cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unsupervised Anomaly-based Malware Detection using Hardware Features
Creators: name: Tang, Adrian
name: Sethumadhavan, Simha
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Computer science

description: Recent works have shown promise in detecting malware programs based on their dynamic microarchitectural execution patterns. Compared to higher-level features like OS and application observables, these microarchitectural features are efficient to audit and harder for adversaries to control directly in evasion attacks. These data can be collected at low overheads using widely available hardware performance counters (HPC) in modern processors. In this work, we advance the use of hardware supported lower-level features to detecting malware exploitation in an anomaly-based detector. This allows us to detect a wider range of malware, even zero days. As we show empirically, the microarchitectural characteristics of benign programs are noisy, and the deviations exhibited by malware exploits are minute. We demonstrate that with careful selection and extraction of the features combined with unsupervised machine learning, we can build baseline models of benign program execution and use these profiles to detect deviations that occur as a result of malware exploitation. We show that detection of real-world exploitation of popular programs such as IE and Adobe PDF Reader on a Windows/x86 platform works well in practice. We also examine the limits and challenges in implementing this approach in face of a sophisticated adversary attempting to evade anomaly-based detection. The proposed detector is complementary to previously proposed signature-based detectors and can be used together to improve security.
Cereal Agriculture In Prehistoric North-Central Europe And South-East Iberia: Changes And Continuities As Potential Adaptations To Climate
Creators: name: Schirrmacher, Julien
name: Feeser, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Here, the R code and the raw archaeobotanic and palaeoclimatic data to reproduce the analyses carried out in chapter 6 of the book "Perspectives on Socio-Environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe" edited by Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, and Nicole Taylor and published at Springer Nature B.V. is archived.
Kinetic theory of equilibrium axisymmetric collisionless plasmas in off-equatorial tori around compact objects
Creators: name: Cremaschini, Claudio
name: Kovář, Jiří
name: Slaný, Petr
name: Stuchlík, Zdeněk
name: Karas, Vladimír
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possible occurrence of equilibrium off-equatorial tori in the gravitational and electromagnetic fields of astrophysical compact objects has been recently proved based on non-ideal MHD theory. These stationary structures can represent plausible candidates for the modelling of coronal plasmas expected to arise in association with accretion discs. However, accretion disc coronae are formed by a highly diluted environment, and so the fluid description may be inappropriate. The question is posed of whether similar off-equatorial solutions can be determined also in the case of collisionless plasmas for which treatment based on kinetic theory, rather than fluid one, is demanded. In this paper the issue is addressed in the framework of the Vlasov-Maxwell description for non-relativistic multi-species axisymmetric plasmas subject to an external dominant spherical gravitational and dipolar magnetic field. Equilibrium configurations are investigated and explicit solutions for the species kinetic distribution function are constructed, which are expressed in terms of generalized Maxwellian functions characterized by isotropic temperature and non-uniform fluid fields. The conditions for the existence of off-equatorial tori are investigated. It is proved that these levitating systems are admitted under general conditions when both gravitational and magnetic fields contribute to shaping the spatial profiles of equilibrium plasma fluid fields. Then, specifically-kinetic effects carried by the equilibrium solution are explicitly provided and identified here with diamagnetic, energy-correction and electrostatic contributions. It is shown that these kinetic terms characterize the plasma equation of state by introducing non-vanishing deviations from the assumption of thermal pressure.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal - Supplement Series
Loop Quantum Cosmology of non-diagonal Bianchi models
Creators: name: Bruno, Matteo
name: Montani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The non-diagonal Bianchi models are studied in the loop framework for their classical and quantum formulation. The expressions of the Ashtekar-Barbero-Immirzi variables and their properties are found to provide a loop quantization of these models. In the special case of Bianchi I Universe, it is shown that the geometrical operators result invariant from the diagonal description. Hence, the kinematical Hilbert space of the non-diagonal Bianchi I model has similar features to the diagonal one.
description: 17 pages
Improvement of Public Organization toward Administrative Success: A Case Study of a Department in the Ministry of Industry
Creators: name: Uthai Laohavichien
Publisher: name: School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Public organization improvement
organizational structure
organizational culture
administration's knowledge and skills
Thailand 4.0

description: Journal of Public and Private Management, 25, 2, 5
Compilation of International Authorities Supporting Specific Measures to Combat Climate Change
Creators: name: Kinniburgh, Fiona
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: This document is a compilation of international authorities that endorse or require various specific measures to combat climate change. Not included here are the large number of general obligations for states to limit the pollution they emit or allow. Rather the focus is on specific kinds of mitigation and adaptation measures. The document comprises a non-exhaustive compilation of extracts from various international agreements, environmental treaties and resolutions / declarations of international organizations, as well as reports from several respected international bodies. While the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and decisions of the Conference of the Parties contain the most authoritative and directly applicable obligations regarding climate change, other international conventions, declarations, agreements and charters also give legal support for some of these specific measures. Certain agreements included in this document are not directly related to climate change but contain language that supports complementary actions, such as avoiding deforestation or conserving water resources. In addition to legal authorities, this compilation incorporates extracts from reports issued by expert international agencies (such as the IPCC, UNEP, the IEA and the IMF). Policy recommendations from these reports have been included, as well as references to existing international or domestic programs that have been implemented that could demonstrate the acceptance and feasibility of measures to combat climate change.
title: Jucho! Juche!; [ca. 1848]
title: Stadt- und Dorf-Lied ; Alte Melodie: "Ich hab den ganzen Vormittag In einem fort studirt."
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - Textanfang: 1. Es ist doch eine schöne Sach' Um Red- und Druckfreiheit; - Man druckt und spricht, wie man es denkt, O Herrlich schöne Zeit! ...
Conformational Transition of H-shaped Branched Polymers
Creators: name: Dasmahapatra, Ashok Kumar
name: Sanka, Venkata Mahanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report dynamic Monte Carlo simulation on conformational transition of H-shaped branched polymers by varying main chain (backbone) and side chain (branch) length. H-shaped polymers in comparison with equivalent linear polymers exhibit a depression of theta temperature accompanying with smaller chain dimensions. We observed that the effect of branches on backbone dimension is more pronounced than the reverse, and is attributed to the conformational heterogeneity prevails within the molecule. With increase in branch length, backbone is slightly stretched out in coil and globule state. However, in the pre-collapsed (cf. crumpled globule) state, backbone size decreases with the increase of branch length. We attribute this non-monotonic behavior as the interplay between excluded volume interaction and intra-chain bead-bead attractive interaction during collapse transition. Structural analysis reveals that the inherent conformational heterogeneity promotes the formation of a collapsed structure with segregated backbone and branch units (resembles to 'sandwich' or 'Janus' morphology) rather an evenly distributed structure comprising of all the units. The shape of the collapsed globule becomes more spherical with increasing either backbone or branch length.
description: 36 pages, 15 figures
Additional file 1 of Design, synthesis, molecular docking and biological evaluation of new carbazole derivatives as anticancer, and antioxidant agents
Creators: name: Çapan, İrfan
name: Hawash, Mohammed
name: Jaradat, Nidal
name: Sert, Yusuf
name: Servi, Refik
name: Koca, İrfan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Contains chemical structures, LC-MS, NMR spectrums, and Docking Interactions of Compounds 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Exact solutions to Elko spinors in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes
Creators: name: da Silva, J. M. Hoff
name: Pereira, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present exact solutions to the so-called Elko spinors for three models of expanding universe, namely the de Sitter, linear and the radiation type evolution. The study was restrict to flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds. Starting with an Elko spinor we present the solutions for these cases and compared to the case of Dirac spinors. Besides, an attempt to use Elko spinors as a dark energy candidate in the cosmological context is investigated.
description: 18 pages, section IV of last version removed; section on cosmological application rewritten
The Effects of Strategic and Cultural Satisfaction, and Justice on Organizational Commitment
Creators: name: Keeratiya Rujimora
Publisher: name: School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Organizational commitment
strategic satisfaction
cultural satisfaction
distributive justice
procedural justice
interaction effect between procedural and distributive justice

description: Journal of Public and Private Management, 25, 2, 15
Information Geometry of Complex Hamiltonians and Exceptional Points
Creators: name: Brody, Dorje C.
name: Graefe, Eva-Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Information geometry provides a tool to systematically investigate parameter sensitivity of the state of a system. If a physical system is described by a linear combination of eigenstates of a complex (that is, non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian, then there can be phase transitions where dynamical properties of the system change abruptly. In the vicinities of the transition points, the state of the system becomes highly sensitive to the changes of the parameters in the Hamiltonian. The parameter sensitivity can then be measured in terms of the Fisher-Rao metric and the associated curvature of the parameter-space manifold. A general scheme for the geometric study of parameter-space manifolds of eigenstates of complex Hamiltonians is outlined here, leading to generic expressions for the metric.
description: 17 pages, invited contribution for a Special Issue on "Distance in Information and Statistical Physics"
The Influence of Learning Organization and Competitive Advantage on Organizational Performance in SMEs Thailand
Creators: name: Pawinee Sumsiripong
Publisher: name: School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Learning organization
competitive advantage
organizational performance
SMEs
causal model
structural equation modeling

description: Journal of Public and Private Management, 25, 2, 65
Growth and order of automorphisms of free groups and free Burnside groups
Creators: name: Coulon, Rémi
name: Hilion, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20E05, 20E36, 20F28, 20F50, 68R15

description: We prove that an outer automorphism of the free group is exponentially growing if and only if it induces an outer automorphism of infinite order of free Burnside groups with sufficiently large odd exponent.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures
title: Zukünftig und Jetzt, oder Frankfurt in hundert Jahren; [ca. 1848]
title: Gedicht
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dauth, C. F.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - Textanfang: Es haben schon viel Dichter der jetzigen Zeit, So viel d'ran geschrieben, wie's einst war und heut', ...
Site Selection in School District Research: A Measure of Effectiveness Using Hierarchical Longitudinal Growth Models of Performance
Creators: name: Bowers, Alex J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education--Administration
School management and organization
Educational evaluation
Educational leadership

description: School districts in the United States are an active area of study in education research as findings have shown that some districts find success in certain contexts, while others struggle. However, while significant resources are needed to study the complex day to day practices of district and central office staff, including researcher time and effort, to date the research domain has had few actionable methods for site selection to determine the extent to which a district should be considered unusually effective, while taking into account the cautions from 40 years of school effectiveness research. The present study analyzes all school districts in the state of Ohio (n=610) from 2005-06 through 2012-13 using a two-level hierarchical linear growth model to identify districts that significantly outperform or underperform the background and demographic variables in the Ohio Performance Index Score, that are outside the influence of the district administration. The aim of the study is to provide a framework for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers looking to select comparison and contrast sites for deep district effectiveness research. This study builds upon recent work by capturing the school level variance within districts to control for overall average district performance over an eight year period analyzing the entire population of districts. Fifteen outperforming districts are named as potential sites for site selection for in-depth qualitative studies of districts in comparison to similar districts that are at the norm for the state. Keywords: School District, District Effectiveness Research (DER), Hierarchical Modeling, Longitudinal Studies, School Effectiveness Research (SER), Student Attendance, Rural Urban Differences, Suburban, Municipalities, Enrollment
An Extension of the Athena++ Code Framework for Radiation-Magnetohydrodynamics in General Relativity Using a Finite-Solid-Angle Discretization
Creators: name: White, Christopher J.
name: Mullen, Patrick D.
name: Jiang, Yan-Fei
name: Davis, Shane W.
name: Stone, James M.
name: Morozova, Viktoriya
name: Zhang, Lizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of Athena++ to incorporate radiation. The intensity field in each finite-volume cell is discretized in angle, with explicit transport in both space and angle properly accounting for the effects of gravity on null geodesics, and with matter and radiation coupled in a locally implicit fashion. Here we describe the numerical procedure in detail, verifying its correctness with a suite of tests. Motivated in particular by black hole accretion in the high-accretion-rate, thin-disk regime, we demonstrate the application of the method to this problem. With excellent scaling on flagship computing clusters, the port of the algorithm to the GPU-enabled AthenaK code now allows the simulation of many previously intractable radiation-GRMHD systems.
description: To be published in ApJS
Effective Broadcast Strategies for Bombo Radyo-Iloilo to Meet the Existing Broadcast Code of the Philippines
Creators: name: Gimoto, Efren C.
Publisher: name: School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Broadcast strategies
code
effective
formulate implementation practices
code program standards
radio

description: Journal of Public and Private Management, 25, 2, 103
The End of the Black Hole Dark Ages, and Warm Absorbers
Creators: name: King, A. R.
name: Pounds, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider how the radiation pressure of an accreting supermassive hole (SMBH) affects the interstellar medium around it. Much of the gas originally surrounding the hole is swept into a shell with a characteristic radius somewhat larger than the black hole's radius of influence ($\sim$ 1-100 pc). The shell has a mass directly comparable to the ($M - σ$) mass the hole will eventually reach, and may have a complex topology. We suggest that outflows from the central supermassive black holes are halted by collisions with the shell, and that this is the origin of the warm absorber components frequently seen in AGN spectra. The shell may absorb and reradiate some of the black hole accretion luminosity at long wavelengths, implying both that the bolometric luminosities of some known AGN may have been underestimated, and that some accreting SMBH may have escaped detection entirely.
description: accepted for MNRAS Letters
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - May, 2024 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: Economy on right or wrong track (3); personal financial situation (1); good or bad time to buy a house (3); good or bad time to sell a house (3); expect to move (1); direction house prices will go (3); direction rental prices will go (3); direction mortgage rates will go (1); difficulty getting a mortgage (1); home ownership (2).
Die Utzwache zu Buxtehude; [ca. 1848]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - Textanfang: Trab, trab, trab, trab! So geht's die ganz Nacht, Die Straßen auf und ab ... - Enth. außerdem: Aufruf Michel's an die Hebräer : Melodie: Knoblauch, Knoblauch meine Lust [et]c. - Gedichte
Red China Going Green: The Emergence and Current Development of Carbon Emissions Trading in the World's Largest Carbon Emitter
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaotang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental policy
Environmental policy--Chinese provinces
Emissions trading
Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: This paper focuses on one of China’s efforts to engage with climate change -- the establishment and development of carbon emissions trading schemes (ETSs) in the country. Section II examines the shift from command and control approaches to market mechanisms in China’s climate policy over the past two decades, which primed the domestic scene for the emergence of carbon emissions trading. Section III studies the seven regional ETS pilots due to
launch later this year, the success or failure of which will to a large extent determine the future of carbon markets in not only China, but most likely the rest of the world. Finally, section IV discusses the barriers these pilot programs need to overcome, and provides some suggestions for China to move forward and achieve its goal of establishing a nationwide scheme by 2015-16.
ЦИТРУС МЕВАЛИ ЎСИМЛИКЛАР (ЛИМОН, АПЕЛЬСИН, МАНДАРИН) ТУР ВА НАВЛАРИДА ФЕНОЛОГИК ФАЗАЛАРНИНГ ЎТИШИ ҲАМДА ҲОСИЛДОРЛИК КЎРСАТКИЧЛАРИ
Creators: name: Жўраев, О.Б.
name: Саимназаров, Ю.Б.
name: Данияров, О.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Хандакларда парваришланаётган цитрус ўсимликлардан лимоннинг "Мейер", апельсиннинг "Гамлин", мандариннинг "Климинтин" навларини фенологик фазаларининг ўтиши ўрганилганда, цитрус ўсимликлари навларида куртак бўртишини бошланиши март ойининг бир ва иккинчи ўн кунлигида, гуллашнинг бошланиши апрел ойининг биринчи ўн кунлигида кузатилиб, мевалар пишишининг бошланиши эса октябр ойининг охирлари ноябр ойининг бошларига тўғри келди. Цитрус мевали ўсимликлар 1 туп дарахтидаги ўртача ҳосил миқдори 2,1-4 кг., 1 дона мева вазни 65-88,7 грамни ташкил этди.
Prospects for the inference of inertial modes from hypermassive neutron stars with future gravitational-wave detectors
Creators: name: Miravet-Tenés, Miquel
name: Castillo, Florencia L.
name: De Pietri, Roberto
name: Cerdá-Durán, Pablo
name: Font, José A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some recent, long-term numerical simulations of binary neutron star mergers have shown that the long-lived remnants produced in such mergers might be affected by convective instabilities. Those would trigger the excitation of inertial modes, providing a potential method to improve our understanding of the rotational and thermal properties of neutron stars through the analysis of the modes' imprint in the late post-merger gravitational-wave signal. In this paper we assess the detectability of those modes by injecting numerically generated post-merger waveforms into colored Gaussian noise of second-generation and future detectors. Signals are recovered using BayesWave, a Bayesian data-analysis algorithm that reconstructs them through a morphology-independent approach using series of sine-Gaussian wavelets. Our study reveals that current interferometers (i.e. the Handford-Livingston-Virgo network) recover the peak frequency of inertial modes only if the merger occurs at distances of up to 1 Mpc. For future detectors such as the Einstein Telescope, the range of detection increases by about a factor 10.
Efficiently Characterizing Games Consistent with Perturbed Equilibrium Observations
Creators: name: Ziani, Juba
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2017
Subjects: inverse game theory
computational efficiency
convex optimization
characterizing games
econometrics
Computer Science

description: In this thesis, we study the problem of characterizing the set of games that are consistent with observed equilibrium play, a fundamental problem in econometrics. Our contribution is to develop and analyze a new methodology based on convex optimization to address this problem, for many classes of games and observation models of interest. Our approach provides a sharp, computationally efficient characterization of the extent to which a particular set of observations constrains the space of games that could have generated them. This allows us to solve a number of variants of this problem as well as to quantify the power of games from particular classes (e.g., zero-sum, potential, linearly parameterized) to explain player behavior.

We illustrate our approach with numerical simulations.
title: The Role of Vegetative Cover in Enhancing Resilience to Climate Change and Improving Public Health
Creators: name: Ivanova, Anastasia D.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Changing temperature and precipitation patterns are causing degraded soil, water, and air quality which is negatively affecting the safety and health of people, and the productivity of urban and rural communities. However, research shows that implementing urban forests and cover crops into urban and rural landscapes, respectively, can mitigate these effects by providing ecosystem services. As extreme precipitation and heat events continue to intensify, there is a need for comprehensively assessing these ecosystem services under changing climates and for this information to be easily accessible by communities for rapid land-use decision making. Therefore, I investigated the role of urban forests and cover crops in enhancing resilience to climate change through 1. a comprehensive review of the urban forest and cover crop ecosystem services in relation to climate change impacts, 2. modeling ecosystem services in Massachusetts using spatially-explicit techniques for an online decision support tool and 3. a comprehensive review of climate change health impacts in urban communities and the restorative and protective properties of urban forests in relation to these impacts. The outputs of this thesis inform community members, agencies, city planners, the medical community, and urban forestry project leaders of the benefits and challenges of planting urban trees and cover crops in Massachusetts as a way to improve the productivity of lands and the well-being of people. In addition, the review articles and the decision support tool can be used by communities to guide preparation for and adaptation to the impacts of climate change including medical provider and patient education, optimizing occupational, residential, and educational settings, and resource distribution.
"Green" Product Procurement Policy in the European Union: Treatment of Lifecycle Carbon Analysis and Environmental PPM Restrictions
Creators: name: Ganley, Shawna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Green products
Carbon--Analysis
Government purchasing
International law
Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: The European Union has adopted policies to “green” its public purchasing to
promote environmental sustainability. With over nineteen percent of GDP in the EU spent on government procurement, the European Commission (EC) recognizes the potential impact of sustainable public procurement on the environment and the economy. This paper discusses EC central policy directives policy on government procurement of eco-friendly products through its “Green Product Program” (GPP), which seeks to foster a market for sustainable products through government buying power. Despite these
efforts, green procurement in the EU has had limited success, perhaps given that the EC’s procurement directives are primarily voluntary and due to differing priorities among EU countries, which can lead to wide variations in uptake of sustainable procurement policies. Further, even for countries that favor green procurement, the existing procurement directives leave unanswered the question of to what extent agencies may make purchasing decisions based on full lifecycle analysis or other environment-friendly
preferences for low-carbon production methods. Changes are underway, however, that will likely give EU Member States greater latitude to take these environmental factors into account. First, the EU’s emerging voluntary ‘lifecycle product footprint’ methodology, although not yet required in procurement, may help agencies assess the GHG impact of the products they procure, at least where vendors voluntarily disclose product ‘carbon footprints.’ Second, the European Commission’s efforts too overhaul its general procurement directives will give EU countries more leeway to account for upstream environmental impacts and “process and production methods” (PPMs). These steps will enable the EU to influence the market for green products by encouraging a shift towards upstream, supply chain carbon accounting.
Nodal domains of the equilateral triangle billiard
Creators: name: Samajdar, Rhine
name: Jain, Sudhir R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterise the eigenfunctions of an equilateral triangle billiard in terms of its nodal domains. The number of nodal domains has a quadratic form in terms of the quantum numbers, with a non-trivial number-theoretic factor. The patterns of the eigenfunctions follow a group-theoretic connection in a way that makes them predictable as one goes from one state to another. Extensive numerical investigations bring out the distribution functions of the mode number and signed areas. The statistics of the boundary intersections is also treated analytically. Finally, the distribution functions of the nodal loop count and the nodal counting function are shown to contain information about the classical periodic orbits using the semiclassical trace formula. We believe that the results belong generically to non-separable systems, thus extending the previous works which are concentrated on separable and chaotic systems.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
The Energy Improvement of the Urban Existing Building Stock: A Proposal for Action Arising from Best Practice Examples
Creators: name: Parejo Navajas, Teresa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Greenhouse gas mitigation
Climatic changes
Comparative law
Environmental law
Energy consumption
City planning

description: Improving energy efficiency in existing buildings represents a great opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Numerous measures to increase efficiency and decrease emissions have been put in place in cities all around Europe and in the US. But there are some that stand out from the rest, like New York City, which is a remarkable example of commitment to the fight against climate change. This is due to the city’s special characteristics, with a great urban density and a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions coming from its aged building stock, which has urged its authorities to take important measures in order to eliminate (or at least diminish) its adverse effects. However, there is always room for improvement. Thus, a comparative study between some of the most successful measures developed in selected European cities and New York City, will be aimed at giving some useful elements to legal professionals in order to improve the existing energy efficiency measures for greening the existing building stock in any city around the world.
Moving at a Glacial Pace: What Can State Attorneys General Do about SEC Inattention to Nondisclosure of Financially Material Risks arising from Climate Change?
Creators: name: Hart, Nina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Climatic changes
Environmental law
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Finance

description: In recent years, two certainties have created a mass of uncertainty for public companies. First, companies must disclose material financial information in their annual statements, known as 10-Ks, to the SEC. Second, climate change poses financial risks to the way businesses operate. Together, these principles have generated significant uncertainty within the regulatory and law enforcement arenas. Specifically, companies and law enforcement officials are uncertain about what risks stemming from climate change must be disclosed in 10-Ks, and how that information should be presented. The actor primarily responsible for clarifying disclosure requirements is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This Note will argue that the SEC’s most recent attempt to address this uncertainty -- a 2010 interpretive release -- is inadequate, and that the SEC should issue additional guidance. As the SEC has not been active on this issue in the past four years despite promising further action on climate change disclosure, the Note will then argue that state attorneys general, particularly the New York Attorney General, should attempt to address this inaction through use of state securities laws and other advocacy tools. Before addressing the proposed solution, Part II of this Note will detail the federal securities disclosure regime currently in place, and discuss the SEC’s approval of its 2010 interpretive release. Part II will also outline the events leading to the interpretive release, specifically the actions taken by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D-New York). Part III will then argue that further guidance from the SEC is necessary, and that current New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is best positioned to force SEC action and otherwise provide companies and law enforcement with a framework for disclosure requirements. Part III will also discuss ways in which other state attorneys general could contribute to New York’s efforts.
Haplotype Translator for 10 CYP2C19 SNPs
Creators: name: Aitchison, Katherine J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310599
subject: Genetics not elsewhere classified

description: Haplotype Translator for 10 CYP2C19 SNPs, with example data. This translator covers the following CYP2C19 haplotypes: *2, *3, *4, *4.002, *5, *6, *7, *9, *10, *17, and *35. This tool with accompanying dataset has been developed for use with Thermo Fisher Scientific's AlleleTyper Software:AlleleTyper Software | Thermo Fisher Scientific - CABrief instructions for their use with the above software are below:Make a Thermo Fisher Scientific login to access the software if you do not already have oneMake a CYP2C19 projectClick on your project to open itOn the Setup tab, import the CYP2C19 Haplotype Translator (it is mono-allelic)On the Data tab, import the data file. Note that your data will need to be formatted like the example data on this page.Go to the Results tab, where your translation results will be available, and can be exported as a Summary ReportNote that the exported data will be in .csv format. Should you need to protect your data, you can resave it as an Excel workbook, and password protect it.Suggest go back and clear the uploads from the Setup and Data tabs before you log out from AlleleTyper (this will automatically clear the Results tab).For further information, see the Thermo Fisher Scientific User Guide and Quick Start Guide available on the above page.The material herein is provided on an “as is” basis only and without warranty or representation (whether express or implied) as to its accuracy or reliability. Anyone who uses the translator assumes responsibility for the result and its use. The translator is based on current scientific knowledge and may be subject to change. The author is not responsible for nor accepts liability for any direct or indirect loss or damages arising from or connected to the use of this information.If you are interested in other versions of a haplotype CYP2C19 translator, please send an email to info@digHap.com.
Climate Change Securities Disclosures in Australia
Creators: name: Liu, Amanda
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Securities
Climatic changes
Environmental economics
Environmental law

description: This working paper looks at the extent to which current securities filings regulations with the Australian securities authorities require (or alternatively, recommend) listed Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) entities to disclose climate change risks on the performance of a listed entity. The paper also reviews what in practice is being reported for the 2013 reporting year. The ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations which ASX-listed entities are strongly encouraged to adopt are currently under review and a new proposed 3rd edition draft includes a recommendation that ASX-listed entities disclose environmental and social sustainability risks to investors. Further, the Australian Securities Investment Commission has issued guidance that recommends listed entities include in their annual reporting requirements a discussion of environmental and other sustainability risks where those risks could affect the entity’s achievement of its financial performance or outcomes disclosed, taking into account the nature and business of the entity. A review of the 2013 disclosures made in annual reports from a sample of ASX Top 20 listed entities by market capitalization evidence a lack of comprehensive risk identification and discussion which linked climate change risks to business strategy and financial performance. Many of the annual reports reviewed for the purposes of this work paper contained only limited basic information, if any at all, rather than any substantive disclosure on climate change risks and their materiality on existing or future operations and financial performance.
title: Patterns and mechanisms of intraspecific trait variation across thermal gradients in a marine gastropod
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: As the earth’s climate changes due to anthropogenic emissions, it has increasingly become an imperative within the ecological community to understand existing species adaptations to climate change. Much focus has been paid to how a species might react to climate change, but the role of locally adapted traits and responsible environmental mechanisms have received less attention. Quantifying how sublethal (e.g. growth rates) and lethal (e.g. thermal tolerance) trait performance vary between populations can thus improve our understanding of how populations, and the entire species, will react to climate change. Here, I quantified the spatial patterns of performance of several traits in populations of the predatory marine snail Urosalpinx cinerea from across two thermal gradients on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America. In chapter 2, I quantified local adaptation and plasticity of thermal tolerance, warming tolerance, and developmental traits of Urosalpinx. I found that while low latitude populations have evolved higher thermal tolerance than their low latitude counterparts, they also demonstrate negative plasticity in response to higher acclimation temperatures. This is likely a result of low latitude population adaptation to cooler developmental conditions. Further, low latitude populations live in environments much closer to their thermal maxima than high latitude counterparts, resulting in higher climate sensitivity in low latitudes. In chapter 3, I quantified growth and consumption rates of Urosalpinx via a common garden experiment. I found evidence for a novel pattern of trait adaptation, wherein high latitude populations tended to have higher trait performance at higher thermal optima than low latitude counterparts. This can be attributed to the maximizing of growth rate during short growing seasons at high latitudes. Together, these results demonstrate that local adaptation in endemic across two traits in Urosalpinx. I demonstrate that these traits tend to be adapted to aspects of the environment directly related to aspects of Urosalpinx phenology, and not to environmental means as is commonly assumed. These insights suggest that models of organismal performance under climate change must consider not only the potential for local adaptation in populations, but also the aspects of the environment to which these populations are evolved.
The 3D kinematics of stellar substructures in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Navarrete, Camila
name: Aguado, David S.
name: Belokurov, Vasily
name: Erkal, Denis
name: Deason, Alis
name: Cullinane, Lara
name: Carballo-Bello, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the 3D kinematics of 27 Mira-like stars in the northern, eastern and southern periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on Gaia proper motions and a dedicated spectroscopic follow-up. Low-resolution spectra were obtained for more than 40 Mira-like candidates, selected to trace known substructures in the LMC periphery. Radial velocities and stellar parameters were derived for all stars. Gaia data release 3 astrometry and photometry were used to discard outliers, derive periods for those stars with available light curves, and determine their photometric chemical types. The 3D motion of the stars in the reference frame of the LMC revealed that most of the stars, in all directions, have velocities consistent with being part of the LMC disk population, out of equilibrium in the radial and vertical directions. A suite of N-body simulations was used to constrain the most likely past interaction history between the Clouds given the phase-space distribution of our targets. Model realizations in which the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) had three pericentric passages around the LMC best resemble the observations. The interaction history of those model realizations has a recent SMC pericentric passage ($\sim$320 Myr ago), preceded by an SMC crossing of the LMC disk at $\sim$0.97 Gyr ago, having a radial crossing distance of only $\sim$4.5 kpc. The previous disk crossing of the SMC was found to occur at $\sim$1.78 Gyr ago, with a much larger radial crossing distance of $\sim$10 kpc.
description: Submitted to MNRAS. 19 pages, 15 figures
Measuring the ground-state wave functional of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in 3+1 dimensions: Abelian plane waves
Creators: name: Greensite, Jeff
name: Olejnik, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method of measuring relative probabilities of various gauge-field configurations in the Yang-Mills vacuum was proposed long ago [Phys. Lett. B 223 (1989) 207]. We applied this method to compute the square of the YM vacuum wave functional (VWF) in numerical simulations of SU(2) lattice gauge theory in D=3+1 dimensions for sets of abelian plane waves. The results were compared to predictions based on some VWF proposals in the literature. None of them describes the data satisfactorily at large plane-wave momenta. The phenomenological best fit to data, containing three free parameters, appears to reduce in the continuum limit to the approximate form proposed in [Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 065003].
description: 7 pages, 4 figures (8 EPS files), uses PoS.cls; presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany
Calcium release channel RyR2 regulates insulin release and glucose homeostasis
Creators: name: Santulli, Gaetano
name: Pagano, Gennaro
name: Sardu, Celestino
name: Xie, Wenjun
name: Reiken, Steven R.
name: D'Ascia, Salvatore Luca
name: Cannone, Michele
name: Marziliano, Nicola
name: Trimarco, Bruno
name: Guise, Theresa A.
name: Lacampagne, Alain
name: Marks, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Molecular biology
Medicine

description: The type 2 ryanodine receptor (RyR2) is a Ca2+ release channel on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of several types of cells, including cardiomyocytes and pancreatic β cells. In cardiomyocytes, RyR2-dependent Ca2+ release is critical for excitation-contraction coupling; however, a functional role for RyR2 in β cell insulin secretion and diabetes mellitus remains controversial. Here, we took advantage of rare RyR2 mutations that were identified in patients with a genetic form of exercise-induced sudden death (catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia [CPVT]). As these mutations result in a "leaky" RyR2 channel, we exploited them to assess RyR2 channel function in β cell dynamics. We discovered that CPVT patients with mutant leaky RyR2 present with glucose intolerance, which was heretofore unappreciated. In mice, transgenic expression of CPVT-associated RyR2 resulted in impaired glucose homeostasis, and an in-depth evaluation of pancreatic islets and β cells from these animals revealed intracellular Ca2+ leak via oxidized and nitrosylated RyR2 channels, activated ER stress response, mitochondrial dysfunction, and decreased fuel-stimulated insulin release. Additionally, we verified the effects of the pharmacological inhibition of intracellular Ca2+ leak in CPVT-associated RyR2-expressing mice, in human islets from diabetic patients, and in an established murine model of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Taken together, our data indicate that RyR2 channels play a crucial role in the regulation of insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis.
" TOSHMASJID " COMPLEX
Creators: name: Umedov, Alisher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Kiziltepa district Citizens of Toshmasjid neighborhood in the gathering located in the " Toshmasjid " complex of Uzbekistan Navoi province Kiziltepa district Wangozi in the town monument (XVI century ) Many columnar big from the room a single jome consisting of is a mosque . 2 large ones and 16 ones kind of small domes with closed .
Fox in the Trap: Thwarting Masqueraders via Automated Decoy Document Deployment
Creators: name: Voris, Jonathan A.
name: Jermyn, Jill Louise
name: Boggs, Nathaniel Gordon
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Computer science

description: Organizations face a persistent challenge detecting malicious insiders as well as outside attackers who compromise legitimate credentials and then masquerade as insiders. No matter how good an organization’s perimeter defenses are, eventually they will be compromised or betrayed from the inside. Monitored decoy documents (honey files with enticing names and content) are a promising approach to aid in the detection of malicious masqueraders and insiders. In this paper, we present a new technique for decoy document distribution that can be used to improve the scalability of insider detection. We develop a placement application that automates the deployment of decoy documents and we report on two user studies to evaluate its effectiveness. The first study indicates that our automated decoy distribution tool is capable of strategically placing decoy files in a way that offers comparable security to optimal manual deployment. In the second user study, we measure the frequency that normal users access decoy documents on their own systems and show that decoy files do not significantly interfere with normal user tasks.
title: Investigating Structural Proteins by Light Scattering
Creators: name: Nudurupati, Uma
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: This thesis evaluates the organization of the structural proteins, Human Gamma D crystallin and Collagen type II, into higher-order structures using light scattering. Specifically, it evaluates the natures of incipient aggregation in Human Gamma D crystallin and the nature of its interactions with CAPEGn, an electrostatic blocker. Additionally, this thesis evaluates whether Collagen type II growth kinetics follows Classical nucleation theory.