cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vitrification and Glass Transition of Water: Insights from Spin Probe ESR
Creators: name: Bhat, Shrivalli N.
name: Sharma, Ajay
name: Bhat, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three long standing problems related to the physics of water viz, the possibility of vitrifying bulk water by rapid quenching, its glass transition, and the supposed impossibility of obtaining supercooled water between 150 and 233 K, the so-called 'no man's land'of its phase diagram, are studied using the highly sensitive technique of spin probe ESR. Our results suggest that water can indeed be vitrified by rapid quenching, it undergoes a glass transition at \~ 135 K, and the relaxation behavior studied using this method between 165 K and 233 K closely follows the predictions of the Adam-Gibbs model.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures; results on slow cooled water added; four figures compressed in to three
Additional file 2 of Low-chloride- versus high-chloride-containing hypertonic solution for the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage–related complications: The ACETatE (A low ChloriE hyperTonic solution for brain Edema) randomized trial
Creators: name: Sadan, Ofer
name: Singbartl, Kai
name: Kraft, Jacqueline
name: Joao McONeil Plancher
name: Greven, Alexander C. M.
name: Kandiah, Prem
name: Cederic Pimentel
name: C. L. Hall
name: Papangelou, Alexander
name: Asbury, William H.
name: Hanfelt, John J.
name: Samuels, Owen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Patient outcomes. No statistically significant difference was noted between the two treatment groups. Ten patients were lost to long-term (90 day) follow up. mRS – Modified Rankin Scale.
Continuous variable noise-free states in correlated quantum noisy channels
Creators: name: Hiroshima, Tohya
name: Hirota, Osamu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly compute the evolution of the density operator of a two-mode electromagnetic field when the influence of the thermal fluctuation of the vacuum is common for both modes. From this result, we give an example in which the bundle of quantum noisy channels turns out to be noiseless for the special type of signal states due to the correlation.
description: revtex4, no figures, The Seventh International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Glasgow, UK, from 25th to 29th July 2004. To appear in the AIP Conference Proceedings
New results from the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
Creators: name: Woschnagg, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent results from the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) on searches for high-energy neutrinos of extraterrestrial origin. We have searched for a diffuse flux of neutrinos, neutrino point sources and neutrinos from GRBs and from WIMP annihilations in the Sun or the center of the Earth. We also present a preliminary result on the first energy spectrum above a few TeV for atmospheric neutrinos.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement): Proceedings of the XXIst International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Paris, June 14-19, 2004
Additional file 1 of Low-chloride- versus high-chloride-containing hypertonic solution for the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage–related complications: The ACETatE (A low ChloriE hyperTonic solution for brain Edema) randomized trial
Creators: name: Sadan, Ofer
name: Singbartl, Kai
name: Kraft, Jacqueline
name: Joao McONeil Plancher
name: Greven, Alexander C. M.
name: Kandiah, Prem
name: Cederic Pimentel
name: C. L. Hall
name: Papangelou, Alexander
name: Asbury, William H.
name: Hanfelt, John J.
name: Samuels, Owen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. ICU complications rate. No statistically significant difference was noted between the two treatment groups.
Probing Strong-Field Scalar-Tensor Gravity with Gravitational Wave Asteroseismology
Creators: name: Sotani, Hajime
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an alternative way of tracing the existence of a scalar field based on the analysis of the gravitational wave spectrum of a vibrating neutron star. Scalar-tensor theories in strong-field gravity can potentially introduce much greater differences in the parameters of a neutron star than the uncertainties introduced by the various equations of state. The detection of gravitational waves from neutron stars can set constraints on the existence and the strength of scalar fields. We show that the oscillation spectrum is dramatically affected by the presence of a scalar field, and can provide unique confirmation of its existence.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Psychological Dread
Creators: name: Kowalski, Robin
name: Korson, Hannah
name: Carroll, Hailey
name: Burzin, Kaitlyn
name: Evans, Kelly
name: Ridder, Aspen
name: Dowd, Morgan
name: Madalynne Gagne
name: Drolet, Grace
name: Rimmer, Blake
name: Cote, Natalie
name: Brewer, Lyndsey
name: Mochizuki, Gabriela
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is an exploratory study examining people's experiences with dread and their reactions to dreaded situations/events. Study 2 examines the relationship between psychological dread and extreme persistent fear.
A new type of charged defect in amorphous chalcogenides
Creators: name: Simdyankin, S. I.
name: Niehaus, T. A.
name: Natarajan, G.
name: Frauenheim, Th.
name: Elliott, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on density-functional-based tight-binding (DFTB) simulations of a series of amorphous arsenic sulfide models. In addition to the charged coordination defects previously proposed to exist in chalcogenide glasses, a novel defect pair, [As4]--[S3]+, consisting of a four-fold coordinated arsenic site in a seesaw configuration and a three-fold coordinated sulfur site in a planar trigonal configuration, was found in several models. The valence-alternation pairs S3+-S1- are converted into [As4]--[S3]+ pairs under HOMO-to-LUMO electronic excitation. This structural transformation is accompanied by a decrease in the size of the HOMO-LUMO band gap, which suggests that such transformations could contribute to photo-darkening in these materials.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
title: Work-based Learning Routes in Social Work Education: An Exploration of Student Experiences
Creators: name: Hamilton, Ruth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is based upon a study involving 20 work-based learners undertaking social work degrees at two UK universities, one local face-to-face university and one national distance learning university. The aim of this thesis is to offer insights into the experience of work-based learners as they journey from unqualified to qualified practitioner. The thesis is underpinned by a structural symbolic interactionist approach to human behaviour, in particular the work of Stryker on identity theory, where the importance attached to identity and role in ‘identity change processes’ (2008:21) is central to understanding the meanings attributed by work-based learners to their journeys into and through higher education. In order to understand the meanings attributed by work based learners to their experience, narrative inquiry is used as the overarching methodological orientation; narratives of work-based learners’ journeys into and through higher education were collected via focus groups (3) and semi structured interviews (35) and analysed using Braun and Clark’s method of thematic analysis (2006). The data in this thesis highlight how identity impacts upon the educational journey of work-based learners making visible the challenges and opportunities that higher education presents to this group of students. The data also reveal how multiplicity of identity for work-based learners contributes to the complexity of both becoming and being a student. The dual concepts of salience and transition are applied to provide ways of understanding ‘identity change processes’ that occur as work-based learners accommodate multiple roles and corresponding identities within educational, occupational and domestic domains. In the rapidly changing landscape of social work education and a resurgence of work-based learning, this thesis provides an exploration of work-based learning provision within universities based on student experience. The implications of the findings from this study are considered for a range of stakeholders in social work education.
A sigma model field theoretic realization of Hitchin's generalized complex geometry
Creators: name: Zucchini, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a sigma model field theoretic realization of Hitchin's generalized complex geometry, which recently has been shown to be relevant in compactifications of superstring theory with fluxes. Hitchin sigma model is closely related to the well known Poisson sigma model, of which it has the same field content. The construction shows a remarkable correspondence between the (twisted) integrability conditions of generalized almost complex structures and the restrictions on target space geometry implied by the Batalin--Vilkovisky classical master equation. Further, the (twisted) classical Batalin--Vilkovisky cohomology is related non trivially to a generalized Dolbeault cohomology.
description: 28 pages, Plain TeX, no figures, requires AMS font files AMSSYM.DEF and amssym.tex. Typos in eq. 6.19 and some spelling corrected
Convolutional restricted Boltzmann machine aided Monte Carlo: An application to Ising and Kitaev models
Creators: name: Puente, Daniel Alcalde
name: Eremin, Ilya M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine learning is becoming widely used in analyzing the thermodynamics of many-body condensed matter systems. Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) aided Monte Carlo simulations have sparked interest recently, as they manage to speed up classical Monte Carlo simulations. Here we employ the Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (CRBM) method and show that its use helps to reduce the number of parameters to be learned drastically by taking advantage of translation invariance. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to train the CRBM at smaller lattice sizes, and apply it to larger lattice sizes. To demonstrate the efficiency of CRBM we apply it to the paradigmatic Ising and Kitaev models in two-dimensions.
Variation of the constants in the late and early universe
Creators: name: Uzan, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent key observational results on the variation of fine structure constant, the proton to electron mass ratio and the gravitational constant are reviewed. The necessity to substantiate the dark sector of cosmology and to test gravity on astrophysical scales is also emphasized.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, Invited talk at the conference "The Quest for Cosmological Scalar Fields", Porto, 8-10 July 2004
A Performance-Sensitive Malware Detection System Using Deep Learning on Mobile Devices
Creators: name: Feng, Ruitao
name: Chen, Sen
name: Xie, Xiaofei
name: Meng, Guozhu
name: Lin, Shang-Wei
name: Liu, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently, Android malware detection is mostly performed on server side against the increasing number of malware. Powerful computing resource provides more exhaustive protection for app markets than maintaining detection by a single user. However, apart from the applications provided by the official market, apps from unofficial markets and third-party resources are always causing serious security threats to end-users. Meanwhile, it is a time-consuming task if the app is downloaded first and then uploaded to the server side for detection, because the network transmission has a lot of overhead. In addition, the uploading process also suffers from the security threats of attackers. Consequently, a last line of defense on mobile devices is necessary and much-needed. In this paper, we propose an effective Android malware detection system, MobiTive, leveraging customized deep neural networks to provide a real-time and responsive detection environment on mobile devices. MobiTive is a preinstalled solution rather than an app scanning and monitoring engine using after installation, which is more practical and secure. Original deep learning models cannot be directly deployed and executed on mobile devices due to various performance limitations, such as computation power, memory size, and energy. Therefore, we evaluate and investigate the following key points:(1) the performance of different feature extraction methods based on source code or binary code;(2) the performance of different feature type selections for deep learning on mobile devices;(3) the detection accuracy of different deep neural networks on mobile devices;(4) the real-time detection performance and accuracy on different mobile devices;(5) the potential based on the evolution trend of mobile devices' specifications; and finally we further propose a practical solution (MobiTive) to detect Android malware on mobile devices.
description: 16 Pages
NOON states with ultracold bosonic atoms via resonance- and chaos-assisted tunneling
Creators: name: Vanhaele, Guillaume
name: Schlagheck, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the generation of microscopic atomic NOON states, corresponding to the coherent |N,0> + |0,N> superposition with N ~ 5 particles, via collective tunneling of interacting ultracold bosonic atoms within a symmetric double-well potential in the self-trapping regime. We show that a periodic driving of the double well with suitably tuned amplitude and frequency parameters allows one to substantially boost this tunneling process without altering its collective character. The time scale to generate the NOON superposition, which corresponds to half the tunneling time and would be prohibitively large in the undriven double well for the considered atomic populations, can thereby be drastically reduced, which renders the realization of NOON states through this protocol experimentally feasible. Resonance- and chaos-assisted tunneling are identified as key mechanisms in this context. A quantitative semiclassical evaluation of their impact onto the collective tunneling process allows one to determine the optimal choice for the driving parameters in order to generate those NOON states as fast as possible.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
EVALUACION CARACTERIZACION DE PRODUCTORES DE PIÑA (Ananas comosus) DE LA ZONA DEL PAPALOAPAN DE VERACRUZ, MÉXICO
Creators: name: Ramírez Romero, Sorelly
name: Figueroa Rodríguez, Katia Angélica
name: Ramírez Romero, Sorelly
name: Figueroa Rodríguez, Katia Angélica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: training
subject: consulting
subject: Cayena.

description: The research had as objective to characterize pineapple (Ananas comosus) growers of the region of the Papaloapan in Veracruz, Mexico. A total of 315 growers belonging to the municipalities of Juan Rodriguez Clara and Isla, Veracruz, were interviewed using an instrument of 55 items. They were interviewed on the local markets known as the “bascule”. The main problem the farmers face is the lack of organization in terms of marketing issues and the effect of low prices, as the product is marketed in the national market and the most important variety is the Cayena, which does not compete with international varieties such as the MD2. In terms of technical consulting, this is normally given by the providers of agrochemical products; hence the institutions of research and education are not relevant in the region. It can be concluded that in order to increase the competitiveness of the growers is necessary to improve their training programs and their marketing chains with direct agreements with other agents of the metropolitan regions of the country.
Novel overlapping roles of Salmonella pathogenicity islands 1 and 2 in intestinal salmonellosis
Creators: name: Coburn, Bryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Non-typhoidal Salmonella species are a significant cause of human diarrheal disease, incurring worldwide morbidity and mortality. The prevailing dogma arising from animal models of Salmonella enteropathogenesis is that the virulence associated genomic regions, Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI) -1 and SPI-2, are essential for intracellular invasion/intestinal disease and intracellular survival/systemic disease, respectively. This paradigm partly reflects limitations of animal models currently used to study in vivo pathogenesis! In this thesis, a new model of murine Salmonella enteropathogenesis is presented which allows a novel examination of this theoretical dichotomy. Using this model, SPI-2 was shown to be required for complete enteropathogenesis in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection. In addition, murine and bovine intestinal inflammation was identified in the absence of SPI-1, previously thought to be essential for intestinal disease. These findings are corroborated in human disease by the identification of a SPI-1 deficient human clinical diarrheal Salmonella enterica isolate. These strains were isolated from patients affected with severe diarrheal disease in Shenzhen, China. These are the first findings that demonstrate that SPI-2 is required for intestinal pathogenesis early in murine infection, and that SPI-1 is dispensible for enteropathogenesis in animal and human infections with S. enterica. These observations indicate that disease models, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches predicated on the requirement for SPI-1 in intestinal disease do not accurately describe intestinal salmonellosis.
Quantum integrable multi atom matter-radiation models with and without rotating wave approximation
Creators: name: Kundu, Anjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New integrable multi-atom matter-radiation models with and without rotating wave approximation (RWA) are constructed and exactly solved through algebraic Bethe ansatz. The models with RWA are generated through ancestor model approach in an unified way. The rational case yields the standard type of matter-radiaton models, while the trigonometric case corresponds to their q-deformations. The models without RWA are obtained from the elliptic case at the Gaudin and high spin limit.
description: 9 pages, no figure, talk presented in int. conf. NEEDS04 (Gallipoli, Italy, July 2004)
CORRELACION ENTRE EL USO DE LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y LA COMUNICACIÓN Y LA COMPETITIVIDAD DE LAS MICRO, PEQUEÑAS Y MEDIANAS VINÍCOLAS DE LA RUTA DEL VINO DEL VALLE DE GUADALUPE, B. C.
Creators: name: Meraz Ruiz, Lino
name: Maldonado Radillo, Sonia Elizabeth
name: Ramírez Barón, María Concepción
name: García Rivera, Blanca Rosa
name: Meraz Ruiz, Lino
name: Maldonado Radillo, Sonia Elizabeth
name: Ramírez Barón, María Concepción
name: García Rivera, Blanca Rosa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Correlation
subject: Information and communication technologies
subject: Competitiveness
subject: Wine Route
subject: Valle de Guadalupe.

description: This work is characterized by descriptive correlational non-experimental design, which aims to describe how correlate the use of information and communication technology and the competitiveness of micro, small and medium wineries of the Wine Route of Valle de Guadalupe. To achieve the methodological strategy was planned in three stages: the first was made a selection of the study sample (non-probabilistic), the second measuring instrument that would collect the necessary information is designed, and the third took just the processing and interpretation of the data through statistical test and content analysis and correlation. Getting an average positive correlation with the Pearson (r) coefficient of .526 with a significance level of zero for variables, successfully fulfilling the purpose of the investigation.
Experimental free-space quantum secure direct communication and its security analysis
Creators: name: Pan, Dong
name: Lin, Zaisheng
name: Wu, Jiawei
name: Sun, Zhen
name: Ruan, Dong
name: Yin, Liuguo
name: Long, Guilu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experimental implementation of free-space quantum secure direct communication based on single photons. The quantum communication scheme uses phase encoding, and the asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer is optimized so as to automatically compensate phase drift of the photons during their transitions over the free-space medium. An information transmission rate of 500 bps over a 10-meter free space with a mean quantum bit error rate of 0.49%$\pm$0.27% is achieved. The security is analyzed under the scenario that Eve performs collective attack and photon number splitting collective attack. Our results show that quantum secure direct communication is feasible in free space.
Additional file 1 of Tamoxifen stimulates gonad development and somatic growth in the tadpoles of Indian skipper frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
Creators: name: Samadhan Phuge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Lukash plane waves, revisited
Creators: name: Elbistan, M.
name: Zhang, P. M.
name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Horvathy, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lukash metric is a homogeneous gravitational wave which at late times approximates the behaviour of a generic class of spatially homogenous cosmological models with monotonically decreasing energy density. The transcription from Brinkmann to Baldwin-Jeffery-Rosen (BJR) to Bianchi coordinates is presented and the relation to a Sturm-Liouville equation is explained. The 6-parameter isometry group is derived. In the Bianchi VII range of parameters we have two BJR transciptions. However using either of them induces a mere relabeling of the geodesics and isometries. Following pioneering work of Siklos, we provide a self-contained account of the geometry and global structure of the spacetime. The latter contains a Killing horizon to the future of which the spacetime resembles an anisotropic version of the Milne cosmology and to the past of which it resemble the Rindler wedge.
description: Revised version. 34 pages, 5 figures. To be published in JCAP
title: A Framework for the Systematic Evaluation of Malware Forensic Tools
Creators: name: Kennedy, Ian Martin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Following a series of high profile miscarriages of justice linked to questionable expert evidence, the post of the Forensic Science Regulator was created in 2008 with a remit to improve the standard of practitioner competences and forensic procedures. It has since moved to incorporate a greater level of scientific practice in these areas, as used in the production of expert evidence submitted to the UK Criminal Justice System. Accreditation to their codes of practice and conduct will become mandatory for all forensic practitioners by October 2017. A variety of challenges with expert evidence are explored and linked to a lack of a scientific methodology underpinning the processes followed. In particular, the research focuses upon investigations where malicious software (‘malware’) has been identified. A framework, called the ‘Malware Analysis Tool Evaluation Framework’ (MATEF), has been developed to address this lack of methodology to evaluate software tools used during investigations involving malware. A prototype implementation of the framework was used to evaluate two tools against a population of over 350,000 samples of malware. Analysis of the findings indicated that the choice of tool could impact on the number of artefacts observed in malware forensic investigations as well as identifying the optimal execution time for a given tool when observing malware artefacts. Three different measures were used to evaluate the framework. The first of these evaluated the framework against the requirements and determined that these were largely met. Where the requirements were not met these are attributed to matters either outside scope or the fledgling nature of the research. Another measure used to evaluate the framework was to consider its performance in terms of speed and resource utilisation. This identified scope for improvement in terms of the time to complete a test and the need for more economical use of disk space. Finally, the framework provides a scientific means to evaluate malware analysis tools, hence addressing the Research Question subject to the level at which ground truth is established. A number of contributions are produced as the output of this work. First there is confirmation for the case for a lack of trusted practice in the field of malware forensics. Second, the MATEF itself, as it facilitates the production of empirical evidence of a tool’s ability to detect malware artefacts. A third contribution is a set of requirements for establishing trusted practice in the use of malware artefact detection tools. Finally, empirical evidence that supports both the notion that the choice of tool can impact on the number of artefacts observed in malware forensic investigations as well as identifying the optimal execution time for a given tool when observing malware artefacts.
Photoluminescence pressure coefficients of InAs/GaAs quantum dots
Creators: name: Luo, Jun-Wei
name: Li, Shu-Shen
name: Xia, Jian-Bai
name: Wang, Lin-Wang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the band-gap pressure coefficients of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots by calculating 17 systems with different quantum dot shape, size, and alloying profile using atomistic empirical pseudopotential method within the ``strained linear combination of bulk bands'' approach. Our results confirm the experimentally observed significant reductions of the band gap pressure coefficients from the bulk values. We show that the nonlinear pressure coefficients of the bulk InAs and GaAs are responsible for these reductions. We also find a rough universal pressure coefficient versus band gap relationship which agrees quantitatively with the experimental results. We find linear relationships between the percentage of electron wavefunction on the GaAs and the quantum dot band gaps and pressure coefficients. These linear relationships can be used to get the information of the electron wavefunctions.
description: 8 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures
title: Identification and Screening of Biomarkers of Human Exposure to Environmental and Food Toxicants in Sewage
Creators: name: Rousis, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Pesticides are active substances with potentially adverse effects on human health, and therefore great effort is addressed to study the relation between their widespread use and human exposure. Human biomonitoring (HBM) is the most widely used and powerful tool to evaluate the exposure of the population to these substances. However, novel approaches are needed in order to give additional information on exposure at population level and overcome the limitations of HBM studies. A novel approach, called Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE), was proposed as an alternative “biomonitoring tool” with the aim to assess the population exposure to organophosphates, triazines and pyrethroids. A specific analytical method based on liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry was developed and validated to measure human urinary metabolites of pesticides in influent wastewater. This method was applied to samples collected from wastewater treatment plants of fifteen European cities. Pyrethroids metabolites were suitable to back-calculate human exposure to this class. Generally, the results obtained from wastewater were in agreement with the urinary biomarker levels of HBM studies, taking into account the dilution of urine in wastewater. Spatial differences were observed on pesticide exposure in Italy and Europe and seasonal variations in human intake of pyrethroids were found, as expected, with higher intakes during spring/summer. Mass loads profiles of pesticides metabolites in the different European cities were in accordance with the use reported in the Eurostat official statistics. This novel WBE method can be used for obtaining objective and updated, direct information on the real levels of pesticide exposure in the general population, and can complement the findings of HBM studies. The method can also provide valuable information for public health organizations, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nuclear shadowing in DIS at electron-ion colliders
Creators: name: Krelina, Michal
name: Nemchik, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a revision of predictions for nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering at small Bjorken $x_{Bj}$ corresponding to kinematic regions accessible by the future experiments at electron-ion colliders. The nuclear shadowing is treated within the color dipole formalism based on the rigorous Green function technique. This allows incorporating naturally color transparency and coherence length effects, which are not consistently and properly included in present calculations. For the lowest $|q\bar q\rangle$ Fock component of the photon, our calculations are based on an exact numerical solution of the evolution equation for the Green function. Here the magnitude of shadowing is tested using a realistic form for the nuclear density function, as well as various phenomenological models for the dipole cross section. The corresponding variation of the transverse size of the $q\bar q$ photon fluctuations is important for $x_{Bj}\gtrsim 10^{-4}$, on the contrary with the most of other models, which use frequently only the eikonal approximation with the "frozen" transverse size. At $x_{Bj}\lesssim 0.01$ we calculate within the same formalism also a shadowing correction for the higher Fock component of the photon containing gluons. The corresponding magnitudes of gluon shadowing correction are compared adopting different phenomenological dipole models. Our results are tested by available data from the E665 and NMC collaborations. Finally, the magnitude of nuclear shadowing is predicted for various kinematic regions that should be scanned by the future experiments at electron-ion colliders.
description: Datasets at https://zenodo.org/record/3470138 , fixed figure and misprints
Additional file 1 of Detecting PCOS susceptibility loci from genome-wide association studies via iterative trend correlation based feature screening
Creators: name: Xiaotian Dai
name: Guifang Fu
name: Reese, Randall
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 In the Supplementary Materials we present in full the proofs for Theorems 1 and 2 given at “Theoretical properties” section of the main text, and additional results from real data analyses.
$F_K / F_π$ from Möbius domain-wall fermions solved on gradient-flowed HISQ ensembles
Creators: name: Miller, Nolan
name: Monge-Camacho, Henry
name: Chang, Chia Cheng
name: Hörz, Ben
name: Rinaldi, Enrico
name: Howarth, Dean
name: Berkowitz, Evan
name: Brantley, David A.
name: Gambhir, Arjun Singh
name: Körber, Christopher
name: Monahan, Christopher J.
name: Clark, M. A.
name: Joó, Bálint
name: Kurth, Thorsten
name: Nicholson, Amy
name: Orginos, Kostas
name: Vranas, Pavlos
name: Walker-Loud, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of $F_K/F_π$ using Möbius domain-wall fermions computed on gradient-flowed $N_f=2+1+1$ highly-improved staggered quark (HISQ) ensembles. The calculation is performed with five values of the pion mass ranging from $130 \lesssim m_π\lesssim 400$ MeV, four lattice spacings of $a\sim 0.15, 0.12, 0.09$ and $0.06$ fm and multiple values of the lattice volume. The interpolation/extrapolation to the physical pion and kaon mass point, the continuum, and infinite volume limits are performed with a variety of different extrapolation functions utilizing both the relevant mixed-action effective field theory expressions as well as discretization-enhanced continuum chiral perturbation theory formulas. We find that the $a\sim0.06$ fm ensemble is helpful, but not necessary to achieve a subpercent determination of $F_K/F_π$. We also include an estimate of the strong isospin breaking corrections and arrive at a final result of $F_{K^\pm}/F_{π^\pm} = 1.1942(45)$ with all sources of statistical and systematic uncertainty included. This is consistent with the Flavour Lattice Averaging Group average value, providing an important benchmark for our lattice action. Combining our result with experimental measurements of the pion and kaon leptonic decays leads to a determination of $|V_{us}|/|V_{ud}| = 0.2311(10)$.
description: v3: published version; v2: version submitted to journal; v1: 26 pages including 13 figures, appendices, and references. See https://github.com/callat-qcd/project_fkfpi for the analysis and data
CREACION DE UN CENTRO DE GESTION Y DESARROLLO EMPRESARIAL EN EL PROGRAMA DE ADMINISTRACIÓN DE EMPRESAS AGROPECUARIAS UPTC- SEDE DUITAMA
Creators: name: Sanabria Neira, Nancy Cristina
name: Botía Rodríguez, Yolanda
name: Nova García, Nora Mercedes
name: Sanabria Neira, Nancy Cristina
name: Botía Rodríguez, Yolanda
name: Nova García, Nora Mercedes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: innovation
subject: management
subject: competitiveness
subject: entrepreneurship.

description: The Colombians are characterized and recognized internationally for being creative, hardworking and stubborn in achieving their dreams. However, higher education, is offering students options for today's professional performance that allows them to move from training employees to training entrepreneurs through educational strategies that create a culture conducive to productive work, independent autonomous. In this regard, we propose the creation of a Centre for Agribusiness Development and Innovation as a strategy in vocational Agricultural Business Manager, to build his business life project without relying on a job. Thus, from the research group advance business management theory and practice raises the issue of student-level enterprise, through the Center for Management and Business Development from two specific areas, one academic and one business in the creation and management of companies agriculture and agribusiness. This is to sensitize students to turn their administrative skills in managing a real company and identification of ideas and business opportunities, to realize them with formulating business plans and creation of new businesses.
Constraints on light vector mediators through coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering data from COHERENT
Creators: name: Cadeddu, M.
name: Cargioli, N.
name: Dordei, F.
name: Giunti, C.
name: Li, Y. F.
name: Picciau, E.
name: Zhang, Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new constraints on three different models, the so-called universal, $B-L$ and $L_μ-L_τ$ models, involving a yet to be observed light vector $Z'$ mediator, by exploiting the recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$ν$NS) in argon and cesium-iodide performed by the COHERENT Collaboration. We compare the results obtained from a combination of the above data sets with the limits derived from searches in fixed target, accelerator, solar neutrino and reactor CE$ν$NS experiments, and with the parameter region that could explain the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We show that for the universal and the $B-L$ models, the COHERENT data allow us to put stringent limits in the light vector mediator mass, $M_{Z'}$, and coupling, $g_{Z'}$, parameter space.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, matches journal version
Additional file 4 of Prospects of Indole derivatives as methyl transfer inhibitors: antimicrobial resistance managers
Creators: name: Suprim Tha
name: Sapana Shakya
name: Rajani Malla
name: Aryal, Pramod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 4. Docking results of two lead molecules in human homolog of MetK, Mat2B (RCSB id: 4KTT).
ANALISIS ECONOMICO, ECOLOGICO Y CULTURAL DE BAÑOS SECOS EN LA COMARCA LAGUNERA, MÉXICO
Creators: name: Ruiz Torres, José
name: Ríos Flores, José Luís
name: Trejo Calzada, Ricardo
name: Cayetano Molina Navarrete, Cayetano
name: Ruiz Torres, José
name: Ríos Flores, José Luís
name: Trejo Calzada, Ricardo
name: Cayetano Molina Navarrete, Cayetano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: income
subject: savings
subject: costs
subject: drought
subject: values
subject: decision.

description: In 2013, in the Comarca Lagunera, Mexico (25°29’18.29’’N y 103°37’17.66’’ E) an economic, environmental and cultural analysis of a dry bath (ecological or compos) was conducted, due to the fact of a serious problem with the water for human consumption. At global and local levels “one out of six people in the world does not have access to drinking water” (UN, 2008). This situation is more severe in the Comarca Lagunera because its annual average precipitation is 252.5, while the annual evaporation is 1,757 mm, and subsoil water extraction is4, 400 mm. Moreover, in urban areas a family with five members using traditional bath needs around 20,000 liters of water, which is contaminated, causing diseases and expenses. In the region, saving water may be improved by: i. Capturing, storing and treating rainwater, ii. Recycling gray and black water, iii. Using ecological bathrooms, iv. Other. Here, we show the results of using ecological bathrooms. The current cost benefits showed RB/C=0.783 and NPV=$2,729.79, making it unviable economically, 2. Culturally, they are unviable because these factors are a strong obstacle in their use and even more important than economic and ecological factors. 3. Ecologically, the impact is attractive because it saves approximately 22, 000 liters of water per year. Moreover, they generate around 500 kg of manure and almost 500 liters of liquid fertilizer. The most important aspect is that level of contamination is zero. The dry bathrooms are ecologically viable and it is highly recommended to promote them even though they are not economically viable.
RENDIMIENTO EN LA CONVERSIÓN CÁRNICA EN GANADO BOVINO CON EL USO DE MICROCLIMA. CASO ENGORDA POZO ENRIQUE, SAN MIGUEL DE HORCASITAS, SONORA
Creators: name: Molina Terán, Santiago
name: Coronado García, Manuel Arturo
name: Ciénega Rodríguez, Mario
name: García Porchas, Mercedes
name: Ramírez Siqueiros5., María Del Carmen
name: Molina Terán, Santiago
name: Coronado García, Manuel Arturo
name: Ciénega Rodríguez, Mario
name: García Porchas, Mercedes
name: Ramírez Siqueiros5., María Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cattle
subject: Sprinkler system
subject: heat stress
subject: productive yield
subject: profitability.

description: This research seeks to analyze the reduction of production costs and the change in performance of production of cattle, both situations resulting from the use of microclimates in a farm. Each summer season, the process of fattening cattle, presents a low feed conversion by heat stress; so then, by introducing a monitored sprinkler system to control the environment temperature, could improve performance in this process. The results we project, according to the analysis of livestock records, give support to the real positive impact at the performance of weight of cattle meat, using this technology may help with a better yield inside the production unit.
Energy-time entangled qutrits: Bell tests and quantum communication
Creators: name: Thew, R. T.
name: Tanzilli, S.
name: Acin, A.
name: Zbinden, H.
name: Gisin, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a scheme to generate, control, transmit and measure entangled photonic qutrits (two photons each of dimension d = 3). A Bell test of this source has previously been reported elsewhere [1], therefore, here we focus on how the control of the system is realized. Motivated by these results, we outline how the scheme can be used for two specific quantum protocols, namely key distribution and coin tossing and discuss some of their advantages and disadvantages.
description: For the conference proceedings of QCMC 2004
EFECTO DE LA REFORMA AL ARTÍCULO 27 EN LA PRODUCCIÓN AGROPECUARIA EN MÉXICO
Creators: name: Sánchez Torres, Yolanda
name: Terrones Cordero, Aníbal
name: Núñez Terrones, Elvira
name: Guzmán Soria, Eugenio
name: Sánchez Torres, Yolanda
name: Terrones Cordero, Aníbal
name: Núñez Terrones, Elvira
name: Guzmán Soria, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural crisis
subject: ejidal land organization
subject: agriculture and cattle production
subject: reform to Article 27.

description: Neoliberalism, applied to the Mexican economy since 1983, involved changes in the productive structure of the agriculture and cattle sector such as more trade openness and changes to Article 27 of the Constitution, in order to promote farm productivity and improve living conditions of the rural population. The aim of this study was to analyze the reform to Article 27 of the Constitution and its impact on the organization and the rights of property rights of the ejidal land, and in the production structure of the agriculture and cattle sector. The holder of the ejidal land is released from legal and social restrictions that prevented land transactions. The share of Agriculture and Cattle Gross Domestic Product (ACGDP) in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) change from 12.18% in 1970 to 4.39% in 2012, the ACGDP decreased -2.9% annual average in the period 1993-2000, and -7.2% in 2009.
Laughter in the trenches : humour and front experience in German First World War narratives
Creators: name: Kazecki, Jakub
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation investigates the appearances and functions of humour and laughter in selected works of German literature that thematise the First World War. The investigation focuses on selected diaries, novels, and short stories based on autobiographical experiences written by authors during the Great War and in the Weimar era (1919-1933): In Stahlgewittern by Ernst Jiinger (1920), Vormarsch by Walter Bloem (1916), Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa by Arnold Zweig (1927), and Im Westen nichts Nenes by Erich Maria Remarque (1929). In addition, the parodic imitations of Im Westen nichts Neues, the text Vor Troja nichts Neues by Emil Marius Requark (1930) and the movie So Quiet on the Canine Front by Zion Myers and Jules White (1931), are discussed as significant polemical contributions that use humoristic strategies to undermine or stress the elements of the original. The main focal point of the study is the relationship between representations of humour, military violence, and power. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the justifications of violence and power structures constructed by the narratives are confirmed or questioned by the use of humour and laughter. Furthermore, the study examines the role of humour and laughter in the construction of gender roles, with a concentration on soldier masculinity. The analysis establishes narrative conventions in the representation of humour and laughter that are exhibited by all selected literary works about the First World War that played an important role in the in the socio-political life of the Weimar Republic, regardless of their ideological assignment.
Magnetism in Carbon Structures
Creators: name: Esquinazi, Pablo
name: Höhne, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss different magnetic phenomena observed in carbon-based structures, in particular the diamagnetism, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism observed in graphite, disordered carbon, fullerenes and irradiated carbon structures.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the proceedings of JEMS04, JMMM