cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Signature of growth-deposition technique on the properties of PECVD and thermal SiO2
Creators: name: Majee, Subimal
name: Barshilia, Devesh
name: Kumar, Sanjeev
name: Mishra, Prabhash
name: Akhtar, Jamil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we report the process induced variation in the characteristics of PECVD deposited and thermally grown silicon dioxide (SiO2) thin film. We find key differences in the porosity, arrangement of the nano-pores, surface roughness, refractive index and electrical resistivity of the SiO2 thin films obtained by the two methods. While the occurrence of the nanoporous structure is an inherent property of the material and independent of the process of film growth or deposition, the arrangements of these nano-pores in the oxide film is process dependent. The distinct arrangements of the nano-pores are signatures of the deposition/growth processes. Morphological analysis has been carried out to demonstrate the difference between oxides either grown by thermal oxidation or through PECVD deposition. The tunable conductive behavior of the metal filled nano-porous oxides is also demonstrated, which has potential to be used as conductive oxides in various applications.
Efficient configurational-bias Monte-Carlo simulations of chain molecules with `swarms' of trial configurations
Creators: name: Boon, Niels
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proposed here is a dynamic Monte-Carlo algorithm that is efficient in simulating dense systems of long flexible chain molecules. It expands on the configurational-bias Monte-Carlo method through the simultaneous generation of a large set of trial configurations. This process is directed by attempting to terminate unfinished chains with a low statistical weight, and replacing these chains with clones (enrichments) of stronger chains. The efficiency of the resulting method is explored by simulating dense polymer brushes. A gain in efficiency of at least three orders of magnitude is observed with respect to the configurational-bias approach, and almost one order of magnitude with respect to recoil-growth Monte-Carlo. Furthermore, the inclusion of `waste recycling' is observed to be a powerful method for extracting meaningful statistics from the discarded configurations.
On Trial! Governing Forensic DNA Technologies in the USA
Creators: name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: History

description: When DNA profiling was first introduced into the American legal system in late 1987, judges and prosecutors hailed it as the "greatest advance in crime fighting technology since fingerprints" Press accounts proclaimed that the technique would "revolutionize" law enforcement. In many ways, it has. In the past two decades, DNA evidence has been used in the USA to solve countless violent crimes that might otherwise have been relegated to cold case files, butting thousands upon thousands of rapists and murderers behind bars and inducing guilty pleas for thousands more.
HEART VALVE SCAFFOLDS DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL ATTACHMENT AND PROLIFERATIONHEART VALVE SCAFFOLDS DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL ATTACHMENT AND PROLIFERATION
Creators: name: Blevins, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: scaffold
bioprosthetic valve
adhesion
shear stress
heart disease
HUVEC

description: The current medical approach to treat human valvular heart disease is to replace the defective heart valve with a bioprosthetic valve that mimics the anatomy of the human aortic valve. Since a heart valve exists in a dynamic physiological environment, an efficient prosthetic valve should encourage the growth of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), mimics the primary endothelial cells that line human heart valves. In addition, an appropriate valve should inhibit adhesion of fibroblast cells and macrophage cells that could lead to thrombosis. The purpose of this study is to determine the biocompatibility of the next generation material used as a bioprosthetic valve through in vitro evaluation. Four different scaffolds (GLX, VIV, GLU, NFX) were tested to determine which scaffold has a more favorable adhesion matrix for HUVEC, and to understand possible characteristics of the scaffold that may influence enhanced HUVEC adhesion. Adhesion of THP-1 cells (human acute monocytic leukemia cell line, a model for macrophages) were also tested as scaffolds are also exposed to macrophages in vivo, as macrophage adhesion represents an adverse outcome. To better understand surface characteristics that could explain suitability of each scaffold for cell adhesion, the scaffolds also underwent microCT imaging, PLM imaging, and ultrasound imaging. Our key results showed that the GLX scaffold had a more suitable adhesive matrix than the VIV, NFX, and GLU because it showed a larger cell attachment and proliferation, even in the presence of imposed shear stress. The GLX also demonstrated superior attachement of THP-1 cells. This study overall shows that GLX and GLU scaffolds are more biocompatible than other scaffolds.
Galactosynthesis: Halo Histories, Star Formation, and Disks
Creators: name: Buchalter, Ari
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of a variety of ingredients that must enter into a realistic model for disk-galaxy formation, focusing primarily on the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation and its scatter in several wavebands. Our main findings are: (a) the slope, normalization, and scatter of the TF relation across various wavebands is determined {\em both} by halo properties and star formation in the disk; (b) TF scatter owes primarily to the spread in formation redshifts. The scatter can be measurably reduced by chemical evolution, and also in some cases by the weak anti-correlation between peak height and spin; (c) multi-wavelength constraints can be important in distinguishing between models which appear to fit the TF relation in I or K; (d) successful models seem to require that the bulk of disk formation cannot occur too early (z>2) or too late (z<0.5), and are inconsistent with high values of $Ω_0$; (e) a realistic model with the above ingredients can reasonably reproduce the observed z=0 TF relation in {\em all} bands (B, R, I, and K). It can also account for the z=1 B-band TF relation and yield rough agreement with the local B and K luminosity functions and B-band surface-brightness--magnitude relation. The remarkable agreement with observations suggests that the amount of gas that is expelled or poured into a disk galaxy must be small, and that the specific angular momentum of the baryons must roughly equal that of the halo; there is little room for angular momentum transfer. In an appendix we present analytic fits to stellar-population synthesis models.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
'Molecules and monkeys': George Gaylord Simpson and the challenge of molecular evolution.
Creators: name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: History

description: In this paper, I analyze George Gaylord Simpson's response to the molecularization of evolutionary biology from his unique perspective as a paleontologist. I do so by exploring his views on early attempts to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships among primates using molecular data. Particular attention is paid to Simpson's role in the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his concerns about the rise of molecular biology as a powerful discipline and world-view in the 1960s. I argue that Simpson's belief in the supremacy of natural selection as the primary driving force of evolution, as well as his view that biology was a historical science that seeks ultimate causes and highlights contingency, prevented him from acknowledging that the study of molecular evolution was an inherently valuable part of the life sciences.
title: ¿Tanto sabe el médico?: La formación de España después de 1898 a través de la perspectiva del médico
Creators: name: Gier, Daniel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: De la etapa como médicos en función de Pío Baroja y Felipe Trigo frecuentemente se hace referencia. De hecho, resulta anecdótico que se mencione en cualquier bosquejo biográfico de los dos, su relativamente fugaz experiencia vital como médicos practicantes, contrapuesta a su larga y dilatada experiencia como escritores.1 En el caso de Baroja, al menos en lo que respecta estos bosquejos, el hecho de ser médico no parece tener mucho más relieve en su vida que su etapa de panadero, oficios por los que pasó para llegar a su “verdadera” profesión, la de escritor. Miguel Sánchez Ostiz menciona que, “La andadura literaria de Baroja, al margen de sus frustradas dedicaciones de médico y panadero, o así nos ha quedado, comienza con la bohemia fin de siglo” (Sánchez Ostiz). E. H. Templin versa sobre el papel de la medicina en la vida de Baroja, pero el crítico aduce que más que considerar que ser médico fuese el móvil detrás de su propia metafísica, “ . . . human wounds, inluding neuroses are no more monopoly of the medical profession than the broad scientific, philosophical and political discussions in El árbol de la ciencia, El mundo es ansí and many other books” (166). Por su parte, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes hace hincapié en el interés que Baroja mostraba por las ciencias, en especial la medicina, y dice que su, “ . . . epistemology simply suggests that Baroja stopped to reflect on the sciences, and then used some sciences in an effort to comprehend the nature of the world and of the human psyche” (176).2 La falta de atención en el peso que pudieran haber tenido tanto el estudio como la práctica de la medicina, o descartar su importancia, abre una laguna en la comprensión de Baroja y Trigo, y consecuentemente de su narrativa. Por ello consideramos aquí que merece la pena detenerse a reflexionar sobre el papel de la medicina en la vida de los protagonistas de dos novelas centrales a la obra de estos dos escritores, y cómo el lugar que les corresponde en la sociedad como médicos entronca con la regeneración de España después de 1898.
Transparency through community-led open infrastructure: a pathway to trust
Creators: name: Barnes, Miranda
name: Steiner, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Work on automating curation processes
Building trust and transparency into research and curation techniques, costs, and workflows
open access monographs
open metadata
digital archiving
digital preservation
scholar-led press
open-source

description: Open Access and OpenData hold transparency at their core. Yet the distribution channels of scholarly publishing and archiving struggle with an opacity problem: metadata, handled commercially in proprietary, closed-access systems. Thoth Open Metadata is a platform and service providing fully open metadata. The Thoth Archiving Network extends this system to the application of perpetual access.
Industrial Waste Disposal in the United States as a Historical Problem
Creators: name: Tarr, Joel
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: History

description: This paper explores the manner in which historians have dealt with the issue of industrial pollution in the United States. It reviews the existing literature, suggesting reasons for the subject's neglect in the past. It also raises a series of questions for historians of pollution to focus upon. These questions include the need to understand societal values and knowledge that determined how society reacted to past pollution that threatened its health and the quality of its environment; the need to identify major turning points in the understanding and regulation of these wastes; the need to clarify how different professional groups have related to the issue of industrial pollution; the need to explore the development of indicators for measuring and regulating industrial pollution; and, the importance of clarifying what past responsible parties understood about the risks of industrial pollutants and how they had gained this knowledge. These issues are important not only to clarify the historical record but also to inform public policy.
Localized Thermal States
Creators: name: Borgonovi, Fausto
name: Izrailev, Felix M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is believed that thermalization in closed systems of interacting particles can occur only when the eigenstates are fully delocalized and chaotic in the preferential (unperturbed) basis of the total Hamiltonian. Here we demonstrate that at variance with this common belief the typical situation in the systems with two-body inter-particle interaction is much more complicated and allows to treat as thermal even eigenstates that are not fully delocalized. Using a semi-analytical approach we establish the conditions for the emergence of such thermal states in a model of randomly interacting bosons. Our numerical data show an excellent correspondence with the predicted properties of {\it localized thermal eigenstates}.
description: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics, NMP17, East Lansing (USA)
Incidental findings in the use of DNA to identify human remains: an ethical assessment.
Creators: name: Parker, Lisa S.
name: London, Alex
name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: History

description: DNA analysis is increasingly used to identify the remains of victims of conflicts and disasters. This is especially true in cases where remains are badly damaged and fragmented, or where antemortem records are unavailable. Incidental findings (IFs)-that is, genetics-related information for which investigators were not looking-may result from these identification efforts employing DNA analysis. Because of the critical role played by family members of the missing in identification efforts, as well as the familial nature of DNA, identification initiatives employing DNA analysis are particularly prone to reveal IFs about familial relationships, such as misattributed paternity or false beliefs about sibling relationships. Despite forensic scientists' widespread awareness of the possibility of generating IFs, to date there has been relatively little explicit guidance about their management. This paper fills that gap. It offers substantive guidance about the ethical management of IFs in this context. To ensure that the analysis addresses actual needs and practices in the field, one author (JDA) conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants from six regionally diverse organizations involved in post-conflict or post-disaster identification efforts. The paper first describes how methods of DNA analysis give rise to IFs. Next, it explains the importance of developing an ethically justified general policy for managing IFs and discusses features of DNA identification efforts that are relevant to such a policy. Then it presents an argument in support of a general policy of nondisclosure-specifically, that considerations of fair access to the individual and social benefits of identification efforts, and the concern to minimize and fairly distribute the risks of participation, support a policy of nondisclosure. It concludes by considering some implications of this argument for the choice among scientific practices involved in using DNA analysis to identify human remains, as well as for managing non-genetic incidental findings.
Infrared variability, maser activity, and accretion of massive young stellar objects
Creators: name: Stecklum, B.
name: Garatti, A. Caratti o
name: Hodapp, K.
name: Linz, H.
name: Moscadelli, L.
name: Sanna, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methanol and water masers indicate young stellar objects. They often exhibit flares, and a fraction shows periodic activity. Several mechanisms might explain this behavior but the lack of concurrent infrared (IR) data complicates to identify the cause. Recently, 6.7 GHz methanol maser flares were observed, triggered by accretion bursts of high-mass YSOs which confirmed the IR-pumping of these masers. This suggests that regular IR changes might lead to maser periodicity. Hence, we scrutinized space-based IR imaging of YSOs associated with periodic methanol masers. We succeeded to extract the IR light curve from NEOWISE data for the intermediate mass YSO G107.298+5.639. Thus, for the first time a relationship between the maser and IR variability could be established. While the IR light curve shows the same period of ~34.6 days as the masers, its shape is distinct from that of the maser flares. Possible reasons for the IR periodicity are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in: Proceedings IAU Symposium 336 "Astrophysical Masers: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe", Editors: A. Tarchi, M.J. Reid & P. Castangia, updated version with hyperlinks added
Anticipated synchronization in coupled inertia ratchets with time-delayed feedback: a numerical study
Creators: name: Kostur, Marcin
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Talkner, Peter
name: Mateos, José L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate anticipated synchronization between two periodically driven deterministic, dissipative inertia ratchets that are able to exhibit directed transport with a finite velocity. The two ratchets interact through an unidirectional delay coupling: one is acting as a master system while the other one represents the slave system. Each of the two dissipative deterministic ratchets is driven externally by a common periodic force. The delay coupling involves two parameters: the coupling strength and the (positive-valued) delay time. We study the synchronization features for the unbounded, current carrying trajectories of the master and the slave, respectively, for four different strengths of the driving amplitude. These in turn characterize differing phase space dynamics of the transporting ratchet dynamics: regular, intermittent and a chaotic transport regime. We find that the slave ratchet can respond in exactly the same way as the master will respond in the future, thereby anticipating the nonlinear directed transport.
Confinement study of an SU(4) gauge theory with fermions in multiple representations
Creators: name: Ayyar, Venkitesh
name: Hackett, Daniel
name: Jay, William
name: Neil, Ethan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the phase diagnostics used in our finite-temperature study of an SU(4) gauge theory with dynamical fermions in both the fundamental and two-index antisymmetric representations. Beyond the usual Polyakov loop diagnostics of confinement, we employ several Wilson flow phase diagnostics. The first, what we call the "flow anisotropy", is known in the literature: the deconfinement transition introduces anisotropy between the spatial and temporal directions, to which the flow is extremely sensitive. The second, the "long flow time Polyakov loop," is related but novel. While we do not claim to fully understand this diagnostic, we have empirically found it to be useful as an unusually sharp diagnostic of phase.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. Presented at Lattice 2017, the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Granada, Spain, 18-24 June 2017
Additional file 4 of Prognostic factors in colorectal liver metastases patients with various tumor numbers treated by liver resection: a single-center, retrospective study
Creators: name: Chen, Feng-Lin
name: Wang, Yan-Yan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Xing, Bao-Cai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 1. The point scales of nomograms in patients with solitary LM, 2-4 LM, ≥ 5 LM.
Kaon versus Antikaon Production at SIS Energies
Creators: name: Cassing, W.
name: Bratkovskaya, E. L.
name: Mosel, U.
name: Teis, S.
name: Sibirtsev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the production and propagation of kaons and antikaons in Ni + Ni reactions from 0.8--1.85 GeV/u within a coupled channel transport approach including the channels $BB \to K^+YN, πB\to K^+Y, BB \to NN K \bar{K}, πB\to N K\bar{K}, K^+B\to K^+B, \bar{K} B\to \bar{K}B, Y N\to \bar{K} NN, ππ\to K \bar{K}$ as well as $πY\to \bar{K}N$ and $\bar{K} N\to πY$ for the antikaon absorption. Whereas the experimental $K^+$ spectra can be reproduced without introducing any selfenergies for the mesons in Ni + Ni collisions from 0.8 to 1.8 GeV/u, the $K^-$ yield is underestimated by a factor of 5--7 at 1.66 and 1.85 GeV/u. However, introducing density dependent antikaon masses as proposed by Kaplan and Nelson, the antikaon spectra can be reasonably well described.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, plus 12 postscript figures, submitted to Nucl. Phys. A
The “social cost of carbon” made simple
Creators: name: Newbold, Stephen
name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Moore, Chris
name: Wolverton, Ann
name: Kopits, Elizabeth
name: Newbold, Stephen
name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Moore, Chris
name: Wolverton, Ann
name: Kopits, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate change
subject: social cost of carbon
subject: integrated assessment model

description: The “social cost of carbon” (SCC) is the present value of the future damages from one additional unit of carbon emissions in a particular year. This paper develops a simple model for calculating the social cost of carbon. The model includes the essential ingredients for calculating the SCC at the global scale, and is designed to be transparent and easy to use by decision-makers and non-specialists. We use the model to compare estimates of the SCC under certainty and uncertainty in a Monte Carlo analysis. We find that, due to the combined effects of uncertainty and risk aversion, the certainty-equivalent SCC can be substantially larger than the expected value of the SCC. In our Monte Carlo simulation, the certainty-equivalent SCC corresponds to the 97th percentile of the simulated probability distribution of the deterministic SCC. We also compare the approximate present value of benefits estimated using the SCC to the exact value of compensating variation in the initial period for a wide range of hypothetical emission reduction policies.
In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina
Creators: name: Faulk, Karen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: History

description: Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions. An "exporter" of tactics, ideas, and experts, Argentina has become a site of innovation in the field of human rights. This book investigates two prominent Buenos Aires protest organizations—Memoria Activa and the BAUEN workers' cooperative—to consider how each has framed its demands within a language of rights. Fundamentally, this book is concerned with the complex interrelationship between the discourse of human rights and the neoliberal project. In exploring the way in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by various activist groups, the book looks at the mutually formative and contentious interactions between ideas of human rights, rights of citizenship, and the concrete and envisioned social relationships that form the basis for social activism in the wake of neoliberalism.
Facilitating Core Trust Seal self evaluation providing a schema for better visualization of requisites and documentation
Creators: name: Rezende, Laura Vilela Rodrigues
name: Ribeiro, Geisa Müller Campos
name: Castro, Maria das Graças Monteiro
name: Oliveira, Cassia
name: de Carvalho, Lívia Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Building trust and transparency into research and curation techniques, costs, and workflows
CoreTrustSeal
documentation
Brazil

description: The poster presents: a scheme with the Core Trust Seal requirements and the relationships between them and Dataverse software functionalities; documents and information that need to be publicised as a demand for the CTS self-assessment process. This work was developed by the authors as the result of a Brazilian project to implement a network of institutional research data repositories.
Experimental studies of thorium ions implantation from pulse laser plasma into thin silicon oxide layers
Creators: name: Borisyuk, P. V.
name: Chubunova, E. V.
name: Lebedinskii, Yu. Yu.
name: Tkalya, E. V.
name: Vasilyev, O. S.
name: Yakovlev, V. P.
name: Strugovshchikov, E.
name: Mamedov, D.
name: Pishtshev, A.
name: Karazhanov, S. Zh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of experimental studies related to implantation of thorium ions into thin silicon dioxide by pulsed plasma fluxes expansion. Thorium ions were generated by laser ablation from a metal target, and the ionic component of the laser plasma was accelerated in an electric field created by the potential difference (5, 10 and 15 kV) between the ablated target and SiO2/Si(001) sample. Laser ablation system installed inside the vacuum chamber of the electron spectrometer was equipped with YAG:Nd3+ laser having the pulse energy of 100 mJ and time duration of 15 ns in the Q-switched regime. Depth profile of thorium atoms implanted into the 10 nm thick subsurface areas together with their chemical state as well as the band gap of the modified silicon oxide at different conditions of implantation processes were studied by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Reflected Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (REELS) methods. Analysis of chemical composition showed that the modified silicon oxide film contains complex thorium silicates. Depending on local concentration of thorium atoms, the experimentally established band gaps were located in the range of 6.0 - 9.0 eV. Theoretical studies of optical properties of the SiO2 and ThO2 crystalline systems have been performed by ab initio calculations within hybrid functional. Optical properties of the SiO2/ThO2 composite were interpreted on the basis of Bruggeman effective medium approximation. A quantitative assessment of the yield of isomeric nuclei in "hot" laser plasma at the early stages of expansion has been performed. The estimates made with experimental results demonstrated that the laser implantation of thorium ions into the SiO2 matrix can be useful for further research of low-lying isomeric transitions in 229Th isotope with energy of 7.8(0.5) eV.
Are renewable energy communities a vehicle to mitigate the energy crisis and lift people out of energy poverty? Collaborative briefing.
Creators: name: BECoop (H2020 project)
name: CEES (H2020 project)
name: PowerPoor (H2020 project)
name: eCREW (H2020 project)
name: W4RES (H2020 project)
name: UP-STAIRS (H2020 project)
name: COME RES (H2020 project)
name: EC2 (H2020 project)
name: NG2PEERS (H2020 project)
name: SUN4ALL (H2020 project)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This briefing was prepared by 10 EU-funded projects working on the topics of energy communities and/or energy poverty and it looks at how the two topics actually relate. The briefing provides some answers and policy recommendations to the question: “Can renewable energy communities be leveraged as a vehicle to mitigate the energy crisis, with the ability to lift people out of energy poverty? If so, how and under which conditions?”.The briefing targets various stakeholders who could use its inputs and examples to draft future EU, national and local policies, and all people interested in the topics.
In the aftermath of war
Creators: name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: History

description: Despite their inaction during this massacre, when relative calm was restored to the region by the Dayton Peace Agreement in late 1995, the international community rushed in to help rebuild the region’s infrastructure and repair its social fabric. Anthropologist Sarah Wagner examines one aspect of this post-conflict reconstruction in detail in her compelling new book on the use of DNA analysis by the newly created International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) to locate and identify missing Bosniak males.
title: Doctor vs. Priest: Urban Planning and Reform in Vetusta. Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta
Creators: name: Gilfoil, Anne W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2009

description: At the end of the eighteenth century, new theories about disease transmission would have an enormous effect on city planning. The miasma theory challenged the old contact infection model of contagion. Disease transmission was no longer direct as in person-to- person contagion; it was, rather, the result of exposure to certain conditions in the atmosphere. Emanations from the earth produced by decomposing bodies and excrement poisoned the air and transmitted disease (Corbin 13–32). The miasma theory left a deep imprint on popular imagination. In a study of Madrid, published as late as 1902, the public health expert Philiph Hauser spoke of a longstanding belief in “la gran importancia atribuida al acceso del aire de la alcantarilla al interior de la casa” (1: 195). The miasma theory’s effect on the professional class would be profound as well. Scientists reasoned that if environmental conditions were the cause of disease, then these circumstances need only be modified in order to eradicate it.1 During the nineteenth century, three epidemics of cholera devastated Spain, the last one occurring in 1885 while Leopoldo Alas was writing La Regenta (Valis 208). Because cholera struck mainly the urban poor, it was considered a disease of the city (Briggs 76–78; Rosenberg 133). Hence, an ideal urban organization promised to eliminate disease (Stevenson 5). A traditional fatalism in the face of disease began to give way to rhetoric of reform, a reform to be enacted on the urban landscape.
Dense CO in Mrk 71-A: Superwind Suppressed in a Young Super Star Cluster
Creators: name: Oey, M. S.
name: Herrera, C. N.
name: Silich, Sergiy
name: Reiter, Megan
name: James, Bethan L.
name: Jaskot, A. E.
name: Micheva, Genoveva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of CO(J=2-1) coincident with the super star cluster (SSC) Mrk 71-A in the nearby Green Pea analog galaxy, NGC 2366. Our NOEMA observations reveal a compact, ~7 pc, molecular cloud whose mass (10^5 M_sun) is similar to that of the SSC, consistent with a high star-formation efficiency, on the order of 0.5. There are two, spatially distinct components separated by 11 km/s. If expanding, these could be due to momentum-driven, stellar wind feedback. Alternatively, we may be seeing the remnant infalling, colliding clouds responsible for triggering the SSC formation. The kinematics are also consistent with a virialized system. These extreme, high-density, star-forming conditions inhibit energy-driven feedback; the co-spatial existence of a massive, molecular cloud with the SSC supports this scenario, and we quantitatively confirm that any wind-driven feedback in Mrk 71-A is momentum-driven, rather than energy-driven. Since Mrk 71-A is a candidate Lyman continuum emitter, this implies that energy-driven superwinds may not be a necessary condition for the escape of ionizing radiation. In addition, the detection of the nebular continuum emission yields an accurate astrometric position for the Mrk 71-A. We also detect four other massive, molecular clouds in this giant star-forming complex.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters
If They Touch One of Us, They Touch All of Us: Cooperativism as a Counterlogic to Neoliberal Capitalism
Creators: name: Faulk, Karen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: History

description: Through an ethnographic examination of the BAUEN, a workers' cooperative and part of the recuperated businesses movement, this article considers the emergence of a logic of cooperativism in Argentina in recent years. In analyzing this idea of cooperativism, I distinguish three different but interrelated aspects: formal cooperativism, affective cooperativism or compañerismo, and community outreach and support. I show how this logic of cooperativism relies upon a discourse of corruption to delegitimize the cultural conceptions implicit in neoliberalism as applied in Argentina and opens a space for the emergence of new and revitalized conceptions of work and the citizen.
Les bénéfices de participer à des hackathons en tant qu’ergothérapeute : description de mon expérience au sein de l’association HackaHealth
Creators: name: Travers, Ariane
name: Blumé, Thibault
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2022

description: Description of an experience in a Hackathon as an occupational therapist and reflection on the creation of technical assistance at work.
 
description: Sans résumé.
Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Creators: name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: History

description: This chapter focuses on the convergence of DNA and history in the context of postapartheid South Africa. It examines the relationship between the recent use of forensic DNA profiling to identify missing and disappeared (primarily black) political activists from the apartheid era, and continuing debates over the history of the anti-apartheid struggle from elite and non-elite perspectives. It also foregrounds issues of identity in a country struggling to come to terms with its past. I begin with a general overview of the issues associated with the identification process in the post-apartheid era. I then focus in detail on two specific cases, that of the “Mamelodi 4” and the “Mamelodi 10,” in order to illustrate the complexity and ambiguity of the use of DNA identification to clarify history, and perform political work, in the new South Africa. In this story, DNA is not being used to define the boundaries of race, or to trace the origins of a particular group of people, but rather to ameliorate past injustices to a historically marginalized group defined entirely by race.
Le langage reflète et façonne les réalités sociales :  une prise de position de la RFRE
Creators: name: Nussbaumer, Léa Camille Justine
name: Pellerin, Marc-André
name: Mathilde, Berger
name: Borda Calisaya, Alison
name: Mottaz, Clarisse
name: Paupelin, Virgile
name: Kühne, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2022

description: Sans résumé
How to mainstream energy citizenship at the national level. EC2 Policy Brief 3
Creators: name: EC2 (H2020 project)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: As the third in a series of policy briefs for the EC² project, this brief attempts to provide an overview of shortcomings at the national level. It explores infurther detail the kinds of actionable recommendations that can be made at this level to facilitate and accelerate a just and sustainable energy transition.
More on heavy tetraquarks in lattice QCD at almost physical pion mass
Creators: name: Francis, Anthony
name: Hudspith, Renwick J.
name: Lewis, Randy
name: Maltman, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our progress in studying exotic, heavy tetraquark states, $qq\prime \bar Q\bar Q\prime$. Using publicly available dynamical $n_f =2+1$ Wilson-Clover gauge configurations, generated by the PACS-CS collaboration, with pion masses $\simeq$164, 299 and 415 MeV, we extend our previous analysis to heavy quark components containing heavier than physical bottom quarks $\bar Q\bar Q\prime=\bar b\prime\bar b\prime$ or $\bar Q\bar Q\prime=\bar b\bar b\prime$, charm and bottom quarks $\bar c\bar b$ and also only charm quarks $\bar c\bar c$. Throughout we employ NRQCD and relativistic heavy quarks for the heavier than bottom, bottom and charm quarks. Using our previously established diquark-antidiquark and meson-meson operator basis we comment in particular on the dependence of the binding energy on the mass of the heavy quark component $\bar Q\bar Q$, with heavy quarks ranging from $m_Q=0.85\ldots 6.3\cdot m_b$. In the heavy flavor non-degenerate case, $\bar Q\bar Q\prime$, and especially for the tetraquark channel $ud\bar c\bar b$, we extend our work to utilize a $3\times 3$ GEVP to study the ground and threshold states thereby enabling a clear identification of possible binding. Finally, we present initial work on the $\bar Q\bar Q\prime=\bar c\bar c$ system where a much larger operator basis is available in comparison to flavor combinations with NRQCD quarks.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, proceedings contribution to "Lattice 2017. 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory", 18th-24th June 2017, Granada, Spain
The White Dwarf Cooling Age of the Open Cluster NGC 2420
Creators: name: von Hippel, Ted
name: Gilmore, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used deep HST WFPC2 observations of two fields in NGC 2420 to produce a cluster CMD down to V = 27. After imposing morphological selection criteria we find eight candidate white dwarfs in NGC 2420. Our completeness estimates indicate that we have found the terminus of the WD cooling sequence. We argue that the cluster distance modulus is likely to be close to 12.10 with E(B-V) = 0.04. With these parameters we find a white dwarf cooling age for NGC 2420 of 2.0 +- 0.20 (1 sigma) Gyrs. The 0.20 Gyr uncertainty includes errors in the photometry, sequence fitting, precursor time scales, and theoretical white dwarf cooling time scales. Comparing the cluster white dwarf cooling age to ages derived from stellar isochrone fitting we find a preference for ages derived from models incorporating convective overshoot.
description: 24 pages, latex + 8 postscript figures, to be published in AJ
Partition function of Chern-Simons theory as renormalized q-dimension
Creators: name: Mkrtchyan, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B67, 57R56

description: We calculate $q$-dimension of $k$-th Cartan power of fundamental representation $Λ_0$, corresponding to affine root of affine simply laced Kac-Moody algebras, and show that in the limit $q\rightarrow 1 $, and with natural renormalization, it is equal to universal partition function of Chern-Simons theory on three-dimensional sphere.
description: 8 pages
Environmental legacy: the impact of the manufactured gas industry in the United States
Creators: name: Tarr, Joel
name: McMichael, Francis C.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: Levels of concern over the air and water impacts of U.S. industrial wastes have existed for over a century. A focus on land contamination is a more recent development but also has earlier antecedents. Air, water, and land pollution were a matter of societal concern, even though they were not necessarily identified as “environmental” effects, and information about them can be found in a variety of reports and court cases. This paper will examine the pollution effects of the manufactured gas industry—an industry that was widely distributed in cities and towns throughout the nation in the period from approximately 1825–1950
Occupational R-evolution: 18th International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), August 2022, Paris, France
R-évolution occupationnelle : 18ème congrès international de la World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), août 2022, Paris, France
Creators: name: Guerin, Camille
name: Darve, Marion
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2022

description: Sans résumé
Gradient Representations and Affine Structures in AE(n)
Creators: name: Kleinschmidt, Axel
name: Nicolai, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the indefinite Kac-Moody algebras AE(n), arising in the reduction of Einstein's theory from (n+1) space-time dimensions to one (time) dimension, and their distinguished maximal regular subalgebras sl(n) and affine A_{n-2}^{(1)}. The interplay between these two subalgebras is used, for n=3, to determine the commutation relations of the `gradient generators' within AE(3). The low level truncation of the geodesic sigma-model over the coset space AE(n)/K(AE(n)) is shown to map to a suitably truncated version of the SL(n)/SO(n) non-linear sigma-model resulting from the reduction Einstein's equations in (n+1) dimensions to (1+1) dimensions. A further truncation to diagonal solutions can be exploited to define a one-to-one correspondence between such solutions, and null geodesic trajectories on the infinite-dimensional coset space H/K(H), where H is the (extended) Heisenberg group, and K(H) its maximal compact subgroup. We clarify the relation between H and the corresponding subgroup of the Geroch group.
description: 43 pages
Threshold kaon photo- and electroproduction in SU(3) baryon chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Steininger, Sven
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the processes $γp \to K^0 Σ^+ , K^+ Σ^0, K^+ Λ$ in three flavor heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory to one loop. Some low--energy constants are fixed from single baryon properties while others are estimated by means of resonance saturation. The total cross sections are comparable with the few existing data points in the threshold region. The angular dependences of the recoil polarization of the $Λ$ and $Σ^0$ show most features of the ones measured at ELSA. We also predict the isovector charge radius of the $Σ^+$, $< r^2_V >_{Σ^+} = (0.30 \pm 0.03) fm^2$.
description: 9 pp, LaTeX, 3 figs, uses epsf
ASCA Observation of the Crab-Like Supernova Remnant 3C58
Creators: name: Torii, Ken'ichi
name: Slane, Patrick O.
name: Kinugasa, Kenzo
name: Hashimotodani, Kiyoshi
name: Tsunemi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the X-ray observation of a Crab-like supernova remnant (SNR) 3C58 with ASCA. We find that the integrated energy spectrum over the nebula is consistent with previous results, showing a power-law spectrum with the photon index $γ= 2.2-2.4$ modified by interstellar absorption of about $(3-4)\times 10^{21}{\rm cm^{-2}}$. Inclusion of a blackbody component which is attributable to the central compact source significantly improves the spectral fit. Stringent upper limits for any line emitting thin hot plasma are established. We find for the first time that the nebular spectrum is harder in the central part of the SNR, becoming softer toward the periphery, while the absorption column is uniform across the nebula. Correspondingly, the nebular size decreases with increasing photon energy which is a steeper function of radius than that of the Crab nebula. The results are compared with synchrotron energy loss models and the nature of the putative pulsar is discussed. Timing analysis was performed to search for pulsed X-ray emission from the central compact source. No significant pulsations are observed, and we present the upper limit for the pulsed fraction.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures, to appear in PASJ
N-Particle Scattering in Relativistic Wedge-Local Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Duell, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-particle scattering states are constructed for massive Wigner particles in the general operator-algebraic setting of wedge-local quantum field theory. The apparent geometrical restriction of the conventional wedge-local Haag-Ruelle argument to two-particle scattering states is overcome with a swapping symmetry argument based on wedge duality.
description: 27 pages, bibtex bibliography replaced for journal submission
DNA identification after conflict or disaster
Creators: name: London, Alex
name: Parker, Lisa S.
name: Aronson, Jay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: History

description: Over the last 30 years, DNA profiling has been used to identify human remains that are so badly damaged, comingled, or decayed that they might otherwise have been lost to history (1). Despite growing recognition of the importance of forensic identification to promote the welfare and rights of survivors of large-scale conflict or natural disaster, access to it is often piecemeal and ad hoc.
Deformation of Silica Aerogel During Fluid Adsorption
Creators: name: Herman, Tobias
name: Day, James
name: Beamish, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aerogels are very compliant materials - even small stresses can lead to large deformations. In this paper we present measurements of the linear deformation of high porosity aerogels during adsorption of low surface tension fluids, performed using a Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT). We show that the degree of deformation of the aerogel during capillary condensation scales with the surface tension, and extract the bulk modulus of the gel from the data. Furthermore we suggest limits on safe temperatures for filling and emptying low density aerogels with helium.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRB
Casimir Densities for a Massive Fermionic Quantum Field in a Global Monopole Background with Spherical Boundary
Creators: name: Saharian, A. A.
name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor associated with a massive fermionic field obeying the MIT bag boundary condition on a spherical shell in the global monopole spacetime. The asymptotic behavior of the vacuum densities is investigated near the sphere center and surface, and at large distances from the sphere. In the limit of strong gravitational field corresponding to small values of the parameter describing the solid angle deficit in global monopole geometry, the sphere-induced expectation values are exponentially suppressed.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 6th Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology