHB and extremely blue HB stars have now been found within our own Galaxy, we suggest that these hot horizontal-branch stars be considered in fitting spectra of metal-rich populations such as the Andromeda globular clusters, to avoid possible underestimates of their ages. We plan to make the relevant spectral calculations available as part of our Hubble Treasury Program.
Additional file 2 of Care Outcomes for Chiropractic Outpatient Veterans (COCOV): a single-arm, pragmatic, pilot trial of multimodal chiropractic care for U.S. veterans with chronic low back pain
Creators: name: Long, Cynthia R.
name: Salsbury, Stacie A.
name: Vining, Robert D.
name: Lisi, Anthony J.
name: Corber, Lance
name: Twist, Elissa
name: Abrams, Thad
name: Wallace, Robert B.
name: Goertz, Christine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2. ICD-10 codes for low back pain.
SUPPLEMENTAL METHODS from Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant.
Creators: name: Pantoja, Pauline O.
name: C. E. Timothy Paine
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Analyses of phenotypic selection and demography in field populations are powerful ways to establishing the potential role of natural selection in shaping evolution during biological invasions. Here we use experimental F2 crosses between native and introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus to estimate the pattern of natural selection in part of its introduced range, and to seek evidence of outbreeding depression of colonists. The F2s combined the genome of an introduced population with the genome of either native or introduced populations. We found that the introduced × introduced cross had the fastest population growth rate owing to increased winter survival, clonality and seed production. Our analysis also revealed that selection through sexual fitness favoured large floral displays, large vegetative and flower size, lateral spread and early flowering. Our results indicate a source-of-origin effect, consistent with outbreeding depression exposed by mating between introduced and native populations. Our findings suggest that well-established non-native populations may pay a high fitness cost during subsequent bouts of admixture with native populations, and reveal that processes such as local adaptation in the invasive range can mediate the fitness consequences of admixture.
(2133) George Holford
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Probing Planck-Scale Physics with Extragalactic Sources?
Creators: name: Christiansen, W. A.
name: Van Dam, H.
name: Ng, Y. Jack
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: At Planck scale, spacetime is "foamy" because of quantum fluctuations predicted by quantum gravity. Here we consider the possibility of using spacetime foam-induced phase incoherence of light from distant galaxies and gamma-ray bursters to probe Planck-scale physics. In particular, we examine the cumulative effects of spacetime fluctuations over a huge distance. Our analysis shows that they are far below what is required in this approach to shed light on the foaminess of spacetime.
The Formula Feed Industry in 1969: A Preliminary Report
Creators: name: Hodges, Earl F.
name: Allen, George C.
name: Davis, Gary A.
name: Hodges, Earl F.
name: Allen, George C.
name: Davis, Gary A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Formula feed
subject: primary production
subject: secondary production
subject: mill ownership
subject: feed mill capacities
subject: marketing practices
subject: bagged feed

description: This preliminary report of a survey of the formula feed industry summarizes the physical output, potential capacity, and number of U.S. establishments manufacturing prepared livestock and poultry feeds in 1969. Production is shown for primary and secondary feed processing. Primary feed is further classified as complete, supplement, and premix (a carrier for microingredients) feeds. Output is also shown by size of production, by ownership, by region and State, and by methods of disposition. Output by establishments using several methods or only one method of feed disposition is given.
La Glaubwürdigkeit di Giulio Cesare e l'arte della deformazione
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Julius Caesar
De Bello Gallico
Arte della deformazione

description: Una breve discussione sulla credibilità (Glaubwürdigkeit) di Giulio Cesare, in riferimento particolare al De Bello Gallico. Si userà principale la discussione di Peter Huber fatta in alcuni brani nel suo "Die Glaubwürdigkeit Caesars in seinem Bericht über den Gallischen Krieg". Questi brani ci serviranno anche per mostrare esempi dell'arte della deformazione.
A Laboratory Investigation of Supersonic Clumpy Flows: Experimental Design and Theoretical Analysis
Creators: name: Poludnenko, A. Y.
name: Frank, A.
name: Knauer, J.
name: Drake, R. P.
name: Mitran, S.
name: Meyerhofer, D. D.
name: Dannenberg, K. K.
name: Asay, J. R.
name: Furnish, M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: We present a design for high energy density laboratory experiments studying the interaction of hypersonic shocks with a large number of inhomogeneities. These "clumpy" flows are relevant to a wide variety of astrophysical environments, including the evolution of molecular clouds, outflows from young stars, planetary nebulae, and active galactic nuclei. The experiment consists of a strong shock (driven by a pulsed-power machine or a high-intensity laser) impinging on a region of randomly placed plastic rods. We discuss the goals of the specific design and how they are met by specific choices of target components. An adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic code is used to analyze the design and establish a predictive baseline for the experiments. The simulations confirm the effectiveness of the design in terms of articulating the differences between shocks propagating through smooth and clumpy environments. In particular, we find significant differences between the shock propagation speeds in a clumpy medium and those in a smooth one with the same average density. The simulation results are of general interest for foams in both inertial confinement fusion and laboratory astrophysics studies. Our results highlight the danger of using average properties of inhomogeneous astrophysical environments when comparing timescales for critical processes, such as shock crossing and gravitational collapse.
Figure S2 from Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant
Creators: name: Pantoja, Pauline O.
name: C. E. Timothy Paine
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Analyses of phenotypic selection and demography in field populations are powerful ways to establishing the potential role of natural selection in shaping evolution during biological invasions. Here we use experimental F2 crosses between native and introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus to estimate the pattern of natural selection in part of its introduced range, and to seek evidence of outbreeding depression of colonists. The F2s combined the genome of an introduced population with the genome of either native or introduced populations. We found that the introduced × introduced cross had the fastest population growth rate due to increased winter survival, clonality and seed production. Our analysis also revealed that selection through sexual fitness favoured large floral displays, large vegetative and flower size, lateral spread and early flowering. Our results indicate a source-of-origin effect, consistent with outbreeding depression exposed by mating between introduced and native populations. Our findings suggest that well-established non-native populations may pay a high fitness cost during subsequent bouts of admixture with native populations, and reveal that processes such as local adaptation in the invasive range can mediate the fitness consequences of admixture.
title: TB-Practecal economic evaluation sub-study: Data collection tools
Creators: name: Sweeney, Sedona
name: Kitson, Nichola
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2020

description: Data collection tools produced as part of the PRACTECAL-EE sub-study to collect data on the standard of care for MDR-TB patients and the impact of treatment costs upon participant poverty levels. The baseline questionnaire (questionnaire 1) covers pre-treatment costs and is administered on day 1 of the intensive phase; questionnaire 2 covers Intensive Phase costs and is administered on Day 1 of the Continuation Phase (week 24); and Questionnaire 3 covers Continuation Phase costs and is administered on the final day of the continuation phase (week 48).
A Data-engineering Pipeline for Deep Learning in Structural Bioinformatics
Creators: name: Draizen, Eli J
name: Mura, Cameron
name: Philip, Bourne E
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Machine learning has a rich history in structural bioinformatics, and modern approaches such as deep learning are already revolutionizing our knowledge of the subtle relationships between biomolecular sequence, structure, function & evolution. The advances are enabled by large vol- umes of data that, ideally, are intelligible or manipulable. In structural bioinformatics, such data often relate, directly or indirectly, to protein 3D structures. A significant & recurring challenge concerns the creation of large, high-quality, openly accessible, and reproducible datasets that can be used for specific training/benchmarking tasks, e.g. in predictive modeling projects. Here, we report a protein biophysical and evolutionary featurization and data-processing pipeline that we recently developed and deployed (both in the cloud and on local HPC resources) in order to sys- tematically and reproducibly create comprehensive, superfamily-level domain databases for deep learning tasks (e.g., for structure classification & predicting domain interactions). While motivated by specific problems, we believe this robust computational toolkit could be of broader utility for other structure-related workflows (i.e., as a community-wide resource), particularly as arise at the intersection of deep learning and structural bioinformatics.
Spatially Resolved Ultraviolet Spectra of the High‐Velocity Nuclear Outflow of NGC 1068
Creators: name: Groves, Brent A.
name: Ferruit, Pierre
name: Dopita, Michael A.
name: Cecil, Gerald
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: We present ultraviolet emission-line maps of the narrow-line region (NLR) of NGC 1068. The maps span 115--318 nm, the biconical ionization cone, several posited jet/ISM interactions, and the compact knots whose optical spectra we reported previously resemble kinematically the quasar Associated Absorption Line systems. Across the NLR, we find that ultraviolet flux ratios are consistent with photoionization, not shock excitation, even for gas blueshifted abruptly to 3000 \kms relative to galaxy systemic velocity or for gas projected near the radio jet. The knots may be radiatively accelerated, photoablated fragments of molecular clouds.
On the Superconformal Index of Argyres-Douglas Theories
Creators: name: Buican, Matthew
name: Nishinaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conjecture a closed-form expression for the Schur limit of the superconformal index of two infinite series of Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs): the (A_1,A_{2n-3}) and the (A_1,D_{2n}) theories. While these SCFTs can be realized at special points on the Coulomb branch of certain N=2 gauge theories, their superconformal R symmetries are emergent, and hence their indices cannot be evaluated by localization. Instead, we construct the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) indices by using a relation to two-dimensional q-deformed Yang-Mills theory and data from the class S construction. Our results generalize the indices derived from the torus partition functions of the two-dimensional chiral algebras associated with the (A_1, A_3) and (A_1, D_4) SCFTs. As checks of our conjectures, we study the consistency of our results with an S-duality recently discussed by us in collaboration with Giacomelli and Papageorgakis, we reproduce known Higgs branch relations, we check consistency with a series of renormalization group flows, and we verify that the small S^1 limits of our indices reproduce expected Cardy-like behavior. We will discuss the S^1 reduction of our indices in a separate paper.
description: 46 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, arXiv identifier of reference [41] added
(2125) Robert Bennett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Peculiar Pulsations of PY Vulpeculae
Creators: name: Thompson, Susan E.
name: Koester, D.
name: Clemens, J. C.
name: Van Kerkwijk, M. H.
name: O'Brien, M. Sean
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: The pulsating white dwarf star PY Vul (G185-32) exhibits pulsation modes with peculiar properties that set it apart from other variable stars in the ZZ Ceti (variable DA white dwarf [DAV]) class. These peculiarities include a low total pulsation amplitude, a mode with bizarre amplitudes in the ultraviolet, and a mode harmonic that exceeds the amplitude of its fundamental. Here we present optical time-series spectroscopy of PY Vul acquired with the Keck II Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph. Our analysis has revealed that the mode with unusual UV amplitudes also has distinguishing characteristics in the optical. Comparison of its line profile variations to models suggests that this mode has a spherical degree of 4. We show that all the other peculiarities in this star are accounted for by a dominant pulsation mode of l = 4 and propose this hypothesis as a solution to the mysteries of PY Vul.
(2126) Caroline Bennett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Legends of the electronic supplementary pictures from Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant
Creators: name: Pantoja, Pauline O.
name: C. E. Timothy Paine
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Analyses of phenotypic selection and demography in field populations are powerful ways to establishing the potential role of natural selection in shaping evolution during biological invasions. Here we use experimental F2 crosses between native and introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus to estimate the pattern of natural selection in part of its introduced range, and to seek evidence of outbreeding depression of colonists. The F2s combined the genome of an introduced population with the genome of either native or introduced populations. We found that the introduced × introduced cross had the fastest population growth rate due to increased winter survival, clonality and seed production. Our analysis also revealed that selection through sexual fitness favoured large floral displays, large vegetative and flower size, lateral spread and early flowering. Our results indicate a source-of-origin effect, consistent with outbreeding depression exposed by mating between introduced and native populations. Our findings suggest that well-established non-native populations may pay a high fitness cost during subsequent bouts of admixture with native populations, and reveal that processes such as local adaptation in the invasive range can mediate the fitness consequences of admixture.
Supplementary tables from Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant
Creators: name: Pantoja, Pauline O.
name: C. E. Timothy Paine
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Analyses of phenotypic selection and demography in field populations are powerful ways to establishing the potential role of natural selection in shaping evolution during biological invasions. Here we use experimental F2 crosses between native and introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus to estimate the pattern of natural selection in part of its introduced range, and to seek evidence of outbreeding depression of colonists. The F2s combined the genome of an introduced population with the genome of either native or introduced populations. We found that the introduced × introduced cross had the fastest population growth rate due to increased winter survival, clonality and seed production. Our analysis also revealed that selection through sexual fitness favoured large floral displays, large vegetative and flower size, lateral spread and early flowering. Our results indicate a source-of-origin effect, consistent with outbreeding depression exposed by mating between introduced and native populations. Our findings suggest that well-established non-native populations may pay a high fitness cost during subsequent bouts of admixture with native populations, and reveal that processes such as local adaptation in the invasive range can mediate the fitness consequences of admixture.
(2127) Ann Jane Bennett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(2128) Frederick Simms
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
SUPPLEMENTAL METHODS from Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant
Creators: name: Pantoja, Pauline O.
name: C. E. Timothy Paine
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Analyses of phenotypic selection and demography in field populations are powerful ways to establishing the potential role of natural selection in shaping evolution during biological invasions. Here we use experimental F2 crosses between native and introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus to estimate the pattern of natural selection in part of its introduced range, and to seek evidence of outbreeding depression of colonists. The F2s combined the genome of an introduced population with the genome of either native or introduced populations. We found that the introduced × introduced cross had the fastest population growth rate due to increased winter survival, clonality and seed production. Our analysis also revealed that selection through sexual fitness favoured large floral displays, large vegetative and flower size, lateral spread and early flowering. Our results indicate a source-of-origin effect, consistent with outbreeding depression exposed by mating between introduced and native populations. Our findings suggest that well-established non-native populations may pay a high fitness cost during subsequent bouts of admixture with native populations, and reveal that processes such as local adaptation in the invasive range can mediate the fitness consequences of admixture.
Additional file 1 of Effects of ‘SPRAT’ programme for dietary and lifestyle education to improve psychosomatic symptoms and dietary habits among adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Watanabe, Junko
name: Watanabe, Mariko
name: Yamaoka, Kazue
name: Adachi, Misa
name: Suzuki, Asuka
name: Tango, Toshiro
name: Professor, Visiting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
(2121) Francis Spinks
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electornic Supplemental Materials from Evidence of sociality in the timing and location of foraging in a colonial seabird.
Creators: name: Jones, Teri B.
name: Patrick, Samantha C.
name: Arnould, John P. Y.
name: Marlenne A. Rodríguez-Malagón
name: Wells, Melanie R.
name: Green, Jonathan A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Additional study methods and figures
Optimizing Renewable Energy Networks Using Blockchain Technique
Creators: name: George, Neethu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: The growing complexity of decentralized renewable energy networks demands advanced technologies for secure energy transactions and optimized resource distribution. Blockchain offers a secure and transparent platform for peer-to-peer energy trading, while hybrid learning algorithms can predict and balance energy supply and demand in real-time. This paper introduces an innovative system that combines blockchain with a multi-layered optimization model driven by machine learning techniques. The model addresses inefficiencies in renewable energy distribution and improves transaction security. Extensive simulations on renewable energy datasets indicate that this integrated framework enhances operational performance and scalability for future energy systems.
Slim U-Net: Efficient Anatomical Feature Preserving U-net Architecture for Ultrasound Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Raina, Deepak
name: Verma, Kashish
name: Chandrashekhara, SH
name: Saha, Subir Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the applicability of U-Net based models for segmenting Urinary Bladder (UB) in male pelvic view UltraSound (US) images. The segmentation of UB in the US image aids radiologists in diagnosing the UB. However, UB in US images has arbitrary shapes, indistinct boundaries and considerably large inter- and intra-subject variability, making segmentation a quite challenging task. Our study of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) segmentation network, U-Net, for the problem reveals that it often fails to capture the salient characteristics of UB due to the varying shape and scales of anatomy in the noisy US image. Also, U-net has an excessive number of trainable parameters, reporting poor computational efficiency during training. We propose a Slim U-Net to address the challenges of UB segmentation. Slim U-Net proposes to efficiently preserve the salient features of UB by reshaping the structure of U-Net using a less number of 2D convolution layers in the contracting path, in order to preserve and impose them on expanding path. To effectively distinguish the blurred boundaries, we propose a novel annotation methodology, which includes the background area of the image at the boundary of a marked region of interest (RoI), thereby steering the model's attention towards boundaries. In addition, we suggested a combination of loss functions for network training in the complex segmentation of UB. The experimental results demonstrate that Slim U-net is statistically superior to U-net for UB segmentation. The Slim U-net further decreases the number of trainable parameters and training time by 54% and 57.7%, respectively, compared to the standard U-Net, without compromising the segmentation accuracy.
description: Accepted in 9th ACM International Conference on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Engineering (ICBBE) 2022 http://www.icbbe.com/
Temperature-dependent periodicity of the persistent current in strongly interacting systems
Creators: name: Patu, Ovidiu I.
name: Averin, Dmitri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The persistent current in small isolated rings enclosing magnetic flux is the current circulating in equilibrium in the absence of an external excitation. While initially studied in superconducting and normal metals, recently, atomic persistent currents have been generated in ultracold gases spurring a new wave of theoretical investigations. Nevertheless, our understanding of the persistent currents in interacting systems is far from complete, especially at finite temperatures. Here we consider the fermionic one-dimensional Hubbard model and show that in the strong-interacting limit, the current can change its flux period and sign (diamagnetic or paramagnetic) as a function of temperature, features that cannot be explained within the single-particle or Luttinger liquid techniques. Also, the magnitude of the current can counterintuitively increase with temperature, in addition to presenting different rates of decay depending on the polarization of the system. Our work highlights the properties of the strongly-interacting multi-component systems which are missed by conventional approximation techniques, but can be important for the interpretation of experiments on persistent currents in ultracold gases.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4.2
Economic Potential for Converting Woodland and Pasture to Cropland: Lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast
Creators: name: Davis, Bob
name: Davis, Bob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Land classification
subject: cropland
subject: land improvement
subject: land reclamation
subject: pastures
subject: forest
subject: Southeastern Region

description: If there were a future need for it, 49 million acres of woodland and pasture in the lower Mississippi Valley and the Southeast could be profitably converted to cropland. Minimum crop prices that would be required to pay for the land conversion (as well as ordinary production costs) are given. The supply of potential cropland would largely depend on the repayment time for the investment in land clearing. Interest charges of 5, 7, and 9 percent would have only a small effect on minimum prices, which would increase about 3.5 percent for each 1-point increase in interest rates. But minimum prices would increase to 155 percent of their original levels if the repayment time were shortened from infinity to 5 years. This increase would make land conversion less profitable. The estimates in the report do not consider the effects on the market for crops, which could be drastic if no adjustments were made in the production of these crops in other areas.
Additional file 2 of Effects of ‘SPRAT’ programme for dietary and lifestyle education to improve psychosomatic symptoms and dietary habits among adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Watanabe, Junko
name: Watanabe, Mariko
name: Yamaoka, Kazue
name: Adachi, Misa
name: Suzuki, Asuka
name: Tango, Toshiro
name: Professor, Visiting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Survival of Planets Around Shrinking Stellar Binaries
Creators: name: Muñoz, Diego J.
name: Lai, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of transiting circumbinary planets by the Kepler mission suggests that planets can form efficiently around binary stars. None of the stellar binaries currently known to host planets has a period shorter than 7 days, despite the large number of eclipsing binaries found in the Kepler target list with periods shorter than a few days. These compact binaries are believed to have evolved from wider orbits into their current configurations via the so-called Lidov-Kozai migration mechanism, in which gravitational perturbations from a distant tertiary companion induce large-amplitude eccentricity oscillations in the binary, followed by orbital decay and circularization due to tidal dissipation in the stars. Here we explore the orbital evolution of planets around binaries undergoing orbital decay by this mechanism. We show that planets may survive and become misaligned from their host binary, or may develop erratic behavior in eccentricity, resulting in their consumption by the stars or ejection from the system as the binary decays. Our results suggest that circumbinary planets around compact binaries could still exist, and we offer predictions as to what their orbital configurations should be like.
description: Accepted for publication. 10 pages, 7 figures in main text; 4 pages, 4 figures in supplementary material
Supplementary materials from The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton.
Creators: name: Whalen, Christopher D.
name: Briggs, Derek E. G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional text, figures, tables and references
Quasi-Continuous Cooling of a Microwave Mode on a Benchtop using Hyperpolarized NV$^-$ Diamond
Creators: name: Ng, Wern
name: Wu, Hao
name: Oxborrow, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the cooling of a microwave mode at 2872 MHz through its interaction with optically spin-polarized NV$^-$ centers in diamond at zero applied magnetic field, removing thermal photons from the mode. By photo-exciting (pumping) a brilliant-cut red diamond jewel with a continuous-wave 532-nm laser, outputting 2 W, the microwave mode is cooled down to a noise temperature of 188 K. This noise temperature can be preserved continuously for as long as the diamond is optically excited and kept cool. The latter requirement restricted operation out to 10 ms in our preliminary setup. The mode-cooling performance of NV$^-$ diamond is directly compared against that of pentacene-doped para-terphenyl, where we find that the former affords the advantages of cooling immediately upon light excitation without needing to mase beforehand (or at all) and being able to cool continuously at substantially lower optical pump power.