cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fungsi Pintu Air Manggarai sebagai Pengendali Banjir Jakarta Pusat
Creators: name: Plamonia, Nicco
name: Merapi, Elang Bayu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Pada level praktis, Pintu Air Manggarai merupakan salah satu Infrastruktur pengendali banjir di Jakarta. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengendalian banjir melalui Pintu Air Manggarai dengan mempertimbangkan operasional pintu air, daerah terdampak banjir dan aman banjir, serta debit banjir maksimum. Debit banjir maksimum yang melewati pintu air Manggarai dihitung menggunakan metode Haspers berdasarkan data hujan dari stasiun hujan Katulampa, Depok dan pintu air Manggarai. Operasional Pintu Air Manggarai terbagi menjadi 2 operasional penggendalian tinggi muka air di Manggarai dan operasional dalam mengantisipasi pasang surut air laut. Curah hujan maksimum periode waktu ulang 25 tahun sebesar 775,294 mm dan debit banjir periode waktu ulang 25 tahun sebesar 376,564 m3/detik. Bila Q25 melewati penampang saluran di Pintu Air Manggarai, akan terjadi tinggi muka air = 1,65 meter. Maka pintu air Manggarai yang mengarah Ciliwung lama akan dibuka setinggi 30 cm.
Senegalia hohenackeri Ragupathy, Seigler, Ebinger & Maslin Phytotaxa
Creators: name: Deshpande, Anup S.
name: Krishnan, Sellappan
name: Janarthanam, Malapati K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Senegalia
Senegalia hohenackeri

description: Senegalia hohenackeri (Craib) Ragupathy, Seigler, Ebinger & Maslin Phytotaxa 162(3): 175 (2014)
 Basionym: Acacia hohenackeri Craib (1915: 408), as ‘hoenackeri’. Lectotype (designated here):—SOUTH INDIA. Nilghiris Khundas Range, Hohenacker 1602 [BM000946891 image!] Fig. 1. Syntypes CAL0000012916!: Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, HBG520818 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, K000791192 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, K000791193 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, L001841 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, L0018402 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, P02934813 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602, P02935016 (image!): Nilagiri, Khoondas, Hohenacker 1602.
 Distribution: — INDIA. Endemic to India. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala (Singh et al. 2015).
 Notes: — Craib (1915) described Acacia hohenackeri (as “ hoenackeri ”) based on the collection Hohenacker 1602 from Khundas Range, Nilghiris, South India. Craib (l.c.) clearly mentioned in the protologue that his description was based on specimens at Kew and BM “(Herb. Kew et Herb. Mus. Brit.)”. A total of nine specimens of Hohenacker 1602 have been located by us, two each at K, L and P and one each at BM, CAL and HBG. Though the author specifically mentioned the housing of specimens, altogether nine specimens are considered here as syntypes according to article 9.3(b) of the Melbourne code (McNeill et al., 2012). Though all the syntypes are in accordance with the information provided in the protologue, the specimen housed at BM (BM000946891 image!) is the most complete. The inflorescence and leaflet characters are better seen in this specimen (BM000946891) as compared to other specimens, hence it is selected here as the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Deshpande, Anup S., Krishnan, Sellappan & Janarthanam, Malapati K., 2018, Lectotypification of some Senegalia and Vachellia species (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) from India, pp. 131-136 in Phytotaxa 333 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/13723432
title: Dossier : la place du patient – La semaine de la sécurité des patients : quelles expériences innovantes d’engagements des patients au Québec ?
Creators: name: Sylia Mokrani
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2020

description: La Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients qui s’est déroulée du 29 octobre au 2 novembre 2018 a été l’occasion de diffuser les bonnes pratiques et les innovations organisationnelles auprès des usagers et des professionnels de santé à travers les initiatives des acteurs. Lors de cette campagne de sensibilisation annuelle, quatre établissements faisant partie de la communauté de pratiques sur l’expérience et le partenariat avec les usagers et leurs proches : le centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM), le centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte Justine (CHUSJ), le centre intégré de santé et services sociaux de Laval (CISSS de Laval) et l’institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval (Institut) ont fait le choix de consacrer au moins une journée aux rôles du patient et de sa famille dans la sécurité des soins. Ainsi, grâce à la créativité des équipes organisatrices de chaque établissement, des activités innovantes ont été proposées. Animées ou co-animées par des usagers ressources, elles ont permis aux établissements de relever un double défi : sensibiliser les usagers et les professionnels à la sécurité des médicaments et promouvoir le partenariat avec les usagers et les proches.
High-resolution magnetohydrodynamics simulation of black hole-neutron star merger: Mass ejection and short gamma-ray burst
Creators: name: Kiuchi, Kenta
name: Sekiguchi, Yuichiro
name: Kyutoku, Koutarou
name: Shibata, Masaru
name: Taniguchi, Keisuke
name: Wada, Tomohide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of a high-resolution numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of black hole-magnetized neutron star binaries on Japanese supercomputer "K". We focus on a binary that is subject to tidal disruption and subsequent formation of a massive accretion torus. We find the launch of thermally driven torus wind, subsequent formation of a funnel wall above the torus and a magnetosphere with collimated poloidal magnetic field, and high Blandford-Znajek luminosity. We show for the first time this picture in a self-consistent simulation. The turbulence-like motion induced by the non-axisymmetric magnetorotational instability as well as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability inside the accretion torus works as an agent to drive the mass accretion and converts the accretion energy to thermal energy, which results in the generation of a strong wind. By an in-depth resolution study, we reveal that high resolution is essential to draw such a picture. We also discuss the implication for the r-process nucleosynthesis, the radioactively-powered transient emission, and short gamma-ray bursts.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, to be appeared in PRD
Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Creators: name: Bruno, John F.
name: Hackerott, Serena
name: Silbiger, Nyssa J.
name: Cox, Courtney E.
name: Valdivia, Abel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Invasive lionfish are assumed to significantly affect Caribbean reef fish communities. However, evidence of lionfish effects on native reef fishes is based on uncontrolled observational studies or small-scale, unrepresentative experiments, with findings ranging from no effect to large effects on prey density and richness. Moreover, whether lionfish affect populations and communities of native reef fishes at larger, management-relevant scales is unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of lionfish on coral reef prey fish communities in a natural complex reef system. We quantified lionfish and the density, richness, and composition of native prey fishes (0–10 cm total length) at sixteen reefs along ∼250 km of the Belize Barrier Reef from 2009 to 2013. Lionfish invaded our study sites during this four-year longitudinal study, thus our sampling included fish community structure before and after our sites were invaded, i.e., we employed a modified BACI design. We found no evidence that lionfish measurably affected the density, richness, or composition of prey fishes. It is possible that higher lionfish densities are necessary to detect an effect of lionfish on prey populations at this relatively large spatial scale. Alternatively, negative effects of lionfish on prey could be small, essentially undetectable, and ecologically insignificant at our study sites. Other factors that influence the dynamics of reef fish populations including reef complexity, resource availability, recruitment, predation, and fishing could swamp any effects of lionfish on prey populations.
Spillover effects of sustainable consumption: combining identity process theory and theories of practice
Creators: name: Frezza, Marcia
name: Whitmarsh, Lorraine
name: Schäfer, Martina
name: Schrader, Ulf
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 333.7 Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
subject: cross-situational spillover
subject: sustainable consumption
subject: identity process theory
subject: theories of practice
subject: work and domestic routines

description: Work organizations that implement sustainability strategies can create supportive environments for the performance of sustainable routines. For instance, employers have the capacity to influence sustainable lifestyles of their employees by increasing spillover effects from workplaces to home settings. These circumstances provide a potential pathway to change routinized activities in different domains. We critically review sociological and psychological literature on practices of environmental relevance to better understand these spillover effects. These disciplines have contributions to make but are on their own insufficient to determine trajectories toward more sustainable (consumption) routines. This analysis thus considers both structural and individual dimensions of sustainable lifestyles. To advance analyses of spillover of routinized activities, we present a framework that combines theories of practice concepts (meanings, competencies, and material aspects) and principles of identity process theory (continuity, distinctiveness, self-esteem, and self-efficacy). Our framework aims to identify and assess spillover effects from the workplace to domestic settings. We show that work organizations can systematically provide the elements necessary for the performance of sustainable practices. The framework underpins methodological instruments to explain spillover effects (of sustainable consumption), equally encompassing individual and structural aspects.
Cardiovascular effects of exogenous adrenomedullin and CGRP in  Ramp  and  Calcrl  deficient mice
Creators: name: Wetzel-Strong,
name: Pawlak,
name: Dunn,
name: Caron,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Adrenomedullin (AM) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) are potent vasodilator peptides and serve as ligands for the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CLR/Calcrl). Three GPCR accessory proteins called receptor activity-modifying proteins (RAMPs) modify the ligand binding affinity of the receptor such that the CLR/RAMP1 heterodimer preferably binds CGRP, while CLR/RAMP2 and CLR/RAMP3 have a stronger affinity for AM. Here we determine the contribution of each of the three RAMPs to blood pressure control in response to exogenous AM and CGRP by measuring the blood pressure of mice with genetic reduction or deletion of the receptor components. Thus, the cardiovascular response of Ramp1−/−, Ramp2+/−, Ramp3−/−, Ramp1−/−/Ramp3−/− double-knockout (dKO), and Calcrl+/− mice to AM and CGRP were compared to wildtype mice. While under anesthesia, Ramp1−/− male mice had significantly higher basal blood pressure than wildtype males; a difference which was not present in female mice. Additionally, anesthetized Ramp1−/−, Ramp3−/−, and Calcrl+/− male mice exhibited significantly higher basal blood pressure than females of the same genotype. The hypotensive response to intravenously injected AM was greatly attenuated in Ramp1−/− mice, and to a lesser extent in Ramp3−/− and Calcrl+/− mice. However, Ramp1−/−/Ramp3−/− dKO mice retained some hypotensive response to AM. These results suggest that the hypotensive effect of AM is primarily mediated through the CLR/RAMP1 heterodimer, but that AM signaling via CLR/RAMP2 and CLR/RAMP3 also contributes to some hypotensive action. On the other hand, CGRP’s hypotensive activity seems to be predominantly through the CLR/RAMP1 heterodimer. With this knowledge, therapeutic AM or CGRP peptides could be designed to cause less hypotension while maintaining canonical receptor-RAMP mediated signaling.
An Assignment-Based Approach to Efficient Real-Time City-Scale Taxi Dispatching
Creators: name: Maciejewski, Michał
name: Bischoff, Joschka
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: online taxi dispatching
subject: dynamic vehicle routing
subject: assignment problem
subject: floating car data
subject: matsim
subject: microscopic traffic simulation
subject: intelligent systems

description: This study proposes and evaluates an efficient real-time taxi dispatching strategy that solves the linear assignment problem to find a globally optimal taxi-to-request assignment at each decision epoch. The authors compare the assignment-based strategy with two popular rule-based strategies. They evaluate dispatching strategies in detail in the city of Berlin and the neighboring region of Brandenburg using the microscopic large-scale MATSim simulator. The assignment-based strategy produced better results for both drivers (less idle driving) and passengers (less waiting). However, computing the assignments for thousands of taxis in a huge road network turned out to be computationally demanding. Certain adaptations pertaining to the cost matrix calculation were necessary to increase the computational efficiency and assure real-time responsiveness.
Optimal Evacuation Solutions for Large-Scale Scenarios
Creators: name: Dressler, Daniel
name: Flötteröd, Gunnar
name: Lämmel, Gregor
name: Nagel, Kai
name: Skutella, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: Nash equilibrium
subject: tsunami wave
subject: total travel time
subject: link travel time
subject: minimum cost flow

description: Evacuation, the process of moving people out of potentially dangerous areas, is a key response to many threats. Planning such an evacuation is therefore important, especially in large-scale emergencies, where routing becomes non-trivial. This paper deals with the optimization and simulation of the evacuation process. We draw our data from the study of the city of Padang in Indonesia, with its high threat of tsunami waves.
title: Hyperechogenic solid masses of lungs: Prenatal diagnosis and outcome
Creators: name: El Mhabrech, Houda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: MR
subject: Complications
subject: Surgery
subject: Foetus
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The objectives of this work is to describe the accuracy of prenatal diagnosis by ultrasound Doppler color imaging and MRI and to review outcome of foetal hyperechogenic lung...
Soil condition questionnaire for Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DA/5
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
soil condition
Langeberg
Sonderend

description: This is a scanned copy of a soil condition questionnaire, including diagrams, for Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DA/5. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.  SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
High precision measurement of the 87Rb D-line tune-out wavelength
Creators: name: Leonard, R. H.
name: Fallon, A. J.
name: Sackett, C. A.
name: Safronova, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experimental measurement of a light wavelength at which the ac electric polarizability equals zero for 87Rb atoms in the F=2 ground hyperfine state. The experiment uses a condensate interferometer both to find this 'tune-out' wavelength and to accurately determine the light polarization for it. The wavelength lies between the D1 and D2 spectral lines at 790.03235(3) nm. The measurement is sensitive to the tensor contribution to the polarizability, which has been removed so that the reported value is the zero of the scalar polarizability. The precision is fifty times better than previous tune-out wavelength measurements. Our result can be used to determine the ratio of matrix elements |<5P3/2||d||5S1/2>/<5P1/2||d||5S1/2>|^2 = 1.99219(3), a 100-fold improvement over previous experimental values. Both the tune-out wavelength and matrix element ratio are consistent with theoretical calculations, with uncertainty estimates for the theory about an order of magnitude larger than the experimental precision.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; includes Supplemental Material
The half-filled Landau level: the case for Dirac composite fermions
Creators: name: Geraedts, Scott D.
name: Zaletel, Michael P.
name: Mong, Roger S. K.
name: Metlitski, Max A.
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
name: Motrunich, Olexei I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most spectacular experimental findings in the fractional quantum Hall effect is evidence for an emergent Fermi surface when the electron density is nearly half the density of magnetic flux quanta ($ν= 1/2$). The seminal work of Halperin, Lee, and Read (HLR) first predicted that at $ν= 1/2$ composite fermions--bound states of an electron and a pair of vortices--experience zero net magnetic field and can form a "composite Fermi liquid" with an emergent Fermi surface. In this paper we use infinite cylinder DMRG to provide compelling numerical evidence for the existence of a Fermi sea of composite fermions for realistic interactions between electrons at $ν= 1/2$. Moreover, we show that the state is particle-hole symmetric, in contrast to the construction of HLR. Instead, our findings are consistent if the composite fermions are massless Dirac particles, at finite density, similar to the surface state of a 3D topological insulator. Exploiting this analogy we devise a numerical test and successfully observe the suppression of $2k_F$ backscattering characteristic of Dirac particles.
description: 6 pages of main text, 12 pretty figures, and copious amounts of appendices
Modos de representación en los distritos: ¿diputados al servicio de los partidos o de los electores? Los casos de Chile y Bolivia
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Leticia María Ruiz
name: Díaz, Mikel Barreda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The aim of this research is to contribute to the debate on the factors that determine workers’ wages. This paper focuses its analysis on the inter-industry differentials in the relationship be­tween productivity and wages in Argentina during 2003-2012. Based on quantitative analysis we distinguish patterns of evolution of that relationship. We conclude that there has been an increase of real wages greater than that of productivity for all industrial sectors during the first five years (2003-2007); while in the next five years the performance has been mixed. Thus, the reduction in wage inequality has not been explained by a similar reduction in the productive inequality.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: April 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Important issues for congressional candidates (10); important factors in deciding congressional election vote (9); Affordable Care Act (ACA), Obamacare favorability (1); congressional candidates' positions on health care issues (7); enthusiasm for 2018 congressional elections (2); various conditions are/are not chronic diseases (6); chronic disease prevalence in the U.S. (1); amount of money spent on treating chronic disease in the U.S. (1); individuals with chronic disease have themselves to blame/chronic disease is due to factors beyond their control (1); chronic disease prevention (13).
Aspect and slope determination of Swartboskloof and Sosyskloof in Jonkershoek
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Swartboskloof
Sosyskloof
Jonkershoek

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including maps, noting aspect and slope determination of Swartboskloof and Sosyskloof in Jonkershoek. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Constraining cosmology with shear peak statistics: tomographic analysis
Creators: name: Martinet, Nicolas
name: Bartlett, James G.
name: Kiessling, Alina
name: Sartoris, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The abundance of peaks in weak gravitational lensing maps is a potentially powerful cosmological tool, complementary to measurements of the shear power spectrum. We study peaks detected directly in shear maps, rather than convergence maps, an approach that has the advantage of working directly with the observable quantity, the galaxy ellipticity catalog. Using large numbers of numerical simulations to accurately predict the abundance of peaks and their covariance, we quantify the cosmological constraints attainable by a large-area survey similar to that expected from the Euclid mission, focussing on the density parameter, Ωm, and on the power spectrum normalization, σ8, for illustration. We present a tomographic peak counting method that improves the conditional (marginal) constraints by a factor 1.2 (2) over those from a two-dimensional (i.e., non-tomographic) peak-count analysis. We find that peak statistics provide constraints an order of magnitude less accurate than those from the cluster sample in the ideal situation of a perfectly known observable-mass relation; however, when the scaling relation is not known a priori, the shear-peak constraints are twice as strong and orthogonal to the cluster constraints, highlighting the value of using both clusters and shear-peak statistics.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Dispositional mindfulness and rejection sensitivity: The critical role of nonjudgment
Creators: name: Peters, Jessica R.
name: Eisenlohr-Moul, Tory A.
name: Smart, Laura M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The pain of rejection is a crucial component of normal social functioning; however, heightened sensitivity to rejection can be impairing in numerous ways. Mindfulness-based interventions have been effective with several populations characterized by elevated sensitivity to rejection; however, the relationship between mindfulness and rejection sensitivity has been largely unstudied. The present study examines associations between rejection sensitivity and multiple dimensions of dispositional mindfulness, with the hypothesis that a nonjudgmental orientation to inner experiences would be both associated with decreased rejection sensitivity and attenuate the impact of sensitivity to rejection on general negative affect. A cross-sectional sample of undergraduates (n = 451) completed self-report measures of rejection sensitivity, dispositional mindfulness, and trait-level negative affect. Significant zero-order correlations and independent effects were observed between most facets of dispositional mindfulness and rejection sensitivity, with nonjudging demonstrating the largest effects. As predicted, rejection sensitivity was associated with negative affectivity for people low in nonjudging (β = .27, t = 5.12, p < .001) but not for people high in nonjudging (β = .06, t = .99, p = .324). These findings provide preliminary support for mindfulness, specifically the nonjudging dimension, as a protective factor against rejection sensitivity and its effects on affect.
title: Towards high-resolution first-best air pollution tolls
title: An evaluation of regulatory policies and a discussion on long-term user reactions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kickhöfer, Benjamin
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: environmental externality
subject: vehicle emissions
subject: road pricing
subject: internalization
subject: first-best tolls
subject: policy evaluation
subject: agent-based modeling

description: In this paper, an approach is presented to calculate high-resolution first-best air pollution tolls with respect to emission cost factors provided by Maibach et al. (2008). Dynamic traffic flows of a multi-agent transport simulation are linked to detailed air pollution emission factors. The monetary equivalent of emissions is internalized in a policy which is then used as a benchmark for evaluating the effects of a regulatory measure-a speed limitation to 30 km / h in the inner city of Munich. The calculated toll, which is equal to simulated marginal costs in terms of individual vehicle attributes and time-dependent traffic states, results in average air pollution costs that are very close to values in the literature. It is found that the regulatory measure is considerably less successful in terms of total emission reduction. It reduces emissions of urban travelers too strongly while even increasing the emissions of commuters and freight, both leading to a increase in deadweight loss. That is, the regulatory measure leads to higher market inefficiencies than a "do-nothing" strategy: too high generalized prices for urban travelers, too low generalized prices for commuters and freight. Finally, long-term changes in the vehicle fleet fuel efficiency are assumed as a reaction to the Internalization policy. The results indicate, however, that the long-term effect of emission reduction is dominated by the short-term reactions and by the assumed improvement in fleet fuel efficiency; the influence of the resulting route and mode choice decisions turns out to be relatively small.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak 3B station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Meteorological
Tipping bucket
Precipitation

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Cathedral Peak's 3B station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
The Influence of Multi-agent Cooperation on the Efficiency of Taxi Dispatching
Creators: name: Maciejewski, Michał
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: dynamic taxi dispatching
subject: dynamic vehicle routing
subject: on-line optimization
subject: multi-agent simulation
subject: MATSim
subject: traffic flow simulation
subject: simulation-based optimization

description: The paper deals with the problem of the optimal collaboration scheme in taxi dispatching between customers, taxi drivers and the dispatcher. The authors propose three strategies that differ by the amount of information exchanged between agents and the intensity of cooperation between taxi drivers and the dispatcher. The strategies are evaluated by means of a microscopic multi-agent transport simulator (MATSim) coupled with a dynamic vehicle routing optimizer (DVRP Optimizer), which allows to realistically simulate dynamic taxi services as one of several different transport means, all embedded into a realistic environment. The evaluation is carried out on a scenario of the Polish city of Mielec. The results obtained prove that the cooperation between the dispatcher and taxi drivers is of the utmost importance, while the customer–dispatcher communication may be reduced to minimum and compensated by the use of more sophisticated dispatching strategies, thereby not affecting the quality of service.
Moduli induced cogenesis of baryon asymmetry and dark matter
Creators: name: Dhuria, Mansi
name: Hati, Chandan
name: Sarkar, Utpal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a cogenesis mechanism in which the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe and the dark matter abundance can be produced simultaneously at low reheating temperature without violating baryon number in the fundamental vertex. In particular, we consider a model which could be realized in the context of type IIB large volume string compactifications. The matter superfields in this model include additional pairs of color triplet and singlet superfields in addition to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) superfields. Assuming that the mass of the additional singlet fermions is O(GeV) and color triplet fermions is O(TeV), we show that the modulus dominantly decays into the additional color triplet superfields. After soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking, the lightest eigenstate of scalar component of color triplet superfield further decays into fermionic component of singlet superfield and quarks without violating baryon number. Assuming R-parity conservation, it follows that the singlet superfield will not further decay into the SM particles and therefore it can be considered as a stable asymmetric dark matter (ADM) component. We find that the decay of the lightest eigenstate of scalar component of color triplet superfield gives the observed baryon asymmetry in the visible sector, an asymmetric dark matter component with the right abundance and naturally explains cosmic coincidence.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown in Stochastic Car Following Models
Creators: name: Jost, Dominic
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: traffic flow theory
subject: car following models
subject: traffic breakdown
subject: traffic simulation
subject: phase transition
subject: phase separation
subject: critical point

description: There is discussion if traffic displays spontaneous breakdown. This paper presents computational evidence that stochastic car following models can have a control parameter that moves the model between displaying and not displaying spontaneous phase separation for some densities. Those phases can be called “laminar” and “jammed”. Models with spontaneous phase separation show three states as a function of density: a first state at low density, where those models are homogeneously laminar; a second state at high density, where they are homogeneously jammed; and a third state at intermediate density, where they consist of a mix between the two phases (phase coexistence). This is the same picture as for a gas-liquid transition when volume of the gas is the control parameter. Although the gas-liquid analogy to traffic models has been widely discussed, no traffic-related model so far displayed a completely understood stochastic version of that transition. Having a stochastic model is important to understand the potentially probabilistic nature of the transition. Most importantly, if indeed models with spontaneous phase separation describe certain aspects correctly, then this leads to an understanding of spontaneous breakdown. Alternatively, if models without spontaneous phase separation describe these aspects better, then there is no spontaneous breakdown (= no breakdown without a reason). Interestingly, even models without spontaneous phase separation can still allow for jam formation on small scales, which may give the impression of having a model with spontaneous phase separation.
Bending sound in graphene: origin and manifestation
Creators: name: Adamyan, V. M.
name: Bondarev, V. N.
name: Zavalniuk, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proved that the acoustic-type dispersion of bending mode in graphene is generated by the fluctuation interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane terms in the free energy arising with account of non-linear components in the graphene strain tensor. In doing so we use an original adiabatic approximation based on the alleged (confirmed a posteriori) significant difference of sound speeds for in-plane and bending modes. The explicit expression for the bending sound speed depending only on the graphene mass density, in-plane elastic constants and temperature is deduced as well as the characteristics of the microscopic corrugations of graphene. The obtained results are in good quantitative agreement with the data of real experiments and computer simulations.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Religiosity and the motivation for social affiliation
Creators: name: Fredrickson, Barbara L.
name: Saroglou, Vassilis
name: Van Cappellen, Patty
name: Corneille, Olivier
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Although universal, the motivation to affiliate can vary as a function of individual differences and of the characteristics of the target. Three studies explored the extent to which religious beliefs and identity are related to social affiliation motivation. Because most religions advocate affiliation and provide opportunities for frequent experiences of affiliation, we reasoned that religious people might show greater affiliation motivation in everyday attitudes and behaviors. We found that religiosity was positively related to implicit and behavioral measures of general social affiliation (Studies 1 and 2). However, manipulating the identity of the affiliation target revealed that when affiliating might not lead to positive outcomes, the relation between religiosity and social affiliation disappeared (but did not reverse). In Studies 2 and 3, when the target of the affiliation was explicitly identified as a member of a threatening out-group (atheist), religiosity did not predict affiliation behaviors. We discuss the mechanisms by which religiosity motivates and constrains social affiliation and the potential implications for social influence and intergroup processes.
Evolution of Axially Symmetric Anisotropic Sources in $f(R,T)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Zubair, M.
name: Noureen, Ifra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the dynamical analysis in $f(R,T)$ gravity (where $R$ is Ricci scalar and $T$ is trace of energy momentum tensor) for gravitating sources carrying axial symmetry. The self gravitating system is taken to be anisotropic and line element describes axially symmetric geometry avoiding rotation about symmetry axis and meridional motions (zero vorticity case). The modified field equations for axial symmetry in $f(R,T)$ theory are formulated, together with the dynamical equations. Linearly perturbed dynamical equations lead to the evolution equation carrying adiabatic index $Γ$ that defines impact of non-minimal matter to geometry coupling on range of instability for Newtonian (N) and post-Newtonian (pN) approximations.
description: 19 pages
An Overview of High-Altitude Balloon Experiments at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Creators: name: Safonova, Margarita
name: Nayak, Akshata
name: Sreejith, A. G.
name: Mathew, Joice
name: Sarpotdar, Mayuresh
name: Ambily, S.
name: Nirmal, K.
name: Talnikar, Sameer
name: Hadigal, Shripathy
name: Prakash, Ajin
name: Murthy, Jayant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have initiated the High-Altitude Ballooning programme at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, in the year 2011 with the primary purpose of developing and flying low-cost scientific payloads on a balloon-borne platform. The main aim is the observations of extended nearby objects (e.g. comets) and of diffuse sources (e.g. zodiacal light or airglow) with wide field of view (FOV) UV instruments from near space (20 to 30 km). A brief summary and the results of the tethered flights carried out at IIA CREST campus are given in Ref.~1. Here we present an overview of the nine free-flying balloon experiments conducted from March 2013 to November 2014. We describe the launch procedures, payloads, methods of tracking and recovery. Since we fall in the light balloon category --- payload weight is limited to less than 6 kg --- we use the 3-D printer to fabricate lightweight boxes and structures for our experiments. We discuss the flight and scientific data obtained from different launches and the development of the in-house lightweight sensors and controllers, as well as a fully-fledged 2-axis pointing and stabilization system, for the flights.
description: 21 pages, 33 Figures
Brief Announcement: Let It TEE: Asynchronous Byzantine Atomic Broadcast with n ≥ 2f+1
Creators: name: Leinweber, Marc
name: Hartenstein, Hannes
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Trusted Execution Environments
Asynchrony
Security and privacy → Distributed systems security

description: Asynchronous Byzantine Atomic Broadcast (ABAB) promises simplicity in implementation as well as increased performance and robustness in comparison to partially synchronous approaches. We adapt the recently proposed DAG-Rider approach to achieve ABAB with n ≥ 2f+1 processes, of which f are faulty, with only a constant increase in message size. We leverage a small Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that provides a unique sequential identifier generator (USIG) to implement Reliable Broadcast with n > f processes and show that the quorum-critical proofs still hold when adapting the quorum size to ⌊ n/2 ⌋ + 1. This first USIG-based ABAB preserves the simplicity of DAG-Rider and serves as starting point for further research on TEE-based ABAB.
Phonons in ultrathin oxide films - 2D to 3D transition in FeO on Pt(111)
Creators: name: Spiridis, N.
name: Zając, M.
name: Piekarz, P.
name: Chumakov, A. I.
name: Freindl, K.
name: Goniakowski, J.
name: Kozioł-Rachwał, A.
name: Parliński, K.
name: Ślęzak, M.
name: Ślęzak, T.
name: Wdowik, U. D.
name: Wilgocka-Ślęzak, D.
name: Korecki, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural and magnetic properties of ultrathin FeO(111) films on Pt(111) with thicknesses from 1 to 16 monolayers (ML) were studied using the nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS) of synchrotron radiation. Distinct evolution of vibrational characteristics with thickness that is revealed in the phonon density of states (PDOS) witnesses a textbook transition from 2D to 3D lattice dynamics. For the thinnest films of 1 and 2 ML, the low energy part of the PDOS followed a linear dependence in energy that is characteristic for 2-dimensional systems. This dependence gradually transforms with thickness to the bulk ~E-square relation. Density functional theory phonon calculations perfectly reproduced the measured 1 ML PDOS within a simple model of a pseudomorphic FeO/Pt(111) interface. The calculations show that the 2D PDOS character is due to a weak coupling of the FeO film to the Pt(111) substrate. The evolution of the vibrational properties with an increasing thickness is closely related to a transient long range magnetic order and stabilization of an unusual structural phase.
The Impact of Asking Intention or Self-Prediction Questions on Subsequent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Conner, Mark
name: Sheeran, Paschal
name: Taylor, Natalie
name: Sandberg, Tracy
name: Godin, Gaston
name: Wood, Chantelle
name: Miles, Eleanor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The current meta-analysis estimated the magnitude of the impact of asking intention and self-prediction questions on rates of subsequent behavior, and examined mediators and moderators of this question–behavior effect (QBE). Random-effects meta-analysis on 116 published tests of the effect indicated that intention/prediction questions have a small positive effect on behavior (d+ = 0.24). Little support was observed for attitude accessibility, cognitive dissonance, behavioral simulation, or processing fluency explanations of the QBE. Multivariate analyses indicated significant effects of social desirability of behavior/behavior domain (larger effects for more desirable and less risky behaviors), difficulty of behavior (larger effects for easy-to-perform behaviors), and sample type (larger effects among student samples). Although this review controls for co-occurrence of moderators in multivariate analyses, future primary research should systematically vary moderators in fully factorial designs. Further primary research is also needed to unravel the mechanisms underlying different variants of the QBE.
Risk Minimizing Evacuation Strategies under Uncertainty
Creators: name: Lämmel, Gregor
name: Klüpfel, Hubert
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: Nash equilibrium
subject: evacuation time
subject: tsunami warning
subject: user optimum
subject: traffic simulation

description: This paper presents results on the simulation of the evacuation of the city of Padang with approximately 1,000,000 inhabitants. The model used is MATSim (www.matsim.org). Three different strategies were applied: shortest path solution, user optimum, system optimum, together with a constraint that moves should reduce risk whenever possible. The introduction of the risk minimization increases the overall required safe egress time (RSET). The differences between the RSET for the three risk minimizing strategies are small. Further quantities used for the assessment of the evacuation are the formation of congestion and the individual RSETs (in comparison with the available SET).
Fluorescence energy transfer enhancement in aluminum nanoapertures
Creators: name: de Torres, Juan
name: Ghenuche, Petru
name: Moparthi, Satish Babu
name: Grigoriev, Victor
name: Wenger, Jérome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs) are confining light into attoliter volumes, enabling single molecule fluorescence experiments at physiological micromolar concentrations. Among the fluorescence spectroscopy techniques that can be enhanced by ZMWs, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is one of the most widely used in life sciences. Combining zero-mode waveguides with FRET provides new opportunities to investigate biochemical structures or follow interaction dynamics at micromolar concentration with single molecule resolution. However, prior to any quantitative FRET analysis on biological samples, it is crucial to establish first the influence of the ZMW on the FRET process. Here, we quantify the FRET rates and efficiencies between individual donor-acceptor fluorophore pairs diffusing in aluminum zero-mode waveguides. Aluminum ZMWs are important structures thanks to their commercial availability and the large literature describing their use for single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. We also compare the results between ZMWs milled in gold and aluminum, and find that while gold has a stronger influence on the decay rates, the lower losses of aluminum in the green spectral region provide larger fluorescence brightness enhancement factors. For both aluminum and gold ZMWs, we observe that the FRET rate scales linearly with the isolated donor decay rate and the local density of optical states (LDOS). Detailed information about FRET in ZMWs unlocks their application as new devices for enhanced single molecule FRET at physiological concentrations.
How to Map Theory: Reliable Methods Are Fruitless Without Rigorous Theory
Creators: name: Gray, Kurt
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Good science requires both reliable methods and rigorous theory. Theory allows us to build a unified structure of knowledge, to connect the dots of individual studies and reveal the bigger picture. Some have criticized the proliferation of pet "Theories," but generic "theory" is essential to healthy science, because questions of theory are ultimately those of validity. Although reliable methods and rigorous theory are synergistic, Action Identification suggests psychological tension between them: The more we focus on methodological details, the less we notice the broader connections. Therefore, psychology needs to supplement training in methods (how to design studies and analyze data) with training in theory (how to connect studies and synthesize ideas). This article provides a technique for visually outlining theory: theory mapping. Theory mapping contains five elements, which are illustrated with moral judgment and with cars. Also included are 15 additional theory maps provided by experts in emotion, culture, priming, power, stress, ideology, morality, marketing, decision-making, and more (see all at theorymaps.org ). Theory mapping provides both precision and synthesis, which helps to resolve arguments, prevent redundancies, assess the theoretical contribution of papers, and evaluate the likelihood of surprising effects.