cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Student Academic Literacy Practices in a South African Vocational Web Design Higher Education Course
Creators: name: Coleman, Lynn
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: This study explores and describes the academic literacy practices of students completing a vocationally orientated web design and development course at Hoerikwaggo University of Technology, a higher education institution in South Africa. The research study proposes a more inclusive conceptualisation of academic literacies to accommodate the multimodal and digital texts produced by students on the course. An academic literacies research perspective is used as a conceptual framework for the study, accepting an understanding of literacy as being constitutive of the sociocultural environments and practices in which reading and writing is used. In keeping with the methodological perspectives espoused by academic literacies research, an ethnographic oriented approach was used. Data collection was primarily informed by participant observation activities and semi-structured interviews with student participants. Thematic analysis of fieldnotes and interview transcripts was used as the main data analysis tool. The analysis of the study highlights the primacy of the multimodal text and its influence in shaping the academic literacy practices in the course, along with the ways in which digital technologies, foregrounded in the professional domain of web design and development, mediate the nature of these literacy practices. Overall the study confirms the awareness, in much research in the academic literacies field, of the need to recognise and respect the distinctiveness of literacy practices in different academic contexts.
RANK, STOCK, ORDER AND EPIDEMIC EFFECTS IN THE DIFFUSION OF NEW PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES: AN EMPIRICAL MODEL
Creators: name: Karshenas, Massoud
name: Stoneman, Paul
name: Karshenas, Massoud
name: Stoneman, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Technology Diffusion
subject: Survival Analysis
subject: CNC

description: In this paper we set up a general duration model of technology adoption which incorporates the main factors discussed in the different demand side theories of diffusion of new process technologies. The model is applied to the data on diffusion of CNC in the UK engineering industry. It is found that while there is strong evidence for the rank and endogenous learning effects, there seems to be little evidence in support of the stock and order effects, as characterized by the game theoretic models.
65 Cybele in the thermal infrared: Multiple observations and thermophysical analysis
Creators: name: Müller, T. G.
name: Blommaert, J. A. D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the physical and thermal properties of 65 Cybele}, one of the largest main-belt asteroids. Based on published and recently obtained thermal infrared observations, including ISO measurements, we derived through thermophysical modelling (TPM) a size of 302x290x232 km (+/- 4 %) and an geometric visible albedo of 0.050+/-0.005. Our model of a regolith covered surface with low thermal inertia and "default" roughness describes the wavelengths and phase angle dependent thermal aspects very well. Before/after opposition effect and beaming behaviour can be explained in that way. We found a constant emissivity of 0.9 at wavelengths up to about 100 micron and lower values towards the submillimetre range, indicating a grain size distribution dominated by 200 micron particle sizes. The spectroscopic analysis revealed an emissivity increase between 8.0 and 9.5 micron. We compared this emissivity behaviour with the Christiansen features of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, but a conclusive identification was not possible. A comparison between the Standard Thermal Model (STM) and the applied TPM clearly demonstrates the limitations and problems of the STM for the analysis of multi-epoch and -wavelengths observations. While the TPM produced a unique diameter/albedo solution, the calculated STM values varied by +/-30 % and showed clear trends with wavelength and phase angle. Cybele can be considered as a nice textbook case for the thermophysical analysis of combined optical and thermal infrared observations.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
ATRIBUTY BUDOVANIA INFORMACNEJ STRATEGIE V PODNIKOCH AGROSEKTORA
ATTRIBUTES OF BUILDING INFORMATION STRATEGY IN ENTERPRISES OF AGRO SECTOR
Creators: name: HENNYEYOVA, Klara
name: HALLOVA, Marcela
name: HENNYEYOVA, Klara
name: HALLOVA, Marcela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: information and communication technologies (ICT)
subject: information systems
subject: information strategy
subject: chief information officer (CIO)

description: The changes in the information and communication technologies (ICT) are very dynamic, so it is very complicated to create the conception of their progress. Information strategy is tied to the global strategy and presents long-time company orientation in the field of information sources, technologies, and services. The major task of information strategy is to define visions, target condition of ICT in the future to determine how to realize the vision and a way of its use. But in reality there is a small number of the companies which have elaborated company information strategy. When the information strategy is defined, next step is to identify the person who will be responsible for the information technologies in company. This position is marked as a chief information officer (CIO). The main tasks of CIO is to manage IS/IT unit, to buy new technologies, and to care about IS and IT security.
Discovery of a pre-cataclysmic binary with unusual chromaticity of the eclipsed white dwarf by the GPX Survey
Creators: name: Krushinsky, Vadim
name: Benni, Paul
name: Burdanov, Artem
name: Antokhin, Igor
name: Antokhina, Eleonora
name: Jehin, Emmanuël
name: Barkaoui, Khalid
name: Fitzsimmons, Alan
name: Gibson, Christopher
name: Gillon, Michaël
name: Popov, Alexander
name: Baştürk, Özgür
name: Benkhaldoun, Zouhair
name: Marchini, Alessandro
name: Papini, Riccardo
name: Salvaggio, Fabio
name: Brazhko, Varvara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a relatively bright eclipsing binary system, which consists of a white dwarf and a main sequence K7 star with clear signs of chromospheric and spot activity. The light curve of this system shows $\sim0.2$mag ellipsoidal variability with a period of 0.297549d and a short total eclipse of the white dwarf. Based on our analysis of the spectral and photometric data, we estimated the parameters of the system. The K7V star is tidally deformed but does not fill its Roche lobe (the filling factor is about 0.86). The orbital inclination is $i=73^\circ.1\pm 0^\circ.2$, the mass ratio is $q=M_2/M_1\approx 0.88$. The parameters of the K7V star are $M_2\approx 0.64$M$_{\odot}$, $R_2=0.645\pm 0.012$R$_{\odot}$, $T_2\approx 4070$K. The parameters of the white dwarf are $M_1\approx 0.72$M$_{\odot}$, $R_1=0.013\pm 0.003$R$_{\odot}$, $T_1=8700\pm 1100$K. Photometric observations in different bands revealed that the maximum depth of the eclipse is in the \textit{SDSS r} filter, which is unusual for a system of a white dwarf and a late main sequence star. We suspect that this system is a product of the evolution of a common envelope binary star, and that the white dwarf accretes the stellar wind from the secondary star (the so-called low-accretion rate polar, LARP).
description: 11 pages 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Biofilms in Alzheimer’s disease compared to Other Diseases.pdf
Creators: name: Allen, Herbert
name: Cusack, Carrie
name: Joshi, Suresh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This work compares the biofilms in Alzheimer's disease compared to many other chronic diseases in which they play a role. Many different microbes were shown to be involved; these were bacteria, viruses, yeasts, fungi and mycobacteria. Their locations and their interactions with either arm (or both) of the immune system were catalogued.
The Plane-Wave/Super Yang-Mills Duality
Creators: name: Sadri, Darius
name: Sheikh-Jabbari, Mohammad M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a self-contained review of the Plane-wave/super-Yang-Mills duality, which states that strings on a plane-wave background are dual to a particular large R-charge sector of N=4, D=4 superconformal U(N) gauge theory. This duality is a specification of the usual AdS/CFT correspondence in the "Penrose limit''. The Penrose limit of AdS_5 S^5 leads to the maximally supersymmetric ten dimensional plane-wave (henceforth "the'' plane-wave) and corresponds to restricting to the large R-charge sector, the BMN sector, of the dual superconformal field theory. After assembling the necessary background knowledge, we state the duality and review some of its supporting evidence. We review the suggestion by 't Hooft that Yang-Mills theories with gauge groups of large rank might be dual to string theories and the realization of this conjecture in the form of the AdS/CFT duality. We discuss plane-waves as exact solutions of supergravity and their appearance as Penrose limits of other backgrounds, then present an overview of string theory on the plane-wave background, discussing the symmetries and spectrum. We then make precise the statement of the proposed duality, classify the BMN operators, and mention some extensions of the proposal. We move on to study the gauge theory side of the duality, studying both quantum and non-planar corrections to correlation functions of BMN operators, and their operator product expansion. The important issue of operator mixing and the resultant need for re-diagonalization is stressed. Finally, we study strings on the plane-wave via light-cone string field theory, and demonstrate agreement on the one-loop correction to the string mass spectrum and the corresponding quantity in the gauge theory. A new presentation of the relevant superalgebra is given.
description: RevTeX 4 format; 91 pages; 7 figures. Prepared for Reviews of Modern Physics. Please send comments to darius, jabbari @ itp.stanford.edu. v3: Minor typos fixed
The spectrum of the averaging operator on a network (metric graph)
Creators: name: Cartwright, Donald I.
name: Woess, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A10, 05C50, 58C40, 60J10

description: A network is a countable, connected graph X viewed as a one-complex, where each edge [x,y]=[y,x] (x,y in X^0, the vertex set) is a copy of the unit interval within the graph's one-skeleton X^1 and is assigned a positive conductance c(xy). A reference "Lebesgue" measure on X^1 is built up by using Lebesgue measure with total mass c(xy) on each edge [x,y]. There are three natural operators on X : the transition operator P acting on functions on X^0 (the reversible Markov chain associated with the conductances), the averaging operator A over spheres of radius 1 on X^1, and the Laplace operator on X^1 (with Kirchhoff conditions weighted by c(.) at the vertices). The relation between the l^2-spectrum of P and the H^2-spectrum of the Laplacian was described by Cattaneo (Mh. Math. 124, 1997). In this paper we describe the relation between the l^2-spectrum of P and the L^2-spectrum of A.
Spin-Dependent Hubbard Model and a Quantum Phase Transition in Cold Atoms
Creators: name: Liu, W. Vincent
name: Wilczek, Frank
name: Zoller, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an experimental protocol for introducing spin-dependent lattice structure in a cold atomic fermi gas using lasers. It can be used to realize Hubbard models whose hopping parameters depend on spin and whose interaction strength can be controlled with an external magnetic field. We suggest that exotic superfluidities will arise in this framework. An especially interesting possibility is a class of states that support coexisting superfluid and normal components, even at zero temperature. The quantity of normal component varies with external parameters. We discuss some aspects of the quantum phase transition that arises at the point where it vanishes.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures; added/corrected references in [11] and [44]
PRICE INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE CHOSEN COMMODITY CHAIN
CENOVE INTERAKCE VE VYBRANE KOMODITNI VERTIKALE
Creators: name: SMELIKOVA, Edita
name: SMELIKOVA, Edita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: agro-food chain
subject: beer
subject: correlation analysis
subject: structure of price
subject: price transmission

description: The paper is focused on price aspects within particular agro-food chain, especially on the process of price transmission. First, the issue of price transmission is introduced as well as the impact of market power on the extent of transmitted price changes in successive stages of the chain. The price transmission theory is applied to agro-food chain following the production of malt barley-the beer commodity chain. By means of correlation analysis of time series data, the completeness of price transmission is statistically verified. Furthermore, the existence of time lags in price reactions transmitted throughout the chosen commodity chain is a subject of the statistical verification as well. The results have been obtained by the research project MSM 6215648904 "The Czech Economy in the Process of Integration and Globalisation, and the Development of Agricultural Sector and the Sector of Services under the New Conditions of the Integrated European Market" of Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies.
Distributions of inherent structure energies during aging
Creators: name: Saika-Voivod, I.
name: Sciortino, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform extensive simulations of a binary mixture Lennard-Jones system subjected to a temperature jump in order to study the time evolution of fluctuations during aging. Analyzing data from 1500 different aging realizations, we calculate distributions of inherent structure energies for different aging times and contrast them with equilibrium. We find that the distributions initially become narrower and then widen as the system equilibrates. For deep quenches, fluctuations in the glassy system differ significantly from those observed in equilibrium. Simulation results are partially captured by theoretical predictions only when the final temperature is higher than the mode coupling temperature.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Production Risk Advice at Whole Farm Level: Representative Versus Mean Farms
Creators: name: Botha, P. W.
name: Meiring, J. A.
name: Botha, P. W.
name: Meiring, J. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Production Economics

description: Farmers are often faced with research results that are inapplicable to their unique situations. However, using representative farms can change this. In this article representative and mean farms are compared on the basis of the number of farmers that can identify with the respective farms as well as the production risk associated with each. Risk was quantified by means of a whole farm simulation model and presented by means of cumulative distribution functions. Results confirm that a significantly larger number of farmers can identify with representative farms than with a mean farm for their area. Most results obtained with the mean farm procedure reflect more risk than those obtained with the representative farms procedure when compared by means of cash flow, farm profitability and own capital ratio variability, and the probability of realizing a negative value. Significant differences therefore occur despite representative and mean farms being formulated from the same data.
Agrilus chrysostictoides Obenberger 1935
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus chrysostictoides

description: Agrilus chrysostictoides Obenberger, 1935
 Agrilus chrysostictoides Obenberger, 1935: 123.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Santa Catarina, Joinville, 7 exs., Dirings leg. ; São Bento do Sul (Rio Vermelho), XII.1950, Dirings leg. ; Paraná, Bocaiuva, XII.1963, Plaumann leg. ; Ponta Grossa, X.1942, ex-Museu Dirings; São Paulo, Botucatu, XII.1964, Dirings leg. ; São Bernardo do Campo (Represa Rio Grande), XI.1952, Dirings leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 85, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Universality of the nonphononic vibrational spectrum across different classes of computer glasses
Creators: name: Richard, David
name: González-López, Karina
name: Kapteijns, Geert
name: Pater, Robert
name: Vaknin, Talya
name: Bouchbinder, Eran
name: Lerner, Edan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently established that the low-frequency spectrum of simple computer glass models is populated by soft, quasilocalized nonphononic vibrational modes whose frequencies $ω$ follow a gapless, universal distribution ${\cal D}(ω)\!\sim\!ω^4$. While this universal nonphononic spectrum has been shown to be robust to varying the glass history and spatial dimension, it has so far only been observed in simple computer glasses featuring radially-symmetric, pairwise interaction potentials. Consequently, the relevance of the universality of nonphononic spectra seen in simple computer glasses to realistic laboratory glasses remains unclear. Here we demonstrate the emergence of the universal $ω^4$ nonphononic spectrum in a broad variety of realistic computer glass models, ranging from tetrahedral network glasses with three-body interactions, through molecular glasses and glassy polymers, to bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). Taken together with previous observations, our results indicate that the low-frequency nonphononic vibrational spectrum of any glassy solid quenched from a melt features the universal $ω^4$ law, independently of the nature of its microscopic interactions.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Universality is demonstrated also for a Bulk Metallic Glass model (CuZr), updated figures and references
Theoretical study of the spectroscopic properties of mendelevium ($Z=101$)
Creators: name: Li, Jiguang
name: Dzuba, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using recently developed version of the configuration interaction method for atoms with open shells we calculate electron structure and spectroscopic properties of the mendelevium atom (Md, $Z=101$). These include energy levels, first and second ionisation potentials, electron affinity, hyperfine structure and electric dipole transition amplitudes between ground and low lying states of opposite parity. The accuracy of the calculations is controlled by performing similar calculations for lighter analog of mendelevium, thulium atom and comparing the results with experiment and other calculations. The calculations for Md are to address the lack of experimental data and help in planing and interpreting the measurements.
Time-Inconsistent Candidates vs. Time-Inconsistent Voters: Imperfect Policy Commitment in Political Equilibrium
Creators: name: Pani, Marco
name: Perroni, Carlo
name: Pani, Marco
name: Perroni, Carlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Dynamically Consistent Choices
subject: Policy Commitment
subject: Voting

description: This paper examines whether policy commitment mechanisms, when available, will be used by the elected policymaker in a political-economy equilibrium. We describe a twoperiod repeated voting model where second-period outcomes depend on commitment choices made by an elected policymaker in the ¯rst period, and where elected candidates may choose to deviate from their preferred level of commitment, retaining discretionary control of policy variables, in order to secure a favourable second-period political outcome. The implications of different political tenure systems for the candidates who are elected, the policy targets that are selected, the degree of commitment to their implementation, and the policies that are actually implemented in the model are examined.
title: Recall and Recognition Tasks Within Facial Composite Production
Creators: name: Clark, Clifford
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: Witnesses are routinely interviewed as part of police investigations in order to obtain a description of the offender. This description can take the form of a verbal, written statement or a visual statement that can consist of a facial composite. This thesis investigated the construction of facial composites and explored a variety of techniques aimed at improving the accuracy of the likeness produced. A survey of E-FIT operators in the UK was used to identify a variety of techniques which had the potential to affect the accuracy of the composite produced. The three most promising techniques were the use of an initial interview prior to composite construction, working through a list of facial descriptors with the witness prior to construction and instructing the witness to image the face of the offender during construction. The utility of these techniques was tested in two experiments conducted using trained police personnel. The results of these experiments showed that neither prior interviewing or use of facial descriptors appeared to affect the accuracy of the composites produced but that composites produced by witnesses instructed to image were identified less often than when no such instruction was employed. The negative effect of imaging during composite construction was explored in two further experiments by separating the instruction to image from seeing a facial composite, which revealed that imaging a face negatively affected recognition performance but that seeing a composite of a face had no effect on recognition. The results are considered in light of previous psychological research and theory and their potential impact on police procedures.
Excitation and Propagation of Eccentricity Disturbances in Planetary Systems
Creators: name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high eccentricities of the known extrasolar planets remain largely unexplained. We explore the possibility that eccentricities are excited in the outer parts of an extended planetary disk by encounters with stars passing at a few hundreds of AU. After the encounter, eccentricity disturbances propagate inward due to secular interactions in the disks, eventually exciting the innermost planets. We study how the inward propagation of eccentricity in planetary disks depends on the number and masses of the planets and spacing between them and on the overall surface-density distribution in the disk. The main governing factors are the large-scale surface-density distribution and the total size of the system. If the smeared-out surface density is approximated by a power-law Σ(r)\propto r^{-q}, then eccentricity disturbances propagate inward efficiently for flat density distributions with q < 1. If this condition is satisfied and the size of the planetary system is 50 AU or larger, the typical eccentricities excited by this mechanism by field star encounters in the solar neighborhood over 5 Gyr are in the range 0.01-0.1. Higher eccentricities (> 0.1) may be excited in planetary systems around stars that are formed in relatively dense, long-lived open clusters. Therefore, this mechanism may provide a natural way to excite the eccentricities of extrasolar planets.
description: 23 pages including 4 b/w figures and 1 color figure, accepted to AJ
Elections and Strategic Positioning Games
Creators: name: Page, Frank H.
name: Wooders, Myrna H.
name: Page, Frank H.
name: Wooders, Myrna H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: farsighted stability
subject: political common agency games

description: We formalize the interplay between expected voting behavior and stragetic positioning behavior of candidates as a common agency problem in which the candidates (i.e., the principals) compete for voters (i.e., agents) via the issues they choose and the positions they take. A political situation is de…ned as a feasible combination of candidate positions and expected political payo¤s to the candidates. Taking this approach, we are led naturally to a particular formalization of the candidates’ positioning game, called a political situation game. Within the context of this game, we de…ne the notion of farsighted stability (introduced in an abstract setting by Chwe (1994)) and apply Chwe’s result to obtain existence of farsightedly stable outcomes. We compute the farsightedly stable sets for several examples of political situations games, with outcomes that conform to real-world observations.
A law of scarcity for games
Creators: name: Kovalenkov, Alexander
name: Wooders, Myrna Holtz
name: Kovalenkov, Alexander
name: Wooders, Myrna Holtz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: cooperative games
subject: games with side payments (TU games)
subject: cyclic monotonicity
subject: law of demand
subject: approximate cores
subject: effective small groups
subject: parameterized collections of games

description: The “law of scarcity” is that scarceness is rewarded; recall, for example, the diamonds and water paradox. In this paper, furthering research initiated in Kelso and Crawford (1982, Econometrica 50, 1483-1504) for matching models, we demonstrate a law of scarcity for cores and approximate cores of games.
Agrilus auritus Chevrolat 1838
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus auritus

description: Agrilus auritus Chevrolat, 1838
 Agrilus auritus Chevrolat, 1838: 93.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, São Paulo, São Paulo (Jabaquara), 1 ex., XII.1953, ex-Museu Dirings.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 83, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Precise Programmable Quantum Simulations with Optical Lattices
Creators: name: Qiu, Xingze
name: Zou, Jie
name: Qi, Xiaodong
name: Li, Xiaopeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an efficient approach to precisely simulate tight binding models with optical lattices, based on programmable digital-micromirror-device (DMD) techniques. Our approach consists of a subroutine of Wegner-flow enabled precise extraction of a tight-binding model for a given optical potential, and a reverse engineering step of adjusting the potential for a targeting model, for both of which we develop classical algorithms to achieve high precision and high efficiency. With renormalization of Wannier functions and high band effects systematically calibrated in our protocol, we show the tight-binding models with programmable onsite energies and tunnelings can be precisely simulated with optical lattices integrated with the DMD techniques. With numerical simulation, we demonstrate that our approach would facilitate quantum simulation of localization physics with unprecedented programmability and atom-based boson sampling for illustration of quantum computational advantage. We expect this approach would pave a way towards large-scale and precise programmable quantum simulations based on optical lattices.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Experimental Results in Heavy Flavor Physics
Creators: name: Stone, Sheldon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay of experiment and theory is explored in the context of current data on b and c decay. Measurements of |Vcb| and |Vub| are extracted from existing data. Conservative estimates give |Vcb|=(42.4 +/- 1.2{exp} +/- 2.3{thy})x10^{-3} and |Vub|=(3.90 +/- 0.16{exp} +/- 0.53{thy})x10^{-3}. Using these values along with data on Bd, Bs mixing and CP violation in the K_{Long} system, the allowed region of the CKM parameters rho and eta is derived. Tests of factorization in two-body hadronic B decays to one heavy and one light meson are shown and compared with modern theories which are also used to see if there is new physics in two-body B decays to light mesons. The two new narrow D_{sJ} states, discovered by BaBar and CLEO, respectively, are interpreted in light of the observation of these states in B decays by Belle.
description: Plenary talk at International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics EPS (July 17th-23rd 2003) in Aachen, Germany, 16 pages, 37 figures. Fixed Table 5 caption on Oct. 18 and errors on Nov. 5, 2003
Mapping the serum proteome to neurological diseases using whole genome sequencing.
Creators: name: Png, Grace
name: Barysenka, Andrei
name: Repetto, Linda
name: Navarro, Pau
name: Shen, Xia
name: Pietzner, Maik
name: Wheeler, Eleanor
name: Wareham, Nicholas
name: Langenberg, Claudia
name: Tsafantakis, Emmanouil
name: Karaleftheri, Maria
name: Dedoussis, George
name: Mälarstig, Anders
name: Wilson, James F
name: Gilly, Arthur
name: Zeggini, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
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article

description: Despite the increasing global burden of neurological disorders, there is a lack of effective diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers. Proteins are often dysregulated in disease and have a strong genetic component. Here, we carry out a protein quantitative trait locus analysis of 184 neurologically-relevant proteins, using whole genome sequencing data from two isolated population-based cohorts (N = 2893). In doing so, we elucidate the genetic landscape of the circulating proteome and its connection to neurological disorders. We detect 214 independently-associated variants for 107 proteins, the majority of which (76%) are cis-acting, including 114 variants that have not been previously identified. Using two-sample Mendelian randomisation, we identify causal associations between serum CD33 and Alzheimer's disease, GPNMB and Parkinson's disease, and MSR1 and schizophrenia, describing their clinical potential and highlighting drug repurposing opportunities.
Assessment of UBC Food Services’ Chicken Procurement Practices
Creators: name: Karuniamulia, Josephine
name: Lei, Joanna
name: Mikolojaw, Viviane
name: Watson, Eamonn
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

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Supplementary Material for Pfizer’s Vaccine and Antivirals Pipelines
Creators: name: Fadel, Suki
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

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Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI) Online identifies people with features of prodromal Parkinson's Disease through online questionnaires
Creators: name: Brown, Ethan
name: Chahine, Lana
name: Alonso, David
name: Coffey, Christopher S.
name: Dobkin, Roseanne
name: Foroud, Tatiana
name: Korell, Monica
name: Lorenzo, Ana
name: Marras, Connie
name: Poewe, Werner
name: Sherer, Todd
name: Siderowf, Andrew
name: Simuni, Tanya
name: Tolosa, Eduardo
name: Twiggs, Julien Valverde
name: Weintraub, Daniel
name: Sohini Chowdhury
name: Marek, Kenneth
name: Tanner, Caroline M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Parkinson's Disease
Prodromal Symptoms
Patient Reported Outcomes Measures

description: This work describes the use of PPMI Online as a broad-based and cost-effective method to identify people at risk of developing PD through a staged screening process. This process begins with questionnaires focused on symptoms relevant to the prodromal stages of PD, then invites eligible participants to complete a DATScan and, if still eligible, participate further in PPMI Clinic. This poster describes preliminary characteristics of participants at various stages of this pipeline.
Agrilus crux Curletti & Migliore 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus crux

description: Agrilus crux sp. nov.
 (Fig. 4)
 Etimologia: do latim crux = cruz, devido ao desenho elitral mediano.
Comprimento 4,6 mm. Vértice largo com 1/3 da margem anterior do pronoto. Fronte verde-brilhante; clípeo sem carena transversal. Olhos grandes, ovais. Genas pequenas, formam um alojamento côncavo onde se posicionam as antenas em repouso. Antenas longas, pretas, lobadas no artículo IV. Pronoto fortemente deprimido nos lados, forma logo após a metade da largura, duas carenas longitudinas, agregando às duas carenas pré-umerais. Carenas marginais próximas na frente, fechadas posteriormente um pouco antes da base. Mentoneira com margem anterior sinuosa e incisa. Processo prosternal mais largo no ápice. Élitros não completamente pretos, mas com quatro (duas + duas) manchas bronzeas respectivamente no nível do úmero e no meio. Laterotergitos basais com uma mancha pubescente branca no meio. Lado ventral do corpo preto, mesosterno com pubescência branca uniforme. Mancha pubescente branca nos lados do urosternito II, em correspondência com faixa pubescente pré-ápical dos élitros. Ápice do último urosternito visível, regularmente arredondado. Todas as unhas denticuladas. Edeago como na (fig. 18).
 Material tipo: Holótipo ♂: BRASIL, Minas Gerais, Serra do Caraça, 27.XI-05.XII.1972, Expedição do Museu de Zoologia da USP (MZUSP).
 Discussão: A. crux sp. nov. pertence à um grupo de espécies bem definido, caracterizado pela cor preta, desenho elitral constituído por pubescência branca, que geralmente forma um X ou com forma semelhante, na parte mediana. Curletti & Brülé, na fauna da Guiana Francesa (2011) lembram com número 07. O grupo está difundido em toda a área neotropical, mas no momento, está melhor representado na América Central, com pouco mais que uma dezena de espécies. Em relação à América do Sul, são conhecidas somente duas espécies, uma brasileira, A. dolatus Kerremans, 1897 e uma guianense, A. figuratus Curletti & Brülé, 2011, mas algumas espécies provenientes deste último país estejam em processo de descrição (Curletti & Brülé, no prelo). As duas espécies sul-americanas diferem por possuirem o pronoto regularmente convexo, enquanto A. crux sp. nov. apresenta o pronto diferente e possui quatro carenas, caráter que torna a espécie inconfundível para a fauna sul-americana.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 87, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
When are Plurality Rule Voting Games Dominance-Solvable?
Creators: name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Lockwood, Ben
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy
Public Economics

description: This paper studies the dominance-solvability (by iterated deletion of weakly dominated strategies) of plurality rule voting games. For K ¸ 3 alternatives and n ¸ 3 voters, we …nd su¢cient conditions for the game to be dominancesolvable (DS) and not to be DS. These conditions can be stated in terms of only one statistic of the game, the largest proportion of voters who agree on which alternative is worst in a sequence of subsets of the original set of alternatives. When n is large, “almost all” games can be classi…ed as either DS or not DS. If the game is DS, a Condorcet Winner always exists when n ¸ 4, and the outcome is always the Condorcet Winner when the electorate is su¢ciently replicated.
Agrilus depressifrons Kerremans 1900
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus depressifrons

description: Agrilus depressifrons Kerremans, 1900
 Agrilus depressifrons Kerremans, 1900: 326.
 Material examinado: 2 exs., BRASIL, São Paulo, Botucatu, XI.1963, Dirings leg. ; Pirassununga (Campo Cerrado), 26.IX.1945, Schubart leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 87, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Useful Government Spending, Direct Crowding-Out and Fiscal Policy Interdependence
Creators: name: Ganelli, Giovanni
name: Ganelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: imperfect competition
subject: sticky prices
subject: direct crowding-out
subject: fiscal policy interdependence
subject: quasi-neutrality

description: This paper introduces perfect substitutability between private and public consumption in a dynamic, open economy with imperfect competition and nominal rigidities. This implies a direct crowding-out e¤ect that, generalising to the two-country case some well-known properties of a closed economy, tends to reduce consumption following both domestic and foreign expansions. A less expected result is that substitutability has a positive e¤ect on the short-run output spillover. We also show that, if we modify the model to allow for home bias in government spending, temporary fiscal expansions display a ”quasineutrality” property.
Constraining invisible neutrino decays with the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Hannestad, Steen
name: Raffelt, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision measurements of the acoustic peaks of the cosmic microwave background indicate that neutrinos must be freely streaming at the photon decoupling epoch when T ~ 0.3 eV. This requirement implies restrictive limits on ``secret neutrino interactions,'' notably on neutrino Yukawa couplings with hypothetical low-mass (pseudo)scalars ϕ. For diagonal couplings in the neutrino mass basis we find g < 1 x 10^-7, comparable to limits from supernova 1987A. For the off-diagonal couplings and assuming hierarchical neutrino masses we find g < 1 x 10^-11 (0.05 eV/m)^2 where m is the heavier mass of a given neutrino pair connected by g. This stringent limit excludes that the flavor content of high-energy neutrinos from cosmic-ray sources is modified by ν-> ν' + ϕdecays on their way to Earth.
description: Revtex, 4 pages
Architecture of three-planet systems predicted from the observed protoplanetary disk of HL Tau
Creators: name: Wang, Shijie
name: Kanagawa, Kazuhiro D.
name: Hayashi, Toshinori
name: Suto, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of protoplanetary disks observed with ALMA potentially provide direct examples of initial conditions for planetary systems. In particular, the HL Tau disk has been intensively studied, and its rings/gaps are conventionally interpreted to be a result of unseen massive planets embedded in the gaps. Based on this interpretation, we carried out N-body simulations to investigate orbital evolution of planets within the protoplanetary disk and after the disk dispersal. Before the disk dispersal, our N-body simulations include both migration and mass-growth of the planet coupled with evolution of the disk. By varying the disk parameters, we produce a variety of widely-separated planetary systems consisting of three super-Jupiters at the end of disk dispersal. We found the outer planet is more massive than the inner one, and the migration of the innermost planet is inefficient due to the accretion of outer planet(s). We also showed how the final configuration and the final planetary mass depend on disk parameters. The migration is found to be convergent and no planet-pair has a period ratio less than 2. After the disk dispersal, we switch to pure gravitational N-body simulations and integrate the orbits up to 10 Gyr. Most simulated systems remain stable for at least 10 Gyr. We discuss implications of our result in terms of the observed widely-separated planetary systems HR 8799 and PDS 70.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in the ApJ
The Validity, Reliability, and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Sleep of Pre-school Aged Children: A Systematic Rapid Review.
Creators: name: Phillips, Sophie M
name: Summerbell, Carolyn
name: Ball, Helen L
name: Hesketh, Kathryn
name: Saxena, Sonia
name: Hillier-Brown, Frances C
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pediatrics
review
sleep
pre-school
measurement
movement
validity
reliability
feasibility

description: Background: Sleep of pre-school aged children is important for their health and development, but there are currently no standards for measuring sleep in this age group. We aimed to examine the validity, reliability and feasibility of tools used to assess sleep of pre-school aged children. Methods: Studies were eligible for inclusion if they examined the validity and/or reliability and/or feasibility of a measurement tool used to examine sleep of pre-school aged children (aged 3-7 years). We systematically searched six electronic databases, grey literature and trial registries. We manually searched topic specific journals, reference and citations of included studies, and reference lists of existing reviews. We extracted data and conducted a risk of bias assessment on the included studies using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) risk of bias checklist. We used a narrative synthesis to present the results. Results: Sixteen studies met the inclusion criteria: these explored accelerometers (n = 3) and parental reported tools (n = 13; nine questionnaires, six diaries). Studies assessed construct validity (n = 3), criterion validity (n = 1), convergent validity (n = 13), test-retest reliability (n = 2), internal consistency (n = 4) and feasibility (n = 12). Most studies assessed the convergent validity of questionnaires and diaries compared with accelerometers, but the validity of accelerometers for sleep in this age group is unknown. Of studies with a low risk of bias, one sleep diary was shown to be valid for measuring sleep duration. No measurement tools were appropriate for determining sleep quality. Reporting of reliability and feasibility was minimal. Discussion: The evidence base in this field is limited, and most studies had high risk of bias. Future research on sleep in pre-school aged children should focus on assessing the validity, reliability and feasibility of accelerometers, which in turn will improve the quality of studies that assess questionnaires and diaries against accelerometers. Systematic Review Registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021230900; PROSPERO: CRD42021230900.
Quando i dati di ricerca sono beni culturali: AMS Historica, una digital library a supporto dell'Open Science
Creators: name: D'Attorre, Giacomo
name: Festa, Chiara
Publisher: name: Genoa University
Year: 2023

description: Presentazione su invito tenuta alla GenOA Week 2023 nella sessione "Biblioteche per l'Open Science"
Bempedoic Acid: First Approval
Creators: name: Markham, Anthony
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards
Funding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Conflict of interest: During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. A. Markham, a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here

Abstract Bempedoic acid is a non-statin antihyperlipidaemic drug being developed by Esperion Therapeutics for the treatment of hypercholesterolaemia. Based on positive findings in the phase III CLEAR clinical trial programme, bempedoic acid has been approved in the USA and in the EU as monotherapy (NEXLETOL® in the USA, Nilemdo® in the EU) and as a fixed dose combination with ezetimibe (NEXLIZET® in the USA, Nustendi® in the EU). This article summarizes the milestones in the development of bempedoic acid leading to these frst approvals.

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