cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Low Photon Count Phase Retrieval Using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Goy, Alexandre
name: Arthur, Kwabena
name: Li, Shuai
name: Barbastathis, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Imaging systems' performance at low light intensity is affected by shot noise, which becomes increasingly strong as the power of the light source decreases. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate the use of deep neural networks to recover objects illuminated with weak light and demonstrate better performance than with the classical Gerchberg-Saxton phase retrieval algorithm for equivalent signal over noise ratio. Prior knowledge about the object is implicitly contained in the training data set and feature detection is possible for a signal over noise ratio close to one. We apply this principle to a phase retrieval problem and show successful recovery of the object's most salient features with as little as one photon per detector pixel on average in the illumination beam. We also show that the phase reconstruction is significantly improved by training the neural network with an initial estimate of the object, as opposed as training it with the raw intensity measurement.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Local Quantum Observables in the Anti-deSitter - Conformal QFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Rehren, K. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum field theory on d+1-dimensional anti-deSitter space-time admits a re-interpretation as a quantum field theory with conformal symmetry on d-dimensional Minkowski space-time. This conjecture originally emerged from string theory considerations. Here, it is proven in a general framework by an explicit identification between the local observables of the two corresponding theories.
description: Letter based on hep-th/9905179, 4 pages, 1 figure
EMVPP 2004 Small Site Testing
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
Year: 2004
Subjects: Zuni
Cibola
El Morro Valley
Pueblo III
Ancestral Puebloan
Log Gigantes
Great House / Big House
Hamlet / Village
Domestic Structures
Kiva / Great Kiva
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Fauna
Ground Stone
Macrobotanical
Mineral
EMVPP
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: EMVPP 2004 small site testing excavation forms
Self-perceived stigma in young people with sickle cell disease: associations with psychosocial distress
Creators: name: Ani, Cornelius
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: Background: Sickle cell disorders (SCD) are serious genetic blood conditions affecting mainly people of Black African origin. The disease is associated with serious physical complications and some affected persons have increased psychological difficulties. Self-perceived stigma is a putative risk factor for psychological distress in SCD but this had not been studied. Aim: The primary aim is to estimate the prevalence of self-perceived stigma in young people with SCD and to explore its associations with psychosocial and illness variables. A secondary aim is to explore associations of other measures of psychological adjustment with illness and social indicators. Methodology: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 93 young people with SCD aged 10-19 years (Mean 14 years). Questions on self-perceived distancing by others were used to assess stigma. Psychological difficulty was assessed with self-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Depressive symptoms were measured with the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, self-esteem was assessed with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Family function was measured with the Family Assessment Device. Results: The respondents were evenly split in gender and almost all were of Black ethnicity (95%). However, they had better socioeconomic profile compared with average black families in the UK. Only 15% had self-perceived stigma. Consistent with stigma theory, frequent ward admissions (i.e. measure of disruptiveness) and presence of leg ulcer (i.e. measure of visibility) predicted more self-perceived stigma. Self-perceived stigma in turn predicted more psychological difficulty (Total SDQ score). Psychological symptoms were also associated with poor attitudes towards SCD, and by problematic family function. Conclusion: To my knowledge, this is the first study to show that stigma theory applies to SCD and that self-perceived stigma is a significant predictor of psychological difficulty in this disorder. Thus, alleviating stigma could benefit psychological well-being in SCD.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0055v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2010
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0055v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0055v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Oral history interview with Harold Bergstrom 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Executives
Containers
Consolidation and merger of corporations
Research, Industrial

description: Employment conditions in 1920s; family life; work with Cottrell precipitators for Research Corporation; occupational disease research for Travelers Insurance; heat sealing; development of liquipak fibre drums; development of drums for explosives, chemical warfare materials; steel vs. fibre drums Container Company's, merger with Continental Can; Hans Eggerss; Continental Can acquisitions; research department's incorporation into Chicago setup.
Revisiting Lorentz violation in Horava gravity
Creators: name: Coates, Andrew
name: Melby-Thompson, Charles
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Horava gravity, the most promising known scenarios to recover Lorentz invariance at low energy are the possibilities that (1) the renormalization group flow of the system leads to emergent infrared Lorentz invariance, and (2) that supersymmetry protects infrared Lorentz invariance. A third scenario proposes that a classically Lorentz invariant matter sector with controlled quantum corrections may simply co-exist with Horava gravity under certain conditions. However, for non-projectable Horava gravity in 3+1 dimensions it is known that, in the absence of additional structures, this mechanism is spoiled by unexpected power-law divergences. We confirm this same result in the projectable version of the theory by employing the recently found gauge-fixing term that renders the shift and graviton propagators regular. We show that the problem persists for all dimensions $D\geq 3$, and that the degree of fine tuning in squared sound speeds between a U(1) gauge field and a scalar field increases with $D$. In particular, this difference in the zero external momentum limit is proportional to $Λ^{D-1}$ for $D\geq 3$, where $Λ$ is the ultraviolet momentum cutoff for loop integrals, while the power-law divergences are absent for $D=1$ and $D=2$. These results suggest that not only the gravity sector but also the matter sector should exhibit a transition to Lifshitz scaling above some scale, and that there should not be a large separation between the transition scales in the gravity and matter sectors. We close with a discussion of other more promising scenarios, including emergent Lorentz invariance from supersymmetry/strong dynamics, and pointing out challenges where they exist.
Adaptive Force-Based Control of Dynamic Legged Locomotion over Uneven Terrain
Creators: name: Sombolestan, Mohsen
name: Nguyen, Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Agile-legged robots have proven to be highly effective in navigating and performing tasks in complex and challenging environments, including disaster zones and industrial settings. However, these applications normally require the capability of carrying heavy loads while maintaining dynamic motion. Therefore, this paper presents a novel methodology for incorporating adaptive control into a force-based control system. Recent advancements in the control of quadruped robots show that force control can effectively realize dynamic locomotion over rough terrain. By integrating adaptive control into the force-based controller, our proposed approach can maintain the advantages of the baseline framework while adapting to significant model uncertainties and unknown terrain impact models. Experimental validation was successfully conducted on the Unitree A1 robot. With our approach, the robot can carry heavy loads (up to 50% of its weight) while performing dynamic gaits such as fast trotting and bounding across uneven terrains.
description: This work has been published in IEEE Transaction on Robotics (T-RO)
Evaluation of Imidacloprid adsorption on a new activated carbon based nanocomposite consisting of magnetite and copper oxide nanoparticles: Adsorption modelling, optimisation, and characterisation
Creators: name: Rahbar, Nadereh
name: Parsaie, Amrollah
name: Baezat, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Standard purification systems have mainly demonstrated the inefficient removal of neonicotinoid insecticides with high persistence in the environment. In the present work, a new magnetic adsorbent composed of Fe3O4 and CuO nanoparticles impregnated with activated carbon (AC) has been used to remove imidacloprid (IMCP) as the most common neonicotinoid insecticide from the water solutions. Various techniques such as Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray diffraction, and vibrating sample magnetometer were employed to characterise the fabricated composite. The main affecting parameters, including adsorbent amount, solution pH, agitating time, initial pesticide concentration, and temperature, were examined to obtain the optimised conditions. According to the obtained results from kinetic and isotherm modelling, the adsorption mechanism of IMCP on Fe3O4/CuO@AC nanocomposite (NC) is a combination of chemisorption and physisorption phenomena. The presence of heterogeneous sites for IMCP adsorption was shown by fitting the experimental data to the Freundlich isotherm model. In addition, the adsorption process was well consistent with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, which indicates that chemisorption is the determining step in the adsorption process. Thermodynamic data showed the exothermic and spontaneous nature of the adsorption process. Under optimal conditions (initial concentration of pesticide 10 mg L−1, pH = 7, and contact time of 10 min), 99.6% of IMCP was effectively removed, indicating the excellent ability of the adsorbent to adsorb this insecticide from aqueous solutions.
Novonothrus glabriseta Colloff 2011
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Nothridae
Novonothrus
Novonothrus glabriseta

description: Novonothrus glabriseta Colloff, 2011: 12
— Holotype female (ANIC, 3757), sifted litter and mossy logs, rain forest with Eucalyptus sp., State Forest, 2.2 km N.E. of Corinna, Tasmania, Australia (41°38'43"S, 145°05'50"E, 45 m).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Special cases : moons, rings, comets, trojans
Creators: name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Jimenez, Maria Fernandez
name: Munoz, Antonio Garcia
name: Schneider, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-planetary bodies provide valuable insight into our current under- standing of planetary formation and evolution. Although these objects are challeng- ing to detect and characterize, the potential information to be drawn from them has motivated various searches through a number of techniques. Here, we briefly review the current status in the search of moons, rings, comets, and trojans in exoplanet systems and suggest what future discoveries may occur in the near future.
description: Invited review (status August 2017)
A study of KIR binding to HLA-C
Creators: name: Fadda, Lena
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2009

description: NK cell cytotoxic functions are under the control of a large array of inhibitory and activating cell surface receptors. One class of inhibitory receptors are the MHC class I specific Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIRs). Different KIRs recognise different groups of HLA molecules. KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3 segregate as alleles of the same locus and recognise the same HLA-C group 1 allotypes (HLA-C1). Loss of an inhibitory signal is one mechanism by which NK cells might recognise an infected cell. KIR-Ig proteins were generated to study the direct binding of KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3 to HLA-C1: peptide complexes. The TAP-deficient T2 cell line expresses HLA-Cw*0102 (HLA-C1) and can be loaded with exogenous peptide to generate stable peptide: MHC class I complexes. Using an endogenous peptide, VAPWNSLSL as a template, known to bind to HLA-Cw*0102, a panel of seven peptides with mutations at residues 7 and 8 was studied to assess KIR binding. A peptide hierarchy was defined for KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3 binding; peptides that mediated strong, intermediate or weak recognition of KIR to HLA-Cw*0102 were identified. A similar peptide hierarchy was observed to inhibit NK cells in CD107a assays. We showed that KIR2DL3 binds more strongly to HLA-Cw*0102: peptide than KIR2DL2, although in CD107a assays, KIR2DL2+ NK cells were not more inhibited than KIR2DL3+ NK cells. The peptide hierarchy was used to generate in vitro peptide repertoires containing strong and weak KIR-binding peptides. We observed that the weak KIR-binding peptide VAPWNSDAL can abrogate the inhibition of NK cells by the strong KIR-binding peptide VAPWNSFAL, despite levels of HLA-C remaining constant. This loss of NK cell inhibition in the presence of VAPWNSDAL occurred at more than 1 log higher concentration of VAPWNSFAL than in the absence of VAPWNSDAL. These data indicate that changes in peptide repertoire are significantly more efficient than class I down-regulation at releasing NK cells from inhibition.
Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Metal-Oxide/Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes
Creators: name: Tokmoldin, Nurlan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: Hybrid metal-oxide/polymer light-emitting diodes (HyLEDs) are a novel class of electronic devices based on a combination of electroluminescent organic and charge-injecting metal-oxide components. These devices employ air-stable electrodes, such as ITO and Au, and are therefore well suited for fabrication of encapsulation-free light-emitting devices. The current work is intended to provide an insight into operating mechanisms and limitations of the HyLEDs, and, on the basis of this knowledge, aims at modifying the device architecture in order to improve the performance. The choice of optically transparent metal-oxide charge-injection layers appears to be critical in this respect in order to optimize the electron-hole balance within the polymer layer. Starting from the original device architecture, ITO/TiO2/F8BT/MoO3/Au, which uses ITO as a cathode and Au as an anode, we follow different approaches, such as the use of dipolar self-assembled monolayers and nanoscale structuring of the electron-injecting interface, pursuing the goal of enhancing electron injection into the emissive layer. However, substitution of the electron-injecting layer of TiO2 with ZrO2 is demonstrated to be the most efficient of the approaches employed herein. Further, optimization of the device utilizing the latter metal oxide is demonstrated in terms of deposition and post-deposition treatment of the electron-injecting and electroluminescent layers. Substrate temperature during spray pyrolysis deposition of the electron-injecting layer is found to have a strong influence on the HyLED performance, as well as the precursor solution spraying rate and the layer thickness. On the other hand, post-deposition annealing of the polymer layer is shown to improve the device efficiency and brightness significantly, possible explanations lying in enhancement in polymer luminescence efficiency and formation of a more intimate contact between the electron-injecting and the active polymer layers. Combining electron-transporting (TiO2 and ZnO) and hole-blocking (Al2O3 and ZrO2) materials into a single electron-injecting layer is demonstrated to be an effective strategy of enhancing efficiency in the HyLEDs. The search for a hole-injecting electrode alternative to the conventionally used MoO3/Au leads to the device employing the PEDOT:PSS/VPP-PEDOT system, which though resulting in a poorer device efficiency, provides route for fabrication of vacuum deposition-free organic light-emitting devices. Finally, the HyLED architecture is demonstrated to offer better stability than the conventional architecture using LiF/Al as a cathode. It is hoped that the current work provides a better understanding of the requirements for fabrication of encapsulation-free organic light-emitting devices.
The Brightest Galaxies in the Dark Ages: Galaxies' Dust Continuum Emission During the Reionization Era
Creators: name: Casey, Caitlin M.
name: Zavala, Jorge A.
name: Spilker, Justin
name: da Cunha, Elisabete
name: Hodge, Jacqueline
name: Hung, Chao-Ling
name: Staguhn, Johannes
name: Finkelstein, Steven L.
name: Drew, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Though half of cosmic starlight is absorbed by dust and reradiated at long wavelengths (3$μ$m-3mm), constraints on the infrared through millimeter galaxy luminosity function (the `IRLF') are poor in comparison to the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical galaxy luminosity function, particularly at z>2.5. Here we present a backward evolution model for interpreting number counts, redshift distributions, and cross-band flux density correlations in the infrared and submillimeter sky, from 70$μ$m-2mm, using a model for the IRLF out to the epoch of reionization. Mock submillimeter maps are generated by injecting sources according to the prescribed IRLF and flux densities drawn from model spectral energy distributions that mirror the distribution of SEDs observed in $04$, and an alternate dust-rich early Universe model, where DSFGs dominate $\sim$90% of $z>4$ star-formation. We find that current submm/mm datasets do not clearly rule out either of these extreme models. We suggest that future surveys at 2mm will be crucial to measuring the IRLF beyond $z\sim4$. The model framework developed in this paper serves as a unique tool for the interpretation of multiwavelength IR/submm extragalactic datasets and will enable more refined constraints on the IRLF than can be made from direct measurements of individual galaxies' integrated dust emission.
description: 34 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Beliefs and Businesses: Existence and Value of Current Religious Magazines
Creators: name: Pattaradhorn Sanpinit
name: Sompornnuch Tansrisook
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2020
Subjects: Religious magazine
animist
amulet

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 20, 3, 676-697
Class III Cultural Resources Survey of 1,234 Acres for the Three Fingers, Section 26, and Palo Verde South Project in Imperial, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, California
Creators: name: Robinson, Hannah
name: Vorsanger, Andrew
Publisher: name: North Wind Resource Consulting
Year: 2019
Subjects: California
Lower Colorado River
Patayan
Historic
Euroamerican
P-33-011304
CA-SBR-6693H
CA-SBR-33580H
Canal or Canal Feature
Artifact Scatter
Railroad
Records Search / Inventory Checking
Systematic Survey

description: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Regional Office, is planning environmental restoration activities as part of the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program (LCR MSCP). The LCR MSCP is a 50-year multi-stakeholder, Federal and non-Federal partnership responding to the need to balance the use of lower Colorado River water resources and the conservation of native species and their habitats in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. Reclamation designated three parcels (Three Fingers, Section 26, and Palo Verde South) as the Area of Potential Effects (APE), totaling 1,234 acres.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0026
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0026, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0026, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Bethel Cemetery Project: Procedures and protocols for structure from motion photogrammetry on historic burials
Creators: name: Badillo, Alex
Publisher: name: Cardno, Inc.
Year: 2018
Subjects: Historic
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Manual
SFM
Burial
Photogrammetry
Historic Cemeteries
Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry
3D
Digital Archaeology: 3D Modeling
Bioarchaeological Research
Data Recovery / Excavation
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Heritage Management
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

description: This is a field manual that describes the procedures and protocols for 3D documentation of historic cemeteries using structure from motion photogrammetry.
Supersymmetric sigma models and harmonic superfunctions
Creators: name: Muñoz-Masqué, Jaime
name: Vallejo, José Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E30, 46S60, 58A50

description: We study the relation between the Laplacian associated to an odd metric on a supermanifold and harmonic superfunctions, through the application of the calculus of variations to a supersymmetric sigma model.
description: Already published. Placed here for archiving purposes
Contrast sensitivity testing in retinal vein occlusion using a novel stimulus
Creators: name: Mishra, Shubhendu
name: Maganti, Nenita
name: Squires, Natalie
name: Bomdica, Prithvi
name: Nigam, Divya
name: Shapiro, Arthur
name: Gill, Manjot K.
name: Lyon, Alice T.
name: Mirza, Rukhsana G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Purpose: This study evaluated a novel tool known as the motion diamond stimulus (MDS), which utilizes contrast-generated illusory motion in dynamic test regions to determine contrast sensitivity (CS). Methods: Patients with treated unilateral retinal vein occlusions (RVOs) underwent three assessments: the MDS, the Pelli-Robson (PR), and the National Eye Institute’s Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25). The MDS assessment produced two data end points, α and β.Theα value represents the overall contrast threshold level and the β value serves to quantify the adaptability of the visual contrast system. The CS parameters from the MDS and log CS PR output values were used to compare RVO eyes (n = 20) to control eyes (n = 20). Results: The study participants had a mean composite VFQ-25 score of 89.5 ± 10.4 on the VFQ-25. A significant difference was observed between the RVO eyes and the control eyes in PR log CS scores (P value = 0.0001) and in MDS α value (P value = 0.01). No difference in MDS β value was found between the study groups (P value = 0.39). Conclusions: The results for the MDS assessment’s α parameter corroborated the PR scores, suggesting contrast sensitivity threshold impairment in patients with RVO. No significant difference in β value was observed, suggesting that adaptability of the visual system is maintained in treated RVO eyes. Translational Relevance: Currently, visual complaints cannot be entirely identified by Snellen visual acuity alone. The MDS offers potentially a more complete look at visual function, by including contrast sensitivity and may be able to quantify changes other-wise overlooked in retinal disease progression.
Stochastic analysis of nonlinear dynamics and feedback control for gene regulatory networks with applications to synthetic biology
Creators: name: Strelkowa, Natalja
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: The focus of the thesis is the investigation of the generalized repressilator model (repressing genes ordered in a ring structure). Using nonlinear bifurcation analysis stable and quasi-stable periodic orbits in this genetic network are characterized and a design for a switchable and controllable genetic oscillator is proposed. The oscillator operates around a quasi-stable periodic orbit using the classical engineering idea of read-out based control. Previous genetic oscillators have been designed around stable periodic orbits, however we explore the possibility of quasi-stable periodic orbit expecting better controllability. The ring topology of the generalized repressilator model has spatio-temporal symmetries that can be understood as propagating perturbations in discrete lattices. Network topology is a universal cross-discipline transferable concept and based on it analytical conditions for the emergence of stable and quasi-stable periodic orbits are derived. Also the length and distribution of quasi-stable oscillations are obtained. The findings suggest that long-lived transient dynamics due to feedback loops can dominate gene network dynamics. Taking the stochastic nature of gene expression into account a master equation for the generalized repressilator is derived. The stochasticity is shown to influence the onset of bifurcations and quality of oscillations. Internal noise is shown to have an overall stabilizing effect on the oscillating transients emerging from the quasi-stable periodic orbits. The insights from the read-out based control scheme for the genetic oscillator lead us to the idea to implement an algorithmic controller, which would direct any genetic circuit to a desired state. The algorithm operates model-free, i.e. in principle it is applicable to any genetic network and the input information is a data matrix of measured time series from the network dynamics. The application areas for readout-based control in genetic networks range from classical tissue engineering to stem cells specification, whenever a quantitatively and temporarily targeted intervention is required.
Instability of Solitons in imaginary coupling affine Toda Field Theory
Creators: name: Khastgir, S. Pratik
name: Sasaki, Ryu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Affine Toda field theory with a pure imaginary coupling constant is a non-hermitian theory. Therefore the solutions of the equation of motion are complex. However, in $1+1$ dimensions it has many soliton solutions with remarkable properties, such as real total energy/momentum and mass. Several authors calculated quantum mass corrections of the solitons by claiming these solitons are stable. We show that there exists a large class of classical solutions which develops singularity after a finite lapse of time. Stability claims, in earlier literature, were made ignoring these solutions. Therefore we believe that a formulation of quantum theory on a firmer basis is necessary in general and for the quantum mass corrections of solitons, in particular.
description: 17 pages, latex, no figures
A Review of Innovation-Based Methods to Jointly Estimate Model and Observation Error Covariance Matrices in Ensemble Data Assimilation
Creators: name: Tandeo, Pierre
name: Ailliot, Pierre
name: Bocquet, Marc
name: Carrassi, Alberto
name: Miyoshi, Takemasa
name: Pulido, Manuel
name: Zhen, Yicun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data assimilation combines forecasts from a numerical model with observations. Most of the current data assimilation algorithms consider the model and observation error terms as additive Gaussian noise, specified by their covariance matrices Q and R, respectively. These error covariances, and specifically their respective amplitudes, determine the weights given to the background (i.e., the model forecasts) and to the observations in the solution of data assimilation algorithms (i.e., the analysis). Consequently, Q and R matrices significantly impact the accuracy of the analysis. This review aims to present and to discuss, with a unified framework, different methods to jointly estimate the Q and R matrices using ensemble-based data assimilation techniques. Most of the methodologies developed to date use the innovations, defined as differences between the observations and the projection of the forecasts onto the observation space. These methodologies are based on two main statistical criteria: (i) the method of moments, in which the theoretical and empirical moments of the innovations are assumed to be equal, and (ii) methods that use the likelihood of the observations, themselves contained in the innovations. The reviewed methods assume that innovations are Gaussian random variables, although extension to other distributions is possible for likelihood-based methods. The methods also show some differences in terms of levels of complexity and applicability to high-dimensional systems. The conclusion of the review discusses the key challenges to further develop estimation methods for Q and R. These challenges include taking into account time-varying error covariances, using limited observational coverage, estimating additional deterministic error terms, or accounting for correlated noises.
description: The manuscript is being considered for publication at Monthly Weather Review
Tachyon couplings on non-BPS D-branes and Dirac-Born-Infeld action
Creators: name: Garousi, Mohammad R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By explicit evaluation of certain disk S-matrix elements in the presence of background B-flux, we find coupling of two open string tachyons to gauge field, graviton, dilaton or Kalb-Ramond antisymmetric tensor on the world-volume of a single non-BPS D$p$-brane. We then propose an extension of the abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld action which naturally reproduces these couplings in field theory. This action includes non-linearly the dynamics of the tachyon field much like the other bosonic modes of the non-BPS D$p$-brane. On the general grounds of gauge and T-duality transformations and the symmetrized trace prescription, we then extend the abelian action to non-abelian cases.
description: 18 pages, Latex file, no figures
HARP 1990 In-Field Ceramic Tabulation Forms
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
Year: 1990
Subjects: Zuni Indian Reservation
Zuni
Cibola
Basketmaker III
Pueblo I
Pueblo II
Pueblo III
Pueblo IV
Ancestral Puebloan
Heshotauthla
Spier 81
LA15605
Spier 78
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Domestic Structures
Kiva / Great Kiva
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Ceramic
Harp
Cushing
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: In-field ceramic tabulation forms for the HARP 1990 excavation season
Spatially Explicit Modelling and Optimisation of Bioenergy Supply-Chain Infrastructures
Creators: name: Dunnett, Alexander
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2009

description: Bioenergy supply chains have the potential to deliver renewable low-carbon energy, increased energy security and diversification of agricultural markets. In comparison to fossil fuels, biomass feedstocks are characterised by low spatial-yield and bulk-energetic densities. Logistics are therefore a key factor in determining optimal locations for biomass utilisation, and a significant constraint on scales of deployment. Strategic planning of bioenergy implementation requires innovative, wholesystem modelling approaches which consider simultaneously both the technological and spatial configuration of the system. Furthermore, there exists a relatively short window of opportunity to explore the optimal configuration of bioenergy systems before they develop organically. Insights derived from such modelling approaches may be of vital importance in informing national and international policy as well as strategic decisions in industry. This thesis presents a spatially explicit modelling framework for the design and optimisation of bioenergy supply chain infrastructures. The framework integrates (i) spatial distributions of biomass supply, (ii) locations of energy demand, (iii) logistical flows, and (iv) technological economies of scale. A series of normative, minimum cost optimisation models are formulated as large mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems. Model applications have focussed on Great Britain. Geographic Information System (GIS) tools have been used to generate a map of domestic biomass resources, existing infrastructure, and energy demands. A static-snapshot model has analysed the whole-system performance of integrated heat and power supply chains. Road, rail and ship transport of biomass have been examined, a range of alternative market structure scenarios characterised, and their impacts on the spatial configuration of cost-optimal infrastructures assessed. An innovative dynamic model formulation with endogenous technological learning has provided insight into mechanisms driving the spatial-dynamic evolution of the bioenergy infrastructure system. A general applicability of the framework to renewable energy systems modelling is recognised.
Instanton Effects in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories on ALE Gravitational Backgrounds
Creators: name: Bianchi, M.
name: Fucito, F.
name: Rossi, G. C.
name: Martellini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we report on the computation of instanton-dominated correlation functions in supersymmetric YM theories on ALE spaces. Following the approach of Kronheimer and Nakajima, we explicitly construct the self-dual connection on ALE spaces necessary to perform such computations. We restrict our attention to the simplest case of an $SU(2)$ connection with lowest Chern class on the Eguchi-Hanson gravitational background.
description: 18 pages, phyzzx
Enhanced adaptive surrogate models with applications in uncertainty quantification for nanoplasmonics
Creators: name: Georg, Niklas
name: Loukrezis, Dimitrios
name: Römer, Ulrich
name: Schöps, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.6.3; J.2; G.1.8
subject: 60H15, 60H35, 65N30, 78A40, 78M10

description: We propose an efficient surrogate modeling technique for uncertainty quantification. The method is based on a well-known dimension-adaptive collocation scheme. We improve the scheme by enhancing sparse polynomial surrogates with conformal maps and adjoint error correction. The methodology is applied to Maxwell's source problem with random input data. This setting comprises many applications of current interest from computational nanoplasmonics, such as grating couplers or optical waveguides. Using a non-trivial benchmark model we show the benefits and drawbacks of using enhanced surrogate models through various numerical studies. The proposed strategy allows us to conduct a thorough uncertainty analysis, taking into account a moderately large number of random parameters.
Partial level densities for nuclear data calculations
Creators: name: Avrigeanu, M.
name: Avrigeanu, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main formalisms of partial level densities (PLD) used in preequilibrium nuclear reaction models, based on the equidistant spacing model (ESM), are considered. A collection of FORTRAN77 functions for PLD calculation by using 14 formalisms for the related partial-state densities is provided and 28 sample cases (73 versions) are described. The results are given in graphic form too. Composite (recommended) formulas, which include the optional use of various corrections, i.e. the advanced pairing and shell correction in addition to the Pauli effect, and average energy-dependent single-particle level densities for the excited particles and holes, are also given. The formalism comprises the density of particle-hole bound states, and the effects of an exact correction for the Pauli-exclusion principle are considered. Keywords: Partial nuclear level density; Nuclear level density; Single-particle level density; Equidistant-spacing model; Preequilibrium emission; Nuclear reactions
description: 34 pages, RevTeX, 14 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in Comp. Phys. Comm
HARP 1990 In-Field and Survey Lithic and Groundstone Tabulation Forms
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
Year: 1990
Subjects: Zuni Indian Reservation
Zuni
Cibola
Basketmaker III
Pueblo I
Pueblo II
Pueblo III
Pueblo IV
Ancestral Puebloan
Heshotauthla
Spier 81
LA15605
Spier 78
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Domestic Structures
Kiva / Great Kiva
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Chipped Stone
Ground Stone
Harp
Cushing
Data Recovery / Excavation
Systematic Survey

description: In-field and survey lithic and groundstone tabulation forms from the HARP 1990 season.
HARP Supplemental Documents
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
Year: 1991
Subjects: Zuni Indian Reservation
Zuni
Cibola
Basketmaker III
Pueblo I
Pueblo II
Pueblo III
Pueblo IV
Ancestral Puebloan
Heshotauthla
Spier 81
LA15605
Spier 78
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Domestic Structures
Kiva / Great Kiva
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Pollen
Harp
Cushing
Data Recovery / Excavation
Systematic Survey

description: HARP supplemental documents including reports, open-house presentation, and list of pollen samples
Scalar Field in Any Dimension from the Higher Spin Gauge Theory Perspective
Creators: name: Shaynkman, O. V.
name: Vasiliev, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the equations of motion of a free scalar field in the flat and $AdS$ space of an arbitrary dimension in the form of some "higher spin" covariant constancy conditions. Klein-Gordon equation is interpreted as a non-trivial cohomology of a certain "\sgm-complex". The action principle for a scalar field is formulated in terms of the "higher-spin" covariant derivatives for an arbitrary mass in $AdS_d$ and for a non-zero mass in the flat space. The constructed action is shown to be equivalent to the standard first-order Klein-Gordon action at the quadratic level but becomes different at the interaction level because of the presence of an infinite set of auxiliary fields which do not contribute at the free level. The example of Yang-Mills current interaction is considered in some detail. It is shown in particular how the proposed action generates the pseudolocally exact form of the matter currents in $AdS_d$.
description: LaTeX, 21 pages, M.V. Saveliev's memorial volume of Theor. Math. Phys
MACROFLORAL, PROTEIN RESIDUE (CIEP), AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSES AND AMS RADIOCARBON AGE DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 24DW0560, DAWSON COUNTY MONTANA
Creators: name: Cummings, Linda Scott
name: Clark, Caitlin A.
name: Battillo, Jenna
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dawson County (County)
Town of Lindsay
Montana (State / Territory)
Lindsay
24DW0560
Feature fill
Chipped Stone
Dating Sample
Bone
Fauna
Fire Cracked Rock
Sediment
Macrobotanical
Macrofloral Analysis
Bone collagen extraction
Protein Residue Analysis
19-076
AMS Radiocarbon Dating
AMS Radiocarbon Analysis
CIEP Analysis
FTIR Analysis
organic residue analysis
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: Site 24DW0560 is a buried lithic scatter or temporary camp located in Dawson County, Montana, approximately 10.5 km west of the town of Lindsay. Twenty-one samples were submitted for a variety of analyses to better understand resource use among prehistoric huntergatherer populations. Eight lithic samples were submitted for protein analysis. Of the seven rock and sediment samples collected from fire-cracked rock (FCR) features, three were submitted for FTIR analysis, one for macrofloral, one for macrofloral and protein control, and two for macrofloral and AMS age determination. In addition, one feature-fill sample was submitted for macrofloral analysis and as a protein control, two FCR samples were submitted for FTIR analysis, and three uncharred bone samples were submitted for AMS age determination on collagen.
Cultural Resources Survey and Monitoring for a Salt River Project Sanitary Sewer Line Construction Project at the Kyrene Steam Plant, Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Stone, Lyle M.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Research Services, Inc.
Year: 1986
Subjects: Arizona (State / Territory)
Tempe, AZ
Maricopa (County)
Prehistoric
Sherd Scatter
Archaeological Feature
Artifact Scatter
Isolated Artifact
Lithic Scatter
Plainware
Ceramic
Buffware
Vesicular Basalt
Red-on-Buffware
Chipped Stone
Basalt
Ground Stone
Gila Plainware
Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware
Sacaton Red-on-Buffware
Kyrene
KGS
Salt River Project
Basalt Grinding Stone
Grinding Stone
ARS
Flake
SRP
Basalt Flake
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: On March 3 and 4, 1986, Lyle M. Stone and Daniel R. Bontrager of Archaeological Research Service, Inc. (ARS), performed archaeological survey and monitoring for a sanitary sewer line construction project at the Salt River Project Kyrene Steam Plant in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The construction project on Salt River Project-owned land involved excavation of an approximately 1150 ft long by 2 ft wide trench within a 10 ft wide right-of-way parallel. The purpose of this survey, requested by Salt River Project, was to determine if cultural resources (prehistoric or historic archaeological sites, historically or architecturally significant structures or buildigs) were present within or immediately adjacent to the sewer line right-of-way which would be affected by proposed construction actions. Follow-up archaeological monitoring was performed in order to determine if important sub-surface archaeological remains or features were present within an approximately 200 ft long segment of the right-of-way along which a thin scatter of prehistoric ceramic sherds and lithics had been observed. The file includes related correspondence.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402) (11 H 1160), f. 00196
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160), f. 00196, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v