cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Setmelanotide: First Approval
Creators: name: Markham, Anthony
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations
Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Authorship and 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 is a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content.
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AbstractSetmelanotide (IMCIVREE™, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals) is a melanocortin-4 (MC4) receptor agonist developed for the treatment of obesity arising from proopiomelanocortin (POMC), proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 1 (PCSK1), or leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency. The drug has received its first approval in the USA for chronic weight management in patients 6 years and older with obesity caused by POMC, PCSK1 and LEPR deficiency and has been granted PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) designation by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of obesity and the control of hunger associated with deficiency disorders of the MC4 receptor pathway. Setmelanotide is also being developed in other rare genetic disorders associated with obesity including Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, Alström Syndrome, POMC and other MC4R pathway heterozygous deficiency obesities, and POMC epigenetic disorders. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of setmelanotide leading to this first approval for obesity caused by POMC, PCSK1 and LEPR deficiency.
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Multipole as $f$-Electron Spin-Charge Density in Filled Skutterudites
Creators: name: Hotta, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that $f$-electron multipole is naturally defined as spin-charge one-electron density operator in the second-quantized form with the use of tensor operator on the analogy of multipole expansion of electromagnetic potential from charge distribution in electromagnetism. Due to this definition of multipole, it is possible to determine multipole state from a microscopic viewpoint on the basis of the standard linear response theory for multipole susceptibility. In order to discuss multipole properties of filled skutterudites, we analyze a seven-orbital impurity Anderson model by employing a numerical renormalization group method. We show our results on possible multipole states of filled skutterudite compounds.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on "New Quantum Phenomena in Skutterudite and Related Systems" (September 2007, Kobe, Japan)
Stationary states in Langevin dynamics under asymmetric Lévy noises
Creators: name: Dybiec, B.
name: Gudowska-Nowak, E.
name: Sokolov, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of systems driven by white non-Gaussian noises can be very different from these systems driven by the white Gaussian noise. We investigate stationary probability densities for systems driven by $α$-stable Lévy type noises, which provide natural extension to the Gaussian noise having however a new property mainly a possibility of being asymmetric. Stationary probability densities are examined for a particle moving in parabolic, quartic and in generic double well potential models subjected to the action of $α$-stable noises. Relevant solutions are constructed by methods of stochastic dynamics. In situations where analytical results are known they are compared with numerical results. Furthermore, the problem of estimation of the parameters of stationary densities is investigated.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables
CMB Anisotropies at Second Order I
Creators: name: Bartolo, N.
name: Matarrese, S.
name: Riotto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the computation of the full system of Boltzmann equations at second-order describing the evolution of the photon, baryon and cold dark matter fluids. These equations allow to follow the time evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies at second-order at all angular scales from the early epoch, when the cosmological perturbations were generated, to the present through the recombination era. This paper sets the stage for the computation of the full second-order radiation transfer function at all scales and for a a generic set of initial conditions specifying the level of primordial non-Gaussianity. In a companion paper, we will present the computation of the three-point correlation function at recombination which is so relevant for the issue of non-Gaussianity in the CMB anisotropies.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX file, typos corrected
A Systematic Review of Natural Language Processing Applied to Radiology Reports
Creators: name: Casey, Arlene
name: Davidson, Emma
name: Poon, Michael
name: Dong, Hang
name: Duma, Daniel
name: Grivas, Andreas
name: Grover, Claire
name: Suárez-Paniagua, Víctor
name: Tobin, Richard
name: Whiteley, William
name: Wu, Honghan
name: Alex, Beatrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: NLP has a significant role in advancing healthcare and has been found to be key in extracting structured information from radiology reports. Understanding recent developments in NLP application to radiology is of significance but recent reviews on this are limited. This study systematically assesses recent literature in NLP applied to radiology reports. Our automated literature search yields 4,799 results using automated filtering, metadata enriching steps and citation search combined with manual review. Our analysis is based on 21 variables including radiology characteristics, NLP methodology, performance, study, and clinical application characteristics. We present a comprehensive analysis of the 164 publications retrieved with each categorised into one of 6 clinical application categories. Deep learning use increases but conventional machine learning approaches are still prevalent. Deep learning remains challenged when data is scarce and there is little evidence of adoption into clinical practice. Despite 17% of studies reporting greater than 0.85 F1 scores, it is hard to comparatively evaluate these approaches given that most of them use different datasets. Only 14 studies made their data and 15 their code available with 10 externally validating results. Automated understanding of clinical narratives of the radiology reports has the potential to enhance the healthcare process but reproducibility and explainability of models are important if the domain is to move applications into clinical use. More could be done to share code enabling validation of methods on different institutional data and to reduce heterogeneity in reporting of study properties allowing inter-study comparisons. Our results have significance for researchers providing a systematic synthesis of existing work to build on, identify gaps, opportunities for collaboration and avoid duplication.
Co-existence and shell structures of several superfluids in trapped three-component Fermi mixtures
Creators: name: Paananen, T.
name: Torma, P.
name: Martikainen, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of a trapped interacting three component Fermi gas. We assume that one of the components can have a different mass from the other two. We calculate the different phases of the three component mixture and find a rich variety of different phases corresponding to different pairing channels, and simple ways of tuning the system from one phase to another. In particular, we predict co-existence of several different superfluids in the trap, forming a shell structure, and phase transitions from this mixture of superfluids to a single superfluid when the system parameters or temperature is varied. Such shell structures realize superfluids with a non-trivial spatial topology and leave clear observable signatures in the density profile of the gas.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
A Study of Monolithic CMOS Pixel Sensors Back-thinning and their Application for a Pixel Beam Telescope
Creators: name: Battaglia, Marco
name: Contarato, Devis
name: Giubilato, Piero
name: Greiner, Leo
name: Glesener, Lindsay
name: Hooberman, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports results on a detailed study of charge collection and signal-to-noise performance of CMOS monolithic pixel sensors before and after back-thinning and their application in a pixel beam telescope for the ALS 1.5 GeV $e^-$ beam test facility.
description: 6 pages, one figure, to appear on the proceedings of the the Sixth International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors, Carmel, CA, September, 2006
Effects of water currents on fish migration through a Feynman-type path integral approach under $\sqrt{8/3}$ Liouville-like quantum gravity surfaces
Creators: name: Pramanik, Paramahansa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A stochastic differential game theoretic model has been proposed to determine optimal behavior of a fish while migrating against water currents both in rivers and oceans. Then, a dynamic objective function is maximized subject to two stochastic dynamics, one represents its location and another its relative velocity against water currents. In relative velocity stochastic dynamics, a Cucker-Smale type stochastic differential equation is introduced under white noise. As the information regarding hydrodynamic environment is incomplete and imperfect, a Feynman type path integral under $\sqrt{8/3}$ Liouville-like quantum gravity surface has been introduced to obtain a Wick-rotated Schrödinger type equation to determine an optimal strategy of a fish during its migration. The advantage of having Feynman type path integral is that, it can be used in more generalized nonlinear stochastic differential equations where constructing a Hamiltonian-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is impossible. The mathematical analytic results show exact expression of an optimal strategy of a fish under imperfect information and uncertainty.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Photonic Convolution Neural Network Based on Interleaved Time-Wavelength Modulation
Creators: name: Jiang, Yue
name: Zhang, Wenjia
name: Yang, Fan
name: He, Zuyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Convolution neural network (CNN), as one of the most powerful and popular technologies, has achieved remarkable progress for image and video classification since its invention in 1989. However, with the high definition video-data explosion, convolution layers in the CNN architecture will occupy a great amount of computing time and memory resources due to high computation complexity of matrix multiply accumulate operation. In this paper, a novel integrated photonic CNN is proposed based on double correlation operations through interleaved time-wavelength modulation. Micro-ring based multi-wavelength manipulation and single dispersion medium are utilized to realize convolution operation and replace the conventional optical delay lines. 200 images are tested in MNIST datasets with accuracy of 85.5% in our photonic CNN versus 86.5% in 64-bit computer.We also analyze the computing error of photonic CNN caused by various micro-ring parameters, operation baud rates and the characteristics of micro-ring weighting bank. Furthermore, a tensor processing unit based on 4x4 mesh with 1.2 TOPS (operation per second when 100% utilization) computing capability at 20G baud rate is proposed and analyzed to form a paralleled photonic CNN.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Grammatical elicitation: Tense and temporal adverbs
Creators: name: Palacio, Frank
name: Wellstood, Zachary
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cab

description: Includes distant past, recent past, present, prospective future, and temporal adverbs 'long ago,' 'just now,' 'right now,' and 'already.'
A study of the academic performance of sexually abused children
Creators: name: Bonanno, Rina A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Studies of the impact of abuse on children's cognitive and school performance have focused largely on maltreated and neglected children. In this study the academic performance of 15 sexually abused children was compared to the academic performance of 15 non-abused children that were matched on gender and grade. The permanent record cards of all the children involved were analyzed using descriptive statistics. T-test revealed that the sexually abused children performed significantly poorer than the non-abused children. Results indicating that the sexually abused group did not appear to differ academically prior to the abuse suggest that the differences between the two groups may be, in part, due to the sexual abuse. Variables surrounding the sexual abuse did not appear to affect academic performance, nor did gender play a significant role in academic performance.
Coherent Matter Wave Transport in Speckle Potentials
Creators: name: Kuhn, R. C.
name: Sigwarth, O.
name: Miniatura, C.
name: Delande, D.
name: Mueller, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article studies multiple scattering of matter waves by a disordered optical potential in two and in three dimensions. We calculate fundamental transport quantities such as the scattering mean free path $\ell_s$, the Boltzmann transport mean free path $\elltrb$, and the Boltzmann diffusion constant $D_B$, using a diagrammatic Green functions approach. Coherent multiple scattering induces interference corrections known as weak localization which entail a reduced diffusion constant. We derive the corresponding expressions for matter wave transport in an correlated speckle potential and provide the relevant parameter values for a possible experimental study of this coherent transport regime, including the critical crossover to the regime of strong or Anderson localization.
description: 33 pages, minor corrections, published version
Using Jupyter for reproducible scientific workflows
Creators: name: Beg, Marijan
name: Taka, Juliette
name: Kluyver, Thomas
name: Konovalov, Alexander
name: Ragan-Kelley, Min
name: Thiéry, Nicolas M.
name: Fangohr, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Literate computing has emerged as an important tool for computational studies and open science, with growing folklore of best practices. In this work, we report two case studies - one in computational magnetism and another in computational mathematics - where domain-specific software was exposed to the Jupyter environment. This enables high-level control of simulations and computation, interactive exploration of computational results, batch processing on HPC resources, and reproducible workflow documentation in Jupyter notebooks. In the first study, Ubermag drives existing computational micromagnetics software through a domain-specific language embedded in Python. In the second study, a dedicated Jupyter kernel interfaces with the GAP system for computational discrete algebra and its dedicated programming language. In light of these case studies, we discuss the benefits of this approach, including progress toward more reproducible and reusable research results and outputs, notably through the use of infrastructure such as JupyterHub and Binder.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
New distributional data for nine interesting Old World burrower bug species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae)
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
name: Domagała, Paweł J.
Publisher: name: University of Opole
Year: 2023
Subjects: true bugs
Pentatomoidea
distribution
new country records
Australia
Borneo
Brunei
Kenya
Namibia
Thailand
Oriental Region
Afrotropical Region

description: New records for nine burrower bug species (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea: Cydnidae) are provided. Three species, Stibaropus indonesicus (Cephalocteinae: Scaptocorini), Garsauria aradoides (Garsauriinae), and Pseudoscoparipes kinabalensis (Cydninae: Geotomini), are recorded for the first time from Brunei. Chilocoris piceus representing the tribe Cydnini of the subfamily Cydninae, and two species belonging to the tribe Geotomini of this subfamily, namely Adrisa romani and Pseudoscoparipes fraterculus are new to Thailand. Two Afrotropical species, i.e., Chilocoris laevicollis (Cydninae: Cydnini) and Aethus holothrix (Cydninae: Geotomini) are reported for the first time from Kenya and Namibia, respectively. In addition, the occurrence of Lactistes obesipes in Australia has been confirmed.
Extraction of alpha_s from radiative Upsilon(1S) decays
Creators: name: Brambilla, Nora
name: Tormo, Xavier Garcia i
name: Soto, Joan
name: Vairo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We improve on a recent determination of alpha_s from Gamma(Upsilon(1S)-->X gamma)/Gamma(Upsilon(1S)-->X) with CLEO data by taking into account color octet contributions and avoiding any model dependence in the extraction. We obtain alpha_s(M_Upsilon(1S))= 0.184+0.015-0.014, which corresponds to alpha_s(M_Z)=0.119+0.006-0.005.
description: 11 pages. v2: One reference added. v3: Minor modification in an error estimate. Journal version
Η χρήση βίας κατά το άρθρο 2.4 του Χάρτη των Ηνωμένων Εθνών: Η προσέγγιση της Ρωσίας μετά το τέλος του Ψυχρού Πολέμου
Creators: name: Νικολαΐδη, Ελένη Βαλέριι
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ρωσία
Χρήση βίας
Επέμβαση
Russia
Use of force
Intervention

description: Την σύντομη περίοδο, γεμάτη ελπίδες για «διαφορετική, πιο ανθεκτική και πιο ευγενή σταθερότητα», που ακολούθησε την κατάρρευση του διπολικού συστήματος διαδέχτηκε η εποχή κατά την οποία η χρήση βίας στις διεθνείς σχέσεις, απαγορευμένη από το άρθρο 2.4 του Καταστατικού Χάρτη του Οργανισμού των Ηνωμένων Εθνών, αποτελεί πλέον διαδεδομένο φαινόμενο. Η παρούσα μελέτη ασχολείται με την προσέγγιση στην προβληματική αυτή ενός από τους πρωταγωνιστές του διεθνούς συστήματος, της Ρωσικής Ομοσπονδίας, μέσα από την περιπτωσιολογική ανάλυση των επεισοδίων προσφυγής στη χρήση βίας εκ μέρους της. Το κείμενο της εργασίας αποτελείται από έξι κεφάλαια, με εισαγωγικό μέρος να παραθέτει το λόγο επιστημονικού ενδιαφέροντος ως προς το υπό ανάλυση ζήτημα καθώς και να οριοθετεί το αντικείμενο της μελέτης, οι επόμενες ενότητες πραγματεύονται την κρίση στην Υπερδνειστερία, τον «πόλεμο των πέντε ημερών» στη Νότια Οσσετία, την συζήτηση γύρω από την απόσχιση της Κριμαίας καθώς και την συμμετοχή ρωσικών ένοπλων δυνάμεων στην επιχείρηση στη Συρία. Κάθε κεφάλαιο παραθέτει μια συνοπτική ιστορική αναδρομή, αναγκαία για την καλύτερη κατανόηση της κάθε επιμέρους κρίσης, πραγματεύεται την επιχειρηματολογία που αναπτύχτηκε προς αιτιολόγηση των ενεργειών της Ρωσίας υπό το φως του Διεθνούς Δικαίου καθώς και τον αντίστοιχο νομικό αντίλογο και ολοκληρώνεται με μια τελική αποτίμηση με τις παρατηρήσεις του συγγραφέα. Ο επίλογος περιέχει την ανακεφαλαίωση των βασικών ευρημάτων της αναλυτικής διεργασίας με επισήμανση προτεινόμενων συμπερασμάτων.
description: A brief period, full of hope for "a different, more durable and more noble stability", which followed the collapse of the bipolar system, was succeeded by an era in which the use of force in international relations, prohibited by Article 2.4 of the Charter of the United Nations, has become widespread. The present case-study analysis deals with the approach to the problem by one of the protagonists of the international system, the Russian Federation. The textual framework of the research includes six chapters with introductory part giving reasons of scientific interest as to the subject of the study and defining its scope. The subsequent sections are devoted to the crisis in Transdniestria, the "five-day war" in South Ossetia, the discussion about the secession of the Crimea and the participation of Russian armed forces in campaign in Syria. Each chapter includes a brief historical overview, necessary for better understanding of each crisis, deals with the arguments developed to justify Russia's actions in the light of international law together with the corresponding legal counterarguments and ends with an evaluation including the writer’s comments. The final part presents a summary of the key findings with proposed conclusions.
Towards an Extended Microscopic Theory for the Upper fp-shell nuclei
Creators: name: Drumev, K. P.
name: Bahri, C.
name: Draayer, J. P.
name: Gueorguiev, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extended SU(3) shell model that for the first time explicitly includes unique-parity levels is introduced. Shell-model calculations for the isotopes of $^{64}$Ge and $^{68}$Se are performed where valence nucleons beyond the N=28=Z core occupy levels of the normal parity upper-$fp$ shell ($f_{5/2},p_{3/2},p_{1/2}$) and the unique parity $g_{9/2}$ intruder configuration. The levels of the upper-$fp$ shell are handled within the framework of an m-scheme basis as well as its pseudo-SU(3) counterpart, and respectively, the $g_{9/2}$ as a single level and as a member for the complete $gds$ shell. It is demonstrated that the extended SU(3) approach allows one to better probe the effects of deformation and to account for many key properties of the system by using a highly truncated model space.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Physical Review C
Παραγωγή και Οπτικοποίηση Κανόνων Συσχέτισης για Δεδομένα Συναλλαγών
Creators: name: Ιωσηφίδου, Γεωργία Νίκου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Επιχειρηματική Ευφυΐα
Κανόνες Συσχέτισης
Οπτικοποίηση Δεδομένων
Business Intelligence
Association Rules
Data Visualization

description: Η παρούσα εργασία ασχολείται με την παρουσίαση και ανάλυση των εννοιών και των μεθόδων της επιχειρηματικής ευφυΐας και της μηχανικής μάθησης. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό γίνεται μελέτη των αλγορίθμων παραγωγής κανόνων συσχέτισης με σκοπό την κατανόηση τους. Ως εφαρμογή, πραγματοποιείται παραγωγή κανόνων συσχέτισης σε σύνολο δεδομένων συναλλαγών, με την παρουσία πρόσθετων πληροφοριών για την προσφατότητα (Recency) και αξία (Value) κάθε συναλλαγής. Τα επιπλέον δεδομένα χρησιμοποιήθηκαν με τέτοιο τρόπο ώστε να γίνει δυνατό να χαρακτηριστούν οι παραγόμενοι κανόνες ως πρόσφατοι ή ως προσοδοφόροι. Ως επιπλέον στοιχείο ανάλυσης δημιουργήθηκε ένα γράφημα για την οπτικοποίηση των κανόνων, και την δυνατότητα γρήγορης σύγκρισης μεταξύ των πιο ισχυρών κανόνων ως προς την προσφατότητα και την αξία τους. Στην συνέχεια υλοποιείται και παρουσιάζεται μία εφαρμογή ως εργαλείο για την ανακάλυψη κανόνων συσχέτισης σε δεδομένα συναλλαγών η οποία εμπεριέχει και την ανάλυση προσφατότητας – αξίας των κανόνων συσχέτισης. Η διπλωματική αυτή έγινε στα πλαίσια του Διατμηματικού Μεταπτυχιακού «Πληροφορικής και Διοίκησης» των τμημάτων Πληροφορικής και Οικονομικών του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης και κατατίθεται στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο τον Μάρτιο του 2016.
description: This particular thesis discusses and presents the concepts and methods of business intelligence and machine learning. In this context there is a study of association rule generation algorithms to their understanding. As an application we run association rules on a transactional data set which contains additional information of recency and value for each transaction. The additional data were used in such a way as to make it possible to describe a generated rule as recent and/or lucrative. As an additional component of this analysis a graph-based visualization was developed to add the ability to quickly compare among the most powerful rules regarding to their recency and value. Furthermore, an application is implemented and presented as a tool for discovering association rules in transaction data, and which also includes the Recency – Value graph visualization among other commonly used visualizations for association rules. The thesis was part of the Interdepartmental Master "Information and Management" of Computer Science and Economics departments of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It was filed at the Aristotle University in March 2016.
Horizontal spreading of planetary debris accreted by white dwarfs
Creators: name: Cunningham, Tim
name: Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel
name: Bauer, Evan B.
name: Toloza, Odette
name: Cukanovaite, Elena
name: Koester, Detlev
name: Farihi, Jay
name: Freytag, Bernd
name: Gänsicke, Boris T.
name: Ludwig, Hans-Günter
name: Veras, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White dwarfs with metal-polluted atmospheres have been studied widely in the context of the accretion of rocky debris from evolved planetary systems. One open question is the geometry of accretion and how material arrives and mixes in the white dwarf surface layers. Using the 3D radiation-hydrodynamics code CO$^5$BOLD, we present the first transport coefficients in degenerate star atmospheres which describe the advection-diffusion of a passive scalar across the surface-plane. We couple newly derived horizontal diffusion coefficients with previously published vertical diffusion coefficients to provide theoretical constraints on surface spreading of metals in white dwarfs. Our grid of 3D simulations probes the vast majority of the parameter space of convective white dwarfs, with pure-hydrogen atmospheres in the effective temperature range 6000-18000 K and pure-helium atmospheres in the range 12000-34000 K. Our results suggest that warm hydrogen-rich atmospheres (DA; $\gtrsim$13000 K) and helium-rich atmospheres (DB, DBA; $\gtrsim$30000 K) are unable to efficiently spread the accreted metals across their surface, regardless of the time dependence of accretion. This result may be at odds with the current non-detection of surface abundance variations at white dwarfs with debris discs. For cooler hydrogen- and helium-rich atmospheres, we predict a largely homogeneous distribution of metals across the surface within a vertical diffusion timescale. This is typically less than 0.1 per cent of disc lifetime estimates, a quantity which is revisited in this paper using the overshoot results. These results have relevance for studies of the bulk composition of evolved planetary systems and models of accretion disc physics.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 22 pages, 17 figures
title: Commercial Driver’s License Prosecution, Adjudication, and Data Transmission
Creators: name: Martin, Andrew
name: Koo, Jeeyen
name: Walton, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The Kentucky Transportation Center research team examined law enforcement and adjudication of traffic offenses committed by commercial driver’s license holders. The objectives were to identify states that would provide the data, collect information about their court systems, analyze enforcement and/or adjudication data, and make some general observations about trends. Many state agencies were not able to provide their traffic offense data and therefore, the team focused primarily on data from Kentucky and Washington State.

The study focused on enforcement trends and adjudication of safety-related offenses. Overall, conviction rates remain higher than dismissal and amended rates. In recent years, dismissal and amended rates have increased faster than conviction rates. This concerning trend increases the chances that traffic safety could be negatively impacted from reduced CMV driver compliance. Among traffic violations, conviction rates remain higher for minor traffic infractions than criminal traffic violations. However, lagging conviction rates for both traffic infractions and criminal traffic violations continue to raise potential safety concerns.
description: © 2021 University of Kentucky, Kentucky Transportation Center
Report Number: KTC-21-08/RSF-56-1F
Fully tunable exciton-polaritons emerging from WS$_{2}$ monolayer excitons in an optical lattice at room temperature
Creators: name: Lackner, Lukas
name: Dusel, Marco
name: Egorov, Oleg A.
name: Knopf, Heiko
name: Eilenberger, Falk
name: Schröder, Sven
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Antón-Solanas, Carlos
name: Höfling, Sven
name: Schneider, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Engineering non-linear hybrid light-matter states in tailored optical lattices is a central research strategy for the simulation of complex Hamiltonians. Excitons in atomically thin crystals are an ideal active medium for such purposes, since they couple strongly with light and bear the potential to harness giant non-linearities and interactions while presenting a simple sample-processing and room temperature operability. We demonstrate lattice polaritons, based on an open, high-quality optical cavity, with an imprinted photonic lattice strongly coupled to excitons in a WS$_{2}$ monolayer. We experimentally observe the emergence of the canonical band-structure of particles in a one-dimensional lattice at room temperature, and demonstrate frequency reconfigurability over a spectral window exceeding 12 meV, as well as the systematic variation of the nearest neighbour coupling, reflected by a tuneability in the bandwidth of the p-band polaritons by 7 meV. The technology presented in this work is a critical demonstration towards reconfigurable photonic emulators operated with non-linear photonic fluids, offering a simple experimental implementation and working at ambient conditions.
Frictional dissipation of polymeric solids vs interfacial glass transition
Creators: name: Bureau, Lionel
name: Caroli, Christiane
name: Baumberger, Tristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present single contact friction experiments between a glassy polymer and smooth silica substrates grafted with alkylsilane layers of different coverage densities and morphologies. This allows us to adjust the polymer/substrate interaction strength. We find that, when going from weak to strong interaction, the response of the interfacial junction where shear localizes evolves from that of a highly viscous threshold fluid to that of a plastically deformed glassy solid. This we analyse as resulting from an interaction-induced ``interfacial glass transition'' helped by pressure.
Ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας, γνώμες κοινού και ειδικών
Creators: name: Θεοσίδου, Σόνια Θεολόγου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ανανεώσιμες Πηγές
Ενέργειες
Renewable Energy
Sources

description: Στην συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική εργασία ερευνώνται και συγκρίνονται οι γνώμες του κοινού και των ειδικών σχετικά με τις Ανανεώσιμες Πηγές Ενέργειας (ΑΠΕ), την χρησιμότητά τους και την χρήση τους. Η μέθοδος που επιλέχθηκε ήταν η διεξαγωγή έρευνας με τη μορφή ερωτηματολογίων. Τα ερωτηματολόγια περιείχαν 17 ερωτήσεις στις οποίες τίθενται θέματα όπως πόσο συμφέρουσες είναι οι ΑΠΕ σε σχέση με τα συμβατικά καύσιμα, από τι εξαρτάται η χρησιμοποίησή τους και πόσο σημαντική είναι η επιστημονική συγκρότηση σχετική με τις ΑΠΕ. Τα ερωτηματολόγια μοιράστηκαν σε δείγμα 100 ατόμων, 50 σε άτομα με πτυχίο σχετικό με ΑΠΕ και 50 σε άτομα χωρίς πτυχίο σχετικό με ΑΠΕ, στην ευρεία περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης. Για τη διεξαγωγή των αποτελεσμάτων χρησιμοποιήθηκε ένα κριτήριο, η στατιστική χ τετράγωνο προκειμένου να εξαχθούν συμπεράσματα, συγκρίνοντας δύο μεταβλητές για να καταλήξουμε αν είναι μεταξύ τους ανεξάρτητες. Μετά την εφαρμογή του παραπάνω κριτηρίου εξήχθησαν κάποια βασικά συμπεράσματα όπως: Οι άντρες γνωρίζουν περίπου στον ίδιο βαθμό τι είναι οι ΑΠΕ με τις γυναίκες. Η κατοχή πτυχίου σχετικό με τις ΑΠΕ επηρεάζει την χρήση καθώς και την ενημέρωση γα τις ΑΠΕ. Τα οικονομικά κίνητρα επίσης αποτελούν σημαντικό λόγο στην αποφυγή χρήσης ΑΠΕ. Τέλος φαίνεται ότι η πιο διαδεδομένη ΑΠΕ είναι η ηλιακή, κατά βάση στο δείγμα του κοινού σε αντίθεση με τις υπόλοιπες και κυρίως την βιομάζα.
description: In this particular bachelor’s thesis investigated and compare opinions of experts and non experts about Renewable Energy Sources, their utility and their use. The method chosen was questionnaires. The questionnaires contained 17 questions about how advantageous Renewable Energy Sources compared with conventional fuels, from what depends on their use and how important is the scientific knowledge about Renewable Energy Sources. The questionnaire distributed among 100 people, 50 given to experts about Renewable Energy Sources and 50 to non experts, in a wide range of Thessaloniki. For the conduct of the results used as criterion the statistic method x square to draw conclusions, comparing two variables to see if their independent. After applying the above criterion some basic conclusions was reached as: men knowledge about Renewable Energy Sources is about the same with women. Degree in Renewable Energy Sources affects knowledge and awareness about Renewable Energy Sources. Financial incentives are also an important reason to avoid the use of Renewable Energy Sources. At last it appears as the most widespread Renewable Source is solar energy in contrast with the other sources and especially biomass.
Heavy Flavor Overview
Creators: name: Smith, Krista
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: zs20
phenix
heavy flavor
p+p
p+al
p+au
3he+au
run13
run14
run15
au+au
bottom
charm
J/Ψ
forward-rapidity
mid-rapidity
backward-rapidity
raa
flow
nuclear
modification

description: Talk presented at the Zimanyi Winter School 2020 conference
Arrow of Time in String Theory
Creators: name: McInnes, Brett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inflation allows the problem of the Arrow of time to be understood as a question about the structure of spacetime: why was the intrinsic curvature of the earliest spatial sections so much better behaved than it might have been? This is really just the complement of a more familiar problem: what mechanism prevents the extrinsic curvature of the earliest spatial sections from diverging, as classical General Relativity suggests? We argue that the stringy version of "creation from nothing", sketched by Ooguri, Vafa, and Verlinde, solves both of these problems at once. The argument, while very simple, hinges on some of the deepest theorems in global differential geometry. These results imply that when a spatially toral spacetime is created from nothing, the earliest spatial sections are forced to be [quasi-classically] exactly locally isotropic. This local isotropy, in turn, forces the inflaton into its minimal-entropy state. The theory explains why the Arrow does not reverse in black holes or in a cosmic contraction, if any.
description: 30 pages, one diagram, various clarifications, references updated, version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Application of the time-dependent charge asymmetry method for longitudinal position determination in prototype proportional chambers for the PANDA experiment
Creators: name: Sokolov, Andrey
name: Ritman, James
name: Wintz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PANDA collaboration intends to build a state-of-the-art detector to study the physics of antiproton annihilation in the charm mass region at the future FAIR facility at GSI, Darmstadt. One major part of the PANDA detector is the straw tube tracker. It will consist of about 6000 individual straws grouped in 11 double layers and filled with an Ar+10%CO_2 gas mixture. The required radial spatial resolution is about 150 micron. Two different methods are considered for longitudinal coordinate measurements - skewed double layers and a novel method based on the time-dependent charge asymmetry. The latter method is presented in this article.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, Preprint submitted to NIM A
The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres
Creators: name: Loftus, Kaitlyn
name: Wordsworth, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of a single raindrop falling below a cloud is governed by fluid dynamics and thermodynamics fundamentally transferable to planetary atmospheres beyond modern Earth's. Here, we show how three properties that characterize falling raindrops -- raindrop shape, terminal velocity, and evaporation rate -- can be calculated as a function of raindrop size in any planetary atmosphere. We demonstrate that these simple, interrelated characteristics tightly bound the possible size range of raindrops in a given atmosphere, independently of poorly understood growth mechanisms. Starting from the equations governing raindrop falling and evaporation, we demonstrate that raindrop ability to vertically transport latent heat and condensible mass can be well captured by a new dimensionless number. Our results have implications for precipitation efficiency, convective storm dynamics, and rainfall rates, which are properties of interest for understanding planetary radiative balance and (in the case of terrestrial planets) rainfall-driven surface erosion.
description: submitted to JGR: Planets; 40 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 4 appendices; supporting information with 9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; associated code at https://github.com/kaitlyn-loftus/rainprops
Αναζήτηση και ανάλυση δεξιοτήτων από το LinkedIn
Creators: name: Θεοδωρίδης, Δημήτριος Ισαάκ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Στατιστική ανάλυση
Διαχείριση δεξιοτήτων
LinkedIn
Statistical analysis
Competency management

description: Η αγορά εργασίας έχει εξελιχτεί σε ένα πολύ ανταγωνιστικό χώρο. Η επιλογή των κατάλληλων υποψηφίων έχει εξελιχτεί σε μια μεγάλη ανησυχία από την οπτική των εταιριών αλλά και των υποψηφίων όσον αφορά την κατάλληλη εταιρία για την καριέρα καθενός.Η παρούσα διπλωματική έχει ως σκοπό να παράξει ξεκάθαρα στοιχεία για τις δεξιότητες που βρίσκουμε στον χώρο της Πληροφορικής στην Ελλάδα. Με αυτό σαν στόχο, αποφασίσαμε να συλλέξουμε στοιχεία από ένα μεγάλο κοινωνικό δίκτυο που χρησιμοποιούν επαγγελματίες, το LinkedIn.Το ενδιαφέρον μας είναι εταιρίες του χώρου της Πληροφορικής στην Ελλάδα και έτσι επιλέχθηκαν 11 εταιρίες που εστιάζουν κυρίως στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, αλλά επίσης, σε υπηρεσίες συμβουλευτικής και ενσωμάτωσης συστημάτων.Τα αποτελέσματα θα βοηθήσουν να καταλάβουμε ποιες δεξιότητες θα έπρεπε να αποκτήσει κάποιος που ενδιαφέρεται να εργαστεί στον χώρο της Πληροφορικής για να έχει μια πετυχημένη καριέρα.
description: The job market has grown into a very competitive area . Selecting the right candidates has become a major concern for companies and also for the candidates’ point of view selecting the right company for a career.This dissertation has an objective to produce clear evidence of the competencies found in the IT sector in Greece. With that purpose, we decided to gather data from one major social network that professionals use, LinkedIn.Our interest is mainly companies of the IT sector in Greece and with that in mind we chose 11 companies that mainly focus on software engineering, but, also consulting services and system integration.Our results will help understand what competencies a person interested in working in the IT sector should obtain in order to achieve a successful career.
A Cyclic Cooling Algorithm
Creators: name: Rempp, F.
name: Michel, M.
name: Mahler, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a scheme to perform the cooling algorithm, first presented by Oscar Boykin et al. in 2002, for an arbitrary number of times on the same set of qbits. We achieve this goal by adding an additional SWAP-gate and a bath contact to the algorithm. This way one qbit may repeatedly be cooled without adding additional qbits to the system. By using a product Liouville space to model the bath contact we calculate the density matrix of the system after a given number of applications of the algorithm.
Radio Observations of the AGN and Gas in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Creators: name: Das, M.
name: O'Neil, K.
name: Kantharia, N.
name: Vogel, S. N.
name: McGaugh, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LSB galaxies have low metallicities, diffuse stellar disks, and massive HI disks. We have detected molecular gas in two giant LSB galaxies, UGC 6614 and F568-6. A millimeter continuum source has been detected in UGC 6614 as well. At centimeter wavelengths we have detected and mapped the continuum emission from the giant LSB galaxy 1300+0144. The emission is extended about the nucleus and is most likely originating from the AGN in the galaxy. The HI gas distribution and velocity field in 1300+0144 was also mapped. The HI disk extends well beyond the optical disk and appears lopsided in the intensity maps.
description: one page; submitted to proceedings of IAU Symposium 235: Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time
Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
Creators: name: Lewis, Angela Rose
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: This thesis examines the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its remarkable success in the 1989 and 1991 elections in India, to the point where it has become the leading opposition party in India's national parliament. The BJP's powerful "Hindutva" ideology, based on the idea of a Hindu nation, has propelled the party to the forefront of Indian politics, and poses a major challenge to India's secular democracy. The central argument of this thesis is that by appealing to Hindu nationalist sentiments, the BJP has successfully "outbid" the Congress Party for the loyalty of Hindu nationalist groups, and successfully transformed public discontent into votes. Through an examination of the BJP's strategy and performance, this paper also concludes that the rise of the BJP has accelerated the pace of political decay in India. The BJP's rise coincides with heightened communal tensions, political instability, and a rise in populist politics, which undermines the institutions of political democracy in India.
Additional file 11 of Long non-coding RNA H19 promotes colorectal cancer metastasis via binding to hnRNPA2B1
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuhui
name: Huang, Weibin
name: Yuan, Yujie
name: Li, Jin
name: Wu, Jing
name: Yu, Jie
name: He, Yulong
name: Wei, Zhewei
name: Zhang, Changhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 11: Table S1. Target sequences of siRNA Table S2. Target sequences of shRNA Table S3. Sequences of primers
On the onset of cosmological backreaction
Creators: name: Li, Nan
name: Schwarz, Dominik J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological backreaction has been suggested as an explanation of dark energy and is heavily disputed since. We combine cosmological perturbation theory with Buchert's non-perturbative framework, calculate the relevant averaged observables up to second order in the comoving synchronous gauge, and discuss their gauge dependence. With the help of an integrability condition the leading second order contributions follow from the first order calculation. We focus on the onset of cosmological backreaction, as a perturbative treatment is necessarily restricted to the era when the effect is still small. We demonstrate that the leading contributions to all averaged physical observables are completely specified on the boundary of the averaged domain. For any finite domain these surface terms are nonzero in general and thus backreaction is for real. We map the backreaction effect on an effectively homogeneous and isotropic fluid. The generic effective equation of state is not only time dependent, but also depends on scale.
description: 16 pages; v3: improved motivation, matches published version