cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of PCBs, Selected Organic Pesticides and Mercury in Fishes from New Jersey: 1998-1999 Monitoring Program
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Patrick Center for Environmental Research, the Academy of Natural Sciences
Year: 2000

description: Prior to this study, the most recent monitoring for organic contaminants and mercury in fish from New Jersey's coastal waters was in 1991. To assess the possible temporal and spatial changes in contamination since that time, and to provide more up-to-date and extensive monitoring data regarding contaminant levels in New Jersey fishes, this study was implemented in 1998. Over 300 samples were analyzed for polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticides (e.g., DDT and its metabolites, and chlordanes) and mercury from locations extending from Raritan Bay tothe Delaware River and its tributaries. Using the US Food and Drug's Action Limits (as well as state-promulgated guidelines), a cursory assessment of risk based on exceedances of these limits was made. Based on the number, species and locations of the exceedances of US FDA actionlimits for PCBs and chlordanes, the following regions of concern were designated: 1) the Camden area (Newton Lake, Strawbridge Ponds, Pennsauken River and Cooper River Lake),based largely on chlordane concentrations within common carp, 2) sections of the Delaware River and its tributaries (e.g., Raccoon Creek) based on PCB concentrations, mainly in American eel, and 3) Raritan Bay, based on higher than average concentration of PCBs in American eels (and white perch). Comparisons with historical data sets were made. For most species and regions, concentrations of PCBs and chlordanes have decreased markedly compared to evaluations made a decade ago. Changes in DDX are more equivocal, with some groups showing decreases, but with little evidence of change for other comparisons. The observed decreasescould be due to environmental cleanup, pollution prevention programs, degradation, or changes in the bioavailability of contaminants.
Topological defects in mixtures of superconducting condensates with different charges
Creators: name: Garaud, Julien
name: Babaev, Egor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological defects in phenomenological models describing mixtures of charged condensates with commensurate electric charges. Such situations are expected to appear for example in liquid metallic deuterium. This is modeled by a multicomponent Ginzburg-Landau theory where the condensates are coupled to the same gauge field by different coupling constants whose ratio is a rational number. We also briefly discuss the case where electric charges are incommensurate. Flux quantization and finiteness of the energy per unit length dictate that the different condensates have different winding and thus different number of (fractional) vortices. Competing attractive and repulsive interactions lead to molecule-like bound state between fractional vortices. Such bound states have finite energy and carry integer flux quanta. These can be characterized by $\mathbb{C}P^1$ topological invariant that motivates their denomination as skyrmions.
description: Replaced with a version in print in Phys. Rev. B; Improved and extended as compared to the first version; 14 pages, 8 figures
Fragen ohne rasche Antworten
Creators: name: Fernando, Basil
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Sri Lanka sieht sich vielen Fragen und Problemen gegenüber, für die keine schnellen Antworten in Sicht sind. Der Artikel beleuchtet eine Reihe von Aspekten, die eine demokratische Gesellschaft zu zersetzen in der Lage sind. Es sind teils ungewohnte, schlaglichtartige und kontrovers debattierte Einblicke in die Tiefenstruktur eines Landes, das alle einigermaßen zu kennen glauben.
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Die Quarantäne
Creators: name: Bedi, Rajinder Singh
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Im Jahr 1939 veröffentlichte der Autor den nachfolgenden Text zum Thema Quarantäne. Bei manchen Alltagsszenen ist allenfalls am Sprachduktus zu erkennen, dass nicht das Jahr 2020 gemeint sein kann. Selbst die Schicksalsergebenheit einer Person wie Bhagu kommt einem bekannt vor.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 2 (2020): Sri Lanka – VIRUS AUTOKRATIE
New Jersey Reef News, 2004 Edition
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2004

description: This is the newsletter of the New Jersey Reef Program, a program to construct hard-substrate reef habitat in the ocean for certain species of fish and shellfish, new fishing grounds for anglers and underwater structures for scuba divers. In constructing and managing reefs, the goal is to spread the benefits of reef resources to as many people as possible. This issue features the following articles: 20 Years of Reef Building In New Jersey; Objectives of the Reef Program; Undersea rock ridges can make fishing more  fabulous; Reefs enrich marine environment, study shows; 2003 Reef Adoptions; Accomplishments, 1984-2003; Sea bass don't roam too far from home, tagging study shows; New Wrecks in '03; What Do Lobsters Eat?
Effect of high pressures and high temperatures on the structure of nanostructured titanium monoxide Nanosystems
Creators: name: Valeeva, A. A.
name: Kostenko, M. G.
name: Pfitzner, Arno
name: Rempel, A. A.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: nanostructured titanium monoxide, structural vacancy, nonstoichiometry, high pressure, high temperature, phase transition, electronic structure
subject: 540 Chemie

description: The structure of nanostructured titanium monoxide TiO0.98 containing structural vacancies in two sublattices simultaneously has been modified via thermobaric annealing. Analysis of the experimental data on thermobaric synthesis of nanostructured TiO0.98 with cubic B1 type structure at temperatures 573 – 2273 K and pressure 6 GPa revealed that a transition from the cubic B1 (sp. gr. Fm3m) phase to the trigonal Ti2O3 (sp. gr. R3c) phase takes place in the nanostructured monoxide as a result of high pressures and high temperatures. The first-principle calculations of the cohesive energy and electronic structure show that the trigonal phase with space group R3c is energetically favorable compared to the cubic phase of the same composition TiO3/2 and the orthorhombic ordered Ti2O3 (sp. gr. Immm) phase.
description: DOI sowie Eintrag in EZB, wie auf Verlagsseite angegeben, nicht zu finden/keg14.12.18
Bangladesch: Jubiläum in schwierigen Zeiten
Creators: name: Zingel, Wolfgang-Peter
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Es sollte der Beginn großer Jubiläen sein. Am 17. März 2020 jährte sich der Geburtstag von Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, dem Vater der Nation, dem Staatsgründer und Märtyrer, zum 100. Mal. Vor 45 Jahren wurde er bei einem Staatsstreich zusammen mit dem größten Teil seiner Familie und weiteren Freunden und Mitarbeitern ermordet. Im nächsten Jahr wird sein Land, Bangladesch, den 50. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Pakistan und der Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit feiern. Es ist also an der Zeit, sich näher mit dieser herausragenden Persönlichkeit zu beschäftigen.
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Probe of Three-Dimensional Chiral Topological Insulators in an Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Wang, Sheng-Tao
name: Deng, Dong-Ling
name: Duan, Lu-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a feasible experimental scheme to realize a three-dimensional chiral topological insulator with cold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, which is characterized by an integer topological invariant distinct from the conventional $Z_2$ topological insulators and has a remarkable macroscopic zero-energy flat band. To probe its property, we show that its characteristic surface states---the Dirac cones---can be probed through time-of-flight imaging or Bragg spectroscopy and the flat band can be detected via measurement of the atomic density profile in a weak global trap. The realization of this novel topological phase with a flat band in an optical lattice will provide a unique experimental platform to study the interplay between interaction and topology and open new avenues for application of topological states.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, including Supplemental Material, version accepted by PRL
Shear Jamming in Granular Experiments without Basal Friction
Creators: name: Zheng, Hu
name: Dijksman, Joshua A.
name: Behringer, Robert P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jammed states of frictional granular systems can be induced by shear strain at densities below the isostatic jamming density ($ϕ_c$). It remains unclear, however, how much friction affects this so-called shear-jamming. Friction appears in two ways in this type of experiment: friction between particles, and friction between particles and the base on which they rest. Here, we study how particle-bottom friction, or basal friction, affects shear jamming in quasi-two dimensional experiments. In order to study this issue experimentally, we apply simple shear to a disordered packing of photoelastic disks. We can tune the basal friction of the particles by immersing the particles in a density matched liquid, thus removing the normal force, hence the friction, between the particles and base. We record the overall shear stress, and particle motion, and the photoelastic response of the particles. We compare the shear response of dry and immersed samples, which enables us to determine how basal friction affects shear jamming. Our findings indicate that changing the basal friction shifts the point of shear jamming, but it does not change the basic phenomenon of shear jamming.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Zeitgenössische Kunst in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Thenuwara, Chandraguptha
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Über die Geschichte der zeitgenössischen Kunst Sri Lankas zu schreiben, ist eine gewaltige Aufgabe. In diesem Essay erklärt der Autor kurz die Entwicklung der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts in Sri Lanka und seine damit verbundene persönliche Reise durch die Kunst.
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What is the apparent angle of a Kelvin ship wave pattern?
Creators: name: Pethiyagoda, Ravindra
name: McCue, Scott W.
name: Moroney, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the half-angle which encloses a Kelvin ship wave pattern is commonly accepted to be 19.47 degrees, recent observations and calculations for sufficiently fast-moving ships suggest that the apparent wake angle decreases with ship speed. One explanation for this decrease in angle relies on the assumption that a ship cannot generate wavelengths much greater than its hull length. An alternative interpretation is that the wave pattern that is observed in practice is defined by the location of the highest peaks; for wakes created by sufficiently fast-moving objects, these highest peaks no longer lie on the outermost divergent waves, resulting in a smaller apparent angle. In this paper, we focus on the problems of free surface flow past a single submerged point source and past a submerged source doublet. In the linear version of these problems, we measure the apparent wake angle formed by the highest peaks, and observe the following three regimes: a small Froude number pattern, in which the divergent waves are not visible; standard wave patterns for which the maximum peaks occur on the outermost divergent waves; and a third regime in which the highest peaks form a V-shape with an angle much less than the Kelvin angle. For nonlinear flows, we demonstrate that nonlinearity has the effect of increasing the apparent wake angle so that some highly nonlinear solutions have apparent wake angles that are greater than Kelvin's angle. For large Froude numbers, the effect on apparent wake angle can be more dramatic, with the possibility of strong nonlinearity shifting the wave pattern from the third regime to the second. We expect our nonlinear results will translate to other more complicated flow configurations, such as flow due to a steadily moving closed body such as a submarine.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication by Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Sanchez, Jesus Hortal, De initio potestatis primatialis Romani Pontificis. Investigatio historico-iuridica a tempere Sancti Gregorii Magni usque ad tempus Clementis V. Ed. Libreria Editrice dell’Università Gregoriana. Vol. de XV+163 ps. 165x235. Roma 1968
Creators: name: Gigante, José António Martins
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 1 (1970)
A thin diffuse component of the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission and heating of the interstellar medium contributed by the radiation of Galactic X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Molaro, Margherita
name: Khatri, Rishi
name: Sunyaev, Rashid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict a thin (scale height $\sim$ 80 pc) diffuse component of the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) arising from the scattering of the radiation of bright X-ray binaries (XBs) by the interstellar medium (ISM). The morphology of this scattered component is expected to trace the clumpy molecular and HI clouds. We calculate this contribution to the GRXE from known Galactic XBs assuming that they are all persistent. The known XBs sample is incomplete, however, because it is flux limited and spans the lifetime of X-ray astronomy ($\sim 50$ years). We therefore also use a simulated sample of sources, to estimate the diffuse emission we should expect in an optimistic case assuming that the X-ray luminosity of our Galaxy is on average similar to that of other galaxies. In the calculations we also take into account the enhancement of the total scattering cross-section due to coherence effects in the elastic scattering from multi-electron atoms and molecules. This scattered emission can be distinguished from the contribution of low X-ray luminosity stars by the presence of narrow fluorescent K-$α$ lines of Fe, Si, and other abundant elements present in the ISM and by directly resolving the contribution of low X-ray luminosity stars. We find that within $1^\circ$ latitude of the Galactic plane the scattered emission contributes on average $10-30\%$ of the GRXE flux in the case of known sources and over $50\%$ in the case of simulated sources. In the latter case, the scattered component is found to even dominate the stellar emission in certain parts of the Galactic plane. X-rays with energies $\gtrsim 1$ keV from XBs should also penetrate deep inside the HI and molecular clouds, where they are absorbed and heat the ISM. We find that this heating rate dominates the heating by cosmic rays (assuming a solar neighborhood energy density) in a considerable part of the Galaxy. [abridged]
description: Minor changes; additional references; matches published version
Recycling Used Motor Oil in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Rutgers Cooperative Extension, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1994

description: This document stresses the importance of recycling used motor oil, covering the topics of what makes motor oil hazardous, how much oil is typically dumped improperly/illegally, penalties for illegally dumping motor oil, and basic steps to take when recycling used motor oil.
title: Atado con alambre: Repairing and reconstructing my crafts practice through practice-based research
Creators: name: Mariano, Pablo
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037197
subject: Metalworking
valueUri: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300053946
subject: Woodwork
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148022

description: This practice-based research addresses my crafts practice to redirect through design my professional activity as a woodworker and metalworker. The thesis documents and reflects on my work and findings over the course of a one-and-a-half-year process of engaging with reflective practice and practice-based research. The work approaches creative and expressive-related concerns through thematic forms, repetition, and reinterpretation, and inquiries about the affordances and distinct mindsets of designing and making through productive perspectives as contrasting as lo-fi hand-making and the use of digital means for designing and fabricating. The design outcomes range from small objects produced in domestic settings as part of weekly assignments, to months-long, self-driven projects producing big pieces of furniture at the shops in the university.
Friedenspreis für Amartya Sen
Creators: name: Südasienbüro E.V.
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Philosoph Amartya Sen ist der Friedenspreisträger 2020 des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels. Dies gab die Organisation am 17. Juni bekannt. Amartya Sen sei ein Vordenker, der sich seit Jahrzehnten mit Fragen der globalen Gerechtigkeit auseinandersetze, teilte der Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in Frankfurt mit. Seine Arbeiten trügen zur Bekämpfung sozialer Ungleichheit bei und seien heute so relevant wie nie zuvor. Dem pflichtet das SÜDASIENBÜRO e.V. nachdrücklich bei. Wir freuen uns und beglückwünschen Amarty Sen zu dieser Auszeichnung.
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Possible Central Extensions of Non-Relativistic Conformal Algebras in 1+1
Creators: name: Hosseiny, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate possibility of central extension for non-relativistic conformal algebras in 1+1 dimension. Three different forms of charges can be suggested. A trivial charge for temporal part of the algebra exists for all elements of l-Galilei algebra class. In attempt to find a central extension as of CGA for other elements of the l-Galilei class, possibility for such extension was excluded. For integer and half integer elements of the class we can have an infinite extension of the generalized mass charge for the Virasoro-like extended algebra. For finite algebras a regular charge inspired by Schrödinger central extension is possible.
description: 14 pages
New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, Sussex County
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Historic Preservation Office
Year: 2004

description: This document by the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places lists properties and historic districts in Sussex County, New Jersey for which a formal action was taken by the State Historic Preservation Officer or designee. The listings are current through the end of 2002, and itemize the buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (SR) and the National Register of Historic Places (NR). They also include resources that have received Certifications of Eligibility (COE), opinions of eligibility from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO Opinion), or Determinations of Eligibility (DOE) from the Keeper of the National Register.
Coastal Resources Toolkit: Public Access
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR), Coastal Training Program
Year: 2004

description: The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR) is one of the 26 national estuarine reserves created to promote the responsible use and management of the nation's estuaries through a program combining scientific research, education, and stewardship. The JCNERR has researched and compiled a set of New Jersey-specific resources to help the public in their land zoning decisions. The topic of this  toolkit is public access, including the history and precedence of public access to the New Jersey shore and a case study of Atlantis Beach Club vs. Diamond Beach. Sections include: (1) Background - Introduction; (2) Case Study: Atlantis Beach Club - Diamond Beach; (3) New Jersey public access; and (4) Toolkit: Potential providers, Internet tools.
Cabodevilla, J.-M., 32 de diciembre. La muerte y después de la muerte. Ed. BAC. Vol. de XXIV+460 ps. 125x195. Madrid 1969
Creators: name: Tinoco, António Franklim Machado
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 1 (1970)
Fast adiabatic qubit gates using only $σ_z$ control
Creators: name: Martinis, John M.
name: Geller, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A controlled-phase gate was demonstrated in superconducting Xmon transmon qubits with fidelity reaching 99.4%, relying on the adiabatic interaction between the |11> and |02> states. Here we explain the theoretical concepts behind this protocol that achieves fast gate times with only $σ_z$ control of the Hamiltonian, based on a theory of non-linear mapping of state errors to a power spectral density and use of optimal window functions. With a solution given in the Fourier basis, optimization is shown to be straightforward for practical cases of an arbitrary state change and finite bandwidth of control signals. We find that errors below $10^{-4}$ are readily achievable for realistic control waveforms.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Final Report: Routine Monitoring Program for Toxics in Fish
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Academy of Natural Sciences, Patrick Center for Environmental Research
Year: 2005

description: The Water Quality Assessment Report (DEP 2004) currently lists a number of freshwater lakes, rivers, and reservoirs in New Jersey as impaired due to contaminants in fish. In 2002, New Jersey initiated a routine monitoring program of 5 different regions. This report summarizes the results from the first routine monitoring study, conducted in 2002 in the Passaic Region. The results of this program will be used to amend existing advisories or develop new advisories, and to assist the NJDEP in evaluating trends in contaminant concentrations. For this study, 448 analyses were done on 382 fish samples collected from 28 freshwater lakes, reservoirs and rives within the Passaic River region of NJ. Concentrations of mercury and PCBs were compared to NJ risk-based thresholds for consumption advisories.
Auszeichnung für den Draupadi Verlag
Creators: name: Schein, Reinhold
name: Wessler, Heinz Werner
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Der Heidelberger Draupadi Verlag, den Leser(inne)n von SÜDASIEN bestens bekannt, wurde als einer von 63 kleineren unabhängigen Verlagen mit dem Deutschen Verlagspreis 2020 ausgezeichnet. Er gehört in die Hauptgruppe der 60 Verlage, die „für ihre hervorragenden Leistungen“ mit einem Gütesiegel und jeweils 20.000 Euro ausgezeichnet wurden. Südasienbüro und Literaturforum Indien freuen sich mit allen Freunden und Mitarbeitern des Verlagsprojektes und gratulieren dem Verlagsleiter Christian Weiß ganz herzlich zu dieser Anerkennung für den wohl wichtigsten deutschsprachigen Verlag für südasiatische Literatur.
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Perturbative Field-Theoretical Renormalization Group Approach to Driven-Dissipative Bose-Einstein Criticality
Creators: name: Tauber, Uwe C.
name: Diehl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The universal critical behavior of the driven-dissipative non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation transition is investigated employing the field-theoretical renormalization group method. Such criticality may be realized in broad ranges of driven open systems on the interface of quantum optics and many-body physics, from exciton-polariton condensates to cold atomic gases. The starting point is a noisy and dissipative Gross-Pitaevski equation corresponding to a complex valued Landau-Ginzburg functional, which captures the near critical non-equilibrium dynamics, and generalizes Model A for classical relaxational dynamics with non-conserved order parameter. We confirm and further develop the physical picture previously established by means of a functional renormalization group study of this system. Complementing this earlier numerical analysis, we analytically compute the static and dynamical critical exponents at the condensation transition to lowest non-trivial order in the dimensional epsilon expansion about the upper critical dimension d_c = 4, and establish the emergence of a novel universal scaling exponent associated with the non-equilibrium drive. We also discuss the corresponding situation for a conserved order parameter field, i.e., (sub-)diffusive Model B with complex coefficients.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. X (2014)
The Jersey Sierran, Vol. 35, No. 1, January-March 2006
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Chapter of The Sierra Club
Year: 2006

description: This is the quarterly newsletter of the New Jersey Chapter of The Sierra Club. The newsletter, which is sent to 23,000 New Jersey members, contains articles and information for New Jersey outdoor enthusiasts, activists, and others interested in environmental issues. The follwing articles are featured in this issue: Population Issues at the Sierra Summit; Resolutions Adopted by the Chapter's Executive Committee, Sept-Nov 2005; How To Testify At A Public Hearing, Even If You Have Nothing To Say - In 10 Easy Steps; Confronting the Car Culture; Editorial Cartoon: What 'Green Acres' Means to Some People, Unfortunately; Chair's Message: Striking the Right Balance; Editorial: Election Analysis; Sterling Forest Update: Protecting the New York State Portion; Black Bears in the News; Issue Coordinator's Report: Renewable Energy for a Strong Independent New Jersey; How Big Box Stores like Wal-Mart Affect the Environment and Communities; ATV Report; New Jersey Sierra Club Appreciation Day Celebrated; Group and Section News; Outings; and Leadership List and Membership Form.
Retention capacity of correlated surfaces
Creators: name: Schrenk, K. J.
name: Araujo, N. A. M.
name: Ziff, R. M.
name: Herrmann, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the water retention model [C. L. Knecht et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045703 (2012)] to correlated random surfaces. We find that the retention capacity of discrete random landscapes is strongly affected by spatial correlations among the heights. This phenomenon is related to the emergence of power-law scaling in the lake volume distribution. We also solve the uncorrelated case exactly for a small lattice and present bounds on the retention of uncorrelated landscapes.
description: accepted for Phys. Rev. E
A priori knowledge-free fast positioning approach for BeiDou receivers
Creators: name: Zhao, Sihao
name: Cui, Xiaowei
name: Lu, Mingquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver usually needs a sufficient number of full pseudorange measurements to obtain a position solution. However, it is time-consuming to acquire full pseudorange information from only the satellite broadcast signals due to the navigation data features of GNSS. In order to realize fast positioning during a cold or warm start in a GNSS receiver, the existing approaches require an initial estimation of position and time or require a number of computational steps to recover the full pseudorange information from fractional pseudoranges and then compute the position solution. The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has a unique constellation distribution and a fast navigation data rate for geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites. Taking advantage of these features, we propose a fast positioning technique for BDS receivers. It simultaneously processes the full and fractional pseudorange measurements from the BDS GEOs and non-GEOs, respectively, which is faster than processing all full measurements. This method resolves the position solution and recovers the full pseudoranges for non-GEOs simultaneously within 1 s theoretically and does not need an estimate of the initial position. Simulation and real data experiments confirm that the proposed technique completes fast positioning without a priori position and time estimation, and the positioning accuracy is identical with the conventional single-point positioning approach using full pseudorange measurements from all available satellites.
Expected performance of an ideal liquid argon neutrino detector with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light
Creators: name: Sorel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light, that is with light collection efficiencies of about $10^{-3}$. We focus on two key detector performance indicators for neutrino oscillation physics: calorimetric neutrino energy reconstruction and neutrino/antineutrino separation in a non-magnetized detector. Our results are based on detailed simulations, with neutrino interactions modelled according to the GENIE event generator, while the charge and light responses of a large LAr ideal detector are described by the Geant4 and NEST simulation tools. A neutrino energy resolution as good as 3.3\% RMS for 4 GeV electron neutrino charged-current interactions can in principle be obtained in a large detector of this type, by using both charge and light information. By exploiting muon capture in argon and scintillation light information to veto muon decay electrons, we also obtain muon neutrino identification efficiencies of about 50\%, and muon antineutrino misidentification rates at the few percent level, for few-GeV neutrino interactions that are fully contained. We argue that the construction of large LAr detectors with sufficiently high light collection efficiencies is in principle possible.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Version accepted for publication in JINST
Positroid Stratification of Orthogonal Grassmannian and ABJM Amplitudes
Creators: name: Kim, Joonho
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel understanding of scattering amplitudes in terms of on-shell diagrams and positive Grassmannian has been recently established for four dimensional Yang-Mills theories and three dimensional Chern-Simons theories of ABJM type. We give a detailed construction of the positroid stratification of orthogonal Grassmannian relevant for ABJM amplitudes. On-shell diagrams are classified by pairing of external particles. We introduce a combinatorial aid called `OG tableaux' and map each equivalence class of on-shell diagrams to a unique tableau. The on-shell diagrams related to each other through BCFW bridging are naturally grouped by the OG tableaux. Introducing suitably ordered BCFW bridges and positive coordinates, we construct the complete coordinate charts to cover the entire positive orthogonal Grassmannian for arbitrary number of external particles. The graded counting of OG tableaux suggests that the positive orthogonal Grassmannian constitutes a combinatorial polytope.
description: 32 pages, 23 figures; v2. minor corrections; v3. several clarifications and minor improvements
Remarks on higher-order hadronic corrections to the muon g-2
Creators: name: Colangelo, Gilberto
name: Hoferichter, Martin
name: Nyffeler, Andreas
name: Passera, Massimo
name: Stoffer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it was shown that insertions of hadronic vacuum polarization at O(alpha^4) generate non-negligible effects in the calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This result raises the question if other hadronic diagrams at this order might become relevant for the next round of g-2 measurements as well. In this note we show that a potentially enhanced such contribution, hadronic light-by-light scattering in combination with electron vacuum polarization, is already sufficiently suppressed.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure; journal version
Synthesis and Characterization of Ag2MnSnS4, a New Diamond-like Semiconductor
Creators: name: Friedrich, Daniel
name: Greil, Sebastian
name: Block, T.
name: Heletta, L.
name: Pöttgen, R.
name: Pfitzner, Arno
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: Phase pure Ag2MnSnS4 was synthesized from the elements using standard high‐temperature solid‐state methods. Its crystal structure was solved from single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction data collected from a pseudo‐merohedrally twinned crystal as well as by Rietveld refinement of X‐ray powder diffraction data. Ag2MnSnS4 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group Pc (no. 7) with the unit cell parameters a = 6.651(1), b = 6.943(1), c = 10.536(2) Å, β = 129.15(1)°, V = 337.3(1) Å3, and Z = 2. The tetrahedraly compound crystallizes in a superstructure of the wurtzite type and the tetrahedra volumes are in good agreement with the model for diamond‐related compounds derived from the wurtzite structure type. The red semiconductor Ag2MnSnS4 has an optical bandgap of Eg = 2.0 eV and is stable up to its peritectic decomposition temperature of approximately 700 °C. Ag2MnSnS4 is a Curie–Weiss paramagnet with an experimental magnetic moment of μexp = 5.4(1) μB per manganese atom. Antiferromagnetic ordering is detected at a Néel temperature of TN = 8.8(1) K. 119Sn Mößbauer spectra at 78 K underline the single tetrahedrally coordinated SnIV site (δ = 1.34(1) mm·s–1). The 6 K spectrum (magnetically ordered state) reveals a small transferred magnetic hyperfine field of 1.02(1) T.
Schockszenarien
Creators: name: Deshapriya, Sunanda
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Das Coronavirus hat Sri Lanka mit Wucht erreicht. Sichtbarstes Zeichen war die Entscheidung der Wahlkommission (nicht der Regierung!), die für den 25. April vorgesehene Wahl zum nationalen Parlament zu verschieben. Ein neues Datum steht noch nicht fest. Nachfolgend ein Sachstandsbericht, der fast schon überholt sein wird, wenn der Artikel zu Ende geschrieben ist.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 1 (2020): Umwelt - Konzept und Realität
SkipConvGAN: Monaural Speech Dereverberation using Generative Adversarial Networks via Complex Time-Frequency Masking
Creators: name: Kothapally, Vinay
name: Hansen, J. H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advancements in deep learning approaches, the performance of speech enhancing systems in the presence of background noise have shown significant improvements. However, improving the system's robustness against reverberation is still a work in progress, as reverberation tends to cause loss of formant structure due to smearing effects in time and frequency. A wide range of deep learning-based systems either enhance the magnitude response and reuse the distorted phase or enhance complex spectrogram using a complex time-frequency mask. Though these approaches have demonstrated satisfactory performance, they do not directly address the lost formant structure caused by reverberation. We believe that retrieving the formant structure can help improve the efficiency of existing systems. In this study, we propose SkipConvGAN - an extension of our prior work SkipConvNet. The proposed system's generator network tries to estimate an efficient complex time-frequency mask, while the discriminator network aids in driving the generator to restore the lost formant structure. We evaluate the performance of our proposed system on simulated and real recordings of reverberant speech from the single-channel task of the REVERB challenge corpus. The proposed system shows a consistent improvement across multiple room configurations over other deep learning-based generative adversarial frameworks.
description: Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing ( Volume: 30)
New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, Bergen County
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Historic Preservation Office
Year: 2004

description: This document by the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places lists properties and historic districts in Bergen County, New Jersey for which a formal action was taken by the State Historic Preservation Officer or designee. The listings are current through the end of 2002, and itemize the buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (SR) and the National Register of Historic Places (NR). They also include resources that have received Certifications of Eligibility (COE), opinions of eligibility from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO Opinion), or Determinations of Eligibility (DOE) from the Keeper of the National Register.
The contact of elastic regular wavy surfaces revisited
Creators: name: Yastrebov, Vladislav A.
name: Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the classic problem of an elastic solid with a two-dimensional wavy surface squeezed against an elastic flat half-space from infinitesimal to full contact. Through extensive numerical calculations and analytic derivations, we discover previously overlooked transition regimes. These are seen in particular in the evolution with applied load of the contact area and perimeter, the mean pressure and the probability density of contact pressure. These transitions are correlated with the contact area shape, which is affected by long range elastic interactions. Our analysis has implications for general random rough surfaces, as similar local transitions occur continuously at detached areas or coalescing contact zones. We show that the probability density of null contact pressures is non-zero at full contact. This might suggest revisiting the conditions necessary for applying Persson's model at partial contacts and guide the comparisons with numerical simulations. We also address the evaluation of the contact perimeter for discrete geometries and the applicability of Westergaard's solution for three-dimensional geometries.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures, 31 references
Interpreting Drinking Water Quality Analysis: What Do the Numbers Mean? 5th Edition
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Rutgers Cooperative Extension, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1998

description: This publication summarizes the information necessary for interpreting drinking water quality analyses performed by water testing laboratories. It focuses on testing results obtained from drinking water supplies from public water systems and nonpublic water systems (private home wells). It is intended primarily for homeowners, but environmental organizations, health departments, and commercial water testing laboratories and others should find this material of interest and value.
Bionformatics analysis of the Luciferase_like monooxygenase from Priestia megaterium DSM319 genome
Creators: name: Rohman, MS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bioinformatics, Luciferase-like monooxygenase, Priestia megaterium DSM 319

description: The manuscript contains an explanation of how to find the specific proteins from the genome of the organism by implementing the simple searching method provided by the NCBI. In this report, we have implemented the simple method of finding all the Luciferase-like monooxygenase (LLM) proteins that may be present in the Priestia megaterium DSM319 genome. By the method, we successfully identified 5 LLM proteins from the Priestia megaterium DSM319 genome.
Polyoxometalates in the Hofmeister series
Creators: name: Buchecker, Thomas
name: Schmid, Philipp
name: Renaudineau, S.
name: Diat, Oliver
name: Proust, Anna
name: Pfitzner, Arno
name: Bauduin, Pierre
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: We propose a simple experimental procedure based on the cloud point measurement of a non-ionic surfactant as a tool for (i) estimating the super-chaotropic behaviour of polyoxometalates (POMs) and for (ii) establishing a classification of POMs according to their affinity towards polar surfaces.
2003 Annual Water Quality Report: Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean Counties
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey American Water
Year: 2004

description: This 2003 annual water quality report by New Jersey American Water (a member of the EPA's Partnership for Safe Water Program that is committed to voluntarily providing drinking water of a quality far better than required by federal regulations) details the results of water quality testing completed from January to December, 2003. The purpose of this report is to raise people's understanding of drinking water and awareness of the need to protect our drinking water sources. Included in this report are details about where the water comes from, what it contains (including levels of Cryptosporidium and radon), and how our water quality results compare to federal and state standards.
Teaching Analysis Poll. Einsatz eines qualitativen Feedback-Instruments an der Universität Regensburg
Creators: name: Hawelka, Birgit
name: Hiltmann, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: ‚Teaching Analysis Poll‘ ist als qualitative Methode der formativen Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation inzwischen weit verbreitet. Die Stärken dieser moderierten Gruppendiskussion liegen vor allem in der strukturoffenen Fokussierung des Lernprozesses der Studierenden sowie der Verknüpfung der Lehrveran-staltungsevaluation und Lehrberatung. Aus methodischer Sicht problematisch sind bei ‚Teaching Analysis Poll‘ bislang die Analyse und Interpretation der erhobenen Daten. Die Studierenden äußern subjektive Sichtweisen in Bezug auf die jeweilige Lehrveranstaltung, die dann als Grundlage für ein Beratungsgespräch unter didaktischen Gesichtspunkten analysiert und interpretiert werden müssen. Als Beitrag zur Standardisierung dieser Pro-zesse wurde an der Universität Regensburg ein Kodierleitfaden entwickelt und die Durchführung von ‚Teaching Analysis Poll‘ auf der Grundlage des Leitfadens verändert.
Fiber Orientation Tensors and Mean Field Homogenization: Application to Sheet Molding Compound
Creators: name: Bauer, Julian Karl
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: Faserorientierungstensor
Mikrostruktur
Homogenisierung
Anisotropie
Elastizität
Fiber orientation tensor
Fiber-reinforced composites
Mean field homogenization
Anisotropy
Elasticity

description: Effective mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced composites strongly depend on the microstructure, including the fibers' orientation. Studying this dependency, we identify the variety of fiber orientation tensors up to fourth-order using irreducible tensors and material symmetry. The case of planar fiber orientation tensors, relevant for sheet molding compound, is presented completely. Consequences for the reconstruction of fiber distributions and mean field homogenization are presented.
Zivilgesellschaft in Pakistan
Creators: name: , Sajjad
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Die Beteiligung der Zivilgesellschaft sowie einzelner Bürger/-innen an den zivilen Angelegenheiten des Staates hat in Südasien eine lange Tradition. Die pakistanische Freiheitsbewegung wurde von Hunderten von Bürgergruppen vorangetrieben. Diese Tradition findet in der Berichterstattung wenig Widerhall und wird von spektakuläreren Reportagen über Konflikte zwischen politischen und militärischen Eliten und Extremismus überlagert. Der nachfolgende Artikel holt den wenig beleuchteten Teil der Gesellschaft Pakistans ans Licht.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 1 (2020): Umwelt - Konzept und Realität
2000 New Jersey Water Quality Inventory Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2001

description: This report describes status and trends in water quality in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans. It also describes attainment of designated uses specified in New Jersey's Surface Water Quality Standards, including aquatic life, recreation, industrial, agricultural, fish and shellfish consumption. In addition, the report provides the quantity of New Jersey's wetlands and an overview of ground water resources, ongoing and planned strategies to maintain and improve water quality, and recommendations for additional strategies.
Complex-Valued Time-Frequency Self-Attention for Speech Dereverberation
Creators: name: Kothapally, Vinay
name: Hansen, John H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several speech processing systems have demonstrated considerable performance improvements when deep complex neural networks (DCNN) are coupled with self-attention (SA) networks. However, the majority of DCNN-based studies on speech dereverberation that employ self-attention do not explicitly account for the inter-dependencies between real and imaginary features when computing attention. In this study, we propose a complex-valued T-F attention (TFA) module that models spectral and temporal dependencies by computing two-dimensional attention maps across time and frequency dimensions. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed complex-valued TFA module with the deep complex convolutional recurrent network (DCCRN) using the REVERB challenge corpus. Experimental findings indicate that integrating our complex-TFA module with DCCRN improves overall speech quality and performance of back-end speech applications, such as automatic speech recognition, compared to earlier approaches for self-attention.
description: Interspeech 2022: ISCA Best Student Paper Award Finalist