cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Proceedings 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
Creators: name: Lanese, Ivan
name: Lafuente, Alberto Lluch
name: Sokolova, Ana
name: Vieira, Hugo Torres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This volume contains the proceedings of ICE 2014, the 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience, which was held in Berlin, Germany on the 6th of June 2014 as a satellite event of DisCoTec 2014. The ICE procedure for paper selection allows PC members to interact, anonymously, with authors. During the review phase, each submitted paper is published on a Wiki and associated with a discussion forum whose access is restricted to the authors and to all the PC members not declaring a conflict of interests. The PC members post comments and questions that the authors reply to. Each paper was reviewed by three PC members, and altogether 8 papers (including 3 short papers) were accepted for publication. We were proud to host two invited talks, by Pavol Cerny and Kim Larsen, whose abstracts are included in this volume together with the regular papers.
A checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae)  of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa
Creators: name: Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.
name: Lotz, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: An annotated species list of spiders presently known from the Golden Gate Highlands National Park is provided. The checklist was compiled from the South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) database and museum collections. Presently, 170 species from 40 families and 116 genera are protected in the park. The most species-rich families are the Salticidae (23 spp.), Thomisidae (20 spp.), and Araneidae (16 spp.) and Gnaphosidae with 14 spp., while 16 families are represented by singletons. The global distribution, endemicity and conservation status for each species is provided. A large number of the species  (91.6%) have a wide distribution range and are of Least Concern. Approximately 7% of the total South African spider fauna is protected in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, and 29.4 % of the species recorded are South African endemics and four species are Free State Province endemics.
Luttinger-Liquid Behavior in the Alternating Spin-Chain System Copper Nitrate
Creators: name: Willenberg, B.
name: Ryll, H.
name: Kiefer, K.
name: Tennant, D. A.
name: Groitl, F.
name: Rolfs, K.
name: Manuel, P.
name: Khalyavin, D.
name: Rule, K. C.
name: Wolter, A. U. B.
name: Süllow, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the phase diagram of copper nitrate Cu(NO$_3$)$_2\cdot$2.5D$_2$O in the context of quantum phase transitions and novel states of matter. We establish this compound as an ideal candidate to study quasi-1D Luttinger liquids, 3D Bose-Einstein-Condensation of triplons, and the crossover between 1D and 3D physics. Magnetocaloric effect, magnetization, and neutron scattering data provide clear evidence for transitions into a Luttinger liquid regime and a 3D long-range ordered phase as function of field and temperature. Theoretical simulations of this model material allow us to fully establish the phase diagram and to discuss it in the context of dimerized spin systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
An Efficient Active Set Algorithm for Covariance Based Joint Data and Activity Detection for Massive Random Access with Massive MIMO
Creators: name: Wang, Ziyue
name: Chen, Zhilin
name: Liu, Ya-Feng
name: Sohrabi, Foad
name: Yu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data by detecting the transmitted preassigned nonorthogonal signature sequences. This paper employs a covariance based approach that formulates the detection problem as a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) problem. To efficiently solve the problem, this paper designs a novel iterative algorithm with low complexity in the regime where the device activity pattern is sparse $\unicode{x2013}$ a key feature that existing algorithmic designs have not previously exploited for reducing complexity. Specifically, at each iteration, the proposed algorithm focuses on only a small subset of all potential sequences, namely the active set, which contains a few most likely active sequences (i.e., transmitted sequences by all active devices), and performs the detection for the sequences in the active set. The active set is carefully selected at each iteration based on the current detection result and the first-order optimality condition of the MLE problem. Simulation results show that the proposed active set algorithm enjoys significantly better computational efficiency (in terms of the CPU time) than the state-of-the-art algorithms.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in IEEE ICASSP 2021
Gallup Poll # 631
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); most important problem facing the U.S. (1); partisan opinions (4); predicting prices of purchased items (1); future employment opportunities (1); relations between U.S. and Cuba (1); Fidel Castro (1); Democratic Convention in Los Angeles (1); United Nations emergency force (1); head of International Military Coordinating Commission (1); Possible candidates for 1960 presidential election (1); Richard Nixon vs. John Kennedy (3); another war (1); recreation (1); 1956 Presidential election (1).
Poisson Summation and Endoscopy for $Sp(4,\mathbb R)$
Creators: name: Diep, Do Ngoc
name: Quynh, Do Thi Phuong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E45, 11F70, 11F72

description: In this paper we analyze the endoscopy for $\Sp(4,\mathbb R)$. The new results are a precise realization of the discrete series representations (in Section 2), a computation of their traces (Section 3) and an exact formula for the noncommutative Poisson summation and endoscopy of for this group (in Sections 4,5).
The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
Creators: name: Westra, Harm-Jan
name: Mägi, Reedik
name: Karjalainen, Juha
name: Ehret, Georg B.
name: Jansen, Rick
name: Justice, Anne E.
name: Absher, Devin
name: Teslovich, Tanya M.
name: Lagou, Vasiliki
name: Graff, Mariaelisa
name: Rüeger, Sina
name: Fall, Tove
name: Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.
name: Simino, Jeannette
name: Neinast, Michael D.
name: Pers, Tune H.
name: Mahajan, Anubha
name: Ferreira, Teresa
name: Barata, Llilda
name: Winkler, Thomas W.
name: Prokopenko, Inga
name: Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.
name: Heard-Costa, Nancy L.
name: Ahmad, Shafqat
name: Mihailov, Evelin
name: Chu, Su
name: Teumer, Alexander
name: White, Charles C.
name: Lu, Yingchang
name: Czajkowski, Jacek
name: Esko, Tõnu
name: Feitosa, Mary F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR<5%) age-specific effects, of which 11 had larger effects in younger (<50y) than in older adults (≥50y). No sex-dependent effects were identified for BMI. For WHRadjBMI, we identified 44 loci (27 previously established for main effects, 17 novel) with sex-specific effects, of which 28 showed larger effects in women than in men, five showed larger effects in men than in women, and 11 showed opposite effects between sexes. No age-dependent effects were identified for WHRadjBMI. This is the first genome-wide interaction meta-analysis to report convincing evidence of age-dependent genetic effects on BMI. In addition, we confirm the sex-specificity of genetic effects on WHRadjBMI. These results may provide further insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexually dimorphism of body shape.
Gallup Poll # 632
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); most important problem facing the U.S. (1); Vice presidential candidates (1); Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge vs. John Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson (1); impressions of political figures (1); Japan as ally of U.S. (1); Japanese good imported (1); recreation (1); partisan opinions (2); 1956 presidential election (1).
Gravitational self-force corrections to two-body tidal interactions and the effective one-body formalism
Creators: name: Bini, Donato
name: Damour, Thibault
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tidal interactions have a significant influence on the late dynamics of compact binary systems, which constitute the prime targets of the upcoming network of gravitational-wave detectors. We refine the theoretical description of tidal interactions (hitherto known only to the second post-Newtonian level) by extending our recently developed analytic self-force formalism, for extreme mass-ratio binary systems, to the computation of several tidal invariants. Specifically, we compute, to linear order in the mass ratio and to the 7.5$^{\rm th}$ post-Newtonian order, the following tidal invariants: the square and the cube of the gravitoelectric quadrupolar tidal tensor, the square of the gravitomagnetic quadrupolar tidal tensor, and the square of the gravitoelectric octupolar tidal tensor. Our high-accuracy analytic results are compared to recent numerical self-force tidal data by Dolan et al. \cite{Dolan:2014pja}, and, notably, provide an analytic understanding of the light ring asymptotic behavior found by them. We transcribe our kinematical tidal-invariant results in the more dynamically significant effective one-body description of the tidal interaction energy. By combining, in a synergetic manner, analytical and numerical results, we provide simple, accurate analytic representations of the global, strong-field behavior of the gravitoelectric quadrupolar tidal factor. A striking finding is that the linear-in-mass-ratio piece in the latter tidal factor changes sign in the strong-field domain, to become negative (while its previously known second post-Newtonian approximant was always positive). We, however, argue that this will be more than compensated by a probable fast growth, in the strong-field domain, of the nonlinear-in-mass-ratio contributions in the tidal factor.
description: 38 pages, 5 figures, revtex style
Gallup Poll # 633
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); most important problem facing the U.S. (1); vice presidential candidates (1); voting intent if presidential election held today (2); 1960 presidential election (3); money a family needs to survive (1); money spent on food (1); partisan opinions (4); impressions of political figures (1); recreation (1); 1956 presidential election (1).
Gallup Poll # 1960-0634: Presidential Election
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); important problem for country (1); party handling problem (1); recalling vice-presidential candidates (2); presidential preference (1); Richard Nixon/Henry Lodge vs. John Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson (2); voter intentions (3); Kennedy/Nixon debates (2); issues to be debated (1); living in current location (2); being candidate for public office (1); serving on civic committee (1); problems in community (2); candidate to win elections (1).
Interactions of charged microrods in chiral nematic liquid crystals
Creators: name: M, Muhammed Rasi
name: Pujala, Ravi Kumar
name: Paladugu, Sathyanarayana
name: Dhara, Surajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pair interaction of charged silica microrods in chiral nematic liquid crystals and show that the microrods with homeotropic surface anchoring form a bound state due to the competing effect of electrostatic (Coulomb) and elastic interactions. The robustness of the bound state is demonstrated by applying external electrical and mechanical forces that perturbs their equilibrium position as well as orientation. In the bound state we have measured the correlated thermal fluctuations of the position, using two-particle cross-correlation spectroscopy that uncovers their hydrodynamic interaction. These findings reveal unexplored aspects of liquid-crystal dispersions which are important for understanding the assembly and dynamics of nano and microparticles in chiral nematic liquid crystals.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Maternal–Fetal Microtransfusions and HIV-1 Mother-to-Child Transmission in Malawi
Creators: name: Milner, Danny A
name: Molyneux, Malcolm E
name: Meshnick, Steven R
name: Alker, Alisa P
name: Rogerson, Stephen J
name: Tadesse, Eyob
name: Kwiek, Jesse J
name: Mwapasa, Victor
name: Miller, William C
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: BackgroundBetween 25% and 35% of infants born to HIV-infected mothers become HIV-1 infected. One potential route of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) could be through a breakdown in the placental barrier (i.e., maternal–fetal microtransfusions).Methods and FindingsPlacental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) is a 130-kD maternal enzyme that cannot cross the intact placental barrier. We measured PLAP activity in umbilical vein serum as an indicator of maternal–fetal microtransfusion, and related this to the risk of HIV-1 MTCT. A case-cohort study was conducted of 149 women randomly selected from a cohort of HIV-1-infected pregnant Malawians; these women served as a reference group for 36 cases of in utero MTCT and 43 cases of intrapartum (IP) MTCT. Cord PLAP activity was measured with an immunocatalytic assay. Infant HIV status was determined by real-time PCR. The association between cord PLAP activity and HIV-1 MTCT was measured with logistic regression using generalized estimating equations. Among vaginal deliveries, PLAP was associated with IP MTCT (risk ratio, 2.25 per log10 ng/ml PLAP; 95% confidence interval, 0.95–5.32) but not in utero MTCT. In a multivariable model adjusted for HIV-1 RNA load, chorioamnionitis, and self-reported fever, the risk of IP MTCT almost tripled for every log10 increase in cord PLAP activity (risk ratio, 2.87; 95% confidence interval, 1.05–7.83).ConclusionThese results suggest that during vaginal deliveries, placental microtransfusions are a risk factor for IP HIV-1 MTCT. Future studies are needed to identify factors that increase the risk for microtransfusions in order to prevent IP HIV-1 MTCT.Placental microtransfusions as measured by placental alkaline phosphatase levels in cord blood are a risk factor for mother-to-child transmission during vaginal deliveries.
D6.2 Development of starter kits for professional networks: data steward
Creators: name: Horton, Laurence
name: Drachen, Thea Marie
name: Hansen, Karsten Kryger
name: Sharma, Curtis
name: Vlachos, Evgenios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Community
Networks
Open Science
FAIR
RDM
Research Data Management
Research Integrity

description: Submitted draft not yet approved by the EC This is Skills4EOSC Deliverable D6.2 Development of starter kits for professional networks. This deliverable is a Data Steward Network starter kit. It is developed to provide support for the creation of new professional and sustainable communities. Professional communities play a key role in the context of Skills4EOSC Competence Centre network as they are seen as a tool for lifelong learning through peers.
Gallup Poll # 635
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Upcoming elections (1); Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); most important problem facing the country (1); knowledge of Disneyland, Freedomland and Snowland (1); Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge vs. John Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson (2); intent to vote in 1960 presidential election (1); Richard Nixon vs. John Kennedy (1); preferred service committee-health, traffic, recreation, housing (2); impressions of political figures (1); U.S. disarming with Russia (1); Partisan opinions (3); 1956 presidential election (1).
Gallup Poll # 1960-0636: Politics/Elections
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Prices in six months (1); thoughts on upcoming election (1); most important problem (1); party handling problems (1); voter registration (2); voter history (1); voting location (1); interest in politics (1); voting frequency (1); head of Inter-Party Policy Committee (2); candidate preference (2); voter intention (2); partisanship 92); John Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon (1); Dwight Eisenhower job performance (1); Kennedy/Nixon debate (3); Russian/American relations (1).
Poiseuille flow of soft glasses in narrow channels: From quiescence to steady state
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Pinaki
name: Horbach, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical simulations, the onset of Poiseuille flow in a confined soft glass is investigated. Starting from the quiescent state, steady flow sets in at a time scale which increases with a decrease in applied forcing. At this onset time scale, a rapid transition occurs via the simultaneous fluidization of regions having different local stresses. In the absence of steady flow at long times, creep is observed even in regions where the local stress is larger than the bulk yielding threshold. Finally, we show that the time scale to attain steady flow depends strongly on the history of the initial state.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Poll # 1974-2436L: American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1974: Leaders
Creators: name: Chicago Council On Global Affairs
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Most important problem facing the federal government (3); spending on federal programs (17); sources of news (10); foreign policy (58); President Gerald Ford/Congressional job performance for working on peace (2); foreign aid (41); US role in the world (21); US relations with other countries (8); lessons learned from the Vietnam War (8); foreign policy goals for the US (29); international affairs (16); military involvement abroad (12); statements about what US citizens' should do to help foreign countries (10); defense spending (5); NATO (1); US-Soviet Union relations (12); communism (6); US-Cuba relations (1); CIA (2); Henry Kissinger job performance (1); oil and energy (6); feelings about own current foreign policy (7).
Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government/NPR Poll: 2001 Poverty in America
Creators: name: Harvard University's Kennedy School Of Government
name: Kaiser Family Foundation
name: National Public Radio
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Most important issues for government to address (2); poverty a big problem (1); economy (1); personal finances (3); causes of poverty (12); poor people in U.S. (5); what income level makes a family poor (1); least amount of money a family of four can get by on in a year (1); easier/harder to get out of poverty today than ten years ago (1); what portion of poor people are African American (1); government spending on poor people (3); credit/blame for federal government for making it easier/harder for poor people to get out of poverty (1); support/oppose ways government could help poor in America (14); willing/not willing to pay more taxes to help poor (2); welfare recipients (6); new welfare law (8); reasons why new welfare law is working well (5); reason new welfare law is not working well (1); self/family poor (2); poor friends (1); serious problems in immediate family in past year (10); self/family ever received welfare/public assistance benefits (7); friends ever received welfare/public assistance (2); worry about becoming poor (1); rate housing (1); rate health care coverage (1); rate safety of neighborhood (1); use of services for children (4); who pays for services for children (3); unable to get child care services (2); satisfied/unsatisfied with child care arrangements (1); why not have better child care (1); convenient supermarket/bank where respondent lives (1); satisfaction with work (1); commute to work/school (1); helping the poor (4); pressure from government to find job (1); change one thing about current welfare system (1); government will help responded or have to rely on self (1); most people on welfare black or white (1); 2000 presidential election (2).
CNN/ORC Poll: 2016 Presidential Election/ Primary and Caucus Process/ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Comparisons/ Transgender Protection and Gay Rights
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: President Barack Obama job performance (1); general outlook of country (1); opinion whether personal views are represented by government in Washington (1); important issues influencing your vote (10); preferred presidential candidates (7); view on whether presidential election will unite or divide political party (2); primary and caucus process (8); politicians that should remain or drop out of the presidential race (2); likely presidential candidates (13); enthusiasm towards various presidential candidates (2); vote to support or oppose chosen candidates (2); vote leaning towards which candidate (4); comparisons between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton handling various issues (8); opinion of various politicians in the news (6); view of economic conditions in country (1); serious threats to the United States (5); ISIS (4); transgender protection and gay rights (4); Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland (2).
On the stationary distribution of reflected Brownian motion in a non-convex wedge
Creators: name: Fayolle, Guy
name: Franceschi, Sandro
name: Raschel, Kilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60J65, 60E10, Secondary 60H05

description: We study the stationary reflected Brownian motion in a non-convex wedge, which, compared to its convex analogue model, has been much rarely analyzed in the probabilistic literature. We prove that its stationary distribution can be found by solving a two dimensional vector boundary value problem (BVP) on a single curve for the associated Laplace transforms. The reduction to this kind of vector BVP seems to be new in the literature. As a matter of comparison, one single boundary condition is sufficient in the convex case. When the parameters of the model (drift, reflection angles and covariance matrix) are symmetric with respect to the bisector line of the cone, the model is reducible to a standard reflected Brownian motion in a convex cone. Finally, we construct a one-parameter family of distributions, which surprisingly provides, for any wedge (convex or not), one particular example of stationary distribution of a reflected Brownian motion.
description: 31 pages
Public Agenda Foundation Poll: Life After High School--Young People Talk About Their Hopes and Prospects
Creators: name: Public Agenda Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Most important influences on decisions about work/college (1); effects on success in jobs/careers (1); personal finances (2); current job (4); school respondent went to after high school (2); going back to school right after high school (1); easy/hard for respondent to go back to school now (1); high school (12); okay/not okay for a person to take a year or more off after high school (1); high school guidance counselors (7); typical reasons people don't go to college (6); own reasons for going to college (5); benefits of going to college (5); views about college (2); most important reason to get a college degree (1); entry-level jobs that require college degrees (1); views of someone who graduates from college (1); parents' attitudes towards going to college (1); what will respondent teach children about going to college (1); college education of respondent's friends (1); have left hometown/pretty much stayed in area since finishing high school (1); reputation of local community colleges (1); living arrangement of respondent (1); college education of respondent's parents (1).
Metal distribution in sloshing galaxy clusters: the case of A496
Creators: name: Ghizzardi, Simona
name: De Grandi, Sabrina
name: Molendi, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results from a detailed study of the sloshing gas in the core of A496. We detect the low temperature/entropy spiral feature found in several cores, we also find that conduction between the gas in the spiral and the ambient medium must be suppressed by more than one order of magnitude with respect to Spitzer conductivity. Intriguingly, while the gas in the spiral features a higher metal abundance than the surrounding medium, it follows the entropy vs metal abundance relation defined by gas lying outside the spiral. The most plausible explanation for this behavior is that the low entropy metal rich plasma uplifted through the cluster atmosphere by sloshing, suffers little heating or mixing with the ambient medium. While sloshing appears to be capable of uplifting significant amounts of gas, the limited heat exchange and mixing between gas in and outside the spiral implies that this mechanism is not at all effective in: 1) permanently redistributing metals within the core region and 2) heating up the coolest and densest gas, thereby providing little or no contribution to staving of catastrophic cooling in cool cores.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A
Experimental investigation of the fire performance of circular CFRP-wrapped RC columns
Creators: name: Khalaf, Salem
name: Alhoubi, Yazan
name: Abed, Farid
name: Refai, Ahmed El
name: Talo, Reem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fire safety engineering

description: This paper investigates the fire performance of circular Reinforced Concrete (RC) columns wrapped with Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) systems and fire-insulation. Four columns were fabricated and exposed to fire according to ASTM E119 standards for 130 minutes. The columns varied in the number of CFRP layers used and the presence of the fire insulation. All columns had the same length, concrete dimensions, and reinforcement. The columns were exposed to fire inside a full-scale furnace to simulate actual fire scenarios. The temperature readings at different locations within the section were obtained using thermocouples to plot temperature-time curves. The test results showed that the fireproofed columns had 68% lower temperature measurements than those without fireproofing throughout the fire test. The fire insulation layer maintained the CFRP temperature below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the epoxy resin of the CFRP system for 20 minutes. Furthermore, it was noticed that the CFRP layers did not contribute to any fire isolation since the temperature measurements inside the wrapped and the unwrapped columns were almost identical.
Self-crumpling elastomers: bending induced by the drying stimulus of a nanoparticle suspension
Creators: name: Boulogne, François
name: Stone, Howard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experimental study of the drying-induced peeling of a bilayer, consisting of an elastomeric disk coated with a suspension of nanoparticles. We show that although capillary forces associated with the scale of the droplet can not compete with the adhesion of the elastomer on a surface, nevertheless large tensile stresses develop in the coating, which results in a moment bending the bilayer. We attribute this stress to the nano-menisci in the pores of the colloidal material and we propose a model that describes successfully the early stage curvature of the bilayer. Thus, we show that the peeling can be conveniently controlled by the particle size and the coating thickness.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted in EPL
Development of edible coating functionalized with hydroxyapatite, complexed with bioactive compounds for the shelf-life extension of food products
Creators: name: Montone, Angela Michela Immacolata
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: AGR/15 SCIENZE E TECNOLOGIE ALIMENTARI
subject: Hydroxyapatite
subject: Active edible coating
subject: Shelf life

description: 2021 - 2022
description: The main goal of food packaging is to protect the food from physical, chemical and biological contaminations. The environmental impact of conventional food packaging directed research towards new packaging strategies based on environmentally friendly and biodegradablenatural polymers. The nature of biopolymers influences the physicochemical and mechanical properties of films and coatingssuch as mechanical stability, transparency, moisture and gas barrier. Generally, polysaccharides are employed to avoid gas permeability, lipids limit water vapour transmission, and proteins improve the mechanical stability of the structure. Anovel way to preserve the safety of food products and prolong their shelf life is represented by the incorporationinto edible coatingsof active compounds, such as nutrients, antioxidants, antimicrobials, colorants, and flavorings, which are mainly used to improve the functional properties of coatings. However, the poor stability of these bioactive compoundsunder processing conditions and during storage makes it necessary to use a carrier system for the release of the compound from the coating to the product surface. Among severalcarriersystems adopted to protect active compounds, hydroxyapatite crystals seem to be attractive candidates for this application. Hydroxyapatiteis a calcium phosphate similar to that present in the human hard tissues as regard morphology and composition. It is used especially for the fabrication of inorganic scaffolds for bone replacement and tissue engineering.Thanks to its structure and composition, this mineral is able to chemically interact with different organic molecules such as proteins and antimicrobial peptides, representing a potential carrier for the delivery of bioactive compounds in the development of active systems. On the basis of the above considerations, my research project has been focused on the development and optimization of an alginate-based edible coating enriched with hydroxyapatite crystals complexed with active compounds, for the shelf life extension of food products. Among active compounds, the flavonoid quercetinhas been already used in different active systems mainly for its antioxidant capacity; However, my interest was also focused on its potential antimicrobial activity.The results on antimicrobial activity of quercetin glycoside compounds against Pseudomonas fluorescens, one of the most abundant Gram negative bacteria responsible for meat and meat products spoilageon obtained, showed a total bacterial reduction at 1000 mg/L and 500 mg/L of quercetin,Similar results were obtained when quercetin was loaded into hydroxyapatite structure, at the same quercetin amount. [...] [edited by Author]
A Genome-Wide Screen for Promoter Methylation in Lung Cancer Identifies Novel Methylation Markers for Multiple Malignancies
Creators: name: Gerald, William
name: Minna, John D
name: Jiang, Aixiang
name: Olopade, Olufunmilayo I
name: Lewis, Cheryl M
name: Nanda, Rita
name: Kim, Young H
name: Wong, Maria
name: Shivapurkar, Narayan
name: Shames, David S
name: Lam, Chi-Leung
name: Girard, Luc
name: Shay, Jerry W
name: Euhus, David M
name: Fong, Kwun M
name: Gao, Boning
name: Sato, Mitsuo
name: Gazdar, Adi F
name: Pollack, Jonathan R
name: Shyr, Yu
name: Perou, Charles M
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Promoter hypermethylation coupled with loss of heterozygosity at the same locus results in loss of gene function in many tumor cells. The “rules” governing which genes are methylated during the pathogenesis of individual cancers, how specific methylation profiles are initially established, or what determines tumor type-specific methylation are unknown. However, DNA methylation markers that are highly specific and sensitive for common tumors would be useful for the early detection of cancer, and those required for the malignant phenotype would identify pathways important as therapeutic targets.
Canadian Gallup Poll # 275
Creators: name: Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Federal and provincial elections vote intent(2); past federal elections vote(1); taxes(3); health issues(3); religion(5); foreign products/Canada's trade with Germany, Britain, Japan and Italy(29); economic policies(4); US capital in Canada(3); China(3); women in ministry(2). Note: Demographics(13).
Introducing an experimental distortion-tolerant speech encryption scheme for secure voice communication
Creators: name: Krasnowski, Piotr
name: Lebrun, Jerome
name: Martin, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The current increasing need for privacy-preserving voice communications is leading to new ideas for securing voice transmission. This paper refers to a relatively new concept of sending encrypted speech as pseudo-speech in the audio domain over digital voice communication infrastructures, like 3G cellular network and VoIP. This work presents a novel distortion-tolerant speech encryption scheme for secure voice communications over voice channels that combines the robustness of analog speech scrambling and elevated security offered by digital ciphers like AES-CTR. The system scrambles vocal parameters of a speech signal (loudness, pitch, timbre) using distance-preserving pseudo-random translations and rotations on a hypersphere of parameters. Next, scrambled parameters are encoded to a pseudo-speech signal adapted to transmission over digital voice channels equipped with voice activity detection. Upon reception of this pseudo-speech signal, the legitimate receiver restores distorted copies of the initial vocal parameters. Despite some deciphering errors, an integrated neural-based vocoder based on the LPCNet architecture reconstructs an intelligible speech. The experimental implementation of this speech encryption scheme has been tested by simulations and sending an encrypted signal over FaceTime between two iPhones 6 connected to the same WiFi network. Moreover, speech excerpts restored from encrypted signals were evaluated by a speech quality assessment on a group of about 40 participants. The experiments demonstrated that the proposed scheme produces intelligible speech with a gracefully progressive quality degradation depending on the channel noise. Finally, the preliminary computational analysis suggested that the presented setting may operate on high-end portable devices in nearly real-time.
description: 26 pages, 45 figures; to be published in Speech Communication, Elsevier
Globally visible singularity in an astrophysical setup
Creators: name: Mosani, Karim
name: Dey, Dipanjan
name: Joshi, Pankaj S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The global visibility of a singularity as an end state of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric pressureless cloud is investigated. We show the existence of a non-zero measured set of parameters: the total mass and the initial mean density of the collapsing cloud, giving rise to a physically strong globally visible singularity as the end state for a fixed velocity function. The existence of such a set indicates that such singularity is stable under small perturbation in the initial data causing its existence. This is true for marginally as well as non-marginally bound cases. The possibility of the presence of such suitable parameters in the astrophysical setup is then studied: $1)$ The singularities' requirements at the center of the M87 galaxy and at the center of our galaxy (SgrA*) to be globally visible are discussed in terms of the initial size of the collapsing cloud forming them, presuming that such singularities are formed due to gravitational collapse. $2)$ The requirement for the primordial singularities formed due to a collapsing configuration after getting detached from the background universe, at the time of matter-dominated era just after the time of matter-radiation equality, to be globally visible, is discussed. $3)$ The scenario of the collapse of a neutron star after reaching a critical mass, which is achieved by accreting the supernova ejecta expelled by its binary companion core progenitor, is considered. The primary aim of this paper is to show that globally visible singularities can form in astrophysical setups under appropriate circumstances.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Associations among Race/Ethnicity, ApoC-III Genotypes, and Lipids in HIV-1-Infected Individuals on Antiretroviral Therapy
Creators: name: Frank, Ian
name: Wolfe, Megan L
name: Reilly, Muredach P
name: Tebas, Pablo
name: Wohl, David A
name: Restine, Stephanie
name: Puleo, Elaine
name: Dube, Michael P
name: Foulkes, Andrea S
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: BackgroundProtease inhibitors (PIs) are associated with hypertriglyceridemia and atherogenic dyslipidemia. Identifying HIV-1-infected individuals who are at increased risk of PI-related dyslipidemia will facilitate therapeutic choices that maintain viral suppression while reducing risk of atherosclerotic diseases. Apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III) gene variants, which vary by race/ethnicity, have been associated with a lipid profile that resembles PI-induced dyslipidemia. However, the association of race/ethnicity, or candidate gene effects across race/ethnicity, with plasma lipid levels in HIV-1-infected individuals, has not been reported.Methods and FindingsA cross-sectional analysis of race/ethnicity, apoC-III/apoA-I genotypes, and PI exposure on plasma lipids was performed in AIDS Clinical Trial Group studies (n = 626). Race/ethnicity was a highly significant predictor of plasma lipids in fully adjusted models. Furthermore, in stratified analyses, the effect of PI exposure appeared to differ across race/ethnicity. Black/non-Hispanic, compared with White/non-Hispanics and Hispanics, had lower plasma triglyceride (TG) levels overall, but the greatest increase in TG levels when exposed to PIs. In Hispanics, current PI antiretroviral therapy (ART) exposure was associated with a significantly smaller increase in TGs among patients with variant alleles at apoC-III-482, −455, and Intron 1, or at a composite apoC-III genotype, compared with patients with the wild-type genotypes.ConclusionsIn the first pharmacogenetic study of its kind in HIV-1 disease, we found race/ethnic-specific differences in plasma lipid levels on ART, as well as differences in the influence of the apoC-III gene on the development of PI-related hypertriglyceridemia. Given the multi-ethnic distribution of HIV-1 infection, our findings underscore the need for future studies of metabolic and cardiovascular complications of ART that specifically account for racial/ethnic heterogeneity, particularly when assessing candidate gene effects.This cross-sectional analysis of race/ethnicity, apoC-III/apoA-I genotypes, and protease inhibitor exposure on plasma lipids showed that race/ethnicity was a highly significant predictor of plasma lipids
Coulomb drag between two strange metals
Creators: name: Mauri, Enea
name: Stoof, H. T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Coulomb drag between two strange-metal layers using the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model from holography. We show that the low-temperature dependence of the drag resistivity is $ρ_D \propto T^4$, which strongly deviates from the quadratic dependence of Fermi liquids. We also present numerical results at room temperature, using typical parameters of the cuprates, to provide an estimate of the magnitude of this effect for future experiments. We find that the drag resistivity is enhanced by the plasmons characteristic of the two-layer system.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures. Changes compared to previous version: -few additions to improve clarity -fixed some typos -corrected labels on some plots -added journal reference
Core Verbal Autopsy Procedures with Comparative Validation Results from Two Countries
Creators: name: Chandramohan, Daniel
name: Rao, Chalapati
name: Lopez, Alan D
name: Whiting, David R
name: Hemed, Yusuf
name: Yang, Gonghuan
name: Alberti, K. G. M. M
name: Setel, Philip W
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced. Neither facility-based information systems nor vital registration provide adequate or representative data. The expansion of sample vital registration with verbal autopsy procedures represents the most promising interim solution for this problem. The development and validation of core verbal autopsy forms and suitable coding and tabulation procedures are an essential first step to extending the benefits of this method.
Canadian Gallup Poll # 235
Creators: name: Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Federal election vote intent(1); past federal elections vote(1); ideal occupations for girls(3); economic concerns(5); labor unions(3); trade with Russia and China(2); Canadian Post Office job performance(4); threat of Communism(1); sleeping habits(4). Note: Demographics(16). Added: home ownership.
Anti-$k_T$ jet function at next-to-next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Liu, Hao-yu
name: Liu, Xiaohui
name: Moch, Sven-Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jets constructed via clustering algorithms (e.g., anti-$k_T$, soft-drop) have been proposed for many precision measurements, such as the strong coupling $α_s$ and the nucleon intrinsic dynamics. However, the theoretical accuracy is affected by missing QCD corrections at higher orders for the jet functions in the associated factorization theorems. Their calculation is complicated by the jet clustering procedure. In this work, we propose a method to evaluate jet functions at higher orders in QCD. The calculation involves the phase space sector decomposition with suitable soft subtractions. As a concrete example, we present the quark-jet function using the anti-$k_T$ algorithm with E-scheme recombination at next-to-next-to-leading order.
description: 12 pages, update the references, add a plot to demonstrate the fully differential nature of the calculated jet function, match the punished version, corrected an unnecessary approximation, numbers updated
Canadian Gallup Poll # 270
Creators: name: Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Federal and provincial elections vote intent(2); past federal elections vote(1); religion(5); Canadian flag(3); lower voting age(2); world leaders job performances(4); China's admission into UN(2); UN job performance(2). Note: Demographics(14). Dropped: driving license.
Canadian Gallup Poll # 254
Creators: name: Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Federal elections vote intent(1); past federal elections vote(1); UN troops to police Suez Canal conflict(3); membership in labor unions and employment(2); US foreign policy(2); British foreign policy(2); UN job performance(4); family life(2). Note: Demographics(12). Not included: religion, family status, car ownership. Added: TV set in the house.
Online search of unknown terrains using a dynamical system-based path planning approach
Creators: name: Sridharan, Karan
name: McNamee, Patrick
name: Ahmadabadi, Zahra Nili
name: Hudack, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Surveillance and exploration of large environments is a tedious task. In spaces with limited environmental cues, random-like search is an effective approach as it allows the robot to perform online coverage of environments using simple algorithm designs. One way to generate random-like scanning search is to use nonlinear dynamical systems to impart chaos into the searching robot's controller. This will result in the generation of unpredictable yet deterministic trajectories, allowing designers to control the system and achieve a high scanning coverage of an area. However, the unpredictability comes at the cost of increased coverage time and a lack of scalability, both of which have been ignored by the state-of-the-art chaotic path planners. This work introduces a new, scalable technique that helps a robot to steer away from the obstacles and cover the entire search space in a short period of time. The technique involves coupling and manipulating two chaotic systems to reduce the coverage time and enable scanning of unknown environments with different online properties. Using this new technique resulted in an average 49% boost in the robot's performance compared to the state-of-the-art planners. the overall search performance of the chaotic planner remained comparable to optimal systems while still ensuring unpredictable paths.