cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Superconductivity at 41 K and its competition with spin-density-wave instability in layered CeO$_{1-x}$F$_x$FeAs
Creators: name: Chen, G. F.
name: Li, Z.
name: Wu, D.
name: Li, G.
name: Hu, W. Z.
name: Dong, J.
name: Zheng, P.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Wang, N. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of layered CeO$_{1-x}$F$_x$FeAs compounds with x=0 to 0.20 are synthesized by solid state reaction method. Similar to the LaOFeAs, the pure CeOFeAs shows a strong resistivity anomaly near 145 K, which was ascribed to the spin-density-wave instability. F-doping suppresses this instability and leads to the superconducting ground state. Most surprisingly, the superconducting transition temperature could reach as high as 41 K. The very high superconducting transition temperature strongly challenges the classic BCS theory based on the electron-phonon interaction. The very closeness of the superconducting phase to the spin-density-wave instability suggests that the magnetic fluctuations play a key role in the superconducting paring mechanism. The study also reveals that the Ce 4f electrons form local moments and ordered antiferromagnetically below 4 K, which could coexist with superconductivity.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Dynamical system analysis of a data-driven model constructed by reservoir computing
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Miki U
name: Nakai, Kengo
name: Saiki, Yoshitaka
name: Tsutsumi, Natsuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37N10, 68T05, 37M10

description: This study evaluates data-driven models from a dynamical system perspective, such as unstable fixed points, periodic orbits, chaotic saddle, Lyapunov exponents, manifold structures, and statistical values. We find that these dynamical characteristics can be reconstructed much more precisely by a data-driven model than by computing directly from training data. With this idea, we predict the laminar lasting time distribution of a particular macroscopic variable of chaotic fluid flow, which cannot be calculated from a direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equation because of its high computational cost.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Formation of giant planets around stars with various masses
Creators: name: Kornet, Kacper
name: Wolf, Sebastian
name: Rozyczka, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the predictions of the core accretion - gas capture model concerning the efficiency of planet formation around stars with various masses. First, we follow the evolution of gas and solids from the moment when all solids are in the form of small grains to the stage when most of them are in the form of planetesimals. We show that the surface density of the planetesimal swarm tends to be higher around less massive stars. Then, we derive the minimum surface density of the planetesimal swarm required for the formation of a giant planet both in a numerical and in an approximate analytical approach. We combine these results by calculating a set of representative disk models characterized by different masses, sizes, and metallicities, and by estimating their capability of forming giant planets. Our results show that the set of protoplanetary disks capable of giant planet formation is larger for less massive stars. Provided that the distribution of initial disk parameters does not depend too strongly on the mass of the central star, we predict that the percentage of stars with giant planets should increase with decreasing stellar mass. Furthermore, we identify the radial redistribution of solids during the formation of planetesimal swarms as the key element in explaining these effects.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Nanotube patterning reduces macrophage inflammatory response via nuclear mechanotransduction
Creators: name: Fu, Yiru
name: Jing, Zheng
name: Chen, Tao
name: Xu, Xinxin
name: Wang, Xu
name: Ren, Mingxing
name: Wu, Yanqiu
name: Wu, Tianli
name: Li, Yuzhou
name: Zhang, He
name: Ji, Ping
name: Yang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Gravastars supported by nonlinear electrodynamics
Creators: name: Lobo, Francisco S. N.
name: Arellano, Aaron V. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravastar models have recently been proposed as an alternative to black holes, mainly to avoid the problematic issues associated with event horizons and singularities. In this work, a wide variety of gravastar models within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics are constructed. Using the $F$ representation, specific forms of Lagrangians are considered describing magnetic gravastars, which may be interpreted as self-gravitating magnetic monopoles with charge $g$. Using the dual $P$ formulation of nonlinear electrodynamics, electric gravastar models are constructed by considering specific structural functions, and the characteristics and physical properties of the solutions are further explored. These interior nonlinear electrodynamic geometries are matched to an exterior Schwarzschild spacetime at a junction interface.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, LaTeX2e, IOP style files. V2: considerable changes, references added; to appear in Class. Quant. Gravity
The Inn, Restaurant and Tavern Business in Ancient Pompeii
Creators: name: Ruddell, Sharon Marie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1964

description: The number of public establishments in ancient Pompeii
indicates that the inn, restaurant and tavern business was one of
t..'l-J.e most extensive in the town. This thesis endeavors to. study
each public inn and eating house in Pompeii, and to observe the
general characteristics of ancient inns, restaurants and taverns
as exemplified by the excavations of the city. The first chapter
discusses the various types of ancient inns, restaurants and taverns,
using the Pompeian establishments as specific examples. The general
features of the inns and taverns are described and illustrated.
Various aspects of tavern life are discussed in the second chapter.
The epigraphical evidence yielded by the excavations at Pompeii
provides vivid testimony to the life in the taverns of antiquity.
This information, combined with the writings of the ancient authors,
portrays much of the activity in the Pompeian inns and eating houses.
In the third chapter, the rol·e of the public establishments in
Pompeii's city life is discussed. Their locations and areas of
concentration, as well as their commercial and social importance
are considered. In the Appendix, each inn, restaurant and tavern
that has been excavated and identified is described. A bibliography
follows each description. Wherever possible, plans of various
Pompeian establishments have been included throughout the paper.
title: Radiomics: From Image to Information
Creators: name: Kreuder, Frank
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: medical imaging
subject: quantitative features
subject: radiomics
subject: machine learning
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: In recent years, the field of medical image analysis has grown rapidly. The number of pattern recognition tools and the data set size to be processed has increased enormously. These advances facilitate high-throughput extraction of quantitative features. These features enable the conversion[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
AdS/CFT and QCD
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: de Teramond, Guy F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AdS/CFT correspondence between string theory in AdS space and conformal field theories in physical space-time leads to an analytic, semi-classical model for strongly-coupled QCD which has scale invariance and dimensional counting at short distances and color confinement at large distances. Although QCD is not conformally invariant, one can nevertheless use the mathematical representation of the conformal group in five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space to construct a first approximation to the theory. The AdS/CFT correspondence also provides insights into the inherently non-perturbative aspects of QCD, such as the orbital and radial spectra of hadrons and the form of hadronic wavefunctions. In particular, we show that there is an exact correspondence between the fifth-dimensional coordinate of AdS space z and a specific impact variable zeta which measures the separation of the quark and gluonic constituents within the hadron in ordinary space-time. This connection allows one to compute the analytic form of the frame-independent light-front wavefunctions, the fundamental entities which encode hadron properties and allow the computation of decay constants, form factors, and other exclusive scattering amplitudes. New relativistic light-front equations in ordinary space-time are found which reproduce the results obtained using the 5-dimensional theory. The effective light-front equations possess remarkable algebraic structures and integrability properties. Since they are complete and orthonormal, the AdS/CFT model wavefunctions can also be used as a basis for the diagonalization of the full light-front QCD Hamiltonian, thus systematically improving the AdS/CFT approximation.
description: Invited talk presented at the 2006 International Workshop On The Origin Of Mass And Strong Coupling Gauge Theories (SCGT 06)
title: Impact of COVID-19 on estimands considerations in Oncology
Creators: name: Sailer, Martin Oliver
name: Degtyarev, Evgeny
name: Zhou, Jiangxiu
name: Casey, Michelle
name: Tang, Rui
name: Liu, Feng
name: Shentu, Yue
name: Yung, Godwin
name: Liu, Yi
name: Rufibach, Kaspar
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: clinical trial
subject: estimand
subject: oncology
subject: EFSPI
subject: COVID-19
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: An addendum to the guideline on statistical principles for clinical trials was issued in 2019 [ref:2] introducing the estimands framework. This framework aims to align trial objectives with study design and statistical analysis. An industry working group for estimands targeted specifically[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
Dynamic critical phenomena in disordered systems with finite geometry
Creators: name: Chamati, H.
name: Korutcheva, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the critical dynamics of hyper-cubic finite size system in the presence of quenched short-range correlated disorder. By using the random $T_c$ model A for the critical dynamics and the renormalization group method in the vicinity of the upper critical dimension $d=4$, we derive in first order of $ε$ the expression for the relaxation time. Its finite-size scaling behavior is discussed both analytically and numerically in details. This was made possible by analyzing carefully the finite--size effects on the Onsager kinetic coefficient. The obtained results are compared to those reported in the literature.
description: Major revisions were undertaken. The revised version was published in the Physical Review B [Phys. Rev. B 77 (2008) 184416]
Reading Gavin Bolton: a biography for education
Creators: name: Jardine, Laurie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The discipline of International Relations is today pervaded by an almost debilitating sense of “crisis,” perhaps even “entropy,” where certainty in our theoretical constructs, research programs, intellectual motifs and disciplinary sense of purpose, has all but disappeared. Practitioners now readily rehearse the litany of ills that beset the discipline, lamenting an era free of dire proclamations that announce “crisis,” disjuncture, division, and retrogression. The imminent end of International Relations, or at least pronouncements of its intellectual disarray, now serve both as an intellectual starting point for the study of international relations as well as an epitaph forewarning of the discipline’s intellectual closure or impending collapse. Theoretical turmoil has become endemic, indeed part of the normal disciplinary discourse by which International Relations has come to be understood and identified. This thesis addresses some of the causes of this “crisis” and the sense of intellectual malaise prevalent amongst students, theorists and practitioners alike. More generally, the thesis is a contribution to reclaiming International Relations from those who would wish its end and from those who actively seek its deconstruction. To that end, I question the utility of the latest, and seemingly perennial, bout of metaphysical reappraisal labelled the “Third Debate.” More specifically, I explore the newest theoretical fad to hit International Relations, post-modernism, analyzing critically what this might offer international theory, or, more accurately, what it threatens to do to the discipline and theoretical endeavour. Until now, most commentators have merely announced the arrival of the “Third Debate” and of post-modem theory, little understanding the epistemic leitmotifs of the debate or the epistemological and ontological issues at play amid the abstract interlocutions of positivists and post-positivists. Post-modernist discourse, in particular, has tended to favour a somewhat obtuse and recondite form of self-expression, ostracising those not versed in its technical jargon and engaging in a level of debate not traditionally familiar to theorists of international relations. In this respect, this thesis might be understood as a baedeker to the “Third Debate” and postmodern theory more generally; an attempt to traverse the otherwise un-traversable subterfuge of post-modernist discourse in order to make sense of it and assess its worth and utility to the study of international relations. It is in this spirit that I explore the writings of various post-modernists throughout the social sciences and humanities, and attempt to develop a series of heuristic typologies of postmodern theory in order to provide an overview of its various nuances and epistemic motifs. These categories are then applied, via a critical exegetic analysis, to the work of Richard Ashley, one of the discipline’s leading champions and importers of a post-modernist perspective.
A New Dimension Hidden in the Shadow of a Wall
Creators: name: Kaloper, Nemanja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new way to hide the fifth dimension, and to modify gravity in the far infra-red. A gravitating tensional membrane in five dimensions folds the transverse space into a truncated cone, stoppered by the membrane. For near-critical tension, the conical opening is tiny, and the space becomes a very narrow conical sliver. A very long section, of length comparable to the membrane radius divided by the remaining conical angle, of this sliver is well approximated by a narrow cylinder ending on the membrane. Inside this cylindrical throat we can reduce the theory on the circle. At distances between the circle radius and the length of the cylinder, the theory looks 4D, with a Brans-Dicke-like gravity, and a preferred direction, while at larger distances the cone opens up and the theory turns 5D. The gravitational light scalar in the throat can get an effective local mass term from the interplay of matter interactions and quantum effective potentials on the cone, which may suppress its long range effects. We discuss some phenomenologically interesting consequences.
description: 8 pages LaTeX, 1 .eps figure; typo fixed, references updated, in press in PLB
title: The role of estimands in Neuroscience
Creators: name: Burger, Hans Ulrich
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: estimands
subject: missing data
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: The presentation will provide an overview on the choice of estimands in a number of different areas of Neuroscience including neurodegenerative disorders with and without effective symptomatic therapies like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, neuro-inflammatory diseases like MS or[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
Additional file 1 of Molecular mechanism of interaction between fatty acid delta 6 desaturase and acyl-CoA by computational prediction
Creators: name: Cui, Jie
name: Chen, Haiqin
name: Tang, Xin
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Chen, Yong Q.
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The primers to construct mutants. Table S2. RMSD of the crucial residues between the constructed model and the crystal structure of muSCD1. Table S3. Evaluation of model quality. Table S4. Fatty acid composition of Micromonas pusilla delta 6 fatty acid desaturase (MpFADS6) mutants. Table S5. Sequence and structure alignment analysis of MpFADS6 models constructed by trRosetta and four mammalian FADS6 models constructed by Alphafold. Figure S1. Alignment of amino acid sequence between MpFADS6 and muSCD1(4YMK). Figure S2. (A). Structure-based phylogenetic analysis of models These models are the best among those constructed by the six methods. (B). Surface map of muSCD1 substrate tunnel composed of amino acids. (C). Main amino acids in the muSCD1 substrate tunnel. (D) and (E). Binding sites of muSCD1 and head group of stearoyl-CoA. (F). N148 gap between the actual structure and the two models. Figure S3. Quality assessment of models. (A). Ramachandran diagram of muSCD1 crystal. (B). Ramachandran diagram of model SCD_trR. (C). Ramachandran diagram of model MpFADS6 constructed by trRrosetta. Figure S4. Conformational changes in MpFADS6 due to mutation of M223A.
title: The role of estimands in Neuroscience
Creators: name: Burger, Hans Ulrich
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: estimand
subject: ICH E9 addendum
subject: neuroscience
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: The presentation will provide an overview on the choice of estimands in a number of different areas of Neuroscience including neurodegenerative disorders with and without effective symptomatic therapies like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, neuro-inflammatory diseases like MS or[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: Estimand in Huntington's Disease
Creators: name: Li, Carrie
name: Palermo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: estimand
subject: intercurrent events
subject: clinical trial in neuroscience
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: In this talk, we will discuss the primary estimand framework for a Phase III study in Huntington's disease, which uses a continuous endpoint as a primary outcome. While the definition of each attributes will be described, particular focus will be given to intercurrent events, including their identification[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: One year of ICH E9 addendum – regulatory reflections and perspectives
Creators: name: Rondak, Ina-Christine
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: In November 2019, The International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) and a number of regulatory agencies have published an addendum to the ICH E9 guideline “Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials” [ref:1] on estimands[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is fundamental in modern observational cosmology. In this letter, we derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator for SNe Ia using a training set of SNe Ia with multiband ($griz$) light-curves and spectroscopic redshifts obtained by the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). This estimator is analytical and model-independent; it does not use spectral templates. We use all the available SNe Ia from SNLS with near maximum photometry in $griz$ (a total of 40 SNe Ia) to train and test our photometric redshift estimator. The difference between the estimated redshifts $z_{phot}$ and the spectroscopic redshifts $z_{spec}$, $(z_{phot}-z_{spec})/(1+z_{spec})$, has rms dispersions of 0.031 for 20 SNe Ia used in the training set, and 0.050 for 20 SNe Ia not used in the training set. The dispersion is of the same order of magnitude as the flux uncertainties at peak brightness for the SNe Ia. There are no outlyers. This photometric redshift estimator should significantly enhance the ability of observers to accurately target high redshift SNe Ia for spectroscopy in ongoing surveys. It will also dramatically boost the cosmological impact of very large future supernova surveys, such as those planned for Advanced Liquid-mirror Probe for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Asteroids (ALPACA), and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
description: 4 pages, including 1 color figure. Version with minor revisions accepted for publication in ApJ Letter
Some Characteristics of Broadband Delta-Sigma Modulation
Creators: name: Biegalski, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1971

description: This paper presents an analysis using correlation techniques
of an idealized Delta-Sigma Modulation system. An
analytical assumption of errors with a marginally Gaussian
distribution is shown to yield accurate results for broadband
modulation with a maximum input-output cross correlation.
It is also shown that this maximum is greatest for the degenerate
case of only "hard limiting" with no feedback and no
integration. A case of highly correla~ed inputs for Delta-
Sigma Modulation is also discussed to compare it with broad-
band performance and "hard limiting."
Learning-based Robust Motion Planning with Guaranteed Stability: A Contraction Theory Approach
Creators: name: Tsukamoto, Hiroyasu
name: Chung, Soon-Jo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents Learning-based Autonomous Guidance with RObustness and Stability guarantees (LAG-ROS), which provides machine learning-based nonlinear motion planners with formal robustness and stability guarantees, by designing a differential Lyapunov function using contraction theory. LAG-ROS utilizes a neural network to model a robust tracking controller independently of a target trajectory, for which we show that the Euclidean distance between the target and controlled trajectories is exponentially bounded linearly in the learning error, even under the existence of bounded external disturbances. We also present a convex optimization approach that minimizes the steady-state bound of the tracking error to construct the robust control law for neural network training. In numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the proposed method indeed possesses superior properties of robustness and nonlinear stability resulting from contraction theory, whilst retaining the computational efficiency of existing learning-based motion planners.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Preprint Version. Accepted June, 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3091019)
The numerical response of great horned owls to the snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest
Creators: name: Rohner, Christoph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Great homed owls (Bubo virginianus) are among the most opportunistic avian predators. In the subarctic boreal forest, their diet consists mainly of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus), which show extreme population cycles with a 8-11 year period. The aim of this thesis was to study the population ecology of great homed owls in a cyclic environment, to investigate the components of the numerical response of this predator to its prey, and to evaluate the evolutionary context of the ecological processes involved. The study was conducted from 1989-92, with some data from 1988 and 1993, at Kluane Lake in the southwestern Yukon, Canada. During the increase phase of the snowshoe hare cycle, 86% of resident owl pairs bred and raised large broods of 2.4-2.6 fledglings per successful nest. Survival of young owls in their first two years of life was high, and two females were observed to breed as yearlings. Densities of territorial owls almost doubled to a maximum of 21-24 pairs/100km² from 1988-92, but most owls that recruited locally became non-territorial 'floaters', presumably because social behaviour limited the number of territories. Floaters were silent, their ranges overlapped with those of territorial birds, and their density reached 40-50% of the total population. Snowshoe hares began to decline in the winter of 1990/91, and the number of great homed owls recruited in fall dropped from 1.7/pair in 1989-90 to 0.3/pair in 1991. Proximate causes of high pre-dispersal mortality included predation by mammals and parasitism by black flies (Simuliidae) and by Leucocytozoon ziemanni, a blood parasite transmitted by these flies. Post-dispersal mortality and emigration of resident owls also increased as hare densities declined further, floaters being affected before territorial birds. Owl densities continued to increase after the hare peak and then declined with a time lag of one year for floaters, and two years for territory holders. Responses to brood size manipulations and food additions suggested that food was not super-abundant during the prey peak. I conclude that territorial behaviour is essential in causing time lags, with some birds monopolizing resources and conserving energy by ceasing reproduction. A review of life history variation in northern owls showed that great horned owls are constrained in their phenotypic plasticity to increase reproduction at high prey levels compared to some other species. Based on a comparison of evolution in the genera Bubo and Nyctea, I hypothesize that habitat-specific differences in the availability of prey during reproduction, and also in the mortality on age classes during bottlenecks, favoured the diversity of life histories in northern owls.
title: DataSHIELD: by all means share the information but hands off the data
Creators: name: Burton, Paul
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: DataSHIELD ([link:http://www.datashield.ac.uk/*http://www.datashield.ac.uk/], [link:https://github.com/datashield*https://github.com/datashield]) is an innovative software tool enabling secure remote analysis (or[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
WHEN JUSTICE IS BLIND TO ALGORITHMS: MULTILAYERED BLACKBOXING OF ALGORITHMIC DECISION MAKING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Creators: name: Essén, Anna
name: Mähring, Magnus
name: Kronblad, Charlotta
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Management Information Systems

description: Transparency material for the MIS Quarterly article "WHEN JUSTICE IS BLIND TO ALGORITHMS:
MULTILAYERED BLACKBOXING OF ALGORITHMIC DECISION MAKING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR" (2024). The material contains: coding examples, media headlines and reports, and legal court case argumentation.
The NIR Upgrade to the SALT Robert Stobie Spectrograph
Creators: name: Sheinis, Andrew I.
name: Wolf, Marsha J.
name: Bershady, Matthew A.
name: Buckley, David A. H.
name: Nordsieck, Kenneth H.
name: Williams, Ted B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The near infrared (NIR) upgrade to the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) on the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), RSS/NIR, extends the spectral coverage of all modes of the visible arm. The RSS/NIR is a low to medium resolution spectrograph with broadband imaging, spectropolarimetric, and Fabry-Perot imaging capabilities. The visible and NIR arms can be used simultaneously to extend spectral coverage from approximately 3200 A to 1.6 um. Both arms utilize high efficiency volume phase holographic gratings via articulating gratings and cameras. The NIR camera is designed around a 2048x2048 HAWAII-2RG detector housed in a cryogenic dewar. The Epps optical design of the camera consists of 6 spherical elements, providing sub-pixel rms image sizes of 7.5 +/- 1.0 um over all wavelengths and field angles. The exact long wavelength cutoff is yet to be determined in a detailed thermal analysis and will depend on the semi-warm instrument cooling scheme. Initial estimates place instrument limiting magnitudes at J = 23.4 and H(1.4-1.6 um) = 21.6 for S/N = 3 in a 1 hour exposure well below the sky noise.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, presented at SPIE, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 24 - 31 May 2006, Orlando, Florida USA
Śiva Rātri: How to worship Śiva Q/A
Creators: name: Timalsina, Staneshwar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: yantra
Durga
sarvamnaya
Vasugupta
tantraloka
agama
Spanda
Guhyakālī
shambhava
amnaya
Shiva Sutra
tripura
Camunda
consciousness
Sadāśiva
sarvamnaya-oral-tradition-archive
shakta upāya
krama
Chandi
sthaneshwar timalsina
Tripurasundari
Divine Mother
Shaiva
Bhairava
Shiva
Kula
Kali
vedanta
saivadvaita
Mahakali
mahadeva
trika
Mālinīvijayottaratantra
Tantric philosophy
Kubjika
anava upaya
shakti
Kaula
Tripura Rahasya
Īśāna
Abhinavagupta
timalsina
Tantra
Sarvamnaya
Kashmir Shaivism
advaita vedanta
Saundaryalahari
Devi Mahatmya
vimarsha-foundation

description: How do I worship Śiva without a Linga, without an image?
What's essential to the Worship of Śiva?
Can I worship Śiva without flowers?
I cannot chant the Rudram, What do I do?

Āchārya Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina provides concise and insightful answers to common questions surrounding Śivaratri, offering timely wisdom in honor of the winter celebration of Lord Śiva.

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Topic: Vimarsha Foundation - Mahāśivarātri 2025
Time: Feb. 26th, 2025 06:00 PM (EST)
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Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGQd1Wd9Mo

This presentation is part of the Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive.
Vimarsha Foundation. (2025). The Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15188107
title: Diffix by Aircloak: Strong anonymity and pretty good analytics
Creators: name: Francis, Paul
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Diffix is a data anonymization mechanism designed jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Aircloak GmbH, and commercially marketed by Aircloak. Free licenses are offered for non-profit use. Diffix exposes an SQL interface to the analyst, and anonymizes on a query-by-query basis.[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: Advanced Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Action: Deploying MedCo in the Swiss Personalized Health Network
Creators: name: Prasser, Fabian
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: MedCo [ref:1] the first privacy-preserving tool issued by the Data Protection for Personalized Health (DPPH https://dpph.ch) project that is co-developed by EPFL and the Lausanne University Hospital ([link:https://medco.epfl.ch*https://medco.epfl.ch]).[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: Applied pseudonymization: Using the data management and biobanking software DIS as an example
Creators: name: Kohlmayer, Florian
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: The management of data and biospecimens which characterize patients and probands in-depth is a core element of modern biomedical research. Associated data is considered highly sensitive, so access to this data must be strictly regulated and it must be protected from unauthorized re-identification. [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: Rank-Based Tests for Multivariate Data in Nonparametric Factorial Designs – Theory, R-package and Applications
Creators: name: Friedrich, Sarah
name: Konietschke, Frank
name: Pauly, Markus
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: In many experiments in the life sciences several endpoints, potentially measured on different scales, are recorded per subject. Classical MANOVA models assume normally distributed errors and homogeneity of the covariance matrices, two assumptions that are often not met in practice. In particular, if[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
title: Nonparametric Methods for Repeated Measures with Missing Data
Creators: name: Rubarth, Kerstin
name: Konietschke, Frank
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: missing data
subject: nonparametric
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: A commonly used design in health, medical and biomedical research is the repeated measures design, where units, e.g. patients, are observed several times under different conditions. An unavoidable consequence in most repeated measures studies is the occurrence of missing data, for example, subjects [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
Ανάπτυξη εκπαιδευτικού διαδικτυακού οδηγού με αντικείμενο την κατασκευή ψηφιακών βίντεο εφέ
Creators: name: Μάσβουλας, Παναγιώτης Βασίλη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2013
Subjects: Τεχνολογίες
Πληροφορική
Εκπαίδευση
Technologies
Computer science
Education

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η δημιουργία ενός διαδικτυακού οδηγού, για το πρόγραμμα της Adobe: After Effects, με στόχο οι εκπαιδευόμενοι να έχουν μια πρώτη επαφή με τα βασικά εργαλεία που προσφέρει το πρόγραμμα και να είναι σε θέση να κατασκευάσουν με το πέρας των μαθημάτων, κινούμενα γραφικά στη βασική τους μορφή και κίνηση. Ο οδηγός χωρίζεται σε δεκατρία κεφάλαια κάθε ένα εκ των οποίων συνοδεύεται από ένα σετ ερωτήσεων πολλαπλής επιλογής. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι μπορούν να τα παρακολουθήσουν τα βίντεο και τα τεστ, στον διαδικτυακό ιστότοπο: www.pmasvoul.gr στην κατηγορία: After Effects Tuttorials.
description: The aim of the present thesis was to create an online guide, for Adobe's: After Effects, aiming that the learners will have a first contact with the basic tools offered by the program and they will be able to build at the end of the courses, animations in their basic form and movement. The guide is divided into thirteen chapters each of which is accompanied by a set of multiple choice questions. Those who are interested can watch the videos and the tests on the web site: www.pmasvoul.gr under the category: After Effects Tuttorials.
description: Σε συνεργασία με το τμήμα Λογιστικής και Χρηματοοικονομικής (Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας)
Ποσοτική και ποιοτική διακύμανση του αιθέριου ελαίου της ρίγανης σε σχέση με περιβαλλοντικούς παράγοντες:
Creators: name: Μπαλούρη, Ελένη Αριστείδη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2013
Subjects: Ρίγανη
Αιθέριο Έλαιο Ρίγανης
Αιθέρια Έλαια
Oregano
Oregano essential oil
Essential Oils

description: Σκοπός της εργασία αυτής ήταν να διερευνηθεί η ποσοτική και ποιοτική διακύμανση του αιθέριου ελαίου της ρίγανης σε σχέση με περιβαλλοντικούς παράγοντες. Στο πείραμα χρησιμοποιήθηκαν 10 χωράφια με καλλιεργούμενη ρίγανη 5ετίας, σε 4 περιοχές της Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας. Ξεκινώντας από τον Απρίλιο του 2011 μέχρι και το τέλος της καλλιεργητικής περιόδου πραγματοποιήθηκαν 4 δειγματοληψίες. Το φυτικό υλικό της κάθε δειγματοληψίας αποξηράνθηκε σε σκιερό και καλά αεριζόμενο χώρο. Αποθηκεύτηκε σε θερμοκρασία δωματίου, στο σκοτάδι, για τρεις μέρες μέχρι τη διαδικασία παραλαβής των αιθέριων ελαίων του. Η παραλαβή των αιθέριων ελαίων της ρίγανης έγινε με υδροαπόσταξη, ενώ ο προσδιορισμός των συστατικών του αιθέριου ελαίου της ρίγανης πραγματοποιήθηκε με χρήση αεριοχρωματογραφίας/ φασματομετρίας μαζών (GC/MS). Συμπερασματικά, η ποσοτική και ποιοτική διακύμανση του αιθέριου ελαίου της ρίγανης επηρεάζεται από τους περιβαλλοντικούς παράγοντες, με τον πιο σημαντικό από αυτούς να είναι το υψόμετρο.
description: The aim of this study is to conduct a research on the quantitative and the qualitative fluctuation of the oregano essential oil in connection with the environmental factors. To carry out the experiment, 10 fields with oregano, which have been cultivated for 5 years, were used in 4 regions in central Macedonia. Having started in April 2011 and until the end of the growing season, 4 samplings took place. The herbal material of each sampling was parched in a shady and well-aired place. They were stored in room temperature, in the dark, for three days until the process of extracting their essential oils. The essential oil of oregano is obtained with hydrodistillation, whereas the specification of the constituents that make up the oregano’s essential oil was succeded with the technique of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS). In conclusion, the quantitative and the qualitative fluctuation of the oregano essential oil is affected by environmental factors, the most vital of which is the altitude.
Information leak and incompatibility of physical context: A modified approach
Creators: name: Mitra, Arindam
name: Sharma, Gautam
name: Ghosh, Sibasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A beautiful idea about the incompatibility of Physical Context(IPC) was introduced in Phys. Rev. A 102, 050201(R) (2020). Here, a context is defined as a set of a quantum state and two sharp rank-one measurements, and the incompatibility of physical context is defined as the leakage of information while implementing those two measurements successively in that quantum state. In this work, we show the limitations in their approach. The three primary limitations are that, (i) their approach is not positive operator-valued measurements and (ii), they restrict information-theoretic agents Alice, Eve and Bob to specific quantum operations and do not consider most general quantum operations i.e., quantum instruments and (iii), their measure of IPC can take negative values in specific cases in a more general scenario which implies the limitation of their information measure. Thereby, we have introduced a generalization and modification to their approach in more general and convenient way, such that this idea is well-defined for generic measurements, without these limitations. We also present a comparison of the measure of the IPC through their and our method. Lastly, we show, how the IPC reduces in the presence of memory using our modification, which further validates our approach.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, Close to the published version
Observation of $B^+\toρ^+K^0$ and Measurement of its Branching Fraction and Charge Asymmetry
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
name: Collaboration, BaBar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first observation of the decay $B^+\toρ^+K^0$, using a data sample of 348 fb$^{-1}$ collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the \babar detector.The branching fraction and charge asymmetry are measured to be $(8.0^{+1.4}_{-1.3}\pm0.6)\times10^{-6}$ and ($-12.2\pm16.6\pm2.0)%$, respectively, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The significance of the observed branching fraction, including systematic uncertainties, is 7.9 standard deviations.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, Physical Review D 76, 011103 (R), 2007
title: Farcical Results with Rank Procedures in Unbalanced Designs – Ranks and Pseudo-Ranks
Creators: name: Brunner, Edgar
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ranking procedures
subject: nonparametric effects
subject: confidence intervals for relative effects
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: If rank methods are used for d>2 samples then farcical results may be obtained in case of unequal sample sizes since the quantities pi= ∫H dFi on which rank procedures are based depend on the relative sample sizes through the definition of the weighted mean distribution [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 65th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), Meeting of the Central European Network (CEN: German Region, Austro-Swiss Region and Polish Region) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
Effects of rf Current on Spin Transfer Torque Induced Dynamics
Creators: name: Florez, S. H.
name: Katine, J. A.
name: Carey, M.
name: Folks, L.
name: Ozatay, O.
name: Terris, B. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of radiofrequency (rf) currents on the direct current (dc) driven switching dynamics in current-perpendicular-to-plane nanoscale spin valves is demonstrated. The rf currents dramatically alter the dc driven free layer magnetization reversal dynamics as well as the dc switching level. This occurs when the frequency of the rf current is tuned to a frequency range around the dc driven magnetization precession frequencies. For these frequencies, interactions between the dc driven precession and the injected rf induce frequency locking and frequency pulling effects that lead to a measurable dependence of the critical switching current on the frequency of the injected rf. Based on macrospin simulations, including dc as well as rf spin torque currents, we explain the origin of the observed effects.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures