cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
In Pursuit of 2D Materials for Maximum Optical Response
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunny
name: Shirodkar, Sharmila N.
name: Kutana, Alex
name: Yakobson, Boris I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite being only a few atoms thick, single-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials display strong electron-photon interactions that could be utilized in efficient light modulators on extreme subwavelength scales. In various applications involving light modulation and manipulation, materials with strong optical response at different wavelengths are required. Using qualitative analytical modeling and first-principles calculations, we determine the theoretical limit of the maximum optical response such as absorbance (A) and reflectance (R) in 2D materials and also conduct a computational survey to seek out those with best A and R in various frequency ranges, from mid-infrared (IR) to deep ultraviolet (UV). We find that 2D boron has broadband reflectance R >99% for >100 layers, surpassing conventional thin films of bulk metals such as silver. Moreover, we identify 2D monolayer semiconductors with maximum response, for which we obtain quantitative estimates by calculating quasiparticle energies and accounting for excitonic effects by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). We found several monolayer semiconductors with absorbances >30% in different optical ranges which are more than half of the maximum possible value for a 2D material. Our study predicts 2D materials which can potentially be used in ultra-thin reflectors and absorbers for optoelectronic application in various frequency ranges.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Reconstruction of non-forward evolution kernels
Creators: name: Belitsky, A. V.
name: Müller, D.
name: Freund, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a framework for the reconstruction of the non-forward kernels which govern the evolution of twist-two distribution amplitudes and off-forward parton distributions beyond leading order. It is based on the knowledge of the special conformal symmetry breaking part induced by the one-loop anomaly and conformal terms generated by forward next-to-leading order splitting functions, and thus avoids an explicit two-loop calculation. We demonstrate the formalism by applying it to the chiral odd and flavour singlet parity odd sectors.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX, typos fixed
A fair decade's work : the origins of compulsory arbitration in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1905
Creators: name: Pender, William Charles
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: HD5630.A6P46 1999
subject: Arbitration, Industrial Australia
subject: Arbitration, Industrial New Zealand
subject: Working class HistoryAustralia
subject: Working class HistoryNew Zealand

description: This thesis examines the origins of compulsory arbitration in Australia and New Zealand, analysing the political and ideological struggles surrounding the advent of compulsory arbitration between 1890 and 1905. It opens with an examination of developments in Victoria and New South Wales prior to the Maritime Strike, then surveys events in the period following the Strike in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, New Zealand, Queensland and the Commonwealth, culminating with the passing of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1904. It argues that current explanations for the origins of compulsory arbitration are inadequate, that a detailed re-examination of the issue is required. It is my contention that compulsory arbitration was a manifestation of class struggle, and the result of democratic socialist ideas of political action and social change. It was the means by which labour co-opted the power of the state in its struggle against capital, extending industrial conflict into the realms of politics and law. Compulsory arbitration was a self-conscious articulation of class struggle in a non-revolutionary form.
A methoxylated quercetin glycoside harnesses HCC tumor progression in a TP53/miR-15/miR-16 dependent manner
Creators: name: Youness, Rana Ahmed
name: Assal, Reem Amr
name: Shahira Mohamed Ezzat
name: Gad, Mohamed Zakaria
name: Motaal, Amira Abdel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This study focused on studying the impact of flavonoids isolated from Cleome droserifolia on HCC cell lines and to further unveil their possible impact on TP53 and its downstream tumor suppressor miRNAs. Three flavonol glycosides were isolated from C. droserifolia namely, Isorhamnetin-3-O-β-D-glucoside (1), Quercetin-3`-methoxy-3-O-(4``-acetylrhamnoside)-7-O-α-rhamnoside (2), and Kaempferol-4`-methoxy-3,7-O-dirhamnoside (3). They showed a concentration and time dependent reduction in cellular viability and anchorage-independent growth of HCC cells. Moreover, they exhibited a decrease in the migrating capacity of HepG2 cells in a pattern similar to positive control cells. (2) Showed the most potent effects in halting HCC tumorigenic activity (IC50=36 ± 1.70 µM) and a repression of the cellular proliferation rate of HepG2 cells. Restoration of TP53 and its downstream tumor suppressor miRNAs; miR-15a, miR-16, miR-34a by (2) was observed. Moreover, attenuation of (2) mediated actions was shown upon using anti-miR-15a and anti-miR-16. To conclude, this study crystallizes a novel role of C. droserifolia in harnessing HCC progression in-vitro with a possible contribution of TP53/miR-15a/miR-16.
Experimental Results of a 3D Millimeter-Wave Compressive-Reflector-Antenna Imaging System
Creators: name: Zhang, Weite
name: Molaei, Ali
name: Heredia-Juesas, Juan
name: Tirado, Luis
name: Graham, Katherine
name: Bisulco, A.
name: Gomez-Sousa, Hipolito
name: Martinez-Lorenzo, Jose A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter presents the first experimental results of our three-dimensional (3D) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) Compressive-Reflector-Antenna (CRA) imaging system. In this prototype, the CRA is 3D-printed and coated with a metallic spray to easily introduce pseudo-random scatterers on the surface of a traditional reflector antenna (TRA). The CRA performs a pseudo random coding of the incident wavefront, thus adding spatial diversity in the imaging region and enabling the effective use of compressive sensing (CS) and imaging techniques. The CRA is fed with a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar, which consists of four transmitting and four receiving ports. Consequently, the mechanical scanning parts and phase shifters, which are necessary in conventional physical or synthetic aperture arrays, are not needed in this system. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the prototype to perform a successful 3D reconstruction of a T-shaped metallic target.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Spectral change of sigma and omega mesons in a dense nuclear medium
Creators: name: Saito, K.
name: Tsushima, K.
name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectra of the scalar ($σ$) and vector ($ω$) mesons in nuclear matter are studied in detail using the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model. It is shown that above normal nuclear matter density the effects of $σ$-$ω$ mixing and the decay of the $σ$ into $2π$ change the spectra of $σ$ and $ω$ mesons considerably. As in Quantum Hadrodynamics we find a remarkable spectral change in the $σ$ meson and the longitudinal mode of the $ω$ meson, namely a two-peak structure.
description: 14 pages + 9 ps files for 4 figs. The paper was revised, and accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Correlations in interference and diffraction
Creators: name: Duan, Lu-Ming
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum formalism of Fraunhofer diffraction is obtained. The state of the diffraction optical field is connected with the state of the incident optical field by a diffraction factor. Based on this formalism, correlations of the diffraction modes are calculated with different kinds of incident optical fields. Influence of correlations of the incident modes on the diffraction pattern is analyzed and an explanation of the ''ghost'' diffraction is proposed.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, Latex, to appear in J. Mod. Opt
Arrhenia grandineus Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
Creators: name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
name: Priyashantha, K Hasith
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
name: Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A.
name: Premarathne, Bhagya M.
name: Wijayawardene, Nalin N.
name: Wimalasena, Madhara K.
name: Jayalal, Udeni
name: Wickramanayake, Kawmini D.
name: Dangalla, Hasanka
name: Jayathunga, Hashini
name: Brahmanage, Rashika S.
name: Weerakoon, Gothamie
name: Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U.
name: Yapa, Neelamanie
name: Nanayakkara, Chandrika M.
name: Ediriweera, Surani
name: Fan, Xin-Lei
name: Kirk, Paul M.
name: Zhang, Gui-Qing
name: Ediriweera, Aseni
name: Bhat, Jayarama
name: Dawoud, Turki M.
name: Kumara, Wasantha
name: Deng, Chun Ying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hygrophoraceae
Arrhenia
Arrhenia grandineus

description: A. grandineus Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11 (no. 56): 535 (1871)/IF: 506911
Typification Details: Holotype K (M) 34945, Sri Lanka
Reference: Berkeley & Broome (1871)
description: Published as part of Karunarathna, Samantha C., Priyashantha, K Hasith, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A., Premarathne, Bhagya M., Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Wimalasena, Madhara K., Jayalal, Udeni, Wickramanayake, Kawmini D., Dangalla, Hasanka, Jayathunga, Hashini, Brahmanage, Rashika S., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U., Yapa, Neelamanie, Nanayakkara, Chandrika M., Ediriweera, Surani, Fan, Xin-Lei, Kirk, Paul M., Zhang, Gui-Qing, Ediriweera, Aseni, Bhat, Jayarama, Dawoud, Turki M., Kumara, Wasantha & Deng, Chun Ying, 2023, Checklist, typification details, and nomenclature status of Basidiomycota, originally described from Sri Lanka, pp. 1-86 in Phytotaxa 621 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.621.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10065102
title: Grant Peer Review: Improving Inter-Rater Reliability with Training
Creators: name: Sattler, David N.
name: McKnight, Patrick E.
name: Naney, Linda
name: Mathis, Randy
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research validity
subject: Research grants
subject: Peer review
subject: Public and occupational health
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Sense of agency
subject: Cognition

description: This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review criteria. Enhancing reviewer training may improve the reliability and accuracy of research grant proposal scoring and funding recommendations. Seventy-five Public Health professors from U.S. research universities watched the training video we produced and assigned scores to the National Institutes of Health scoring criteria proposal summary descriptions. For both novice and experienced reviewers, the training video increased scoring accuracy (the percentage of scores that reflect the true rating scale values), inter-rater reliability, and the amount of time reading the review criteria compared to the no video condition. The increase in reliability for experienced reviewers is notable because it is commonly assumed that reviewers—especially those with experience—have good understanding of the grant review rating scale. The findings suggest that both experienced and novice reviewers who had not received the type of training developed in this study may not have appropriate understanding of the definitions and meaning for each value of the rating scale and that experienced reviewers may overestimate their knowledge of the rating scale. The results underscore the benefits of and need for specialized peer reviewer training.
Magnetism of Superconducting UPt3
Creators: name: Haran, G.
name: Gehring, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of superconducting $U\!Pt_{3}$ in pressure-temperature plane, together with the neutron scattering data is studied within a two component superconducting order parameter scenario. In order to give a qualitative explanation to the experimental data a set of two linearly independent antiferromagnetic moments which emerge appropriately at the temperature \mbox{$T_{N}\sim 10\cdot T_{c}$} and \mbox{$T_{m}\sim T_{c}$} and couple to superconductivity is proposed. Several constraints on the fourth order coefficients in the Ginzburg-Landau free energy are obtained.
description: 17 pages, figures available on request to haran@rainbow.if.pwr.wroc.pl
title: Passive listening to preferred motor tempo modulates corticospinal excitability
Creators: name: Michaelis, Kelly
name: Wiener, Martin
name: Thompson, James C.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transcranial magnetic stimulation
subject: Rhythm perception
subject: Tempo and timing
subject: Corticospinal excitability
subject: Individual differences

description: Rhythms are an essential characteristic of our lives, and auditory-motor coupling affects a variety of behaviors. Previous research has shown that the neural regions associated with motor system processing are coupled to perceptual rhythmic and melodic processing such that the perception of rhythmic stimuli can entrain motor system responses. However, the degree to which individual preference modulates the motor system is unknown. Recent work has shown that passively listening to metrically strong rhythms increases corticospinal excitability, as indicated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Furthermore, this effect is modulated by high-groove music, or music that inspires movement, while neuroimaging evidence suggests that premotor activity increases with tempos occurring within a preferred tempo (PT) category. PT refers to the rate of a hypothetical endogenous oscillator that may be indicated by spontaneous motor tempo (SMT) and preferred perceptual tempo (PPT) measurements. The present study investigated whether listening to a rhythm at an individual’s PT preferentially modulates motor system excitability. SMT was obtained in human participants through a tapping task in which subjects were asked to tap a response key at their most comfortable rate. Subjects listened a 10-beat tone sequence at 11 log-spaced tempos and rated their preference for each (PPT). We found that SMT and PPT measurements were correlated, indicating that preferred and produced tempos occurred at a similar rate. Crucially, single-pulse TMS delivered to left M1 during PPT judgments revealed that corticospinal excitability, measured by motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), was modulated by tempos traveling closer to individual PT. However, the specific nature of this modulation differed across individuals, with some exhibiting an increase in excitability around PT and others exhibiting a decrease. These findings suggest that auditory-motor coupling induced by rhythms is preferentially modulated by rhythms occurring at a preferred rate, and that individual differences can alter the nature of this coupling.
alpha^2 corrections to parapositronium decay
Creators: name: Czarnecki, Andrzej
name: Melnikov, Kirill
name: Yelkhovsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-loop QED corrections to the decay rate of parapositronium (p-Ps) into two photons are presented. We find Gamma(p-Ps --> 2 photons) = 7989.64(2)/microsec. The non-logarithmic O(alpha^2) corrections turn out to be small, contrary to some earlier estimates. We speculate that the so-called ``orthopositronium lifetime puzzle'' will not likely be solved by large QED corrections.
description: 4 pages, revtex
title: Zika in Twitter: Temporal Variations of Locations, Actors, and Concepts
Creators: name: Stefanidis, Anthony
name: Vraga, Emily
name: Lamprianidis, Georgios
name: Radzikowski, Jacek
name: Delamater, Paul L.
name: Jacobsen, Kathryn H.
name: Pfoser, Dieter
name: Croitoru, Arie
name: Crooks, Andrew T.
Publisher: name: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Year: 2017

description: The recent Zika outbreak witnessed the disease evolving from a regional health concern to a global epidemic. During this process, different communities across the globe became involved in Twitter, discussing the disease and key issues associated with it. This paper presents a study of this discussion in Twitter, at the nexus of location, actors, and concepts.
DeepInf: Social Influence Prediction with Deep Learning
Creators: name: Qiu, Jiezhong
name: Tang, Jian
name: Ma, Hao
name: Dong, Yuxiao
name: Wang, Kuansan
name: Tang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social and information networking activities such as on Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, and Weibo have become an indispensable part of our everyday life, where we can easily access friends' behaviors and are in turn influenced by them. Consequently, an effective social influence prediction for each user is critical for a variety of applications such as online recommendation and advertising. Conventional social influence prediction approaches typically design various hand-crafted rules to extract user- and network-specific features. However, their effectiveness heavily relies on the knowledge of domain experts. As a result, it is usually difficult to generalize them into different domains. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks in a wide range of computing applications, we design an end-to-end framework, DeepInf, to learn users' latent feature representation for predicting social influence. In general, DeepInf takes a user's local network as the input to a graph neural network for learning her latent social representation. We design strategies to incorporate both network structures and user-specific features into convolutional neural and attention networks. Extensive experiments on Open Academic Graph, Twitter, Weibo, and Digg, representing different types of social and information networks, demonstrate that the proposed end-to-end model, DeepInf, significantly outperforms traditional feature engineering-based approaches, suggesting the effectiveness of representation learning for social applications.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in KDD 2018 proceedings
Arrhenia grumosopilosus Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
Creators: name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
name: Priyashantha, K Hasith
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
name: Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A.
name: Premarathne, Bhagya M.
name: Wijayawardene, Nalin N.
name: Wimalasena, Madhara K.
name: Jayalal, Udeni
name: Wickramanayake, Kawmini D.
name: Dangalla, Hasanka
name: Jayathunga, Hashini
name: Brahmanage, Rashika S.
name: Weerakoon, Gothamie
name: Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U.
name: Yapa, Neelamanie
name: Nanayakkara, Chandrika M.
name: Ediriweera, Surani
name: Fan, Xin-Lei
name: Kirk, Paul M.
name: Zhang, Gui-Qing
name: Ediriweera, Aseni
name: Bhat, Jayarama
name: Dawoud, Turki M.
name: Kumara, Wasantha
name: Deng, Chun Ying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hygrophoraceae
Arrhenia
Arrhenia grumosopilosus

description: A. grumosopilosus Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11 (no. 56): 546 (1871)/IF: 50693
Typification Details: Holotype K (M) 42400, Sri Lanka
Reference: Berkeley & Broome (1871)
description: Published as part of Karunarathna, Samantha C., Priyashantha, K Hasith, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A., Premarathne, Bhagya M., Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Wimalasena, Madhara K., Jayalal, Udeni, Wickramanayake, Kawmini D., Dangalla, Hasanka, Jayathunga, Hashini, Brahmanage, Rashika S., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U., Yapa, Neelamanie, Nanayakkara, Chandrika M., Ediriweera, Surani, Fan, Xin-Lei, Kirk, Paul M., Zhang, Gui-Qing, Ediriweera, Aseni, Bhat, Jayarama, Dawoud, Turki M., Kumara, Wasantha & Deng, Chun Ying, 2023, Checklist, typification details, and nomenclature status of Basidiomycota, originally described from Sri Lanka, pp. 1-86 in Phytotaxa 621 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.621.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10065102
Dimension Reduction and Data Augmentation Methods for the Physical Sciences
Creators: name: Liu, Tommy
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Machine learning
data preprocessing
feature extraction
feature selection
data augmentation
graphene oxide

description: Data is fundamental to how we understand the world around us. It is using data in which we develop understanding and interact with our surroundings. With the increasing volume of data and increasingly data driven world, the development of Machine Learning tools to analyse diverse and complex data are becoming more important. In the Physical Sciences, data typically contains many observed characteristics yet at the same time a low number of total observations because of the cost associated with gathering such data. One example is in that of Molecular Physics, where highly complex systems of equations must be simulated, or expensive machinery must be used to observe a given nanoparticle. This work seeks develop tools and workflows in order to provide effective methods to analyse this sort of data. Dimension reduction and data augmentation are two well known methods for solving problems associated with learning using high dimensional data. We demonstrate workflows which make use of well known methodologies such as PCA for dimension reduction and SMOGN for data augmentation. There are however particular requirements associated with data analysis in different fields. We therefore consider the fitness of these methods in context and provide alternative methods to analyse this data with. Our methodologies demonstrate significant advantages depending on the requirements of a given analysis task. We introduce Hyper-Dimension Reduction methods which significantly outperform PCA when using our tested learning models. When data transformations such as PCA are not sufficiently interpretable, feature selection may be used which retains all the meanings of the original data. However, state of the art feature selection algorithms scale poorly with the number of features, we introduce a method which significantly reduces the computational complexity of the feature selection task on any data. We demonstrate that data augmentation can increase the stability of models by providing regularisation however existing methods retain understanding of the original data poorly. We explore the idea of using inherent errors in the data in order to carry out the data augmentation task.
Proprioceptive Sonomyographic Control: A novel method of intuitive proportional control of multiple degrees of freedom for upper-extremity amputees
Creators: name: Dhawan, Ananya S.
name: Mukherjee, Biswarup
name: Patwardhan, Shriniwas
name: Akhlaghi, Nima
name: Levay, Gyorgy
name: Holley, Rahsaan
name: Joiner, Wilsaan
name: Harris-Love, Michelle
name: Sikdar, Siddhartha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Technological advances in multi-articulated prosthetic hands have outpaced the methods available to amputees to intuitively control these devices. Amputees often cite difficulty of use as a key contributing factor for abandoning their prosthesis, creating a pressing need for improved control technology. A major challenge of traditional myoelectric control strategies using surface electromyography electrodes has been the difficulty in achieving intuitive and robust proportional control of multiple degrees of freedom. In this paper, we describe a new control method, proprioceptive sonomyographic control that overcomes several limitations of myoelectric control. In sonomyography, muscle mechanical deformation is sensed using ultrasound, as compared to electrical activation, and therefore the resulting control signals can directly control the position of the end effector. Compared to myoelectric control which controls the velocity of the end-effector device, sonomyographic control is more congruent with residual proprioception in the residual limb. We tested our approach with 5 upper-extremity amputees and able-bodied subjects using a virtual target achievement and holding task. Amputees and able-bodied participants demonstrated the ability to achieve positional control for 5 degrees of freedom with an hour of training. Our results demonstrate the potential of proprioceptive sonomyographic control for intuitive dexterous control of multiarticulated prostheses.
title: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016
Creators: name: Irvin, Sarah
name: Frederick, Helen
Publisher: name: Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Visual art
subject: Artists' books
subject: Poetry
subject: Al-Mutanabbi
subject: Al-Mutanabbi Street

description: Exhibition Catalog from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 exhibit at the Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University
description: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 is a book arts and cultural festival planned for January through March 2016, throughout the Washington, D.C. area. Exhibits, programs, and events will commemorate the 2007 bombing of Baghdad’s historic bookselling street, and celebrate the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, to stand in solidarity with the people of Iraq, who have endured so much; and with people at home and abroad who are unable to make their voices heard. In 2014 a group of non-profit institutions and passionate individuals came together to discuss their ideas and begin to organize an array of exhibitions, poetry readings, performances, hands-on street festival activities, and educational programs for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project. These partners include George Mason University’s School of Art and Fenwick Library, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Split This Rock, McLean Project for the Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University and Georgetown University, Northern Virginia Community College, Cultural DC, Smithsonian Libraries, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Busboys and Poets, and George Mason University Student Media and Fourth Estate Newspaper.
Arrhenia heliocaes Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
Creators: name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
name: Priyashantha, K Hasith
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
name: Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A.
name: Premarathne, Bhagya M.
name: Wijayawardene, Nalin N.
name: Wimalasena, Madhara K.
name: Jayalal, Udeni
name: Wickramanayake, Kawmini D.
name: Dangalla, Hasanka
name: Jayathunga, Hashini
name: Brahmanage, Rashika S.
name: Weerakoon, Gothamie
name: Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U.
name: Yapa, Neelamanie
name: Nanayakkara, Chandrika M.
name: Ediriweera, Surani
name: Fan, Xin-Lei
name: Kirk, Paul M.
name: Zhang, Gui-Qing
name: Ediriweera, Aseni
name: Bhat, Jayarama
name: Dawoud, Turki M.
name: Kumara, Wasantha
name: Deng, Chun Ying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hygrophoraceae
Arrhenia
Arrhenia heliocaes

description: A. heliocaes Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11 (no. 56): 544 (1871)/IF: 486894
Typification Details: Holotype K(M), Gardner 859, On soil, Sri Lanka
Reference: Berkeley & Broome (1871)
description: Published as part of Karunarathna, Samantha C., Priyashantha, K Hasith, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Galappaththi, Mahesh C. A., Premarathne, Bhagya M., Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Wimalasena, Madhara K., Jayalal, Udeni, Wickramanayake, Kawmini D., Dangalla, Hasanka, Jayathunga, Hashini, Brahmanage, Rashika S., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U., Yapa, Neelamanie, Nanayakkara, Chandrika M., Ediriweera, Surani, Fan, Xin-Lei, Kirk, Paul M., Zhang, Gui-Qing, Ediriweera, Aseni, Bhat, Jayarama, Dawoud, Turki M., Kumara, Wasantha & Deng, Chun Ying, 2023, Checklist, typification details, and nomenclature status of Basidiomycota, originally described from Sri Lanka, pp. 1-86 in Phytotaxa 621 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.621.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10065102
Interpersonal incomparability in citizens’ views of democracy: survey evidence from Ukraine
Creators: name: Erlich, Aaron
name: Garner, Calvin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Do regional differences within a single country influence how survey respondents use response scales when evaluating concepts like democracy? Further, what determines how respondents will assess the level of democracy at home or abroad? We test three hypotheses to answer these questions. First, we hypothesize that differential item function (DIF) exists between regions that are most different along political, cultural, and historical dimensions. Second, we hypothesize that political attitudes will predict views about evaluations of the level of democracy domestically. Third, we hypothesize that regions with stronger ties to and greater affinity for a foreign state will rate that state as more democratic than other regions. We find support for all three hypotheses using a nationally representative survey of Ukraine, but correcting for DIF generates substantively important changes in our interpretations of the results. Specifically, it increases support for hypothesis two but leads to a more measured conclusion about hypothesis three. An analysis of the responses to anchoring vignettes to control for DIF provides some initial suggestive evidence that Ukrainians outside Kyiv may view democracy as more binary in nature than on a nuanced sliding scale. We conclude with recommendations for researchers on deploying anchoring vignettes in sub-national survey research.
Time stamps of vertical phase mixing in the Galactic disk from LAMOST-Gaia stars
Creators: name: Tian, Hai-Jun
name: Liu, Chao
name: Wu, Yue
name: Xiang, Mao-Sheng
name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbation mechanism of the Galactic disk has puzzled us for a long time. The imprints from perturbations provide important diagnostics on the disk formation and evolution. Here we try to constrain when the vertical perturbation took place in the disk by tracking the phase mixing history. Firstly, we clearly depict the spiral structures of radial ($v_R$) and azimuthal ($v_ϕ$) velocities in the phase space of the vertical position and velocity ($z$-$v_z$) with 723,871 LAMOST-Gaia combined stars. Then, we investigate the variation of the spirals with stellar age ($τ$) by dividing the sample into seven stellar age bins. Finally, we find that the spirals explicitly exist in all the bins, even in the bin of $τ<0.5$\,Gyr, except for the bin of $τ>6.0$\,Gyr. This constrains the vertical perturbation probably starting no later than 0.5\,Gyr ago. But we can not rule out whether the young stars ($τ<0.5$\,Gyr) inherit the oscillations from the perturbed ISM where they born from. This study provides some important observational evidences to understand the disk perturbation mechanisms, even the formation and evolution of our Galaxy.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Dynamical Manipulation for spin-1/2 Systems
Creators: name: C., David J. Fernandez
name: Rosas-Ortiz, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of the inverse techniques we analyse the evolution of purely spin-1/2 systems in homogeneous magnetic fields as well as the generation of exact solutions. Some ``evolution loops'', dynamical processes for which any state evolves cyclically, are presented, and their corresponding geometric phases are evaluated
description: 6 pages, LaTeX, Proceedings' macros included in source-file, 1 PostScript figure
title: Sociology, Theory, and the Feminist Sociological Canon: Questioning the Use of “Doing Gender” as a Sociological Theory
Creators: name: Davis, Shannon N.
Publisher: name: Sage Publications
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Gender theory

description: In this article, I revisit the concept of “doing gender” to query whether the framework as directly articulated by West and Zimmerman is meant to be a description of social life (a social theory) or a testable and potentially falsifiable explanation of the empirical world (a sociological theory). I document how much of the research that uses “doing gender” is a misapplication of the concept as a social, rather than sociological, theory. I conclude by making the case for the role of “doing gender” in, rather than as, sociological theory.
Constraining the CKM Parameters using CP Violation in semi-leptonic B Decays
Creators: name: Cahn, Robert N.
name: Worah, Mihir P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the usefulness of the CP violating semi-leptonic asymmetry a_{SL} not only as a signal of new physics, but also as a tool in constraining the CKM parameters. We show that this technique could yield useful results in the first years of running at the B factories. We present the analysis graphically in terms of M_{12}, the dispersive part of the B-Bbar mixing amplitude. This is complementary to the usual unitarity triangle representation and often allows a cleaner interpretation of the data.
description: 15 pages REVTEX, 7 figures
Drinfeld Yangian of the queer Lie superalgebra. I
Creators: name: Stukopin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 17B37, Secondary 81R50

description: Drinfeld Yangian of a queer Lie superalgebra is defined as the quantization of a Lie bisuperelgebra of twisted polynomial currents. An analogue of the new system of generators of Drinfeld is being constructed. It is proved for the partial case Lie superalgebra $sq_1$ that this so defined Yangian and the Yangian, introduced earlier by M. Nazarov using the Faddeev-Reshetikhin-Takhtadzhjan approach, are isomorphic.
description: 25 pages
VIKOR based MAGDM Strategy with Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers
Creators: name: Surapati Pramanik
name: Mallick, Rama
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 10107 Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, Lattices and Universal Algebra
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) is a popular strategy for multi- attribute decision making (MADM). We extend the VIKOR strategy for MAGDM problems in trapezoidal neutrosophic number environment. In decision making situation, single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers are employed to express the attribute values. Then we develop an extended VIKOR strategy to deal with MAGDM in single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic number environment. The influence of decision-making mechanism coefficient is presented. To illustrate and validate the proposed VIKOR strategy, an illustrative numerical example of MAGDM problem is solved in trapezoidal neutrosophic number environment.
The relationship of the State Board of Control to the state-supported institutions of higher education in Texas
Creators: name: Moore, Lawrence Henry
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1930
Subjects: subject: Texas State Board of Control
subject: Appropriations
subject: Expenditures
subject: Evaluation
subject: Public universities
subject: Public colleges
subject: State revenue distribution
subject: Texas
subject: Government aid to higher education
subject: State-supported higher education
subject: Legislative appropriations
subject: Texas. State Board of Control--Appropriations and expenditures
subject: Texas. State Board of Control--Appropriations and expenditures--Evaluation
subject: Public universities and colleges--Texas--Finance
subject: Public universities and colleges--Texas--Finance--Evaluation
subject: Government aid to higher education--Texas

description: The problem of the distribu[tion] of state revenues among the state-supported institutions of elementary and secondary education is one that has been studied a great deal in recent years, and in some of the states, at least, has been in a measure satisfactorily solved; but the problem of the distribution of state revenues among the state-supported institutions of higher education is one to which little thought has been given and about which practically nothing has been written. The struggle among the state-supported institutions of higher education in many states of the Union during the last decade to obtain legislative appropriations and the anxiety and uncertainty which are experienced by almost the entire personnel of these institutions during each session of the legislature call for a careful study of the methods and technique used by the agencies that have anything to do with determining the amounts, the distributions, and the expenditures of these appropriations. The large sums requested by these institutions, and the increasing demands made on them to furnish more and better education to a constantly increasing student body, together with a constantly increasing tax rate, make it necessary that every scientific method and device known shall be used which will aid in determining what these appropriations should be and how they should be distributed and expended to the best advantage of all concerned. It is the purpose of this study, first, to make a careful investigation of the methods and procedure used by certain of the agencies which seem to be the most influential in determining what the amounts of the appropriations shall be and how they shall be distributed and expended, second, to evaluate these methods and procedures in the light of the best knowledge that can be obtained on the subject, and third, to offer certain suggestions or recommendations which will be helpful in bringing about a more equitable and more satisfactory distribution of the state revenues which go for higher education
Spatio-Temporal Structured Sparse Regression with Hierarchical Gaussian Process Priors
Creators: name: Kuzin, Danil
name: Isupova, Olga
name: Mihaylova, Lyudmila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a new sparse spatio-temporal structured Gaussian process regression framework for online and offline Bayesian inference. This is the first framework that gives a time-evolving representation of the interdependencies between the components of the sparse signal of interest. A hierarchical Gaussian process describes such structure and the interdependencies are represented via the covariance matrices of the prior distributions. The inference is based on the expectation propagation method and the theoretical derivation of the posterior distribution is provided in the paper. The inference framework is thoroughly evaluated over synthetic, real video and electroencephalography (EEG) data where the spatio-temporal evolving patterns need to be reconstructed with high accuracy. It is shown that it achieves 15% improvement of the F-measure compared with the alternating direction method of multipliers, spatio-temporal sparse Bayesian learning method and one-level Gaussian process model. Additionally, the required memory for the proposed algorithm is less than in the one-level Gaussian process model. This structured sparse regression framework is of broad applicability to source localisation and object detection problems with sparse signals.
title: Reverse-Phase Microarray Analysis Reveals Novel Targets in Lymph Nodes of Bacillus anthracis Spore-Challenged Mice
Creators: name: Popova, Taissia G.
name: Espina, Virginia
name: Liotta, Lance
name: Popov, Serguei G.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bacterial spores
subject: Hematoxylin staining
subject: Bacillus anthracis
subject: Anthrax
subject: Apoptosis
subject: Bacterial pathogens
subject: Phosphorylation
subject: STAT signaling

description: Anthrax is a frequently fatal infection of many animal species and men. The causative agent Bacillus anthracis propagates through the lymphatic system of the infected host; however, the specific interactions of the host and microbe within the lymphatics are incompletely understood. We report the first description of the phosphoprotein signaling in the lymph nodes of DBA/2 mice using a novel technique combining the reverse-phase microarray with the laser capture microdissesction. Mice were challenged into foot pads with spores of toxinogenic, unencapsulated Sterne strain. The spores quickly migrated to the regional popliteal lymph nodes and spread to the bloodstream as early as 3 h post challenge. All mice died before 72 h post challenge from the systemic disease accompanied by a widespread LN tissue damage by bacteria, including the hemorrhagic necrotizing lymphadenitis, infiltration of CD11b+ and CD3+ cells, and massive proliferation of bacteria in lymph nodes. A macrophage scavenger receptor CD68/macrosialin was upregulated and found in association with vegetative bacteria likely as a marker of their prior interaction with macrophages. The major signaling findings among the 65 tested proteins included the reduced MAPK signaling, upregulation of STAT transcriptional factors, and altered abundance of a number of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins with signaling properties opposing each other. Downregulation of ERK1/2 was associated with the response of CD11b+ macrophages/dendritic cells, while upregulation of the pro-apoptotic Puma indicated a targeting of CD3+ T-cells. A robust upregulation of the anti-apoptotic survivin was unexpected because generally it is not observed in adult tissues. Taken together with the activation of STATs it may reflect a new pathogenic mechanism aimed to delay the onset of apoptosis. Our data emphasize a notion that the net biological outcome of disease is determined by a cumulative impact of factors representing the microbial insult and the protective capacity of the host.
title: The Role of IKKβ in Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection
Creators: name: Amaya, Moushimi
name: Voss, Kelsey
name: Sampey, Gavin
name: Senina, Svetlana
name: De La Fuente, Cynthia
name: Mueller, Claudius
name: Calvert, Valerie
name: Kehn-Hall, Kylene
name: Carpenter, Calvin
name: Kashanchi, Fatah
name: Bailey, Charles
name: Mogelsvang, Soren
name: Petricoin, Emanuel
name: Narayanan, Aarthi
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Viral replication
subject: Phosphorylation
subject: Viral diseases
subject: Transfection
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Alphaviruses
subject: Neurons
subject: Host-pathogen interactions

description: Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) belongs to the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae. VEEV infection is characterized by extensive inflammation and studies from other laboratories implicated an involvement of the NF-κB cascade in the in vivo pathology. Initial studies indicated that at early time points of VEEV infection, the NF-κB complex was activated in cells infected with the TC-83 strain of VEEV. One upstream kinase that contributes to the phosphorylation of p65 is the IKKβ component of the IKK complex. Our previous studies with Rift valley fever virus, which exhibited early activation of the NF-κB cascade in infected cells, had indicated that the IKKβ component underwent macromolecular reorganization to form a novel low molecular weight form unique to infected cells. This prompted us to investigate if the IKK complex undergoes a comparable macromolecular reorganization in VEEV infection. Size-fractionated VEEV infected cell extracts indicated a macromolecular reorganization of IKKβ in VEEV infected cells that resulted in formation of lower molecular weight complexes. Well-documented inhibitors of IKKβ function, BAY-11-7082, BAY-11-7085 and IKK2 compound IV, were employed to determine whether IKKβ function was required for the production of infectious progeny virus. A decrease in infectious viral particles and viral RNA copies was observed with inhibitor treatment in the attenuated and virulent strains of VEEV infection. In order to further validate the requirement of IKKβ for VEEV replication, we over-expressed IKKβ in cells and observed an increase in viral titers. In contrast, studies carried out using IKKβ−/− cells demonstrated a decrease in VEEV replication. In vivo studies demonstrated that inhibitor treatment of TC-83 infected mice increased their survival. Finally, proteomics studies have revealed that IKKβ may interact with the viral protein nsP3. In conclusion, our studies have revealed that the host IKKβ protein may be critically involved in VEEV replication.
Studies in international organisation : the United Nations Organisation and the European Economic Community
Creators: name: Heathcote, Nina
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: United Nations
subject: European Economic Community
subject: Peace

description: My work has dealt with three themes: A. Peacekeeping and nation-building by the United Nations B. The inter-state politics of Western Europe, and the problems of integration in the European Economic Community C. Nuclear proliferation and British Commonwealth responsibilities in Asia and the Inda-Pacific region. I am not submitting papers on group C, since they are not clearly related to the other two themes . Each of the themes A and B includes an analysis of the relations between an international organisation and its member-states. One of the main objectives has been to determine whether and how far the Organisation has become, or may become in the future, an autonomous agent in international affairs. The question arose out of my interest in the nature of the modern nation-state, and the prospects of survival of the international system constituted by their power-political interactions.