cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GiCCS: A German in-Context Conversational Similarity Benchmark
Creators: name: Asaadi, Shima
name: Kolagar, Zahra
name: Liebel, Alina
name: Zarcone, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: STS
semantic textual similarity
conversational dataset
STS benchmark

description: The Semantic textual similarity (STS) task is commonly used to evaluate the semantic representations that language models (LMs) learn from texts, under the assumption that good-quality representations will yield accurate similarity estimates. When it comes to estimating the similarity of two utterances in a dialogue, however, the conversational context plays a particularly important role. We argue for the need of benchmarks specifically created using conversational data in order to evaluate conversational LMs in the STS task. We introduce GiCCS, a first conversational STS evaluation benchmark for German. We collected the similarity annotations for GiCCS using best-worst scaling and presenting the target items in context, in order to obtain highly-reliable context-dependent similarity scores. We present benchmarking experiments for evaluating LMs on capturing the similarity of utterances. Results suggest that pretraining LMs on conversational data and providing conversational context can be useful for capturing similarity of utterances in dialogues. GiCCS will be publicly available to encourage benchmarking of conversational LMs.
Truck Component Simulation Meshes and Synthetic LiDAR Measurements
Creators: name: Garcke, Jochen
name: Hahner, Sara
name: Iza-Teran, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022

description: This is the synthetic dataset from the paper: Jochen Garcke, Sara Hahner, and Rodrigo Iza-Teran. "Alignment of Highly Resolved Time-Dependent Experimental and Simulated Crash Test Data". In: International Journal of Crashworthiness. The work compares highly resolved experimental data with corresponding simulation data. The dataset contains one component from several completed frontal crash simulations of a Chevrolet C2500 pick-up truck model (from National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC)). Additionally, we provide our LiDAR measurements of the component. The data, which is provided here, is described in detail in section 5.3 of the paper.
Plankton population dynamics: effects of climate warming and food chain length
Creators: name: Beisner, Beatrix Elisabeth
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QK 935 B45 1994
subject: Freshwater phytoplankton - Effect of temperature on
subject: Daphnid pulax - Effect of temperature on
subject: Population biology
subject: Global warming
subject: Food chains (Ecology)

description: Bibliography: p. 155-166.
The relationships between sociotropic and autonomous personality styles and perceptual biases in dysphoric and nondysphoric university students
Creators: name: Pusch, Dennis
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: RC 537 P897 1995
subject: Depression, Mental
subject: Depressed persons
subject: Personality and cognition

description: Bibliography: p. 111-120.
Analysis of the role of the regAB operon in regulation of exotoxin A production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Raivio, Tracy Lyn
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QR 201 P74 R35 1995
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
subject: Bacterial toxins
subject: Operons
subject: Gene expression

description: Bibliography: p. 228-260.
A prototype front-end for a declarative object-relational database language employing natural quantifiers and genitive relations
Creators: name: Rata, Carmen-Daniela
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QA 76.9 D3 R37 1995
subject: Database management - Computer programs
subject: Programming languages (Electronic computers)
subject: COOL (Computer program language)

description: Bibliography: p. 209-218.
Effect of hearing loss and age on human cochlear traveling wave delay
Creators: name: Ramotowski, D. H. (Danny H.)
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: RF 291 R36 1995
subject: Hearing - Physiological aspects
subject: Cochlea - Pathophysiology
subject: Hearing disorders

description: Bibliography: p. 81-86.
description: The cochlear traveling wave delay can be derived from distortion product emission (DPE) phase measurements [Kimberley et al., 1993]. By testing ears with mild cochlear hearing damage as well as ears with normal hearing thresholds (~25 dB SPL, ANSI 1969), it was shown that cochlear latencies measured in this way are not significantly affected by hearing loss. Traveling wave delay however does increase slightly with age. Optimal f2/ fi ratio and associated DPE amplitude were also tested for age or threshold effects. The f2/fi ratio remained unaffected by age or hearing loss, but decreased with increasing frequency. The maximum DPE amplitude decreased with both advancing age and with increasing pure-tone threshold, so it was impossible to isolate the contribution of each individual factor. The linearity between maximum DPE amplitude and threshold, at the frequencies tested, shows potential for clinical use.
Effects of servant leadership, affective commitment, and trust on knowledge sharing tendency in the financial industry
Creators: name: Ng, Keith Yong Ngee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examines the inter-relational aspects of servant leadership, affective commitment, and the interaction of trust on employees’ knowledge-sharing tendency in the financial services industry. While much has been known about how trust correlates positively with the leader’s approach on knowledge-sharing behaviour; what is unknown is how knowledge-sharing tendency is explained by servant leadership and affective commitment and whether trust has a moderating effect on the relationships between servant leadership and affective commitment, and servant leadership and knowledge-sharing tendency. This study developed a moderated mediated model that examines data from a two-part study of 398 financial services personnel in Singapore. SmartPLS analyses revealed that affective commitment is a complementary mediator between the relationship of servant leadership and knowledge-sharing tendency. Trust moderates the relationship differently in that it positively enhances the relationship between servant leadership and knowledge-sharing tendency but attenuates the relationship between servant leadership and affective organisational commitment.
title: Influence of Polymer Modification on Cracking and Fatigue of Asphalt Mixtures
Creators: name: Lancaster, IM
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Efficient road networks are an integral aspect of the transport infrastructure of any modern economy and sound pavement design, along with effective maintenance programmes, are crucial to the continued quality and value of these assets. Polymer modification of the asphalt is frequently used to enhance the pavement durability performance. However, the benefits of polymer modification are not always clear to the designing engineer. Laboratory tests to assess asphalt performance often require large quantities of material, highly specialised test equipment and considerable amounts of time. Whilst the advantages of polymer modification on deformation resistance are well accepted, its impact on cracking and fatigue is less well defined. This research was therefore undertaken to quantify the effect of polymer modification on the cracking and fatigue performance of asphalt, and to develop methods to minimise the time and materials required to perform the laboratory assessments. A novel technique to analyse the performance of full asphalt mixtures utilising a standard laboratory dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) was developed using very small sample sizes. The technique was validated by comparing the results to existing testing geometries, with the new method shown to depict the viscoelastic behaviour of the asphalt. The asphalt’s fundamental fracture mechanics properties were investigated via the semi circular bending geometry, with the improved performance of the polymer modified asphalts in terms of fracture toughness and strain energy release rate demonstrated. A crack growth law based on the generalised J-integral was developed and used to determine characteristic material parameters which were used to predict pavement service life. Crack propagation of the semi-circular bending geometry under monotonic loading was modelled using the Extended Finite Element Method with the time dependent viscoelastic properties within the model determined using the small sample size technique, and modelled using a fractional viscoelastic element. ii The calibrated model was used to predict the load-displacement behaviour of specimens, and the improved crack resistance of the polymer modified asphalts verified. Binder fatigue behaviour was analysed using the DSR and the improved damage resistance of increasingly polymer modified binders verified. Asphalt fatigue was assessed using traditional large scale trapezoidal two point bending, cyclic semi-circular bending and small specimen sized tests on the DSR with the effect of polymer modification evaluated. Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) theory was successfully applied to the results with the potential for significant reductions in test durations using this approach demonstrated.
On the density of nearly regular graphs with a good edge-labelling
Creators: name: Mehrabian, Abbas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A good edge-labelling of a simple graph is a labelling of its edges with real numbers such that, for any ordered pair of vertices (u,v), there is at most one nondecreasing path from u to v. Say a graph is good if it admits a good edge-labelling, and is bad otherwise. Our main result is that any good n-vertex graph whose maximum degree is within a constant factor of its average degree (in particular, any good regular graph) has at most n^{1+o(1)} edges. As a corollary, we show that there are bad graphs with arbitrarily large girth, answering a question of Bode, Farzad and Theis. We also prove that for any Delta, there is a g such that any graph with maximum degree at most Delta and girth at least g is good.
description: 5 pages
Phenomenal: Large Scale Computing For Medical Metabolic Phenotyping Data
Creators: name: Moreno, Pablo
name: Haug, Kenneth
name: Kale, Namrata
name: Salek, Reza
name: Jayaseelan, Kalai Vanii
name: Spjut, Ola
name: Neumann, Steffen
name: Steinbeck, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: phenomenal-h2020
metabolomics
e-infrastructure
bioinformatics
cloud computing

description: PhenoMeNal Poster (Horizon 2020 EU) presented at the Metabomeeting 2015 in Cambridge. Presented on behalf of the PhenoMeNal Consortium http://phenomenal.eu/.
title: Pharmacological Targeting of the RAGE-NFκB Signalling Axis Impedes Monocyte Activation under Diabetic Conditions through the Repression of SHP-2 Tyrosine Phosphatase Function
Creators: name: Dorenkamp, Marc
name: Nasiry, Madina
name: Semo, Dilvin
name: Koch, Sybille
name: Löffler, Ivonne
name: Wolf, Gunter
name: Reinecke, Holger
name: Godfrey, Rinesh
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Monocytes play a vital role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major CVD risk factor, and T2DM-induced aberrant activation and enhanced migration of monocytes is a vital pathomechanism that leads to atherogenesis. We recently reported the upregulation of SHP-2 phosphatase expression in mediating the VEGF resistance of T2DM patient-derived monocytes or methylglyoxal- (MG, a glucose metabolite and advanced glycation end product (AGE) precursor) treated monocytes. However, the exact mechanisms leading to SHP-2 upregulation in hyperglycemic monocytes are unknown. Since inflammation and accumulation of AGEs is a hallmark of T2DM, we hypothesise that inflammation and AGE-RAGE (Receptor-for-AGEs) signalling drive SHP-2 expression in monocytes and blockade of these pathways will repress SHP-2 function. Indeed, monocytes from T2DM patients revealed an elevated SHP-2 expression. Under normoglycemic conditions, the serum from T2DM patients strongly induced SHP-2 expression, indicating that the T2DM serum contains critical factors that directly regulate SHP-2 expression. Activation of pro-inflammatory TNFα signalling cascade drove SHP-2 expression in monocytes. In line with this, linear regression analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between TNFα expression and SHP-2 transcript levels in T2DM monocytes. Monocytes exposed to MG or AGE mimetic AGE-BSA, revealed an elevated SHP-2 expression and co-treatment with an NFκB inhibitor or genetic inhibition of p65 reversed it. The pharmacological inhibition of RAGE was sufficient to block MG- or AGE-BSA-induced SHP-2 expression and activity. Confirming the importance of RAGE-NFκB signalling in regulating SHP-2 expression, the elevated binding of NFκB to the SHP-2 promoter—induced by MG or AGE-BSA—was reversed by RAGE and NFκB inhibition. Besides, we detected elevated RAGE levels in human and murine T2DM monocytes and monocytes exposed to MG or AGE-BSA. Importantly, MG and AGE-BSA treatment of non-T2DM monocytes phenocopied the aberrant pro-migratory phenotype of T2DM monocytes, which was reversed entirely by either SHP-2- or RAGE inhibition. In conclusion, these findings suggest a new therapeutic approach to prevent accelerated atherosclerosis in T2DM patients since inhibiting the RAGE-NFκB-SHP-2 axis impeded the T2DM-driven, SHP-2-dependent monocyte activation.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
4th OpenAIRE CONNECT Community Call
Creators: name: Bardi, Alessia
name: Desmond, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE Connect
The EUT+ University Alliance
Community gateway

description: 4th Community Call: April 18th, 2023 Agenda: Introduction to CONNECT Highlights on some functionalities/novelties The EUT+ University Alliance Q&A Recording: https://youtu.be/bcQrv0Cybak Community Calls page: www.openaire.eu/connect-community-calls
Coulomb impurity under magnetic field in graphene: a semiclassical approach
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuhui
name: Barlas, Yafis
name: Yang, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of a Coulomb impurity in graphene in the presence of a perpendicular uniform magnetic field. We show that the problem can be solved below the supercritical impurity magnitude within the WKB approximation. Without impurity the semiclassical energies correctly reproduce the Landau level spectrum. For a given Landau level the WKB energy depends on the absolute value of angular momentum in a way which is consistent with the exact diagonalization result. Below the supercritical impurity magnitude, the WKB solution can be expanded as a convergent series in powers of the effective fine structure constant. Relevance of our results to validity of the widely used Landau level projection approximation is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Jet magnetically accelerated from disk-corona around a rotating black hole
Creators: name: Gong, Xiaolong
name: Li, Lixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A jet acceleration model for extracting energy from disk-corona surrounding a rotating black hole is proposed. In the disk-corona scenario, we obtain the ratio of the power dissipated in the corona to the total for such disk-corona system by solving the disk dynamics equations. The analytical expression of the jet power is derived based on the electronic circuit theory of the magnetosphere. It is shown that jet power increases with the increasing black hole (BH) spin, and concentrates in the inner region of the disk-corona. In addition, we use a sample consisting of 37 radio loud quasars to explore their jet production mechanism, and show that our jet formation mechanism can simulate almost all sources with high power jet, that fail to be explained by the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process.
A distance scale of planetary nebulae based on mid-infrared data
Creators: name: Ortiz, R.
name: Copetti, M. V. F.
name: Lorenz-Martins, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some of the most successful statistical methods for obtaining distances of planetary nebulae (PNe) are based on their apparent sizes and radio emission intensities. These methods have the advantage of being "extinction-free" and are especially suited to be applied to PNe situated at large distances. A similar method, based on the mid-infrared (MIR) emission of PNe, would have the advantage of being applicable to the large databases created after the various all-sky or Galactic plane infrared surveys, such as IRAS, MSX, ISOGAL, GLIMPSE, etc. In this work we propose a statistical method to calculate the distance of PNe based on the apparent nebular radius and the MIR flux densities. We show that the specific intensity between 8 and 21 micron is proportional to the brightness temperature T_b at 5 GHz. Using MIR flux densities at 8, 12, 15 and 21 microns from the MSX survey, we calibrate the distance scale with a statistical method by Stanghellini et al. 2008 (SSV). The database used in the calibration consisted of 67 Galactic PNe with MSX counterparts and distances determined by SSV. We apply the method to a sample of PNe detected at 8 microns in the GLIMPSE infrared survey, and determine the distance of a sample of PNe located along the Galactic plane and bulge.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Adolescent and adult health: health locus of control, health status and risk-taking beliefs and behaviours
Creators: name: Reilly, Karen Joyce
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: RJ 47.53 R45 1995
subject: Teenagers - Health and hygiene
subject: Health attitudes
subject: Health behavior
subject: Locus of control
subject: Adolescent psychology

description: Bibliography: p. 104-112.
Survey-Based Analysis of the Proposed Component-Based Development Process
Creators: name: Qureshi, Rizwan Jameel
name: Sandhu, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concept of component-based development (CBD) is widely practiced in software (SW) development. CBD is based on reuse of the existing components with the new ones. The objective of this paper is to propose a novel process model for CBD. Importance of repository has also been discussed. A survey has been conducted to evaluate the proposed model. The results of the survey show that proposed process model can be efficiently implemented for CBD projects.
description: 5 Pages; ISSN: 1013-5316, CODEN: SINTE 8
Consilience across multiple, independent genomic data sets reveals species in a complex with limited phenotypic variation
Creators: name: Wootton, Lara Misty
name: Forest, Felix
name: Verboom, George Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Species delimitation in the genomic era has focused predominantly on the application of multiple analytical methodologies to a single massive parallel sequencing (MPS) data set, rather than leveraging the unique but complementary insights provided by different classes of MPS data. In this study we demonstrate how the use of two independent MPS data sets, a sequence capture data set and a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data set generated via genotyping-by-sequencing, enables the resolution of species in three complexes belonging to the grass genus Ehrharta, whose strong population structure and subtle morphological variation limit the effectiveness of traditional species delimitation approaches. Sequence capture data are used to construct a comprehensive phylogenetic tree of Ehrharta and to resolve population relationships within the focal clades, while SNP data are used to detect patterns of gene pool sharing across populations, using a novel approach that visualises multiple values of K. Given that the two genomic data sets are fully independent, the strong congruence in the clusters they resolve provides powerful ratification of species boundaries in all three complexes studied. Our approach is also able to resolve a number of single-population species and a probable hybrid species, both which would be difficult to detect and characterize using a single MPS data set. Overall, the data reveal the existence of 11 and five species in the E. setacea and E. rehmannii complexes, with the E. ramosa complex requiring further sampling before species limits are finalized. Despite phenotypic differentiation being generally subtle, true crypsis is limited to just a few species pairs and triplets. We conclude that, in the absence of strong morphological differentiation, the use of multiple, independent genomic data sets is necessary in order to provide the cross-data set corroboration that is foundational to an integrative taxonomic approach.
description: Funding provided by: National Research Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001321
Award Number: 105976
description: Please see the README document ("README_.txt"), the supplementary methods (SUPPLEMENTARY METHODS & FIGURES.docx) and the accompanying article: Wootton, L.M., Forest, F., Verboom, G.A., 2022. Consilience across multiple, independent genomic data sets reveals species in a complex with limited phenotypic variation.
title: Variation in the Structure and Function of Invertebrate-Associated Bacterial Communities
Creators: name: Blow, F
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Microorganisms are intricately involved in the ecology of many insects, often contributing to host fitness and forming evolutionarily stable associations. The interactions between hosts and microbes can significantly alter their evolutionary trajectories, enabling them to adapt to novel environmental conditions. In this thesis I have examined how host ecology can shape the interactions of bacteria with insects of agricultural and epidemiological importance. I have described the bacterial communities associated with Bactrocera oleae (the olive fruit fly) and generated draft genome sequences for several members of the gut microbiota, including the symbiotic bacterium “Candidatus Erwinia dacicola”. Comparative genomic analyses indicate that Ca. E. dacicola and a novel facultative bacterium Tatumella TA1 may perform key nutritional functions for the host, including the synthesis of essential amino acids and ammonia assimilation from host nitrogenous waste products. Tatumella TA1 is consistently associated with all life stages of populations collected in Israel and Crete at low relative abundance, and encodes large adhesion proteins that may assist in attachment to the host epithelium or other members of the microbiota in the B. oleae gut. I have also examined the variation in frequency and relative abundance of facultative microbes that infect several Glossina spp. (the tsetse fly): the sole vector of African trypanosomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to three vertically transmitted endosymbionts (Wigglesworthia, Sodalis, and Wolbachia), tsetse flies are infected with two additional potential reproductive manipulators: Spiroplasma and Rickettsia, and a novel strain of Klebsiella. The draft genomes generated for these taxa over the course of this thesis provide the opportunity for future studies in to their role in host biology and how community interactions can shape the transmission and evolutionary dynamics of host-associated microbes.
Observation of large scissors resonance strength in actinides
Creators: name: Guttormsen, M.
name: Bernstein, L. A.
name: Bürger, A.
name: Görgen, A.
name: Gunsing, F.
name: Hagen, T. W.
name: Larsen, A. C.
name: Renstrøm, T.
name: Siem, S.
name: Wiedeking, M.
name: Wilson, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital M1-scissors resonance (SR) has been measured for the first time in the quasi-continuum of actinides. Particle-gamma coincidences are recorded with deuteron and 3He induced reactions on 232Th. The residual nuclei 231,232,233Th and 232,233Pa show an unexpectedly strong integrated strength of $B_{M1} = 11-15 μ_{n}^{2}$ in the Egamma=1.0 - 3.5 MeV region. The increased gamma-decay probability in actinides due to the SR is important for cross-section calculations for future fuel cycles of fast nuclear reactors and may also have impact on stellar nucleosynthesis.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
A comparative study of E. Underhill's criteria of mysticism and C. G. Jung's theory of individuation
Creators: name: Rentz, Caroline Jean
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: BV 5083 R46 1995
subject: Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941
subject: Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
subject: Mysticism
subject: Individuation (Psychology)

description: Bibliography: p. 124-127.
Ruling out unresolved binaries in five transitional disks VLT/NACO: deep 2.12 and 1.75 μm narrow-band imaging
Creators: name: Vicente, Silvia
name: Merın, Bruno
name: Hartung, Markus
name: Bouy, Herve
name: Huelamo, Nuria
name: Artigau, Etienne
name: Augereau, Jean-Charles
name: van Dishoeck, Ewine
name: Olofsson, Johan
name: Oliveira, Isa
name: Prusti, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We aim at detecting the presence of companions inside the inner hole/gap region of a sample of five well known transitional disks using spatially-resolved imaging in the near-IR with the VLT/NACO/S13 camera, which probes projected distances from the primary of typically 0.1 to 7 arcsec. The sample includes the stars DoAr 21, HD 135344B (SAO 206462), HR 4796A, T Cha, and TW Hya, spanning ages of less than 1 to 10 Myr, spectral types of A0 to K7, and hole/gap outer radii of 4 to 100 AU. Methods. In order to enhance the contrast and to avoid saturation at the core of the point-spread function (PSF), we use narrow-band filters at 1.75 and 2.12 μm. The "locally optimized combination of images" (LOCI) algorithm is applied for an optimal speckle noise removal and PSF subtraction, providing an increase of 0.5-1.5 mag in contrast over the classic method. Results. With the proviso that we could have missed companions owing to unfavorable projections, the VLT/NACO observations rule out the presence of unresolved companions down to an inner radius of about 0".1 from the primary in all five transitional disks and with a detection limit of 2 to 5 mag in contrast. In the disk outer regions the detection limits typically reach 8 to 9 mag in contrast and 4.7 mag for T Cha. Hence, the NACO images resolve part of the inner hole/gap region of all disks with the exception of TW Hya, for which the inner hole is only 4 AU. The 5σ sensitivity profiles, together with a selected evolutionary model, allow to discard stellar companions within the inner hole/gap region of T Cha, and down to the substellar regime for HD 135344B and HR 4796A. DoAr 21 is the only object from the sample of five disks for which the NACO images are sensitive enough for a detection of objects less massive than \sim 13 MJup that is, potential giant planets or low-mass brown dwarfs at radii larger than \sim 76 AU (0".63).
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
The DarkSide Program at LNGS
Creators: name: Wright, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DarkSide is a direct detection dark matter program based on two phase time projection chambers with depleted argon targets. The DarkSide detectors are designed, using novel low background techniques and active shielding, to be capable of demonstrating in situ a very low level of residual background. This means that each detector in the DarkSide program should have the ability to make a convincing claim of dark matter detection based on the observation of a few nuclear recoil events. The collaboration is currently operating a 10 kg prototype detector, DarkSide-10, in Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, while the first physics detector in the program, DarkSide-50, is expected to be deployed at LNGS at the end of 2012.
description: Proceedings submission for DPF2011. 7 pages, 4 figures
A photometric and spectroscopic study of WW And - an Algol-type, long period binary system with an accretion disc
Creators: name: Siwak, Michal
name: Zola, Stanislaw
name: Szymanski, Tomasz
name: Kurpinska-Winiarska, Maria
name: Winiarski, Maciej
name: Koziel-Wierzbowska, Dorota
name: Waniak, Waclaw
name: Drahus, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the available spectra of WW And and for the first time obtained a reasonably well defined radial velocity curve of the primary star. Combined with the available radial velocity curve of the secondary component, these data led to the first determination of the spectroscopic mass ratio of the system at q-spec = 0.16 +/- 0.03. We also determined the radius of the accretion disc from analysis of the double-peaked H-alpha emission lines. Our new, high-precision, Johnson VRI and the previously available Stromgren vby light curves were modelled with stellar and accretion disc models. A consistent model for WW And - a semidetached system harbouring an accretion disc which is optically thick in its inner region, but optically thin in the outer parts - agrees well with both spectroscopic and photometric data.
description: Accepted by New Astronomy
Electronic structure of CrN: A comparison between different exchange correlation potentials
Creators: name: Botana, A. S.
name: Tran, F.
name: Pardo, V.
name: Baldomir, D.
name: Blaha, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a series of electronic structure calculations for CrN using different exchange correlation potentials: PBE, LDA+$U$, the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson, and hybrid functionals. In every case, our calculations show that the onset of magnetism in CrN should be accompanied by a gap opening. The experimentally found antiferromagnetic order always leads to an insulating behavior. Our results give further evidence that the Tran-Blaha functional is very useful for treating the electronic structure of correlated semiconductors allowing a parameter free description of the system. Hybrid functionals are also well capable of describing the electronic structure of CrN. The analysis of the system is complemented with our calculations of the thermopower that are in agreement with the experimental data.
Shaping consciousness: dreaming with open eyes : a written accompaniment to the thesis exhibition
Creators: name: Reynoldson, Terry Dean
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: NB 1208 R49 1995
subject: Stone carving
subject: Sculpture - Technique
subject: Reynoldson, Terry Dean - Exhibitions

description: Bibliography: p. 83-85.
description: Includes slides.
Supplementary document for Rapid identification of pathogens in blood serum via Raman tweezers in combination with advanced processing methods - 6585316.pdf
Creators: name: Vaculik, Ondrej
name: Bernatova, Silvie
name: Rebrosova, Katarína
name: Samek, Ota
name: Silhan, Lukas
name: Ruzicka, Filip
name: Sery, Mojmir
name: Siler, Martin
name: Jezek, Jan
name: Zemanek, Pavel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
BULLDOZING AND RESTING TRACES OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL ANODONTA WOODIANA AND SUBSTRATE CHARACTERISTICS IN LAKE-MARGIN AND RIVER SETTINGS OF UMBRIA, ITALY
Creators: name: MONACO, PAOLO
name: FAMIANI, FEDERICO
name: LA IACONA, FABIO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ichnology; freshwater; Anodonta mussel; substrate; Umbria; Italy

description: The neoichnology of the freshwater mussel Anodonta (Sinanodonta) woodiana (Lea, 1834) is examined herein in some continental environments of Umbria (central Italy), such as lake-margin and river dam-margin settings. This study, based on analysis of about 200 traces, reveals that this mussel burrows employing two types of behaviours: bulldozing which produces horizontal meanders to straight bilobate traces, often filled with peloidal faecal pellets (pseudofaeces and backfill), and resting (vertical stationary into substrate) while filter feeding. A new type of very soft substrate, the ‘cloudground’ is proposed. It is placed at the water-sediment interface, above the soupground. After four years of observation, the cloudground was buried with shells and traces, preserving through the fossilization barrier about 20% of the Anodonta traces. This bivalve activity is a useful tool to recognize preservation of mud in quiet environments and parallels ichnological evidence of unknown epichnial trace fossils in the continental realm. Cloudground with resting traces must be investigated also in modern marine basin floor environments where cloud of mud dominates and considered also in geological record.
description: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy), Vol 122, No 1: In progress
Laryngeal morphology of Afro-Madagascan Gekkonine lizards (Gekkonidae: reptilia)
Creators: name: Rittenhouse, David Richard
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QL 666 L245 R58 1995
subject: Gekos - Anatomy
subject: Gekos - Physiology
subject: Larynx

description: Bibliography: p. 258-270.
Dynamics of Dust Particles Released from Oort Cloud Comets and Their Contribution to Radar Meteors
Creators: name: Nesvorny, David
name: Vokrouhlicky, David
name: Pokorny, Petr
name: Janches, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Oort Cloud Comets (OCCs), exemplified by the Great Comet of 1997 (Hale-Bopp), are occasional visitors from the heatless periphery of the solar system. Previous works hypothesized that a great majority of OCCs must physically disrupt after one or two passages through the inner solar system, where strong thermal gradients can cause phase transitions or volatile pressure buildup. Here we study the fate of small debris particles produced by OCC disruptions to determine whether the imprints of a hypothetical population of OCC meteoroids can be found in the existing meteor radar data. We find that OCC particles with diameters D<10 um are blown out from the solar system by radiation pressure, while those with D>1 um have a very low Earth-impact probability. The intermediate particle sizes, D=100 um, represent a sweet spot. About 1% of these particles orbitally evolve by Poynting-Robertson drag to reach orbits with semimajor axis a=1 AU. They are expected to produce meteors with radiants near the apex of the Earth's orbital motion. We find that the model distributions of their impact speeds and orbits provide a good match to radar observations of apex meteors, except for the eccentricity distribution, which is more skewed toward e=1 in our model. Finally, we propose an explanation for the long-standing problem in meteor science related to the relative strength of apex and helion/antihelion sources. As we show in detail, the observed trend, with the apex meteors being more prominent in observations of highly sensitive radars, can be related to orbital dynamics of particles released on the long-period orbits.
An exploration of the association between social relationships and depression in people with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Robinson, Geraldine E.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: RC 514 R59 1995
subject: Schizophrenia - Social aspects
subject: Depression, Mental - Social aspects
subject: Interpersonal relations

description: Bibliography: p. 115-132.
Handle Slides and Localizations of Categories
Creators: name: Cooper, Benjamin
name: Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a means by which some categorifications can be evaluated at a root of unity. This is implemented using a suitable localization in the context of prior work by the authors on categorification of the Jones-Wenzl projectors. Within this construction we define objects, invariant under handle slides, which decategorify to the SU(2) quantum invariants at low levels.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures. v2: paper is unchanged, a technical problem with the files is fixed
Supplementary document for Rapid identification of pathogens in blood serum via Raman tweezers in combination with advanced processing methods - 6654089.pdf
Creators: name: Vaculik, Ondrej
name: Bernatova, Silvie
name: Rebrosova, Katarína
name: Samek, Ota
name: Silhan, Lukas
name: Ruzicka, Filip
name: Sery, Mojmir
name: Siler, Martin
name: Jezek, Jan
name: Zemanek, Pavel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Soliton surfaces associated with CP^{N-1} sigma models
Creators: name: Grundland, A. M.
name: Post, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q53, 35Q58, 53A05

description: Soliton surfaces associated with CP^{N-1} sigma models are constructed using the Generalized Weierstrass and the Fokas-Gel'fand formulas for immersion of 2D surfaces in Lie algebras. The considered surfaces are defined using continuous deformations of the zero-curvature representation of the model and its associated linear spectral problem. The theoretical framework is discussed in detail and several new examples of such surfaces are presented.
description: 14 pages
Results of the 2014 underwater camera survey of the eastern Bering Slope and outer shelf.
Creators: name: Goddard, Pamela
name: Wilborn, Rachel Elizabeth
name: Rooper, Christopher N.
name: Williams, Kresimir, 1973-
name: Towler, Richard H.
name: Sigler, Michael Frederick, 1957-
name: Malecha, Patrick William
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Underwater photography--Equipment and supplies.
subject: Deep-sea animals--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast--Observations--Pictorial works.
subject: Marine biology--Research--Alaska--Bering Sea Coast--Equipment and supplies.

description: The results of the 2014 Underwater Camera Survey of the Eastern Bering Sea slope and outer shelf are presented here. The 2014 survey was the first comprehensive underwater camera survey of coral and sponge on the Bering Sea slope and outer shelf conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Two-hundred fifty transects were successfully completed during the survey, which extended north from Bering Canyon to Pervenets Canyon. Transects were randomly selected between Unalaska Island and Pervenets Canyon. Each transect was assigned to one of eight geographical regions. Demersal populations of corals, sponges, sea whips, fishes, and crabs were sampled by drifting a stereo drop camera for 15 minutes at each transect. Survey results presented in this report include fish and crab composition and density, coral, sponge and sea whip density and height, and substrate composition for each transect. The Appendix lists start position, distance towed, swath, mean depth, and mean temperature for each transect completed.
Characterization of insertion elements associated with the mucoid phenotype in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Rombough, Charlane D.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QH 462 I48 R66 1995
subject: Insertion elements, DNA
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
subject: Cystic fibrosis - Genetic aspects

description: Bibliography: p. 124-141.
Deuteron disintegration in three dimensions
Creators: name: Topolnicki, K.
name: Golak, J.
name: Skibinski, R.
name: Elmeshneb, A. E.
name: Gloeckle, W.
name: Nogga, A.
name: Kamada, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare results from the traditional partial wave treatment of deuteron electro-disintegration with a new approach that uses three dimensional formalism. The new framework for the two-nucleon (2N) system using a complete set of isospin - spin states made it possible to construct simple implementations that employ a very general operator form of the current operator and 2N states.
description: 24 pages, 15 eps figures
The Fall and the Rise of X-rays from Dwarf Novae in Outburst: RXTE Observations of VW Hydri and WW Ceti
Creators: name: Fertig, Derek
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Nelson, Thomas
name: Cannizzo, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a dwarf nova, the accretion disk around the white dwarf is a source of ultraviolet, optical, and infrared photons, but is never hot enough to emit X-rays. Observed X-rays instead originate from the boundary layer between the disk and the white dwarf. As the disk switches between quiescence and outburst states, the 2-10 keV X-ray flux is usually seen to be anti-correlated with the optical brightness. Here we present RXTE monitoring observations of two dwarf novae, VW Hyi and WW Cet, confirming the optical/X-ray anti-correlation in these two systems. However, we do not detect any episodes of increased hard X-ray flux on the rise (out of two possible chances for WW Cet) or the decline (two for WW Cet and one for VW Hyi) from outburst, attributes that are clearly established in SS Cyg. The addition of these data to the existing literature establishes the fact that the behavior of SS Cyg is the exception, rather than the archetype as is often assumed. We speculate on the origin of the diversity of behaviors exhibited by dwarf novae, focusing on the role played by the white dwarf mass.
description: PASP, in press (18 pages including 3 figures)
Studies of active site residues in Beta-galactosidase from Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Roth, Nathan J.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QP 609 G3 R68 1995
subject: Beta-galactosidase
subject: Binding sites (Biochemistry)
subject: Escherichia Coli
subject: Enzymes - Regulation

description: Bibliography: p. 255-269.
Interaction of Phonons and Dirac Fermions on the Surface of Bi2Se3: A Strong Kohn Anomaly
Creators: name: Zhu, Xuetao
name: Santos, L.
name: Sankar, R.
name: Chikara, S.
name: Howard, C.
name: Chou, F. C.
name: Chamon, C.
name: El-Batanouny, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurements of phonon dispersion curves on the (001) surface of the strong three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3. The surface phonon measurements were carried out with the aid of coherent helium beam surface scattering techniques. The results reveal a prominent signature of the exotic metallic Dirac fermion quasi-particles, including a strong Kohn anomaly. The signature is manifest in a low energy isotropic convex dispersive surface phonon branch with a frequency maximum of 1.8 THz, and having a V-shaped minimum at approximately 2kF that defines the Kohn anomaly. Theoretical analysis attributes this dispersive profile to the renormalization of the surface phonon excitations by the surface Dirac fermions. The contribution of the Dirac fermions to this renormalization is derived in terms of a Coulomb-type perturbation model.
Quantum coherent control of highly multipartite continuous-variable entangled states by tailoring parametric interactions
Creators: name: Patera, Giuseppe
name: Navarrete-Benlloch, Carlos
name: de Valcárcel, Germán J.
name: Fabre, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of continuous-variable multipartite entangled states is important for several protocols of quantum information processing and communication, such as one-way quantum computation or controlled dense coding. In this article we theoretically show that multimode optical parametric oscillators can produce a great variety of such states by an appropriate control of the parametric interaction, what we accomplish by tailoring either the spatio-temporal shape of the pump, or the geometry of the nonlinear medium. Specific examples involving currently available optical parametric oscillators are given, hence showing that our ideas are within reach of present technology.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Evaluation of the Improved XP Software Development Model
Creators: name: Qureshi, M. Rizwan Jameel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concept of agile process models has attained great popularity in software (SW) development community in last few years. Agile models promote fast development. Fast development has certain drawbacks, such as weak documentation and performance for medium and large development projects. Fast development also promotes use of agile process models in small-scale projects. This paper modifies and evaluates Extreme Programming (XP) process model and proposes a novel process model based on these modifications.
description: 4 pages; ISSN: 1013-5316, CODEN: SINTE 8
Effects of forest management on alien plant invasion of woodlands
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chmura D., Sierka E. (2005). Effects of forest management on alien plant invasion of woodlands. Thaiszia Journal of Botany 15 (1), 289-300.
Anisotropic Energy Gaps of Iron-based Superconductivity from Intra-band Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs
Creators: name: Allan, M. P.
name: Rost, A. W.
name: Mackenzie, A. P.
name: Xie, Yang
name: Davis, J. C.
name: Kihou, K.
name: Lee, C. H.
name: Iyo, A.
name: Eisaki, H.
name: Chuang, T. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If strong electron-electron interactions between neighboring Fe atoms mediate the Cooper pairing in iron-pnictide superconductors, then specific and distinct anisotropic superconducting energy gaps Δ_i(k) should appear on the different electronic bands i. Here we introduce intra-band Bogoliubov quasiparticle scattering interference (QPI) techniques for determination of Δ_i(k) in such materials, focusing on LiFeAs. We identify the three hole-like bands assigned previously as γ, α_2 and α_1, and we determine the anisotropy, magnitude and relative orientations of their Δ_i(k). These measurements will advance quantitative theoretical analysis of the mechanism of Cooper pairing in iron-based superconductivity.