cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Haptic Surface Robot Interface for Large-Format Touchscreen Displays
Creators: name: Price, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: This thesis presents the design for a novel haptic interface for large-format touchscreens. Techniques such as electrovibration, ultrasonic vibration, and external braked devices have been developed by other researchers to deliver haptic feedback to touchscreen users. However, these methods do not address the need for spatial constraints that only restrict user motion in the direction of the constraint. This technology gap contributes to the lack of haptic technology available for touchscreen-based upper-limb rehabilitation, despite the prevalent use of haptics in other forms of robotic rehabilitation. The goal of this thesis is to display kinesthetic haptic constraints to the touchscreen user in the form of boundaries and paths, which assist or challenge the user in interacting with the touchscreen. The presented prototype accomplishes this by steering a single wheel in contact with the display while remaining driven by the user. It employs a novel embedded force sensor, which it uses to measure the interaction force between the user and the touchscreen. The haptic response of the device is controlled using this force data to characterize user intent. The prototype can operate in a simulated free mode as well as simulate rigid and compliant obstacles and path constraints. A data architecture has been created to allow the prototype to be used as a peripheral add-on device which reacts to haptic environments created and modified on the touchscreen. The long-term goal of this work is to create a haptic system that enables a touchscreen-based rehabilitation platform for people with upper limb impairments.
One-Carbon Metabolism Related B-Vitamins Alter The Expression Of MicroRNAS And Target Genes Within The Wnt Signaling Pathway In Mouse Colonic Epithelium
Creators: name: Racicot, Riccardo
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: ABSTRACT
It has been widely recognized that microRNAs are involved in nearly all cellular processes that have been investigated and contribute to a variety of diseases including cancer. Our prior studies demonstrated the depletion of one-carbon metabolism related B-vitamins, including folate, vitamin B2, B6 and B12, induced a genomic DNA hypomethylation and an elevation of the tumorigenic Wnt signaling in mouse colonic epithelium. The present study aimed to define whether microRNAs serve as mediators between these B-vitamins and the Wnt signaling, and thereby influence intestinal tumorigenesis. MicroRNA expression profiles were measured using miRNA microarray and real-time PCR on colonic epithelial cells from Apc1638N mice fed with diets deplete or sufficient in those B-vitamins. In silico bioinformatic analysis were performed to predict microRNA gene targets within the Wnt signaling cascade. Out of 609 microRNA examined, 18 microRNAs were found to be either significantly (p < 0.05) or mildly (p < 0.10) differentially expressed in the colonic epithelium of mice fed the depleted diet when compared to the counterpart. Bioinformatic prediction of microRNA gene targets identified 40 genes within the Wnt pathway to have homology with microRNA seed sequences within their 3’-UTR or protein coding sequence. Of the 6 genes tested for experimentally target validation, the expression of Sfrp1 was shown to be significantly inhibited (p < 0.05) whereas β-catenin was shown to be significantly elevated (p < 0.05) with alterations of others in a fashion indicating the activation of Wnt signaling. These findings indicate that microRNAs may constitute a mechanism by which one-carbon B-vitamin depletions regulate the Wnt signaling pathway and thereby inform intestinal tumorigenesis.
Analysis of Palm Oil Prices in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Tiku, N.E.
name: Uduak, O.O.
name: Ini-Mfon, V.P.
name: Tiku, N.E.
name: Uduak, O.O.
name: Ini-Mfon, V.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Palm oil Price trend
subject: seasonality
subject: cyclical and irregular Analysis

description: The aim of this study was to analyze palm oil prices in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Palm oil is a major agricultural commodity that is highly commercialized in the Nigeria and has suffered various economic impacts cardinally is the price volatility. In consideration of palm oil price stability, trend analysis, seasonality, cyclical and irregular elements of price volatility were determined. Data were obtained through structured questionnaires administered to 160 randomly selected palm oil marketers. The time series model, measurement of instability factor and index of dynamic price analysis were used. The result revealed that the instability factor was 0.097% and index dynamic price was 58.49%, which shows that palm oil prices were relatively stable during the time of study. The study concluded that there was no incentive to store palm oil as prices are relatively constant over time. Therefore, the study recommended that the marketers should not store palm oil for future sales rather marketers should speculate palm oil trading through prices differential by geographical market locations and not by time difference.
Multi-component scalar dark matter from a $Z_N$ symmetry: a systematic analysis
Creators: name: Yaguna, Carlos E.
name: Zapata, Óscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark matter may consist not of one elementary particle but of different species, each of them contributing a fraction of the observed dark matter density. A major theoretical difficulty with this scenario --dubbed multi-component dark matter-- is to explain the stability of these distinct particles. Imposing a single $Z_N$ symmetry, which may be a remnant of a spontaneously broken $U(1)$ gauge symmetry, seems to be the simplest way to simultaneously stabilize several dark matter particles. In this paper we systematically study scenarios for multi-component dark matter based on various $Z_N$ symmetries ($N\leq 10$) and with different sets of scalar fields charged under it. A generic feature of these scenarios is that the number of stable particles is not determined by the Lagrangian but depends on the relations among the masses of the different fields charged under the $Z_N$ symmetry. We explicitly obtain and illustrate the regions of parameter space that are consistent with up to five dark matter particles. For $N$ odd, all these particles turn out to be complex, whereas for $N$ even one of them may be real. Within this framework, many new models for multi-component dark matter can be implemented.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures. v2: version accepted for publication
The Life History Characteristics, Growth, and Mortality of Juvenile Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, in Coastal Massachusetts
Creators: name: Rosset, Julianne
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Over the past two centuries, anadromous alewife populations have drastically declined due to damming, inadequate fish passage, overfishing in the ocean and freshwater, climate change, and reduction in habitat quality. Alewife populations are currently assessed by counting adult fish as they migrate upstream, but little is known about resulting juvenile production within lakes. Lack of knowledge of freshwater life history characteristics of juvenile alewife limits our understanding of overall productivity. For this thesis, I fill existing information gaps by (1) characterizing the timing of adult alewife migrations and subsequent spawning (Chapter 2), and (2) assessing juvenile alewife density, size, growth, and mortality within lakes, and abiotic factors influencing these estimates across lakes (Chapter 3). Twenty lakes across coastal Massachusetts were sampled for juvenile alewife and water quality in summer 2014. Each lake was sampled three times: Round 1 (29 May to 15 June), Round 2 (26 June to 16 July), and Round 3 (27 July to 15 August). Analyses of instream adult counts and otolith-based estimates of spawning date from captured juveniles showed a distinct delay (7-28 d) between the beginning of the adult migration run and spawning, and spawning continued 13-48 days after adults stopped migrating. These findings further corroborate recent discoveries that suggest alewife exhibit asynchronous spawning and has large implications for freshwater foodwebs. Lakes, overall, did not produce the same sized fish and there appears to be substantial variations of length-at-age with some lakes exhibiting large differences. No change in length-at-age occurred in August, thus differences were achieved earlier in the growing season. Additionally, all 20 lakes exhibited variable growth, density, and mortality rates that yielded generally weak relationships with abiotic and biotic factors. Juvenile alewife density was positively related to juvenile density in the previous sampling Round, suggesting that a single sampling date may be sufficient to estimate relative lake density across the landscape. Factors affecting growth were not consistent; overall growth was positively correlated with DOC, while the last 20 days of growth was negatively correlated with secchi depth. While different, these responses are likely the result of the same mechanisms, both intrinsically linked with zooplankton abundance, prey availability, and feeding behavior within lakes. No significant correlate was found for mortality. In the future, the data in this thesis can be incorporated into models to improve stock assessments and support timely adaptive management strategies.
The chemical composition of HIP34407/HIP34426 and other twin-star comoving pairs
Creators: name: Ramirez, I.
name: Khanal, S.
name: Lichon, S. J.
name: Chaname, J.
name: Endl, M.
name: Melendez, J.
name: Lambert, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted a high-precision elemental abundance analysis of the twin-star comoving pair HIP34407/HIP34426. With mean error of 0.013 dex in the differential abundances (D[X/H]), a significant difference was found: HIP34407 is more metal-rich than HIP34426. The elemental abundance differences correlate strongly with condensation temperature, with the lowest for the volatile elements like carbon around 0.05+/-0.02 dex, and the highest up to about 0.22+/-0.01 dex for the most refractory elements like aluminum. Dissimilar chemical composition for stars in twin-star comoving pairs are not uncommon, thus we compile previously-published results like ours and look for correlations between abundance differences and stellar parameters, finding no significant trends with average effective temperature, surface gravity, iron abundance, or their differences. Instead, we found a weak correlation between the absolute value of abundance difference and the projected distance between the stars in each pair that appears to be more important for elements which have a low absolute abundance. If confirmed, this correlation could be an important observational constraint for binary star system formation scenarios.
description: MNRAS, in press
Past Interference
Creators: name: Rudawski, Tovah V
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Past Interference connects the subjects of religion, spirituality and sports, through an examination of my own personal and political connections to football culture, as well as through my attempt to intervene artistically, using a strategy of conflating various historical references into the media of the National Football League. The question at the heart of this paper is what it means to be on the inside of a spectacle, specifically trying to puzzle out how one comes to know that about oneself.
Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates for July, August, and September 2013
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Connecticut
subject: milk
subject: production

description: 2013 Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates, Statistical Uniform Price, and Application of Public Act 09-229
Equation of state of quark-nuclear matter
Creators: name: Krein, G.
name: Vizcarra, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quark-nuclear matter (QNM) is a many-body system containing hadrons and deconfined quarks. Starting from a microscopic quark-meson coupling (QMC) Hamiltonian with a density dependent quark-quark interaction, an effective quark-hadron Hamiltonian is constructed via a mapping procedure. The mapping is implemented with a unitary operator such that composites are redescribed by elementary-particle field operators that satisfy canonical commutation relations in an extended Fock space. Application of the unitary operator to the microscopic Hamiltonian leads to effective, hermitian operators that have a clear physical interpretation. At sufficiently high densities, the effective Hamiltonian contains interactions that lead to quark deconfinement. The equation of state of QNM is obtained using standard many-body techniques with the effective quark-hadron Hamiltonian. At low densities, the model is equivalent to a QMC model with confined quarks. Beyond a critical density, when quarks start to deconfine, the equation of state predicted for QNM is softer than the QMC equation of state with confined quarks.
description: 10 pages, ws-procs9x6.cls (included), 2 eps figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Joint CSSM/JHF Workshop, Adelaide, March 14-21, 2002
Celleporina wellingtonensis Gordon, 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gordon, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Celleporidae
Celleporina
Celleporina wellingtonensis

description: Celleporina wellingtonensis n. sp.
(Figs 16–18)
 Material examined. Holotype: NIWA 46359. Paratypes: NIWA 46360, 46361. All types from Pterocladia lucida, c. 5 m depth, Siren Rocks, Taputeranga Marine Reserve, collected by Sheryl Miller 7 October 2007.
 Etymology. Alluding to the distribution of the species on the Wellington south coast.
 Description. Colony encrusting, small, up to 8 mm diameter, forming small pale orange mound. Zooids with indistinct boundaries, c. 0.38 mm long when recumbent, 0.17–0.20 mm wide, with anterior end semierect and peristomate, often with concealed suboral avicularium, primary orifice deeply set, also somewhat concealed in mature zooids. Orifice about as wide (0.13–0.15 mm) as long with broad deep poster, shoulders of poster constituting condyles. No oral spines. Adventitious avicularia numerous, of variable size and shape, ranging from tiny subcircular and subovoid forms through larger subspathulate forms up to 0.29 mm long and 0.17 mm wide, latter with proportionately larger rostral palate, foramen semicircular to stretched-D shaped. Interzooidal furrows between autozooids and avicularia occupied by areolar pores of variable diameter. Ovicell with semicircular frontal ectooecial tabula with numerous somewhat radiate perforations.
 Remarks. Twelve other described species of Celleporina are known in New Zealand waters (Hincks 1885; Uttley & Bullivant 1972; Gordon 1984, 1989). Celleporina wellingtonensis differs from these in the sum of its characters; diagnostic features include the abundance of adventitious avicularia of variable size and shape, lack of peristomial avicularia, and the broad deep orificial poster. The species encrusts stems of the red alga Pterocladia lucida (Turner) J.Agardh from submerged parts of the middle shore to shallow diveable depths in the marine reserve. Companion bryozoan species on the host seaweed include Antarctothoa delta (Ryland & Gordon), Catenicella pseudoelegans n. sp., Claviporella aurita (Busk), Fenestrulina disjuncta (Hincks), Osthimosia sirena n. sp., and Plesiothoa trigemma (Ryland & Gordon), along with small sponges and the foraminiferan Trochulina dimidiata (Jones & Parker).
description: Published as part of Gordon, Dennis P., 2009, New bryozoan taxa from a new marine conservation area in New Zealand, with a checklist of Bryozoa from Greater Cook Strait, pp. 39-60 in Zootaxa 1987 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188436
Ruppeiner thermodynamic geometry for the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole
Creators: name: Xu, Zhen-Ming
name: Wu, Bin
name: Yang, Wen-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the non-independence of entropy and thermodynamic volume for spherically symmetric black holes in the AdS spacetime, when applying the Ruppeiner thermodynamic geometry theory to these black holes, we often encounter an unavoidable problem of the singularity about the line element of thermodynamic geometry. In this paper, we propose a basic and natural scheme for dealing with the thermodynamic geometry of spherically symmetric AdS black holes. We point out that enthalpy, not internal energy, is the fundamental thermodynamic characteristic function for the Ruppeiner thermodynamic geometry. Based on this fact, we give the specific forms of the line element of thermodynamic geometry for Schwarzschild AdS (SAdS) black hole in different phase spaces and the results show that the thermodynamic curvatures obtained in different phase spaces are equivalent. It is shown that the thermodynamic curvature is negative which implies that the attractive interaction dominates between black hole molecules for the SAdS black hole. Meanwhile we also give an approximate expression of the thermodynamic curvature of the Schwarzschild black hole which indicates that the black hole is dominated by repulsion on low temperature region and by attraction on high temperature region.
description: v1:5 pages, twocolumn, 2 figures; v2:add References and some comments, published in Physical Review D
Soliton Random Walk and the Cluster-Stripping Problem in Ultralight Dark Matter
Creators: name: Schive, Hsi-Yu
name: Chiueh, Tzihong
name: Broadhurst, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulations of ultralight, $\sim 10^{-22}\,\rm eV$, bosonic dark matter exhibit rich wave-like structure, including a soliton core within a surrounding halo that continuously self-interferes on the de Broglie scale. We show here that as an inherent consequence, the soliton undergoes a confined random walk at the base of the halo potential. This is significant for the fate of the ancient central star cluster in Eridanus II, as the agitated soliton gravitationally shakes the star cluster in and out of the soliton on a time scale of $\sim 100\,\rm Myr$, so complete tidal disruption of the star cluster can occur within $\sim 1\,\rm Gyr$. This destructive effect can be mitigated by tidal stripping of the halo of Eridanus II, thereby reducing the agitation, depending on its orbit around the Milky Way. Our simulations show the Milky Way tide affects the halo much more than the soliton, so the star cluster in Eridanus II can survive for over $5\,\rm Gyr$ within the soliton if it formed after significant halo stripping.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. 6 pages, 4 figures
MOESM6 of Phenotypic analysis combined with tandem mass tags (TMT) labeling reveal the heterogeneity of strawberry stolon buds
Creators: name: Guan, Ling
name: Mizhen Zhao
name: Yaming Qian
name: Hongmei Yu
name: Xia, Jin
name: Ejiao Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. Distribution of the identified protein isoelectric point (main area is concentrated in 5–10, with the mostly PI is 6–7). Red line is the cumulative curve.
Primate Aesthetics
Creators: name: Sams, Chelsea L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: A cultural, historical, and scientific survey of the phenomena of primate pictorial behavior, presented in a series of interconnected vignettes. What do primates find visually appealing? What is their motivation when creating images? What are the implications for art and for science? By drawing explicit and implicit connections between science, art, case studies, research, and personal narrative, I attempt to weave together what we know, and what we may never be able to know about this complex field.
Nuclear EDM from SMEFT flavor-changing operator
Creators: name: Endo, Motoi
name: Ueda, Daiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study nuclear electric dipole moments induced by $ΔF=1$ effective operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Such contributions arise through renormalization group evolutions and matching conditions at the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. We provide one-loop formulae for the matching conditions. We also discuss correlations of these effects with $ΔF=2$ observables such as $ε_K$ and $ΔM_{B_d}$.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
Osthimosia sirena Gordon, 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gordon, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Celleporidae
Osthimosia
Osthimosia sirena

description: Osthimosia sirena n. sp.
(Figs 19–21)
 Material examined. Holotype: NIWA 46362. Paratypes: NIWA 46363, 46364. All types from Pterocladia lucida, c. 5 m depth, Siren Rocks, Taputeranga Marine Reserve, collected by Sheryl Miller 7 October 2007.
 Etymology. Alluding to the occurrence of the species on algae growing on the Siren Rocks in the prospective marine reserve.
 Description. Colony encrusting, small, c. 5 mm diameter, forming small pale orange mound. Zooids with indistinct boundaries, 0.39–0.45 mm long and 0.22–0.26 mm wide when recumbent, with anterior end semierect. Peristome forming rounded knob-like umbo set in avicularium on anterior face; an additional lateraloral avicularium in many orifices. Primary orifice concealed in mature zooids, 0.12–0.15 mm long, 0.11–0.12 mm wide, with narrow, parallel-sided sinus, condylar shoulders rather broad. No spines. Adventitious avicularia numerous, variable in length, up to 0.22 mm long and 0.15 mm wide, subspathulate, rostral palate well developed, foramen roundly triangular. Interzooidal furrows between autozooids and avicularia occupied by areolar pores of variable diameter. Ovicell subglobular, partly immersed, more or less smooth and lacking tabula or foramen.
 Remarks. Ten other described species of Osthimosia are known in New Zealand waters (Uttley & Bullivant 1972; Gordon 1984, 1989; Taylor et al. 1989). Osthimosia sirena differs from all of them in the sum of its characters; diagnostic features include the narrow orificial sinus, and the details of the adventitious avicularia, especially the relative shape and proportion of the rostral palate and palatal foramen. The species is epiphytic on Pterocladia lucida, occupying the same habitat as Celleporina wellingtonensis with which it cooccurs.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Dennis P., 2009, New bryozoan taxa from a new marine conservation area in New Zealand, with a checklist of Bryozoa from Greater Cook Strait, pp. 39-60 in Zootaxa 1987 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188436
The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by Galaxy Zoo in KiDS imaging of GAMA targets
Creators: name: Holwerda, B. W.
name: Kelvin, L.
name: Baldry, I.
name: Lintott, C.
name: Alpaslan, M.
name: Pimbblet, K. A.
name: Liske, J.
name: Kitching, T.
name: Bamford, S.
name: de Jong, J.
name: Bilicki, M.
name: Hopkins, A.
name: Bridge, J.
name: Steele, R.
name: Jacques, A.
name: Goswami, S.
name: Kusmic, S.
name: Roemer, W.
name: Kruk, S.
name: Popescu, C. C.
name: Kuijken, K.
name: Wang, L.
name: Wright, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dust lanes bisect the plane of a typical edge-on spiral galaxy as a dark optical absorption feature. Their appearance is linked to the gravitational stability of spiral disks; the fraction of edge-on galaxies that displays a dust lane is a direct indicator of the typical vertical balance between gravity and turbulence; a balance struck between the energy input from star-formation and the gravitational pull into the plane of the disk. Based on morphological classifications by the Galaxy~Zoo project on the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) imaging data in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) fields, we explore the relation of dust lanes to the galaxy characteristics, most of which were determined using the {\sc magphys} spectral energy distribution fitting tool: stellar mass, total and specific star-formation rates, and several parameters describing the cold dust component. We find that the fraction of dust lanes does depend on the stellar mass of the galaxy; they start to appear at $M^* \sim 10^9 M_\odot$. A dust lane also implies strongly a dust mass of at least $10^5 M_\odot$, but otherwise does not correlate with cold dust mass parameters of the {\sc magphys} spectral energy distribution analysis, nor is there a link with star-formation rate, specific or total. Dust lane identification does not depend on disk ellipticity (disk thickness) or Sersic profile but correlates with bulge morphology; a round bulge favors dust lane votes. The central component along the line of sight that produces the dust lane is not associated with either one of the components fit by {\sc magphys}, the cold diffuse component or the localized, heated component in HII regions, but a mix of these two.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
Long-run risk sensitive impulse control
Creators: name: Jelito, Damian
name: Pitera, Marcin
name: Stettner, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 93E20, 49N25, 93C10, 60J25

description: In this paper we consider long-run risk sensitive average cost impulse control applied to a continuous-time Feller-Markov process. Using the probabilistic approach, we show how to get a solution to a suitable continuous-time Bellman equation and link it with the impulse control problem. The optimal strategy for the underlying problem is constructed as a limit of dyadic impulse strategies by exploiting regularity properties of the linked risk sensitive optimal stopping value functions. In particular, this shows that the discretized setting could be used to approximate near optimal strategies for the underlying continuous time control problem, which facilitates the usage of the standard approximation tools. For completeness, we present examples of processes that could be embedded into our framework.
Dynamics of Microtubule Networks with Antiparallel Crosslinkers
Creators: name: Stanhope, Kasimira T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Microtubules are the most rigid element of the cytoskeleton. They are responsible for the structure of cells and make up the tracks for intracellular cargo transport. Interactions between microtubules, motor proteins, and microtubule-associated proteins drive important mechanisms in the cell, such as cell division, cell motility, cell homeostasis, and cell signaling. I seek to understand how such complex, energy-consuming non-equilibrium biological networks self-organize by studying in vitro microtubules bundled by microtubule-associated protein 65 (MAP65), in kinesin-1 gliding assays. I found that large networks can break into smaller, cell-like networks that can mimic types of cell motility. Dynamics of these networks change with varying concentrations of MAP65 and microtubules.
Localization, Visualization And Evacuation Guidance System In Emergency Situations
Creators: name: Tang, Jingyan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Urban search and rescue is needed for a variety of emergencies or disasters, including tornadoes, floods, dam failures, technological accidents, and terrorist activities. The efficiency to save people is becoming very important. With the development of the technology, people are trying to find a better way to help people get out of the dangerous places as soon as possible. DIORAMA system has been proposed to help with this problem and turns out very successful on improving efficiency during emergency situation. However, the current DIORAMA system is not perfect for all scenarios, for example, there are some outdoor environments do not support GPS service. Also, the RFID reader is very heavy for responders to carry and the indoor environment is not applicable for DIORAMA system. Besides, there are lack of forensic visualization toolkits that are able to help the incident commander analyze the responders’ behavior and efficiency. In this project, we propose a Localization, Visualization and Evacuation Guidance System in Emergency Situations. The functionalities in this system include localization in outdoor environments using BLE. Besides, for outdoor environments, some forensic visualization toolkit that can help the responder analyze the responders’ behavior with the capability of visualization and representation of data clearly as well as replay the task, detect anomalies and visualize the anomalies clearly is also provided in improving the efficiency and organization in the future task. In addition, the system also includes an indoor localization, navigation guidance and visualization system that provides guidance for people to exit a dangerous building as soon as possible. This system is able to localize the position of evacuees, and construct the exit path that helps reduce the escape time as well as provide a navigation guidance that is able to guide the user to the exit. In addition, an analyst simulation application is provided to simulate the evacuees in a building and evaluate the evacuation time for evacuees given specific path generation algorithm.
title: Classification of fault pattern in string level monitoring of utility-scale PV
Creators: name: Söllinger, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Photovoltaics
subject: monitoring
subject: fault detection
subject: fault patterns

description: The construction of utility-scale PV plants has rapidly increased in recent years due to a rising demand for clean energy and a severe decrease in system costs. To remain competitive, PV asset owners and managers are under a lot of pressure to optimize PV plant operation and reduce energy losses. Daily automated post-processing of monitoring data is crucial for swift fault detection resulting in targeted prescriptive measures. The objective of this master thesis is to detect and diagnose the most common PV operation faults at string, combiner box and inverter levels and derive generally applicable fault patterns. This information is then used to develop required measures for future fault prevention. A large volume of monitoring data from a sample of nine different utility-scale PV plants is used to study the various fault patterns. The evaluated cases include faults in data logging, structural losses, module damage, shading and soiling conditions, module degradation, and inverter failures. Performance as well as weather data is visualized, producing characteristic (deformed) curves for each loss type. Deviations from the normal pattern signal early warnings. In the long run, the objective will be to facilitate automated error detection with a standardized method which relies on typical patterns.
Solar PV Technology Adoption in the United States: An Empirical Investigation of State Policy Effectiveness
Creators: name: Crago, Christine
name: Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya
name: Crago, Christine
name: Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable energy
subject: solar
subject: photovoltaic
subject: policy
subject: technology adoption

description: State policy incentives for solar power have grown significantly in the past several years. This paper uses county level panel data to investigate whether state policy incentives are effective in increasing residential solar PV capacity. Empirical findings show that tax incentives, rebates, solar-specific mandates, and loan financing programs are important drivers of residential PV adoption. These results suggest that policy incentives play a significant role in encouraging wider use of solar energy. Results also point to a significant positive relationship between hybrid vehicle sales and residential PV adoption, indicating the importance of pro-environmental preference as a predictor of solar PV demand.
Angular Momentum Mixing in Crystalline Color Superconductivity
Creators: name: Giannakis, Ioannis
name: Liu, James T.
name: Ren, Hai-cang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In crystalline color superconductivity, quark pairs form at non-zero total momentum. This crystalline order potentially enlarges the domain of color superconductivity in cold dense quark matter. We present a perturbative calculation of the parameters governing the crystalline phase and show that this is indeed the case. Nevertheless, the enhancement is modest, and to lowest order is independent of the strength of the color interaction.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, Revtex
MOESM5 of Phenotypic analysis combined with tandem mass tags (TMT) labeling reveal the heterogeneity of strawberry stolon buds
Creators: name: Guan, Ling
name: Mizhen Zhao
name: Yaming Qian
name: Hongmei Yu
name: Xia, Jin
name: Ejiao Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Protein ratio (around 1.0) distribution of groups (A: ASB/DSB; B: RLB/DSB; C: RLB/ASB). FC is short for fold change.
title: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.056
Creators: name: Rouzeau, Benoît
name: Rouzeau, Benoît
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cistercien
subject: cartulaire

description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains. Numérisation en mode image
description: Relation: https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr/
description: Bibliographic citation: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.056, in Projet Cisterciens et Ressources [Ressource en ligne], https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr
description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f. 056
Reteporella aurantiaca Gordon, 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gordon, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Phidoloporidae
Reteporella
Reteporella aurantiaca

description: Reteporella aurantiaca n. sp.
(Figs 29–32)
 Material examined. Holotype: NIWA 46368. Paratypes: NIWA 46369, 46370. Types are all broken from a single larger colony, collected by Kirstie Knowles, 7 October 2007, 5 m depth at Siren Rocks, Taputeranga Marine Reserve, Wellington.
 Etymology. Alluding to the orange colour of the live colony (Latin, aurantiacus, orange).
 Description. Colony erect, reticulate, orange-coloured, to 36 mm high or broad, the fronds somewhat curled. In ovicelled region of colony, branches generally 2–4-serial, 0.41–1.28 mm across or wider where branches fuse, fenestrae 0.82–1.66 mm long and 0.24–0.86 mm wide. Zooidal frontal shield more or less smooth or faintly textured, bordered laterally by raised narrow ridges, only 2 or 3 areolar pores adjacent to each lateral margin. Primary orifice concealed at bottom of peristomial shaft, transversely oval, c. 0.10 mm wide, no oral spines. Proximal rim of peristome symmetrical, interrupted in middle by labial furrow leading to small labial pore, rim of peristome with 2 or 3 tiny cusps either side of mid-line. Most ovicelled zooids with relatively small adventitious avicularium borne more or less centrally on frontal shield, with acute rostrum directed proximally or obliquely; most zooids distal to reproductive zone in colony lacking avicularia. Small avicularia occasionally replaced by giant avicularia that protrude frontally, with beak-like, upturned rostral tip and pair of acute cusps between tip and cross-bar; mandible triangular, longer (0.12–0.19 mm) than wide. Ovicell c. 0.22–0.25 mm wide, prominent, with conspicuous frontal fissure, no labellum. Abfrontal side of colony with distinct varices, often small adventitious avicularium in area enclosed by varices; often a giant avicularium at proximal end of fenestra, having same characters as those borne frontally.
 Remarks. Eight other described species of Reteporella are known in New Zealand waters (Powell 1967; Gordon 1984, 1989), mostly from shelf depths or greater. In the field, Reteporella aurantiaca can be mistaken for Hippellozoon novaezelandiae (Waters, 1906), the only other orange-coloured fenestrate phidoloporid that is encountered in shallow diveable depths around New Zealand, but this species tends to be more robust, having slightly thicker branches and achieving a larger colony size when mature.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Dennis P., 2009, New bryozoan taxa from a new marine conservation area in New Zealand, with a checklist of Bryozoa from Greater Cook Strait, pp. 39-60 in Zootaxa 1987 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188436
Strong decays of the higher excited $Λ_Q$ and $Σ_Q$ baryons
Creators: name: Lü, Qi-Fang
name: Zhong, Xian-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we preform a systematic study of the strong decays for the higher singly heavy baryon resonances $Λ_Q(3S)$, $Λ_Q(2P)$, $Λ_Q(2D)$, $Λ_Q(1F)$, $Σ_Q(3S)$, $Σ_Q(2P)$, $Σ_Q(2D)$, and $Σ_Q(1F)$ within the $^3P_0$ model. Our results show that most of the $λ-$mode higher excited $Λ_Q$ and $Σ_Q$ states have a relatively narrow width, and mainly decay into two-body final states with one heavy meson plus one light baryon. Our calculations provide abundant theoretical information and demonstrate the general feature for these higher states, which may be valuable for future experimental searches and establishing the singly heavy baryon spectrum.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 17 tables, version accepted by Physical Review D
Multiscale nature of hysteretic phenomena: Application to CoPt-type magnets
Creators: name: Belashchenko, K. D.
name: Antropov, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a workable approach for the description of multiscale magnetization reversal phenomena in nanoscale magnets and apply it to CoPt-type alloys. We show that their hysteretic properties are governed by two effects originating at different length scales: a peculiar splitting of domain walls and their strong pinning at antiphase boundaries. We emphasize that such multiscale nature of hysteretic phenomena is a generic feature of nanoscale magnetic materials.
description: 4 pages (revtex 4), 2 color EPS figures
Environmental Valuation of Unlabeled Technology Adoption: Theory and Application to Tomato Production and Consumption
Creators: name: Gao, Jianfeng
name: Norton, George W.
name: Gao, Jianfeng
name: Norton, George W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Environmental Valuation
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: General Equilibrium Willingness to Pay
subject: Model in WTP Space
subject: Two-part Model
subject: Fresh Tomato

description: The adoption of new technologies by farmers may impact the environment, and hence affect consumer welfare. This channel of impact is seldom assessed in the literature, especially when the production technologies adopted are not labeled on the consumption goods, and as a result are not directly observed by the consumers. We propose a novel theoretical framework where the supply of and demand for an agricultural good are incorporated to estimate consumers’ general and partial equilibrium willingness to pay (WTP) for producers’ unlabeled technology adoption choices. The framework is applied to a sample of 219 tomato farms and a sample of 498 consumers in Maryland, New York and Ohio. Results show that the consumer’s average partial equilibrium marginal WTPs for the tomato grower’s adoption of single-species cover crops, mixed-species cover crops, and environmentally-sound greenhouses range from -1.28 to -1.78 $/lb, 1.36 to 1.76 $/lb, and 1.63 to 1.94 $/lb, respectively, compared to the baseline scenario where cover crops and greenhouses are not adopted. In contrast, the corresponding general equilibrium marginal WTPs are between -1.15 and -0.98 $/lb, between 1.30 and 1.67 $/lb, and between 0.24 and 0.32 $/lb, respectively.
From Primordial Black Holes Abundance to Primordial Curvature Power Spectrum (and back)
Creators: name: Kalaja, Alba
name: Bellomo, Nicola
name: Bartolo, Nicola
name: Bertacca, Daniele
name: Matarrese, Sabino
name: Musco, Ilia
name: Raccanelli, Alvise
name: Verde, Licia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the model where Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form from large primordial curvature (C) perturbations, i.e., CPBHs, constraints on PBH abundance provide in principle constraints on the primordial curvature power spectrum. This connection however depends necessarily on the details of PBH formation mechanism. In this paper we provide, for the first time, constraints on the primordial curvature power spectrum from the latest limits on PBH abundance, taking into account all the steps from gravitational collapse in real space to PBH formation. In particular, we use results from numerical relativity simulations and peak theory to study the conditions for PBH formation for a range of perturbation shapes, including non-linearities, perturbation profile and a careful treatment of smoothing and filtering scales. We then obtain updated PBH formation conditions and translate that into primordial spectrum constraints for a wide range of shapes and abundances. These updated constraints cover a range of scales not probed by other cosmological observables. Our results show that the correct and accurate modelling of non-linearities, filtering and typical perturbation profile, is crucial for deriving meaningful cosmological implications.
description: 52 pages, 9 figures. Matches the published version
On a Scale of 1 to Ten... Ten Being the Worst
Creators: name: Thorne, Kyle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: On a scale of 1 to 10… 10 being the worst is an exhibition of sculpture that attempts to visualize the struggle, anxiety, and pain that occurs when your body lets you down during the process of making. Daily chronic pain places limitations on the work that I am able to create. The work in this exhibition not only depicts those limitations, but also expresses the anxiety that takes place while making it. To accomplish this there are several objects that allegorically reference bodies. These bodies are placed in various states of struggle and tension. Ready-made objects are incorporated alongside these bodies to provide a real world context of labor for the sculptures, and also to change the way that the viewer navigates and experiences the space.
MOESM4 of Phenotypic analysis combined with tandem mass tags (TMT) labeling reveal the heterogeneity of strawberry stolon buds
Creators: name: Guan, Ling
name: Mizhen Zhao
name: Yaming Qian
name: Hongmei Yu
name: Xia, Jin
name: Ejiao Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Tool of MASCOT in judging each MS2 spectrograms, the median score is 34.06, and more than 86.21% peptides are score higher than 20. Red line means the cumulative curve.
Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates for October, November, and December 2013
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Connecticut
subject: milk
subject: production

description: 2013 Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates, Statistical Uniform Price, and Application of Public Act 09-229