cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lactobacillus gasseri Lauer & Kandler 1980
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacillus
Lactobacillus gasseri

description: Lactobacillus gasseri
 Lactobacillus gasseri (gas’se.ri. N.L. gen. n. gasseri, of Gasser, named for F. Gasser, a French bacteriologist).
 Lactobacillus gasseri strains are all positive for glucose, mannose, galactose, maltose, sucrose and fructose fermentation and produce DL-lactic acid. Strains do not ferment ribose, mannitol and raffinose. Further characteristics are provided by [84 – 86]. The genome size is 1.89 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.3.
One of the predominant species in the human female lower genital tract. Also isolated from the human mouth, intestinal tract, and from the intestine of animals. Also found in wounds, urine, blood, carious dentine, and pus of patients suffering from septic infections.
 The type strain is 63 AMT of Gasser= ATCC 33323 T = CCUG 31451 T = CIP 102991 T = DSM 20243 T = JCM 1131 T = LMG 9203 T = NRRL B-14168 T = NRRL B-4240 T.
Genome sequence accession number: NC_008530.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AF519171.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2796, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Cloud Atlas: Rotational Spectral Modulations and potential Sulfide Clouds in the Planetary-mass, Late T-type Companion Ross 458C
Creators: name: Manjavacas, Elena
name: Apai, Daniel
name: Lew, Ben W. P.
name: Zhou, Yifan
name: Schneider, Glenn
name: Burgasser, Adam J.
name: Karalidi, Theodora
name: Miles-Paez, Paulo A.
name: Lowrance, Patrick J.
name: Cowan, Nicolas
name: Bedin, Luigi R.
name: Marley, Mark S.
name: Metchev, Stan
name: Radigan, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of photometric variability at different wavelengths provide insights into the vertical cloud structure of brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects. In seven Hubble Space Telescope consecutive orbits, spanning $\sim$10 h of observing time}, we obtained time-resolved spectroscopy of the planetary-mass T8-dwarf Ross 458C using the near-infrared Wide Field Camera 3. We found spectrophotometric variability with a peak-to-peak signal of 2.62$\pm$0.02 % (in the 1.10-1.60~$μ$m white light curve). Using three different methods, we estimated a rotational period of 6.75$\pm$1.58~h for the white light curve, and similar periods for narrow $J$- and $H$- band light curves. Sine wave fits to the narrow $J$- and $H$-band light curves suggest a tentative phase shift between the light curves with wavelength when we allow different periods between both light curves. If confirmed, this phase shift may be similar to the phase shift detected earlier for the T6.5 spectral type 2MASS J22282889-310262. We find that, in contrast with 2M2228, the variability of Ross~458C shows evidence for a {color trend} within the narrow $J$-band, but gray variations in the narrow $H$-band. The spectral time-resolved variability of Ross 458C might be potentially due to heterogeneous sulfide clouds in the atmosphere of the object. Our discovery extends the study of spectral modulations of condensate clouds to the coolest T dwarfs, planetary-mass companions.
description: Accepted in ApJL
Adiabatic Coarse Wavelength De/Multiplexing for Optical Systems
Creators: name: Molloy, Andrew W
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Honours thesis

description: A novel approach to the simultaneous multiplexing or de multiplexing of 3 wavelengths for coarse wavelength channel separation is based on the geometrical evolution and transformation of the modes of a single few-mode planar device. An input fundamental mode is transformed into a particular higher-order mode, depending on its wavelength, and then is transformed directly into the fundamental mode of a particular output port. The functionality of the device is quantified and its performance optimised through appropriate design. The device overall size is minimised, taking into account core spacing requirements for a fibre pigtailing, i.e. connecterisation of the input and output device arms to optical fiber.
title: Boron nutrition and pollination effects on avocado fruit yield and quality
Creators: name: Hapuarachchi, Nimanie S
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: avocado
subject: boron
subject: hyperspectral imaging
subject: pollination

description: Boron nutrition and pollination influence fruit set, fruitlet retention, yield and fruit quality in avocado orchards. Rapid nutrient analyses are required to prevent crop-nutrition deficiencies that reduce avocado crop productivity. This thesis described how boron application to avocado trees affects yield and fruit quality, how pollen parentage affects fruitlet retention and fruit quality, and how effectively hyperspectral imaging can be used as a rapid assessment tool to predict avocado crop-nutrient status. Applying boron at recommended rates provided a good yield of high-quality fruit but applying high levels of boron reduced the yield. Cross-pollinated fruitlets were retained selectively by the tree during the period of fruitlet abscission and they grew larger than self-pollinated fruitlets. Consequently, cross-pollinated mature fruit were heavier and had greater diameter than self-pollinated mature fruit. Hyperspectral imaging successfully predicted the concentrations of 12 foliar nutrients, ten of which could be predicted using hyperspectral images of either the top or bottom leaf surface. Monitoring foliar boron concentrations, adjusting boron fertiliser applications, and managing orchards to increase the frequency of cross-pollination are recommended as strategies to increase avocado yield and fruit quality.
Modelling of stock price changes: a real analysis approach
Creators: name: Norvaisa, Rimas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper discusses a path-wise approach to stock price modelling.
description: 24 pages, AMSTEX
Forever Young: Youth, Modernism, and the Deferral of Maturity
Creators: Kueveler, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Comparative literature
German literature
Europeans

description: This dissertation is about adolescents in European literature between 1900 and the First World War who shy away from maturity. The authors discussed are Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Robert Musil, Georg Büchner, J. M. Barrie, Robert Walser, Rudyard Kipling and Witold Gombrowicz. The main argument is that the remarkable proliferation around 1900 of novels whose protagonists, by some means or other, avoid growing up is not due to a somewhat twisted affiliation to the genre of the late and ultimately failed Bildungsroman, but rather to an underestimated branch of modernism. At first glance, their strategy of retreat looks like a flinching from societal responsibility, yet the opposite turns out to be true. Instead of representing an early instance of the prolonged adolescence that has nowadays become proverbial, their recoiling from maturity entails a critique of the totalizing tendencies inherent to the ideals of Bildung and Enlighten­ment.
Forging New Roads: Expanding the Theatrical Touring Market Internationally
Creators: Boursiquot, Christina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Theater
Performing arts

description: A discussion examining current practices on Broadway and around the world to recommend a set of ides and criteria for producing commercial theatre internationally. This includes sections on the current Broadway climate, the various types of theatrical markets, producing in the UK and Australia, past practices from productions that have traveled abroad, recommendations for a new model of international producing, and new developments that will contribute to the future of international producing.
Axiomatic Holonomy Maps and Generalized Yang-Mills Moduli Space
Creators: name: Hajac, Piotr M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article is a follow-up of ``Holonomy and Path Structures in General Relativity and Yang-Mills Theory" by Barrett, J. W. (Int.J.Theor.Phys., vol.30, No.9, 1991). Its main goal is to provide an alternative proof of this part of the reconstruction theorem which concerns the existence of a connection. A construction of connection 1-form is presented. The formula expressing the local coefficients of connection in terms of the holonomy map is obtained as an immediate consequence of that construction. Thus the derived formula coincides with that used in "On Loop Space Formulation of Gauge Theories" by Chan, H.-M., Scharbach, P. and Tsou S.T. (Ann.Phys., vol.167, 454-472, 1986). The reconstruction and representation theorems form a generalization of the fact that the pointed configuration space of the classical Yang-Mills theory is equivalent to the set of all holonomy maps. The point of this generalization is that there is a one-to-one correspondence not only between the holonomy maps and the orbits in the space of connections, but also between all maps from the loop space on $M$ to group $G$ fulfilling some axioms and all possible equivalence classes of $P(M,G)$ bundles with connection, where the equivalence relation is defined by bundle isomorphism in a natural way.
description: amslatex, 7 pages, no figures
Forging the Biafran State: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1976
Creators: Daly, Samuel Fury Childs
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Postcolonialism
War crimes
Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)
History

description: This dissertation brings together the history of law in postcolonial Nigeria with the history of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), analyzing how wartime violence shaped crime and the ethics surrounding it. Using legal records from the Republic of Biafra’s courts, I examine how the secessionist state was governed, and how armed robbery and other criminal activities became means of survival there in the context of the fighting. These cases reveal how Biafrans and their government negotiated what kinds of survival tactics, many of them “criminal,” were permissible or ethical in the context of the war and the humanitarian crisis attending it. Biafra’s courts also became a space where individuals could assert themselves as moral actors in the face of political ataxia and enormous humanitarian strain. The war shaped Nigeria’s postcolonial experience profoundly. As in many conflicts, acts of violence and deception became ordinary – in some cases honorable – when surviving and winning the war trumped all other considerations. When the fighting ended in January 1970, the practices that Biafrans had used to endure the war did not end with it. In the years that followed, fraud and armed violence would become major features of life in reunified Nigeria. Biafra had declared independence in the name of preserving law and order, but the result of the war was to create conditions in which forms of illegality that would later become endemic – forgery, armed robbery, and the body of fraudulent activities known as “419” – could take root. For this reason, the Biafra War is an important episode in both the history of Nigeria after independence, and for the larger study of the dialectics of law and disorder in contemporary Africa.
Generalized Gluon Distribution for Quarkonium Dynamics in Strongly Coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Nijs, Govert
name: Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Bruno
name: Yao, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generalized gluon distribution that governs the dynamics of quarkonium inside a non-Abelian thermal plasma characterizing its dissociation and recombination rates. This gluon distribution can be written in terms of a correlation function of two chromoelectric fields connected by an adjoint Wilson line. We formulate and calculate this object in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling using the AdS/CFT correspondence, allowing for a nonzero center-of-mass velocity $v$ of the heavy quark pair relative to the medium. The effect of a moving medium on the dynamics of the heavy quark pair is described by the simple substitution $T \to \sqrtγ \, T$ in agreement with previous calculations of other observables at strong coupling, where $T$ is the temperature of the plasma in its rest frame, and $γ= (1 - v^2)^{-1/2}$ is the Lorentz boost factor. Such a velocity dependence can be important when the quarkonium momentum is larger than its mass. Contrary to general expectations for open quantum systems weakly coupled with large thermal environments, the contributions to the transition rates that are usually thought of as the leading ones in Markovian descriptions vanish in this strongly coupled plasma. This calls for new theoretical developments to assess the effects of strongly coupled non-Abelian plasmas on in-medium quarkonium dynamics. Finally, we compare our results with those from weakly coupled QCD, and find that the QCD result moves toward the $\mathcal{N}=4$ strongly coupled result as the coupling constant is increased within the regime of applicability of perturbation theory. This behavior makes it even more pressing to develop a non-Markovian description of quarkonium in-medium dynamics.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures; v2: published version
Modeling Computational Design: An Interactive Visual Analysis of the Field based on Topic Modeling and Bibliometrics
Creators: name: Zhuoni Yang
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Design is everywhere in people’s life, and as the recent development of computation technologies, Computational Design, a relatively new research field that integrating concepts from computer science to design process, has been becoming increasingly popular. Because the field is highly interdisciplinary, quickly updating and relatively new, there is a lack of an effective and systematic window to observe it. To find principles and insights about topics and keywords, geographic distribution, the collaboration of researchers and historical evolution in computational design, my thesis utilizes interactive visualization techniques to analyze the field based on topic modeling and bibliometrics.
Magnetic Phase Diagram of Mn3+xSn1-x Epitaxial Thin Films: Extending the Anomalous Hall Effect to Low Temperatures via Intrinsic Alloying
Creators: name: Gas, K.
name: Yoon, J. -Y.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Kubota, H.
name: Dluzewski, P.
name: Kret, S.
name: Domagala, J. Z.
name: Edathumkandy, Y. K.
name: Takeuchi, Y.
name: Kanai, S.
name: Ohno, H.
name: Sawicki, M.
name: Fukami, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antiferromagnets with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as Mn3Sn, have emerged as promising platforms for exploring topological and correlated electron physics. Mn3Sn is known to show two magnetic phase transitions: a non-collinear inverse triangular antiferromagnetic (IT-AFM) spin configuration is formed below its Neel temperature, whereas at T1 that usually locates below room temperature, it transits to an incommensurate spin state. Accordingly, intriguing properties such as a strong anomalous Hall effect, observed from TN to T1, disappear below T1, limiting its utility at low temperatures. While bulk Mn3Sn has been extensively studied, the magnetic phase transitions and their tunability in thin films remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate the magnetic and magneto-transport properties of Mn3+xSn1-x epitaxial thin films prepared by magnetron sputtering, systematically varying the Mn-Sn composition. Our results reveal that intrinsic alloying with Mn provides us with a handle to tune T1, with the IT-AFM phase stabilized down to liquid helium temperatures for x > 0.15. From a magnetic phase diagram for epitaxial thin films, we also find a consistent magnetic anomaly ~55 K below TN, accompanied by thermal hysteresis. Furthermore, the reduction of TN in thin films relative to bulk values is shown to correlate with lattice parameter changes. These findings extend the accessible temperature range for Mn3Sn's topological properties, paving the way for novel applications and further investigations into the interplay of spin, lattice, and electronic degrees of freedom in thin-film geometries.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, supplementary information
How heat controls fracture: the thermodynamics of creeping and avalanching cracks
Creators: name: Vincent-Dospital, Tom
name: Toussaint, Renaud
name: Santucci, Stéphane
name: Vanel, Loïc
name: Bonamy, Daniel
name: Hattali, Lamine
name: Cochard, Alain
name: Flekkøy, Eirik
name: Måløy, Knut Jørgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While of paramount importance in material science, the dynamics of cracks still lacks a complete physical explanation. The transition from their slow creep behavior to a fast propagation regime is a notable key, as it leads to full material failure if the size of a fast avalanche reaches that of the system. We here show that a simple thermodynamics approach can actually account for such complex crack dynamics, and in particular for the non-monotonic force-velocity curves commonly observed in mechanical tests on various materials. We consider a thermally activated failure process that is coupled with the production and the diffusion of heat at the fracture tip. In this framework, the rise in temperature only affects the sub-critical crack dynamics and not the mechanical properties of the material. We show that this description can quantitatively reproduce the rupture of two different polymeric materials (namely, the mode I opening of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) plates, and the peeling of pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) tapes), from the very slow to the very fast fracturing regimes, over seven to nine decades of crack propagation velocities. In particular, the fastest regime is obtained with an increase of temperature of thousands of kelvins, on the molecular scale around the crack tip. Although surprising, such an extreme temperature is actually consistent with different experimental observations that accompany the fast propagation of cracks, namely, fractoluminescence (i.e., the emission of visible light during rupture) and a complex morphology of post-mortem fracture surfaces, which could be due to the sublimation of bubbles.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures, including 4 appendices. Soft Matter, 2020
Singularity-free cosmological models
Creators: name: Ashley, Michael
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1996
Subjects: cosmological models
singularity theorems
FLRW-like models
Big Bang singularity

description: Singularity-free cosmological models are a recent advance in the field of exact solutions. Previously thought not to exist, these models are globally hyperbolic and obey the strong energy condition everywhere. We describe and summarize the history of these models and their general physical features. The methods by which the singularity-free models evade the general and powerful singularity theorems are discussed. Finally realistic generalisations of singularity-free models are proposed and examined. Such singularity-free but FLRW-like models may yield a classical way in which to evade the Big Bang singularity of the standard cosmological model.
Lactobacillus hamsteri Mitsuoka & Fujisawa 1988
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacillus
Lactobacillus hamsteri

description: Lactobacillus hamsteri
 Lactobacillus hamsteri (ham’ste.ri. N.L. gen. n. hamster of the hamster from which the isolate was derived).
 Lactobacillus hamsteri produces DL-lactic acid from glucose, cellobiose, sucrose, mannitol, raffinose and ribose. No acid is produced from melizitose [88]. The genome size is 1.84 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.1.
Isolated from the intestine of a hamster.
 The type strain is Ha5F1 T = ATCC 43851 T = CCUG 30726 T = CIP 103365 T = DSM 5661 T = JCM 6256 T = LMG 10754 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZGI00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ 306298.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2797, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
title: Logistik in der Chemieindustrie: Arbeitsgruppensitzung der AG Logistik und Verkehr Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) e.V. am 5. und 6. Juli 2007 in Halle (Saale)/Schkopau
Creators: name: Mattfeld, Dirk
Publisher: name: Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Decision Support, 2007
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: GOR Arbeitsgruppe Logistik und Verkehr
subject: Operations Research
subject: Paneuropäischen Verkehrsnetze
subject: 388
subject: 540
subject: 380

description: Am 5. und 6. Juli 2007 fand die 38. Sitzung der Arbeitsgruppe Logistik und Verkehr der Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) auf Einladung der Dow Olefinverbund GmbH in Merseburg statt. Thema der Veranstaltung war die Logistik an den hochintegrierten Standorten der chemischen Grundstoffindustrie sowie die sich hieraus ergebenen Herausforderungen an Paneuropäischen Verkehrsnetze. Die insgesamt 14 Fachvorträge vermittelten eine aktuelle Übersicht über die Problemstellungen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten in der Chemielogistik. Etwa die Hälfte der Vortragenden berichtete aus der Praxis, was einen anregenden Mix aus Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierten Vorträgen ergab. Das Auditorium aus 50 Fachvertretern der Hochschulen, der Forschungseinrichtungen und der Industrie führte intensive Diskussionen.
Spatiotemporal Stochastic Resonance in the Swift-Hohenberg Equation
Creators: name: Vilar, J. M. G.
name: Rubí, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the appearance of spatiotemporal stochastic resonance in the Swift-Hohenberg equation. This phenomenon emerges when a control parameter varies periodically in time around the bifurcation point. By using general scaling arguments and by taking into account the common features occurring in a bifurcation, we outline possible manifestations of the phenomenon in other pattern-forming systems.
description: 4 pages, RevTex, 4 PostScript figures
Critical spectrum of the anisotropic two-photon quantum Rabi model
Creators: name: Li, Jiong
name: Braak, Daniel
name: Chen, Qing-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropic two-photon quantum Rabi model is studied using the Bogoliubov operator approach. The doubly degenerate exceptional states are identified through analytical methods. By adjusting the position of the last exceptional point belonging to two adjacent energy levels, we derive a condition for the absence of the discrete spectrum at the critical coupling where ``spectral collapse" occurs. In this special case, the spectrum becomes fully continuous above a threshold energy, with no bound states existing, whereas the ground state remains gapped in the general case. This also signals a quantum phase transition. More interestingly, we rigorously find that a finite number of bound states exist between two anisotropy dependent critical atomic frequencies, with infinitely many bound states beyond this frequency regime. In this manner, all issues in the two-photon quantum Rabi model are resolved.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures,
Foreign Things No Longer Foreign: How South Koreans Ate U.S. Food
Creators: Chung, Dajeong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Food industry and trade
Globalization
Food relief, American
History
History, Modern

description: Titled Foreign Things No Longer Foreign: How South Koreans Ate U.S. Food, my research investigates the ways in which surplus American food were familiarized in daily Korean life. When food such as wheat flour and powdered milk was largely alien to their diet before 1945, many Koreans encountered the new American food in free feeding stations, in school lunch programs, and as wages-in-kind by working in public construction programs, ran by varying actors such as the U.S. Operations Missions in Korea, South Korean central and provincial governments, and foreign voluntary agencies. By exploring different channels through which surplus American food was distributed, I argue that political factors were more crucial than economic and cultural aspects in making wheat flour and powdered milk popular in South Korea. The two main political factors were the changing purposes of U.S. foreign food assistance and the South Korean state’s use of the surplus food. The distribution channels of surplus American food tells us about a process of globalization that did not begin with market expansion, and also about the cultural and social transformations born out of these distributions. In addition to feeding the hungry, U.S. food programs funded the joint U.S.-South Korean military build-up against North Korea, and Food for Peace programs also helped building rural villages, reclaiming upland for farming, and establishing oyster and seaweed culture-fields in coastal areas. Instead of opting for development, requiring large capital investment, technological expertise, and machineries, these surplus food programs only used surplus American grains and unskilled Korean labor.
The Kowalewski top: a new Lax representation
Creators: name: Tsiganov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2x2 monodromy matrices for the Kowalewski top on the Lie algebras e(3), so(4) and so(3,1) are presented. The corresponding quadratic R-matrix structure is the dynamical deformation of the standard R-matrix algebras. Some tops and Toda lattices related to the Kowalewski top are discussed.
description: 17 pages, Latex
Propagation of three native alpine legumes
Creators: name: Willey, Norman Andrew, 1950-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The anticipated growth rate of the native legumes will be slow in comparison to fertilized agronomic grasses. Because of this they are poor candidates for immediate erosion control on new spoils, however, their strengths lie in longevity, soil amelioration and wildlife forage. In such roles they will be best suited to a second stage of reclamation when the initially applied grasses regress in cover value. To promote the regression, maintenance fertilizer used on the grasses will need to be cut back. The employment of shorter-lived grass species, such as Agrostis scabra. would also fit such a scheme quite well (Winterhalder, 1976; Amiro & Courtin, 1980). Nonetheless, these native legumes will have limitations of use in a similar fashion to the various Salix species. Reclamation sites will need to mimic the snow loading of the alpine ridge-tops and receive adequate sunlight. This will apply to convex subalpine spoils with a south to west aspect; snow must blow clear by the end of April. Since this describes one of the more adverse sites for reclamation, the native legumes could be a useful tool in promoting long term recovery.
Commutants of Bol loops of Odd Order
Creators: name: Kinyon, Michael K.
name: Phillips, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N05

description: In this note we show that the commutant of a Bol loop of odd order is a subloop.
description: 3 pages, submitted to Proc. AMS
Operator interpretation of resonances generated by some operator matrices
Creators: name: Mennicken, R.
name: Motovilov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 47A56, 47Nxx; Secondary 47N50, 47A40

description: We consider the analytic continuation of the transfer function for a 2x2 matrix Hamiltonian into the unphysical sheets of the energy Riemann surface. We construct a family of non-selfadjoint operators which reproduce certain parts of the transfer-function spectrum including resonances situated on the unphysical sheets neighboring the physical sheet. On this basis, completeness and basis properties for the root vectors of the transfer function (including those for the resonances) are proved.
description: LaTeX, 15 pages, no figures; Contribution to Proceedings of the Mark Krein International Conference on Operator Theory and Applications, Odessa, August 18-22, 1997
Teleretinal Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy in Central Texas
Creators: name: Elwood, Kevin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Diabetic retinopathy
Retinopathy rate
Teleretinal
Teleretinal screening

description: Teleretinal imaging for diabetic retinopathy is an effective screening program in urban and rural populations. This screening modality began in Central Texas in 2015 and has expanded to include 12 cameras located at primary care offices in the region. Year after year trending of diabetic retinopathy rates, calculated via teleretinal screening, at individual camera locations has not been well documented in the United States. This report studied the teleretinal screening detection rate of diabetic retinopathy at 12 Central Texas camera locations over 2-4 years of camera usage. The rate of detected retinopathy statistically significantly decreased over the years. This suggests the effectiveness of the telemedicine program in removing diabetic retinopathy patients from the screening population and into a retina physician’s care, reducing the number of diabetics with retinopathy in the screened population.
title: Grouping students to target specific deficiencies in numeracy: investigating an evidenced based Numeracy Program
Creators: name: Gleeson, Laura Jane
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Middle school
subject: Misconception
subject: NAPLAN
subject: Numeracy
subject: Streaming

description: Numeracy has a significant impact on a student’s further study prospects, employment possibilities and retention in the workplace. Ultimately, numeracy skills are a necessary requirement for informed, critical thinking citizens. This study investigated the journey of a Year 8 cohort, through to Year 9, measuring and exploring the impact of a three-term numeracy program intervention. Student numeracy was recorded at the end of Year 8, and again midway through Year 9. This numeracy program saw 205 students sorted into twelve numeracy classes for one lesson per week. Some class groupings targeted specific skill deficiencies, and some were streamed to group higher or lower performing students together. This research investigated the pre- and post-program diagnostic test performances charted by these students using quantitative statistical analysis (comparative means paired t-tests across groups). To further explore these outcomes, two teachers were interviewed before and after this numeracy program. These interviews addressed the themes of teacher expectation and plans, implementation of the numeracy program, and reflection. There is a large amount of literature investigating the effects of streaming on student outcomes in numeracy, and it is known to have mixed results. Key themes from this literature are student identity, student performance outcomes, and the impact of streaming on pedagogical choices. However, there is a gap in the literature addressing streaming by specific skill weakness, rather than mean ability. This is an area explored by this research, which finds that grouping students according to specific skill weakness, for the duration of a numeracy intervention, does remediate those key deficiencies, but possibly at the expense of other skill areas. This research finds that streaming lower performing students by mean ability has a strong and positive impact on student performance. Conversely, the findings for high-performing students suggest that grouping them together, and the teaching and learning experiences that resulted from that, had no measurable positive impact on outcomes. This research suggests a need for future iterations of this numeracy program to continue to target specific skills, but on a cyclical basis; ensuring that all students are exposed to all requisite ideas and skills, benefitting from targeted intervention.
On the continuous dual of the sequence space $bv$
Creators: name: Azhari, M. El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B10, 46B45

description: Imaninezhad and Miri introduced the sequence space $ d_{\infty} $ in order to characterize the continuous dual of the sequence space $ bv. $ We show by a counterexample that this claimed characterization is false.
description: 4 pages
Context-rich Urban Analysis Using Machine Learning: A Case Study in Pittsburgh, PA
Creators: name: Jinmo Rhee
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This thesis reports on the analytic and generative potential of using machine learning methods on context-rich urban datasets. Working with a dataset of Pittsburgh's urban data, the paper proposes a novel method to extract information about each building in the city in ways that reflect its immediate urban context and analyze it in terms of urban homogeneity through machine learning algorithms. The method can identify urban characteristic or gradients that yield surprising correlations with Pittsburgh's distinctive neighborhoods by clustering feature vectors of the context-rich urban dataset.
In the realm of urbanism, this thesis suggests the new definition of urban morphological types. This can be interpreted the new concept of urban fabrics based on the urban homogeneity with quantified investigation for qualitative traits of urban space and contexts, contributing to clarify the definition of urban fabrics which is a gray area of urban studies. This main contribution of this research indicates that artificial intelligence technology allows people to newly and unprecedentedly interpret the city space and triggers the architectural and urban design paradigms based on the interpretation.
Synthesis and characterization of polymer biocomposites with lignin
Creators: name: Goliszek, Marta
name: Podkościelna, Beata
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2019
Subjects: physicochemical properties, lignin, biocomposites, eco-filler, photopolymerization

description: Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing; ISSN 2084-4735
Virtual Knot Groups
Creators: name: Kim, Se-Goo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: Virtual knots, defined by Kauffman, provide a natural generalization of classical knots. Most invariants of knots extend in a natural way to give invariants of virtual knots. In this paper we study the fundamental groups of virtual knots and observe several new and unexpected phenomena. In the classical setting, if the longitude of a knot is trivial in the knot group then the group is infinite cyclic. We show that for any classical knot group there is a virtual knot with that group and trivial longitude. It is well known that the second homology of a classical knot group is trivial. We provide counterexamples of this for virtual knots. For an arbitrary group G, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a virtual knot group that maps onto G with specified behavior on the peripheral subgroup. These conditions simplify those that arise in the classical setting.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX
Formation and Characterization of in vitro Bioengineered Neuromuscular Junction Models
Creators: Charoensook, Surapon Nathanael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bioengineering
Myoneural junction
Nervous system
Biomedical engineering

description: In vitro models of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) are emerging as a valuable tool to study synaptogenesis, synaptic maintenance, and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Many models have previously been developed using a variety of cell sources for muscle and motoneurons, but the models can be further improved by integrating beneficial features to better mimic the native milieu of NMJ development. We created a functional in vitro model of NMJ by bioreactor cultivation of C2C12 myoblasts, transdifferentiated myocytes and stem cell-derived motoneurons with electrical stimulation. Proper coculture medium and electrical stimulation led to improved functional coupling between the emerging motoneurons and myocytes, as evidenced by mature cellular structures, increased expression of neuronal and muscular genes, clusterization of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) in the vicinity of motoneurons, and the response of the coculture to glutamate stimulation. To validate the models and demonstrate utility for pharmacological testing, we analyzed the potency of the drugs that affect key pathways during NMJ signal transduction, including acetylcholine (ACh) synthesis, ACh vesicular storage, ACh synaptic release, AChR activation, and ACh inactivation in the synaptic cleft. The models properly responded to the drugs in a concentration-dependent manner. The proposed in vitro NMJ model could thus be used in pharmacological screening and controlled studies of neuromuscular diseases.
Identifying Linear Models in Multi-Resolution Population Data using Minimum Description Length Principle to Predict Household Income
Creators: name: Amornbunchornvej, Chainarong
name: Surasvadi, Navaporn
name: Plangprasopchok, Anon
name: Thajchayapong, Suttipong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.m; K.4.1
subject: 62J05

description: One shirt size cannot fit everybody, while we cannot make a unique shirt that fits perfectly for everyone because of resource limitation. This analogy is true for the policy making. Policy makers cannot establish a single policy to solve all problems for all regions because each region has its own unique issue. In the other extreme, policy makers also cannot create a policy for each small village due to the resource limitation. Would it be better if we can find a set of largest regions such that the population of each region within this set has common issues and we can establish a single policy for them? In this work, we propose a framework using regression analysis and minimum description length (MDL) to find a set of largest areas that have common indicators, which can be used to predict household incomes efficiently. Given a set of household features, and a multi-resolution partition that represents administrative divisions, our framework reports a set C* of largest subdivisions that have a common model for population-income prediction. We formalize a problem of finding C* and propose the algorithm as a solution. We use both simulation datasets as well as a real-world dataset of Thailand's population household information to demonstrate our framework performance and application. The results show that our framework performance is better than the baseline methods. We show the results of our method can be used to find indicators of income prediction for many areas in Thailand. By increasing these indicator values, we expect people in these areas to gain more incomes. Hence, the policy makers can plan to establish the policies by using these indicators in our results as a guideline to solve low-income issues. Our framework can be used to support policy makers to establish policies regarding any other dependent variable beyond incomes in order to combat poverty and other issues.
description: This is the accepted manuscript for publication in TKDD. The R package is available at https://github.com/DarkEyes/MRReg
Fluctuations of Spatial Patterns as a Measure of Classical Chaos
Creators: name: Cao, Zhen
name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In problems where the temporal evolution of a nonlinear system cannot be followed, a method for studying the fluctuations of spatial patterns has been developed. That method is applied to well-known problems in deterministic chaos (the logistic map and the Lorenz model) to check its effectiveness in characterizing the dynamical behaviors. It is found that the indices $μ_q$ are as useful as the Lyapunov exponents in providing a quantitative measure of chaos.
description: 10 pages + 7 figures (in ps file), LaTex, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
A Survey of State of the Art Large Vision Language Models: Alignment, Benchmark, Evaluations and Challenges
Creators: name: Li, Zongxia
name: Wu, Xiyang
name: Du, Hongyang
name: Liu, Fuxiao
name: Nghiem, Huy
name: Shi, Guangyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual modalities. For example, models such as CLIP, Claude, and GPT-4V demonstrate strong reasoning and understanding abilities on visual and textual data and beat classical single modality vision models on zero-shot classification [93]. With their rapid advancements in research and growing popularity in various applications, we provide a comprehensive survey of VLMs. Specifically, we provide a systematic overview of VLMs in the following aspects: [1] model information of the major VLMs developed up to 2025; [2] the transition of VLM architectures and the newest VLM alignment methods; [3] summary and categorization of the popular benchmarks and evaluation metrics of VLMs; [4] the challenges and issues faced by current VLMs such as hallucination, alignment, fairness, and safety. Detailed collections including papers and model repository links are listed in https://github.com/zli12321/Vision-Language-Models-Overview.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
title: An Existential Framework of Spirituality for Education
Creators: name: Webster, Robert Scott
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Spirituality for education
subject: teaching (religious aspects)
subject: existentialism
subject: spiritual formation
subject: spiritual direction

description: The research reported here addressed the questions 'what is spirituality?' and 'how should spiritual development be provided in education?'. The literature reviewed indicated confusion and uncertainty over the meaning of the concept spirituality, and the only guidance as to how spiritual development should be facilitated, was mainly from a religious perspective. This however, proved to be problematic for adoption into state-run educational institutions, where religious education is not provided for. As spiritual development is an aspect of the overall educative development of individuals, attention was given to what is meant by both 'education' and the 'educated person'. This initial research provided the context by which spiritual development could be understood and grounded in accepted and well argued notions of what interventions into the development of the individual are to count as educational. This also clarified the context for which the formulated framework of spirituality was to have implications. The major approach of this research was philosophical, in that an existential perspective was sought to develop a framework of spirituality that was able to embrace both religious and secular contexts of education. The major works examined were those written by SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, because these were argued to have most relevance for spirituality and spiritual development of the educated person. While these works were analysed one philosopher at a time, the existential perspective that was relevant for spirituality was developed using common themes found in their writings. Consequently this approach produced a rather eclectic view of Existentialism that down-plays the many differences that exist between these philosophers. An existential framework of spirituality was then formulated using the philosophy of these contributors as the foundation. This framework is argued to be more effective than the other frameworks of spirituality that were identified in the literature reviewed. Its implications for education practice were developed and argued. The evaluative applicability of the framework was then illustrated and tested through a critique of an educational project in Queensland. It was beyond the scope of this thesis to test the framework any further than this particular case. However, further research is recognised as being required to test other aspects of the framework.