cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A comparative study of optical/ultraviolet variability of narrow-line Seyfert 1 and broad-line Seyfert 1 active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Ai, Y. L.
name: Yuan, W.
name: Zhou, H.
name: Wang, T. G.
name: Dong, X. -B.
name: Wang, J. G.
name: Lu, H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ensemble optical/ultraviolet variability of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) type active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is investigated, based on a sample selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe-82 region with multi-epoch photometric scanning data. As a comparison a control sample of broad-line Seyfert 1 (BLS1) type AGNs is also incorporated. To quantify properly the intrinsic variation amplitudes and their uncertainties, a novel method of parametric maximum-likelihood is introduced, that has, as we argued, certain virtues over previously used methods. The majority of NLS1-type AGNs exhibit significant variability on timescales from about ten days to a few years with, however, on average smaller amplitudes compared to BLS1-type AGNs. About 20 NLS1- type AGNs showing relatively large variations are presented, that may deserve future monitoring observations, for instance, reverberation mapping. The averaged structure functions of variability, constructed using the same maximumlikelihood method, show remarkable similarity in shape for the two types of AGNs on timescales longer than about 10 days, which can be approximated by a power-law or an exponential function. This, along with other similar properties, such as the wavelength-dependent variability, are indicative of a common dominant mechanism responsible for the long-term optical/UV variability of both NLS1- and BLS1-type AGNs. Towards the short timescales, however, there is tentative evidence that the structure function of NLS1-type AGNs continues declining, whereas that of BLS1-type AGNs flattens with some residual variability on timescales of days. If this can be confirmed, it may suggest that an alternative mechanism, such as X-ray reprocessing, starts to become dominating in BLS1-type AGNs, but not in NLS1-, on such timescales.
description: 53 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, accepted for pulication in AJ
Calibration-measurement unit for the automation of vector network analyzer measurements
Creators: name: Rolfes, I.
name: Will, B.
name: Schiek, B.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Automated calibration
subject: Calibration standard
subject: Complex scattering parameters
subject: Device under test
subject: Electromechanical relays
subject: Multiport switches
subject: Self-calibration procedures
subject: Vector network analyzers
subject: Calibration
subject: Design for testability
subject: Scattering parameters
subject: Standards
subject: Units of measurement
subject: Electric network analyzers
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau::621 | Angewandte Physik::621,3 | Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

description: With the availability of multi-port vector network analyzers, the need for automated, calibrated measurement facilities increases. In this contribution, a calibrationmeasurement unit is presented which realizes a repeatable automated calibration of the measurement setup as well as a user-friendly measurement of the device under test (DUT). In difference to commercially available calibration units, which are connected to the ports of the vector network analyzer preceding a measurement and which are then removed so that the DUT can be connected, the presented calibrationmeasurement unit is permanently connected to the ports of the VNA for the calibration as well as for the measurement of the DUT. This helps to simplify the calibrated measurement of complex scattering parameters. Moreover, a full integration of the calibration unit into the analyzer setup becomes possible. The calibration-measurement unit is based on a multiport switch setup of e.g. electromechanical relays. Under the assumption of symmetry of a switch, on the one hand the unit realizes the connection of calibration standards like one-port reflection standards and two-port through connections between different ports and on the other hand it enables the connection of the DUT. The calibration-measurement unit is applicable for two-port VNAs as well as for multiport VNAs. For the calibration of the unit, methods with completely known calibration standards like SOLT (short, open, load, through) as well as self-calibration procedures like TMR or TLR can be applied. © Author(s) 2008.
The Infinite Interface Limit of Multiple-Region Relaxed MHD
Creators: name: Dennis, G. R.
name: Hudson, S. R.
name: Dewar, R. L.
name: Hole, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the stepped-pressure equilibria that are obtained from a generalization of Taylor relaxation known as multi-region, relaxed MHD (MRXMHD) are also generalizations of ideal MHD. We show this by proving that as the number of plasma regions becomes infinite, MRXMHD reduces to ideal MHD. Numerical convergence studies demonstrating this limit are presented.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
title: The Last Mongol Prince: The Life and Times of Demchugdongrob, 1902-1966
Creators: name: Jagchid, Sechin
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1999

description: The sixty-four years of the life of Prince Demchugdongrob saw the devastation of two world wars. Invasion of Asia by imperialists was gradually checked by the rise of nationalism. Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 restored Asian self- confidence. But this victory also created strife within. The founding of the Republic of China in 1912, which ended monarchical rule, and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 marked the beginning of a new era. The Mongols, roused by these great changes, struggled to establish their own national identity. By the conclusion of World War 11, half of the Mongol people had achieved their independence, at least nominally, but the other half faced harsh and rigorous trials.

Prince Demchugdongrob, born to a highly prestigious Chinggisid family, for a time assumed the position of national leader, but died in the custody of the Chinese Communists. His heroic but tragic life was entwined with the fate of his fellow countrymen, especially those Inner Mongols who struggled for the existence of their nation.
Manufacturing conditioned roughness and wear of biomedical oxide ceramics for all-ceramic knee implants
Creators: name: Turger, Anke
name: Kohler, Jens
name: Denkena, Berend
name: Correa, Tomas A.
name: Becher, Christoph
name: Hurschler, Christof
Publisher: name: London : Biomed Central Ltd.
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: bioceramic
subject: implant
subject: knee endoprostheses
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Background: Ceramic materials are used in a growing proportion of hip joint prostheses due to their wear resistance and biocompatibility properties. However, ceramics have not been applied successfully in total knee joint endoprostheses to date. One reason for this is that with strict surface quality requirements, there are significant challenges with regard to machining. High-toughness bioceramics can only be machined by grinding and polishing processes. The aim of this study was to develop an automated process chain for the manufacturing of an all-ceramic knee implant. Methods: A five-axis machining process was developed for all-ceramic implant components. These components were used in an investigation of the influence of surface conformity on wear behavior under simplified knee joint motion. Results: The implant components showed considerably reduced wear compared to conventional material combinations. Contact area resulting from a variety of component surface shapes, with a variety of levels of surface conformity, greatly influenced wear rate. Conclusions: It is possible to realize an all-ceramic knee endoprosthesis device, with a precise and affordable manufacturing process. The shape accuracy of the component surfaces, as specified by the design and achieved during the manufacturing process, has a substantial influence on the wear behavior of the prosthesis. This result, if corroborated by results with a greater sample size, is likely to influence the design parameters of such devices.
Glitch recoveries in radio-pulsars and magnetars
Creators: name: Haskell, Brynmor
name: Antonopoulou, Danai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsar glitches are sudden increases in the spin frequency of an otherwise steadily spinning down neutron star. These events are thought to represent a direct probe of the dynamics of the superfluid interior of the star. However glitches can differ significantly from one another, not only in size and frequency, but also in the post-glitch response of the star. Some appear as simple steps in frequency, while others also display an increase in spin-down rate after the glitch. Others still show several exponentially relaxing components in the post-glitch recovery. We show that if glitches are indeed due to large scale unpinning of superfluid vortices, the different regions in which this occurs and respective timescales on which they recouple can lead to the various observed signatures. Furthermore we show that this framework naturally accounts for the peculiar relaxations of glitches in Anomalous X-ray Pulsars.
title: An Uyghur-English Dictionary
Creators: name: Schwarz, Henry
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1992

description: An Uyghur-English Dictionaryby Henry G. Schwarz: As the initial foundation of my dictionary I chose the Uyg̃urçä-xänzuçä lug̃ät which, in its manuscript form and after 1982 in published form, had been my steady companion in Xinjiang. If I ever considered doing nothing more than translating it into English, I rejected this option almost from the start. For one thing, I often found the dictionary to be inaccurate in many respects, both large and small. More importantly, a direct translation from Uyghur to English reduces the number and the degree of infelicities that smudge the interface between two languages. My course of action thus lay before me: after an initial translation of the Uyg̃urçä-xänzuçä lug̃ät into English, a task completed by the time my Tokyo apartment had turned pleasantly warm in the spring of 1985, I went to work to hunt down every Uyghur word, phrase, sentence, and saying in a large number of Uyghur sources published between 1954 and 1985. If I could not find it, I dropped it. If I could not verify a usage contained in the Chinese dictionary, I dropped it. On the other hand, if I could verify a usage but not in identical language, I kept the language used in the Chinese dictionary. If I discovered a new word, phrase, or saying, I added it to my collection. This stage of my labors took most of my spare time between March 1985 and the summer of 1991.
Vertrauen im Prozess komplexer Systeme : zur Führungsfunktion des Mittelmanagements als Hauptträger personellen Vertrauens
Creators: name: Cordini, Melanie
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Vertrauen
subject: Führung
subject: Mittelmanagement
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::650 | Management

description: [no abstract]
The defocusing energy-supercritical NLS in four space dimensions
Creators: name: Miao, Changxing
name: Murphy, Jason
name: Zheng, Jiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a class of defocusing energy-supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations in four space dimensions. Following a concentration-compactness approach, we show that for $1
description: 52 pages
Dirac structures on nilmanifolds and coexistence of fluxes
Creators: name: Chatzistavrakidis, Athanasios
name: Jonke, Larisa
name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We study some aspects of the generalized geometry of nilmanifolds and examine to which extent different types of fluxes can coexist on them. Nilmanifolds constitute a class of homogeneous spaces which are interesting in string compactifications with fluxes since they carry geometric flux by construction. They are generalized Calabi-Yau spaces and therefore simple examples of generalized geometry at work. We identify and classify Dirac structures on nilmanifolds, which are maximally isotropic subbundles closed under the Courant bracket. In the presence of non-vanishing fluxes, these structures are twisted and closed under appropriate extensions of the Courant bracket. Twisted Dirac structures on a nilmanifold may carry multiple coexistent fluxes of any type. We also show how dual Dirac structures combine to Courant algebroids and work out an explicit example where all types of generalized fluxes coexist. These results may be useful in the context of general flux compactifications in string theory.
title: A Monetary History of China, Volumes One and Two (Zhongguo Huobi Shi)
Creators: name: Pʻeng, Hsin-wei
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1993

description: A Monetary History of China, Volumes One and Two by Peng Xinwei, translated by Edward H. Kaplan. Translating this long, complex work, touching as it does on so many aspects of Chinese life, ranging from ancient philosophers to late Qing picaresque novels, has proven a daunting but rewarding task. I have learned a great deal about much more than Chinese money in the course of doing the translation. Nevertheless, I can hardly claim to have done justice to what is one of the great monuments of modem Chinese scholarship, and to its martyred author. Still, as Chesterton wisely observed, "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

Not the least of the virtues of making a translation of Zhongguo huobi shi available to the English- reading world is to celebrate a scholarly career which managed to transcend the limits of a regime which could have had no sympathy for the objects —the money-commodities and manufactured moneys— which were the focus of that career, and which, as this book went through its second and third versions, came perilously close to abolishing altogether the market, the only place within which those objects can find their meaning.
title: Opuscula Altaica : Essays Presented in Honor of Henry Schwarz
Creators: name: Kaplan, Edward H.
name: Whisenhunt, Donald W.
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1994

description: Opuscula Altaica : Essays Presented in Honor of Henry Schwarz, edited by Edward H. Kaplan and Donald W. Whisenhunt: We are pleased to present herewith a largely Mongol miscellany in honor of a most remarkable man, Henry Schwarz. I first met Henry Schwarz in the winter of 1967 at a meeting of the Inner Asia Colloquium of the then Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington. Attending were the bright lights of Inner Asian Studies including, in addition to Henry himself, the late Nicholas Poppe, the late T.V. Wylie, Herbert Franke, Lao Yan-shuan, and a host of graduate students, most of whom have now gone on to distinguished careers as scholars and teachers. That period was in many ways a high water mark for Inner Asian Studies, one we have not seen the likes of since, though Henry Schwarz has done his best to recreate it.
Evolution of dust grain size distribution by shattering in the interstellar medium: robustness and uncertainty
Creators: name: Hirashita, Hiroyuki
name: Kobayashi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shattering of dust grains in the interstellar medium is a viable mechanism of small grain production in galaxies. We examine the robustness or uncertainty in the theoretical predictions of shattering. We identify $P_1$ (the critical pressure above which the deformation destroys the original lattice structures) as the most important quantity in determining the timescale of small grain production, and confirm that the same $P_1/t$ ($t$ is the duration of shattering) gives the same grain size distribution [$n(a)$, where $a$ is the grain radius] after shattering within a factor of 3. The uncertainty in the fraction of shocked material that is eventually ejected as fragments causes uncertainties in $n(a)$ by a factor of 1.3 and 1.6 for silicate and carbonaceous dust, respectively. The size distribution of shattered fragments have minor effects as long as the power index of the fragment size distribution is less than ~ 3.5, since the slope of grain size distribution $n(a)$ continuously change by shattering and becomes consistent with $n(a)\propto a^{-3.5}$. The grain velocities as a function of grain radius can have an imprint in the grain size distribution especially for carbonaceous dust. We also show that the formulation of shattering can be simplified without losing sufficient precision.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in Earth, Planets, and Space (Special Issue: Cosmic Dust V)
title: Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and its Neighbors
Creators: name: Pan, Yihong
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1997

description: Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and its Neighbors by Pan Yihong: The conquest of the last of the Southern Dynasties by Sui in 589 brought to an end the Period of Disunion which had started with the collapse of Han in 220 C.E. The Sui dynasty was short-lived but laid the foundation for the Tang (618-907), an age of outstanding political and cultural achievement to which later generations looked back with nostalgia.

The Sui-Tang period of over three centuries stands as a high point in the development of Chinese civilization. It not only restored the unity of the Chinese empire, it enlarged this concept which had been born in early Zhou, idealized by the Confucian thinkers of the Warring States and given definite form in Qin and Han. At the end of Tang the pattern of unity was again challenged, but the ideal persisted and has remained very much alive to the present day.
Neutron Electric Dipole Moment from Beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Cirigliano, Vincenzo
name: Gupta, Rajan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the phenomenology of neutron Electric Dipole Moment from the Standard Model and beyond, and identify the matrix elements most necessary to connect the current and forthcoming experiments with phenomenology. We then describe lattice techniques for calculating these matrix elements
description: Talk presented at Lattice 2012 (7 pages)
Coupling symmetry of quantum dot states
Creators: name: Rogge, M.C.
name: Harke, B.
name: Fricke, Christian
name: Hohls, Frank
name: Reinwald, M.
name: Wegscheider, W.
name: Haug, Rolf J.
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Physical Society
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: quantum dots
subject: 2DES
subject: QPC
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: With noninvasive methods, we investigate ground and excited states of a lateral quantum dot. Charge detection via a quantum point contact is used to map the dot dynamics in a regime where the current through the dot is too low for transport measurements. In this way we investigate and compare the tunneling rates from the dot to source and drain. We find a symmetry line on which the tunneling rates to both leads are equal. In this situation ground states as well as excited states influence the mean charge of the dot. A detailed study in this regime reveals that the coupling symmetry depends on the number of states contributing to transport and on the spatial distribution of individual states. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: V. Vitis-idaea L. Cat. 249. Bis 2770 m: Botseresse im Valsorey (Guyot). Andere hohe Stellen sind: Luisin, 2600m, mit reifen Früchten (Oberson 1949); Alpen von Outre-Rhône, bis 2495 m (Gams).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
title: Mongolia and the Mongols: holdings at Western Washington University
Creators: name: Schwarz, Henry
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 1992

description: Western Libraries at Western Washington University began collecting Mongolian materials in earnest in 1975, when the University's Center for East Asian Studies created a Mongolian Program unique in North America. Most of the books and journals have been acquired through the efforts of Professor Henry Schwarz, who made many of the purchases during his frequent trips to Mongolia. He was also instrumental in obtaining the important collection of Mongolian and related materials acquired by the noted scholar Nicholas Poppe.

The Bibliotheca Mongolica, published in 1978, and Mongolian Publications at Western Washington University, published in 1984, represent the Center’s first efforts to enable worldwide access to the collection. In 1990, the range and importance of this collection received national recognition, when the United States Department of Education awarded the Libraries a Strengthening Research Library Resources Program grant to complete the cataloging of the Mongolian-language materials. Our Asian languages cataloger and bibliographer, Mr. Wayne V. Richter, carried out the project in consultation with Professor Schwarz.

The focus of the collection is in the social sciences and humanities, but the library has an abundance of collateral material in other fields and in many languages other than Mongolian. This Mongolian Studies collection is intended not only as a resource for the scholarly activities of the Center's faculty and students, but as a resource for Mongolists throughout the world. Professor Schwarz and Mr. Richter, with the support and encouragement of the Libraries, have made this volume possible.
Bürger(innen) auf Standortsuche: Erwartungen in Deutschland, Erfahrungen aus der Schweiz
Creators: name: Drögemüller, C.
name: Kuppler, S.
Publisher: name: München : Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Governance
subject: Nuclear waste
subject: Public participation
subject: Social conflict
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften

description: Die zur Evaluierung des deutschen Standortauswahlgesetzes einberufene Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe hat dem Gesetzgeber im Sommer 2016 ihren Abschlussbericht vorgelegt. Empfohlen wird ein umfangreiches Beteiligungssystem, das es der regionalen und überregionalen Öffentlichkeit ermöglichen soll, das Standortsuchverfahren kritisch und konstruktiv zu begleiten. Auf der regionalen Ebene sollen Regionalkonferenzen zum Einsatz kommen. Erfahrungen aus der Schweiz zeigen sowohl Chancen als auch Probleme.
350-fold improved measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment using a multi-trap method
Creators: name: Smorra, Christian
name: Blessing, Pascal E.
name: Borchert, Matthias J.
name: Devlin, Jack A.
name: Harrington, James A.
name: Higuchi, Takashi
name: Morgner, Jonathan
name: Nagahama, Hiroki
name: Sellner, Stefan
name: Bohman, Matthew A.
name: Mooser, Andreas H.
name: Schneider, Georg L.
name: Schön, Natalie
name: Wiesinger, Markus
name: Blaum, Klaus
name: Matsuda, Yasuyuki
name: Ospelkaus, Christian
name: Quint, Wolfgang
name: Walz, Jochen
name: Yamazaki, Yasunori
name: Ulmer, Stefan
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Antiproton
subject: CPT invariance
subject: Fundamental symmetries and interactions
subject: Magnetic moments
subject: Penning trap
subject: Standard model
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We summarize our recent 1.5 parts per billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment using the multi Penning-trap system of the BASE collaboration. The result was achieved by combining the detection of individual spin-transitions of a single antiproton with a novel two-particle spectroscopy technique, which dramatically improved the data sampling rate. This measurement contributes to improve the test of the fundamental charge, parity, time reversal (CPT) invariance in the baryon sector by a factor of 350 compared to our last measurement, and by a factor of 3000 compared to the best competing measurement. We review the measurement technique and discuss the improved limits on CPT-violating physics imposed by this measurement.
One dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with 16 supercharges
Creators: name: Kadoh, Daisuke
name: Kamata, Syo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on numerical simulations of one dimensional maximally supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory, by using the lattice action with two exact supercharges. Based on the gauge/gravity duality, the gauge theory corresponds to N D0-branes system in type IIA superstring theory at finite temperature. We aim to verify the gauge/gravity duality numerically by comparing our results of the gauge side with analytic solutions of the gravity side. First of all, by examining the supersymmetric Ward-Takahashi relation, we show that supersymmetry breaking effects from the cut-off vanish in the continuum limit and our lattice theory has the desired continuum limit. Then, we find that, at low temperature, the black hole internal energy obtained from our data is close to the analytic solution of the gravity side. It suggests the validity of the duality.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at "The 30th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory", June 24 - 29, 2012, Cairns, Australia
Synchronization, quantum correlations and entanglement in oscillator networks
Creators: name: Manzano, Gonzalo
name: Galve, Fernando
name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
name: Hernández-García, Emilio
name: Zambrini, Roberta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchronization is one of the paradigmatic phenomena in the study of complex systems. It has been explored theoretically and experimentally mostly to understand natural phenomena, but also in view of technological applications. Although several mechanisms and conditions for synchronous behavior in spatially extended systems and networks have been identified, the emergence of this phenomenon has been largely unexplored in quantum systems until very recently. Here we discuss synchronization in quantum networks of different harmonic oscillators relaxing towards a stationary state, being essential the form of dissipation. By local tuning of one of the oscillators, we establish the conditions for synchronous dynamics, in the whole network or in a motif. Beyond the classical regime we show that synchronization between (even unlinked) nodes witnesses the presence of quantum correlations and entanglement. Furthermore, synchronization and entanglement can be induced between two different oscillators if properly linked to a random network.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Scientific Reports
title: Mesure du climat de sécurité des soignants dans les établissements de santé de sept régions françaises – Principaux résultats et priorités pour la sécurité des patients
Creators: name: Quenon, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2019

description: Objectifs. Les principaux objectifs de cette campagne interrégionale de la Fédération des organismes régionaux et territoriaux pour l’amélioration des pratiques et organisations en santé (Forap), réalisée en 2015, étaient de mesurer le climat de sécurité des soignants dans les établissements de santé, d’identifier les dimensions développées et celles à améliorer, et de proposer des actions d’amélioration pour les dimensions les moins développées. Méthode. La version française du questionnaire « Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture », explorant 10 dimensions du climat de sécurité, a été utilisée dans 166 établissements de santé de 7 régions françaises, adhérents à une structure régionale d’appui. Résultats. Parmi les 44 104 soignants inclus, 11 418 (25,8 %) ont répondu au questionnaire. Le climat de sécurité des soignants était globalement peu développé. La dimension la plus développée était le travail en équipe (76 % de réponses favorables). Cinq dimensions avaient un score inférieur à 50 % : la perception globale de la sécurité, la réponse non punitive à l’erreur, les ressources humaines, le soutien du management, et le travail d’équipe entre les services de l’établissement. Le soutien des managers pour la sécurité des soins était perçu comme insuffisant par les soignants. Plusieurs actions et outils d’amélioration disponibles, susceptibles d’améliorer certaines dimensions du climat de sécurité des soignants, ont été identifiés, discutés et proposés aux établissements (comme les visites managériales de sécurité).
Transmission of phase information between electrons and holes in graphene
Creators: name: Rahman, Atikur
name: Guikema, Janice Wynn
name: Lee, Soo Hyung
name: Markovic, Nina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied quantum interference between electrons and holes in a split-ring gold interferometer with graphene arms, one of which contained a pn junction. The carrier type, the pn junction and the phase of the oscillations in a magnetic field were controlled by a top gate placed over one of the arms. We observe clear Aharonov-Bohm oscillations at the Dirac point and away from it, regardless of the carrier type in each arm. We also find clear oscillations when one arm of the interferometer contains a single pn junction, allowing us to study the interplay of Aharonov-Bohm effect and Klein tunneling.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Quality of Life as an outcome in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias- obstacles and goals
Creators: name: Riepe, Matthias W.
name: Mittendorf, Thomas
name: Förstl, Hans
name: Frölich, Lutz
name: Haupt, Martin
name: Leidl, Reiner
name: Vauth, Christoph
name: Schulenburg, Johann-Matthias Graf Von Der
Publisher: name: London : BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer disease
subject: article
subject: clinical evaluation
subject: decision making
subject: dementia
subject: health care utilization
subject: health economics
subject: human
subject: medical research
subject: neuroanatomy
subject: outcome variable
subject: quality of life
subject: resource allocation
subject: wellbeing
subject: daily life activity
subject: disease course
subject: economics
subject: hospitalization
subject: psychological aspect
subject: treatment outcome
subject: Activities of Daily Living
subject: Dementia
subject: Disease Progression
subject: Humans
subject: Judgment
subject: Quality of Life
subject: Resource Allocation
subject: Severity of Illness Index
subject: Treatment Outcome
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Background: The number of individuals at risk for dementia will probably increase in ageing societies as will the array of preventive and therapeutic options, both however within limited economic resources. For economic and medical purposes valid instruments are required to assess disease processes and the efficacy of therapeutic interventions for different forms and stages of illness. In principal, the impact of illness and success of an intervention can be assessed with biomedical variables, e.g. severity of symptoms or frequency of complications of a disease. However, this does not allow clear judgement on clinical relevance or comparison across different diseases. Discussion: Outcome model variables such as quality of life (QoL) or health care resource utilization require the patient to appraise their own well-being or third parties to set preferences. In Alzheimer's disease and other dementias the evaluation process performed by the patient is subject to the disease process itself because over progress of the disease neuroanatomical structures are affected that mediate evaluation processes. Summary: Published research and methodological considerations thus lead to the conclusion that current QoL-instruments, which have been useful in other contexts, are ill-suited and insufficiently validated to play a major role in dementia research, decision making and resource allocation. New models integrating biomedical and outcome variables need to be developed in order to meet the upcoming medical and economic challenges.
title: Les tours de sécurité en Belgique francophone – Bilan de trois années d’expérience de formation et d’accompagnement auprès de quinze institutions hospitalières
Creators: name: Jacquerye, Agnès
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2019

description: Contexte. Suite aux résultats des différentes mesures de la culture de sécurité dans les hôpitaux belges, le service public fédéral (SPF) Santé publique, Sécurité de la chaîne alimentaire et Environnement les a invités à mettre en place des tours de sécurité (TS) pour améliorer le soutien de la hiérarchie en matière de sécurité des patients. Il a mandaté le groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire « Quality Safety and Resources » (GRI Quasar) de l’école de santé publique (ESP) de l’université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), pour accompagner les hôpitaux de Belgique francophone dans la mise en œuvre de cette démarche. Méthode. Le GRI Quasar a dispensé un programme de formation sur les TS à quinze hôpitaux volontaires. Pour réaliser le bilan de ces TS dans leur institution, ces hôpitaux ont répondu à un questionnaire. Résultats. Parmi eux, dix ont mis en œuvre cette démarche, trois sont en période de test et deux sont en cours de réflexion. Plus de 70 TS ont été réalisés, de 2015 à 2017, dans les treize établissements concernés. La satisfaction a été démontrée tant au niveau de l’équipe visitée, que de l’équipe visiteuse et du comité de direction. Conclusion. Cette expérimentation a permis de faire émerger un nouveau mode de management, où la direction est davantage connectée au terrain, pour améliorer la sécurité des patients. Elle a également mis en évidence la faisabilité et l’applicabilité de ces TS en Belgique francophone, avec une méthodologie revue et adaptée au contexte hospitalier local.
Supernovae in the Central Parsec: A Mechanism for Producing Spatially Anisotropic Hypervelocity Stars
Creators: name: Zubovas, Kastytis
name: Wynn, Graham A.
name: Gualandris, Alessia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several tens of hyper-velocity stars (HVSs) have been discovered escaping our Galaxy. These stars share a common origin in the Galactic centre and are distributed anisotropically in Galactic longitude and latitude. We examine the possibility that HVSs may be created as the result of supernovae occurring within binary systems in a disc of stars around Sgr A* over the last 100 Myr. Monte Carlo simulations show that the rate of binary disruption is ~10^-4 yr^-1, comparable to that of tidal disruption models. The supernova-induced HVS production rate (Γ_HVS) is significantly increased if the binaries are hardened via migration through a gaseous disc. Moderate hardening gives Γ_HVS ~ 2*10^-7 yr^-1 and an estimated population of ~20 HVSs in the last 100 Myr. Supernova-induced HVS production requires the internal and external orbital velocity vectors of the secondary binary component to be aligned when the binary is disrupted. This leaves an imprint of the disc geometry on the spatial distribution of the HVSs, producing a distinct anisotropy.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Peripheral thyroid hormone levels and hepatic thyroid hormone deiodinase gene expression in dairy heifers on the day of ovulation and during the early peri-implantation period
Creators: name: Meyerholz, Marie Margarete
name: Mense, Kirsten
name: Linden, Matthias
name: Raliou, Miriam
name: Sandra, Olivier
name: Schuberth, Hans-Joachim
name: Hoedemaker, Martina
name: Schmicke, Marion
Publisher: name: London : BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dairy heifer
subject: DIO1 gene
subject: Early pregnancy
subject: Thyroid function
subject: Triiodothyronine
subject: TSH
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin

description: Background: Before the onset of fetal thyroid hormone production, the transplacental delivery of maternal thyroid hormones is necessary for embryonic and fetal development. Therefore, the adaptation of maternal thyroid hormone metabolism may be important for pregnancy success and embryo survival. The aims of this study were to determine the thyroid hormone levels during the early peri-implantation period until day 18 and on the day of ovulation, to determine whether pregnancy success is dependent on a "normothyroid status" and to determine whether physiological adaptations in maternal thyroid hormone metabolism occur, which may be necessary to provide sufficient amounts of biologically active T3 to support early pregnancy. Therefore, blood samples obtained on the day of ovulation (day 0) and days 14 and 18 of the Holstein-Friesian heifers (n = 10) during the respective pregnant, non-pregnant and negative control cycles were analyzed for thyroid-stimulating-hormone (TSH), thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Liver biopsies (day 18) from pregnant and respective non-pregnant heifers were analyzed for mRNA expression of the most abundant hepatic thyroid hormone deiodinase (DIO1) by real time qPCR. Results: Although liver DIO1 mRNA expression did not differ between the pregnant and non-pregnant heifers on day 18, the serum concentrations of TSH and T3 on day 18 were higher in non-pregnant heifers compared to pregnant heifers (P < 0.05). Moreover, T3 decreased between day 0 and 18 in pregnant heifers (P < 0.001). Conclusions: In conclusion, no associations between thyroid hormone patterns on day 18 and pregnancy success were detected. During the early peri-implantation period, TSH and T3 may be affected by the pregnancy status because both TSH and T3 were lower on day 18 in pregnant heifers compared to non-pregnant dairy heifers. In further studies, the thyroid hormone axis should be evaluated throughout the entire gestation to confirm these data and identify other possible effects of pregnancy on the thyroid hormone axis in cattle.
title: Mongolian Historical Writing from 1200-1700
Creators: name: Bira, Shagdaryn
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 2002

description: Mongolian Historical Writing from 1200-1700, by Bira Shagdaryn and translated by John R. Krueger: From the time that Russian scholars began the study of Mongolian sources, about a century and a half has gone past (see Bibliography. During this time, through the efforts of Mongolists of different countries much work has been performed in collecting, publishing and studying the monuments of Mongolian historical literature.
O/Ni(111): Lateral interactions and binding-energy difference between fcc and hcp sites
Creators: name: Schwennicke, C.
name: Pfnür, Herbert
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Physical Society
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Monte Carlo simulation
subject: ordered phases
subject: disordered phases
subject: temperature dependence
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Based on low-energy electron diffraction structural investigations of ordered and disordered phases of O/Ni(111) that show that occupation of both fcc and hcp sites can be forced either by thermal activation or by coverage, the lateral interactions and the binding-energy difference of fcc and hcp sites are redetermined for this system by simulating the phase diagram with Monte Carlo simulations, concentrating on the coverage range between 0.25 and 0.33 ML. From a comparison of the temperature dependence of the occupation probability of fcc and hcp sites in experiment and simulations, the difference in binding energy between fcc and hcp sites is determined to be 46 meV. Using a minimum set of five pairwise lateral interactions, the experimental phase diagram in the investigated coverage range is reproduced in detail. Even the complex diffraction patterns experimentally observed in the domain-wall phase are well reproduced in the simulations. We show in particular that this phase is only stabilized by entropy. Critical properties of the p(2×2) order-disorder transition are discussed briefly.
General Overview of Black Hole Accretion Theory
Creators: name: Blaes, Omer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I provide a broad overview of the basic theoretical paradigms of black hole accretion flows. Models that make contact with observations continue to be mostly based on the four decade old alpha stress prescription of Shakura & Sunyaev (1973), and I discuss the properties of both radiatively efficient and inefficient models, including their local properties, their expected stability to secular perturbations, and how they might be tied together in global flow geometries. The alpha stress is a prescription for turbulence, for which the only existing plausible candidate is that which develops from the magnetorotational instability (MRI). I therefore also review what is currently known about the local properties of such turbulence, and the physical issues that have been elucidated and that remain uncertain that are relevant for the various alpha-based black hole accretion flow models.
description: To be published in Space Science Reviews and as hard cover in the Space Sciences Series of ISSI: The Physics of Accretion on to Black Holes (Springer Publisher)
title: Mongolian Culture and Society in the Age of Globalization
Creators: name: Schwarz, Henry
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 2006

description: One of the most ubiquitous terms used over the past dozen years or more has been globalization, but there is no consensus as to its precise meaning. Instead we have been witnessing an ever growing number of definitions and descriptions offered by experts in such fields as economics, politics, anthropology and sociology. If they agree on anything at all, it seems that globalization has come about largely as the result of three factors: the end of the so-called cold war, the emergence of a new economic world order, and the ubiquitous use of electronic communications. As a result, what we have seen so far is that most studies of globalization have focused primarily on the phenomenon’s political and economic modalities in general and almost always within the framework of “country studies.” It was this dual emphasis both on political and economic events and on states that peaked my curiosity.
Vaccinium myrtillus L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: V. Myrtillus L. Cat. 249. Bis 2600 m: Chenalette am Gr. St. Bernhard (Melly) und Luisin, hier mit reifen Früchten (Obersan 1949). Andere hohe Stellen sind: unter der Cabane d'Orny (südwestlich Orsières), 2570m (J.); bei der Cabane de Chanrion (Val de Bagnes), 2410 m (R. Chodat). Var. leucocarpum Dumortier - 4: «Untere Melchstatt» am Messernbach ob Imfeld (Binntal), etwa 1630m (Becherer1916). (Nach der Aussage von Einheimischenim Binntal auch am Lengenbach und zwischen den beiden Kollergraben, doch konnten diese Angaben nicht bestätigt werden; vgl. Becherer Lit. 1920, S. 2-3.)
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
A novel low-temperature solid-state route for nanostructured cubic garnet Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 and its application to Li-ion battery
Creators: name: Kumar, P. Jeevan
name: Nishimura, K.
name: Senna, M.
name: Düvel, A.
name: Heitjans, Paul
name: Kawaguchi, T.
name: Sakamoto, N.
name: Wakiya, N.
name: Suzuki, H.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: c-LLZO
subject: Li-ion battery
subject: electrochemistry
subject: nanomaterials
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: We present a novel approach to the solid-state synthesis of garnet-type cubic Li7La3Zr2O12 (c-LLZO) nanostructured particles with 1.0 mass% Al at 750 °C within 3 h. In contrast to conventional solid-state processes, a highly reactive precursor was prepared in two steps: (i) by homogenizing the stoichiometric mixture without Li, and (ii) subsequent addition of Li in the form of an ethanolic solution of lithium acetate. The actual composition determined by ICP analysis was Li6.61La3Zr2Al0.13O11.98. Sintering these nanoparticles at 1100 °C for 3 h in air after cold isostatic pressing brought a dense ceramic pellet with a relative density of 90.5%. The corresponding ionic conductivity with Au electrodes was 1.6 × 10−4 S cm−1 at room temperature. To study its electrochemical behavior as an electrolyte, a model cell of Li//(1 M LiPF6 + c-LLZO)//LiCoO2 configuration was constructed. Cyclic voltammetry of the cell delivered one set of redox couple with narrow voltage separation (15 mV) with a Li+ diffusion coefficient at room temperature of about 2 × 10−11 cm2 s−1 at the interface between LiCoO2 and 1 M LiPF6 + c-LLZO. The cell received an average discharge capacity of 64.4, 60.3, 56.1, 51.9 and 46.9 μA h cm−2 μm−1 at discharge rates 0.5C, 1C, 2C, 4C and 6C, respectively. The cell exhibited complete oxidation and reduction reactions with an average initial discharge capacity of about 64 μA h cm−2 μm−1, which is 92.7% of LiCoO2 theoretical value. These observations indicate the applicability of the present c-LLZO as an electrolyte for a solid-state Li-ion battery.
title: Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire
Creators: name: Brose, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Year: 2007

description: Subjects and Masters by Michael C. Brose answers the question, “Who really ran the Mongol empire?” The common stereotype of "leadership" during that period of world history most likely consists of a band of savage horse­ mounted nomads, led by the fearless and powerful Chinggis Qan, sweeping down from the steppe to conquer and rule with brutal force over the most powerful Eurasian empires of the time. But while the Mongol tribesmen were certainly effective in conquest and empire building, they could not have succeeded alone. In fact, the rapid conquests of Chinggis and his heirs, and the empire that they constructed across Eurasia, were achieved through the skills and efforts of many different peoples who collaborated (willingly or unwillingly) with the Mongol lords. Not only were the nomadic Mongol tribesmen few in number (especially relative to the large agrarian states they would ultimately conquer, China and Persia), but they also lacked the skills and experience needed to hold power over the long term.